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Greatest Patriotic Wrestlers
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 04, 2009, 09:22:15 PM ---What about Bret Hart? It says Patriotic, not American Patriots.
I'm Canadian so the 97 Hart Foundation stuff was massively huge over here.
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Check the anti-American wrestler thread. You might be happy.... ;D
UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over:
Kurt Angle - not only the greatest patriotic wrestler but probably the greatest wrestler of all time.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: UKnowWhatItIs on November 05, 2009, 06:05:08 AM ---Kurt Angle - not only the greatest patriotic wrestler but probably the greatest wrestler of all time.
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Here's the beauty with some gimmicks, Angle's gimmick was a patriotic as the rest, but he was so good that it made people sick. People were booing the very thing America prides it's self for, being the best. Some angles were just brilliant, like Jim Duggan. His gimmick was playing an average American who was just plan dumb. It was almost like cheering for Forrest Gump. I have my eye on Jack Swagger in the future, I think he can pull off the All American gimmick like Kurt Angle, not as good, but get pretty close. Just give him and American flag, have him cut an anti-Mexican rant, fight Rey Mysterio and his on his way to big things.
Shallow:
--- Quote from: M Dogg on November 05, 2009, 06:01:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 04, 2009, 09:22:15 PM ---What about Bret Hart? It says Patriotic, not American Patriots.
I'm Canadian so the 97 Hart Foundation stuff was massively huge over here.
--- End quote ---
Check the anti-American wrestler thread. You might be happy.... ;D
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Not just for being anti-American, I think he was great at playing the patriot. As opposed to Nikolai or Iron Shiek who just played the villains.
Anyway, as for American Patriots not yet mentioned, how about Bob Backlund. The All-American Boy next door set to take over after the long Sanmartino era. Vince Jr then bought the company and had other plans, but Backlund was still a solid draw and a great wrestler. A shame he couldn't have been given a place somewhere in either promotion throughout the 80s. He was the last main eventer I can remember whose interviews came off exactly like what they sound like if the sport was real and they were viewed like any other athlete. You had a harder time thinking Wrestling was fake when Backlund was on the mic.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 05, 2009, 08:09:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg on November 05, 2009, 06:01:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Shallow on November 04, 2009, 09:22:15 PM ---What about Bret Hart? It says Patriotic, not American Patriots.
I'm Canadian so the 97 Hart Foundation stuff was massively huge over here.
--- End quote ---
Check the anti-American wrestler thread. You might be happy.... ;D
--- End quote ---
Not just for being anti-American, I think he was great at playing the patriot. As opposed to Nikolai or Iron Shiek who just played the villains.
Anyway, as for American Patriots not yet mentioned, how about Bob Backlund. The All-American Boy next door set to take over after the long Sanmartino era. Vince Jr then bought the company and had other plans, but Backlund was still a solid draw and a great wrestler. A shame he couldn't have been given a place somewhere in either promotion throughout the 80s. He was the last main eventer I can remember whose interviews came off exactly like what they sound like if the sport was real and they were viewed like any other athlete. You had a harder time thinking Wrestling was fake when Backlund was on the mic.
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I thought of Bret Hart like that, but at the same time I wanted to be simple and not over think things. Maybe if this was my job, but I just figured it was easy to separate them like this.
As for Backlund, when making this list, I thought of him as American, but more of a face rather than someone who claimed to live the American Dream, or buried themselves in Red White and Blue. He was thought of, but just by pure gimmick, it he wasn't strong enough. Now as a credible wrestler, his in a class with Angle, Thesz, and Hart.
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