[LanPB01]

33. "Today's wrestlers can't compare to the glory days of the 80's, when Ric Flair was in his prime, The Four Hoursemen were dominant, and the NWA had the highest rated program on WTBS."

[NYC GOP Chick]

33. "Today's wrestlers can't compare to the glory days of the 80's, when Ric Flair was in his prime, The Four Hoursemen were dominant, and the NWA had the highest rated program on WTBS."

33a) Actually, Tommy "Wildfire" Rich was always my personal favorite. For tag teams, I was partial to The Samoans.

[HitmanLV]

I lived up north in NYC when Flair and the Andersons, Blanchard and the rest dominated Georgia Championship Wrestling. We didn't have cable, and I was in a strong WWF city so the only exposure I had to those ring greats was via the wrestling magazines and for a while oe of our UHF Channels ran the NWA tapes, which was a great thing!

In the late 1980s no one was happier than I was when anderson & blanchard, 1/2 of the 4 Hoursemen, hit the WWF as Bobby Heenan's 'Brainbusters.' Great wrestlers and great champions!

I grew up in awe of the nature boy, clearly the greatest wrestler ever. By the time I got cable (1990), that era had past and the NWA was transforming to WCW, which was really a pale version of the cartoony WWF at the time.

Just as Flair jumped to the WWF in 1991, I had the pleasure of meeting him and it was awesome.

And you are right, wrestling isn't as good as it was in the 70s and 80s (I began watching WWWF on spanish speaking uhf tv in 1975 at the tender age of 7!!!) When Texas World Class, the WWWF/WWF, NWA-Georgia, Mid South, NWA-Florida, the Pacific Northwest, Memphis, and Verne Gagne's AWA in Minnesota were setting the rings on fire, wrestling for me was at its peak! It will never be as great as it was then.