🎃 IT WAS A GRAVEYARD SMASH!
Professional wrestling has always been full of monsters. Some were genuinely terrifying. Some were unstoppable forces of nature. Some were violent psychopaths. And some were...the WCW Yeti.
This week on Pro Wrestling Forever, Professor Degree and Blade Daily celebrate Halloween by digging up the scariest, strangest, most intimidating, and most gloriously ridiculous monsters in professional wrestling history!
We're dividing wrestling's greatest monsters into four categories:
👻 THE GENUINELY TERRIFYING: The Undertaker, Kane, Mankind, Kevin Sullivan, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Gangrel, Abyss, Rosemary, Abadon, and the supernatural nightmares that haunted our childhoods.
💪 THE INTIMIDATING GIANTS: André the Giant, Vader, Bruiser Brody, Bam Bam Bigelow, the Road Warriors, Bull Nakano, Awesome Kong, Umaga, and the physical freaks who didn't need supernatural powers to scare the hell out of us.
🤡 THE GLORIOUSLY RIDICULOUS: The WCW Yeti, Mantaur, Giant Gonzalez, the Dungeon of Doom, Danhausen, the Boogeyman, and some of the most baffling creative decisions ever committed to television.
🩸 THE HARDCORE FREAKS: Abdullah the Butcher, The Sheik, Freddie Blassie, Terry Funk, Sabu, and the violent madmen who made wrestling feel genuinely dangerous.
What makes a great wrestling monster? Is it size, violence, supernatural mystique, or simply the ability to make an audience believe something terrible is about to happen? And why do some of wrestling's most absurd gimmicks become beloved legends while others end up buried in the graveyard of bad ideas?
From the territorial days of classic wrestling to the Attitude Era, WCW's wonderfully bizarre excesses, ECW's hardcore revolution, and modern wrestling's supernatural oddities, we're celebrating the weird, wild, and occasionally horrifying history of the squared circle.
Because sometimes the scariest thing in wrestling isn't the monster. It's the person who booked it.
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