We actually have no problem admitting that we liked the “Berzerker” character.  John Nord had a lot of success in the AWA where he was essentially a disciple of the late Bruiser Brody, but it was as a demented Viking in the WWE that Nord would achieve his biggest fame.  He was big and athletic and delivered a series of moves that few could emulate.  Although he was a good mid card heel, he could have been more in the WWE.

(Tommy Rogers & Bobby Fulton)

A lot of people saw the Fantastics as knock offs of other pretty boy tag teams and gimmick wise that wasn’t too far off.  With that said Tommy Rogers and Bobby Fulton were one hell of a tag team and collectively put on great matches with other tandems of their day.  They were stars of the NWA, and made fans quickly forget about the Rock and Roll Express.  They were never given the World Tag Team Titles, but they were a team that could have carried it.  Coincidently, they would both receive a taste of WWE experience but it would be a decade past their great run and only as bit players in the Light Heavyweight Division.  If only they competed for Vince in their prime together.

We would have loved to have seen what Vince would have done with “The Handsome Half-Breed”, Gino Hernandez.  In World Class Championship Wrestling, he established himself as one of the best heels in the business and his combination of skill, slime and arrogance had the chemical make up of what could have been a legend.  Sadly, Hernandez succumbed to the “personal demons” that take many grapplers and he passed away at the young age of 28.  Had Hernandez got his personal life together, he could have been one of top wrestlers of all time.

Seemingly toiling around the regional territories of the South for what seemed like an eternity, Jimmy Golden got his taste of the big time in his mid 40’s by following his long time partner and friend Robert Fuller into WCW.  He was under Fuller’s (now Col. Robert Parker) guidance and was rechristened Bunkhouse Buck and was placed immediately into a high profile feud with Dustin Rhodes.  He was a key member of the Stud Stable and had a couple of years of mid card greatness with WCW.  He has recently resurfaced as Jack Swagger’s father in the WWE and it again gives reason to take a look back at what has been a very long and productive career.