Although we kind of found the “Skinner” character a guilty pleasure, it was hardly a reflection of the great career of Steve Keirn.
We remembered one of Jim Neidhart’s last WWF appearances when Shawn Michaels courted him to join DX. He told Neidhart about how he used to carry Bret Hart and he became overlooked. This may have been a scripted line, but in the early years of the Hart Foundation, it was actually true.
There are many big men in wrestling and have been throughout its history. The Spoiler may be the first really tall wrestler to show incredible agility and would foreshadow that larger men could move like men half their size.
The first time that most wrestling fans saw Rene Goulet it was at the tail end of his career where “the #1 Frenchman” would usually go down to defeat against the new babyface in the WWF. Goulet was a great choice for that role, as even in his 50’s Rene Goulet was among the best conditioned and dependable workers on the card.