When Ray Traylor first emerged on the national scene it was a large suit clad bodyguard, Big Bubba Rogers.  When he arrived to the WWF, he donned the gimmick of a sadistic prison guard (a job he actually had) and achieved his best success.

In a business dominated by athletic men a star emerged while doing very little physically and saying even less.  How did Elizabeth do this?  Certainly she was beautiful, but there are a lot of beautiful women.  What made her special was that she was classy, shy, sexy and sweet all at the same time.  She was the girl next door who you wanted to bring home to meet your parents during the day and take home to your bedroom at night.  You wanted to jump through the television and help her when she was in trouble.  No other woman before or after her could illicit this type of reaction.  She is probably a long shot to make the Hall, but it can never be forgotten just how big a star she was in the last half of the 1980’s in the World Wrestling Federation.

A graduate of Larry Sharpe’s “Monster Factory”, no other graduate fit the bill of a monster better than “The Beast from the East”, Bam Bam Bigelow.  He was a large man (nearly 400 lbs) and though he wasn’t the first of his size in the business, he was the first to debut such incredible agility.

Virtually all followers of wrestling are aware of the 1975 plane crash where Ric Flair’s back was broken and his career was threatened.  We know that Flair came back to wrestle again.  Johnny Valentine was not as lucky as the injuries he suffered ended his wrestling career permanently.