When I said without bodybuilders professional wrestling would have been dead a long time ago I meant that the pro wrestlers that got over and we're popular and physiques like bodybuilders or where action bodybuilders for failed bodybuilders themselves. Look at Hulk Hogan & Superstar Billy Graham.. Sting was a wannabe bodybuilder b4 wrestling.. Most the popular guys has physiques that looked like comic book characters. All my favorites were "bodybuilders", my top 2 favs like Ultimate warrior (as a kid)& Scott Steiner (in high school, upntil I quit watching. In 99. Is watch just tonsee what he'd do).. But there was also Rick rude, Paul Orendorph, British bulldog, jimmy snuka, road warriors, sid vicious, warlord, lex lugar, dino bravo, macho man, Kerry von erich... Etc etc.. Esp the dudes in the 80's& early 90s, i know for me personally and for most my friends growing up, if all the wrestlers had physiques that resemble Roddy Piper, Ric Flair, and Jim Duggan I probably never would have watched... Or at least quit watching just as soon as i started watching in 1985-1986 (i remember specifically watching Hulk Hogan get beat up rolling over to his side and vomiting on the map while watching on our living room floor in my Garfield sleeping bag and thinking there's no way a dude who looksd like hogan could loose.. LoL).
