SUPERFLY!

Ha Ha! I may be aging myself here but back in the day (way back in the day) growing up in the 70's and 80's, my favourite thing to watch on a Saturday was Wrestling. Specifically Mid-Atlantic and WWF Pro-Wrestling. Ahhh...now it's coming back to you. Remember these guys?

• Ricky Steamboat
• BlackJack Mulligan
• Sweet Ebony Diamond/ Rocky Johnson
• Greg Valentine
• Roddy Piper
• Cowboy Bobby Duncum
• Dusty Rhodes
• Harley Race
• Jay Youngblood
• Tommy Rich
• Sgt. Slaughter
• Big John Studd
• Andre the Giant
• Wahoo McDaniel
• Bad Bad Leroy Brown
• Jimmy Valiant/ The Boogie Woogie Man
• Bob Backlund
• Nikolai Koloff
• Hulk Hogan
• And the flamboyant Ric 'Natureboy' Flair

For me Ric Flair was the man ("to be the man, you got to beat the man- wooo!). I loved watching him wrestle. There were his classic battles with Ricky Steamboat, Harley Race, Roddy Piper, and Greg Valentine. But more than that, Ric Flair was the master of the interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-LQH8N6Ug

But there was one guy who you ran to the TV for....the one who you never forgot...whose every match seemed to be a classic...he was fast, strong, cut, and exotic: The one and only Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka. When he came off that top rope, time stood still, eyes widened, teeth clenched, and your hands gripped the couch. He was the man...found some old footage of him on Youtube in the match that made his legacy.

Here is Jimmy Superfly Snuka at his best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOgHMGRp4dc

Wasn't this the real golden age of pro-wrestling? Before pay-per-view, super steroids, and semi-clad women?

Yeah.