Big Hair and bright colors describe the music and styles of the 80′s. This new age brought an opening to flamboyant, loud, wild, and crazier people than the typical person in society. This is when Wrestling was able to grab a stranglehold of the available sports spotlight and saw some of its characters movie into the everyday media. Wrestling characters like Hulk Hogan, Captain Lou Albano, Andre the Giant, Rowdy Roddy Piper, the Iron Sheik, Sgt. Slaughter, and “Mean” Gene Okerlund were made into a Saturday morning cartoon as part of “Hulk Hogan’s Rock N’ Roll” wrestling. NBC supported the sport with “Saturday Night Main Events,” which would air almost ever 2 months with the ever popular wrestling stars.

Wrestling reached its Pinnacle in 1987 with Wrestlemania III, but slowly faded out of the spotlight. The WWF (now WWE), dropped to rock bottom in the 1990′s due to all kinds of legal issues, ranging from sexual harassment charges to steroid abuse.

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