The Warrior is one of my favourite wrestlers of all time. There seems to be a very mixed opinion concerning The Warrior, either people love him or dispise him. I favour The Warrior because he kept me entertained. He never used that many moves and would often get destroyed by his opponents, but you knew as soon as Jin Hellwig started to shake those ropes that his opponent was in huge trouble. He would then batter his opponent with a series of punches and shoulder-blocks. He would then sukcer his opponent in and deliver his patented Gorrilla Press Slam, where Hellwig showed awesome strength to body press 250-350lb guys. This move was the set up for his trademark finisher, Warrior would bounce of the ropes a few times and then BANG!! a big splash converted into a pin. This would always wrap up the match and then Warriors mad celebrations would occur. Warrior had everything, he had the gimmick, the physique, the fan base, the cool clothes, and finally the extremely cool music..da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, DUN DUN,...sing along, I know you all liked the music even if you didn't appreciate The Warrior as a wrestler. Truly, in my eyes, an all time great. Warrior had some epic matchers against the like of Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan. One of my favourite matches of all time was at Wrestlemania 6 when the Warrior was Intercontinental champ and faced Hogan who was WWF champ, with both belts on the line. Warrior was victorious and as far as I know is the only wrestler to hold both the Intercontinental and World title belts at the same time. Another classic match was Warrior vs The Macho King Randy Savage in a retirement match. Warrior took, I think, 7 of Savage's trademark elbow drops of the top turnbuckle....but..still got up and started his little dance and rope shaking thing. this of course signalled the end for Savage, who went on to get hammered by The Warrior, who if I remember got pinned by The Warrior standing on him with one foot. The Macho King was retired but was soon re-invented as The Macho Man Randy Savage. These 2 competitors also produced at classic match at, in my opinion the greatest Summerslam ever, Summerslam '92. Savage was champ and he and Warrior had been partners until Ric Flair and Mr Perfect started to play games with the 2. The 2 became bitter enemies and the services of Mr Perfect were up for grabs for the SS '92 main event, each wrestler had thought that the other had sold out to Mr Perfect. Perfect came down to ringside during the match and took out Savage first, then Warrior, and so forth. The Warrior ended up winning, but only by count out and so the title didn't change hands. The Warrior then snatched the title and picked up the battered Savage, everyone thought that Savage was about to receive a beating with the belt. Instead the 2 embraced and both held aloft the WWF title. Soon after this Warrior disappeared from WWF, he has since re-appeared in both WWF and WCW in recent years, but is currently retired as far as I am aware.

Davey-Boy Smith is another of my all-time favourite superstars. Davey has got the perfect mix of speed, power and technical wrestling ability. When Davey was at his peak in the early and mid 90s he was truely awesome and would very rarely be defeated. He had many good feuds through the years with the likes of Ric Flair, HBK Shawn Michaels, and brother-in-law Bret Hart. The Bulldog and Bret match from Summerslam '92 is another classic match with 2 of modern times best wrestlers competing against each other, not to mention the family rivalry, the closeness of the 2, it being held in Wembley Stadium, and the small fact that Bret's Intercontinental title was at stake. Bulldog went through the match after surviving Bret's legendary Sharpshooter and won the match with a small package pin. Over the years Bulldog has held many different titles in many different federations and countries. Davey has wrestled in the likes of the UK, USA, Japan and Canada. He has wrestled with some of the greats aswell, including Vader, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Shawn Michaels, Sid Vicious, The Dynamite Kid and Ric Flair. To me Davey will also be remembered as a classic Intecontinental champ as there was a strong competition in the early 90s with Bret Hart, Roddy Piper, HBK..etc...all battling for IC gold. He has also held the WWF Tag Team title with one of the greatest light-heavyweight wrestlers of all-time, The Dynamite Kid, a fellow Brit. The Bulldog is currently working under a poor gimmick and I am sad to say that I think he may even have been released by WWF, but he will always be remebered for his golden period in the late '80s and early/mid '90s.

Bret Hart, The Hitman, The Excellence Of Execution. Whatever you called him he was most definitely one of the best wrestlers of all time. At his best no-one could beat Bret. Bret had a huge fan base, except in his later WWF years when he got given a crappy "I hate America" gimmick by Vince and his writers, much like Lance Storm's Team Canada in WCW at present. Bret was the best wrestler of his time. Forget you're Hogans, Savages, Austins, Rocks and the other usual suspects, Bret was the real deal. As Bret put it himself "I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be", and who could argue with him. Bret was by no means that biggest of wrestlers, considering he has wrestled in the same ring as Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker and The British Bulldog during his career. These are all big powerful guys and so Bret did extremely well to achieve what he did considering the competition. As I said Bret was not the biggest nor the strongest but he was gifted with the most technical of wrestling skills that I have ever seen. Bret was known for his use of technical moves and for his great ring prowess and knowledge. Bret was also famous for his finishing move, The Sharpshooter. This was a submission move where Bret would lock his opponents legs around one of his and roll them onto their chest for the tap out. Bret was exposed to wrestling at an early age, with his father being the legendary Stu Hart. Bret trained in the reknowned Dungeon of Stu Hart with his brothers, including the sadly passed Owen Hart. Bret made his wrestling debut in 1976 and entered the WWF in the 80s. Bret and brother-in-law Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart formed the Hart Foundation. The Hart Foundation quickly found success and along with it Tag Team gold. The Hart Foundation eventually went their seperate ways and Bret focussed on a singles career. In the early 90s Bret won several Intercontinental titles. Bret was involved in a epic match with close friend Rowdy Roddy Piper at Wrestlemania 8, in which Piper was the IC champ. Bret had been IC champ but defended the belt when suffering from illness in a match against The Mountie. The Mountie took advantage of Bret's condition and took the title. A few days after this match Roddy Piper took the chance to face The Mountie, and he successfully defeated him to become the new IC champ. Bret then fought Piper at Wrestlemania 8 for the belt in a closely fought match, Piper had the advantage with Bret having being busted open on the steel stairs. Piper had Bret in a sleeper hold only for Bret to push his legs off the nearest turnbuckle to flip over and land on top of Piper for the pin and IC belt. In total Bret held the Intercontinental title on 3 occassions. Bret also held the big one, the World Wrestling Federation Championship. He did this on a record 5 occassions, a feat matched only by The Immortal Hulk Hogan and The Great One himself, The Rock. To win the WWF title Bret defeated Ric Flair originally, for his second title reign he beat the sadly passed Yokozuna. Bret's third taste of the WWF title came against Diesel (Kevin Nash), then he won a fatal 4 way match after Shawn Michaels had to vacate the title due to injury. Bret's recod breaking fifth title reign came when he defeated The Undertaker in early 1997. After this Bret moved to WCW, but not before the biggest screw job of all-time. Bret was WWF champ and had already signed a deal to move to WCW. It was agreed that at Survivor Series '97 Bret and Shawn Michaels would end their title match in a DQ, with Bret then giving the title back to the WWF on the next night's raw before leaving for WCW. The match was supposed to have a slot when Earl Hebner would get knocked down and HBK would apply the Sharpshooter on Bret, only for Bret to reverse it and HBK tap out but with no referee. Then Owen Hart, British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart were supposed to come down and help Bret out. All went to plan as HBK had the Sharpshooter on Bret and the second official in the back Mike Cioata was listening to his headset for orders to come down to ringside. He heard over the headset for Hebner to get up. Hebner did so before Bret could reverse the hold and Vince McMahon, at ringside, told Hebner and the ring announcer to ring the bell even though Bret never submitted. Habner quickly ran to the back and to a waiting car, whilst Vince also disappeared quickly to his backstage office. Owen, Bulldog and Neidhart came to ringside after the match to console and calm down Bret, who was kicking in the remaining broadcast TV sets. Bret calmed down and acknowledged the fans and received a huge pop as most of them new that he was off to WCW anyway. Bret went backstage and confronted HBK in the dressing room who claimed he knew nothing about the screw job. It is also clamed that The Undertaker, Mark Calloway, was ready to quit the organisation because of the treatment of Vince towards Bret. 'Taker suggested that Vince should appologise. Vince knocked on the dressing room door only for the Bulldog to advise him to stay out. Vince came in anyway, accompanied by Shane and Patterson. Bret came out of the shower and told Vince to leave or he'll punch him out. Vince carried on talking so Bret hit Vince on his jaw, which put Vince to the deck. Shane then jumped on Bret's back only to be pulled off by The Bulldog. Bret advised Shane and Patterson to "take that piece of shit out of here", referring to Vince. Bret then moved to WCW and won the US title on several occassion, only to be forced out of wrestling this year due to persistent injuries. The Hitman is only 43 years old as I am writing this section so there is the possibility that we may see him again involved in wrestling in the future, but I doubt it will be WWF. Bret Hart is one of the most gifted and natural wrestlers of all time and I am sure that he inspired many of the sports young stars.