The Top 1 Billion Wrestlers Ever (in no particular order)

Conveniently enough, this post happens to coincide perfectly with the Top 1B list. :D
Last week, I was fortunate enough to find a discount-priced 3-pack tin of "WWE Legends Collection, Volume 2". It contained 6 discs of classic awesomeness (each of the 3 features themselves are available for a discount priced AFAIK), and though I promised to start with the feature on the AWA, I found myself with time to kill tonight due to the presence of reruns after SmackDOWN!

So I present to you the Man of the Hour, the Tower of Power, the Arizona flower who's TOO SWEET TO BE SOUR...

"Superstar" Billy Graham.

Most of us know this story by now: Billy Graham, the muscle-man...charismatic and all muscle-manly...wearing tie-dye shirts and boas...the original bleached-blond bad-boy bodybuilder of the squared circle who inspired Hulk Hogan (THE PYTHONS), Jesse Ventura (THE BOAS), and even Triple H (uh...er...THE GAME-UH!) and had a short-but-memorable reign as WWWF Champion (3 W's, people).

But there was other stuff most people didn't know unless they were voracious about wrestling history (or watched this 3-hour gem of a disc). There was his drug addictions, the fact that HE apparently instigated the infamous Steroid Trials that almost bankrupted WWFE and split up Vince and Hogan, the fact that Graham and Dusty had actually been a successful tag team (let alone the fact that Dusty apparently worked New York and Vince-Land BEFORE the late 80's), and the fact that there's no possible way in hell that Graham-with-hair could POSSIBLY be the same Graham as Graham-with-no-hair (even though it happened) because they look WAY DIFFERENT from each other.

And you know what else I learned watching this DVD? He actually made Vincent Kennedy (KENNEDY!!) McMahon feel bad for being a douchebag at some point. Yeah. Graham did that.

I still think he looks like Scott Steiner in 15 years (at pretty much any point in time), but damn if "Superstar" Billy Graham won't make the list...for the Top 1 Billion Wrestlers EVER.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee...there ain't NOBODY as pretty or as powerful as "Superstar" Billy G.