When it comes to ‘80s toys, wrestling figures from the WWF (now the WWE) were all the rage. Here‘s what to know about their creation and the big impact they had on pop culture.

According to cagematch.net, an online pro wrestling history database, Hogan had eight WWF bouts at the auditorium, winning six of them, in 1980 and 1981, a time when the WWF was largely a ...

The first time I ever got to go to a wrestling match live was in Kansas City, maybe a year before my birthday party. My older cousin took me to see a WWF card that featured Brutus Beefcake (before ...

By DAN GELSTON The opening chords of Rick Derringer’s hard-rock guitar would play over the arena sound system. Instantly, 20,000 Hulkamaniacs — and many more as wrestling’s ...

Hulk Hogan, one the most famous wrestlers in the world, crossed into the mainstream with the WWF in the 1980s, but it was in MN where he found his voice and created Hulkamania.

He skyrocketed to fame in the 1980s and ’90s as the face of the World Wrestling Federation—then known as WWF, now WWE—becoming a household name through high-profile matches, endorsements ...

Just a pair of the 1980s icons, who used tough talk and the perceived notion they could both “tell it like it is,” to rise to the top. Only wrestling fans, especially one in the home of the ...