Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

[georgiafan]

I think one of the best era's in wrestling was what I'm calling the hulkmania era from 1988-1992. It was alot diffrent back then with a lot of managers, heels you really hated, big tag division, and comic book type characters. So I'm hoping I'll be able to find good created wrestlers for this game so I can run a own brand as back then they didnt have as many PPV's


Main Event/Heavyweight Champs
Hulk Hogan
Andre The Gaint
Macho Man Randy Savage
Ultimate Warrior
Bret Hart
Rick Flair
Yokozono
Undertaker

Must Have/ Legends
King Kong Bundy
Roddy Piper
Brutus the Barber Beefcake
Hacksaw Jim Duggan
Jake the snake Roberts
Nikoli Volkoff
Jim the anvil Neidhart
Koko B Ware
Hillbilly Jim
Ricky The Dragon Steamboat
Million $ Man
Mr. Perfect
Sqt Slaugter
Honkytonk Man
Junk Yard Dog
Sid Justice
Iron Shiek
Lex Luger
Kamala
Ravishing Rick Rude

Tag Teams - all the guys I mentioned r not anywhere else and they are alots more tag teams you could name of putting guys i listed else that team together

Demoltion
Nasty Boys
Stiner Brothers
Legion Of Doom/Road Warriors
The Bushwakers
Natural Distaters (earthquake & typhoon)
The Rockers
British Bulldogs

Mid Card/Not as Important
Haku
I.R.S
Rick the model Marter
Warlord
Barbairn
Hercules
Texas Torando
Bam Bam Bigaow
Greg the hammer Valentine
Big John Stuff
King Harly Race
Hakeem/One Man Gang
Owen hart

Others
Tito Santino
Red Rooster
Bad News Brown
Shane Douglas
Virgil
Mountie
Skinner
Repo Man
Berzerker
Bob Backland
Heavenly Bodies
Headshrinkers
Arn Anderson
Tully Blanchard
Jim Powers
Don Muraco
Sam Houston
Beverly Brothers
Zeus
Buddy Rose
Dino Bravo
Paul Roma
Boriz Zhukov
Killer Bee's
Orient Express
Kato
Sato
Ronnie Garvin
Saba Simba
Paul Roma
Crush
Rougeau Brothers
Mark Sharpe
Conquistadors
Tama

Managers
General Adnan
Bobby Hennan
Jimmy Hart
Slick
Harvey Wippleman
Mr. Fuji
Sapphire
The Genius
Paul Bearer
The Coach
Brother Love
Queen Sherri
Elizabeth

[Tweeg]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

That's an amazing list. I'm going to have to bookmark this thread for reference when I get the game.

Running a Sunday Superstars show once a week, with a limited number of PPVs would be fun.

[JohnPhillip]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

That's an amazing list. I'm going to have to bookmark this thread for reference when I get the game.

Running a Sunday Superstars show once a week, with a limited number of PPVs would be fun.

And Saturday Night Main event twice a month.

[Stormyhog]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

I grew up in the Hulkamania era and it truly was a great time. I went to see Wrestlemania 2, 3, & 4 on closed ciruit tv at my local arena. The British Bulldogs vs Valentine & Beefcake fued was great. They battled for months leading to the Bulldogs winning the titles at WM2. Always remember when The Honkeytonk Man upset Ricky Steamboat for the IC title on tv as well. I have never seen another wrestler as big as Hogan was at the time the arenas would go bonkers. The thing with Hogan is he was bigger than wrestling. To me this era was my favorite as I grew up with it and to me was the best collection of wrestlers at one time in one league I've seen.

[Redacted01]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

88-92 and no Rockers? They were tag team of the year in 89!

[georgiafan]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

88-92 and no Rockers? They were tag team of the year in 89!

The rockers are on the list

[Redacted01]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

The rockers are on the list

I was looking for Michaels and Jannety specifically. Guess that was the problem.

[Amoo316]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

My timeframe might be slightly off, but I believe Harlem Heat was the Steiner Bros biggest opponents during that time frame. Booker did well in WWF/WWE when he went there but I will always remember him as a Tag Team guy with Harlem Heat and not King Booker.

Splitting hairs, but I would move Arn Anderson up into the midcard, simply for the 4H impact he had.

[georgiafan]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

My timeframe might be slightly off, but I believe Harlem Heat was the Steiner Bros biggest opponents during that time frame. Booker did well in WWF/WWE when he went there but I will always remember him as a Tag Team guy with Harlem Heat and not King Booker.

Splitting hairs, but I would move Arn Anderson up into the midcard, simply for the 4H impact he had.

I was only counting the WWF guys I didnt do name anyone that was in WCW. So to my knowledge Harlem Heat never was in the WWF during this time. Arn did have a short run with WWF as part of the brain busters and had the titles briefly. But if you count them up against WWF tag teams they barely even crack the top 10 in my eyes. But no doubt if you count WCW he should be higher on the list.

But if anyone wants to r sees anything I left off let me know and i'll be sure to add them or maybe even add a whole list of WCW guys.

[Tweeg]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

The best thing about this time was the squashing of jobbers during the weekly shows. You never saw Jake Roberts vs Rick Martel on Superstars. You were treated to Roberts crushing some jobber while Martel cut a promo in a picture in picture type of display.

[Cubs4Life]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

Off the top of my head what about Doink the Clown?

[55]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

I love the idea, but Tito Santana deserves a higher priority than that!

Also, Ted DiBiase was the top heel in the company for a good stretch.

[davomaxi]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

I'm doing the same thing, and so far have DL'd:

Hogan
Savage
Warrior
Slaughter
Million Dollar Man
Piper
Hart Foundation
Rick Rude
Earthquake

and a few more I can't remember.

There's some good old school arenas out there too.

[JohnPhillip]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

THQ needs to make the next video game with this era in it. This is the most interesting time in wrestling and they can pull it off and make a lot of money.
Expanding the universe with more stories and recreate the drama and glitz from 87-92. I would like a universe mode where you start at Wrestlemania I one and go on year by year in Universe mode progressing your creation. That would be awesome. What if you wanted a Hogan and Mr.Perfect at Wrestlemania 3? I would love if you could recreate it all.

[DJ]

Re: Recreating the hulkmania era (88-92)

The best thing about this time was the squashing of jobbers during the weekly shows. You never saw Jake Roberts vs Rick Martel on Superstars. You were treated to Roberts crushing some jobber while Martel cut a promo in a picture in picture type of display.

Yeah, for the most part this is true. Every now and again you'd see guys wrestle that were feuding, but it'd usually end in a non-finish which was designed to move the storyline forward (think Savage-Steamboat and the ring bell).

Spinning this thought forward, this type of booking is a big reason why Ryback is getting over so well with the crowd ... he doesn't LOSE! Too many times we've seen guys get a "push" and then once they reach a certain level, the WWE decides wins-losses don't matter and they begin to lose all the time, like The Miz and Dolph Ziggler. Fans can't take these guys seriously as main-event talent because the WWE doesn't treat them as such.