One of WWE's Greats that never was WWF's Champion was Ricky the Dragon Steamboat

 Someone who had the most epic feuds in wrestling in the 80's was Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. In 1986, Randy Savage hit him with the bell which damaged his larynx in his throat which took time to recover. He returned on a Saturday Night Main Event episode and it was a set up for a classic battle in WrestleMania III match which had to stole the show. Afterwords, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat was the winner of the Intercontinental Championship. He later lost it to the Honkey Tonk Man. This was not the end of Ricky Steamboat. However, he never won the WWE then WWF Heavyweight Championship. Hulk Hogan was the man for this then. If not him there was Randy Savage. I always resepected the IC Belt. To me it wasn't just a throw away belt. It was well respected. 


Next Ricky the Dragon Steamboat appeared back in the WCW which was then the National Wrestling Alliance. I remember my family and I just got cable and it was a Saturday 6:05 PM on TV. I started watching WCW because it was on cable. I didn't have this feature because because before 1988 I had to go over a family members house to watch Wrestling on cable TV. It was usually Prime Time Wrestling on USA for the then WWF now WWE. I remember this day because they had a mystery partner with Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert to go against Barry Windham and Ric Flair to go against the then champion Ric Flair. To everyone's surprise it was Ricky Steamboat and this feud lived to it's expectation. 


After his epic feud with Ric Flair which highlighted 1989 for the NWA which later became the WCW. 
I don't know much of his career after expect for him getting in a feud with Stunning Steve Austin before he was Stone Cold. 


He later wrestled Chris Jericho in one of his last matches. Even though he became WCW Heavyweight Champion, he never became WWF Heavyweight Champion. He was one of the greats that never became Heavyweight Champion at the time and he was really good. Maybe one of the best wrestlers in his time. 

A 1986 Action Figure of Ricky the Dragon Steamboat can be found at 1986 WWE WWF LJN Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. I am selling my figure on eBay. If you are interested and you are a fan of Ricky the Dragon Steamboat you can own your very own Action Figure. 

Joseph Evaldi's Twitter Page is: @EvaldiJoseph
Joseph Evaldi's Facebook Page is Joseph Evaldi

More stuff from eBay the page can be found at Wolfman Joe Toys and Media



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Some Sesame Street Records For Sale on eBay.com

Highlighting 3 Players from the 1980's