Monday, January 16, 2012

#38 - Skinner


Look at Skinner for more than eight seconds and you piss your pants; true story. Now I hope everyone reading this is over eighteen, because if not you are probably catatonic right now and also I probably have NBC cameras outside, along with the police. The point still stands though; Skinner is a scary breh, but in the early 90s he was even scarier to a young, nubile boy such as myself.

What made Skinner so dangerous, outside of his ability to wrestle crocodiles in the dreaded Everglades was his ability to not be killed by stingrays. He literally had zero weaknesses. The only thing that stood in his way was his fan boat running out of his gas on the New Jersey Turnpike.

While he will be remembered most for his knock down, drag out battles with Tito Santana (and I mean this in a employer/employee sense, not a wrestling sense) was the fact that he was a philanthropist having donated weapons to Somalian pirates as well as enriched uranium to Iran. Besides these feats in foreign policy, Skinner also had the time to invent his own jerky line which was sold to Slim Jim as well as star in several POV pornographic movies, with the most notable being "This Ain't that Gay(tor) Shit".

Having been retired for well over a decade Skinner now spends his time reenacting murder scenes from Dexter and rape scenes from I Spit On Your Grave.

For these reasons, as well the fear of forced sexual penetration, Skinner comes in at #38 on our list!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

#39 - Glacier


What happens when you mix sub thermal temperatures with martial arts? Sub Zero. But what happens when you mix those two ingredients and let it sit for several years so it can age properly? Glacier.

WCW was nothing if not brilliant. While Mortal Kombat took the world by storm in the early 90s, WCW decided to not be rash and create its own iconic character to cash in the momentum generated by the game. Instead they waited for the widely panned sequels to unleash Glacier upon the world; a marketing coup that still has yet to be replicated.

To sum Glacier up as just a Sub Zero knock off is to say Indiana Jones was not a worthy successor in the Indiana Jones film lineage. With Glacier's incredibly well made ring attire, extremely realistic strike based offense and real honest to God snow falling from the rafters upon his entrance, he became the face of realism in wrestling. While unsophisticated types like Steve Austin swilled down beer, Glacier showcased the discipline of karate in a way the world had not seen since Hilary Swank had done it in Karate Kid 3.

Of course Glacier became too hot for WCW to handle. After being forced to lose a fight to Tank Abbott on an episode of Thunder, Glacier became so disillusioned with the business and he packed up his gi and left for greener pastures (Greenland to be exact) but not before leaving behind a legacy of being a worthy heir apparent to Bruce Le, Sub Zero and the polar bear from the Coke Christmas bottles.

For his advances in wrestling and meteorology we are proud to name Glacier the 39th greatest grappler of all time.