Okay, prepare to hear a ton of WWE facts and stories that will pull a range of emotions, my friend.

You'll laugh, you'll gasp, and you certainly will not believe some of the Wild West happenings of the 80s.

Yep, it was quite a time.

So with that in mind, I'm Gareth, this is What Culture Wrestling, and here are 50 fascinating facts about WWE in the 1980s.

Number 50, Dusty Roads was nearly Hulk Hogan.

Firstly, the entire decade, as you know it, could have been drastically different.

Hulkomania became a go-to buzzword to sum the WWF's boom period up.

But here's a quick, did you know?

Ready?

Musclebound brute and all-round action figure come-to-life Hulk Hogan

did not leap into Vince McMahon's mind as the first viable candidate to build his retooled

company around.

No, it was actually won Dusty Rhodes.

Vince told this story for maybe the first time during his six-part Netflix doc.

There, Dusty's son, Cody, appeared as a talking head,

and might have revealed exactly why Daddy Dearest didn't get the nod in front of Hogan.

Basically, Rhodes said his father never truly believed in what

McMahon was trying to do with all the glitz, glamour and monopolisation. Pivoting, Vince

pinpointed Hulk as the ideal replacement for a technical wrestling baby face like Bob Backland,

and the rest is history. Just imagine how different things could have been. I mean, it's kind of

wild that Cody is to modern WWE now, his dad nearly was in the 1980s. Dusty was going to be the

focal point, the kind of smart talking promo machine who could sell fed pay-per-views are plenty,

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