Traditional wrestling (together with its many off-shoots) is a sport of genuinely ancient origins. Archaeological evidence reveals that wrestling was practiced in ancient India, Greece (the philosopher Plato was actually a wrestler), Egypt, Japan and pretty much everywhere else in the world. Professional wrestling (one such off-shoot) is also pretty old, having existed, in one form or another, since about the turn of the last century. Thats a lot of ground to cover. What youll get here, then, is a sort of potted history of the grapplers in question, together with how and why they changed the wrestling business forever. Of course, the ten wrestlers picked here are by no means the ONLY wrestlers to ever change the face of the business, nor are they listed in any real order, these are just ten wrestlers who, for better or worse, had a profound impact on the development of the spandex-clad pseudo sport that we all know and love today. To paraphrase The Grateful Dead, the journey of professional wrestling, from then to now, has been a long, strange trip indeed. Here are ten performers who cast some of the longest shadows and left behind the most indelible marks...