10 Most Explosive Wrestlers Of All Time
6. Ricky Steamboat
Like the greatest workers, Ricky Steamboat concealed his greatest strength, and only unleashed it when it truly mattered - when the crowd truly wanted him to unleash it after orchestrating that reaction from them.
Steamboat, famously, was a career-long babyface because he was so perfect in a role his disposition lent itself to. A seminal seller, Steamboat's sweat-drenched sympathy and palpable, authentic agony cast a spell over his fans, who got behind his comebacks because he was so worthy of the support. And those comebacks were incredible fusions of psychology and physicality: Steamboat, when all hope seemed lost, roared back into life by chopping the flesh off chests with his fiery chops and using the crowd's power to lunge into arm drags from dire, remote distances.
Steamboat exploded into action when the crowd lit the fuse, using his charged energy to launch into one of pro wrestling's greatest ever dropkicks, the impact of which were registered with a shaking, wild-eyed energy.
The adrenaline that coursed through him compelled his fans to believe such well-earned victory was in sight.