When it comes to "big man" workers, Bam Bam Bigelow was so ahead of his time. Yes, he could brawl and beat his opponents up, but he was also as agile as some men half his size, able to hit cartwheels and go to the top rope without a problem. There have been others with similar skill sets since Bam Bam, but at the time, his stuff was out of this world. Many say that Bigelow's biggest "crime" was being in the wrong era. He was in his prime at a time when Hulk Hogan was in full force with the WWF. He was in the NWA when Sting and Ric Flair were at the tops of their games. There's not a lot of room to shine at the top when you have people like that ahead of you, especially in that era of focusing solely on one or two people, and not, say, the Attitude Era, where you could dedicate time and effort into pushing a handful of main event players at the same time. He was very popular everywhere he went, whether he was wrestling for huge crowds in the WWF or for smaller, more rabid crowds in ECW. Fans loved his look, his charisma, and the things he was able to do in the ring. It's beyond time that he gets rewarded for everything he did, albeit posthumously.
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