World Wrestling Entertainment/Characters/Rock N Wrestling

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

Lists the various WWE wrestlers active during the Rock 'N' Wrestling Era, from 1984 through 1993. Please limit associated tropes to that wrestler's time in the WWE.


Adrian Adonis (Keith A. Franke) 1982-1987

Bad News Brown (Allen James Coage) 1978-1979, 1988-1990

Barry Windham (Barry Clinton Windham) 1984–1985, 1989, 1996-1998

The Big Boss Man (Raymond Walter "Ray" Traylor, Jr.) 1988-1993, 1998-2003

Big John Studd (John William Minton) 1982-1986, 1989

Bob Orton (Robert Keith Orton) 1982, 1984-1987, 2005-2006

Brooklyn Brawler (Steve Lombardi) 1983-

Brutus Beefcake (Edward Harrison Leslie) 1984-1993

Don Muraco (Donald Muraco) 1981-1988

Dusty Rhodes (Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr.) 1989-1991, 2005-2007

George Steele (William James Myers) 1968-1970, 1972, 1976, 1984-1988, 1998-1999

Greg Valentine (John Wisniski, Jr.) 1978-1981, 1984-1992, 1993-1994

Haku (Tonga 'Uli'uli Fifita) 1985-1992, 2001

Harley Race (Harley Leland Race) 1986-1989

Hillbilly Jim (Jim Morris) 1984-1997

The Honky Tonk Man (Roy Wayne Farris) 1986-1991, 1997–1998, 2001, 2008

Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea) 1979-1980, 1983-1993, 2002-2003, 2005-2007

The Iron Sheik (Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri) 1979-1980, 1983-1987, 1988, 1991-1992, 1996-1997

"...break his back, fuck him in the ass, and make him humble!"

Irwin R. Schyster (Lawrence Michael "Mike" Rotunda) 1984-1987, 1991-1995

Jake "The Snake" Roberts (Aurelian Smith, Jr.) 1986-1992, 1996-1997

Jim Duggan (James Edward Duggan) 1987-1993, 2005-2009

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka (James William Reiher) 1982-1985, 1989-1992

Junkyard Dog (Sylvester Ritter) 1984-1988

Kerry Von Erich (Kerry Gene Adkisson) 1990-1992

King Kong Bundy (Chris Pallies) 1985-1987, 1994-1995

Koko B. Ware (James Ware) 1986-1994

Mad Dog Vachon (Maurice Vachon) 1984-1985

The Mountie (Jacques Rougeau Jr.) 1986-1994, 1998

Nailz (Kevin Wacholz) 1992

Nikolai Volkoff (Josip Nikolai Peruzović) 1968, 1970-1971, 1974, 1976-1977, 1979, 1984-1990, 1991-1992, 1994-1995

One Man Gang / Akeem (George Gray) 1987-1990

Paul Orndorff (Paul Parlette Orndorff, Jr.) 1983-1987

Rick Martel (Richard Vigneault) 1980-1982, 1986-1995

Rick Rude (Richard Erwin Rood) 1987-1990, 1997

Randy Savage (Randall Mario Poffo) 1985-1994

Ric Flair (Richard Morgan Fliehr) 1991-1993, 2001-2009

Ricky Steamboat (Richard Henry Blood, Sr.) 1985-1988, 1991

Rocky Johnson (Wayde Douglas Bowles) 1983-1984

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper (Roderick George Toombs) 1984-1996, 2003, 2005-

Sgt. Slaughter (Robert Remus) 1980-1984, 1990-2002, 2005-2009

Ted DiBiase (Theodore Marvin "Ted" DiBiase, Sr.) 1979, 1987-1996

Tito Santana (Merced Solis) 1979-1993

Tony Atlas (Anthony White) 1983-1987, 1990-1991, 2008-2010

The Ultimate Warrior (Warrior FKA James Brian Hellwig) 1987-1992, 1996

Virgil (Mike Jones) 1987-1994, 2010