Awesome / George Wagner

• Being the first truly great "gimmick" wrestler and one of the first TV stars in any genre, and influencing basically everyone who has come along since.
  • To put it another way, "Gorgeous" George Wagner is a contender for the title of the world's first modern age pop culture celebrity. In the 1940s people were literally buying the first TVs to watch his matches, with some people even crediting him with single-handedly making television a viable entertainment medium. Yeah, he's kind of a big deal.