Old School Beefcakes 1960s-1990s

Tom Zenk and Brian Pillman

Scotty Riggs

Tim Horner

Ron Fuller

Warlord

Bobby Shane

Wayne Bridges

Old School Beefcake: Scotty Riggs

If you were watching World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the mid 1990s, you may recall the tag team of Marcus Alexander Bagwell and Scotty Riggs. Billed as The American Males, Bagwell and Riggs held the WCW Tag Team Championship title for a mere eight days before losing it to the tag team they won it from in the first place, Harlem Heat. After Bagwell turned heel in 1996, the duo broke up and feuded with each other. Riggs signed with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 2000 and then left in 2001 to wrestle for various independent promotions. He retired from professional wrestling in 2009. Watch the promotional video for The American Males here. And then there's this 4-minute music video featuring a mostly shirtless Riggs and Bagwell in a love triangle...you just have to see it for yourself. 

 

Riggs early in his in-ring career.

Recognize This Fella?

Do you recognize who this youngster with dreams of becoming a pro wrestler is? He was one of pro wrestling's best-looking men in the 1990s.

The good-looking kid in the pics above is WCW star Marcus Alexander Bagwell. Bagwell made his pro wrestling debut wearing a mask and calling himself The Handsome Stranger. Much later on, he reinvented himself as a heel called Buff Bagwell. My favorite Bagwell period as when he and Scotty Riggs teamed up as The American Males. They feuded bitterly after the team up broke up, but whether they were together or apart, they were hot to watch!

With Scotty Riggs (The American Males)

Riggs vs. Bagwell