With his green tongue often sticking out, Steele flipped from villainous heel to beloved babyface in the 1980s, kicking of a new era of fandom.
The crazed and somewhat feral personality that fans immediately connect with George “The Animal” Steele wasn’t even how the wrestler first intended to be viewed by audiences.
And that’s how we got the mono-syllabic, turnbuckle-destroying, hairy-backed, hammerlock-utilizing madman that won over millions of fans for years.
And his size and strength were such that he was further immortalized through a Seinfeld joke about Jerry’s date with “man hands.”