so who knew we'd ever have a presidential administration with lots of ties to the weird dark world of pro-wrestling? but we do. when george "the animal" steele, passed away today, the highest profile pro-wrestler of them all, the most fame poous pro-wrestler of this whole era hulk hogan paid his respects to george steele, he wrote on twitter "george "the animal steele" rest in peace, my brother." hulk hogan in the 1980s and 1990s was well known as a wrestler. he was probably the highest-profile star they had. i don't know how you quantify that. but that's how it seemed to me as a skid. but a wrestling career can't last forever and even though he was a huge deal in the '80s and '90s, maybe even a little further than that, he had faded from the spotlight for a while when in 2012 he briefly became famous again for not wrestling but, forgive me, for a sex tape.