Stan Hansen

Stan Hansen, born John Stanley Hansen II in 1949 and known as Stan the Lariat Hansen, is an American retired professional wrestler. He played college football for the West Texas State Buffaloes and tried out for the Detroit Wheels of the World Football League before wrestling full time from 1974. He is known for a stiff style that he attributed to poor eyesight and for the gimmick of a loud, violent cowboy in a hat and leather vest with a bullrope. After first teaming with Frank Goodish, later Bruiser Brody, in the Tri-State territory, he became a hugely successful foreign wrestler in Japan with All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he held seven different championships, and is a ten-time world champion overall. He appeared in the film No Holds Barred and co-wrote the 2011 biography The Last Outlaw.