Ricky Steamboat

Ricky "the Dragon" Steamboat is one of those wrestlers who makes you question why anyone else even bothered showing up — the man was just on a different level. His 1987 Intercontinental Championship match against Randy Savage at WrestleMania III is still brought up as a gold standard for in-ring storytelling, and honestly that reputation is completely earned. What I love about Steamboat is that he came up through legitimate amateur wrestling and it showed: every movement had a crispness and purpose that felt real, not rehearsed. He did the babyface role so well you almost forgot how hard it is to make people genuinely care, and generations of fans across AWA, JCP, WCW, and WWF got to see that firsthand. Double Hall of Famer — WWE and Wrestling Observer — which tells you both the mainstream and the hardcore community agreed he was the real deal.

Name (English)

Ricky Steamboat

Name (Japanese)

リッキー・スティムボート

Reading

りっきー・すてぃむぼーと

Born

March 28, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Origin

West Point, New York, United States

Height

178 cm

Occupation

amateur wrestler / professional wrestler

High school

Boca Ciega High School

Awards & achievements

• WWE Hall of Fame
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/realsteamboat
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

Tags

• New York
• amateur wrestler
• professional wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.