Stan Hansen

For anyone who grew up on wrestling, Stan Hansen is the archetypal wild man, and I love him for it. A hulking Texan out of Knox City and West Texas A&M, he made the Western Lariat into a sound the whole of Japan reacted to. The detail I find oddly endearing is that his famously stiff, bruising style grew partly from poor eyesight, which lends a strange authenticity to the chaos. The cowboy hat, leather vest and bullrope created a persona that no one has truly replicated. His Hall of Fame inductions feel like a formality. I still get a jolt from his honest, brawling power.

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Name (English)

Stan Hansen

Name (Japanese)

スタン・ハンセン

Reading

すたん・はんせん

Born

August 29, 1949 (age 77)

Origin

Knox City, Texas, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler / actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

University

West Texas A&M University

Awards & achievements

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

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Hansen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2033317

Tags

• Texas
• professional wrestler
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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