Many of those who came of age in the 1980s have Gorilla Monsoon to thank for their earliest knowledge of the human body. If Hulk Hogan was the face of the WWF, Monsoon was essentially its voice during the 80s and much of the 90s. Gorilla certainly had a style all his own, coining the name for many wrestler's finishing moves, creating their nick names, and introducing many other phrases that permeate wrestling to this day. This is a cheat sheet for Gorilla Monsoon's phraseology of the human body.

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