What is the history of face paint and maskes?

**BigDaddyCool** · 11-10-2005, 10:43 PM

When exactly did those come into wrestling?

Also, long those same lines, when or how did the popular image of wrestlers start to be the masked or face painted wrestler? To clarify the question, like when ever a TV show has its wrestling episode the champ is almost always wearing a mask. I ask because in the grand scheme of wrestling, very few famous American and to a lesser exent Canadian wrestlers wear maskes or face paint, and even few of them were really over, hell the can be counted on one hand: Sting, Mankind, Vader, Kane, and the Road Warriors (yeah, I'm counting the Road Warriors as one, and if you want to get techincally about it you need a second for Doink, Hurricane, Rosey, and Vampiro, but they were never all that over).

11-10-2005, 10:43 PM	#1
BigDaddyCool Pelvic Sorcerer Posts: 64,762	What is the history of face paint and maskes? When exactly did those come into wrestling? Also, long those same lines, when or how did the popular image of wrestlers start to be the masked or face painted wrestler? To clarify the question, like when ever a TV show has its wrestling episode the champ is almost always wearing a mask. I ask because in the grand scheme of wrestling, very few famous American and to a lesser exent Canadian wrestlers wear maskes or face paint, and even few of them were really over, hell the can be counted on one hand: Sting, Mankind, Vader, Kane, and the Road Warriors (yeah, I'm counting the Road Warriors as one, and if you want to get techincally about it you need a second for Doink, Hurricane, Rosey, and Vampiro, but they were never all that over).