IMHO the best bad guy ever to wrestle.
There’s already a thread going about Blassie’s death, you pencil neck geek! 
Maybe I should give it a bump.
But I will agree he helped set the standard for how to be an entertaining “heel”. I’d put him up there with Gorgeous George, Ric Flair, and “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers when it came to working a crowd.
One of my favorite pages is http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/decwres.htm
If you want to bring back a name or two from the old days, just read this.
I think I missed Blassie as a baddie because I grew up in the Washington, DC area and wrestling was very localized in the mid 50’s.