#36. Ted DiBiase
Achievements/Accolades:
- 2-time Million Dollar Champion
- 3-time WWE World Tag Team Champion
- King of the Ring Winner (1988)
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2010)
Opinions:
“He lived the gimmick. Ted Dibiase had a tremendous career going for himself in Mid-South Wrestling before making a dramatic entrance in WWE during the mid 1980s. Taking on the persona of “The Million Dollar Man”, Dibiase fully owned the gimmick & made people believe. To this day, I still think that Ted Dibiase is that jerk I watched kick a basketball away from a little kid when I was young. He deserves his spot in the Top 50 for sure.” — Jay Alletto
“The innovator of the Million Dollar Championship, Ted DiBiase was one of the greatest in-ring technicians to ever lace up a pair of wrestling boots. With his evil laugh, “The Million Dollar Man” was arguably the most hated heel of his generation, whose legacy as both a wrestler and manager will live on forever. DiBiase is a worthy #36 on our list, and is exactly where I placed him.” — Matt Burgess
“Of course when we say Ted DiBiase we are referring to senior and not junior…I think. What a character of the Million Dollar Man! That is a persona that can work today and people would still probably have the same instinctive reaction to it that they did 30 years ago. But let’s not lose sight on the man himself, after all it takes the talent and mind of the man to make a character work as well as it did and that is what we got in Ted DiBiase. His attempting to buy the WWE Championship from Andre the Giant remains one of the most scumbag acts of a heel in history.” — Zak Fellows
