I am late to this but just found out The Natural Disasters are going into the WWE HOF. Well deserved.
Tenta was an amazing worker. If you watched his matches in real time, it looked like he was legitimately hurting his opponents with the Earthquake Splash. However, if you watch it carefully, you can see his opponent will start to sit up as he lands, after which he then plants one of his legs to take the weight and his opponent lays down as he does that and he barely touches them. Then he puts his hand down on the mat and adjusts where he is on them so it looks more painful (but his arm and leg are taking all of his weight). He also would have his plant leg be the leg away from the hard cam, so you couldn't even see it unless they were showing it from the side.
Hell a good dude to take such steps to protect jobbers, too, while making it look good. Assholes like Yokozuna didn't do that for jobbers
Go 0.25 playback speed at 2:16 and you'll see what I mean. Incredible how he did that without making it noticeable.
By all accounts he was a super good dude, too, and hated being a heel because he was sad that children would see him at airports and such and run away crying. He wanted to be beloved by fans and according to Bret Hart, when he finally became a face, he broke down in happy tears back stage after.
Typhoon is also, by all accounts, just a super good dude in real life. They were very good friends off screen, too. They'd share hotel rooms and just play cards and tell jokes and stories instead of hitting bars and whatnot
