Rob Faint
We recently lost a true legend in Terry Funk. A former world champion. A hardcore legend. A true gentleman. (I had the great pleasure of meeting him) His career spanned over 50 years and almost 4 ,000 matches. Among those matches there are some rivals that stood out above the rest.
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Brian Damage
Every success story has their humble beginnings. Long before he became a successful manager named Paul E. Dangerously and even longer before revolutionizing wrestling in the late 1990’s as booker of Extreme Championship Wrestling…there was an event promoted by a young Paul Heyman called Wrestle Party ’85. Today, we look back at this event and how it helped launch the career of Paul Heyman.
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Welcome to another fact based edition of useless wrestling facts, stats and other stuff. Come for the wrestling facts and stay for the overwhelmingly useless information you will now retain. Some of these facts you may very well be aware of and some others perhaps not so much. They are all in fun, so let’s get learning!
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Brian Damage
Sometimes high risk, leads to high reward. Certainly that was the case in the National Wresting Alliance back in 1986, when tragedy turned to triumph. This is the story of the babyface turn of the dreaded ‘Russian Nightmare’ Nikita Koloff and how his turn lead to a ‘Super Power’ within the NWA.
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Brian Damage
Football and pro wrestling go together like peanut butter and jelly. So many former football players have gone on to successful pro wrestling careers. They traded helmets for spandex with names like Dick the Bruiser, Ernie Ladd, Wahoo McDaniel, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Vader and Ron Simmons. Those are just a small few who transitioned from the grid iron to the squared circle. There is one place in particular, that has produced more football players to pro wrestlers than any other…a place located in Canyon, Texas.
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Brian Damage
This is the 407th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series, I do not condone or condemn the alleged participants. We simply retell their stories by researching interviews, newspapers, magazines and various other sources of media.
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Brian Damage
A good way to start a feud or even add a layer of excitement to an existing rivalry is a good old fashioned one sided beatdown of an opponent. Today on the blog, we take a look at some of our personal favorites throughout the years.
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Amerigo Diehl, Lowlife Louie Ramos and Brian Damage
This week’s Top Five is about pro wrestlers we truly miss seeing on our TV screens each and every week. Men and/or women wrestlers that either retired or passed on that we no longer get the privilege of being entertained by anymore.
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Brian Damage
With the World Wrestling Federation going full speed with their national expansion, the rest of the territories were forced to play catch up. As the WWF was eating up all of the weaker promotions, Jim Crockett Promotions and the National Wrestling Alliance were thinking of ways to fend off and actually compete with Vince McMahon and the WWF. This, by no means, was going to be an easy task. The WWF had the single hottest star in the wrestling business in Hulk Hogan. It was up to Crockett to find his own version of Hogan and looked to a red hot tag team to do it.
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Ring the Damn Bell 