Brian Damage
After over three decades working with World Wrestling Entertainment, Jerry’ the King’ Lawler is no longer under a full time contract with the company. He is still signed to a legend’s deal, so we may still see Lawler pop up from time to time. This does mark the end of a glorious era the King was a huge part of. Today, we will be discussing his WWF/WWE career overall and what he meant to the company for over 30 years.
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Griffin Kaye
From 1991-1995, Smoky Mountain Wrestling served as a wrestling promotion dedicated to broadcasting wrestling as it used to be. The brainchild of Jim Cornette and bankrolled by Rick Rubin, the promotion was an interesting spectacle: a legitimate southern throwback promotion which served as a melting pot for future stars, wrestling icons, and overlooked workers. Its world title belt, which existed for under four years, is in itself an interesting delve into the philosophy of Smoky Mountain and the stars that drove the shoestring-budget show.
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Rob Faint
Jerry Lawler has been wrestling for over 50 years. In that time, he has made many friends. He also has made many enemies. And some of those friends have become enemies and some of those enemies have become friends. This list explores the top 5 Jerry Lawler opponents. Let the debate begin!
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Brian Damage
It is time to travel back or forward to a bunch of useless wrestling facts, stats and trivia tidbits that will help us learn more or less about the history of pro wrestling….or probably not. Some of these we are well aware of and others maybe not so much. In either case, they are meant to be fun and enjoyable. So without any further waste of time…let’s learn.
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Brian Damage
Stars from other forms of entertainment have traditionally been involved with pro wrestling in some way for many years. From Hollywood, to the grid iron, to the boxing ring, from the music industry have all dabbled in the wrestling business. Today’s top five are my personal choices for the best celebrity appearances in pro wrestling.
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Brian Damage
It’s time to once again dig in to more useless wrestling facts, stats and trivia. Some of these facts may be common knowledge to some and may be completely new and unheard of to others. In either case, they are all meant to entertain and maybe learn a little something about nothing. So here are pro wrestling facts for all of us to chew on for a bit.
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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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Brian Damage
At Survivor Series 1994, Jerry ‘the King’ Lawler challenged Doink the Clown to a traditional Survivor Series match. It would be the ‘Royal Family’ captained by Lawler with his partners “midget” wrestlers Cheesy, Queasy and Sleazy versus ‘Clowns R Us’ Captained by Doink teaming with Dink, Pink and our guest today…the yellow haired Wink. We talk with the wrestler who portrayed Wink aka Roger Calvert and find out how he got the gig in the WWF, Jerry Lawler, Vince McMahon and what he’s up to today.
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Brian Damage
In 1991, World Championship Wrestling was in a serious state of change. Ric Flair had turned his back and walked away from the company…taking the world title (aka The Big Gold Belt) with him to the WWF. With Flair and the title gone, WCW executive Jim Herd made Lex Luger “the chosen one” and crowned him the new WCW world champion at the Great American Bash that year. With a new champion and new title belt to go along with it….Herd wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to make sure wrestling fans knew he had THE world champion in all of pro wrestling.
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Ring the Damn Bell 