Posts about wrestling history
When WWE television commentator Jim Ross told the millions of fans watching the OVER THE EDGE pay-per-view event, “THIS IS NOT PART OF THE ENTERTAINMENT HERE TONIGHT. THIS IS AS REAL AS REAL CAN BE HERE,” the veil that shades what is real in wrestling from reality, as the rest of us know it, was … Read more
Dick the Bruiser was a force to be reckoned with in and out of the ring. If you’re an old-school fan of pro wrestling, you are probably familiar with the name, Dick “The Bruiser.” But if you grew up in the northeast or during the World Wide Wrestling Federation era as I did, you might … Read more
If you’re a fan of professional wrestling or weightlifting, you’re probably familiar with the name Ken Patera. But did you know that Patera was also a top-notch track & field athlete? Ken was good enough to qualify for the 1968 Olympic trials in the shot-put, where he placed a respectable 6th. In high school, Patera … Read more
In this episode, we travel down villainy lane via a MAD MAN parody, for a brief nostalgic visit with the MAGNIFICENT DON MURACO. A dreamy, nostalgic ad man goes off the “deep end” about a favorite bad guy wrestler during an advertising pitch to a high-powered client. Below is the script from the episode, if … Read more
Everything I learned about geography, I learned from pro-wrestling. It’s true. Well, maybe not everything. Every time the ring announcer claimed someone was from Grenoble, France, or Kraków, Poland, or some other exotic part of the world, I had a sudden urge to know where these places were. The next thing I knew, I was … Read more