As I’ve already said on the vlog, the day that Hulk Hogan would be no longer with us is a day that I have indeed thought about at times. He ...

I  normally don’t include much if any memorabilia in tribute pieces. Today I’m making an exception. The promo photo that you see above was s...

Any good journalist writes these things far in advance. It’s an old tradition/SOP for news obituaries. Whatever it says about my journalisti...

Exotic Adrian Street was a wrestler who I became a bigger and bigger fan of with each bit of his story that I learned. His was a name that I...

No matter who we’re mourning in pro wrestling, it’s almost always a true character. But what a character The Iron Sheik was! He took what co...

Pioneering. Legendary. Controversial. I think that if I were asked for three words to describe Superstar Billy Graham, those would be the th...

Humbled. Those who met the man know exactly what Lanny Poffo’s reaction would be of the talk and remembrances of the last several days. Comp...

When time marches on, those steps often echo with a blunt thud. Scott Hall dead at 63. Wasn’t Razor Ramon an active WWF star in his prime ju...

This past week marked twenty-two years since the passing of Robert Marella, better known to millions as Gorilla Monsoon. Though I may have s...

We're losing them. It seems like it's almost weekly. The wrestling stars of our past are disappearing. It's a tad different from...

The first big wrestling legend passing of 2021 was the man known as Butch Reed. About a week before his passing, news broke that the wrestle...

We've lost another legendary professional wrestler. We've lost a pioneering athlete. We've lost the creator of the Royal Rumble....

Until I added the label of his name to this entry, I truly thought that this may have been the first time that Tracy Smothers was mentioned ...

 With all of his well-documented health battles, wrestling fans have long been preparing for the death of "The Ugandan Giant" Kama...

For me and many others there were three defining voices of the World Wrestling Federation: Gorilla Monsoon, Mean Gene Okerlund, and Howard F...

The third of my five favorite wrestlers is gone. Joining Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Piper is Harley Race. It was not unexpected, as news of various ...

I truly thought that the 500th post on this blog would be a more festive occasion. I also thought that the next time that I'd write abou...

As if enough living treasures from the wrestling world weren't already snatched away in 2018, we begin 2019 with yet another loss. It wa...