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Great Moments In Sid History: "What you did Jack Tunney, was BOGUS!"
To celebrate SON OF SID's entry into the realm of professional wrestling along with further celebrating monsters in October on Cageside Seats, I bring you a new series: Great Moments In Sid History....
Startup Sidetrack Special: The fall of World Class brings the United States Wrestling Assocation
I figured I should do the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF) as the next subject in this series of features about startup promotions, but it's hard to tell the story without first profiling the fall ...
Loser Leaves Town Podcast 9/6/09 w/ Kurt Brown: Observer Hall of Fame 2009 Part 2
It's time for the sequel to Friday's show with Kurt Brown (seen above as Lucky Pierre) about everyone on the 2009 Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame ballot. From Rick Rude to Tim Woods and then th...
Loser Leaves Town Podcast 9/4/09 w/ Kurt Brown: Observer Hall of Fame 2009 Part 1
I'm joined by Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame voter, wrestler/historian/reporter/etc Kurt Brown (being bitten in the above photograph by El Fisico Nuclear) to discuss the every single act ...
SMW invading WCW: The version Eric Bischoff didn't want you to see
In 1993, with his good friend Bill Watts running WCW, Jim Cornette decided to work with him to promote Smokey Mountain Wrestling, a territory he had started based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. ...
Remembering IWA Mid-South
Even though I haven't followed the company too in-depth for several years, the news that IWA Mid-South is closing (for real this time) still makes me a little bit sad. Here are too many ...
This is how you defend a wrestler against criminal charges
In the mid-'80s, the Iron Sheik was charged with assault. His lawyer, Mickey Sherman, came up with a brilliant defense strategy: Have WWF wrestlers and Cyndi Lauper(!) cut promos about what a ...
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