Wrestling News, Analysis, and Rumors
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to revisit the topic of fear in professional wrestling. One year ago, I penned an article showcasing the many examples of wrestlers that have instilled or defined dread, fight, and trepidation in the world of wrestling. Given the theatric nature of wrestling, this is a topic that […] READ MORE
Dark Side of the Ring’s October 14 episode chronicled the troubled life of former WWE, Extreme Championship Wrestling, et al. performer Luna Vachon. A talented in-ring worker with a unique, edgy persona, Vachon’s career never reached the heights her talent merited partially because of profound struggles with mental illness and substance abuse. However, the limitations […] READ MORE
Another week, another dark look into the troubled life of a professional wrestling legend. Last week’s Dark Side of the Ring focused on the double life of Johnny K-9; a pro wrestler whose wrestling fame was overshadowed only by his life in the criminal underworld, where bikers, bombs and bedlam were let loose in Canada. […] READ MORE
Mad Dog & The Butcher: The Last Villains, is Thomas Rinfret’s documentary about Montreal’s infamous Vachon wrestling family and is told from the perspective of the family’s last surviving member, Paul “The Butcher” Vachon. Both wrestling fans and non-fans will enjoy The Last Villains, as it dives into Vachon’s life and memories. Despite his age – […] READ MORE
The Pioneers is an on-going series looking at some of the earliest pioneers of professional wrestling as we know it, from the wrestlers to promoters to trainers who helped shape professional wrestling around the world. This article looks at a trailblazer in intergender wrestling and the creation of “bad-ass” women’s wrestlers in pro wrestling, Luna […] READ MORE
The full class of the WWE Hall of Fame Legacy Wing has been revealed and it’s full of names long overdue for the WWE Hall of Fame. Broken by PWInsider, the WrestleMania program is now out and confirmed the ten names. The Legacy Wing was created in 2016 and so far has inducted pioneers of […] READ MORE
WrestleVotes, a Twitter account that has broken multiple Hall of Fame inductions including Brutus Beefcake, Torrie Wilson and Honky Tonk Man, has apparently uncovered four names being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2019 in the newly founded Legacy Wing. The Legacy Wing was created in 2016 and so far has inducted […] READ MORE
This past Thursday January 18, 2018 at Bar Wrestling 8: Happily Ever After, the tag team combination of Joey Ryan and Candice LeRae, collectively known as The World’s Cutest Tag Team, came to a close after a five year run that changed the landscape in terms of intergender tag teams. While men and women had […] READ MORE
The tenth and final part in our 10-part series looking at 150 Canadian names in pro wrestling, in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Part 10 of the Canada 150, an alphabetical listing of Canadians’ impact on pro wrestling from the 1900’s to today. TARZAN TYLER Montreal’s Tarzan Tyler began wrestling in the 1950’s in Quebec, […] READ MORE