In May 1986, Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik were still headlining house shows for the World Wrestling Federation. “Macho Man” Randy Savage wore the intercontinental title, and the world was just ...

It is the milestone episode #200 of The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling and today we feature one of the most iconic names in the history of professional wrestling, Ed Leslie otherwise known as Brutus ...

If you’ve never watched a pro wrestling match before–which is to say, if you’ve never been an 11-year-old boy–it might be hard to understand why people are still watching it now. It’s been almost 20 ...

This made me think of how freaking great Rude's gimmick was back in the day. As a kid in the '80s, you hated the heels, but you were still riveted to the TV every time Rude came to the ring and would ...

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a Saturday night at the beginning of October 1987. For many, it was just a regular autumn weekend. Not for me though. Not for the millions of wrestling fans ...

The professional wrestling community is mourning another death this week, as late '80s and '90s mainstay Virgil has died. Virgil's real name was Michael Jones. His first prominent national role was as ...

There is a lot of strife and discord in the world today — what better way to clear your mind than to giggle uncontrollably at a batch of photos featuring a really adorable pug dressed up as some of ...

Wherever "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase was, his silent but imposing bodyguard Virgil was not far behind. Michael Jones, the person behind the iconic number-two man in DiBiase's Millionaire Inc.

The YouTube account Monsoon Classic is a tremendous asset for clips from professional wrestling that predates the nWo (I started watching the genre a few months before that) and the WWF Attitude Era.

We cover pro wrestling a little more than we should these days, because it turns out a lot of people want to read about fake fighting on legitimate comedy sports blogs and because more of us watched ...

On Tuesday night, Cinefamily screened G.L.O.W.: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a documentary on the low-budget, female version of the WWF that ran from 1986 to 1990. “Everybody thought ...

If you’ve never watched a pro wrestling match before–which is to say, if you’ve never been an 11-year-old boy–it might be hard to understand why people are still watching it now. It’s been almost 20 ...