The new season of Dark Side of the Ring, from VICE TV is now upon us, and the most recent episode called “Shattered”, on Magnum TA/Terry Allen, is one you need to check out, if you are fan of professional wrestling, who remembers those glory days in the NWA, at Jim Crockett Promotions back in the 1980’s… Check it all out, when you Click On Below, and it will take you back to Terry Allen’s days as high school wrestler in Virginia Beach, Virginia, his entry into professional wrestling under the so-called watchful eye of Buzz Sawyer, how went on…
from ABC TV24 in Memphis, Tennessee: MEMPHIS, Tenn — Longtime Memphis wrestling promoter, booker, and former professional wrestler Jerry Jarrett has died Tuesday at the age of 80. The National Wrestling Alliance confirmed Jarrett’s death in a tweet Tuesday afternoon, saying, “The NWA family is saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary Jerry Jarrett. A very important part of the professional wrestling business, we send our condolences to his family, friends and fans.” Jarrett was most well-known for promoting and helping book the Continental Wrestling Association, a Memphis-based wrestling promotion he founded in 1977. CWA, which Jarret operated…
Barry Windham Currently In ICU Following Emergency Procedure from SEAN NEUMANN with www.wrestlinginc.com/Wrestling Inc. WWE Hall of Famer Barry Windham was hospitalized over the weekend and his family launched a GoFundMe page on Monday to assist with medical costs. The Windham family shared that the wrestler suffered a “massive” heart attack while traveling through the Atlanta airport and went into cardiac arrest. “He is currently in the ICU and has undergone an emergency procedure to save his life,” the family said. “As a family, we are impatiently waiting to hear that he will be okay. But as of now, the future…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Stan Lane…69, and still doing fine….Before he attained all of his accomplishments in professional wrestling, Stan Lane attended Page High School, in Greensboro, N.C., and is a proud former Page Pirate… Stan was at Page HS, about the same time that big man/strong man Phil Wise was passing through..Stan is the son of Wally Lane, and pretty sure Wally Lane sold real estate, here in Greensboro…Again, Happy Birthday to Greensboro’s very own, “Sweet” Stan Lane…. from Friday on Today in Pro Wrestling History: “Sweet” Stan Lane. Stan is 69 years old today. He formed multiple successful tag teams…
This one hits close to home…Del Wilkes, known in his professional days as “The Patriot”, has left us…Del Wilkes gone at age 59 after a massive heart attack…Wilkes had successful run as a pro wrestler and he was a former offensive lineman for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks football team…He was a first-team All-American at guard for the South Carolina Gamecocks, during the 1984 season. Del Wilkes was a South Carolina boy/man and he cut his teeth on playing college and pro sports, there in the state of South Carolina… “The Patriot”/Del Wilkes came to Greensboro back in the…
from www.wrestlinginc.com: Buddy Colt [real name Ron Read], a legendary pro wrestler who was a star for various territories affiliated with the NWA in the 1960s and 1970s, passed away at the age of 81 on Friday. The Cauliflower Alley Club reported the news. Details on his passing were not revealed. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of the legendary Buddy Colt at the age of 81 years old. We send our sincerest condolences to his wife Lorraine, his two daughters, friends & fans the world over. R.I.P. Buddy, with love & respect you…
**********Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling/NWA Icon Gone at age 76:Jim Crockett Jr./JCP has left for the ‘Squared Circle’ in the sky, and “May The Circle Be Unbroken”!!!********** (With the stars we have implanted in the text above, that is our “Ten Star Salute”, to Jim Crockett Jr., from Jim Crockett Promotions.) ++++++++++Here is one line from the end of the old Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling shows, that I will never forget…“Promotional Considerations paid for by the following”.++++++++++ $$$$$ Jim Crockett Jr. was out there selling those shows, and making sure that they happened….RIP:Jim Crockett Jr. from Bruce Mitchell, contributor to GreensboroSports.com: Bruce Mitchell…
Wrestling legend Butch Reed has passed away at the age of 66. from WrestlingInc.com/www.wrestlinginc.com Reed’s official Instagram account announced Friday morning that the former WCW World Tag Team Champion passed away today due to heart complications. “To everyone who reached out god bless you. Today we lost a great man. Due to heart complications Bruce ‘Butch’ Reed passed away. Butch is in heaven now with the wrestling god’s. I am sure he is already booked for a Heavyweight Championship match. Once again thank you for all the prayers. We will keep this page going in his memory. For funeral arrangements…
from www.wrestlinginc.com: Pro wrestling legend Tracy Smothers has passed away at the age of 58. Smothers announced in November 2019 that he was battling lymphoma, and was facing a second battle with the cancer. He had suffered some heart damage from the first round due to heavy chemotherapy. Smothers just underwent surgery for a hernia 11 days ago. In an update, Timothy Denison noted on Facebook that Smothers passed away this morning/Wednesday morning at around 4:24am, due to his fight against cancer. Funeral arrangements and a “Celebration of Life” will be announced in the near future for Smothers’ family, friends…
In the title/headline above, I would have just called him Armstrong, but if I didn’t correctly identify him as Bob Armstrong, and “Bullet” Bob Armstrong, he probably would have come back and kicked my butt…This man was that tough, and he was tough, even as an ‘old man’…Bob Armstrong wrestled his last professional wrestling match, when he was 79 years old…That is almost unreal…But, he is now longer with us…“Bullet” Bob Armstrong gone at age 80 years old, and he leaves a legacy… RIP:”Bullet” Bob Armstrong from www.wrestlinginc.com: WWE Hall of Famer “Bullet” Bob Armstrong has passed away at age…
Details are still forthcoming, but NWA and Jim Crockett Promotions regular journeyman, Tony Russo, has passed away… Bruce Mitchell, senior columnist with the Pro Wrestling Torch looks back at the career of Tony Russo and Bruce also takes a trip back down memory lane, to the WRAL TV 5 studios, where they had studio wrestling on Wednesday nights back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s…And that’s the 1960’s, the 1970’s and the 1980’s… Bruce Mitchell looking back at Tony Russo, one of Bruce’s all-time favorites, and Bruce goes back to where it all got going/began for him, the Triangle, and…
There is quite a bit of talk that Billy Corgan, the owner of NWA pro wrestling, is looking to shut down the promotion/federation… Here is part of the conversation from WrestlingInc.com with former wrestler Raven, making his feelings known about the NWA and Billy Corgan situation… “I think Billy is shutting [NWA] down, from what I hear,” Raven said. “So yeah, and the thing is, Billy really does the booking. Billy does all the booking, at least he did with the Resistance Pro [Wrestling]. He liked me there to have my wrestling mind so I can say yay or nay…
Joe Pedicino gone at age 70…Joe Pedicino and Boni Blackstone…Hard to think about one, without thinking about the other….She was a beautiful woman and Joe was a real BIG man…I bet you at one time, Joe was tipping the scales at 350 pounds-plus… (He was popularly known as the “round mound of sound”.) The big thing Joe Pedicino had going for him, well there were at least two things… One was his beautiful wife Boni Blackstone and the other things was, and this part was a huge key to his success, Joe Pedicino was a talker…The man could talk and…
Part I from our talk today with Bruce Mitchell from the Pro Wrestling Torch, and we were at the Sheetz Convenience Store on Spring Garden Street, here in Greensboro, N.C. AEW, WWE, ROH, Impact, and more CLICK BELOW for the video show(Part I), with Bruce Mitchell from the PWTorch.com… Part II with Bruce Mitchell from the Pro Wrestling Torch, and we hit on more areas of professional wrestling with Impact, Ring of Honor, MLW, NWA, more AEW and WWE and much, much more… CLICK BELOW Part III with Bruce Mitchell, of the Pro Wrestling Torch and PWTorch.com joining us, and…
WWE/WCW/WWF/NWA/TNA/Greensboro Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, Piper’s Pit…He was everywhere….Now: RODDY PIPER DEAD AT AGE 61 WWE legend Roddy Piper died on Friday at age 61 due to cardiac arrest. There no way you couldn’t help but love this guy….He was crazy, but he was one of the best workers in the history of the professional wrestling business…As we mentioned earlier, RIP RRP/”Rowdy” Roddy Piper… from Wikipedia:www.wikipedia.com Roderick “Roddy” George Toombs (April 17, 1954 – July 30, 2015), better known by his ring name “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, was a Canadian professional wrestler, film actor, and podcast host. In professional wrestling, he…