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…
Former WWE ring announcer Howard Finkel died today/Wednesday April 16, and he is being remembered by all of those associated with professional wrestling as one of the best, if not the best, wrestling ring announcers of all time…And he was, he did an outstanding job, and he had the voice inflection to prove it…. Background on Howard Finkel from Wikipedia: Finkel died on April 16, 2020, at the age of 69. He had a stroke a year prior and was in bad health preceding his death. Many nice things being said about Howard Finkel today and here is one of…
Ten Questions for Bruce Mitchell, from the Pro Wrestling Torch/PWTorch.com and a very good time to be catching up with Bruce, the long-time writer and reporter for the Torch, and now-retired Greensboro elementary school teacher, most recently at Archer Elementary School…Bruce Mitchell, a Durham, N.C. native and forever fan of Duke Blue Devils athletics and a die-hard Dukie, when they roll out the roundball/basketballs… Now here is our look with Bruce Mitchell, at this weekend’s upcoming WrestleMania 36, presented by WWE…. Ten Questions for Bruce: 1)No fans at WrestleMania, does that mean the home Buyrate should explode? BM:That wrestling fans…
from the Sheetz Convenience Store on Spring Garden Street, in Greensboro, N.C. on 2/5/2020: (Some pretty interesting viewing in the convenience store today too…It was almost like we were able to create a split-screen with our camera shots.) Our monthly sit-down visit with Bruce Mitchell, from the Pro Wrestling Torch and PWTorch.com with WWE, AEW, NWA, ROH, Impact and more wrestling news….This is a jam-packed session with a review of last night’s NWA Power Hour, the NWA-ROH talent exchanges, new contracts in WWE, Bill Goldberg to Saudi Arabia, Edge, Bruce rates the Top Five Current Wrestling TV shows, we have…
Talking with Bruce Mitchell, the “King of the Ring Reporters” from the Pro Wrestling Torch and PWTorch.com… Were on location inside “The Z Zone” at the Sheetz Convenience Store on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, N.C. In Segment One with Bruce Mitchell we are talking WWE, SmackDown, Eric Bischoff and more, plus AEW/All Elite Wrestling, with Chris Jericho, “The Inner Circle”, the Young Bucks, Cody, Jake Hager and more…Also we go on to “The Arn Show”, and hit Arn Anderson’s new Podcast with Conrad Thompson…Hear about Arn working for three hot dogs a night, his surgery, Arn vs. Ric Flair…
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…
Add-in here for your sports entertainment value…. CLICK HERE for the Brad Anderson-Jacob Ryan shoot match where Brad Anderson took out Ryan….Interesting video… With Bruce Mitchell today/Thursday at the Sheetz convenience store on Spring Garden Street, in Greensboro, N.C. and we got to talking about everything that is ‘wrestling under the planet’, including the “Best Wrestling on the Planet”, AEW’s upcoming “Double or Nothing” show this Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ric Flair’s health issues, plus the WWE, the hanging death suicide of Ashley Massaro, Dalton Castle turning on the boys at ROH Wrestling, the Revolution Wrestling Alliance show…
With Bruce Mitchell in our ‘March Matness Special’, and we get into WrestleMania 35 in Part I of this three-part Video Podcast…. Bruce Mitchell, “The King of the Ring Reporters”, from the Pro Wrestling Torch…Andy Durham and Bruce Mitchell with today’s video podcast from the Sheetz on Spring Garden Street, in Greensboro, N.C. Click Below for Part I of our ‘March Matness’, as we talk about WrestleMania 35, plus talk on the WWE Hall of Fame and more.. **********Time to get into the Ring and onto the Mat, in this special ‘March Matness’ Podcast Report….********** Part II of the Video…
Our interview setup today was at the Sheetz Convenience Store on Spring Garden Street, here in Greensboro…..Bruce Mitchell, a very accomplished teacher at Archer Elementary School and a long-time writer for the Pro Wrestling Torch newsletter and for PWTorch.com… We got a lot of info in here for you in this interview on All Elite Wrestling/AEW, Ring of Honor Wrestling/ROH, the life and times of “Mean Gene” Okerlund, Trevor Lee from CWF, WrestleCade, OMEGA, some thoughts on Impact Wrestling/Johnny Impact and the WWE and much more….. Good info and good interview today with Bruce Mitchell and we thank him for…
from Wade Keller at the Pro Wrestling Torch/www.pwtorch.com CLICK HERE to see more/learn more/see more from Wade Keller, on Bobby “The Brain” Heenan Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, whom fans and rivals taunted with chants of “Weasel! Weasel!”, died Sunday at age 73. Heenan had long battled throat cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2002. Despite valiant push-back against the disease and having lost portions of his jaw to surgeries, among other ailments and injuries, he made a number of public appearances in recent years at fan conventions and loved staying in touch with fans and former colleagues. Widely considered…
****We check in with Bruce Mitchell from the Pro Wrestling Torch…..***** Bruce Mitchell and Andy Durham talk about Global Force Wrestling/GFW and is the clock ticking on this professional wrestling organization??? The future and how does it lay out with Andy and Bruce…. Click Below…. Bruce Mitchell on Ric Flairs’s Health Issues and will there be a return to the ring, once the ‘Nature Boy’ gets healthy again…..Ric Flair, past, present and future with Bruce and Andy…. Click Below….. We talk with Bruce Mitchell, from the Pro Wrestling Torch about the defections from Ring of Honor Wrestling/ROH to the WWE…