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…
Your chance here to read the Bruce Mitchell article that ran previously at the PWTorch.com website…The post was pulled down/removed before many of you had a chance to read it…You get that chance now, and you also get a chance to see more details that have come out since Bruce’s article was first written… Bruce’s work is based on his opinions after many years of studying and researching the wrestling industry….You can form your own opinions after you read the post/article and those may vary, but Bruce has his opinion and his findings, and we leave those here in front…
(We are losing a lot of athletes this week…Kevin Greene, K.C. Jones, Danny Hodge, Ty Jordan, and now Luke Harper/Brodie Lee.) Tony Khan with AEW/All Elite Wrestling: @TonyKhan I’m devastated by the loss of Jon Huber, known to fans as Mr. Brodie Lee, formerly Luke Harper. Jon was a great man. His family came first, his loving wife Amanda & their sons Brodie + Nolan. He loved wrestling & was great at it, he loved you fans. Please keep him in your hearts. #RipBrodieLee pic.twitter.com/wBdvPO5F9Y — All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 27, 2020 from www.wikipedia.com: Jonathan Huber (December 16, 1979…
from www.popculture.com: Danny Hodge, a pro wrestling legend who won a silver medal at the 1956 Olympics in Australia, has died. He was 88 years old. WWE released a statement, saying Hodge was a “true trailblazer” for winning national titles in wrestling and boxing. “The Oklahoma native’s highly decorated career included recognition as a three-time NCAA Champion, Olympic silver medalist, National Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, and eight-time NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion,” WWE said. There were a number of pro wrestlers to pay tribute to Hodge including William Regal. “I’ve just seen the saddening news from my friend ?[Gerald Bisco]…
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…
This coming in from Jason Powell at the ProWrestling.net, by way of the Pro Wrestling Torch/PWTorch.com….. Here is Jason Powell and Jason Powell’s Point of View will follow…. Former XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck filed a lawsuit against Vince McMahon last week in Connecticut seeking full payment of his five-year contract. The lawsuit alleges that Luck was wrongfully terminated and is owed the full amount stipulated in his contract. ActionNetwork.com‘s Darren Rovell reports that his sources estimate Luck’s contract at $20-25 million over five years, and note that it included a clause that stipulated he would be paid the remaining balance…
The kid from Cameron and former Union Pines High School football player, Jeff Hardy, is in trouble with the law again….Hardy has been arrested numerous times over the past ten years, while wrestling for WWE, TNA and other professional wrestling groups/organizations….Jeff always seems like he is going to get his stuff together, but then things seem to fall apart at the seams again for him… He has been battling these demons with alcohol and drugs for many years now, and it doesn’t look Jeff can pin this opponent….He wins in the wrestling ring/squared circle, but outside of the ring, Jeff…
It is like ‘Bang-Bang’ and two former professional wrestlers are gone in the past two days….We lost George “The Animal” Steele to cancer on Friday and now we learn today, the “The Russian Bear”, Ivan Koloff, has left us, due also to cancer….Steele was quite the character and he was known more for his body of work in the WWF, but Ivan Koloff, known to some of us as, “Uncle Ivan”, he was like family, a card-carrying member of the NWA and good ‘ole JCP/Jim Crockett Promotions brother/uncle…..Uncle Ivan with his nephew Nikita Koloff and Barry Darsow/Krusher Kruschev and with…
Not Forever Young, although at times he sure looked it, Buddy Landel, with one “L” has heard the bell for the last time… from www.pwtorch.com “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel (William Ansor) reportedly died at the age of 53 on Monday. According to the Wrestling Observer, Landel was in a car accident this past weekend, returned home from the hospital on Sunday, and did not wake up on Monday when his wife checked on him. *****There was supposed to be a Smokey Mountain Wrestling show over at Grimsley High School back in the mid-90’s…We had Joel Waxman/Cat Collins on our local…
He began his pro wrestling career in North Carolina according to Wikipedia and he was best known for his work in the tag-team The Fantastics, along with his tag-team wrestling partner Bobby Fulton(James Hines)….. Tommy Rogers died today at age 54…Known as Tommy Rogers in the ring and billed from the ‘City of Angels’ in Los Angeles, California, his real-life name was Tommy Couch…..Rogers and Fulton/Couch and Hines spent many years working together and traveling up and down the wrestling road as The Fantastics….They had some very good battles and wars with the Midnight Express down in the Texas-based World…
WWE has often involved cutting edge celebrities to promote the brand. However, over the past few years the ratings have declined and the WWE Network never really took off as expected. So the writers decided that up-and-coming performer would feud with an old and retiring comedian. Wait! Didn’t we see this a few decades ago with Andy Kaufman? Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart will be “taking on” WWE’s Seth Rollins on Monday Night Raw (March 2, 2015), or will he. This has Pay-Per-View written all over it, with RAW being used to set it up. Does anyone watch WWE any more?…
from KFBK radio in Sacramento, California: (Lots of Lee Marshall wrestling history in this post.) Reports say that Lee Marshall, voice of Tony the Tiger, respected newsman, and World Championship Wrestling/AWA announcer has passed away. Friends on his Facebook are posting comments of memories and their condolences. Marshall worked at various stations in his career such as K-ABC and KHJ in Los Angeles. He was the voice of Kellog’s iconic Tony the Tiger, succeeding Thurl Ravenscroft when he passed away in 2005. from www.wikipedia.com on Lee Marshall: American Wrestling Association……Joined the broadcast when the AWA Championship Wrestling show was on…
TMZ is reporting that CM Punk, aka Phillip Brooks, has had to get a restraining order against his MOTHER! He faces Kane, The Undertaker, John Cena and he is scared of his Mom???? Actually not scared, just bugged to death. It seems like he and his Mom aren’t getting along and she wants a piece of the Action. He says she is crazy. I say sign her up as a Manager in the WWE. She manager Punk’s opponents in the next story arc. Everyone wins.