News of Pro-Wrestling History: General

Even more legends of our great sports have passed since last week:

• Ray Stern (1933/01/12 -2007/03/06)
• Black Shadow (1921/05/03 -2007/03/08 )
• Ernie Ladd (1938/11/28 -2007/03/10)
• Arnold Skaaland (1925/01/21 -2007/03/13)

Rest in Peace.

Allen Coage (aka Bad News Allen or Bad News Brown) passed away from a heart attack at 5:30am on 2007/03/06 in Calgary at the age of 63.

Bad News Allen was one of the top foreign stars for New Japan in the early 80s and also had some matches with UWF International in the early 90s.

Rest in peace...

Recently, we lost two of very famous figure in the history of the sport.

Jim Melby
One of the greatest wrestling journalists/historians. Without people like him, there wouldn't be a site like mine.

Bob Luce
Former Chicago promoter and TV announcer. He was the voice of the Chicago wrestling. To many people, he was the Chicago wrestling. He took over when the long-time promoter Fred Kohler retired in mid-60s and promoted for both Gagne's AWA ...

Bam Bam Bigelow was found dead early this morning in his home in Hudson, FL.

RIP...

How many times has The Nature Boy won a World Heavyweight Title? I always count 22, but WWE refers to him as the 16 time world champion. Why is this?

Former pro wrestler Kim Il, who dominated professional wrestling in the 1960s and 1970s, died Thursday afternoon in a hospital in Seoul. He was 77.

An official at the Eulji General Hospital, where Kim had been hospitalized for 10 years, said that the late wrestler, who had been plagued by chronic diseases including complications from diabetes and hypertension, passed away at 12:17 p.m.

According to the hospital, the cause of his death was ...

One of the longest feuds in the history of the sport.
The Sheik vs. Bobo Brazil

The Sheik vs. Dusty Rhodes

Dick the Bruiser & Bobo Brazil vs. The Sheik & Bobby Heenan

Toronto 1974 w/ commentary by Jim Cornette and Dave Meltzer (very annoying by constantly interrupting Cornette)
Andre the Giant vs The Sheik

Fred Blassie (Pacific Coast champion) vs. Bruno Sammartino

Mr. Moto vs. Henry Hank

The comment on the page gives you the idea that Mr. Moto was the first Japanese heel, but let's not forget Great Togo...

Clips from pre-WWWF Madison Square Garden.
Buddy Rogers vs. Johnny Valentine

NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Pat O'Connor (world champion) vs. Buddy Rogers (United States champion)
1961/06/30 - Comiskey Park, Chicago, IL
interview before the title bout
match part 1
match part 2

Buddy Rogers (U.S. champion) vs. Bobo Brazil