Heywood Allen ran his first show under his own banner in Swiss Park on June 4, 1935. They drew 1000 people that night, 822 of them paid, for a gate of $485….
“When I started wrestling, everyone like Gorgeous George had on capes [and] big robes; really gaudy and everything. Then I came along and all I had was pair of trunks and my…
When I shared last night’s post about the Columbia Gym on Facebook, I got a response from Joe Wheeler, long time official at OVW and USWA. It seems the Allen Athletic Club…
The great Lord Leslie Carlton’s biography is on the way. Just recently I received an email from his Lordship’s nephew with two links where you can get a look at this forgotten…
Want a fun warm up the day before the biggest wrestling show of the year? You can meet me and Kenny “Starmaker” Bolin Wrestlemania weekend at the Nerdy Planet in Louisville! Kenny…
In 1949 professional wrestling was struggling. Fan interest was waning, box offices were down, and the business appeared to be on the ropes. A year later, 18,000 people packed Madison Square Garden,…
Time to announce the release my next book project, coming in March! From the author of Bluegrass Brawlers: The Story of Professional Wrestling in Louisville and the woman who co-founded Kranken Welpen, the…
Gorgeous George is one of the most influential wrestlers of all time. If there were no Gorgeous George, one could argue there would be no Buddy Rogers, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Superstar…
There are many reasons to lament the changes that have happened in the wrestling business in the past few decades, but there are some things we should all be glad to see…
I’ve written about Lord Patrick Lansdowne before. He’s the farm boy from Ohio who became a British aristocrat in wrestling trunks. Lansdowne was the first to don a cape and monocle and…
