Have you ever wondered how someone who wants to be a professional wrestler breaks the news to their parents? So did I. Here’s chapter one of Eat Sleep Wrestle, a book I…
Ian Rotten shared a great story about his blood brother Axl this morning on Facebook. Sharing it here for all who are feeling the loss today. If you’ll bear with me, I’d like…
The first time I saw Kongo Kong was when he shoved me out of his way. It was January 2014. Heidi Lovelace and Jordynn Grace were embroiled in a “Falls Count Anywhere…
Professional wrestling has been called a man’s soap opera. This is true in the ring and backstage. Any place you find there drama of wrestling in a ring, there’s bound to be drama…
The rumors you’ve heard are true. Yes, IWA Mid-South is hardcore. Yes, the fans live for blood and gore. Yes, they were so violent back in the 90s, they were kicked out…
If you miss a week of wrestling in Louisville, you miss a lot! While I was off enjoying a family vacation in D.C., Mitchell Hull won the OVW TV title. Mitchell was…
It’s not easy to run an independent promotion in the WWE era. Most promotions only last a few months at best, struggling to draw an audience and attract talent the fans…
Listening to Jeff Jarrett on this week’s Talk is Jericho and he brings up an interesting point about the uptick in quality in independent wrestling. In the old territory days, the young…
One of the highlights of Eat Sleep Wrestle is a chapter about deathmatches, a particularly brutal form of professional wrestling frequently involving barbed wire, fluorescent light tubes, and all manner of weapons. The chapter…
There’s a story in Eat Sleep Wrestle about Dusty Rhodes from Ian Rotten. Ian was in his early twenties when he booked one of his great heroes for IWA Mid-South, Dusty Rhodes. Rhodes…
