Family matters to Lanny Poffo
In 1952, the very Catholic-Italian, Angelo Poffo, married the girl of his dreams, Judy Sverdlin, a...
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Author: Marty Goldstein
Winnipeg’s Bruiser Bastein to be remembered today
It is with the utmost sadness that I have been asked to announce that Jean Claude Abraham, well...
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Mat Matters: An XPW New Jack experience, and a Vic Grimes rant
The sudden death of New Jack on May 14 got me thinking back some wild times two decades ago, and...
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A year into lockdown, CWE and ECCW aim to revive live events in 2021
While professional wrestling in Canada was battered onto the mat by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions...
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Heavyweight champions of Stampede Wrestling fittingly remembered in title belt tribute
A true wrestling fan’s labour of love is the best way to describe the book Stampede Wrestling: The...
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Celebrating Gene Okerlund’s Winnipeg days
Long before achieving worldwide fame as the key interviewer and event pitchman for the World...
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Book offers a fascinating look into all of Mad Dog’s life
Mad Dog: The Maurice Vachon Story tells the tale of an unlikely Quebec and Canadian hero —...
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Ron Starr’s autobiography an eyeopening look at territory era
If all this autobiography — Bad to the Bone: 25 Years of Riots and Wrestling — was...
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Book on prairie wrestling ‘substantive and enlightening’
Dr. C. Nathan Hatton’s new labour of love, entitled Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in...
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Duke Myers dies
Floyd “Duke” Myers, a feared ring ruffian across the southern USA who became a...
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