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![Forgotten World Champions: The preacher’s son Rube Wright](https://slamwrestling.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RubeWrightBanner-440x264.jpg)
Forgotten World Champions: The preacher&...
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Card Exam: Ontario Dominion Day shows
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Mayes McLain was a gridiron legend turne...
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As big as the sky: The love story of Bet...
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80 years ago — Wrestlers at D-Day
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Big George: The origins of Seelie Samara
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Ted Boy Marino was Brazil’s King of Tele...
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Card Exam: Louise Mondt an overlooked fe...
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Card Exam: The Gentleman Geek
The many lives of the Octopus Man
by Vandal Drummond Brown | Mar 16, 2024
It was the eve of October 31, 1934, at Arena Nacional in Mexico City. Tiger Hernandez had just...
‘A few more crosses to burn’: A KKK threat to Tiger Flowers Johnstone
by Steven Johnson | Feb 21, 2024
During Black History Month, it’s worth telling how forgotten Black wrestler Tiger Flowers Johnstone is more than just a museum piece.
Kazuchika Okada Story Archive
by Slam Wrestling | Jan 22, 2024
Pick any story from below to read all about one of the GOAT’s of NJPW, Kazuchika Okada Okada...
The hidden history of Mae Young, wrestling promoter
by Cory Santos | Jan 5, 2024
Did you know you know that Mae Young was a wrestling promoter? Read the extraordinary story of Mae Young and her partner, Eva Lee, on Slam!
Frank Hewitt’s sad pre-Christmas death
by Greg Oliver | Dec 24, 2023
Can a photo foretell the future? The photo at the top of this sad tale has “Tarzan”...
Virginia Mercerau Part 2: Champion, hero, star, survivor
by Cory Santos | Dec 5, 2023
The year 1924 had been disastrous for both Marie Didderich and Virginia Mercereau – the ring name...
Virginia Mercerau: Early women’s champ bamboozled away from ring
by Cory Santos | Dec 4, 2023
There are those whom the fates look favorably upon. The people who stroll through life blessed...
Last Smoky Mountain Wrestling show unearthed 28 years later
by Ryan Nation | Nov 26, 2023
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The final Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) event has been hiding, preserved and...
Remembering a veteran: The final flight of Ben Reuben
by Steven Johnson | Nov 10, 2023
Ben Reuben was a satisfied man when he ducked into an air transport plane on March 3, 1945. He was...
Card Exam: The mysterious Sheik Lawrence of Arabia
by Cory Santos | Oct 15, 2023
People always ask me why I love old wrestling so much. And no, not “old wrestling” like Dick...
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