A Kiwi Role: Remembering Mat Historian Dave Cameron
Dave Cameron, who died March 24, was a legend in New Zealand as a sportswriter, photographer, publicist and historian.
Category: Obituaries
Nova Scotian ring announcer, comedian Mark Walker dies
Comedian Mark Walker, who has been a ring announcer for the Nova-Scotia based New Breed Wrestling...
Portland announcer Don Coss passes
This past weekend, on Saturday, February 22nd, there was a Portland Wrestling Expo. It featured...
Guest column: Walking the mental health minefield alongside Jamie Hemmings
This will be a very different article to what you’re used to on SlamWrestling.net. While I’ve been...
Slam Speaks: Memories of Jamie Hemmings
The death of our SlamWrestling.net colleague Jamie Melissa Hemmings is more than a fitting reason...
Bill Melby was a top bodybuilder, wrestler
Bill Melby had one of the most memorable physiques in professional wrestling of the 1950s. A...
‘Colonel DeBeers’ Ed Wiskoski dead at 80
Ed Wiskoski, who gained late-career fame as the Colonel DeBeers character in the dying days of the...
WWE Hall of Famer, baseball icon Bob Uecker dead at 90
Bob Uecker, a celebrated professional wrestling and baseball figure, has died at 90. Uecker was...
Joe E. Legend says thanks to Sweet Daddy
Really saddened to have to say goodbye to one of the most influential people in my life, the great...
Sweet Daddy Siki photo gallery
How pretty was Sweet Daddy Siki? Pretty damn, sweet. Since he’s not here to remind us, this...
‘Australian Suicide’ Broderick Shepherd dead at 32
Broderick Shepherd, better known in the wrestling world as Australian Suicide, has died at the age...
Osamu Nishimura dead at 53
Japanese wrestler Osamu Nishimura has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 53. Initially...
Midwestern veteran Eric Priest dies in motorcycle accident
Mike Boehne, who was known as “The Underwear Model” Eric Priest and “The Gold...
Influential Gran Hamada dead at 74
Hiroaki Hamada, known as Gran Hamada from his exploits in Japan and around the world, has passed...
Mat Matters: We will miss you, Jamie Hemmings
She was only 43, and we were friends for 20 of those. I only just learned the truly gutting news...
Mat Matters: Me, Kurt and The Colonel
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains profanity and adult stories. It’s a photo that...
Guest column: Eulogizing Detroit’s RoughHouse Rob
By LEVI BLUE – For SlamWrestling.net I broke into the wrestling business back in 1997 and...
Black Bart dies at 69
Black Bart, a long-time veteran of the wrestling business has died at the age of 69. Bart was...
The search for Siki’s real name
When I first started Charting the Territories, two of my biggest influences were the Freakonomics...
Mat Matters: Siki did not trust easily
When I look back on my many years covering pro wrestling, I’m not sure that I had to work as...
