Guest column: Gene LeBell was one of a kind
When I created the International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Newton, Iowa, in 1998, one of...
Category: Obituaries
Guest column: What was it like writing Gene LeBell’s book? Squirrely
It was 3 a.m., and I couldn’t get to sleep. The Killer Elite (1975) was on some basic cable movie...
Wrestling, MMA, movie worlds pay tribute to Judo Gene LeBell
The tributes for “Judo” Gene LeBell, who died on August 9, 2022, at age 89, poured in...
Mat Matters: Gene LeBell, dead at 89, was an old softie
All the superlatives that you will see in the coming days about “Judo” Gene LeBell...
Mike Masters/Rocky Jones dead at 68
Mike Jones, who wrestled in six decades, primarily as Mike Masters and as Rocky Jones, has died....
Pittsburgh’s Eugene Palermo was inspiration for WWE’s Eugene
Eugene Palermo, who died on Sunday, August 7, was much more than the ringside attendant and...
Stampede legend Gil Hayes dies
Gil Hayes, a hated villain from the Stampede Wrestling circuit, died on July 28, from a massive...
Journalist, photographer Blackjack Brown dies
David “Blackjack” Brown, a photographer, writer and wrestling hotline operator, has...
Famed lucha photographer Lourdes Grobet dies
There are photographers, and then there is Lourdes Grobet, perhaps the greatest lucha libre...
WWE referee Tim White dies
Just days after retired WWE referee Dave Hebner died, WWE announced that another referee, Tim...
Famed referee Dave Hebner dies
Famed referee Dave Hebner, who was a part of one of the most-watched wrestling angles in history,...
British woman wrestler ‘Bubbles’ dies in car crash
British wrestler Chelsey “Bubbles” Cartwright has died in a car accident. She was 31....
When a tag partner dies: Tommy Angel on Tommy Seabolt
The passing of Tommy Seabolt on May 25th didn’t get much traction in the pro wrestling...
Tarzan Goto dies
Tarzan Goto, the violent Japanese wrestler, has died at the age of 58 from liver cancer. He was...
Mat Matters: Revisiting my talks with Mr. McMahon’s mom, Vicki
The late Victoria Hanner “Vicki” Askew is known as the mother of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, but...
Bad Boy Buck dies
EDITOR’S NOTE: The previous version of this story had incorrectly noted that Blevins was...
Charlie Smith, unforgettable referee, dead at 92
There’s a reason that the Cauliflower Alley Club named its referee award after Charlie Smith...
Gearmaker, wrestler, trainer Jeff Greeno dies
This past Sunday, April 24, Jeff Greeno, who wrestled as Anarchy Ash Aubrey, suffered a seizure...
Karl Lauer, dead at 83, was the Cauliflower Alley Club
In 1979, Mike Mazurki, founder of the Cauliflower Alley Club, asked Karl Lauer, a wrestling...
‘Royal Stud’ Adam Windsor dead at 41
Adam Windsor, who was the first prized student of Dory Funk Jr.’s Funkin Conservatory, has...
