Obituaries
Guest column: Eulogizing Detroit’s RoughHouse Rob
By LEVI BLUE - For SlamWrestling.net I broke into the wrestling business back in 1997 and left permanently in 2023. It is amazing in that amount of...
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 inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2010 for his...
Black Bart dies at 69
Black Bart, a long-time veteran of the wrestling business has died at the age of 69. Bart was battling stage four colon cancer that spread into his...
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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 Reg Siki, but more well known worldwide as "Mr. Irresistible" Sweet Daddy Siki. I've been told he passed away on December 31st in hospital after a year's long battle...
The search for Siki’s real name
When I first started Charting the Territories, two of my biggest influences were the Freakonomics books (by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) and Sabermetrics, an analytic approach to managing and optimizing outcomes in baseball. In both cases, objective data is...
Sweet Daddy Siki photo gallery
How pretty was Sweet Daddy Siki? Pretty damn, sweet. Since he's not here to remind us, this photo gallery will have to do. It features some gems from the Wrestling Revue archives, close friend Roger Baker, Mike Mastrandrea, and Stampede Wrestling's Bob Leonard, among...
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 hard to gain someone's trust than the late, great Sweet Daddy Siki, who died after a long battle with dementia on New Year's Eve 2024. Given his upbringing, poor and unsettled...
Sweet Daddy Siki dead at 91
"Mr. Irresistible" Sweet Daddy Siki, who wrestled from the 1950s into the 1980s, and helped train world champions Edge/Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, has died. He was 91-- though most didn't know that. He died on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, at Humber Hospital, in...
Journeyman Journal: Weathering storms, remembering Jax
EDITOR'S NOTE: Jeremiah Plunkett writes a weekly column SlamWrestling.net, where he offers up stories of his travels in "Journeyman Journals with Jeremiah." Journal Entry 12/31/24 Welcome back to Journeyman Journals. This week’s journey took me on a 1,120-mile round...
