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‘Dark Side’ tests the murky waters of 2000’s Bash at the Beach controversy

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Aug 2, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

Typically, when WWE looks back on the 1990s war with WCW, it’s always with a big pat on the...

Hulk Hogan returning to the ring?

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Jul 13, 2023 | News

Is Hulk-A-Mania set to run wild again? According to a report by The Sun in the UK, the Hulkster...

Wrestling collectibles market Rock-ing at Goldin auctions

Posted by Josh Olsen | Jun 9, 2023 | Interviews, Not Another Collectible!

Chris Kovachis has been collecting one of a kind wrestling memorabilia for the last 25 years. He...

Jack Vaughn is winning haters one thigh slap at a time

Posted by John Cosper | May 12, 2023 | Interviews, Shoot Interviews

Sealed from head to toe in a body suit that shielded him from the air in the hospital room, he...

Mat Matters: Flair vs Hogan in an old high school essay

Posted by Greg Oliver | May 4, 2023 | Opinion

The other day while looking for something else, I stumbled upon an essay I’d written for...

Wrestlers’ Court: A Little Night Music

Posted by Jonathan Schwartz | May 2, 2023 | Music for Cauliflower Ears, Opinion

In a recent interview, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) owner and The Smashing Pumpkins (and...

Wrestlers’ Court: My First Draft

Posted by Jonathan Schwartz | Apr 20, 2023 | Opinion

If the RAW following WrestleMania was disappointing, the SmackDown that followed held promise. The...

WWE/A&E’s ‘Rivals’ charts Hogan and Piper’s neverending feud

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Apr 16, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

While A&E’s own promo picture, shown here, displays the main event of WrestleMania featuring...

Leaf is an underrated and reliable source of wrestling cards

Posted by Josh Olsen | Apr 9, 2023 | Not Another Collectible!

Leaf Trading Cards (no relation to Leaf cards previously released by Donruss and Pinnacle) has...

A&E/WWE premieres new season of ‘Rivals’ by telling a more complete story of André and Hogan

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Feb 20, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

The phrase “WWE Universe” is, of course, the current description for the...

A&E Biography WWE Legends: the NWO: Nothing ‘New’

Posted by Jon Waldman | Feb 19, 2023 | TV Reports

There’s an inherent reality about the New World Order story – there’s nothing...

Kurt Angle reveals Hulk Hogan health issues

Posted by John Powell | Jan 27, 2023 | News

On his recent episode of his podcast Kurt Angle revealed that Hulk Hogan is facing some serious...

Raw: 30-year celebration

Posted by Jon Waldman | Jan 24, 2023 | TV Reports

With the NFL playoffs no longer on Monday nights and football in the books, Raw has a good chance...

WWE/Peacock’s ‘Evil’ has its moments, but mostly misses the mark

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Mar 31, 2022 | Documentary Reviews, Hollywood Headlock

The WWE Studios short-run series called Evil, co-produced by John Cena, Vince McMahon, and Kevin...

My friend the Hurricane – a tribute to JJ Maguire

Posted by John Cosper | Mar 12, 2022 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, Music for Cauliflower Ears, Obituaries

I almost didn’t answer the last time JJ Maguire called me. I was at Planet Fitness and had just...

Maguire’s book sings the praises of the man behind wrestling’s soundtrack

Posted by Jamie Hemmings | Jul 12, 2021 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, Interviews, Music for Cauliflower Ears

Pro wrestling has given the ears of its fans some memorable entrance theme music over the years....

A&E Biography: ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage full of Madness…or blandness?

Posted by Tommy "Milagro" Martinez | May 3, 2021 | Documentary Reviews, Hollywood Headlock, TV Reports

A&E is still delivering their Biography series (alongside WWE’s participation), with the...

A&E Biography (kinda) changes questions on ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper

Posted by Tommy "Milagro" Martinez | Apr 25, 2021 | Documentary Reviews, Hollywood Headlock

For an A&E Biography on a man that once coined the phrase, “Just when you think...

Dustin ‘Screech’ Diamond, actor, author, celebrity wrestler dead at 44

Posted by Chris Dunn | Feb 1, 2021 | Obituaries

Saved By The Bell actor Dustin “Screech” Diamond has died. One of many celebrities to...

RAW: WWE starts off the new year by looking to the past

Posted by Dale Plummer | Jan 4, 2021 | TV Reports

After the end of the strangest year in wrestling ever, WWE is kicking off the first Monday RAW of...

Pro wrestling legends hilariously infiltrate the head of Joeylicious

Posted by Jamie Hemmings | Dec 14, 2020 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, Interviews

Pro wrestling fans will recall that the entrance theme for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)...

A ‘Bigger, Better and Badder’ look into one of the greatest WrestleManias ever

Posted by Dorathy Gass | Nov 29, 2020 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, Interviews, WrestleMania

Ask any long-time WWE fan what their favorite WrestleMania of all time is, and many tend to choose...

Behind the Gimmick Table: Sales advice from the successful dealer Pandelis the Greek

Posted by Rasslin Merch Machine | Nov 15, 2020 | Not Another Collectible!

“Pandelis the Greek.” The moniker might suit a wrestler but the man behind the name is just a fan....

Hulk Hogan remembers Savage and SummerSlam

Posted by John Powell | Aug 3, 2020 | News, Summerslam

In a rare interview with WWE.com, wrestling icon Hulk Hogan discussed his SummerSlam memories and...

Linda and Hulk Hogan banned from AEW

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Jun 2, 2020 | News

After a series of Tweets, the CEO of All Elite Wrestling has banned Linda Hogan from AEW. Tony...

Ron Simmons returns to Canada for Legends of Wrestling 2

Posted by Kari Williams | Feb 17, 2018 | Interviews

Returning to Canada has more meaning for Ron Simmons than most, as he is “one of the lucky...

How Mean Gene Okerlund helped shape Hulkamania

Posted by Caleb Smith | Feb 3, 2018 | Interviews

The role of the interviewer in wrestling has changed over the years. In this day and age, the...

Hogan only part of documentary on battle between free speech and money

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Jul 8, 2017 | Documentary Reviews

Brian Knappenberger’s documentary about First Amendment rights in the U.S., titled Nobody...

Film Review: ‘Rocky III’ is the champ of boxing/action movies

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Jul 2, 2016 | Hollywood Headlock, Movie Reviews

Film franchises are, frankly, expected to lose quality as they progress in quantity, and these...

Mr. Nanny (1993)

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Jul 2, 2016 | Hollywood Headlock

Starring: Hulk Hogan, David Johansen, Sherman Hemsley Written by: Edward Rugoff, Michael Gottlieb...

The lasting legacy of Tojo Yamamoto

Posted by Ryan Nation | Jun 27, 2016 | Interviews

Tojo Yamamoto has been gone for 24 years now. When he took his own life, he affected a great many...

Mat Matters: The Hulk Hogan problem

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Jul 27, 2015 | Opinion

When news broke on Friday about the racist comments by Hulk Hogan, recorded years ago, it stirred...

Hogan apologizes for racist comments

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jul 24, 2015 | Interviews, News

Hulk Hogan has apologized for his racist remarks from eight years ago in an interview with PEOPLE...

A final goodbye to Verne Gagne, a true legend

Posted by Mike Chapman | May 11, 2015 | Interviews, Obituaries

The world of wrestling said its final goodbye to a true legend on Tuesday, May 5, in Minneapolis....

Brother, the Hulkster’s back in Montreal!

Posted by Pat Laprade | Sep 12, 2014 | Interviews

Hulk Hogan and Montreal have a love story that started almost 35 years ago and peaked in 2002 when...

It’s No Holds Barred as Tiny Lister talks!

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Jul 26, 2012 | Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Interviews

Tommy Lister is a hard man to pin down, and that’s not referring to his time spent as Zeus,...

Steiner on TNA: ‘It’s not like Hogan and Bischoff are going to grow a brain’

Posted by Matt Bishop | May 2, 2012 | Interviews

Scott Steiner has never been afraid to speak his mind. So when the former WCW Champion parted ways...

Mania Moments: Nos. 22-24 – Hart, Lesnar, Hogan make marks

Posted by Matt Bishop | Mar 15, 2012 | By The Numbers, WrestleMania

Matt Bishop’s Mania Moments will take a look at the top 28 moments in WrestleMania history...

Mania Moments: No. 27 – Hogan returns

Posted by Matt Bishop | Feb 22, 2012 | By The Numbers, WrestleMania

Matt Bishop’s Mania Moments will take a look at the top 28 moments in WrestleMania history...

Linda Hogan’s book has sex, drugs and lots of advice

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jul 11, 2011 | Gary Howard Memorial Library

Before I even started Linda Hogan’s Wrestling The Hulk: My Life Against The Ropes, I made a...

TNA hopes to make an Impact with name change

Posted by Greg Oliver | May 26, 2011 | Interviews

The re-branding of TNA into Impact Wrestling has taken place both on-screen and behind the scenes,...

Hulkamania didn’t run wild on young Joe E. Legend

Posted by Joe E. Legend | May 22, 2011 | Joe E. Legend

Actually, I firstly want to warn any wrestlers who are reading this column to PLEASE get your wage...

Hogan’s second autobiography deserving of a look

Posted by Greg Oliver | Apr 10, 2011 | Gary Howard Memorial Library

When Hulk Hogan’s second autobiography came out, for some reason, we barely made note of it...

Mat Matters: Why calling wrestling fake on the air should be cause for firing

Posted by MATT JOHNSON | Nov 25, 2010 | Opinion

The month was September of 2000. I was a junior in high school. Since the summer of 1996, my...

SLAM! Wrestling top stories of 2009

Posted by Jon Waldman | Dec 31, 2009 | News, Year End Award Stories

In a year that saw more change than we’ve seen for quite a while in wrestling, the top story...

The Pope pontificates on TNA, WWE and family

Posted by Greg Oliver | Dec 21, 2009 | Interviews

With the Final Resolution pay-per-view in the rear-view window, TNA looks ahead to a new era, led...

‘Unreleased’ Hogan DVD great if not exactly true

Posted by Marshall Ward | Nov 16, 2009 | Other Reviews

In the new three-disc set Hulk Hogan’s Unreleased Collector’s Series, the narration...

Mat Matters: Any hope with Hogan?

Posted by Jon Waldman | Oct 30, 2009 | Opinion

It’s funny how fate works. Earlier this week, I had been working on an editorial about how...

Hulk Hogan signs with TNA

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Oct 27, 2009 | News

TNA turned back the clock today in New York City, announcing at a press conference at Madison...

Orndorff tops Wonderful Hall of Fame class

Posted by Blaine Van Der Griend | May 17, 2009 | Interviews, PWHF

AMSTERDAM, NY — The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame is considered by some as the only...

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