Review: Sweet Daddy Siki documentary ‘relevant and important’
Invariably, wrestling biographies mix drama, old school hype and oddball minutiae and on this...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Jun 11, 2017 | Documentary Reviews
Invariably, wrestling biographies mix drama, old school hype and oddball minutiae and on this...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion
Once we started shooting, our travel schedule loosely followed the same path as the Dog’s...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion
Pre-production seemed to go on forever. I needed archival footage of the Dog but it was in short...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion
After six months of searching, I’d assembled a very colourful roster of wrestlers willing to...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion
The next several months were hit and miss. Sweet Daddy Siki, then a local disc jockey who lived...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion
Remembering a Where Are They Now? article published by the Toronto Star in 1983 which I’d...
Read MorePosted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion
It’s been a year since Mad Dog Vachon died, and SLAM! Wrestling asked Toronto filmmaker John...
Read MorePosted by Greg Oliver | Jun 1, 2001 | Obituaries
The giant Tex McKenzie, a star wrestler from the ’50s to the ’70s, died today in a...
Read MorePosted by Greg Oliver | Mar 9, 2001 | Interviews
Mad Dog Vachon has a belief that you shouldn’t drink anything while you are eating. No...
Read MorePosted by Greg Oliver | Mar 1, 2001 | Hollywood Headlock, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Other Reviews
The press release for Wrestling With The Past, the upcoming six-part series on The Comedy Network,...
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