A big life in photos: Darling Dagmar (1942-2024)
As we reflect back on the life of Kathy Moreland (nee Carlton) — better known as little...
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Tag: midget wrestling
Scary accident ends latest ‘Big Little Brawlers’ episode
Happy, intense and scary describe some of the moments on this week’s episode of Big Little...
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Pinky and Syko find therapy through filming ‘Big Little Brawlers’
On Big Little Brawlers, there is no doubt that the show draws it’s attention to the...
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Discovery’s ‘Big Little Brawlers’ off to a good start
Big Little Brawlers debuted on Tuesday, January 9, on Discovery, and it definitely is offering...
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‘Big Little Brawlers’ coming to Discovery
The Warner Bros. Discovery channels sure seem to love pro wrestling. There’s all the AEW...
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Micro wrestler ‘Cowboy’ Hank Dalton dies
Steven McGregor, who wrestled as “Cowboy” Hank Dalton, TT, and “Ironman”...
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Bad Boy Buck dies
EDITOR’S NOTE: The previous version of this story had incorrectly noted that Blevins was...
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Card Exam: Drawn in by Fuzzy Cupid’s odd pose
Publicity photos are a big part of pro wrestling … or at least they used to be. A wrestler...
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Actor, wrestler Puppet The Psycho Dwarf, dies
The name Stevie Lee Richardson is not one known by the majority of wrestling fans. But Puppet The...
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Beautiful Bobby Dean dies
Beautiful Bobby Dean, son of the great Lord Littlebrook, has died. According to sources, his death...
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Lord Littlebrook dies at 87
Lord Littlebrook, easily one of the most famous midget wrestlers in history, has died after a long...
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Chief Lone Eagle: Newfoundland’s contribution to midget wrestling
While there were thousands of matches in the wrestling career of Jimmy Buckle — mostly as...
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A Little Fabio goes a long way
To some people midget wrestling is nothing more than a carnival-esque attraction or something akin...
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Skullion hoping Mighty Mini’s are the next big thing
To anyone who’s ever seen Toronto’s hardcore icon Bill Skullion covered in blood after...
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Mike Hammer returns to the ring for a ‘little’ tour
Manitoba-based indy wrestler Mike Hammer is not the biggest name on the circuit, though that is...
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Remembering Little John Adams
John Adams, a midget wrestler who wrestled as Little John, died Monday in Hamilton, Ontario. His...
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Short Sleeve Sampson a veteran on the Micro circuit
Short Sleeve Sampson has been wrestling for almost 15 years now, and for the last four, it has...
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Losing Little Tokyo, and other fond memories
I got a call a couple of months back from Greg Oliver. He told me that a long-lost friend was very...
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Little Tokyo remembered with laughter
Midget wrestling star Little Tokyo (Shigeri Akabane), who died today of a heart attack in St....
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Blast From the Past: Dagmar’s Night Out
Digging into the archives of writer/photographer Roger Baker, we revisit a Wrestling Revue...
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Darling Dagmar re-enters the wrestling world
One would think that a star grappler known as the “Marilyn Monroe of midget girls”...
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Mat Matters: Little Brutus’ overlooked passing a reminder that stories need to be kept
Perhaps it was because of his size or the fact he was content to live a quiet life in retirement,...
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Cuddles Anderson was embraced by fans wherever she appeared
She was only a tiny bundle of raw energy with a burning desire to succeed but the fact that she...
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Tiny is as Tiny does – and Tiny Roe did it all
Whenever you call to mind all the great midget wrestlers who worked the territories in the glory...
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Midget Little Brutus shares his remarkable story
If there is one segment of professional wrestling that many fans miss more than any other, it is...
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Pee Wee James a pioneer midget wrestler
He may have been small in stature but midget wrestler Pee Wee James was one of the giants in pro...
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Remembering the unordinary life of Little Bruiser
Dwarf wrestler Murray “Little Bruiser” Downs lived a life unordinary. He was the only...
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Midget star Cowboy Lang dies
As a wrestler, Cowboy Lang played some of the biggest venues in the sport on some of the biggest...
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All thumbs up for Major Tom Thumb
REAL NAME: William (Billy) Bowman 46″, 105 pounds DIED: October 1981 AKA: Major Tom Thumb...
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Tiger Jackson travels the world
REAL NAME: Claude Giroux BORN: July 13, 1956 in St. Jean, Quebec 4’0″, 95 pounds AKA:...
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Nova Scotia’s Farmer Brooks had a brief career
REAL NAME: Clifford Fraser BORN: October 10, 1957, New Glasgow, N.S. Farmer Brooks was the...
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Little Beaver might have been the greatest of them all
REAL NAME: Lionel Giroux 4-foot-four-inches, 60 pounds BORN: In Quebec DIED: December 4, 1995 at...
Read MoreGino Brito’s career meant family, Italian Connections and midgets
REAL NAME: Louis Gino Acocella BORN: May 18, 1941 in Montreal 5’10 1/2 “, 240-245 pounds AKA: Louis Cerdan, Gino Brito You can’t talk about Gino Brito without talking about his long-time partner Tony Parisi and...
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The life of Lord Littlebrook
REAL NAME: Eric Tovey BORN: January 3, 1929 in England DIED: September 9, 2016 4’4″,...
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