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How Luke Hawx was influenced by ECW

WWE Picks Two Relics Of The '90s To Fix Its Creative StagnationOn Thursday, Sports Illustrated broke an “exclusive” story about a shift in WWE’s upper management. Effective immediately, the storied wrestling figures Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff will take on the roles of Executive Directors for Raw and SmackDown Live, respectively. Though the report notably doe...

Brian Pillman Worked Wrestling Fans As Well As Anyone Ever DidBrian Pillman died 20 years ago today. Scheduled to wrestle at WWF’s Badd Blood PPV that night—the event with the classic first Hell in a Cell match, between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker—he didn’t show up to the arena. He’d died in his sleep overnight at a budget motel in Bloomington, Minnesota...

Here's The Very Last Virgilbag Ever

The Virgilbag is dead and is never coming back. Here are some wrestler run-in stories you sent us anyway....

The Stone Cold Stunner Is The Most Important Wrestling Move Of All Time

Among the shirt-folding instructions, clips of puppies hugging babies, and trailers for gritty superhero movies that make up most of YouTube, there are certain videos that seem like they were created to dare viewers to watch them all the way through....

A nice little remembrance of the dying days of ECW....

Former ECW And WWE Wrestler Stevie Richards Has Political Aspirations, Is Insane

Via The Masked Man, former wrestler Stevie Richards has introduced the world to his ideals and policy recommendations (both soon to be ubiquitous in our political milieu) with a radio interview on VOC Wrestling Nation announcing his aspirations for state office. Richards spoke eloquently of his heig...

Nikolai Volkoff Taught Me How To Build A Fart Machine: More Wrestler Run-Ins

Inspired by the saga of "Wrestling Superstar Virgil," we continue with readers' encounters with the titans of the squared circle. If you've had your own run-in with pro wrestlers past or present, e-mail us, subject line "Virgilbag."...