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Grand Jury To Investigate 1983 Death Of Jimmy Snuka's Girlfriend
On May 11, 1983, Nancy Argentino died in a Pennsylvania hotel room from traumatic brain injuries. An autopsy showed injuries consistent with a history of domestic abuse, and her boyfriend initially told the responding officer he had shoved her, causing her to hit her head. No charges were ever broug...
Chael Sonnen Gave An Olympian Money So He Could Go Train In Russia
One of the annoying things about Fox Sports pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen's troll routine is that if you talk to fight people, they'll swear that in real life he's actually a pretty good guy. Occasionally he'll even drop the pro wrestling heel bit in public and come off as unusua...
Jerry Lawler Attempts To Pronounce Michael Hoomanawanui's Name, Fails
Some New England Patriots players attended last night's WWE Raw broadcast from the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence last night. Jerry "The King" Lawler reported that among them was a "Michael Hoomawanyueye." He must be the backup kicker....
Botched Wrestling Move At Ring Of Honor Show Nearly Breaks A Neck
What you see is Roddy Strong taking a Styles Clash from A.J. Styles very, very awkwardly at a Ring of Honor show. (Here's the normal result of that move.) The finish was awful, but it could have been even worse....
What The NFL Can Learn From WWE About Head Injuries
Originally published at Bloomberg View....
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Shawne Merriman's WWE Tryout Didn't Go So Well [Update]
Former Chargers and Bills LB Shawne Merriman has been busy since retiring earlier this year. Last month he showed up at WWE's Performance Center in Orlando, which serves as both a wrestling school and training facility. Though Merriman showed off his bruises from getting in the ring, everyone downpl...
Dead Wrestler Of The Week: Chris Benoit
Excerpted and adapted from The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling (Gotham Books). For the Dead Wrestler of the Week archive, click here....
Two Russian Children Take Turns Wrestling A Bear Cub
This is the kind of shit that used to go down in Russia back in 1997. Holy shit, Russia....
The History Of The WWF, In One Beautifully Obsessive Poster
Graphic designer Scott Modrzynski spent over two years creating a cubist, minimalist chart of the history of the World Wrestling Federation, a portion of which you see above. RIP Doink the Clown. ...
What's More Fun Than Wrestling A Friendly Grizzly? Nothing, You Idiot
Don't even think about trying to argue with that headline. Just spend the next five minutes watching this dude rough house with his bear buddy and understand that you will never experience anything as fun in your whole dumb life....
The best true wrestling tales: Good friend David Shoemaker chose some of his favorite real wrestling anecdotes over at the New York Post, including Captain Lou Albano pissing off the mob and Randy Savage's obsession with his wife, Miss Elizabeth. Shoemaker has a book coming out this week. Buy it. [N...
Why Did The College Wrestling All-American Shoot The Duck?
This story is a couple of weeks old, but it somehow escaped the attention of our Ducks Desk. Ethen Lofthouse is a senior at Iowa who placed fifth at 184 pounds at last year's NCAA wrestling championships. One recent Friday afternoon, Lofthouse's neighbors noticed that he and his roommates were shoot...
Bring On The Bad Guys
Check out this cool series of pictures by the Toronto-based visual artist, Hieram Weintraub. ...
Bid On This Awesome Velvet Painting Of "Macho Man" Randy Savage
I'll be honest: I had reservations about posting this phenomenal eBay listing of a black velvet painting of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth in the style of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, because I'd like to score it cheap for myself. But the creator of this masterpiece deserves to be compensa...
"He's Trying To Charm The Cobra": Wrestling Is The Weirdest
I don't know either, guys. Just watch it. ...
Here's Don Mattingly Pretending To Be A Wrestler
Don Mattingly and the Dodgers just clinched the NL West. As we offer our congratulations on a job well done, please enjoy this video of Donnie Baseball pretending Al Trautwig's gonna run wild on Tony Kubek. ...
Sumo Match Ends With Crushing Body Slam
I remember one summer, when I was 10 or 11, I spent a day at home watching sumo wrestling on ESPN2. I came away from the experience thinking that sumo wrestling was boring and dumb. I would not have been so dismissive if some shit like this had gone down. ...