Category Archives: professional wrestling

Yes, It Really Happened: Steve Strong Vs. The Devil & Mel Sharples

Originally written in 2015  for another website. Go ahead and file it in the “so bad, it’s good” category. After all, “Basher Malone,” a 1988 episode of the cult classic horror series Tales from the Darkside isn’t exactly without its … Continue reading

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Yes, It Really Happened: When Santino Marella Covered Amy Winehouse

Written in July 2015 for the site Suicide Dive, this piece was originally entitled, “Yes, It Really Happened: Santino Marella Covers Amy Winehouse On Monday Night Raw.” Ask a philosophy major to draw a Venn diagram depicting the relationship between … Continue reading

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Wally George vs. professional wrestling

Written in July 2015 for the site “Suicide Dive,” this piece was originally entitled, “Yes, It Really Happened: When Politics Met Wrestling” and it included this preface: “Yes, It Really Happened” is Suicide Dive’s weekly throwback to weird, lesser-known angles and … Continue reading

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Lessons from the Old School: A Look Back with “Leaping” Lanny Poffo

Foreword (February 2015) My first-ever “serious” article about pro wrestling was written on a dare by someone who was, at that time, the top-ranked wrestling writer on a sports website that specialized in publishing user-generated content. I took that particular … Continue reading

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