Category: Back in the Day
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Johnny Legend died at the start of the year, and with it, the wrestling world got a little less strange. Legend’s sister shared the news via his Facebook page on Jan. 2, saying he passed away from “complications of a stroke and heart failure” in his home in Newport, Oregon. He was 77. Some might…
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Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan compares the “wild” ECW locker room to the rock star lifestyle, and says ECW’s backstage was more of the cliche rockstar life than the Pumpkins’ backstage.
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Discover the wild story of how The Destroyer, a masked wrestler from Buffalo, became a Japanese TV icon and released a bizarre, best-selling Christmas album in 1974.
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It’s October, the time of the year for horror punk and Halloween music, and the Misfits are the horror punk band, if by the strength of marketing alone. Their grinning Crimson Ghost skull is featured on a billion t-shirts, sold at Hot Topic stores throughout the land. But the Misfits were no mall punk phenoms…
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‘The whole Sabu clique was angry,’ RVD recalls.
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A classic piece of 1980s wrestling history is about to be more accessible than ever for WWE fans. This weekend, WWE will begin running episodes of the cult classic cartoon series, Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling. Variety reports the show, which originally aired from 1985-1986 and consists of 26 total episodes, will be released in…
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Mr. T’s daughter tells a shocking story of a backstage hotel brawl between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper after the first WrestleMania. Learn the wild details.
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Still one of the best in ROH history.
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Rogan had never seen the scaffold spot before.