全日本プロレス83GCCⅡ5.12後楽園大会のポスターです。41年前の今日開催。開幕戦ブロディの暴れっぷりが凄かった印象があります。メイン
○ブロディ、ボルコフ（13分27秒、ダイビング・ニードロップ→体固め）鶴田、原●

Former Gophers football player, pro wrestler Bob Bruggers dead at 80 startribune.com/former-gophers…

5/12/46 Honolulu Attendance 5,000!
Lee Grable beat Al Lolotai, Billy Venable beat Charley Carr, Wimpy Willington beat Harry Dellis dq, Charley Shiranuhi beat John Starkey, Bolo Bataan drew Wally Tsutsumi.

The Ivan Poddubny statue in Ivan Poddubny park next to the Ivan Poddubny museum in Yeysk, Russia.

Poddubny was the biggest pro wrestling star in the history of Russia. He had a nearly 45-year career as a wrestler which started in the late 1890s and finished in the early 1940s.

Christmas 1978. I was just reading the other day in my mom’s journal about when my old man turned heel in FL. My parents really loved Dusty and Michelle. She was sad cause they couldn’t hang out anymore. She said Buddy Roger’s was booking at the time told her she couldn’t sit…

Sat. Night’s Headbangers Ball:

Black Sabbath performing inside the squared circle - 1970

Ost’s Wrestling Archive Kody Kox I knew I had seen that picture some place. I was in the middle of texting Kody about it and my wife found it with the other 3. That’s so awesome!

“Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers autograph

Fritz Von Erich x Giant Baba. Two icons & patriarchs of the modern pro wrestling industry laying in the shots during the riotous main event of the first pro wrestling show at Nippon Budokan. (12.3.1966) 🌟

British wrestling personalities; Mick McManus, Shirley Crabtree, Ed Bright, Kendo Nagasaki & Billy Robinson:

(All autographed from the Dave Cameron Collection)

Matt Farmer Tony Earnshaw Portsmouth Wrestling History Allan Ringo Ryan Sheriff Lonestar SirLARIATO AJFwrestling

全日本プロレス86 4軍対抗チャンピオンズ・ナイト5.10松戸大会のポスターです。38年前の今日開催。
日本人選手のみの大会は外国人選手がいない寂しさと共に何か新鮮な部分も感じました。メイン 60分1本勝負 天龍（0-0）谷津　マシーン乱入

May 10, 1955, San Francisco, CA:

Matt Farmer Rock Rims puroresu.com Jon Boucher Al Getz Roy Lucier Marvin J Rubin Greg Oliver Steven Johnson Old Wrestling Pics Rasslin' History 101

5/10/38 Honolulu Att 6000
Bronko Nagurski beat Oki Shikina, Gus Sonnenberg drew Bobby Roberts, Arjan Singh beat Count Von Buesing, Al Pereira beat Harry Demetral dq, Lee Henning drew Jack Holland.

Whenever on the road out here in the NW, I always pay a visit to the building that hosted wrestling for the territory in that particular town. In today’s case, I paid a visit to The Dalles Civic Auditorium. Unfortunately, there were no Mormon Death Matches booked this evening.

Jack Pfefer gets a lift from former heavyweight boxing champ (and the man who knocked out Jack Johnson nonetheless) Jess Willard. Pfefer managed the 'Pottawatomie Giant' for a series of guest referee appearances in 1934.

Pocket calendar of my old man’s from 1973. His pay offs and expenses each night. Phone numbers in the back and tapped to the back was a blizade. #wrestlingmemorabilia #gettingcolor #gig #killerkarlkox

8:39 of this video you’ll see Les Kellett vs Pete Roberts wrestling outdoors c:1971 or thereabouts, Wigan, England:

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Matt Farmer Tony Earnshaw Portsmouth Wrestling History Sheriff Lonestar SirLARIATO Allan William Regal Robby Brookside Ringo Ryan

11/29/74 St Joseph MO and 12/5/74 Kansas City KS are the only two documented singles matches between Lord Alfred Hayes and a young Roddy Piper
Hayes won both bouts