August 27th, 1983 at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg, FL. What a bloody evening! Topped off with Dusty Rhodes vs Ron Bass in a bullrope match (won by Dusty), also a NWA Florida Heavyweight title match (Jos LeDuc beats Barry Windham by DQ) and a bunkhouse six man with…

Eddie Gilbert poses with Tiger Mask (Sayama) backstage at Madison Square Garden, before Tiger’s match against Jose Estrada for the WWF Light Heavyweight title in late 1982

From Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on November 20th, 1982, as Hulk Hogan takes on Killer Khan. The two would again wrestle 5 years later in the WWF, and remained close even up to Khan’s passing last December, even with Khan stopping by Hogan’s Beach Shop on karaoke night a few times.…

Found this cartoon about Dick Murdoch in a mid 1982 magazine. They get it dead on as they bring up Murdoch not washing his gear (a running joke about Texas wrestlers in Japan. In fact, when Jumbo Tsuruta was sent to Texas to train with the Funks, it was said they trained him too…

A catalog of t shirts sold by All Japan in early 1982. Hell of a lineup here, everything from Baba to the Funks to Mil/Dos, Tenryu, Jumbo, Harley Race, and more

May 25th, 1982 in Shizuoka, Japan, where Abdullah the Butcher and Allen Coage take on Hulk Hogan and Seiji Sakaguchi. Match went to a double countout

April 30th, 1982 in St. Petersburg, FL, David Von Erich defends the Southern Heavyweight title against B Brian Blair 🇺🇸

Antonio Inoki and Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) during more peaceful times. A few months after this photo, Sayama would leave New Japan, saying Inoki and others in New Japan were corrupt and misusing funds. Sayama would later come back to New Japan in 1994 and take on Jushin…

May 26th, 1982 in Osaka, Japan, the only singles match ever between Hulk Hogan and Abdullah the Butcher. The bloody war went almost ten minutes and ended in a no contest (no way either is losing at this point of their careers)

June 4th, 1982 at the Welfare Hall in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, Ric Flair successfully defends the NWA World Heavyweight title against Ricky Steamboat

The cover to BBM Puroresu Magazine from July 1982, with Hulk Hogan on the cover. If any of you come into this magazine in your journeys, take note these are the ones with several 'cards/bromides' in them that card collectors value to the highest levels

Man I’d actually be tempted to fly to this

From early 1972 in IWE, Monster Rousimoff hits Baron Von Raschke with what the magazine calls a “jumping piledriver”, but what is later known as the “tombstone piledriver”

Rest In Peace “The Shooter” Tony Jones

My condolences to Tony’s family, friends and fans.

Love you always my brother.

A great photo after a win by the Mascaras Brothers, Mil Mascaras and El Sicodelico, at the OlympicAuditorium . It does not give the date on this photo anywhere, but they did team often, this could be from 1970 after they defeated Great Goliath and Ron Starr. The announcer is Jimmy…

Mil Mascaras wrestling 'The Golden Greek' John Tolos for the NWA Americas title on September 24th, 1971 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. The graphic says the match was called a 'wire fence death match'

Starting to hear about the passing of 'Shooter' Tony Jones. Most will remember him from the Beyond the Mat movie, with the scene with Mike Modest. My first ever allprowrestling show back in 2017, I was lucky to meet Jones (who was chatting with Dave Meltzer ) and have a…

Found these photos in an old Japanese magazine with a very young Bobby Heenan with Blackjack Lanza from early 1971, and also a photo with him as bloody as you can get. I swear that was one of the best thing about the old pro wrestling magazines from the 60's and 70's was the…

Some photos of “Monster Rousimoff” as he sits front row watching Karl Gotch vs Billy Robinson at the 1971 IWE Annual Tournament, followed by him holding his prize for winning the tournament with Karl Gotch