There are photographers, and then there is Lourdes Grobet, perhaps the greatest lucha libre photographer of them all. With her passing on July 15, 2022, at the age of 81, it’s worth noting her greatness. You have almost...
Read MoreJust days after SlamWrestling.net ran a piece about wrestler-turned-artist George Gordienko comes the news that some of Gordienko’s paintings had gone missing from locations in British Columbia. Police in Saanich, BC,...
Read MoreAs great a wrestler as George Gordienko was, there probably wasn’t a time in his life, from elementary school on, that he didn’t consider himself, above all else, an artist. His skill as a wrestler couldn’t be denied, and he...
Read MoreJosh Ryals began drawing around the same age people learn to walk. His father was a helicopter enthusiast and would draw pictures of helicopters. When his father was young, one of his uncles worked at Bell Helicopter in Texas....
Read MoreThere’s no greater joy for fans of pro wrestling books than when a book that has been long difficult to find or worse, is out of print and outlandishly priced online, is re-released. Fans anxiously wanting to get their hands on...
Read MoreJames Hutchinson is a chainsaw-carving, horse-training, country-living grizzled veteran. Though his wrestling career didn’t last long, the stories have stayed with him, as have many of the friends he made. Now living in...
Read MoreThe slow, direct “biblical grandiose” of Bray Wyatt as he emerged on WWE programming in 2014 drew Kyle Scarborough back into the world of wrestling. “I started tuning in just to watch the [Wyatt Family]...
Read MoreA mask maker, special effects artist from Massachusetts is claiming his original art work was used for Taiji Ishimori’s Bone Soldier mask. “It’s definitely not about persecuting the wrestlers. I love them and Bone Soldier is a...
Read MoreWhen tragedy short-circuited his wrestling career, Steve Musulin started another. The 1970s and 1980s star, known to mat fans as Steve Travis, fought back from a drug-related auto accident to prosper in the fitness industry and...
Read MoreThe stories about Meng are legendary. Which one have you heard? Was it the time he pulled out a wrestler’s eye? How about when he bit off the nose of a person who messed with him? Perhaps it was when he cleared out a bar...
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