Ron Hutchison trained top WWE stars. Then an India tour collapsed, his passport was seized, and he feared he might never get ...

Tiger Mask, a manga hero became a real wrestler, then changed the speed, style, and future of Japanese junior heavyweight wrestling.

Before professional wrestling’s television heroes could become stars, somebody had to make them look unbeatable. In the 1950s, that meant a hard road, little glory, and the certainty that another ...

Bob Holly remembered his whole body going numb during a match with Brock Lesnar. Then he agreed to try the powerbomb sequence ...

Turn on professional wrestling in the early 1950s, and you might see a 42-inch champion balancing on his head or four little people wrestlers threatening to steal the show from the heavyweights. Their ...

Giant Baba hid the truth from his own locker room for months. When he finally could not hide it any longer, the news stunned not only the pro wrestling industry in Japan but the entire country as well ...

When Torrie Wilson walked into the WWE locker room during the Attitude Era’s final days, she had no idea that two women were already watching her every move. One was the wife of one of the most feared ...

The 1990s WWF produced some of the most imaginative, bizarre, and genuinely menacing heels in professional wrestling history. While names like Mr. Perfect, Owen Hart, and Triple H tend to dominate ...

When Vince McMahon told him those three words, Vince Russo knew it was over. The man who helped build the Attitude Era, the writer behind some of the most talked-about television in professional ...

“Live from New York, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!” For over forty years, WWE and Saturday Night Live, better known as SNL, have shared one of the most quietly influential partnerships in entertainment history ...

In the 1980s, World Wrestling Federation rings were crowded with tag teams that could fill arenas on their names alone. Some won gold. Some disappeared almost as quickly as they arrived. Many were ...

In the 1980s World Wrestling Federation locker room, few names carried the kind of real-life fear that followed Haku, also known as King Tonga and later Meng. Stories of bar fights, broken bones, and ...