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When Combat Zone Wrestling presented Acid-Fest in July 2010, the card was more than just another independent wrestling event. It was a gathering of wrestlers, promoters, and fans attempting to process a loss that still felt sudden. Just weeks earlier, Trent Acid had died at the age of 29. The news traveled quickly through a wrestling community that had watched him grow from a teenage prospect into one of the most recognizable independent wrestlers of his generation. Opponents who had shared rings with him. Tag partners who had shared miles of highway with him. Fans who had followed him from…
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The year 2020 was devastating, with so many wrestling brothers and sisters lost, including Ric Drasin. We lost Ric Drasin on Sunday, August 30th, 2020 (far too young, like Bob Armstrong), who was still a feisty 76. Like Chadwick Boseman, none of us had any idea he was ill. For weeks, he quietly but valiantly fought kidney failure in a Southern California hospital, with his kids by his side, until it eventually took him. Richard Alan Drasin was a bodybuilder, weightlifter, stuntman/actor, wrestling school instructor, AWF show promoter, and had a wrestling gear line that rivalled those of Adrian Street…
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On June 11, 2005, at a show aptly titled Something to Prove, the wrestling world was gifted something that felt more like a public execution than a choreographed performance between Samoa Joe and Necro Butcher. Fans of independent wrestling in 2005 didn’t just watch matches; they hunted for them. You traded DVDs, scoured message boards, and waited for the latest “must-see” tape from IWA Mid-South or Ring of Honor to drop. It took place in the “New Alhambra Arena” in Philadelphia—the building the world knows as the ECW Arena. The air was thick with the kind of humidity only a…
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The concept of the American dream is that anyone can come from nothing and make it big. But to escape the nightmare that was his life, Dennis Rodman choose to become one himself. Love him or hate him, you cannot ignore him. Dennis Rodman was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1961. He was the oldest of three children that he knows about. His father abandoned them when they were still infants. His father alleges that Dennis has over two dozen half-siblings. Dennis believes it is twice as many. He doesn’t consider them to be family due to his father’s…
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Passing of the torch is a term often used in professional wrestling to suggest that a previous generation ushers in a talent from the current generation as the flagbearer of the future. While arguments are often conveyed on who is or isn’t willing to put talent over, what has happened throughout wrestling history is that, in the time-honored history of professional wrestling, wrestlers will often lose on their way out as a way to bestow that this man or woman is a person that fans energy, time, and money should be all put behind. Here are 15 notable examples of…
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In 2019, we were on the retirement tour, but at the same time, there’s a lot of memories, a lot of matches that probably have meant a lot to you, Lufisto. For instance, in Smash wrestling, I’m sure it holds a near-and-dear place in your heart. What can you say about your time here, your time in the ring, your time in Shine? Speak of that if you could. Lufisto: There are so many things I could say. There’s definitely memorable matches. I’ve had a long feud with Mercedes Martinez. I always believed she was, my wrestling soulmate, so she…
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