Author: Wes Maidment
Lifetime Wrestling Fan who loves to share Wrestling History. Running 5 FB tribute and Clippings pages one of which The Wildman page has been up for over 6 years with over 1000 members. Our Podcast Channel on Youtube has been successful for over 1 year and growing. If we don't keep Wrestling History alive it could melt away and be forgotten...like a bad 80's wrestling gimmick
We are reminded recently about the success of both Edge (Adam Copeland) and Christian (Cage), not to mention Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens in the tag team category, which they weren’t famous for. Success has come to all of them, but for their relatively unknown success in a tag situation made me think of the best Canadian tag teams that you’ve never heard of. Best Canadian Tag Teams That You’ve Never Heard Of What were some of the best Canadian Tag Teams not known to the general public or ones that have been forgotten in time? And as a curator…
Over the years, many professional wrestlers have been injured in accidents during the constant traveling from city to city to ply their trade. Adrian Adonis, Pat Kelly, and Dave McKigney were among them. Whether it’s in an airplane or in a motor vehicle, the travel can take a mighty toll on both the mental aspect and the physical also. The Highways and Byways in North America have taken some great stars both away from us and ended careers over the decades. Some have bounced back better than others, and a few have never returned to the ring. Unfortunately, the same…
Peter Maivia – The Polynesian Prince who became a Chameleon of the ring. Most of us know how the Professional Heavyweight Wrestling Industry works, or at least how it did back in the “Old School” days. Promoters called the shots only to bring up or shoot down a wrestler’s career. Any wrestler back in the day who didn’t understand how the system worked of getting a “push” or being “buried” wasn’t willing to see the light for his career, and sometimes it was time to move on to another territory. In the ’60s and ’70s, this was the norm, and…
Rachel Dubois and Carrie Orser. How many Stepsisters have actually stepped into the ring over the decades of Women’s Wrestling? Let alone how many actual Sisters have accomplished this task? Certainly not as many as there has been Brothers who have made a career in the ring. That’s real brothers, not Kayfabe brothers. George and Sandy Scott, Rick and Scott Steiner, John, and Chris Tolos to name a few. Or in a lesser case twin brothers in the ring, The Battens, Mcguires, Coles, and The Headhunters form the 80s or the USOs tag team, Jimmy and Jey. Another Identical Tag…