Browsing: Trailblazers

Sweet Daddy Siki was irresistibly Groundbreaking. Local TV broadcasts both WWF and NWA programming. One could not have picked a…

Over ten years ago, at a Northern Championship Wrestling show in a church basement in the city’s eastern tip, sadness…

Words like “excellence” have followed Bret Hart throughout his life. When he called himself “the best there is, the best…

When we think about professional wrestlers, we picture a myriad of colorful characters that spring to mind. Hulk Hogan, Randy…

Adrian Street came from a coal mining family in Brynmawr, Wales. Before he was one year old, his father, Emrys…

If there is one thing professional wrestling has never been short of, it is “bull.” Wrestling has contended with Pitbulls,…

Few wrestlers are able to conjure up as much fear as Toshiaki Kawada. He’s a wrestler of mythic proportions. He…

Few women have had as much of an impact on women’s wrestling as Aja Kong. She is the standard-bearer for…

“The Ace of All Japan Pro-Wrestling.” “Greatest pro wrestler ever.” “The Standard Bearer for Future Generations.” These are a few…

Let’s get this out of the way first and foremost; match ratings are not everything in wrestling. No single individual…