When I shared last night’s post about the Columbia Gym on Facebook, I got a response from Joe Wheeler, long time official at OVW and USWA. It seems the Allen Athletic Club…
Rumors of the demise of the fabled Columbia Gym have been… somewhat exaggerated. In Bluegrass Brawlers I noted that the building that once hosted the Allen Athletic Club’s weekly wrestling shows was…
Was going to share a fun story/correction tonight regarding Louisville wrestling history and Bluegrass Brawlers, but then I noticed that this is blog post #200. I’ll save the Louisville story for tomorrow…
Pro wrestling isn’t always kind to those who keep the sport alive. Portia Perez is one of many wrestlers who had to step away too soon due to an injury, and like…
The great Lord Leslie Carlton’s biography is on the way. Just recently I received an email from his Lordship’s nephew with two links where you can get a look at this forgotten…
Mitch Johnson is one of the quietest guys in the locker room before a show. He’s well-dressed, he shakes hands with everyone, but if you saw him before the doors opened, you…
Dayton, Ohio has one of the hottest independent wrestling scenes today. The crew at Rockstar Pro Wrestling run six or seven shows a month, and just as iron sharpens iron, the talented…
When was the last time you went to OVW? This week, the promotion that groomed the top WWE stars of the last decade has a must-see main event. Mitchell Huff is a…
The original Tough Enough trainer and one of the WWE’s top trainers from OVW is opening his own wrestling school. Here’s a video clip from Al Snow about the Al Snow Wrestling…
Want a fun warm up the day before the biggest wrestling show of the year? You can meet me and Kenny “Starmaker” Bolin Wrestlemania weekend at the Nerdy Planet in Louisville! Kenny…