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Coming Soon: Bluegrass Brawlers, 10th Anniversary Edition

Posted on January 21, 2022February 16, 2022 by eatsleepwrestle

It’s been almost 10 years since I started writing about pro wrestling in December 2012. Okay, so that’s eleven months out, but what’s pro wrestling without a little exaggeration? The book that…

Five Matches

Posted on January 7, 2018January 7, 2018 by eatsleepwrestle

Someone on Facebook recently posed an interesting question: if you had a wrestling time machine and could go back to see any wrestling match, what would you go back to see? I…

Season’s Beatings: Christmas Wishes from the Golden Age of Wrestling!

Posted on November 23, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

While combing through the many programs in the Jim Mitchell collection, I came across a 1947 Christmas edition of Pacific Athletic News (PAN) that featured Christmas greetings from more than four dozen…

Lou Thesz vs. Gorgeous George

Posted on September 28, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

The Champ vs. the Human Orchid… it happened in Louisville. Thesz and George met on November 27, 1954 at the Jefferson County Armory (now the Louisville Gardens). Thesz and George split the…

Louisville Wrestling Talk on the 6:05 Superpodcast!

Posted on May 7, 2017May 7, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

Episode 67 of the 6:05 Superpodcast is now available for download. It was my pleasure to do an interview with The Great Brian Last this week about the lost history of Louisville…

Louisville’s Greatest Show – Coming Soon!

Posted on February 18, 2017February 18, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

Coming Soon!! For 22 years, the Allen Athletic Club’s weekly wrestling show at the Columbia Gym was the place to be on Tuesday night. Promoters Heywood Allen and his successors Francis and…

The Tale of Lord Leslie Carlton

Posted on January 30, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

It was my honor to spend a year working with the daughter of Lord Leslie Carlton on his biography. Lord Carlton isn’t as well-remembered as many of his contemporaries, but he was…

A Dangerous Book in the Wrong Hands!

Posted on January 12, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

Fans of Tier 1, and wrestling fans everywhere, I am sorry. I have done a terrible thing. After hearing Mr. Darius Carter, the current Tier 1 Wresting Champion on the Kick Out…

One Road Ends, Another Begins

Posted on January 9, 2017 by eatsleepwrestle

One year and a day ago, I sat in a coffee house in New Albany, doing research on the Allen Athletic Club, the wrestling promotion that entertained Louisville for 22 years from…

Crowbar Press: A gold mine of golden age wrestling

Posted on December 15, 2016 by eatsleepwrestle

Just passing on a quick plug for my friends at Crowbar Press. They currently have 25 wrestling titles available with four new ones on the way. Hooker and Whatever Happened to Gorgeous…

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