Civilized Wrestling Fans

“It’s a good thing that all of those people are well behaved. They could easily get out of control and take the venue over.” My brother made a good point. We were watching the WWE Royal Rumble 2019. The event was held in a baseball stadium, Chase Field, with over 48,000 fans in attendance. It’sContinue

Jesse Ventura On Marijuana

When I was a child in 1998 and Jesse Ventura became governor of Minnesota, I thought that it was cool, because I was a big fan of professional wrestling, and Jesse “The Body” Ventura was the guy on color commentary (usually with Gorilla Monsoon, or Chico Monsoon, as Ventura called him) in some of myContinue

Various Large Wrestling Figures

View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Rs7USR These guys had a special place in my #collection of #actionfigures . I lumped them together as “large #wrestlingfigures “, although they varied quite a bit in size and production. Hulk Hogan was the largest figure of the bunch. I was fortunate enough to find him in excellent condition, with hisContinue

Remco AWA Action Figures

View on Instagram https://ift.tt/2Nr6OUd   Who remembers the AWA wrestling figures by Remco? Here is a picture of my collection of the #Minnesota -based #wrestling company’s action figures from the mid #1980s . I didn’t have the full set, but I had a decent collection, including both rings and two of the rare “Mat Mania”Continue

Brian Lawler Hanged Himself

Brian Christopher Lawler, better known as Grand Master Sexay, and son of wrestling legend Jerry “The King” Lawler has apparently died after hanging himself in jail. On June 6th of 2018, Brian Lawler was arrested for not paying for a hotel room. As reported by Eryn Taylor of WREG 3 News out of Memphis, TN:Continue

Portmanteau

If you were like me and read Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass as a child, you learned at least two new words: “slithy” and “mimsy.” “Slithy” means lithe and slimy, we’re told, and “mimsy” means flimsy and miserable. Come to think of it, when Humpty Dumpty was talking about “slithy” and “mimsy,” I wasContinue

Footstool Wrestling Ring

My brother and I used to play with wrestling action figures. For some reason, we didn’t have a toy ring for the plastic superstars of our league. But we had a solution. My brother took an old footstool and turned it upside down. The legs served as the ring posts. He then twisted up rubber bandsContinue

E-Wrestling, Dustin Dare, & The AWF

Many of my online usernames have been “dusindareawf.” What does that mean? The AWF was an e-wrestling league, aka, an “e-fed.” Dustin Dare was my character, the evil boss, and the AWF was the Atypical Wrestling Federation. My mind wandered just a moment ago, and it wandered to the thought that I should give someContinue

Old School: WWE Ice Cream & Action Figures

If you were a real American child in the 1980s and 1990s, you will remember that Good Humor Ice Cream produced the most amazing ice cream product since the Klondike Bar.  No, it was even better than the Klondike Bar, perhaps even better than the invention of the ice cream cone. Definitely better than theContinue

My Dog Was Sniffing My Package

This is a picture of my now-deceased dog, Barry, and me as a teenager. As evidenced by my WCW Monday Nitro T-shirt, I was a big wrestling fan. The Remco toy company produced American Wrestling Association action figures in 1985 and a few in 1986. I started collecting these vintage figures in 2003. I tookContinue