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Marc Hauss was banned from watching wrestling. His parents didn’t want him seeing the violence and they definitely didn’t want him involved in it. On his 13th birthday, however, the Rochester native had a slumber party and ended up staying awake all night, an opportune time to catch ECW...
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Combat Zone Wrestling icon “Sick” Nick Mondo is in the process of sending his film “The Trade” off to various film festivals and hopes to premier the film in 2016. The film is bio-pic, taking the audience through a cinematic look at the toll deathmatch wrestling took on Mondo,...
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Six years ago this month, pro wrestling fans and performers assembled to pay homage to one of the sport’s fallen: Trent Acid. “You know, I’ve wrestled sick. I’ve wrestled a lot of different times where I was sick, and I’ve wrestled injured,” said Johnny Kashmere, Acid’s longtime tag team partner. “But...
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When Drew Gulak crossed the sidelines of Combat Zone Wrestling in 2004 into the world of Hindu squats, bruises, and paying dues, CZW owner John Zandig didn’t promise his new trainee a big payoff. “On the first day of training, Zandig told me and Rory , ‘You guys will...
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Andre the Giant’s life story is coming to the silver screen, but you don’t have to wait until Lion Forge Comics releases the movie. Brandon Easton, an Eisner Award nominee whose previous works include the 2011 Thundercats reboot and season 2 of Marvel’s Agent Carter, wrote the graphic novel...
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If any pro wrestling book deserves the cliché praise of “you don’t have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy it,” it’s Pat Patterson’s memoir. The WWE Hall of Famer opens up about his impoverished childhood in Montreal, his crisscrossing the territories from the 1960s to the 1980s, his...
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Documentary filmmaker Erik Angra spoke with Wrestledelphia’s Mark Whited about the future of “The Reconstruction of Chyna” documentary. In part one of their Q&A, Angra talked about where his team is at with the film and what voices he hopes to add. Among those voices are Triple H and...
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Documentary filmmaker Erik Angra spoke with Wrestledelphia’s Mark Whited about the future of “The Reconstruction of Chyna” documentary. In part one of their Q&A, Angra talks about where his team is at with the film and what voices he hopes to add. Among those voices are Triple H and...
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It’s understandable that Ivelisse Velez naturally portrays such a competitive fighter on Lucha Underground telecasts—she’s one in real life, too. The one-time WWE Tough Enough contestant is only 27 years old, but she’s been wrestling since 2002, almost exactly half of her life. Long before American women’s wrestling evolved...
Marc Hauss was banned from watching wrestling. His parents didn’t want him seeing the violence and they definitely didn’t want him involved in it. On his 13th birthday, however, the Rochester native had a slumber party and ended up staying awake all night, an opportune time to catch ECW...
Combat Zone Wrestling icon “Sick” Nick Mondo is in the process of sending his film “The Trade” off to various film festivals and hopes to premier the film in 2016. The film is bio-pic, taking the audience through a cinematic look at the toll deathmatch wrestling took on Mondo,...
Six years ago this month, pro wrestling fans and performers assembled to pay homage to one of the sport’s fallen: Trent Acid. “You know, I’ve wrestled sick. I’ve wrestled a lot of different times where I was sick, and I’ve wrestled injured,” said Johnny Kashmere, Acid’s longtime tag team partner. “But...
When Drew Gulak crossed the sidelines of Combat Zone Wrestling in 2004 into the world of Hindu squats, bruises, and paying dues, CZW owner John Zandig didn’t promise his new trainee a big payoff. “On the first day of training, Zandig told me and Rory , ‘You guys will...
Andre the Giant’s life story is coming to the silver screen, but you don’t have to wait until Lion Forge Comics releases the movie. Brandon Easton, an Eisner Award nominee whose previous works include the 2011 Thundercats reboot and season 2 of Marvel’s Agent Carter, wrote the graphic novel...
If any pro wrestling book deserves the cliché praise of “you don’t have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy it,” it’s Pat Patterson’s memoir. The WWE Hall of Famer opens up about his impoverished childhood in Montreal, his crisscrossing the territories from the 1960s to the 1980s, his...
Documentary filmmaker Erik Angra spoke with Wrestledelphia’s Mark Whited about the future of “The Reconstruction of Chyna” documentary. In part one of their Q&A, Angra talked about where his team is at with the film and what voices he hopes to add. Among those voices are Triple H and...
Documentary filmmaker Erik Angra spoke with Wrestledelphia’s Mark Whited about the future of “The Reconstruction of Chyna” documentary. In part one of their Q&A, Angra talks about where his team is at with the film and what voices he hopes to add. Among those voices are Triple H and...
It’s understandable that Ivelisse Velez naturally portrays such a competitive fighter on Lucha Underground telecasts—she’s one in real life, too. The one-time WWE Tough Enough contestant is only 27 years old, but she’s been wrestling since 2002, almost exactly half of her life. Long before American women’s wrestling evolved...
