Dory Funk Jr. holding his grandfathers, Adam Funk's pistol.
I legit can't stand CM Punk. Disliked the prick for over 20 years.
Great to see the Punks starting to invade Blackpool for the Rebellion Festival. It's becoming bigger and bigger each year with a ton of fringe activities outside of the main festival.
Watching some of David Gilmour's - Live Wroclaw, Poland June 25th, 2016 set. Polish pianist Leszek Możdżer makes a cameo, and David played One Of These Days for the first time since 1994.
Atsushi Onita arrives at the Osaka Dome determined to challenge Antonio Inoki. Heckled about his retirements, Onita tapes his message to a lift and leaves shouting: “Don’t take it down. It’s proof I was here.” The match never happened. December 31, 2000
Mameshiba, Japan’s surreal bean-dog mascots, invade New Japan and turned Shinsuke Nakamura into “Nakamura Shibasuke”. Their bizarre trivia interrupts a match between Nakamura and Tanahashi game before his Bomaye knee becomes the bean-themed “Bomamé”, voiced by Nakamura himself. Totally Weird.
Giant Baba plays along with one of Japanese comedy’s best-known wrestling impressions in a Hokkaido advert for Apple World. “Appo!” was Tsutomu Sekine’s invented Baba noise, not a real catchphrase. The advert turns the imitation into a pun on the dealer’s name.
Japanese Newsreel Ten months after becoming national heroes as partners against the Sharpe Brothers, Rikidōzan and Masahiko Kimura met as rivals at Kuramae Kokugikan. Rikidōzan’s double-cross violent KO made him Japan’s dominant star. December 22, 1954
Pretty pleased with myself that it's been years now since I smoked cigarettes bar the odd bad choice when under the influence.
TIL thanks to @btsheetspod.bsky.social that Hercules and Paul Roma had been teaming as faces since March 1990 (primarily on PTW) before they turned heel and were renamed Power & Glory.
#NowPlaying Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound 🎵 And the message that they're giving you Is the same old alibi If you don't quite see their point of view Then they treat you like a spy And the phone rings and you disappear In the middle of the night 🎵 Note: David Gilmour plays guitar on this.
#OnThisDay in 1978: New Japan: Nippon Budokan, Tokyo: Antonio Inoki and WWWF Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund fought to a 1-1 draw over three falls. Inoki won the first with the Octopus Hold, Backlund took the second, and the deciding fall went to the time limit.
A menu from Ed “Strangler” Lewis’s café in Glendale, California. The former worlds champion became a popular local restaurateur. In 1937, Woody Guthrie briefly worked there as a dishwasher until lye ruined a sink full of aluminium pans and cost him the job.
I believe this is from Gorilla Monsoon’s personal collection, this portrait/comic strip promoted his first match with Bruno Sammartino at Roosevelt Stadium in October 1963. Monsoon replaced Buddy Rogers, whose planned return to the ring did not go ahead.
