Posts Tagged ‘pro wrestling’

Mickey Rourke’s Amazing Performance Highlights ‘The Wrestler’

In: Arts & Entertainment

4 May 2010

In The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky creates one of the most amazing films in recent memory. That he does so with pro wrestling as a backdrop validates everything that Robert Evans (who produced a couple of little films you may have heard of called The Godfather and Chinatown among many others) says about the necessity of breaking rules to touch magic.

MMA Flashback: Bobby Lashley Mauls Mike Cook At Maximum Fighting 21

In: Arts & Entertainment

11 Apr 2010

Here’s a word of advice to future opponents of Bobby Lashley–don’t make fun of his background in professional wrestling. Mike Cook found that out the hard way in the co-main event of the Maximum Fighting Championships MFC 21: Hard Knocks event. After spending the run up to fight week making fun of Lashley’s tenure in the WWE, Cook lasted a mere :24 seconds before being choked unconscious.

Bobby Lashley Seeks To Combine Pro Wrestling And MMA

In: Recreation & Sports

4 Feb 2010

On July 15th, former WWE superstar turned MMA fighter Bobby Lashley announced that he had signed a deal to return to full time professional wrestling competition with the US #2 promotion TNA. Lashley’s last in-ring pro wrestling appearance came in Mexico on a show for Lucha Libre promotion AAA.

The Legacy Of Japan’s Pro Wrestling Icon Mitsuharu Misawa

In: Recreation & Sports

5 Jan 2010

Mitsuharu Misawa died in Hiroshima, Japan earlier this year less than a week before his 47th birthday. He was in a tag team match for his Pro Wrestling NOAH promotion with Go Shiozaki against Bison Smith and Akitoshi Saito. Saito hit a back suplex on Misawa, which appeared to knock him unconscious. Medical staff attempted to revive him in the ring, but when CPR failed he was taken to a hospital by ambulance. He never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead on arrival.

The True Story Of The Ali/Inoki Fight

In: Recreation & Sports

4 Sep 2009

Decades before mixed martial arts became popular in the United States, events matching fighters of different fighting disciplines were very common in Japan. They weren’t called “mixed martial arts” at the time, but that’s essentially what they were.There’s an entire history of pro wrestlers fighting specialists from other martial arts (particularly judo) that were leaving out, but during the 1970’s Antonio Inoki began to put the concept of “mixed martial arts” on the map with his matches against fighters from other disciplines.


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