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1983: “Forever! And Ever!”

Written by Ian Douglass, author of A Decided Novelty: The Essential Guide to Black Pro Wrestling History, 1880–1950. Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. By the time 1983 rolled around, the retirement of former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk that had been teased for nearly three full years was […]

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1981: An Audience of None

Written by Jon Langmead, Author of Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. At the start of 1981, the days were already numbered for what we’ve come to call the territory era of professional wrestling. Just a decade earlier the […]

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1979: Funky II

Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. Now, you’re probably wondering how a piece like this even comes together, especially considering that Terry Funk has literally 0 to do with the Rocky franchise. Well, I stumbled upon this segment from a 1979 episode of The Mike Douglas Show featuring both Terry […]

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World’s Most Dangerous Retrospective: Ken Shamrock vs. Don Frye (PRIDE FC 2/24/02)

World’s Most Dangerous Retrospective is a review series from three of the founders of Violent People reviewing the matches (and fights) of Ken Shamrock. A not so elegant ripoff of Segunda Caida’s Complete & Accurate series. Matches will be rated as either SOFT or HARD. Pride 19Saitama Super ArenaSaitama, Japan Sam Was PRIDE fixed? Ken […]

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Violent Conversations #1: Maxx Payne & Joe Dombrowski

For the debut installment of Violent Conversations, Dan Rice sits down with Maxx Payne (Man Mountain Rock) and filmmaker Joe Dombrowski to discuss The Real Maxx Payne’s The Thing That Should Not Be, the long-awaited documentary featuring previously unreleased backstage footage from the WWF’s October 1995 European tour. Watch or purchase the documentary: https://prowrestlinglibrary.com/ Read […]

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A Film by Maxx Payne

Maxx Payne spent thirty-one years waiting to release his infamous WWF backstage footage. With help from Joe Dombrowski, The Thing That Should Not Be is finally seeing the light of day. In October 1995, Maxx Payne took a video camera on a World Wrestling Federation tour of Europe. Thirty-one years later, that footage is finally […]

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