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A big GET WELL SOON to our longtime friend, NECW promoter and historian Sheldon Goldberg, who took ill while traveling home from The Cauliflower Alley Club event in Las Vegas and is currently hospitalized in Boston. We look forward to his quick recovery and return home. I can't speak highly enough about what a great person Sheldon is and what he's done for the business in general.
The passing of all time great Antonio Inoki has gotten a TON of mainstream media attention from just about every outlet you can imagine including Reuters, National Public Radio, ABC, Deadline, CNN, The Japan Times and many more.
Former NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Denny Brown is the second guest announced for the August 2023 edition of T-Mart Promotions' The Gathering in Charlotte, NC. Kurt Angle is already announced for the annual weekend.
The WrestlePro event last night that was slated to stream live on FITE.TV is being delayed and will air as a VOD stream on 10/3 due to issues at the venue in Alaska.
Keith Elliot Greenberg's latest book Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19, will be released this Tuesday 10/4 by ECW Press. Promotional material for the book notes:
Industry expert Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicles pro wrestling through the most memorable, controversial, and polarizing period of the last two decades
As a new decade dawned, 2020 was supposed to be the best year to be a wrestling fan. Finally, WWE had serious competition in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and there were viable secondary promotions and a thriving international indie scene. Few in the industry realized that in China, a mysterious virus had begun to spread.
By the time a pandemic was declared in March, the business — and the world — was in disarray. For the first time, pro wrestling was no longer seen as escapism, as real-world events intruded on the fantasy. Still, when everything else shut down, wrestling never went away.
Despite cancellations and empty arena shows, there were great innovations, like the cinematic match — battles shot to look like movies — and the “ThunderDome,” which replicated the live experience with fan faces surrounding the ring on LED screens. On the indie circuit, matches were held outdoors with spectators separated into socially distanced pods.
The entire time, New York Times bestselling author and historian Keith Elliot Greenberg was chronicling the scene, juxtaposing pro wrestling developments with actual news events like the U.S. presidential election and Brexit.The result, Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19, captures the dread, confusion, and spontaneous creativity of this uncertain era while exploring the long-term consequences.
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