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The Motor City Machine Guns were in Detroit today training at The Grind Tim Academy.
KJ Orso aka the former Fuego del Sol will be among those getting a WWE tryout this weekend in Minneapolis.
The 2027 dates for The Gathering in Charlotte, NC will be 7/21 - 7/25 at The University Hilton. I'd like to thank every single person I saw and spent time with this past week down there as it was absolutely an incredible weekend. A big thank you to Rusty and his crew for their kindness.
A new book on Japanese legend Rikidozan has been announced for January 2027 from ECW Press:
Pachinko Man: The Life and Meaning of Pro Wrestling Legend Rikidozan by Irving Muchnick
Dropping into the world of KPop Demon Hunters and the “Korean wave” is the first English biography published in the West of professional wrestling superstar Rikidōzan
He was Japan’s biggest celebrity — second only to the emperor. But his public image was a lie.
Pachinko Man reveals the man behind the myth, and the forces that shaped him.
As he pummeled American bad guys in the ring in the 1950s, Rikidōzan was a cultural phenomenon and a symbol of the defeated Japan’s restoration of postwar pride. But his birth name wasn’t actually Mitsuhiro Momota. In a fiercely guarded secret, he was born Kim Sim-rak, part of the persecuted minority from the former imperial occupied territory of Korea. Moreover, he was from North Korea, the communist bastion locked in Cold War conflict with U.S.-aligned South Korea.
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