Category: Wrestling
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Chris Jericho: Redefining What It Means To Be An Icon
The accomplishments of Chris Jericho don’t need to be repeated. The artist formerly known as Y2J has done it all in the wrestling business and has lived to reinvent himself as many times as he’s wanted to. “Wanted to” is the word to emphasize here. Jericho doesn’t need the wrestling business. He doesn’t need to…
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Richard Phillips: A Tribute Fitting For a King
(Originally written in August 2021 for Sports Obsessive.) Some of you may not know this about me, but this isn’t my first weekly wrestling column. More than a decade ago, I worked for the Heartland Wrestling Association and started off as a columnist, before working my way up to the company’s play-by-play announcer. It was…
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The Man Called Vu: Remembering Richard Phillips
They called him Vu, Deja Vu or even King Vu for a while. His name was Richard Phillips and for being 6 ft 3 and over 300lbs, he was freakishly athletic. He was so agile and could glide around the ring like a cruiserweight, yet his lariat or “Stank-line” as he called it, was the…