(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…

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…