Tag: Independent wrestling
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Netflix’s Wrestlers Is a 5 Star Classic
With all apologies to Dave Meltzer’s rating system for wrestling matches, Netflix’s Wrestlers is a five star classic documentary. The seven part series is available to stream in full now & if you haven’t already seen it, close this article now and go watch it. (There are some spoilers in this article). This series will appeal to…
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The Wrestler: Bright Lights & Lonely Nights
I remember seeing The Wrestler in a small theater called The Esquire here in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a theater that typically featured independent releases and is located in a more art-friendly part of town. Any film directed by Darren Aronofsky, especially then, was likely to be well attended at that theater, but I remember…
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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…