Interesting Facts about Mitsuharu Misawa

Interesting Facts about Mitsuharu Misawa

July 29, 2024

By Ryan Porzl

If you talk to many hardcore wrestling fans and ask them who the greatest professional wrestler of all time is, many will say one name: Mitsuharu Misawa. After originally paying his dues and improving his craft during the 1980s as the second incarnation of Tiger Mask, he eventually would shine throughout the 1990s as the top star of All Japan Pro Wrestling where he engaged in one legendary match after another to the point where many would argue he was absolute best wrestler of the entire decade. During the later part of his career, he would also become known as a promoter as he founded Pro Wrestling NOAH. Sadly, despite his achievements, Misawa also became known for tragedy. The brutal King's Road style of wrestling he participated in which it along with bad luck and the pressure to press on in the ring at a time when he shouldn't have been even wrestling anymore would lead to his sad early death due to a cervical spinal cord injury he suffered during a match in 2009 at only 46 years old. This past June marked the fifteenth anniversary of Misawa's passing and I decided to pay tribute by looking back at some interesting facts.

Note: I don't own the pictures, I found them on Google. Credit to the owners.

WWF Wrestlemania III Review

WWF Wrestlemania III Review
March 7, 2012 (edited July 17, 2024)
By Ryan Porzl

Event: Wrestlemania III
Tagline: Bigger! Better! Badder!
Date: March 29, 1987
Location: Pontiac, Michigan
Liveor Tape: Live
Arena: Pontiac Silverdome
Attendance: 93,173
Announcers: Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse “The Body” Ventura
Interviewers: “Mean”Gene Okerlund, Vince McMahon, and Mary Hart
Other: Aretha Franklin (America the Beautiful) Bob Uecker (Guest Ring Announcer & Commentator), Mary Hart (Guest Timekeeper, Commentator, & Interviewer), Alice Cooper (Cornerman), and Bobby “The Brain” Heenan (Guest Commentator)
Broadcast: Pay-Per-View

Too Little Too Late. A Look At Wrestlers WWE Got Too Late

Too Little Too Late. A Look At Wrestlers WWE Got Too Late
July 8, 2024
By Ryan Porzl

Like everything in life, timing is everything in the world of professional wrestling and perhaps no one knows that more than Vince McMahon and the WWF/WWE. McMahon would have amazing timing throughout his promoting career whether it be the WWE's expansion to getting the right talent at the right time or even early. Unfortunately, McMahon and the WWE weren't perfect and for every Hulk Hogan or Steve Austin they got at the right time or even others like The Rock, who they got early, there are those wrestlers that came to the WWE too late for one reason or another be it age, personal issues, wear and tear, not fitting in with promotion at the time, etc. Here now, we'll look at various wrestlers and legends that WWE got too late to do much with.

Note: I don't own the pictures. I got them on Google. Credit to WWE or whomever owns them