Definitely check out Dead Wrestlers Society. There’s some great art and cool tributes to classic wrestlers.

via kayfabe:

Dead Wrestlers Society

I Love Dust recently opened a new exhibit entitled Dead Wrestlers Society at the Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth. The exhibit showcases several new works from the UK design studio, all inspired by wrestlers who are no longer with us.

Professional Wrestling has given us some of the most colourful and charismatic characters in sports history.

Defying all attempts at labelling or categorisation these huge writhing muscular masses of outrageous behaviour clad in ever-changing wardrobes of flamboyant costumes and crazy color-ways.

What better muse for ilovedust?

(via comicbooks)

Paul Heyman’s “Welcome to the Dance” speech before ECW’s “Barely Legal” PPV, as seen in Beyond the Mat. I love love loved ECW and this randomly popped into my head recently.

I remember going to (shit, I forget the record store’s name where we’d buy tix) get tickets for our first ECW show at the Elk’s Lodge in Queens. We walked in and Paul Heyman was in there, dropping off tickets and shooting the shit. We bought them right from him and he was super cool, super friendly and chatted for a few minutes. I was probably 16 or so at the time and that always stuck with me.

“Real American” - Hulk Hogan’s theme music, by Rick Derringer. This song/video is, always has been and always will be amazing. My love for this isn’t ironic hipster fiddle-faddle, I genuinely get charged up when I hear this. The song comes on and 6-year-old Ryan takes over my brain and I just think about watching wrestling as a kid with my grandpa. Hell yeah.

thetalkinghead:

matt-t:

I AM A REAL AMERICAN

USA! USA! USA!

Another wrestling thing, just because. This is the debut of THE SHOCKMASTER. (via @seanjackson) Ya gotta remember, this was in the heyday of ridiculousness for WCW and wrestling in general. They were doing lots of stupid stuff, ALL THE TIME. In this instance, WCW had just brought over Tugboat and were unveiling him & his new gimmick—a big dude wearing some fur and a sparkly Stormtrooper helmet. I may have some of the details wrong, but whatever, this requires no setup. It’s pure schadenfreude fodder.