Professional Wrestling

WWE: Raw: The Count Reaches 1,000

Shamus Aid: Chris Ward Creates Benefit Album to Revive Fallen Wizard Entertainment CEO

Gareb Shamus was a colossus among men, founding Wizard Entertainment and turning it into the go-to source for news and views on collectables. For years he was on top of his fantastical world, running a company that produced widely-read publications such as Wizard Magazine and Toyfare Magazine. Yet ... More >>

The WWE Royal Rumble Guide For Concert-Goers

Pro wrestling and arena concerts may seem like vastly different species. But they're not that far off. World Wrestling Entertainment camped out Sunday at Scottrade Center for this year's Royal Rumble, arguably the mega-federation's second biggest pay-per-view of the year next to its annual Wrestlem ... More >>

WWE's Royal Rumble Came to St. Louis Last Night

The Scottrade Center lobby was packed torso to torso with people, most of whom held plastic championship belts or poster board signs and wore CM Punk or John Cena t-shirts. The WWE Royal Rumble, one of the most anticipated of the company's monthly pay-per-view cards, came to town last night, bringin ... More >>

Are You Ready To Rumble?

​Hey, wrestling fans. Hopefully you all read Albert Samaha's profile of wrestling legend Harley Race last week, but if you haven't, here's an incentive.The RFT has two plaza level tickets for this Sunday's WWE Royal Rumble. We'll give 'em away to the first person who can name the brothers who, acc ... More >>

St. Louis' Indelible Place in Professional Wrestling

This Sunday St. Louis hosts the WWE's Royal Rumble. Some of the men who'll wrestle that night -- such as CM Punk and Ted DiBiase Jr. -- passed through Harley Race's Wrestling Academy in Eldon, Missouri, on their way to the big league (for more on Race, see last week's feature story Harley Race's Ac ... More >>

School of Hard Knocks: Halfway down the road to ruin, ex-pro wrestler turns his life around through teaching

Cena and the Divas

"Mr. USA" Tony Atlas Coming to Gene Slay's Boys' Club

Tony Atlas has something to tell the kids of St. Louis.​If a WWE wrestler gets in your face and tells you to stay in school, well, presumably, you stay in school.And if the WWE wrestler who patented the terrifying "Gorilla Press Slam" gets in your face and tells you to stay in school, well -- you' ... More >>

Watch It Wiggle

Monday Melee

Cypress Hill

8 p.m. Monday, August 16. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Top 5 Moments From Last Night's TNA Lockdown

​TNA Wrestling brought its pay-per-view "Lockdown" to St. Louis yesterday (well, St. Charles anyway) and like any rasslin' event worth its tights included an impressive array of acrobatics and dirty tricks. Here, in ascending order, are the Top 5:

Daily RFT Giveaway: Tickets to Sunday's TNA Lockdown

​Sunday. Sunday. SUNDAY! Live at the St. Charles Family Arena. It's TNA Wrestling's 2010 Lockdown. Wrestling connoisseurs the world over will be tuning in via pay-per-view to watch team Hulk Hogan take on team Ric Flair (yes, these two old dogs are still around, popping their joints out of socket ... More >>

TNA Lockdown Tickets Are Gone; Box Office Tix Still Available

​Thanks to all those who played Daily RFT's ticket giveaway for TNA's Lockdown. We got more than a dozen replies, many within minutes of our post going live. Winners were Jay Gross and Beau Giessman who correctly answered the following three questions: 1. Who did Hulk Hogan fight in the first thr ... More >>

St. Louis Grapplin' For Chance to Host WWE's WrestleMania

​On Sunday 72,000 fans packed University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona for WrestleMania 26. Another one million people across the world tuned in to view the spectacle via pay-per-view. A year earlier, in Houston, another 72,000 rasslin' aficionados filled Reliant Stadium, dropping nearly $7 millio ... More >>

Hulk Hogan Tonight at Downtown St. Louis Library

​Oh yeah, brother!Terry Bollea -- a.k.a. Hulk Hogan -- will be appearing tonight at the central library downtown from 7 to 10 p.m. Read the RFT preview of the Hulk's visit.The Hulkster swings through St. Louis to support his new autobiography "Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring", and guess what? ... More >>

Aaron's Thing of the Week, 22nd October, 2009: Ric Flair at the Chase

When I was a kid, I was a big wrestling fan. Pretty much every weekend, my best friend Mike and I would get up on Sunday mornings to watch the WWF, then spend the rest of the day practicing suplexes and a variety of submission holds on my little brother. Mike's favourite wrestler was the Ultima ... More >>

Dare to Dream

Monday, April 27: Calendar Pimp Suggests

Mozart watched no wrestling as a lad -- think about it.             Hmmm. Monday night. That means either staying in and watching WWE's Monday Night Raw, or going out for culture. Why not skip the Vince McMahonigan shenanigans and opt for culture? Your beer-bat ... More >>

Victory with Honor

Former RFT Ad Salesman Launches New Career as Professional Wrestler

I recently had a chance to catch up with former Riverfront Times ad man, Jason Garrison. (No relation to yours truly.)Garrison worked at RFT from mid-2005 to January 2007 before leaving to try his luck as a grappler with Ohio Valley Wrestling. Two months ago, the 26-year-old Garrison made a giant le ... More >>

Unreal checks in with St. Louis' own Dr. Phil and contemplates the concept of occupational licensing

Wrestling at ... Scottrade?

This just in...WWE is bringing its Monday Night Raw to the Scottrade Center on February 2. Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m."Wrestling at Scottrade" just doesn't have the same ring to it as the old Wrestling at the Chase television series that aired from 1959 to 1983 on KPLR Channel 11. Bu ... More >>

Curry in a Hurry

What Else Is New?

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week.

Old Glory

Unreal catches up with the winner of the Miss Nursing Home Pageant, wrestles with Bruiser Brody's legacy and cheers on Chilly Willie.

Pile Driver!

Unreal goes toe to toe with pro-wrestling historian Irvin Muchnick, works on our novel and narrowly escapes from a bear trap.

Grappling, With the Truth

Austin's Powers

Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not.

Mall Walkers? Ha!

Mall grapplers, baby.

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 28

Nick Lachey

7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 26. Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road).

Entertainment, Indeed

Holiday Feast

Our critics chew on the film trends of '05

Dance, Dance, Revolution

Hip-hop, clowns and war dances meet on the street in Rize

Drop-Kick Gorgeous

Bad timing and institutional racism kept Gary Jackson out of pro wrestling's spotlight. But he's got St. Louis in a hammer lock.

The Man Behind the Mask

WWE's Rey Mysterio has game to spare, Harold Ramis helps clear up a misconception, and Bill Haas shows his sensitive side; plus, Unreal lends support to a fellow muckraker injured in the line of duty

Quite a Tall Order

The Rock tries on Joe Don Baker's shoes for size, and they don't exactly fit

WWE in the House

And it's a house of pain

Brawl's Well

That ends well

Lap Dance

Emerson Indy 250 is fast & furious

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Truth or Derek

"Dangerous" Derek McQuinn sold his soul for a piece of the Gold Exchange

Fall Guy

Minor-league wrestling in St. Louis may be choreographed schlock, but it can still kill

Beyond the Mat

Directed by Barry Blaustein

Night & Day

May 5 - 12, 1999

Gripping Drama

The Final Bell

The passing of wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick rekindles interest in the wrestling days of yore

Grappling Hook