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# ![@allan_cheapshot Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::50599780.png) @allan_cheapshot Allan

Allan posts on X about japan, tokyo, champion, hulk hogan the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  24.73% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  13.74% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  6.59% [finance](/list/finance)  4.4% [ufc](/list/ufc)  #2251 [musicians](/list/musicians)  1.1% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.1% [stocks](/list/stocks)  0.55% [nfl](/list/nfl)  0.55%

**Social topic influence**
[japan](/topic/japan) #1166, [tokyo](/topic/tokyo) #802, [champion](/topic/champion) #930, [hulk hogan](/topic/hulk-hogan) #71, [$2501t](/topic/$2501t) 4.4%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.4%, [saito](/topic/saito) #55, [baba](/topic/baba) #792, [money](/topic/money) 2.75%, [joe](/topic/joe) #298

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
[Dana Incorporated (DAN)](/topic/$dan)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Bill Watts with Leroy McGurk who was blind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019776971517952340)  2026-02-06T14:15Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Shinjuku Tokyo: Antonio Inoki appears with his wife Mitsuko Baisho at an event on the eve of New Japans Tokyo Dome weekend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020856255766507559)  2026-02-09T13:44Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Dan Severn. He made his MMA debut in [----] and within about two years he had won the UFC [--] tournament and then became the Ultimate Fighting Championship Superfight Champion by beating Ken Shamrock. That run helped lock in his aura in wrestling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021938204740358384)  2026-02-12T13:23Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2007: LLPW: Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumida Tokyo: 20th Anniversary Commemorative photo with Shinobu Kandori flanked by Eagle Sawai and Harley Saito after the anniversary supercard. Kandori won the Womens Pro Wrestling Strongest Singles Tournament final"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021938864693391608)  2026-02-12T13:26Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1981: Ox Baker appears on the TV game show The Price is Right as a contestant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021944227291082769)  2026-02-12T13:47Z 47.5K followers, 36.4K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1993: UWFi: Budoken Hall: Kazushi Sakuraba makes his pro wrestling debut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1955626828800131116)  2025-08-13T13:45Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1988: WWF Royal Rumble: Dino Bravo (with help from Jesse Ventura) "broke the world bench press record of [---] pounds.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2015110840135880977)  2026-01-24T17:13Z 47.3K followers, 11.8K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1999: Bret Hart uttered the legendary quote: "El Dandy. He's a jam up guy WHO ARE YOU TO DOUBT EL DANDY""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2015383422764556515)  2026-01-25T11:17Z 47.3K followers, 147.1K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1985: New Japan: Tokuyama City Gymnasium Yamaguchi: Antonio Inoki defeated Abdullah The Butcher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2015392726280294405)  2026-01-25T11:54Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: Narita Airport: Hulk Hogan arrives in Japan with his newly won WWF Title"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2015779945545453614)  2026-01-26T13:32Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1973: Mr. Wrestling (Tim Woods) & Mr. Wrestling II (Johnny Walker) team together for the first time defeating Sputnik & Rocket Monroe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2015786173998694620)  2026-01-26T13:57Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1985: All Japan Women: Chiyoda-cho Gymnasium Hiroshima: Kiyo Tateno Goki Yamazaki Lioness Asuka Devil Masami and others relaxing during pre-match practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016143327821729952)  2026-01-27T13:36Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2001: All Japan: King's Road New Century 2001: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: The masked lads Mil Mscaras and The Destroter. El Hijo del Santo & Mil Mscaras defeated Arkangel de la Muerte & Blue Panther"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016503638269550679)  2026-01-28T13:28Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2001: All Japan: King's Road New Century 2001: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: The Destroyer and Genichiro Tenryu share a moment together"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016503850186797291)  2026-01-28T13:29Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1985: The song We Are the World is recorded by an ensemble group title USA for Africa to earn money for African famine relief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016508500696797592)  2026-01-28T13:47Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The group is made up of a huge number of pop and rock superstars including Lionel Ritchie Stevie Wonder Paul Simon Kenny Rogers James Ingram Tina Turner Billy Joel Michael Jackson Diana Ross Dionne Warwick Willie Nelson Bruce Springsteen Kenny Loggins Steve Perry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016508503460900960)  2026-01-28T13:47Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"A big what if. Vince would have promised Brody his win back if he did the job here which would have never materialised and Brody would have walked. Vince and Brody did talk about Brody coming in the fall of [----]. The discussion centred around when and money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017227710821441825)  2026-01-30T13:25Z 47.3K followers, 35.2K engagements


"That time Vince McMahon thought it was a good idea to get a crippled Andr the Giant to do a run in at at the end of the Royal Albert Hall Battle Royal in [----] to save winner British Bulldog from an attack by the Natural Disasters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017612205957558448)  2026-01-31T14:53Z 47.3K followers, 28.1K engagements


"Bully Ray gingerly lays down on the table"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017625392836702709)  2026-01-31T15:45Z 47.3K followers, 81.5K engagements


"There was a Tekken [--] arcade machine at a ROH show and AJ Styles would not leave the building until he had beaten Samoa Joe. With his wife waiting on him for hours. "So AJ Styles although you are a good person you suck at videogames and I will always be better than you.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017706381835473036)  2026-01-31T21:07Z 47.3K followers, 19.3K engagements


"@br26 Longer than Rusev's appearances on TV recently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017735285577011265)  2026-01-31T23:02Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1993: WWF RAW: Brutus Beefcake makes his return to the ring for first time in two years due to a parasailing accident. Beefcake who is pouring his heart out telling the story of how is mom and dad died and how his wife left him then. Fan: "kill yourself""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017951132786590088)  2026-02-01T13:20Z 47.3K followers, 36.6K engagements


"My word Jaguar Yokota"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017953929980416439)  2026-02-01T13:31Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Terry Funk visits his father Dory Funk Sr's. grave and then promotes the ECW Barely Legal PPV. "Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018312502644224189)  2026-02-02T13:16Z 47.4K followers, 22.4K engagements


"The young lads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018312718168510779)  2026-02-02T13:17Z 47.3K followers, 21.8K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1993: Punxsutawney Pennsylvania: Phil Connors (Bill Murray) gives newlyweds Fred (Michael Shannon) and his bride Debbie (Hynden Walch) tickets to WrestleMania IX as a wedding gift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018315029020311570)  2026-02-02T13:26Z 47.3K followers, 11.3K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1992: New Japan: Misato City Gymnasium Saitama: Keiji Muto imitating Hulk Hogan's pose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018319892231913805)  2026-02-02T13:45Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Gordon Solie used to believe that the NFL regular season was worked. You've been living in a fantasy world for so long that you believe everything is worked and you're so frightened of getting caught that you dismiss all proof"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018674366624551209)  2026-02-03T13:14Z 47.3K followers, 17.5K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Kengo Kimura Satoru Sayama and Antonio Inoki head to the building ahead of the show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018678917951799524)  2026-02-03T13:32Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Tatsumi Fujinami leaves in the snow after his planned WWF International Heavyweight Title defence against Riki Choshu is scrapped fallout from the Snowy Sapporo Terrorist Incident attack angle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018678947571982765)  2026-02-03T13:32Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1983: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center Hokkaido: Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) pictured after successfully defending his NWA Worlds Junior Heavyweight Title for the third time by defeating Gran Hamada"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018680847184921007)  2026-02-03T13:39Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@br26 A much much much simpler time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019025520617574580)  2026-02-04T12:29Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Bruiser Brody causing chaos in Puerto Rico"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019033947276214378)  2026-02-04T13:02Z 47.4K followers, 91K engagements


"Fantastic photograph of Jack Brisco after he defeated Harley Race on July [--] [----] for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title in Houston TX. Photo was taken by Houston promoter Paul Boesch. Also pictured is ring announcer Boyd Pierce and NWA president Sam Muchnick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019036316101730593)  2026-02-04T13:12Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Dory Funk Jr was supposed to lose the title to Jack in Houston but Dory Sr didn't want his son to lose it to Brisco in Texas as he felt it would hurt his credibility. This was in part due to a few years earlier The Briscos had been working Amarillo and mainly used as job guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019036319650132266)  2026-02-04T13:12Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1986: Stan Hansen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019044272574746871)  2026-02-04T13:44Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements


"On the set of The Princess Bride Andr the Giant once "let out a 16-second fart and brought production to a standstill." Nobody said anything except director Rob Reiner who said "Are you OK Andr" to which Andr replied "I am now boss.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019400742524645617)  2026-02-05T13:20Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: All Japan dojo Kinuta Tokyo: Genichiro Tenryu and Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa) were photographed together ahead of their New Japan/All Japan/WWF Tokyo Dome appearance on Feb 10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019401802064789642)  2026-02-05T13:24Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1980: New Japan: Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium Nagoya: Best Two Out Of Three Falls: Antonio Inoki & Strong Kobayashi defeated Rocky Johnson & Stan Hansen two falls to one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019404274225279120)  2026-02-05T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1982: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) successfully defended his WWF Junior Heavyweight title for the second time against Bret Hart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019405344238362753)  2026-02-05T13:38Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1986: AWA: Las Vegas Showboat Nevada: AWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Stan Hansen defeated David Sammartino and is then interviewed by Larry Nelson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019405676397883573)  2026-02-05T13:40Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1991: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center Hokkaido: Shinya Hashimoto drops a Different Style Fight to Tony Halme (later Ludvig Borga). It was Hashimotos second straight loss to Halme in the worked shoot format with Liger Mutoh and Chono looking on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019406529607397513)  2026-02-05T13:43Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1971: JWA: Korakuen Hall Tokyo: Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki defeated Bill Dromo and Ricky Hunter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019408083756413357)  2026-02-05T13:49Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Early 1960s San Diego. Regis Philbin on his Saturday late-night show with Dick Beyer (The Destroyer). Regis loved having the wrestlers on and Beyer and Freddie Blassie were favourites. Local TV made wrestling feel like part of the city"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019409580992663586)  2026-02-05T13:55Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1982: In one of only two times in history the St. Louis Kiel Auditorium show is cancelled due to a snow storm that had been raging for days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019410112264237287)  2026-02-05T13:57Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The allegation was simple and brutal: a loaded knee pad. Wrestling has always sold rough stuff but commissions and courts still drew lines around concealed foreign objects because it crossed from performance into outright assault"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019411194483007695)  2026-02-05T14:02Z 47.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Washburn had been arrested after his bout with Paul Boesch and released on $50 bail. Then he failed to appear in court. That is where the story stops being about a gimmick and becomes a legal problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019411196970181076)  2026-02-05T14:02Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@paul_sosnowski I'm not 100% sure of the finish but I thought the same hence why I posted it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019518981233668506)  2026-02-05T21:10Z 47.4K followers, [--] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1988: Ted DiBiase wore the WWF Title belt and was recognised as its champion. DiBiase would be WWF Champion for about a week but his title reign would soon be stricken from the record by Jack Tunney"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019759244812181585)  2026-02-06T13:05Z 47.4K followers, 13.7K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Clash of the Champions X: Texas Shootout from the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi Texas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019760927516565980)  2026-02-06T13:11Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2009: WWE signs [----] Diva Search contestant Taryn Terrell. Terrell would last two+ years before a domestic incident with her then-husband Drew McInytre got her indefinitely suspended then released"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019761495945449891)  2026-02-06T13:14Z 47.4K followers, 27.1K engagements


"Manami Toyota with a unique Suplex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019762500372197560)  2026-02-06T13:18Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1985: New Japan: Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Osaka: Antonio Inoki tries to cinch a reverse-crucifix style armbar on King Kong Bundy in their heavily promoted $15 million match"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019766554649334196)  2026-02-06T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"New Japan leaned hard into big money billing for major foreign attractions in this era. Bundy was positioned as a looming unstoppable American monster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019766558344548692)  2026-02-06T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1981: New Japan: Nakajima Sports Center Sapporo Hokkaido: UWA Worlds Heavyweight Title: Champion Tiger Jeet Singh defeated Antonio Inoki by disqualification"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019767829055013010)  2026-02-06T13:39Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1985: Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Osaka: Young Lion Cup class photo featuring a generation about to define the next decade. Shinya Hashimoto Keiichi Yamada (Jushin Liger) Hirokazu Hata Akira Nogami. Naoki Sano Masahiro Chono Tatsutoshi Goto Keiji Muto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019769144648908837)  2026-02-06T13:44Z 47.4K followers, 11.8K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1981: New Japan: Korakuen Hall Tokyo: Antonio Inoki jump-rope warms up at ringside before his match with the crowd watching him like it is part of the show. Inoki always understood presentation. A small ritual that tells the audience this is sport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019769485956177941)  2026-02-06T13:45Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"What a crew: Jim Cornette Stan Lane Tom Prichard Bobby Eaton Brian Pillman and Steve Austin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019770366269206866)  2026-02-06T13:49Z 47.4K followers, 27.3K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1933: Barrie Ontario: Joe "Toots" Mondt was found not guilty of manslaughter on appeal stemming from a fatal [----] car accident"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019771671599563109)  2026-02-06T13:54Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1935: Michigan House of Representatives Lansing Michigan: State Rep. Stanley J. Romanski introduced a bill to abolish commercial professional wrestling calling it a public nuisance and arguing that promoters were misleading the public with pre-arranged outcomes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019772261981458467)  2026-02-06T13:56Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"https://x.com/i/status/1639553807578447872 WWE 2005-2006 Roster contracts got leaked. https://t.co/jsoORqeEkp https://x.com/i/status/1639553807578447872 WWE 2005-2006 Roster contracts got leaked. https://t.co/jsoORqeEkp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019826943445868633)  2026-02-06T17:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I wanted to go here more than anywhere else in the world when I was a kid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020048629348635081)  2026-02-07T08:14Z 47.4K followers, 16.4K engagements


"When people say the Monday night ratings war got personal this is an example of a receipt. WWF did not just mock WCW on TV. They tried to drag it into the finance pages. 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020083200106852796)  2026-02-07T10:32Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The on screen piece was the Billionaire Ted skits with Ted framed as a reckless billionaire burning shareholder money on wrestling right as the Turner and Time Warner merger was looming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020083203349049414)  2026-02-07T10:32Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"WWF then attempted to buy ad space in the The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal with a blunt message aimed at Ted Turner and Attention Stockholders language"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020083205802537158)  2026-02-07T10:32Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1950: NWA Worlds Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk was involved in a car accident in Little Rock Arkansas that ended his in ring career"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020085535218266386)  2026-02-07T10:41Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2000: WWF RAW: The Radicalz X Pac & HHH defeated Cactus Jack The Rock Too Cool & Rikishi. RAW triples Nitro in the ratings that night [---] to [---]. It's one of the largest margins of victory by either side in the Monday Night War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020088240922087609)  2026-02-07T10:52Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"1991 WCW explained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020092732790960355)  2026-02-07T11:10Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@ghostofquinones Brett Sawyer liked him but I don't think that counts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020097674775589047)  2026-02-07T11:29Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@NewtonGimmick You've no clue whatsoever. Using IWC as a term is a huge giveaway. Chris Hero is so important to where we are now if you're not understanding that you've got an agenda or are dumb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020169110815142253)  2026-02-07T16:13Z 47.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@MattD_SC Brilliant I bet Chris loved taking a powder for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020183714496712908)  2026-02-07T17:11Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1973: New Japan: Itabashi Ward Gymnasium Tokyo: Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido defeated Geoff Portz and Tony Charles with the photo catching Portz wrenching on a cobra twist while Inoki and Kido try to break it up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020279559019434343)  2026-02-07T23:32Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1980: New Japan: Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Osaka: Seiji Sakaguchi and Riki Choshu successfully defended the NWA North American Tag Team Title against Bad News Allen and Masa Saito winning the match [--] falls to 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020282360881721729)  2026-02-07T23:43Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Born in Birmingham AL Sherri was first introduced to wrestling when her mother took her and her sister to wrestling events in Mississippi. When she was [--] she sought advice on how to become a wrestler by Grizzly Smith but was told to come back in five years when she's older"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020422046203756909)  2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"During her second marriage her interest in wrestling picked up again and began training with Butch Moore in Memphis then with The Fabulous Moolah in South Carolina. It was there where Sherri picked up her ring name Sherri Martel (she originally wrestled as Sherri Martine)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020422048498249957)  2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Martel returned to Memphis and was managed by Jim Cornette but her wrestling career was put on hold when she was injured in a battle royal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020422051002196118)  2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"From there she went to the AWA WWF ECW WCW and carved a fantastic career for herself. She wouldn't take any shit as was as tough as anyone. Sherri was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Ted DiBiase in April [----]. RIP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020422054982672414)  2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"WWF at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Canada"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020493018814701763)  2026-02-08T13:40Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Kurt Angle wrestled Owen Hart on May [--] [----] in a dark match. Following the match Owen told people backstage that Kurt would be a future worlds champion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020501104891687291)  2026-02-08T14:12Z 47.4K followers, 13.1K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1974: New Japan: Toyo University Ushiku High School Gymnasium Ushiku Ibaraki: Antonio Inoki powers into a bridge while carrying Benny McGuire on top of him a classic strength spot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020509420845760931)  2026-02-08T14:45Z 47.4K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Rocky Maivia grabbing silly string out of Cindy Margolis' hair after being sprayed by Doink The Clown at the [----] Slammy Awards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020519172824793326)  2026-02-08T15:24Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Tiger Mask vs. Bret Hart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020842364697518194)  2026-02-09T12:48Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Tokyo: Kji Kitao and Lou Thesz attend a New Japan reception ahead of the Tokyo Dome Super Fight the following day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020850518524916087)  2026-02-09T13:21Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Shinjuku Tokyo: Antonio Inoki reunited with Stan Hansen on the eve of New Japans February [--] Tokyo Dome show renewing an old rivalry turned friendship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020850879239254216)  2026-02-09T13:22Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1998: WCW Nitro: A net drops from the ceiling on to Sting/Savage/Luger. I particular enjoyed Sting's selling of the net. Ted Turner owned Looney Tunes cartoons after all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020861448931471796)  2026-02-09T14:04Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"SHOOTING BROTHERS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2005301341695201312)  2025-12-28T15:34Z 47.4K followers, 12.3K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1995: Hollywood CA: Osamu Nishimura Sabu Dan Severn and Al Snow pose together"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2011803415903436823)  2026-01-15T14:11Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1994: All American Pro Wrestling: Dan Severn defeated Shinobi (Al Snow)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016498904016081338)  2026-01-28T13:09Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Kurt Angle Eddie Guerrero Heidenreich and Mick Foley sleeping on the plane on their way to Tikrit Iraq for the [----] Tribute To The Troops show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017617353794588675)  2026-01-31T15:13Z 47.4K followers, 103.3K engagements


"In honour of this outstanding athlete Russia holds an annual international Greco-Roman wrestling tournament the Poddubny Wrestling League. In Yeisk where Poddubny lived the last years of his life there is a monument with the inscription "Ivan Poddubny -Russian Bogatyr""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018035006686273829)  2026-02-01T18:53Z 47.4K followers, 15.6K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Hulk Hogan wearing his newly won WWF Title ahead of a tag match where Akira Maeda & Antonio Inoki defeated Hulk Hogan & Iron Mike Sharpe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018679544161460416)  2026-02-03T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Hulk Hogan allegedly bought steroids off of Buzz in Florida in [----] and never paid him back. Buzz never forgot and when he came to WWF in [----] he got the word out that he was gonna get his money or get his pound of flesh. Hogan got scared and immediately got Buzz on the shitlist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020087176625811579)  2026-02-07T10:48Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: Kuramae Kokugikan Tokyo: Great shot of a double Clothesline spot between Hulk Hogan and Riki Choshu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020278153592078700)  2026-02-07T23:27Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Hekinan Rinkai Gymnasium Hekinan Aichi: Hulk Hogan poses on the New Japan tour wearing the WWF Heavyweight title belt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020512456708141324)  2026-02-08T14:58Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The success of the women's matches in EliteXC and Strikeforce starting with this match leads to UFC signing female fighters. Which of course leads to the signing of Ronda Rousey UFC/MMA's biggest star ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021217384892101003)  2026-02-10T13:39Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic "award" thread 1981: Monster character (Tony Hernandez) - LeBelle Promotions The promotion was on it's last legs and in one last ditch attempt promoter LeBelle proceeded to push "a real monster" made in a lab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1059934701060792320)  2018-11-06T22:25Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Rick Rude was one scary dude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020047822167634020)  2026-02-07T08:11Z 47.5K followers, 129.9K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo: Bam Bam Bigelow introduces his wife Dana Fisher to Antonio Inoki on the eve of New Japans Tokyo Dome show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020853504009515197)  2026-02-09T13:33Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Shinjuku Tokyo: Masahiro Chono Shinya Hashimoto Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi posed together and vowed to deliver on the eve of New Japans February [--] Tokyo Dome event"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020854012329726196)  2026-02-09T13:35Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1969: Dory Funk Jr. defeated Gene Kinski to win the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title. Dory would hold the NWA Worlds Title for over four years before being defeated by Harley Race in 1973"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021571731513573705)  2026-02-11T13:07Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Ron Simmons aged [--]. Simmons was a 2x All-American at Florida State and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in [----]. Bobby Bowden said that Ron Simmons along with Deion Sanders and Charlie Ward were the most important players he had ever recruited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021590043580625147)  2026-02-11T14:20Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


""Beautiful" Bobby Remus before he morphed in to Sgt. Slaughter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021934959133401301)  2026-02-12T13:10Z 47.5K followers, 64K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1978: Chase Hotel St Louis MI: Ted DiBiase defeated Dick Slater in St. Louis forthe NWA Missouri title during the Wrestling at the Chase TV Tapings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021945611172335634)  2026-02-12T13:52Z 47.5K followers, 10.2K engagements


"#HappyBirthday to 2-time AJPW All Asia Tag Champion former Orient Express member & manager of Hakushi Akio Sato who turns [--] today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022295284332540340)  2026-02-13T13:02Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1994: New Japan: Yamato Auto Body Industrial Gymnasium Yamato Kanagawa Prefecture: Heavy snowfall delayed the ring transport trucks so Shiro Koshinaka Kengo Kimura Michiyoshi Ohara Akitoshi Saito and Tatsutoshi Goto killed time outside by lobbing snowballs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022299140835700986)  2026-02-13T13:17Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Bryan Danielson after winning the [----] APW King of the Indies tournament being held aloft by Doug Williams and Samoa Joe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022300539946439090)  2026-02-13T13:23Z 47.5K followers, 77K engagements


"Toots Mondt Dave Levin Jack Curley - New York promoter & Ray Nahani - Philadelphia promoter pictured in the mid 1930's. Curley was the first great North American promoter in Pro wrestling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022301042583425146)  2026-02-13T13:25Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Big fan of this version of the Atomic Drop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022303361362464905)  2026-02-13T13:34Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in WWF: 1988: WTTG TV [--] Washington DC: Fox aired a classic LJN WWF toy commercial featuring Randy Savage Miss Elizabeth Kamala SD Jones and The Killer Bees. A pure 1980s time capsule of how WWF sold its characters to kids between the cartoons and Saturday TV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022309190648070310)  2026-02-13T13:57Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"REAL WORLD TAG TEAM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022309797471597024)  2026-02-13T14:00Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2011: Preston City Wrestling ran it's debut show "A New Beginning" from Lava Ignite In the main event Team SHAG (Colt Cabana & Greg Burridge) defeated Martin Kirby & Nathan Cruz. Other matches included Joey Hayes defeating CJ Banks & T-Bone defeating Dave Mastiff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1960321237676175609)  2025-08-26T12:39Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The lads. Bret Hart Fumi Saito and Sean Waltman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018675418094621125)  2026-02-03T13:18Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


""If it wasnt for the newsletters Vince McMahon would have never done steroid testing. He would never have addressed the issue. Hulk Hogan would have never had to go on TV and lie." - Dave Meltzer - August 1991"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019403258993721598)  2026-02-05T13:30Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Hachinohe City Gymnasium Hachinohe Aomori: WWF champion Hulk Hogan teamed with Bret Hart losing to Tatsumi Fujinami and Akira Maeda when Fujinami pinned Hart. He posed with the WWF Title for the press ahead of the match"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019766973245108623)  2026-02-06T13:35Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The time that Afa Anoai and Lou Albano appeared on the Miami Vice episode "Hooker By Crook" which aired on March 20th [----] as "Henchman #1" and "Henchman #2""  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020504569051267230)  2026-02-08T14:26Z 47.4K followers, 13.6K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2007: Gina Carano vs. Julie Kedzie in the first Women's MMA fight in history to air on live television. The single most important fight in MMA history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021217382413255126)  2026-02-10T13:39Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1977: Kiel Auditorium St. Louis: Giant Baba teams with his emerging protg Genichiro Tenryu in the US working a tag against Pat O'Connor and Dory Funk Jr. OConnor and Funk defeated Baba and Tenryu [--] falls to 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021580529963807052)  2026-02-11T13:42Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The Malenko Brothers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021591427185086486)  2026-02-11T14:25Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Terry Funk being Terry Funk. He's still got hold of that tag rope whilst trying to reach his brother Dory Jr to make the tag"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021600235902906764)  2026-02-11T15:00Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1987: New Japan Young Lions group photo in the dojo. Back row: Masahiro Chono Shinya Hashimoto Akira Nogami & Masakatsu Funak Front row: Hisakatsu Ohya Akira Katayama & Osamu Matsuda (later El Samurai)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021934302057926685)  2026-02-12T13:07Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2001: All Japan: King's Road New Century 2001: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: Stan Hansen Retirement Ceremony: Stan shakes hands with Mrs. Motoko Baba"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2016504129988833614)  2026-01-28T13:30Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1960: Rikidzan defeated Jim Wright. Jim Wright was an American heavyweight best known on cards as Big Jim Wright and he also wrestled under a long list of aliases including Kolo Stasiak Bull Wright Cowboy Jim Wright Silver Streak and The Masked Marvel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2017961309887738093)  2026-02-01T14:00Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Never forget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019050937491378221)  2026-02-04T14:10Z 47.4K followers, 60.6K engagements


"Terry Funk holding a shot gun wearing a Willie Nelson t-shirt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019408982503485773)  2026-02-05T13:53Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1982: Sapporo Station Sapporo Hokkaido: Antonio Inoki is photographed in transit on the New Japan tour departing Sapporo for Hakodate aboard the Hokuto limited express"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019767359938945436)  2026-02-06T13:37Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Interestingly a young wannabe wrestler named Mark Calaway approached Sawyer asking Sawyer to train him to become a professional wrestler. After Calaway had paid Saywer he taught the young man how to start a match then skipped town the next day like a true carny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020087179998031967)  2026-02-07T10:48Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2003: Chris Hero defeated CM Punk 2-1 in best of three falls to win the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title. The match had a 90-minute time limit and it still wasn't enough to decide it. Total match time: [--] hour [--] minutes [--] seconds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020089203749724622)  2026-02-07T10:56Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1955: Michiharu Toyonobori photgraphed. Toyonobori came straight out of sumo into the Japanese Wrestling Association debuted in [----] and was trained by Rikidzan. Beat The Destroyer for the WWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship in 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020280751556817322)  2026-02-07T23:37Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Iron Sheik and Muhammad Ali"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020531069934580222)  2026-02-08T16:12Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1998: WCW Nitro: Randy Savage takes a great guardrail bump vs. Hulk Hogan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020861331964854580)  2026-02-09T14:04Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Today would have been the 55th birthday of Louis Mucciolo Jr. but wrestling fans knew him best as Louie Spicolli. RIP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021209124764102691)  2026-02-10T13:06Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: New Japan: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: Masa Saito defeated Larry Zbyszko to win the American Wrestling Association Worlds Heavyweight Title at New Japans Super Fight in Tokyo Dome. A rare worlds title change on Japanese soil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021212049091547334)  2026-02-10T13:17Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1989: Tokyo Japan: Signing Ceremony of Wrestling Agreement with the Soviet Union: Antonio Inoki Masa Saito Hiroshi Hase Riki Choshu Big Van Vader Berkovich Khashimikov Zangief Zangief and Seiji Sakaguchi at TV Asahi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021577430519918880)  2026-02-11T13:29Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Hulk Hogan pictured listening in on a conversation between Jesse Ventura and the boys who are discussing unionising"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021603884351750343)  2026-02-11T15:15Z 47.5K followers, 18.4K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: Tokyo Baptist Association Shibuya Tokyo: A farewell ceremony for David Von Erich who died suddenly while touring Japan. The service was attended by Giant Baba and the full touring roster Japanese and gaijin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021939879144292485)  2026-02-12T13:30Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2016: Genichiro Tenryu's retirement party with guests including Animal Hamaguchi Seiji Sakaguchi Yoshihiro Takayama and Great Kojika"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022294157100782054)  2026-02-13T12:57Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1968: Mpire Gym Shibuya Tokyo: Giant Baba works a bridge during a joint open practice with Antonio Inoki assisting as the room looks on including Kazuo Honma Mikiyuki Kitazawa and Michiaki Yoshimura"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022296427460723124)  2026-02-13T13:06Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1986: All Japan: Kaohsiung Taiwan: All Japan holds an arrival press conference for its Taiwan tour with Giant Baba Mitsuharu Misawa as Tiger Mask II Jumbo Tsuruta Genichiro Tenryu Genji Okuma and Mighty Inoue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022298463149383869)  2026-02-13T13:15Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"A young Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoa'i"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022300621559210475)  2026-02-13T13:23Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Adam Ant fans. Caption this gif. https://t.co/xPt9QL7ajV Caption this gif. https://t.co/xPt9QL7ajV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022372450558709941)  2026-02-13T18:09Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1897309136687358259)  2025-03-05T15:32Z 47.5K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Hector Garza tries a Shooting Star Press"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2014341153475232045)  2026-01-22T14:15Z 47.5K followers, 480.3K engagements


"Scott Hall and Curt Hennig at John's of Bleecker Street simply known as John's Pizzeria a historic pizzeria on Bleecker Street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Manhattan in New York City"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2018309293984932223)  2026-02-02T13:03Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1990: Clash X: Mil Mascaras defeated Cactus Jack. "CACTUS JACK IS DEAD" call from Jim Cornette"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019760416797147235)  2026-02-06T13:09Z 47.5K followers, 98.3K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 2000: WCW Nitro: Scott Steiner says in no uncertain terms WCW sucks and buries Ric Flair. He was suspended for two weeks. With pay. WCW Everybody"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020086274829267183)  2026-02-07T10:44Z 47.5K followers, 80.6K engagements


"Lex Luger when he played for the Green Bay Packers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020519627109827026)  2026-02-08T15:26Z 47.5K followers, 33.9K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1973: Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto drawing 13000: NWA Worlds heavyweight champion Dory Funk Jr. defeated Johnny Valentine to retain the title"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021585011506352521)  2026-02-11T14:00Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"CWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Bull Power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021936461332066373)  2026-02-12T13:16Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"The lads: Kerry Von Erich Japan Ref Joe Haguchi and David Sammartino"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022324889785430285)  2026-02-13T15:00Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Animals performing wrestling moves named after themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019048304936448253)  2026-02-04T14:00Z 47.5K followers, 69.2K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1976: Budokan Hall Tokyo: Antonio Inoki defeated Willem Ruska by TKO in a Different Style Fight billed as a World Martial Arts Championship bout. This was peak Inoki strong style as proof era bringing in legitimate combat sports names to validate the gimmick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2019768538731254118)  2026-02-06T13:41Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Trying to no sell a Toni Storm inspired shoot Strong Zero Piledriver. Killing the street fighting business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020080783814533516)  2026-02-07T10:22Z 47.5K followers, 138.9K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1992: The wrestling world lost former WCW NWA & WWF star Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer aged just [--]. RIP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020087173731549639)  2026-02-07T10:48Z 47.5K followers, 11.5K engagements


"Bald Roddy Piper. In a memorable match in Los Angeles in [----] Roddy Piper faced off against Chavo Guerrero Sr. in a hair vs. hair match and as you can see lost the bout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2020492926321872994)  2026-02-08T13:40Z 47.5K followers, 25.1K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1984: Tokyo Baptist Association Shibuya Tokyo: Von Erichs casket is carried into the church by wrestlers and officials including Yoshihiro Momota Mighty Inoue Joe Higuchi Hiromichi Fuyuki Ryozo Yonezawa Tarzan Goto Motoshi Okuma and others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021939885486100725)  2026-02-12T13:30Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Oleg Taktarov after his loss to Dan Severn in the final of Ultimate Ultimate 1995"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021940297773838644)  2026-02-12T13:31Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Wendi Richter David Wolff Hulk Hogan Mr T Cyndi Lauper and Captain Lou Albano at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards. Lauper won Best New Artist and performed Time After Time. WWF came along for the ride getting mainstream attention for the Rock N Wrestling era"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021941354604245432)  2026-02-12T13:35Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1972: World Of Sport: Adrian Street & Jim Breaks went to a draw after one submission each over six rounds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021946517981180397)  2026-02-12T13:56Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Gordon Solie interviews Roddy Piper until they are interrupted by Ole Anderson. This was during Piper's face turn in August [----] in Georgia Championship Wrestling. This is absolutely fantastic. Ole and Piper were two of the best talkers of all time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2021947174272057774)  2026-02-12T13:59Z 47.5K followers, 18.1K engagements


"The more I've studied Antonio Inoki the more it's made me realise he was (behind Terry Funk) the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Completely different to Funk in so many ways Inoki was to borrow a phrase from Churchill a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022025786648354956)  2026-02-12T19:11Z 47.5K followers, 43.8K engagements


"Wrestling Observer Readers Awards drop tomorrow. I expect lots of dirty diapers from the usual suspects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022040589349663045)  2026-02-12T20:10Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1980: A New Japan delegation including Antonio Inoki visiting Palau"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022293988925960639)  2026-02-13T12:57Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1986: Imperial Hotel Chiyoda Tokyo: The Crush Gals Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka attend Victors Hit Award presentation ceremony and receive a certificate of appreciation at a formal press event"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022297926223982722)  2026-02-13T13:12Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"John Cena Springfield College Class of [----] He majored in Thuganomics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022301906589106607)  2026-02-13T13:28Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"The Junkyard Dog after being blinded by Michael Hayes in one of the hottest angles in [----]. JYD just had his daughter and couldn't see her. The payoff: On August 2nd [----] The Junkyard Dog beat Hayes in his return match in front of [-----] fans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022302285192142891)  2026-02-13T13:30Z 47.5K followers, 18.9K engagements


"I often think about Ric Flair's [----] haircut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022303083896717814)  2026-02-13T13:33Z 47.5K followers, 31K engagements


"*Determined* *Oh hello* *Determined* all in the space of a second"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022303541591679322)  2026-02-13T13:35Z 47.5K followers, 18.3K engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1983: WWF: Wicomico Youth & Civic Center Salisbury MD: WWF Champion Bob Backlund defeated Mr. Fuji (sub. for Superstar Billy Graham) in the main event"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022309481317622162)  2026-02-13T13:58Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1985: Acapulco Mexico: MS-1 defeated Ringo Mendoza for the NWA Worlds Light Heavyweight Championship which ended Mendoza's 2nd title reign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022309648976478406)  2026-02-13T13:59Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Scene from the film 'La Lutte' La Lutte is a [----] short film that documents the world of professional wrestling in Montreal Canada. The film shows the buildup to a major wrestling match the match itself and the audience's reaction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022311044530463031)  2026-02-13T14:05Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Pro Wrestling in Missouri in 1938"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022312429183520984)  2026-02-13T14:10Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Press release of Mid-South Coliseum Memphis for the month of January in 1978"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022313686434455848)  2026-02-13T14:15Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"October [--] [----] WMC TV-5 Studio Wrestling admission ticket Memphis Tennessee"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022314944910200868)  2026-02-13T14:20Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"New Japan Young Lion Dorms [----]. Masahiro Chono (top left) Keiji Mutoh (bottom left) and Masakatsu Funaki (right)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022316203012755504)  2026-02-13T14:25Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"#OnThisDay in 1969: Amarillo Sports Arena Amarillo Texas: The first Amarillo card after Dory Funk Jr. won the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title in Tampa two days earlier. The final show booked under Dory Funk Sr. with Harley Race taking over booking duties from the next event"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022316501093474480)  2026-02-13T14:26Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Results: Man Mountain Mike def. The Black Ace (4:42) Harley Race def. Ricky Romero (sub. for Dory Funk Jr.) in two out of three falls Terry Funk def. J.C. Dykes (6:45) (special referee: Man Mountain Mike) The Infernos (w J.C. Dykes) def. Buddy Colt & Gorgeous George Jr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022316504646086802)  2026-02-13T14:26Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Bull Nakano"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022317461714956651)  2026-02-13T14:30Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"He loved doing the Model gimmick however his heart wasn't totally into wrestling at this point as he was turning his interests into real-estate at the same time. Which is also why he never got pushed more or got better opportunities than he did. One of the best in ring performers of all time. Rick Martel could do it all ss babyface or a heel. He is a wrestler all young workers should study. One of the best in ring performers of all time. Rick Martel could do it all ss babyface or a heel. He is a wrestler all young workers should study"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022317833619701861)  2026-02-13T14:31Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"So many dirty diapers already"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022377599813480920)  2026-02-13T18:29Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"I explained why last year: https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o [----] WON Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: [--]. WWE BRINGING BACK BROCK LESNAR [---] [--]. TKO/WWE/UFC relationship with Saudi Arabia [---] [--]. TKO/WWE/UFC relationship with Donald Trump [---] [--]. Raja Jackson incident and promotion advertising him on a show [--] [--]. CM Punk apologizes to https://t.co/tvysQFYEKV https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o [----] WON"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022383232210378820)  2026-02-13T18:51Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"2025: WWE bringing back Brock Lesnar whilst named in the Janel Grant civil lawsuit. https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022392448245457098)  2026-02-13T19:28Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Inoki but it's close. Greatest Wrestler Ever Question: Antonio Inoki or Giant Baba This is a sort of tired question I know but there's been some Inoki chat & it reminded me that this used to be an easy choice (Baba) for me but its gotten razor thin & both have been creeping up my list. What say u https://t.co/nfOE0lgzbq Greatest Wrestler Ever Question: Antonio Inoki or Giant Baba This is a sort of tired question I know but there's been some Inoki chat & it reminded me that this used to be an easy choice (Baba) for me but its gotten razor thin & both have been creeping up my list. What say u"  
[X Link](https://x.com/allan_cheapshot/status/2022397798415773755)  2026-02-13T19:49Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

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Social Influence

Social category influence countries 24.73% travel destinations 13.74% celebrities 6.59% finance 4.4% ufc #2251 musicians 1.1% automotive brands 1.1% stocks 0.55% nfl 0.55%

Social topic influence japan #1166, tokyo #802, champion #930, hulk hogan #71, $2501t 4.4%, in the 4.4%, saito #55, baba #792, money 2.75%, joe #298

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @br26 @newtongimmick @johancreeper @leeherbertwords @dirkmantooth @tyler19006844 @the1andonlym @mattd_sc @rhoads_lauren @paulsosnowski @ghostofquinones @mattdsc @wa_stokins @bomishawg @scorpioblxck @_seanbosssapp @89wls @stephenmuses @jimflames @eye4msu

Top assets mentioned Dana Incorporated (DAN)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Bill Watts with Leroy McGurk who was blind"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:15Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Shinjuku Tokyo: Antonio Inoki appears with his wife Mitsuko Baisho at an event on the eve of New Japans Tokyo Dome weekend"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:44Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Dan Severn. He made his MMA debut in [----] and within about two years he had won the UFC [--] tournament and then became the Ultimate Fighting Championship Superfight Champion by beating Ken Shamrock. That run helped lock in his aura in wrestling"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:23Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2007: LLPW: Ryogoku Kokugikan Sumida Tokyo: 20th Anniversary Commemorative photo with Shinobu Kandori flanked by Eagle Sawai and Harley Saito after the anniversary supercard. Kandori won the Womens Pro Wrestling Strongest Singles Tournament final"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:26Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1981: Ox Baker appears on the TV game show The Price is Right as a contestant"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:47Z 47.5K followers, 36.4K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1993: UWFi: Budoken Hall: Kazushi Sakuraba makes his pro wrestling debut"
X Link 2025-08-13T13:45Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1988: WWF Royal Rumble: Dino Bravo (with help from Jesse Ventura) "broke the world bench press record of [---] pounds.""
X Link 2026-01-24T17:13Z 47.3K followers, 11.8K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1999: Bret Hart uttered the legendary quote: "El Dandy. He's a jam up guy WHO ARE YOU TO DOUBT EL DANDY""
X Link 2026-01-25T11:17Z 47.3K followers, 147.1K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1985: New Japan: Tokuyama City Gymnasium Yamaguchi: Antonio Inoki defeated Abdullah The Butcher"
X Link 2026-01-25T11:54Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: Narita Airport: Hulk Hogan arrives in Japan with his newly won WWF Title"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:32Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1973: Mr. Wrestling (Tim Woods) & Mr. Wrestling II (Johnny Walker) team together for the first time defeating Sputnik & Rocket Monroe"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:57Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1985: All Japan Women: Chiyoda-cho Gymnasium Hiroshima: Kiyo Tateno Goki Yamazaki Lioness Asuka Devil Masami and others relaxing during pre-match practice"
X Link 2026-01-27T13:36Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2001: All Japan: King's Road New Century 2001: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: The masked lads Mil Mscaras and The Destroter. El Hijo del Santo & Mil Mscaras defeated Arkangel de la Muerte & Blue Panther"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:28Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2001: All Japan: King's Road New Century 2001: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: The Destroyer and Genichiro Tenryu share a moment together"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:29Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1985: The song We Are the World is recorded by an ensemble group title USA for Africa to earn money for African famine relief"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:47Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"The group is made up of a huge number of pop and rock superstars including Lionel Ritchie Stevie Wonder Paul Simon Kenny Rogers James Ingram Tina Turner Billy Joel Michael Jackson Diana Ross Dionne Warwick Willie Nelson Bruce Springsteen Kenny Loggins Steve Perry"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:47Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"A big what if. Vince would have promised Brody his win back if he did the job here which would have never materialised and Brody would have walked. Vince and Brody did talk about Brody coming in the fall of [----]. The discussion centred around when and money"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:25Z 47.3K followers, 35.2K engagements

"That time Vince McMahon thought it was a good idea to get a crippled Andr the Giant to do a run in at at the end of the Royal Albert Hall Battle Royal in [----] to save winner British Bulldog from an attack by the Natural Disasters"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:53Z 47.3K followers, 28.1K engagements

"Bully Ray gingerly lays down on the table"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:45Z 47.3K followers, 81.5K engagements

"There was a Tekken [--] arcade machine at a ROH show and AJ Styles would not leave the building until he had beaten Samoa Joe. With his wife waiting on him for hours. "So AJ Styles although you are a good person you suck at videogames and I will always be better than you.""
X Link 2026-01-31T21:07Z 47.3K followers, 19.3K engagements

"@br26 Longer than Rusev's appearances on TV recently"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:02Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1993: WWF RAW: Brutus Beefcake makes his return to the ring for first time in two years due to a parasailing accident. Beefcake who is pouring his heart out telling the story of how is mom and dad died and how his wife left him then. Fan: "kill yourself""
X Link 2026-02-01T13:20Z 47.3K followers, 36.6K engagements

"My word Jaguar Yokota"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:31Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Terry Funk visits his father Dory Funk Sr's. grave and then promotes the ECW Barely Legal PPV. "Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.""
X Link 2026-02-02T13:16Z 47.4K followers, 22.4K engagements

"The young lads"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:17Z 47.3K followers, 21.8K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1993: Punxsutawney Pennsylvania: Phil Connors (Bill Murray) gives newlyweds Fred (Michael Shannon) and his bride Debbie (Hynden Walch) tickets to WrestleMania IX as a wedding gift"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:26Z 47.3K followers, 11.3K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1992: New Japan: Misato City Gymnasium Saitama: Keiji Muto imitating Hulk Hogan's pose"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:45Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Gordon Solie used to believe that the NFL regular season was worked. You've been living in a fantasy world for so long that you believe everything is worked and you're so frightened of getting caught that you dismiss all proof"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:14Z 47.3K followers, 17.5K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Kengo Kimura Satoru Sayama and Antonio Inoki head to the building ahead of the show"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:32Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Tatsumi Fujinami leaves in the snow after his planned WWF International Heavyweight Title defence against Riki Choshu is scrapped fallout from the Snowy Sapporo Terrorist Incident attack angle"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:32Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1983: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center Hokkaido: Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) pictured after successfully defending his NWA Worlds Junior Heavyweight Title for the third time by defeating Gran Hamada"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:39Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@br26 A much much much simpler time"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:29Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Bruiser Brody causing chaos in Puerto Rico"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:02Z 47.4K followers, 91K engagements

"Fantastic photograph of Jack Brisco after he defeated Harley Race on July [--] [----] for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title in Houston TX. Photo was taken by Houston promoter Paul Boesch. Also pictured is ring announcer Boyd Pierce and NWA president Sam Muchnick"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:12Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Dory Funk Jr was supposed to lose the title to Jack in Houston but Dory Sr didn't want his son to lose it to Brisco in Texas as he felt it would hurt his credibility. This was in part due to a few years earlier The Briscos had been working Amarillo and mainly used as job guys"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:12Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1986: Stan Hansen"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:44Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements

"On the set of The Princess Bride Andr the Giant once "let out a 16-second fart and brought production to a standstill." Nobody said anything except director Rob Reiner who said "Are you OK Andr" to which Andr replied "I am now boss.""
X Link 2026-02-05T13:20Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: All Japan dojo Kinuta Tokyo: Genichiro Tenryu and Tiger Mask (Mitsuharu Misawa) were photographed together ahead of their New Japan/All Japan/WWF Tokyo Dome appearance on Feb 10"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:24Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1980: New Japan: Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium Nagoya: Best Two Out Of Three Falls: Antonio Inoki & Strong Kobayashi defeated Rocky Johnson & Stan Hansen two falls to one"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1982: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) successfully defended his WWF Junior Heavyweight title for the second time against Bret Hart"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:38Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1986: AWA: Las Vegas Showboat Nevada: AWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Stan Hansen defeated David Sammartino and is then interviewed by Larry Nelson"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:40Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1991: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center Hokkaido: Shinya Hashimoto drops a Different Style Fight to Tony Halme (later Ludvig Borga). It was Hashimotos second straight loss to Halme in the worked shoot format with Liger Mutoh and Chono looking on"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:43Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1971: JWA: Korakuen Hall Tokyo: Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki defeated Bill Dromo and Ricky Hunter"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:49Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Early 1960s San Diego. Regis Philbin on his Saturday late-night show with Dick Beyer (The Destroyer). Regis loved having the wrestlers on and Beyer and Freddie Blassie were favourites. Local TV made wrestling feel like part of the city"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:55Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1982: In one of only two times in history the St. Louis Kiel Auditorium show is cancelled due to a snow storm that had been raging for days"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:57Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The allegation was simple and brutal: a loaded knee pad. Wrestling has always sold rough stuff but commissions and courts still drew lines around concealed foreign objects because it crossed from performance into outright assault"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:02Z 47.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Washburn had been arrested after his bout with Paul Boesch and released on $50 bail. Then he failed to appear in court. That is where the story stops being about a gimmick and becomes a legal problem"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:02Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@paul_sosnowski I'm not 100% sure of the finish but I thought the same hence why I posted it"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:10Z 47.4K followers, [--] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1988: Ted DiBiase wore the WWF Title belt and was recognised as its champion. DiBiase would be WWF Champion for about a week but his title reign would soon be stricken from the record by Jack Tunney"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:05Z 47.4K followers, 13.7K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Clash of the Champions X: Texas Shootout from the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi Texas"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:11Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2009: WWE signs [----] Diva Search contestant Taryn Terrell. Terrell would last two+ years before a domestic incident with her then-husband Drew McInytre got her indefinitely suspended then released"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:14Z 47.4K followers, 27.1K engagements

"Manami Toyota with a unique Suplex"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:18Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1985: New Japan: Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Osaka: Antonio Inoki tries to cinch a reverse-crucifix style armbar on King Kong Bundy in their heavily promoted $15 million match"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"New Japan leaned hard into big money billing for major foreign attractions in this era. Bundy was positioned as a looming unstoppable American monster"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1981: New Japan: Nakajima Sports Center Sapporo Hokkaido: UWA Worlds Heavyweight Title: Champion Tiger Jeet Singh defeated Antonio Inoki by disqualification"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:39Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1985: Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Osaka: Young Lion Cup class photo featuring a generation about to define the next decade. Shinya Hashimoto Keiichi Yamada (Jushin Liger) Hirokazu Hata Akira Nogami. Naoki Sano Masahiro Chono Tatsutoshi Goto Keiji Muto"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:44Z 47.4K followers, 11.8K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1981: New Japan: Korakuen Hall Tokyo: Antonio Inoki jump-rope warms up at ringside before his match with the crowd watching him like it is part of the show. Inoki always understood presentation. A small ritual that tells the audience this is sport"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:45Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"What a crew: Jim Cornette Stan Lane Tom Prichard Bobby Eaton Brian Pillman and Steve Austin"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:49Z 47.4K followers, 27.3K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1933: Barrie Ontario: Joe "Toots" Mondt was found not guilty of manslaughter on appeal stemming from a fatal [----] car accident"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:54Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1935: Michigan House of Representatives Lansing Michigan: State Rep. Stanley J. Romanski introduced a bill to abolish commercial professional wrestling calling it a public nuisance and arguing that promoters were misleading the public with pre-arranged outcomes"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:56Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"https://x.com/i/status/1639553807578447872 WWE 2005-2006 Roster contracts got leaked. https://t.co/jsoORqeEkp https://x.com/i/status/1639553807578447872 WWE 2005-2006 Roster contracts got leaked. https://t.co/jsoORqeEkp"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"I wanted to go here more than anywhere else in the world when I was a kid"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:14Z 47.4K followers, 16.4K engagements

"When people say the Monday night ratings war got personal this is an example of a receipt. WWF did not just mock WCW on TV. They tried to drag it into the finance pages. 🧵"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:32Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The on screen piece was the Billionaire Ted skits with Ted framed as a reckless billionaire burning shareholder money on wrestling right as the Turner and Time Warner merger was looming"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:32Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"WWF then attempted to buy ad space in the The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal with a blunt message aimed at Ted Turner and Attention Stockholders language"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:32Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1950: NWA Worlds Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk was involved in a car accident in Little Rock Arkansas that ended his in ring career"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:41Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2000: WWF RAW: The Radicalz X Pac & HHH defeated Cactus Jack The Rock Too Cool & Rikishi. RAW triples Nitro in the ratings that night [---] to [---]. It's one of the largest margins of victory by either side in the Monday Night War"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:52Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"1991 WCW explained"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:10Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@ghostofquinones Brett Sawyer liked him but I don't think that counts"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:29Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@NewtonGimmick You've no clue whatsoever. Using IWC as a term is a huge giveaway. Chris Hero is so important to where we are now if you're not understanding that you've got an agenda or are dumb"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:13Z 47.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@MattD_SC Brilliant I bet Chris loved taking a powder for this"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:11Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1973: New Japan: Itabashi Ward Gymnasium Tokyo: Antonio Inoki and Osamu Kido defeated Geoff Portz and Tony Charles with the photo catching Portz wrenching on a cobra twist while Inoki and Kido try to break it up"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:32Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1980: New Japan: Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium Osaka: Seiji Sakaguchi and Riki Choshu successfully defended the NWA North American Tag Team Title against Bad News Allen and Masa Saito winning the match [--] falls to 1"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:43Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Born in Birmingham AL Sherri was first introduced to wrestling when her mother took her and her sister to wrestling events in Mississippi. When she was [--] she sought advice on how to become a wrestler by Grizzly Smith but was told to come back in five years when she's older"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"During her second marriage her interest in wrestling picked up again and began training with Butch Moore in Memphis then with The Fabulous Moolah in South Carolina. It was there where Sherri picked up her ring name Sherri Martel (she originally wrestled as Sherri Martine)"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Martel returned to Memphis and was managed by Jim Cornette but her wrestling career was put on hold when she was injured in a battle royal"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"From there she went to the AWA WWF ECW WCW and carved a fantastic career for herself. She wouldn't take any shit as was as tough as anyone. Sherri was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Ted DiBiase in April [----]. RIP"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:58Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"WWF at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Canada"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:40Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Kurt Angle wrestled Owen Hart on May [--] [----] in a dark match. Following the match Owen told people backstage that Kurt would be a future worlds champion"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:12Z 47.4K followers, 13.1K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1974: New Japan: Toyo University Ushiku High School Gymnasium Ushiku Ibaraki: Antonio Inoki powers into a bridge while carrying Benny McGuire on top of him a classic strength spot"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:45Z 47.4K followers, 10.3K engagements

"Rocky Maivia grabbing silly string out of Cindy Margolis' hair after being sprayed by Doink The Clown at the [----] Slammy Awards"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:24Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Tiger Mask vs. Bret Hart"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:48Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Tokyo: Kji Kitao and Lou Thesz attend a New Japan reception ahead of the Tokyo Dome Super Fight the following day"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:21Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Shinjuku Tokyo: Antonio Inoki reunited with Stan Hansen on the eve of New Japans February [--] Tokyo Dome show renewing an old rivalry turned friendship"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:22Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1998: WCW Nitro: A net drops from the ceiling on to Sting/Savage/Luger. I particular enjoyed Sting's selling of the net. Ted Turner owned Looney Tunes cartoons after all"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:04Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"SHOOTING BROTHERS"
X Link 2025-12-28T15:34Z 47.4K followers, 12.3K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1995: Hollywood CA: Osamu Nishimura Sabu Dan Severn and Al Snow pose together"
X Link 2026-01-15T14:11Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1994: All American Pro Wrestling: Dan Severn defeated Shinobi (Al Snow)"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:09Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Kurt Angle Eddie Guerrero Heidenreich and Mick Foley sleeping on the plane on their way to Tikrit Iraq for the [----] Tribute To The Troops show"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:13Z 47.4K followers, 103.3K engagements

"In honour of this outstanding athlete Russia holds an annual international Greco-Roman wrestling tournament the Poddubny Wrestling League. In Yeisk where Poddubny lived the last years of his life there is a monument with the inscription "Ivan Poddubny -Russian Bogatyr""
X Link 2026-02-01T18:53Z 47.4K followers, 15.6K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center: Hulk Hogan wearing his newly won WWF Title ahead of a tag match where Akira Maeda & Antonio Inoki defeated Hulk Hogan & Iron Mike Sharpe"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:34Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Hulk Hogan allegedly bought steroids off of Buzz in Florida in [----] and never paid him back. Buzz never forgot and when he came to WWF in [----] he got the word out that he was gonna get his money or get his pound of flesh. Hogan got scared and immediately got Buzz on the shitlist"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:48Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: Kuramae Kokugikan Tokyo: Great shot of a double Clothesline spot between Hulk Hogan and Riki Choshu"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:27Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Hekinan Rinkai Gymnasium Hekinan Aichi: Hulk Hogan poses on the New Japan tour wearing the WWF Heavyweight title belt"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:58Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The success of the women's matches in EliteXC and Strikeforce starting with this match leads to UFC signing female fighters. Which of course leads to the signing of Ronda Rousey UFC/MMA's biggest star ever"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:39Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic "award" thread 1981: Monster character (Tony Hernandez) - LeBelle Promotions The promotion was on it's last legs and in one last ditch attempt promoter LeBelle proceeded to push "a real monster" made in a lab"
X Link 2018-11-06T22:25Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Rick Rude was one scary dude"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:11Z 47.5K followers, 129.9K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo: Bam Bam Bigelow introduces his wife Dana Fisher to Antonio Inoki on the eve of New Japans Tokyo Dome show"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:33Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Keio Plaza Hotel Shinjuku Tokyo: Masahiro Chono Shinya Hashimoto Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi posed together and vowed to deliver on the eve of New Japans February [--] Tokyo Dome event"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:35Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1969: Dory Funk Jr. defeated Gene Kinski to win the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title. Dory would hold the NWA Worlds Title for over four years before being defeated by Harley Race in 1973"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:07Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Ron Simmons aged [--]. Simmons was a 2x All-American at Florida State and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in [----]. Bobby Bowden said that Ron Simmons along with Deion Sanders and Charlie Ward were the most important players he had ever recruited"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:20Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

""Beautiful" Bobby Remus before he morphed in to Sgt. Slaughter"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:10Z 47.5K followers, 64K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1978: Chase Hotel St Louis MI: Ted DiBiase defeated Dick Slater in St. Louis forthe NWA Missouri title during the Wrestling at the Chase TV Tapings"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:52Z 47.5K followers, 10.2K engagements

"#HappyBirthday to 2-time AJPW All Asia Tag Champion former Orient Express member & manager of Hakushi Akio Sato who turns [--] today"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:02Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1994: New Japan: Yamato Auto Body Industrial Gymnasium Yamato Kanagawa Prefecture: Heavy snowfall delayed the ring transport trucks so Shiro Koshinaka Kengo Kimura Michiyoshi Ohara Akitoshi Saito and Tatsutoshi Goto killed time outside by lobbing snowballs"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:17Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Bryan Danielson after winning the [----] APW King of the Indies tournament being held aloft by Doug Williams and Samoa Joe"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:23Z 47.5K followers, 77K engagements

"Toots Mondt Dave Levin Jack Curley - New York promoter & Ray Nahani - Philadelphia promoter pictured in the mid 1930's. Curley was the first great North American promoter in Pro wrestling"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:25Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Big fan of this version of the Atomic Drop"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:34Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in WWF: 1988: WTTG TV [--] Washington DC: Fox aired a classic LJN WWF toy commercial featuring Randy Savage Miss Elizabeth Kamala SD Jones and The Killer Bees. A pure 1980s time capsule of how WWF sold its characters to kids between the cartoons and Saturday TV"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:57Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"REAL WORLD TAG TEAM"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:00Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2011: Preston City Wrestling ran it's debut show "A New Beginning" from Lava Ignite In the main event Team SHAG (Colt Cabana & Greg Burridge) defeated Martin Kirby & Nathan Cruz. Other matches included Joey Hayes defeating CJ Banks & T-Bone defeating Dave Mastiff"
X Link 2025-08-26T12:39Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The lads. Bret Hart Fumi Saito and Sean Waltman"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:18Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

""If it wasnt for the newsletters Vince McMahon would have never done steroid testing. He would never have addressed the issue. Hulk Hogan would have never had to go on TV and lie." - Dave Meltzer - August 1991"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:30Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: New Japan: Hachinohe City Gymnasium Hachinohe Aomori: WWF champion Hulk Hogan teamed with Bret Hart losing to Tatsumi Fujinami and Akira Maeda when Fujinami pinned Hart. He posed with the WWF Title for the press ahead of the match"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:35Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The time that Afa Anoai and Lou Albano appeared on the Miami Vice episode "Hooker By Crook" which aired on March 20th [----] as "Henchman #1" and "Henchman #2""
X Link 2026-02-08T14:26Z 47.4K followers, 13.6K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2007: Gina Carano vs. Julie Kedzie in the first Women's MMA fight in history to air on live television. The single most important fight in MMA history"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:39Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1977: Kiel Auditorium St. Louis: Giant Baba teams with his emerging protg Genichiro Tenryu in the US working a tag against Pat O'Connor and Dory Funk Jr. OConnor and Funk defeated Baba and Tenryu [--] falls to 1"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:42Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The Malenko Brothers"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:25Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Terry Funk being Terry Funk. He's still got hold of that tag rope whilst trying to reach his brother Dory Jr to make the tag"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:00Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1987: New Japan Young Lions group photo in the dojo. Back row: Masahiro Chono Shinya Hashimoto Akira Nogami & Masakatsu Funak Front row: Hisakatsu Ohya Akira Katayama & Osamu Matsuda (later El Samurai)"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:07Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2001: All Japan: King's Road New Century 2001: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: Stan Hansen Retirement Ceremony: Stan shakes hands with Mrs. Motoko Baba"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:30Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1960: Rikidzan defeated Jim Wright. Jim Wright was an American heavyweight best known on cards as Big Jim Wright and he also wrestled under a long list of aliases including Kolo Stasiak Bull Wright Cowboy Jim Wright Silver Streak and The Masked Marvel"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:00Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Never forget"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:10Z 47.4K followers, 60.6K engagements

"Terry Funk holding a shot gun wearing a Willie Nelson t-shirt"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:53Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1982: Sapporo Station Sapporo Hokkaido: Antonio Inoki is photographed in transit on the New Japan tour departing Sapporo for Hakodate aboard the Hokuto limited express"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:37Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Interestingly a young wannabe wrestler named Mark Calaway approached Sawyer asking Sawyer to train him to become a professional wrestler. After Calaway had paid Saywer he taught the young man how to start a match then skipped town the next day like a true carny"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:48Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2003: Chris Hero defeated CM Punk 2-1 in best of three falls to win the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Title. The match had a 90-minute time limit and it still wasn't enough to decide it. Total match time: [--] hour [--] minutes [--] seconds"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:56Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1955: Michiharu Toyonobori photgraphed. Toyonobori came straight out of sumo into the Japanese Wrestling Association debuted in [----] and was trained by Rikidzan. Beat The Destroyer for the WWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship in 1964"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:37Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Iron Sheik and Muhammad Ali"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:12Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1998: WCW Nitro: Randy Savage takes a great guardrail bump vs. Hulk Hogan"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:04Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Today would have been the 55th birthday of Louis Mucciolo Jr. but wrestling fans knew him best as Louie Spicolli. RIP"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:06Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: New Japan: Tokyo Dome Tokyo: Masa Saito defeated Larry Zbyszko to win the American Wrestling Association Worlds Heavyweight Title at New Japans Super Fight in Tokyo Dome. A rare worlds title change on Japanese soil"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:17Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1989: Tokyo Japan: Signing Ceremony of Wrestling Agreement with the Soviet Union: Antonio Inoki Masa Saito Hiroshi Hase Riki Choshu Big Van Vader Berkovich Khashimikov Zangief Zangief and Seiji Sakaguchi at TV Asahi"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:29Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Hulk Hogan pictured listening in on a conversation between Jesse Ventura and the boys who are discussing unionising"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:15Z 47.5K followers, 18.4K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: Tokyo Baptist Association Shibuya Tokyo: A farewell ceremony for David Von Erich who died suddenly while touring Japan. The service was attended by Giant Baba and the full touring roster Japanese and gaijin"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:30Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2016: Genichiro Tenryu's retirement party with guests including Animal Hamaguchi Seiji Sakaguchi Yoshihiro Takayama and Great Kojika"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:57Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1968: Mpire Gym Shibuya Tokyo: Giant Baba works a bridge during a joint open practice with Antonio Inoki assisting as the room looks on including Kazuo Honma Mikiyuki Kitazawa and Michiaki Yoshimura"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:06Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1986: All Japan: Kaohsiung Taiwan: All Japan holds an arrival press conference for its Taiwan tour with Giant Baba Mitsuharu Misawa as Tiger Mask II Jumbo Tsuruta Genichiro Tenryu Genji Okuma and Mighty Inoue"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:15Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"A young Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoa'i"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:23Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Adam Ant fans. Caption this gif. https://t.co/xPt9QL7ajV Caption this gif. https://t.co/xPt9QL7ajV"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:09Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles"
X Link 2025-03-05T15:32Z 47.5K followers, 1.1M engagements

"Hector Garza tries a Shooting Star Press"
X Link 2026-01-22T14:15Z 47.5K followers, 480.3K engagements

"Scott Hall and Curt Hennig at John's of Bleecker Street simply known as John's Pizzeria a historic pizzeria on Bleecker Street in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Manhattan in New York City"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:03Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1990: Clash X: Mil Mascaras defeated Cactus Jack. "CACTUS JACK IS DEAD" call from Jim Cornette"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:09Z 47.5K followers, 98.3K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 2000: WCW Nitro: Scott Steiner says in no uncertain terms WCW sucks and buries Ric Flair. He was suspended for two weeks. With pay. WCW Everybody"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:44Z 47.5K followers, 80.6K engagements

"Lex Luger when he played for the Green Bay Packers"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:26Z 47.5K followers, 33.9K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1973: Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto drawing 13000: NWA Worlds heavyweight champion Dory Funk Jr. defeated Johnny Valentine to retain the title"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:00Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"CWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Bull Power"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:16Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"The lads: Kerry Von Erich Japan Ref Joe Haguchi and David Sammartino"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:00Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Animals performing wrestling moves named after themselves"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:00Z 47.5K followers, 69.2K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1976: Budokan Hall Tokyo: Antonio Inoki defeated Willem Ruska by TKO in a Different Style Fight billed as a World Martial Arts Championship bout. This was peak Inoki strong style as proof era bringing in legitimate combat sports names to validate the gimmick"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:41Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Trying to no sell a Toni Storm inspired shoot Strong Zero Piledriver. Killing the street fighting business"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:22Z 47.5K followers, 138.9K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1992: The wrestling world lost former WCW NWA & WWF star Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer aged just [--]. RIP"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:48Z 47.5K followers, 11.5K engagements

"Bald Roddy Piper. In a memorable match in Los Angeles in [----] Roddy Piper faced off against Chavo Guerrero Sr. in a hair vs. hair match and as you can see lost the bout"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:40Z 47.5K followers, 25.1K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1984: Tokyo Baptist Association Shibuya Tokyo: Von Erichs casket is carried into the church by wrestlers and officials including Yoshihiro Momota Mighty Inoue Joe Higuchi Hiromichi Fuyuki Ryozo Yonezawa Tarzan Goto Motoshi Okuma and others"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:30Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Oleg Taktarov after his loss to Dan Severn in the final of Ultimate Ultimate 1995"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:31Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Wendi Richter David Wolff Hulk Hogan Mr T Cyndi Lauper and Captain Lou Albano at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards. Lauper won Best New Artist and performed Time After Time. WWF came along for the ride getting mainstream attention for the Rock N Wrestling era"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:35Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1972: World Of Sport: Adrian Street & Jim Breaks went to a draw after one submission each over six rounds"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:56Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Gordon Solie interviews Roddy Piper until they are interrupted by Ole Anderson. This was during Piper's face turn in August [----] in Georgia Championship Wrestling. This is absolutely fantastic. Ole and Piper were two of the best talkers of all time"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:59Z 47.5K followers, 18.1K engagements

"The more I've studied Antonio Inoki the more it's made me realise he was (behind Terry Funk) the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Completely different to Funk in so many ways Inoki was to borrow a phrase from Churchill a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:11Z 47.5K followers, 43.8K engagements

"Wrestling Observer Readers Awards drop tomorrow. I expect lots of dirty diapers from the usual suspects"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:10Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1980: A New Japan delegation including Antonio Inoki visiting Palau"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:57Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1986: Imperial Hotel Chiyoda Tokyo: The Crush Gals Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka attend Victors Hit Award presentation ceremony and receive a certificate of appreciation at a formal press event"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:12Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"John Cena Springfield College Class of [----] He majored in Thuganomics"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:28Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"The Junkyard Dog after being blinded by Michael Hayes in one of the hottest angles in [----]. JYD just had his daughter and couldn't see her. The payoff: On August 2nd [----] The Junkyard Dog beat Hayes in his return match in front of [-----] fans"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:30Z 47.5K followers, 18.9K engagements

"I often think about Ric Flair's [----] haircut"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:33Z 47.5K followers, 31K engagements

"Determined Oh hello Determined all in the space of a second"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:35Z 47.5K followers, 18.3K engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1983: WWF: Wicomico Youth & Civic Center Salisbury MD: WWF Champion Bob Backlund defeated Mr. Fuji (sub. for Superstar Billy Graham) in the main event"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:58Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1985: Acapulco Mexico: MS-1 defeated Ringo Mendoza for the NWA Worlds Light Heavyweight Championship which ended Mendoza's 2nd title reign"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:59Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Scene from the film 'La Lutte' La Lutte is a [----] short film that documents the world of professional wrestling in Montreal Canada. The film shows the buildup to a major wrestling match the match itself and the audience's reaction"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:05Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Pro Wrestling in Missouri in 1938"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:10Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Press release of Mid-South Coliseum Memphis for the month of January in 1978"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:15Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"October [--] [----] WMC TV-5 Studio Wrestling admission ticket Memphis Tennessee"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:20Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"New Japan Young Lion Dorms [----]. Masahiro Chono (top left) Keiji Mutoh (bottom left) and Masakatsu Funaki (right)"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:25Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#OnThisDay in 1969: Amarillo Sports Arena Amarillo Texas: The first Amarillo card after Dory Funk Jr. won the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title in Tampa two days earlier. The final show booked under Dory Funk Sr. with Harley Race taking over booking duties from the next event"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:26Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Results: Man Mountain Mike def. The Black Ace (4:42) Harley Race def. Ricky Romero (sub. for Dory Funk Jr.) in two out of three falls Terry Funk def. J.C. Dykes (6:45) (special referee: Man Mountain Mike) The Infernos (w J.C. Dykes) def. Buddy Colt & Gorgeous George Jr"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:26Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Bull Nakano"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:30Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"He loved doing the Model gimmick however his heart wasn't totally into wrestling at this point as he was turning his interests into real-estate at the same time. Which is also why he never got pushed more or got better opportunities than he did. One of the best in ring performers of all time. Rick Martel could do it all ss babyface or a heel. He is a wrestler all young workers should study. One of the best in ring performers of all time. Rick Martel could do it all ss babyface or a heel. He is a wrestler all young workers should study"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:31Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"So many dirty diapers already"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:29Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"I explained why last year: https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o [----] WON Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic: [--]. WWE BRINGING BACK BROCK LESNAR [---] [--]. TKO/WWE/UFC relationship with Saudi Arabia [---] [--]. TKO/WWE/UFC relationship with Donald Trump [---] [--]. Raja Jackson incident and promotion advertising him on a show [--] [--]. CM Punk apologizes to https://t.co/tvysQFYEKV https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o [----] WON"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:51Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"2025: WWE bringing back Brock Lesnar whilst named in the Janel Grant civil lawsuit. https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o https://open.substack.com/pub/allancheapshot/p/spectacle-over-accountability-wrestlingsutm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1ng9o"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:28Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Inoki but it's close. Greatest Wrestler Ever Question: Antonio Inoki or Giant Baba This is a sort of tired question I know but there's been some Inoki chat & it reminded me that this used to be an easy choice (Baba) for me but its gotten razor thin & both have been creeping up my list. What say u https://t.co/nfOE0lgzbq Greatest Wrestler Ever Question: Antonio Inoki or Giant Baba This is a sort of tired question I know but there's been some Inoki chat & it reminded me that this used to be an easy choice (Baba) for me but its gotten razor thin & both have been creeping up my list. What say u"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:49Z 47.5K followers, [----] engagements

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