The fathers of Puroresu
Rikidozan, Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki
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April 5, 1969 -
Giant Baba nails Gorilla Monsoon with a massive chop, sending him to the floor at JWA’s 11th World Leauge, night two.
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Zen-Nihon Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua - Saturn, Arcade
By Sega AM2 and Scarab, Scarab being the makers of fighting games of a certain jank: digitized sprite games Survival Arts (Arcade) and Battle Monsters (Arcade, Saturn), and 3D game Killing Zone (PS1).
The featured “Virtua” here are VF characters Wolf Hawkfield and Jeffry McWild, whom you can pit against a cast of real-world pro wrestlers from Japan.
Also, those floaty photo crowd backgrounds are rad.
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Giant (gouache on canvas, 2022)
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JWA Winter Series (12/03/1966) // Tokyo, Japan
Giant Baba vs. Fritz Von Erich, Two Out of Three Falls.
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Wrestling With Sin: 464
Wrestling With Sin: 464
Brian Damage
This is the 464th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series, I do not condone or condemn the alleged participants. We simply retell their stories by researching…
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