Author: Adam Van Winkle
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Harley Race: Wrestling’s Toughest Champion
Harley Race passed away on August 1, 2019, at the age of 76 after a battle with lung cancer. Though only 76, his career and influence stretched across seven decades, making him feel like a permanent fixture of wrestling’s history. Tough, respected, and unrelenting, Race was the embodiment of professional wrestling’s grit. His journey from…
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From Stunning to Stone Cold: Steve Austin’s ECW Transformation
YBefore he became Stone Cold, Steve Austin was “Stunning” Steve — a talented but underused WCW mid-card heel, often paired with managers like Paul Heyman or Col. Rob Parker to do most of the talking. In 1995, while sidelined with injury, Eric Bischoff fired him. A short, three-month stop in ECW followed — but it…