Gordon Solie. The man who coined the term ‘crimson mask’ and pronounced ‘suplex’ as ‘suplay’

Everything was not just going to plan for Vince, it was shattering what he originally had planned and snowballing into some kind of make-it-up-as-you-go-along super-plan.

In a tag match against Nagasaki and Blondie Barrett, Brookside would be – and I’m not making this up – hypnotised by Nagasaki mid-match and then go after his own partner.

everybody has been bothered by somebody bigger than them in their lifetime.

he attacked Jimmy Snuka with a coconut

the now one-eared Yukon Eric.

Every kid would soon know his three rules: train hard, say your prayers, eat your vitamins (how you choose to interpret ‘vitamins’ is up to you).

In 1947, a bunch of tweed-wearing wrestling luminaries drew up a set of rules to govern wrestling. Named after the chair of the panel, they were dubbed the Admiral-Lord Mountevans rules, defining what holds were legal and how falls within matches could be won: by pinfall, submission, knockout, TKO or disqualification.

in 1985, the opening theme was an instrumental version of Easy Lover by Phil Collins, proof that this was as 1980s as 1980s could be.