I remember catching this for the first time on a bar TV with the sound off on karaoke night and being goddam amazed. I always describe it as “full contact golf” (which is not entirely accurate - maybe “Aussie Rules with whacking sticks”). Read more

And I thought being a goalie in ice hockey looked tough...these goalies must have no fear of death. Read more

I went to Dublin in June 2016 to meet some friends. It was the weekend of the Champion’s League final on Saturday night and a soccer friendly between England and Ireland on Sunday. This was the first time that England had played in Ireland since 1996? because a couple of people had died in the fighting last time. I… Read more

Saw a match at Croke and absolutely loved it, got to play for a day at a club in Dublin (cannot remember which one) and it’s tough. I played lacrosse growing up as did a girl in my program, and we were the only ones who could have a game of catch. The guys in the club who were just casually launching it 70 yards back… Read more

“This, lads, is a hurley, used in the Irish game of hurling, a cross between hockey and murder”.  Read more

The most important thing about the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations is that Collins was a Hurling man and De Valera liked Rugby. Read more

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This is a long article about how awesome Terry Funk is, which is great. Read more

The best part of this is that I can read all of those quotes from Terry Funk, and in my mind, I can hear his voice saying them. Read more

Nothing on this site has made me feel older than reading a “this is who Leon Spinks is” explainer. Fuck. Read more

One of my favourite Funk memories is him taking a chokeslam from the ‘Taker to buy a knocked-doolally Foley some time in that Hell in a Cell. Read more

People who say “durrr wrestling is fake” are idiots. The outcomes may be predetermined, and some of the moves are meant to look more damaging, but those guys get the shit kicked out of them night after night. Read more

This reminds me about Mick Foley’s perspective on Funk’s fighting style. People would always ask him why Funk’s punches looked so real, and Foley said it’s because Funk’s punches were real. Every time “punched” someone, he actually punched them. After all this time, the guy must have knuckles of solid granite, and a… Read more

Always fun to hear Terry Funk’s voice in your head when you’re reading his quotes.

Funk is coolest person in the history of the world. Read more

Mick Foley - Terry Funk in the finals of the King Of The Death Match tournament in 1995. Top shelf hardcore. Read more

Funk is truly a tough sumbitch. It’s amazing that 20-ish years after “Beyond the Mat”, both he and Jake Roberts are still alive and kicking. Read more

I remember my mom crying in the kitchen that day. My 15 year old self wasn’t very sympathetic, and I probably took my Yes belt-buckle clad ass up to my bedroom and cranked up Going For The One to make her day even worse. Read more

JBX: It made me happy, too, to hear everything that happened to Randy after Riverfront Stadium. He told me a life’s worth of cool tales (the celebrity college coaches, his own chapter in a book, getting to try out for his beloved Reds years later and performing so well, etc.) that can only be told because of that… Read more