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Richmond Reflections

by David Chappell

• Goodbye to "Mr. Mid-Atlantic" Johnny Weaver MOST RECENT ENTRY

• Reunited, And It Feels So Good

• Happy New Year from an Empty Richmond Coliseum 

• Wahoo McDaniel: One of The Family Passes Away

• Remembering Big Swede Hanson

• Johnny Valentine - The Champ

• Super Destroyer: A Cut Above the Rest

• A Hot August Night  

• Prom Night, April 30, 1976

• Learning Your Way Around the Richmond Circuit

Also see:

• Richmond's Top 15

Featured Articles by Gateway Contributors

• A Night at the WRAL Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Television Tapings by Bruce Mitchell

• Big Bill's Playhouse: Remembering Bill Ward and WBTV by Mike Cline

• Wrestling 101: Discovering Wrestling on Television in the 1960s by Wayne Brower

• Johnny Weaver's Title Chase by Mike Cline

• A Family Together: A Look Back at the Hall of Heroes CLass of 2008 by Bruce Mitchell

Gateway Guide to Great Wrestling Road Food

• Price's Chicken Coop, Charlotte NC

• South 21 Drive-In, Charlotte NC

Ric Flair WWE Updates 2007-2008

by Jim De Medeiros

• Flair Proves He's Still Wrestling's MVP

• Happy Woo Year!

• Ric Flair's Last Run Derailed?

• Flair Promises to "Go Out in a Blaze of Glory"

• Ric Flair: The Final Countdown

• Staying The Man FINAL IN THE SERIES

On The Backstreets

by Dick Bourne 

• Saddle Up! Blackjack Mulligan Returns to Charlotte  MOST RECENT ENTRY

• I Still Owe Harley Race a Beer

• Fate (Or Something Like It)

• The Pride of the Peacock

• South 21 Drive-In: A Charlotte Wrestling Tradition

• The Greatest Finish Man Ever (Blackjack Mulligan Reminisces On Johnny Weaver) 

• Saying Goodbye to Johnny Weaver

• Ole & Solie: The Evolution of TV Wrestling in Georgia After Black Saturday

• Thanksgiving Tradition

• The Return of Pvt. Jim Nelson

• A Legend Comes Home: Johnny Weaver Returns to Mid-Atlantic Wrestling in 1975

• In The Woods of North Georgia: A Visit with Ole Anderson in 2007

• Worlds Collide: The Anderson Brothers vs. The Mongols in 1976

• The Unexpected Gift

• A Simpler Time

• The Lost Title Reign of Tiger Conway, Jr. and Steve Keirn

• The Little Ol' Lady Ringside

• Historical Controversy: Should Paul Jones' victory over Johnny Valentine for the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship be recognized?

• The Chicken Coop 

• Local Listings

• The Original Minnesota Wrecking Crew

• I Believed in Gene Anderson

• Backed by the Jack: A Visit with Blackjack Mulligan

• Black Saturday

• The Birth of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling on Television

• The Origin of the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship

• Perfect Storm: The Legend of The Hat and Robe

• Starrcade's Magic Moments

• Giving Thanks in Spartanburg

• Full Circle

From the Bookshelf:

• Finally, A Great Book on A Lost Art Form: The Tag Teams

• Something Left For All of Us