Writer primarily for @Ringer | 10X Author | PWA Hall of Fame Inductee | Member of the TNBAST 2025 Webby-Winning Team
Joined May 2013
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Whoa! An endorsement from Big E?! Letโs go!!! ๐๐ช๐ฝ
7 Jul 2025
Looking forward to diving into @StreamGlassโ โA Decided Novelty.โ Accomplished author Ian Douglass documents the history of black professional wrestlers from 1880-1950.
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May 30
2 days til The Texas Rasslin' War(s) of the 1950s is for sale! Til then please enjoy this Billboard ad for Texas Rasslin' @gregmep @tonyrichards4 @SteelBeltSteve @Sparks3rdCoast @lizzyflanagan @SMUheavyweight @RBECERRA21 @BriscoBradshaw @BrianRSolomon @StreamGlass @TheJimCornette
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May 30
When MJ locks you in his brain you are stuck there for life! Lol!
@mrtomeoni DID YOU SEE THIS??!
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Mason would be fine with the right costume and I happen to know one thatโs available
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May 9
For me, a lot of the authors I discovered/connected with I came across while researching for โI am Your Champion!โ
Some names I really recommend (in addition to Ian Douglass!) are Steven Johnson, Greg Klein, & Tim Hornbaker. @tonyrichards4 is another historian to listen to!
May 9
How do you find these books on wrestling? I'm looking to compile an extensive list going beyond the Scott Teals and Jon Langmeads of the world, no disrespect to those historians.
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Teaming up with @MoustacheClubUS, @HybridShoot, @JCLayfield, and @FilthyTomLawlor to drop the hardest wrestling book of the summer. @Raekwon @GhostfaceKillah
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Print is dead and the future form of the Post-Gazette may not feature a physical paper at all, but Iโm glad to have gotten my grandfather in there at last. Heโs been in books and dissertations but never the hometown paper
open.substack.com/pub/oliverโฆ
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Apr 22
On this week's Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show, we cover the Florida Territory in the year 1976, Along for the journey is our regular Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Florida Analyst, @THEHOWARDBAUM , from Miami, Florida, whose first full year as a fan was in the year of 1976.
Catch the show โก๏ธ youtu.be/WKEtgebu25w
In this clip, Howard and I discuss how the territories died and what killed kayfabe โฌ๏ธ
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Apr 15
40 years later, the true story behind WrestleMania 2, the three-city extravaganza that was the biggest thing ever
theringer.com/2026/04/15/wweโฆ
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I can't believe they actually did it. Page 31 of the Spring edition of Celtic Life International includes an interview with me about my latest book, "Highland Games and Hippodromes: Scottish Identity and Influence at the Dawn of the American Pro Wrestling Industry."
I'm still not convinced this isn't an April Fool's Day joke. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
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Mar 31
On this week's Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show, my guest Ian Douglass (@StreamGlass) and I discuss his motivation in tacking the history of black pro wrestling including the original Rufus Jones (NOT Rufus R Jones) and how the head butt originated.
open.substack.com/pub/tonyriโฆ
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Mar 30
From this week's Episode 54 of The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show, my visit is with author Ian Douglass about his library of book he's written. In this clip we talk about his book on the history of wrestling in the Bahamas
open.substack.com/pub/tonyriโฆ
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Mar 29
If you haven't checked out this week's show, it would be a great Sunday listen for you. My guest Ian Douglass @StreamGlass has an entire library of books he has written that you need to know about. We discuss each and every one of them during this in-depth visit at The Richards Ranch. Spend some time with us and I bet you'll learn something cool and I'd love it if you would share your thoughts in a reply to this post! Thanks everyone for all your interest and support in my work!
Mar 25
NEW Episode of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show!
Episode 54: The Pro Wrestling World of Ian Douglass
open.substack.com/pub/tonyriโฆ
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Mar 27
Catch the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show this week as I welcome in author\historian Ian Douglass! In this clip, we talk about The Beast, Dan Severn!
open.substack.com/pub/tonyriโฆ
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Please check out my great discussion with @tonyrichards4!
Mar 25
NEW Episode of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show!
Episode 54: The Pro Wrestling World of Ian Douglass
open.substack.com/pub/tonyriโฆ
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Thanks for having me, brother! It was fun! We even got to throw a few mentions of @MoustacheClubUS in there!
Mar 19
Just finished a great visit with write\author Ian Douglass I think you will really enjoy. I know I did!
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Mar 19
Just finished a great visit with write\author Ian Douglass I think you will really enjoy. I know I did!
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Mar 13
Meanwhile, in other news. Not far now! Never did get a foreword. Of course, I kept asking people for a forward, so ...
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Congrats to @tonyrichards4 on the Jim Melby Award. Join us in Waterloo this summer and check out our Fuller Legacy series on @BriscoBradshaw!
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Credit goes to author Ian Douglass. Ian has a book about Gorilla Parker and โTigerโ Jack Nelson and many others featured during Black History Month entitled A Decided Novelty: The Essential Guide to Black Pro Wrestling History, 1880 - 1950 order here๐ a.co/d/03G6AbFy
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This book was eye-opening about so many important figures lost to history
Ian Douglass unearthed the significance of many Black wrestlers and placed them into proper context
Neal Flanagan & I had a chance to speak with him about "A Decided Novelty."
youtube.com/watch?v=wlTzXbFKโฆ
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