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Howard Brody dealt with quite a shady lot while trying to become a successful pro-wrestling promoter:

A convicted murderer, a kidnapper, international smugglers, suspected yakuza (i.e., Japanese mobsters), con artists, drug addicts.

Not to mention World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon.

TNA Wrestling's "Turning Point" pay-per-view show is aptly named.

This dragon roars.

World Wrestling Entertainment star Chris Benoit undoubtedly killed his wife and 7-year-old son before committing suicide in June 2007.

Whether the police and WWE properly handled the aftermath isn't so clear-cut.

Earlier this decade, a minor World Championship Wrestling performer named Allen Jones was eating a backstage meal when one of the industry's top stars sat at the same table.

Playboy" Gary Hart's pro-wrestling resume is a beauty.

Is pro wrestling real?

A new book by Larry Matysik tries to answer a question that is more complex than it seems.

Incorporating a performer's personal demons into a story line is tacky even by pro-wrestling standards -- and World Wrestling Entertainment now has even more egg on its face by doing so.

What were you doing on this weekend 25 years ago? Do you remember how you spent that Saturday? Enjoying a late-summer day at the beach? Playing a little golf? Lounging at home, watching some college football? Probably, too much time has passed to recall exactly where you were and what you did.

But not for me.

Pete "Taz" Senerchia knows all about being the underdog.

At 5-foot-8 and 250 pounds, Senerchia overcame size limitations to become an Extreme Championship Wrestling star in the 1990s. He parlayed that success with a smaller promotion into a decade-long World Wrestling Entertainment stint as a grappler and then announcer after retiring from the ring in 2002.