Dave Musgrave

Child welfare professional and lover of wrestling, comics and social justice. Really.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

This video of Alex Pretti was posted on Facebook by Mac Randolph, the son of the deceased veteran, with this caption:

[AEWTogether @AEWTogether]

Ahead of AEW Dynamite in San Antonio, the "American Dragon" @bryandanielson stopped by Second Chance Academy for a roundtable with their middle school students to discuss staying drug free in the face of adversity and the path they want to take.

Head to https://t.co/QbndEE3uA3 to learn more about partnering with us in your community! ❤️

[Franklin Oliver (he/him) @FOLIVER4U]

Canadian Civil Rights Heroes and Sisters: Viola Desmond and Wanda Robson https://t.co/uLQ45WFDWj
Thanks, @puropotsy.

[Dave Musgrave @puropotsy]

Non-Wrestlers
Dave Brown
Bobby Bruns
Joe Higuchi
Rossy Ogawa
Reggie Parks
George Scott
Kevin Sullivan

[Dave Musgrave @puropotsy]

My WON HOF Ballot 2025
Historical Era:
Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson w/JJ Dillon
British Bulldogs
Junkyard Dog
Sputnik Munroe
Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood,
Kerry, Kevin, David Von Erich

[Dave Musgrave @puropotsy]

Europe/Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Islands/Africa:
Gilbert Leduc
Adrian Street
Jose Tarres
Otto Wanz

[Dave Musgrave @puropotsy]

This week my good friend @FOLIVER4U Franklin Oliver and I released the first episode of the Sunlight Express podcast. This friendship formed via the Wrestling Playlists newsletter by my friend @pwoloss
@FOLIVER4U
Sunlight Express Episode 1 With Joe Robson https://t.co/IGEhELLYqs

[Dave Musgrave @puropotsy]

@dustinrhodes Many congrats @dustinrhodes
22 years of sobriety for me in August

[Dave Musgrave @puropotsy]

@elliottswrstlin Possibly the best match between anybody for me

[Jimbo Tsuruta @hollinger]

If you weren’t of age in the 90s, you’ll never understand just how cool Sabu was. 80% of wrestling fans knew and loved him only from reading about him and seeing amazing photographs in magazines. There was almost no way he could live up to our imaginations. Yet he exceeded them.

[Dylan Hales @DylanWaco]

Sabu was the last of the mythic wrestlers who you had to discover through the magazine-to-tape-trader pipeline.

He also defined "small room" wrestling as a truly gritty experience in the same vein as a DIY punk/hardcore show better than any wrestler ever.

Peace to him.

[Ibou, of Self Made @BackupHangman]

An incredible saga.

Tazmaniac and Sabu couldn’t have been two more different people, but they made a great team. Both hard to read in different ways. Sabu was eclectic, Taz was very serious and about his business. Sabu no-showed the Three Way Dance event to go take bookings in Japan. Paul Heyman fired Sabu publicly. Vowed he’d never set foot in ECW again.

The Tazmaniac dropped the gimmick and became a hard nosed, stone cold shooter. He became Taz. He violently dumped everyone on their heads. He submitted everyone. Everyone was a victim in the Path of Rage from Mikey Whipwreck to 911. But Taz remained bloodlusted because he wanted Sabu. He wanted him reinstated, he wanted him back across from him in a ring. He wouldn’t take no for an answer.

He called Sabu out for an entire year and on this night, at November to Remember, the rubber met the road. Taz put ECW founder Tod Gordon in the Tazmission. He gave Paul Heyman a T-Bone Tazplex. Everyone was a victim until the lights went out and Sabu finally made his return.

Barely Legal was ECW’s first foray on PPV. There were two major hooks. Terry Funk vying for the world title as the old gunslinger, and Sabu vs Taz, a match two years in the making. By that point it felt like the fight of the century.

[Rob Naylor @NINaylor]

Ah, this match.

Leaving the building after this main event - unreal. Only other times I can remember being this hyped leaving a show was probably Joe/Kobashi or the CZW v ROH Philly main events in 2006.

The Sabu guardrail Asai & Cactus’ bottle insanity … madness.