The B.O.W (Blog of Wrestling)

Intro:   It goes without saying but people back in the past could and have managed to get away with things that be absolutely illegal today. Pro Wrestling has seen it's far share of scandals from the early days of the circus to the Monday Night Wars of the 1990's to the present day. While scandals like the Montreal Screw Job, the Madison Square  Garden Incident, and The Steroid Trial are probably the first few that comes to your mind when talking about old school scandals, the ones I'll be mentioning here are scandals that affected not only the individuals themselves as well as their friends and families but in a few cases they also affected the wrestling world for generations to come...and somehow they have been lost in the annuals of history.   11. Japanese Legend Gets Stabbed Best known as "The Father of Puroresu" aka Japanese Pro Wrestling, Kim Sin-rak better known as...

 Intro: There's an old saying that goes "Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery", it's often used to describe what happens when a person or group of people take something that has already been made and attempt to recreate it for one reason or another.   Professional wrestling is no stranger to this as wrestling fans, critics and the media usually accuse and criticizes other promotions for copying ideas and concepts that were introduced or made public elsewhere only to look like cheap but pale imitations in the process. For much of it's success in the 2000's, TNA (now known as Impact Wresting) was accused of ripping off WWE for a number of concepts. However, just like what happens when any positive news about Impact wrestling is revealed to the public, many tend to forget that Impact themselves have also created original ideas, gimmicks and storylines that have been copied by some of wrestling's greatest promotions, especially in ...