As a kid growing up in Queens I had a lot of sports heroes. At the top of my list, Ernie Roth – better know to WWWF fans in the 1970′s and '80′s as The Grand Wizard of Wrestling. The Wiz was ...

The Grand Wizard was solely responsible for Stan Stasiak taking down Pedro Morales and ending his 1,027 days as WWWF (World Wide Wrestling Federation) champion, shocking the wrestling world in the ...

The importance of a wrestling manager has changed a lot over the years. ... The Grand Wizard was synonymous with gold in the World Wide Wrestling Federation in the 1970s and early 1980s, ...

Ernie Roth rose to prominence in wrestling as Abdullah Faroukh managing the original Sheik from 1958 until 1971 when he moved to the WWE and became The Grand Wizard of wrestling (Roth, who was ...

Fuji later went on to become a successful manager in his own right, ... In 1995, The Grand Wizard was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, with Slaughter giving his induction.

In today's world of professional wrestling, the role of a manager is often underrated and undervalued. With one exception: Paul Heyman. The New York native has carved out a Hall of Fame role as a ...

A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs said he removed a portrait of the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard from his Washington, D.C., office after offended employees began ...

7. "Hell, I Don't Need A Finish, My MANAGER Is My Finish" There I was, 29 years old, and though semi-experienced at life, still green as grass as a pro wrestling manager.

One of wrestling’s most essential photographs is a black-and-white featuring Heyman, “Classy” Freddie Blassie, The Grand Wizard, and “Captain” Lou Albano.

The chair of the House Democratic Caucus is standing by his remarks referring to President Donald Trump as “the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” but declined to call him a racist ...

Heyman applied the knowledge obtained in various roles in pro wrestling. He’d first become a manager, looking and sounding like a brash New York yuppie of the 1980s as Paul E. Dangerously in ...