Wrestler Rock "Sputnik" Monroe was at the pinnacle of Memphis wrestling 40 years ago when his swagger and larger-than-life personality sold out local arenas. He's remembered more today as a social ...

Sputnik Monroe, a wrestler in Tennessee during the Jim Crow era, advanced civil rights Real heroes dominate history’s main pages. Most of us live our lives in the margins.

Sputnik Monroe was a tough-talking white grappler who toured the South. He was a wrestling villain for his outlandish antics such as an in-ring strut and boastful interviews. But his push to have ...

People of a certain age who grew up in Memphis know all too well about Sputnik Monroe, the professional wrestler who used the power of celebrity and popular culture to move the racial equality ...

For those of you who haven't ever heard of him, Rocco Monroe Brumbaugh, better known as Sputnik Monroe was a legendary character in the true oldtime Southern wrestling manner.

Sputnik Monroe, who died on Nov. 3, 2006, at the age of 78 following a long battle with respiratory illness, was a character the likes of which professional wrestling will ...

Sputnik Monroe would leave Memphis for Louisiana in 1960 but would make returns to the city over the years. He made his final wrestling appearance in 1998 at the age of 70.

According to Sputnik's Memphis-born son, chip-off-the-old turnbuckle Quentin Brumbaugh, better known as professional wrestler "Bubba Monroe, the Cajun Brawler," the "mixed race" team of Monroe-and ...

Wrestler Sputnik Monroe died this month at the age of 77. In his heyday in Memphis in the 1950s, Monroe was bad guy in the ring, and a civil rights crusader with his own special manner.

Sputnik Monroe was a self-serving wrestler in Tennessee. He also advanced civil rights Real heroes dominate history’s main pages. Most of us live our lives in the margins. The full fabric of the story ...

But Sputnik didn’t care,” said Lawler, who has a framed newspaper article about Monroe’s case hanging on the wall of his wrestling-themed bar and grill in Memphis. “He bucked the system.” ...