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.

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 ...

Let's ring that bell and see how much you know about Memphis wrestling from Sputnik Monroe to Jerry Lawler to The Rock.

4. After many years at the Auditorium in Downtown Memphis, professional wrestling made its debut at the Mid-South Coliseum on June 7, 1971, where it would be a regular event for the next 20 years.

Sputnik Monroe was a self-serving wrestler in Tennessee. He also advanced civil rights Real heroes dominate history’s main pages. ... He existed beneath the view of polite society, in the gritty, ...