10 Most Insane Wrestling Magazine Covers Ever
6. Power Slam, Issue 53
Cover Star(s): Al Snow
Headline(s): 'HEAD CASE, AL SNOW PROVES THAT TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE', "I WOULD DO IT ALL AGAIN", TOM 'DYNAMITE KID' BILLINGTON SPEAKS OUT', HALLOWEEN HAVOC, ONE WARRIOR ABOMINATION'.
Notes: Right up until the final edition in 2014, Power Slam was considered the finest ever UK publication to cover professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Formulated entirely by a editor and creator Findlay Martin following some success with it's forbearer 'Superstars of Wrestling' in the early 1990s, Power Slam shot out of the blocks in 1994 with King of the Ring winner Owen Hart on the cover and a raft of unbiased, unaffiliated features on wrestling from all over North America, Mexico, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Martin and his carefully selected and ultra-talented writers had a finger on the pulse of the industry unlike any independent publication that came before, and were the first in the country to carefully analyse the product in the now-familiar way the internet appropriated in the 1990s.
Like the industry itself, the magazine experienced huge success during the wrestling boom late into the decade, with Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Bill Goldberg and the New World Order taking wrestling to unprecedented commercial heights.
It begs the question then, how on earth did Al Snow make the cover? Even without the aforementioned megastars, Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior had wrestled that month in a disastrous but hugely anticipated rematch. Even they would have made a better choice than WWE's token lunatic.