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Tod Gordon, the visionary founder of Extreme Championship Wrestling, is currently hospitalized and focusing on his recovery, his family announced Saturday via his Instagram account.
“If you’ve reached out and haven’t heard back, please know he’s not ignoring anyone — he’s just focusing on his health right now,” the family’s statement read. “While he is unable to receive visitors, we appreciate all your love, support, and prayers during this time.”
The family revealed Gordon has been hospitalized “for some time” but did not disclose specific details about his condition or prognosis. They requested the wrestling community keep him in their thoughts during this difficult period.
Gordon founded Eastern Championship Wrestling in 1992, which became an NWA affiliate the following year. After hiring Paul Heyman as booker in 1993, the promotion controversially split from the NWA in 1994 and rebranded as Extreme Championship Wrestling, revolutionizing professional wrestling with its hardcore style and counterculture appeal.
In 2009, Gordon was inducted into the 2300 Arena’s Hardcore Hall of Fame alongside Sabu, with posthumous inductions for original ECW booker Eddie Gilbert and Chris Candido. Most recently, Gordon co-authored “Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling” with Sean Oliver in 2023.
The wrestling community continues to send well-wishes to the ECW legend during his hospitalization.
Tod Gordon is currently hospitalized.
Gordonâ€s family posted a message on his Instagram account on Saturday, revealing that he has been hospitalized for some time. His family wants everyone to know that if you have reached out to Gordon recently and not heard back, itâ€s because he is currently focusing on his health.
Gordon’s family’s message reads:
“From the Family of Tod Gordon:
We wanted to share that, Tod Gordon, is currently in the hospital and has been for some time. If youâ€ve reached out and havenâ€t heard back, please know heâ€s not ignoring anyone — heâ€s just focusing on his health right now.
While he is unable to receive visitors, we appreciate all your love, support, and prayers during this time. Please keep him in your thoughts.
Thank you“
Gordon founded Eastern Championship Wrestling in 1992, and the promotion became an NWA affiliate the following year. He hired Paul Heyman as his booker in 1993, and rebranded as Extreme Championship Wrestling following a controversial split from the NWA in 1994. Gordon was inducted into the 2300 Arenaâ€s Hardcore Hall of Fame in 2009, along with Sabu, and posthumous inductions for ECWâ€s original booker Eddie Gilbert and Chris Candido.
In 2023, Gordon along with Sean Oliver published “Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling.”
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Stuart Pearce was famously something of late starter when it came to his football career.
While he would go on to win 78 caps for England and be a key player in the World Cup 90 and Euro 96 sides that reached the last-four in both tournaments, he began his career training and then working as an electrician during a five-year stint at non-league side Wealdstone.
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Legendary England goalkeeper Gordon Banks (Image credit: PA)
Pearce’s determination and combative nature – two traits that served him well during his career – had impressed Gould, but it could all have been different if Pearce had followed his initial dream and followed in the footsteps of his early hero Gordon Banks.
“My first memory of watching football on TV was the 1970 World Cup,” Pearce recalls to FourFourTwo.
Gordon Banks and Pele reunited at Wembley
“I was eight, and Gordon’s save from Pele is still the best I’ve ever seen. I still look back at that save and think, ‘How did he keep that out?’
“Gordon inspired me to become a goalkeeper – I won my first medal in that position, and only became an outfield player out of frustration. As a kid, the players in front of me were so shabby, I thought, ‘I’ve got to go up top!’
“Then we might score six but still concede eight, and I got frustrated with that too, which is why I became a defender.”
Banks – who was ranked at No.3 in FourFourTwo’s list of the greatest-ever goalkeepers – remains an English football legend to this day, having made almost 700 career appearances and starred for the Three Lions in their 1966 World Cup win.
Stuart Pearce in action for Nottingham Forest in 1989. (Image credit: Getty Images)
His save from Pele in the 1970 World Cup that Pearce references was his signature moment, and brought about a hilarious exchange before the resulting corner was taken:
“I thought that was a goal,” said Pele, with Banks replying: “You and me both,” before England skipper Bobby Moore added: “You’re getting old, Banksy, you used to hold on to them.”
Pearce was speaking in association with next-gen Fantasy Football mobile game CLUB, available for both Android and iOS
Newcastle United’s 22-year wait for an away victory in the Champions League came to an abrupt end at Lotto Park in Brussels.
The Magpies demonstrated their Premier League quality against Belgian champions Union SG, putting four past the Champions League debutants without reply.
Anthony Gordon’s rhythm on the pitch has been interrupted of late, but the flaxen-haired Merseysider held his nerve to score twice from the penalty spot in Belgium.
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Anthony Gordon scores from the spot for Newcastle (Image credit: Getty Images)
Gordon admits he has had a stop-start season so far, after getting sent off against Liverpool in August. But he has now scored three Champions League goals, and is feeling good.
“It was about as good as we could have hoped for given the heartbreak against Arsenal, losing the ways we’ve lost,” he said in the mixed zone at full-time.
Newcastle United’s English midfielder #10 Anthony Gordon celebrates scoring his team’s second goal from the penalty spot during the UEFA Champions League, league phase – Matchday 2 football match between Royale Union Saint-Gilloise and Newcastle United FC at the RSC Anderlecht Stadium in Brussels on October 1, 2025. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Image credit: Getty Images)
“I think we’ve lacked a bit of spark, a bit of creativity, a lack of good football.
“We’ve been defensively very organised and structured but we’ve lacked that final third bit so it was good to get that today.
“We put extra emphasis on good football and the combination play because we haven’t had it. We’ve been a bit boring, in all honesty. We had extra emphasis on that today and I think it showed.”
But the England winger isn’t putting any limitations on what Newcastle can achieve this season.
Anthony Gordon celebrates his goal in the Champions League (Image credit: Getty Images)
“We can be anything we want to be this season. We can beat anyone in any game. I never go into a game thinking we’re going to lose.
“As long as we can keep that defensive structure, that creativity, we can beat anyone. You see that in the Liverpool game, for the first 30 minutes before I got sent off we dominated them and they’re the champions of England.”
Sep 22, 2025, 07:08 PM ET
STAMFORD, Conn. — Multiple criminal charges were dropped Monday against former NBA guard Ben Gordon, who was arrested in 2023 after authorities say he began behaving erratically in a Connecticut juice shop.
Gordon, who helped lead UConn to the NCAA national championship in 2004, completed a probation program approved last year by a state judge. The weapons and threatening charges the basketball star had faced will now be erased from his record.
His lawyer, Darnell Crosland, said Gordon has been dedicated to making progress with his mental health issues since the arrest. Crosland credited the former player with teaching him about how to balance daily stresses of life.
“Mental health is really important and the court saw his commitment to doing the right thing in life and that is why they sealed his record and dismissed all of his charges,” he said in a statement. “I am blessed to have been his lawyer.”
Gordon was arrested at a Stamford juice shop on his 40th birthday, just hours after UConn won its fifth NCAA men’s basketball championship. Police said several 911 callers reported that Gordon was acting aggressively and bizarrely, and he continued to act erratically when officers arrived. Police forced him to the ground and handcuffed him outside the store.
Gordon has talked and written about his bipolar disorder and depression, which he said have played roles in several arrests over the years.
The third overall pick in the 2004 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls, Gordon played 11 seasons in the league. As a rookie for the Bulls, he won the NBA’s Sixth Man Award. After five seasons in Chicago, he went on to play for Detroit, Charlotte and Orlando.
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