The Iron Claw (2023)

Dir. Sean Durkin

This is why I could think after I saw the Iron Claw

*all not both

'The Iron Claw' character designs

Kevin Von Erich and Kerry Von Erich 💪

To the non wrestling fans that have watched or are going to watch The Iron Claw for the first time, make no mistake about it Fritz Von Erich loved his sons and they all loved him. Kevin Von Erich still speaks positively of his father to this day. Keep in mind he was never the same and never really learned how to cope with the loss of his first born son. Wrestling and success for himself and his family was the only way he could cope. Was he hard on his sons? Absolutely. Did he love his sons? Absolutely. It was just one heartbreaking tragedy after another. I highly recommend you watch Dark Side of the Ring: The Last of the Von Erichs to hear for yourself the real story behind the Von Erich family.

Had to share this pic from a Von Erich family fan account on Instagram that Kevin's son Marshall also posted in his stories today. This is a pic of the family back in the 70s when Kevin, David, and Kerry were all teenagers and Mike and Chris were little. Fascinating to me to see what they looked like pre-wrestling and weirdly I actually see Kevin and David here looking even more like Zac Efron and Harris Dickinson when they were younger. 😀

A first look at Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson as the Von Erichs in the Iron Claw

I'm very excited as a wrestling fan to see the Von Erich story on the big screen, but like are people ready for just how fucking sad this movie is gonna be?

HEAVEN NEEDED A CHAMPION and brother I am fucking LAPSED.

A Von Erich Extravaganza! - Pro Wrestling Illustrated (March 1988)

W A T C H I N G

The Von Erichs

JWA Winter Series (12/03/1966) // Tokyo, Japan

Giant Baba vs. Fritz Von Erich, Two Out of Three Falls.

Small Package: The Sad Saga of Chris Von Erich

Small Package: The Sad Saga of Chris Von Erich

Brian Damage Most fans are already well versed on the many tragedies of the Von Erich family throughout the years. The combination of their rock star lifestyles and the insane amount of pressure to live up to the Von Erich name certainly caught up to them. Whether it was drugs, alcohol or the desire to make their father Fritz proud…each of the Von Erich tragedies have there own story. The one…

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The Iron Claw opens next week, and I was fortunate enough to catch a critics' screening last night.

Absolutely loved it, here's my full review.

We're getting "The Iron Claw" Von Erich action figures!!! 😀 A24 announced it today that starting in February we'll be able to purchase them. They showed the preview image above of the Kevin Von Erich/Zac Efron one but the back of it shows preview images of Kerry/Jeremy Allen White, David/Harris Dickinson, Mike/Stanley Simmons, and even Fritz/Holt McCallany. I have wrestling figures, as well as tons of others for my other fandoms, and usually the preview images are for the other figures in the set so it seems likely we are getting figures for this all. This is huge news too for wrestling fans (as well as the family irl) as far as I checked only Kerry and Kevin have ever had official action figures from WWE, so this would be the first time David, Mike, and Fritz have ones. So hope this is the case and hopefully I can get them (if I can only afford one it's going to be David's/Harris LOL). But I love they are doing this.