Flip Gordon, Pro Wrestling’s Next Big Name

By Chuck Carroll
It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Wednesday. Sitting inside of a busy terminal at Boston Logan Airport is a wide-eyed young man chasing a dream. In a short time, he’ll be boarding a plane and embarking on a 14-hour journey to the Land of the Rising Son. It is the next stop in the quickly blossoming career of Flip Gordon.
It’s hard for the 26-year-old to fathom he’ll be stepping inside a New Japan Pro Wrestling ring in a couple days. It was less than a year ago that he