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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Road Warriors, MSG history

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Road Warriors, MSG history

March 19, 2024

This week pro wrestling historian Karl Stern takes a look at more wrestling history from Madison Square Garden in New York with more on Jim Londos as the world champion, the remaining bracket for the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament (GKT) is discussed, a 1980’s

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The strongmen of the pioneer era

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The strongmen of the pioneer era

March 17, 2024

Strongmen and pro wrestling go hand in hand. Who can forget the muscled up 1980s? Yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In the pioneer era of wrestling, your prototypical strongmen and bodybuilders were also featured alongside and inside

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: GKT continues, more MSG history

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: GKT continues, more MSG history

March 12, 2024

Welcome to a revamped edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, perhaps version 2.0 or a reboot or whatever you might like to call it. On this episode, I present the next match in my Greatest Kayfabe Tournament (GKT): Antonio Inoki vs. Steve

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Barney Smith is Dead

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Barney Smith is Dead

February 27, 2024

I mean, Barney Smith was probably dead under the best of circumstances. He went to the finals of American pro wrestling’s first-ever major championship tournament in 1870. But, as we have been researching for a long time now, there seemed to be no

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The life & times of Blackjack Mulligan

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The life & times of Blackjack Mulligan

February 20, 2024

On this edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I travel back to 2016 for Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter biography of Blackjack Mulligan. Mulligan was a big, tough cowboy heel and babyface who also booked around the country. He was a top

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: March 1984

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: March 1984

February 13, 2024

On a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I present the 100th installment in my long-form history of pro wrestling series. This week, join me in looking back at March 1984 which had the fallout from the shocking death of David Von Erich in

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The Barney Smith mystery

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The Barney Smith mystery

February 11, 2024

On a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I present hour 36 of 1000 Hours, my series all about the pioneer era of pro wrestling.  On this episode, we do a lot of research including some new tidbits about Col. James H. McLaughlin (seen

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: More on Charles, King of the Wrestlers

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: More on Charles, King of the Wrestlers

February 5, 2024

On this episode of my 1000 Hours focus on the pioneer era of pro wrestling, I go back even further to the pre-pioneer era just before the U.S. Civil War. This week, I uncover more about the first known self-promoted pro wrestling star:

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast: History of wrestling at MSG

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast: History of wrestling at MSG

January 30, 2024

Pro Wrestling historian Karl Stern continues his look at the history of professional wrestling in a rotating series of classic pro wrestling podcasts. Today’s theme returns to the history of wrestling at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY, one of the

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The first American wrestling star

DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The first American wrestling star

January 28, 2024

On this edition of the 1000 Hours Podcast, the show all about the pioneer (pre-1900) era of pro wrestling, historian Karl Stern digs even deeper to look at the era before the Civil War. Was there organized professional wrestling in the years leading

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