Image: Texarkana Gazette On today’s 1000 Hours subseries on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I discuss the invasion of bears into 1870’s pro wrestling. Yes, you read that right: bears. Many may think that wrestling with bears was a curiosity of the 1940s
Karl Stern returns with another Q&A edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show featuring several questions from our listeners that cover a huge chunk of pro wrestling history. The history of New Japan Pro Wrestling has been a complicated one, so I try
On a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, it’s time for Karl Stern’s latest installment in his History of Pro Wrestling podcast subseries. Note this episode is taken from his DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus book looking at the pro wrestling world in May
This week’s edition of my 1000 Hours subseries focusing on the pioneer era of pro wrestling (taken from my latest book DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus) finds us in 1878, and things continue to take an entertaining turn. The collar and elbow
Join Karl Stern today for a look at another Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame nominee: The Mongolian Stomper. I grew up watching the Stomper on Southeastern Wrestling, but he worked a different sort of character in Stampede. I’ll discuss if any of
This was a really fun question and answer edition of the DragonKingKarl Show as I had numerous questions and topic suggestions submitted. I have several follow-ups on Ric Flair in the WWF, winning the Royal Rumble, and his later return to WCW. Also,
Thank you for joining me for my DKK podcast subseries all about the pre-1900 era of pro wrestling aka the era before Frank Gotch. We are presently going through the pages of my DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus: The Bible of the
I return to my longform history of pro wrestling series on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling show, looking back at April 1985 from my book DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus. The first WWF WrestleMania has ended, Hulk Hogan graces the cover of Sports Illustrated,
On today’s DragonKingKarl, I continue my look at acts which have not yet been voted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame with a focus on the Hart Foundation. While Bret Hart is already in, his team with Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart
After many years, the mailbag show has returned to the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show! We have a great set of questions and topics including Ric Flair jumping from WCW to WWE, Bill Mercer and other territorial era announcers, Bob Backlund (seen above), Eric
