We all know Sid Vicious. He looked like a million bucks, was as champion in both WWF and WCW, and was a major player during the 1990s. However, he began his career as one of the men to play the Lord Humongous character, starting in
The votes are in and you have chosen a winner in match 26 of round one of The Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: AJ Styles vs. Booker T in a clash of two modern era wrestlers. Styles started off in the Georgia indies, got a
It’s time for historically our most popular show of the year. Karl Stern (DragonKingKarl) has been a voter in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame for over a decade and every year discusses the ballot on his podcast. If you’ve ever wondered
On an Old Tyme Wrestling Hour edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I look at the massive decline in WWE’s pop culture popularity and a new documentary that takes a look at the life of former lucha and WCW star Vampiro. Then,
Our retro wrestling review today continues our look at Wrestling Observer MINUS FIVE STARS rated matches. We travel back in time to WCW Halloween Havoc 1998 on this episode. WCW had been on a hot run in 1998 but cracks were beginning to show
This is part six of our look at the year 1980 in pro wrestling and we are up to the fall. Austin Idol sort of wins a World title in Memphis. The Freebirds are in Georgia. SECW debuts its classic TV show including all
Southern pro wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer “Bullet” Bob Armstrong has died at the age of 80 following a battle with bone cancer. Bullet Bob is a man I met many, many times, worked around at many shows, and grew up
Today on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show, host Karl Stern dives back into the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter for Dave Meltzer’s biographies on Boris Malenko (the father of wrestler and future agent Dean Malenko) and Art Barr. The death of
Round one of the GKT: Greatest Kayfabe Tournament continues as we ask the question: if pro wrestling were real (not a shoot but the characters as presented real) who would win? On this episode. The Rock vs. Dick the Bruiser! You have voted and I
This week, Karl Stern brings you a new Old Tyme Wrestling Hour Podcast. On this episode: the pioneer era of wrestling in Mexico isn’t what I expected. In fact, it appears Asian in origin with links to jiu-jitsu and American frontier wrestling combined into
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