On today’s show, we pick up our longform history of pro wrestling series in the late summer of 1981 and cover August and September. Bob Backlund’s reign as WWF Champion continues, Nick Bockwinkel has a largely forgettable feud with Sheik Adnan, and Dusty Rhodes
This week on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show, I go into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter archives for some obituaries written by Dave Meltzer. On the docket, the passing of Mid-South and AWA star D.J. Peterson, the in-ring death of rising lucha libre
The battle for Texas rages in the latest installment of the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament, a podcast series at WIWC and Wrestling Observer asking the question: If pro wrestling were real (not a shoot, but the characters as presented were real) who would win?
It’s a new Old Time Wrestling Hour podcast. We have the difficult task of trying to keep things positive on this show and I try my best! I am joined by Matt “Kid Zombie” Mann of Alternative Wrestling Radio and we talk tape
We have a retro PPV review of WCW WrestleWar 1992 on this week’s edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show. I recently reviewed the go-home show for this PPV and it was pretty terrible. Well, WCW over delivered with a PPV that was pretty
On this episode of the DragonKingKarl longform history of pro wrestling series we dive deep into June and July of 1981. The Moondogs get a shakeup in WWF when one can’t leave home, Dusty Rhodes wins the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, Terry Taylor
We go to a March 1993 edition of Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter on this episode of the DragongKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show for three separate biographies. The first was the shocking death of Dino Bravo, recently covered on Vice’s Dark Side of the Ring
It’s time for match 23 of round one of the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament — and this matchup would be an all-time headliner in Mexico: El Santo vs. Eddie Guerrero. Guerrero’s father’s career was intertwined with that of El Santo, so there is familiarity there.
Southeastern Championship Wrestling was built around the feud between “The Stud” Ron Fuller and “The Bullet” Bob Armstrong. In late 1982, both men were babyfaces until Armstrong shocked everyone and turned heel, something few thought he could pull off. But, he did and
On this edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, Karl Stern reviews WCW Saturday Night from May 16, 1992. This is the week that Turner finally put Jim Herd on the chopping block and the company was about to hire Bill Watts. We
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