Image: WWE It is time for one of my favorite DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Shows: our monthly question and answer show where you ask any pro wrestling history related question or topic. On the June edition, I field questions about historical brass knux championships,
1000 Hour is my continuing podcast series about the pioneer era of pro wrestling. The pioneer era is the time before Frank Gotch, roughly 1850 to 1900. It was an era of wild showmen and tough real wrestlers. This episode continues our chronological
My podcast today takes a detailed look back at June 1985 in pro wrestling history. The text is taken from my book DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus. In June 1985 pro wrestling’s first action figures become available, a set of AWA action figures
It is a regular gravy edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show as I dive deeper into those on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame ballot who have not yet been voted in. The very famous tag team of Black Gordman and
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
My 1000 Hours subseries on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show covers the pioneer era of pro wrestling with my DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus as our guide. Col. James H. McLaughlin rules the American wrestling landscape, John McMahon and Homer Lane are
Image: NBC Today, the DKK Classic Wrestling Show returns to one of the most epic months in pro wrestling history: March 1985. WWF WrestleMania took place at the end of the month but in the first weeks, “Dr. D.” David Schultz got fired
On this episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I take a look at the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame case for former WWF World Champion and one of the craziest characters in pro wrestling history: the Iron Sheik. I look at
My 1000 Hours subseries on the DragonKing Karl Show takes a look back at the pioneer era of pro wrestling with information pulled from my latest book, DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus: The Bible of the Pioneer Era of Wrestling. On hour
On a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I continue my detailed look at the history of pro wrestling from the pages of my book: DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus. On this show, I examine February 1985 and look at the buildup to the
On today’s DragonKingKarl, our Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame candidate discussion moves to “Bullet” Bob Armstrong. Armstrong (and family) was among my favorites growing up, the hometown hero of my regional wrestling promotion, Southeastern Championship Wrestling, and later as “The Bullet” in
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