My pioneer era focus on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show returns this week with a look back at 1886 — a year of change in professional wrestling. Clarence Whistler had been one of the top stars of the last few years, but died
I am back with what is essentially a part two of last week’s 1000 Hours podcast focused on the pioneer era as I look more at the original first family of wrestling: John McMahon, James Owens, Peter Owens, and Ed Cox. Plus, the
On the latest DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I return with another installment of my 1000 Hours subseries which focuses exclusively on the pioneer era of pro wrestling or the era before Frank Gotch. I am looking back today at 1875 and 1876 which
I have recently spent many hours digging through hundreds of pages of 1870 newspapers from Detroit, Chicago, Ontario, and beyond chronicling the real story of the biggest tournament in history of American pro wrestling in the pioneer era: the Detroit International tournament. On
The pioneer era (pre-1900) of pro wrestling flourished in the Great Lakes area of the United States. While initially the Northeast, and especially New York and Vermont were early hotspots, cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and the entire Great Lakes region became very
On this episode, host Karl Stern looks at the four inductees into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame for 2016 — Sting, Daniel Bryan, Gene Okerlund, and Col. James H. McLaughlin. Not a lot of time is spent on McLaughlin since we
