On the final DragonKingKarl show of 2025, Karl Stern grabs a copy of a really cool book he has been looking at for a while: the WWE Encyclopedia. Karl has versions of this same type of book for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, G.I.
On this 1000 Hours subseries episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show focusing on the pioneer era, we finally get not one but TWO matches between the two biggest stars of that era of pro wrestling. William Muldoon had not previously wrestled Col.
Today on a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, Karl Stern wraps up his months-long look back into the early 1990s — a time when the wrestling business was in its worst state during his lifetime. Thanksgiving 1992 gave us two interesting shows to
Image: WWE On this edition of the DragonKingKarl show, pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern begins wrapping up our months long look at the 1990s by taking a look at a rare one-off pay per view from 1991 which took place on
The DragonKingKarl Show returns with his Sunday look at the pioneer era of wrestling. The year is 1884 and the first national pro wrestling star — Col. James H. McLaughlin — has been semi-retired for quite a while working as a train engineer.
In the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, we have now exited 1985 in Karl Stern’s monthly deep dive and finished his book, DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus, in the process. Now, it’s time to sail into uncharted territory: 1986. It was a red-hot time
Image: WWE In 1994, the train wreck that was WCW somehow managed to co-produce one of the best PPVs of all-time. In association with Mexico’s AAA promotion, When Worlds Collide featured not a single bad match. It featured multiple classic clashes including Eddy
The 1000 Hours subseries on the DragonKingKarl Show looks back at the pioneer era of pro wrestling, the era before Frank Gotch. On this episode, pro wrestling historian Karl Stern takes a look into the 1880s as William Muldoon wraps up his tenure
Today on the DragonKingKarl Show, Karl Stern’s time machine takes us back to 1991, a time when pro wrestling was about as low as it could go. Business was horrendous across the board, the WWF was plagued by multiple scandals, and WCW is
Image: WWE Karl Stern’s ongoing series on the history of pro wrestling on the DragonKingKarl Show has now reached the end of 1985. The information for this episode is taken from his book DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus. 1985 was a hugely impactful
