It was a dream match of the 1980s. The monster squashin’ Incredible Hulk Hogan vs. Abdullah the Butcher. While Abdullah the Butcher never ended up as a Hulk Hogan opponent in the WWF, the two did face off three times. Yes, Hulk Hogan

After a massive June 1982 (see last episode), the train keeps rolling this month. The Fabulous Freebirds win the NWA National Tag Team titles in Georgia, NWA World Champion Ric Flair faces WWF Champion Bob Backlund at the Omni in Atlanta, The Midnight Express

Image: WWE On this episode, we take a look back at one of Dave Meltzer’s most famous obituaries: a piece about his friend Brian Pillman. An amazing and in-depth piece from someone who knew Pillman personally and watched his spiral out of control,

This week’s edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling show is a fun-filled review of a very 1986 WWF Wrestling Challenge program hosted by Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan. Today’s show features: YOUTUBE COMMENTS, The Dream Team showing personality for once, creepy Lanny Poffo,

Matt Borne was well known in the pro wrestling business to have legal issues. He was arrested multiple times for a variety of crimes. WWE even once sued him to stop him from promoting himself as Doink on indie shows due to his

Image: WWE June of 1982 is a massively important month in the history of pro wrestling. The WWF as we know it is born as Vince McMahon buys Capitol Sports from his father. Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka leaps from the top of the steel

The latest DragonKingKarl Ultimate History of Pro Wrestling podcast looks at the Wrestling Observer’s obituary for Fritz Von Erich, the patriarch of the Von Erich family. This biography not only covers Fritz Von Erich and his career and death, but it covers the entire saga

Today on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling show, we hop in our time machine and travel back to the June 9, 1984 edition of Southeastern Championship Wrestling out of the Dothan, Alabama TV studio. We see the original RAT Patrol (Scott Armstrong & Johnny

Today’s show is a new DragonKingKarl Ultimate History of Pro Wrestling special — The Saga of Manny Fernandez. Manny is an old-school wrestler who has told a lot of tales. He has the reputation of being — how can I put this, a perpetual

It’s time to have some fun again — this time I hop in the time machine and travel back to February 22, 1992 for WCW WorldWide Wrestling. HOLY CRAP THEY’VE MADE P.N. NEWS & EL GIGANTE A TAG TEAM. If you think it can’t

From the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer published obituaries of two wrestling “doctors” — Dr. Bill Miller and Dr. Jerry Graham. Miller and Graham were two very different personalities. Miller was quiet, reserved, and intelligent, while Graham was outrageous, riotous, and

On this week’s edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I review an episode of Southeastern Championship Wrestling from April 1982 featuring The Freebirds at war in Alabama — the feud between Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes and a must-hear promo between the two. Plus,

We revolve back around to the Spotlight on Southern Wrestling series as we review a rather unremarkable episode of Georgia Championship Wrestling from 1984 that took place just weeks before the infamous Black Saturday WWF takeover. What was happening just before the stock owners

I have loved Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee my whole life. This is the first time I have watched Enter the Dragon in many years and this was so much fun to watch and review. Then I go on some hilarious sidebar