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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The true crime story of Jose Gonzalez

May 4, 2021

Image: NotiCel We all know the story of the killing of Bruiser Brody. In this latest true crime deep dive, I focus in on his killer (Jose Gonzalez) instead of rehashing the whole story once again. The popular version of that story is that

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The true crime story of Buck Zumhofe

March 23, 2021

Buck “Rock and Roll” Zumhofe was a staple of the 1970s-80s pro wrestling scene. While largely a mainstay in the AWA and winning their World Junior title several times, he also worked in both World Class and WWF regularly. However, he was also

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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: Steamboat vs. Angle

March 9, 2021

Image: WWE This edition of the GKT (Greatest Kayfabe Tournament) features two of the best workers in modern history: Ricky Steamboat and Kurt Angle. Between the two, they have a library of some of the best matches of the last 40 years so

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Portland Wrestling retro review

February 16, 2021

Today’s edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show features a review of a territory I haven’t watched a lot of: Portland Wrestling. This November 1980 episode featured a young Buzz Sawyer under a different name, a young Eric Embry under a different name, Lord Jonathan Boyd

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: February 1982 in pro wrestling

February 2, 2021

Ob episode 64 of the DragonKingKarl Longform History of Pro Wrestling series, we are covering February 1982. Jimmy Golden wins a van, the AWA World Champion tours Japan, something historic happens at the Kiel in St. Louis, WWF Champion Bob Backlund is feuding with Jesse

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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: Funk Jr. vs. Vachon

December 15, 2020

Match number 27 in the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament takes place this week and pits two contemporaries against each other: NWA World champion Dory Funk Jr. vs. AWA World champion Mad Dog Vachon. The two actually met several times in real life and — surprisingly

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The death of Eddie Gilbert

December 1, 2020

From the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, we go over Dave Meltzer’s obituary of Eddie Gilbert on today’s episode. Gilbert was a good southern style brawler wrestler and studied the wrestling business. By his late 20s he had already booked in Memphis,

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Mid-Atlantic retro TV review

November 24, 2020

This week on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show we take a look back at Mid-Atlantic Jim Crockett pro wrestling from May 1986. The episode features Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant, Hector Guerrero & Manny Fernandez as a tag team, Jim Cornette and The Midnight Express

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: History of wrestling hillbillies

November 17, 2020

We continue our down home country month with Karl Stern taking a look at famous pro wrestling hillbilly gimmicks, including the incredible story of Elvira Snodgrass, a pioneer in women’s wrestling who partnered with her hillbilly husband Elmer. Elvira was married several times,

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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Death of Jerry Blackwell

November 3, 2020

Today we return to the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter for another biography/obituary from Dave Meltzer. This time we look at the Mountain From Stone Mountain — Jerry “Crusher” Blackwell. Blackwell was a big star in the AWA and remained loyal to

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