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
We have reached the end of 1984 in my long-form deep dive series in pro wrestling. In December 1984, the pro wrestling world was massively changing with WWF gaining more and more ground. Still, the AWA, NWA, World Class, and others remained strong,
I am back with another DragonKingKarl podcast with my continuing long-form history of wrestling and on this episode, I cover August 1984. Hulk Hogan and the WWF continue to steamroll over everybody and essentially steal California from the AWA by buying their TV
This week pro wrestling historian Karl Stern takes a look at more wrestling history from Madison Square Garden in New York with more on Jim Londos as the world champion, the remaining bracket for the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament (GKT) is discussed, a 1980’s
Dave Meltzer & Garrett Gonzales talk to Steve about his career. Dave Meltzer and I are back for a brand new Wrestling Observer Radio as Steve Keirn joined us to talk about his new book. Website subscribers can listen below or watch with
Image: Paul Ellering On the new Wrestling Weekly, Les Thatcher and I discuss the Road Warriors and a key element to compelling wrestling on TV that is mostly missing today. Thanks for listening and have a great weekend~!
After watching this week’s Dark Side of the Ring episode on the Road Warriors, co-host Fumi Saito and I remember his friend Road Warrior Hawk on this week’s Pacific Rim Pro Wrestling podcast and give some background not covered in the documentary. Fumi goes
Apparently, post-nuclear war, mankind will take off their shirts, dawn old football shoulder pads, and paint their faces. They may or may not have weird haircuts. Hockey masks may or may not be included. We will run around the planet chasing gasoline, but above
