On this edition of the DragonKingKarl Show, I grab the March 1991 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated which covers 1990 in-depth. Besides the annual year-end awards, the magazine also covered the major events of a hugely transitional year. Ric Flair was no longer
Today my classic wrestling podcast takes a detailed look back at September 1992 through the pages of Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter. WCW was having an identity crisis. The pro wrestling world was crumbling down. The WWF (WWE) was plagued with multiple scandals
Join Karl Stern on this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast for a look back at one of the most significant and impactful years in pro wrestling history: 1996. WCW was exploding in popularity with the formation of the NWO, the heel turn of
Welcome to a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show with Karl Stern. This week, Karl looks at 1992 when Ron Simmons defeated Big Van Vader for the WCW World championship in an angle that also involved Sting. Plus, we dive into a corresponding issue
Karl Stern returns this week with a new podcast looking back at the 1990s. Recently, he took a look at the first pro wrestling newsletters of that era to get a feeling for where it began which was in a very low place.
As Karl Stern continues his look back at the 1990s in pro wrestling, he makes a stop in one of the strangest eras of pro wrestling history: 1992. At that point, the pro wrestling business had cratered. Ticket sales were terrible, PPV was
On this week’s DragonKingKarl with Karl Stern, you have the questions and I have the answers. We have several great topics and questions to discuss this week including the Roddy Piper movies Hell Comes to Frogtown and Body Slam, masked wrestlers of the
Today on a new DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show with Karl Stern, he wants to look back at the late 1990s in pro wrestling history. The decade was a wild time with the latter part seeing the rise of the NWO, WCW passing WWE
On this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, you and I are heading back to the early 1990s to discuss the state of pro wrestling at the time. While business was just about as bad as it could get, there were still plenty of
Today I turn my show over to Eric Darsie, Eric Allen and Joe Drilling to review the four-part Vice series entitled “Who Killed WCW?” They talk why was WCW was popular back in the day, the Jerry Springer show, Hulk Hogan and his
