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Join us every week as we journey back to the Memphis Territory. Join the likes of Jerry Lawler, Rick Rude, Jimmy Hart and so many others as the soothing tones of Dave Brown & Lance Russell bring back some great memories of a time and territory that meant a lot to so many.
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Looking for pro wrestling history? WWE, WCW, NWA, AEW, NXT, NJPW, Impact, ROH, AWA, ECW, and the pioneer era of pro wrestling. Karl Stern (DragonKingKarl) is a pro wrestling historian who has produced the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show for over 10 years at Wrestling Observer. This is the free version of some of the pro wrestling podcasts we produce at When It Was Cool. The vast majority of it is available early to Patreon supporters and there are over 2300 shows available for su ...
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The Jerry Lawler Show

The Jerry Lawler Show

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All Hail The King! Join WWE Hall of Famer and pro wrestling legend Jerry “The King” Lawler each week as he looks back at his incredible pro wrestling career — spanning five glorious decades — as well as commentaries on the current product. There might even be a few superstar guests that could stop by! Subscribe to the podcast to get new episodes every Friday!
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Join Rex Luther as he and legendary wrestler Superstar Bill Dundee welcome Austin Idol,Tommy Rich,. Dr D David Shultz, and Lucky P Larsen. The truth about Flair, racism, Stone Cold and The Rock. We remember Dundee hitting the ring to save the day in sequined jumpsuits and movie star sunglasses, but now listen as he shares what was really going on. Many times the talk returns to wrestling's longest and most captivating feud against Jerry the King Lawler. Some of those putdowns and punches had ...
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"Dirty" Dutch Mantell (aka Zeb Colter) has done it all from being a wrestler, WWE manager and a part of creative teams from IMPACT/TNA to Puerto Rico and all points in-between. Now, this wily desperado shares his stories from his 45+ years in pro wrestling along with co-host John Poz.
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The Wrestler Review

John Hastings and Dylan Gott

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John Hastings and Dylan Gott, two idiots/pretty good comedians, breakdown the entire career of a legendary, or terrible, professional wrestler and you hopefully listen to it. New Episode every Sunday! iTunes; apple.co/2dFD1VD Stitcher; http://bit.ly/2eqTkKd
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Pat McNeill & Jim Valley provide alternate commentary for the best (and worst) pro wrestling events of all time. Now, the original watchalong show has escaped the paywall, and is free for everyone. Fire up the WWE Network and enter the wayback machine with our intrepid podcasting legends. From the WWF to WCW to the original ECW, we promise wrestling fans we'll boldly go where we've all been before!
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A trip back in time to December 21, 1986 where it all began with Jerry The King Lawler, Tommy Rich and Austin Idol and culminating with the Mayhem in Memphis Hair vs Hair steel cage match between Lawler and Idol that took place on Monday April 27, 1987 at the Mid-South Coliseum
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My long form history of pro wrestling series is a month-by-month break down of the history of pro wrestling. Currently, we are up to July 1984 (which I cover in my DragonKingKarl Stern's 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus book) and one of the major events in the rise of WWF/WWE takes place - Black Saturday, when Championship Wrestling from Georgia wen…
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I return with my podcast series on the pioneer era of pro wrestling (pre-1900) with a packed show today. Most of it is spent discussing the first, first family of wrestling. Wrestling families are part of its culture: The Von Erichs, The Armstrongs, The Welches, The Funks, The Briscos, The Windhams, etc. But the original first family of wrestling w…
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On the 386th edition of Wrestling With the Dawg Podcast at FlairFlop.com, Eric Allen and Joe Drilling of OnTheStick.com joins the Dirty Dawg Darsie to review the four-part Vice series entitled "Who Killed WCW?" The three cats discussed why WCW was popular back in the day, the Jerry Springer show, Hulk Hogan and his creative control, bad management …
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I have a packed show for you today discussing the final shows of Southeastern wrestling before it became Continental with Bob Armstrong, Lord Humongous, Ron Fuller, Boomer Lynch, and more. Some more from 1932 Madison Square Garden, a review of the great new book Six Pack and my thoughts on Tito Santana, and the last member of the final four of the …
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I am back with my 1000 Hours series which focuses on the history, origin, and evolution of pro wrestling in America. A listener has asked about Germany, France, and Europe in the pioneer era of wrestling. France, in particular, was hugely important in pro wrestling's popularity in the United States with Prof. Thiebaud Bauer bringing his French styl…
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I have a great show for you this week starting off with a fun entry into the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament - The GKT, where you the listener voted between Sting and Kurt Angle. Next up we go back to 1931 Madison Square Garden where Dick Shikat upset the order of things by shooting on people. The show rounds out with a look at December 1984 in Southea…
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Welcome back to another edition of the UK’s number one and only Memphis wrestling related podcast, Memphis Continental Wrestling Cast. On this week’s show we cover September 1st 1984 where we will see:- · Randy Savage & Lanny Poffo vs New Generation · David Johnson vs Giant Frazier · Ric Rude vs Randy Johnson · Nightmares vs Dutch Mantell & Mark Re…
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It is a PACKED edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling podcast today as I talk about the latest match in the GKT: Greatest Kayfabe Tournament where you, the listener, have voted on who would win in their primes between Antonio Inoki and Hiroshi Tanahashi. I then travel back to 1931 for more history from Madison Square Garden and Jim Londos,…
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I return with the 1000 Hours podcast series which focuses exclusively on the pioneer era of pro wrestling or the era before Frank Gotch. I am looking back today at 1875 and 1876 which was dominated by the American heavyweight champion Col. James H. McLaughlin, pro wrestling's first major star. McLaughlin won pro wrestling's first big championship t…
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On this episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast I continue my Long Form History of Wrestling series with a look at June 1984. WWF has bought out the Georgia territory and it's first venture into national cable television didn't quite go as planned. There is both a new NWA and AWA World champion and now a new IWGP champion as well. P…
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On this week's show we have a ton of classic pro wrestling discussion on a variety of topics. The latest match in the GKT: Greatest Kayfabe Tournament and the voters are split on a match between Kenny Omega and Terry Funk- but we have a winner! More from 1931 New York wrestling and Madison Square Garden. Then the second half of the show takes a loo…
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Hour 49 of the 1000 Hours podcast series is a packed one. The 1000 Hours series is my detailed, heavily researched look at the pioneer era of pro wrestling, or pro wrestling before the time of Frank Gotch. On today's episode I am asked about Davy Crockett, whose obituary following his death at the Alamo claimed he was a wrestler. What is the realit…
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On this episode of my DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast I take a look at the results of the latest match in the final eight of the GKT: Greatest Kayfabe Tournament pitting Brock Lesnar against Mitsuharu Misawa. These two would have had an incredible match in their primes and I discuss it along with your voting results. The bulk of the show i…
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On this episode I continue the history of pro wrestling at Madison Square Garden podcast series with a detour to Yankee Stadium in 1931 where Jim Londos teams up with the William Randolph Hearst empire to hopefully draw one of the largest crowds in history up to that date. Well, they tried anyway. Then I transition to more talk about the glory era …
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Wrestling historian Karl Stern first covered the pioneer era wrestling special attraction Yousof Ismael- The Terrible Turk, on hour five of the 1000 Hours podcast series, but the Terrible Turk deserves a follow up as requested by one of our listeners. Now Karl tells you the latest information he has uncovered about the original Terrible Turk who ca…
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The early pioneer era has given us some very interesting people to learn about so far. Uzile Prickett, Col. McLaughlin, G.W. Flagg, and now let's meet Homer Lane. Homer Lane was one of the early American champions. A multi-time American champion as a matter of fact. He was also a straight up carny. Yes, even before 1870 pro wrestling had its worker…
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Wrestling historian Karl Stern returns with a detailed look at the month of May 1984 in pro wrestling history. It was one of the most significant months ever: Kerry Von Erich wins the NWA World title from Ric Flair in the largest show in Texas history, Ric Flair regains the title in Japan, Rick Martel becomes AWA World champion, Vince McMahon Sr di…
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I have recently spent many hours digging through hundreds of pages of 1870 newspapers from Detroit, Chicago, Ontario, and beyond chronicling the real story of the biggest tournament in history of American pro wrestling in the pioneer era. The 1870 Detroit International tournament awarded an ornate championship belt to its winner Col. James H. McLau…
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Karl Stern returns to his roots on this edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show by discussing 1980s Southeastern and Continental wrestling. What made it so great? What are some of the myths about it? What did Ron Fuller get wrong recently on his podcast? Plus, the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament continues with discussion of Kurt Angle and …
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After a lengthy hiatus, Tuesday Timeline returns and we have entered a new decade it is the 90's. 1990 flew by and we are now into 1991 and we jump in the DeLorean to travel back to Saturday January 19, 1991 at the Miami Arena for WWF Royal Rumble 1991. No movie this episode because as is the current situation, beginning November 16, 1990 Home Alon…
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The latest in the 1000 Hours Podcast series looking back at the pioneer (pre-1900) era of pro wrestling takes a look at the pioneer era of wrestling in Australia. Believe it or not, there was pro wrestling in the 1800s in Australia and one of America's top stars died there. The incredible story of the death of Clarence Whistler has been often told …
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Karl is back with a look at the new WWE Network Bray Wyatt documentary which dives into his career, characters, and family which include classic era wrestlers Mike Rotundo, Blackjack Mulligan, and Barry and Kendal Windham. This was a very good documentary that fills in a lot of gaps about the death of Wyatt. Also, in the show we conclude the Bruno …
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Pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern (DragonKingKarl) returns with the 1000 Hours podcast series which looks at pre-1900 pro wrestling. On this episode, a listener has requested a look at the facts verses mythology about United States Presidents who have legitimately wrestled. We have already previously cover Abraham Lincoln in episode one…
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On this episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, host Karl Stern continues his look at wrestling history at Madison Square Garden in New York in the year 1931, he also continues his look back at Dave Meltzer's epic biography on the life and times of Bruno Sammartino from the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, plus tons of news…
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