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Image: Karl Stern Have you ever wondered about the origins of pro wrestling audio? On today’s show, host Karl Stern takes you on an off-beat adventure into the pre-internet days of pro wrestling radio and into the internet era where Karl was one of the first in the field producing pro wrestling audio, talking with…

Image: Karl Stern This is part two of the interview WITH Karl Stern conducted by Tonya from When It Was Cool. This episode covers in detail the lawsuit Karl was involved in against WCW and Turner Sports back in the early 2000s that led to a large settlement with a group of wrestlers (but not…

Image: DragonKingKarl.com We are at the halfway point of the July marathon, and for the next two days the tables are turned on Karl as he is the one interviewed. Tonya from When It Was Cool asks a series of classic pro wrestling related questions to Karl and he answers them over the next two…

Image: DragonKingKarl.com If you put together a list of the 100 greatest pro wrestlers in history how would you do it? What criteria would you use? Drawing power? Then prepare to add people like Hulk Hogan to the top of your list. In-ring ability? How do you subjectively quantify that? How do you rank people…

Today’s show has more of a modern slant to it. Is host Karl Stern one of those old codgers who hates today’s flip, flopping, and flying style of pro wrestling? Does he back Jim Cornette’s arguments against modern-style pro wrestling? Did pro wrestling go in the right direction? If you are expecting Karl to side…

Host Karl Stern is back today with a solo show discussing one of the worst pay-per-views ever — WCW Uncensored 1995. Karl recently re-watched this show and the terrors of it were brought back to him. There wasn’t a single good match, people were fired for having an uncensored match on a PPV called uncensored, and a person not…

On today’s episode of the July Classic Wrestling Marathon, Host Karl Stern continues to pick Eric Darsie’s brain about an era he has largely forgotten — the post-Attitude era. They also converse about other past stars like Yokozuna and why Eric liked him so much, plus Karl’s memories of him from his earlier Continental and AWA…

On this episode of the July Classic Wrestling marathon, host Karl Stern is joined by Eric Darsie of the Wrestling With The Dawg podcast to discuss a later era of wrestling than Karl normally covers. Eric grew up a generation later than Karl and his golden era was the WWF Attitude Era and the Monday…

Karl Stern goes solo for today’s show and talks the history of the AWA World Heavyweight title. Karl has done a couple of series on the history of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in the past, but, for the first time, he is tackling the top title for Verne Gagne’s AWA. How and why did the…

This show wraps up my conversation with author, wrestler, promoter, and historian “King of Kingsport” Beau James. We continue our look at Continental Championship Wrestling, southern pro wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and East Tennessee wrestling. Beau recently appeared on the HBO Vice News show after a story about one of his students went viral and brought a…

This episode continues my discussion with Tennessee wrestling expert Beau James. On this show we talk our favorite pro wrestling company — Continental Championship Wrestling. Beau knows everything there is to know about the Knoxville involvement in Continental and we talk the prime era of that promotion and names like Kevin Sullivan, Ron Fuller, Jimmy…

On this episode, we begin a series of conversations with a southern wrestler, promoter, and author. He and one of his wrestlers also went viral recently in a national news story about Appalachian wrestling and politics. He will be featured in an upcoming HBO piece as well. This episode features my friend and southern wrestling historian…

Happy Independence Day! Today’s episode is a solo show where host Karl Stern talks about the interesting quandary of the Midnight Express in the Hall of Fame. Most people know that Dennis Condrey, Bobby Eaton, and Stan Lane are in the Hall of Fame as the Midnight Express, but there are actually two other major and original…