Category: Dragon King
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Lex Luger, pt. II
This is the second half of the Lex Luger biography, so be sure to listen to episode one first. This second part focuses on the later part of Luger’s WWF tenure, and his entrance into WCW on the first WCW Monday Nitro. His second WCW run is covered and then the chaotic years after the end of WCW. Luger’s…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Lex Luger pt. 1
Today, host Karl Stern is back with a doubleheader, a two-part Lex Luger biography. Show number one covers his early career coming out of the USFL as a pro football player into Florida wrestling and his training with Hiro Matsuda during his early days there. Luger was pushed to the moon from the start and was a…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Bam Bam Bigelow
Today, Karl Stern looks at the Beast from the East. Bam Bam Bigelow started out his wrestling career as a highly acclaimed student of the Monster Factory. He soon showed up in Memphis with his manager and trainer Larry Sharpe, where he battled Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, and all the top stars in Memphis for a short period…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Mil Mascaras
You have probably seen Mil Mascaras before. If not wrestling, then at least on the cover of a magazine or in the WWE Hall of Fame. You have probably read stories about him in your favorite wrestling books, but who is Mil Mascaras really? On today’s episode, Karl Stern takes a look at the career of…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Canek
Today on the July Classic Wrestling Marathon, host Karl Stern heads south of the border to Mexico to look at one of his favorite lucha stars, Canek. Canek seems to be one of those stars of lucha libre who many in the United States have heard of but know very little about. While many fans in…
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DragonKingKarl Classing Wrestling Marathon: Ron Fuller
Many people mistakenly believe that the “Tennessee Stud” was Robert Fuller (AKA: Col. Rob Parker) since Robert and his cousin Jimmy Golden were active during the cable TV era and the end of the territories. Together Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden were known as The Stud’s Stable but the original Stud’s Stable had actually existed…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Eddie Gilbert
For today’s July marathon show, host Karl Stern takes a look at one of the most conflicted minds in wrestling history, “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert. The son of Tommy Gilbert, Gilbert was a second generation wrestler, who patterned himself after Jerry Lawler and had a brilliant mind for the wrestling business. Like many creative people however, he…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Jushin Thunder Liger
The timing could not have worked out better for this show as, just the day before, Jushin Liger was announced as participating in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla’s annual Battle of Los Angeles tournament. The tournament this year looks to be one of the most loaded in history with some incredible matches possible. Karl Stern was a huge…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: The Assassin
Today’s show looks at Joe “Jody” Hamilton, best known in professional wrestling as The Assassin. He and Tom Renesto were THE prototype heel tag team that traveled the country feuding with the Kentuckians, but Karl saw none of that. He saw Hamilton as the masked Flame — a fireball-throwing heel in a bright red and yellow outfit who…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: Arn Anderson
“The Enforcer” Arn Anderson is best known for his years spent as a member of the Four Horsemen in the NWA and WCW. He and Ole Anderson formed the second version of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew. He and Tully Blanchard formed one of the best teams of the era. He was best friends with Ric Flair.…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: “Mr. USA” Tony Atlas
“Mr. USA” Tony Atlas was a fixture in the wrestling magazines of Karl Stern’s youth. He was massive, and had a likability that made him an excellent babyface. From Georgia Championship Wrestling to the WWF, Atlas was a big star during the time Karl first became a superfan. His career dropped off quickly in the mid-to-late 1980s due to…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: Mike Jackson
Photo of Tony LeDue, Pat Rose, and Mike Jackson by Karl Stern If you watched WTBS-17 Georgia Championship wrestling or NWA World Championship Wrestling later, you saw the fiery underdog Mike Jackson week after week. In fact, many of the enhancement workers you saw on those shows were booked by Jackson. Mike played a very important…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: “Wildfire” Tommy Rich
Tommy “Wildfire” Rich became a near instant star in the early 1980s but almost as quickly as he shot to stardom, he fell from the top going from one of the youngest NWA World Heavyweight champions to a comedy figure in just a few years time. So, what went wrong? Actually, Rich had a better career than most…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: “Hustler” Rip Rogers
He is brash and you do not ever need to wonder what he is thinking; he will tell you in no uncertain terms. He has a grasp of wrestling psychology that few have and he still teaches it today. If you follow him on Twitter, you know that still to this day, he thinks about wrestling and…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: “Bullet” Bob Armstrong
“Bullet” Bob Armstrong was the perfect babyface character for his era. Back in a time when people still believed in babyfaces and hated heels, “Bullet” Bob was a firefighter and former Marine from Marietta, Georgia. He spoke like others spoke, and he acted like you would expect him to act. He had a code of honor.…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: Austin Idol
The women’s pet and the men’s regret is the topic of today’s show, Jackson! Even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson recognized the incredible promo skills of Austin Idol and raved about him on the mic. When you are recognized as a great promo by probably the greatest promo in the history of the business… well…that’s saying…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling July Marathon: Mr. Olympia Jerry Stubbs
The DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show July 2016 marathon begins today with 32 shows in one month with a theme of “people who made me a fan of pro wrestling”. If you have listened to Karl’s show over the years, you probably already know that this series could only kick off with one man- Mr. Olympia,…
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DragonKingKarl Show: 1983 wrestling world, pinfalls, Jesse Ventura, Free show!
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: 1983 was an incredible year in wrestling if you think about it. The wrestling world was about to change forever. The release of the new TEW 2016 got me to thinking back about the year in wrestling in 1983 and I talk about it on this episode. Also I answer…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Ospreay vs Ricochet historically speaking
Photo of Eddie Guerrero and Jerry “Mr. JL” Lynn by Karl Stern Classic wrestling host and wrestling historian Karl Stern takes a look at the recent Will Ospreay vs. Ricochet match from NJPW to see what all the fuss is about. How does it fit historically? Is this a bunch of flippy-doos doing something other than pro…