Category: Dragon King
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DragonKingKarl Show: Mailbag featuring World Class, Abdullah the Butcher, Gino Hernandez
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Today’s show takes questions and suggestions from the mailbag with topics including people who made it to the WWF WWE that I worked with years ago, an incredibly great question about hepatitis in wrestling, drug use and drug deaths in World Class wrestling and a special look at Gino Hernandez…
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DragonKingKarl Show: The last NWA Southeastern Championship Wrestling Show
Lord Humongous/Jeff Van Camp photo by Karl Stern On this week’s show, Karl takes a few questions from the mailbag dealing with a wide range of topics including Survivor Series, Sid Vicious, and a couple off-topic questions. Then, Karl tackles the last episode of NWA Southeastern Championship Wrestling in June 1985 as he watches his favorite promotion be put…
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DragonKingKarl Show: Mailbag, new incredibly bad wrestlers, smart fans
This edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show hosted by wrestling historian Karl Stern is a mailbag edition with questions and topics all over the place. There is no one single “big” topic for this episode but some of the conversation includes: The end of the “Super Stern Stick” flashdrive? Changes are coming and…
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DragonKingKarl Show: Mail bag! Continental Wrestling talk and Dawn of Justice RAGE!
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Mailbag show… sort of. I take a few mailbag questions but talk a little bit about Continental wrestling. Why I like Lucha Underground and I actually have good things to say about Vince Russo… sort of! Also on this show is my review of Batman vs Superman DAWN OF JUSTICE!…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: WWE SummerSlam 1992 reviewed
****This is a free edition of the show. Please share!**** On this look back at WWF SummerSlam 1992, Karl watches and reviews the entire show: Shawn Michaels, Rick Martel, The Natural Disasters, The Beverly Brothers, The Undertaker, Kamala, The Ultimate Warrior, Ric Flair, Mr. Perfect, Randy Savage, The Legion of Doom, Money Inc, and the big main event…
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DragonKingKarl Show: Mail bag! Free! Pioneer era, plus Demolition, WWE HOF
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: FREE EDITION! Tell your friends! Today is a mailbag show with a wide range of questions and topics including: The pioneers of wrestling what referees were in the days of Frank Gotch, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, and Joe Stecher. The conversation also includes how state atheletic commissions played into things during…
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DragonKingKarl Show: Mailbag! WrestleMania 8, Sid Justice, Hulk Hogan
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Mailbag question and answer part two. Second show of the week. On this show, host wrestling historian Karl Stern, answers more questions and addresses topics on old school classic pro wrestling history and more including: WWF WrestleMania 8 and the two botched finishes on the show and the return of the…
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DragonKingKarl Show: Paul Heyman hypocrisy, mailbag, wrestling history
Photo of Mike Jackson selling his “broken shoulder” by Karl Stern This is the first of two mailbag heavy shows with a broad range of questions and topics. Email your questions for the next mailbag show now! On this show, topics and questions include: – Undisputed world heavyweight champions including champions from the past such as…
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DragonKingKarl Show: Wrestling demographics, Strong Style troubles, Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, more!
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Today’s show is a mailbag show with topics and questions including Shane McMahon’s return to WWE and some interesting scenarios it could set up that might appeal to the largest demographic watching WWE and more about the demographics of WWE and observations. Other mailbag questions and topics include womens wrestling including a look…
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DragonKingKarl Show: The death of Mark Nulty, pro wrestling historians, Canadian Wrestling
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Thinking About Mark Nulty and Classic Wrestling History. On this show I want to take a little time and reflect on the contributions of Wrestling Classics owner and former announcer Mark Nulty to the wrestling history community and just where does pro wrestling history stand? What are we still following…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Q&A, NWA belt, evolution of the pin, Black History Month
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Questions and Answers plus honoring Black History Month by looking at the pioneers of African Americans in pro wrestling. Questions from this edition of the mailbag include pinfall changes from one second to three and how that may have evolved, the make up of the NWA Domed Globe belt and…
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DragonKingKarl Biography Series Radio Show – Mongolian Stomper
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Biography Series – The Mongolian Stomper. I wanted to dedicate an entire biography show to the late Archie “The Mongolian Stomper” Gouldie. He was my first favorite heel character when I started watching wrestling. Normally, I would not expect a lot to be made of the Stomper’s death other than a…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Iron Mike Sharpe, origins of kayfabe, and more!
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show – Questions and Answers! The return of the popular questions and answers format. Topics and questions today deal with a variety of things but I have to start off with the death of “Iron” Mike Sharpe. If you grew up watching WWF in the 1980’s like I did then you…
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DragonKingKarl Biography Series Radio Show – Gene Kiniski
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Biography Series: Gene Kiniski. Gene “Big Thunder” Kiniski was one of the most important champions in pro wrestling history. He bridged the gap between two distinct eras of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and he was the face of the 1960’s in pro wrestling. An AWA, WWA, NWA, and Montreal World…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Q & A
The first DragonKingKarl Show of 2016 is a question and answer show so the good DragonKingKarl can clear out some email questions to get the year started off right! Several of them deal with off-topic discussions from recent shows including the ever controversial Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Not only that but there is even…
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Dragon King Karl Audio: Lizmark, Star Wars spoilers, a little rock’n’roll
This week’s show is a change of pace to wrap up 2015 with the only wrestling talk being the death of luchadore Lizmark who was a major career rival of Karl’s mentor in pro wrestling, the late Ken Timbs. Timbs and Lizmark had a big feud in CMLL in the late 1980s over one of the major…
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Dragon King Karl Classic Wrestling Audio: WWE Network’s new additions examined
On this week’s show, the conversation is about all the new classic, old-school wrestling shows which have been added lately to the WWE Network. Finally taking advantage of their incredible tape library, WWE has finally added a sizeable amount of classic content to the online network. Included among the newly added material is NWA World Championship…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Your holiday season wrestling gift buying guide!
On this special family-friendly edition of the Karl Stern Show, the Dragon King (and his wife!) talk about buying gifts for the wrestling fan in your life this holiday season. It can be intimidating for a non-fan to buy gifts for a wrestling fan, so Karl’s wife sits down with him to talk about what she looks for,…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio: Bruiser Brody biography special
On the latest episode of the DragonKing Classic Wrestling Show, host Karl Stern bring you the latest in a series of wrestler biographies. This week, Karl takes a look at the incredibly popular, mythical, and controversial “Intelligent Monster” Frank “Bruiser Brody” Goodish. Brody was a wild bearded powerhouse who ran roughshod through the United States, Japan, and Puerto…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Biography Special: Abdullah the Butcher
This show is part two of a series of biographies on some of the wild and craziest wrestlers in history. Very few were more wild and crazy than the Madman from the Sudan, Abdullah the Butcher. The WWE Hall-of-Famer’s story is a complicated one. From his days to team with and battling against The Sheik to…