Tag: Dragon King
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Old Tyme Wrestling Hour | 80s angles
On an Old Tyme Wrestling Hour edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I look at the massive decline in WWE’s pop culture popularity and a new documentary that takes a look at the life of former lucha and WCW star Vampiro. Then, Kid Zombie (aka Matt Mann) joins me to discuss some of our…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Minus Five Stars – Hogan vs. Warrior
Our retro wrestling review today continues our look at Wrestling Observer MINUS FIVE STARS rated matches. We travel back in time to WCW Halloween Havoc 1998 on this episode. WCW had been on a hot run in 1998 but cracks were beginning to show and a big chip fell off when Hollywood Hulk Hogan tried to…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Fall of 1980
This is part six of our look at the year 1980 in pro wrestling and we are up to the fall. Austin Idol sort of wins a World title in Memphis. The Freebirds are in Georgia. SECW debuts its classic TV show including all of Alabama and the Florida panhandle with Bob Armstrong as the top…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show special: Rest in peace Bob Armstrong
Southern pro wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer “Bullet” Bob Armstrong has died at the age of 80 following a battle with bone cancer. Bullet Bob is a man I met many, many times, worked around at many shows, and grew up watching. His sons Scott, Steve, Brad, and Brian (Road Dogg) all had…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: From the pages of the Observer – Boris Malenko & Art Barr
Today on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show, host Karl Stern dives back into the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter for Dave Meltzer’s biographies on Boris Malenko (the father of wrestler and future agent Dean Malenko) and Art Barr. The death of Barr was treated as a huge loss for pro wrestling at the…
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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: The Rock vs. Dick the Bruiser
Round one of the GKT: Greatest Kayfabe Tournament continues as we ask the question: if pro wrestling were real (not a shoot but the characters as presented real) who would win? On this episode. The Rock vs. Dick the Bruiser! You have voted and I have the results. The most electrifying man in sports entertainment and mega-movie…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Old Tyme Wrestling Hour
This week, Karl Stern brings you a new Old Tyme Wrestling Hour Podcast. On this episode: the pioneer era of wrestling in Mexico isn’t what I expected. In fact, it appears Asian in origin with links to jiu-jitsu and American frontier wrestling combined into one thing. It gets weird. Also, a man died during a match…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Bruno Sammartino loses title to Ivan Koloff
We continue to celebrate my birthday all week long at When It Was Cool by looking back at the year 1971. Today on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I look back at a match that is still remembered 49 years later for the reaction it invoked. Bruno Sammartino was the WWWF Champion and had been dominant, dispatching…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Minus Five Stars, pt. 1
This week on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I begin our first ‘Minus Five Stars’ reviews of the worst matches in pro wrestling history according to our Dave Meltzer. The first comes from AAA TripleMania 23 in 2015 where the Psycho Circus battled Los Villanos, a match leaturing a dude on a unicycle, latex masks, and a…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: UFC Ultimate Ultimate 1996
I had press passes to the UFC Ultimate Ultimate tournament 1996 in Birmingham, Alabama, a show that featured Don Frye, Tank Abbott, Ken Shamrock, Kimo, Gary Goodrich, and others. I met and talked to all of them, as well as Dan Severn who was at the show with one of his trainees and a fellow…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: 1981 – Flair wins his first World title
On today’s show, we pick up our longform history of pro wrestling series in the late summer of 1981 and cover August and September. Bob Backlund’s reign as WWF Champion continues, Nick Bockwinkel has a largely forgettable feud with Sheik Adnan, and Dusty Rhodes as NWA World Champion has a run through Florida until losing the…
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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: Austin vs. Hansen
The battle for Texas rages in the latest installment of the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament, a podcast series at WIWC and Wrestling Observer asking the question: If pro wrestling were real (not a shoot, but the characters as presented were real) who would win? This episode features two of my favorites: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Old Tyme Wrestling Hour with Kid Zombie
It’s a new Old Time Wrestling Hour podcast. We have the difficult task of trying to keep things positive on this show and I try my best! I am joined by Matt “Kid Zombie” Mann of Alternative Wrestling Radio and we talk tape trading in the old days, San Francisco wrestling, why he is done…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: WCW WrestleWar 1992
We have a retro PPV review of WCW WrestleWar 1992 on this week’s edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show. I recently reviewed the go-home show for this PPV and it was pretty terrible. Well, WCW over delivered with a PPV that was pretty decent from top to bottom with a home run WarGames main event…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The summer of 1981
On this episode of the DragonKingKarl longform history of pro wrestling series we dive deep into June and July of 1981. The Moondogs get a shakeup in WWF when one can’t leave home, Dusty Rhodes wins the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, Terry Taylor becomes World Junior Champion, plus Ted DiBiase, Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura, Sgt.…
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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: El Santo vs. Eddie Guerrero
It’s time for match 23 of round one of the Greatest Kayfabe Tournament — and this matchup would be an all-time headliner in Mexico: El Santo vs. Eddie Guerrero. Guerrero’s father’s career was intertwined with that of El Santo, so there is familiarity there. You the listeners have voted and we have a winner! Obviously, this…
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DragonKingKarl Show: The saga of ‘The Bullet’ and ‘The Stud’
Southeastern Championship Wrestling was built around the feud between “The Stud” Ron Fuller and “The Bullet” Bob Armstrong. In late 1982, both men were babyfaces until Armstrong shocked everyone and turned heel, something few thought he could pull off. But, he did and it was incredible. What happened next is wrestling booking at its finest…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: WCW Saturday Night retro review
On this edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, Karl Stern reviews WCW Saturday Night from May 16, 1992. This is the week that Turner finally put Jim Herd on the chopping block and the company was about to hire Bill Watts. We get Hercules Hernandez with red pantyhose over his head, the Z-Man, an insufferable…