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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: April 1984 in pro wrestling
WWE Today, wrestling historian Karl Stern returns with another in-depth look at a month in pro wrestling history. Karl looks back at April 1984 — and a lot was going on. The WWF was accelerating its national expansion by stealing the AWA’s TV spot on the West Coast, Jumbo Tsuruta is still the AWA World…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Double Action Wrestling magazine review
Here’s a fun review of an off-brand pro wrestling magazine from back in October 1986. Neither Apter nor Napolitano magazine, this is issue one of Double Action Wrestling which featured terrible blurry and outdated photos, stories on Hulk Hogan and The Funks, and a slew of highly questionable advertisements. Join pro wrestling historian Karl “DragonKingKarl”…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The history of Dusty Rhodes, pt. 2
WWE On our rotation of classic pro wrestling themes we are back around to “From the Pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter” — a show where we look back at some of Dave Meltzer’s biographies and history pieces in historic Observers. Today we continue a three-parter on Dave’s massive Dusty Rhodes obituary. It is basically…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast: January 1984
WWE Today, pro wrestling historian Karl Stern begins looking back at the year 1984 in pro wrestling. January 1984 was a huge and historically important month as Hulk Hogan wins the WWF Heavyweight title from Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The AWA is beginning to get its talent raided by…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast: Verne Gagne
This week from When It Was Cool Wrestling, host Karl Stern visits the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter to look at the life and career of AWA owner and multi-time World Champion Verne Gagne. Gagne was a contemporary of Lou Thesz and a major rival. He was one of the biggest stars on television…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Podcast: Pioneer Era Minnesota wrestling
The 1000 Hours Podcast is all about the pioneer era of pro wrestling. Pre-1900 pro wrestling. In this episode, sponsor Eric D. wanted to know about the pioneer era of wrestling in the state of Minnesota. While Minnesota would become a hotbed of wrestling from the 1940s through the 1980s with Verne Gagne’s AWA, Minnesota…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The life and career of Killer Kowalski
On this week’s DragonKing Karl Classic Wrestling Show, we return to the pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter to take a look back at Dave Meltzer’s very detailed career and life history of the man who trained Triple H (Paul Levesque) and held multiple major titles during his career: Walter “Killer” Kowalski. A big drawing…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: A look back at May 1983
Karl Sten’s longform history of pro wrestling series continues with a news-packed episode. Matt Borne is busted in Ohio for sexual assault of a minor — and that isn’t even the biggest news. Nancy Argentino is killed, allegedly by Jimmy Snuka, in a hotel room the same night that Eddie Gilbert breaks his neck in…
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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: Antonio Inoki vs. Kazuchika Okada
The Greatest Kayfabe Tournament continues as we take a look at the histories of two of the greatest Japanese pro wrestlers ever: Antonio Inoki and Kazuchika Okada. Two different generations and two different styles. Inoki, recently departed, was one of the greatest trinity of wrestlers ever in Japan. At 35 years old, Okada is already…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Frankenstein in pro wrestling
This week on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show we talk about the Frankenstein Monster in pro wrestling! Yes, the creature has popped up a few times in wrestling, most famously in Los Angeles and Memphis. We tell you all about that today — and we talk about the shoot fight Frankenstein had with Andre…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: A look at May 1993’s WWF Magazine
On this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I take a look at another classic era pro wrestling magazine: WWF Magazine from May 1993 featuring Hulk Hogan on the cover. This issue was put together shortly before WrestleMania 9 and came out shortly after, so they spend a lot of time skirting around the show. There…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Remembering Gary Albright
Gary Albright was a big, burly, legitimate amateur wrestler from Nebraska. He got his start working for Stu Hart out of the Stampede promotion and was married into the famous Anoa’i family of wrestlers. With those credentials, Albright naturally found success in Japan, especially with the early shoot/semi-shoot leagues and later with All-Japan. Unfortunately, Albright…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Bill Dundee biography
On today’s show, Karl Stern is here to discuss the career of Memphis pro wrestling legend “Superstar” Bill Dundee. Was Dundee really from Scotland? Did he really join the circus and movie to Australia and become a pro wrestler? All of these questions and more are answered in this look at a man who did…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: February 1983 in pro wrestling
The longform history of wrestling podcast series from DragonKingKarl continues as we take a detailed look back at February 1983 in pro wrestling. Ric Flair travels around the world (literally) defending the NWA World title. The Midnight Rider (Dusty Rhodes) wins, then has to give back the NWA World title in Florida. Several AWA results…
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DragonKingKarl Greatest Kayfabe Tournament: Bret Hart vs. Giant Baba
The next match in the GKT (Greatest Kayfabe Tournament) takes place and you the listeners have voted. Who will win when multi-time WWF Champion Bret Hart faces All Japan legend Giant Baba? Plus, a detailed look at the career and legacy of Bret Hart in Japan.
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: The Owen Hart WON obituary
On this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, we take a look at Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter obituary for Owen Hart the week he was killed in a tragic fall in Kansas City, MO during the live WWE Over The Edge pay-per-view. Hart’s death still stands as one of the most tragic moments in the history of…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: History of pro wrestling at MSG, 1878-1879
On this episode of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, we return to the early days of Madison Square Garden in New York City and look at two early years’ worth of MSG matches featuring James Singley, William Heavyside, Prof. William Miller, Charles Murphy, Wilhelm Heygster, John McMahon, Edwin Bibby, and Andre Christol. Plus, Gilmore’s Gardens…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch involved in accident involving fatality
Tammy “Sunny” Sytch has reportedly been involved in a car accident in Florida that has claimed the life of a 75-year-old man. Sytch has been in the news repeatedly over the last few years for multiple DUI’s and other offenses, and media reports say this fatal accident may have also included alcohol. I am going to answer…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Rick Rude’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter biography
In April 1999, 40-year-old Rick Rude was found dead in his home. Generally speaking, super fit 40-year-olds don’t just die of natural causes. So what happened to the former WWF Intercontinental champion? In this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I look at that week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter and how Dave Meltzer discussed the life, death,…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Saga: The origin of the Midnight Express, part 2
I return with another DragonKingKarl mega-show in our Saga series, continuing to look back at a tag team many consider the greatest of all time: the Midnight Express. As I wrote last week, if you think the Midnight Express is only Dennis Condrey & Bobby Eaton or Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane or if you…