Tag: DragonKingKarl
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Action figures and video games
Image: Karl Stern As the July Classic Wrestling Marathon enters its final days, Karl Stern takes a look at wrestling merchandise and talks wrestling video games, action figures, and much more on today’s show. Karl gives a little history and an update on pro wrestling action figures and the modern Mattel era of figures, plus Karl…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Kamala
By special request, host Karl Stern does an audio biography special on Kamala the Ugandan Giant for today’s show. Kamala’s story is a complicated one to tell in 2017 and it’s a somewhat tragic tale. The man behind Kamala is James Harris and his journey from obscure regional wrestler to main event matches in the…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Karl opens the mailbag
Image: Karl Stern On today’s episode, host Karl Stern presents an episode of his Old Time Wrestling Hour Show where he takes mailbag questions. One of the questions asked is a great one about Adrian Street and the later years of his career.
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: NWA National title
On today’s show, host Karl Stern takes a look back at the history of a championship that he often heard about but didn’t get to see a lot of back in the day — the NWA National Heavyweight title. The belt was one of the top titles for Georgia Championship Wrestling during the TBS era…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: ECW Hardcore Heaven 1995
Good grief, how did anyone ever think this was good? Well, host Karl Stern explains that context is everything. Make no mistake about it, this show does not hold up well and there are many reasons why. Karl takes you back to the time period and what was going on in the world of wrestling…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Early career of Hulk Hogan
What is the reality of the mythology of the early career of Hulk Hogan? Host Karl Stern and a number of pro wrestling researchers once investigated and researched in detail the early years of Hogan’s career. Did he wear a mask? Who was his true first opponent? Did he quit wrestling for a while and work…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Wrestling historian Seth Hanson
On today’s show, host Karl Stern is joined by pro wrestling historian Seth Hanson. If you are on Twitter or Facebook then it is likely you have seen Seth posting some of his wrestling clipping collection. Karl talks to him about how he got interested in pro wrestling and what some of his favorite areas and…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Final installment with Eric Darsie
Eric Darsie from the Wrestling with the Dawg podcast returns one final time to talk 1990s-2000 era pro wrestling, including stars like Mankind, Steve Austin, The Rock, Chris Jericho, and Shawn Michaels. Eric grew up in a different time period than host Karl Stern. While Karl’s formative years as a wrestling fan were in the…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Eric Darsie returns
As the July marathon rolls on, Eric Darsie of the Wrestling With the Dawg podcast returns to talk more pro wrestling history with host Karl Stern on today’s show. Eric was on earlier in the month and will be back again tomorrow as he and Karl discuss the 1990s and 2000s (mixed in with some 1980s).…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Part two with Kris Zellner
Today is part two with Kris Zellner of the Between the Sheets and Exile on Badstreet podcasts. We discuss a variety of topics, including more on Georgia Championship Wrestling, Continental Wrestling, and the giant television block of wrestling that aired on Atlanta TV back during the 1980s with Joe Pedicino.
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Part one with Kris Zellner
Today and tomorrow, host Karl Stern is joined by a guest, Kris Zellner of the Between the Sheets and Exile on Badstreet podcasts. Karl and Kris discuss growing up in the south and watching pro wrestling and how it was part of the culture. Kris gives Karl a great history lesson on the boom period…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Wrestlers in the movies
Remember when a pro wrestler being in a movie was a big deal? Well, the days of Jesse Ventura, Hulk Hogan, Terry Funk, and Roddy Piper are behind us and wrestlers frequently appear in films now, including Batista in one of the biggest movie franchises of the last decade! Join host Karl Stern as he…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Early days of internet radio
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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: An interview with Karl, pt. 2
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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: An interview with Karl
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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Ranking wrestlers
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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Early UFC
Image: DragonKingKarl.com On today’s show, host Karl Stern talks about covering the early UFC shows as a press reporter, along with his experiences with people like Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, Gary Goodrich, and taking a famous photo of one of the few known worked finishes in UFC history. Learn about the inner workings of the…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Modern pro wrestling
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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: WCW Uncensored 1995
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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Part two with Eric Darsie
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…