Tag: july marathon
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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…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Eric Darsie
On this episode of the July Classic Wrestling marathon, host Karl Stern is joined by Eric Darsie of the Wrestling With The Dawg podcast to discuss a later era of wrestling than Karl normally covers. Eric grew up a generation later than Karl and his golden era was the WWF Attitude Era and the Monday…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: AWA World title
Karl Stern goes solo for today’s show and talks the history of the AWA World Heavyweight title. Karl has done a couple of series on the history of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in the past, but, for the first time, he is tackling the top title for Verne Gagne’s AWA. How and why did the…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Part three with Beau James
This show wraps up my conversation with author, wrestler, promoter, and historian “King of Kingsport” Beau James. We continue our look at Continental Championship Wrestling, southern pro wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and East Tennessee wrestling. Beau recently appeared on the HBO Vice News show after a story about one of his students went viral and brought a…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Beau James returns
This episode continues my discussion with Tennessee wrestling expert Beau James. On this show we talk our favorite pro wrestling company — Continental Championship Wrestling. Beau knows everything there is to know about the Knoxville involvement in Continental and we talk the prime era of that promotion and names like Kevin Sullivan, Ron Fuller, Jimmy…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Beau James
On this episode, we begin a series of conversations with a southern wrestler, promoter, and author. He and one of his wrestlers also went viral recently in a national news story about Appalachian wrestling and politics. He will be featured in an upcoming HBO piece as well. This episode features my friend and southern wrestling historian…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Missing Midnight Express
Happy Independence Day! Today’s episode is a solo show where host Karl Stern talks about the interesting quandary of the Midnight Express in the Hall of Fame. Most people know that Dennis Condrey, Bobby Eaton, and Stan Lane are in the Hall of Fame as the Midnight Express, but there are actually two other major and original…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Day three with Sempervive
This is the third and final segment of my conversation with Mike Sempervive. In this portion of our conversation we discuss the current state of pro wrestling and why we actually think wrestling is in a new golden age of sorts. How is modern wrestling even better than old school wrestling in some ways? And how…