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In my rotation of classic pro wrestling topics here on the DragonKingKarl Show, we are back to my Greatest Kayfabe Tournament.
In this round, we have two very different pro wrestlers from two different eras, but both are legends in Japan: Bruiser Brody vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi.
The listeners have voted and we have a winner.
I talk about the careers of these two legends, plus one listener even matched this up in WWE2K. Who won? Listen and find out.
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On this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, I present the saga of Manny Fernandez — an old school wrestler who has told a lot of tales.
Fernandez has the reputation of being, how can I put this, a perpetual liar. I am going to examine three of the most-often repeated tales:
You’ll be surprised by both the fantasy and the truth on this week’s show.
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The next match in the ongoing Greatest Kayfabe Tournament has been voted on by you, the listener.
In this episode, we look at one of the greatest wrestlers in history in Lou Thesz and one of the greatest brawlers and wildmen in history in Bruiser Brody.
The two have some history together, but Thesz was from a generation earlier. How did you think Thesz’s mat skill would hold up against the sheer chaos of Brody? Plus, I give you some interesting background bits on both, and the two times they actually shared the ring together.
Professional wrestling has had its share of tragedy, accidents, and true crime over its lengthy American history but July, as it seems, has historically been the worst month of all.
A major superstar comes to America and is the darling of the press, spawning imitators for decades later and literally goes down with the ship. Then, there’s car wrecks, freak boating accidents, and even murder.
July is a month that pro wrestlers should take extra caution with. Hear why and more on this week’s episode of DragonKing Dark.
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With Viceland’s new six-part wrestling documentary series ‘Dark Side of The Ring‘ set to kick off this week, I wanted to know everything about it from the creation to the execution.
That’s why I tracked down series co-creator and producer Evan Husney for a near hour-long conversation that will give you pretty much everything you want to know and then some. Among the avenues we went down:
– His background in film and where his pro wrestling fandom came from
– How the initial pitch for the series came to be
– How they pared down all of their ideas to six with descriptions and insights on all of them
– What it will take to make a second season
– Whether they ran into resistance with wrestlers talking to them or with footage they used
– My thoughts on the Bruiser Brody episode you can watch for free now
– Whether his view on wrestling documentaries changed after making this series…and a lot more.
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Today, host Karl Stern is back with a doubleheader, a two-part Lex Luger biography.
Show number one covers his early career coming out of the USFL as a pro football player into Florida wrestling and his training with Hiro Matsuda during his early days there.
Luger was pushed to the moon from the start and was a champion in the first month of his career. Working with some of the best of the era from the beginning like Wahoo McDaniel, Barry Windham, and Ric Flair, and covered extensively by the Apter Magazines, many dubbed Luger as the next Hulk Hogan.
As Luger was leaving the area to go to Jim Crockett Promotions, he was involved in a surreal match against Bruiser Brody inside a steel cage that much mystery still surrounds to this day.
Luger was quickly added to the Four Horsemen when he arrived to work for Crockett.
In the first five years of his career, Luger had gotten one of the biggest pushes in wrestling history. Yet Luger remains, to this day, much maligned and perhaps misunderstood.
This is a doubleheader so look for part two covering his WWF career and later WCW run, plus his tumultuous life after wrestling.
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 Rico before his untimely death in 1988 at the hands of Jose “The Invader 1” Gonzalez. Until his death by stabbing in 1988, he was one of the biggest business stars in the world. In Japan, it was reported that at times he made in excess of $14,000 per week. It is impossible to tell the tale of recent biography focuses like Stan “The Lariat” Hansen and Abdullah the Butcher without also telling the story of Bruiser Brody.
Attached to this show is a special audio bonus feature! Karl recorded an audio companion for the Super Stern Stick Flash Drive based on issue 35 of the DragonKing Press Newsletter. That issue dealt with the death of Brody as told by some of the people that were there or later talked to Jose Gonzalez including Tony Atlas (the closest thing to an eyewitness), Dutch Mantell, and “Nightmare” Ken Wayne.
I hope you enjoy this show and a detailed look at the crazy life and untimely death of Bruiser Brody.
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