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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 get his revenge from WrestleMania VI on the Ultimate Warrior. They couldn’t even set themselves on fire properly during this fiasco. Let’s take a look back.

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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 star. Plus, Tony Atlas, Harley Race, Nick Bockwinkel, Sgt. Slaughter, Bob Backlund, and more!

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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 villain after villain. A year earlier he had even defeated the big Russian brute Ivan Koloff.

But in 1971, Koloff got his revenge with a knee drop off the top rope and the referee hit the three count. Madison Square Garden stopped in dead silence as a new WWWF Champion was crowned. Let’s talk about it.

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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 title to Ric Flair. Thus, this episode begins the first reign by Ric Flair as World Champion. Plus, Jimmy Valiant in Memphis and much more!

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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 with Vince McMahon and WWE, grocery store work during a pandemic, and much more.

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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 featuring Sting, Ricky Steamboat Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs. The Dangerous Alliance (Rick Rude, Larry Zbyszko, Steve Austin, Bobby Eaton & Arn Anderson). FIVE STARS or so they say. Let’s talk about it.

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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. Slaughter vs. Pat Patterson, Ken Patera, Bob Backlund, and much more!

Be sure to also check out the 1981 wrestling timeline at https://www.whenitwascool.com/history-of-wrestling-1981.

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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 pre-Raven, and Ricky Steamboat is cheating on his wife and DDP knows about it I guess. Lord. WCW.

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Today we take a look back at another bright idea Vince McMahon had. In an era where the federal government was trying to put him in prison for dealing steroids and the WWF public imagine was at an all time low, Vince decided to promote his own bodybuilding federation full of jacked up dudes. Go big or go home. This is the story of the WBF — the World Bodybuilding Federation.

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