Tag: pioneer era

Karl Stern returns with a 1000 Hours podcast subseries on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show, answering a sponsor’s question: why should we study the pioneer era of pro wrestling and what relevance does it have to the modern era?

Well, I am glad you asked.

The mythology of the pioneer era and men like William Muldoon, Evan “Strangler” Lewis, Farmer Burns, and others is often misunderstood as the origin of mixed martial arts, catch wrestling, and the like belongs to that world.

While there are elements which do belong in that world, make no mistake that ninety percent of what happened back then influenced and began what we now recognize as worked American entertainment style pro wrestling.

I talk about that and more on this show and don’t forget to please pick up my book on the pioneer era: DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus.

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This is hour 74 of my DragonKingKarl 1000 Hours subseries looking back at the pre-Frank Gotch era of pro wrestling in the United States called the pioneer era.

This podcast is packed with big happenings taken from the pages of my latest book, DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era of Pro Wrestling Omnibus, available from Amazon.

The late 1870s saw the peak of the first Greco-Roman era of wrestling while collar and elbow was struggling. John McMahon and Col. James H. McLaughlin, the two biggest names of the time, had their three-match series. William Muldoon was on the rise and then, there’s the wild story of the fake Andre Christol.

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Thank you for joining me for my DKK podcast subseries all about the pre-1900 era of pro wrestling aka the era before Frank Gotch.

We are presently going through the pages of my DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus: The Bible of the Pioneer Era of Wrestling and have arrived in 1870 and the earliest version of “sports entertainment” is developing.

After having been brought over from France, French wrestlers are putting on a showy exhibition style of wrestling called Greco-Roman, but not the Greco-Roman you know today.

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My 1000 Hours subseries on the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show covers the pioneer era of pro wrestling with my DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus as our guide.

Col. James H. McLaughlin rules the American wrestling landscape, John McMahon and Homer Lane are trooping across the country, and wrestling is gain popularity from coast to coast. The rise of Prof. Thiebaud Bauer and Prof. William Miller and their brand of entertainment style wrestling is also sweeping the country, but the newspapers are starting to get weary of their antics.

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The pioneer era of pro wrestling is the origin and development of wrestling in the United States which ended in 1900 or pre-Frank Gotch. That’s why I wanted to begin a walk-through of my new book — DragonKingKarl’s Pioneer Era of Wrestling Omnibus — on this week’s show.

We dive even deeper into the stories in the book and really discuss the pioneer era in the deepest detail ever attempted.

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