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When It Was Cool Wrestling (DragonKingKarl)

Sep 26, 2022

Ultimo Dragon was one of my favorite pro wrestlers, so this show was a lot of fun to put together. Ultimo Dragon was a standout Japanese junior heavyweight wrestler who also had influence in Mexico and the United States as well. He was important to the WCW Cruiserweight division, and an innovator inside the ring. This...


Sep 22, 2022

Tiger Mask revolutionized pro wrestling. The style he developed in the 1980s, along with Dynamite Kid, is a style of wrestling that still has influence today. Join pro wrestling historian Karl Stern (DragonKingKarl) as he looks back at revolutionary wrestler Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) and the various Tiger Mask...


Sep 19, 2022

He was the last great truly dangerous feeling wrestler. Scott Steiner was a loose cannon on the mic and in the ring in WCW. Following a stellar tag team career with his brother Rick Steiner, Scott forged a new path as the Superstar Billy Graham look-a-like with a foul mouth and jakked to the gills in WCW and later TNA....


Sep 17, 2022

This is an audio documentary about the wrestling career of "Hustler" Rip Rogers.  Rogers worked all over the world in the 1970s-80s including most of the major U.S. territories, Japan, a memorable feud with Adrian Street and Austin Idol in Alabama, Stampede in Canada, and much more.


Sep 13, 2022

We close out the 1800s at New York's Madison Square Garden by look at the only pro wrestling show held there in 1898 and then there appears to have been none in 1899 and resumes again in 1900. Ernest Rober has returned and we find out that he is the hand picked champion for William Muldoon. We also discover clues as...