Nov 22, 2022
Episode 80 of the Long Form History of Wrestling podcast with Karl Stern is a news packed edition. Matt Borne is busted in Ohio for sexual assault of a minor and that isn't even close to the biggest news. Nancy Argentino is killed, allegedly by Jimmy Snuka in a hotel room the same night that Eddie Gilbert breaks his...
Nov 19, 2022
Tiny Lister... Oh, what can we say about Tiny Lister? He was a character actor playing the heavy tough guy roles in many movies, then Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan came up with a movie of their own- No Holds Barred and cast Lister in the role of antagonist to Hulk Hogan's character. Then they crossed it over into the...
Nov 16, 2022
On this pro wrestling biography by Karl Stern, we take a look at The Yeti! A seven foot tall mummy (apparently NOT a Yeti or YET-TAY as Tony Schiavonie would say). Ron Reis would have an absolute identity crisis in WCW. He would be a Big John Studd knock-off, an Abominable Snowman dressed as a mummy, an Abominable...
Nov 9, 2022
DragonKingKarl continues his recent biographical series, today looking at Sean "X-Pac" Waltman. Karl saw Waltman's entire wrestling career, reading about his earliest days in PWA, watching him in Global, and then seeing him explode onto the scene in WWF. X-Pac excelled despite not being stamped out of the big man...
Nov 4, 2022
Join pro wrestling historian Karl Stern as he discusses the life and career of one of his favorite wrestlers Steve Dr. Death Williams! A legend in the Mid-South for Bill Watts and later one of the best Americans in Japan during the peak of the glory days of All-Japan Pro Wrestling. A legit wrestler who crossed over into...