Ricky Jackson

This looks interesting. Coincidentally, Johnny Sorrow and I will be looking at the year 1966 on an upcoming Mount Olympus podcast

Episode 47 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-47 February 26, 1983 (WCCW 61) With episode 60 seemingly lost to time, the boys march on to episode 61, and oh boy is it a big one! We get not one, not two, but THREE massive, game changing debuts, folks: -Iceman Parsons: He's cool as hell and Armand Hussein doesn't stand a chance -Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin and Sunshine: He doesn't want to be filmed but she likes to film people (and was she hanging around the Spectrum in 1979 by chance?) -"The Man", General Akbar: Devastation Inc. now has a leader and he's dangerous Plus we get a little match, just THE FREEBIRDS VS THE VON ERICH'S FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER as our main event. Yeah, this ain't 1982 anymore

I thought Meltzer was a big Memphis fan back in the day, no?

Hahaha

Episode 46 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-46-a-quick-one February 12, 1983 (WCCW 59) All that remains from this episode appears to be Ric Flair vs Terry Gordy for the NWA title. That's good enough for the boys though, since who needs more Armand Hussein, amirite? So sit back and listen to a review of a match not found on the Network. Here's the YouTube link https://youtu.be/Hg7t_PDyYcU That's all for this week, because Skype and recording technology were being difficult. Next week we promise an exciting review of a show featuring the debuts of Iceman Parsons, Jimmy Garvin and General Akbar!

Holy crap was there some serious heat during the pre-match introductions. Wizard pelted with garbage. Pedro as beloved as Bruno in MSG. Fun match. Mulligan green but super over as a heel. Great size differential to make Pedro look even more impressive in victory. Worked at a brisk pace for the time. Pedro was a pretty strong babyface at this point, much more impressive than 10 years later as IC champ when he was often phoning it in

Episode 45 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-45 February 5, 1983 (WCCW 58) The Freebirds are takin' ovah! NWO, eat your heart out, the 'Birds have a ton of gold and are running the Sportatorium by the end of the show. Things are not looking good for our heroes, that's for sure! Also on this episode... -The Great Yatsu continues to impress, and perhaps inspires Brian Adias to start looking for a new territory in the process -More change in Dallas, as THE Checkmate departs (unfortunately after a mess of a match with David) -Lunch with the Freebirds -A hot main event between Kevin and Terry Gordy for the American title

Throw out the Hell in the Cell stupidity bookending things, this was a very good show

Awful

And some say the NWA title match at All In was overbooked

Great match

Total Divas: we've come a long way baby

How does anyone follow that? Seriously, one of the dumbest finishes I've ever seen

Well, I've never seen that before, if nothing else

I think a lot of old promoters like Watts valued the Observer as a directory for other territories, which was important back in the days of slower communication, and that's why they subscribed more than anything

I collected Wrestling Eye at the time and was only 9/10 years old. I remember feeling it was different than the other mags but not being sophisticated enough to understand a lot of the content. It was where I learned Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo were brothers, which felt like privileged information at the time because it was never mentioned on WWF TV

Awesome

Too bad his work in 82-83 is channel-changing bad, looks like he had an interesting career

I think he means Snuka's loss to Muraco was designed to make Snuka less over so that Hogan could come in and be the number 1 guy, which doesn't even make sense because Snuka came out of that loss more over after the Superfly Splash off the cage

Episode 44 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-44 January 29, 1983 (WCCW 57) 1982 feels more and more like a distant memory as the boys review a fairly exciting episode of WCCW. Among the highlights... -The Great Yatsu debuts and he's awesome (despite being saddled with Armand Hussein) -Hayes and Lothario rip it up in the best time limit draw ever (OK, slight exaggeration) -Bundy and Mercer: Underrated comedy duo -Farewell to Bugsy and Good Ol' Al, maybe -Also, who was the best heel in wrestling in 1983? World Cast: Now in 4th place and only 8 games out

Incredible match. Great story. Fast-paced. Hot crowd. Dream plays mind games on Gargano, taunting him as "Johnny Failure". Gargano slowly becomes more and more frustrated throughout the match as he is unable to finish off Dream, to the point he's on the brink of snapping and becoming no better than his arch foe Ciampa. The referee talks Gargano back to reality, and in a great moment, Gargano embraces his young mega-fan at ringside whose heart would be broken if his hero went bad. It was all for naught though as Gargano, still not focused, is then suckered in by Dream and finished off for a clean win Loved this match. Great action and great drama, similar to the tag between Moustache Mountain and UE from a few months back. Huge win for Dream and another chapter in the long Gargano saga going back more than a year when he returned to TV after Ciampa turned on him. It can only end with him finally vanquishing Ciampa and finally winning the NXT title, right? ****1/2

I've been out of town and just got around to seeing it, but holy crap Gargano vs Dream was freakin' great. Where's the love PWO?

Great stuff, Marty! I would expect no less than 64 volumes for your life's work, brother