Ricky Jackson

It's confusing, but as far as I know there wasn't a physical WWWF US title, and Bobo never defended it. He was just billed as US champ for years, and he was the Detroit US champ off and on for years at the same time

Never in in WWWF/WWF though

Warms my heart that Frankie Williams was a crowd favorite to the Hamburg faithful, always getting a small roar when he's introduced

Man, I wonder if Iron Sheik had to go by Great Hussein Arab in WWF because Arion was the billed as the Iron Greek. I've always wondered why he used a different name there and was Sheik everywhere else

And Stasiak vs Maivia from 2/11/78 is nice little short brawl

Dear God, I'm the same age as Stan Stasiak in early 1978

Uh, did Riccochet's debut get edited out of tonight's show?

Ciampa getting motherfucking heel heat in 2018

More gold on this show: Frank Williams signing an autograph for a fan before his match

BOB BACKLUND VS BARON SCICLUNA!!! (1/28/78) Ok, Titans is coming back. Auditions to replace Parv start tomorrow at 5pm sharp

Mr. Fuji's Kamikaze clothesline was badass

Speaking of bad hair/toupee, what the fuck is going on with Rocca?

Yeah, that's probably it For those interested in such things, 11/12/77 features a very early appearance of the legendary jobber team Johnny Rodz and Jose Estrada (the future Medicos in Puerto Rico). Wrestlingdata actually doesn't have an earlier date for them teaming together

Does anyone know what Rocca always calls Vince? Sounds like he is saying "General"

Johnny Rodz vs Frank Williams from 3/20/76 is like some kind of jobber dream match

BAD COMPANY

Episode 26 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-26 September 4, 1982 ((WCCW 37) JAY SALDI LIVES!!! (And Johnny Sorrow is pissed off) Last week we pretty much said goodbye to everyone's favorite back-up Tight End, but he's back, and he's got a lot to say about wrestlers from other territories and internationally! Meet Jumbo "Tsnuka", Bob "Blacklund", and "Rodney" Piper, some of the biggest stars in the world! Also on the show... -Bugsy "Mr. USA" (???) McGraw and a returning David Von Erich -Good Ol' Al bringing his usual ** game (or at least Kelly thinks so) -Perhaps the worst wrestling music video ever: "The Many Faces of the Great Kabuki" -A hopelessly mundane main event between King Kong Bundy/Bill Irwin and Brian Adidas/Sal Alavarez World Cast: Our hosts have been reviewing several decades old mediocre wrestling since 2013! *Be sure to keep the pod playing after the closing theme for a little bonus*

Glad to see people enjoying the All Star drop. As a long time fan of this era, I never thought I would see the day when PWO would go gaga over 70s WWWF. And this is just the "B" show stuff!

Yeah, loved that main event tag from the lone 75 show. I watched three episodes yesterday, and I forgot how good some of the matches on the TV could be. Since they had less time to work with, most of the non-squash matches are often worked at a much faster pace than a lot of long, plodding undercard matches from MSG and the Spectrum from the same time featuring the same talent. Even a bout between two guys lost to time like Frank Monte and Francisco Flores from the same 75 show is worthwhile. Rodz vs SD Jones from 11/4/78 is also good

I'm not sure how much of it is on this footage. The turn angle happened on Championship Wrestling, although they may have replayed it on All Star. Not sure how many of the awesome promos are here either. All the big matches happened at MSG, Spectrum and Shea of course

Cappetta was an easy target because of his nerdy demeanor. Back in the early 90s me and my friends used to razz the announcer for our local promotion mostly because he was nerdy, which of course is hilarious because we were the dorks going to wrestling shows when it was pretty uncool

Thanks dude

5/17/80 ep includes the legendary Bob Backlund vs El Olympico "exhibition match" we reviewed on Titans years ago. Everyone needs to see this

https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/mount-olympus-winter-2018-a-brief-history-of-pop-music-and-pro-wrestling-in-the-1980s Mount Olympus is back! On this edition Kelly and Johnny, the Golden Lovers of wrestling podcasters, get together to talk about the amazing fusion of pop music with pro wrestling in the 1980s! Among the myriad of topics discussed... - Lord Landsdowne: Innovator of the musical entrance - Gorgeous George and Pomp and Circumstance - The Freebirds change the game - Music in Mid South, Memphis, WCCW and the Carolina's - Hulk Hogan, Eye of the Tiger, and the Rock and Wrestling Connection - Plus much, much more Crank it up and enjoy another fun episode of Mount Olympus!

Sean suggested a thread so here you go. Drop day is Monday. Let's talk some WWWF!