Where the Big Boys Play #58 / Wrestling Eye Podcast #2

[JerryvonKramer]

http://placetobenation.com/where-the-big-b...the-uk-special/

 

 

Chad and Parv join with Allan Blackstock of the Wrestling Eye Podcast and welcome guests including wrestling historian, writer and author John Lister, and, from the UKFan Forum, Ring Announcer for Welsh Wrestling, Gareth Maybury (aka Butchreed Mark).

 

Topics include:

 

- run down of WoS wrestling and its history

- the story of how US Wrestling came to the UK - how it got on TV

- how the landscape in the UK changed

- thoughts on Summerslam 1992 and much more!

 

This is a joint episode with the Wrestling Eye podcast. You can find their show here: http://wrestlingeye.libsyn.com/

 

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[bradhindsight]

The subtitle to this episode needs to be Twain's A (Georgia) Yankee in King Arthur's Court

[Lee]

To paraphrase what I told Allan on Twitter, this show was basically like two hours of listening to other people recall every single one of my own personal memories of growing up as a US wrestling fan in the UK in the early 90s. Great stuff.