It ain’t Allentown, but Hamburg, Pennsylvania will have to do as this week features a look at WWF All Star Wrestling from May 17, 1980!

- Bob Backlund vs El Olympico in a bizarre “exhibition of wrestling holds” as VINCE MCMAHON delights in scientific wrestling

- The future problem Larry Z would have coming out of the Bruno feud

- Ken Patera as a God among men in 1980 even beyond the WWF

- Hulk Hogan being better in ’80 than remembered even as the promotion would prefer people forget his main feud that year

- Lots of Bruno Sammartino commentary: on Mexican wrestling, arrogant heels, fat people, Larry Z and more!

- Tor Kamata and his comical real name

- Steve King and the same name game

- 1980 Wrestler kneepad watch

Plus:

- One wiseacre in Hamburg has some advice for Backlund and Olympico

- Autograph seekers at the TV tapings and their fascination with job guys

- Sitcoms that did exactly 117 episodes

- Hulk Hogan: golfer?

- Sports moments of 2017: A first in Major League Baseball, 10 home runs in one game, and an obsession with the final play of regulation from Super Bowl 51

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