Don Muraco’s Magnificent Podcast

This week, The Magnificent Muraco finishes his deep dive into the AWA by talking for over an hour and a half of such luminaries as Ric Flair, Ken Patera, The Iron Sheik, Bobby Bruggers, Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell, Ivan Koloff, The Big K Walter Kowalski, Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, Billy Robinson, Da Crusher, Dick The Bruiser, Blackjack Mulligan and Lanza, The Destroyer Dick Beyer, Red Bastien, Dennis Stamp, Moose Cholak, George "Scrap Iron" Gedaski, Rene Goulet, Joe Scarpello and MORE! Elsewhere, The Original Rock also talks about the greatest referees of all time, why he left the AWA in 1973 and what caused the AWA's downfall. Enjoy!

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This week, The Magnificent One tackles one of the very final major shows he would appear on as the replacement for the ailing Superstar Billy Graham - WWF Survivor Series 1987. Topics tackled in this episode include Don's appearance on soap opera Search For Tomorrow, the WWF vs NWA pay-per-view wars, Jesse "The Body" Ventura and unionising pro wrestling, why Mean Gene Okerlund is the greatest ever backstage interviewer, Harley Race's ridiculous King gimmick, Fabulous Moolah's control over her girls, Sherri Martel, the greatest WWF tag teams from the 1980s, why The Young Stallions were held down, Dino Bravo's cigarette smuggling enterprise, Ken Patera's final WWF run, Rick Rude's bag of Mexican dirt weed, Slick, One Man Gang and probably even more! Enjoy!

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The man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour! He's the ladies pet and the men's regret! Don Muraco dedicates an entire show to his former manager and all round colourful character and trend setter, Superstar Billy Graham. In addition to the Superstar, Magnificent Muraco talks about the best bodies in old school wrestling, how Jimmy Snuka almost never worked out, Classy Freddie Blassie and Rikidozan, Wahoo McDaniel, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, his WWE 2004 Hall of Fame induction and the question every wrestling fan wants to know; who had the largest arms in the WWF: Magnificent Muraco or "The Incredible" Hulk Hogan?

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This week's episodes of Don Muraco's Magnificent Podcast sees The Rock take us back to the first territory where he made a name for himself : Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association. In this first of a two part look at the AWA, Muraco discusses everything from Verne Gagne as a boss to filming The Wrestler, from Ivan Koloff to Nick Bockwinkel, Mad Dog Vachon to the boss's son Greg Gagne, Larry Hennig to Curt Hennig and even more. Enjoy!

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Better late than never, this special bonus edition of Don Muraco’s Magnificent Podcast poses more of YOUR questions for The Rock to answer. On this episode, Don tackles Dominic DeNucci’s passing, CM Punk’s return to wrestling, why he was not eligible for the Vietnam War draft, Iron Mike Sharpe’s OCD, the time he shared a honeymoon suite with Roddy Piper, Abdullah the Butcher’s forehead scars, Stu Hart’s disgusting culinary habits, why he was never considered to be WWF Champion, Buddy Roberts of The Fabulous Freebirds, how he and Greg Valentine are STILL tag team champions of somewhere in the Midwest, Big John Studd’s supposed heat with Andre the Giant and ACTUAL heat with Mr Fuji, the Nick Bockwinkel confrontation that saw him fired from the WWF, why WCW never called him, heat with George Scott and wrestling “Wildfire” Tommy Rich! Enjoy!

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The-now monthly tradition returns for its third installment, where Magnificent Muraco answers YOUR questions for over an hour! In this episode we find out why he regrets calling Pat Patterson BORING, the greatest wrestlers Don has ever seen, who came up with the Ricky Steamboat hanging angle, why Salvatore Bellomo tried to attack Tiger Chung Lee, why Hillbilly Jim's potential main event career came to a screeching halt, why his son Joe got into wrestling, why he talked pidgin to Tito Santana, if he got royalties for his action figures and merchandise, what injuries he picked up in wrestling, why he doesn't travel anymore, why Andre the Giant decided to teach Bam Bam Bigelow a wrestling lesson, why Ivan Putski had locker room heat, why Tom Magee didn't work in the WWF, how to throw the perfect working punch and more! Enjoy!

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The Magnificent Muraco is back once again to sooth your troubled minds with over an hour and a half of wrestling tales from the past. This week, The Rock tackles maybe the biggest and most influential single event in wrestling history, WWF WrestleMania III from the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan. Among the stories told this week include the fall of the Detroit territory, the only time he saw Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat get angry, backstage at the Pontiac Silverdome, why everybody loved Bob Eucker, the real reason he wore that bandage around his thigh for the opening match of the show, hanging around with Haiti Kid, Junk Yard Dog memories, Roddy Piper’s obsession with the movie business, Koko B Ware fighting it out with Paul Roma, the Steamboat vs. Savage classic, Whether Iron Sheik vs. B Brian Blair was a work, Andre the giant get loaded BEFORE the matches, Hulk Hogan claiming he didn’t know the outcome of the WrestleMania III main event, Bobby Heenan’s tainted dollar bill and also a tribute to “The Assassin” Jody Hamilton. Enjoy!

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Don Muraco returns to Championship Wrestling from Florida for the second of two parts on Eddie Graham's territory, with discussion on Hiro Matsuda's leg-breaking wrestling training, a young Hulk Hogan, Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie, Don's star-making heel run as "The Magnificent M", making Barry Windham a main event star, the NWA's reluctance to put the Heavyweight Title on young up and coming wrestlers, the annual Las Vegas conferences, Bob Brazil and Bearcat Wright, Mike Graham and KEvin Sullivan, Jos LeDuc, Jerry Lawler, wrestling Terry Garvin in PRISON, weird little Mel Phillips, the second episode of Florida Firing Line and why Uncle Elmer was covered in pig p*ss while filming "The Land of 1,000 Dances" video. Enjoy!

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A day late but not a dollar short, Don Muraco's Magnificent Podcast returns with another two part episode, this time focusing on one of the most significant territories in The Rock's career: Eddie Graham's Championship Wrestling from Florida.

Among the topics covered in this show include why he ended up leaving Roy Shire's San Francisco territory for Florida, the first time meeting Eddie Graham, Bill Watts' role in the promotion in the 1970s, why Don never went to Mid-South, the various vehicles he would travel across the country wrestling in, Pak Song's ridiculous punching power, Gary Hart's blade, Superstar Billy Graham's promos, why Dick Murdoch and Dusty Rhodes REALLY fell out, how Dick Slater ended up permanently damaging his brain, Jack and Jerry Brisco's runs in Florida and the story of leaving the WWF so abruptly, Archie "The Mongolian Stomper" Gouldie's incredible heat, Nikolai Volkoff knocking out Manny Fernandez, Steve "Donk" Rackman's lack of hygiene, Bobby Jaggers' penchant for making up stories and probably even more! Also, Don talks about how WWE is ruining Bobby Lashley's drawing power, the returns of Goldberg and John Cena and also reveals the hardest object that a fan threw at his head. Enjoy!

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Once again, The Magnificent Muraco answerss YOUR questions in Ask Muraco Anything 2 from: Verne Gagne's AWA training camps to his opinion of Vince Russo, Dean Ho to Brawl For All, Dino Bravo to Lars Anderson, Mil Mascaras to Paul Orndorff, the night before WrestleMania IV to surfing the Pacific Ocean and from Macho Man Randy Savage allegedly locking Miss Elizabeth in locker rooms and closets to sharing hotels with his most hated on-screen rivals. Enjoy!

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