DragonKingKarl Karl Stern does a retro TV review of the June 13, 1987 edition of WWF Wrestling Challenge TV show featuring: Bobby Heenan, Kamala, Brutus Beefcake, Dusty Wolfe, Steve Lombardi, Junkyard Dog, Honky Tonk Man wins the WWF Intercontinental title from Ricky Steamboat, Bob Orton, Don Muraco, Billy Jack Hayes, Hillbilly Jim, and more!

Karl Stern takes a look back at the year end awards issue for 1981 from Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine featuring Ric Flair, Tommy Rich, Ken Patrea, Bob Backlund, The Freebirds, Andre the Giant, and many other wrestling greats during the territorial era of wrestling. PWI was a great magazine back in the day and Karl takes you back to an era where pro wrestling was everywhere.

This is a very interesting show where we play a call in sports show from Memphis, Tennessee where pro wrestling star Mario Galento went on during the height of kayfabe and exposed the wrestling business as worked, told stories on Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, and others, and talked of being blackballed from wrestling, and took some of the most amazing phone calls you'll ever hear.

Sgt. Slaughter has one of the most recognizable gimmicks of the 1980s and became a top star in Mid-Atlantic, WWF, AWA, and eventually even won the WWF World title in 1990s. He is also famous for licensing out his image to the G.I. Joe line of action figures, cartoons, and comic books. Host Karl Stern takes a look at the career of Sgt. Slaughter.

On this classic edition of the DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show host Karl Stern takes a look back at the career of The Assassin (Jody Hamilton). Hamilton headlined Madison Square Garden with his brother in the 1950s, was half of one of the most iconic traveling tag teams of the 1960s-1980s, wrestled as The Flame in the Southeast, and became an influential trainer. Join Karl with a look back at one of pro wrestling's greatest heels.

This show was popular over at Wrestling Observer and launched a series that continues to this day at WhenItWasCool.com. The long form history of pro wrestling looks at the origins and evolution of professional wrestling from it's earliest days to now. This is basically a college level course in how pro wrestling came to be and evolved around the world.

Wrestling historian Karl Stern - DragonKingKarl - takes a look at the career of the enforcer of the Four Horsemen Arn Anderson. From his earliest days in Georgia Championship Wrestling, Mid-South, and Southeastern to his masked gimmick of Super Olympia, to his evolution into one of the best mic and mat men of the 1980s and 1990s. Arn Anderson, Ric Flair, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Barry Windham, and Lex Luger became the symbols of excellence in pro wrestling.