Jonathan Hood hosts Tuesday Wrestling Tuesday and talks about WWE's decision to move NXT from the WWE Network to the USA Network on Wednesday Night's to oppose All - Elite Wrestling on TNT this fall.

Hood also talks about the amount of anger from the internet wrestling community at Jim Cornette.

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19:00- JR Bang - First Black Champ Podcaster on pro wrestling

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Jonathan Hood reflects on the passing of Memphis/NWA wrestling legend, Eddie Marlin.

You will hear from his dear friend, Randy Hales, longtime Memphis wrestling promoter, Jim Cornette, pro wrestling manager/promoter/podcaster and more.

One of the greatest babyfaces in the history of Tennessee wrestling, Eddie Marlin, died today, just days after his 89th birthday. He was one of the few to say that he sold out the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis -- and in the match, he and Al Greene essentially worked a front facelock for 55 minutes.

Marlin described the sellout bout a few years back on an podcast of Booking Memphis Wrestling with Jerry Jarrett.

"I was in there with Al and and Al got a front facelock on me, and somehow, one way or another, when he did, I bit my lip and it started bleeding, bleeding pretty good. And the people thought that from that front facelock that it was coming from my throat -- and I mean, them people, they really, really got feeling sorry for me," recalled Marlin. "And we worked that front facelock, it seemed like forever, because the people just kept standing and standing and standing, and finally he backed me into the corner, and when he stepped back, I fell down and that was our call then, a small package, or jackknife, and I pinned him one, two three, and that Coliseum went wild along with me."

Jarrett, who was Marlin's son-in-law, raved about the bout. "Eddie and Al were so good that they worked one hold for about 55 minutes. I was afraid the time limit was going to run out on them because we set it up that Al would give Eddie a pretty good beating and Eddie would sneak a win in. It was just an amazing match to me, that somebody could keep the fans' interest for 55 minutes, with one hold. It was amazing."

It worked because the fans believed in Marlin, who was not huge, at roughly 6-foot, 200 pounds, and wasn't in especially awe-inspiring shape.

"Eddie was a really, really good babyface. The fans loved him and took to him, whatever situation you put him in," said Jarrett. And there was little ego there either, even if Billy Spears once spray-painted "Big Shot" on Marlin's car.

Eddie Marlin was born August 13, 1930, to Eddie and Annie Mai Marlin, in Nashville. His siblings included sisters Anna and Peggy, and a brother, Thomas, who also got into the wrestling business.

In a 1979 interview in the TNT Power newsletter published by Terry Justice, Marlin recalled breaking into the business in the early 1950s.

"The way I got started, I was working in Nashville and met some wrestlers at the 'Y' and worked out with them. One night [promoter[ Nick Gulas was running a spot show in Alabama and one of the wrestlers didn't show up, so I took his place. I had been going to matches all my life," he explained.

The legendary Jackie Fargo saw something in Marlin. Early in his career, Marlin lost to Fargo, and Fargo called promoter Nick Gulas and said, "Eddie's a pretty good hand. Why don't you help him out some?"

Much of Marlin's success came in tag teams, and he won belts in Arkansas and Kentucky, as well as his home state.

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Jonathan Hood talks to KC Joyner, WWE pro wrestling/Fantasy Football writer, about NXT and Summerslam emanating from Toronto, Ontario last weekend.

Hood and Joyner discuss the good and bad of both shows and the direction for both brands. They also discuss the late Harley Race, 8X NWA Champion.

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Time Cues: 0:00- 16:30- Hood on NWA announcement, NXT Takeover and Summerslam

16:30- Hood and Joyner talk about Harley Race, SummerSlam and NXT Takeover

Tessa Blanchard, Impact Wrestling star joined Jonathan Hood to discuss the her career in pro wrestling, the state of Impact Wrestling, her biggest influences, inter-gender matches and much more!

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Impact Wrestling star, Tessa Blanchard joined Jonathan Hood to discuss the state of Impact Wrestling, her career so far, Bound For Glory Pay-per-view coming to Chicagoland on October 20th at the Odeum- Villa Park and much more.

Sean Farnham, ESPN college basketball analyst and HUGE pro wrestling fan appeared on the show to discuss WWE's Summerslam, AEW and more!

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TWT Cues:

0:00- 15:00 - Hood on AEW and Summer Slam

15:00 - 49:12- Sean Farnham on Summerslam/WWE

49:13- 1:03;44 Tessa Blanchard on Impact Wrestling

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Jonathan Hood was joined by Kris Zellner on the passing of Harley Race. They discussed Harley's career as NWA Champion, his run with WWF, booking in Central States Wrestling in Kansas City and much more.

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Former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race referred to himself as "The Greatest Wrestler on God's Green Earth" and with good reason. After winning three AWA World Tag Team Championships, the NWA World Team Championship and becoming the first United States Champion, Race won no less than seven NWA World Heavyweight Championships. The Handsome One won those titles from WWE Hall of Famers, Dory Funk, Jr., Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair. Race's seven reigns stood as a record number of World Heavyweight Title reigns until Ric Flair won his eigth in 1991. To this day, only a handful of men can claim to have won more World Heavyweight Championships than Harley Race and none would dare claim they are tougher.

During the 1970s and early '80s, Race was the NWA's most dominant champion, representing the sport's oldest World Heavyweight Title with pride and defending it all over the world with his raw-boned and rugged mat style. His impact in sports-entertainment was so great that WWE made Race the first NWA World Heavyweight Champion to engage in historic title unification matches against WWE Champions like "Superstar" Billy Graham and Bob Backlund.

Race finally joined WWE full-time during the company's national expansion, and was introduced to a new generation of sports-entertainment fans worldwide as "The King" Harley Race. Clad in regal robes and a crown, he faced the late Junkyard Dog in a memorable encounter at WrestleMania III in front of over 93,000 fans at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan and was the one of the earliest King of the Ring tournament winners in 1986, years before that event became an annual pay-per-view spectacular.

Harley Race was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 and is still regarded as one of the most legitimately toughest men in sports-entertainment history.

Jonathan Hood talks to former pro wrestler and current Impact Wrestling producer, D'Lo Brown about Impact Wrestling. Impact is coming to The Odeum in Villa Park, Illinois in October for their Bound for Glory pay-per-view event.

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Jonathan Hood discusses today's breaking news about the start date and time for All-Elite Wrestling on TNT in October.

Jonathan also discusses the 5 things he likes about AEW and 5 things that the company must work on before their debut on TNT.

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Dave LaGreca, host of Busted Open Radio on Sirius XM talked to Jonathan Hood about the state of the WWE and what we can expect from AEW.

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Jay Lethal, ROH pro wrestler, joined Jonathan Hood on Tuesday Wrestling Tuesday in an conversation from 2016. Lethal talks about his goals in pro wrestling and lot more.

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