Part two for episode 143 with a look at the 1992 Royal Rumble, with a detailed look at the 2nd half of the Royal Rumble match: the one booking flaw, pondering a Roddy Piper-Undertaker feud, the Macho Man’s mistake and the attempt to cover for it, and Sid Justice: the greatest genius of all time!

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Part one of two for episode 143 with a look at the 1992 Royal Rumble, quickly reviewing the four matches and a lengthier look at the Rumble match itself!

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Ring in Survivor Series season with this look at WWF Superstars from November 3, 1990!

- Young Dustin Rhodes tries to last 10 minutes with Ted DiBiase: diabolical plan, repeat of a successful angle, or both?

- Rick Martel as a model heel for the modern product

- Bobby Heenan and Brother Love beg for forgiveness

- Survivor Series team promos aplenty

- So what exactly IS a “Bushwhacker” anyway?

- Sgt. Slaughter’s role in the greatest bad match of all time

- The first broadcast for the Vince/Savage/Piper troika

- Demolition and their new gimp masks

Plus:

- Lessons learned on a Saturday night in the Boston area

- The funniest part about the angle with the Big Bossman’s mother

- Local promos for a Bunkhouse battle royal in Boston lead to some interesting references

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL Week 11!

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WrestleMania III is on the horizon in this look at WWF Superstars of Wrestling from February 21, 1987!

- The Honky Tonk Man appears on Jake Roberts’ Snake Pit and everyone’s fate changes forever

- The first Hart Foundation tag title defense on TV against the babyface Islanders

- Roddy Piper confirms the rumors of his pending retirement

- Extending the wrestling concept of “open contracts” the another sport

- Billy Jack Haynes as a dear friend of Hulk Hogan

- The forgotten 1987 WWF heel run of Salvatore Bellomo

- Audio comparison of the first Honky Tonk Man theme and an early Elvis Presley recording

- How important is Savage-Steamboat to the WM3 legacy?

- The Can-Am Connection’s busy night in the Meadowlands

Plus:

- Attending a Chaotic Wrestling show: returning gimmicks, homage to Goodfellas, and Italian dining

- Elizabeth cutting loose in an LJN figures commercial

- Hulk vs Andre predictions foreshadows the coming fissure in a WWF tag team

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL Week 10 (and one NCAA game)!

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Barely under the wire for Halloween is the final show before WCW’s 1991 Halloween Havoc, the October 27, 1991 edition of WCW Main Event!

- WCW’s bad luck with the World Series on that date

- Imagining a world where Kevin Nash stays as Oz and works Japan exclusively

- Madusa in a rare WCW women’s match, and is extremely pissed off for some reason

- Another extended appreciation for the great Johnny B. Badd

- Van Hammer’s 1991 push: a tribute to a Navy man or just annoying?

- The positive social implications of the Ron Simmons push

- Football as a driving force in the Luger/Simmons battle

- The big reason to never begrudge Mick Foley’s comebacks

Plus:

- Rebooting the Golden Girls with Missy Hyatt and Madusa

- Scenes from a Long Island baptism

- Memories of Jim Ross’ old WSB radio show

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 9!

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It’s time to check in with Cowboy Bill Watts for some Mid-South Wrestling from June 24, 1982!

- Ted DiBiase takes a necessary step in his career facing Junkyard Dog in one of the greatest storylines ever

- The wonderful misspelling of Killer Khan’s name

- Andre the Giant’s common interests with the late singer Amy Winehouse

- Wondering how Dr. Death Steve Williams didn’t break any stupid NCAA rules by being a pro wrestler

- The One Man Gang looking far more like Akeem

- Buck Robley, lengthy names, and Libya

- Seeing Big John Studd in a non-WWF setting

- The musings of Bill Watts: talking about his kids and crapping on Georgia

Plus:

- Advice on how to approach yard work

- Freddie Blassie’s older vocabulary

- Prince William vs Prince Harry, then and now

- Similarities between DiBiase/JYD and Bruno/Larry

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 8!

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We travel the road to the first King of the Ring PPV with a look at WWF Mania from May 8, 1993!

- Todd Pettengill brings his worst qualities to the table

- Tatanka saves Sherri from Bam Bam and gets a haircut for his trouble

- How Jim Duggan’s ’87 firing impacted Shawn Michaels

- The similarities between the Undertaker character and Star Wars

- Bob Backlund meets Lex Luger in a battle of former world champions

- A bizarre introduction from the Smoking Gunns

- Kamala goes it alone without Reverend Slick

- Mr. Perfect and Doink begin an unlikely series

Plus:

- Vince McMahon’s mid 90s calls of near falls

- Why Fred Savage is obviously superior to his brother Ben

- Pondering a change in the opening segment of the podcast

- A close call for the Phoenix Suns

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 7!

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Sting joins forces with fellow Horsemen Ric Flair and Arn Anderson for a red hot six man tag on the January 26, 1990 edition of NWA Power(rrrrrrrrrrrrr) Hour

- The eastern Tennessee crowd goes crazy for the short-lived incarnation of the Four Horsemen

- Jim Cornette cracks on the taping site, which would change the course of wrestling history

- Buzz Sawyer breaks the powerslam scale

- Jim Cornette pitches an angle for Ranger Ross, while Jim Ross picks on the Italian Stallion

- Terry Funk offers Sting some advice

- Diminishing returns from the Samoan Savage

- The mostly forgotten rap for WrestleWar ‘90

- Gordon Solie takes a dump on the Memphis territory

Plus:

- Weddings with accidental visits from mariachis

- The story of a man named Savage (not Randy)

- How the booking of Bud Bowls are kind of like recent vintage WWE

- Reflecting on a big week in current wrestling

- Positing an idea for a new Funk’s Grill set

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 6!

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

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With the wrestling world changing this week, the show goes back 35 years to the January 28, 1984 edition of WWF Championship Wrestling as a new world champion is crowned!

- Hulk Hogan’s title win over the Iron Sheik marks the start of a new era

- Sheiky deals with an untimely boner

- Paul Orndorff goes to a forbidden place talking about Hulk Hogan

- Roddy Piper launches Piper’s Pit at the expense of Victory Corner

- How The Hammer overlapped with his time in JCP

- How are telegrams being sent to the announcer’s desk in Allentown?

- Mr. Fuji’s refusal to tag with a different partner on this set of tapings

- Who was the best babyface IC champion of the 1980s?

- Tony Atlas vows to get “kinky”

- Just how boring can B. Brian Blair be?

Plus:

- A recap of a week in Alaska

- The importance of local promos

- Enjoying how Roddy Piper says the name “Tony Atlas”

- Hulk Hogan’s surprising tag team partner in New Japan from early ‘84

- Speculating on a movie career for Robert DeBord

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 5!

- Looking at some of the Super Bowl XVIII commercials from January 1984

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In this Greetings From Allentown special, the Arsenio Hall Show takes center stage with a look at three appearances by WWF wrestlers on the show!

- WWF Champion Randy “Macho Man” Savage appears in March 1989 to promote WrestleMania V and has entertaining interplay with the audience and a fellow guest

- Bad News Brown mixes it up with Arsenio in the summer of 1990 on topics like food, his attire, and the feud with Jake “The Snake” Roberts

- Hulk Hogan comes on the show to try and spin on the steroid scandals starting to engulf him and the WWF in the summer of 1991….with poor results

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