In this free preview of the latest Between The Sheets Patreon special, covering the Global Wrestling Federation’s journey from a Nigerian advance fee scam to launching as a TV-only wrestling promotion, Kris and David look at how the reporting on the physical location of the company’s money was…less than stellar. Also: The biggest conflict of interest in the whole mess gets officially revealed.

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Full show description:

You've asked for it for years. We've promised that we would eventually do it almost as long. And finally? IT'S HERE! Yes, Kris and David go back in time to 1990, when a mysterious Nigerian man named Mr. Olu Oliami visits Joe Pedicino's office and offers him $25 million to run a new national wrestling promotion. From there, just about everything falls apart. Where, exactly, is Mr. Oliami's funding coming from? Where is the trust that Joe thinks it's coming from headquartered and why does it keep changing? Just how suspicious was this before the internet made knowledge of Nigerian 419 scams widespread? Who was in on what? How were the wrestling newsletters complicit? Was Mr. Oliami real and is he still alive? What the hell does Jim Cornette have to do with all of this? What was Jerry Jarrett ever planning to sell to Joe and Olu's Kongi Sports and Entertainment?

All that and a whole lot more in the best Patreon special yet. We hope you have as much fun listening to this as we had recording it.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Part 1: Initial hype (September-October 1990)

0:32:01 Part 2: Kongi buys the USWA? (November to December 1990)

1:25:45 Part 3: "USWA purchase” falls apart (January 1991)

2:07:32 Part 4: Actually the GWF is happening now (June-July 1991)

3:27:58 Part 5: Joe Pedicino: Fool or liar? (August-September 1992)

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