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Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings: Episode 21: Detroit Territory 1975


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On this episode, we continue to flashback 50 years in Pro Wrestling History and today we go to one of the wildest and craziest territories in wrestling, the Detroit Territory in 1975. The territory, which the Sheik purchased from Jim Barnett in 1964, has been on an incredible run for at least 7 of the 11 years, Ed Farhat has been in charge. Starting in the early 1970s, as we learned from our Toronto Analyst, Wes Maidment, Farhat became the talent booker for Maple Leaf Gardens as well as his own territory through Michigan, Ohio and parts of West Virginia. Today, Detroit Analyst, Terry Sullivan, who did the announcing on the television show and worked in the office, joins Tony to talk about the turbulent year in Detroit of 1975 as the Sheik’s run has peaked and is heading for a downturn. Terry has great stories to share about Sheik and going to work for an outlaw promotion in opposition to Farhat and much more. There is an amazing connection to the Amarillo territory that they discuss in this show as well! Sign up for Tony's Substack and have pro wrestling history at your fingertips each and every day! https://tonyrichards4.substack.com/

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