Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 30, this week on the Time Tunnel Wrestling History Show, I welcome Steve Verrier, author of Wrestling in the Pacific Northwest, the Gene Kiniski biography and co-author of the Wilbur Snyder biography!

On this week’s episode, we discuss the booking office, territory and promotion of Vancouver, British Columbia. Largely owned by former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Gene Kiniski, we discuss the personalities, towns, buildings, angles, television product and legendary matches that took place in Vancouver throughout the year of 1975.

You will enjoy this episode on one of the most overlooked territories of the territory era in professional wrestling, the Vancouver territory!

Plus Tony answers these questions sent into the show:

1. Tony, other than Gordon Solie and Lance Russell I'm territory days who in your opnion who was good wrestling announcers in the day?
2. What wrestlers have been forgotten that we need to remember? 
3. What are your thoughts on multi-time world champions, such as 14-time world champion and such?
4. I would like to hear about the All South and how they challenged Crockett promotions in NC and SC and what the internal challenges were? Did you know the promoter even backed one or two of them?
5. Tony, What are your thoughts about David Von Erich as NWA World Champion?

Our podcast focuses in on a by-gone era of regional booking offices in the territory era of wrestling talent in historic towns and legendary buildings around the world.

On this week’s episode, we discuss the promotion owned by Dick The Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder, the World Wrestling Association. What was the television like? And the towns, such as the home base of Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as Champaign, Illinois, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Bloomington, Hammond, Lafayette, Gary, Indiana and sharing Chicago, Illinois with the AWA.

We are going to dig into the history of the territory as well as the WWA World Champion for most of 1975, Ox Baker and the WWA World Tag Champs, Sgt Jaques Goulet and Pvt LaBeouf, The Legionnaires. Dave lets us in on some of Dick The Bruiser’s simple booking philosophy that kept the WWA rolling in dollars and television viewers throughout the mid-1960s and all through the 1970s.

You will enjoy this episode on one of the least talked about territories of the territory era in professional wrestling, the WWA!

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 28, this week on the Time Tunnel Wrestling History Show, I welcome Lib Ayoub, the author of “It’s All About the Belt”, The World Heavyweight Title Belts of the American Wrestling Association 1960-1990. In the second half of the show today, I answer questions in our first Q&A segment.

Questions for this week’s Q&A:

What the Tony Richards’ Origin Story with Pro Wrestling?

What were the “Peak Years” of the Territory Era?

What World Title Changes Would You Have Wanted To Be There Live For?

Can You Give A History of Wrestling In San Antonio, Texas?

Can You Talk A Little About The Relationship Between Doc Sarpolis and Dory Funk, Sr?  

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 27, this week on the Time Tunnel Wrestling History Show, we review several names on this year’s Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame Ballot.

I asked three of our regular guests and experts to come on the show to discuss who they believe should be elected to this year’s Hall of Fame Class. Steve Gennerelli, Brian R. Solomon and Greg Klein graciously accepted my invitation and are at the Richards Ranch for this great and thorough discussion and, of course, I have my own favorite that I am advocating for in this year’s voting.

Come along for the ride as we discuss:

Gorilla Monsoon

The Junkyard Dog

The Grand Wizard

Roy Welch

Morris Sigel

George Scott

Wild Bull Curry

and a couple of others!

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 26, we go to Jim Crockett Promotions Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in the year 1975.

My new Mid-Atlantic analyst and commentator is the John Hitchcock. John was a fan in the Carolinas starting in the 1960s and became a regular at the Greensboro Coliseum for some of the most legendary cards of all time. In today’s episode, John relates (as best he can) what it was like to actually see the great Johnny Valentine, one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time and how Valentine actually put “the stare” on his one night. His story about his conversation with Wahoo McDaniel about what it was like to work against Valentine. The change from a tag team territory to a singles-driven territory with the arrival of Dan Jardine as The Super Destroyer. The plane crash with Valentine, Flair, Woods, Bruggers and David Crockett, plus the aftermath and how booker George Scott and the Crockett team dealt with the loss of its biggest star. All that and more this week as we flashback to Mid-Atlantic 1975!