The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith

The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fifth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: The Outdated Wrestling Hour presents our 200th episode, and a truly special edition: It’s a reunion of Pro Wrestling Illustrated legends as we present Stu Saks, Craig Peters, and Bill Apter all together for the first time in many years. It’s a look back at the golden era of wrestling magazine publishing, presented by the editors and writers who look back at their tenures in publishing with pride. You’ll get new information on PWI that you won’t hear any where else on the new Outdated Wrestling Hour – and thank you all for helping us reach a podcasting mark that the show wouldn’t have been able to achieve without our loyal listeners!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fifth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: The Outdated Wrestling Hour offers its new edition of “My Favorite Things” – and the guest is a Hall of Famer and lauded historian in Tony Richards, the host of his own Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel podcast. The premise is simple: Each guest gets 15 simple questions to answer: Who are your favorite wrestlers? What’s the best card? Your favorite moments? It’s the latest in our series of upbeat and enjoyable nostalgia shows – take a listen and see if any of Mr. Richards’ choices are the same as yours!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fifth year in a few weeks – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: Bob Smith and Joe Puccio celebrate Halloween Week with a collection of moments in wrestling history that actually scared them both as young fans and as journalists who worked in the industry. From violent mat villains to bad injuries to shocking statements to an array of over-the-top incidents, greats of the game such as Mad Dog Vachon, Fred Blassie, Abdullah The Butcher, Sid Vicious, and many more earn their stripes for providing literal thrills and chills to mat fans. It’s the new, dressed-in-black Halloween edition of The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith … watch out for flying bats while listening!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fifth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: The Outdated Wrestling Hour offers its second episode entitled “Then Versus Now” – and the premise is simple: Most fans remember legends such as Bruno Sammartino, Terry Funk, Ernie Ladd, Vader, and more greats from the 1960s through the ’90s – but which of today’s wrestlers come the closest to approximating the Hall of Famers' styles, size, and charisma? Who of today’s group of main eventers equal the impact of those from wrestling’s storied past? Join in and see if you agree with our choices on the newest edition of The Outdated Wrestling Hour: We’re from the era where the good guys were still actually good guys!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fourth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: Pundit Mike Leotis (a wrestling commentator and part of the popular Wrestler Weekly posts on Facebook and across social media) returns for a second look at Don Owen’s Portland Wrestling, referred to by many in the 1980s and ’90s as “Pacific Northwest Wrestling.” Smith and Leotis talk about the contributions of “Playboy” Buddy Rose, Curt Hennig, Roddy Piper, Billy Jack, The Grappler, Ed Wiskoski, and many other stars who either started their careers in Portland or became stars afterward, helping to write an important part of wrestling history. It’s a new/old Outdated Wrestling Hour, as always offering our thanks and appreciation for the classic wrestling of decades gone by!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fifth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: The Outdated Wrestling Hour welcomes back Daniel Archambeault-May of the Ultimate Classic Wrestling video service to talk about an exciting new look at a classic time in mat history with “The Territories – Detroit,” featuring unearthed matches involving The Sheik, Mark Lewin, The Fabulous Kangaroos, and more. Next, Smith and Puccio go back in time to talk about finishing maneuvers of the 1970s and ’80s that you don’t see much of these days. What else could you expect from The Outdated Wrestling Hour … a podcast that relishes and honors the history of the sport in every episode?

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now heading toward its fifh year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: The Outdated Wrestling Hour continues on with another look back with one of the great movers and shakers of the WWE’s “expansion era” with the return of special guest Ed Helinski, who was at the helm of the promotion’s magazine publishing division during the WWF Magazine era – which pretty much was at the same time when the organization became a worldwide force instead of a regional one. Here are stories of great stars from the 1980s, memories of what a busy tenure Helinski had in the Connecticut-based company (it was much more than just publishing), and even a sound clip from a certain Hall of Famer from the great editor’s personal collection. Get back to the 1980s with the new edition of The Outdated Wrestling Hour – your weekly journey back in time to the great wrestling so many of us grew up enjoying!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now in its fourth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous mat titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: It’s a special double-sized episode of The Outdated Wrestling Hour - featuring a truly special guest. Bob Smith traveled to Gleason’s Gym in New York City to conduct a wide-ranging interview with triple Hall of Fame wrestling legend Johnny Rodz – a star who won the famed Los Angeles battle royal as Java Ruuk, and also competed against virtually every wrestling star imaginable in the WWWF for the better part of three decades. Rodz has been a lauded grappler, a world traveler, and a remarkable wrestling trainer, and we were able to sit down with him as he talked about every facet of his career. The Outdated Wrestling Hour is proud to present this timeless wrestling immortal to wrestling fans who thrilled to his matches in the 1960s through the 1980s!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now in the tail-end of its fourth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous mat titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: Oliver Lee Bateman – you know him from his years writing about wrestling on the heralded sports website The Ringer – returns to the show for a double-dip of mat fun. First, Bateman talks about his role in the new Ian Douglass-penned book Only Built For Turkish Links: The Turkish Invasion Of American Pro Wrestling, still on the wrestling best-seller lists on Amazon as this show hits the airwaves. Next, it’s another “My Favorite Things” episode, where Bateman goes back in time to talk about the matches, stars, and moments that forged his lifelong passion for the squared circle. It’s the latest, multi-faceted edition of The Outdated Wrestling Hour podcast – your weekly source for nostalgia and fun!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now in its fourth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat action from years gone by. The show is hosted by Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine who also enjoyed a long history with other famous mat titles. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professional mat landscape.

The Topic: It’s a “rush release” this time out, as the weekend before the scheduled podcast date, Smith and Puccio learned of the passings of a legend and a current famous grappler: “Superstar” Bill Dundee and The Butcher of AEW fame. Smith and Puccio talk about the career of The Butcher – who was just as famous in another career – before Smith welcomes back fellow podcaster “Mayor” John McCall to talk about Dundee, one of the biggest stars in the history of Memphis wrestling. Join us in paying tribute to these two men on the newest Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast, available wherever you get your shows. 

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