The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith

The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now in its fourth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat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 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 Guest: Bob Smith welcomes the esteemed writer Ross Benes to the show, where he talks about his recently released book, 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America And Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. This prolific journalist devotes a long and incredibly researched chapter in this amazing book to pro wrestling, which spent the 1990s going down the low-culture rabbit hole that the rest of mass media was. It’s a decidedly different episode of The Outdated Wrestling Hour – a decidedly different pro wrestling podcast!

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Former Pro Wrestling Illustrated managing editor Bob Smith welcomes back wrestling historian Tony Richards (best known for his work on his Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel podcast) and podcaster Steve Gennarelli (Arcadian Vanguard’s Stick To Wrestling With John McAdam) to The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast for the latest in the popular series of “lists” shows: This trio of lifelong mat mavens ranks the Top 50 professional singles wrestlers of the 1960s. From Sammartino to Gagne to Thesz and a whole lot more, fans can re-live one of wrestling’s most important decades thanks to the efforts of these mat mavens. Listen and see if you agree with the choices these veteran podcasters have made!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith podcast – now in its fourth year – offers veteran fans (as well as curious younger ones) a chance to reminisce about classic mat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 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 Guest: Bob Smith welcomes wrestling historian Tony Richards – best known for his work on his popular Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel podcast – to the OWH for the very first time. You’ll hear about Richards’ wrestling past, his current work, and a major award he’s about to be honored with. A lifelong fan meets a serious mat maven on the new Outdated Wrestling Hour – and it’s all yours with a press of a button on better podcast apps!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour 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 Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine and 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 Guest: Bob Smith welcomes back Brian R. Solomon – now a two-time winner of The Wrestling Observer’s Book of the Year award for his 2025 work, Irresistible Force: The Life & Times Of Gorilla Monsoon. Like Smith, Solomon also works for PWI, and on this special edition, the duo looks back at mat history and tries to determine when bad guy wrestlers went from rough-and-tough rulebreaking to taking part in seriously violent sadism and cruelty, even during televised matches. It’s a rough-and-tumble Outdated Wrestling Hour, which mixes nostalgia and scintillating conversation like few other podcasts in its genre!

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The Show: The Outdated Wrestling Hour 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 Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine and who boasts a long history with several 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 professonal mat landscape.

 The Guest: Bob Smith interviews the hosts of the popular music podcast Mix Tapes– Eric Stangeland and Mark Moots – but this show isn’t about classic rock hits. The trio take a look back at the use of music in pro wrestling, and how it all changed the way the sport has been presented in recent decades. From The Fabulous Freebirds to Rhea Ripley, this is easily the most tuneful OWH yet. It’s a wealth of old-time mat memories on this new/old edition of The Outdated Wrestling Hour!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour 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 Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professonal mat landscape.

The Guest: It’s a real reunion as Bob Smith sits down with our special guest – longtime IWCCW play-by-play announcer Brian Webster – for the first time since 1992. The smooth-voiced Webster was a major factor in the success of Mario Savoldi’s unique indie promotion, which earned TV placements on cable systems across the United Sates and throughout the world. Smith offered color commentary and conducted ringside interviews during his appearances with the promotion. It’s a wealth of old-time mat memories with old friends on this new/old edition of The Outdated Wrestling Hour!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour 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 Bob Smith, the former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine. Co-host Joe Puccio (GenerationXWire.com) offers a younger perspective on old wrestling before the duo ushers in guests from throughout the professonal mat landscape.

The Guest: The prolific author Ian Douglass joins the show for a fourth time to discuss his just-off-the-presses book, Highland Games and Hippodromes: Scottish Identity and Influence at the Dawn of the American Pro Wrestling Industry. It’s yet another instant classic from one of the most learned wrestling writers of this era, who looks back at forgotten mat history more than any other author working today. It’s another fascinating conversation on The Outdated Wrestling Hour – where fun, history, and classic grappling merge together in a most unique way!

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It's the latest espisode of The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith (former managing editor of PWI), and we hope you don't find it dissapointing - and not at all like some wrestlers and events that simply didn't work out as planned. From stadium cards that failed to draw big numbers to wrestler concepts that never truly caught on, Smith and special guest Steve Gennarelli (of Stick To Wrestling With John McAdam) look back at moments and personalities that for one reason or anothr didn't quite become as big as promoters thought they would. It's another outside-the-box theme that's kept The Outdated Wrestling Hour among the most unique mat podcasts you'll never listen to!

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The Podcast: The Outdated Wrestling Hour With Bob Smith (former Pro Wrestling Illustrated managing editor), now in its fourth season, features the veteran mat scribe with co-host Joe Puccio, a former newsletter writer. Each week, the OWH presents an upbeat and fond look back at the history of pro wrestling in a manner quite unlike most other wrestling podcasts - there's humor, history, and gratitude all at the same time. On this edition, Smith and Puccio talk about classic regional wrestling organizations with long shelf lives, where to find unique wrestling on streaming video, and much more.

The Episode: Mat veteran Beau James - he's run the legendary Southern States Wrestling for almost four decades - returns to the OWH for the second time, and offers a long history of his organization, opinions on today's mat world, thoughts on his recent nuptials, and much more. For wrestling history revealed in unique ways, The Outdated Wrestling Hour is the place to be!

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The Podcast: Now in it's fourth season, The Outdated Wrestling Hour Podcast With Bob Smith (former managing editor of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine) brings veteran fans just what they crave - fond looks back at the good guys and bad guys that masw mat action so exciting from the 1950s through today. On this episode, co-cost Joe Puccio and Smith take a look at where much of the WWE's classic wrestling video catalog is winding up, and comment on a WWE revival that old-time fans seem to have no taste for.

The Guest: Mike Leotis of Wrestler Weekly joins Smith for a conversation about top wrestling stars of the past who never stayed in the same organization for long. From Bruiser Brody to Ernie Ladd to Mark Lewin, it's a look back at a time when mat variety was the spice that made wrestling savory! Join us for something old that's always fresh: The Outdated Wrestling Hour!

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