Historically Speaking: Secret Wrestling History... with other stuff

Toots Mondt Meets a Fist At Madison Square Garden


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We continue our look at Pedro Martinez and his road to the International Wrestling Alliance and the role he played in New York Wrestling in and out of the city, a look at NWA's power structure, a mini-wrestling war, and we finally talk about Toots Mondt getting punched out at MSG.


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Resources


Tim Hornbaker: National Wrestling Alliance

Keith Elliot Greenberg: Too Sweet

Jim Wilson: Choke Hold

https://web.archive.org/web/20220218164234/https://buffalonews.com/news/pedro-martinez-famed-buffalo-wrestling-promoter-dies/article_b6f6b5d6-6b7a-5463-bc42-fa599e7dee37.html

https://www.legacyofwrestling.com/PedroMartinez.html

https://www.legacyofwrestling.com/NYBookingOffice.html

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=278011

https://www.nyprowrestling.com/articles/results/19540215msg.html


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Historically Speaking: Secret Wrestling History... with other stuffBy Matthew Ryan