June 11th in the Tunnel:
Happy Birthday to those who have passed on and to those great wrestlers still with us:
In Memoriam:
Dick Daviscourt 1887
Ed Francis 1926
John DaSilva 1934
Happy Birthday:
Iceman King Parsons (75)
Terry Allen\Magnum TA (66)
Mike Enos (62)
Rachel Collins\MsChif (49)
Hikaru Shida (37)
RIP Memorial: We stop & remember those who have passed on this day and gave themselves to the business for us, the fans. We salute you and thank you.
Toots Mondt 6-11-1976 at the age of 82
Virgil Runnels\Dusty Rhodes 6-11-2015 at the age of 69
New Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Podcast Out Today
Personalities, Territories, Towns and Buildings
On my podcast show, we are tracking and documenting the history of pro wrestling from its beginnings through 1990, with the special emphasis on the 50, 60s and 70s.
We are profiling personalities by having the authors who have studied their lives and written their stories, we are studying and re-visiting territories and the booking offices that controlled them, historic towns where the history of pro wrestling is so deep and the legendary buildings where the fans came to see their favorite stars and storylines play out virtually every single week. We are covering all four of those dimensions of the sport of pro wrestling and I am so appreciative you have decided to allocate some of your time to go on this journey with us through this show.
On Today's episode, my guest is Greg Klein, the author of "The King of New Orleans" and host of "Greg Klein's ol School Rasslin Talk". Greg is our resident Houston expect and together today we tackle wrestling in the State of Texas in May of 1975. We talk Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Amarillo, El Paso, Odessa, Lubbock, Abilene and more all across the state of Texas! The personalities, territories, feuds, towns and buildings of Texas, 50 years ago in May of 1975!
The Personalities, Territories, Towns and Buildings Show is sent out on a separate post to all our free subscribers, so be sure and check it out today! Like, subscribe and share to help support your interest in my work to preserve pro wrestling history.
One Thing I Learned Today About Pro Wrestling History:
Magnum TA's rookie year in professional wrestling was 1980. He broke into the business after a brief training from Buzz Sawyer and began his career with the Portland, Oregon booking office with matches with Sawyer.
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