Good morning!
Are you ready for a trip back in the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel today?
I have some exciting news for our paid subscribers today as I launch a new history series here in the Time Tunnel. Details coming after we do our daily wrestler salutes for today.
July 13th in the Time Tunnel:
Happy Birthday to those who have passed on and to those great wrestlers still with us:
In Memoriam:
"Tough" Tony Borne 1926
Donna Marie Dieckman 1933
Otto Wanz 1943
Happy Birthday:
Claude Giroux\Tiger Jackson/Dink the Clown (69)
Akira Hokuto (58)
Sean Waltman\X-Pac (54)
Dylan Summers\Necro Butcher (52)
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.
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The First Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Podcast Series: Personalities, Territories, Towns and Buildings
Coming this week on the show, I will have two sets of guests. Four amazing people covering a lot of pro wrestling history this coming week!
First, Steve Verrier and Richard Vicek will be stopping by the Richards Ranch to discuss their new book on the life of Wilbur Snyder, The World's Most Scientific Wrestler!
Then my next two guests for the second half of the show will be Frank Culbertson research assistant and Mike Rodgers, wrestling historian who are experts and authors of several books on the Portland Wrestling Territory! We will cover some of the history of Portland and the year of 1975!
If you haven't had a chance to add "Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings" to your podcast playlist yet, what are you waiting for?
Listen, watch, like and subscribe for my podcast today here in the Substack channel or where you get your podcasts!
Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: The Evolution of Pro Wrestling Series
Introducing a new series for our Paid Subscribers, The Evolution of Pro Wrestling. This weekend, our paid subs will receive in their email inbox the very first entry into this brand-new series I am super excited about. I have been watching and studying the performance art of pro wrestling since becoming a fan 53 years ago in 1972.
The Evolution of Pro Wrestling is in itself, a very wild ride we will be taking in the Time Tunnel.
As a mixture of sport, athleticism and theater, professional wrestling has survived and evolved as cultural shifts and technology shifts have occurred over time periods.
Its morphed from the stages of traveling carnival and athletic shows to becoming a public shareholder driven company with global influence.
I will be looking at all those shifts in various parts of the world and I'll be starting where I have spent a majority of my research time the last two years, in West Texas.
In a sub-series entitled History of Pro Wrestling in West Texas, I'll kick it off with "The West Texas Masked Mystery of 1935" about a match taking place in Amarillo on July 11th, 1935, between two wrestlers both having worked as The Masked Marvel. The West Texas Masked Mystery has been solved, and I will tell the whole story coming out today for our paid subs in the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel's "Evolution of Pro Wrestling Series" exciting debut!
One Thing I Learned Today About Pro Wrestling History
Tough Tony Borne was one of the leading heels in pro wrestling in the 1950s, especially in Texas on all sides of the state. In West Texas, he was managed by Leo "The Lion" Newman, often the most prominent heel manager until Jack Cain came along. Borne held the Texas Brass Knuckles Title in June of 1960. He made the majority of his reputation from the mid-1960s on in the Pacific Northwest territory.
Thank You for Reading
I'm Tony Richards, Pro Wrestling Historian, Author and Storyteller. I share pro wrestling historical items in each issue of the Time Tunnel Pro Wrestling History Newsletter. Thanks for reading! If you enjoy my information on select events, matches and insights, please share it with folks you think might like to be a subscriber!
Remember, paid subscribers get access to exclusive and special content such as some special issues including a multi-part deep dives on wrestling territories, wrestler bios and championship title histories, special audio and video interviews on territory pro wrestling and more available in The Vault of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel for Paid Subscribers.