Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 29, this week on the Time Tunnel Wrestling History Show, I welcome Dave Dynasty, WWA Historian and host of his own Wrestling Nostalgia show!
On this week’s episode, we discuss the promotion owned by Dick The Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder, the World Wrestling Association. What was the television like? And the towns, such as the home base of Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as Champaign, Illinois, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Bloomington, Hammond, Lafayette, Gary, Indiana and sharing Chicago, Illinois with the AWA.
We are going to dig into the history of the territory as well as the WWA World Champion for most of 1975, Ox Baker and the WWA World Tag Champs, Sgt Jaques Goulet and Pvt LaBeouf, The Legionnaires. Dave lets us in on some of Dick The Bruiser’s simple booking philosophy that kept the WWA rolling in dollars and television viewers throughout the mid-1960s and all through the 1970s.
You will enjoy this episode on one of the least talked about territories of the territory era in professional wrestling, the WWA!
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Here’s the archive of our podcast episodes so far:
Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings:
Episode 1: 5/10/2025: Steven Johnson, Jim Londos: The Golden Greek of Professional Wrestling
Episode 2: 5/14/2025 Herb Simmons: St. Louis, Missouri Wrestling HOF
Episode 3: 5/17/2025: Scott Teal: Raisin Cain: From The Inferno to The Great Mephisto
Episode 4: 5/21/2025: Bobby Simmons: Georgia Territory Spring 1975
Episode 5: 5/24/2025: Brian Ferguson, Verne Gagne: Inside and Outside the Ropes
Episode 6: 5/28/2025: Jerry Oates: Kansas City Territory Spring 1975
Episode 7: 5/31/25: Evan Ginzburg: Blackboards, Wrestling Rings & Movie Sets
Episode 8: 6/4/2025: Tim Dills: Tennessee Territory April & May 1975
Episode 9: 6/11/2025: Greg Klein: Texas May 1975
Episode 11: 6/25/2025: Steve Gennerelli: WWWF Spring & Summer 1975
Episode 12: 7/2/2025: Dan Murphy on Ed Don George & Fumi Saito on Japan History & 1975 pt 1
Episode 13: 7/9/2025: George Schire, The History of the AWA & 1975
Episode 15: 7/23/2025: Greg Klein: East Texas Wrestling June & July 1975
Episode 16: 7/30/2025: Steve Gennerelli & Jake Hamar: The Hulk Hogan Tribute Show
Episode 18: 8/13/2025: Toronto, Ontario with Wes Maidment and Stampede In Calgary 1975 w/Larry Lane
Episode 19: 8/20/2025: Jerry Oates and Mike George, Kansas City 1975 pt 2
Episode 20: 8/27/2025: Bobby Simmons: Geogia Territory Summer 1975
Episode 21: 9/3/2025: Terry Sullivan: Detroit Territory 1975
Episode 22: 9/10/2025: Steve Gennerelli: WWWF Summer of 1975
Episode 23: 9/17/2025: Herb Simmons St. Louis 1975
Episode 24: 9/24/2025: Brian R Solomon: Irresistible Force: The Life & Times of Gorilla Monsoon
Episode 25: Howard Baum: Florida 1975
Episode 26: 10/8/2025: John Hitchcock Mid-Atlantic Wrestling 1975
Episode 27: 2025 Observer Hall of Fame Show
Episode 28: Lib Ayoub, Its All About The Belt Book and Q&A Session 1
