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Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 20, Georgia Summer 1975

Our Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings podcast focuses in on a by-gone era of regional booking offices of wrestling talent in historic towns and legendary buildings around the world.

Tony Richards

Aug 27, 2025

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 19: Kansas City & Central States Territory, Jerry Oates and Mike George 1975 part two

Today on the show, I welcome Bobby Simmons back to the show as we return to the state of Georgia in the Summer months of 1975. Bobby was working as both a referee and also in the office for Jim Barnett and booker Tom Ernesto during this time and has plenty of stories about the happening in the Georgia territory.

Bobby tells some great Abdullah the Butcher stories, stories about the new tag team of Bob Orton, Jr and Dick Slater, Jerry Brisco, Jerry Lawler and Don Greene, and a fairly gruesome story about a Mr. Fuji rib you’ll have to hear to believe.There are some new names in the territory you will recognize just starting out here in 1975.

We cover the whole state of Georgia in this episode of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel podcast.

This week's episode of Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 20 should be in your inbox this morning if you are a subscriber here at the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel!

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 10: 6/18/2025: Michael Norris: Gulf Coast Wrestling The History of the Territory & Spring of 1975