Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 24: Brian R Solomon, Irresistible Force

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Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 24: Brian R Solomon, Irresistible Force

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

Sep 24, 2025

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 24 Author & Historian Brian R. Solomon, Irresistible Force, The Life & Times of Gorilla Monsoon.

Today on the show, I am visited by my dear friend and colleague, Brian R. Solomon and we discuss his latest book release, Irresistible Force, which documents and tells the story of Bob Marella, better and more widely known as Gorilla Monsoon. The story of his upbringing, his college career, being discovered and broken into the business, his amazing rise as a killer, monster heel in the mid-1960s, his administrative role in the 1970s and his familiar role as announcer and voice of Wrestlemania in the 1980s. This is a monumental work on a monumental life of a giant of a man. I hope you enjoy my visit with Brian R. Solomon on the show today!

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