The week in review is a compilation of the research, writing, audio and video output of Tony Richards and the team at the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel
This Past Week’s Issues of Our Daily Wrestling History Newsletter, The Daily Chronicle:
The daily newsletter for an injection of events that happened on this day and relative time frames in Territory Pro Wrestling History.
Sunday, February 8th, 2026:
Monday, February 9th, 2026:
Issue 300: The Life & Career of Candi Devine, Flashback 1966 OTD Cards Analysis
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026:
Issue 301: The Life & Career of Eric Froelich, ONE Thing About David Von Erich
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026:
Issue 302: The Northern California Run of The Bat, The Life & Career of Sammy Kohen
Thursday, February 12th, 2026:
Issue 303: The Life & Career of Everett Marshall
Friday, February 13th, 2026:
Issue 304: The Life & Career of Angelo Mosca
Saturday, February, 14th, 2026:
Issue 305: ONE Thing About Jerry Jarrett
Pro Wrestling History Content for Premium Time Tunnel Subscribers:
The Evolution of Pro Wrestling is in itself a very wild ride we are taking in the Time Tunnel. The morphing and changing of a mixture of sport, athleticism, creativity, theater and psychology. This series highlights, analyzes and reviews these transformations in the business.
Saturday, February 14th, 2026:
31 Great Television Announcers of The Territory Era Series
In the Territory Era of Professional Wrestling, the medium of television changed the sport, energized by the electrifying hosts of the wrestling shows. This series highlights these iconic storytellers.
Monday, February 9th, 2026:
1985 Territory Review Series:
1985 is the first year of the final stage of the territories in my “7-Stages of Growth of the Territory Era” Framework. This stage is called “Disintegration” as it kicked off the final 10-year period of the territory era, as one by one, the remaining geographic territories began to die, making way for the national expansion companies.
In the month of January and February, we are doing a 40-year review of the situation in the remaining territories in the midst of the wrestling business expanding to a national fan base. Our plans are to do a show reviewing 1985 in each of the remaining territories.
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026:
We began our series with the year of 1985 in review with my WWF co-host Steve Gennerelli:
Championship Wrestling from, Florida with regular co-host Howard Baum and special guest, Bruce Owens for a look at the Florida Territory in 1985.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026:
This week we went to Texas with my special co-host and World Class Championship Wrestling Historian, Lance Peterson, we went back to review 1985 in World Class.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026:
The next episode in our 1985 Territory Review Series, we go to Memphis, Tennessee with my Tennessee History Co-Host, Tim Dills as we re-visit all the wrestlers, all the angles, all the matches and more in Memphis Wrestling 1985!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026:
The next week I was so happy to welcome back to The Richards Ranch, George Schire, a long time AWA wrestling historian to review the state of the American Wrestling Association territory in the year of 1985!
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026:
This past week, we traveled to the deep south to the Continental Championship Wrestling Territory, based in Pensacola, Florida with our good friend, owner and booker, The Tennessee Stud, Ron Fuller to review the many changes in 1985!
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026:
Tony’s Media Appearances This Past Week:
Bumps & Thumps Show
This past week I was so excited to be a guest on Brian Ferguson’s show Bumps and Thumps. Brian is the author of the Verne Gagne biography, Inside The Ropes and President of the WFIA organization. I was a guest on Episode 159:
Talking Memphis Wrestling
I was a featured guest last Tuesday night on the Talking Memphis Wrestling Show hosted by Randy Hales, Pat Trammel and Micheal St. John. They had a lot of questions about The Roy Welch Family Legacy Series I did with Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw, plus other interesting topics. If you are a fan of Tennessee Wrestling, check out this show and then join these guys every Tuesday eveniing:
Twisted Turnbuckle Show
It was a busy week in the podcasting world for me, last Thursday night, I was a guest panelist for Ivan Koloff’s grandaughter, Melodie Koloff and we were talking about The Koloff Family Tour this year as they make the rounds to the various fan conventions and conferences. The show is hosted by Chris DeCarlo, Benny “The Playa” Scala, Mike DiGeorgio along with Lee Petry. It was a fun time:
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I’m Tony Richards, Pro Wrestling Historian, Author and Storyteller. I share the history of pro wrestling territory era in each content vehicle of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel. We publish the Week-In-Review each Sunday as a digest for our community members. If you enjoy my information on select events, matches and insights, please share it with folks you think might like to be a subscriber!
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