The week in review is a compilation of the research, writing, audio and video content 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:
One Territory Era chapter every day: personalities, territories, towns & buildings that built pro wrestling.
Sunday, October 11th, 2026:
Monday, October 12th, 2026:
Issue 545: 7 Stages of the Territory Era, Stage 5: Consolidation October 1966
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026:
Issue 546: 7 Stages Of The Territory Era, Stage 6 October 1966: The Texas Wrestling Realignment
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026:
Thursday, October 15th, 2026:
Issue 548: The Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame Case Study for Cowboy Bob Ellis
Friday, October 16th, 2026:
Issue 549: The Life and Career of Blackjack Lanza, ONE Thing I Learned About John Quinn
Saturday, October 17th, 2026:
Issue 550: The Life and Career of Mae Weston, ONE Thing I Learned About Sky Low Low
Special Premium Content for Paid Subscribers
This week my published research has been focused on the month of October of 1966. This special Premium feature aligns with that as we take a look at the schedule of the NWA World Champion in October 1966, Gene Kiniski
October 1966 was another month in Gene Kiniski’s reign as NWA World Heavyweight Champion, a period in which the championship continued to connect wrestling territories across the United States and Canada. Nine months after defeating Lou Thesz for the title in St. Louis, Kiniski remained the traveling centerpiece of the National Wrestling Alliance, defending against established stars, drawing on the reputations of regional favorites, and carrying the championship into major wrestling markets.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026:
Tracking The World Champions: Gene Kiniski, NWA World Heavyweight Champion, October 1966
This second special Premium feature The Evolution of Wrestling aligns with our look at 1966 as we take a look at the NWA World Tag Team Championship in the year of 1966.
In 1966 the NWA did not have one World Tag Team Championship.
It had a filing cabinet of them. Each member booking office could hang “NWA World Tag Team Champions” on a local pair, defend the belts only inside its towns, and still stay inside the Alliance. They could also invent regional tag team championship and attach the NWA brand to them if they were a member office.
That was not a bookkeeping error. It was the Consolidation-era solution to a problem the singles world title did not have: two men cannot tour the continent the way Gene Kiniski could with the NWA World Heavyweight Title..
Friday, October 16th, 2026:
The Evolution of Pro Wrestling: The World Tag Team Championships in Stage 5: Consolidation 1966
The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026:
This week on The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show,:
Episode 84 of The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel History Show is a different kind of night — The “What If” Episode.
Segment 1:
We go back 40 years to the car accident that ended Magnum TA’s career. Jimmy Garvin joins the show as we look at the hot program the two of them had just started. What if that accident never happens? Where does the program go? Does it build into a World Title series between Magnum and Jimmy? How does Precious fit into the story? This one gets intriguing in a hurry.
Segment 2:
Mid-Atlantic analyst and historian Todd Goss returns. Todd and I dig into what a Magnum TA World Title run would have looked like. How would it have affected business in the Carolinas and across the NWA? We kick it around, chase a few other ideas, and see where the road might have led.
Segment 3:
Steve Gennerelli and Jammie Ward join me for another big “what if”: Ric Flair going to the WWWF in the 1980s. Several strong theories get tossed around — how it would have changed New York, the NWA, and the man himself.
Three segments. Three alternate histories. One episode built for territory fans who love the questions that never got answered.
📌 Episode 84 – The “What If” Episode is available now on Castos, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and all your usual platforms.
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SHOW CLIP: In this short clip of this week’s show, I discuss with Jimmy Garvin and Magnum TA the popularity and hot run of Jim Crockett Promotions in the mid-1980s.
Tony’s Media Appearances This Past Week:
As The Official Historian for the Brisco and Bradshaw Show, I am continuing the greatest docuseries ever produced on The History of Texas Wrestling in with Episode 18!
Gerry, JBL and I welcome the World Class Championship Wrestling Historian and Von Erich Expert, Lance Peterson to the show discuss the sons of Fritz Von Erich era in Dallas, Texas!
On this show, we have these great stories:
The Great Kabuki in 1981
The start of the channel 39 syndicated show
Fritz’ retirement show brings David back from Florida
The Fabulous Freebird Feud
The debut of Mike Von Erich
The tragic death of David Von Erich
The debut of Chris Adams
1985 Texas Stadium Show
Cotton Bowl 1985 Show
World Class leaves the NWA
and much much more!!
Thursday, October 15th, 2026:
The History of Texas Wrestling, Episode 18:
Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw:
SHOW CLIP: Here’s a clip of the show where the boys discuss the career of Mike Von Erich:
WATCH HERE:
Voices of Wrestling
The Flagship Patreon
This past week, Tony was a special guest along with hosts Rich Kraetsch and Joe Lanza in over a 3 hour discussion of each of the candidates in the HISTORICAL category of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame Ballot:
I share my detailed thoughts on each and every candidate in the region this year:
Afa & Sika Anoa’i
Archie “Mongolian Stomper” Gouldie
Bill Dundee
Black Gordman & Great Goliath
Bob Armstrong
British Bulldogs (Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith)
Cowboy Bob Ellis
Dick Murdoch
Hart Foundation (Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart)
Iron Sheik
June Byers
Junkyard Dog
Kevin & Kerry & David Von Erich
Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon
Ole Anderson
Pampero Firpo
Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood
Sputnik Monroe
Sweet Daddy Siki
Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson w/J.J. Dillon
Wild Bull Curry
This requires either a $5 or $10 subscription to the Flasgship Patreon and if you are interested in this in depth discussion click here:
https://www.patreon.com/voicesofwrestling/posts/wrestling-hall-172475917
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