Greetings From Allentown

Take a trip down to Georgia (or wherever they taped this) for some December 1990 WCW action! - Defending Sid Vicious and his love for the great game of softball - Growing weary from Missy Hyatt on commentary and her attempts at humor - Gordon Solie is very disappointed in the Nature Boy's actions at Starrcade - 1990 WCW as the land of missed and wasted opportunities, such as with Brian Pillman - Mr. Hughes: a great trainer against all expectations - What exactly is the selling point on Tom Zenk beyond his looks? - A side by side comparison of the York Foundation theme and the into song to the 1980s TV show "Dallas" - Big Van Vader and his giant smoking helmet thing Plus: - American football video games and a palpably unfair act committed in a game of Madden football - A critique of the movie Home Alone - Sega Genesis vs Super Nintendo in my world - An earlier example of Russian meddling in American life - the WCW hotline Twitter: @GFAllentownPod Email: [email protected] Facebook: G.F. Allentown

Get the flux capacitor ready because this week we take a trip back to November 1985 for some WWF action! Including: - The lovely Elizabeth with a complete departure from everything her WWF character would become - Attempting an "Andre to English" translation of Andre the Giant on commentary - Hulk Hogan faces Rusty Brooks and an unwelcome visitor - Paul Orndorff as a commodity in today's wrestling landscape - The British Bulldogs and their well-traveled 1985 - One thing that shows that Bret Hart isn't being given respect - Roddy Piper during a particularly turbulent time in his career - Vince McMahon's fondness for hillbillies and the probable source - So many masked jobbers! Plus: - Pondering an all-wrestler football all star team - Items of note from Philadelphia, Mississippi - Trying to figure out what the deal is with WWE and online content - A shout out for the doctor who fixed Hillbilly Jim's leg Twitter: @GFAllentownPod Facebook: G.F. Allentown Email: [email protected] -

Get out your nWo Wolfpac shirt for a look at WCW Worldwide from June 6, 1998. Included: - The crazy level of my commitment to watching WCW in early 1998 - The exact point where WCW turned sour for me, which is likely different from common opinion - A plea to anyone who still defends Chris Benoit, 10 years later - Fit Finlay and his confusing ring gear - It's The End Of Lex Luger As We Know It! - One thing I really liked about Larry Zbyszko as an announcer - Digging the work of Disorderly Conduct - Alex Wright turns the tables on Lee Marshall in an interview - Ron Reis: Beyond the "Yetay" Plus: - An abbreviated YouTube Comment Theater - Exciting announcement about the show! Twitter: @GFAllentownPod Facebook: G.F. Allentown Email: [email protected]

There are No Holds Barred this week with a look at WWF Superstars from June 3, 1989! Included: - The experience of seeing No Holds Barred in the theater, the shills on this show, and Hulk Hogan's delusions of grandeur - "King" Hacksaw Jim Duggan: Why he is definitely NOT the ugliest king of all time - Bobby Heenan's 1989 and the incredible thing he got away with on the USA Network that year and how he is the Branch Rickey of wrestling managers - The problem that happens when tag wrestlers go single - The only Mr. Fuji/James Worthy cross-reference ever made - Dusty Rhodes delivers a most interesting pizza order to a woman - The run of the Brain Busters and why I think it worked out fine as it was - Jake Milliman's big moment in the AWA - How Brutus Beefcake karmically sank the Stanley Cup hopes of the 2009 Boston Bruins - YouTube comment theater! Reach the show this way: Twitter: @GFAllentownPod Facebook: G.F. Allentown Email: [email protected]

This week is a trip back to February 2, 1980 for WWF Championship Wrestling. Including: - A complete and thorough look at the build to Bruno Sammartino vs Larry Zbyszko with extensive audio clips of the interviews that set up the match - Bruno Sammartino: master of the low key promo and talking people into the arenas with the emotional connection he had with fans - The brilliance of how the Bruno/Larry match progressed with Larry slowly boiling over in anger - Ken Patera's amazing 1980 and his very strange pre-match routine with manager The Grand Wizard - Pat Patterson as a worker and why he’s enjoyable - Johnny Rodz's special role in Vincent J. McMahon’s WWF - Vince McMahon doing yeoman’s work going solo on the broadcast Plus: My favorite wrestling podcast format ever, Tony Atlas’ strange match with Rodz, how the logo for the podcast came to be, the "rule" I broke in looking at this show, my evolving views on pre-1984 WWF, one thing I wish there was more of in Pat Patterson’s book “Accepted”, and YouTube Comment Theater!

Take a trip back to 1997 for the wild and crazy days of WWF Shotgun Saturday Night, from March 15, 1997. - Background of the Shotgun show and stretching the credibility of calling something "New York" as in the city - My love for Brian Pillman's entire career and regrets about what could have been - A description of trying to follow wrestling in 1997 without cable TV and Shotgun's role in that - The importance of Chyna in boosting the Hunter Hearst Helmsley act - Furnas and Lafon: Why couldn't they just give them a manager? - Bret Hart has some prescient things to say about Vince McMahon - All you ever wanted to know about Lance Wright, the ring announcer on this show - Finding a new gimmick for Flash Funk by looking at a piece of classic Mel Brooks cinema - Memories of a gruesome Hector Garza injury Plus: Commercials for stuff like NBA Shootout '97 and psychic hotlines, forming a wrestling fan club in college, and support your local indy promotion!

Take a trip back to the mini-Attitude Era with a look at WWF Superstars from April 13, 1991. - The trouble with Kerry Von Erich beyond his horrible theme music - Jake the Snake Roberts as babyface bully - Explaining (and defending!) the Berzerker gimmick with a look at the etymology and Icelandic literature(?!?) - The great Sean Mooney hosts an Event Center….with no specific event to plug - The trials and tribulations of Barry O - Bret Hart’s singles push begins, for real this time I swear! - The Nasty Boys: are they this podcast’s “house band”? - A comprehensive second by second breakdown of the Ultimate Warrior being locked in a coffin and the “attempts” to get him out. Plus, useful information on how YOU can best survive if you find yourself in a similar spot - Tugboat as the great palate cleanser - How many late tax filers are there during tax season and why is IRS so concerned about them? Plus: the return of YouTube comment theater, and an extended jag about the awesome WWF on NESN theme music

Take a trip down to the Irish McNeil Boys Club in Louisiana for some classic Mid-South Wrestling action from March 30, 1984. - Jim Cornette has been embarassed, and Bill Watts thinks it is funny so now they are at war - Bill Watts' political views and how you have to suppress them when watching this stuff - The debut of Jim Ross as the lead host and also his rendition as JR goes looking for Stagger Lee on Watts' behalf - The Rock and Roll Express set a new standard for "making the babyface save" - Mr. Wrestling II and Magnum TA flip the script on the "Bruno/Larry storyline" - Hacksaw Jim Duggan battling Russians - Terry Taylor gets suckered and then beat down by Butch Reed, and an alternate theory is offered re: The Red Rooster - The trouble with Masao Ito's tights - A video glorifying Watts plays....twice!