Combat Sports Historian and Martial Artist
Episodes of It Was Almost Real: The Pro Wrestling History Podcast.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/svhis7/Episode_39-59hfh4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss how and when Billy Sandow and Ed “Strangler” Lewis really met. Update We discuss the status of my research project on Ed “Strangler” Lewis’ early career. We also discuss AEW’s recent problems ending their shows on time. We finish with terrible NFL owners and their tendency to stick their
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ck4mz9/Episode39.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss the famous double-cross of “Big” Wayne Munn and the Gold Dust Trio by Stanislaus Zbyszko. Update We discuss the podcast and website schedule for 2024. I plan on recording forty podcasts and writing twenty posts for 2024. We will release three to four podcasts a year. Main Topic In
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/etnjei/Episode_38-57paw4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss news, the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame, Joe Stecher in the 1910s, and review a match from Mid-Atlantic in 1983. Update I have completed about a third of the new project on Ed “Strangler” Lewis’ early career. I think the project may be complete in mid-January 2024. We discuss
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cs9hfp/Episode_386vlbg.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss Stanislaus Zbyszko’s last match of his first tour of America. We finish with his return to the United States in 1920. Update I discuss the progress of my new research project on the early career of Ed “Strangler” Lewis. We discuss Tony Khan’s recent Twitter, or X, Wars with
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hbnszv/Episode_378tnd7.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss Stanislaus Zbyszko’s campaign for Frank Gotch’s World Title. Update I give an update on my new book project on the early career of Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Main Content Emil Klank, Frank Gotch’s manager, recruited Stanislaus Zbyszko to travel to the United States in 1909 to wrestle current World Champion
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hin3wy/Episode_36al0ic.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, Dan and I discuss the documentary on YouTube, 350 Days, about pro wrestling in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. We discuss the effect of the road, the schedule, and substances on the professional wrestlers. You can leave a comment or ask a question about this or any post on my Facebook
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/rk2w6b/Episode_357yy4l.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadUpdate We discuss the next podcast about the YouTube documentary, 350 Days. We also discuss my new project on the early career of Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Main Content We discuss a five-hour match from 1878 dominated by Henry Moses Dufur. Karl Stern talked about Dufur in a recent episode of Shut Up and Wrestle.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ifvxdw/Episode_349mrie.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEpisode Preview In this episode, we discuss the wrestling schedule of Ed “Strangler” Lewis during 1913. Update Update on next book about Ed “Strangler” Lewis. Next episode, we will look at Jack Pfefer exposing the worked nature of professional wrestling in 1933. WWE is under new ownership. First order of business is to release
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/u3ucpw/Episode_329q8zw.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, I discuss the recent termination of CM Punk from AEW and Ed “Strangler” Lewis shooting on “Man Mountain” Dean. Update Dan and I discuss Tony Khan firing the biggest star in his company, CM Punk. Main Content In 1934, Ed “Strangler” Lewis let “Man Mountain” Dean know it was a bad
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xbbcg5/Episode_316wffy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn this episode, we discuss the wrestling schedule of Evan “Strangler” Lewis during 1886. Update Dan and I discuss where we were at on September 11, 2001. We also discuss the recent death of the “Exotic” Adrian Street. Main Content In this episode, we discuss the wrestling schedule of Evan “Strangler” Lewis in 1886.