The Retro Wrestling Archive Podcasts

Join us for our review series in the STS family, “Was It Really THAT Good?”! Long time wrestling fans always talk fondly of the old days in professional wrestling, so Gene Jackson and Brian Tramel have joined forces to take a look at wrestling shows from back in the day. This episode they’ll review the 11/6/99 episode of Extreme Championship Wrestling and then answer the question, “Was It Really THAT Good?Check all the great conten...

Join us for our review series in the STS family, “Was It Really THAT Good?”! Long time wrestling fans always talk fondly of the old days in professional wrestling, so Gene Jackson and Brian Tramel have joined forces to take a look at wrestling shows in the WWE VAULT. This episode they’ll review the 8/24/87 episode of Continental Championship Wrestling and then answer the question, “Was It Really THAT Good? Check all the great conte...

Join us for our review series in the STS family, “Was It Really THAT Good?”! Long time wrestling fans always talk fondly of the old days in professional wrestling, so Gene Jackson and Brian Tramel have joined forces to take a look at wrestling shows in the WWE VAULT. This episode they’ll review the 8/12/89 episode of Memphis Wrestling and then answer the question, “Was It Really THAT Good?Check all the great content Brian Tramel ha...

Join us for our review series in the STS family, “Was It Really THAT Good?”! Long time wrestling fans always talk fondly of the old days in professional wrestling, so Gene Jackson and Brian Tramel have joined forces to take a look at wrestling shows in the WWE VAULT. This episode they’ll review the 8/12/89 episode of Memphis Wrestling and then answer the question, “Was It Really THAT Good?Check all the great content Brian Tramel ha...

Join us for our review series in the STS family, “Was It Really THAT Good?”! Long time wrestling fans always talk fondly of the old days in professional wrestling, so Gene Jackson and Brian Tramel have joined forces to take a look at wrestling shows in the WWE VAULT. This episode they’ll review All Star Wrestling 7.14.79 and answer the question, “Was It Really THAT Good?Check out all the great content that Brian Tramel offers over ...

On this classic episode of 'Shootin' the Shiznit', Brian Tramel is joined by Gene Jackson. They talk about their first meeting, wrestling in Mississippi, IWF and how nothing changes in the indys in the Memphis area. Gene also talks about going to wrestling cons and he let's us know who the #1 asshole was that he met.Brian Tramel reviews Memphis Wrestling every week with the podcast “Rollin’ Into Mempho.” He also pub...

Join us for our review series in the STS family, “Was It Really THAT Good?”! Long time wrestling fans always talk fondly of the old days in professional wrestling, so Gene Jackson and Brian Tramel have joined forces to take a look at wrestling shows in the WWE VAULT. This episode they’ll review the 6/12/82 episode of Mid-South Wrestling and then answer the question, “Was It Really THAT Good?Check all the great content Brian Tramel ...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes Writer/Publisher Christopher Pelton, owner of THC Limitless and THC Ringside! After writing and publishing manysuccessful books and magazines in the horror genre, Christopher Pelton has now entered the wrestling space publishing great wrestling books with the firstrelease being "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert: The Uncrowned King of Professional Wrestling. Chris talks to Gene abou...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes back his good friend and podcast colleague Ray Russell of the Wrestlecopia Podcast Network.  They discuss all the new shows and various content coming to Wrestlecopia as well as the brand new VideoCasts that are popping up on thevarious tiers of Ray's Patreon.  Always a fun time when these guys get together, make sure you check it out and share itwith the wrestling fans in your life! 

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On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes Bay Ragni who you may know better as "Chubby Dudley" from the ECW days. We're here to talk about all things related to the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance reunion show 'One & Done' along with the big RassleCon convention that's all taking place onSaturday May 3rd at the 2300 Arena (the former ECW Arena) in Philadephia, PA!  How did this reunion come to be? ...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes the one and only "Hood Ninja" himself, Hy-Zaya! Hy-Zaya has been around the business for many years and has been a staple of the Mid-West wrestling scene. In part one of their conversation they dig deep into Hy's early days in wrestling, what motivated him to get in the business, how he went about getting into the business, who helped him along the way, and how things were different from...

Retro Wrestling w/Gene Jackson returns with the another episode in our new series reviewing Memphis Championship Wrestling from 2000 & 2001 featuring Gene's review of the TV show was well as behind the scenes info gathered from research of dirt sheets, shoot interviews, books and from information gathered first hand from the ones who were there!FOR TONS OF EXCLUSIVE RETRO WRESTLING CONTENT: Check out our Patreon at www.patreon....

Retro Wrestling w/Gene Jackson returns with the first in our new series reviewing Memphis Championship Wrestling from 2000 & 2001 featuring Gene's review of the TV show was well as behind the scenes info gathered from research of dirt sheets, shoot interviews, books and from information gathered firsthand from the ones who were there!You can watch the MCW episode that's being reviewed here:https://youtu.be/QcbpFGV_7lc?si=cyq6fu...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes back Steve Plezing as the review the January 21, 1989 episode of Portland Wrestling. On this episode the Pacific Northwest Champion TOP GUN is in action! Buddy Rose demonstrates the benefits of the "Playboy" Buddy Rose diet & workout program. Art Barr & Rex King square off in a "scientific match". Abudha Dein takes on Carl Styles. Col. Debeers takes on "Golden Boy" Mike Golde...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes back "Broadcast" Bob Anderson as they review the June 17, 1985 episode of Texas All-Star Wrestling. Rising from the ashes of Joe Blanchard's Southwest Championship Wrestling, Texas All-Star Wrestling saw more than it's share of future superstars pass through. In this episode a young Shawn Michaels sees action, Bubba the Terminator aka the future "Tugboat/Typhoon" is featured, Alberto Mad...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes back Buster "Hellraiser" Johnson to review the July 5th 1997 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling. Buster has some insight on the USWA in this period as he was working there and on this particular episode he was in a match against DOOMSDAY aka Glen Jacobs aka WWE Hall of Famer Kane. July of 1997 was an interesting time in the USWA and this is a very fun episode. We're in the middle of...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes Steve Plezing to the show to review the December 5th 1987 episode of World Organization Wrestling from Pensacola, Florida ran by Rip Tyler and backed by Mr. Ito. The television show is hosted by Christopher Love aka Bert Prentice and features future stars like Bob Holly, Kokina (Yokozuna), David Haskins (Davey Rich), Pat Tanaka, Paul Diamond, and Big Bubba (Tugboat/Shockmaster/Fred Ottma...