The Retro Wrestling Re-View

This week’s USWA episode for January 19, 1991 was shorter than usual but there was a lot packed into it!

• Jim Cornette and the Fabulous Ones double down on the bounty business – now coming for Jeff Jarrett too!
• A heated World Tag Team Title defense: The Fabs vs. Jerry Lynn & Cody Michaels
• Robert Fuller rides back into town with the Pit Bulldogs and Curtis “US Male” Thompson in tow, that's right…a new STUD STABLE!
• Highli...

🎙️ Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast – Episode #62

📆 Reviewing USWA Championship Wrestling – January 12, 1991

💰 THE $100,000 BETRAYAL! The Fabulous Ones stab Jerry Lawler in the back, Eddie Gilbert skips town, and Cornette reveals the mastermind behind it all—TERRY FUNK?! Corny and the Fabs pull off one of the smoothest heel turns in Memphis history!

This episode has it all:

🔥 Tag title drama

👑 Lawler betrayed by his ...

🎙️ Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast

📺 Episode #61: “The $50,000 Bounty and the Return of the Fabulous Ones”

📅 Originally Aired: January 5, 1991

🔥 Strap in for another wild ride through Memphis mayhem as the gang dives deep into a chaotic start to 1991 in the USWA! This week’s episode of USWA Championship Wrestling features:

💰 Eddie Gilbert in hiding (allegedly) as a $50,000 bounty looms large over Jerry Lawler’s cro...

We're ONE WEEK away from the premiere of SEASON TWO of the Retro Wrestling Re-View where we'll be doing week by week reviews of the year 1991 in USWA Championship Wrestling but before we get there, this week Gene and Josh are joined by STSPod.club's Brian Tramel to discuss the happenings of 1990 that take us into 1991.  It was wild year that saw Jerry Lawler begin the year as HEEL, King Cobra hold the Unified World Champio...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes Del Rios, who you may know as the Spellbinder from the USWA or Phantasio from the WWE.  Del has had a number of personas throughout his wrestling career and in the process has had not only a pretty unique and extraordinary pro wrestling career, but the same can be said for his life in general.  Del was the very first ever WWF "Developmental Wrestler" having his very first profes...

This week it's a special edition of the Retro Wrestling Re-View Podcast as host Gene Jackson welcomes a special guest who we saw a lot of during 1993, Moondog Splat! A fun conversation as Gene digs into Bubba White's time as a Moondog as they discuss a ton of topics including: the coaching he received before taking on the gimmick, what Richard Lee was like away from the ring, his relationship with Moondog Spot and what led...

This week, the gang is joined by their frequent guest co-host Brian Tramel of STSPod.club as they re-view the couple of segments of the 12/25/93 USWA Championship Wrestling episode that weren't clips from previous shows featuring "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel w/Toni Adams against Mike Anthony as well as highlights of Jerry 'the King' Lawler challenging "Double J" Jeff Jarrett for the Unified World Championship.  From there the...

This week, the gang is re-viewing the December 18, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling and we've got NEW USWA Tag Team Champions! After only two weeks, the War Machines quit the territory after quickly dropping the tag team titles to FAR 2 WILD (Chris Michaels/Todd Morton) in Evansville, Indiana thanks to some help from their unlikely babyface manager, Bert Prentice! With the War Machines gone, PG-13 are stepping i...

This week, the gang is watching the December 11, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling and there's a lot packed into this one!  The last time we saw both Eddie and Doug Gilbert here in the USWA in 1993, they were at war with EACH OTHER!  By now a few months have passed and they've settled their differences and now they're back in the USWA to do the bidding of Toni Adams against Brian Christopher and Jerry 'the King' ...

This week the gang re-views the 12/4/93 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! A lot is happening is this week's episode as some people have left the territory (Rex Hargrove for one) and some people have returned (Buddy Landel/Don Bass/Doug Gilbert).  There's a shocking heel turn in a tag team match to start the show (well, maybe not THAT shocking).  The brand new USWA Tag Team Champions Jeff Gaylord & Mike Anthony de...

 A lot is happening in the USWA during the week of November 27, 1993. Jeff Jarrett loses the USWA Championship to Buddy Landel while in the same night he wins a BATTLE ROYAL last eliminating Jerry 'the King' Lawler to become the new Unified World Champion! Toni Adams offers the new champion some sound advice pertaining to his tag team championship partner Brian Christopher!  PG-13 become the brand new USWA Tag Team Champio...

As you can tell by the headline, it's a slow news week in the USWA for 11/20/93 but the guys still manage to have a lot of fun with this week's episode! In what has to be the most chopped up USWA episode they've reviewed yet, it features several rehashed music videos from the past, an exciting tag team match pitting Phi Delta Slam (Bandit & Textbook) vs. the American Eagles (Liberty & Justice)! PG-13 & Midget D...

It's been a while since we've had a special guest, so this week Gene invited a man who has been all over the recent episodes of the Re-View, "J.C. Ice" Jamie Dundee in our most NSFW episode of the Re-View ever! They discuss the formation of PG-13 from Jamie's perspective and run down PG-13's first year in the USWA along with a ton of different topics that come up along the way including: Midget D, the Rock & Roll Expre...

On this week's episode, we revisit the November 13, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!  We have new USWA Tag Team Champions as Brian Christopher & Jeff Jarrett have regained the titles and this week they will be wrestling PG-13 w/Lil' Midget D in the studio in the expiration of time match!  PLUS: the debut of PHI DELTA SLAM, the team of 'Textbook' and 'Bandit' hailing from "College Town" who take on Mike Anth...

On this week's episode, we revisit the November 6, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!  The show kicks off with Richard Lee's Moondogs taking on the American Eagles in tag team action!   Toni Adams lets everyone know that she has found a "REAL MAN" in Rex Hargrove who is now one half of the USWA Tag Team Champions with Koko B. Ware.  Brian Christopher has something to say about that and a fight breaks out in the s...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 30, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! We have new USWA Tag Team Champions in Brian Christopher & "the Fabulous One" Jeff Jarrett! The Moondogs turn tail and run! Reggie B. Fine now has TWO ladies and he shows them off to his partner Koko B. Ware who is not impressed.  We meet the "All American" from the University of Tennessee, Rex Hargrove who calls out "the Mi...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 23, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! We see highlights of the USWA vs. WWF Survivor Series match featuring Jerry Lawler, Jeff Jarrett, & Brian Christopher taking on Vince McMahon's "WWF team" of Shawn Michaels, Doink the Clown, & Koko B. Ware.  PG-13 take on the sensational new babyface tag team of Mike Anthony and Jeff Gaylord who threaten to throw "Midget...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 16, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!  "Macho Man" Randy Savage is the new Unified World Champion and Eddie Marlin is upset because "VINCE MACK-MAN" won't stop sending letters and faxes harassing him about the WWF being superior to the USWA (I guess that wasn't apparent until Savage won the title).  Brian Christopher manages to drag the first decent match of the yea...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 9, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! "Macho Man" Randy Savage is coming back to Memphis to face Jerry Lawler for the "held up" Unified Championship, but this time he's not coming alone! This week the WWF Chairman Vince McMahon will be in his corner! Elsewhere on the show, trouble continues to brew with Brian Christopher and Tony Falk as Toni Adams and Miss Texas tie...