The Retro Wrestling Re-View
Host Gene Jackson brings a variety of co-hosts and wrestling legends to the program as he goes back in time to Re-Watch and Re-View professional wrestling from years gone by! Get the break down, hear never before stories, and feel free to watch along, & enjoy the Retro Wrestling Re-View!
Episodes
Step back into March 1991 with Episode #70 of the Retro Wrestling Re-View: USWA Podcast! Gene Jackson, Josh Briley, and Brian Tramel break down a classic Memphis TV leading into the last Mid-South Coliseum card before the move to the Pipkin Building.
This week’s show features:
- A wild and unfiltered Terry Funk promo that set Memphis on fire
- Jerry Lawler’s emotional announcement about possibly stepping away after his showd...
Step back to March 2, 1991, as Gene Jackson, Josh Briley, and Brian Tramel dig into one of the wildest episodes of USWA Championship Wrestling ever!
This week’s show features:
- The announcement of a four-man round-robin tournament featuring Jerry Lawler, Eddie Gilbert, Steve Austin, and Jeff Jarrett—but not everyone is happy about it, especially Eric Embry & Tom Prichard.
- Shocking interference as Embry, Prichar...
On this week’s Retro Wrestling Re-View, the gang takes a deep dive into the February 23, 1991 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!
The big story is the shocking unholy alliance of Jerry “The King” Lawler and “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert, who agree to team up against Texans Eric Embry and Dr. Tom Prichard—but not without $25,000 bonds to guarantee they don’t turn on each other. We break down the promos, the intensity, and t...
The USWA in 1991 was chaos, and this week’s episode is no exception!
Reviewing the 2/16/91 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling.
- Jamie Dundee officially ditches his dad and becomes J.C. Ice Baby
- Bill Dundee cuts a heartfelt apology promo… and gets mocked for it
- Stunning Steve Austin picks up a win with help from J.C.
- Dr. Tom Prichard won’t shut up on commentary
- Referees Paul Neighbors & Frank Morrell are somehow bo...
Retro Wrestling Re-View – Episode #66 - USWA Championship Wrestling – February 9, 1991
It’s Peak Memphis mayhem this week! Jerry Lawler & Jeff Jarrett are your NEW USWA Tag Champs… but before they can even celebrate, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert returns from “exile” to throw fire, cause chaos, and make it clear he’s here for Lawler’s head.
Meanwhile, Jamie Dundee proves to be the worst referee in USWA history, which gets ...
This week's Retro Re-View looks at the February 2, 1991 edition of USWA TV and more! Jackie Fargo is BACK in Memphis — and he’s the special referee for Monday night’s Tag Title Showdown between Lawler & Jarrett and The Fabulous Ones!
This week’s wild USWA action includes:
- Lawler saving The New Kids from a Fabulous Ones beatdown
- Tag Titles held up after last week’s controversial decision by Jamie Dundee
- Cornette losing...
This week's USWA episode of USWA for January 26, 1991 brings us:
- Lawler vs. Garvin with a mind boggling ending!
- Dundee swears revenge after a brutal Fabs/Cornette beatdown
- "Prime Time" Brian Lee is now teaming with Jeff Gaylord
- Redman Rumble Royal announced for Monday night! (aka the Redneck Royal Rumble)
- Bloody ambushes, wild six-man tags, and Bruno moves UPTOWN!
- Classic Memphis mayhem from start to finish!
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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...
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