Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 31, this week on the Time Tunnel Wrestling History Show, I welcome Michael Norris, Pro Wrestling Historian for the Gulf Coast Wrestling Territory!

On this week’s episode, we discuss more of the history of the territory including Michael’s favorite feud of all time and more of the happenings in the various towns and buildings across South Alabama, Mississippi and the panhandle of Florida.

You will enjoy this episode on one of the least covered territories of the territory era in professional wrestling, the Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling territory!

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 30, this week on the Time Tunnel Wrestling History Show, I welcome Steve Verrier, author of Wrestling in the Pacific Northwest, the Gene Kiniski biography and co-author of the Wilbur Snyder biography!

On this week’s episode, we discuss the booking office, territory and promotion of Vancouver, British Columbia. Largely owned by former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Gene Kiniski, we discuss the personalities, towns, buildings, angles, television product and legendary matches that took place in Vancouver throughout the year of 1975.

You will enjoy this episode on one of the most overlooked territories of the territory era in professional wrestling, the Vancouver territory!

Plus Tony answers these questions sent into the show:

1. Tony, other than Gordon Solie and Lance Russell I'm territory days who in your opnion who was good wrestling announcers in the day?
2. What wrestlers have been forgotten that we need to remember?
3. What are your thoughts on multi-time world champions, such as 14-time world champion and such?
4. I would like to hear about the All South and how they challenged Crockett promotions in NC and SC and what the internal challenges were? Did you know the promoter even backed one or two of them?
5. Tony, What are your thoughts about David Von Erich as NWA World Champion?

• (00:00:02) - Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel: History Podcast
• (00:01:24) - Audio Version of OUR Show Now Available
• (00:02:36) - The WFIA Podcast and The Hollywood Squares
• (00:06:13) - The WWE Hall of Fame Selection
• (00:12:50) - Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel
• (00:14:16) - Rod Fenton
• (00:22:38) - Vancouver and British Columbia
• (00:34:06) - Vancouver's dominant wrestlers in the mid-70s
• (00:40:34) - George Gordienko Was Blacklisted in the United States
• (00:48:35) - Jack Briscoe Came Through Vancouver Wrestling in 75
• (00:56:05) - Was Cross-Promotion Possible In Oregon?
• (00:58:58) - Gene Kaniski Was Never Promoter or Owner of a Wrestling
• (01:06:56) - Ron Maurier On All-Star Wrestling
• (01:14:27) - Vancouver's Wrestling
• (01:16:20) - Tony DiBienna on Wrestling
• (01:19:15) - Vancouver Wrestling
• (01:21:39) - My List of 31 Wrestling Announcers
• (01:30:54) - What Wrestlers Have Been Forgotten?
• (01:35:25) - Remembering Forgotten Wrestlers
• (01:39:19) - George Shire on Multi-Time World Champions
• (01:49:07) - Would David Flair Have Left the National Wrestling Alliance?
• (01:57:05) - The WWE World Championship
• (02:04:18) - All South Wrestling vs Crockett Promotions
• (02:13:51) - Tony Richards

Our podcast focuses in on a by-gone era of regional booking offices in the territory era of wrestling talent in historic towns and legendary buildings around the world.

On this week’s episode, we discuss the promotion owned by Dick The Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder, the World Wrestling Association. What was the television like? And the towns, such as the home base of Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as Champaign, Illinois, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Bloomington, Hammond, Lafayette, Gary, Indiana and sharing Chicago, Illinois with the AWA.

We are going to dig into the history of the territory as well as the WWA World Champion for most of 1975, Ox Baker and the WWA World Tag Champs, Sgt Jaques Goulet and Pvt LaBeouf, The Legionnaires. Dave lets us in on some of Dick The Bruiser’s simple booking philosophy that kept the WWA rolling in dollars and television viewers throughout the mid-1960s and all through the 1970s.

You will enjoy this episode on one of the least talked about territories of the territory era in professional wrestling, the WWA!

• (00:00:02) - Podcast
• (00:00:56) - FYIs
• (00:04:19) - A Tribute To Territory Era Commentators
• (00:07:49) - WWE From Indianapolis
• (00:09:51) - Bruiser vs Dave Dynasty
• (00:13:43) - In the Elevator With My Mother
• (00:13:53) - Dave Dark on Starting a Wrestling Podcast
• (00:18:48) - WOJO on Jerry Graham Jr.'s Death
• (00:23:50) - Bruiser Miller on His Controversy
• (00:28:27) - Bruiser vs Vince McMahon
• (00:33:58) - Bruiser's Indianapolis Studios
• (00:37:56) - Bruiser the Clown on Indiana
• (00:40:40) - Nick The Bruiser on His CHAIN
• (00:45:07) - Bruiser vs Sheiks in Indianapolis
• (00:48:30) - St. Louis Wrestling Legends reminiscing about Dog the Bruiser and
• (00:51:58) - Bruno Sammartino
• (00:56:14) - Bruiser vs Luther in Detroit
• (00:58:24) - Legionnaires vs The Crusher
• (01:02:23) - Paul Christie on His WWE Days
• (01:04:58) - Bob Bruiser on His Booking Plans
• (01:09:21) - BRUISER AND CROSSES
• (01:11:45) - WWE 125
• (01:15:43) - Pepper Gomez's Run With the WWE Championship
• (01:18:21) - Bruiser's Last Match of 1975
• (01:22:56) - Dave On Nostalgic Dave Dynasty
• (01:26:08) - Interviewing Raven on My Podcast
• (01:28:22) - 1975