The Retro Wrestling Re-View

Re-View #104: USWA 10/19/91 (Dave's Not Here, Man)

Episode #104 of the Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast takes Gene Jackson, Josh Briley, and Brian Tramel back to October 19, 1991, and this week’s USWA Championship Wrestling is… well, let’s just say Dave Brown picked a hell of a week to go on vacation. With Michael St. John flying solo at the desk, the show opens with a highlight reel of Eric Embry absolutely abusing Eddie Marlin, setting the stage for a big six-man tag at the Mid-South Coliseum: Eddie Marlin, Jeff Jarrett & Robert Fuller vs. Eric Embry, Dr. Tom Prichard & Tony Falk. Eddie Marlin promises he may be past his prime, but if he can just bust Embry in the mouth one time, it’ll all be worth it. Meanwhile, Jarrett makes yet another dramatic promise, Robert Fuller fires everybody up, and Embry’s crew continues to stir the pot. The guys break down the episode segment-by-segment, including why Freezer Thompson’s mini-push actually works, why the Dog of War angle feels like it’s wandering into very dangerous territory, and why Billy Joe Travis may be becoming one of the most polarizing figures on the entire Retro Wrestling Archive Network. It’s another strange, funny, frustrating, and somehow still entertaining week of early-90s Memphis wrestling. If you love USWA chaos, Mid-South Coliseum build, Eric Embry madness, Lawler promos, Billy Joe Travis drama, and three guys trying to make sense of Memphis logic in real time… this one is for you. If you're enjoying WrestleCopia and interested in helping us continue to grow, please consider Subscribing to our Patreon to help us cover some of our costs! https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia] YOU CAN ALSO GIFT SOMEONE A PATREON MEMBERSHIP (OR ASK THEM TO GIFT YOU ONE) AT https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift [https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift] Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier, and "The ULLLTIMATE Tier", featuring our various VIDEO-CAST Series, Early Show Releases, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure, & more! HELP SUPPORT THE SELF-FUNDED WRESTLECOPIA BRAND, CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR PAYPAL [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EA24QVRSAV6NW] WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia [https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia] Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com [https://wrestlecopia.com/] Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade [https://twitter.com/RasslinGrenade] Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade] Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade] ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia]

Re-View #103: USWA 10/12/91 (Taboo Saturday)

This week the Gang revisits an interesting week in Memphis wrestling history where years before WWE's Taboo Tuesday "Interactive Pay Pay Per View was a thing, the USWA asks fans to CALL IN and vote for their "dream match". Episode Highlights: * Taboo Saturday: The team analyzes the USWA's version of fan-voted matchmaking, where viewers called in to determine the card for the Mid-South Coliseum. * The Search for Flea: The mysterious and massive Dog of War debuts, quizzing the announcers while searching for Jimmy Valiant and his missing girlfriend, FLEA! * Lawler’s Mark Out Session: Jerry "The King" Lawler spends nearly 15 minutes of TV time showcasing his Nashville celebrity softball highlights and his prized guitar signed by Garth Brooks, George Jones, Reba McEntire, and many more! * The Unforgivable Act: Billy Joe Travis interrupts the King's match with Bull Pain to "tune" Lawler's signed guitar by smashing it against the floor and ripping up his signed program. * Softball Bat Retaliation: A "crazed" Lawler takes a softball bat to the parking lot, smashing the windows of a car he believes belongs to Billy Joe Travis. * Studio Violence: Eric Embry and Dr. Tom Pritchard lead a brutal attack on Jeff Jarrett and Robert Fuller, and even the legendary Eddie Marlin isn't safe as his neck brace is ripped off during a brutal assault. Make sure you subscribe to keep up with the USWA action week by week right here on the Retro Wrestling Archive! If you're enjoying WrestleCopia and interested in helping us continue to grow, please consider Subscribing to our Patreon to help us cover some of our costs! https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia] YOU CAN ALSO GIFT SOMEONE A PATREON MEMBERSHIP (OR ASK THEM TO GIFT YOU ONE) AT https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift [https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift] Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier, and "The ULLLTIMATE Tier", featuring our various VIDEO-CAST Series, Early Show Releases, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure, & more! HELP SUPPORT THE SELF-FUNDED WRESTLECOPIA BRAND, CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR PAYPAL [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EA24QVRSAV6NW] WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia [https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia] Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com [https://wrestlecopia.com/] Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade [https://twitter.com/RasslinGrenade] Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade] Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade] ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia]

Re-View #102: USWA 10/5/91 (Champ vs. Champ)

Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast Episode #102 is here as we enter the month of October in 1991! Eric Embry is seemingly feuding with everyone in the company & Dr. Tom is here for it, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert returns with a “Global” title, Dundee & Davis make peace, Chris Frazier gets his weekly a** whipping, Freezer Thompson is still getting recruited by Embry, Tony Falk is back with a new job, and Billy Joe Travis "crowns" Jerry Lawler with a guitar… again. There's a lot of fun stuff to cover here.....things move fast in the USWA! Watch/Listen now. If you're enjoying WrestleCopia and interested in helping us continue to grow, please consider Subscribing to our Patreon to help us cover some of our costs! https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia] YOU CAN ALSO GIFT SOMEONE A PATREON MEMBERSHIP (OR ASK THEM TO GIFT YOU ONE) AT https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift [https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift] Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier, and "The ULLLTIMATE Tier", featuring our various VIDEO-CAST Series, Early Show Releases, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure, & more! HELP SUPPORT THE SELF-FUNDED WRESTLECOPIA BRAND, CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR PAYPAL [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EA24QVRSAV6NW] WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia [https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia] Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com [https://wrestlecopia.com/] Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade [https://twitter.com/RasslinGrenade] Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade] Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade] ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia]

Re-View #101: USWA 9/28/91 (TNE - Total NonStop Embry)

Episode #101 takes us to September 28, 1991, as the gang breaks down one of the most angle heavy episodes yet, featuring masked controversy, wild stipulations, and more Eric Embry than most folks are prepared to handle! This week covers: Texas Outlaws… Or Barroom Brawlers?!  Jeff Jarrett has a snazzy new ring jacket! Robert Fuller is tanned and sick of this bull****! Billy Joe Travis Strikes AGAIN! Eric Embry vs. EVERYBODY!  Dr. Tom breaks his silence.... Dr. X plays "DIRTY" Where/When/and with Who, Jerry Lawler will be playing softball Tojo Tries to Recruit Freezer Thompson  We say farewell to Christopher Love and Eric Fontaine (for now) This is one of those sleeper episodes that you don't realize just how fun it is until you start talking about it! So click 'play' and let's get it going! If you're enjoying WrestleCopia and interested in helping us continue to grow, please consider Subscribing to our Patreon to help us cover some of our costs! https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia] YOU CAN ALSO GIFT SOMEONE A PATREON MEMBERSHIP (OR ASK THEM TO GIFT YOU ONE) AT https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift [https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift] Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier, and "The ULLLTIMATE Tier", featuring our various VIDEO-CAST Series, Early Show Releases, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure, & more! HELP SUPPORT THE SELF-FUNDED WRESTLECOPIA BRAND, CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR PAYPAL [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EA24QVRSAV6NW] WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia [https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia] Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com [https://wrestlecopia.com/] Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade [https://twitter.com/RasslinGrenade] Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade] Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade] ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia]

Re-View #100: USWA 9/21/91 (Who Wrote the Letter?)

On this milestone episode of the Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast - Gene, Josh, and BT celebrate hitting the century mark while breaking down the September 21, 1991 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling, a show filled with chaos, callbacks, and classic Memphis madness.  What Goes Down This Week: * Dirty White Boy kicks things off in dominant fashion with a brutal reverse lariat finish  * Jeff Jarrett officially ditches Ronnie P. Gossett (comparing him to a septic tank) and brings in Eddie Marlin—to absolutely ZERO crowd reaction  * Eric Embry continues to spiral, cutting another intense promo while the Tom Prichard storyline quietly builds in the background  * Tojo Yamamoto absolutely CRACKS Dutch with the flagpole in one of the stiffest shots we’ve seen on the show  * Embry follows it up by choking Eddie Marlin with his own tie, turning his face beet red  * Billy Joe Travis delivers an all-time bad musical performance… then makes up for it by obliterating Chris Frazier with a guitar shot Throw in a bullwhip and Jerry Lawler plugging a celebrity softball game with Ernest P. Worrell and you’ve got a perfectly chaotic, "know whatta mean, Vern?" Plus… Episode 100 Celebration *  The guys reflect on 100 episodes of the podcast *  How the show has grown from bad audio setups to moderately better audio setups  *  Listener feedback, inside jokes, and what keeps this show so damn fun to do every week  This is Memphis rasslin: Fun. Loud. Sometimes confusing. But always entertaining and 100 episodes later… we’re still here for it. If you're enjoying WrestleCopia and interested in helping us continue to grow, please consider Subscribing to our Patreon to help us cover some of our costs! https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia] YOU CAN ALSO GIFT SOMEONE A PATREON MEMBERSHIP (OR ASK THEM TO GIFT YOU ONE) AT https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift [https://www.patreon.com/WrestleCopia/gift] Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier, and "The ULLLTIMATE Tier", featuring our various VIDEO-CAST Series, Early Show Releases, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure, & more! HELP SUPPORT THE SELF-FUNDED WRESTLECOPIA BRAND, CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR PAYPAL [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EA24QVRSAV6NW] WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia [https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia] Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com [https://wrestlecopia.com/] Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade [https://twitter.com/RasslinGrenade] Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade] Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade [https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade] ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ [https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia]