Listen "136. WWF Championship Wrestling 01-28-1984 (Debut of Piper's Pit)"
Episode Synopsis
With the wrestling world changing this week, the show goes back 35 years to the January 28, 1984 edition of WWF Championship Wrestling as a new world champion is crowned!
- Hulk Hogan’s title win over the Iron Sheik marks the start of a new era
- Sheiky deals with an untimely boner
- Paul Orndorff goes to a forbidden place talking about Hulk Hogan
- Roddy Piper launches Piper’s Pit at the expense of Victory Corner
- How The Hammer overlapped with his time in JCP
- How are telegrams being sent to the announcer’s desk in Allentown?
- Mr. Fuji’s refusal to tag with a different partner on this set of tapings
- Who was the best babyface IC champion of the 1980s?
- Tony Atlas vows to get “kinky”
- Just how boring can B. Brian Blair be?
Plus:
- A recap of a week in Alaska
- The importance of local promos
- Enjoying how Roddy Piper says the name “Tony Atlas”
- Hulk Hogan’s surprising tag team partner in New Japan from early ‘84
- Speculating on a movie career for Robert DeBord
- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 5!
- Looking at some of the Super Bowl XVIII commercials from January 1984
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Twitter: @GFAllentownPod
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- Hulk Hogan’s title win over the Iron Sheik marks the start of a new era
- Sheiky deals with an untimely boner
- Paul Orndorff goes to a forbidden place talking about Hulk Hogan
- Roddy Piper launches Piper’s Pit at the expense of Victory Corner
- How The Hammer overlapped with his time in JCP
- How are telegrams being sent to the announcer’s desk in Allentown?
- Mr. Fuji’s refusal to tag with a different partner on this set of tapings
- Who was the best babyface IC champion of the 1980s?
- Tony Atlas vows to get “kinky”
- Just how boring can B. Brian Blair be?
Plus:
- A recap of a week in Alaska
- The importance of local promos
- Enjoying how Roddy Piper says the name “Tony Atlas”
- Hulk Hogan’s surprising tag team partner in New Japan from early ‘84
- Speculating on a movie career for Robert DeBord
- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 5!
- Looking at some of the Super Bowl XVIII commercials from January 1984
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @GFAllentownPod
Facebook.com/GreetingsFromAllentown
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