Listen "25. NWA Worldwide 09-24-1988"
Episode Synopsis
This week Greetings From Allentown takes its first peek at Jim Crockett Promotions with a look at NWA Worldwide from September 24, 1988!
- An overview of the dying days of JCP, struggling to hang on long enough to be sold to Turner
- The huge issue that the financial problems caused with long term booking
- Dusty Rhodes in late 1988: contender for the most annoying babyface ever
- Who is John Ayers and why is he here, and what happened that might explain a big 1989 storyline in kayfabe
- Complaints about the “squash-promo-squash-promo-repeat” format of the Crockett TVs of the time period
- Dr. Death Steve Williams with a promo for the ages
- The hindsight hilarity of Rick Steiner being bullied
- Ron Simmons: Drug warrior or just a spokesman for D.A.R.E.?
- Celebrating babyface Jim Cornette going all loose cannon and mentioning those who shall not be named
Also:
- Five things from 1984’s The Karate Kid that will enhance your viewing experience
- How the Reagan-Gorbachev thaw in US-Soviet tensions ruined the quality of Russian heels
- Two Bolsheviks references on show about the NWA!
- The NWA music video that included guys who had already quit
- The lengths I went to see a University of Michigan football game in the mid-1990s
- Getting crossed up about Nikita Koloff quitting in 1988, but how could you really tell?
- Law of 1988 JCP promos: Thou shalt mention Dusty Rhodes no matter what
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @GFAllentownPod
Facebook.com/greetingsfromallentown
- An overview of the dying days of JCP, struggling to hang on long enough to be sold to Turner
- The huge issue that the financial problems caused with long term booking
- Dusty Rhodes in late 1988: contender for the most annoying babyface ever
- Who is John Ayers and why is he here, and what happened that might explain a big 1989 storyline in kayfabe
- Complaints about the “squash-promo-squash-promo-repeat” format of the Crockett TVs of the time period
- Dr. Death Steve Williams with a promo for the ages
- The hindsight hilarity of Rick Steiner being bullied
- Ron Simmons: Drug warrior or just a spokesman for D.A.R.E.?
- Celebrating babyface Jim Cornette going all loose cannon and mentioning those who shall not be named
Also:
- Five things from 1984’s The Karate Kid that will enhance your viewing experience
- How the Reagan-Gorbachev thaw in US-Soviet tensions ruined the quality of Russian heels
- Two Bolsheviks references on show about the NWA!
- The NWA music video that included guys who had already quit
- The lengths I went to see a University of Michigan football game in the mid-1990s
- Getting crossed up about Nikita Koloff quitting in 1988, but how could you really tell?
- Law of 1988 JCP promos: Thou shalt mention Dusty Rhodes no matter what
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @GFAllentownPod
Facebook.com/greetingsfromallentown
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