Listen "70. WWWF Championship Wrestling 10-29-1977"
Episode Synopsis
It is that 70s show this week with the initial visit to the decade for a look at WWWF Championship Wrestling from October 29, 1977!
- The Grand Wizard makes his case for 1977’s Manager of the Year while running down Arnold Skaaland
- The forgotten moment that made the Manager of the Year trophy presentation stand out
- “Exclusive” audio of the breakup of the championship tag team of Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf
- Why Dusty Rhodes couldn’t and wouldn’t be the WWF’s top guy for the 1984 national expansion
- The unusual buildup of Bob Backlund in ’77 and how he differed from previous top guys in the promotion
- Dewey Robertson as a pure wrestler in his pre-Missing Link days
- A different kind of Vince McMahon on commentary: quiet and subdued
- Fun with enhancement talents and odd looking results
- A single heckler gives Backlund advice
- Larry Sharpe: Pretty boy?
Plus:
- Meditations on the music of 1977
- Thoughts on the Panama Canal treaty
- What the Zembo Mosque means to certain wrestlers
- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!
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- The Grand Wizard makes his case for 1977’s Manager of the Year while running down Arnold Skaaland
- The forgotten moment that made the Manager of the Year trophy presentation stand out
- “Exclusive” audio of the breakup of the championship tag team of Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf
- Why Dusty Rhodes couldn’t and wouldn’t be the WWF’s top guy for the 1984 national expansion
- The unusual buildup of Bob Backlund in ’77 and how he differed from previous top guys in the promotion
- Dewey Robertson as a pure wrestler in his pre-Missing Link days
- A different kind of Vince McMahon on commentary: quiet and subdued
- Fun with enhancement talents and odd looking results
- A single heckler gives Backlund advice
- Larry Sharpe: Pretty boy?
Plus:
- Meditations on the music of 1977
- Thoughts on the Panama Canal treaty
- What the Zembo Mosque means to certain wrestlers
- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!
Email: [email protected]
Twitter.com/GFAllentownPod
Facebook.com/greetingsfromallentown
Placetobenation.com/amazon
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