Professional wrestling has had a magnificently wild history. Join narrator J Onwuka on an exploration of how a sport became an artform, how business rose and fell, and how legendary wrestlers came to dominate this distinctly modern genre.
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and hear about the nitty-gritty backroom fracas that wracked the
National Wrestling Alliance throughout the 50s.
Even though they had a very successful run in the ring with
Lou Thesz as their champion, behind the scenes the
NWA was set upon almost...
Published 04/26/16
On this episode of the World Champions Podcast hear about the other side of the social divide and explore professional wrestling's history with racism. Europeans and their descendants almost exclusively made the early history of wrestling but, to a large degree, it was because they forced...
Published 04/11/16
On this episode of World Champions Podcast I'll take a look into the life of the one and only Mildred 'Cyclone' Burke, a woman who not only defined what a woman wrestling champion should be but upped the ante for every male champion out there. She wasn't the first, though: women like the...
Published 03/29/16