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Old School 1970s Pro Wrestling Discussion

Old School 1970s Pro Wrestling Discussion

The Whiskey Rebellion is back baby! This iteration brings back host Mark Radulich with new Co-Host Pat Mullin! Tonight’s topics include our Old School 1970s Pro Wrestling Discussion. We’ll discuss legends like legends like Dusty Rhodes and Bruno Sammartino.

Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 12, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as WWE. Rhodes was considered a star wrestler and presented the persona of an American everyman, the American Dream personified. Rhodes is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.

Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (October 6, 1935 – April 18, 2018) was an Italian-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Sammartino’s 2,803-day reign as WWF World Heavyweight Champion is the longest in the championship’s history as well as the longest world title reign in WWE history.

The Universal Wrestling Federation was a 1986 re-branding of wrestler-turned-owner Bill Watts’ Mid-South Wrestling promotion. Watts’ goal was to elevate his promotion from a relatively smaller, regional-level business, to a national-level rival of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE). However, Watts’ business strategy quickly swung from “overnight” success to catastrophic failure, resulting in the 1987 sale of the UWF to another rival: Jim Crockett Promotions (owner of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)’s most important championships, and the predecessor of World Championship Wrestling). The promotion began as an NWA territory, NWA Tri-State, founded by Leroy McGuirk in the 1950s. Tri-State/Mid-South/UWF promoted in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi until 1987.

Old School 1970s Pro Wrestling Discussion


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Mark Radulich has been an internet personality since 2004 with his Progressive Conservatism blog. He then took that blog to the airwaves and created a podcast for it. It then changed to PC Live. After that, he brought out the 411mania Ground and Pound Radio as well.

Also, Mark would partner up with another 411mania alum, Sean Comer, to create the movie franchise review podcast Long Road to Ruin and then Robert Cooper to create the metal album review podcast, The Metal Hammer of Doom. Robert Winfree took over the MMA show and then added his own podcast, Everybody Loves a Bad Guy. That’s when the Radulich in Broadcasting Network was born. Joining Winfree in having their own podcasts were super fan’s Jesse Starcher (Source Material). Finally, Winfree and Radulich added a weekly movie review show to the ever growing lists of podcasts on the Network.

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About The Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion is a panel talk show. Host Mark Radulich and co-hosts Jesse Starcher (Source Material), Robert Cooper (Metal Hammer of Doom) and Jeff Sloboda (The MCU Bleeding Edge Podcast) bring you 1-2 hours of conversation, intercourse and banter about a variety of topics ranging from cultural phenomenon to movie trailers to whatever else on the mind of these 4 kooks.

Jesse Starcher

Podcasts are one of the greatest mediums ever. 10 years ago Jesse found himself driving back and forth to work with over an hour of travel time. Talk radio became something that he enjoyed and helped kill time during the commute. The problem was NPR never stayed completely interesting and his only other options were the ESPN network and the local channel that hosted religious programming. Always the same show… at the same time. It was pretty limited. About three years ago he discovered Podcasts and it changed how he spent much of his time. It opened up options to great niche content that he never even knew was available. After that, he got his first podcast gig on the From the Cheap Seats sports podcast with Jayson Teasley and became a co-host shortly after that.

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