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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Ric Flair's Only Appeance in the Memphis Wrestling Studio

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Jerry Lawler confronts NWA World Champion Ric Flair in Memphis.   As far as we're aware, this was Ric Flair's first and only appeara...
Friday, February 21, 2025

WDBJ-7 in Roanoke Builds Its Own Wrestling Ring (1961)

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Wrestling Ring Is Homemade Roanoke Times, September 23, 1961 Ch. 7's new regulation-size wrestling ring is a masterpiece of sturdy, yet ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

All-Star Wrestling Cancelled on WDBJ-7 (1967)

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      Roanoke, VA's "All-Star Wrestling" program debuted live from the studios of WDBJ-7 in mid-1960. The popular program ran ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Crockett TV Broadcast Map 1960

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  This information flyer was apparently given to local event promoters throughout the Carolinas and Virginia in hopes of JCP to expand their...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Saturday Wrestling Smorgasbord in 1974

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This TV Sports listing from an August 1974 edition of TV Guide (East Tennessee/Carolina edition) is chock full of wrestling shows from sever...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Studio Wrestling and The Great Bolo

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To A Sixth Grade Wrestling Fan, No one Could Top the Great Bolo by Vince Staten Kingsport Times News (Kingsport, TN)  April 8, 2007 There co...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

TV Wrestling in Charlotte a Big Success (1978)

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Fresh off my post about the monster TV ratings for JCP in Charleston, SC in 1978 , here is another article about the strength of Crockett pr...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Greenville Wrestling Host Bill Krieger Passes Away

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We've just learned that Bernhard Krieger passed away in Greenville SC on Christmas day, December 25, 2023.  He was 98 years old. Word ca...