Category: The Wrestling Classic

Riki Choshu was the new WWF International Heavyweight Champion and, more importantly, had finally defeated Tatsumi Fujinami.

Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee were two larger-than-life characters that made Memphis in the 80s a great promotion to watch.

Steamboat & Youngblood vs. Slaughter & Kernodle deserves recognition for its role in the furthering of wrestling as an entertainment medium

There is an argument to be had that the Ric Flair versus Kerry Von Erich match, December 25, 1982, was the best-booked match of all time.

There was a consistency about Japanese wrestling in the 80s and the 90s that afforded the development of long term storytelling.

It wouldn’t be time wasted to spend a couple of hours watching Dynamite Kid and Tiger Mask do what they did best.

The Wrestling Classic #3 looks at the 1981 AJPW Tag League final between Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka vs. Dory & Terry Funk.

Turn up in Tupelo or mooch on down to the Mid-South Coliseum; you were almost always guaranteed to see something different.