Their monthly overall top 10 in singles and the tag teams were worth the 3 dollars as well. Flair was often rated #1 in the world with Hogan #2 for a long time and they would justify it by explaining Flair defended the belt 6-7 times a week. Fans would write in outraged, screaming Hogan would destroy Flair and that Flair always had to cheat to win. Hogan dominated the WWF roster while Flair always seemed to be on the verge of losing if not for the Horsemen. They finally put Hogan at #1 after he beat Andre at WM3. Then later that year they started going back and forth with Him and Flair. The Road Warriors were always ranked #1 back then, even though they often did not have the belts.
Greedy D That is when I sadly found out Wrestling was fake.The Same matches in different cities with the same exact finishes in about the same exact time
It's always saddened me how nasty Meltzer and his minions utterly shit all over the Apter mags. They existed for FUN and never claimed to be any kind of hard journalism, but promotion for the various companies. Hell, without the Apter mags, the OBSERVER never gets off the ground.
In my hometown in the 80s I could get the Apter mags - my favorite was The Wrestler, because it contained no apartment wrestling and I could carry it to school without it drawing a crowd of boys and getting my magazine confiscated. When we went to Huntsville or Birmingham, I could get Wrestling Scene. When we went to Panama City, there was one of those Alvin's stores down there that had a newsrack that went all the way across the back of the store, with newspapers and magazines from all over the planet. It was insane. I would always get the Mankato magazines there, plus any other oddball mags I normally never saw. On one of those Florida trips (I was eleven or twelve), we stopped to eat in Dothan. We were in the Burger King directly across from WTVY, and I saw Jimmy Golden in there eating. He kind of grinned when he saw me staring at him. I didn't approach him because he had just turned heel and I was scared of him. I told him about it years later. He thought it was funny.
As a kid I would buy wrestling magazines every week at reedmore book store but I never really read the shit..the beauty of big time wrestling is the pictures r worth a thousand words
Nice audio. Jim cornette - will you get a NEW "Co -host "? Kenny bolin says "brain last is a FAN BOY and brian dreams and fantasises about being a wrestling expert " Is the above true? Thank you.
Without passing moral judgement in this comment, just pointing out that sodomizing puppies was an example of many things you could do in the 70s which for reasons of political correctness you can't do today. When the horse was blown up for real in the movie Heaven's Gate, that pretty much ended animal cruelty for entertainment. Other than bullfighting, but that's outside the USA.
I remember getting Pro Wrestling Illustrated and The Wrestler back in the day at the supermarket magazine rack...
That's where I used to get mine too, supermarket magazine racks.
I read each pwi from front to back all the ads twice over
When I was a kid I loved pro wrestling Illustrated, I think that anything that gets a kid interested in Reading is a good thing
"Like a ransom note."
PWI 500 used to be something special
Their monthly overall top 10 in singles and the tag teams were worth the 3 dollars as well. Flair was often rated #1 in the world with Hogan #2 for a long time and they would justify it by explaining Flair defended the belt 6-7 times a week. Fans would write in outraged, screaming Hogan would destroy Flair and that Flair always had to cheat to win. Hogan dominated the WWF roster while Flair always seemed to be on the verge of losing if not for the Horsemen.
They finally put Hogan at #1 after he beat Andre at WM3. Then later that year they started going back and forth with Him and Flair.
The Road Warriors were always ranked #1 back then, even though they often did not have the belts.
oh I remember the days when the magazines would ask who is the best world champion: flair, hogan, lawler, von erich.
I remember they used to have all the results from around the country and world in the back.
Greedy D That is when I sadly found out Wrestling was fake.The Same matches in different cities with the same exact finishes in about the same exact time
The Wrestler, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Inside Wrestling, & a few others were my favorite
It's always saddened me how nasty Meltzer and his minions utterly shit all over the Apter mags. They existed for FUN and never claimed to be any kind of hard journalism, but promotion for the various companies. Hell, without the Apter mags, the OBSERVER never gets off the ground.
In my hometown in the 80s I could get the Apter mags - my favorite was The Wrestler, because it contained no apartment wrestling and I could carry it to school without it drawing a crowd of boys and getting my magazine confiscated. When we went to Huntsville or Birmingham, I could get Wrestling Scene. When we went to Panama City, there was one of those Alvin's stores down there that had a newsrack that went all the way across the back of the store, with newspapers and magazines from all over the planet. It was insane. I would always get the Mankato magazines there, plus any other oddball mags I normally never saw. On one of those Florida trips (I was eleven or twelve), we stopped to eat in Dothan. We were in the Burger King directly across from WTVY, and I saw Jimmy Golden in there eating. He kind of grinned when he saw me staring at him. I didn't approach him because he had just turned heel and I was scared of him. I told him about it years later. He thought it was funny.
Loved the Apter mags. I have the first PWI. The almanacs they put out were great for territory title histories.
To bad these magazines no longer exists.
Corny and his knowledge is grade A!
i had about every one of them back in the day . before we had cable . great stuff
Wait.
Crusher Blackwell.
He wasn’t the saddest man in wrestling?
I have that magazine.
Please dig it up and quote some of the best parts here as a comment. Something about his bars of soap?
Huge fan from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦
I miss WoW magazine
PWI was the best...followed closely by the quarterly Wrestling Superstars just because they always had the Dream Matches
As a kid I would buy wrestling magazines every week at reedmore book store but I never really read the shit..the beauty of big time wrestling is the pictures r worth a thousand words
What is the theme music I dig it the most
WHAT ABOUT DAN LURIES WRESTLING MAG?
Nice audio.
Jim cornette - will you get a NEW "Co -host "?
Kenny bolin says "brain last is a FAN BOY and brian dreams and fantasises about being a wrestling expert "
Is the above true?
Thank you.
"The dog sodomization episode" ROTFLMAO
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Without passing moral judgement in this comment, just pointing out that sodomizing puppies was an example of many things you could do in the 70s which for reasons of political correctness you can't do today. When the horse was blown up for real in the movie Heaven's Gate, that pretty much ended animal cruelty for entertainment. Other than bullfighting, but that's outside the USA.