Excellent episode! Thanks for sharing! I remember seeing these magazines on the newsstand at the grocery stores, 7-11 & at liquor stores. I would spend hours flipping through these magazines at those locations with the exception being 7-11. The store manager wouldn't allow it 😂 I even remember wrestling magazines being at my local library. 80s was a GREAT time to be a wrestling fan! Thanks again
Ahh yea! It was one of my favorite things to do back then. We had sooo many news stands to pick from. All the best issues were usually in the shittiest neighborhoods by me, but there were 2 news n tobacco shops across the street from my school. They both were Loaded with everything comics, cards, candy and magazines floor to ceiling. We’d spend hours in there, the place was a goldmine always packed! It’s hard to believe today you can hardly find a place that sells a single magazine. A business that was once so dominant and lucrative yet little by little they all seem to vanish. Thanks for watching.
It is just crazy to see these magazines with the amount of posters you can get inside. I always passed up on these as a kid and a teenager for the Stanley Weston style magazines. I feel like I probably missed out on a lot of cool posters I could have had on my walls back then! Ha ha ha Great video, Bill! As always.
Yes, I passed on some of them as well. Not so much Wrestling Scene b/c of the bloody covers but I almost always passed on wrestling world. I remember that being the most hated among friends when we traded. But those issues always had a great folded poster as well as color pin up pages. The publication called “Championship Wrestling” IMO had some of the best pin ups of all the mags. Wrestling Scene was great for bloody pin ups. When we were kids it was those issues with the pin ups that everyone wanted when we traded! But man, nothing beat a brand new Weston mag in 82-86! Those 4 years I was glued to the news stands. Every Tuesday waiting for the school bell to ring to blitz to the newsstands to get them! I miss that!
Great video THANK YOU for making it!!!!! I needed this and it really helped me out a lot. It’s gets so confusing. I never seen that 1993 issue with the Warriors. Now I want it lol.
Hey it’s never to late to start collecting again. Even if it’s just one issue that was a personal favorite or yours from back then. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, I definitely have a lot more respect for them today than I did back in the day buying them. They’re very good. The upper 90s they were almost 100% color.
I never remember seeing these mags on a newsstand but, I was really a fan of the Weston (Apter) mags only. By the mid to late 80s, I wasn’t buying many wrestling magazines. Territories were dying and Vince killed kayfabe.
Yea man I was pretty much right behind ya on that. I didn’t start buying these issues like Scene and Rings again until after I was married etc. I cherry picked all the bloody issues off the news stands here n there. But always stayed loyal to the Weston’s. But now looking back at them they were good and they tried hard. The best mag coverage for small Indy places were in Wrestling News and Main event. Getting ready for a big savage vid next! (I been saying that for 3 months lol) but No this time I’m ready. (Almost)
@prowrestlingmags There were some very good covers for Ringside. One observation. I never knew Mike Rotonda battled Abdullah the Butcher. The interesting thing is that Abdullah is bloody and Mike is not. And, I saw a lot of Mike in CWF, and I do not recall him ever getting juice. If Mike came along 10 years earlier, he probably would have been talked about as a possible NWA Champion. He was in the mold of Jack Brisco, in my opinion.
@erikk.5202 you and me both man! Idk where or when the match with Abdullah took place. I would guess Florida when Mike was Souther champ. But I don’t recall Abdullah there in 84. The magazine didn’t cover that match. The article was about Mike challenging Flair for the title soon. Could have been Puerto Rico? But idk.
@prowrestlingmags Abdullah was in Florida in 1983/84 Bill. I remember he had a match on TV with Scott McGhee. He bloodied Scott and pinned him with his elbow drop. McGhee had just a little offense against Abdullah. He was managed by Gentleman Jim Holiday.
@erikk.5202 oh yea that’s right I forgot about that TV match. I was flipping through a Japanese issue today and found the same photo in a full page pin up the next 2 pages were all other matches with Mike in Fl as the southern champ. So it’s def fl. Not to long after that he’d be in the WWF. I liked him and Barry.
Excellent episode! Thanks for sharing! I remember seeing these magazines on the newsstand at the grocery stores, 7-11 & at liquor stores. I would spend hours flipping through these magazines at those locations with the exception being 7-11. The store manager wouldn't allow it 😂 I even remember wrestling magazines being at my local library. 80s was a GREAT time to be a wrestling fan! Thanks again
Ahh yea! It was one of my favorite things to do back then. We had sooo many news stands to pick from. All the best issues were usually in the shittiest neighborhoods by me, but there were 2 news n tobacco shops across the street from my school. They both were Loaded with everything comics, cards, candy and magazines floor to ceiling. We’d spend hours in there, the place was a goldmine always packed! It’s hard to believe today you can hardly find a place that sells a single magazine. A business that was once so dominant and lucrative yet little by little they all seem to vanish. Thanks for watching.
It is just crazy to see these magazines with the amount of posters you can get inside. I always passed up on these as a kid and a teenager for the Stanley Weston style magazines. I feel like I probably missed out on a lot of cool posters I could have had on my walls back then! Ha ha ha Great video, Bill! As always.
Yes, I passed on some of them as well. Not so much Wrestling Scene b/c of the bloody covers but I almost always passed on wrestling world. I remember that being the most hated among friends when we traded. But those issues always had a great folded poster as well as color pin up pages. The publication called “Championship Wrestling” IMO had some of the best pin ups of all the mags. Wrestling Scene was great for bloody pin ups. When we were kids it was those issues with the pin ups that everyone wanted when we traded! But man, nothing beat a brand new Weston mag in 82-86! Those 4 years I was glued to the news stands. Every Tuesday waiting for the school bell to ring to blitz to the newsstands to get them! I miss that!
Great video THANK YOU for making it!!!!! I needed this and it really helped me out a lot. It’s gets so confusing. I never seen that 1993 issue with the Warriors. Now I want it lol.
You are welcome! I know you were one of the ppl who asked for it. Glad I could help ya!
I bought hundreads of these wish I kept them but great video and great memorys :)
Hey it’s never to late to start collecting again. Even if it’s just one issue that was a personal favorite or yours from back then. Thanks for watching!
I like Ringside mags i have a few from 86-87
Yeah, I definitely have a lot more respect for them today than I did back in the day buying them. They’re very good. The upper 90s they were almost 100% color.
I really think Wrestling Scene was better to me
Oh 100% me too
I never remember seeing these mags on a newsstand but, I was really a fan of the Weston (Apter) mags only. By the mid to late 80s, I wasn’t buying many wrestling magazines. Territories were dying and Vince killed kayfabe.
Yea man I was pretty much right behind ya on that. I didn’t start buying these issues like Scene and Rings again until after I was married etc. I cherry picked all the bloody issues off the news stands here n there. But always stayed loyal to the Weston’s. But now looking back at them they were good and they tried hard. The best mag coverage for small Indy places were in Wrestling News and Main event. Getting ready for a big savage vid next! (I been saying that for 3 months lol) but No this time I’m ready. (Almost)
@prowrestlingmags There were some very good covers for Ringside. One observation. I never knew Mike Rotonda battled Abdullah the Butcher. The interesting thing is that Abdullah is bloody and Mike is not. And, I saw a lot of Mike in CWF, and I do not recall him ever getting juice. If Mike came along 10 years earlier, he probably would have been talked about as a possible NWA Champion. He was in the mold of Jack Brisco, in my opinion.
@erikk.5202 you and me both man! Idk where or when the match with Abdullah took place. I would guess Florida when Mike was Souther champ. But I don’t recall Abdullah there in 84. The magazine didn’t cover that match. The article was about Mike challenging Flair for the title soon. Could have been Puerto Rico? But idk.
@prowrestlingmags Abdullah was in Florida in 1983/84 Bill. I remember he had a match on TV with Scott McGhee. He bloodied Scott and pinned him with his elbow drop. McGhee had just a little offense against Abdullah. He was managed by Gentleman Jim Holiday.
@erikk.5202 oh yea that’s right I forgot about that TV match. I was flipping through a Japanese issue today and found the same photo in a full page pin up the next 2 pages were all other matches with Mike in Fl as the southern champ. So it’s def fl. Not to long after that he’d be in the WWF. I liked him and Barry.