Greg Gagne on the AWA and Verne Gagne's legacy, PowerTown and more!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- This week on Under The Ring: Pro Wrestling Conversations, we're joined by veteran pro wrestler Greg Gagne. He discusses the legacy of the AWA, as well as that of his father, the legendary Verne Gagne, and also discusses his own training and career in that legendary promotion. Gagne is also involved in the development of the new Powertown wrestling figures, which celebrate wrestling's history and Gagne talks about how that came about and what his role is. Gagne also had a hand in discovering and training NXT women's champion Tiffany Stratton and he talks about how that was.
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Him, Jim Brunzell, and Tito Santana were all heroes from my childhood back in Minnesota when we used to watch the AWA. Thank you for the superb content.
loved all three of them too
Good to see Greg Gagne. Big fan 👍
How about his daughter, the pedo??
The High Flyers Greg Gagne and Jumpin Jim Brunzell were baby faces when I was growing. Every Monday a local TV station hosted a live rasslin program from Omaha Ne. Stars like Verne Gagne, Mad Dog Vachon, The Baron, Bruiser and Cruiser, the Weasle etc all came through town on a regular business. I enjoyed the live shows at the Civic Auditorium. Good memories.
Love the 60s and 70s AWA. Great hearing from Greg Gagne-one of the last of the breed.
Greg and PowerTown did an amazing job on those figures. I have Kerry, Bruiser, Verne and Magnum. I look forward to them doing more
26:04 Greg was in a rage. He wanted Brody IN A CAGE!
I honestly can’t wait to receive my order of Powertown figures of Bruiser Brody, Kerry Von Erich, & Lou Thesz. Also, interested to see who else joins the ultras line up. Wanna see many from the rest of The Von Erichs, Rock n Roll Express, Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert, Freebirds, Gordon Solie, Andy Kaufman, etc.
I got Verne, Kerry, Bruiser and Magnum. They are just perfect!!!! I hope they create some more.
Love Greg gagne. Hey Greg please go on away unleashed :)
Verne was actually my childhood hero, but Greg was my very first crush at age 12. Finally met him in person in 2023, he is truly a great person
Brody was a character strange breed
Greg says "DuPont Network" and sometimes even corrects people who say "Dumont Network". It was the Dumont Network.
I've been posting that forever, has nobody told him. It's Dumont, named for founder Allen B DuMont of DuMont Labs. While the other TV networks had big radio operations to subsidize them Dumont had to take cash from the manufacturing operation. DuMont Labs manufactured some of the best TV equipment and made their reputation on the quality of their TV tubes. Thanks to Dumont Electronicams the high quality 39 classic 1955/56 episodes of the Honeymooners still exist.
I think Greg would be good at this kind of thing, pleae Grec make The Midnight Express Dennis and Bobby with Cornette.
Put on the hip boots listening to these tall tales.
Lies
Exactly.
You can count on Greg to put a positive spin on everything.
One thing I don't think I've heard him talk about was how over he was with the crowd when the AWA did the Donahue Show. Hogan was on and nobody cared but all the women in the audience liked Greg.
1000 bumps in an hour. 😂😂. Greg can’t even stop lying about something as simple as bumps.
He's a cheat to to the public there charging 149.00 for these figures that's a disgrace
Lies
@@trentaccid2177 He's not - look on their site
Vince needs to realize had it not been for men like Verne, Fritz and the others who ran the territories, there would be no WWE.
Lol. What do you even mean by that?
Vince McMahon sr. started what became wwe long before awa or world class existed. In fact Verne and Fritz both wrestled for Vince at some point lol.
Lol He put all those guys in wwe hall of fame! What more do you want?
@@toma.4808 ol “sassy” is just another internet big mouth who spout off in ignorance and then runs away when called on it.
@@toma.4808 at the end of the day, the gagnes aren’t nice people. Greg still goes around lying about everyone - provably. Verne was a bully - even physically trying to bully wrestlers which didn’t always go well for him lol. And ripping them off, which everyone from Ventura, to Animal, to Bill Eadie has talked about. Probably the only big podcaster who really looks at Verne through tinted glssses is Cornette and Eric Bischoff - and Greg constantly bashes Eric in public while asking him for favors in private! lol
Seema like cool dude but wears Same blue jump suit every shoot