My dad would take a bunch of my friends once in a while to Memorial Hall on Thursday nights to watch wrestling, we loved it , our favorites were Danny Little Bear and The Viking, The Stomper was also a favorite, we would watch wrestling then go to McDonald's or Smack's and eat $ .15 cheeseburgers and fries, . Dad would get each one of us 3 or 4 burgers and fries and a large coke , we had a blast, I think my Dad loved it too, those were wonderful times
Of course your dad loved it, he somehow convinced everyone in the area including my father to bet on matches and years later it turned out not only was it a work but your father would pay the Booker for the list of all the matches and their planned winners. I’ll give your old man this, he was smart enough/wise enough to know if he won every single time that no one would continue to bet and get suspicious so he averaged to hit on 8/10 matches instead and that was more than enough for him to afford that cabin outside of county where he murdered those prostitutes. Oh don’t act like you know, I was one of your best friends Greg it was obvious that your old man was the lonely hearts cabin killer, he built and was the only owner of the cabin up until he sold it and the new owners discovered a stash of bodies hidden there some of which were proven to have been there since 1987 due to missing person reports as well as their clothes and personal affects. Greg… to be honest I think my father had something to do with it, I’m sorry that you were eventually ostracized from our small town and especially from our friend group, it wasn’t your fault and I feel responsible for telling everyone that your pops killed those hookers. I’m sorry man, please forgive me.
God damn, these are SOOOO well done. Absolutely awesome piece of wrestling history. It's absolutely criminal that these vids dont get AT LEAST 100K views. Keep up the excellent work bro. Thank you!
I really enjoy your documentary's on the old wrestling outfits, that have been pretty much forgotten about, since Jim Crockett Promotion's/NWA, Then dying out to Ted Turner's WCW, Which died off after it was bought up by Vince McMahon, and his WWF/WWE. Since leaving only WWE, as the only main Wrestling programming left on TV, except for ROH, and the failed attempt of TNA. But it's great to see these documentary's, on the territory days of wrestling. Before national cable TV, where you would have to buy Pro Wrestling magazines, to catch up on other wrestling promotions, that was outside of your televised area. Please keep up on the great work you put into these Wrestling documentary's... Fans like myself, of the territory days of wrestling, do appreciate your work on these videos.... 🇺🇸💯🇺🇸
Rufus R. Jones, the Freight Train, was much bigger in this territory when I was a kid in the ‘70’s. He would hit his opponent with a punch called a hambone, or soupbone, something like that. Also, his promos were very energetic! Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand a word he said, aside from his name. I also met The Hangman Bobby Jaggers at a beef packing plant I worked at. I asked him if the sleeper hold was legit. He said “oh yeah! They pass right out”. Just what this kid/fan wanted to hear…
I friggen love these Wrestling Territories Documentaries. Takes me back to the good old days when wrastlin was wrastlin and not high flyin shock and awe. When a finisher could be as simple as a cloths line or a figure 4 but you had to work an opponent to land it.
Terrific documentary! I'm Danny Little Bear's son....do you have any additional stuff or video of Danny Little Bear that I could see? Would really appreciate anything you could provide!
Loved this episode! When I first started watching wrestling, it began with “Wrestling At The Chase”. I never saw Central States Wrestling but I knew of some of those guys. I didn’t know Hall, HBK and Jannetty wrestled there at one time. 😏
I can still hear Bill Kersten: Helllooooooo wrestling fans! Are you ready? Get set, sit back and relax! It's time for the most exciting hour on television, All Star Wrestling......
Still remember the day when Dr. Ken Ramey's masked "Interns" beat up Kersten and slammed him on TV (the channel 41 studio). Bob Geigel had to finish the hour.
@@hf6150 I saw Bill wrestle that despicable manager Percival A Friend. If I remember correctly Geigel and Omar Atlas kept Roger Kirby and Black Angus Campbell from interfering. I miss the territory days!
$6 a ticket. $7 if Flair was in town. Best memories. I will never forget Sonny Meyers changed the decision costing Bruiser Brody the world title. Bulldog Bob Brown turning on Marty Jannetty was so upsetting to me as it was still real to me until my step dad clued me in around 5th grade. Oops. Went to watch roller derby 2 years ago. For some reason I still expected to see the ring. A little sad it was gone. Off the topic, Mike George sole me a lemon as a car salesman after he retired. Dick.
This is the best one u've done... KCMO's my hometown ! I enjoy u added the old skyline background... KCMO doesn't even look like that anymore, I worked at a restaurant called Italian Gardens I saw Harley Race there several times... My father was good friends with Bob Geigel and " Freight Train" Rufus R. Jones they both worked as security guards at the race track in Kansas called The Woodlands Rufus owned a resturant in KCMO... u brought back lots of childhood memories I went to high school with Butch Reeds daughter... Great content !
Love these old territory wrestling videos, I was born in L A, and when I was a kid my Dad took me to the Olympic Auditorium, my favorites at that time were Ernie Ladd, gentle giant ,he always said hi to me, Maniac Tolos, Black Gordman and Goliath, -- they always made me laugh they would always argue with the Mexican fans claiming that they weren't Mexican, that they were from New Mexico, and let's not forget Mr Whoa Nellie himself Dick Lane !! He also did the Roller derby,which my Dad took me to as well and they also had boxing matches there ! Boy me and Dad had lot of fun when I was a kid!!😀😀👍 I would love it if you do a video on the Dick Lane days of wrestling !! Whoa Nellie !!!💪😎
There us no tape library. The only thing WWE might own would be from the short time Crockett promted in the area. That's only August 1986-February 1987.
this is stylistically akin to the territories days. much more than wwe production imo. Young Gotch I think was Al Haft. Who lent the Gotch name (he lifted), to Karl Krauser, who became Karl Gotch in Ohio
This is fascinating interesting I’m from Kansas and I have never heard of this before and I bet they were speeding like crazy in that Cadillac when they slammed in that semi trailer
Great content as usual. Can you do the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance/Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling? It’s hard to find information on anything prior to the Eastern Championship Wrestling years.
My wrestling heroes growing up in the Kansas City area. Became friends with many and still great friends with Marty Jannetty. Buzz Tyler was one of the kindest wrestlers I ever met. Thank you for bringing back truly great memories
@20:18 shows a card from Des Moines, Iowa. One of the places listed where tickets were sold was Babes, a popular Italian restaurant in downtown that was owned by Babe Bisignano, who was a professional wrestler back in the 1930s. Babe was a colorful character in real life. He was involved in legal matters with the NWA/Central States Wrestling. I have his first autobiography and will need to dig it out to find more details but thought that tidbid was interesting.
Good bit of history in this video. I don't remember the "kayfabe" magazines at the time in 1983, announcing Ric Flair as having won the Missouri State Title. Perhaps a few of them did I may have missed it
7:11 Memorial hall is still there I’ve seen a lot of concerts there I’ve seen Motley Crue there I’ve seen Skid Row I’ve seen Ace Frehley I saw Steve Vai
Cornette said that same thing. He went there with the Midnight Express and was talking about the sad state it was in. He said some of the wrestlers didn't even have boots.
ok in the first minute their were incorrect facts. gus karras own the st joe missouri promotion, mr.simpson own the ksansas city promotion karras brought out simpson, bob geigal brought in as partner with karras and so did pat o'connor later harley race did , later on bob change it to wwa and close 1988 not 1989 i grew up on it. pat,bob,harley brought out sam munchnik. in 1983 in st louis.. WWE doesn't have the film library of centrall states there wasn't one except a few tapers in the basement of channel 2 in st joe missouri. the photo shown wasn't the assains but it was mr wrestling 1 and 2. if you a documentary get the facts right
Calm down, I don't come to your job and tell you how to flip burgers..All of the info is from wikipedia and kayfabememories.com, so take it up with them.
i grew up watching central states all star wrestling before kansas city and st joe went together. i have talk with bob gegil and gus karras years ago and with harley race i know the promotion. started watching in 1962@@OriginalWrestlingDocumentaries
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Just hearing those names and seeing those photographs bring back childhood memories.
My dad would take a bunch of my friends once in a while to Memorial Hall on Thursday nights to watch wrestling, we loved it , our favorites were Danny Little Bear and The Viking, The Stomper was also a favorite, we would watch wrestling then go to McDonald's or Smack's and eat $ .15 cheeseburgers and fries, . Dad would get each one of us 3 or 4 burgers and fries and a large coke , we had a blast, I think my Dad loved it too, those were wonderful times
Of course your dad loved it, he somehow convinced everyone in the area including my father to bet on matches and years later it turned out not only was it a work but your father would pay the Booker for the list of all the matches and their planned winners. I’ll give your old man this, he was smart enough/wise enough to know if he won every single time that no one would continue to bet and get suspicious so he averaged to hit on 8/10 matches instead and that was more than enough for him to afford that cabin outside of county where he murdered those prostitutes. Oh don’t act like you know, I was one of your best friends Greg it was obvious that your old man was the lonely hearts cabin killer, he built and was the only owner of the cabin up until he sold it and the new owners discovered a stash of bodies hidden there some of which were proven to have been there since 1987 due to missing person reports as well as their clothes and personal affects.
Greg… to be honest I think my father had something to do with it, I’m sorry that you were eventually ostracized from our small town and especially from our friend group, it wasn’t your fault and I feel responsible for telling everyone that your pops killed those hookers. I’m sorry man, please forgive me.
@@thecatwrangler9448 can you email me at raymontani14@gmail.com , id like to hear more about this, thanks!
God damn, these are SOOOO well done. Absolutely awesome piece of wrestling history. It's absolutely criminal that these vids dont get AT LEAST 100K views. Keep up the excellent work bro. Thank you!
Thank you I appreciate that.
Yeah, the history is good, but the simple things like name pronunciation kills it.
I really enjoy your documentary's on the old wrestling outfits, that have been pretty much forgotten about, since Jim Crockett Promotion's/NWA, Then dying out to Ted Turner's WCW, Which died off after it was bought up by Vince McMahon, and his WWF/WWE. Since leaving only WWE, as the only main Wrestling programming left on TV, except for ROH, and the failed attempt of TNA. But it's great to see these documentary's, on the territory days of wrestling. Before national cable TV, where you would have to buy Pro Wrestling magazines, to catch up on other wrestling promotions, that was outside of your televised area. Please keep up on the great work you put into these Wrestling documentary's... Fans like myself, of the territory days of wrestling, do appreciate your work on these videos.... 🇺🇸💯🇺🇸
Thanks for watching!
Narrator savaged the names of Kansas towns. He might want to get more knowledgeable on geography next time. Otherwise very thorough.
Kansas City..Ric Flair referred to it as Siberia. He hated working there.
lol
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A great pic, but that's Herc with Mr. Wrestling 2 (as Mr. Wrestling 3) in Mid-South, not with Assassin #1 (as Assassin #2), in Mid-Atlantic.
Rufus R. Jones, the Freight Train, was much bigger in this territory when I was a kid in the ‘70’s. He would hit his opponent with a punch called a hambone, or soupbone, something like that. Also, his promos were very energetic! Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand a word he said, aside from his name.
I also met The Hangman Bobby Jaggers at a beef packing plant I worked at. I asked him if the sleeper hold was legit. He said “oh yeah! They pass right out”. Just what this kid/fan wanted to hear…
Jones called it his "Porkchop." 🙂
Man, that All Star Wrestling opening was a big part of my childhood.
😁
I friggen love these Wrestling Territories Documentaries. Takes me back to the good old days when wrastlin was wrastlin and not high flyin shock and awe. When a finisher could be as simple as a cloths line or a figure 4 but you had to work an opponent to land it.
Me too bro
Ah, a new episode? I love it!
Terrific documentary! I'm Danny Little Bear's son....do you have any additional stuff or video of Danny Little Bear that I could see? Would really appreciate anything you could provide!
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Talk about paying your dues! Damn Harley!
Loved this episode! When I first started watching wrestling, it began with “Wrestling At The Chase”. I never saw Central States Wrestling but I knew of some of those guys. I didn’t know Hall, HBK and Jannetty wrestled there at one time. 😏
Im from Saint Joseph, MO, I grew up on CSW.
I can still hear Bill Kersten: Helllooooooo wrestling fans! Are you ready? Get set, sit back and relax! It's time for the most exciting hour on television, All Star Wrestling......
Still remember the day when Dr. Ken Ramey's masked "Interns" beat up Kersten and slammed him on TV (the channel 41 studio). Bob Geigel had to finish the hour.
@@hf6150 I saw Bill wrestle that despicable manager Percival A Friend. If I remember correctly Geigel and Omar Atlas kept Roger Kirby and Black Angus Campbell from interfering. I miss the territory days!
You know what... for happy Humphrey, 62 years old is damn good. That kind of surprised me actually
Orville Brown sounds a lot like Cornette at the end of his career. LOL
$6 a ticket. $7 if Flair was in town. Best memories. I will never forget Sonny Meyers changed the decision costing Bruiser Brody the world title. Bulldog Bob Brown turning on Marty Jannetty was so upsetting to me as it was still real to me until my step dad clued me in around 5th grade. Oops. Went to watch roller derby 2 years ago. For some reason I still expected to see the ring. A little sad it was gone. Off the topic, Mike George sole me a lemon as a car salesman after he retired. Dick.
I grew up not far from Kansas City and my dad would say "hello wrestling fans!" anytime he saw me watching wrestling.
This is the best one u've done... KCMO's my hometown ! I enjoy u added the old skyline background... KCMO doesn't even look like that anymore, I worked at a restaurant called Italian Gardens I saw Harley Race there several times... My father was good friends with Bob Geigel and " Freight Train" Rufus R. Jones they both worked as security guards at the race track in Kansas called The Woodlands Rufus owned a resturant in KCMO... u brought back lots of childhood memories I went to high school with Butch Reeds daughter... Great content !
Hey thanks! glad u enjoyed it , thx for the support.
I think Southeastern Championship Wrestling deserves to be on here just due to the Welch connection and of course the late Eddie Gilbert.
Its next
Wow, this made my day. Could you do some more content about Gulas/Welch please?
Love these old territory wrestling videos, I was born in L A, and when I was a kid my Dad took me to the Olympic Auditorium, my favorites at that time were Ernie Ladd, gentle giant ,he always said hi to me, Maniac Tolos, Black Gordman and Goliath, -- they always made me laugh they would always argue with the Mexican fans claiming that they weren't Mexican, that they were from New Mexico, and let's not forget Mr Whoa Nellie himself Dick Lane !! He also did the Roller derby,which my Dad took me to as well and they also had boxing matches there ! Boy me and Dad had lot of fun when I was a kid!!😀😀👍 I would love it if you do a video on the Dick Lane days of wrestling !! Whoa Nellie !!!💪😎
There us no tape library. The only thing WWE might own would be from the short time Crockett promted in the area. That's only August 1986-February 1987.
good video
Thank you
The 1st true named nwa champion... pesek?...shikat... brown... or the (mw)wa...???
This guys the fuckin Man! Thank you sooooo much! Much love bro.
NWA Central States Wrestling was in operation in the 2000s though…
Can you Continental wrestler and great job on this video
this is stylistically akin to the territories days. much more than wwe production imo. Young Gotch I think was Al Haft. Who lent the Gotch name (he lifted), to Karl Krauser, who became Karl Gotch in Ohio
The Never Angel was here 🖖🐱⛩🖖🏻🐼
This is fascinating interesting I’m from Kansas and I have never heard of this before and I bet they were speeding like crazy in that Cadillac when they slammed in that semi trailer
This is so great I remember watching this when I was a kid in Missouri.
NWA PRO WRESTLING & ITS TERRITORIES ARE #1
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Great content as usual. Can you do the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance/Eastern Championship Wrestling/Extreme Championship Wrestling? It’s hard to find information on anything prior to the Eastern Championship Wrestling years.
Hey thanks for the comment, it's on the list !
My wrestling heroes growing up in the Kansas City area. Became friends with many and still great friends with Marty Jannetty. Buzz Tyler was one of the kindest wrestlers I ever met. Thank you for bringing back truly great memories
How is Marty doing these days? I know he found himself in controversy last year.
@@chrisross9248 check out Boston wrestling mwf. It's a wrestling interview show here on YT, he's on there quite a bit.
i wash my self with a rag on a stick but in all secretary i love you guys stuff keep up the good work
@20:18 shows a card from Des Moines, Iowa. One of the places listed where tickets were sold was Babes, a popular Italian restaurant in downtown that was owned by Babe Bisignano, who was a professional wrestler back in the 1930s. Babe was a colorful character in real life. He was involved in legal matters with the NWA/Central States Wrestling. I have his first autobiography and will need to dig it out to find more details but thought that tidbid was interesting.
Thanks again for another Fantastic & Informative video!
Titanic smh.. More like the Olympic..
Good stuff here boys.
VERY informative!
i luv these docs
2:20 ... WTF is going on in that pic ? ..🤔
Good bit of history in this video. I don't remember the "kayfabe" magazines at the time in 1983, announcing Ric Flair as having won the Missouri State Title. Perhaps a few of them did I may have missed it
Love that intro music
7:11 Memorial hall is still there I’ve seen a lot of concerts there I’ve seen Motley Crue there I’ve seen Skid Row I’ve seen Ace Frehley I saw Steve Vai
Nothing like this on RUclips! Best wrestling documentary content perhaps anywhere
Is there videos in those libraries that they don’t wanna release they’ve never shown the public
I got to watch in the summer of 1984- the summer of 1985.
I can't believe HH lived to 62, that's amazing.
👍👍👍👍👍
Awesome video thumbs up all
Worst payoff's in the business, you either were just starting out or wrapping up your career if you wrestled in Kansas City.
Cornette said that same thing. He went there with the Midnight Express and was talking about the sad state it was in. He said some of the wrestlers didn't even have boots.
Nice Documentary
This has got to be my favorite wrestling documentary channel
Thanks for the support!
This is stuff I didn't know very interesting !
I hit another even likes number.
ok in the first minute their were incorrect facts. gus karras own the st joe missouri promotion, mr.simpson own the ksansas city promotion karras brought out simpson, bob geigal brought in as partner with karras and so did pat o'connor later harley race did , later on bob change it to wwa and close 1988 not 1989 i grew up on it. pat,bob,harley brought out sam munchnik.
in 1983 in st louis.. WWE doesn't have the film library of centrall states there wasn't one except a few tapers in the basement of channel 2 in st joe missouri. the photo shown wasn't the assains but it was mr wrestling 1 and 2. if you a documentary get the facts right
Calm down, I don't come to your job and tell you how to flip burgers..All of the info is from wikipedia and kayfabememories.com, so take it up with them.
i grew up watching central states all star wrestling before kansas city and st joe went together. i have talk with bob gegil and gus karras years ago and with harley race i know the promotion. started watching in 1962@@OriginalWrestlingDocumentaries
if our going to do a documentary get you facts rights. I grew up watching this promotion i know it very well.
A little obsessed with Mel Peachey , don't ya think ya fkn weirdo?