Uncharted Territory: Episode 125

[Chad Olson]

This week, Tim, Stu and Chad discuss the St. Louis Wrestling Club! What made this promotion unique, what are some of our favorite STL historical references, and how can a LOW promoter replicate a St. Louis style promotion?


www.amazon.com/Wrestling-Chase-Muchnick-Legends-Professional-ebook/dp/B001Q9EELK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3LWCYQWUCX3CX&keywords=larry+matysik&qid=1679748837&sprefix=larry+matysik%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-4 - Wrestling at the Chase by Larry Matysik

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[TTX]

St. Louis, awesome. Will give more thoughts later after a full listen. Nord was announced at the January event. So I of course never got to see St. Louis back when Sam was running it but it was a very fascinating fed from what I've read. I do like the sports presentation with minimal hijinks. I think I would have really enjoyed following it back in the day even with only two singles titles and no tag titles. I also recall besides the other things you guys mentioned that Sam didn't like masked wrestlers either.

[Matt]

Listening now. Recently read the Wrestling at the Chase book.

[natureboi]

Another excellent episode on another one of my favorite territories.

It was Larry Matysik whom Kevin Von Erich used to demonstrate his powerful leg ✂️. During that segment, Larry likened Kevin to Joe Stecher. There's a name you would not have heard on any other wrestling show at the time.

[natureboi]

Btw, we have half a dozen former Missouri heavyweight champions in the game if I counted correctly.

[TTX]

George Tragos, Bob Orton (Sr), Don Curtis, Harley Race, Johnny Valentine, Bob Backlund, Jack Brisco, Ted DiBiase HM Jeremy Wyatt

[natureboi]

I did not count correctly. 😄

[TTX]

Those state titles popping in and out. Of course if you want to count from the 75 restart, it's 5.

[pikemojo]

Another good episode. My only experience with St. Louis Wrestling was the DVD set that was mentioned on the episode. I haven't watched those in quite a while. I couldn't tell you if there were any sort of story lines presented on those discs but I just really remember the feeling that they had all of the heavy-hitters. All those wrestlers who I'd heard about for so long but had arrived at my wrestling fandom too late to see live.

[Cory Olson]

A big thanks to my brother Chad for putting the final touches on the editing, dropping the episode, and making the DB announcement, while I was driving back from spring break in Arizona! Listening to the conversation, this was one episode I really wish I could have joined. The St. Louis territory has always been fascinating to me. Before I started the USWA, I thought about doing using the St. Louis model for my LOW fed.