Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News and for the next few weeks, pro wrestling author and historian Karl Stern is going to be diving into the best year of Southeastern and Continental Wrestling - 1983, the year where Bob Armstrong infamously worked as a heel and many new faces came into the territory. Part 1 covers January and February 1983 Southeastern wrestling with heel Bob Armstrong, Austin...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and in the spring of 1988, Continental Championship Wrestling got a new pair of bookers in Eddie Gilbert and Paul Heyman. Fans of Continental Wrestling also got the promise of new stars like Cowboy Bob Orton, Chris Adams, Terry Gordy, and Bam Bam Bigelow and a major new championship - the Continental Wrestling Federation title. All of these new and e...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and this week; author and pro wrestling historian Karl Stern gives a detailed run down of the early career of Hulk Hogan. There is a new multi-part Netflix documentary about the life of Hulk Hogan which includes stories from his early career. Like many things Hulk Hogan said during his life, the truth is often stretched or outright fabricated. So, wh...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and today, author and historian Karl Stern will review the 8th episode of Continental Wrestling. This episode hasn't been seen in a long time as it wasn't on YouTube that I'm aware of previously. Ron Fuller verses Bob Armstrong in a Texas Death Match that Gordon Solie doesn't seem to understand, a loser leave town match with my mentor Mr. Class (Ken...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast. On this episode, historian and author Karl Stern reviews the debut episode of Continental wrestling. June 10, 1985 Southeastern Championship Wrestling officially changed names to Continental Championship Wrestling, moved their tapings from a small studio in Dothan, AL to the Birmingham Boutwell Auditorium and brought in Gordon Solie as commentator....

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast where we feature the stars and stories from Ron Fuller's old Southeastern Championship Wrestling and Continental Wrestling promotion. On this episode, pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern reviews the impressive Andre the Giant biography from a few years ago which featured some new, never before published, information about Andre the Giant, t...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and on this episode, pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern presents a biography special on Tommy 'Wildfire' Rich. Tommy Rich was one of the hottest young babyfaces in America during the late 1970's into the early 1980's with huge runs in Georgia and Memphis including a brief stint as NWA World heavyweight champion. Tommy Rich's popularity had...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and on this edition of the show, pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern discusses one of the biggest heels in the area's history, The Flame. Most of the world might know Jody Hamilton as The Assassin, one half of one of the most famous tag teams in history, but in Alabama, Hamilton changed his name and his wrestling gear and became the notorio...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and this episode author and historian Karl Stern presents a biography on the life and career of the man who started Southeastern and Continental wrestling- 'The Tennessee Stud' Ron Fuller. Ron Fuller had a very interesting career. As a third-generation wrestler himself in the late 1960s into the early 1970s, Ron Fuller quickly became someone on the t...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and on this episode pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern talks about a guy who was a star both Southeastern Championship Wrestling as a NWA United States Junior champion and later in Continental in a great feud with Adrian Street over the Southeastern heavyweight title, one of my favorite people in pro wrestling - 'Hustler' Rip Rogers!

Aaron Gartlan presents this biography of the legendary NWA (and WWF and WCW) World heavyweight champion Ric Flair. This biography podcast special was done by pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern where he goes over the incredible career of the man who was the NWA World champion through most of the SECW era. 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair has become a pop culture icon and one of the greatest legend...

Aaron Gartlan presents Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News Podcast. Today pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern takes a look back at a classic tag team of the territorial era - The Nightmares. The Nightmares (Ken Wayne and Danny Davis) were never a big nationally known team. They never worked WWF, worked only briefly for the NWA and, even then, under a different name, but fans...

Aaron Gartlan presents Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News Podcast, and, on this episode, I talk about one of the more underappreciated wrestlers in southern pro wrestling. Mike Jackson is a name most people remember for being an enhancement worker on TBS for Georgia Championship Wrestling, or perhaps you saw him putting over the best wrestlers for Bill Watt's Mid-South, or Florida, or...

Aaron Gartlan presents Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News Podcast and today author and pro wrestling historian Karl Stern presents his biography of the 'Canadian Lumberjack' Jos LeDuc. During the time Ron Fuller's Southeastern promotion was in Knoxville, he often used Jos LeDuc. When he took the promotion to Pensacola, Florida he brought Jos LeDuc down as well and, for a while, Jos Le...

Aaron Gartlan presents Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News Podcast and on this week's show he presents a podcast special by pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern discussing the enhancement wrestlers who put over the stars. SECW had plenty of great enhancement wrestlers, these were the people who lost matches but were actual very good wrestler so they made the stars look great....

Aaron Gartlan presents Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News Podcast, and this week pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern discusses the career of the legendary 8-time NWA World heavyweight champion Harley Race who regularly defended the NWA title during the Knoxville era of Southeastern Championship Wrestling and during 1983 when Ron Fuller ran the Dothan / Pensacola end of the p...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW action news podcast, and this week pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern brings you a detailed biography of Lord Humongous. In Southeastern Championship Wrestling, Lord Humongous was former football player Jeff Van Camp and later, in Continental Wrestling Federation, Sid Vicious took over the character. Join us today to learn more about the hockey mask wearing m...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW action news podcast and this week we have a special documentary style show for you produced by pro wrestling historian and author Karl Stern. It has long been discussed that one of the best heels in pro wrestling history was 1983 'Bullet' Bob Armstrong, but how did he return to being a babyface? The Bullet and The Stud storyline was a fantastic old school pro wrestling...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and this week Aaron has selected another biography by pro wrestling author and historian Karl Stern looking at a star of the CWF era of Southeastern and Continental Championship Wrestling - Eddie Gilbert. Eddie Gilbert, the son of former Memphis and SECW star Tommy Gilbert was only in the promotion for a few months, but those few months brought consi...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and today Karl Stern takes a look at the career of the controversial "Dr. D" David Schultz. Schultz was a regional star in Memphis and Southeastern when he first started watching wrestling. He was one of the best heels and in many ways the prototype for what Steve Austin's character would be later on. But Schultz had a very problematic side to him. W...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News podcast and on this episode, Aaron has chosen another biography of a Southeastern and Continental wrestling great - 'Bullet' Bob Armstrong! Bob Armstrong was the top babyface star of SECW through most of the history of Continental wrestling, except for the end of 1982 through the fall of 1983 where Bob Armstrong was the top heel of the company! Later, he don...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News Podcast and today he presents a pro wrestling history biography by Karl Stern on the late 'Exotic' Adrian Street. Adrian Street was absolutely amazing. He was the perfect heel in the perfect place at the perfect time. Yes, Adrian Street was exceptional in England. He was very good in Los Angles, New Orleans, and Memphis, but nowhere was his gimmick more cust...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News podcast and on this week's episode, Aaron features a pro wrestling biography by wrestling historian Karl Stern on one of the top babyface stars of Southeastern and Continental wrestling - Austin Idol! Austin Idol was one of the most entertaining wrestlers of the 1980s. While insider journalists often criticized his so-called work rate and many of those who w...

Aaron Gartlan presents SECW Action News podcast with a look back at the March 13, 1982, episode of Southeastern Wrestling featuring hosts Charlie Platt & Rick Stewart along with Michaels Hayes, Jimmy Golden, Robert Fuller, the New Zealand Sheepherders (Jonathan Boyd & Luke Williams managed by Ox Baker), Tony Charles, Coco Samoa, Andre the Giant, The Superstar (Ray Harris), The Super Destroyer (Bil...

Aaron Gartlan presents this episode of SECW Action News Podcast where Aaron has a question for pro wrestling historian Karl Stern, who was a law enforcement officer for over 30 years, what are the details of the murder case brought against Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka near the end of his life for a death that happened in 1983? Jimmy Snuka was a 'relative' of Southeastern Championship Wrestling star Tong...