The Retro Wrestling Re-View

🎙️ Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast 📺 Episode #61: “The $50,000 Bounty and the Return of the Fabulous Ones” 📅 Originally Aired: January 5, 1991   🔥 Strap in for another wild ride through Memphis mayhem as the gang dives deep into a chaotic start to 1991 in the USWA! This week’s episode of USWA Championship Wrestling features:   💰 Eddie Gilbert in hiding (allegedly) as a $50,000 bounty loom...

We're ONE WEEK away from the premiere of SEASON TWO of the Retro Wrestling Re-View where we'll be doing week by week reviews of the year 1991 in USWA Championship Wrestling but before we get there, this week Gene and Josh are joined by STSPod.club's Brian Tramel to discuss the happenings of 1990 that take us into 1991.  It was wild year that saw Jerry Lawler begin the year as HEEL, King Cobra hold...

On this week's episode Gene Jackson welcomes Del Rios, who you may know as the Spellbinder from the USWA or Phantasio from the WWE.  Del has had a number of personas throughout his wrestling career and in the process has had not only a pretty unique and extraordinary pro wrestling career, but the same can be said for his life in general.  Del was the very first ever WWF "Developmental Wrestler" ha...

This week it's a special edition of the Retro Wrestling Re-View Podcast as host Gene Jackson welcomes a special guest who we saw a lot of during 1993, Moondog Splat! A fun conversation as Gene digs into Bubba White's time as a Moondog as they discuss a ton of topics including: the coaching he received before taking on the gimmick, what Richard Lee was like away from the ring, his relationship with...

This week, the gang is joined by their frequent guest co-host Brian Tramel of STSPod.club as they re-view the couple of segments of the 12/25/93 USWA Championship Wrestling episode that weren't clips from previous shows featuring "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel w/Toni Adams against Mike Anthony as well as highlights of Jerry 'the King' Lawler challenging "Double J" Jeff Jarrett for the Unified World Cha...

This week, the gang is re-viewing the December 18, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling and we've got NEW USWA Tag Team Champions! After only two weeks, the War Machines quit the territory after quickly dropping the tag team titles to FAR 2 WILD (Chris Michaels/Todd Morton) in Evansville, Indiana thanks to some help from their unlikely babyface manager, Bert Prentice! With the War Machines...

This week, the gang is watching the December 11, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling and there's a lot packed into this one!  The last time we saw both Eddie and Doug Gilbert here in the USWA in 1993, they were at war with EACH OTHER!  By now a few months have passed and they've settled their differences and now they're back in the USWA to do the bidding of Toni Adams against Brian Christo...

This week the gang re-views the 12/4/93 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! A lot is happening is this week's episode as some people have left the territory (Rex Hargrove for one) and some people have returned (Buddy Landel/Don Bass/Doug Gilbert).  There's a shocking heel turn in a tag team match to start the show (well, maybe not THAT shocking).  The brand new USWA Tag Team Champions Jeff Gay...

 A lot is happening in the USWA during the week of November 27, 1993. Jeff Jarrett loses the USWA Championship to Buddy Landel while in the same night he wins a BATTLE ROYAL last eliminating Jerry 'the King' Lawler to become the new Unified World Champion! Toni Adams offers the new champion some sound advice pertaining to his tag team championship partner Brian Christopher!  PG-13 become the brand...

As you can tell by the headline, it's a slow news week in the USWA for 11/20/93 but the guys still manage to have a lot of fun with this week's episode! In what has to be the most chopped up USWA episode they've reviewed yet, it features several rehashed music videos from the past, an exciting tag team match pitting Phi Delta Slam (Bandit & Textbook) vs. the American Eagles (Liberty & Just...

It's been a while since we've had a special guest, so this week Gene invited a man who has been all over the recent episodes of the Re-View, "J.C. Ice" Jamie Dundee in our most NSFW episode of the Re-View ever! They discuss the formation of PG-13 from Jamie's perspective and run down PG-13's first year in the USWA along with a ton of different topics that come up along the way including: Midget D,...

On this week's episode, we revisit the November 13, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!  We have new USWA Tag Team Champions as Brian Christopher & Jeff Jarrett have regained the titles and this week they will be wrestling PG-13 w/Lil' Midget D in the studio in the expiration of time match!  PLUS: the debut of PHI DELTA SLAM, the team of 'Textbook' and 'Bandit' hailing from "College T...

On this week's episode, we revisit the November 6, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!  The show kicks off with Richard Lee's Moondogs taking on the American Eagles in tag team action!   Toni Adams lets everyone know that she has found a "REAL MAN" in Rex Hargrove who is now one half of the USWA Tag Team Champions with Koko B. Ware.  Brian Christopher has something to say about that and a...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 30, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! We have new USWA Tag Team Champions in Brian Christopher & "the Fabulous One" Jeff Jarrett! The Moondogs turn tail and run! Reggie B. Fine now has TWO ladies and he shows them off to his partner Koko B. Ware who is not impressed.  We meet the "All American" from the University of Tennessee, Rex Harg...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 23, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! We see highlights of the USWA vs. WWF Survivor Series match featuring Jerry Lawler, Jeff Jarrett, & Brian Christopher taking on Vince McMahon's "WWF team" of Shawn Michaels, Doink the Clown, & Koko B. Ware.  PG-13 take on the sensational new babyface tag team of Mike Anthony and Jeff Gaylord who...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 16, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling!  "Macho Man" Randy Savage is the new Unified World Champion and Eddie Marlin is upset because "VINCE MACK-MAN" won't stop sending letters and faxes harassing him about the WWF being superior to the USWA (I guess that wasn't apparent until Savage won the title).  Brian Christopher manages to drag the fir...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 9, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! "Macho Man" Randy Savage is coming back to Memphis to face Jerry Lawler for the "held up" Unified Championship, but this time he's not coming alone! This week the WWF Chairman Vince McMahon will be in his corner! Elsewhere on the show, trouble continues to brew with Brian Christopher and Tony Falk as Ton...

On this week's episode, we revisit the October 2, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! As we prepare for a match that has been inexplicably labeled the "Fire on the Mountain" match, we hear from Jerry 'the King' Lawler, "Macho Man" Randy Savage,  and everyone's favorite chairman of the board Vince McMahon. The American Eagles are in action this week, PG-13w/Midget D  take on Team TONY (Ton...

On this week's episode, we revisit the September 25, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! The entire ringside area is surrounded by a dog pen of sorts…actually, not of sorts. It's actually a dog pen around the ring this week but we'll all agree to pretend it's a "steel cage".  TWO CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES as Tommy "Wildfire" Rich defends against the "Fabulous One" Jeff Jarrett and The Dog Catc...

On this week's episode, we revisit the September 18, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! Fresh off Tatanka defeating "The King" for the Unified title, Vince McMahon sends in a promo WEARING THE BELT! It was a big week in the USWA last week, as not only did Tatanka win the Unified title, Tommy Rich won the USWA title and the Dog Catchers won the tag team belts.  Jerry Lawler suggests a "Su...

On this week's episode, we revisit the September 11, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! It's the "End of the Trail" this week as the "Undefeated Native American Tatanka" is being sent to Memphis by Vince McMahon to challenge Jerry Lawler for the Unified World title.  The Spellbinder makes his USWA debut this week. Paul Neighbors' first week as a manager isn't working out as he'd hoped. T...

On this week's episode, we revisit the September 4, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling! As Vince McMahon puts it, this week Jerry "the King" Lawler has a "giant problem" in the form of the "8 foot tall" Giant Gonzalez managed by Bert Prentice.  Eddie Marlin on behalf of the "USWA board of directors" fires Paul Neighbors from being a referee so he decides to "buy into" being Bert Prentice'...

On this week's episode, we revisit the August 28, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling as we're heading into an event entitled "CAGED KINGS" where Bret "the Hitman" Hart comes to Memphis to face Jerry "the King" Lawler in a STEEL CAGE MATCH!  PLUS: We meet Bert Prentice's new "Heavy Metal" inspired tag team "BRUTE FORCZ" (Slammer/Jammer) and learn about what they are doing in 2025, USWA Cha...

On this week's episode, we revisit the August 21, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling as they prepare to host a "test run" of the WWF SummerSlam '93 main event as WWF Champion Yokozuna will wrestle "Made in the USA" Lex Luger this week at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. But perhaps more noteworthy than that, this episode features the very first hints of the "Mr. McMahon" character as we...

On this week's episode, we revisit the August 14, 1993 episode of USWA Championship Wrestling for what's being billed as "The Mother of All Matches". (umm, yeah.)  Despite the lame moniker, the main event of this week's Mid South Coliseum Show will be Bret 'the Hitman' Hart & "The Rocket" Owen Hart taking on Jerry 'the King' Lawler & "The Fabulous One" Jeff Jarrett!    But perhaps overshad...