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Glen Braget chats with Richard Vicek, pro wrestling historian and author of Bruiser: The World’s Most Dangerous Wrestler, about the history of pro wrestling in Chicago and the Chicago Wrestling Club.  From 1966 to 1983, the CWC was a major pro wrestling center in the United States. The CWC consisted of Verne Gagne’s AWA with Dick the Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder’s WWA. It’s an interesting piece of pro wrestling history.

Glen Braget chats with author Jonathan Plombon about his work on a book project about the incredible story of promoter Herb Abrams and his Universal Wrestling Federation. Learn more about Plombon’s upcoming book, some of the people who were interviewed for the project, and of the course the story of Herb and his roller coaster life.

On this edition of Rasslin Memories Then and Now, Glen Braget and Grizzled Vet Michael McCurdy welcome second generation professional wrestler Miranda Gordy to the program to discuss what life was like growing up the offspring of well known professional wrestler Freebird Terry Gordy, deciding to follow in her father and  brother’s footsteps in the business, and at least one Michael Hayes story.