1000 Hours Podcast Pioneers of Pro Wrestling

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• Hour 111: To be determined (Michael D)

• Hour 110: To be determined (Brian)

• Hour 109: To be determined (Shaun O)

• Hour 108: The Life & Times of John McMahon (Part 1)

• Hour 107: The Life & Times of Ernest Roeber

• Hour 106: The Death of William Muldoon

• Hour 105: The Retirement of William Muldoon

• Hour 104: From the Pioneer Era to Modern Era Unbroken

• Hour 103: Muldoon Whips John L. Sullivan Into Shape

• Hour 102: Trouble Follows William Muldoon

• Hour 101: William Muldoon and Hulk Hogan Had a Lot in Common

• Hour 100: William Muldoon was a Civil War Fraud

• Hour 99: Pioneer Era Mailbag Q&A Show

• Hour 98: The End of the Pioneer Era of Pro Wrestling

• Hour 97: McLeod Defeats Burns

• Hour 96: That Didn’t Go as Planned

• Hour 95: The Last Match of William Muldoon

• Hour 94: William Muldoon the Con Man

• Hour 93: The Return of William Muldoon

• Hour 92: The Original Strangler Lewis was a Heel

• Hour 91: Pro Wrestling’s First Business Slump was 1886

• Hour 90: The Rise of Lewis, The Fall of Muldoon

• Hour 89: The death of Clarence Whistler & Lewis Becomes Strangler

• Hour 88: Muldoon & Sorakichi Head to Court

• Hour 87: William Muldoon verses Col. James H. McLaughlin!

• Hour 86: Return of McLaughlin/Strange Story

• Hour 85: Muldoon Makes a Run For It!

• Hour 84: Muldoon, Whistler, and Dinnie

• Hour 83: William Muldoon vs Donald Dinnie 1883

• Hour 82: The Poisoning of Tom Connors

• Hour 81: Who Was Homer Lane and More

• Hour 80: The Rise of Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling

• Hour 79: Muldoon and Whistler Get into a Fist Fight

• Hour 78: The Muldoon Tour Begins

• Hour 77: Why should we study pre-1900s wrestling

• Hour 76: H.M. Dufur’s First Reign as Champion

• Hour 75: There is a New Champion!

• Hour 74: The Pioneer Era Explodes!

• Hour 73: And Now They Have Swords

• Hour 72: Along Came the Bears

• Hour 71: The Horse Lifting Incident

• Hour 70: Birth of Sports Entertainment is 1870

• Hour 69: Drunker Than a Musicians Dog

• Hour 68: Monster Classical & Geological Hippodrome

• Hour 67: Col. James. H. McLaughlin: Undisputed Champion

• Hour 66: The Most Monumental Moment of the Pioneer Era

• Hour 65: The Life and Crimes of Uzile Prickett

• Hour 64: The Players Are on the Field

• Hour 63: Wrestling Gets Organized

• Hour 62: America’s First Wrestling Star Revisited

• Hour 61: The Bible of the Pioneer Era of Wrestling

• Hour 60: 1886: A Year of Change in Pro Wrestling

• Hour 59: More Milo to Londos: Fact vs Fiction

• Hour 58: From Milo to Londos: Fact vs Fiction

• Hour 57: Real Terrible Turk and Muldoon vs Whistler

• Hour 56: More Muldoon

• Hour 55: The Truth of William Muldoon… Mostly

• Hour 54: Will the Real Christol Please Stand Up?

• Hour 53: McMahon-Owens Family, McMahon verses McLaughlin

• Hour 52: Why Does Lucian Marc Only Have 3 Fingers?

• Hour 51: Germany, France, and Europe in the Pioneer Era

• Hour 50: The Man Who Derailed McLaughlin - Jacob Martin

• Hour 49: John McMahon Shot, Davy Crockett Wrestling, more

• Hour 48: Return of the Terrible Turk

• Hour 47: Who Was Homer Lane?

• Hour 46: The True Story of the Detroit International Tournament

• Hour 45: Pioneer Era Wrestling in Australia / New Zealand

• Hour 44: The Presidents in the Pioneer Era

• Hour 43: Pioneer Era Great Lakes

• Hour 42: Wrestling in the Biblical Era

• Hour 41: Wrestling in the Russian Empire pre Hackenschmidt

• Hour 40: Strongmen of the Pioneer Era

• Hour 39: The Evils of Wrestling

• Hour 38: Barney Smith is Dead

• Hour 37: Showmanship in pioneer era France

• Hour 36: Bounty on Barney Smith

• Hour 35: More on King of Wrestling Charles

• Hour 34: Who was King of Wrestling Charles?

• Hour 33: G.W. Flagg and John McMahon

• Hour 32: Pioneer Era Pensacola Wrestling and the Champion of the South

• Hour 31: Of Bauer and Bears and more

• Hour 30: Can We Bear Another Episode?

• Hour 29: From Roman Reigns to William Muldoon

• Hour 28: A Wrestler and Boxer Walk Into a Bar…

• Hour 27: Story of Richard K. Fox: Pro Wrestling Influencer

• Hour 26: Ringside Wrestling Book on the Pioneers

• Hour 25: The Polish Influence on Pro Wrestling

• Hour 24: More Col. James H. McLaughlin Killing Barney Smith Mystery

• Hour 23: Pioneer Era New York outside NY City

• Hour 22: Pioneer Era Lucha Libre: Mexico

• Hour 21: The Mystery of Barney Smith. Maybe Dead. Maybe Not.

• Hour 20: Champion Wrestler Uzile Prickett Had a VERY Bad Idea

• Hour 19: The American Heavyweight Championship

• Hour 18: Clarence Whistler is Superhuman Apparently

• Hour 17: Theobaud Bauer is Dead and There Was Much Rejoicing

• Hour 16: Pioneer Era Africa

• Hour 15: That Time H.M. Dufur Was Shot in the Face

• Hour 14: G.W. Flagg Writes a Letter

• Hour 13: Pioneer Era Minnesota

• Hour 12: Pioneer Era Alabama

• Hour 11: The Life and Times of Matsada Sorakichi

• Hour 10: Farmer Burns, Cigarette Cards, Evan Lewis

• Hour 9: Jack Carkeek Goes to Prison

• Hour 8: Opera House Cup

• Hour 7: John McMahon

• Hour 6: William Richardson: Belted Champion

• Hour 5: The Terrible Turk: Yusif Ismil

• Hour 4: Duncan C. Ross Tells All

• Hour 3: The Trial of William Muldoon

• Hour 2: Viro “Black Sam” Small: Pioneer African American Wrestler

• Hour 1: Abraham Lincoln verses Jack Armstrong

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