It ain’t Allentown, but Hamburg, Pennsylvania will have to do as this week features a look at WWF All Star Wrestling from May 17, 1980!
- Bob Backlund vs El Olympico in a bizarre “exhibition of wrestling holds” as VINCE MCMAHON delights in scientific wrestling
- The future problem Larry Z would have coming out of the Bruno feud
- Ken Patera as a God among men in 1980 even beyond the WWF
- Hulk Hogan being better in ’80 than remembered even as the promotion would prefer people forget his main feud that year
- Lots of Bruno Sammartino commentary: on Mexican wrestling, arrogant heels, fat people, Larry Z and more!
- Tor Kamata and his comical real name
- Steve King and the same name game
- 1980 Wrestler kneepad watch
Plus:
- One wiseacre in Hamburg has some advice for Backlund and Olympico
- Autograph seekers at the TV tapings and their fascination with job guys
- Sitcoms that did exactly 117 episodes
- Hulk Hogan: golfer?
- Sports moments of 2017: A first in Major League Baseball, 10 home runs in one game, and an obsession with the final play of regulation from Super Bowl 51
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