On this episode, we continue to flashback 50 years in Pro Wrestling History and today we go to one of the wildest and craziest territories in wrestling, the Detroit Territory in 1975. The territory, which the Sheik purchased from Jim Barnett in 1964, has been on an incredible run for at least 7 of the 11 years, Ed Farhat has been in charge. Starting in the early 1970s, as we learned from our Toronto Analyst, Wes Maidment, Farhat became the talent booker for Maple Leaf Gardens as well as his own territory through Michigan, Ohio and parts of West Virginia. Today, Detroit Analyst, Terry Sullivan, who did the announcing on the television show and worked in the office, joins Tony to talk about the turbulent year in Detroit of 1975 as the Sheik’s run has peaked and is heading for a downturn. Terry has great stories to share about Sheik and going to work for an outlaw promotion in opposition to Farhat and much more. There is an amazing connection to the Amarillo territory that they discuss in this show as well! Sign up for Tony's Substack and have pro wrestling history at your fingertips each and every day! https://tonyrichards4.substack.com/

• (00:00:02) - Podcast
• (00:00:36) - Personalities, Territories, Towns and Buildings
• (00:01:47) - How Did You Get Involved in Pro Wrestling?
• (00:10:58) - Bob Finnegan, Chuck Le
• (00:11:44) - Wrestling Announcer Bob Finnegan on Becoming a
• (00:13:34) - The Sheik
• (00:17:45) - Terry Jones Can't Remember His First TV Taping
• (00:18:45) - Bruiser on the Outs
• (00:26:52) - Jack Kane Was the Booker for The Sheik
• (00:32:20) - Jack Black on The Sheik's Lifestyle
• (00:38:58) - The Sheik Should Have Slammed Andre The Giant
• (00:43:12) - Bobo vs Abdullah the Butcher
• (00:46:39) - Wild Bull Curry
• (00:50:40) - Detroit Wrestling on a Weekly Schedule
• (00:57:34) - Randy Savage on Phil Golden and His PAFOs
• (01:02:48) - Bob Kane on the Sheik's
• (01:04:48) - The Sheik's Office
• (01:11:05) - Terry McGuirk on Detroit Wrestling

Memphis Wrestling hit its peak in 1982—and we’re kicking it off with the wild month of January! Lawler vs. Dutch, the Gibsons vs. the Midnight Express, and Jimmy Hart’s First Family chaos—all in Memphis in Minutes!

Today on the show, Tony Richards welcomes Bobby Simmons back to the show as they return to the state of Georgia in the Summer months of 1975. Bobby was working as both a referee and also in the office for Jim Barnett and booker Tom Renesto during this time and has plenty of stories about the happening in the Georgia territory. Bobby tells some great Abdullah the Butcher stories, stories about the new tag team of Bob Orton, Jr and Dick Slater, Jerry Brisco, Jerry Lawler and Don Greene, and a fairly gruesome story about a Mr. Fuji rib you’ll have to hear to believe. There are some new names in the territory you will recognize just starting out here in 1975. They cover the whole state of Georgia in this episode of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel podcast.

• (00:00:02) - Podcast
• (00:00:36) - Georgia Wrestling
• (00:06:09) - Jerry Lawler on Rock Hunter
• (00:11:26) - Leon Ogle and Lynn Rossi
• (00:17:08) - Bob Armstrong on Timmy vs Johnny Walker
• (00:21:45) - Bob Armstrong and Bill Dromo
• (00:27:18) - Austin Idol
• (00:29:12) - Savannah and Athens as a wrestling town
• (00:34:12) - Flying to Savannah for the NWA
• (00:37:48) - The City Auditorium in Atlanta
• (00:44:42) - Georgia Championship Wrestling
• (00:49:35) - Omni Hall vs the Coliseum
• (00:55:35) - Larry From The Sudan
• (00:58:48) - Jerry Briscoe in the Georgia territory
• (01:03:12) - Dusty Comes In
• (01:06:21) - Fuji Thomas and Dudley Clemens
• (01:09:26) - Bobby Simmons on Talking To Former WWE Superstars