I've been watching some of the All Star Wrestling dump, and while of course it isn't good wrestling, it's kind of interesting to see how that format was used literally everywhere in the country for 20+ years. What's really weird to me, though, is that they never promote house shows or the monthly big shows. It could be that local promos are cut out, or that because the shows aren't all that consistent in terms of being week to week that I missed it, but there's a show up 2 days before Bob Backlund beat Superstar for the title, Backlund was on the show, and there was no mention of him even having an upcoming match with Superstar.
The highlights are usually Freddie Blassie saying outrageous shyt just trying to make Vince laugh (which usually works to the point of having to change the camera shot to close up of Freddie to get Vince out of the shot. But then there was this:
what a year in wrestling.
