Booking Memphis Wrestling with Jerry Jarrett

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Episode 41: Tommy Rich Apr 15, 2019

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We are fired up this week to welcome Wildfire Tommy Rich! Hear hi and Jerry tell all sorts of stories about his career, from him breaking in by doing yard work for Jerry, Jerry sending to him to Georgia to help Jim Barnett and TBS, his wild success in Georgia, the New Fabs, hiding under the ring to interfere in the Idol/Lawler cage match that saw the King's head shaved, their scaffold match with Lawler and Dundee, and so much more!

Episode 40: Les Thatcher Apr 08, 2019

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We celebrate our 40th episode by bringing together over a century of wrestling experience in Jerry Jarrett and our guest Les Thatcher. They have a fascinating discussion on wrestling history, including attempting to clear up confusion over a major event from Jerry's career that happened 50 years ago! They discuss Les's time in Tennessee as well as his multiple other achievements since debuting 58 years ago.

Episode 39: 1993-1994 WWE Apr 01, 2019

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This week Jerry Jarrett takes us deeper into his time working next to Vince McMahon in 1993-1994 WWE, and his thoughts on several of the various talents he worked with. Hear why he loves Scott Hall but threatened to fire him after a match with Jeff Jarrett as MSG, booking the Bret Hart vs Owen Hart feud, his pride in pushing for 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty to become the tag champs, and all other great names from the era like Randy Savage, Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, Howard Finkel, Doink, Lex Luger, Jerry Lawler, and many more.

Episode 38: Referee Jerry Calhoun Mar 25, 2019

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We are so happy to have legendary Memphis referee Jerry Calhoun join us this week! An integral part of Memphis TV for more than a decade, this is an episode that fans of classic Memphis will love as he has all sorts of stories about the glory days. Hear about him breaking Jerry Lawler's leg and knocking him out of the territory for a year, being in the ring for the Lawler vs Idol match with Tommy Rich under the ring, pranks and ribs on the road, shoots in the ring, violent fans, and much more on all the classic Memphis names!

Episode 37: Jarrett Parsons Wrestling Roku TV Panel Mar 18, 2019

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This week we take a deep look into exactly what Jerry Jarrett has been working on for the last several months - The Jarrett Parsons Wrestling TV Roku Channel! Jerry and Sean welcome Dave and Adam Parsons onto the show, as they all put the channel together. Hear about the background of the channel and how it was formed, what's currently available, and big plans for the future. Jerry says this is the most excited he's been about a project in 40 years, so get insight into why he is so passionate about the project.

Episode 36: OTT Wrestling Owner Joe Cabray Mar 11, 2019

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This week is one of our most fascinating shows, as we bring together generations with OTT Wrestling owner Joe Cabray and Jerry Jarrett having a great discussion on 2019 pro wrestling. Based out of Ireland, Joe leads perhaps the hottest independent organization in the world right now, with a cutting edge product. Jerry has seen some of his work and is a big fan, and it's so interesting to hear these two men 40 years apart in age have so many of the same beliefs on successful pro wrestling.

Episode 35: The Big Names of the 70s Mar 04, 2019

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This week we take advantage of Jerry Jarrett's unique perspective as a young NWA member going back to the 70's to get his perspective on all the big names of the era. From Bruno Sammartino, to Sam Mushnick, Stu Hart, Danny Hodge, Wahoo McDaniel, Roy Shire, Mark Lewin, Haystack Calhoun, Freddie Blassie, and so many more.

Episode 34: Kris Zellner Feb 25, 2019

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This week we welcome great wrestling podcaster and Memphis fan Kris Zellner onto the show. He gets the chance to pick Jerry Jarrett's brain for an hour, talking about Memphis's expansion into different areas, the Poffos, music videos, Ole Anderson, and much more vintage Memphis content.

Epsisode 33: Quick Hits - Memphis Managers Feb 18, 2019

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In this episode we bring back one of our most popular formats, the Quick Hits gimmick as Sean throws a variety of random names at Jerry Jarrett from Memphis history and he responds with the first story that comes to his mind. This time, we limited it to just to managers, talking about nearly all of them that came through Memphis and helped make the territory as special as it was. This is our tribute to all of those managers who tortured Lance, got heat, took beatings, and helped make Memphis successful!

Episode 32: Memphis Wrestling Author and Historian Tim Dills Jan 28, 2019

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This week we're thrilled to welcome Memphis Wrestling Author and Historian Tim Dills to the show. Tim has written several books on Memphis wrestling that can be found on Amazon, as well as tremendous pieces on the territory for Kayfabe Memories. He brings his tremendous historical knowledge to get great insight out of Jerry Jarrett on a variety of topics - from Roy Welch stories, to whether Jerry was ever tempted to book any other territories, to what can be learned from Memphis and applied to modern wrestling. Please join us for this great interview.

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