David Taub

Radio producer, wrestling historian, TV sports freelancer: stats, bug box, etc. Michigan alum. Die hard Giants fan.

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@Super70sSports This game did not air live on WTBS. Because of the Goodwill Games, this aired on tape delay, shrunk it down to two hours at 6 PM Eastern time

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#BeautifyFresno

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@RasslinGrenade Several years ago, I wrote about this card, why LA wrestlers were booked in Fresno, and the promoter behind it.

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@MidAtlanticPod Several wrestlers made the Crockett Cup-Wrestle Rock double (Road Runners, Baba, etc.). They misspelled Kaiser.

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@WrestleClips @HeyHeyItsConrad “A great time in #Fresno”

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@KrisZellner Not the last time with Orton. I wrote about his 1986 incident with the police sergeant (now mayor) in #Fresno.

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@MidAtlanticPod I’m taking it JCP never actually had a card in Ann Arbor or the metro Detroit area? Seems kind of a fluke that they got on to an Ann Arbor station, which no longer exist.

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@davemeltzerWON But Korchita Korchenko beat Idi Amin!

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@RCS_388 @bradpackbooks I remember seeing that. Commercial may definitely have been filmed in 1984, but figures released the following year.

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@the_joe_marotta @_SeanBossSapp There is precedent. Superstars of Wrestling aired Jan. 1984-Aug. 1986. The "new" Superstars replaced Championship Wrestling, while Spotlight was distributed in place of the "old" Superstars.

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@the_joe_marotta @_SeanBossSapp A good question for historians. Does the post-Fall 1995 Challenge count as the previous show, or is it considered a new show?

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40 years ago, #Fresno experienced a wild night of wrestling. And it took place after the matches were over. @R_Roddy_Piper Muraco, Orton vs. @FresnoPolice and @MayorJerryDyer

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@roylucier Wow! Bill Walton was there too.

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@the_joe_marotta Contrary to perception, "Challenge" did not go off the air in 1995. But it did stop airing first-run matches, with dedicated TV tapings. The show eventually morphed to "Shotgun Challenge" in 1997, then just "Shotgun" later that year.

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@the_joe_marotta "Challenge" replaced "Wrestling Spotlight" in the fall of 1995, with the same format. It aired in the San Francisco Bay Area on low-power Ch. 30, carried by the America One Network (which supplied programming for LP stations).

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Happy #RoyalRumble Day. Read about when #Fresno hosted the event 30 years ago in 1996.

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@Fgbrisco We are coming up on 40 years of Piper, Orton and Muraco having an interesting night with the police in Fresno after a night of WWF matches. Any memories on how the office handled this?

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Merry Christmas! #OTD in #history, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware. “Let it be told to the future world,” Paine wrote, “that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope & virtue could survive,” the #USA, “alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet & to repulse it.”