383 - The Iron Claw: The Von Erich Curse

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 183 minutes

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The story behind the new Iron Claw movie starring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White. Was the Von Erich wrestling family actually cursed? I understand why some people think so. Five out of six of wrestling star Fritz Von Erich's sons would die prematurely and tragically, many of them dying shortly after the family became the most famous family in all of professional wrestling.

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0:00.0	Do you watch wrestling? Some of you might. Today the WWE World Wrestling Entertainment,
0:05.0	formerly the W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W.
0:10.0	Country.
0:11.0	And has approximately 11 million fans in just the United States.
0:15.0	They employ around 800 people, took 1.3 billion in revenue in 2022, and while more financially
0:21.1	successful now, they were even more popular three or four decades ago.
0:25.0	In its heyday of the 1980s and early 90s, the golden era of wrestling, wrestling wasn't only something to watch.
0:31.0	It was a way of life for tens of millions of die-hard fans.
0:36.0	In 1988 Andre the Giant versus Hulk Hogan drew 33 million viewers.
0:42.0	Still the most watched wrestling match in history at least when
0:45.2	you're talking about viewers watching it live. Hogan's popularity cannot be
0:49.6	understated. Hulk a mania was very very real. I was a member.
0:54.0	Hulkamania is coming for you brother.
0:56.0	You'll be trying to drink your own sweat to survive brother.
0:59.0	No one has ever had more brothers than Hulk Hogan the Hulkster was six seven three hundred pounds of pure muscle-bound brother spouting entertainment. I loved it
1:10.6	His popularity was in large part due to a perfect lightning in a bottle situation, with
1:15.5	World Wrestling Federation CEO Vince McMahon Jr. catching the cable TV wrestling wave just
1:20.8	in time and having the capital and confidence to invest in the company's
1:24.4	future. The modern day interpretation is that Vince McMahon took pro wrestling from a
1:28.6	series of small regional promotions spread out across the United States to a
1:32.3	unified national promotion
1:34.1	featuring modern production and some rock and roll energy. But in reality, many of
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