Episode 26: New Generation Declassified: South to North - Who jumped to the WWF?

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

Wrestling, Sports

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today's New Generation Declassified looks at just how the USWA and Smoky Mountain Wrestling territories impacted the WWF during the mid 90s. From giant debuts like Jerry Lawler and Jeff Jarrett to the tag teams and personalities you never expected to see working for Vince McMahon, we name a huge list of wrestlers that made their mark in the South before they turned heads up North.

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0:00.0	The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production.
0:19.2	All right. Let's get it going right here. Right now. This is New Generation Declassified. And you're listening to an all new New Generation Declassified here on the two-man power ship of wrestling's podcasting Empire. If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad and every single week. I'm joined by a dignitary from my little circle here, or at least I like to be
0:39.8	joined by somebody every week, but I had to go grab this guy. I call myself Chad, but I'd really
0:45.5	be the Fugazi Chad, as I welcome in really the only real Chad that I know. And it is my great,
0:52.8	good friend, long time close personal friend, if that,
0:56.6	the one and only Chad Flat of Music City toys down there in Watertown, Tennessee.
1:02.4	Chad, how's things in your neck of the woods?
1:04.7	Oh, man, things are good. Things are good. How are you doing?
1:07.9	Oh, I'm doing great. I thought about how much the uh southern wrestlers had an influence
1:14.4	on the new generation and i thought about only one guy who i'd want to talk about that topic with
1:20.3	because uh every time we get to talk about whether it's business stuff that always circles back
1:25.7	into our wrestling uh fan days or uh just a casual wrestling conversation you and I have ever had. Uh,
1:32.6	I love to hear about that growing up in that area. And we brought you on before to kind of talk
1:37.7	about that, but we're going to elaborate more, uh, now, um, because there was a lot of
1:42.8	southern influence in this 93 to 97ish era and uh i'm going to
1:49.0	guess that you saw a lot of it but on both sides of the coin in the south and in the w wf um so before
1:54.9	we get started please give us a quick update on what's going on in the music city toys world
1:59.2	oh man busy as always.
2:01.5	We just finished an event this past weekend, the Music City Sports Card Collectibles and
2:07.7	autographs show, which is no relation to Music City Toys, but the name is similar.
2:12.7	But we just had demolition for that event, and things went great. We've got Cowboy Bob Wharton coming in for an appearance in the store October 1st,
2:21.9	and we've got a virtual signing coming up with three former T&A knockouts,
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