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Now, PWTorch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast.

It's time for this week's interview classic, where Wade Keller interviews one of pro wrestling's newsmakers.

Ten years ago on the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling podcast, Bruce Mitchell joined me to interview the author

of Bob Backland's autobiography, or the co-author

with Bob, who it's a fascinating discussion. He talked about going from a fan of Backland

to a friend of Bob Backland as he wrote the definitive Bob Beckland Chronicle. I highly

recommend this book if you want to learn about 1970s WWF, WWWF, and the territory system. And, you know, it is, it is a

territory from the 70s that is now essentially evolved into what today's WWE is. So you learn a lot

about the roots of Vincent McMahon Senior, Vincent WMann Jr. and now Paul Leveck and their booking approach

and the formula that while it has

changed and altered with the times and the people running it still has that lineage going back to

that era. And so really fascinating insight into a quirky and fascinating person and Bob Beckland,

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