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The Steve Austin Show

Legendary Wrestling Journalist Bill Apter - SAS CLASSICS

The Steve Austin Show

PodcastOne

Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Legendary wrestling journalist Bill Apter is the guest today on this classic episode. Join Steve and Bill as they reminisce about Bill's decades of ringside experience covering some of the most iconic moments in professional wrestling. Be here for great old-school tales about Andy Kaufman, Gary Hart, Buddy Rogers, the Von Erichs and much more!



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0:00.0

The following program is a podcast.1.com production.

0:03.5

From Hollywood, California, by way of the Broken Skull Ranch, this is the Steve Austin show.

0:08.8

Give me a hell yeah.

0:10.3

Hell yeah.

0:11.5

Now, here's Steve Austin.

0:13.7

All right, here I am.

0:14.9

Steve Austin coming to the Broken Skull Ranch way out here in South Texas.

0:18.7

Finally get a chance to talk to a long time friend uh bill after from

0:24.4

the old pro wrestling illustrated days which back in the days we're going to get into this conversation

0:28.4

was you know the bible of professional wrestling a lot of guys would go to the top 10 to find out

0:34.5

where they stood in the national rankings bill welcome to welcome to the show. How are you doing?

0:39.6

Well, thank you. It is a thrill to be here because Bill after said so.

0:45.1

Hey, you know, Bill, we've gone, our history goes so far back. We can get into the MRI story and all that other stuff.

0:51.6

But I know you're on a limited time schedule today. We're going to cover a hard 60 minutes with you.

0:56.6

And then if you get another chance, come back and we'll continue the conversation.

1:00.5

Because someone that's been around the business as long as you have,

1:03.5

has seen as much as you have, there's no way one, two, or three conversations can cover it.

1:09.2

But nonetheless, let's get the mall rolling today.

1:12.3

But we're going all the way back to be talking about my days with Abraham Lincoln and all this kind of stuff.

1:17.0

Well, we could.

1:17.8

I mean, you know, Abraham Lincoln was highly underrated as a technical wrestler and probably had one of the greatest drop kicks in the history of the business.

1:24.5

That's been lost.

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