WKPWP Interview Classic (5 Yrs Ago): Keller interviews announcer Mick Karch about Hogan's role in McMahon's success, 1980s expansion years

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Tv & Film, Sports, Leisure

3.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Interview Classic episode, we jump back five years to PWTorch editor Wade Keller's Apr. 27, 2017 interview with longtime pro wrestling announer Mick Karch regarding newly announced Vince McMahon biopic, the role Hulk Hogan played in McMahon’s journey, could the Verne & Greg Gagne have competed with the WWF if Hogan stayed, the place of Curt Hennig in the AWA history as one of the last big stars to headline as champion and whether he had the career he deserved in the WWF. Then an in-depth conversation about indy wrestling and how it’s changed over the decades, the attitudes of wrestlers today compared to the 1980s, how fans’ expectations at indy shows have changed, and more.

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0:00.0	Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,
0:05.9	three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her
0:09.6	oversized tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.
0:13.0	All right.
0:14.0	Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.
0:16.0	And don't get us started on Mel.
0:19.0	But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.
0:22.0	All aboard, Miss I finally got plans out the group. a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.
0:22.6	All aboard, miss, I finally got plans out the group chat.
0:25.6	Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.
0:28.0	P and O'Ferees, there is another way.
0:30.1	Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.
0:40.0	He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection
0:46.0	Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.
0:53.0	Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.
0:56.0	Piando Ferries, that is another way.
0:59.0	A P.W. Torch VIP membership doesn't just give you ad-free access to these shows and a ton of other
1:05.1	VIP exclusive podcasts throughout the week, but you also gain access to our unmatched vast
1:09.8	library of wrestling history. Our contemporaneous week-to-week coverage through our
1:13.4	pro- Wrestling Torch weekly newsletters dating back to the late 1980s, along with
1:17.3	streaming and download access to hundreds of retro radio shows from the 1990s
1:21.8	including some of my interviews with wrestling's top
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