A seventy-five minute, Jim Cornette segment on Territory Wrestling... This is the Meat of this channel.

This is actually my email they answered. Very cool hearing more about the territories and that my question led to an hour ± conversation.

Honestly I much prefer territory talks over current wrestling shows. Hopefully this won't be a one time thing and you guys would make a series out of it.

Jason is the MVP for asking the question that opened up this talk

Some of the best episodes are Cornette talking about the territories. Being from the Carolinas and a lifelong wrestling fan it is always great hearing the stories and history of everything

Love this episode. I was born in 1965 and grew up watching wrestling during the territory days. To me, it was the best time to be a wrestling fan. In those days, it was professional wrestling, not sports entertainment.

An hour of JC? Yes.

This is the kind of stuff I listen for! Jim talking about territory wrestling is better than anything on TV. I would have loved to see a Midnight vs. Von Erichs feud.

This is the content i'm looking for, i discovered Wrestling during the Attitude Era and i don't really know really too much about the landscape of american pro wrestling before WWE turning in the big corporation of the last 20 years. This is solid gold for me

I would love Jim to just do a deep dive into every territory and just spend hours talking about this. It's fascinating!

Please please please please do more of this kind of stuff This is why I love this channel! I know there are people that listen to Jim for his opinions on politics and modern wrestling but personally I could care less I want to hear stuff about real wrestling!

As a Detroiter, it was nice to hear about Big Time Wrestling. There isn’t many documentaries on KZfaq about it that I’ve found. Thanks JC.

An hour and 14 minutes of Jim talking territories, absolutely brilliant

Thanks for the mention, Jim! We would have loved to have had you guys, that's for sure! For the record, we owned part of Amarillo with Blackjack and Murdoch, too. I'd have been happy to help with that book you mentioned.

I LOVE when jim tells stories and talks about the territory days, it's so fascinating

I have been watching all the Back To The Territories episodes lately and was hoping you would do something like this. Thanks. Loved it.

It’s awesome to hear the history and knowledge Jim and Brian have of the old territories. This is great stuff.

Anytime Corny talks up the territories, I get excited!! Learning how talent trades, contract notices, and blow off matches were done before the business was exposed is a great deal. Nowadays we know when all transactions take place like the MLB waiver wire.

Raised on St.Louis wrestling in the 70's and 80's. We got to see EVERYONE here when Sam Muchnick was the boss. Even Bruno.

My dad grew up around the Indianapolis Fairgrounds in the 60s. Love hearing Bruiser lore!

He forgot Vancouver and Hawaii..both were pretty much dead in 85 but limping along

My Dad and my Uncles were at some of those shows in Detroit at Cobo and the Olympia.

As a Hoosier, I loved the extended talk about the Bruiser territory. But Jim, it's Luh-go-tee

32:47... I Think I Met "Billy RedCloud" in The Early 1990's Beckley WV CrossRoads Mall. (He Was Retired From Wrestling, & Was Just Shopping.)

10:00 Yes they DID show Savoldi's ICW show in syndication. I was living in Dallas at the time. In World Class, Gary Hart was the heel manager and Bruiser Brody was a face trying to take him down. They started showing ICW in Dallas and Gary Hart was Brody's manager there. Furthermore it was the crosseyed Brody who only barked and never spoke words. It caused quite an uproar in the Dallas wrestling community. So bad I remember Gary Hart had to go on World Class TV and address the situation. I seem to remember he claimed the stuff "they showed on TV from the East Coast" was taped a long time ago and Bruiser Brody currently was his arch nemesis.

1:14:40 of listening to great Jim Cornette talking about proper wrestling. Keep them coming Jim, Brian & Travis.

This is without a doubt the most delightful edition of Official Jim Cornette ever. This was just incredible and insightful. I am chomping at the bit for the next episode. And I might be a dick but I can't help doing this - Mike Graham didn't draw a dime.

Gonna listen to this tonight while falling asleep

Thanks for discussing Bruisers WWA. I would see the weekend broadcasts as a kid growing up just north of Indy. It did age out. They did bring in Scott Steiner to be the champion near the end of the territory but they didnt have any quality young heels to get Steiner over even though Steiner was already an amazing worker. David McClain was the announcer near the end and he went on to produce GLOW.

What a brilliant listen, Love all this!

I've waited a long time to finally hear some Indianapolis talk at some real length. Thank you, Jim!

have to agree with everyone else and say this was a great breakdown by Jim

I'm glued I'm listening to stories two years before I was born and I'm glued Jim is a Master of speechcraft I tell you.

I wish Jim would do a back to the territories documentary on the sheiks michigan/ohio territory

Brilliant. I do love stories about the old days.

This was fantastic. Please make this a regular part of the show.

St.Louis Wrestling Club.Wrestling at The Chase enough said.

Under Sam Muchnick, I don't even think they used the Central States Tag Titles. I think he *might* have used the AWA Tag Title a couple of times...but I don't think the Central States tag title was ever used in St. Louis until after the Kansas City contingent took over (and they started basically running it like another city in the Kansas City territory, but with a small amount of added talent)

These are my favorite segments. It is fun to hear Brian & Jim destroy modern BS, but I love the history lessons.

I miss the territory days. I am so glad I lived in Tampa Florida and was able to see great wrestling

Loogootee, Indiana....sounds like..la...goat..tee ...thanks for everything you do as a child of the late 70s I grew up around Louisville loved the matches back in the day

I've been listening to Jim since the beginning, and this has got to be one of my all-time favorite episodes. Wow, brilliant stuff. Thank you Jim.

California native here, we agree with Jim's sentiments on the state. SoCal is a human septic tank.

I'm hearing names from my 60s-70s childhood in Chicago watching AWA and Bob Luce wrestling. Prince Pullins Spike Huber Art Thomas Billy Red Cloud Etc.

I remember watching Piper and Chavo, talk about some serious heat.

What a great breakdown of the old territory days & good "What If" love it...

In St. Louis, in the mid to late 80s, Wrestling at the Chase/WWF was televised on KPLR ch. 11, NWA was on KDNL ch. 30, and occasionally WCCW aired on KNLC ch. 24. I was a young wrestling fan and it was glorious. I watched my straight wrestling NWA on Saturday nights and get up in the morning on Sunday and watch my over the top WWF wrestling.

Great show, have no idea what’s going on currently but could listen to this old stuff all day.

Jim and Brian are tiring of watching modern rasslin’, even if it is profitable for them. Personally I’d rather hear about the old territory days anyway.

David Letterman was a huge wrestling fan. He was a young man during the times Dick the Bruiser in Indy. Letterman named his house band "the worlds most dangerous band" after bruiser. It's no coincidence letterman had Lawler and Kaufman!

400,000 in 1973 is 2.6 million dollars. That’s good money.

Not defending Bruce Hart but to be clear the WWE was paying him 100 dollars per occasional house show as an agent. The classic "starve him" strategy.

I love the modern reviews but nothing beats the territory discussions

I hope this stays a series. This is why i listen to cornette despite not always agreeing about modern wrestling.

1 Hour and 15 minutes of Cornette and the history of the territories! I'm all ears! Enjoy everyone! 😁

We need more of this!

Fantastic piece. Please do more!

I thought the thumbnail pic was Lesnar. Lol

I'm here for the old school talk!!! Finally!!

I saw bits and pieces of Indianapolis, when i would visit my grandparents, in Bloomington, IL; but not down where we lived (west of Decatur). Late in the 70s, we got their show, briefly, while they promoted a card in Springfield, then it disappeared. It showed up again around 1981. This was all after the glory days and the most entertaining guys were Spike Huber & Steve Regal, as the Young Lions, and Wilber Snyder. Never saw Bruiser on the tv, but would see guys like Zoltan the Great (Ken Jugger), Sheik Ali Hassan (Jack Krueger, later a WWF ref), Golden Boy Paul Christy, Roger Kirby and Gentleman Jerry Valiant (and Dr Jerry Graham Jr). Greg Wojokowski, The Great Wojo was there. Not the most exciting tv; but it had moments. Then, it was gone, after a ew weeks and a card, in Springfield, soon replaced by the Poffo ICW, which we had from 1981 until its end. Later, we got cable and I discovered Bruiser's tv, on one of the Peoria stations we got on the cable system, on Sundays, with David McLane as announcer. It was horrid, by that point. That was before Scott Steiner debuted and Jerry Graham Jr was running it, in Toledo. McLane soon turned up running and announcing GLOW. Snyder was the only guy who I really enjoyed, in matches, and his were rare. If it hadn't been for the Poffos, I might never have become a wrestling fan.

I've been binging any talks about the territories from Jim. Loving this

Territory days are like the wild wild west. I'd love a story line about this in current wwe. Idk how but it'd be cool if they could execute it

Talking about new wrestling is damn depressing. Much rather hear Jim show us some knowledge about the territories and why wrestling actually “worked” back in the day.

“Oh no everyone hated him!” Idk why but I busted out laughing at that

I liked the idea of St. Louis being the spot show territory, where you were invited to appear, week to week. No long term angles. Take it further. It could have been the highlight reel of all the NWA territories. Like test run matches that could be taken to the territories' TV. Brody vs Race. Von Erichs vs Road Warriors. Flair vs...?

Actually, Fred Ottman was Dusty’s brother in law

Loogootee, Indiana... Literally has a CVS and a Ruler Foods there and thats nearly it.

This is great info. Thank you!

This is why I love Jim.. there's always someone left to tell the story..and that is Jim...a true historian of wrestling...So glad he is still here to tell the stories .And so glad I grew up in the best era of wrestling the territory days...Keep it going Jim and Brian..

What a great upload. You can't put a value on Professor Cornette's knowledge. Love this, thank you!

I went to my first card in Indianapolis in 1970, watched it since '65...Great to hear the territory spoken about this many years later!

When I went on a 3 4 5hour car trip I just clicked on one omnibus and trip goes by easy

Vancouver was still running with nationwide wide tv in Canada but there wasn’t money there since 1980

More of these. Learning the history of the business is always fun

Bruiser was my Papaws favorite (from Indiana, so am I).

Finally much rather hear about this stuff than AEW/WWE tv show

I grew up in Memphis and loved Memphis wrestling.

The Midnight Express could've also gone to Vancouver, worked for Al Tomko and done a program with Tim Patterson & Dave Gold

Every time I hear "Oak City" it's like nails on a chalkboard. In any case, awesome to hear about the territory scene in Oklahoma.

Wasn't LA still operating?

I would love an omnibus where you go even deeper, and expand even further on these questions.

How the hell did I miss this?! Just made my night!

I was born in 83, and my big brother had control of the wrestling shows we watched, and it was always wwf. Now being from SC, I had no idea of Jim Crockett or the NWA. I found out my Grandpa use to stop everything he was doing on Saturdays to sit down and watch Mid South Wrestling at 1 in the afternoon I believe, so that, and listening to Jim and Bryan tell the difference it was between wwf and Crockett, with Dusty, Ric, Midnight, and the Rock n Roll, has really got me so into learning about the history of wrestling, especially here in the Carolinas. I lived just down the road from where the Greenwood SC Civic Center was, and for Jim to talk about they did shows there, and I had no idea.

I had no clue that many territories were in operation in 85 but when I made the "your choices were limited" comment, I was actually referring to places they could go where they could make the money they were making in Mid-South. It's been stated many times that Memphis and the Central States were not big money territories in the mid 80s. So I was thinking more AWA, Florida, WWF (which Mr. Cornette has talked about). It is very cool the direction they took my question since I love hearing his opinion on the many territories that were and weren't in operation at that time period

I have to laugh at Jim's pronunciation of Logotee lol. It's La-Go-Tee if you ever read this Jim

I grew up on Championship Wrestling from Florida w/ Gordon Solie. I went to lots of house shows in the early to late 80’s. Great times.

I remember when Mid South/UWF folded in 1987, Fritz took over and Oklahoma City became a regular World Class town. There were other examples of vacated territories that were taken over by neighboring promoters--you mentioned Verne grabbing a healthy portion of the west. What I don't understand Jarrett didn't make a play for all of Indiana when WWA vacated--he had pretty much the southern half of the state. He had an opportunity to grab a big market like Indianapolis

We need part 2 of Territory talk!!!

THIS is the kind of subjects I like to hear about!

I must admit, it is nice to hear Jim discuss the territories

My territory was Florida during the era of the Eddie Graham Sports stadium and Tampa Armory. Dusty Rhodes, early Barry Windham, Mike graham, Sweet Brown Sugar, Bugsy McGraw and of course Gordon Solie. These were the superstars of my early wrestling era. I absolutely loved this segment.

I hope Mr. Cornette does this every month. Always dig hearing Corny talk about the Territories.

Excellent information

This is the type of stuff that got me listening a few years ago.

Jim says possibly coming to Florida, but he seems to forget that on January 21, 1985, Eddie Graham committed suicide, so from there CWF went down hill, in Feb of 1987, Crockett was running it. Probably best they didn't go.

Soooo, 3 months later, what happened to this supposed "series" exactly?

Portland for Don Owens was still running until 1992.

When Jim talks the territories, I sit under the learning tree.

Love it. Do new ones already.

Loogootee Indiana is about an hour from, been there multiple times and I have always heard it pronounced as La Go Tee