Cornette is a wrestling encyclopedia. it's tragic he's not in the WWE HOF yet for all his contributions to the business.

Macho Man Randy Savage was a Blast to watch and his Promos still stand the test of time in My Humble Opinion ... 💯

"Randy and the police dog went 2 out of 3 falls at the Waffle House." 😂😂😂😂

I love it when Jim and Brian delve deep into the early stages of a wrestling legends career. Savage is a perfect choice because a lot of people dont know he had about a decade long career before he even got to the WWF. 36 minutes of quality stuff right here.

Jim's reviews are basically companions to these bios to fill in the blanks, I don't watch them without 👍

"Too hot to handle, too cold to hold!" - Macho Man

Liz Hulette was a member of the WSIL news team. She would sometimes do interviews with ICW wrestlers.

Dang I didn't know Savage was drafted out of HS to play baseball. Never really looked his background up before.

In the A&E documentary they had Jimmy Hart calling ICW an outlaw promotion that couldn’t draw. And to illustrate this they showed one clip from one TV studio match. No arena show footage.

The smaller, lesser-known territories that had to link up with an NWA or an AWA and become just extentions (unless they were, of course, OUTLAWS) were like the pro wrestling equivalent to the dusty, side-of-the-road towns in all those movie westerns where they all had the saloons with the swinging doors.

They should’ve had Brian on the Biography, talking about his bathroom encounter with Randy and Crush. You Gotta Gooooooooo!

I remember ICW had tv up here in Green Bay.

when cornette passes. it will be a TRUE day of mourning. his wealth of knowledge can probably never be replicated.

Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling. Halifax, Nova Scotia. The big names went through here, amazing. Randy, Andre, Butch Reed, Cuban Assassin, Carpet Beggar, Leo Burke, Bobby Kay, the Beast, Killer Karl Krupp, etc

Randy's staring at the candle promo from ICW is still one of my favorites of all time....

Cornette's impression of Savage was great

As much as I like to hear Jim ranting about AEW, i love these segments on old school wrestling. I'm a young fan who barely knew what WCW was until last year, but here I am, reading NWA books, reading about Buddy Rogers and listening to these podcasts and The Arcadian Vanguard Podcast. Thank you so much Jim and Brian for sharing this information with a new generation of fans.

I first saw the savage and Lanny in the late seventies in Berwick ,Nova Scotia. I think it was for Grand Prix Wrestling at the time.

I would love to see more of Randy's old matches from back in the day. Hes one of the best in the business! 2 outta 3 falls with the police dog lmao!

My favorite part was the fact that the guy who designed Jimi Hendrix costumes was the same guy who designed macho mans not surprised both were glowing genius and simply spectacular

Randy’s jumping over the top rope and landing on the floor neck snap to the opponent he used to do was insane.

I go alll the way back when he was a skinny blond kid wrestling in Detroit as Randy Poffo in denim shorts teamed up with the Sheik’s nephew Mike Thomas as the Mod Squad.

5:10 - Paducah, KY in the house. I watched ICW as a kid. I know that it aired on WSIL, the ABC affiliate out of Harrisburg, IL (southern IL) up until the end, but I don't have any recollection of it airing on WPSD, the NBC affiliate out of Paducah. But, I do think all were known as serving the "Paducah market".

I remember Savage vs Lawler in cage matches & his tag team days. He was a Southern Heavyweight Champ & a big star back before WWF. I only remember bits & pieces but he was a huge star. Too many people think that he started out in WWF...

The “freak out”promo.

I saw that pile driver of Ricky Morton through a table on a compilation video back in the 80s and couldn’t believe it. This was 10-15 years before anyone ever heard of “hardcore” or ECW.

I grew up watching Randy and Lanny in ICW and Memphis. Great wrestling!

Randy Savage The Macho Man was my absolute favourite wrestler as a kid! Loved his crazy attitude & he was awesome in the ring! Those were the days!!

Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling was in Halifax and run by Duprée.

34:26... TheWay MachoMan "Rolled" His Hands *After* Throwing TheConfetti, was *TheBest!* 😜

Thank you JC and The Great Brian Last for filling in the gaps in A&E Bios on Roddy and Macho Man

ICW came to my town of Carrier Mills IL in about 1980 and performed in the grade school gym. It was packed! I grew up watching them on Friday nights after the late local news, on WPSD 6 out of Paducah KY. I loved the ICW. It blew my mind a few years later when I saw Leaping Lanny and Macho Man sitting in an ICW van side by side and laughing. I never knew they were brothers and they always battled each other on ICW. That’s the day I realized “There isn’t a Santa Claus.”

Phil Golden's wrestling promotion in 1972 was the first wrestling program I saw on WDXR-TV29 in Paducah, KY. Remember Angelo Poffo so well as a heel in that promotion. That's when I became a fan. Then I was so surprised when I had become friends with the guy who hauled the ring for them in the area told me Angelo was the Miser one night in 1980 at the National Guard Armory in Paducah and that Randy and Lanny were his sons. First time someone started to smart me up about the business.

Though he worked outlaw shows the last part of his career, Angelo Poffo worked as a high end jobber in Florida for Eddie Graham. There is a tv match with him and Harley Race somewhere on KZfaq.

I was a fan of ICW and saw a few live shows in Braxton County WV at the armory. I even got to talk to Angelo Poffo. I had no idea he was in charge.

I truly enjoy Jim Cornette "History Lesson", which is normally "On Point"! I use to watch ICW On Ch. 3 WSIL-TV, before cable TV came to Southern IL, but.......... I MUST add, "Pistol Pez Whatley" started at the very beginning of ICW Days! He had legendary matches against Bob Orton Jr & Hustler Rip Rogers. Ronnie Garvin helped make "ICW" & He should've had a run with the title! Savage kept it to long! ICW should've been a "territory" under AWA! Before I was able to watch GCW/WCW, WCCW, Mid-South....... There was ICW!! 😁👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Jim omitted that Randy started in Detroit for The Sheik's promotion working mostly opening bouts. He was skinny as a toothpick back then.

I learned that Jerry Lawler still has hard feelings towards Randy Savage.

Jim Cornette should be making documentaries! I enjoyed this better than the Savage "biography" documentary! This is what I wanted to hear them go into, the past bussiness, the great talents he interacted with, the politics, and Savage's as well as Lenny's evolution. Ugh Jim Cornette is so good as a historian.

Oh my God, that drawing of Jim wearing Angelo Poffos rather Plan 9 From Outer Space-ish robe collar killed me, as the photograh Angelo in the Biography was memorable to me. Thank you sir lol s

I'm glad through all his years of watching macho-man cornette has only managed to memorize some obscure promo for 1979

This was an awesome background to listen to after watching Randy’s Biography.

I remember seeing Leaping Lanny Poffo with Randy Poffo @ the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte in the late 70's around 76-78 VS Paul Jones and Chief Wahoo

Jim’s imitation of Randy was awesome, and so spot on! Lol!

Macho Man Randy Savages promo have always been classic and the feuds he had in the 80/90s were great

I grew up in Campbellsville, KY, and used to watch ICW on Saturday mornings. I remember those days. One that stood out was an interview segment w/Savage on a bridge over the Kentucky River. It was building up to when Savage dropped the ICW title to Paul Christy. Savage has a bunch of trophies around, supposedly all his, and he's talking rather subdued, then suddenly snaps, starts screaming like....well, Macho....and then starts smashing the trophies and throwing the remains into the Kentucky River. Ahh, the old days....

The Confetti in ThePocket Was *TheBest!* 😜

Jim Cornette as "The Miser" Angelo Poffo.

The Canadian maritime wrestlng was based in Moncton New Brunswick known as Grand Prix Wrestling. I remember them because I started watching it when I was a kid. Lanny was actually as popular as Randy back then. He was also known as Leaping Lanny.

Nice to hear Jim mention my hometown of Paducah, KY. Always heard about the old days of Savage wrestling at the armory.

Lol, I loved Jim's Randy Savage impression.

Jimmy Hart did use the term "outlaw" promotion in the Biography.

As a kid I attended a ICW house show in Cannel City Kentucky at elementary school.

Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling. Still crazy to me that they spent time up here in my part of the woods. So many amazing memories of going to AGP shows as a kid during the summer in the mid 80's. Leo Burke was one of my favourites ever. It's still amazing to me that Rick Martel worked his first match ever in my hometown of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. (Cannot recall if it was for AGP or if it was for someone else).

I grew up in Lexington Ky and remember when Randy Savage was arrested for shoplifting. I've read some people saying that this was a publicity stunt and this podcast is the first time I've heard a confirmation of it. But I still don't get it. ICW was literally admitting to the world that their 'world heavyweight champion' didn't make enough money to eat. It wasn't really publicity since the local newspaper barely mentioned it. I remember it being a one paragraph blurb in the City/State section. But, they were crazy so I guess it's possible somebody there thought this was a good idea. I miss ICW. Since they were a smaller outfit and had smaller crowds, they could push the envelope more and do things that couldn't be done in a large arena. They would plant people in the audience to jump in the ring, they had hired hecklers that would harass the wrestlers, and, of course, things wouldn't always go as planned and a small riot would ensue. Good times.

Im from Paducah , remember watching ICW matches at the National Guard Armory. Dusty Rhodes, Dutch Mantell , Bill Dundee, Kerry Von Erich .. those may not have been ICW events but they were lots of fun for a 12 year old kid

Sometimes I am merely entertained. Other times - such as this - I learn stuff. Thank you, Jim (and Brian)

Late 70’s, The Maritime provinces of Canada was Emile Dupree’s Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling based out of Moncton, NB. I believe Halifax was part of the regular rotation of their travelling show. Television tapings were done at the Cocagne Arena about 20 minutes from Moncton.

I've been watching GCW starting in 1979 I'm up to 1981. It's amazing

Angelo worked for Fred Kohler in Chicago On the bottom or at best mid-card when they were going out national in the 50s. He hung around until Bruiser and Bob Luce brought it back much later. He lived in Downers Grove a suburb on the opposite end of the state from Kentucky.

I love how they do a follow-up episode because only Jim watched it the first time, and in the follow-up, Jim still does all the talking. Brilliant since I can listen to Jim spout facts and history all night.

31:58 Great Lanny! Travis Heckel is brilliant!

when i was a kid i watched many shows in manchester ky at earnie couchs entertainment center great memories

I watched that documentary on Macho Man and when they showed his early years working in Ky, they mentioned Lexington KY but he also wrestled the main event in my hometown Maysville, Ky in a "loser gets paint dumped on them. Maysville has one of the biggest basketball gyms in the state, so it was a good turnout but anyway, Ronnie Garvin "The Hands if Stone" won the match with Randy and dumped yellow paint all over him and I remember that pretty well. I had an autographed pic with Garvin holding the WCW World Heavyweight Championship Belt made most infamous by Ric Flair and the painted NWO on it but it was that belt. Pretty cool memory and I hate that through the years that picture has been missing for years but anyway I'm not even sure if Randy was Macho Man, I was about 7 then so I remember some things but oh yeah and the Sheik was there too. Pretty cool stuff, I would love to ask Corny if he would've remembered that booking or any record on it. ☮️

I remember the Poffos showing up in Mid Atlantic wrestling in the 70's. The brothers had become the Mid Atlantic tag team champions. That was right before the start of I.C.W.

I remember watching ICW wrestling on an UHF station out of Memphis, I believe. Can't remember if it was Channel 24 or 30 or some other channel. This was late 79, early 80s. It was the first wrestling show outside of Memphis Wrestling that I watched.

Late at night one summer in the mid 80s, I remember seeing ICW here in Southeastern Ohio. Never seen it after that one summer.

I remember Randy wrestling for The Sheik's Big Time Wrestling promotion as Randy Poffo very very early in his career. I remember an angle where Bulldog Don Kent supposedly broke his leg. He came back as Randy Savage but he didnt stay in Detroit long.

ICW is how I was introduced to professional wrestling, on WTVQ Channel 62 in Lexington at some unusual hour (and yes it was low budget). This is why Randy Savage is my favorite wrestler of all time, even though I hated him when I was 7. RIP Macho Man.

I miss Randy Savage

Lanny Poffo looking like Charles Bronson in the thumbnail.

That syringe Jim mentioned was supposed to have contained PCP, causing Garvin to start foaming at the mouth. ICW was being shown very late at night and I caught that show after a night of drinking and thought I might be hallucinating.

i moved to memphis right about when macho man joined memphis wrestling. holy smoke he was compelling in & out of the ring. teamed up with jimmy valiant at least once IIRC. comin to memphis for that point in memphis wrestling was fantastic.

Outstanding artwork once again by Travis.

Im from Big Hill Kentucky Im 33 I saw a lot of different local wrestling on tv as a kid, I wish I could find video of some of that stuff for sale online

Jim/Bryan/Travis - I also remember an ICW angle with Pez. He had to wear a wig because of some match stipulation. Wearing the wig made his headbutt less effective. Disclaimer - me remembering it doesn't mean that it actually happened. I think this did though. What happened here? What was the angle and how did he ever get rid of the wig?

Randy was a good baseball player. I remember him on a St. Louis Cardinals radio broadcast and he was telling Mike Shannon that one season he hit over .340.

I remember Angelo doing sit ups for an entire show one time.

@Official Jim Cornette. Wwooo Cape Girardeau shout out. We love you in SEMO Jim!!

In ICW Ronnie Garvin was dropping "pipe bombs" years before it was "cool".

As a kid I thought Macho killed Steamboat with that bell, my first experience watching wrestling was that moment. We all watched something special with those 2, both are top 5 in my book

Atlantic Grand Prix, covered Nova Scotia,New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island

I imagine it was pretty crazy to be a fan of ICW and watching Randy and others in some dudes backyard to seeing him in the WWF.

I watched it today

How does Cornette know all this stuff? He's like a real life walking encicoplitia of wrestling

33:57 there's only one Macho Man impersonator, and that's Bruce Prichard

That must be the same Waffle House story Dutch tells when Randy got in a knife fight with the cook using a butter knife.

Ohh yeah..Freak Out 🎉🎉

Crusher lived at my uncles apartment complex in lexington, randy and lanny used to come over and gang at the pool,it was when randy was stil farilyl early in the creation on macho man but he was allway over the top, i was 14 or 15 and he got me interested in weight training,it was just that one summer but macho man gave me some pretty solid advice on how to bulk up and carry a attitude,.IM 57 now and still in good shape from his. Advice . Lol R.I.P. MACHO MAN

All I want is to re find the Puerto Rico promo where savage says seeexxxxxxx yeeaaahhh sssseexxxx

Somebody please tell me where I can watch icw episodes. Thank you.

What I love about these stories is that they flesh out all those 80s Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazines when I didnt know who these guys were before they went to WWF. I still remember seeing the standings in the magazines with all these guys ranked. Lol This was better than the Macho Man biography for damn sure.

Great Video Corny! 2 out of 3 falls with the police dog at the Waffle House 💀😂😂😂😂

Man im from Lexington , Its a shame i was born in 78 and missed that !

Kingsport! Cornette name dropped my hometown. Pretty crazy to hear 😆

Oh YEAH dig IT!

I thought a&e explained ICW well. I understood the basic concept of what it was.

I really would've never had assumed Paducah, Kentucky was really all that notable just cause my first introduction to the name alone as described to me by a lifelong Kentuckian as it being "the sound that happens when your poo finally falls to the water. PAH-DOOOO-CAH!" smh lol I still have no viable response to that years later but I'm glad to see it has more too it than the first impression I was given

Angello Poffo I'd watch a movie or tv show about. He sound's like a real character and between being friends with the Sheik, ICW and Lanny and Randy you could get a ton of material. Call it Outlaw put it on HBO so they can be as crazy as they like, I don't think people would actually believe Angelo's life.

Wow, Travis. Good Lanny.