It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack N. Carnaco and JP Sorrow. Well, welcome back, folks. We are rocking and rolling around the Christmas Tree for the twenty twenty three Lapsed Fan Christmas Show, The Unwrappening two and we're going package by package here. This will be number four for those following
along. And uh, we're in person, face to face the Boss and I we want to thank the members of the Solar System who we're thinking about Christmas shopping four months before any normal human being, just to get us these gifts on time, for sure. I mean it's unbelievable. And this one you can see the date it's from. It's from there written there that it was holy shit. Eh. Wow, someone's on the on the ball. Let's find out who was this on the ball feels like a book. That
feels like a book Amazon packaging to be expected. Still looking at that Jeff Hardy life size, I'd rather not just staring at me like a pervert, like a modest pervert. Wow, look at this. Oh wow, I wish I had I didn't have this one. It is hard I wish you should know who sent it. Doesn't say it's just as Amazon Fulfillment Services. That's odd. Maybe it's in the book. No sign of who to give
credit to or who to give love to for that. Wow, this is a George Shire book Minnesota's Golden Age of wrestling from Verne Gangna to the Road Warriors. And if you can put a wrestling book in my hands that I don't already have, that's really incredible. That's saying something. And I can't wait to dig into this one. Wow, that's excellent. Holy shit, it even comes with a little hair on it. It's nice. Oh, that's perfect. Let's take a look here. What do you know abou otto
von Krupp I nothing kroup. This is so great it goes year by year. Look at that? Ok, at that someone someone dug into the clippings. Why don't you Why don't you share? Why don't you share with the people? This clipping? This is this is the Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club program. Of course, the Minneapolis Boxing Wrestling Club. As listeners, the Life and Death of the a W I would know was the name of the
office. It's basically what's depicted in the wrestler. And this is a poster advertising an upcoming battle between vern Ganya and the great Cowboy Bill Watts match of the decade Gdy versus Watts. For title fans who are counting on strictly a scientific wrestling match tonight between Champ Verne Gagney and Cowboy Bill Watts may be in for a mild surprise. All indications or that the two main eventers will offer just that, but don't place too large a wager on that routine continuing for
the entire match. Neither Gagney or Watts is regarded as the peer six type of brawler. But once Temper's flair and planing strategy suddenly backfires, anything can happen. Men reading this and getting more right, Yes, I'll admit that this could wind up as a brawl. Gagney offered, could this be a brawl? Is the the subhead after he says, I guess there could be a brawl probing journalism here? Yeah, you know this isn't my intention.
I doubt if Wats is taking along these lines. But don't forget there's a world championship at stake, and I certainly don't intend to release my grip on the title without the toughest fight I've ever shown Gagney added, there's nothing like a little Minnesota charm for the Holloways Man. It's history now that Gagney demanded and received the highest guarantee ever paid to a wrestler in Minneapolis to go ahead with the title match against the Cowboy. Look, I'm not trying to fool
anybody. Watch is big at three hundred pounds a guy. He moves like a cat, and his variety of holds and maneuvers is unlimited. It's not like going against any alley fighter where clever wrestling alone can do the job. This is gonna take a supreme effort, and no one knows that better than I do. I admit that Watch is stronger than I am. He has a great sense of balance, he says, a balance not a balanced diet. Though you either have balance or you don't. What does a sense of
balance mean? How do you get? I know? Well, you know my balanced sense is not as good as his, and frankly, my best maneuver might just might just be to stay away from him for a while, he stated. Veteran wrestling fans figure it will be a showdown between the Cowboys Oklahoma Stampede and Gagnes Flying dropkicks with the champ sleeper not entirely forgotten either. Watch knows what's at stake. He also knows steaks. He knows what's a steak, all right, and he knows what kind of an opponents me to.
Well, is it possible to say anything new about Gagney? Well, there it is. Is it possible to say anything new about Gagney? It's only possible to say something him. I do. I do mont fans to realize that I've waited a long time for this match, and I don't plan to allow the opportunity to slip through my fingers. I think there's a way to beat Gagney. I'll find out soon Mona. He concluded, everyone wants
the cowboy. Apparently there are more than a few promoters around the country who feel Cowboy Bill Watts has the ability to defeat Verne Gagney in Tonight's Big World Championship. About promoter Wally Carbo said that this week right that the phone in his Dykman Hotel office has a brother. What are you doing, dude? What do you what? You bet? Who's who's calling? What are the hotel terry? What's the what? Wally brother? What who's the Dykeman brothers,
Dick van dyke Man. What. It's really good when you were in person, because he actually turns and looks over his shoulder, but he says what uh and ringing constantly in the last few days. And the callers are other big city promoters who wanted to book Watts in the very near future. These guys Phil Watts can do it, and they want his name on contract to head everyone else. Carbo said, good quote. A few of those phone calls came from top wrestlers too. They wanted to be included on this
card, which is drawing national attention. But Carbo decided some time ago to use men who have been appearing here regularly, mostly because these grapplers represent the very best available anywhere. Unbelievable. Man's sort of like local charm, like you know the dispatch, like we're all in the together, we're all Minnesota, right, and you know the world comes to Minnesota thanks to pro wrestling. That's awesome. It's a great book. I can't wait to dig into
this. So I feel so badly. I don't know who gave us this. There's no indication of who sent it. Please, when you hear it. This is from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. When you hear this episode, please do send us uh, send us credit, Yeah, send us improvements purchase. So we don't we shut up the right person because this is again it's it's really hard to put a book in my hands that A I don't have and or B I haven't even heard of. Wow, and I've
heard of the gopher Land Grappling one. I have that one, which I think is not Dick Bourne, who's wonderful. I think it's Jim mel It's a James Melby title. But this is a George Shire one. I can't wait to dig in. So thanks to whoever. It is. Wrestling books just as much as wrestling toys. Once I became sure, you know, sort of like a Smark and reading the sheets, I mean, getting the Tributes book by Meltzer. Oh, that was huge digging into that thing.
I remember I got the Powerbomb dot com one, which was like the first publisher he ever did it with, and it wasn't one that was available in stores. Wow. It had like this very basic paper cover on it and it was just it was printed, just plain black. Tribute Tributes to That was the one that had the Dannisa Kappa photos, tributes to tributes to Yeah, because that was, you know, full glossy in bookstores publication. The first one was just self published and you had to poke around the web.
Besfore Meltzer even had a website. And I got that puppy for Christmas one year, man, and I learned about everybody because they had all the obits in there, everything, Pilment, Shell, Brody. I didn't know anything about all these. I thinkthez hadn't died yet, but you know, like wrestlers who had died in the ring, like I think Orozo Bit is in there, and plumb Rico and there's jeez, you know Paedron Morale. No, not Petrom Morales. I'm trying to remember. See Ray Stevens is in
there. Uh carry von Eric. That was really the first time that book, reading it by the tree, Yeah, was the first time I became acquainted with the sweep of the von Eric family tragedies. Yeah. So wrestling books and Christmas work for me, brother, totally. So thanks to whoever put this hot little item in our hand. The title is Minnesota's Golden Age of Wrestling from Verne Gun to the Road Warriors. I'm gonna read it by like Minnetonka with some lamb chicks. There we go. I think I was
gonna do Ben Jelly. So thanks again, UH for this roasted vegetables latest sprinkling of holiday joy asparagus. As we continue unwrapping one at a time, The TLF twenty twenty three Christmas special We'll See You Next Time plays a production of the LAPS Entertainment Group. Its content is intended for private use only. Sorry, we want