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Episode 11: Maybe It Was Memphis

The Stud reveals the rise of Memphis, Sputnik Monroe, Billy Wicks, Ellis Auditorium, and the six steps of how to build a wrestling territory!

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Episode 10: Tony’s Call

This week, The Stud covers Eddie Graham, Dory Funk Sr., Roy Shire, Ray Stevens, plus introduces the family’s move to Memphis.

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Episode 9: Dynomite!!!

Wrestling history fans – this one’s for you! The Stud’s remarkable historical update of territories and the world in the 1960’s is tremendous.

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Episode 8: Wrestling’s Torch Is Lit!

This week, the Tennessee Stud reveals great and great, great grandfather stories and how his father and grandfather lit the torch for two generations of diehard fans.

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Episode 7: Ron’s Drowning

The Stud’s growing up in a wrestling world. Ron reveals the young Fuller brothers uniquely dangerous childhood that prepared them for a one of a kind future.

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Episode 6: He Had A Chisel

Ron continues the Studcast’s historical story this week, with the story of the formation of the NWA in 1948.  The Tennessee Stud also looks at Gulf Coast Wrestling exploding with 40,000 watching Buddy Fuller vs Mario Galento in 1958, as well as Ron and his brother Rob as wrestler’s sons.

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Episode 5: Roy’s World

This week on the Studcast, Ron reveals wrestling history of the 1930’s & 40’s through the eyes of his grandfather, Roy, and  his brothers, Herb and Jack, as they wrestle with the “Great Depression”.

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Episode 4: Memphis Sugar Hold

The fascinating ride of the Stud Cast continues as Ron intros Memphis, one of America’s great wrestling cities, and the discovery of the “sugar hold” in Florida’s snake pit.

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Episode 3: Her Name Was Ginger

The Tennessee Stud tells the chilling story of his grandfather Roy’s training of the first pro-wrestling bear and how it almost killed his father!

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Episode 2: Look At That Little Thing

Roy Welch, first of the oldest and largest wrestling family on the planet, is trained by legendary Cal Farley & the “original” Dutch Mantel in the early 1900’s.

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