Thanks Todd! Appreciate you watching man. Like I said it’s a nothing ch compared to all others, mainly bc I have no clue how to do anything like editing etc! I don’t even own a pc. If it wasn’t for the phone I’d be completely off line.
Absolutely the best trip down memory lane i wish I had the money to buy this much stuff. All of it just bring the history of wrestling to life and reminds me of when i was a sheep in the woods about the wrestling business. Thank you sir!!!!
I had all the mags from 83-90 but my wife threw them out when I was deployed back in 94. I had PWI, The Wrestler, Sports Review Wrestling, Wrestling USA, Ringside Scene, and some Wrestling Yearbooks how I wish I still had them.
Love the wrestling cards! I just picked up my very first 1981 Summer Wrestling Superstars with the cards! I see you have 2 of those issues in your INCREDIBLE COLLECTION!!
Thanks very much. I found a bunch more cards over the summer when I was digging out my old boxing magazines. I use to just collect the guys who were in the WWF from 82-83. There was an old baseball card store in my neighborhood that had a bunch of wrestling cards so I would buy them one at a time here and there. I never sent away for them. I kind of wish I did now.
@@prowrestlingmags thanks for the response! I've always enjoyed collecting wrestling magazines. You have probably the BEST collection I've seen on CZcams! I just subscribed! Continued success with the channel & your collection! I'll be tuning in
I'm late to the party, dammit. First and foremost, my sincere condolences on your loss. It'll get better so hang in there. It never fails: As you go through your mags, I inevitably see at least one that I picked up at the newsstand when they were published. The good childhood memories rush back. You need to know of this joy you bring. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that experiences this. So a big big thanks for these videos
Thanks so much. Really appreciate your kind words. It’s been a shifty month. Very glad to bring you and everyone a nostalgic look back of a time long gone! I never know what mags I’m gonna pull out when I do a full room video, so if there’s ever any issues you’d like to see just let me know.
Looking incredible Bill very interesting the programs, never got printed for our IWA WCW here in Australia so l have never seen any before. We did get an edition of Wrestling News printed here which only ran for so many years. Thanks again another great insight into the glory days.
Great video, Bill! Look buddy, this video is the first step for you in healing over your friends passing, which I know is gonna be hard and a day to day type thing. I am proud of you for doing this, it's always fun and enjoyable to see your collection when you do full videos like this. Remember, I am just a message away if you need to vent. And honestly, I hope to do half as good as you do with my version of my video for magazines that I do. I always tag you in my description as the guy to go to for any and all wrestling magazine knowledge and information! Keep up the great work, brother!
Thanks brother, I appreciate ya very much! I have to watch your vid still I forgot. Wishing you the best with it. I hope it inspires more ppl to start collecting these things. I have so many open ends I need to close up. I start something and stop, only to start another project and stop. I need add meds.
Thanks very much. Hope you are as well. I have more pictures of savage from that time. I’ll be showing all of them in an upcoming video for the Macho man. I’ll be covering his icw and Memphis days.
I watch your videos so much that when I'm looking for new stuff to buy and something looks familiar, I don't know if I own it or if you do and I just remember it from your video. Good thing I keep a list :)
Ha ha thats cool! I usually hear from ppl saying things like “Since I’ve started watching your videos, I’ve noticed quite a decline in my savings account” and others asking me to stop making videos because I’m showing them things they never knew existed and never would have known about or bought if not for the vids. To me there’s nothing worse than buying the same thing twice. I’ve done that several times forgetting I already own it. Especially the Japanese issues. Many look alike and those are expensive. A few times I had to look at my own video to see if I have it or not lol!! But I guess when you have countless thousands of magazines and don’t look at certain ones for several years you forgot.
Ahh I don’t want them! I rather keep it small and for ppl who actually watch and enjoy it, rather then some inflated number with no meaning behind it. But I understand what you’re saying and thank you for that!
@@prowrestlingmagsi get it... & you got it, too. back when i was 19 or 20, my first apartment in the big city, my mom calls me up. she's cleaning the basement & asks if she can get rid of "all those old wrestling mags". my dumb ass says "ya, sure." i had over 400. still one of my biggest regrets ever. thanks again!!!
@jdbankshot ahhh that sucks! But hey!! It’s never too late to grab an old issue off eBay!! Little by little physical media is being wiped out every single day. All that history is being erased and rewritten by the big corporate machine up north. It’s up to us to save these from extinction. Keep the history of the “ Sport” of Professional Wrestling alive. Thanks for watching. I’m glad you like them.
@@prowrestlingmags i've managed to purchase 58 from e-bay!! 3 different lots over the past couple years. mine were from 81-90, & some of these "new" ones go back to 74, so that's really cool. even have an un-named arnold schwarzenegger selling weider products on an inside back cover. i also picked up the classic nwa "globe" belt from e-bay. as a kid, i must've made about 50 belts out of cardboard, tape, tin foil, & the "gold" side of caramilk wrappers. that corporate machine is to my south, i'm from montreal, but i hear you loud n clear. i'm keeping my vhs tapes, dvd's, vinyl, etc... can't thank you enough, take care brother! (if i win the lottery, i'm gonna make you an offer!)
@jdbankshot ahh nice, it’s a relatively easy hobby to keep up with because there’s 1000s of different wrestling mags out there. Sadly, theres a handful of leeches are looking to suck all the fun out of it by price gouging people. Requested by many friends of the channel I made a video on “prices” to help give collectors a price range to prevent them from getting ripped off. It’s no way an official price guide, but I will give you a generalization. Probably the most scummiest of sellers out there are the ones who are selling graded magazines. What a joke that is people are spending 500 -$900 for a graded magazine it’s baffling. Yes! I also like the belts from the territory days, I have several. NWA 10 lbs of Gold, the red TV belt and the Florida heavy weight belt which was one of my favorites as a kid. But my very favorite of all is the WBC boxing championship belt. The boxing belts are phenomenal. And yes, I remember myself and my friends making many cardboard belts, some got pretty elaborate too. We use to go to construction sites and look for thick cardboard boxes and paint can lids. The round paint can lids made some really cool belt plates lol. The kids of today will never know the struggles of the 70s and 80s kids because there was nothing out there to buy except for magazines and programs. Thanks again for watching my friend. Glad you’re enjoying it.
Hey Bill, I was a bit concerned because you had not posted for a while and I emailed you a while back but never back. Now I know why. I am very sorry for the loss of your friend. My sincere condolences. I do believe NWA Wrestling programs from Florida did morph into the Grapevine in the late 1970s. Up until the late 80s the Road Warriors were just jacked. They were still big guys afterwards but they truly looked like superheroes through most of the 1980s. Crockett made a huge mistake when they didn't give the Road Warriors the NWA World Titles in Chicago at Chi-Town Heat. It really hurt them in Chicago after that. I have told you before I never liked the Dragon gimmick Rick Steamboat either. I thought his best look was pre WWF. He and Jay Youngblood were a great tag team, under appreciated in my opinion. I want to say that Harley Race defended the NWA World Title at MSG against Dusty Rhodes in 1980 and pinned him. That would have preceded Flair defending the title in 1984 up in the northeast. I am glad you showed your Superstar Graham magazines. I was a huge Superstar fan. He had so much charisma and I have been a long time fan of working out and bodybuilding. It was a sad day to hear he passed. It never gets old when you show your great collection. I could spend days down there and never get enough of it. Before I forget, congrats on 1,000 subscribers. You deserve many more and you will get them with this channel. You are doing a great service to all of us who grew up in the era where magazines were the way you got all your wrestling and even boxing info. Take care my friend!
Thanks Erik, I appreciate it man. This really messed me up! Never seen it coming. But damn I never got an email from from you. I’ll check my spam folder. I had a feeling about those NWA issues becoming Grapevines, thanks for the info. And yea! 1000?? I remember when it was just you! Lol
@Pro Wrestling Mags I sent the email again as well. Yea, I remember when you had just a handful of people watching. But, boy, did your channel grow and deservingly so. That pic of Bruno in his 80s still jacked is inspiring. I am always looking for some sort of motivational edge when I work out. There was something special about going into a book or drug store and seeing all the magazines available. It was a tough choice for me as a kid when I saw multiple wrestling and boxing magazines as I had only a buck or two to spend. The Wrestler was always my first choice. You couldn't go wrong with it.
Ok yes i got your reply email. Oh the pain of not having enough money as a kid to buy 2 or 3 mags was very real. I remember always having $2 to buy two magazines, but one day when I got to the register to pay it came to $2.50?!?! Mags outta nowhere jumped .25 each and could only get one, lol I was in shock. When you’re 10-11 years old that’s a lotta money. I liked that the boxing mags only had 6 issues a year, international boxing and world boxing came out on alternating months for it was earlier on the wallet.
I am really enjoying your channel. Could you let me know what magazine protectors and boards that you use for your collection? Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching. The bags n boards I use I get from Amazon. They won’t let me leave a link in this comment. But if you search BCW Crystal Clear 2-mil Polypropylene Magazine Bags 8-3/4" X 11-1/8". You can search the same name for white backing boards. The price is always different. Depending on stock. Usually in the 10-12$ range for 100
@@prowrestlingmags Thank you so much! This info is fantastic🙏 An idea for a possible future topic is to cover the last years of Inside Wrestling/The Wrestler were combined into magazine. You had Inside Wrestling on one side and if you flipped the magazine over there was The Wrestler. Just an idea. Thanks again.
Oh the magazines I own complete months and years are from the Stanley Weston London Publishing years 1966-1993, in the upper 80s the magazines took an extreme nosedive. Awful covers, awful coverage, the expansion of cable tv exposed many of the territories and the magazines stopped going to the smaller Indy shows especially when the territories closed up they only covered the major 2-3 companies. The new owners who took the mags over in 1993 destroyed the magazines. Cut the size down to a comic book size, used cheap paper and totally disregarded the high standards that Stanley Weston set with only using top quality photos. Sadly the new company printed any and every photo they took. Over exposed, underexposed, blurry it didn’t matter they printed it. So I was done with them after 93 with the exception of a few cherry picked issues here n there..
Ah no shit! I love the little TV tapping arenas from back in those days, Florida, Georgia, Southwest, the Sheiks Big time wrestling etc. Speaking of the Sheik a few of the Japanese issues have Macho vs the Sheik in 1978 or 79 I would have loved to see that match. But yes those pics are very cool! Im lucky to have them. I need to hang them up.
@@prowrestlingmags yeah I live in Georgetown KY about 20 miles away from Lexington KY and Macho man Randy Savage was a Big deal around here and a legend at the bars and night clubs in the central Kentucky area
Very interesting choice for world champ. I always liked Adonis alot. He had a tough act to compete with in Backlund, Flair/Race and Nick. I guess it didn’t matter who they went with, Southwest was over as soon as McMahon took their TV time slot on USA channel. The beginning of the end for all the smaller companies TV.
Beautiful collection
Thanks for checking it out!
No words! Just incredible. I’ve never seen anything like this!
Thanks very much. And thank you for watching.
Absolutely Awesome Collection!!!!
Thanks Todd! Appreciate you watching man. Like I said it’s a nothing ch compared to all others, mainly bc I have no clue how to do anything like editing etc! I don’t even own a pc. If it wasn’t for the phone I’d be completely off line.
Awesome. All 3 tours videos are awesome.
Appreciate that! Thank you!
Absolutely the best trip down memory lane i wish I had the money to buy this much stuff. All of it just bring the history of wrestling to life and reminds me of when i was a sheep in the woods about the wrestling business. Thank you sir!!!!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! That Southwest Program with Adonis is AWESOME!
Thanks! Yes those program/magazines are great. Anything from Southwest territory is real tough to come by.
I had all the mags from 83-90 but my wife threw them out when I was deployed back in 94. I had PWI, The Wrestler, Sports Review Wrestling, Wrestling USA, Ringside Scene, and some Wrestling Yearbooks how I wish I still had them.
Awesome stuff, wish more people would know about Stanley Weston's influence on wrestling mags!
Love your channel , brings back memories thanks
Appreciate it man!
Love the wrestling cards! I just picked up my very first 1981 Summer Wrestling Superstars with the cards! I see you have 2 of those issues in your INCREDIBLE COLLECTION!!
Thanks very much. I found a bunch more cards over the summer when I was digging out my old boxing magazines. I use to just collect the guys who were in the WWF from 82-83. There was an old baseball card store in my neighborhood that had a bunch of wrestling cards so I would buy them one at a time here and there. I never sent away for them. I kind of wish I did now.
@@prowrestlingmags thanks for the response! I've always enjoyed collecting wrestling magazines. You have probably the BEST collection I've seen on CZcams! I just subscribed! Continued success with the channel & your collection! I'll be tuning in
I'm late to the party, dammit.
First and foremost, my sincere condolences on your loss. It'll get better so hang in there.
It never fails: As you go through your mags, I inevitably see at least one that I picked up at the newsstand when they were published. The good childhood memories rush back.
You need to know of this joy you bring. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that experiences this. So a big big thanks for these videos
Thanks so much. Really appreciate your kind words. It’s been a shifty month. Very glad to bring you and everyone a nostalgic look back of a time long gone! I never know what mags I’m gonna pull out when I do a full room video, so if there’s ever any issues you’d like to see just let me know.
Man, what a room!
I would love to visit your magazine museum.
Just an unbelievable collection Bill!
Hope your doing well 👍
Thanks very much. Thanks for watching.
This is incredible stuff
I think you deserve a million views awesome collection
Thanks very much, and thanks for watching.
You do a great job, Luv this channel.
I appreciate that, thanks very much for watching.
Never saw Sheik vs Bruiser In Japan, must be wild .
Awesome !!!
from a younger guy, thanks for the history lessons!
Thanks for checking it out!
Flair commanding $150 an autograph is ludicrous particularly when you are providing the material to sign.
Looking incredible Bill very interesting the programs, never got printed for our IWA WCW here in Australia so l have never seen any before. We did get an edition of Wrestling News printed here which only ran for so many years. Thanks again another great insight into the glory days.
Thanks very much! Always appreciate you watching and commenting.
Man, I never new Iron Mike Sharpe fought Don Leo Jonathan. Those would have been epic bouts!
Yea big battles for the Canadian title in the 70s
Great video, Bill! Look buddy, this video is the first step for you in healing over your friends passing, which I know is gonna be hard and a day to day type thing. I am proud of you for doing this, it's always fun and enjoyable to see your collection when you do full videos like this. Remember, I am just a message away if you need to vent. And honestly, I hope to do half as good as you do with my version of my video for magazines that I do. I always tag you in my description as the guy to go to for any and all wrestling magazine knowledge and information! Keep up the great work, brother!
Thanks brother, I appreciate ya very much! I have to watch your vid still I forgot. Wishing you the best with it. I hope it inspires more ppl to start collecting these things. I have so many open ends I need to close up. I start something and stop, only to start another project and stop. I need add meds.
Love your collection, nice photos of Randy Savage! Hope you are doing good!
Thanks very much. Hope you are as well. I have more pictures of savage from that time. I’ll be showing all of them in an upcoming video for the Macho man. I’ll be covering his icw and Memphis days.
I watch your videos so much that when I'm looking for new stuff to buy and something looks familiar, I don't know if I own it or if you do and I just remember it from your video. Good thing I keep a list :)
Ha ha thats cool! I usually hear from ppl saying things like “Since I’ve started watching your videos, I’ve noticed quite a decline in my savings account” and others asking me to stop making videos because I’m showing them things they never knew existed and never would have known about or bought if not for the vids. To me there’s nothing worse than buying the same thing twice. I’ve done that several times forgetting I already own it. Especially the Japanese issues. Many look alike and those are expensive. A few times I had to look at my own video to see if I have it or not lol!! But I guess when you have countless thousands of magazines and don’t look at certain ones for several years you forgot.
I had hundreds of wrestling magazines that I had as a kid thrown out by my drunk sister. She even threw out all of my LJN's, etc.
Damn I know the feeling. I have one of those sisters ha!
Wow this is so cool
Great videos. Thank you for making these. I have about 15k magazines but nothing near the uniqueness of your collection.
Thanks very much. I appreciate you watching and commenting.
New PWM video? :: gets popcorn ::
should have 10 million subs.
Ahh I don’t want them! I rather keep it small and for ppl who actually watch and enjoy it, rather then some inflated number with no meaning behind it. But I understand what you’re saying and thank you for that!
@@prowrestlingmagsi get it... & you got it, too. back when i was 19 or 20, my first apartment in the big city, my mom calls me up. she's cleaning the basement & asks if she can get rid of "all those old wrestling mags". my dumb ass says "ya, sure." i had over 400. still one of my biggest regrets ever. thanks again!!!
@jdbankshot ahhh that sucks! But hey!! It’s never too late to grab an old issue off eBay!! Little by little physical media is being wiped out every single day. All that history is being erased and rewritten by the big corporate machine up north. It’s up to us to save these from extinction. Keep the history of the “ Sport” of Professional Wrestling alive. Thanks for watching. I’m glad you like them.
@@prowrestlingmags i've managed to purchase 58 from e-bay!! 3 different lots over the past couple years. mine were from 81-90, & some of these "new" ones go back to 74, so that's really cool. even have an un-named arnold schwarzenegger selling weider products on an inside back cover. i also picked up the classic nwa "globe" belt from e-bay. as a kid, i must've made about 50 belts out of cardboard, tape, tin foil, & the "gold" side of caramilk wrappers. that corporate machine is to my south, i'm from montreal, but i hear you loud n clear. i'm keeping my vhs tapes, dvd's, vinyl, etc... can't thank you enough, take care brother! (if i win the lottery, i'm gonna make you an offer!)
@jdbankshot ahh nice, it’s a relatively easy hobby to keep up with because there’s 1000s of different wrestling mags out there. Sadly, theres a handful of leeches are looking to suck all the fun out of it by price gouging people. Requested by many friends of the channel I made a video on “prices” to help give collectors a price range to prevent them from getting ripped off. It’s no way an official price guide, but I will give you a generalization. Probably the most scummiest of sellers out there are the ones who are selling graded magazines. What a joke that is people are spending 500 -$900 for a graded magazine it’s baffling.
Yes! I also like the belts from the territory days, I have several. NWA 10 lbs of Gold, the red TV belt and the Florida heavy weight belt which was one of my favorites as a kid. But my very favorite of all is the WBC boxing championship belt. The boxing belts are phenomenal. And yes, I remember myself and my friends making many cardboard belts, some got pretty elaborate too. We use to go to construction sites and look for thick cardboard boxes and paint can lids. The round paint can lids made some really cool belt plates lol. The kids of today will never know the struggles of the 70s and 80s kids because there was nothing out there to buy except for magazines and programs. Thanks again for watching my friend. Glad you’re enjoying it.
Hey Bill, I was a bit concerned because you had not posted for a while and I emailed you a while back but never back. Now I know why. I am very sorry for the loss of your friend. My sincere condolences.
I do believe NWA Wrestling programs from Florida did morph into the Grapevine in the late 1970s. Up until the late 80s the Road Warriors were just jacked. They were still big guys afterwards but they truly looked like superheroes through most of the 1980s. Crockett made a huge mistake when they didn't give the Road Warriors the NWA World Titles in Chicago at Chi-Town Heat. It really hurt them in Chicago after that. I have told you before I never liked the Dragon gimmick Rick Steamboat either. I thought his best look was pre WWF. He and Jay Youngblood were a great tag team, under appreciated in my opinion. I want to say that Harley Race defended the NWA World Title at MSG against Dusty Rhodes in 1980 and pinned him. That would have preceded Flair defending the title in 1984 up in the northeast. I am glad you showed your Superstar Graham magazines. I was a huge Superstar fan. He had so much charisma and I have been a long time fan of working out and bodybuilding. It was a sad day to hear he passed. It never gets old when you show your great collection. I could spend days down there and never get enough of it. Before I forget, congrats on 1,000 subscribers. You deserve many more and you will get them with this channel. You are doing a great service to all of us who grew up in the era where magazines were the way you got all your wrestling and even boxing info. Take care my friend!
Thanks Erik, I appreciate it man. This really messed me up! Never seen it coming. But damn I never got an email from from you. I’ll check my spam folder. I had a feeling about those NWA issues becoming Grapevines, thanks for the info. And yea! 1000?? I remember when it was just you! Lol
@Pro Wrestling Mags I sent the email again as well. Yea, I remember when you had just a handful of people watching. But, boy, did your channel grow and deservingly so. That pic of Bruno in his 80s still jacked is inspiring. I am always looking for some sort of motivational edge when I work out. There was something special about going into a book or drug store and seeing all the magazines available. It was a tough choice for me as a kid when I saw multiple wrestling and boxing magazines as I had only a buck or two to spend. The Wrestler was always my first choice. You couldn't go wrong with it.
Ok yes i got your reply email. Oh the pain of not having enough money as a kid to buy 2 or 3 mags was very real. I remember always having $2 to buy two magazines, but one day when I got to the register to pay it came to $2.50?!?! Mags outta nowhere jumped .25 each and could only get one, lol I was in shock. When you’re 10-11 years old that’s a lotta money. I liked that the boxing mags only had 6 issues a year, international boxing and world boxing came out on alternating months for it was earlier on the wallet.
I am really enjoying your channel. Could you let me know what magazine protectors and boards that you use for your collection? Thanks and keep up the great work!
Thanks for watching. The bags n boards I use I get from Amazon. They won’t let me leave a link in this comment. But if you search BCW Crystal Clear 2-mil Polypropylene Magazine Bags 8-3/4" X 11-1/8". You can search the same name for white backing boards. The price is always different. Depending on stock. Usually in the 10-12$ range for 100
@@prowrestlingmags Thank you so much! This info is fantastic🙏 An idea for a possible future topic is to cover the last years of Inside Wrestling/The Wrestler were combined into magazine. You had Inside Wrestling on one side and if you flipped the magazine over there was The Wrestler. Just an idea. Thanks again.
Oh the magazines I own complete months and years are from the Stanley Weston London Publishing years 1966-1993, in the upper 80s the magazines took an extreme nosedive. Awful covers, awful coverage, the expansion of cable tv exposed many of the territories and the magazines stopped going to the smaller Indy shows especially when the territories closed up they only covered the major 2-3 companies. The new owners who took the mags over in 1993 destroyed the magazines. Cut the size down to a comic book size, used cheap paper and totally disregarded the high standards that Stanley Weston set with only using top quality photos. Sadly the new company printed any and every photo they took. Over exposed, underexposed, blurry it didn’t matter they printed it. So I was done with them after 93 with the exception of a few cherry picked issues here n there..
Bob backlund is a 🐐
Those pictures of Macho man Randy Savage in Lexington KY are amazing the building where they filmed icw is now a Goodwill .
Ah no shit! I love the little TV tapping arenas from back in those days, Florida, Georgia, Southwest, the Sheiks Big time wrestling etc. Speaking of the Sheik a few of the Japanese issues have Macho vs the Sheik in 1978 or 79 I would have loved to see that match. But yes those pics are very cool! Im lucky to have them. I need to hang them up.
@@prowrestlingmags yeah I live in Georgetown KY about 20 miles away from Lexington KY and Macho man Randy Savage was a Big deal around here and a legend at the bars and night clubs in the central Kentucky area
Adrian beat Bob Orton for Lou's Belt!
Very interesting choice for world champ. I always liked Adonis alot. He had a tough act to compete with in Backlund, Flair/Race and Nick. I guess it didn’t matter who they went with, Southwest was over as soon as McMahon took their TV time slot on USA channel. The beginning of the end for all the smaller companies TV.
Grear Video BRo
Thanks for watching
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