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Everybody Needs a Champion - Episode 02

Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News

Release Date: 12/24/2024

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This week Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News host Aaron Gartlan is joined by Eric Darsie from the to discuss a variety of topics concerning Southeastern Championship Wrestling, Continental Championship Wrestling, and their experience watching pro wrestling during the era. Ron Fuller's SECW grew out of a merger between Ron Fuller's Knoxville promotion and Gulf Coast wrestling out of Mobile when, in October 1980, the promotion expanded north from Florida to Tennessee offering some of the best pro wrestling action ever. Gartlan Law- Aggressive Advocacy. Life Changing Results. Visit ...

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This week on Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News podcast, host Aaron Gartlan has a question for pro wrestling historian Karl Stern about late 1970s Alabama and the change over from the Field's brother's Gulf Coast Wrestling to Ron Fuller's SECW. What was the cultural scene like in Alabama during this era and how did Gulf Coast and SECW tap into that? Plus, tons more about SECW and Continental wrestling.

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Aaron Gartlan has another SECW TV show review from April 18, 1981, called: Taking Those Dollars and Cents to the Bank. Aaron is covering the following show: Charlie Platt & Les Thatcher hosts... Dennis Condrey defeated Roy Lee Welch...Bob & Brad Armstrong interview...Dennis Condrey & Randy Rose and Bob & Brad Armstrong interview... Interview with Jerry Stubbs & Ken Lucas and Stan Lane & Ron Bass...Jerry Stubbs defeated Sonny Driver... Stan Lane video verses Robert Gibson... Bob & Brad Armstrong interview... Dennis Condrey & Randy Rose interview... Paul Orndorff...

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We have a unique show for you today. SECW Action News host Aaron Gartlan has a series of questions for pro wrestling historian and SECW fan Karl Stern centered around the change-over in June 1985 when Southeastern Championship Wrestling changed to Continental Championship Wrestling. How did the Wrestling Observer cover it? How did fans feel at the time? Was there a potential big TV deal involved? Why did it happen? Plus, tons more pro wrestling history in this new show! Support us on Patreon - Gartlan Law- Aggressive Advocacy. Life Changing Results. Visit SECW #prowrestling #NWA #WWE...

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Aaron Gartlan's outstanding Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News returns this week with a special history of wrestling episode by pro wrestling historian Karl Stern discussing more about southern professional wrestling and the history of Ron Fuller's outstanding SECW promotion out of Pensecola, Florida. Gartlan Law- Aggressive Advocacy. Life Changing Results. Visit

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Today we have a special show for you. Host Aaron Gartlan goes through the life and career of southern journeyman wrestler Gentleman Ken Timbs. Ken Timbs was a former NWA U.S. Junior champion for Continental Wrestling and often worked the SECW TV tapings. He was also a mentor to When It Was Cool's own Karl Stern. Today, both Aaron and Karl share their thoughts and memories on Gentleman Ken Timbs (El Fabuloso Blonde in Mexico). Gartlan Law- Aggressive Advocacy. Life Changing Results. Visit

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Aaron Gartlan returns with another break down of the SECW Alabama territory from April 11, 1981, with a television show featuring the Midnight Express, Bob Armstrong, Brad Armstrong, Ron Bass, Roy Lee Welch, Paul Orndorff, Ron Fuller, Mr. Saito, Jimmy Golden and others. SECW is building toward one of the hottest territorial pro wrestling periods ever! Gartlan Law- Aggressive Advocacy. Life Changing Results. Visit

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Aaron Gartlan will return next week with a review of an episode of SECW. This week, pro wrestling historian Karl Stern laments the state of wrestling history research but also is excited about it taking a different form. Karl talks about some great historians and researchers and then covers the current status of the Southeastern Wrestling results project.  

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Aaron Gartlan returns for a look back at the April 4, 1981, episode of Ron Fuller's Southeastern Championship Wrestling. This edition of SECW featured matches and promos with Brad Armstrong, the Midnight Express, Mr. Saito, Jerry Stubbs, Bob Armstrong, Les Thornton, Ken Lucas, Ron Bass, Robert Fuller, and Jimmy Golden. SECW is ramping up during this era, check it out! Gartlan Law- Aggressive Advocacy. Life Changing Results. Visit

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Aaron Gartlan presents from the Karl Stern History of Wrestling library; Karl takes a look at the ongoing  and television shows from the early 1980's.  Also, Karl talks about the death of the Mongolian Stomper in 2016 and more.

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Everybody needs a champion. That is the theme to Aaron Gartlan's second episode of the Southeastern Championship Wrestling Action News Podcast as Aaron looks at the first episode of SECW after the purchase of the north Alabama area from Nick Gulas. This purchase includes Birmingham and Boutwell Auditorium where a tournament for a new Alabama State champion takes place. The show features a focus on Bob Armstrong, Tony Charles, Eddie Mansfield, and a hot interview by a heel Ron Fuller!

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