Dangerous Conversations w/Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich

On this week's episode, it's time for another AD&T (Ask Doug & Tommy)!Some of the topics covered: Meeting Vince McMahon, working with Adrian Adonis in the AWA, Was Doug the "Terrorist" at Clash of the Champions: Guts & Glory?, Did Tommy conspire with Nick Patrick to "jump" Ole Anderson?, Why Dark Patriot in ECW rather than Doug Gilbert?, Ox Baker stories, Great Kabuki, Super Mario, Arlie Gilbert, Gary Hart, Peggy Gilbert's Van??, the Steiner Brothers, the Undertaker, Royal Rumble '96, and more!!Send in your questions for future episodes to douggilbertpodcast@outlook.comFor all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!WrestleCopia Merchandise Available at https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopiaVisit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week Doug & Tommy take a look back to their time in the USWA in 1994 covering January through March of that year. They discuss some of the cards from that time as well as some of their fellow wrestlers that were working the territory at that time including: Reggie B. Fine, Del Rios aka The Spellbinder, Bert Prentice, Skull Von Crush, Jimmy Valiant, and they also talk about the entire card for the March 1994, Memphis Memories event headlined by the “Best of Memphis” match. Plus hear a fun story from Doug about a “Singapore Caning” match against Brian Christopher that ending up being a real pain all around the loop. All that and much more!Send in your questions for future episodes to douggilbertpodcast@outlook.comFor all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!WrestleCopia Merchandise Available at https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopiaVisit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

If you were a fan of Georgia Championship Wrestling in the early 80s, there was no feud more talked about or more memorable than Tommy "Wildfire" Rich vs. "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer. As most folks know, this feud came to a head in a famous steel cage match that would be known as the "Last Battle of Atlanta". The match is memorable for many reasons. One of the reasons is the cage itself, it was unique in the fact that it was a steel cage that also had a chain link top that would go on to inspire the WWE's HELL IN A CELL cage years later. It's also famous because for decades it was believed that no footage of this match existed, it was the holy grail of the pro wrestling tape traders from the VHS days into the DVD days. But mostly it was memorable because it was an exclamation point on a violent and bloody feud that lasted over two years. This week, Doug & Tommy discuss the feud with Buzz Sawyer and everything that led up to it, the match itself, and even a few things you may not remember that happened after it. Check it out! Send in your questions for future episodes to douggilbertpodcast@outlook.com For all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.com For all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!WrestleCopia Merchandise Available at https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopiaVisit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week, it's YOUR turn to ask the questions! Once again Doug & Tommy are answering questions sent in by the listeners of the show. Here's some of the topics that get covered in the process:Doug's match with Mance Warner from the W.O.M.B.A.T. show in TullahomaTommy's memories of the Jarrett/Gulas split in 1977Doug's appearance on AEW alongside other Memphis LegendsDoug & Tommy's favorite match as tag team partnersFavorite places to eat on the roadWho was the best female of wrestler of all time?Plus: Frankie Cain, Don Fargo, PG-13, Big Bad John, Bruiser Brody, Mr. Wrestling 2, Jerry Lawler, Brian Christopher, Buck Robley, and much, much, more!Send in your questions for future episodes to douggilbertpodcast@outlook.comFor all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!WrestleCopia Merchandise Available at https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopiaVisit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

In 1989, Eddie Gilbert was invited to return NWA/WCW to assist with the booking which also lead to Doug and Tommy Rich returning as well. A lot of interesting things went on throughout the year including: Eddie feuding with Ric Flair & Barry Windham leading to the return of Ricky Steamboat, Tommy wrestling Terry Funk in Amarillo and feuding with Lex Luger over the United States Championship, Doug wrestling Shane Douglas, Lance Russell leaving Memphis and signing with the NWA, the Rich Cousins wrestle three lunatics, Captain Redneck teams with a patriotic breakdancer??, Eddie & Rick Steiner win U.S. tag team championship gold, and much, much more!Send in your questions for future episodes to douggilbertpodcast@outlook.comFor all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

Merry Christmas! This week on the 20th Episode of Dangerous Conversations, Doug & Tommy look back on some Christmas Day Wrestling Shows they competed on over the years and discuss some of the guys who were booked on the card! Among other topics discussed this week: A possible return to Sistersville, Virginia?!?!, "Wildfire Claus", solving the mystery of "Rick Jones", the appeal of wrestling shows for families on Christmas, Big Red, how Tojo Yamamoto taught Tommy to sell, Doug's dealings with a famous "Chief", When Dutch Mantel "held Tommy hostage" in the dressing room, When Doug nearly took out Frank Morrell with a golf ball, making merch money, and much, much more to get you in the Christmas Spirit!Send in your questions for future episodes to douggilbertpodcast@outlook.comFor all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week Doug & Tommy finally tell their side of the story on the infamous "Great West Virginia Heist" of 1997! The real story of what happened has never been told before by Doug OR Tommy….until NOW. There were a few different versions of the story floating around wrestling magazines, dirt sheets, and locker rooms back in '97 ranging from Doug & Tommy asked for their pay in advance and then left the building to Doug & Tommy robbed the promoter for the gate at gunpoint. What was true? What was not? Check out this episode and hear all about the weekend the "Memphis Mafia" spent in jail in West Virginia complete with orange jumpsuits and being shackled for transport! It's a wild story that'll you'll only hear on Dangerous Conversations and the Wrestlecopia Podcast Network!For all things related to Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich, check out www.dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out www.uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

After receiving some great feedback on the last Q&A, and since there were still plenty of listener questions left to answer, this week we present Part Two of our Q&A of questions sent in by our listeners for Doug Gilbert & "Wildfire" Tommy Rich! Doug & Tommy answer questions pertaining to the following topics:Favorite opponents?Who do you wish you could have worked but didn't get to?How was Lex Luger to work with in WCW in 1989?How was "Rapmaster" PN News to work with?Did ECW have a positive or negative impact on the business overall?Thoughts on working "Hair vs. Hair" matches?Thoughts on working "Scaffold" matches?Thoughts on Joe PedicinoAll these topics are covered and many more!For all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out uswapodcast.comFor tons of great matches/angles/promos featuring The Gilberts & Tommy Rich, check out youtube.com/retrowrestlingarchive Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week Doug & Tommy were in Arkansas getting ready for a big show in Clarksville, so we took the opportunity to sit down and answer some of YOUR questions that have been sent in to dougilbertpodcast@outlook.com and submitted on Facebook at facebook.com/dougilbertpodcast. Some of the topics they discuss include:Tommy's stint in the American Wrestling Federation in 1995, Doug's match with the Great Muta at WrestleWar '89, working with Roddy Piper in '82, stories about traveling with Andre the Giant in Georgia, comparing Flair & Bockwinkel as World Champions, favorite masked wrestler of all time?, favorite manager they've ever had, and many more fun questions are answered in this one! For all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out uswapodcast.com For all things related to the Wrestlecopia Podcast Network, check out wrestlecopia.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week Doug & Tommy kick off the show talking about their weekend working the big wrestling event at the University of Memphis featuring many other legends of Memphis Wrestling. Then we get into some discussion of the "Memphis Mafia", who were the members? What was it exactly? Was it just an onscreen group, or was it more than that? Doug & Tommy get pretty in depth describing exactly who and what the Memphis Mafia was at that time in the USWA. In the process of this conversation a number of other interesting people and topics come up including: Sam Bass, John Gilliam, Sam Lowe, how Tommy paid the price when Doug and half the card got caught up in a "snow storm", dealing with heated fans, who Brian Christopher's "Favorite Wrestler" really was, and so much more! For all things related to Doug Gilbert and his podcast, check out dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week Doug welcomes another great friend of his to the show, Dr. Tom Prichard! The guys have fun reflecting on their great times as neighbors in the Continental territory where Doug learned from guys like Tom, Jerry Stubbs, "Nightmare" Danny Davis, and others. Tom tells about working with Brian Christopher in the USWA early in Brian's career and shares a fun story from the Mid-South Coliseum where Brian's car was on the line and Brian's girlfriend learned to keep the window's rolled up! Plus, way too many great stories to mention here, check out the interview and let us know what you think over on Facebook at facebook.com/dougilbertpodcastFor all things related to Doug Gilbert and his podcast, check out dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

This week's episode was recorded live and in person in Jackson, Tennessee immediately before the Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame Ceremony. Doug is excited to welcome his long time tag team partner and one of his best friends, Tommy "Wildfire" Rich! They discuss a variety of topics including: how Tommy met Doug's father Tommy Gilbert, Tommy's experiences learning from Tojo Yamamoto early in his career, defeating the great Harley Race to become the youngest NWA World Champion in 1981, the prevailing locker room mentality amongst wrestlers and why promoters seem to encourage it, Tommy's very fun "corn story", and so much more! At the end of the episode, Gene teases that the next time Tommy joins the show, (which will be soon) they will discuss the "New" Fabulous Ones tag team of Tommy Rich and Eddie Gilbert in Memphis in 1984! Doug and Tommy agree that this topic could end up taking multiple episodes to cover!For all things related to Doug Gilbert and his podcast, check out dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade

It's Episode #6 of Dangerous Conversations and this week, Doug welcomes a special guest: the Founder, Owner, and President of Power Pro Wrestling, Randy Hales. Doug has known Randy for well over 40 years and despite having some tense moments at times over the years, they are still friends to this day. As we move towards the huge "Night to Remember" event in Jackson, Tennessee on Saturday September 21st, the guys discuss all of the inductees that will be in this year's class of the Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame especially the "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony, whom Doug will be personally inducting into the Hall himself. A ton of great conversation here about the Memphis Wrestling territory, the Gilbert/Rich vs. PG-13 feud, a comparison of the Fabs & The Rock & Roll Express in the 80s, and much, much more! For all things related to Doug Gilbert and his podcast, check out dougilbertpodcast.comFor all things related to Gene Jackson's Retro Wrestling Re-View USWA Podcast, check out uswapodcast.comPlease Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopiaIncludes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure!Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.comFollow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenadeFollow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenadeSubscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade