Any fan interested in old school pro wrestling history should check out Stone Cold's interview on his podcast with Bill Apter.
Apter is easily the most notable wrestling journalist of the territorial era. Loads of great stuff on here, some great insight and stories on the kayfabe days.
Unlike other wrestler podcasts Steve does a great job just letting Apter tell of his experiences instead of retelling his own stories and letting Apter comment on him.
No offense to JR. I enjoy JR's podcast too but sometimes he gets carried away telling his own stories and forcing guests to remember things his way.
I would love to hear Apter. I remember he and Gordon Solie hosting some kind of show together. Apter was the pro wrestling mag. guy then. There's a reason they called them Apter mags.
Any fan interested in old school pro wrestling history should check out Stone Cold's interview on his podcast with Bill Apter.
Apter is easily the most notable wrestling journalist of the territorial era. Loads of great stuff on here, some great insight and stories on the kayfabe days.
Unlike other wrestler podcasts Steve does a great job just letting Apter tell of his experiences instead of retelling his own stories and letting Apter comment on him. No offense to JR. I enjoy JR's podcast too but sometime he gets carried away telling his own stories and forcing guests to remember things his way.
He talks about how seeing Argentina Rocca for the first time changed his life. How he used to emulate Buddy Rogers. There's a great section about how they used to protect kayfabe. How wrestlers would get coverage in the mags, the inner workings of the top 500 list. Traveling to Japan, the death of David Von Erich. His role in the Kaufman vs Lawler feud. Some Rocky 3 talk, and how he gave the casting dept. pics of Hogan that probably got Hulkster the part, and some great insight on Jack Brisco, Billy Graham, and Eddie Graham.
That was GREAT! The only thing that I would recommend is to fast forward around 12 or 13 minutes. The beginning is just commercials and babbling.
Apter and the kids in his neighborhood in Maspeth, Queens were very much like us in East New York, Brooklyn. Thursday night was Capitol Wrestling TV night, we were wrestling each other all the time, and we all believed that it was legit!
The only thing is that I was more confident in my Figure Four Leg Lock than Apter was in his.:| I offered 50 cents to anyone who could break it (no one ever did). Around the time Rogers was having his feud with Cowboy Bob Ellis and Apter's Figure Four was broken a Puerto Rican kid in my neighborhood imitated Ellis and almost got out of mine - close, but NO cigar! :lol
Apter's experiences as a kid parrallel mine and he brought back alot of memories. His mentioning of the "E" Train and Union Turnpike means nothing to anyone here, but I rode that subway train. Interestingly, all four of my grandparents are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Apter's neighborhood of Maspeth.:faint:
Anyway, it's good to see that there are still a few of us old timers left! :agree:
- Mike
ROGERS & ELLIS ROLL OUT OF THE RING IN THE MATCH IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN THAT APTER REFERRED TO WHEN DISCUSSING THE FIGURE FOUR LEG LOCK I was in a ringside seat at that show! (See poster)
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