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https://rumble.com/v7cgz2w-rwr-wccw-podcast-ep.-6-61282-fritzs-retirement-show-part-one.html
On Episode #6 of the RWR WCCW Podcast, Robb Helt and Scottie Wince leave the familiar confines of the Sportatorium and head to Texas Stadium for Part One of the Fritz Von Erich Retirement Show, also promoted as a Wrestling Star Wars event. It is a much bigger setting, a much different atmosphere, and a major reminder that even before the Freebirds/Von Erich war truly explodes, World Class was already capable of putting thousands of fans into a stadium for a special event. (even if it doesn’t look like it due to the massive size of the stadium)
https://rumble.com/v7cgz2w-rwr-wccw-podcast-ep.-6-61282-fritzs-retirement-show-part-one.html
On Episode #6 of the RWR WCCW Podcast, Robb Helt and Scottie Wince leave the familiar confines of the Sportatorium and head to Texas Stadium for Part One of the Fritz Von Erich Retirement Show, also promoted as a Wrestling Star Wars event. It is a much bigger setting, a much different atmosphere, and a major reminder that even before the Freebirds/Von Erich war truly explodes, World Class was already capable of putting thousands of fans into a stadium for a special event. (even if it doesn’t look like it due to the massive size of the stadium)
This episode covers the first half of the Texas Stadium card, with Robb and Scottie watching the action unfold in real time and putting it into context for where World Class is in June of 1982. David Von Erich is still alive, the Freebirds have not yet kicked off the feud that will change the territory forever, and WCCW is still in that strange in-between period where the pieces are moving, the crowd is growing, and the promotion is slowly finding the identity that will soon make it legendary.
The most important part of this episode is not necessarily one match, but the scale. World Class is not yet at its absolute hottest point, but running Texas Stadium for Fritz Von Erich’s retirement event shows how much ambition the promotion already had. This is not just another Saturday at the Sportatorium. This is WCCW trying to present itself as something bigger.
Part One of the Fritz Von Erich Retirement Show feels like a bridge between what World Class has been and what it is about to become. The stadium setting is bigger, the Von Erichs are more central, Gary Hart’s influence is becoming clearer, and the pieces are slowly moving toward the explosion that will define the territory.
Robb & Scottie hope you join them for the ride, because once that cage door swings shut in the not so distant future….all hell will break lose!
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