Booking Memphis Wrestling with Jerry Jarrett

In this episode Jerry Jarrett looks back fondly on the glory days of his time in the NWA, specifically the early 70s. Hear personal stories on such massive figures as Vince McMahon Sr, Sam Muchnick, Eddie Graham, Salvador Lutteroth and more. Also, an interesting personal perspective on a time where a code of loyalty existed in the business world that doesn't seem to still exist today.

We welcome back Scott Mason from TurnOnTheJets.com, who in addition to football podcasting is a huge fan of the territories and is particularly fascinated with Dallas. He spends an hour asking Jerry Jarrett about all the details from his time running the Dallas territory. Hear the raw good and bad of dealing with the Von Erichs, stories on major players like Skandar Akbar, Chris Adams, Percy Pringle, Eric Embry, Mark Lowrance, Iceman King Parsons, Mick Foley, Gary Young, John Tatum, and many more!

This may be our favorite episode as we welcome the beloved patriarch of the Memphis Wrestling family - Mr. Eddie Marlin! We have him, Jerry Jarrett, and Randy Hales on the line, as they talk about their decades in the territory together. Hear about what Eddie has meant to Jerry as a father-in-law and main event talent. Hear why he's responsible for Randy having a career in the industry. Also, his team with Tommy Gilbert, working with stars like Lawler and Fargo, the many beatings he took on TV, and more.

We welcome Liam Byrne from ProWrestlingOnly.com to talk 1984 Memphis and American wrestling in general that year with Jerry Jarrett! Hear about his thoughts as he heard about Hogan beating the Iron Sheik for the WWE Title, Black Saturday, and also Memphis events like the Lawler-Bockwinkel feud, the return of stars like Joe LeDuc and Norvell Austin, Hillbilly Jim's run, the New Fabs, whether Lawler was ever considered for an AWA title run, and much more!

We welcome Memphis wrestling superfan Pat Trammell onto the show to talk with Jerry on a wide range of topics. In addition to his wrestling fandom, Pat in real life is a major commercial banker who is able to bring a new perspective to the show. Hear why pro wrestling was so important to Southern culture in the 70s and 80s, great Tojo and Terry Funk stories, deep booking philosophy discussion, and what Jerry sees for the future of the industry. Its a deep talk, please join us!

We are fired up this week to welcome Wildfire Tommy Rich! Hear hi and Jerry tell all sorts of stories about his career, from him breaking in by doing yard work for Jerry, Jerry sending to him to Georgia to help Jim Barnett and TBS, his wild success in Georgia, the New Fabs, hiding under the ring to interfere in the Idol/Lawler cage match that saw the King's head shaved, their scaffold match with Lawler and Dundee, and so much more!

We celebrate our 40th episode by bringing together over a century of wrestling experience in Jerry Jarrett and our guest Les Thatcher. They have a fascinating discussion on wrestling history, including attempting to clear up confusion over a major event from Jerry's career that happened 50 years ago! They discuss Les's time in Tennessee as well as his multiple other achievements since debuting 58 years ago.

This week Jerry Jarrett takes us deeper into his time working next to Vince McMahon in 1993-1994, and his thoughts on several of the various talents he worked with. Hear why he loves Scott Hall but threatened to fire him after a match with Jeff Jarrett as MSG, booking the Bret Hart vs Owen Hart feud, his pride in pushing for 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty to become the tag champs, and other names like Randy Savage, Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, Howard Finkel, Doink, Lex Luger, Jerry Lawler, and many more.

We are so happy to have legendary Memphis referee Jerry Calhoun join us this week! An integral part of Memphis TV for more than a decade, this is an episode that fans of classic Memphis will love as he has all sorts of stories about the glory days. Hear about him breaking Jerry Lawler's leg and knocking him out of the territory for a year, being in the ring for the Lawler vs Idol match with Tommy Rich under the ring, pranks and ribs on the road, violent fans, and much more on all the classic Memphis names!

This week we take a deep look into exactly what Jerry Jarrett has been working on for the last several months - The Jarrett Parsons Wrestling TV Roku Channel! Jerry and Sean welcome Dave and Adam Parsons onto the show, as they all put the channel together. Hear about the background of the channel and how it was formed, what's currently available, and big plans for the future. Jerry says this is the most excited he's been about a project in 40 years, so get insight into it all.

This week is one of our most fascinating shows, as we bring together generations with OTT Wrestling owner Joe Cabray and Jerry Jarrett having a great discussion on 2019 pro wrestling. Based out of Ireland, Joe leads perhaps the hottest independent organization in the world right now, with a cutting edge product. Jerry has seen some of his work and is a big fan, and it's so interesting to hear these two men 40 years apart in age have so many of the same beliefs on successful pro wrestling. 

This week we take advantage of Jerry Jarrett's unique perspective as a young NWA member going back to the 70's to get his perspective on all the big names of the era. From Bruno Sammartino, to Sam Mushnick, Stu Hart, Danny Hodge, Wahoo McDaniel, Roy Shire, Mark Lewin, Haystack Calhoun, Freddie Blassie, and so many more.

This week we welcome great wrestling podcaster and Memphis fan Kris Zellner onto the show. He gets the chance to pick Jerry Jarrett's brain for an hour, talking about Memphis's expansion into different areas, the Poffos, music videos, Ole Anderson, and much more vintage Memphis content.

In this episode we bring back one of our most popular formats, the Quick Hits gimmick as Sean throws a variety of random names at Jerry Jarrett from Memphis history and he responds with the first story that comes to his mind. This time, we limited it to just to managers, talking about nearly all of them that came through Memphis and helped make the territory as special as it was. This is our tribute to all of those managers who tortured Lance, got heat, took beatings, and helped make Memphis successful!

This week we're thrilled to welcome Memphis Wrestling Author and Historian Tim Dills to the show. Tim has written several books on Memphis wrestling that can be found on Amazon, as well as tremendous pieces on the territory for Kayfabe Memories. He brings his vast historical knowledge to get great insight out of Jerry Jarrett on a variety of topics - from Roy Welch stories, to whether Jerry was ever tempted to book any other territories, to what can be learned from Memphis and applied to modern wrestling.