Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings: Episode 11, WWWF 1975 with Steve Gennerelli

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Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings: Episode 11, WWWF 1975 with Steve Gennerelli

Our Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings podcast focuses in on a by-gone era of regional booking offices of wrestling talent in historic towns and legendary buildings around the world.

Tony Richards

Jun 25, 2025

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On today’s show, I welcome my special guest, longtime fan and historical commentator, Steve Gennerelli.

I hope you enjoy this conversation between Steve and myself about the WWWF Territory of the Northeastern United States including some of the biggest towns and most historic buildings such as New York City, Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia, The Spectrum, Landover, The Capital Centre, the Boston Gardens and more. And…the names such as Bruno Sammartino, Spiros Arion, Waldo Von Erich, Chief Jay Strongbow, The Valiant Brothers, Dominic DeNucci, Victor Rivera and others. We hit all the personalities, all the towns, all the buildings and all the stories in the WWWF in the Spring of 1975!

*Video production by Time Tunnel Podcast Producer, Jake Hamar

The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel

I'm Tony Richards, Pro Wrestling Historian, Author and Storyteller.

My concept of The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel to provide historical context to people, places and events in Pro Wrestling as they were happening at the time. Each ten year period in world history in terms of culture, business, economy, technology, science, and education were unique time periods unto themselves that pro wrestling both as a sport and as an entertainment tool reflected.

Matches, terms, gimmicks and related business items outside those time periods, which I refer to as “paradigms”, may not make as much sense or have as much relevance. At the same time, when viewed inside their current paradigms, they make a lot of sense, had a tremendous impact at the time and some of those provided a catalyst of the next changing paradigm. My mission is to provide as much of that context combines with historical research to provide more clairty in how to think about these time periods and related happenings in the pro wrestling business environment.

The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel endeavors to present this information in a multi-media myriad of ways, in much the same spirit as the concept behind Substack. The Time Tunnel will produce material for people who like to read, watch and listen through the connectivity of as many various methods as possible.

I share pro wrestling historical items in each issue of the Time Tunnel Pro Wrestling History Newsletter. Thanks for reading, watching and listening, our Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel site takes a multi-media approach to the documentation of the history of this great sport.

The Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Podcast serves the video and audio perferences of people who are interested in wrestling history.

Our first podcast series, Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings, showcases wrestlers, bookers, referees, promoters, television commentators, historians and others who put their bodies on the line and paved the way forward for professional wrestling.

We discuss the booking offices, the territories, the legendary towns and historic buildings where professional wrestling took place every night week after week.

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I'll be publishing some special issues including a multi-part deep dives on wrestling territories, wrestler bios and championship title histories, special audio and video interviews on territory pro wrestling and more available in The Vault of the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel for Paid Subscribers.

Even as we speak, I am in the planning stages for a new video/audio series in The Valut on “The History of West Texas Wrestling.” I’ll keep you updated as I achieve more clarity on this special new offering. Speaking of West Texas, I’ll be publishing a “History of the NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship through 1975” very soon in the Vault. I’ll announce when that is available.

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