Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 1, 2022 0:52:27 GMT -5
Been on a kick of buying big lots of 70s/80s/90s wrestling mags.
Ended up with 9 issues of the Wrestler from 85 thru 91.
So started last week and every week until I run out of mags,and just got 7 more in today,every Wed and Fri a video looking at one mag will appear.
July 85,this went up last Wednesday.
And Fridays video The Wrestler Nov 86
This upcoming Wednesday is a Weston special mag from 79.
Figured a general wrestling mag memories thread might be fun.
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Post by CeilingFan on Nov 1, 2022 4:26:44 GMT -5
I loved Pro Wrestling Illustrated, The Wrestler, and Inside Wrestling.
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Post by dablueboy on Nov 1, 2022 5:44:30 GMT -5
I haven’t for months but I got into a kick of reading Inside The Ropes magazine, the content and styling being similar to a much beloved UK mag called Power Slam (hell the editor of said mag now writes for ITR) before that it was Wrestletalk which was an amalgamation of two other UK mags, FSM (which was the successor to PS) and another short lived magazine who’s name escapes me as well as FSM itself before that
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tafkaga
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Post by tafkaga on Nov 1, 2022 15:18:04 GMT -5
I've been thinking about collecting old Apter mags for a while, but I tend to get obsessed when I start collecting shit.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Nov 1, 2022 15:50:08 GMT -5
I used to buy Inside Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Illustrated when I was kid. I would take them with me wherever I went as well. I spent so many hours pouring through those magazines. I learned about so many different wrestlers and promotions. I was always curious about what was going on with Japan. I was so excited to see Vader in WCW as he was always highly regarded in those magazines.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 2, 2022 1:43:13 GMT -5
See with me I was like 4 and 5 and going grocery shopping with mom. Get her to buy me say The Wrestler that week and I would sit at the mag rack reading another wrestling mag until it was time for her to check out.
By 82ish I was buy the big 3 Apter mags each month,PWI/The Wrestler/Inside Wrestling. And did so until late 94 or so. Sold all those in late 90s when the wrestling boom was going.
Now I just buy big lots cheap to keep 2 and sell the rest. They are light and sell fast so dont take up much space in my tote and dont add much weight. And got a good profit ratio per mag.
The two in those videos were sold the day I got them LOL. Local buddy is gonna get Robert Gibson to sign the one in a bit over 10 days.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 2, 2022 16:01:48 GMT -5
From Spring of 79 a special issue.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 15, 2022 21:01:42 GMT -5
The Wrestler January 1985
Kerry Von Erich is trying to beat Flair again for the NWA world title. Jerry Lawler wants to get Rick Rude banned from Memphis and all the other normal stuff in this mid 80s issue of The Wrestler.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 15, 2022 21:22:57 GMT -5
The Wrestler August 1985
Road Warriors invade Japan,who are the best wrestlers of the last 20 years? All this and more in this 20th anniversay issue of The Wrestler.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Nov 15, 2022 22:17:58 GMT -5
Some of my best childhood memories come from these magazines. Because, spoilers here, but I wasn't a very popular kid lol the Apter mags were my escape. They also launched my love for fantasy booking, which still hasn't quite paid off, but hey. If anyone out there owns a wrestling magazine/site and wants to give me a job writing a fantasy booking column, I'm here!
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 15, 2022 22:19:36 GMT -5
The Wrestler December 1985
Is Rick Rude the sexiest man in wrestling? And the Mid South and World Class fans are both begging for the Fantastics to stay in their territories.
All this and more.
Plus tomorrow being Wednesday a new video will appear.
Which is the January 1986 issue of The Wrestler. Going live Wednesday morning around 10am Central time zone.
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tafkaga
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Post by tafkaga on Nov 16, 2022 9:33:51 GMT -5
Dude, my aunt gave me a huge stack of these mags when I was about 8 years old. They are LONG since cut up and destroyed, but your flip throughs are bringing back all these memories. I owned some of these and remember so many of the photos. It's scary how all this unimportant stuff is just stored in our brains.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 17, 2022 11:24:35 GMT -5
Dude, my aunt gave me a huge stack of these mags when I was about 8 years old. They are LONG since cut up and destroyed, but your flip throughs are bringing back all these memories. I owned some of these and remember so many of the photos. It's scary how all this unimportant stuff is just stored in our brains. You are welcome. I film a bunch of these at once so no clue if the vid with this story is up yet. From when I was 5 or so until I was 14 or so every week would go on Sundays grocery shopping with my mother. The grocery store had a huge comic and magazine stand. I would pick out 2 comics and 1 mag that she would buy for me. Then while she shopped I sat at the rack reading at least one more wrestling mag. So far out of the stack I have currently there is one I know for sure I owned back in the day.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 17, 2022 12:23:07 GMT -5
So yea a day late posting this one,let's just saw a long day of hauling and stacking firewood meant I laid down at 6pm figuring I would take a 2 hour nap. Nope slept 13 hours.....
The Wrestler January 1986
20th anniversary issue. See who the top 10 wrestlers of THE WRESTLER's existance are.
Oh and a special color section which means they jacked the cover price up 50 cents I think.
Hope yall enjoy.
Not sure which issue goes up tomorrow. But from now until after the New Year 645pm central Wed and Fri on the DIY Mississippi Filmworks channel on Youtube new vids will appear.
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Post by SmashTV on Nov 17, 2022 13:58:32 GMT -5
What a great idea for a thread, thank you. I started collecting the Apter mags circa 1989, starting with PWI and then expanding to the others. They were initially hard to get in England, but as wrestling grew in popularity so did the demand for the magazines. I always felt like I was getting inside information that my friends weren’t privy to, and it just made each magazine special.
I stopped watching wrestling when I went to university in 1996, and collected the magazines for another year before calling it a day. They were a huge part of my childhood and adolescence though, and consequently I’ll always have a soft spot for them.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 18, 2022 19:53:56 GMT -5
It's Friday so time for another Wrestling mag flipthru video.
The Wrestler Nov 1987
Man back then I was all about UWF and Memphis. But was watching any wrestling that I could get with a set of rabbit ears and a huge antenna up on a big ass pole.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 25, 2022 9:21:39 GMT -5
The Wrestler Feb 1991
Sorry folks been sick this week so forgot to post the lnk on Wednesday. And tonight at 645pm central a new one goes up.
Also just got in another 4 mags. One is a great early 80s issue.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 26, 2022 19:40:10 GMT -5
Wrestler Annual Summer 1988
These Annuals,that came out 4 times a year(ya doesnt make sense to me either) are 99% reprinted stuff.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 26, 2022 19:41:38 GMT -5
Also small favor to ask,that channel is like 4 subs away from 300. So if you watch any of these and like them and havent subbed please do. Trying to hit 300 by the end of the year.
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Post by nevthebassist on Nov 27, 2022 11:54:44 GMT -5
This has reminded me I have a copy of the first edition of WCW magazine in a box somewhere. There's also every issue of PowerSlam as I enjoyed reading non-kayfabe magazines, instead of the occasional copy of WWF magazine or PWI.
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