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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 47 – Audio Only – Corporal Robinson pt 1

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Episode 47 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former 2x IWA Mid South World Heavyweight Champion and 2x IWA King of the Death Matches winner (2004 & 2007) and the answer to the trivia question of “Who did Jim work on the most amount of shows with but never managed in IWA?” Corporal Robinson!

Corporal was having a lot of issues with his phone on this one so the podcast ends abruptly after about 1 hour and 45 minutes and we hadn’t even gotten past 2001. Corporal will definitely be back for a part 2 but this one will leave you wanting part 2. Hear all the scandal and hearsay of Corporal and his popularity with the female wrestling fans. Hear all about the backstage skirmishes that Corporal and Jim were a part of and how Corporal was always the first one to have Jim’s back during Jim’s and didn’t need Jim’s help during his. Listen to Corporal talk about his tag team with Blaze, fallouts with Ian, and wrestling in Milwaukee for MAW in addition to IWA. All this and more on this episode of Fannin’s Flashbacks!

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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 46 – Audio Only – Steve Stone

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Episode 46 of #FanninsFlashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former member of #TheFanninFamily from War Games and technically a former IWA Mid South tag team champion, Steve Stone. Disclaimer: This episode has a trigger warning as hazing, mental health and suicide are talked about towards the end of the episode. Before that, you can listen to Steve explain how he got into the business and what led to his impressive winning streak to start his IWA career and what led to that coming to a screeching halt. Did Steve Stone really complain to Ian that I was kicking him too hard which led to us beating the hell out of each other at every opportunity until we were placed together? Listen to Steve and I reminisce about the fun times traveling to IWA shows with Chris Candido and the rest of the big names being flown in during the Highland days and getting to work with Dusty and Funk. Lastly, hear a very emotional Steve Stone talk about the end of his IWA run and the trigger warning material mentioned above. All this and more on this episode of Fannin’s Flashbacks!

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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 45 – Audio Only – Chris Class

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Episode 45 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by a former IWA Mid South referee, member of the infamous backyard Lock Family, Bret Hart fan, Maryland man Chris Class!
Listen to Chris talk about backyard wrestling in the Kmart building, cheering wildly for Bret Hart at In Your House Ground Zero, and being in the same wrestling school class as Mickie James! Hear Chris talk about returning to Kentuckiana and becoming a ref on IWA shows and sharing a ref shirt on shows with Mark Wolf. Get Chris’ perspective on what it was like to be the ref during the flaming tables match that severely burned Richard X and how that led to him quitting the business. Chris eventually returned as a fan and ran Headlock Gear to sell shirts for a lot of the wrestlers. All that and more on this episode of Fannin’s Flashbacks!

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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 44 – Audio Only – Vito Thomaselli

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Episode 44 of #FanninsFlashbacks is now live! (Or will be in the morning anyway) On this episode, Jim is joined by one half of one of the most decorated tag teams in IWA Mid South history and former 3x IWA Mid South tag team champion: Vito Thomaselli!
Find out how a baby Vito ended up at Wrestlemania II at the Rosemont Horizon. Hear how Vito broke into the business as Airborne, how he ended up with that name, and what ever became of his tag team partner…LOW KI?!?!?!? Listen to how Vito ended up in California and meeting Sal and starting the Iron Saints tag team. What was it like working the ECW Arena at Something to Prove? Winning the Candido Cup? And what led to Vito deciding to quit wrestling? All this and more on this episode!

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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 43 – Audio Only – Mae Murdoch

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Episode 43 of #FanninsFlashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by “That Mouthy C*NT” Mae Browner! Listen as Mae tells her story of falling in love with John Wayne Murdoch, John joining IWA Mid South while she was pregnant and the fallout between them when she couldn’t cope with him doing death matches. Listen as she describes what it was like slowly coming around and accepting the death matches and eventually having to live with Ian Rotten on two separate occasions. What was it like having to get Reed to the hospital after the FrankenBentley incident? What led to The Rejects quitting IWA? Why did they come back? Why did they quit again? Why did they come back again again?!?!? And &%$^#$ it…who ate Ian’s slice of cheesecake? Dig up all that dirt and more on this episode!

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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 42 – IWA TV eps 3 & 4 REWATCH w/ Rich & Brent

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Episode 42 of #FanninsFlashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by the best referee in IWA Mid South history Brent Blades and IWA historian and President of The Reckless Youth Fan Club: “The Mayor” Rich Wayne!
Like last week, these are return guests to the podcast as Brent was on Episode 2 and Rich was on Episode 5. You can catch those episodes in the archives on #IWTV! This time Brent, Rich, and Jim sit down for a watchalong of the last two episodes of IWA Mid South TV that were unearthed by the Between the Sheets Podcast. That’s right. IWA had TV for a couple of months in 1998 and Brent, Rich, and Jim were there at the tapings. Hear them give their thoughts and talk about their memories of this timeframe in IWA as they watch the February 14 and February 21, 1998 episodes of IWA Hardcore TV. See plenty of footage from the old KMart building and southern Indiana armories!

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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 41 – Audio only – IWA TV Eps 1 & 2 Rewatch w/ Ben & Les

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Episode 41 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is now live! On this episode, Jim is joined by his college buddies that were money backers into bringing IWA Mid South to Lexington, Kentucky: “The Consigliere of #TheFanninFamily” Ben Rich and Les Johns.
This was supposed to be the first episode of the podcast but Les no showed leaving Ben as the lone guest. Les eventually joined on Episode 4. You can catch those episodes in the archives on #IWTV! This time Ben, Les, and Jim sit down for a watchalong of the first two episodes of IWA Mid South TV. That’s right. IWA had TV for a couple of months in 1998 and Ben, Les, and Jim were there at the tapings. Hear them give their thoughts and talk about their memories of this timeframe in IWA as they watch the January 31 and February 7, 1998 episodes of IWA Hardcore TV. I hope you all love Kenny Bolin because he is in 95% of the segments which might kill the town quicker than the Sox episode!

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Episode 40 of #FanninsFlashbacks drops Friday (tomorrow) morning. On this episode, Jim is joined by streaming superstar Thomas Green aka Not That Tom Green! Listen to Tom talk about how the death of WCW and finding AJ Styles led him to seeing the 2002 TPI and falling in love with IWA Mid South. Hear how Tom struggled as a young teen to find someone to take him IWA shows and finally getting to go to Lafayette and Highland shows. Hear about the night a fan refused to leave the Lafayette Armory and wanted to fight Eddie Kingston for defiling the fan’s Cubs hat and who prevented a murder. Hear about the magic that was Samoa Joe vs. Chris Hero and how that crowd reaction cannot be duplicated. Then hear about all the great streaming ventures that Tom has going: Deep Cuts, This is why ________ rules in 60 seconds, Off the Grid. All that and more on this episode!

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Episode 39 of Fannin’s Flashbacks s episode, Jim is joined live by the former 6x IWA Mid South Light Heavyweight Champion – Hy-Zaya! Listen to Hy-Zaya talk about his grandma having a crush on Tojo Yamamoto and how that got him started down the path of becoming a wrestling fan. Hear how JB Thunder introduced Hy-Zaya to IWA and how a bond grew through backyard wrestling and the Lock Family that still exists to this day 30 years later. What was Hy-Zaya’s perspective of the backstage fight with Atomic Dog and how did that immediately lead to him asking American Kickboxer to train him? Follow along on the journey as Hy-Zaya and Jim talk Kmart building, Charlestown, racism, the flaming tables incident, Mark Wolf, Chuck E Smooth, “Uncle H” Don Broady, all the way to Destination 1 Wrestling and his IWA comeback in 2013 – 2016. All that and more on this episode!

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Episode 38 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by 2 of his long time friends that go back to the beginning of the Highland days of IWA Mid South in 2003: Sox and Ray. Sox had been begging for this episode since Jim started the podcast and then just completely screws the pooch when the recording begins. This episode is a trainwreck. None of which is Ray’s fault. Poor Prophet of Ash had to do way too much editing for the pennies he gets paid to do this so please suffer through this like Ash, Maniwa, Ray, and I had to do to make it worthwhile for all of us. You’ll probably like it once I go ballistic and just start yelling at Sox for how disengaged he is because he’s trying to follow a White Sox game on his phone instead of paying attention to the podcast he begged to be on. It took 38 weeks, the inverse of the 83 weeks that Nitro had in the lead in the Monday Night War, but we finally have our 2000 Nitro episode.

Remember, this is all Sox’s fault. Ray is innocent. Ash is innocent. Maniwa is innocent. I am innocent. I hope this episode doesn’t kill the town. So let it be written. So let it be done. Good day.

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