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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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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 40 – Audio Only – Thomas Green (NotThatTomGreen)

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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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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 39 – Audio Only – Hy-Zaya

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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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Fannin’s Flashbacks – Episode 38 – Audio Only – Ray Howe & SOX

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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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Episode 37 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined once again by Tripping Balls as it is AMA Part Deux, Electric Boogaloo! Have you ever wondered about Ian Rotten getting bitten by TWO brown recluse spiders and somehow not becoming Spiderman? What is Jim’s dream TPI? Who did Jim want to see on an IWA show that just didn’t happen? Why did Jim throw a chair and hit poor referee Andy Long in the head? Has anyone pissed off Jim yet in the locker room since his return? Has anyone not in The Fannin Family impressed Jim so far on the shows he’s done on his comeback tour? All that and more on this much shorter AMA than last time!

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Episode 36 of #FanninsFlashbacks drops in the morning with Suicide Kid as my guest. It will be available on IWTV, my YT channel, and on all your fave podcatcher apps by searching BNMVS Podcast Network. The IWTV version will be enhanced with b roll from Smart Mark Video / IWTV footage of the matches and shows we talk about on the episode.
Suicide Kid had horrible timing for his career. He came right after the athletic commission started feuding with Ian and the crowds at the KMart building plummeted as a result. He was before the SMV era so all of his fantastic matches with Chip Fairway and others are mostly lost to time and then shortly into the SMV era, he blew out his shoulder and left the business.

But from 1998 – 2000, Suicide Kid was so popular that it led to Ian Rotten’s only heel run in IWA. He was the “franchise” before Chris Hero and Kid vs Chip was Hero vs Punk before Hero vs Punk.
Watch us talk about all that and more with the footage that does exist added on IWTV.
I hope you all love this episode as much as I did

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Episode 35 of Fannin’s Flashbacks is live! On this episode, Jim is joined by the man behind the series of charity shows known as PAWCADE, Chad French! Listen as Chad talks about going to a couple of IWA shows at the KMart building and then becoming a regular at the warehouse in Clarksville. Chad worked with Bull Pain, Mark Wolf and Jim at Home Depot. What was Home Depot Mike like back then? How bad was Bull at driving a fork lift? How did a chance encounter at a gas station in southern Indiana get him back to shows after more than a decade break? What led to Chad doing an IWA tryout show? How did Pawcade come about? And how did he pull off getting The Rejects vs Sean Ross Sapp and Not Dr. Death? All that and more on this episode of Fannin’s Flashbacks!

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