
393 episodes

Greetings From Allentown Peter Winson
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4.5 • 142 Ratings
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Greetings From Allentown is one man blending humor and pop culture in discussing one episode of classic professional wrestling from the past from the WWF, WCW, ECW, and much more!
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GFA Live #148: WWF Superstars 01-14-1989
On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about WWF Superstars from January 14, 1989! (and some other stuff, of course!)
Topics of discussion include:
* The rarity of heel vs heel matched
* GFA Andre sings a tune
* A big reason why Randy Savage wasn't so eager on saving Hulk Hogan
* The Case To Be Made for Brutus Beefcake winning the 1989 Royal Rumble
* Attendance at wrestler funerals
* Will Brother Love call Honky Tonk Man "Brother Honky"?
* The changing of hosts on NBC's "Meet The Press"
* The Bushwhackers start to annoy a little bit
* A random commercial for a tape with AWA and NWA wrestlers
Lineup:
- The Rockers vs. Rusty Riddle & Trent Knight
- Whatever Happened There Update; Hulk Hogan vs Akeem from Saturday Night's Main Event
- King Haku vs. Jose Luis Rivera
- Event Center Promos: Powers of Pain (War and Barb) w/ Mr. Fuji, Rick Martel, Bad News Brown, Rockin' Robin
- From SNME: Tito Santana vs Red Rooster
- Event Center Promos: Andre the Giant with Bobby Heenan, Hulk Hogan with Elizabeth
- Ultimate Warrior vs. Jose Estrada
- Brother Love Show: Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine with Jimmy Hart
- Royal Rumble Report
- Vignette: Bushwhackers bother some poor son of a bitch in Stamford, CT
- Dino Bravo vs. Omar Atlas -
GFA Live #147: WWF Superstars 01-07-1989
On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about WWF Superstars from January 7, 1989! (and some other stuff, of course!)
Topics of discussion include:
* Jesse and Vince openly book the next few months of the WWF
* More examinations of the capitalization of names for the Rumble
* Bret Hart takes a guitar shot from Honky
* The noises of a Big John Studd workout
* More lies from a Ronnie Garvin promo
* The Brain Busters meet some old friends
* Randy Savage finally comes after Bad News Brown
* Rusty Brooks is back, and he's back big!
* The source of the King Haku drops
Lineup:
- Demolition vs. Iron Mike Sharpe & Rusty Brooks
- Update: Big John Studd is back, I guess
- Ted DiBiase vs. Scott Casey
- Event Center Promos: Bushwhackers, Ronnie Garvin, King Haku w/Bobby Heenan
- Jake Roberts vs. Pete Sanchez
- Big Bossman vs. Bill Mulkey
- Event Center Promos: Mr. Perfect, Randy Savage
- Brain Busters vs. George South & Tim Horner
- Brother Love Show: Brutus Beefcake
- Royal Rumble report
- Hart Foundation vs. Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine
- Event Center Promos: Koko B. Ware, Tito Santana, Dino Bravo and the Rougeau Brothers -
GFA Live #146: WWF Superstars 12-24-1988
On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about WWF Superstars from December 24, 1988! (and some other stuff, of course!)
Topics of discussion include:
* Rick Rude fan club of Daytona Beach
* The pointlessness of Big John Studd's return
* Calling BS on Ronnie Garvin's introductory inset promo
* A Pez Whatley lookalike
* Randy Savage finally comes after Bad News Brown
* A rant about how Howard Cosell was perceived by the public versus that of Ahmad Rashad
* King Haku has some familiar words
* A new game based on Hulk Hogan's verbal tics
Lineup:
- Akeem vs. Juan Valdez
- Brother Love Show: Big John Studd and Bobby Heenan
- Powers Of Pain vs. Joe Cruz & Lanny Poffo
- Jim Duggan vs. Tony Suber
- Event Center Promos: Ted DiBiase, Brutus Beefcake, King Haku w/Bobby Heenan
- Rick Rude vs. George Terrell
- Event Center Promos: Andre the Giant w/Bobby Heenan, Hulk Hogan
- Bad News Brown vs. Bob Emory
- Ronnie Garvin vs. Barry Horowitz
- Royal Rumble Report
- Ron Bass vs. Martin Roy
- Event Center Promos: Tito Santana, Big Bossman w/Slick, Ultimate Warrior -
GFA Live #145: WWF Superstars 12-17-1988
On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about WWF Superstars from December 17, 1988! (and some other stuff, of course!)
Topics of discussion include:
* Listening in on Keithie visiting his mother
* Andre the Giant and Bobby Heenan work an Abbott and Costello bit
* Finding the perfect backing track to a Jake Roberts promo
* Hashing out the name of Honky Tonk Man's team with Greg Valentine from this era
* Who talks more in a Young Stallions promo?
* Keithie gets angry about the Ultimate Warrior
* Peter has a message for Maple Leafs fans
Lineup:
- Demolition vs. Art Penna & Nick Ferrari
- Brother Love Show: Andre the Giant and Bobby Heenan
- Hercules vs. Steve Lombardi
- Mr. Perfect vs. Nito Gomez
- Event Center Promos: Ron Bass, Rick Rude
- King Haku vs. Frankie Valdez
- Event Center Promos: Young Stallions, Dino Bravo
- Big Bossman vs. Pete Ketchum
- Ultimate Warrior vs. Conquistador Uno
- Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine vs. Paul Brown & Rex Farmer
- Event Center Promos: Bad News Brown, Jake Roberts -
GFA Live #144: WWF Superstars 12-10-1988
On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about WWF Superstars from December 10, 1988! (and some other stuff, of course!)
Topics of discussion include:
* Thoughts on a recent Jake the Snake one man show
* Keithie messes with John Cena's father again
* Peter's unedited thoughts on the demise of the 2022-23 Boston Bruins
* Virgil and Lanny Poffo in the same place at the same time
* Teasing the Brain Busters vs The Rockers
* Bobby Heenan just doesn't want to get sued
* Hulk Hogan gets to beat up Brother Love from SNME
Lineup:
- Jake Roberts vs. The Black Knight
- Hulk Hogan on the Brother Love show from the 11/26/1988 SNME
- Bad News Brown vs. Frankie Valdez
- Red Rooster vs. Scott Casey
- Event Center Promos: Andre the Giant w/Bobby Heenan, Koko B. Ware
- Bushwhackers vignette
- Brain Busters vs. The Rockers
- Recap: Rockin' Robin wins the WWF Women's title
- Rockin' Robin promo
- Ted DiBiase vs. Lanny Poffo
- Event Center Promos: Brutus Beefcake, Honky Tonk Man w/Jimmy Hart
- Fabulous Rougeaus vs. Sam Houston & Stephan de Leon
- Event Center Promos: Akeem w/Slick, The Hart Foundation -
GFA Live #143: Clash of the Champions 4: Season's Beatings
On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about Clash of the Champions 4: Season's Beatings from December 7, 1988! (and some other stuff, of course!)
Topics of discussion include:
- Dusty Rhodes and the screwed up match times on this show with an explanation
- "Exclusive audio" of Big Dust meeting the Turner execs
- Jason Hervey: official gadly of the Clash of the Champions
- Appreciating Bobby Eaton
- Rick Steiner says something inappropriate: what a shocker
- The UTC Arena in wrestling history
- Lex Luger the color commentator being forced to talk about the Russian Assassins and Paul Jones
- Cal Ripken theivery???
Customer Reviews
Best of the best
I listen to all the wrestling podcasts and this one is my favorite ! It is funny and really brings wrestling fans down memory lane to their childhood ! Great chemistry between the hosts ! Awesome !
Good 👍🏼
You guys are very funny reflecting back in the good old days of WWF!
Awesome Podcast
I love the way Peter & Keithie dive into the minutiae of classic WWF programming, interspersed with the drops & references you’ll grow to love. It’s a great wrestling podcast but it’s just an entertaining podcast, period. One second, they’re talking about Gorilla Monsoon. The next, they’re talking about random movie dialogue or some oblique hockey or baseball reference from decades ago. It’s truly an ADD sufferer’s delight - and I mean that as a complement. And when I think about great broadcasting duos, with apologies to Ventura & Monsoon, they’re the closest thing to me to Jerry Remy & Don Orsillo in their prime.
We got down. We got up. We got funky. And we got bad.
Keep up the good work, fellas.