Warning: This video may cause dizziness, nausea, and possible vomiting. I’m sorry for the shaking around! I’m terrible at recording! Thanks so much for spending your time watching these vids. It’s very much appreciated.

This is one of the most beautiful things that I've ever seen! Your collection is absolutely incredible, Sir.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. I’m sorry. I suck at filming. It’s hard to hold, talk and show with one hand. I’m prolly driving everyone nuts with the cam all over the place.

Bill, your collection never ceases to amaze me. One thing that stands out to me and I respect about you is the fact you are humble about your vast collection. And, your respect and love for the sport of professional wrestling comes across in each and every video.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks brother!! Much appreciated! It’s great to meet ppl like you on here to relive some of these great times!!

The pro wrestling history in that room is mind boggling. The Library of Congress for pro wrestling historians and fans.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Appreciate you always watching the vids!

@donwilcox728

Жыл бұрын

@@prowrestlingmags Just promise us that these will never ever fall into the hands of any McMahon or future WWE wrestling museum. They always have and always will distort history and the truth for their own gain. In fact you and your collection are a major threat to these.history destroyers. Whatever you do don't let them know your full name or where you live!!!!!!

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Haha that’s a promise.. They will NEVER!! Ever get anywhere close to it. My kids will set it on fire before they touch it.

@jrolague5463

Жыл бұрын

Nice collection Bill...who has the biggest collection Jim cornette or you...he probably has the oldest collection from Tennessee wrestling and the rest of the south...I think yours is a bigger collection from u.s.a. ,Mexico and Japan

@donwilcox728

Жыл бұрын

@@prowrestlingmags What a shame. But a warning to everyone who has a passion for something like we did for pro wrestling in the 70s and 80s. It can be taken away in the blink of an eye. In the case of pro wrestling's destruction all it took was one person with financial means, with a crooked vision, and the ability to bribe and buy tv executives for their airtime. One person's money talked and the rest of us millions balked but eventually we all took a walk. Now 38 years later the McMahon's have their billions, hundreds of wrestlers have died young since 1984 and pro wrestling no longer exists. One greedy person with no morals and lots of money is all it took.

Japanese wrestling fan goals!

Superstar has been my favorite wrestler for 40yrs. Nice to see all the superstar love

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! You may be interested in this one if your a fan of Superstar. I made an entire vid for him. From his very first mag until his retirement, many rare items with superstar in this vid. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aYampNSFlJbVeLw.html

That is wrestling fan heaven

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Much appreciated

AMAZING COLLECTION!

@prowrestlingmags

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Awesome collection

@prowrestlingmags

2 күн бұрын

Thanks very much.

I just watched this video again, and your collection is just insane in a good way. I know I have told you Bill I collect comics, mostly from the Bronze Age (1970 - 1983-85). I tell my wife that comics are my mistress...lol. My guess is your wrestling magazine collection is your mistress.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Ahh yea!! Lol

That room looks like a store, i love it.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. That’s what I was trying to do. A video store type layout. A magazine news stand has mags displayed about head high. A video store would display floor to ceiling. So that’s what I wanted, floor to ceiling of magazines. It’s impossible to display it all, I just have to much stuff (an still growing)

I had a collection of @ 1500 from the mid 70s until about 1990. Recently lost them when my house burned. I love your collection.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Omg I’m really sorry to hear that man! That’s F’N awful!

Another great video, Bill! I always look forward when you do a complete look and coverage of the magazines you own like this video here. I know you have a ton of stuff and it can be overwhelming to decide what to show but trust us fans who watch it, we don't care what you show. We love just watching it. You are - at least to me - my go to guy for wrestling magazines for knowledge and just entertainment. You know your stuff, and that is pretty awesome. I look up to you in this as a mentor just because as I told you before, I am in the middle of trying to complete everything from 1980 - 2000 for my collection. So any info I can get from you helps greatly! Keep up the great work, good buddy!

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Damn Bill, thanks so much for all you said!! You have no idea how much I appreciate that! I’m just as thankful for you to spend your time watching these. There’s probably thousands of more “professional” videos that you could watch over mine, so thank you. I’m very happy to help you guys in any way I can.

Absolutely incredible!!

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!!

The matches Tiger Mask had with the Dynamite Kid where awesome !

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

Excellent amazing collection. Didn’t Koloff defended the championship against Strongbow . Never heard of FME thanks

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Yup Koloff defends against Jay in PA the program to that event is in there. You mean FMW? Extreme wrestling from Japan. I just made a 70s hardcore to 90s extreme video a few days ago. It shows the start of FMW and how it influenced ECW.

Dang dude that’s a cool collection

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Ya see! That’s what I call it to. My wife calls it a disease, an obsession, a problem lol. Thanx man!

just discovered your channel and i have to say by golly it's amazing! what a collection, i'm a fan of old school wrestling (i'm from england) and i have a very small collection of wrestling mags but some of them are pretty special, i have some old US mags mainly from the 60s and 70s(the ring, wrestling revue, wrestling illustrated) and i have precisely 3 issues of gong from the 70s and 80s, i'm particularly keen on girls wrestling(strictly old school so terri shane, vicki williams, moolah, mildred, mitzi mueller) so most of my mags have a decent female content, buying old mags from the states is prohibitively expensive because of the postal charges(mags themselves aren't cheap either) but every now and then i will buy something, what a great era the golden age was and what a great video this was! the recording was fine and the collection is truly stunning, thank you

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, World of Sport was your wrestling in England if I’m correct? I loved that program. Kendo Nagasaki had some fantastic matches. In the US the best magazine for Ladies wrestling was The Ring Wrestling. They had the best coverage of ladies wrestling in every issue. Thank you for watching and your kind comments!

@simonprodhan5050

Жыл бұрын

@@prowrestlingmags yes world of sport was a general sports programme which broadcast british wrestling through the 50s to the 80s when it was taken off air, the wrestling actually continued for a while after the main show ended, they took it off as it was deemed too downmarket a common moan about grappling which i'm sure you'll agree is utter nonsense, one only has to see how popular wrestling is among the general population, yes, i agree re ring wrestling, the girls coverage was brilliant, i used to have some old UK wrestling mags, we had a title called the wrestler as well in the 60s and 70s, a magazine i'd love to locate is the short lived UK publication women wrestling from the mid to late 70's, i seem to recall a superb cover featuring the legendary vicki williams tussling with a japanese girl! best wishes, i look forward to viewing more of your videos

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Yes that is nonsense. I had a few friends from the UK telling be about the censorship there in the 80s, especially when it came to video store rentals. I believe he said they were called the “video nasties”? certain movies were banned and we’re not allowed to be rented for blood or violence. I’m familiar with the British publication of The Wrestler though I don’t own any. But I do have one copy of the Women’s Wrestling magazine that you’re speaking of. I have issue number, it’s buried somewhere in my collection. If I remember correctly, it also covers amateur wrestling for women as well as women’s boxing. I heard it was pretty rare when I grabbed it along time ago.

The condition of those early 50s mags are incredible.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they were tough to get especially in good shape. They didn’t age well. The paper didn’t hope up as well as the paper used in the 70s. I have a video on the ch for all the 1950s issues complete from 51-55 if you haven’t already seen it. Thanks for watching man.

Once again, this collection is so amazing. I loved the history you told about the magazines. I don't think I have ever seen a pic of Dick Hutton before. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thank I appreciate that!! Yea Hutton is a very dismissed champion and it’s a shame. He wrestled at a time when the magazines and tv were new thing. He appeared in several magazines but only on one cover. He was a tough Amarillo Texan. From what other wrestlers and articles say about him, he could fight! Was a 3 time national wrestling champion, wrestled for the 1948 Olympic team.

Thank You for sharing your collection with the world. I was born in 1979, so I was introduced to wrestling Like a lot of other Kids my age. Hogan, Savage, Sting, Luger, Road Warriors, like that stuff. I got bit by the bug, and only didnt watch from ages 17- 22, because I really wanted to get laid, and to be an Attitude Era fan, which I thought wwf and wcw nwo stuff was Trashy and Scummy. It for younger peoplethan me at that point. Now, Attitude Era is all people talk about on the Internet, because, millenials are making the videos for the most part. I was trying to party like it was 1999, so I had no time to evplain to a Girfriend why Theres a big fat guy Named Prince Albert, and watching people do the worm, or Old Bikers be Trashbags(what's new, my dad was a biker). But I got back into it in 2002, when I realized, when all the Women are gone, My Dreams of Being a Professional Wrestler will always be With Me. Anyway, Thankz!

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. This ch isn’t for fans of the hulkamania 84 and up Wwf. We are the pissed off fans that had the wrestling we loved turned into a cartoon. That being said all are welcome of course but I don’t show anything of that time period. 60s 70s and early 80s magazines and programs are the only focus on my videos. It’s not a place to come discuss who sucks and what was better, it’s strictly geared around the magazines and what matches were happening at that time period. For some reason the last 5-6 vids have brought in a ton of new views. This ch originally started out as helping collectors complete their wrestling magazine collections by showing magazines from every publication up til 1989! Since then it’s kind of turned into a little bit more, and we have grown. I am not here to gain popularity. I don’t care if somebody clicks “like” I don’t care if somebody “subscribe‘“ I’m not a video guy by any means. All I wanna do now is expose collectors to the different magazine issues, and bring some nostalgia back to some of us all timers who really loved the “sport” of professional wrestling and not the sports entertainment stuff from today. Thanks for your comment and thanks for watching.

This is insaneeeeeeee

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

i am a star wars ffan myself and i love Atari

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Ha yea I got all that stuff to. A few things I just never could get rid off. Well, I gotta credit my mom for that tho. She was the pack rat that couldn’t throw things away. Had she not saved that stuff I wouldn’t have had it. But the wrestling mags were the one true thing in my life that I never stopped collecting, never sold any etc. it’s all my original stuff from when I was a kid! I’m glad I have a house big enough to hold all this stuff!

I have mentioned this in some of your previous videos. One of my favorite sections of the Weston Mags was the back issue section. Like you I would spend countless hours looking at those small pics and figuring out which magazines I wanted to get. The more back issues you bought, the more you saved. Wasn't it 10 issues for $10? Also, Ernie Ladd was GOLD on the mic. One of my favorite Ladd quotes is "I would rather go to my mommas funeral than my own funeral."

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I’d stare at the b/w pics of my mag and try to identify the wrestlers in those little tiny pictures. I was usually 7 out of 10 for picking right lol. Bruno Andre superstar Ernie Ladd were all easy to pick out. It was great when I’d actually find the mag or get it in the mail and see it in full color for the first time. You really can’t explain that feeling it’s something you needed to experience and I’m sure you did! I loved Ladd, his outfits the cocky walk n talk. Just great stuff. Today they sound so fucken stupid. Especially the girls. Listening to them is like watching a bad high school play with horrible actors. It’s really embarrassing. And idk what’s going on with these fans in the crowd. They are all mid 30s - 40s douchebag guys that live at home and can’t get a girl. It was more entertaining looking at them then the actual match with all the stupid backflips and gymnastics. It’s a shame because I really want to like it but I just can’t. I can watch New Japan and PCW Ultra, so far the new XPW has had real good shows. Other then that it’s old vids for me.

@erikk.5202

Жыл бұрын

@@prowrestlingmags Getting those Mags in the mail after waiting for four to six weeks after you ordered them, man it felt like Christmas Day. One of the problems today is the writers behind the scenes. Let the guys talk. Let them develop their character, their persona. The guys deserve to be paid well but back in the day the guys had to talk people into the building for a good pay day. There was no guaranteed money. There was no company plane or bus to go from town to town. You traveled by car, often with others, which helped you learn the tools of the trade. You paid for your hotel. That is one reason guys liked the Florida territory. Home every night and with Dusty headlining almost every card, especially in his prime, there was money to be made. But, they all busted their butts and worked hard.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Do you know the worst feeling in the world was back then? Sending away for a magazine waiting six weeks to get it, only to find a letter on a pink slip with an apology saying the magazine is completely sold out please choose another. Idk if that ever happened to you or not but daaaaamn those were disappointing to get.

@erikk.5202

Жыл бұрын

@@prowrestlingmags I don't remember if they ever happened to me back then but, I can see how that could bother us. We had no clue that down the road there would be an internet or even conventions where we could find our childhood treasures. Back then, you took what you could get, in any condition because you were not sure you would ever see another issue in the wild again.

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Amen to that! I would look at those back issues and wish I had them. As time went on one by one an issue would be sold out gone forever. I realized I’ve never be able to get the all. But the internet brought the whole world it my finger tips. I actually never bought any more back issues once they changed from the pic of the mag to the “Description” of the mag with month and year. That was awful!! I hated that. Looking at the back issue section was always my first stop.

Wait, wait, go back to the Star Wars stuff!

Can you post the wrestling eye article that gives all the insider kayfabe terms?

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Where did you hear me say I have a wrestling eye issue with an article that gives “All the insider kayfabe terms”? I don’t remember what video I made a statement about wrestling eye but i never said that! I said Wrestling eye would come very close to the edge with some articles and even break kayfabe at certain times with their stories. Such as using the term booker, angle, gimmick, exposing a wrestlers character, using the wrestler’s real names etc. It wasn’t like Power Slam or WOW that fully broke kayfabe. But Wrestling Eye and New Wave Wrestling Magazine at times had a mix of shoot and kayfabe stories. I can’t speak for all the issues because it’s the one publication I never chose to complete.

How many magazines do you have?

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Omg I have no clue, to many for me to ever wanna count.

Has Jim cornet seen your collection?

@prowrestlingmags

9 ай бұрын

Idk anything about Jim. I do know several photographers for the Magazines back in the day have seen my collection and watch the ch such as Bill Apter, John Arezzi, Gary Mancuso and Jimmy Suzuki

If I die and get cremated and request my ashes be kept in this room would you mind?

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Yes!! Definitely! I’ll display you proudly up on the shelf with a cut out of your letter you wrote into the Weston mag back in the 80s! Sound good?

@donwilcox728

Жыл бұрын

@@prowrestlingmags In all seriousness you might be on to something here. I'm not married and have no children where else would I want to be? I'm in no rush but don't be surprised if down the road you all of a sudden get a reply from a crematorium through one of these old videos that I'm ready to be picked up!!!!!!

@prowrestlingmags

Жыл бұрын

Haha that’s funny!! I can make that happen!