Category Archives: Podcast

Episode 29: Unsolved Murders & Disappearances

Episode 29 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry is here and in this episode, we truly will Break Kayfabe on Life….and death! Because we are going outside the box to take a look at our top 5 unsolved murders and disappearances! Its a SPECIAL EDITION!!

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Episode 28: Greatest Tag Teams

Episode 28 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry has landed with the force of a Bobby Eaton legdrop off the top rope!! And its time for a SPECIAL edition of the show……no not THAT one, in this one Barry and Jeff discuss their choices for the greatest tag teams of all time! Did your own personal choice get mentioned? Check it out and see!!

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Episode 27: Scott McGhee & 1980’s Matches

Episode 27 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry has arrived! Its a special “wrestling only” episode as we examine two more matches that “should’ve been” on Jeff’s top 100 of the 80’s, and….. Jeff & Barry have a conversation with two time Florida heavyweight title holder Scott McGhee!! He discusses all sorts of things, like training with Karl Gotch, teaming in Japan with Andre the Giant, and where the Dynamite Kid would take someone recovering from a long hospital stay!

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Episode 26: 1980’s Matches & Best/Worst Restaurants

Episode 26 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry is here! On this episode, we discuss two more matches that people have said should’ve been in Jeff’s top 100 of the 80’s, including one match that Jeff says belonged in the top 30!! All that plus we discuss our choices for the top 5 best and worst sit down chain restaurants!

Matches discussed:
– Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee 12/31/85
– Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch vs Jack & Jerry Brisco 12/28/84

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Episode 25: 1980’s Matches & Nude Scenes

Episode 25 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry has arrived! And on this episode, we are going to check 3 matches that listeners suggested that SHOULD have been in my top 100 of the 80’s! All that plus we discuss the anniversary of the deaths of some legends, and finally…..we take a look at our top five favorite nude scenes in mainstream movies! That’s right, who did the best job of getting naked???

Matches discussed:
– Buddy Rose vs Dynamite Kid from 9/4/83
– Jerry Lawler vs Dutch Mantel from 3/29/82
– Jack Brisco vs Roddy Piper from 7/7/82

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Episode 24: John McAdam, 80’s Matches & Creepy Movies

Episode 24 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry has arrived! On this episode, we are going to be taking a look at two more matches that did NOT make Jeff’s top 100 of the 80’s. Joining us to discuss one of those matches is John McAdam, who makes his 2nd appearance on the podcast! Plus, we will look at a couple of forgotten angles, Jeff discuss the demise of Toys R Us and his top 5 memories of working there….and, we will each offer our top 5 CREEPY movies….non-horror. Ya know, movies that had scenes that just skeeved you out!

Matches discussed:
– Bob Backlund vs Adrian Adonis (1/18/82 in MSG)
– Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton (April or May of 1986)

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Episode 23: 1980’s Matches & Favorite Fast Food Restaurants

Episode 23 of Breaking Kayfabe hasn’t landed–it escaped! And on this episode, we are taking a look at some matches that did NOT make Jeff’s Top 100 Matches Of The 1980’s list! That’s right, someone thinks Jeff was wrong!  And besides that, we will reveal what possibly will be our most controversial top 5 list EVER! We are revealing our choices for the best AND worst fast food restaurants!!

Matches discussed include:
– Jerry Lawler & Sweet Brown Sugar vs Bobby Eaton & Sabu from 1/17/83 in Memphis
– The Moondogs vs Jackie Fargo & Stan Lane from 5/9/83 in Memphis
– Bob Backlund vs Ken Patera from 5/19/80 in MSG

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Episode 22: 1980’s Matches & Underrated Promo Guys

Episode 22 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry is here! And on this episode, we take a look at two of Jeff’s top 100 of the 80’s, plus we discuss a classic older film featuring one of Barry’s longtime secret crushes, and…we each cut a promo on our top 5 most UNDERRATED promo guys in wrestling! No Jim Cornette’s, or Bobby Heenan, or the Rock…..we are talking UNDERRATED here!!

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Episode 21: Bob Roop

Episode 21 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry is here! And on this special edition, Jeff & Barry sit and talk with…..Bob Roop! Thats right “the All American Backjumper”, as Gordon Solie used to call him, joins us to discuss the anniversary of the death of Bobby Shane and the events of that evening, the incident at the Sportatorium where Bob stretched a young “wrestler” and hold on to your hats as Bob discusses going to Iraq and wrestling in front of Sadaam Hussein–with weapons pointed AT HIM!

Bob Roop photo courtesy of Pete Lederberg (plmathfoto@hotmail.com)

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Episode 20: 1980’s Matches & Top 5 Soundtracks

Episode 20 of Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren & Barry is here! And on this show, we are going to look back at three more of Jeff’s top 100 of the 80’s–including TWO that were in the top 20!! All that plus a look at our top 5 movie soundtracks! Which movie soundtracks were so good that we went out and bought them???

Matches discussed include:
1) Jumbo Tsurata vs Genichiro Tenryu from 10/28/88
2) Tiger Mask II (Misawa) vs Kuniaki Kobayashi from 6/21/85 #16
3) Barry Windham vs Ric Flair from Fayetteville, NC #15

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