DragonKingKarl: A dive into the February 24, 1986 Wrestling Observer Newsletter
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On today’s DragonKingKarl Show, Karl Stern goes through the pages of the February 24, 1986, Wrestling Observer Newsletter which gave an update on the death of Gino Hernandez and the first revelation that it involved drugs.
There are a lot of notes about the then-upcoming WWF WrestleMania 2 including a story about William “The Refrigerator” Perry looking at backing out. (Dave Meltzer did not seem to like Mr. T one single bit.)
That and tons more as we build toward the March 2026 release of my new book, DragonKingKarl’s 1986-1987 Pro Wrestling Omnibus, a 600-plus page monster book with the most important thing that happened in pro wrestling every day of those two years.
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Karl Stern is a pro wrestling historian specializing in the 1980s and pioneer era (pre-1900) of pro wrestling. He is an author who has written several books on wrestling and independently runs the When It Was Cool retro pop culture website.