Outlaws to Independents

Apr 03 2025 14 ep. 186 mins 72
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A monthly podcast covering the wild and crazy world of outlaw/independent pro wrestling from the 1940s-90s. Hosted by Beau James and Jon Boucher.

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Episodes 14 - Crazy Nights and Dear Friends

Apr 03 2025 103 mins  
On this episode Beau is without Jon due to scheduling conflicts. Beau has some updates for you. You will hear about two special people in Beau's life Scotty McKeever and Buddy Landel. We go back into the patreon archives to bring you some great stories. Also talked about on this episode are The Hardy Boyz, D Lo Brown, Jimmy Snuka, Wahoo McDaniel, Chris Walker, Scott Sterling, Joe W

Episode 13 - Bert Prentice Part 1

Mar 20 2025 155 mins  
On this episode Beau and Jon take a deep dive into the first part of promoter/manager Bert Prentice's career (early life to 1990). How did Bert get involved in wrestling? Who was Shirley Dillon? Other than pro wrestling what was Bert promoting? Where did Bert promote in the 80s? What young wrestlers did Bert help? Who stole North Dakota from Bert? What did Tully Blanchard vs. Ricky

Episode 12 - Things I miss and beware of some wrestling schools

Mar 06 2025 294 mins  
PG-13 on this episode as Beau gets fired upOn this episode Jon and Beau talk about the upcoming season of Darkside of The Ring, the Southern States Wrestling 34th Anniversary Spectacular, MLB umpires, carnies in wrestling and our subject for the episode some of what Beau misses in wrestling. Which leads to a discussion on pro wrestling school. We also have a very funny Jimmie story

Episode 11 - Mailbag Questions

Feb 19 2025 252 mins  
On this episode Jon and Beau answer questions from you the listeners. Subjects include Memphis Wrestling, wrestling movies, travel, imposter masked men, booking, darkside of the ring, Northeast independents in the 1980s, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, Ron Wright, Portland Wrestling, dressing room fights, and more!Beau tells a Jimmie story about Jimmie not liking the other refs. Beau's p

Episode 10- This week in 1995

Feb 06 2025 224 mins  
On this episode Jon and Beau go back to this week (actually 9 days) in Feb 1995 the 3rd - 12th. To take a look at Tri-State Wrestling (IN), Tri-Star Wrestling (GA), ACW (AL), PWF (Carolinas), SSW (TN), Candian Rocky Mountain Wrestling (Calgary), Power Zone Wrestling (OK) and more!They also have news on upcoming projects. Beau tells a Jimmie story involving the Junkyard Dog. Oh yeah

Episode 9 - 1995 Guide to The Independents

Jan 16 2025 274 mins  
We start off 2025 by going back 30 years to 1995. Jon and I will take a look at the WrestleAmerica guide to the Independents as we talk about several promotions across North America. Plus, a Jimmie McKeehan story, some advice for young wrestlers and promoters. This is the longest episode we have done yet.Beau's patreon - https://www.patreon.com/kingofkingsportIf you would like to m

Episode 8 - Stories with Uncle Beau

Dec 24 2024 134 mins  
Merry Christmas to all of you outlaws. On this special Christmas Episode Jon and Beau talk about the holidays, how shocked they are by the feedback and following this podcast is getting, and more to open up. Beau tells stories of Jimmy McKeehan as Santa Claus. As special gift Beau shares several stories from his patreon podcast with everyone about the road, Bobby Eaton, Buddy Lande

Episode 7 - Jerry Blackwell's Southern Championship Wrestling from Georgia

Dec 18 2024 178 mins  
Outlaws to Independents Episode 7 - Southern Championship Wrestling from Georgia. On the edition Jon and Beau are joined by the original DWB Jimmy Powell. Jimmy was the booker of SCW for almost 2 years. How many TV stations did they have? Where did they run? How often were they running? How were they drawing? Were they making money? Did they have heat with Deep South Wrestling? Why

Episode 6 Flipped Liver and Juice

Nov 28 2024 212 mins  
Happy Thanksgiving! ON this episode Jon and Beau will give you a list of things they are thankful for about independent wrestling. Beau teaches Jon another wrestling term and how to use it. We review the 1990s Outlaw Wrestling documentary Southern Discomfort. This doc has a little bit of everything from the time in it the good, bad, and ugly. Plus Beau gets on some rants! All of th

Episode 5 - Get Back in The Aringus!

Nov 06 2024 172 mins  
We guarantee that you will laugh several times during this episode. We start off with a little baseball talk then we have some updates from our previous episode. On the last episode we told you about the heroes of Carter County. This episode is about the outlaws (PWA) that took over in 1990 and 91. That group included a ref that could not count past 7 nor did he know time zones, a