FREE PATREON FLASHBACK: The Genesis of the Global Wrestling Federation

Being that our Patreon specials play out differently from how our regular shows go, we've started to start giving everyone a free taste of the full shows from time to time so you can get an idea of what they're like before becoming a patron. There's nothing better to get us started than the show from two years ago, which is one of our best: March 2018's Between The Sheets Patreon Special #18: The Genesis of the Global Wrestling Federation. It's as deep a dive as we've ever done, and you'll quickly notice one of the key benefits to these deep dive shows: It quickly becomes very obvious that something isn't right with the GWF's financing...so why didn't anyone notice this back then?

For more shows like this, including the other two parts of our GWF series, go to Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and support us at the $5/month level or higher.

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You've asked for it for years. We've promised that we would eventually do it almost as long. And finally? IT'S HERE! Yes, Kris and David go back in time to 1990, when a mysterious Nigerian man named Mr. Olu Oliami visits Joe Pedicino's office and offers him $25 million to run a new national wrestling promotion. From there, just about everything falls apart. Where, exactly, is Mr. Oliami's funding coming from? Where is the trust that Joe thinks it's coming from headquartered and why does it keep changing? Just how suspicious was this before the internet made knowledge of Nigerian 419 scams widespread? Who was in on what? How were the wrestling newsletters complicit? Was Mr. Oliami real and is he still alive? What the hell does Jim Cornette have to do with all of this? What was Jerry Jarrett ever planning to sell to Joe and Olu's Kongi Sports and Entertainment?

All that and a whole lot more in the best Patreon special yet. We hope you have as much fun listening to this as we had recording it.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Part 1: Initial hype (September-October 1990)

0:32:01 Part 2: Kongi buys the USWA? (November to December 1990)

1:25:45 Part 3: "USWA purchase” falls apart (January 1991)

2:07:32 Part 4: Actually the GWF is happening now (June-July 1991)

3:27:58 Part 5: Joe Pedicino: Fool or liar? (August-September 1992)

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