Center Stage Chronicles Ep. #27: July 1991

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles as we discuss the month of July 1991 in World Championship Wrestling and pop culture in general. Topics of discussion include:

• The entire show is bookended by Ric Flair being fired at the beginning of the month and then WCW basically offering him the booking position at the end of the month.
• Ric Flair refusing to drop the title not just to Lex Luger but Barry Windham as well, as they were trying to get Flair to do business before he left.
• Flair's departure totally screwing up the production going into the Great American Bash PPV.
• The way Flair's departure was treated on TV as a complete shoot which was so foreign to how wrestling was presented on TV in that era.
• The total confusion of what Barry Windham was supposed to be.
• Axl Rose starting a riot at a Guns ’n’ Roses concert in St. Louis.
• Fans at house shows being very upset over no-shows, especially Ric Flair.
• The awesomeness of The Geto Boys.
• The end of the Desperados after all that damn TV time.
• “Boyz n the Hood” and “Point Break” being released on the same weekend and the impact “Boyz” had on the west coast's rise in pop culture.
• A full rundown of the Great American Bash PPV, including why it wasn't as bad as people want to think it was.
• The supposedly buried Brian Pillman being all over TV and in main events all the time while the supposedly overpushed Dustin Rhodes isn't in those spots.
• The first-ever Lollapalooza tour.
• Mike Tyson and Jeffrey Dahmer getting arrested on the SAME DAMN DAY.
• The end of WCW Pro Wrestling New York, as WCW they switches affiliates in NYC from WPIX to WCBS and Pro NY is replaced by Worldwide.
• MTV and who they pushed to the moon that didn't reach the expected level of success.

This is just a taste of what we talk about on the show as we have a complete and total blast here!!!

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