PW TORCH -McNEILL FACTOR: See You In St. Louis – The Biggest St. Louis Cards of the past 80 Years
Posted by flairwhoooooo on May 7, 2013
By Pat McNeill, PWTorch columnist
On May 19, WWE will return to pay-per-view with its annual “Extreme Rules” show in St. Louis, Missouri. John Cena is defending the WWE Title against Ryback, there’s a ladder match, and the first steel cage match between former WWE champions Triple H and Brock Lesnar. As these things go, it’s a fairly big deal.
Some of you may not know this, but Saint Louis was once a hotbed of professional wrestling, and with good reasons. It was the home base of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) back when the Alliance dominated the professional wrestling industry. It was also the home base of promoter Sam Muchnick, who became the NWA President in 1950 and handled the bookings of the NWA World Champion for many years.
With all this in mind, we’ll take a quick look at ten of the biggest wrestling events in the history of Saint Louis, in chronological order:
Missouri Wrestling Revival 
Jim Evans said
I lived in Pennsylvania as a child and i use to listen to Pro Wrestling on the radio from station KMOX in St. Louis. It was broadcast from the Kiel Auditorium.