{"id":1604,"date":"2026-04-30T17:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:43:35","slug":"classic-ppv-compilation-just-re-discovered-wrestling-legends-the-early-years-takes-you-to-florida-memphis-pw-library-update-apr-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/latest-updates\/classic-ppv-compilation-just-re-discovered-wrestling-legends-the-early-years-takes-you-to-florida-memphis-pw-library-update-apr-30-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic PPV Compilation Just Re-Discovered: &#8220;Wrestling Legends: The Early Years&#8221; Takes You To Florida &#038; Memphis &#8211; PW Library Update Apr 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cSCBjI65k6Q?si=IlRUxImyKlvfR32K\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After many years unavailable on any official outlets, our search for rare content has re-discovered a 2001 PPV hosted by the one and only &#8220;Mean&#8221; Gene Okerlund!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wrestling Legends: The Early Years&#8221; spotlights some of the top matches of stars before they hit the national circuit.<\/p>\n<p>See Dusty Rhodes battle Harley Race in an iconic NWA Title Match, cut a classic promo in Japan, and even sing with Willie Nelson!<\/p>\n<p>Memphis shows a glimpse of the future with Rick Rude vs. Dutch Mantell, Jerry Lawler vs. Kamala, and Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Austin Idol!<\/p>\n<p>Plus: Mike Rotundo vs. Ron Bass and we go back the 1950s as Gorgeous George wrestles Frankie Talaber with legendary boxer Jack Dempsey as referee!<\/p>\n<p>See it all for one low price in this special PPV compilation, available now!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wrestling Legends: The Early Years\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1187855444?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years unavailable on any official outlets, our search for rare content has re-discovered a 2001 PPV hosted by the one and only &#8220;Mean&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joe-dombrowski.com\/prowrestlinglibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}