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Oct 2022
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#418 w/ Pat McNeill and Shane Shadows: R...

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The night of wrestling legends continues! What happens when Dory Funk Jr. takes on Nick Bockwinkel…in 1993? Kensuke Sasaki has come from Japan to team with Dustin Rhodes, but will they be enough to beat the deadly duo of Rick Rude and Paul Orndorff? And with Scott Norton absent, who’s showing up to collect the bounty on Sting? Learn the answers to these and many more questions, as hosts Pat McNeill and Shane Shadows take you back to those thrilling days of yesteryear with the second hour of WCW Slamboree 1993. It’s “Wayback Playback” time on Creative Control Network! (74:16)

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