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Tweeting the world of pro wrestling as it happened 40 years ago with daily #OnThisDay updates. It's always 1984! Bitchin', huh? Mod: @calawaycreates

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kay·fabe /ˈkāˌfāb/ (in professional wrestling) the fact or convention of presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic (on #Wrestle40) the fact or convention that it's always 1984, bitches! 🤘 📖 merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/… @MerriamWebster 🎞️ amzn.to/3o4AjOH


Wrestle40 Reposted

🎙️ I'll be recording the next episode of the TV Time Machine this weekend! 📭 The topic of our next episode arrived in the mail today! Can you guess which year we'll be covering next? ❓ Is there a year of TV you'd like to see us talk about? Let me know in the comments!

calawaycreates's tweet image. 🎙️ I'll be recording the next episode of the TV Time Machine this weekend!

📭 The topic of our next episode arrived in the mail today! Can you guess which year we'll be covering next?

❓ Is there a year of TV you'd like to see us talk about? Let me know in the comments!

Wrestle40 Reposted

🚨 We're live, pal! 🚨 🍿 "Pull up a seat, pick up the vibe." We're hopping in the TV Time Machine and going back to 1984 for Part Deux (WTF) of our TV Guide Fall Preview Review. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=pT3Gvu…


Wrestle40 Reposted

⚡️ IT'S LIVE! FINALLY! 🍿 "Pull up a seat, pick up the vibe." 🔗 Link in the comments. 👀 Join us as we climb into the time machine again to wrap up our review of the 1984 TV Guide Fall Preview! 🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell to be notified!


🇺🇸 President @RonaldReagan has defeated former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Mondale only won his home state of Minnesota and DC. #ElectionDay #Election84 #OnThisDay

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🇺🇸 President @RonaldReagan has defeated former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Mondale only won his home state of Minnesota and DC. #ElectionDay #Election84 #OnThisDay

🎂 Happy Birthday to Ken Patera, who turns 42 today! 🥳🎉 The former WWF Intercontinental Champion returned to the Fed after a run in the AWA where he won the AWA World Tag Team Title with Jerry Blackwell. He placed third in the 1977 World's Strongest Man competition. #OnThisDay

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Ken Patera, who turns 42 today! 🥳🎉 The former WWF Intercontinental Champion returned to the Fed after a run in the AWA where he won the AWA World Tag Team Title with Jerry Blackwell. He placed third in the 1977 World's Strongest Man competition. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Ken Patera, who turns 42 today! 🥳🎉 The former WWF Intercontinental Champion returned to the Fed after a run in the AWA where he won the AWA World Tag Team Title with Jerry Blackwell. He placed third in the 1977 World's Strongest Man competition. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Ken Patera, who turns 42 today! 🥳🎉 The former WWF Intercontinental Champion returned to the Fed after a run in the AWA where he won the AWA World Tag Team Title with Jerry Blackwell. He placed third in the 1977 World's Strongest Man competition. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Ken Patera, who turns 42 today! 🥳🎉 The former WWF Intercontinental Champion returned to the Fed after a run in the AWA where he won the AWA World Tag Team Title with Jerry Blackwell. He placed third in the 1977 World's Strongest Man competition. #OnThisDay

📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay 📕 @TIME #MindYourManners 🏈 @SInow #GerryFaust 📺 @TVGuide #ElectionNightDrama 👱‍♀️ @People @DianeSawyer

Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

📕 @TIME #MindYourManners
🏈 @SInow #GerryFaust
📺 @TVGuide #ElectionNightDrama
👱‍♀️ @People @DianeSawyer
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

📕 @TIME #MindYourManners
🏈 @SInow #GerryFaust
📺 @TVGuide #ElectionNightDrama
👱‍♀️ @People @DianeSawyer
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

📕 @TIME #MindYourManners
🏈 @SInow #GerryFaust
📺 @TVGuide #ElectionNightDrama
👱‍♀️ @People @DianeSawyer

🦃 Wrestling Magazines - November 1984 🟦 Pro Wrestling Illustrated (@OfficialPWI) - @_SgtSlaughter 🟥 Inside Wrestling - Dusty Rhodes 🟨 The Wrestler - Billy Jack Haynes ⬜️ Wrestling Revue - Billy Jack Haynes & Kerry Von Erich

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🦃 Wrestling Magazines - November 1984

🟦 Pro Wrestling Illustrated (@OfficialPWI) - @_SgtSlaughter
🟥 Inside Wrestling - Dusty Rhodes
🟨 The Wrestler - Billy Jack  Haynes
⬜️ Wrestling Revue - Billy Jack Haynes & Kerry Von Erich
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🦃 Wrestling Magazines - November 1984

🟦 Pro Wrestling Illustrated (@OfficialPWI) - @_SgtSlaughter
🟥 Inside Wrestling - Dusty Rhodes
🟨 The Wrestler - Billy Jack  Haynes
⬜️ Wrestling Revue - Billy Jack Haynes & Kerry Von Erich
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🦃 Wrestling Magazines - November 1984

🟦 Pro Wrestling Illustrated (@OfficialPWI) - @_SgtSlaughter
🟥 Inside Wrestling - Dusty Rhodes
🟨 The Wrestler - Billy Jack  Haynes
⬜️ Wrestling Revue - Billy Jack Haynes & Kerry Von Erich
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🦃 Wrestling Magazines - November 1984

🟦 Pro Wrestling Illustrated (@OfficialPWI) - @_SgtSlaughter
🟥 Inside Wrestling - Dusty Rhodes
🟨 The Wrestler - Billy Jack  Haynes
⬜️ Wrestling Revue - Billy Jack Haynes & Kerry Von Erich

Wrestle40 Reposted

🚨 TONIGHT at 8 PM, we're going back to 1984, baby! 👀 Join me and my best friend of 25 years @ThePriaDub as we step into the @Wrestle40 time machine and review the 1984 @TVGuide Fall Preview. 🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell to be notified! youtu.be/C8FZTkD71YI


📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay 🗳️ @TIME #Showdown 🏀 @SInow #BillRussell #LarryBird 📺 @TVGuide #BrookeShields #WetGold 🫧 @People #BoyInABubble

Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #Showdown
🏀 @SInow #BillRussell #LarryBird
📺 @TVGuide #BrookeShields #WetGold
🫧 @People #BoyInABubble
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #Showdown
🏀 @SInow #BillRussell #LarryBird
📺 @TVGuide #BrookeShields #WetGold
🫧 @People #BoyInABubble
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #Showdown
🏀 @SInow #BillRussell #LarryBird
📺 @TVGuide #BrookeShields #WetGold
🫧 @People #BoyInABubble
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #Showdown
🏀 @SInow #BillRussell #LarryBird
📺 @TVGuide #BrookeShields #WetGold
🫧 @People #BoyInABubble

🌎 WWF fans in Atlanta, GA, saw WWF IC Champ Greg Valentine def Tito Santana and Andre the Giant def Kamala at the Omni. Meanwhile, 4,000 WWF fans at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, MO, tonight got to see WWF World Champion @HulkHogan in a DQ victory over Big John Studd. #OnThisDay

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🌎 WWF fans in Atlanta, GA, saw WWF IC Champ Greg Valentine def Tito Santana and Andre the Giant def Kamala at the Omni.

Meanwhile, 4,000 WWF fans at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, MO, tonight got to see WWF World Champion @HulkHogan in a DQ victory over Big John Studd. #OnThisDay

🔻 V The Series PREMIERES TONIGHT on @NBC at 7 PM! Check your local listings. 👽 The battle has been won, but the war is about to begin! The Visitors have returned, and this time, nothing will stop them! Will you be watching? youtu.be/EPidOJUMWQk?si…


📺 Cable Music Channel, created by @TedTurnerIII and owned by Turner Broadcasting System, was launched today as an all-music video channel, providing the first national competition to @MTV The first video played was Randy Newman's "I Love LA." #CMC #TBS #OnThisDay

Wrestle40's tweet image. 📺 Cable Music Channel, created by @TedTurnerIII and owned by Turner Broadcasting System, was launched today as an all-music video channel, providing the first national competition to @MTV. The first video played was Randy Newman's "I Love LA." #CMC #TBS #OnThisDay

📽️ It's 1984. Which of these new movies are you seeing #InTheaters this weekend? #OnThisDay #NewReleases 🔫 The @Terminator with Arnold @Schwarzenegger 💀 Horror documentary #TerrorintheAisles 👱‍♀️ Brian DePalma's #BodyDouble 👦 #Firstborn with Christopher Collet and Corey Haim


🎂 Happy Birthday to boxer-turned-wrestler, Primo Carnera, on what would've been his 78th birthday today. 🥊 The former boxing World Heavyweight Champion turned to wrestling in 1946 and was immediately a top draw. Sadly, Carnera passed away in 1967 at the age of 60. #OnThisDay

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to boxer-turned-wrestler, Primo Carnera, on what would've been his 78th birthday today. 🥊 The former boxing World Heavyweight Champion turned to wrestling in 1946 and was immediately a top draw. Sadly, Carnera passed away in 1967 at the age of 60. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to boxer-turned-wrestler, Primo Carnera, on what would've been his 78th birthday today. 🥊 The former boxing World Heavyweight Champion turned to wrestling in 1946 and was immediately a top draw. Sadly, Carnera passed away in 1967 at the age of 60. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to boxer-turned-wrestler, Primo Carnera, on what would've been his 78th birthday today. 🥊 The former boxing World Heavyweight Champion turned to wrestling in 1946 and was immediately a top draw. Sadly, Carnera passed away in 1967 at the age of 60. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to boxer-turned-wrestler, Primo Carnera, on what would've been his 78th birthday today. 🥊 The former boxing World Heavyweight Champion turned to wrestling in 1946 and was immediately a top draw. Sadly, Carnera passed away in 1967 at the age of 60. #OnThisDay

🎂 Happy Birthday to Kevin Sullivan, who turns 35 today! 🥳🎉 The 2x NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion has seen his Army of Darkness run roughshod over Florida. "The Prince of Darkness" has incorporated elements of the occult into his act in recent years. #OnThisDay

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Kevin Sullivan, who turns 35 today! 🥳🎉 The 2x NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion has seen his Army of Darkness run roughshod over Florida. "The Prince of Darkness" has incorporated elements of the occult into his act in recent years. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Kevin Sullivan, who turns 35 today! 🥳🎉 The 2x NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion has seen his Army of Darkness run roughshod over Florida. "The Prince of Darkness" has incorporated elements of the occult into his act in recent years. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Kevin Sullivan, who turns 35 today! 🥳🎉 The 2x NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion has seen his Army of Darkness run roughshod over Florida. "The Prince of Darkness" has incorporated elements of the occult into his act in recent years. #OnThisDay
Wrestle40's tweet image. 🎂 Happy Birthday to Kevin Sullivan, who turns 35 today! 🥳🎉 The 2x NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion has seen his Army of Darkness run roughshod over Florida. "The Prince of Darkness" has incorporated elements of the occult into his act in recent years. #OnThisDay

🏆 Harley Race defeated Hacksaw Higgins to win the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title on the Central States Wrestling show tonight at the Memorial Hall in Kansas City, KS! #AndNEW #OnThisDay 8⃣ Race begins his eighth reign with the strap, ending Higgins' first after 19 days.

Wrestle40's tweet image. 🏆 Harley Race defeated Hacksaw Higgins to win the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title on the Central States Wrestling show tonight at the Memorial Hall in Kansas City, KS! #AndNEW #OnThisDay 

8⃣ Race begins his eighth reign with the strap, ending Higgins' first after 19 days.

📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay 🗳️ @TIME #ARealRace ⚾️ @SInow #AlanTrammell 📺 @TVGuide #AuroraByNight 🪖 @JET #HowardRollins #ASoldiersStory

Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #ARealRace
⚾️ @SInow #AlanTrammell
📺 @TVGuide #AuroraByNight
🪖 @JET #HowardRollins #ASoldiersStory
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #ARealRace
⚾️ @SInow #AlanTrammell
📺 @TVGuide #AuroraByNight
🪖 @JET #HowardRollins #ASoldiersStory
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #ARealRace
⚾️ @SInow #AlanTrammell
📺 @TVGuide #AuroraByNight
🪖 @JET #HowardRollins #ASoldiersStory
Wrestle40's tweet image. 📖 Available at newsstands and fine retailers everywhere now! #Magazines #OnThisDay

🗳️ @TIME #ARealRace
⚾️ @SInow #AlanTrammell
📺 @TVGuide #AuroraByNight
🪖 @JET #HowardRollins #ASoldiersStory

🌎 Andre the Giant defeated Kamala at 13:56 in a steel cage match by escaping the cage through the door in the main event of tonight's World Wrestling Federation show at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, ON! #OnThisDay #WWF + 7 other bouts. youtube.com/watch?v=zxGBvy…


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