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Bill
Apter explains how and why he left "The
Apter Mags" behind in Wrestling Perspective
#106.
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In the
late-'90s, Bill Apter left his longtime employer
London Publishing, publisher of Pro Wrestling
Illustrated, to join WOW Magazine.
It was
something of a shock. For more than 20 years, Apter
was the face of Inside Wrestling, The Wrestler,
Sports Review Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling
Illustrated. Now he was leaving that family of
magazines -- The Apter Mags as they were known -
behind.
Why?
In part two
of his interview with Wrestling Perspective, Apter
explains why he left the Pro Wrestling Illustrated
family and discusses the rise and fall of WOW
magazine.
In this
interview, Apter also talks about how he helped both
Andy Kaufman and Taz get into the business, and his
dealings with Vince McMahon.
In Part II
of this rare and candid interview in Issue #106,
Apter also discusses:
- His
scariest moments shooting matches at
ringside.
- What
was the biggest surprise to him in his 33
years in the business
- How
he almost had a major run-in with Fritz Von
Erich.
- How he
helped Hulk Hogan get into the Rocky III
movie.
These topics
and many others are addressed by Apter in Wrestling
Perspective #106.
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Apter on the tragedies in the
World Class promotion: "I never saw it coming. I
was down there a lot of times and, yeah, I did see
some of the boys smoking pot and doing other drugs
and stuff like that, but that was pretty much
prevalent in every promotion that I went to."
Apter on Bruno Sammartino: "Back in the
early Seventies if you would take anything Bruno
Sammartino said out of context he would call you at
home and I would get calls from him sometimes twice a
month. He was so PO'd and I would stay on the phone
and I liked him and he liked me and so it was very
difficult because the next month I would try and
straighten out in the magazine something we wrote
that he said we didn't quote him directly about. That
was always tough."
Apter on wrestlers' biographies:
"I
recently read the Lawler book; but I really, I don't
read a lot of them because I find a lot of them are
kind of screaming about everything that's wrong, this
type of thing, everybody trying to make those wrong
points. So I would rather remember people's careers
the way I saw them."
Apter on a young
Paul Heyman: "When I was down at
ringside, me, George Napolitano, and this guy named
Frank Amato, we used to try our best to get him
ousted from ring side because he would walk right in
front of us and grab a shot and walk right into your
shots. He was very obnoxious back then. And he stayed
in the business because of Ernie Roth, the Grand
Wizard. Ernie Roth really took him under his wing,
and all of the other managers really liked him,
too."
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#106 today.
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What
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Part II of the Phantom of the Ring's historical
analysis of boxer-wrestler Primo Carnera.
This article is a ground-breaking piece of
wrestling journalism that details Carnera's
fascinating life.
In Part II the Phantom analyzes Carnera's
wrestling career and life after leaving the business.
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