Last week I told you about my multi-year investigation into Thunderdome, the lost show from my childhood that is nearly impossible to find on the internet.…
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Remembering ‘Thunderdome,’ the Show so Bad Someone Scrubbed All Evidence of It From the Internet
Does anyone else remember Thunderdome, the shitty TNN show that came on after wrestling in the early 2000s? It was a fake league of ATV and…