[7][8][9] Pedicino and Solie hosted a popular segment on the show, "Pro Wrestling This Week", which discussed the then current news from the "Big Three" (AWA, NWA and the WWF) as well as regional territories.
A graduate of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School,[13] Pedicino had been with the station's sales department for only two months when he pitched the idea to management.
The station's Saturday morning wrestling show from the NWA's Memphis territory was getting very low ratings despite its booming popularity on television.
The Memphis promotion sent the station random footage that was out of order and confused Georgia area fans as the results from upcoming matches were never acknowledged the following week.
In November, twenty fans drove in a van from Snellville, Georgia to the locked studio in downtown Atlanta, only to be turned away by security.
Sponsored by the National Automotive Parts Association, the event displayed over 500 of the most expensive custom designed antique vehicles in the world including the 18-wheel Volvo "Elvis' Eldorado".
Their success, however, brought them into conflict with rival "outlaw" promotion Deep South Wrestling run by Jody Hamilton.
The rival station had created its own Saturday night wrestling bloc to compete directly with Pedecino's show, but failed to challenge him in the ratings.
Pedicino and Blackstone used their celebrity status to promote charity events through Superstars of Wrestling including, most notably, their two-hour "Wrestlethon" television special.
The first show raised an estimated $10,000 and helped save the life of teenager Deloris Wadsworth who needed a liver transplant.
[26] Scott Hudson and Steve Prazak, announcers for Georgia All-Star Wrestling, were brought in for a "Laurel and Hardy"-style segment called "Point-Counterpoint".
The two would continue their routines off-camera, keeping even the production crew in the dark, by driving home in separate cars and Blackstone addressing her then boyfriend as "Mr. Pedicino" in front of studio employees during the first two years of their relationship.
[31][32] Pedicino considered bringing the show back after leaving the Global Wrestling Federation but ultimately decided to return to the radio industry.
[4] Superstars of Wrestling aired on Saturday nights from 8:00 PM to 3:00 AM and was approximately 368 minutes in length (produced for a 7-8 hour time-slot) per episode.
It was a groundbreaking concept that took the average wrestling fan through each of the major NWA territories and discussed various storylines and news stories of the day.
[18] In August 2000, Pedicino and his wife Boni began hosting Pro Wrestling this Week on FOX Sports Radio,[4] which ran on Sunday nights from 11:00 pm to 1:00 am.
Chris Bridges of Banks County News called it "a teenage pro wrestling fan’s dream come true".
Bill Apter, Gary Hart, Michael Hayes, and Paul E. Dangerously all hosted segments for "Pro Wrestling This Week".
[15] Scott Hudson and Steve Prazak were fans of the show and given their first big break by Pedicino when he began promoting events in the late 1980s.
[40] Buck Woodward of PWInsider.com speculated on the feasibility of Pedicino's model for internet television to cover the 21st century independent circuit.