This was the first ever Lockdown event in TNA history, where every...single...match was contested inside of a steel cage. And ya know...it wasn't bad! Jeff Hardy and Raven have a match that is pretty much a "hat on a hat" as they have a Tables match inside of the Six Sides of Steel. AJ Styles and Abyss have a brutal match to determine who will face the NWA Champion at Hard Justice. America's Most Wanted defends the NWA Tag-Team Titles against Team Canada's Petey Williams and Eric Young. Bobby Ro...
Apr 05, 2023•2 hr 20 min
The Marks (Troy & Greg) were there live in New Orleans for this one. It gets a bit of a bad rep for being bad or forgettable, but there are actually some great matches at the 34th WrestleMania. In the massive SuperDome, Matt Hardy won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, Naomi won the Women's Battle Royal, Ronda Rousey makes her in-ring debut, Asuka put her undefeated streak on the line against Charlotte's SmackDown Women's Title, "The Goddess" Alexa Bliss attempts to hold on to her Ra...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 39 min
1991 was a turbulent time in wrestling and we get into all of that. We're only a few months away from WCW's top heel, Ric Flair, giving a middle finger to Jim Herd and WCW as a whole to head to New York and win the coveted WWF World Title. But, for now, "The Nature Boy" still reigns supreme with the Big Gold Belt around his waist. He defends that NWA World Title against IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Tatsumi "Dragon" Fujinami. Also on this card, the Steiner Brothers put the NWA Tag Titles on the lin...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 46 min
This was...A SHOW... It was the night Bully Ray shocked no one except or Hulk and Brooke Hogan, revealing that he's was the true leader of the Aces & Eights. He screws over Jeff Hardy in the main event cage match and makes the "big reveal" to close this show. Other than that, we've got a sub-par Lethal Lockdown between the Aces & Eights and Team TNA, Joey Ryan vs. Joseph Park is somehow on a pay-per-view, and both Robbies (E & T) do battle...BRO! On top of that, we've got a decent Kn...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 146
This may be the second greatest WrestleMania of all time. From Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho to Rock vs. Austin 3, topped off with Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Title, and everything in between, this is a top tier card. Even matches that weren't well received, like Triple H vs. Booker T or Vince McMahon vs. Hulk Hogan, are still really good. We discuss everything surrounding these matches, if the Triple H/Booker T feud was racist, plus heat between Shawn Michaels and The Rock that s...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 53 min
This may be one of the worst piece of crap shows any major wrestling company has ever produced. It's not for having a lack of star power, because we've got Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Vader, Macho Man, Sting, Jim Duggan, and more on this event. The problem is that WCW tried putting stupid stipulations on every match and it ruined a lot of it. They also didn't follow many of the rules that were put in place. Arn Anderson took on Johnny B. Badd in a Boxer vs. Wrestler match, Randy Savage faces Avalanch...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 42 min
This is generally considered one of the worst WrestleManias in history, but DANG IT! It looked super cool! This show was littered with BS finishes, weird interviews, odd segments in the crowd, and people wearing togas. Also, this is the show were Bret Hart defended the WWF Title against Royal Rumble winner, Yokozuna. After this, Hulk Hogan ends up walking out of Caesar's Palace as the WWF Champion. How? LISTEN TO FIND OUT! Also, in the news, we talk about Jim Ross leaving WCW for the WWF, steroi...
Mar 01, 2023•2 hr 21 min
Four of the top names in the company faced off in a World Title main event match with the iconic, legendary Sting at ringside. How could this show NOT be a smash hit!? Well...we'll explain it to you. "Against All Odds" seems to be a metaphore for this company refusing to give up the ghost. It's unkillable! But specifically about show, it seemed like an extended episode of iMPACT!. Sure, Austin Aries tore it up with Alex Shelley and AJ Styles had a decent match with Kazarian. But the story of it ...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 40 min
This was, to use a technical term, A SHOW. That was about it. For the final time WWF Monday Night Raw ever took place from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, it sure was a showcase of mediocrity. However, who the hell did they have to compete against!? As we mention in the news, ECW was all but shutdown at this time and WCW was supposedly shutting down temporarily after being sold to Eric Bischoff and his investors. Oh, how naïve we were to believe that WCW would live. Either way, Molly Holly is hunti...
Feb 17, 2023•2 hr 8 min
The main event saw Lex Luger defend the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against his best friend, Sting in Luger's final match in WCW until 1995. Also, the Dangerous Alliance is all over this card! Other matches on the show include Rick Rude defending his United States Heavyweight Championship against Ricky Steamboat, but Paul E. Dangerously is banned from ringside. Jushin Thunder Liger is taking on Flyin' Brian Pillman for the Light Heavyweight Championship. Arn Anderson and Bobby Eaton defen...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 37 min
This was definitely a "we watched it so that you don't have to" type of show. Taz and Sabu get into a brawl on the show, many matches start and never finish, Sid appeared on the show to powerbomb some fools, the Dudley Boyz reveal their "mysterious benefactor," and we also had a couple of decent matches on the show. Super Crazy and Yoshihiro Tajiri locked up while Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn do battle over the TV Title to close the show. In the news, we discuss a Japanese legend passing away, mem...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 45 min
This was a time in wrestling that was plagued by "Who could've foreseen that happening!?" In the NWA, Sting tore up his knee and completely tanked the idea to crown him the new champion at WrestleWar '90. So, what was the 180 NWA decided upon to face Ric Flair? Lex Luger! He was a fine replacement, but he didn't get the momentous win that Sting would have gotten. Also on this card, Dan Spivey completely no-showed, so in a Chicago Street Fight, the Road Warriors take on Mean Mark Callous and "the...
Feb 01, 2023•2 hr 2 min
The boyhood dream for HBK came true, and now, he returns home a man! Or some such nonsense. This Rumble wasn't beloved by all and didn't get amazing ratings, but the Marks genuinely enjoyed it. This was the first time ever an entrant in the Royal Rumble (Stone Cold Steve Austin) was eliminated, referees didn't see it, so they entered back into the ring and won the match. We discuss that as well as reviewing the rubber match for Sycho Sid and Shawn Michaels in the Alamodome for the WWF Title, Mex...
Jan 25, 2023•2 hr 6 min
In May of 2001, Triple H tore his quad muscle clear off the bone during a tag-team match. He spent the rest of the year down in Alabama, rehabbing and getting stronger. When he finally returned on Monday Night Raw in Madison Square Garden in January of 2002, he got a god-like reception! However, he completely missed out on the entire Invasion storyline. There were also other controversies that popped up throughout Triple H's time off. We discuss it all and plenty more on this month's Bonus Episo...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 28 min
You have GOT to hear about these final two matches! The main event was New Guard vs. Old Guard as Kazuchika Okada defends the IWGP World Title against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Also, we've got titans clashing for he first time ever as Shinsuke Nakamura defends his IWGP Intercontinental Title against Bullet Club leader, AJ Styles. Also on the show, Kenny Omega defends the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title against KUSHIDA, ROH shows up as Jay Lethal defends the ROH World Title against Michael Elgin, the Bullet ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 29 min
With a tear...in our eyes...this is the greatest podcast of our lives! This was the first time the WWF Title was put on the line in the 30-man Royal Rumble match and it featured an all-star lineup of superstars! The favorites going in were Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, and Sid Justice. That all came to a head at the end of the match as Ric Flair proved to be the iron man we always knew he was. Also on the card, we get a match that was about 4x too long with the Bushwhackers taking on the Beverly Brothe...
Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 5 min
This was the year that the winner of the G1 Climax (Tetsuya Naito) lost a fan vote, so his main event IWGP World Title match against Kazuchika Okada got relegated to the next-to-main-event match. Instead, the main event went to Shinsuke Nakamura defending the IWGP Intercontinental Title against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Also on this show, there's a 4-way IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag-Team Titles match, The Killer Elite Squad defends the IWGP Tag Titles against Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson of the Bullet C...
Jan 04, 2023•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 135
It seems like while the year 1995 sucked in wrestling, it is the nucleus of a lot of wrestling history. While WWF and WCW seemed old and stale, ECW was new, hip, and bucking traditions in '95. Terry Funk was back and trying to make a difference, Tod Gordon is passing off more responsibilities to Paul Heyman, Sabu pisses off everyone and is in and out, Shane Douglas is still being put over HUGE before taking off for greener pastures, the Gangstas screw over Jim Cornette for Paul Heyman, and much ...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 50 min
In December of 1997, it wasn't Vader Time...but it was time. Time for what? Time for Sid vs. Bret Hart for the WWF Title! While this show wasn't a complete crapper with no redeeming qualities, it certainly won't go down as a great show, by any means. This is the final stop before Shawn Michaels wins the WWF Title back from Sid in his hometown, at the Alamodome, at Royal Rumble 1997. On top of that, Hunter Hearst Helmsley defends the Intercontinental Title against "Wildman" Marc Mero, the fake Ra...
Dec 21, 2022•2 hr 10 min
Lord, I'm comin' home to you! This was the 1st and only time 6 men faced off in the Hell in a Cell! Kurt Angle put his WWF Title on the line against Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, The Rock, Triple H, & Rikishi in one hell of a bloody battle! Also, Chris Jericho and Kane faced off in a brutal Last Man Standing match. Team Xtreme faced off in a 6-person elimination tag-team match against The Radicalz. Right to Censor was aaaall over this show! The Intercontinental, European, and Tag ...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 55 min
It's our last stop on the TNA in 2007 PPV train and man...this train station was in a bad part of town. We've reviewed some bad TNA PPVs in 2007 and this wasn't exactly extra special horrible and certainly wasn't unwatchable. It just seems like it could have all happened on iMPACT! and no one would have thought any differently. On this show, we get the 1st ever Feast or Fired match, Gail Kim defends her Knockouts Women's Title against Awesome Kong, Angel Williams and Talia Madison officially cha...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 41 min
One of the taglines for this event was, "Glory Bound." There was nothing glorious about this one as Dusty Rhodes tries to out-shine the main event cage match by going for the United States Title in a cage right before it. Ron Garvin was also the defending World Champion, and he couldn't draw flies if he was rolled in cow crap. The Rock 'n' Roll Express vs. Midnight Express match should have been great, but it was put on a stupid scaffold. Terry Taylor had to do some heavy lifting in the TV Title...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Getting close to the end of 1989, Ric Flair and Terry Funk brought their blood feud to a close with an awesome I Quit match in Troy, New York. Will Terry Funk or Ric Flair utter the words, "I quit" out loud and sacrifice their pride? Also, the Fabulous Freebirds take on the Road Warriors to open the show, Woman and Doom continue their persuit of the Steiner Brothers, the Midnight Express hooks it up with the Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace is gonna want to oil the tan pecks of Sweet Stan and Beautiful...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 48 min
It's crazy to think about Ric Flair being "the young, up-and-coming, next big thing" in wrestling, but in 1983, he was! This show was possibly the only time Jim Crockett beat Vince McMahon as he got a big, annual, tent-pole event to closed circuit before the WWF did with WrestleMania. A lot of the matches on this show were throw-aways, but we've got some big match-ups as well. Roddy Piper and Greg Valentine battle it out in a Dog Collar match, which co-host Greg deems "the REAL most dangerous ma...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 51 min
WWE was floundering a bit, as far as money and ratings, in the fall of 2002. However, they were pumping out banger after banger on PPV. This was no exception! Raw GM Eric Bischoff introduced the brand new Elimination Chamber at this event and said that the World Heavyweight Title would be on the line in the hellacious match. Also on the card, Trish Stratus and Victoria do battle in a Hardcore match for the Women's Title, the Cruiserweight Title is on the line as Jamie Noble defends against Billy...
Nov 16, 2022•2 hr 16 min
Sting has been promising a SURPRISE tag-team partner to take on the team of Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash. He also promised that his partner is someone from Kurt Angle's past who he rubbed the wrong way. That man...was Booker T. The rest of the show was hit-or-miss. It started rough with Shop of Horrors match where we were introduced to Rellik (which, of course, is "Killer" spelled backwards), but we pick it up with a tag match after that, a good X-Division Title match later on, the over-the-hill St...
Nov 09, 2022•2 hr
Trying to out do the WWF's Royal Rumble, WCW had 3 rings, 60 men, and 3 giants. This certainly was a spectacle that was something to behold. Most of the rest of the show was actually one of the better shows of all of 1995, having Ric Flair vs. Sting, Johnny B. Badd vs. DDP, an awesome Joshi tag match, and Chris Benoit vs. Kensuki Sasaki for the US Title. Of course, it was 1995, so we also had to sit through Big Bubba Rogers vs. "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan in a Taped Fists match and a bad match between ...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 41 min
The very first ever TNA Bound for Glory took place in 2005 and even though it was dubbed as the company's biggest show of the year, not everything was a hit. One major miss was putting Jeff Jarrett against Kevin Nash in the main event. Jeff Jarrett just screwed Raven out of the World Title and Raven was kept away from the main event. Meanwhile, Kevin Nash got legitimately sent to the hospital, leaving Jarrett without an opponent. That lead to this becoming the night of...Rhino...for whatever rea...
Oct 26, 2022•2 hr 1 min
On October 11, 1999, this was Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation planting their flag at midfield on WCW's home turf. WCW Nitro had packed out the Georgia Dome multiple times in the past, but now, the WWF was bringing their flagship show, Raw is War, to the Dome and laughing at the miserable state of their competition. Stone Cold Steve Austin was back from getting hit by a car and he sees red while going after WWF Champion, Triple H. All things are not great between tag partners, X-...
Oct 21, 2022•2 hr 35 min
It was the best of times...it was the worst of times. We've got one of the greatest matches in WCW history and possibly one of the worst in WCW history, both on the same card. Troy & Greg will gleefully talk all about Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero as well as Hollywood Hogan vs. Roddy Piper in a steel cage. Also, we cover Macho Man vs. DDP in a Las Vegas Sudden Death match, Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff, and Larry Zbyszko continuing their weird feud, Sting is banned from the building, a fan...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 56 min
