Noobs and Knockouts Podcast

This week on the Noobs and Knockouts Podcast, Austin goes it alone to tackle the beginning of Slammed!, a CYOA game from choiceofgames.com! Austin goes through the first two chapters, setting up the story of Randy Roundhouse and his ascent to the top of the not! WWE, which does shoot fights, apparently. Plus, he has a forever rival and a tragic backstory! Won't you join us?

On this episode of the Noobs and Knockouts Podcast, Austin and David venture into the New Generation Era for the first time, where *checks notes* *checks them again* Jerry Lawler and Shawn Michaels were the best part of the show? We discuss the ridiculous characters, the boring storylines, the drab aesthetic, the science behind jobbers, Shawn and Diesel's relationship dynamics, SO MANY REFS, what...

On this episode of Noobs and Knockouts, David and Austin return to the Summer of Punk, and with only 6 days to go until CM Punk's contract runs out, CM Punk goes face-to-face for the first time with Vince McMahon AND John Cena. On this episode we talk about contract negotiations, how all your favorites are problematic, David finally understanding why people don't like John Cena, how sometimes the...

This week on the Noobs and Knockouts Podcast, Austin and David return from hiatus to head to 1997 and witness Vince McMahon give an investors' pitch live on air, on the night where Mr. McMahon proclaimed that the audience was tired of having their intelligence insulted, and then kept doing it anyway. We talk about the death of kayfabe as we know it, Dwayne Johnson's charisma in his early years, a...

This week on the Noobs and Knockouts Podcast, Austin and David watch the best of Brodie Lee in the wake of his sudden passing. They tackle his time in WWE and AEW, from the Wyatt Family to the Bludgeon Brothers to being the Exalted One. One thing is for sure, his eyes told it all. Won't you join us?

This time on the Noobs and Knockouts Podcast, Austin and David return to the Temple to see the first ever crowned Lucha Underground champion, inside a hectic fight that is only known as Aztec Warfare. We discuss Chavo Guerrero being the sleaziest of balls, Prince Puma being the babiest of faces, Drago being a literal dragon, Fenix being a conceptual phoenix, and more! Won't you join us?

On this episode of Noobs and Knockouts, Austin and David return to 1988, to see the rematch seen by 33 million viewers, Hogan vs Andre II. We offer perhaps our hottest take yet as we discuss ridiculous referee scandals, working around a barely mobile Andre, how Andre is the best actor on this show, a tangent regarding the Fabulous Moolah killing TWO women's championships, and still way too much ta...

On this very special Christmas episode of Noobs and Knockouts, Austin and David have their very first special guest, one of their best friends, Claire! Together, the three talk about very fake vehicular assault, bad Christmas puns, bad Divas gimmicks, how wrestling is weird, why Claire should write for WWE, and more! Won't you join us?

On this week's episode of Noobs and Knockouts, Austin and David journey to 2011, to begin their deep dive on the infamous Summer of Punk storyline, which all began with a Pipe Bomb heard round the world. They talk about the role of kayfabe, the worked shoot and when it works, CM Punk as a heel vs as a face, how Mark Henry is the scariest dude around, how Divas only have two character types, and mo...

Austin and David once again step out of the WWE-sphere and check out their current biggest competitor, All Elite Wrestling! Emanating from Atlanta, Georgia, we watch what is considered by some to be AEW's best show, as we see our first battle royal, good women's wrestling for the first time, a load of Millennial (tm) aesthetics, and a cage match main event that is David's favorite match so far. Wo...

On this episode of Noobs and Knockouts, Austin and David experience ATTITUDE as we watch our first episode from the Attitude Era! Lots of black and leather? Throwing middle fingers up? A race-based gang war? Owning someone else's wife? Every match ending in a bunch of people running to the ring and fighting? Yep, it's the 90s. Won't you join us?

On this episode of Noobs and Knockouts, Austin and David step outside the WWE bubble to go down to a Temple in Boyle Heights, as we discuss the pilot episode of Lucha Underground. We discuss cultural differences between American pro wrestling and lucha libre, how Lucha Underground is a blend of the two, the differences in style between WWE and LU, Lucha Underground's bizarre but amazing cast of ch...

Saturday night is alright for fighting as David and Austin do a deep dive into an episode of Saturday Night's Main Event, at the height of the WWF's prominence in popular culture during its Golden Age. See what we have to think of a handshake heard round the world, badly aged ethnic depictions, a music video at a construction site, and a moment that we can't seem to ever stop talking about.

On this historic first episode of Noobs and Knockouts, Austin presents to David a picture of what wrestling is, by showing him the fateful episode of WWE Monday Night Raw from June 17, 2013.