Better Call Creative Wrestling Podcast

SEASON 2 - EPISODE ONE - King of the Ring 1994 We start a brand new season of episodes with Season 2 Episode One and well, how much does this show weigh? It is the infamous pay per view of King of the Ring 1994. Remembered mainly for the so bad it may be good commentary of Art Donovan, but is the ppv a dud because of it, inspite of it or as well as it? We will find out as we see the WWF launch it'...

Episode One Hundred - Heroes of Wrestling Look at little old us, reaching one hundred episodes! After 99 previous episodes reviewing the worst wrestling has to offer, there could only be one way to celebrate the 100, and that is watching, reviewing and reimagining the Heroes of Wrestling ppv from 1999! If you are a fan of wrestling the chances are you have heard about this show, but nothing can pr...

Birthday Episode - Sam's Wrestling Time Machine Our second Birthday episode see's Sam take the reigns of the Wrestling Time Machine, visiting the month of June in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s. Six matches that Sam would hop into a Time Machine to visit and re-watch! An episode featuring Ted Dibiase, Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Bayley, Chad Gable, Kurt Angle and many more, in some of the greate...

Episode Ninety Nine - No Mercy 1999 US So after reviewing the first No Mercy in 1999 from the UK, our 99th episdoe see's us review the second No Mercy from 1999. This one from the United States and featuring a bumper card full of deep storylines! Steve Austin facing Triple H for the WWF Title he lost at Summerslam, and the last Double J Jeff Jarrett match in the WWF as he bids farewell with a pock...

Episode Ninety Eight - No Mercy 1999 (UK) Very few things in wrestling remainly fairly rare. Nowadays wrestling storylines and angles tend to be rehashed versions of the old. Most wrestlers feel very much old hat after a year or so on a roster, but back in 1999 WWF did something fairly rare. That was to hold two pay per views called No Mercy, five months apart. One held in the UK and one held in t...

Episode Ninety Seven - Kurt Angle's Retirement The most important memory someone has of you, is the last one. So they say, and so the way you retire a wrestling hall of famer can be just as important as the career they have had. Case in point, Kurt Angle. A grand slam champion in the WWF, one of the fastest rises to the top at a time where the WWF boasted talent like Austin, Rock and HHH. Then whe...

Episode Ninety Six - Wrestlemania 4 With Vince McMahon sitting this past Wrestlemania out, only to return like the dastardly villian he truly is, the debate will be long and hard about the quality of the booking decisions from Triple H. A debate that has always seemed to stem from Wrestlemania, and maybe it began as far back at Wrestlemania 4. The difficult sequel to the success of Hogan v Andre 1...

WRESTLECUP PODCAST - Worst Wrestlemania Main Event A few years ago we opened up our Wrestlecup episodes by crowning the worst Wrestlemania Match of all time! Then it was Undertaker and the Giant Gonzales taking home the crown, but as chance would be, that wasn't the Main Event! So we decided to celebrate Wrestlemania weekend with crowning the worst Wrestlemania Main Event ever! A 39 year history w...

Episode Ninety Five - Booker T's Big Mania Moment It's Mania season once again and as fans we all love to talk about who will have this years Mania moment. From Daniel Bryan at Mania 30, to Austin's era beginning at Mania 14, there seems to be one Mania moment every Wrestlemania. At Wrestlemania 19 it seemed from the outside that the 5 time WCW Champion would become a first time WWE World Champion...

Episode Ninety Four - Uncensored 2000 As a podcast that focuses on reviewing the worst of wrestling's past, is there anything more trashed than WCW in 2000. Hulk Hogan is back in the Red and Yellow and he is carryign an Indian Yapapapi Strap or two, to turn the hind of Ric Flair Raw and Pink! Yes its that famous promo and match, but is there anything that comes out of Uncensored 2000 to save it fr...

BIRTHDAY EPISODE - Jack's Time Machine It's the first of our three birthday episodes for 2023, and this year we are dusting off our wrestling time machines and checking out a match from our respective birth months, from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s. Six matches this episode chosen by Jack from wrestling past, and in the words of Gorilla Monsoon, this one is a classic. Hogan vs Rock, Bryan v...

Episode Ninety Three - ECW Champions in WWE In the mid 2000s, with no real competition to speak of WWE started a love affair with the ECW Brand. Purchased after the company fell on hard times, there seemed to still be a desire in the fan base for a rebirth of the brand and after successful one night stand ppv's WWE pulled the trigger on a third brand under the name of Extreme Championship Wrestlin...

WRESTLECUP EPISODE - Worst ECW Wrestler ECW is well loved by most wrestling fans, well except Sam maybe. However as with any wrestling company, history tends to be kinder to ECW than most, but not everyone who has wrestled under the ECW banner have been well remembered. Well we are Better Call Creative, and ahead of our celebration of all things terrible, we dust of the Wrestlecup to crown the Wor...

Episode Ninety Two - TNA Against All Odds 2011 2011 was a strange and difficult time for TNA. Bischoff and Hogan had been with the company now a year and had given it a new look, pushed and tried different things, and we arrived in 2011 with little reward for the investment. So why not try to capture the magic of the Hogan heel turn and try to turn Hogan heel! Immortal had been born and was led by...

Episode Ninety One - Royal Rumble 2022 As we head into this years Royal Rumble event, we do so with hope and optimism that this year's event is going to be a cracker...and mainly that it is better than last years! So what happened in 2022 and why was it so bad! We..here comes to spoiler....it was booked by Shane McMahon who was quietly sent packing about 24 hours after the show. What did he do to...

Wrestlecup Episode - Worst Royal Rumble Winner For Wrestling fans, there can be very few more exciting times than that of Royal Rumble season. Here we are again with hopes of surprises, shocks and most importantly of all the right and correct winner ahead of wrestlemania. However that hasn't always been the case. Some winners are much more worthy than others, some winners cause boo's, riots, confu...

Episode Ninety - WCW Thunder Retrospective It is a strange thing beign a wrestling fan sometimes. Strangely something can be an utter disaster, unwanted and unwatched by fans and promoters alike during its original run, yet hold a fond place in the hearts of those who lived through it. Thunder is a little like that, one of the most requested shows on the WWE Network launch, its a show that had a v...

Wrestlecup Episode - Worst Starrcade Main Event To the wrestling fans at least, WCW's flagship PPV was always Starrcade. The longest ppv in wrestling history when still active, Starrcade had history, had legacy, and had its fair share of terrible main events. For every Flair versus Race, there was a Black Scorpion or a Battlebowl. What better way therefore to round out our month of December and ou...

Episode Eighty Nine - Starrcade 1994 It's our second podcast in our special Starrcade Month of December. We are checking out what is widely regarded as one of the worst...if not the worst...Starrcade's ever. Hulk Hogan's first ever Starrcade having burst onto the WCW scene in mid 1994, and with a whole new roster of talent to work on top with, who would be his opponant? Vader, the monster who was...

Episode Eighty Eight - The Black Scorpion It's December, as in wrestling terms at least, the biggest ppv event of the Christmas period was Starrcade! This year we celebrate the annual tradition with a special Starrcade month, and our opening episode see's us review the Black Scorpion angle leading to the main event of Starrcade 1990. When the guy who booked it admits he created the Black Scorpion...

Episode Eighty Seven - Survivor Series 2015 As WWE prepare to once again inject some life into the Survivor Series concept, we look back at one of the more forgettable Survivor Series from the past decade. A show dominated by a WWE Title Tournament, with little to no focus on the Survivor Series concept, and littered with many questionable booking decisions. It's Roman Reign's crowning evening, an...

Episode Eighty Six - November to Remember 2000 We head back to the land of extreme for this November to Remember. And it's not just any November to Remember, but it is the last ever November to Remember! And what a way to go out, with the title in not just Jeopardy...but double Jeopardy! A unique match type that was one and done, two matches going on at the same time with the winners meeting in a...

Episode Eighty Five - Kamala As we reach the spookiest time of year, this Halloween we take a deep dive look at one of the longest running wrestling Horror gimmicks, well at least it started as horror. The Ugandan Headhunter/Cannibal/Giant depending on where James Harris was booked, Kamala grew to become one of the most legendary wrestling gimmicks of all times, and in many ways the most loved. Th...

Episode Eight Four - Taboo Tuesday 2005 2005 can be best described as a transitional year for the WWE. In limbo before the move to PG, and in desperate need for a new mega star, WWE seemingly were ready to try new things and new concepts. One year prior, a new fans choice concept was created, a Tuesday PPV, the first for 10 years, and a show voted on entirely by the fans. One year later and the WW...

WRESTLECUP EPISODE - Worst Wrestling Videogame Wrestling and Videogames seem to go hand in hand. Meet a wrestling fan and you will probably be able to discuss hours and hours lost in career modes, and create a wrestler suites. Some of the best videogames of all time have been wrestling games. No Mercy on the N64, Smackdown Here Comes the Pain, and even WCW had a great game in WCW/NWO Revenge and W...