Between The Sheets

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles to discuss the state of the NWA during the Summer of 1989. We pick up where we left off at the end of the Great American Bash PPV and we talk about the road to Clash of the Champions VIII: Fall Brawl. We talk about Ric Flair & Terry Funk's feud progressing even with Funk going through major injuries and fatigue, the departure...

Kris and David are joined by Kaia McKenna ( @KaiaMcK ) to discuss the week that was September 25-October 1, 2006. Topics of discussion include: Vince Russo making one of his many returns to TNA creative the same weekend that Kurt Angle made his surprise debut. Dixie Carter giving a crazy interview about TNA's drug policy in stemming from concerns about Angle coming in. Buff Bagwell and Lex Lug...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was September 18-24, 1989. Topics of discussion include: Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers all give notice to the WWF amidst rumors of the company having some cashflow issues. Earthquake Evans makes his dark match debut at the WWF TV tapings. Randy Savage joins the Cincinnati Reds radio booth, which pisses off...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was September 11-17, 2003. Topics of discussion include: Hulk Hogan being courted by both the Jarretts and Masahiro Chono to return to the ring. Dutch Mantell entering the TNA creative scene and what that meant for Vince Russo and Glenn Gilberti. After the infamous Shane Douglas vs. Raven hair vs. hair match, the Sinister Minister shaves Rav...

Kris and David are joined by Al Getz ( @AlGetzWrestling ) to discuss the week that was September 4-10, 1986. Topics of discussion include: Details on Jim Crockett's plans for taking over the Central States territory. Changes in the TBS weekend shows and why they are happening. Some really great promos from JCP TV, including TWO separate ones from the dynamic duo of Sam Houston and Todd Champio...

In this episode of Center Stage Chronicles, Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles to discuss the state of the NWA/WCW from mid-June through late July of 1989. We go over the backlash from the Clash of the Champions in Fort Bragg all the way to the Great American Bash PPV, which includes Lex Luger being an amazing heel, Terry Funk battling injury issues, the fans' love...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was August 26-September 3, 2000, a Patreon request from Ted Bell, who dropped the $25 for us to cover this week. Topics of discussion include: Changes coming for the WWF creative staff, which comes at an interesting time because.... Raw and Smackdown focusing on Triple H and Chyna interacting on TV for the first time in almost a year, which...

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor ( @NINaylor ) to discuss wrestling life and times of the awesome Sid Vicious. We go over his entire wrestling career in a way that only we can, as we were both HUGE fans of Sid. We hope that this love letter to Sid's career will make everyone realize what an amazing performer he was. RIP "Ruler of the World." --- To support the show and get access t...

Kris and David are joined by Tom Green ( @NotThatTomGreen ) to discuss the week that was August 21-27, 1996. Topics of discussion include: A wild Monday Nitro featuring the most heated nWo beatdown to date, plus the WCW debuts of Juventud Guerrera, Chris Jericho, and Ted DiBiase, memorably terrible post-match promos from Juvi and Jericho, and much more. Lots of other WCW drama, which is, as always...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was August 11-17, 1991, a Patreon request from William Lanham, who dropped the $25 to pick this week. Topics of discussion include: An ominous blurb in Matwatch about the Ultimate Warrior and his contract demands to the WWF weeks before SummerSlam. Dave Meltzer getting praise from a mainstream sports media newsletter for his coverage of the...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was August 7-13, 1998. Topics of discussion include: WCW Road Wild featuring Jay Leno teaming up with Diamond Dallas Page against Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, including all of the insanity surrounding that match, plus the rest of that show, which was one of the worst PPV's of all time. Running through Nitro and Thunder, which were fille...

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and our good buddy Charles (a.k.a. Loss from Pro Wrestling Only) as we present another great episode of the Center Stage Chronicles. On this episode, we pick up where we left off last month, at Music City Showdown in Nashville, with Terry Funk subsequently running wild on NWA TV while Ric Flair is "injured," plus we also look at Lex Luger getting his U....

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was July 31-August 6, 1997, a Patreon pick from Christian de la Cruz, who dropped the $25 for us to do the show. Topics of discussion include: SummerSlam ’97 at the Meadowlands featuring Owen Hart injuring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin with a seated tombstone piledriver, Mankind and Hunter Hearst Helmsley doing battle in a steel cage mat...

Kris and David are joined by Beau James ( @kingofkingsport ) to discuss the week that was July 24-30, 1995. Topics of discussion includes: WCW trying to bring in top flight in-ring workers to fill out their roster before the first episode of Nitro and why it isn't working out like they hoped. Hulk Hogan giving one of the strangest interviews of his career on WCW Saturday Night. The real story...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the partial week that was July 17-21,1999, a Patreon request via William Lanham who threw down the $25 pledge to pick this week. Topics of discussion include: UPN President Dean Valentine answering tough questions about putting SmackDown on his network considering the WWF's content at that time. The WWF trying to tone down their content as Jeff Jarret...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was July 10-16, 2003. Topics of discussion includes: TNA settling their lawsuits with Jay Hassman and Len Sabal and all that entailed. A.J. Styles publicly expressing his preference of working ROH over NWA-TNA while being the NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Scott D'Amore gaining power behind the scenes. Lots of Japanese news and results...

After trying for weeks to figure out when to do this, we found the time and here it is: David Bixenspan is joined by Joe Lanza of The Flagship Wrestling Podcast to talk about...well...everything that's been frustrating about the wrestling media landscape of late, some of which came to a head again this past week. Topics of discussion include: WWE feeding AEW weekend "fast national" rat...

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles (Loss from Pro Wrestling Only) on Episode #2 of "The Center Stage Chronicles" where we cover March 1989 to WrestleWar ‘89: Music City Showdown on May 7th, 1989. We talk about all the major changes and happenings that went on in the NWA in that time period, featuring the end of George Scott's reign of terror as the booker,...

Kris and David are joined by Daniel Makabe ( @danielmakabe ) for the first half of the show as we discuss the week that was July 3-9, 1999. Topics of discussion include: A crazy episode of WCW Monday Nitro at the Georgia Dome featuring Bret Hart's return to TV after the tragic death of Owen Hart, Bill Goldberg's surprise return after Megadeth’s live performance, The West Texas Rednecks hav...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was June 26-July 2, 1993. Topics of discussion include: The WWF announcing its intent to fight back in the world of public relations against the previous year's Titangate accusers — including Tom Cole and Rita Chatterton! — by using their house organ, WWF Magazine. Linda McMahon speaking very candidly to Mike Mooneyham about various laws...

Kris and David are joined by Mark Coale ( @black_bile ) as we discuss the week that was June 19-25, 2014, which Mark requested on our Patreon by dropping the $50 to sit in for a segment of the show. Topics of discussion include: TNA heading to New York to tape lots of TV while trying to save their TV deal with Spike. An update on Global Force Wrestling in its early stages. NJPW's Dominion PPV...

Kris and David are joined by Joe Gagne ( @joegagne ) to discuss the week that was June 12-18, 1994. Topics of discussion include: Vince McMahon getting surgery to repair a herniated disc in his neck and how that would affect the WWF both on and off camera. Linda McMahon sending out a memo to WWF employees about losing the Jesse Ventura videotape royalties lawsuit. The WWF's on-air handling of...

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was June 5-11, 1990. Topics of discussion include: Dave Meltzer's trip to Japan, featuring reports on the AJPW show at Budokan on 6/8 featuring the epic Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Jumbo Tsuruta main event. plus the Universal Lucha Libre show on 6/7 at Korakuen Hall, which featured some of top luchadores of the era showing off their style to th...

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles (Loss from Pro Wrestling Only) as we venture into a new podcast series about the NWA/WCW, Center Stage Chronicles. We start off covering the months of January and February 1989, a moment of major change as the NWA evolves from the ashes of Jim Crockett Promotions with new leadership, and new wrestlers coming in by the week. Not to men...

Kris and David are joined by Robert O'Connor ( @ghostofquinones ) to discuss the week-plus that was May 29-June 5, 1988. Topics of discussion include: Dave Meltzer attending the marathon WWF Superstars of Wrestling TV taping in Oakland and gives a full itemized rundown of all 29 matches. WWF expanding their house show schedule to running up to FOUR crews a night. Big tag title matches in AJPW...