Can Crushers Wrestling Podcast

It's been four months since IWC halted their live events! What's Katie Arquette been doing during that time? The Queen of the Silver Screen tells Mark she's anxious to get back in the ring on July 11 for IWC Back In Business when she teams with Queen Aminata against Ray Lyn and Ella Shae! Katie gives a shoutout to her dog, Bear, annas a positive message for all of us during this tough time. She gi...

After comparing the ratings and cards for this week's AEW Fyter Fest and NXT Great American Bash, Mark, Chad, And John cover a "classic" PPV, and we use classic loosely. The guys are Uncensored as they discuss WCW's Uncensored from 1995! After shoveling through the shit show, Chad brings us news and rumors before the guys discuss next week's IWC Back In Business (Happy Birthday Nick Lendl!) before...

Another star has left the NWA! This time it’s the World Television Champion, Outlandish Zicky Dice! The guys discuss whether the NWA can survive being out of the mind of wrestling fans for much longer! More names and accusations were added to the Speak Out list, including Sammy Guevara. Mark sets a timer to cover WWE’s programming to make sure Chad “The Guru” and John “The English Professor” don’t...

Today's Spotlight features wrestling comic book writers and editors from Squared Circle Comics, John Crowther & Kevin LaPorte! Members of the Cauliflower Alley Club, old-school wrestling fans, and devoted followers of NWA Powerrr, these guys might as well be Can Crushers doppelgängers! Except that they create a comic book and the Can Crushers couldn't draw a stick figure with a ruler! John and...

More names and disturbing news are coming out of the Speaking Out Movement. Mark, Chad, and John give their take on the latest from that breaking news. Instead of a classic PPV, this week the guys discuss a classic VHS tape: The Best of the WWF Volume IV! We're pretty sure the WWE had a PPV this week along with its usual shows, but it was AEW Dynamite that continued to blow the competition out! Us...

With all his brushes with wrestling royalty, as well as his stories from his own career, it's only right that BC Steele gets an extended Spotlight! The Rise heel manager tells us about a childhood memory when he wrote to Hulk Hogan, as well as the advice he got from the Huckster's enemy, Rowdy Roddy Piper! He took an ass-whipping from Luke Gallows, had a run-in with Buff Bagwell, and had less viol...

After discussing the high points of Raw, Smackdown, NXT, and In Your House, and with the greatest wrestling match just a few hours away, the Can Crushers give their five greatest matches (and 2 or 3 worst) in a given genre with John "The English Professor" taking No DQ Matches, Chad "The Guru" discussing Strap/Chain Matches, and Mark "The Mark" covering cage matches! The guys get back to an early...

Today's Spotlight features Ryse's Megan Meyers! The Black Rose talks about her love of New Japan and how she stays fit with kickboxing! While she has a wrestling arsenal that should cause her opponents pause, it's her laugh that's really terrifying! Use promo code CanCrushers to receive 10% off your Collar X Elbow order!!Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. Buy Can Crushers Merch At The Can C...

Today we celebrate two years of Can Crushers with a two-hour show focusing on Round II of our Ask Can Crushers segment! After briefing over this week's wrestling action, which included Raw, Smackdown, and AEW Dynamite, Mark "The Mark," Chad "The Villain," and John "The English Professor" take questions covering matches, promos, storylines, and live events spanning from the fifties and sixties all...

Mark starts things off with a recap of an emotional and very important NWA Girl Powerrr featuring anti-bullying messages from the NWA's top female athletes. The subject stays on the ladies as John "The English Professor" talks about a disappointing voter turnout for the Can Crushers Revolutionary Force Tournament. Chad "The Guru" had too much of the bubbly and slept in, but he eventually joined th...

We told you the stories were too good for episode, so Marvelous Matt Bish is back on the Can Crushers Spotlight to tell us about his interactions with Matt Hardy, AJ Styles, Brutus Beefcake, Eddie Kingston, and more! In this sequel interview, Bish gives his candid opinion on today's style of pro wrestling and whether house shows are really a thing of the past or if they'll be back! The CEO of Marv...

It's been a tough week with the untimely passings of Shad Gaspard and Hana Kimura. With Owen Hart's episode of Dar Side of the Ring airing 21 years nearly to the day after his horrifying in-ring accident, we were reminded of the potential that lay ahead for an athlete who already achieved greatness. AEW paid their proper respects to their late peers while putting on one of the wildest and wackiest...

In today's Can Crushers Spotlight, Mark talks to an absolutely Marvelous guest! Growing up in New York, Matt Bish tells us about watching the WWF on the MSG Network, the differences between training as a wrestler and a manager, and how another "Marvelous" wrestler helped him pick his name! Who has he managed? How is he different than a valet? What are his thoughts on Punxsutawney Phil? Guys this i...

Warning: Explicit Content! The Can Crushers are beyond fired up as they recap a Money in the Bank PPV that was an outright insult to fans! Raw and Smackdown weren't much better! The English Professor thinks there were a few teams better than the Road Warriors, as the guys discuss Dark Side of the Ring! After taking a break and cooling down, Mark, Chad and John dig into a great NWA show that featur...

Lots of wrestlers have lofty goals of what they'd like to accomplish in the wrestling business, including Daredevil Dave Doll, who wants to be part of the RetroMania video game! The #DreamChaser tells us about the match that made him fall in love with pro wrestling and his involvement with MLW, Evolve, Impact, and House of Hardcore! Have you ever wondered what a Noodle Death Match is? Who's the th...

The latest chapter of Dark Side of the Ring may be the darkest yet, as Mark "the Mark", Chad "the Guru", and John "the English Professor" are all shocked by UWF owner Herb Abrams' lifestyle of hookers and cocaine! The guys get hyped over one of the best AEW Dynamite episodes which featured a main event with golf carts and freezers! They then grade Chad's pay per view of choice, Night of Legends, b...

In another example of Can Crushers podcast reaching across the world, Tunku Amir, a wrestler from Singapore, joins Mark for today's spotlight! Amir tells us how he discovered Can Crushers and the differences between pro wrestling in Singapore and the States! Amir is a member of the faction "The Crucible" in Chikara and has competed in the Impact Gut Check Challenge! He also shared a locker room wi...

The guys kick off the show with a recap of this week's Dark Side of the Ring which featured Dr. D David Schultz before recapping a solid WWE Raw and a very good AEW Dynamite! John "the English Professor" skipped Smackdown so he could tune into IWC's second Facebook live event, Six-pack with Pollock! Don't worry; Mark watched both and covers Smackdown for us! Chad "the Guru" discusses a WWE release...

Strictly Business star Royce Isaacs uses some of his down time to talk to Can Crushers listeners about what it means to wrestle in the NWA, a great company with respect for the past and an eye towards the future! He addresses the obvious comparison to the Four Horsemen as well why he can't stand to see his lovely lady, Mae Valentine, talking to Sal! Rumors abound a cross-promotion super card! What...

We asked you for questions, and you did not disappoint! Questions poured in from listeners, other podcasts, and even people in the business like Jarrod Fritz, the Man Dime and Dime Piece, Calvin Couture, Marvelous Matt Bish, and Nick Lendl, along with others! Mark the Mark, Chad the Guru, and John the English Professor tackle 25 hard-hitting, creative inquires in a first for a Can Crushers show! T...

Extremely confident in his good looks, Tony Bizo, one half of the team known as The Complete Package in OVW, tells us about his time as a bodybuilder and his admiration for Arnold Schwarzenegger! It's no wonder Mark sees shades of HHH and Lex Luger! In the ring, Bizo is a fan of Brian Cage, Eli Drake, and Wardlow and has gotten career advice from Al Snow, Randall Floyd, and Matt Cappalletti while...

If you're looking for all the latest in-depth WWE news, you won't find much of it here! Raw and Smackdown continue to disappoint, but AEW was an awesome show! Mark, Chad, and John then review SummerSlam '89 which featured Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man, and the Human Wrecking Machine, Zeus, plus a surprise appearance! The English Professor finally did his homework and crammed five episode...

The future is now as Code Red Heavyweight Champion, "The Future of Reality" Trevor Gauge, joins Mark for this week's Spotlight! Gauge tells us how Covid-19 has impacted his family before getting into how it was the indies that turned him on to wrestling! His biggest battles came outside the ring as he fought depression and anxiety over the loss of his brother. But he has channeled that energy by p...

Skype is the new normal as Chad and the English Professor call into the show to join Mark. The three of them cover a solid AEW Dynamite along with some more WWE revisionist history on Raw and Smackdown. They then get into Mark's pick of the week: AWA Super Clash III from December 1988 which featured a Boot Camp Match and a World Title Unification! Chad fills us in on some dirt as well as a couple...

Defy and WCWC star Ricky Gibson joins Mark for a Rockin' good time on today's Can Crushers Spotlight! Ricky talks about how much he loves Ric Flair, Rick Steamboat, and Mankind! (It's like Ricky and Mark are soulmates!) Find out how being a web designer led to the start of Gibson's in-ring career and how his early matches were at flea markets! His training sessions with Jeremy Blanchard, Davey Ric...