DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

ECW on TNN makes headlines in 1999 as Steve Corino invades a Limp Bizkit concert to confront Fred Durst. Limp Bizkit is playing too loud as Corino tries to prepare for his match and The King Of Old School has some choice words for Limp Bizkit & fans of their music. VICE is back with Dark Side of the Ring with a new episode chronicling the infamous PLANE RIDE FROM HELL. Adam Cole has his first...

TNA iMPACT! is now moving to 9pm, primetime Thursday nights on Spike TV! Along with the big move from Saturday to Thursday at 9pm, Kurt Angle recently debuted for TNA and he will be having his first match live in the main event against Abyss. To make things even better for TNA, this is the go-home show to TNA Genesis 2006, which still holds one of the highest PPV buy-rates of all time for TNA. Jon...

AEW All Out 2021 saw the debuts of Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson, & Ruby Soho along with Minoru Suzuki confronting Jon Moxley to have a match on AEW Dynamite. AEW All Out also saw one of the best cage matches of all time between The Lucha Bros & The Young Bucks along with CM Punk's first match back in wrestling against Darby Allin. Maybe one of the most memorable PPVs in the history of profes...

CM Punk has won many championships in WWE over the years, but his very first WWE title win came in 2007 on the WWE ECW show against John Morrison for the WWE ECW Championship. It was a LAST CHANCE match meaning if he didn't win the title here, he could not challenge John Morrison for it again for as long as he was champion. Malakai Black continues his destruction of The Nightmare Family by not onl...

CM Punk debuted for All Elite Wrestling on AEW Rampage The First Dance at the United Center in Chicago to one of the loudest pops in pro wrestling history, making his return to the ring after a 7 year long absence. WWE held SummerSlam in front of 50,000 fans with a main event of John Cena vs Roman Reigns for the WWE Universal Championship along with a Becky Lynch return that actually turned a lot...

Stephanie McMahon and Test are set to get married LIVE on WWF Monday Night Raw in 1999, but Triple H has other plans for the couple! After having been fighting with Vince McMahon for weeks, D-Generation X make sure that it'll be a wedding that the McMahons will regret. AEW Rampage debuts on TNT with three big matches, including Kenny Omega defending the iMPACT World Championship against Christian...

Ric Flair is the consortium meaning he owns 50% of the WWF currently. Vince McMahon decided the best course of action is to tank the entire company & put himself out of business by INJECTING a LETHAL DOSE of POISON into HIS OWN CREATION. Vince is bringing in the nWo - Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, & Hollywood Hogan. Malakai Black makes his in-ring debut against Cody Rhodes at AEW Homecoming and...

Triple H is the current WWF Champion in 1999 as we look back at WWF SmackDown heading into WWF Unforgiven 1999. Vince McMahon said yeah, we are gonna have to change that up real quick pal. The referees are also on strike in the WWF as everyone keeps bumping them for no reason & they are SICK of it. Nick Gage faces Chris Jericho in a deathmatch at AEW Fight For The Fallen where Nick Gage slices...

Nick Gage made his debut on AEW Dynamite on AEW Fyter Fest Night 2 by way of MJF & the 5 labors of Chris Jericho. James won the AEW Games Elite GM Mode Invitational tournament which saw him win the grand prize of a custom made one of a kind championship belt, a trip to AEW Fyter Fest night 2, and the chance to book a match on AEW Dark Elevation. Matt Cardona faced Nick Gage for the GCW Champio...

WWE Money In The Bank 2021 just went off the air & we saw the return of John Cena to setup a match at Summerslam this year with none other than Roman Reigns, the WWE Universal Champion. Other matches on the show saw 2 Money in the Bank matches, Charlotte Flair vs Rhea Ripley for the WWE Womens Championship, and more. AEW held AEW Fyter Fest Night 1 in good ol Texas this past week headlined by...

After 2 successful ECW One Night Stand PPVs for WWE, they decided to start WWE ECW as a regular tv program. RVD & Sabu get in trouble for smoking weed which leads to RVD dropping the WWE title & the ECW title back to back leaving Big Show as the ECW Champion. Ric Flair is feuding with Mick Foley currently so he heads down to the land of extreme to face Big Show in an Extreme Rules match fo...

In maybe one of the most infamous moments in WCW Monday Nitro history known to fans as THE REBOOT, Vince Russo comes to WCW and all the WCW Champions relinquish their championships 6 days before Spring Stampede where all new champions will be crowned. Scott Steiner also follows up on his infamous shoot on Ric Flair from the same year with another shoot but this time with fake teeth! On AEW Dynamit...

Undertaker & Stone Cold Steve Austin are closing in on their Buried Alive match at the WWF Rock Bottom PPV. On the go home episode of WWF Monday Night Raw 1998, Undertaker takes Stone Cold Steve Austin & crucifies him on the Undertaker symbol at the top of the ramp! This RAW episode also features the Undertaker symbol being struck with lightning & being caught on fire. Jungle Boy chall...

WWE Hell in a Cell 2021 just finished and is the last WWE PPV in the Thunderdome Era with fans returning at the upcoming PPVs. Bobby Lashley vs Drew McIntyre was the main event for the WWE Championship seeing Drew McIntyre putting his championship dreams on the line for one more shot at gold. YUKES showed off the very first gameplay video of the upcoming AEW Console Game with Darby Allin beating u...

GIVE ME A SHELL YEAH! TNA iMPACT in 2008 featured a lot of majors stars on their program, like AJ Styles, Christian Cage, Samoa Joe & Kurt Angle, but the talk of the town is Shark Boy, who has been in a coma for a whole week! Dark Side of the Ring comes to it's mid-season finale with an episode on the Dynamite Kid, and Arn Anderson's son BROCK ANDERSON is set to make his AEW Dynamite debut! Al...

2000 was a great year for the WWF and this Monday Night Raw is no different as The Dudley Boyz take Mae Young in her wheelchair, push her up the ramp, and then Bubba Ray Dudley powerbombs her off the stage through tables! Dark Side of the Ring Season 3 had a new episode called In The Shadow of Grizzly Smith which covered Grizzly Smith, the father of Jake The Snake Roberts. Andrade El Idolo debuted...

AEW Double Or Nothing 2021 just happened which saw 2 main events - Kenny Omega vs PAC vs Orange Cassidy for the AEW Worlds Championship & The Stadium Stampede Inner Circle vs Pinnacle and if Inner Circle loses, they disband forever. A full crowd in the arena for this event which is the first AEW PPV in a year that saw fans fill the arena. Dark Side of the Ring Season 3 did an episode called BE...

Kane has been unmasked & is running rampant looking to set JR on fire on WWE Monday Night Raw in 2003! Kane has attacked his former partner RVD, attacked Tommy Dreamer & Rico, and even got into a fight with Raw Co-GM, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Eric Bischoff setup a sit down interview with Jim Ross and Kane and Kane brings a cannister of gasoline to the party. Dark Side Of The Ring Season 3...

WWE held WWE Wrestlemania Backlash, the first time another PPV other than Wrestlemania has had the name Wrestlemania in it which saw Roman Reigns vs Cesaro for the WWE Universal Championship as the main event of the night with a semi main of Bobby Lashley vs Drew McIntyre vs Braun Strowman for the WWE Championship. There were also zombies. Yeah, zombies. Cody Rhodes cut a promo about patriotism or...

AEW was finally able to hold BLOOD AND GUTS on AEW Dynamite which is their version of WAR GAMES from WCW. The Pinnacle faced off against Inner Circle and it had one of the most controversial endings of the year so far leaving fans going back & forth for days. James, Tony, & Johnny go over the best Rey Mysterio theme song of all time. VICE also released the new season (season 3) of Dark Sid...

DAVID ARQUETTE HAS WON THE WCW CHAMPIONSHIP AND HE RUINED THE WRESTLING BUSINESS FOREVER!!!! ... or did he? He definitely won the WCW Championship on WCW Thunder, but did it kill wrestling forever? James, Johnny, & Tony discuss the best Kurt Angle theme song of all time over his time in WWE, TNA, and well, a lil ECW stint for a cup of coffee. Also this week, Cody Rhodes & QT Marshall fough...

MILK-O-MANIA! It's the night after SummerSlam 2001, where Stone Cold defeated Kurt Angle to retain the WWF Championship. The invasion is in full force, and The Alliance are showing their love for Stone Cold Steve Austin, on this very special edition of WWF RAW in 2001; Stone Cold Appreciation Night! Little did they know, Kurt Angle and his little Milk Truck have a different plan for their celebrat...

Scott Steiner is out of control and nobody on WCW Monday Nitro can stop him! WCW 2000 is underway as we are coming off the infamous Bash At The Beach PPV and heading straight into the infamous New Blood Rising PPV. Scott Steiner was such a menace backstage that they just made it his gimmick and it's just as crazy as you imagine. James, Tony, & Johnny discuss the best XXX theme song of all time...

WrestleMania needs no introduction - it's WrestleMania, baby! WWE held WrestleMania 37 Night 1 & Night 2 in Florida where Night 1 saw Bianca Belair vs Sasha Banks main event for the WWE SmackDown Womens Championship and Night 2 saw Roman Reigns vs Daniel Bryan vs Edge for the WWE Universal Championship. AEW Dynamite also happened this past week which saw Mike Tyson save Chris Jericho from a Pi...

TNA was on the road to Lockdown 2006! Sting has officially signed to TNA, Scott Steiner just showed up too, and the very first Lethal Lockdown match is happening. Abyss & James Mitchell are pissed that Christian Cage leeped over him for the NWA Championship and now they're gonna make an example of him by attacking him at his home in Florida! It gets nasty as things with Abyss during that time...