DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

WCW has officially announced it has been sold to the highest bidder: Vince McMahon & the WWF. WCW Monday Nitro on TNT is coming to an end. While Eric Bischoff did try to buy it, it was just the assets being sold & not the TV deal so it didn't make sense to him to do so. WWF does a simulcast for Raw & Nitro. While it might be the final Nitro ever, it's also WCW SPRING BREAK OUT 2001 BAB...

WWE Fastlane 2021 is in the books and we are now only 3 weeks away from Wrestlemania! Daniel Bryan faced Roman Reigns in the main event for the WWE Universal Championship, Randy Orton faced Alexa Bliss (so weird to write) which saw The Fiend return with a new look, and more. Also this past week on AEW Dynamite, Britt Baker & Thunder Rosa went to WAR in a Lights Out match which saw both of them...

WWF is running so well in 1999 that they thought it was time to launch a new show! Alas, WWF SmackDown is born! We take a look at the debut episode of SmackDown where The Corporate Ministry becomes a thing for the very first time. Also on AEW Dynamite this week, MJF betrays the Inner Circle and starts his own group. James, Johnny, & Tony also discuss the very best Eddie Guerrero Theme Songs of...

AEW Revolution 2021 has come to a close, with a controversial ending to the Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch between Kenny Omega & Jon Moxley! Also on the event, Sting has his first official AEW match, and Christian Cage makes his debut after much speculation on who their newest Hall of Fame worthy signing could be. The go home show for this event also went down, with Paul Wight (The Big Show)...

It's the night after Wrestlemania 19 and there is someone new signed on the dotted line to WWE RAW! It's Goldberg! Not only is Goldberg coming to WWE but Stone Cold is leaving WWE! Eric Bischoff fires him the night after Wrestlemania and he walks away for a bit. The go home show of AEW Dynamite going into AEW Revolution also happened with Darby Allin descending from the rafters like he is Sting to...

The famous Elimination Chamber returns as WWE holds WWE Elimination Chamber live in the WWE Thunderdome. We wrote WWE a lot there in that last sentence. There were 2 Elimination Chambers, one for the WWE Championship and one of the WWE Universal Championship #1 Contendership. There were also some other matches for some other things but come on, it's the Elimination Chamber. We know what you're her...

It is the turn of the millennium and WCW is looking to start the year 2000 off right! The key obviously is to fire Eric Bischoff, make Jeff Jarrett the commissioner of Monday Nitro, & give Scott Steiner a live microphone to talk trash about Ric Flair, a guy who he isn't even feuding with currently. This Scott Steiner promo is one of the most infamous Steiner promos, promos in general really, o...

The Rock held his famous 'The Rock Concert' on WWE Raw back in 2003! It is the build to Wrestlemania 19 where The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin will face off for the very last time. Stone Cold is not allowed in the building but ol Stone Cold finds a way around the rules as always. AEW held their TV special Beach Break this week where Kip Sabian & Penelope Ford had a wedding and KENTA invade...

WWE Royal Rumble 2021 went down with two Rumbles, one for the male & one for the female. The show also featured Roman Reigns vs Kevin Owens for the WWE Universal Championship and Sasha Banks vs Carmella for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship. Lots of returns including some of our favorite wrestlers ever! It's also time for the go home show to AEW Beach Break where Shaq cut a promo on Cody,...

Planet Jarrett has now formed & they put the bricks to Team 3D on TNA iMPACT! now newly airing on Spike TV! Gail Kim joined AMW and now Planet Jarrett rules the land. Planet Jarrett holds the Team 3D Funeral with Team Canada which turns out to be one of the best TNA segments of all time. It is -1 birthday (or maybe not) on AEW Dynamite and Chaos Project has some things to say! Luther gets CAKE...

The WWE Draft might be one of the most famous bits in WWE history! Back in 2002 after WWF bought WCW, Vince got real bored having no real competition for his shows so he decided they would split Raw & SmackDown to go head to head with each other. AEW Dynamite held New Year Smash Night 2 where Brian Cage & Darby Allin finally got to fight each other with the TNT Championship on the line. Ja...

The Bullet Club forms on AEW Dynamite! After Kenny Omega defended the AEW World Championship against Rey Fenix in the main event, The Good Brothers INVADED AEW and then they too sweet'd with Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks. NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 was also this week with 2 nights of wrestling action right in a row with a 3rd if you wanna count NJPW New Year Dash. James, Tony, & Johnny watche...

AEW Dynamite held an absolutely beautiful tribute episode for Brodie Lee which featured some of his co-workers & close friends telling stories of his life including a match booked by his son that main evented the show. Vince McMahon has hired the nWo to inject a lethal dose of poison into his creation, but it looks like the nWo have messed with the wrong man: Stone Cold Steve Austin. Ol Stone...

The 2nd Annual Deadies Awards are here! Voted by the community, for the community. We find out who wins the awards for categories like Wrestler Of The Year, Tag Team Of The Year, Match Of The Year, & Company Of The Year. All the Deadies awards ballots were voted on by YOU and then the winners were chosen by YOU. AEW held their Holiday Bash episode after a NBA game which kicks off a few weeks t...

WWE TLC went off the air with Randy Orton hitting his pose & The Fiend presumably dead from being lit on fire. Business is booming, baby! WWF Raw is still trying to find it's new "attitude" towards the end of 1997 as they introduce a new "WARZONE" hour and DX show their buttcheeks on TV a bunch but it's Christmas baby! The very same Christmas where Stone Cold Steve Austin gives a nice lil Ston...

TNA iMPACT! 2007 Christmas Episode might be the very best Christmas episode from any pro wrestling company in the history of all time, ever. It featured matches such as the Christmas Chaos Cage Match, Double North Pole Match, Santa's Workshop Knockout Street Fight, Silent Night Bloody Night Match, & the Grab The Reindeer Ladder Match. AJ Styles had to wear the turkey outfit on Thanksgiving in...

The Icon Sting made his AEW Dynamite debut this week coming face to face with Cody Rhodes, Arn Anderson, Dustin Rhodes, & DARBY ALLIN. THE SLOW BURN TO STING AND DARBY ALLIN. What a wonderful moment. The time machine gets fired up to head back to WWF RAW 2000. It's Christmas in 2000 and things are kinda crazy as The Rock faces Undertaker in the main event and Stone Cold Steve Austin faces Kane...

TNA iMPACT! was picking up steam to start off 2006 as they just announced that Sting will be coming to the TNA roster and they had just kicked off their new deal with Spike TV. With Christian Cage, Jeff Jarrett, & now Sting to hold down the fort while guys like AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Monty Brown, & Samoa Joe were on the come up, how could it go wrong? Well... that's for another ep...

WWE Survivor Series 2020 is now in the books & Undertaker has officially retired for like the 5th time this year. Taker is shooting for the Terry Funk record! Survivor Series saw Drew McIntyre vs Roman Reigns for the main event as the WWE Champion faced the Universal Champion for BRAND SUPREMECY. BRAND SUPREMECY REIGNS SUPREME. Thanksgiving is coming up so it's time to revisit a Thanksgiving e...

WWE wasn't doing so hot at the start of 1997. Things were very stale on Raw as Nitro was whooping their ass on a regular basis while things like the UFC are picking up steam & ECW is making a roar. WWE thought "hey, what if we did things with those guys?" In comes Ken Shamrock from the UFC & Paul Heyman with his ECW goons. Vince Russo takes over head booking around this time & well, he...

AEW held their PPV AEW Full Gear 2020 this past weekend which saw the main event of Jon Moxley vs Eddie Kingston in an I Quit Match, Young Bucks vs The Revival for the AEW Tag Team Championships, Hikaru Shida vs Nyla Rose for the AEW Women's Championship, & more. Speaking of more, Darby Allin faced Cody for the AEW TNT Championship where he has been touting himself as the Face of TNT lately. J...

WCW in the year 2000 is highly regarded as the best time in the company's history! ... okay, maybe not. But Scott Steiner was there & he has to dumb himself down when talking to these white trash & rednecks! Good enough for us. Vince Russo main events with Booker T in a cage match where the WCW Heavyweight Championship is on the line. It's been Vince Russo's dream since he was a kid to win...

WWE held WWE Hell in a Cell 2020 in the WWE Thunderdome where the main event saw Randy Orton face Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship inside the sinister structure, Hell in a Cell. The show also had Sasha Banks vs Bayley in HIAC & Roman Reigns vs Jey Uso in HIAC. Chris Jericho & MJF had a segment on AEW Dynamite called Le Dinner Debonair that seemed to split the wrestling community in t...

WWE SmackDown 2008 was sort of no man's land, but then again, WWE wasn't exactly on the upswing in 2008. The good thing is: SmackDown had a Halloween episode! It even featured a casket match between Undertaker & Chavo Guerrero as the main event. Vickie Guerrero at the time was SmackDown General Manager & she thought yeah... Chavo vs Undertaker. So that's what we got! Orange Cassidy faced C...

The good ol' world of WWE ECW. It is October 30th, 2007 & WWE ECW is in the Halloween spirit! The show is main evented by a Monster Mash Battle Royal between Mark Henry, Great Khali, Kane, & Big Daddy V. The only person actually on the WWE ECW roster at that time was Big Daddy V! One of the Patreon $5 Q&A questions this week also asked us to name our favorite spooky/horror themed wrest...