DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

WWE SmackDown 2002 was knee deep in what fans refer to as the "SmackDown Six Era." During that era, WWE also held a special Halloween episode of SmackDown literally on Halloween - October 31st! It featured John Cena as Vanilla Ice, Eddie Guerrero as Zorro, & Kurt Angle as Ghostface. A lot of crazy stuff happened! On AEW this week, Butcher ended up facing Jon Moxley in the main event for the AE...

WWE held Clash of Champions 2020 live in the Thunderdome which saw Roman Reigns face Jey Uso in a WWE Universal Championship match along with other matches like Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles vs Jeff Hardy in a triple threat ladder match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship & Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre in an Ambulance match. Christian Cage made his TNA iMPACT! debut on Spike TV back in 2005 as...

WWE SmackDown has really taken a turn for the better in 2003 as Paul Heyman & co turned the SmackDown Six into a really well rounded show. Hulk Hogan is back as Mr America & is a thorn in Vince McMahon's shoes. Vince McMahon makes Mr America take a lie detector test to determine if he is really Hulk Hogan or not & it turns into one of the most memorable segments of all time. Vampiro's...

WWF is on the road to WrestleMania 15 and the Attitude Era is in full swing. Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Rock are preparing to go to war, but at the same time, the Big Show has become the newest member of the Corporation. It's causing a rift between The Rock & Vince McMahon. Tony & Johnny revisit an episode of RAW from 1999, where The Undertaker & The Ministry of Darkness sacrifi...

AEW held one of their flagship PPVs, AEW All Out 2020! The show was main evented by Jon Moxley vs MJF, also featuring Chris Jericho vs Orange Cassidy in a Mimosa Mayhem match, FTR vs Kenny Omega & Hangman Page, Hikaru Shida vs Thunder Rosa, & more. David Arquette released a wrestling based documentary named 'You Cannot Kill David Arquette' that featured his return to pro wrestling against...

One week after WWE SummerSlam 2020, WWE decided to hold their next PPV, WWE Payback! The main event was a returning Roman Reigns facing off against The Fiend & Braun Strowman in a triple threat match where Roman Reigns can do whatever he wants cause hes the big dawg, baby! The Dark Order comes out with a Nightmare Casket just like the dancing casket meme after Brodie Lee straight up merked Cod...

WWE held SummerSlam 2020 in their new THUNDERDOME arena where The Fiend faced off against Braun Strowman in the main event, Drew McIntyre defended his WWE championship against Randy Orton, Mandy Rose faced Sonya Deville in a LOSER LEAVES WWE match, Seth Rollins faced Dominik Mysterio in a Street Fight, and more. Brodie Lee faced Cody for the TNT Championship on AEW Dynamite and completely merked h...

TNA was finally making a profit in 2009, their roster was incredibly impressive, & things were finally looking stable. Dixie Carter decided to use that momentum & try to create a massive shift in 2010 by signing Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and every single former WWE wrestler she could possibly find. This would of course backfire in spectacular fashion, but it's fun (not really) to look bac...

TNA opened in 2002 running weekly PPVs out of Nashville, but in 2004 something big happened - TNA secured a tv deal with FOX Sports & started running shows out of Stage 21 in Universal Resort Orlando; TNA iMPACT! was born! X Division is the main event, Shark Boy is on the show, and AMW is the #1 tag team in the company... what a great time. AEW Dynamite held a SUPER DEBATE between Chris Jerich...

WWE Monday Night Raw back in 2003 was in the middle of the "Eric Bischoff Era" also known as the TNN era. Triple H was running roughshod over Raw as World Heavyweight Champion in the middle of his infamous "reign of terror." The 2003 Royal Rumble was coming up & HHH needed someone to face so who better than Scott Steiner? HHH & Scott Steiner spent weeks having contests & challenges aga...

WCW was on fire in 1998 with the nWo & nWo Wolfpac leading the shows, but they also had a secret weapon: Goldberg. Goldberg had just broken 100 wins in his legendary streak when WCW booked a Monday Nitro show in Georgia, Goldberg's home town, in the Georgia Dome. 40,000 people attended this Nitro. Yeah, you read that right. 40,000 people attended a weekly episode of WCW Monday Nitro. With a ho...

WWE held The Horror Show at Extreme Rules 2020 at the WWE Performance Center this past weekend which saw the two marquee matches being Seth Rollins vs Rey Mysterio in an Eye for an Eye match along with The Wyatt Swamp Match between Braun Strowman & Bray Wyatt. Impact Wrestling also held their yearly Slammiversary PPV event which saw a lot of new arrivals in the form of The Good Brothers, Eric...

Back in 2011, TNA tried creating a wrestling product for Speed TV by the name of All Wheels Wrestling. A crossover between pro wrestling & racing! It featured Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, The Human Cyclone, & Shawn Daivari. Of course, Daivari had to be named Dubai. Pro wrestling really can't stop itself sometimes. AEW held Fyter Fest Week 2 which was main evented by Orange Cassidy vs Chris Jer...

Back in the beginning of 2009, TNA iMPACT was still running strong. The Main Event Mafia was headlining the shows while the TNA Frontline tried to take them down themselves. This particular episode of TNA iMPACT, the Main Event Mafia took over the show completely! They produced the show themselves down to the commentators & ring announcer (Scott Steiner is ring announcing - it's fantastic). Th...

SmackDown 2004 was an interesting year for WWE: Brock Lesnar is gone, Eddie Guerrero has stepped up to take that spot that Brock left & a lot of guys are beat up & injured. John Cena is starting to get mega over, but isn't all the way there yet. Kurt Angle is the general manager & Big Show is out for blood. Also on AEW Dynamite this week, Orange Cassidy confronts Chris Jericho before t...

WCW Monday Nitro was still going strong in 1999. While they were losing to WWE Raw more often than before, the show was still pulling strong ratings with the nWo & nWo Wolfpac leading the way. James, Tony, & Johnny take a look at the infamous episode of WCW Monday Nitro where the entire first hour had ZERO wrestling. Hell, they didn't even get into the arena till hour 2! The boys also disc...

WWE holds The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever at WWE Backlash 2020 with Edge vs Randy Orton in the main event where they went damn near close to 45 minutes. Drew McIntyre also faced Bobby Lashley & there was a Super Giant Ninja appearance. Tony Hawk also made his AEW debut with Darby Allin where Darby decided he was going to do a sick drop-in off a ladder. James, Tony, & Johnny break down th...

WWE is deep into the Attitude Era in 1999; Characters like Val Venis, Mr Ass Billy Gunn, The Rock, & Stone Cold Steve Austin have taken over television sets across the world & things have gotten edgy. James, Tony, & Johnny revisit an episode of Raw from 1999 where The Rock tosses Stone Cold Steve Austin off a bridge right before their match at WWE Backlash 1999. In Your House features...

TNA in the year 2006 had a lot of steam: SpikeTV had offered them a primetime slot on television, Christian Cage was now in TNA, and Kurt Angle would make his debut on TNA iMPACT right before their biggest show of the year, Bound For Glory. James, Tony, & Johnny discuss the go-home show to BFG 2006 where Kurt Angle made his TNA iMPACT debut going head to head with Samoa Joe. The Inner Circle h...

AEW Double Or Nothing 2020 went down this past weekend which saw the event headlined by the Stadium Stampede match between The Elite & The Inner Circle where so much crazy stuff happened including Hangman Page on a horse, Matt Hardy changing gimmicks underwater, a 20ft fall One Winged Angel & so much more, but also co-main evented by Jon Moxley vs Brodie Lee for the AEW Worlds Championship...

WWE launched WWE ECW after the success of ECW One Night Stand 2005 with WWE ECW on SyFy. James, Tony, & Johnny go back in time to revisit the WWE ECW episode BEFORE ECW One Night Stand 2006 where WWE is trying to get all their viewers to check out the ECW on SyFy show - sorta the very first WWE ECW episode. Chris Jericho destroyed Vanguard 1 with the Inner Circle on AEW Dynamite. One of the la...

WWE held their most recent PPV, Money in the Bank, where the men's & women's MITB matches were held at the same time in WWE's headquarters, Titan Towers. WWE Superstars started at the bottom of the tower & had to work up to the top to grab the briefcase. AEW held a street fight on a live episode of AEW Dynamite where Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara faced off against Kenny Omega & Mat...

James, Tony, & Johnny revisit the end of WWF 2001 where Booker T & Stone Cold Steve Austin were feuding with each other more specifically the RAW where they go to the church. New information came out that a WWE writer pitched Vince McMahon a story about taking Hornswoggle, stuffing him in a pillow case, and then throwing him off a bridge to his death. VERY GOOD PRO WRESTLING. The boys also...

Triple H celebrates his 25th wrestling anniversary on WWE SmackDown this week with Vince McMahon coming out to call him a big dumb idiot & releasing a bunch of Triple H socks on WWE Shop, James & Johnny take a look back at a few episodes of SmackDown in 2003 that center around Brock Lesnar & Kurt Angle at the time, and the boys briefly discuss some of their memories of Wrestling Societ...

WWE has announced that Money In The Bank is still happening, but the MITB itself will happen in Titan Towers offices and they will fight from the bottom of the building to the top, ala DDT. WWE releases 60+ people, probably more into the hundreds, right smack dab in the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak when these people can't work. James takes the boys back to a SmackDown in 2005 where Kurt Angle s...