How Wrestling Explains the World

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's  here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. For today's second part of our look at the bWo, Nick and Dave break down the most important matches in the history of the faction, w...

Nick and Dave kick off the next cycle of How Wrestling Explains (sponsored by One of the Greatest Heroes in the History of Our Pod, Michael Montalbo) with a discussion of ECW’s answer to the nWo, the Blue World Order. The episode explores how three lovable goofballs (Stevie Richards, the Blue Meanie, and Nova) turned a game of dress-up into one of the all-time achievements in wrestler-audience res...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here bi-weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject  wrestling explains in ways you may not have realized. This week, we're looking at the MCU film Black Panther. The boys start off with a focus on the history of positive representation for black performers in professional wrestling history,...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's  here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, along with "The Whole Afinshou" Daron Jackson, Dave and Nick explain the impact of The New Day in the 20th entry of their...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's  here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, along with "The Whole Afinshou" Daron Jackson, Dave and Nick explain the impact of The New Day in the 20th entry of their...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here bi-weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject  wrestling explains in ways you may not have realized. This week, Nick and Dave are with Kaboom (&K2B22M) author and friend of the show Mark Macyk deconstructing the biggest shows of the year for professional wrestling and professional footb...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. In honor of the newspeg provided by this weekend's Royal Rumble, the boys have made it the 19th entry into their eve...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. In honor of the newspeg provided by this weekend's Royal Rumble, the boys have made it the 19th entry into their eve...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here bi-weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject  wrestling explains in ways you may not have realized. This week, we're look at the concert film Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads (and directed by  Jonathan Demme). The boys break down the tricks of making taped performances seem alive, th...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part BB of our Season 2 Premiere, which we're ending truly the greatest multi-part episode in the history o...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part AA of our Season 2 Premiere, which we're starting off with truly the greatest multi-part episode in th...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is our Season 2 Premiere, which we're starting off with truly the greatest episode in the history of our sport...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth weekly discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. Because we live our lives on the end of a lightning bolt and do not apologize for that, we've decided to return to something slightly different for this...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today we take an in depth look at the concept of Kayfabe for the seventeenth entry to our wrestling compendium. It's...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here bi-weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject  wrestling explains in ways you may not have realized. This week, we're look at the story of Dr. Frankenstein; Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (along with the stories/controversies behind its publishing) and its many, many adaptatio...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part 2 of our look into The Four Horsewomen -- Charlotte, Becky, Bayley and Sasha -- the sixteenth entry to...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part 1 of our look into The Four Horsewomen -- Charlotte, Becky, Bayley and Sasha -- the sixteenth entry to...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized. This week, we're using Fallout as a lens through which to view the rise of John Cena, the effect of commodification/sequelization on transcendent art and whether everything new is neces...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part 2 of our look into Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Matches, the fifteenth entry to our wrestli...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part 1 of our look into Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Matches, the fifteenth entry to our wrestli...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject  that -- at least this week -- helps explain wrestling in ways you may not have realized. This week, we're taking a look at Bad Movies to try and uncover what makes a movie so bad it's actually fun to watch and why the conversation around bad w...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. Today is Part 2 of our deep dive into Halloween Havoc, the fourteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Ni...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we're talking about Halloween Havoc, the fourteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick spen...

The Wrestling Estate ‘s  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar 's  Nick Bond  are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject  that -- at least this week -- helps explain wrestling in ways you may not have realized. This week, we're taking a look at the ways in which Epic Storytelling helps to illuminate some of professional wrestling's most consistent and most consis...

The Wrestling Estate 's  David Gibb  and  Juice Make Sugar's   Nick Bond  are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we're talking about "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, the thirteenth entry to our wrestling compendium....