Shake Them Ropes | Pro Wrestling Podcast

This week it's the biggest wrestling week of the year, and we watched some of it. Kevin Dunn is gone, the Rock is back, and Mercedes/Sasha is going somewhere eventually. News, injuries, comings and goings and THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including how you don't start breaking up a faction as soon as you debut it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Ou...

This week Chris and Jeff go through the news, review what Jeff thought were the top stories of 2023, and then on the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM we preview AEW World's End give our picks for our favorite matches and a few off base predictions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jeff's travel woes caused this to be late but to make up for it we included King of the Ring 1993 on the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. Freezing Cold Takes on NXT Deadline and the guys critique where the Golden Jets/ Starks and Big Bill promo went wrong. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, post production in AEW going in a new direction, House Shows may be dead, and obnoxious in your advertising might be coming to WWE. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM with a preview of NXT Deadline and a week where things existed. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week in the news: QT Marshall quits AEW, Jeff explains torn labrums, Flair being Flair and we mourn WWE cutting McKenzie Mitchell. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Put your great promos on tv, the Punk promo was mid and in the wrong slot, fun matches from Rush/Mark Briscoe and Ilja/Nathan Fraser, and Chris tries to heal the world with a holiday EP and so much more. Advertising Inqu...

This week: Hot Takes on War Games and Ice Cold Takes on Full Gear. THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM is in full effect as CM Punk is back in the WWE, and the Young Bucks are Killing the Business. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we preview Full Gear, the Observer Hall of Fame issue is out, and THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. Now with 50 percent more positive things to say. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week: NXT to the CW, Vince is selling stock and a Bill Mercer sighting. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including: A bevy of topics including "fixing" women's wrestling, the tell don't show nature of AEW matches, who is the devil, and we pitch a match that is nothing but nut shots. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcir...

We watched Crown Jewel so you get HOT TAKES for a change. Then the news and THE LAZY RIVER OF CRITICISM. We talk Ric Flair, we talk another intra-Elite angle and tie that into the discourse of AEW "losing its way" Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Impact is now TNA again, Ric Flair is back onscreen again, and somehow Vince McMahon is Dana White's boss. Bad decisions abound as we talk all the news and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including giving flowers to the NBeXT era, are they pivoting to "Laundry Wars" for Survivor Series instead of the smart story and so much more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brand...

Chris is back, Vince is out of creative, Sting is retiring eventually and all the news and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including whatever we had time to watch this week. Plus: What would Shane McMahon's son's NXT name be? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week you get what you haven't in a long time: A HAWKINS RANT! Jeff wasn't happy with MJF/Juice, then Warren Hayes of the VoW family joins him to talk Tuesday's "war" and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM actually includes some New Japan. Plus at the end we get stupid by asking where the NWA ends up without answering "Who Cares?" Advertising Inquiries: https://r...

This week: Quick hits on the deaths of Russ Francis and Dick Butkus, Adam Copeland is in AEW and that leads us to THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: ICE COLD TAKES on a fun weekend with NXT No Mercy and AEW WrestleDream, a preview of WWE Fastlane, and we talk bad comedy, good acting and logical plotholes from both WWE and AEW. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-O...

This week, Jade Cargill talk, Turnstile-gate and the THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: previews of No Mercy and WrestleDream, why the MJF/Jay White segment was a net negative, and more! We start it off as all wrestling podcasts do: Duran Duran talk. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we're late, but you know, here. Smackdown goes to USA, WWE makes some cuts, and more news. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we see what we watched amongst all the voluminous amounts of content out there Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The TKO merger is done, Vince is "back" changing things and Jade Cargill might be changing addresses, plus THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including a debate on whether clever is the enemy of smart. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

CM Punk got fired. Lots of good wrestling on the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. We start with a music lesson and go from there. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hawkins goes solo as he talks Perry/Punk at All In, Cena back in WWE, the AOP on the roster and the women of Impact Wrestling. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: NXT then ICE COLD TAKES on All In and a preview of All Out and Payback. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We talk about the passings of Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt and Jeff's journey to becoming a Terry Funk fan through JCP. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we preview All In and a few quick hits on other WWE. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the news: Cash Wheeler gets arrested, CM Punk throwing weight and shade, Edge wrestles his last in WWE and Asuka addresses her enemies! Then the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Juggalo Championship Wrestling? Tony Khan booking everything at once on Dynamite, World Wide from this week in 1986 and MORE! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.co...

This week, we talk Robbie Robertson and William Friedkin, then onto the news-- scintillating Board of Directors discussion and WWE shakes up announce teams. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we pretty much loathed everything with a few notable exceptions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Elite re-sign with AEW, the Feds are looking into Vince, then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: ICE COLD TAKES on the Great American Bash, a SummerSlam preview, both AEW shows were strong and Chris for some reason watched NXT twice. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we ask the question was the AEW sign about the women's division acknowledgment or an attempt to spike the football? Vince gets surgery, is he now Mecha-Vince? Then the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: NXT Great American Bash preview, AR Fox, Collision missteps, the endgame of Jericho and Callis and should L.A. Knight be getting pushed harder due to his reactions. Advertising Inqui...

We enjoyed Collision and were a bit dour on Dynamite. THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM must flow because the children you were promised last week aren't on this week, and we explain why on that too. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week: Mantaur, Smackdown is the top show in ratings, AEW goes back to back weeks with PPVs and AEW talent gets a memo. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Collision, MJF/Adam Cole, should Nick Wayne have won his debut, Ilja/Bronn, NXT call ups post-draft analysis and MORE! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy