The Monday Night Scores Wrestling Podcast

The Scores is back to review a new Monday night fight between WWE Raw and it’s WCW rival Nitro. We may have been on the sidelines for a spell, but Nitro settled us back in with the usual mess as a bribed Booker T, the presence of the Taskmaster and Hulk Hogan forgetting his own name all had us scratching our heads. Meanwhile, over on Raw, it was the first run out since Wrestlemania, and a ram-pack...

TMNS take their first trip to WrestleMania, with the 1996 edition of the WWE’s annual extravaganza coming under review. An Iron Man epic for championship gold featuring Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels filled the main event slot on a show that also included a big debut, an inexplicable squash and an unscheduled bra and panties match. For our thoughts on this and more, give that play button a click.   

Join us for this special episode as two thirds of the Scores squad report their findings from London’s O2 Arena, where they attended WWE’s Money In The Bank 2023.

There’s a double dose of WCW in this episode of The Scores, before Raw takes us home for Wrestlemania XII. We start with a review of the PPV Uncensored, a title that also applied to all of Eric Bischoff’s booking meetings for the show, then it’s on to Nitro, where the Lex Luger renaissance builds up a head of steam. Across the aisle, there were fireworks expected from WWF as they signed off a mara...

The Scores steamer is leaving the station for another review of Monday Night Wars action, with Nitro looking to build on their 13-10 lead over Raw. Bischoff’s boys are flying thanks to the white-hot Steiners and the shock resurgence of Lex Luger, while the Dungeon of Doom’s turgid quest to kill Hulk-a-Mania continues…unfortunately. Raw have got Wrestlemania right around the corner, so Vince and th...

It’s a 2-on-1 handicap match on this episode, as two Raws go under the Scores microscope alongside a solitary Nitro. There’s some biblical ball dropping from the boys booking WCW, pitting The Giant against Hacksaw Jim Duggan to counteract WWF’s official unveiling of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Thankfully, there’s a show-saving performance from the Steiner Brothers, before Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and co...

Our short break is over and the Scores Squad are striding back down the ramp for the first TMNS of 2023. The latest Nitro features a Chicago-centric squabble involving the Road Warriors and WCW’s tag team champs, while the uneagerly-anticipated debut of the Bootyman besmirches the main event slot. Meanwhile, on Raw, we hit a traffic jam on the road to Wrestlemania as…not a lot happens at all reall...

Join us for Raw, Nitro and In Your House 6 on this episode, as the WWF returns to the Monday Night Warzone following a week-long stint on the sidelines. Vince McMahon’s troops served up a stellar show featuring Goldust, a Stone Cold Ringmaster and The Undertaker, while Razor Ramon delivers a promo for the ages after a PPV to forget. Meanwhile, The Bootyman ditches his Zodiac gimmick to sully a dou...

With the network forcing Raw into a seat on the sidelines as America’s finest canines slid into their regular time slot, this week in ’96 allowed Nitro a free swing at Monday night’s wrestling masses. Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and Ric Flair all featured, but Bischoff’s boys’ decision to unleash the Loch Ness Monster on the helpless TV audience and poor Scottie Riggs provided the show’s most notewor...

Nitro’s ratings win over Raw last time levelled The Monday Night Scores at 9-9 and the boys are back to review another 90’s wrestling ruckus as both brands look to reclaim the advantage.  Plenty of revelations on this week’s shows – Hulk Hogan can’t do first aid, Diesel swings both ways and, thanks to mystery assailant Paul Orndorff, we learn the broom is mightier than both the pen and the sword. ...

Be warned - the temperature of the warmest July on record is about to go up as TMNS returns with some smoking hot takes on 25-year-old wrestling. There’s confusion on Nitro, as Hulk Hogan impersonates the Yetay, Ric Flair hijacks the commentary booth and home favourites, The Road Warriors return…in their away kit. Meanwhile, WWF treat us to some staggering Vince McMahon hypocrisy, a dull display f...

This week’s episode of The Scores packs more meat than a triple-stacked Big Mac, as the team review the ’96 Royal Rumble, in addition to the regular Monday Night Wars wares. It’s mishap mayhem on Nitro, where botches galore and Hulk Hogan thunder theft underlines an episode to forget for Bischoff and the boys. While on Raw, Jim Cornette unleashes a new monster on the Federation (for one week, at l...

The Monday Night Scores boys are back in town for Season 2 of the 90’s wrestling podcast everyone (or, more likely, only one) is talking about and we’re roaring down the road to the Royal Rumble. With their self-proclaimed Super Bowl equivalent just around the corner, WWF put some stars in the ring, some chaos on the camera and some Sunny in the bath, as the higgledy-piggledy-est Raw we’ve seen so...

It’s another 90’s wrestling review from the Monday Night Scores squad and this time we’re joined by a very special guest. Yes, here to talk us through the Brother Love Show is only Vince McMahon. Sounds difficult to believe, doesn’t it? If you’re questioning the claim…well, your suspicions are absolutely spot on, but we HAVE got the next best thing, with one of the team aping the promoter’s oesoph...

The banners are up and the cakes are out at TMNS Towers as we celebrate our first anniversary. And to mark this momentous milestone we have gone…MANIACAL. Yes, that’s right, we have succumbed to the powers of Hulk-a-mania and produced a highlight reel showcasing the finest TMNS moments featuring the prayer-uttering, vitamin-gulping, baldness-denying, American-made, Hulk Hogan on our show. What els...

With 95’s festive frivolities finished, the WWF and WCW duly resume their ratings ruckus, giving the MNS boys a first glance at the wrestling wares being peddled in ’96. First, we check in on Vince McMahon’s clan, who flushed a dismal ’95 down the (Raw) bowl and welcomed the new year with a new-fangled American football-themed, tag team elimination match/pigskin pun frenzy that was such a raging s...

The summer is heating up, so cool off with a trip back to the winter of ’95 and Part Two of our WCW Christmas Special.  We sample the offerings from box office blowout Starrcade ’95, as WCW’s flagship PPV bombed like a Blitzkrieg pilot in 1941. Ted Turner’s coin counters may have been wanting for action in the days that followed, but what few punters coughed up to see this show had plenty to keep...

Christmas ’95 saw a brief armistice called in the Monday Night Wars, but there was no time for no man’s land football between Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff, as Nitro went it alone for their Starrcade go-home show. We saw all three competitors scheduled to feature in Starrcade’s triangle match take to the ring, as Lex Luger met Scotty Riggs and Sting went up against Big Bubba Rogers. The pick of...

Coming in hot from a short stint on the sidelines, the MNS boys are back with another dose of 90s nostalgia. This time we’re reviewing week 15 of The Monday Night Wars, as the run up to Christmas ’95 continues apace. Raw held their festive bash the night before this episode aired in the shape of box office blow out, In Your House 5: Season’s Beatings. The sluggishness that typically follows compan...

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a clash between in-laws and In Your House 5: Season Beatings sees two turkey-chewers from the Hart family dinner table collide with gold on the line.    We’ve got the champ, Bret Hart, taking on his sister’s lesser half, The British Bulldog, in the main event of this Yuletide PPV, with said sibling/wife, Diana Smith, spectating at ringside.    Preceding this nuclea...

The lads are back with another episode of mid-90s wrestling action featuring more comedy than you can shake a 2x4 at.    Speaking of which, we see perennial woodsman Hacksaw Jim Duggan go head to head with the Total Package Lex Luger on WCW Monday Nitro, where Duggan’s terrifying tease has Los Liam diving behind el sofá. It’s not all scary though as we get another high-flying wresting clinic from...

Ste, Jim and Liam return to ’95 to cast their eyes over another instalment from wrestling’s most famous ratings fracas. Raw grant an unimaginable amount of air time to the most unpalatable of sources in a tasteless segment that has far outstayed its welcome…as Brother Love returns for another interview. There’s plenty of time for talking this week though, as the good doctor Jeremy Unger gives us t...

Three shows, three “giants” and three times the Mean Gene segments anybody could reasonably expect...   Never mind the rag sheets, this is where the real scoops are at! Join Ste, Jim and Liam for a comedy-packed run through of WCW’s World War 3 ‘95 PPV with a right mess of a main event.   We then deal with the fallout on Nitro the following night where, in amongst some superb Japanese women’s wres...

It’s a new year, but the same old tin hats are back on as we review our first Monday Night Wars battle of 2021.    First up, Los Liam gives us the low down from Survivor Series ’95, where the Undertaker delivers a royal beating and Bret Hart takes Diesel’s WWF title, much to the delight of…erm…Diesel, apparently.    The following night on Raw, HBK is at the epicentre of a medical emergency, Earl H...

Join us as we roll out the red carpet and wield Hulk Hogan’s Maid Marion sword to anoint the knights of the 1995 wrestling realm in the first ever TMNS New Year Honours List.  The debate is fierce as we look to bestow such prestigious accolades as Best Wrestler, Best Match and Jobber of the Year on the most deserving grapplers and, as we dole out the titles, we unearth a peculiar, yet absolutely l...