The Nitty Gritty Pro-Wrestling Show

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard examine the first Great American Bash under the WWE banner. We review the event and then rebook it from top to bottom with our own cards. What if Eddie Guerrero faced Shawn Michaels here or the Dudley Boyz vs The World's Greatest Tag Team? We chat about all that and more this week! Join us and let us know what you think of our cards. Please hit the "li...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard examine the career of Ray Traylor, better known as The Big Boss Man. We take each one of his unique characters in pro wrestling and rank them from #10 to #1. Join us as we share our memories about this popular star, including whether or not we remember War Machine and which one of us bought a real night stick! Take a look at our other videos such as Se...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard cover the career of Mark Young, an enhancement talent who was the adopted son of Chief Jay Strongbow. We tackle his career in WWE, WCW and Continental Championship Wrestling. What were some of his best matches? What prevented him from becoming a star? Join us as we discuss Mark Young, his various names and more! Let us know what your memories of hi...

This week on The Nitty Gritty we present you with an episode we recorded around the holidays, a movie review of "The Iron Claw"! We also review and recap the classic match between Kerry Von Erich and Ric Flair from 1984. Join us as we discuss the movie and review it as movie buffs and wrestling fans. Let us know what you thought in the comments and please hit the "like" and subscribe button. You c...

This week on The Nitty Gritty we have some new YouTube content...so for our podcast listeners Chad & Leonard are giving you a compilation of our Random Match Reviews which previously were only available on YouTube. Among the matches we covers: Chief Jay Strongbow vs Greg Valentine (Indian Strap Match), Jesse Ventura vs Hulk Hogan, Paul Orndorff vs Randy Savage, Psycho Sid vs Bret Hart vs Shawn...

This week on The Nitty Gritty we bring you two episodes in one! First we review the 2024 Royal Rumble from top to bottom. We then talk about The Rock and Cody Rhodes situation, including the showdown at the WrestleMania Kickoff event. We also chat about the Vince McMahon controversy. Join us for all that and more! Let us know what you think in the comments. Check out our other content as well, suc...

This week we delivered a new video on our YouTube channel so for our audio listeners we present the first compilation for What's That Card?! This is a show where we give each other random wrestling programs and the other person has to guess the company and year. If you've heard of this before, well we're trying it too! This is the first 6 episodes of the segment and we cover all sorts of programs,...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard bring you a delayed Rebooked episode! We are rebooking Halloween Havoc 1995 complete with Spin the Wheel Make the Deal, Chamber of Horrors and more! Join us as we review the original event and then create our own versions from top to bottom. You'll hear about Randy Savage vs Paul Orndorff, Dusty Rhodes vs Hulk Hogan and more! Let us know what think...

This week The Nitty Gritty goes X, not X rated but examining Wrestling Society X, the short-lived MTV pro wrestling show. In our latest episode of Super Reviews, we tackle the debut of this wacky show and go over each match, the sets, the commentary and more! Let us know what your thoughts, opinions and memories are of Wrestling Society X in the comments. And please do us a favor and hit the "like...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard discuss the attitudes of wrestling fans, the silliness of the AEW vs WWE debate, empty arena pics, social media trolls and much more! Join us as we rant about the IWC and the wrestling fanbase in general. Let us know what you think in the comments! Do us a favor and hit the "like" button on our YouTube videos and subscribe to all of our content @da...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard review the Audible Original Podcast entitled, "Ashley vs WWE: The Story of Wrestler Ashley Massaro." Does the podcast do her story justice? Who do they interview that is noteworthy? Is this telling of her tragic tale worth your time? We discuss all that and more! Let us know in the comments what you thought! Please hit the "like" button on our YouT...

This week on The Nitty Gritty Leonard presents his review of Eric Bischoff's second book, Grateful, written with Guy Evans. Leonard and Chad discuss the major points such as starting the podcast with Conrad Thompson, the beef with Tony Khan and much more! Join us and let us know what you think of our show, or the book, in the comments section. Please hit the "like" button on our YouTube video and...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Leonard chats about his weekend in Chillicothe, Ohio at the World Class Professional Big Time Wrestling convention and show, The Great Falls Bash 2: Season of the Hitman! Join us as we discuss the merch Leonard picked up, who he met, what talent had the longest lines, how the event was overall and more! Make sure to look for our other videos such as Segment Surgery,...

This week on Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard bring you a recap of AEW's WrestleDream pay per-view! How did the dream match between Bryan Danielson and Zach Sabre Jr. deliver? What was the best match on the card? Has AEW been pumping out too many big events? We cover all that and more! Make sure to check out our other videos as well, such as Segment Surgery, Stupid Questions, Random Match Reviews...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard take a look at what would happen if you erased certain pro wrestling legends from history. We took a collage that was posted online discussed various scenarios. What would the Attitude Era have looked like without Stone Cold and The Rock? Who would have been the NWA World Champion if Ric Flair had never been around? We discuss all this and more in...

This week on The Nitty Gritty Chad & Leonard present another Super Review! On this episode we watch and review an episode from GWF (Global Wrestling Federation) from January of 1994. Look for some familiar faces on this card such as Gentleman Chris Adams, JBL, Ahmed Johnson and more. And why are we making references to Bane in Batman & Robin, No Holds Barred and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure? Wa...

This week on The Nitty Gritty Chad & Leonard discuss the termination of CM Punk from All Elite Wrestling and the fallout. Was it handled correctly? How much will Collision suffer? Will Punk return to WWE? We discuss all thia and include a review of All Out 2023! Let us know in the comments what you think of this controversial situation. Check out our other videos as well, such as Segment Surge...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard recap and review All Elite Wrestling's All In event from Wembley Stadium! What did we think of all the matches? How about our thoughts on the CM Punk & Jack Perry scuffle? What was the best match? We discuss all that and more on this week' episode! We also have other content available such as Random Match Reviews, Stupid Questions, Segment Surg...

This week we continue to bring the SummerSlam heat by rebooking the 1997 WWF event from New Jersey! Chad & Leonard of The Nitty Gritty discuss SummerSlam '97 from top to bottom and chat about whether or not the Tag Team titles should have been defended, how Ken Shamrock could've been used better and if the main event should have been a triple threat. Join us and let us know how you feel about...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard looks at NXT's Great American Bash 2023 and SummerSlam 2023 and review them both! Join us as we discuss our predictions, the best matches and the ones that left us flat. Was Jimmy Uso's appearance the major surprise? Let us know what you thought of these events (and our thoughts on them) in the comments sections below. And make sure to hit the "lik...

Hello to all of our podcast listeners! This week Chad & Leonard of The Nitty Gritty wrestling show are bringing you another installment of Fever Dreams. This is Fever Blast 2! This is the game where we use a random name generator to display matches that we debate. Join us as we discuss Tim Storm versus Sgt. Slaughter, The Mega Powers vs the Hollywood Blondes, Bianca Belair against Awesome Kong...

This week Chad & Leonard of The Nitty Gritty have another compilation of our YouTube videos, specifically our Random Match Reviews! Here are the 5 matches we will be covering:Dusty Rhodes vs Ivan Koloff (Texas Death Coffin Match)Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat (Landover, MD Match)Hulk Hogan vs The Genius (Saturday Night's Main Event Match)Randy Savage vs Steve Austin (WCW Match)Shawn Michaels vs...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard return to the Fever Dreams universe! For this edition, we are only using talent that are (or were) in a wrestling family. Join us as we debate The Rock's family facing the Harts and the Fultons, and a mixed tag with the Vachons facing 2 of the Von Erichs! Make sure to check out our other videos as well, such as Segment Surgery, Stupid Questions, Ra...

This week on The Nitty Gritty, Chad & Leonard bring you another edition of Super Reviews, where we take a random episode from a territory and cover it from top to bottom. For this one we tackle Texas All-Star Wrestling from the mid-1980's! It features Shawn Michaels with his first tag team, Fred Ottman before he became Tugboat and a young Kawada. Join us as we discuss the Texas wrestling terri...

Hello podcast listeners! This week we have some new content on YouTube so we decided to give you all the 4th compilation of our Stupid Question series. Here are the questions we cover:1) What is the Worst Championship Ever?2) What Wrestler Would You Most Like to Travel With?3) What the Best Wrestling Nicknames?4) What is Your Favorite Multi-Man Match?5) Who Would You Select as Your Tag Team Partne...