The Sweet Chinwag Podcast

6 years. 6 YEARS! We cannot believe that we have reached this point. Honest to goodness, we can never thank you enough for you constant support for the Sweet Chinwag. As a celebration like we do every year, we ask YOU to give us questions to ask for a mammoth Q&A episode... Oh and Dan and Melee have returned!

What a moment. What a match. As a continuation of our celebration of The New Day, We watched and chatted away about Kofi's crowning moment at WrestleMania 35. We ask if the match still holds up several years later and just how important this was for wrestling a whole.

If you have listened to us for a long time, you know we are huge fans of The New Day. So it came as a shock to us when we found out Kofi and Woods' release from WWE. We had to do a frank episode on why we love these three men so damn much. Not much else except gushing about these guys for a hour. We hope you enjoy!

Another year, another batch of releases of talented people from the WWE. So it's time to talk about some of the releases and the weird decisions as to why. Basically, capitalism. TKO capitalism this time! We'll be back soon with far more positive episodes.

Video Editing has proved to be an amazing tool for fandoms and creatives to pay tribute to their favourite pastimes. Pro Wrestling has a storied history of video editors online and on this episode, Sam and Riordan (both video editors themselves) are joined by one of the most prolific editors in the wrestling space, JOSHIGIO as they all have a frank discussion on editing, what it has done for them...

There are some matches that change the very fabric of the wrestling industry. Where two opponents who never met until their fated day, instantly connect and create magic... And some very crazy highspots! On this episode, we're joined by uber Omega fan Fey of our dear friends on Untitled Wrestling Podcast to discuss the match that really was love at first sight. Kenny Omega vs Kota Ibushi from DDT...

Hey everyone! Apologies for the gap, we've had a lot of life stuff happen as well as guests having the same thing. So we had to take a couple weeks off to recoup and decompress. We're back and we're here to have a proper chat about this weird point we all find ourselves in as fans. The first real downward trend in WWE since the TKO merger and under Hunter's leadership. We chat about how we got her...

Finn Bálor. Man what a twisty, turny and ultimately fruitful time he has had in WWE. He built his legacy in Japan and came over as a huge deal in WWE, starting in NXT and building the Black & Gold brand from his demonic fingers to his main roster run thrusted into the main event scene before carving his path back from injury all the way to WrestleMania title matches and eventual leadership of The...

It's the most romantic time of the year as we mark this Valentine's Day with a very important topic: Who do we as fans ships wrestlers with other wrestlers? Riordan is on hosting duties as him and Sam go over the much debated topic of the internet fandom and wonder if love can truly bloom in the squared circle. NOTE: as we clarify in the episode, we're shipping the on-screen characters and gimmick...

We discussed the event as part of the last episode on Channel 4, but now it's time to finally talk about this iconic match in great detail! This Match Focus is on Cactus Jack vs Triple H. Sam and Riordan chat about the story that led to this match, the long rivalry of the two and the brutality of the match.

The WWF was one of the big pop culture touchstones of the late 90's. With that comes vested interest from broadcasters to bring it to a wider television audience. Sky Sports were the main channel of WWF in the UK for a long time, but only to a select few who had access to cable television. Come late 1999, Channel 4 wanted to bring the product to terrestrial television for the first time and struck...

2025. A weird year. A very testing and different year in Pro Wrestling. A lot of things changed but a lot of things came from it. There was good though and this year is celebrated on the 6th Annual Sweet Chinwag Awards. Riordan, Sam and a pre-recorded Dan give you their favourites, though quite shrunk down from previous years due to them taking a long break in the middle!

With the end of the year in sight, we need to discuss John Cena. His retirement year, his best moments, matches and rivalries. We're not alone, as we are joined by our dear friends Tyler El Guapo and The Good Bad Bruv Podcast! We wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and we'll see you next year!

When the announcement came that DPW would go on hiatus for the foreseeable future, we knew we had to talk about one of our favourite promotions... And bring a friend on to chat with us. On tis episode, Sam, Riordan and Melee are joined by Daveedosan as they discuss their favourites parts of what made the promotion run by Pulse, Tony and Johnny so enduring.

On this episode, Sam is joined by returning guest El Balisong as Bal educates everyone about the Filipino Indie Wrestling scene and go over Zack Sabre Jr's matches that elevated the scene and gave it eyes on an international scale.

To cap off the Black History Month portion of the month (took a little longer than a month... Sorry!, Sam and Riordan sit down and have a proper discussion about Tony Atlas. They go over the good, the bad and then decide whether he is a good wrestler and deserves his placement in the Hall of Fame. It's a crazy way to end this stint of episodes.

Swerve Strickland's career so far has been so varied and prolific, that he has more than earned his status as a main event player. In this episode, we go over his early life, his start in wrestling, the indie days, Lucha Underground and his runs in WWE and AEW.

To cap off our short stint for Hispanic Heritage Month, we focus on one of the most iconic matches that took place in Arena Mexico. Atlantis vs Villano III from 2000. the Mask vs Mask match. We give our opinions, thoughts and final ratings on this classic.

Back into the swing of things with Hispanic Heritage Month as we cover the life and career of our most endearing subject on the podcast: KeMonito! The start, the legend, the memes. We cover it all on this episode. This one is for MeleeHellBot

So hey. We were gone a while weren't we? But we are all glad to say we are back and happier than ever. This episode is a very frank conversation about the where, the why and what we'll be doing moving forward. From us four, we cannot thank you enough for asking how we have been during this time and when we would come back. Let's get back to tuning up the band once more!

Sweet Chinwag is back for June and for our celebration of Pride Month! This month, we're taking a look at our favourite wrestlers in the LGBT+ community and our favourite moments. This week, Dan & Sam go over the career of one of wrestling's most important names of the modern era, Mercedes Martinez. We go over her early life, career and highlights from SHIMMER all the way to her time in WWE and AE...

Hey everyone, massive apologies for no episode this week. Technical glitches and fatigue set in in one form or another for all of us. So rather than keep you in the dark we wanted to update you on matters as well as give you all recommendations for the corner. We'll be back this time next week with a brand new episode and our 5 year anniversary!

Welcome to a brand new Sweet Chinwag project, Prime Time Chinwag! A watch along series where we invite a guest to watch absolutely anything and everything wrestling or non-wrestling and have a laugh! Our debut episode is the inaugural UFC event from 1993! Note that future episode will be exclusive to our members over on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/SweetChinwag

So the wrestling world is now in a very weird place, especially coming from the fallout of WrestleMania 41. Rather than going with a subject, the chaps are joined by a returning Andos and a debuting El Balisong as we go over the week's news and our thoughts on 'Mania and the fallout from it. It's quite the different episode, so sit back and hopefully listen in.

We've already done an episode about the wider world of wrestling merch, but by golly does WWE know how to stick the WrestleMania logo on stuff and sell it to you! So for this episode to wrap up the road to WrestleMania, the chaps come up with their favourites and not so favourites of 'Mania Merch! All of that, plus a slightly condensed news segment!