The Wrestle Special

Travis asks a computer AI if wrestling's most infamous urban legends are true. No seriously. A robot answers his questions, and helps Travis shine light on the darkest depths of wrestling lore!

While there are many things that make up a great pro wrestler, there's not an effective way to measure them. On this episode, Tim Daniel joins Travis on a quest to create the perfect pro wrestling statistic, and inadvertently create a few not so perfect ones too.

You ask the questions, Travis answers them. In this mailbag: Will AEW have stables, is it time for John Cena heel turn, which era of wrestling would I watch if I could only watch that era, and more!

If you think wrestling is about great promos and high risk moves, guess again! Travis brings hot guy expert Amber Moreau to the show to revisit Wrestling Ringside Magazine's landmark March 1988 "Sexiest Wrestling Hunk" contest and see how the hunks stand up to modern standards.

You ask the questions, Travis answers them. In this mailbag: What would Travis' wrestling persona be, who's hotter Sting or Goldberg, what is Travis' creative process like, and more!

Despite not being able to think of a pun title for the episode, Travis and guest Jake Goff gush about their favorite finishers, what makes a finisher "the best", and debate their necessity in modern wrestling.  

There are a lot of pro wrestlers named Dick. Travis sorts through the best of them so you don't have to.  

If you have a significant other who isn't into wrestling but you want them to give it a chance, here's your blueprint! Travis brings his wife Jess on the show to discuss her skepticism of wrestling, her eventual fandom, and (Spoiler Alert) presenting Travis with the big gold belt on their wedding day!  

In one of the many infinite alternate realities, Juicy J and DJ Paul were hired by one Vincent Kennedy McMahon to be the lead composers and songwriters for the WWE. This is a retrospective of their greatest wrestler entrance themes.

It's the heist of the century....Travis brings Matt Applegate back on the show to build an elite team of wrestlers capable of pulling off the greatest heist in WWE history. Is their team worthy of stealing from the McMahons?  

Has a wrestling podcast ever used the epic poem Dante's Inferno as a way to critically view WWE during its not so finest hours? Probably not, so here are "the nine circles of WWE Hell". Part 2 contains Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery.

Has a wrestling podcast ever used the epic poem Dante's Inferno as a way to critically view WWE during its not so finest hours? Probably not, so here are "the nine circles of WWE Hell". Part 1 contains Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, and Greed.

The Wrestle Special turns 1! Travis welcomes Tank Mansfield back to the show, and they celebrate all the things in wrestling that didn't last as long as The Wrestle Special! John Cena eating at Subway! Wrestling Society X! Thunder in Paradise! If it didn't last a year, it's fair game!

What was it like raising a teenage boy during the Attitude Era? Travis and his mom relive the biggest boom period in pro wrestling in all of its sophomoric, sleazy, and hardcore glory!

Can a heel ever go too far? Travis welcomes back Brian Byrley to the show to discuss the bad guys of pro wrestling. From Muhammad Hassan to Eddie Guerrero, cancer, body shaming, and everything in between, they set out to answer the question: how heel is too heel?

You see the title. How do Travis and special guest Bethany Ellen relate pro wrestling to dogs? Roddy Piper, a wrestling jack russell terrier, pro wrestler dog breeds and more! Your favorite pro wrestling podcast not always about pro wrestling just got weirder!  

Intergender wrestling is one of the most divisive topics in pro wrestling today. Liz Sparks joins Travis to build their dream intergender card and to answer once and for all if intergender wrestling is the END OF PRO WRESTLING!

While pro wrestling hasn't been around near as long as tattoos (3370 BCE!), Travis brings on special guest Jaimie Filer to discuss why pro wrestling and tattoos aren't that different, their favorite guilty pleasure wrestler tattoos, what BFF tattoo designs wrestling factions would get, and Travis gets tattooed live on air. Maybe the last part was a lie, but you won't know unless you listen.

The title says it all...30 musicians battle it out in a traditional Royal Rumble match. Does your favorite artist have what it takes to put 29 other icons of the music industry over the top?  

Travis once again teams up with Matt Applegate to bring back the Tag Team Mixer, this time with SUPER TAG TEAMS. We think that's the term that makes the most sense, but we're not sure if it's the accepted term, so basically, we take teams like The Mega Powers and mix them up with teams like The Rock N Sock Connection. Cool? Cool.

Travis and a returning Iann Robinson discuss their wrestling predictions through 2028, look back on Sport's Review Wrestling 88's predictions though 1998, and decide to record a wrestling album that actually might probably happen. Among the predictions: Wrestlemania in space, Michael Jackson managing wrestlers in the WWF, Making a Murderer: Hulk Hogan edition, and more!

2003 was a landmark year for hip hop. Travis brings David Chimusoro on the show to convince him that Macho Man Randy Savage was the main reason for this. Was Be a Man the rap album of 2003? OHHH YEAHHH! 

Hip Hop and Wrestling have long enjoyed a crossover audience. Ted Beaver joins Travis to discuss the connections between rap and wrestling and talk WWF Aggression, who is Biggie and who is Tupac in the Mega Powers, and Ted plays "John Cena or Mumble Rapper".

Missy Hyatt is one of the most controversial and legendary figures in professional wrestling's history. Using her autobiography as a guide, Travis welcomes Tank Mansfield back to the show to see who can build the greatest stable from the wrestlers she's dated. Hyatt hotel puns were kept to a minimum.

In modern wrestling, gimmicks aren't a requirement. Some would even say the concept is antiquated. One gimmick type that has survived and thrived over the years are ones based in the occult! Meggie Baker returns to talk the best occult gimmicks, why they are so popular, and why THE WWE IS AN ILLUMINATI CULT OF DEMON CLONES DETERMINED TO ENSLAVE THE HUMAN RACE BY THE ORDER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.