The Wrestle Special

The long awaited return of Wrestletheticals is here! Travis asks wrestling's greatest hypothetical questions to guest Matt Applegate, including if a sex tape would lead to a race to Mars, which wrestler would be cast as Shrek in a live action Shrek movie, which songs from the Batman Forever soundtrack would make the best Monday Night Raw opening song, and more!

Many would say Santa Claus is not a viable gimmick in pro wrestling, but they would be wrong. Travis scours the globe to find which Santa-esque traditions throughout history could make it in the world of pro wrestling, including a log that poops presents, 13 mischievous gnomes, and more!

Have you tried shoehorning the Mario theme into a podcast episode description? It's impossible. What's not impossible is finding the connections between pro wrestling and Nintendo. Travis brings Andy from The Road Home From Wrestling podcast onto the show to discuss N64 wrestling games, which era of WWE is the Wii U, Travis does terrible 8 bit impressions and more!

Are you a wrestling fan? Do you have questions about climate change? Do you wish a podcast used Alexa Bliss as a way to measure the Antarctic ice melt? If you answered no to all of these questions, you should still probably press play.

You ask the questions, Travis answers them. In this mailbag: Does blading have a place in wrestling in 2019, would I wrestle baby Yoda, who I would put in a wrestler Human Centipede, and more!

Bring Buff Bagwell to the family dinner this year as The Wrestle Special takes the NWO somewhere they've never been before: Thanksgiving. Travis matches the members of the NWO with their corresponding Thanksgiving food in an episode no one asked for!

Travis brings Bethany Ellen back on the show to introduce her to the extreme world of deathmatch wrestling. She has no idea what to expect. She hates tension and confrontation. There will be blood. There may be tears.

Travis delves into the archives of wrestling forums past to discover if wrestling fans have evolved over the last 20 years. The short answer is no. But still listen. 

Nothing unites or divides us as much as pro wrestling...aside from religion. Travis brings Jaimie Filer back on the show to talk the parallels between the two, pitch Vince McMahon the Old Testament, and more!

Travis uses Cerebro to locate new mutants in the world of pro wrestling, and builds a team of gifted "youngsters" to become the X-Men, because T-Men sounded too weird. Eat your heart out Charles Xavier. 

Travis watches one of the worst reviewed wrestling PPV's of all time, Halloween Havoc 2000, and finds 3* good things about it!   *The asterisk denotes that Travis says a lot more than 3 good things about Halloween Havoc 2000, but they all fall under one of 3 main points. Yes this asterisk was completely necessary.

How can Vince McMahon make the WWE women's tag division better? By stealing from the greatest female tag teams in TV sitcom history. With the help of listeners, Travis presents the best teams that could rule tag team wrestling for years to come.  

While The Wrestle Special has found parallels in many things unrelated to wrestling, Travis didn't have to look that hard to find them in horror. Tank Mansfield returns to the show to talk spooky gimmicks and which horror monsters (minus the obvious ones) would transition best to pro wrestling.

In one of the many infinite alternate realities, President Trump is impeached, and one of the other WWE Hall of Famers inducted in the celebrity wing must win an emergency election and become President. Mike Pence gets nothing in this reality by the way, if that wasn't clear.

While Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has cemented his legendary status as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, his standing amongst the legends of his current profession, the action hero, has yet to be established. Travis brings on Ted and Andy from the podcast Largely Unlikable to establish the benchmark for a good action hero: The Johnson Line.

You ask the questions, Travis answers them. In this mailbag: Which wrestler has the best elbow drop, best one off tag teams, items I would put in a wrestling time capsule, and more!

Becoming "King of the Ring" usually signals an ascension to the main event...but what if there was a prize that was far greater? Travis brings Matt Applegate back on the show to find out which King of the Ring winner is worthy of the Iron Throne.

With the help of a storyline generator, Travis officially submits his application to join WWE's writing staff by booking long term storylines based off of the nonsense the generator spits out. Have you ever wanted to know how a storyline based around Sasha Banks impersonating Grumpy Cat and marrying Triple H would work? The answer lies within.

Travis buys 36 packs of WCW trading cards from '91 and brings his friend Maria on to the show to discuss why she hasn't watched wrestling in 30 years, why Scott Steiner is crush worthy only with long hair, and how pro wrestling unites us all! 

Travis tries to find 5 good things about Lex Luger, but only comes up with 4.5! 

Travis brings his wife Jess back on to the show to talk her passion, Plants! What ensues is a discussion about which plants would be best used as weapons in matches and a deep dive into the most plant like match type: The Buried (Planted) Alive Match!

In an effort to spread love and wrestling in the wake of senseless violence, Travis spotlights Dayton wrestlers and Rockstar Pro Wrestling.

Sex sells and pro wrestling is no exception! Travis brings on Josh Rosenthal to discuss wrestling's best sexual gimmicks, who's entrance music is best to make love to, and the first ever "Kama Sutra position or wrestling move" trivia game!

Travis looks at WWE's greatest unsung heroes throughout the company's many eras! Yes, even the PG Era!

The episode Dana White doesn't want you to hear! Travis brings on Matt Applegate to talk about the colliding worlds of pro wrestling and MMA. Should the UFC adopt low blows? What are the greatest MMA tag teams that will never exist? Throw on your most bejeweled Affliction tee and press play....The Wrestle Special does MMA.