Tights and Fights

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! It’s always a great time to help this show continue for as little as $5 a month. Just go to maximumfun.org/join . Drew McIntyre is WWE Champion! Just one week after we’d noticed that the company seemed hesitant to shake things up at the top of the men’s card, the Scottish Psychopath beat Cody Rhodes for the top titl...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! This December to be a Member, it’s a great time to help this show continue for as little as $5 a month. Just go to maximumfun.org/join . It’s the first episode of Tights and Fights in the new year! What an eventful couple of weeks we’ve missed so far– tons of championships changed hands and many new faces appeared a...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! This December to be a Member, it’s a great time to help this show continue for as little as $5 a month. Just go to maximumfun.org/join . This is it– the final Tights and Fights episode of the year! We take a look at some of the biggest wrestling stories of the year– which stars took a step forward in their careers?...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! This December to be a Member, it’s a great time to help this show continue for as little as $5 a month. Just go to maximumfun.org/join . With the end of the year upon us, it’s time for a lot of reflection on the year in wrestling. But one subject was so big  that we couldn’t help but devote an entire episode to: the...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! This December to be a Member, it’s a great time to help this show continue for as little as $5 a month. Just go to maximumfun.org/join Please support some marathon efforts and the National Alliance on Mental Illness As of the publication of this episode, there are only a few hours left in John Cena’s career as a wre...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! This December to be a Member, it’s a great time to help this show continue for as little as $5 a month. Just go to maximumfun.org/join . Lindsey Kelk is back, fresh off of seeing Survivor Series live in San Diego! The rest of the team made due with watching the show on ESPN’s terrible app. Response to the last Premi...

This is a special preview of Bonus Content that’s now available. To hear the whole show go to Maximum fun dot org slash join and become a MaxFun Member. It’s as little as $5 a month and gets you access to the BoCo Library with thousands of hours of audio. When we last spoke about the wrestlers who made the jump from AEW to WWE and became champions, our beloved Lindsey Kelk was unable to join us. B...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! To help this show continue for as little as $5 a month, go to maximumfun.org/join . Our beloved Mike Eagle returns to talk all about wrestling! For you longtime listeners, this is the original cast of hosts with him along with Hal Lublin and Danielle Radford. And we’re excited to catch up with him on several things...

This podcast is made possible by the generous contributions of our MaxFun Members! To help this show continue for as little as $5 a month, go to maximumfun.org/join . Fresh from the West End, Hal Lublin has returned! And there’s tons to catch up on after a couple of weeks away from the news: There are new champions and challengers across every show for WWE: John Cena is the new Intercontinental Ch...

This is a special preview of bonus content for MaxFun Members. To sign up for a membership and help this show continue for as little as $5 a month, go to maximumfun.org/join . Brenda Snell and Austin Taylor from the MaxFun podcast “Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries”  join producer Julian Burrell for an unusual conversation: Pokemon. Already a worldwide phenomenon, franchise recently had a promoti...

It’s all the latest and greatest of wrestling headlines ahead of Saturday Night’s Main Event.  The biggest match of the show will be Jey Uso vs. CM Punk  for the World Heavyweight Championship. But did the WWE kind of shoot itself in the foot with their talking segment? The Main Event In July of 2013, WWE launched Total Divas on the E! Network. That eventually spun off into Total Bellas, Miz and M...

It’s a big week for championships in the WWE this week– the deck continues to be shuffled ever since Seth Rollins was injured. Titles were defended and lost across both of the main shows. Which of these new champions are we most excited for? And where are those who came up short left in the final months of wrestling in 2025? The Main Event In April 2023, WWE established the newest version of the W...

WWE’s Crown Jewel PLE is in the books– and we actually think that Perth Australia got a pretty solid show! Hal, Danielle and Julian discuss what they think worked:  Roman continuing his drama with the Bloodline was really compelling and something that we missed a lot; John Cena and AJ Styles had a great match acknowledging their collective decades of wrestling; and Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes pro...

This weekend is WWE’s Crown Jewel in Perth, Australia. It’s the rare edition of the event that isn’t taking place in front of a backwards murderous regime. So for now, the biggest drama is whether or not the ESPN app is finally ready to handle a WWE PLE… and if WWE can manage to turn around its recent string of pricing out its fanbase. The Main Event Maybe you're sitting there thinking that while...

Danielle and Lindsey are joined once again by our pal John Walsh, best known as Super Eyepatch Wolf on YouTube . It’s been a while since he joined us, so we’re excited to catch up. Plus we’ll discuss a bit more about WWE’s WrestlePalooza, AEW’s All Out and where the Big Business TKO version of WWE is falling short. The Main Event Well in the never ending parade of wrestling news from the last five...

Hal, Lindsey and Julian are back in the fold, ready to discuss Wrestlepalooza.  This was the first PLE that’s part of WWE’s partnership with ESPN. And just being able to watch the show presented difficulties for both us and a lot of other fans. Perhaps that could have been forgiven if the show was great– but we agree that it was middling at best. Very few surprises, matches with minimal builds and...

This episode originally aired in 2024.  Jamie Loftus is a huge fan of The Big Show, as she explained the last time she was on our show . In 1999, The Big Show was the WWF champion. In the storyline, his father had just died. And the man who really had a problem with it was the Big Boss Man; he interrupted the ten bell salute, read a poem making fun of him and was a general menace for a few weeks....

This interview was originally published in 2022. Hal, Danielle and Lindsey are joined once again by our pal RJ City . WrestleMania 38 featured a surprising amount of celebrities in major matches on the card. This continues a proud tradition in wrestling of bringing famous people on to have a good time and hopefully bring new eyes on the shows. RJ will tell us about some of his favorite celebrities...

This interview was originally published in February. Hal and Danielle are joined by former WWE Champion Ettore “ Big E ” Ewen. It’s been some time since we’ve seen him in a wrestling ring. But he’s stayed extremely busy: You can catch him on the Peacock series “Laid” and on Netflix’s “WWE RAW Classics.” Hosted by Hal Lublin and Danielle Radford Produced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun.  The musi...

Hal, Danielle and Lindsey are shocked to see WWE’s partnership with ESPN manifest itself VERY early. Wrestlepalooza will air live at the end of September from Indianapolis. But there are a lot of issues revealing themselves in the modern WWE streaming portals– Lindsey will explain that no matter how much you’re paying for Netflix, you’re still dealing with ads. The Main Event: Hollywood reporter p...

Hal and Danielle are joined by Denise Winkelman . A former wrestler and current comedian, she tells us about some of the stories about getting trained to be a “Mad Scientist" character. Plus, we’ll learn more about some of the big names she’s worked with as well as the… interesting financial advice she was given early on. Plus, did Naomi just deliver the greatest pregnancy announcement of all time...

Say it ain't so… Naomi was not medically cleared to perform last Monday Night on RAW. With the caveat that we don’t know the reasoning yet, we rampantly worry about what the future holds for her and the World Championship. Plus we’ve got some fun things to discuss about the current state of the World Heavyweight and WWE Championships as the scene for both titles continues to grow. Also, a breakdow...

It was the first ever two night Summerslam event in history. And it was marred in controversy for booking decisions and real-life implications: The most striking is that for the first time in recent memory, WWE publicly acknowledged Donald Trump on its show. The relationship between the company and some of its executives (including Paul Levesque) isn’t surprising– but there have been those who say...

We had some major late-breaking news that necessitated coverage: the death of Hulk Hogan. Most outlets have focused on his status as a high profile figure of wrestling and pop culture. But for many, he’s remembered as a man whose racist opinions were recorded and published; in addition to being a liar who made false claims to support his own narrative. Danielle and producer Julian deliver some qui...

Take a deep breath because with all of the wrestling from last weekend you have little time to rest before SummerSlam. After so many wrestling shows, we have so much to get through and unfortunately it’s not all good news: Adam Cole was pulled from AEW All In for an injury that was severe enough that he considered immediate retirement. And Seth Rollins has apparently hurt his knee again– thus upen...