Tunnel Talk

Beautiful Anne is a-traveling this week, so friend of the pod Sarah joins us again to help us review the week in wrestling. She brings her wild breadth of knowledge to the table and we force her to use it to discuss things like "is it sexual for MJF not to understand his changing body?" We have our fun!  The girls get into it about whether the Elite would be good parents to Takeshita (no),...

This week on Tunnel Talk: Darby Allin (and his sheer pantyhose); leg lamps; more outfit talk on the subject of Orange Cassidy’s lumberjack match against QT Marshall; the Dynamite Diamond Ring Battle Royale featuring every man on Earth but ending with a win for Ricky Starks, who can now challenge for the ring (and we spin a little yarn about how that could, but won’t, go). And then MJF and Ricky St...

We're back! Did you miss us? We missed you! We had a LOT to discuss--last week Regal gave a promo and said nothing, then this week MJF gave a promo and also said nothing. Strong work! Mox is done with both of them and moved on to issuing open challenges to any and all who might be listening.  Cue our favorite cowboy showing up to do more kissing pose!  Plus: it's Game 2&3 of Elite vs D...

Joy has finally returned to Mudville, because the Elite are BACK, baby! Not only did we see their bodies — which thankfully were as juicy as we could've hoped — but we also had a great time during the rest of the PPV and feel very optimistic about where things are headed! The Acclaimed premiered a delightful new music video; Swerve and Keith Lee did some great longterm storytelling; Jamie Hayt...

This week, we start with our standard check-in on the status or non-status of the Elite and do a thought experiment about how their bodies might look after having been out of our vision for so long! We preview what we know is coming up at Full Gear, and Lea was at the live show this week so we have her on-the-ground reportage of all the excitement (and non-excitement). To start, the Acclaimed &amp...

Boom, boom, baby, AEW is BACK. Maybe. I mean, the Elite are still playing games with our hearts and there are still too many ROH men running around. But we're thrilled to speculate wildly about what Colt's return means for the soul of the company. Another thing thrilling us? Toni Storm and Jamie Hayter were pandemic ROOMMATES? And then Jamie ignored Toni when she saw her again? Baby, that&...

The Elite are back, baby! Sort of. Kind of. Not quite, actually, and it's brought us to a place of frankly quite concerning energy. Are we happy they're coming back? Of course we are. Are we still struggling because we haven't yet seen their beautiful bodies? Absolutely. There's an extended metaphor where Private Party is cranberry juice, and we get in our dumbest fight yet, splitt...

We tricked Collective Crush of the Pod Trish Speirs (@trishspeirs48) into joining us for an extra special bonus episode!  It's a long one folks, but it's not our fault as we were spellbound by everything Trish had to say.  We got into it about Hangman's title run and the ways in which he succeeded and the ways in which he never got a chance.  We also ask Trish about the AEW originals w...

First up this week at AEW, Mox & Claudio beat Butcher & Blade on Rampage. Then we cover the big news of the week: Hangman and Mox square off, but Hangman is injured during the match (he seems to be doing okay). Also: Danielson and Yuta do a sit-down interview with Renee. Ace Steel is officially let go. William Regal and MJF get some backstory, and we talk about MJF more generally. Jericho,...

This week, Mox and Hangman stepped into the Quantum Leap Accelerator to run back the world title fights the way they should have played out. Hangman gave an emotional promo that hit these girls where they live, not just because of the elite mention, but also because we're depressed, anxious and angry! We've always said it: Hangman is a relatable king.  Elsewhere in AEW, OC won a belt! Hey...

Day 34. Still no Elite. Every day the sun is setting earlier but Tony Khan just lets us sink further into the depths of despair. We discuss what they could possibly be investigating at this point, and what obstacles TK must have to be fist-fighting through to find out the results. We also talk through the shoot fight between Sammy and Andrade (tedious), Mox and Hangman's beautiful titty-to-tit...

It was a weird episode of Dynamite, but Lea was at the live show in Philadelphia so we have her on-the-ground reporting to help us break it down. This week, Sammy defeated Eddie in a match that we took quite personally.  Then, Saraya gave her first AEW promo, and we have some feedback for all involved. Hangman defeated every other male wrestler in the company in a Battle Royale for a shot at the A...

Day 20. Still No Elite. But we're doing fine, everyone says, and this episode definitely proves that. At least we have the Acclaimed, our light at the end of the tunnel. Or the middle of the tunnel. Or maybe a light that's leading us down a dead end side tunnel. Anyway, we're pretty happy Mox won the World Title, devastated that Orange Cassidy didn't win the Study Abroad title, and...

It's been a weird week in AEW with almost no further news on fallout from The Scrum, and I think you'll find that we're handling it really, really well, emotionally. God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers and the Tunnel Talk crew are the bravest girls in the world as we somehow manage to discuss Sammy Guevara and what he could do to try to redeem himself with the crow...

Hey, it’s our All Out episode, and boy do we go all out in our coverage of the pay-per-view! The girls review it match by match—haha, just kidding.  Can you even imagine? We talked about the scrum. Boy, did we discuss the scrum. Thank God Allie and Producer Marjorie are back because this was an episode that NEEDED a full team. We get into it about Punk’s muffin, The Superkicked Door, our Best Frie...

This week is another very special episode as Anne’s brother, Christopher, and his wife, Robin, join Anne and Lea on the pod to talk this week in AEW. We start off with the status of Punk vs Mox, including Punk signing a contract to fight Mox on this weekend’s PPV. In an upset this week, the Dark Order defeated House of Black, and it looks like Hangman will join the Dark Order to fight in the trios...

This week Allie missed a banger of a Dynamite episode by going to Australia, so Lea's legendary friend Sarah joined us instead to talk all things AEW! You wouldn't believe all the stuff that happened the week: Kenny came back to tag with the Young Bucks, Sonny Kiss came back to team with the... Trustbusters? CM Punk came out to call out... Hangman? Don't ever let anybody tell you that...

Allie returns from seeing Quake on a Lake, and while the Kennaisance Has Still Not Yet Been Televised, we make the best of it anyway.  We discuss some of the new people we’ve seen this week, intelligently discourse on the topic of Jamie Hayter, and then GET INTO IT about the trios tournament bracket. There’s a lot of ways this thing could go, and we’re not fantasy booking, we’re fantasy betting on...

This week on Dynamite, the Undisputed Elite return and Adam Cole betrays the Young Bucks, and who should come save them but Hangman. We get into what all this means for their relationship with Hangman and, potentially, one day, Kenny. Then, Best Friends & OC fought Jay Lethal, Satnam Singh & Sonjay Dutt on Rampage in a comedy match for the ages and OC fought Jay Lethal on Dynamite and lost...

Lea got to see Dynamite in person this week because TK loves her more than us, but everybody had plenty of opinions to share about a very surprising and entertaining week in AEW! The big news of the week was that Jungle Boy leveled up his promo work and had learned some very adult new words, having it out with Christian while the specter of Dead Luke Perry, as always, loomed over everything. Will...

Happy Shark Week from our family to yours! This week on AEW, Swerve and Keith Lee celebrate their tag title win on Dynamite. Eddie and Jericho had their big barbed wire match, and we discuss Jericho’s problem with going TOO big. Best Friends’ long-term storytelling pays off this week when they fight Mox and Yuta, giving them a chance to let out their emotions about Yuta’s betrayal of his original...

It's another huge crossover event, as we welcome Marty DeRosa of Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling to the pod! He's a longtime wrestling fan so we got to pick his brain on topics like the appeal of FTR, what makes for a good belt storyline, his favorite wrestling moments, and then had a ball finding out about things like 1-900 wrestling hotlines of the past. We also got him playing our classi...

So Long, Sweet Bucks Summer! It's Swerve in our Glory season now, and we're not mad about it! Orange Cassidy's still on his crusade to reward us for our weeks of patient desperation with banger match after banger match, blessings to him for that. Also we award 10,000 sweet kisses to his two ratboy managers as Trent and Chuck are on very different pages about how "cheating" work...

This week's Dynamite had a weird energy, but our energy? Flawless. Our patter? Naturalistic. Our imagines about Orange Cassidy going to summer fishing camp? Extended. It's another week on Tunnel Talk where we discuss important issues like: what exactly is a street fight? Why does Wardlow's hair look so stupid when he's wrestling, and what should he do about it? How activated were w...

Hey, big news in our neck of the woods: Chuck Taylor's back! We've never been happier to see our very favorite guy even if he did look absolutely deranged. Oh right, also Forbidden Door happened which was "technically" also big news. We saw LOTS of new men including Claudio who earned a high rating from 2/3s of the pod, and a "meets expectations" from one harder grading gal...