Tunnel Talk

 It’s the crossover event of the century!! Sarah Shockey from Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling joins the Tunnel Talk Girls for a freewheeling conversation on how she got into wrestling, what she prizes in a storyline and her opinion on the mysterious answer to What Women Want. Plus we made her play our very favorite dating game, and we came up with some truly amazing scenarios. Hangman and Abadon at...

This week, we break down Christian Cage’s heel-turn promo on Dynamite in which he tells Jungle Boy what he really thinks. Then: Orange Cassidy was back in action and thrilled to be there, and we were thrilled to see him, even, or perhaps especially, teaming up with Roppongi Vice (vs Will Ospreay and Aussie Open). Next, Hangman fought Silas Young with Adam Cole on commentary. Willow Nightingale fou...

This was a true crossover week on AEW, as torrents of New Japan men poured all over us — some of us ended up loving it while others of us less so, and that’s how you know we’re independent minded women who are NOT in a full-time echo chamber. The Young Bucks took the tag team titles off Jurassic Express in a match that slapped, followed by Christian Cage finally going full heel after experiencing...

Hey Punk's gone! Probably forever. Wait, actually not forever. But for awhile. But maybe not that long. Is this confusing? We give up on figuring that out and instead try to make sense of the Chaos Battle Royale for the Interim Big Boy Belt with limited success. Trent Beretta continues to punish us for sins unknown by teaming with FTR,  and we ARE going to ground that young man as soon as we f...

It’s an extra-long episode to go with an extra-long PPV! (The PPV should’ve been shorter, but our episode? You decide!) First, MJF’s extracurricular activities and the MJF vs Wardlow match both certainly happened. And then we have no choice but to discuss the Double or Nothing main event: the Punk vs Hangman title match, plus Punk’s heel turn and character as a whole. And then there’s everything e...

It's our Pre-PV episode and your dumbest girls make our very smartest predictions about how it's going to go down. Plus this week in wrestling: Hangman finally gave us the perfect promo we'd been begging him for, but how much of it was shooting on Punk's backstage behavior? Wardlow had his cage match with glistening Christmas Ham Shawn Spears, and MJF (shockingly) was NOT a very et...

This week on Tunnel Talk we discuss, first and foremost, the total and complete meltdown we had when we thought Best Friends was breaking up, which sort of derailed our viewing of the rest of Dynamite this week. But we bravely soldiered on! It was quite a little fever dream of a week at AEW, with MJF's public flogging of Wardlow, William Regal revealing that he nonconsensually sticks other wre...

AEW was in Long Island this week, and we cover an important tournament going on! The Owen Hart Tournament? No, this is one in our hearts, and it’s the stiff competition for the Damon Salvatore Mommy’s Little Ham Award for Boys. But we cover that first one too: Jamie Hayter and Toni Storm had their quarterfinals match, and once again we must confront the dichotomy of “good wrestlers” vs wrestlers w...

It's another week here at Tunnel Talk and what a weeky week it's been! Beautiful Angel Hangman has come out of the gate foaming at the mouth and we could potentially be into it. Serena Deeb had shockingly interesting energy in her promo with Thunder Rosa. Is this the beginning of our journey to becoming big Deebheads? Plus Bobby Fish (time traveller from the 1940s) fought Jeff Hardy (time...

It's SPRING BREAK and another exciting week on Tunnel Talk, where we discuss whether we've done a 360 or a 180 on Jade -- the consensus is that it must be a 180, because we love her now. We also get into the excitement of Christian Cage going full disappointed-dad on Jungle Boy, whether Ricky Starks and Will Hobbs should take the tag team belts (yes, obviously, you big dumb bitch), and the...

Kyle O’Reilly fought Jungle Boy this week, and we think you’ll agree that all of us have normal reactions to it and Kyle is a perfect rat boy. Then, Adam Cole fought Hangman in their big Texas Death Match—it was a banger, as is Hangman’s ongoing character work both in-ring and out. We also cover Dustin Rhodes vs CM Punk; Tony Khan’s latest big announcement; the Bucks: depressed now; Thunder Rosa v...

Big Yoots finally got the fatherly handshake of approval and the strict parenting he’s been craving, and good for him. Wardlow didn’t get the MJF beatdown he’s been craving but we sure laughed our way through that segment so also good for him. The foursome of Swerve, Keith Lee, Ricky Starks and Hobbs continue to show the rest of the roster what cool is, and guys? Take note, please. Plus we’re very...

This week AEW was in Boston, and Lea was there to give us some on the scene reporting! Should she have been allowed so close to the ring when it was only last week that she enthusiastically opted to kill Matt Jackson? Probably no, but we couldn't stop her. We discuss whether we've been infected by the FTR bug that's hit the rest of the internet (absolutely not), and how we feel about C...

It’s been a week, and this week we start off by checking in on the MJF/Wardlow feud and associated goings on in the Pinnacle. Then: reDRagon delight us; we get into some Marko Stunt contract talk; and, at long last, we have a very sexy match to discuss from little Yuta, who fought Danielson this week. We also cover Mox vs Lethal, Eddie vs the Jericho Appreciation Society, Max Caster vs CM Punk, Ny...

It’s a loose one this week and we weren’t even on the bubbly! There were a lot of strange matchups to cover, and we tried our best to make sense of them. From fantasy booking Julia Hart and Kris Statlander joining the Blackpool Combat Club to debating whether reDRagon is emotionally ready for the responsibility of the belts. There were things we liked (Swerve hitting on Ricky! Max Caster getting t...

This week we celebrate one full year of Tunnel Talk! That's right, it's our podcast-iversary -- you'd think that after a whole year of podcasting we'd know all kinds of wrestling stuff, but if there's one thing we girls do? It's defy expectations. We celebrate by each downing a full bottle of Chris Jericho's vanity champagne (excuse me, "American sparkling wine"...

It was PPV week, so we have an even more ungodly amount of content than usual to talk about! We rate some new men (Erick Redbeard, Swerve Strickland), then dig into the Eddie vs Jericho match and resulting beef and therapy session, the Hangman vs Adam Cole showstopper (including costume talk!), the tornado tag team match (fashion highlights!), and a very delightful ladder match! And then, thank go...

This week, we get the third installment of MJF and CM Punk’s soliloquies, and we remain big marks for our Shakespeare boys!  Sammy cruelly refuses to give us backstory for why he’s suddenly pals with Darby, so we invent some for him. Have you considered writing “Support the twink union as we try to keep out of Andrade’s Child Sweat Shops,” on some of those cards, Sammy?  Plus Top Flight’s back, an...

We start the episode by benchmarking our lives by when we learned to love our Brass City Bitch, and it just gets more normal from there! We get into the fantastic promos this week by Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho, and CM Punk and MJF (who gets awarded Best Performance in a Leading Role), as well as Bryan Danielson's disappointingly appropriate match against Daniel Garcia. We also do a deep...

The big news of the week is that Cody and Brandi Rhodes have left AEW, and there’s a shocking amount to say about it. From the crowd reactions he gets to his own brand of wrestling storytelling, how did Cody see his role in the company and where did the cracks form? We’ll speculate as informedly as ANYONE could! Then all the action from this week: Hangman vs Adam Cole cut a promo and the Elite are...

Wrestling was GREAT this week, and so is this episode!  The misery of the Inner Circle’s Mandatory Family Arbitration Session sent us into hysterics, and so did Andrade as he FINALLY got to meet Mister Sting.  Tony made us meet two MORE new men, but we LOVED Keith Lee and his meditative symphony of pain. We’re reserving judgment on Jay White so far, but to be fair, the Bucks seem to be, too.  We c...

This week? Not our favorite. AEW took a fun little dive into the waters of sexism and misogyny and it was deeply trying. It's the dead of pandemic winter, the weather sucks, we're all depressed, and now we have to deal with this garbage without even being able to do some violence about it? Hangman knows what we're talking about. We cover the two (2) cursed Dan Lambert segments in this...

We're thrilled to all be back together this week! Also back is Mox, looking good and fighting Ethan Page. Next: a Nick Jackson v Trent singles match (ft. Matt and OC ringside) that raises some questions, like: where is the Trent storyline going? We don’t know but we have some ideas. Then OC and Adam Cole had their Lights Out match, and Danhausen debuted! Happy!!!! Plus: Jade Cargill v Anna Jay...

Anne is away this week, so we called upon some friends to serve as guest hosts for this week’s episode!  Anna and Josh aren’t wrestleheads but they got into the spirit of the thing, with Anna declaring herself a Darby girl right up front, and Josh bravely agreeing to offer a much needed man’s opinion on the events of the week.  Their takes on Mox’s return, Adam Cole’s kissing abilities and the hot...

Your favorite dummies from Tunnel Talk come roaring back from break with a lot to cover and more opinions than you can shake a stick at! All of them frankly concerning — we start with Lea worrying she’s going to get brainwashed into liking the Big Bang Theory and end with learning how Allie’s feelings for Kylo Riley are similar to the omicron surge, so your thoughts and prayers are deeply apprecia...