Waffly Bollox

after an unscheduled break last week, we're back!!!!! so now we've got two weeks' worth of wrestling to fit in, including what the gremlin Elite have been up to lately, why we want Cope and Mercedes to embrace the dark side, and, you guessed it, we're fantasy booking Hangman again. also, the ghost of Chuck Taylor haunts the narrative. minor silliness ensues. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, I...

Orange Cassidy got on the microphone and said “I hate this”, and you know what, we felt that. Chuck Taylor is never going to wrestle again and so we will never be happy again. luckily we saved a couple of our games from last week so we had something to cheer us up at the end, but listener beware: this one gets real weepy in the middle. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and...

we’re sad girlies this week. Trent Beretta gave his Best Friend Chuck Taylor an ultimatum and then they made each other bleed about it in the parking lot at Daily’s Place. we are soft of heart and this was a lot to handle. (but there were light tubes, which is always nice!) also this episode, we are big fans of piledriving billionaires, we’ve solved the Hangman problem, and we, um, played a game o...

we’ve just had a pay-per-view, and you know what that means… HEART RATINGS™. your girlies run down the AEW Dynasty card, from Zero Hour to the main event, dishing out infinite heart emojis as they go. the Bucks on ladders? new TBS champ Willow Nightingale? Adam Cole’s evilest face? and new world champion Swerve Strickland? SO MANY HEARTS. we also tried to make Chuck Taylor a triple crown champ usi...

you know when we said last week we'd got all sensible? yeah, no, not so much this week. topics covered include: lipstick warfare, hair bobble violence, breaking the fourth wall with Matthew Jackson, and a variation on the trolley problem where we mostly concluded that we should never be put in charge of anything important. much to think about. much to giggle at. links and things: @wafflybollox on...

well, the Bucks said they were gonna show backstage footage from All In, and boy did they. the internet fully exploded as security camera footage of CM Punk’s violent altercation with Jack Perry behind the scenes of AEW’s biggest show ever was aired as part of this week’s episode of Dynamite. and if we’d recorded this episode on, say, Thursday, there might have been most unhinged cackling, but act...

oof, what a manic weekend!  not that we watched, you know, that thing. instead, we’ve been gorging ourselves on indie wrestling courtesy of the GCW Collective, and then watching Supercard of Honor and having ALL THE EMOTIONS. every single one. did you know that we love Ring of Honor? because we do.  we also believe in workers’ rights, keeping receipts, and the sacred love between a wrestler and hi...

our hearts are broken this week, and yes we know never to trust a wrestler, but there are definitely some wrestlers we thought would never hurt us, and yet… here we are. broken. bruised. (still very ready to give Chuck Taylor a big hug.) this week’s Dynamite was an emotional one, but at least we had Toni Storm to pick us up. also, somehow we still managed to talk about Hangman for a bit this week?...

if Hangman was a flavour of crisps, what flavour would he be? honestly, we can’t promise you any kind of answer to that question. this week, we’re just kind of all over the shop, but we did really love the two tag tournament matches on Dynamite this week, because we love our EVPs and we love our boys, and someone’s gonna win the big one so why not them? this is a silly one. we’re not even going to...

good news: we’ve solved one of wrestling’s great mysteries! how do you attract casual fans? show them Orange Cassidy and a hardcore match. you’re welcome! this week Dynamite and Rampage were live back to back on Wednesday like a giant wrestling club sandwich, and that did throw us off our game a bit. how are we meant to know what day of the week it is if our shows move around? it’s okay, though, w...

it’s annual review time! there’s a new CEO at AEW, and it’s time to assess everyone’s performance. Best Friends? you’re perfect, carry on. Wardlow? well… you’ve got some work to do. yep, Mercedes Moné made her entrance at Big Bu$iness, so it seems like things are gonna change around here! ideally, starting with changing everyone’s contracts so that when they wanna leave the company they can just h...

yes, it’s March, but it’s new season, new us, dumbasses! Dynamite has had a rebrand, and we’ve invited our pal Eden MW to join us for a bit to chat about the new logo and set. and then we watched the show, and got excited about basically everything?? is wrestling… really good? wonders will never cease. follow us:  @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash...

a special mid-week treat: we watched Revolution, and we had thoughts!  from Zero Hour’s extremely silly 12-man match through to Christian Cage’s turtleneck shenanigans and Toni Storm’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes moment all the way through to Will Ospreay’s first proper proper AEW match, that World Title fight and Sting’s emotional goodbye, your girlies (gn) are here to yell about it all. spoiler: we...

this week, Ring of Honor has been giving us all the feelings!! the women’s TV championship tournament is delivering banger match after banger match, Athena continues to be our forever fave, and poor Dalton Castle, well, he’s not having a good time. (can someone please check that Taya and Johnny are feeding the Boys properly?) in AEW business, we still do not intend to boo Hangman Adam Page and you...

this episode we are not happy with anything and we are awful geese. from FTR escaping Collision prison again to an uninspiring Wardlow promo to Dave Meltzer sending us into a tailspin about our fave little guys being injured, we have had a difficult week. luckily there’s always Christian Cage and Daniel Garcia to cheer us up. plus Orange Cassidy, we could never ever ever criticise that man in the...

what better Valentine’s Day gift could we possibly have asked for than a Texas deathmatch? Orange Cassidy and Matt Taven bloodied up the canvas, the floor, the tables, each other, and everything else in sight, and it was delightful. unfortunately, people are still booing Hangman, so we’re less happy about that. but hey, Rocky Romero is here to stay and we’ve got our first official announced Will O...

your girlies (gn) are back and are having a lot of feelings about what happened in wrestling this week!  Hangman vs Swerve III happened, for one thing, and we’ve got strong opinions on who’s actually the babyface in this whole feud. Dalton Castle’s “friend” didn’t get to wrestle Johnny TV, which seemed a bit unfair. and the Undisputed Kingdom are very much in our bad books because: why would you a...

be warned: this is a two cuppa episode! this week, MJ and Sarah have largely been having a great time as EVPs Matthew and Nicholas Jackson continue their reign of terror, and Best Friends enter into an actual honest-to-goodness feud with the Undisputed Kingdom.  plus, Dalton Castle’s disgusting cheese gimmick and the shenanigans between Spanish Announce Project and the Baby Boys are bringing us jo...

it’s been another one of those weeks in the internet wrestling community - you know, the ones where you start to lose faith in humanity? luckily, we’ve got each other. and Hangman’s moustache. and, surprisingly, Chuck Taylor? topics covered this week include Vince McMahon’s resignation, AEW’s rankings, Orange Cassidy’s rise to power, and why we love the Young Bucks. also, we’re going to be saying...

this week, Tony Khan decided that he loves us and he wants to give us nice things, because this week on Dynamite we got chatty bits with the Young Bucks and Hangman Adam Page, a banger of a main event with Samoa Joe vs HOOK, plus the return of Rey Fenix and Chuck Taylor!!!!! we are beside ourselves. what a time to be alive. quick technical note: uh, Sarah’s microphone died at approx the one-hour m...

hey, look, if three of the Elite are going to make an appearance with moustaches, we can’t be held accountable for our reactions. this week, we are feeling very silly, and oh my god isn’t it nice to chat about wrestling without having to get too serious about it? this episode: Claudio vs Hangman, tributes to Brodie Lee, the relative sizes of wrestling rings, instant coffee disbelief, and we just l...

okay so the main thing we need to talk about this week is Hangman’s moustache. what a glorious thing that was. also, hi Hangman! welcome back! we missed you lots! this week we also got to welcome back Private Party, and MJ would like to assure you that she’s definitely not a bot, no matter what some people on Twitter might like you to think. 100% organic human over here. and maybe we’re jumping th...

happy new year! time to talk about the end of the world. Or Worlds End, at least. MJ and Sarah talk through the latest AEW pay-per-view, match by match, and do our best Meltzer impressions by giving each match a Heart Rating. also? advocating for women, always. in 2024 we want some actual activism and not just lip-service point-scoring nonsense from some quarters. look, we’ll be honest, this PPV w...

coming in hot, it’s your final episode of 2023! (probably!) we’re here to chat through our suspicions about the identity of the Devil before it’s revealed at World’s End (it is going to be revealed at World’s End, Tony, right? right??) as well as our delight at Riho nabbing a title shot and at the women’s street fight. more women’s hardcore matches in 2024 please!! other topics include Trent’s lit...

surprise! it’s a bonus mid-week episode from your favourite Ring of Honor-loving girlies. yep, this is our Final Battle episode, where we talk through the entire card of this not-really-a-pay-per-view-because-it’s-part-of-the-Honor-Club-subscription event and tell you why it’s so good. (it’s really, really good!) as per our self-imposed PPV rules, we’re giving every match on the main card a Heart...