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THE IRON CLAW MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready to rumble? Well, you can get it on with A24’s new biopic about the doomed Von Erich family, The Iron Claw. Fritz (Holt McCallany) was a major wrestler in his day, but that time has passed and the mantle has been handed off to his multiple sons […]

HEELS SEASON 2 REVIEW From September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001 Vince McMahon of the WWF waged a ratings battle with WCW’s Eric Bischof. Shady deals, empty hand shakes, and underhanded tactics were used by both companies in an all out brawl to be the world’s number one league in wrestling entertainment. The ongoing […]

HEELS SERIES REVIEW RING THE BELL!!! It is now time for our OneOfUs Kingdom main event of the evening, a fatal four-way review of the Starz professional wrestling drama, “Heels”! Jack and Ace Spade (Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig) may be brothers, but that means nothing in the squared circle as away from the bright lights […]

CAGEFIGHTER: WORLDS COLLIDE MOVIE REVIEW Reiss (Alex Montagnani) is the undisputed mix martial arts champion of the MMA Legends promotion. Tired of the same old run of the mill challengers, he finds himself facing sports entertainment wrestling super star Randy Stone (Jonathan Good). Featuring a variety of MMA and Wrestling superstars (Chuck Liddell, Luke Rockhold, […]

NAIL IN THE COFFIN: THE FALL AND RISE OF VAMPIRO MOVIE REVIEW It’s not every day you meet a luchador from Canada dressed up as a vampire, but Ian Hodgkinson isn’t your everyday professional wrestler. This documentary traces Hodgkinson’s journey from small town Canada to Mexico City where he channeled his love of punk rock […]

YOU CANNOT KILL DAVID ARQUETTE MOVIE REVIEW Ladies and gentlemen, the following review is your main event and scheduled for one film! Stepping into the ring to discuss the new documentary “You Cannot Kill David Arquette” is Nathan, Jordan, Adrian, and Spider Mike as they give their thoughts on David Arquette’s journey towards a career […]

Thumbtacks and Screwjobs Ep 21 – Summer(Slam) Lasts Forever Gene and Richard return with all the latest on AEW, the booking genius of NJPW, the continued WWE doldrums, and why we should all be talking about Impact far more than we do. As in, why is nobody talking about it? And can Ring of Honor […]

Yes, this is a late review, but now that some of the Squad found a theater where this movie was playing (why this is not in wider distribution is a mystery), they’re ready to enter the ring to discuss this biographical family sports drama. Stephen Merchant has decided to write and direct this movie following […]

Gene and Richard go full on Jim-Cornette-thinking-about-Russo this time with Extreme Rules, when the greatest roster in recent WWE history puts on the worst PPV imaginable, and dream matches are frittered away. Seriously, will it ever be Rusev Day?  

How do Gene and Richard manage to sound some calm and collected? Oh, right, because they’ve watched some wrestling other than WWE this week. Our resident grapple fans question whether WWE really has two belts, the Fox deal, and terrible, terrible booking, but then make their day better by discussing New Japan Pro Wrestling, Ring […]

Gene and Richard survive 17,682 hours of Wrestlemania, and look back over the biggest, longest weekend on the wrestling calendar. With the dust settling over NoLa, the T and S crew question whether WWE will ever celebrate Rusev Day, what the hell the booking team was thinking, who the weekend’s biggest winner was (hint: it […]

Wrasslin’ returns! Richard and Gene explore the greatest mystery of all – a Royal Rumble that doesn’t suck. In fact, a Royal Rumble that was so good that they almost forgot about Wrestle Kingdom for five minutes. Plus, Gene cuts the promo to end all promos on Raw 25. Earmuffs, children, earmuffs!

Hush, hush, whisper your age, Shane McMahon is too old for this cage. Gene and Richard survive another two WWE PPVs, and then wonder exactly why they do this to themselves when so many wrestlers are avoiding the company like the plague. Plus, why the WWE is so scared of the Elite, the Instagram heard […]

It’s a triple threat Thumbtacks and Screwjobs, as Gene and Richard tag in young lion Dave for a review of the second most important WWE PPV, and explain why it’s not that important any more. Plus we take on Lucha Underground’s Cueto Cup, dismantle the PWI 500 list, and are there too many tournaments, or […]

War is hell … and so was Battleground. Gene and Richard pick their jaws off the floor for one of the worst WWE PPVs of all time, and ask the big questions. Why did the finishes depend on wrestlers being complete numbskulls? Why were the big two matches obstacle courses? Is the booking team actually […]

Just when you thought the WWE was going to slow up on PPVs, here comes the back-to-back-to-back fiasco of Money in the Bank, Great Balls of Fire (really, Vince? Really?) and the upcoming mess that will be Battleground. Join Gene and Richard as the wonder why they torture themselves with the network, celebrate the raw […]

Didn’t the WWE promise fewer PPVs in 2017? What did Gene and Richard think of year’s Extreme Rules? Is there any way to save Bayley from the writers’ room death spiral? Is Dean Ambrose about to become the smack talker we need? And do we even need to talk about the Drifter? Plus question time, […]

Can we just have one weekend in which an NXT Takeover doesn’t completely blow the main WWE PPV out of the water? Gene and Richard relish how good modern booking is on the supposed WWE C-show, and how DIY broke their hearts in Chicago, before getting downright mean about the terrible Backr… uh Backlash 2017. […]

Post-Wrestlemania blues abound as Gene and Richard feel shortchanged by WWE’s Payback PPV, panic about Backlash, get excited for New Japan versus ROH, and feel a little smug about being on the Keith Lee train early. Plus Shibata, Honma, hating the Hangman’s DDT, forecasting the future of the Bullet Club, and the question on everyone’s […]

Somehow Gene and Richard survived Wrestlemania weekend, and they try to answer the immortal question about the showplace of the immortals: why was it so much better if you don’t watch WWE? Plus the rundown on the Hall of Fame, why Jim Cornette is a god on the mic, how Becky Lynch can save Raw, […]

Royal Rumble! Wrestlekingdom! Ring of Honor! Wrestlekingdom! World of Sport! Wrestlekingdom! WWE’s UK championship! And did we mention Wrestlekingdom? Richard and Gene survive the busiest wrestling January in memory, only to complain about three hour Raws, wonder when the Roman Reigns experiment will end, and to bask in the wonder of the greatest match ever!

Thumbtacks and Screwjobs get a little serious when Richard sits down with Sarah Coulter, co-writer of the upcoming Chris Benoit biopic Crossface. Get you first word on what could be the most controversial wrestling movie ever made.

2016 has been bowling shoe ugly … wait, make that Braun Strowman forward choke-slam ugly. That’s why Gene and Richard are here with the worst and best of pro-wrestling in 2016. Did the whole year just Shockmaster its way out of our hearts, or are did it manage a surprise face turn? Who were they […]

So Backlash has lashed back, and the greatest living wrestler (sorry, Roman Reigns) is now WWE champ. It’s no holds barred and no rest-holds as Gene and Richard discuss what’s wrong and right in the Owens/Styles era, the joy of the cruiserweight classic, what might have been with Will Ospreay, why Women of Honor is […]

Summerslam’s done, NXT Takeover Brooklyn II is in the rear view mirror, and here come Richard and Eugene to ponder, like everyone, what the hell the WWE booking team was thinking. They lay some hard elbows into the low points of the second biggest PPV of the year, and find everything that is glorious (hint: […]