Wrestling Art with Chris Things

Episode 12 is here pals! Back with the  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with returning special guest co-host,  Cousin Ben ! This week we're talking all about a fabulous recent MOTYC that was Kento Miyahara vs Katsuhiko Nakajima for the Triple Crown from 12.31.2023 in All Japan Pro Wrestling. We talk all about this bloody great match, some of the backstory (from Kensuke Off...

Episode 11 is here my friends! We're back to our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with returning special guest co-host, best-mate David ! This week we're talking all about an amazingly grotesque match from CZW's "Best of the Best" 2005 tournament. STIFF strikes, wicked chair-shots, brutal head-drops & an amazing underdog hero vs big boss badass story; t...

Episode 10 is here my friends! We're back to our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with a brand new special guest co-host in my dear friend, Bradley! This week we're talking all about a VERY SPECIAL match that was  Low-Ki vs. KENTA  from ROH Final Battle 2005. A very fun episode; in addition to going in-depth on this fantastic match & my illustration, we talk all of...

Episode 9; is here! A very special episode; " Wrestling Art Curator " IS BACK! My special-edition interview series focusing on the art practices of other rad wrestling-artists! The 2nd ever guest artist being the ridiculously talented  Jonathan McBurnie !!  Funnily enough, yet another fellow Aussie, Jonathan is an artist, writer, cartoonist, curator & is the Director of the Rockhampton...

Episode 8 is here pals! Another one of our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with returning former Grown Men Watch this S*** co-host, Jaims Vanderbeek! This week we're talking all about  Alex Shelley vs Bandido from Prestige Wrestling in Portland. As Mr. Vanderbeek is a local to the pacific northwest scene, we chat all about this interesting region of the indie wrestling wo...

Episode 7 is here! We're back for another  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Edition  with Keeping it Strong-Style co-host, (& Shoot-Style Enthusiast) 'The Youngboy', Josh Smith to talk all about the wonderfully weird, MANLY mash-up of styles that was DON FRYE vs TOSHIAKI KAWADA for the Triple Crown in All Japan Pro Wrestling from about 20 years ago. Such an interesting,...

Episode 6 is here! We're back with our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Edition  with former 'roving Mexican reporter' of the previous podcast & my dear friend, the delightful Jon Craft to chat the absolutely fantastic 'Bountyhunter' Bryan Keith vs 'Speedball' Mike Bailey bout from late last year for Chicago's Freelance Wrestling. As a Chicago local...

Episode 5 is here! We're back for our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with my best mate, David to talk some CMLL goodness! This week we're talking all about  Rocky Romero & Volador Jr. 's absolutely wonderful CMLL Arena Mexico match for the World Historic Welterweight Championship from January 20, 2023. We talk about the match in question, my illustration of s...

Episode 4 is here! We're back for our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with returning former Grown Men Watch this S*** co-host, Jaims Vanderbeek! This week we're talking all about Chris Hero vs. Timothy Thatcher ! We talk the 2015 PWG BOLA match in question as well as a little about the hotly anticipated comeback from this past Friday night for West Coast Pro in San Fr...

Episode 3; is here! A very special episode; this being the very 1st of my " Wrestling Art Curator " interview series focusing on the art practices of other rad wrestling-artists! The 1st interviewee being the way-talented Sam Evans !! A cornerstone of the wrestling art scene (& fellow Aussie), I think it’s very fitting that Sam gets to be the first official artist-guest on the show. Sa...

Episode 'dos; is here! The second of our  Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series  with former Grown Men Watch this S*** Puro-Pundit, 'Cousin Ben'. This week we're talking all about the incredible big ol' beefy boy match that was Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi) vs the Violence Giants (Shuji Ishikawa & Suwama) from the June 17th, 2023 from the...

First official episode is here! The very first of our Chris Things Art "Match of the Week" Series with none other than my former co-host from Grown Men Watch this S***, Jaims Vanderbeek. This week we're talking all about The Funks vs The Sheik & Abdullah The Butcher from the '77 All Japan Tag League Finals. We talk about the match, the art & general life. Enjoy!! Check out ...

An introduction and teaser of what's to come from 'Wrestling Art with Chris Things'! Enjoy!! Check out ChrisThings.com.au for original art, prints, calendars & much more! Follow us on Twitter:  @ChrisThings , @SocialSuplex Follow us on Instagram: @ChrisThings ,  @SocialSuplex Like us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/SocialSuplex/ Join our Discord:  https://discord.gg/QUaJfaC...

On  Episode 49  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, again joined by fellow NOAH aficionado, 'Cousin Ben'. We're back and basically a NOAH podcast at this point. We talk all things in our classic all over the place show-open segment, followed by talking 2 of NOAH's big March shows of note; 'Great Voyage 2021 in Fukuoka' &am...

On  Episode 48  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, again joined by fellow NOAH aficionado, 'Cousin Ben'. It took us forever to get this one posted, but here you go, right in time for Mutoh's first title defence in Fukuoka. This is our "Back to Budokan" show, both a generalised coverage of all the things between our last N-1 s...

On  Episode 47  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, again joined by fellow NOAH aficionado, 'Cousin Ben'. We've done it, yes, we're finally talkin' the FINAL NIGHT of NOAH's N-1 Victory 2020 Tournament! Listen in to Part 4 of our running coverage of the entire tournament, the loftiest project to date of this 'special s...

On  Episode 46  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, again joined by Japanese wrestling aficionado, 'Cousin Ben', we are talkin' what has turned out to be easily the most consistent pro wrestling tournament of the year, NOAH's N-1 Victory 2020 Tournament. For this episode, we cover nights 6-7 of "beefy men slapping beef, to see...

On  Episode 45  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, joined by Japanese wrestling aficionado, 'Cousin Ben', we are talkin' the most under-appreciated pro wrestling tournament of the year, NOAH's N-1 Victory 2020 Tournament. For this episode, we cover nights 3-5 of "beefy men slapping beef, to see who is the beefiest in the land...

On  Episode 44  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, joined by Japanese wrestling aficionado, 'Cousin Ben', we are talkin' the most under-appreciated pro wrestling tournament of the year, NOAH's N-1 Victory 2020 Tournament. For this episode, we do a run-down of the key stuff going into an insanely loaded tournament and cover the fi...

On  Episode 43  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK, talkin' a significant amount of stoner-nonsense, breakups, difficulty watching Waterworld, one of wrestling's greatest cage matches ever in Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton from NWA Great American Bash '86 and a bunch of classic AJW/FMW 90s joshi, leading up to one of the greatest matches i...

On  Episode 42  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things talk their thoughts on the recent 'Black-Wednesday' COVID-19 firings & the recent Dark Side of the Ring New Jack & Brawl-For-All episodes. They're then also joined by 'Cousin Ben' to discuss the recently released, free on youtube Great Sasuke Documentary, Sendai Girls catchups...

On  Episode 41  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things reunite the 'Grown Men Three Amigos' with our occasional roving Mexican Wrestling correspondent, the esteemed Jon Craft to discuss all things Indie-Wrestling-Coronavirus! We talk the current goings on of the Denver indie scene & current virus-effects, the Pacific Northwest scene's coronavi...

On  Episode 40  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK this week trying our hardest to keep it to a 'hard-40', watching Oprah watch WWF in the mid 80s for her Chicago AM tv show, we also talk about the recent sad health news for Portland Wrestling legend, 'Crippler' Rip Oliver, Jeremey's new 'Mean-Gene' gig for WAC & o...

On  Episode 39  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK talking some classic pro-wrestling matches! Yes, for a little something different, in addition to our usual nonsense we talk 3 fantastic & very different matches from the 60s, 90s & 00s. We watch & talk about: 'Golden' Moose Cholak vs Larry Chene (2 out of 3 Falls) - Chicago 3...

On  Episode 38  of  Grown Men Watch This S***?  Jaims Vanderbeek (Jeremey) & Chris Things ARE BACK talking RING OF HONOR in 2020! ROH 's acclaimed recent Saturday Night At Center Stage event specifically. We also talk an inordinate amount about Australia's recent (at time of taping) 'Australia Day'/'Hottest 100 Day' controversy, as well as people being shocked by the la...