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Ep 61 – Clash of the Champions XVII A welcomed return, a favorite gets a title shot, a younger version of a legend surprises us, and Matt makes a bold statement 0:25 - Welcome 8:06 – Clash Opening 10:07 - Thomas Rich (w/ Alexandria York) vs Big Josh in a Lumberjack match 15:23 - Firebreaker Chip vs “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton 22:14 - Diamond Studd vs Z-Man 24:50 - “The Rapmaster” PN News vs Stunning S...

Ep 60 – Halloween Havoc 1991 Some fun midcard matches but we do complain about the other nonsense 0:24 - Welcome 8:17 – Halloween Havoc Opening 11:31 - El Gigante, the Steiner Brothers (Rick/Scott) and Sting vs Big Van Vader, Diamond Studd, Cactus Jack, and Abdullah the Butcher in a Chamber of Horrors cage match 27:51 - The Creatures (Creature 1 & 2) vs PN News and Big Josh 31:30 - Bobby Eaton vs...

Ep 59 – Summerslam 1991 “Match Made in Heaven….Match Made in Hell” We delve into sequencing of matches, why Hogan does what he does, some of the first ideas that could have been in the Attitude era 0:23 - Welcome 7:51 – Summerslam Opening 10:53 – The Dragon, The Texas Tornado, and the British Bulldog vs The Warlord and Power and Glory (Hercules/Paul Roma) (w/ Slick) 19:11 – Bret “Hitman” Hart vs M...

Ep 58 – Violent Storm in Kokugikan “G1 Climax 1991 Final” We head to the Far East and cover some New Japan Pro Wrestling in the first ever G1 Climax. We have curated this down to some of the best matches from this tour. 0:30 - Welcome 5:46 – Violent Storm Opening 9:56 - Shinya Hashimoto vs Masahiro Chono in a B Block match 13:29 - Big Van Vader vs Keiji Mutoh in an A Block match 22:26 - Shinya Has...

Ep 57 – Great American Bash 1991 “Legend vs Legacy” Another social distanced episode in which the sound quality isn't always awesome, but we take apart what some consider the "Worst PPV ever" 0:22 - Welcome 7:35 – GAB Opening 9:10 - “The Rapmaster” PN News and “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton vs “Stunning” Steve Austin and “The Computerized Man of the 1990s” Terrence Taylor (w/ Lady Blossom) in a Capture t...

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Ep 55 – WCW/NJPW Supershow 1 “Starrcade 91 in Tokyo Dome” 0:19 - Welcome 7:23 – Supershow Opening 7:59 – Super Strong Machine and the Blond Outlaws (Hiro Saito, Tatsutoshi Goto, and Norio Honaga) vs Animal Hamaguchi, Kengo Kimura, Osamu Kido, and Kantaro Hoshino 15:48 – Flyin Brian Pillman, Z-man, and Tim Horner vs Shiro Koshinaka, Kuniaki Kobayashi, and Takayuki Iizuka 21:48 – Scott Norton vs the...

Ep 54 – WrestleMania XII “SuperStars and Stripes Forever” We got action, drama, emotions, title changes all wrapped up in one show. 0:21 - Welcome 7:17 – WrestleMania Opening 10:14 – Barbarian and Haku (w/ Bobby “The Brain” Heenan) vs the Rockers (Shawn Michaels/Marty Jannetty) 17:25 – Dino Bravo (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs “Texas Tornado” Kerry Von Erich 21:21 - The Warlord (w/ Slick) vs “British Bulldog”...

Ep 53 – WrestleWar 1991 A new belt (that we don't see), a women's match, a WarGames! 0:22 - Welcome 7:17 – WrestleWar Opening 8:32 – Big Cat and the State Patrol (Lt James Earl Wright/Col Buddy Lee Parker) vs “Wildfire” Tommy Rich, Ricky Morton, and Junkyard Dawg for the WCW World 6-man Tag Team Championships 16:51 – Brad Armstrong vs Bobby Eaton 22:06 – Miss A and Miki Handa vs Mami Kitamura and...

Ep 52 – Royal Rumble 1991 The Rumble gets outshined by the rest of the card but that doesn't make it any fun to talk about 0:14 - Welcome 4:16 – Royal Rumble Opening 5:06 - The Orient Express (Kato/Tanaka) (w/ Mr Fuji) vs the Rockers (Shawn Michaels/Marty Jannetty) 16:40 – The Barbarian (w/ Bobby “The Brain” Heenan) vs Big Bossman 24:04 – Sgt Slaughter (w/ General Adnan) vs Ultimate Warrior for th...

Ep 51 – Starrcade 1990 “Collision Course” A tag team tournament, a mysterious UFO, this show kinda has it all 0:24 - Welcome 6:26 – Starrcade Opening 8:58 – Beautiful Bobby Eaton vs Z-man 15:51 – Col DeKlerk and Sgt Krueger (South Africa) vs the Steiner Brothers (Rick/Scott Steiner) (USA) in a tournament QF match 19:46 – Chris Adams and Norman Smiley (Great Britain) vs Konan and Rey Mysterio Sr (M...

Ep 50 – Survivor Series 1990 Spoiler alert: we rant about Hogan - shocker huh? 0:17 - Welcome 7:55 – Survivor Series Opening 12:54 – The Perfect Team (Demoliton (Ax, Smash, and Crush) and Mr Perfect) (w/ Mr Fuji and Bobby “The Brain” Heenan) vs The Warriors (“Texas Tornado” Kerry Von Erich, Legion of Doom (Hawk/Animal), and Ultimate Warrior) 19:08 – The Dream Team (“American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, K...

Ep 49 – Halloween Havoc 1990 “Terror Rules the Ring” Matt and Michael do some fantasy booking cause they don't like how some of these matches finished 0:32 - Welcome 8:21 – Havoc Opening 11:09 – Ricky Morton and Tommy “Wildfire” Rich vs the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton/Stan Lane) (w/ Jim Cornette) 22:16 – Renegade Warriors (Chris/Mark Youngblood) vs Fabulous Freebirds (Michael “PS” Hayes/Jimmy “J...

Ep 48 – Clash of the Champions XII – Mountain Madness/Fall Brawl ‘90 With twice the names for the show, would there be twice the fun? Plus our first Kevin Nash, Nasty Boys, Stan Hansen, and Black Scorpion appearances 0:19 - Welcome 6:25 – Clash Opening 7:13 – The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael PS Hayes/Jimmy Jam Garvin) (w/ Buddy Roberts) vs the Southern Boys (Steve Armstrong/Tracy Smothers) (w/ Bull...

Ep 47 – SummerSlam 1990 “The Heat Returns” Warrior's first main event as champion and lots of good promo work on this show 0:23 - Welcome 6:17 – SummerSlam Opening 8:52 – The Rockers (Shawn Michaels/Marty Janetty) vs Power & Glory (Hercules/Paul Roma) (w/ Slick) 16:22 – Mr Perfect (w/ Bobby “The Brain” Heenan) vs the Texas Tornado for the WWF Intercontinental Championship 23:28 – Queen Sensationsa...

Ep 46 – Great American Bash 1990 “The New Revolution” The old guard may start the show, but the new guard takes over by the end. We also do a non-deep dive into Jim Ross going to college 0:39 - Welcome 7:17 – GAB Opening 8:14 – “Nature Boy” Buddy Landell vs Flyin Brian Pillman 13:54 – Iron Shiek vs Captain Mike Rotunda 18:58 – “Dirty” Dutch Mantel vs “World’s Strongest Man” Doug Furnas 26:33 – “Wi...

Ep 45 – Capital Combat “Return of Robocop” We get one of the silliest moments in WCW history and I may not entirely mean Robocop. 0:21 - Welcome 7:21 – Capital Combat Opening 8:47 – Kevin Sullivan, Cactus Jack, and Bam Bam Bigelow (w/ Sir Oliver Humprdink) vs The Road Warriors (Hawk/Animal) and Norman the Lunatic (w/ Paul Ellering) 14:27 – Johnny Ace vs Mean Mark (w/ Teddy Long) 22:28 – Captain Mi...

Ep 44 – WrestleMania 6 “The Ultimate Challenge” After staring each other down at the Royal Rumble, the two biggest stars face each other with everything on the line 0:22 - Welcome 5:29 – WrestleMania Opening 6:20 - Koko B Ware vs “The Model” Rick Martel 12:02 – Colossal Connection (Haku/Andre the Giant) (w/ Bobby “The Brain” Heenan) vs Demolition (Ax/Smash) 18:27 – Hercules vs Earthquake (w/ Jimmy...

Ep 43 – WrestleWar 1990 “Wild Thing” If the opening theme doesn't grab you, then maybe one of the many tag matches will. 0:37 - Welcome 4:04 – WrestleWar Opening 5:48 – Kevin Sullivan and Buzz Sawyer vs Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace/Shane Douglas) 11:27 – Cactus Jack Manson vs Norman the Lunatic 15:19 – Rock n Roll Express (Ricky Morton/Robert Gibson) vs Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton/Stan Lane) (w/ Ji...

Ep 41 – The Main Event 3 The Ultimate Challenge is coming! This final stop till we get to WrestleMania - nothing would happen between Warrior and Hogan right? 0:24 - Welcome 4:06 – Main Event Opening 8:12 – “Macho King” Randy Savage (w/ Queen Sensationsal Sherri) vs Hulk Hogan for the WWF World Championship 19:44 - Dino Bravo (w/ Jimmy Hart and Canadian Earthquake) vs The Ultimate Warrior for the...

Ep 41 – Royal Rumble 1990 A Rumble and some other matches - do any of them deserve to be knighted? 0:15 - Welcome 10:27 - Royal Rumble Opening 11:36 – Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques/Raymond) (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs The Bushwhackers (Luke/Butch) 18:16 – The Genius vs Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake 25:34 – Greg “The Hammer” Valentine (w/ Jimmy Hart) vs Rugged Ronnie Garvin 36:53 – Brother Love Show 42:06 – Big...

Ep 40 – Best of WHX Vol 1: Best of The 80s We bring you our fav matches from the 1980s in clip show style! If you like any of these, check out the full shows always in the archive. 0:20 - Welcome 5:18 - “Macho Man” Randy Savage (w/ Miss Elizabeth) vs Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat (w/ George “The Animal” Steele) for the WWF Intercontinental Championship from Wrestlemania III (ep 11) 16:42 - Team She...

We watched this crazy Japanese movie called "Kaiju Mono" that stars Kota Ibushi and Minoru Suzuki. We decided to let the world know our thoughts along with some initial thoughts on Wrestle Kingdom 14 Day 1's events.

Ep 39 – Dusty Finish Vol 1 Happy New Year! This week we put together a compilation of all of the Dusty Finishes from the first 38 episodes 0:21 - Welcome 3:58 - Dusty Finish 41:10 - Goodbyes Music from this week’s show is “New Body” by Audio Adrenaline and “Bellbottoms” by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, GooglePlay, or wherever you find your podcasts Email – Wre...

Ep 38 – No Holds Barred: The Match/The Movie Our Christmas present to you! A commentary to the Hulk Hogan classic! We are joined by our friends from @flawedlawspod to present this masterpiece 1:05 – Welcome 7:47 – The Movie Commentary 1:45:08 - The Match 1:57:44 - Dusty Finish 1:58:46 - Goodbyes Music from this week’s show is the “No Holds Barred” by Jim Johnston with vocals by Jim Joyce and “Real...