Wrestling With The Truth

Wrestling With The War is back, it's December 1995, WWF are on the road to In Your House 5 and WCW is preparing for Starrcade '95! In this episode BC will be discussing the December 4th and 11th episodes of Monday Night Raw and Monday Nitro. It's a lackluster build to IYH 5, but WCW is hitting on all cylinders with lots of storylines colliding and dissention amongst the ranks of the go...

I know it's been a while since we actually talked about the Monday Night War, and we will be soon doing that again, but it is more important to fill you all in on a major change with the show. Jay Myers is stepping away from the the podcast for the time being (hopefully not forever) so BC will be going it alone for the foreseeable future...or will he? You'll have to listen to this mini epi...

As hard as it is to believe we have made it to 100 episodes!  There have been lots of fun moments , fantastic interviews, crazy takes and top 10's over the last two years, but one thing we've never done is turn control over to our listeners. So in this episode we have asked our amazing listeners to send us their most pressing questions and they responded with some great ones! A special t...

That's right, it's time for World War 3! Not the three ring circus between USA, Russia and China...we're talking a three ring 60 man battle royal at WCW World War 3!! It's chaos and mayhem and of course there is a wonky ending that ends up with Hulk Hogan pulling out the crying towel. Hear our thoughts about this Pay Per View and the fallout on Nitro the night after. And what i...

This week BC is joined by special recruit Ted the Hillbilly Heel from the Heel Truth Podcast to discuss Survivor Series 1995, the fallout the next night on Raw and the road to World War 3 over on Nitro! Ted was around to watch the original Monday Night War so he is able to give his unique perspective on this fun time period in pro wrestling! Some of the highlights from this great episode: Mr Perfe...

We're talking the November 6th and 13th episodes of Raw and Nitro! On the WCW side we deal with the fallout of Halloween Havoc and start the build for World War 3. On the WWF side it is  lackluster effort getting the fans hyped for Survivor Series. But there are a few bright spots along the way: The Renegade gets reduced to just plain old Rick The Giant as World Champ for 2 minutes Hogan&apos...

It's the episode we have been eagerly waiting for...Halloween Havoc 1995!! Get ready for Monster Truck Sumo Battles, manslaughter via tossing off a roof, crooked mustaches, sideways beards and mummies that hump men from behind! I wish I was making that up, but I'm not. All that plus so much more! Did you watch along? Let us know your memories of this debut episode of Nitro and whether we...

This week we are reviewing In Your House 4: Great White North as well as the October 23, 1995 episodes of both Raw and Nitro! Once again WWF is putting out a sub par product and WCW is selling pure chaos. But at least it's entertaining chaos! Some of the items covered: The in ring debut of Goldust A hell of a tag match between the Smoking Gunns, Razor Ramon and 1-2-3 Kid Shawn has to forfeit...

This week we are reviewing the October 2nd, 9th and 16th episodes of Nitro and Raw as we are leading up to In Your House 4 and Halloween Havoc!  Some of the craziness we get to talk about: Dean Malenko, Eddi Guerrero and Chris Benoit putting on wrestling clinics! The Four Horsemen at war with each other The unthinkable happens as the Dungeon of Doom shaves off the Hulkster's mustache! Evil Hu...

This week we are reviewing the first WWF PPV of the Monday Night War era, In Your House 3: Triple Header! Every title in the WWF is on the line in this first of its kind main event! We'll start off by discussing the Sept 18th Nitro which is the follow up to Fall Brawl, as well as the go home episode of Raw on Sept 21st. Then we discuss In Your House 3, WWF's first PPV since Nitro was lau...

This week we are reviewing the first PPV of the Monday Night War era, WCW's Fall Brawl '95! We'll discuss Monday Night Raw's response to the debut of Nitro, as well as the go home Nitro episode leading into the PPV. Then we discuss Fall Brawl itself, which includes (in our opinion) the worst War Games match in history! Did you watch along? Let us know your memories of this debu...

Here we go! It’s the debut episode of Wrestling with the War so of course we are starting with the debut episode of WCW Monday Nitro. Plus BC gives a rundown of the year that was in wrestling from January to September 1995 to give listeners a feel for the wrestling landscape leading up to this historic Nitro! In this episode we discuss: Was 1995 the worst year in wrestling history? Pastamania runn...

The boys are back after a two week hiatus and they are excited to talk about the new direction for the audio podcast in 2023! We are "niche-ing down" and focusing on a specific period of wrestling that we think listeners will remember quite fondly! Which period is it? You'll have to listen to find out! Also, we announce our new show sponsor: Betstamp! Betstamp is a sports bet tracke...

It is our final episode of 2022 and we are taking time to thank everyone who have supported us throughout the year, and then we look forward to what is to come in 2023! We're talking about what the future holds for WWE, AEW, Impact and the wrestling industry as a whole, which events we are excited about, what big returns are going to set promotions on fire, and who are going to be the biggest...

What a crazy year 2022 has been in  the world of professional wrestling! We could probably do a ten part series touching on all the craziness that happened over the last twelve months but instead we have decided to narrow things down to our top five most newsworthy moments of the year! Did we get them right? Let us know by heading over to any of our social media accounts and make sure to give us y...

Fresh of our highly successful November to Remember we are left to our own devices so we decided to take a visit to the rumour mill in this episode! We covered a number of topics such as: The Rock possibly entering and winning the Royal Rumble Who wins Rock vs Roman at WrestleMania? Is the Rock the right pick to fight Roman? William Regal leaving AEW AEW stumbling into some great storylines The BB...

It's the final episode in our November to Remember and we just might have saved the best for last! This week Jay and BC welcome Steve and Dwaylon from the Armchair Booking Wrestling podcast to explore a simple question: why are we wrestling fans? We covered a number of topics such as: Survivor Series thoughts Sami Zayn a possible threat to Roman Reigns? Is Roman the best wrestler in the world...

It's the penultimate episode in our November to Remember and the guests keep getting better and better! This week Jay and BC welcome Matt Ridder, the man behind PornHub's #1 wrestling podcast, Smackin It Raw, as well as their #1 horror podcast, Getting Offed. In an episode that titillated the juices of Jay's guilty pleasures we got to pick Matt's brain on both wrestling and hor...

November to Remember rolls along as BC and Jay welcome a huge wrestling fan and one third of the Hooked on Movies Podcast...Ted (not the Hillbilly Heel)! We were excited to talk wrestling and movies with a genuine cinephile (how's that for a $25,000 word!) who has a very extensive knowledge of the wrestling industry both past and present. In this episode Ted and the guys touch on: CM Punk and...

November to Remember continues as BC and Jay welcome two more members of the Smacked Raw family, Ted The Hillbilly Heel from The Heel Truth podcast and Will Gray from Botched Spots and Chair Shots to talk wrestling territories! We're doing our own version of Tales from the Territories except we are talking our own experiences with old school territories and what they meant to us as wrestling...

It's the kickoff to our November to Remember and boy are we bringing the heat in our first episode! Kyle Tyson and RN from the Smacked Raw Podcast join us to talk a whole lot of wrestling and a whole lot of stuff that's not wrestling. Trust us, the non wrestling stuff is worth the listen!  In this episode we will discuss: Crown Jewel thoughts Can Logan Paul beat Roman Reigns? MJF's...

We get it, negativity gets more clicks and eyeballs than positivity, but who has time to watch something purely to hate on it? That's why in this week's episode our advice to listeners is: Stop "Hate  Watching" Wrestling! We were inspired by our fantastic conversation around watching wrestling from a kayfabe perspective last week and it has led to our topic this week. It is mor...

Every pro wrestling fan has heard that forbidden word at some point in their life. In the day and age of social media it feels like the ability to hide anything from wrestling fans is impossible. But recent events within both WWE and AEW makes even the smartest of us all question: is this real? In this episode Jay and BC welcome a fantastic guest, Bama Dave from the Bammer Chatter Podcast, to disc...

Bray Wyatt finally made his long awaited return to the WWE at it's Extreme Rules PLE! There is a level of excitement in the WWE that has been missing for a long time. In this episode Jay and BC discuss their thoughts on his return, what they think the life size characters from his past mean and who could possibly be some of his dream opponents in the near future! Head on over to our social me...

Who doesn't love a great finishing maneuver in wrestling? Crazy people, that's who! Jay and BC discuss their top 10 finishing maneuvers of all time in this weeks episode! There will definitely be some shockers in who did (and didn't) make the list but we think it will be hard to argue with our choices. We also discuss the results of Atlantic Pro Wrestling's inaugural Chase for...