Tights and Fights

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. After a lengthy build, the 500th episode of Tights and Fights is here! This caps off almost ten years of podcasting. Naturally, everyone has a lot to say. The team reflects on the show’s...

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. This week the wrestling world was rocked with awful news: AEW’s PAC suddenly passed away. He wrestled in WWE as both Adrian Neville and Neville. We dedicate this show to his memory.&nbsp...

After months of slogging through the worst of “Big-Business” WWE, we’ve finally emerged into a world where both RAW and Smackdown are really good. What’s behind this turnaround? Besides Kevin Owens, of course. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/jointights

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. There’s been a lot to appreciate lately about the title scenes in WWE. Everyone has wanted the best for Chelsea Green ever since she became the WWE Champion. She’s well on her way to bei...

A throwback discussion of Kofi Kingston's career up to the culmination of Kofi-Mania. Featuring Kefin Mahon from How2Wrestling. Keep up with this show all week long on instagram , tiktok and bluesky . This show was produced by Julian Burrell for Maximumfun.org Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/jointights

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. Kofi and Austin Creed debuted this past weekend at AEW’s All In pay-per-view.  It was a long time coming and generally considered wrestling’s worst kept secret, but the possibilitie...

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. We were without Lindsey and Danielle last week, but they are back and ready to dive into Kevin Owens coming up short against CM Punk for the WWE championship. The absolute banger of a ma...

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. Could it be– a high quality version of Smackdown and RAW? It truly is! Chelsea Green will not only keep her WWE championship, but the risk of her losing it is wisely being used as a path...

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. There’s a lot going on with the women in WWE. Chelsea Green, the new (Interim) WWE Champion fractured her orbital bone in her first night with the title. With Rhea Ripley fresh out of kn...

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. For the first time ever, SummerSlam took place across two nights. Minnesota was host to the biggest version of the event that had some brilliant hits and some middling shows. Oba Femi wa...

This podcast is supported by MaxFun Members! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights for more information about how you can become one too. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. We received a wonderful gift from Netflix this week: Tickets to watch Monday Night RAW in a suite at the Intuit Dome! Lindsey Kelk tells us what it was like to see wrestling in the arena...

To hear the full conversation, go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. In 2011, CM Punk took a seat in Las Vegas and delivered the promo of his career. It elevated him to main event status and kicked off a new era for WWE. Danielle Radford and producer Julian take a long look at this famous promo a...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. Maxxine Dupri has leveled up as a heel, aligning herself with The Vision and fully removing herself from Otis and Tozowa. But is she ready to lead her own faction? Plus, with WWE set to finally give Chad Gable a major win for the Intercontinental Title. But t...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. Last week we speculated that Sami Zayn’s WWE title reign was not long for this world– that it may end as soon as Friday Night Smackdown. It turns out that prediction was off by a few days; it actually ended on Monday Night RAW! CM Punk returned to a raucous r...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. At the Night of Champions PPV, Sami Zayn finally earned the top prize in the company: he is the WWE Champion. But now that he’s finally reached this culmination, how long will he hold the belt? And how will Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens play into his reign? The...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. This weekend we’re ready to crown a brand new pair of royalty in WWE– it’s Night of Champions and the finale to the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments. These tournaments have not been effectively organized however; and no matter what happens or who wins,...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. It’s a special bonus conversation in honor of the 3 day weekend; when Lindsey was gone, AAA had El Noche do Los Grandes! It was the blowoff mask vs. mask match the cemented Ludwig Kaiser’s popularity in Mexico as the new Americano, returned Chad Gable to his...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. Lindsey Kelk is back at last! She’ll regale us with tales of her time on tour promoting her alter ego Elle Kelk’s newest book Hit or Miss – including how wrestling played a role in her time abroad. The Main Event: The modern versions of King and Queen of the...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. This week we’re joined by our old pal Daron Jackson! For years he worked with WWE Studios, working alongside the monolith to create works with wrestling that you may have seen on Netflix and Peacock. Before we catch up with him, we’re going to talk about the...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. This week we’re joined by the incomparable Mark Gagliardi ! He’s Hal Lublin’s podcast partner on “ We Got This with Mark and Hal .”  Mark recently got married and decided to celebrate his honeymoon in the best possible way: attending a pro wrestling show. He...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. There’s been a bit of a change in WWE recently– the matches on RAW have been longer and of noticeably higher quality. The cards for the upcoming PLEs (more on that later) are particularly stacked. Dare we say that TKO has released its vice grip on the booking...

Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. After a brief respite from WWE, the full crew is BACK! With a discussion of BackLASH! There seems to have been a bit of a response to the reception of WrestleMania with this latest PLE. Each of the matches was actually given a lot of time which means that mor...

This podcast is part of the MaxFunDrive! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. When AEW was in Los Angeles, RJ City was kind enough to stop by MaxFun HQ for his first in person appearance on Tights and Fights!  As ever we have a lot to get into, beyond just the wrestling show that he works for. H...

This podcast is part of the MaxFunDrive! Go to maximumfun.org/jointights to become a MaxFun Member. For as little as $5 a month, you’ll earn great gifts and help this show continue. This episode is also available on YouTube . It was the BestleMania, it was the WorstleMania… on the one hand, the first night of the event was an ad-heavy mess with incredibly short matches. Night two was much more fun...

It's MaxFunDrive. And here, for the first time, we give you an exclusive look (well, listen) at the craft of podcasting: presenting Casters on Casters . In this episode, Ben Blacker ( Dead Pilots Society ), Hal Lublin ( Tights and Fights & We Got This with Mark and Hal ) and Alonso Duralde ( Maximum Film! ) take listeners behind the scenes and swap stories about the ups and downs of podcasting. Pl...