Jonny Fairplay was the guest on the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast following this week’s Monday Night Raw. Fairplay weighed in with his thoughts on major happenings on the show: Thoughts on Roman Reigns performance: “The first thing I noticed, Roman Reigns had a beard. Not rocking the dated goatee. I think that’s important. I don’t know if you’ve paid […]
Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake appeared on Prime Time with Sean Mooney this week to promote his upcoming autobiography, Cuttin’ & Struttin’. Toward the close of the show, Mooney asked him about recent tweets that revealed a falling out between Beefcake and his longtime friend, Hulk Hogan: “Things change. He changed a little after he split up with his wife, Linda. […]
Jonathan Coachman appeared this week on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling and discussed his recent departure from ESPN and interest in getting involved once again in WWE: “It just got to a point at ESPN where they didn’t want to embrace my background in WWE. They want to have their toe in the water, but they don’t want […]
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast – Interview Friday Release Date: November 17, 2017 Guest: “X-Pac” Sean Waltman Recap by: Jason “Mr. Wheenus” Darling DIRECT LINK TO LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Newsworthy Items: Sean’s favorite performer right now is Kazuchika Okada. Sean just put out an interview on his podcast “X-Pac 123” with Billy Corgan. Sean still wrestles regularly, just had a match in […]
On this week’s episode of Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard, the infamous Katie Vick storyline from 2002 was explained in long form: “You ever have those moments in your life where there are things that are so traumatic that you block them out entirely? (This) really and truly is one of them on so many different counts. “The original […]
Court Bauer joined this week’s episode of The Steve Austin Show – Unleashed!, and he and Austin broke down In Your House: Canadian Stampede. Bauer asked if the finish of his match with Owen Hart at SummerSlam ’97 was meant to mirror the finish of the Stampede match. Steve explains, in detail, what led to the finish: “We were working […]
Rolling Stone published an extensive interview with the Young Bucks this week. Regarding their desire to work for WWE: Nick Jackson: “The schedule’s just crazy and there’s a lot of elements to that. There’s never been a scenario where they called us or pitched an idea or any of that. The only communications we’ve really ever had was a few […]
Sports Illustrated published an interview Wednesday with former WWE writer Jimmy Jacobs. Jacobs discussed taking a risk on a memorable angle he’d written for the Miz and Dolph Ziggler: “There was a promo segment in Cleveland with Miz and Dolph Ziggler, and Dolph said he was going to put his career on the line. Some days your ideas go through […]
Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard-Episode 72 Recap by: Denny Walker Crum Air Date: 11/03/17 DIRECT LINK TO LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Newsworthy Items: -Rockabilly was originally an idea to get Honky Tonk Man back on TV -Shawn Michaels is credited with the idea of putting The Outlaws together -”Your ass better call somebody” was an homage to Ernie Ladd -Bruce hated working […]
Everybody’s Talking: The Best of the Week in Pro Wrestling Podcasts By Jeff Rush, PWPodcasts.com Assistant Editor As you know, the mission of PWPodcasts is to provide you with written recaps of all the great pro wrestling podcasts out there that you may not have time to listen to. When you find you also don’t have time to read them, […]
During the mailbag segment of this week’s episode of Killing the Town with Storm & Cyrus, the hosts fielded a question asking them what they would do differently in their career if they had the opportunity. Lance Storm’s response was surprising: “In WCW, the one night US Title tournament where I fought, I think Buff was the first match, Shane […]
Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast – Interview Friday Release Date: November 3, 2017 Guest: Dave Lagana Recap by: Jason Darling DIRECT LINK TO LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Newsworthy Items: Originally, TNA was supposed to be “Tuesday Night All-Stars.” Production and writing style is exactly the same as it was in 2002, nothing has changed in WWE. Dave and Billy supposed to do an […]
Former WWE Head Writer, Brian Gewirtz, was the guest on the latest episode of E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness. The three discussed a lot of their memories working together, including the time they were taken to Wrestler’s Court for what was perceived as Edge and Christian’s attempt to curry favor with a writer by bestowing gifts: Edge: “I get a Flash […]
Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard-Episode 71 Recap by: Denny Walker Crum Air Date: 10/27/17 DIRECT LINK TO LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Newsworthy Items: -Rock and Mark Henry were trained at the same time, Vince thought Henry was going to be the bigger star -Rock’s daughter has expressed interest in wrestling -Rock didn’t initially want to turn heel and join the Nation -Jim […]
Mick Foley appeared on The Ross Report this week and, amongst other things, discussed his now legendary Hell in a Cell match against the Undertaker: “The next day, there really wasn’t much talk about it. It wasn’t in the cold open, it wasn’t something we were building on. It was just something that happened. I didn’t know that, meanwhile in […]
Jim Cornette was the guest on Talk Is Jericho this week. During the interview, Jim shared a little-known story about the time he and the Midnight Express were pursued by the WWF in 1986: “We’re working in Charlotte, and we’re the tag team champions there. That year we made close to 200 grand apiece. It’s the first year of the […]
On the most recent episode of E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness, Dustin Rhodes talked about being introduced to the Goldust character and growing into it: “Me and my dad, we were kind of not on the best of terms at that point. I’d just gotten released from WCW, so I’m sitting at home and Vince calls and he presents this idea. […]
This past Friday, the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featured an interview conducted with Michael Hegstrand, AKA Road Warrior Hawk, recorded 25 years ago. The wrestling industry was experiencing a downturn in business in 1992. Hawk gave his thoughts on how to turn things around and improve business: “I think it’s been definitely heavily saturated exposure-wise on TV and everything. […]
During this week’s episode of The Raven Effect, co-host Chad Damiani, AKA Busby, and Raven were discussing the Young Bucks and how their style is a tribute to the teams they grew up watching, such as the Hardy Boys. This prompted Raven to recall meeting Michael Hayes for the first time: “You base yourself on people because you’re still trying […]
Rory Karpf, director of the upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 “Nature Boy” was the guest on this week’s Ross Report. Karpf talked about his background as a wrestling fan, what led him to Ric Flair and what wrestler ESPN initially wanted to feature: “I grew up in Philadelphia in the 1980’s, a huge wrestling fan. I mean, enormous. I kind […]
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