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 […]
Bully Ray was recently interviewed by Chris Van Vliet and talked about his retirement from wrestling, the Hall of Fame, and more. Here are some of the highlights: On his retirement speech: “I don’t plan anything. When you plan stuff, it comes across the wrong way. I go to the ring and I say what I feel. I wasn’t even supposed […]
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 […]
ECW, WCW and WWE Superstar Big Vito LoGrasso returned to the Duke Loves Rasslin Podcast to discuss why he has heat with Kenny Bolin, the Manny Fernandez controversy, his relationship with Vince McMahon and more: On heat with Kenny Bolin (17:15): “When you talk about a man’s wife and you make vulgar comments about sexual acts, like he did, you’re […]
Cody Rhodes was recently interviewed by Chris Van Vliet and talked about life out of WWE, advice his father gave him, and more. Here are some of the highlights he sent along: He’s making more money since leaving WWE: “I just had the absolute best luck in the world in terms of meeting The Young Bucks and they might look […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Doink the Clown was the topic on this week’s episode of Something To Wrestle with Bruce Prichard. Bruce discussed the origin of the gimmick and how it fit Matt Bourne. During an earlier run with the company, Matt was first pegged to bear a resemblance to another famous clown: “Mike Hegstrand (Road Warrior Hawk), looking at Matt Bourne, saw him […]
Kevin Owens was a guest recently on E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness and discussed how surreal it was to work a program with Vince McMahon: “I knew something was going to happen with Vince for a couple days beforehand. I wasn’t sure what it was exactly until we ironed out everything that day. When it happened, when I actually went through with […]
Killing the Town with Storm and Cyrus dedicated this week’s episode to Michael Hegstrand, AKA Road Warrior Hawk on the fourteenth anniversary of his passing. Several guests were interviewed, including Bret Hart: Regarding the only times they wrestled each other: “We actually had one match with Hawk and Animal. I remember Hawk kind of got a little messed up and […]
Jim Cornette was a recent guest on the most recent episode of Dinner With The King to talk about a recent incident at a Bruce Prichard live show. Here are the highlights they sent along: Cornette on exposing himself to the crowd during Bruce Prichard’s live show: “As we were sitting there at our two man podium, I noticed there […]
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