Wrestling audio or podcasts

[Baby Shoes]

My favorites are the 92 rumble, the epic 7+ hour Wrestlemania X-7, and Survivor Series 91

I don't listen to podcasts but I have to start do research because I've been asked to be a host on one. Maybe it's my current state of not being familiar but how the hell do they talk seven hours on Wrestlemania X-7? I mean, it is a classic but I doubt I could go on about it for half an hour and that's beyond doing running commentary, that's twice the length of the show itself!

 

[Youth N Asia]

If you're taking Piper seriously, apparently Austin got upset that the podcast Piper did where he had Will Sasso playing Austin and goofed around. I gave up early on that episode, found it annoying. Seems like Piper was removed from Podcast One and he just posted this.

@R_Roddy_Piper: I JUST HEARD THAT PODCASTONE HAS PUT SIS AND DECEASE, SAYING I CAN NOT DO ANOTHER PODCAST ANY WHERE! Because of Steve's feelings? Really?

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Yeah. That'll hold up.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Listening to the Austin/Del Wilkes interview and it's a fascinating subject given the history of wrestlers and pill addictions.

 

[The Dames]

I fucking adore The Lapsed Fan.

 

[Jingus]

I fucking adore The Lapsed Fan.

Who?

(Googles, listens)

Holy fucking shit, this is the single greatest fan-produced wrestling podcast I've ever heard in my life. Incredibly smart, highbrow, deeply analytical and yet still funny and entertaining. (I'd totally buy a copy of their proposed ROH-fanbase book; Ring of Honor: An Ass Every Seventy-Two Inches.) I'm almost an hour into their ECW Barely Legal review, and they haven't even started actually discussing the content of the show yet; they've just done an exhausting, insanely in-depth job of setting the scene and describing all the business, creative, and political background which led up to the broadcast of ECW's first ppv. Including an exclusive interview clip with Paul Heyman talking about getting the show on the air, just to keep it feeling firsthand and less like "two nobodies talk about whatever". And the chemistry between the two nobodies who host the show makes it very different from usual, with one hardcore smark who knows everything that explains all the details to a barely-even-casual fan who's never watched most of this shit before. Highest recommendation, thank you guys for mentioning it, and why the hell haven't I heard of this before?

 

[KingPK]

Sasha Banks on Jericho's podcast is the best, even if her story about learning about Eddie's death was the most heartbreaking thing.

I tried the Lapsed Fan podcast. There is such a thing as getting *too* in-depth about something and they take so damn long to get to any kind of point. I listened to the X-7 episode and two hours in they haven't even started talking about the fucking show.

 

[ViciousFish]

Cornette lost his shit on a podcast about The Young Bucks super kicking that 8 year kid in the video that's gone viral. If you listen to him, The Bucks are the reason guys aren't making money in the business and The Bucks aren't wrestlers.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qxlek4eMiRk

 

[Jingus]

Some old friends of mine are doing a podcast called TNA: The Early Years. It covers guess-what, but also with bonus episodes about random shit from the first ROH show to the Women Of Wrestling ppv. They're pretty amusing guys, so it's worth a listen. One bonus difference from most other amateur podcasts is that these dudes all worked the indies at some point or another; one of the regular hosts was a flippity cruiserweight, one is a manager & referee, another was/is an announcer, and their occasional guest hosts are all workers too. So you're getting the snarky opinions of semi-veterans who've actually been there and done that.

I tried the Lapsed Fan podcast. There is such a thing as getting *too* in-depth about something and they take so damn long to get to any kind of point. I listened to the X-7 episode and two hours in they haven't even started talking about the fucking show.

Yeah, admittedly their casts are usually longer than whatever show they're actually reviewing was. They do kinda lose me whenever they just stop the review dead in its tracks to do impressions of Vince or Jim Barnett for twenty minutes straight. But I still like them, because there's just nobody else out there who is willing to take ALL the time they want to analyze things and not keep hurrying the show along as if they're worried about the ratings going down if they don't jump frenetically from topic to topic.

Cornette lost his shit on a podcast about The Young Bucks super kicking that 8 year kid in the video that's gone viral. If you listen to him, The Bucks are the reason guys aren't making money in the business and The Bucks aren't wrestlers.

No surprise there. Cornette is a super-traditionalist, guaranteed to bitch and moan about anything that Bill Watts wouldn't approve of. And he's wrong, of course, on multiple levels. There have been plenty of old-school angles where a heel beat up some kid to get cheap heat. And wrestling's ever-dwindling popularity is due to a hell of a lot more problems than just whatever the spot monkeys are doing.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Still got love for OSW Review.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Mark Henry on Jericho's podcast is a lot of fun: http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=593&pid=526097

Starts about 16:30 in.

 

[Youth N Asia]

I'm liking Flair's podcast more and more. I credit his co-host for a lot of that. However he had two shit shows in a row a while back. He had Kevin Sullivan on a while ago, and was obviously hammered throughout the interview. I couldn't finish it, he slurs to begin with, but this was just really messy sounding. Then the next week he had JJ Dillon on, and he'd throw a question to JJ, and while he was talking you could hear Flair chewing into the mic, it was fucking gross sounding.

The next week he had Cornette on, who does go over the top with his opinions, but I like hearing. And Flair started the show by saying that his bosses told him he couldn't drink before the show or eat while the show was going on.

I find that I only listen to Ross when he has a good guest on. He's still not very good about not talking over his guest, lording the conversation, stating the obvious and then selling his opinion like it's just his thought that's going against the majority (which it's not), and saying a lame joke and letting everyone know that he told a joke. But he keeps getting good guests

Jericho's probably got the best back and forth with his guests. But I can't do any of the 12-20 minute banter that comes before.

 

[Tino Standard]

Sounds like a lot of those issues with Flair's pod could be fixed with better production. When we record a podcast at my office, we use directional microphones that only pick up audio from people speaking right in front of them. Then in post-production, we cut audio from those who aren't speaking, so in this case, if Flair is chewing while someone else is talking (which,yes, you shouldn't do anyway), his mic would be dead.

 

[Youth N Asia]

One thing that always makes me laugh on Flair's podcast is that he seems to love killing the mood now and then with

Flair: "Have you heard about wrestler (fill in the blank)?"
Guest: "No. Why?"
Flair: "Oh, he's in bad health. Really sick."

He does this a lot. For some reason I get a kick out of it.

 

[MillenniumMan831]

Terry Funk's "Don't ya have any good Goddamn news?" to Flair after getting buzzkilled one too many times by him was great.

 

[Precious Roy]

I've become a fan of Talking Sheet (www.sheetsandwich.com).........but 'Les Moore' has become increasingly bitchy and whiny the more podcasts they've done, specifically when it comes to Alvarez and Meltzer. Meltzer and Alvarez are by far my favorite guys to listen to.....so that's become a bit annoying. Still enjoy the show though

Between the Sheets is good too.....but Bix gets on my nerves sometimes with his little tics. His giggling school girl laugh annoys the shit out of me, but he does know a lot about wrestling history and has been around the IWC forever, so I can tolerate it. the one thing that's a little weird about the format is they just jump around to random weeks in history. One week it's 87, then it's 95, then it's 92.....with no real rhyme or reason

I also really like Exile on Badstreet. A lot of the PWO-PTBN podcasts are good, if you've got a couple hours to kill and are a wrestling history nerd like me

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

Now admittedly I'm saying this without visiting the site often or ever listening to an audio show, but from what I gathered sheetsandwich started out as kind of a joke website, "reporting the reporters" and generally having a good time reporting nonsense like Todd Martin drama.

Something happened with Piper news Alvarez reported where he misspoke and Les took him to task, Bryan made a comment he insists was a joke but Les has kind of gone off the deep ending taking himself, the website, and audio shows too seriously.

 

[Precious Roy]

yea, it was a jokey lighthearted podcast at the start.....but Les has definitely started taking it too seriously and it sucks the fun out of it sometimes. You can tell when he goes on these rants about stupid shit 'Hugh Little' just kinda tunes him out and wants to be like "dude, chill out, shut the fuck up"

 

[Precious Roy]

also, 'Selia Bloom' is 'Les Moore's' wife or live in GF, right? she's gotta be. I never go on ~THE BOARD so I don't know if this has been speculated/discussed

I do like that they use these gimmick names and try to be all mysterious

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

A lot of the PWO-PTBN podcasts are good, if you've got a couple hours to kill and are a wrestling history nerd like me

I really loved listening to the trial of Paul Heyman that had "evidence gathering" on PWO. It was interesting to have multiple arguments for and against something, using wrestling history as evidence.

 

[Precious Roy]

A lot of the PWO-PTBN podcasts are good, if you've got a couple hours to kill and are a wrestling history nerd like me

I really loved listening to the trial of Paul Heyman that had "evidence gathering" on PWO. It was interesting to have multiple arguments for and against something, using wrestling history as evidence.

I haven't heard that one but def interested. I'm a huge Heyman/ECW fan/supporter.....but I'm willing to entertain differing opinions on him for better or worse. There's good and bad to say about ECW as a promotion and it's impact on wrestling, but you can't deny that it was revolutionary at the time and directly impacted the way WCW and WWF booked in the "Monday Night Wars" "Attitude Era" days. ECW was just f'n cool, and it came around at the perfect time when when WCW and WWF were pumping out cartoon crap and young people who grew up as fans in the 80's were sick of it and wanted a cutting edge alternative. It's been 20 years since the heyday of ECW and no other promotion has come along that had that kind of impact, and there's been a lot of them that have tried. Maybe ROH, but not at the same level, and Gabe was a Heyman disciple anyway who took one aspect of ECW and streamline it to create a "super indy" promotion with it's own style and voice

Link to podcast?

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Here you go. It's a damn good 90 minute discussion, and I like it for more than just my inclusion as part of the defense's evidence.

 

[Precious Roy]

sweet

 

[Brocklock]

Stone Cold's interview with Jake The Snake is an amazing listen. Steve's befuddled reaction at Jake saying how stupid the sledgehammer is as a weapon is hilarious. The amount of rasp and grizzle coming from their voices made me grow a beard. Jake is still one of the best minds in the business at understanding what makes a heel and a babyface.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Stone Cold's interview with Jake The Snake is an amazing listen. Steve's befuddled reaction at Jake saying how stupid the sledgehammer is as a weapon is hilarious. The amount of rasp and grizzle coming from their voices made me grow a beard. Jake is still one of the best minds in the business at understanding what makes a heel and a babyface.

His knowledge is amazing even little details such as referees selling the acts of wrestlers, the use of heel stuff and it being just about the motion of it to work the crowd into a frenzy, etc. A lot of truth bombs dropped in this one. His style of blading being different from presumably Ric Flair's style, etc.

Also his mention of 5'7" dudes/short dudes doing mic promos talking like they're 300 pound ass kickers made me laugh.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Terry Funk's "Don't ya have any good Goddamn news?" to Flair after getting buzzkilled one too many times by him was great.

Ol' gossipy Ric does it again. Last week on on his podcast Bischoff was talking about Black Jack Mulligan and butted in "actually he's dying as we speak. Weighs almost 500 pounds"

He loves gossiping about guys in bad health

 

[Brocklock]

Terry Funk's "Don't ya have any good Goddamn news?" to Flair after getting buzzkilled one too many times by him was great.

Ol' gossipy Ric does it again. Last week on on his podcast Bischoff was talking about Black Jack Mulligan and butted in "actually he's dying as we speak. Weighs almost 500 pounds"

He loves gossiping about guys in bad health

I'm 90 seconds into part II of the Bischoff interview and Flair brings up their good friend John Taylor "who's in very bad shape and has advanced alzheimer's".

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

I'm not gonna lie, I really enjoyed ICP on Talk is Jericho this week. A lot of interesting stories.

 

[BorneAgain]

Bill Apter was on Talk is Jericho and put forth the theory Benoit got in some trouble with bad people who killed his family, then after he got home, killed him and framed Benoit for the crime.

Eddie Ellner is then reported to have chimed in, praising the killers as classic smart rulebreakers, but that remains unconfirmed.

 

[Baby Shoes]

I haven't ever listened to Jericho's podcast but I am surprised he let Benoit come up.