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Remember CM Punk's 434 day WWE Title reign, the sixth longest of the modern era? This is how it ended! Remember The Best in the World Vs The Great One. Royal Rumble, January 2013. A year before CM Punk left WWE.  Join Matt and Dave to find out if it was a worthy end to a sublime title reign?  

Remember Brock Lesnar before Suplex City? Yes he can have a good long match! Matt and Dave move two years down the line to the 2013 Summerslam; the best Vs the beast. CM Punk Vs Brock Lesnar. Built around a feud between CM Punk and his betrayal by Paul Heyman this is a must listen and must watch !

On the pod this episode...Punk. Cena. Summerslam 2011 contract signing with dull as dishwater John Laurinaitis and H H H presiding. Undisputed WWE champion match Cena, Punk, HHH as special guest referee. Interesting booking? Good character work? Over thought? Kevin Nash. Remember that wrestling's Summer of Punk continues...get the BBQ out!  

Remember a Jeff Hardy match with very few big death defying stunts?    This is one of them, a World Heavyweight Championship match at Summerslam 2009 between CM Punk and Jeff Hardy in a match Jeff was made famous in; Tables, Ladders and Chairs! Character work and selling are two of several talking points from the main event of Summerslam 2009!

In a feud that helped cement CM Punk's ability to be a villain we remember his World Heavyweight Championship match with Jeff Hardy at Night of Champions. Remember promos from the stands? Remember Jeff Hardy's theme 'No More Words'? Remember That Wrestling?

On the week where strong CM Punk rumours of a return to wrestling have been doing the internet rounds and the Money In The Bank PPV, let's journey back to 2009. A jam packed short episode looking at the Money In The Bank Ladder Match from Wrestlemania 25 where CM Punk's historic second MITB win. Matt and Dave then discuss CM Punk's cash in on Jeff Hardy 2 months later at Extreme Rules. Remember clobbering time...and Remember That Wrestling

10 year anniversary alert! The RTW pod continues its very own Summer of Punk by looking at the contract signing promo between CM Punk and Mr McMahon and the infamous Money In the Bank WWE Title match between John Cena and CM Punk on its 10 year anniversary.   Does it still hold up as a wrestling classic, or has it dated?       

Remember That Wrestling returns after an enforced break to bring you RTW's very own homage to 'Summer of Punk'.  Our first episode looks at the 'pipebomb' promo from June 27th 2011 episode of Monday Night Raw. Does CM Punk make wrestling watchable again? You bet! Come join Matt and Dave as they discuss Punk's promo performance and what it means for wrestling at this time and how it marked a significant moment in the wrestling zeitgeist. 

Happy Holidays pod fans!    In honour of this weekends TLC, the festive season PPV, join Matty and Dav as they remember the fourth TLC match in history from RAW in 2002. 4 way tag team match. Tables. Ladders. Chairs. Spots. Spike, yes Spike Dudley. Jim Ross.    Happy Holidays and thank you for listening; please share, like and subscribe.

Salmon Suit Jacket. Mark Henry. John Cena. "Retirement".    Let Matty and Dav take you back to 2013 and the retirement segment that wasn't. Mark Henry and John Cena make this segment. Mainly Mark Henry.    Please like, share and subscribe.

Remember TNA? The lads discuss the X Division title match at Unbreakable 2005. Defending champion Christopher Daniels Vs undefeated Samoa Joe Vs 2 time triple crown winner AJ Styles Journey back to 2005 with Matty and Dav as they discuss triple threat matches, selling and a deserving main event. If this matters to you at all it's the only Dave Meltzer 5 star TNA match to this day.

Remember the first NXT Takeover in Brooklyn New York? Join Matty and Dav as they revisit 2015 and Sasha Banks Vs Bayley for the NXT Women's championship. The lads discuss the great storytelling, ring psychology and character work on display during this match and take a brief moment to consider their present main roster feud.

Remember the boneyard match? Join Matty and Dav as they pay homage to Undertaker by watching along the boneyard match at Wrestlemania this year. With this likely to be Undertaker's last match the guys discuss the characters legacy as well as the match itself and ponder whether we will see the deadman at Survivor Series this weekend.

Remember the Undertaker? Of course you do! As Survivor Series approaches, so does the 30th anniversary of Undertaker's debut. Join Matty and Dav as they discuss the debut of the Undertaker at Survivor Series 1990. The discussion includes whether Undertaker is the greatest character in wrestling history, vignettes vs mystery debuts and a brief ponder around the legacy of the performer and supposing no one else could have done a better job as The Undertaker.  First in a two part special celebrating the career of the Deadman. Thank you Taker.

Remember that AJ Lee pipebomb promo verbally cutting down the cast of Total Divas? Matty didn't either. Join the guys as they revisit an important promo in the evolution of women's wrestling that speaks to the creative direction by WWE to its female characters in 2013.

Remember Halloween Havoc 96? The WCW PPV celebrating Halloween is remembered by Matty and Dav in time for this years Halloween! Get spooky with us as we discuss the World Heavyweight Title main event between Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage.   Please join us for another audio nugget as Matty and Dav discuss Hogan's wig and the continuation of his great heel work, Randy Savage's selling, a post match debut of an all time great and Matty's surprise love of Monster Trucks.

Remember 1996? Remember Pillman's gotta gun? Remember some bloke called Steve Austin?  Join the guys as they revisit a notorious home invasion angle that WWE had to justify to the TV network because of its edgy content.  The guys discuss whether this segment is really as controversial as it is notorious, and what the segment achieved for WWE as it headed from TV-PG, to TV-MA and its era of attitude.

Remember the G1 Climax?  New Japan Pro Wrestling's tournament to crown a number 1 contender to the IWGP heavyweight champion is exciting and at times unpredictable must see TV every year.   Join Matty and Dav as they pay homage in the week of the 2020 G1 Climax finals by watching a final live on the pod that they hadn't seen before from 2012. Machine Gun Karl Anderson Vs Kazuchika Okada. 

Wrestlemania 29, April 7th 2013; CM Punk Vs The Undertaker Remember CM Punk? Remember The Undertaker's undefeated streak at Wrestlemania? Join Matty and Dav as they discuss the character work of both wrestlers, the use of Paul Heyman, and the psychology of wrestling storytelling. Do all these factors combine on re-watch to make the story of CM Punk trying to defeat the streak compelling? Or does it not hold up knowing Brock Lesnar beat the streak the year after?

WCW: Bash at the Beach, July 7th 1996; NWO Hostile Takeover A.K.A. the Hulk Hogan heel turn. Remember Hogan's heel turn? The biggest babyface box office star in all of the wrestling industry at that time did something no one ever thought he would; he turned bad guy. Dav never watched WCW, Matty did. They discuss the build to this reveal of who the third person to join with The Outsiders was, the storytelling throughout Bash at the Beach and whether this iconic moment in the history of the business holds up today.

Monday Night Raw, August 28th 2017; John Cena and Roman Reigns Promo Segment. Remember this contract signing promo segment? For that one match Reigns and Cena had? No? Matty didn't either. Kurt Angle was also there. Join the guys as they discuss the benefits and negatives of this worked shoot promo and whether this built their characters and story enough to promote their match at No Mercy.

Wrestlemania 3; Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat Vs “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Remember Wrestlemania 3? Us neither. Join Matty and Dav as they analyse the build and the match that is considered the standard bearer for Wrestlemania matches that steal the show.