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We Watch Comics dives headfirst into the ever-expanding world of comic book movies and TV shows — one episode at a time.  Join Logan and Keithie as we being our Journey through the ArrowVerse; Arrow, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning & Batwoman, the boys will pull the thread of the fabric of the Multiverse and maybe have some fun doing it. This episode, Logan & Keithie start with reviewing two episodes and the guys try to tell the difference between family "Legacies" while dealing with a "Muse of Fire"

On episode 46 of NWA Crock and Roll, the boys continue their journey through May 1986. Topics include; another hot development in the James Gang with Baby Doll vs. Midnight Express with Jim Cornette feud, a god awful Wahoo promo and a tag match with him that causes quite the heel turn from Calum, the US Title Feud continues to brew, Bash 86 announcement, another Flair/Morton match from Mid Atlantic and close with the Territory Spotlight match from the WWF in Detroit with Killer Bees facing Sheik and Volkoff.

In Episode 45 of the podcast, Scott and Logan go over the 5/24/2000 Thunder! Will there be another world title change? Only time will tell? Just how many tables matches can one man lose in a week? Who is GiI Bro? and will Scott call him just GI or GI Bro? 

Backbone Wrestling Network…. Welcome to a brand new podcast journey that we are calling Meltzer Knows Best (?). In this journey, we will be watching each and every match that Dave Meltzer has rated 5 stars or above and discussing them together. Logan Crosland will be leading the way through this journey and will be joined by Keith Langston & Shawn Kidd on every episode. In Episode #1, the boys travel back to the Osaka Profectural Gymnasium for a match between Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa from January 20th 1997. Check out the match yourself and then listen along to our breakdown!  https://youtu.be/VlfV1bGq_ns?si=s4qy9BEd5NVVF-WE

On the new episode of YouTube Roulette, join Shiff, Logan, and Matt, as they watch Do Fixer vs Blood Generation form Supercard of Honor 2006 (Matt), Tyler Black vs Bryan Danielson from ROH 2008 (Scott), and Speedball Mike Bailey vs Bandido from PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2022 (Logan).

In this episode of New Gen on a Mission, Justin Pratt and Tim Slomka discuss the first WCW Monday Night Nitro.  They talk about Luger, IRS and Norton all showing up, good spread of talent between matches, Pasta Mania and Pepe. Enjoy!

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 4/6-4/11, as well as TNA's Rebellion. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

***Originally aired on Place to Be Nation in July 2022***  On episode 45 of NWA Crock and Roll, all four Horsemen are back together to begin the journey of May '86! Topics include; “Good Hand” Don Kernodle vs. Arn for TV Title, one of the greatest matches ever watched on the podcast for National Title that takes up a whole episode of World Wide, more greatness in the Baby Doll/Jim Cornette feud with a new twist, a fantastic Morton/Flair World Title House Show match from Greensboro and close with the Territory Spotlight segment looking at a WCCW World Title match between Rick Rude and Bruiser Brody that causes Dr. G to cut a heated promo on Dave Meltzer!  

In 1988 history was made by JCP. A Premium Live Event given away free on TBS showcasing some of the best and brightest for our entertainment. Titles defended. Grudges resolved. Legends are born. Henceforth known as the Clash of the Champions. Join us as the Backbone on this journey recapping these amazing show of shows. This episode, Keithie welcomes back for a return encounter, Scotty "Too Hotty" Shiff. Clash of the Champions XII: Mountain Madness/Fall Brawl '90 live from the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina in which we see a few debuts, one hell of a US Title match and the Stinger's first title defense against The Black Scorpion???? The Fabulous Freebirds with Buddy Lee Roberts vs The Southern Boys with Bullet Bob Armstrong Mike Rotunda vs Buddy Landel Tim Horner and Brad Armstrong vs The Master Blasters The Nasty Boys vs Jackie Fulton and Terry Taylor Bill Irwin vs Tommy Rich LPWA Women's Champion Susan Sexton vs Bambi NWA United States Tag Team Champions The Steiner Brothers vs Maximum Overdrive Stan Hansen vs The "Z-Man" Tom Zenk NWA United States Champion Lex Luger vs The Nature Boy Ric Flair NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Sting vs The Black Scorpion  All this plus Missy Hyatt, Sid Vicious and a Freebirds trip to Hollywood.

Backbone Wrestling Network...Welcome to Highway to the Impact Zone. Join host Logan Crosland, TNA expert Matt Souza, and special guest Jennifer Smith as they live watch the 12/20/07 episode of Impact.

2 Fun topics on this episode of The Shit Take after Shawn screws up the number ordering in episodes! Keith-Dave Meltzer is a 0 Star Journalist Shawn-Trick Williams is already a bigger star than 90% of the Roster

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 3/30-4/4, as well as NXT's Stand & Deliver. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

We Watch Comics dives headfirst into the ever-expanding world of comic book movies and TV shows — one episode at a time.  Join Logan and Keithie as we being our Journey through the ArrowVerse; Arrow, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning & Batwoman, the boys will pull the thread of the fabric of the Multiverse and maybe have some fun doing it. This episode, Logan & Keithie find out just how "Damaged" Oliver, Quentin & Laurel are.

***Originally aired on Place to Be Nation in June 2022*** On episode 44 of NWA Crock and Roll, the boys pause before going head first into May 86 with a new bridge episode concept that will take place after each monthly watch called Pre Crockett Match Year Spotlight. The concept: 6 matches featuring Crockett stars from a wrestling year prior to the Crockett era starting in April 85 or prior to them becoming a part of Jim Crockett Promotions. This episode looks at 1985 and matches with some historical context that set up the Crockett era. Included; Flair vs. Gordy for World Title, Road Warriors vs. The High Flyers for AWA Tag Titles, Rock and Roll Express vs. The Freebirds, Buzz Tyler vs. Tully Blanchard for TV Title, Wahoo vs. TA in a cage for US Title that one person gives a shocking rating and close with a match with The Russians vs. Don Kernodle and…Ricky Steamboat?? This was a fun one! All matches discussed can be found on You Tube!  

In Episode 44 of the pod, Scott and Logan go over the 5/22 Nitro! We have a new champion due to a Ric Flair brain aneurism? There's also a funeral for Ric Flairs career and someone comes out of the casket? How will Kidman be cucked this week? Find out on this episode of Are You Smarter than Vince Russo's WCW!!!

Backbone Wrestling Network, Welcome to the Ice Palace for this episode of Linking Up Luchas! Join your host Logan Crosland on this pod journey where he will be linking some of his most beloved friends up with one of his favorite short lived Lucha promotions, Lucha Underground. On this installment, he is joined by Jennifer Smith, Scott Shifflett, Shawn Kidd, Jacob Williams, & Matt Souza as they wrap up the entire series by live watching Ultima Lucha Cuatro! Join us one last time and enjoy the madness that is Lucha Underground. Thanks to all the listeners, as well The North South Connection & BackBone Wrestling Network for hosting us over the past few of years!

On a big episode 25 of Hands of Z, Keith and Shawn deviate from the normal two match cadence of 1 Larry and 1 Garvin match and make it all about Larry! Enjoy as the boys deep dive and watch the Battle Royal from 1989 complete with interviews in build up where Larry wins the AWA title! Sgt. Slaughter, Tom Zenk, Manny Fernandez, Wahoo McDaniel, Ken Patera, The Future Beverley Brothers and Orient Express and more! Its a packed match with two entrants that never made it to the Battle Royal but had interviews in the lead up. One was a Rock, the other one an American Dream?? Larry is on fire! Jerry Lawler gets verbally destroyed, Bill Apter is in the house and so much more!  Fun episode!

In this episode of New Gen on a Mission, Justin Pratt and Tim Slomka talk SummerSlam 1995.   They discuss the misuse of talent (Bret, Bulldog, Luger, Sid) offset by some great in ring in the ladder match, plus 123 Kid showing up again and Diesel's flameout. Enjoy!

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 3/22-3/28, as well as TNA's Sacrifice. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

Hi everybody, this is Keithie Kasem and I want to welcome you to the BackBone Radio Network. Here you can enjoy sports & entertainment like never before. Catch some previews of our shows we offer here on the BackBone Wrestling Network. Our hosts & co-hosts do all they can to entertain and inform, so stay a while, listen in and enjoy. 

***Originally aired on Place to Be Nation in June 2022*** On an angle heavy episode 43 of NWA Crock and Roll, Shawn, The Doctor and Shiff (Calum saw a Wahoo match was scheduled to open the show and conveniently couldn't make it  ) close out April '86. Topics discussed include; a total reset after Crockett Cup setting up the next few months, two amazing all time angles with Flair/Morton and Americas Team/The Midnight Express with Jim Cornette, a Dusty promo that rivals Hard Times, a hidden gem match from Mid Atlantic, The Road Warriors not being able to read, write or know what match they are having or when, the greatest Saturday night show ever up to this point and close with the Territory Spotlight segment going to Japan featuring another hidden gem match between Ted Dibiase taking on Tenryu.

On episode 31 of Territorial, Shawn looks at the debut of NWA Main Event on 4/3/1988 on TBS. Coming out of the first Clash the NWA ups its TV game with a new show to follow up that highlights its top stars in main event matches on Sunday Night. After setting up the history of the show, Shawn immediately goes into the episode and recaps the debut show! Matches on deck: The Road Warriors vs. Larry Zbyszko and The Super Destroyer Dusty Rhodes vs. Ivan Koloff for the US Title Lex Luger, Sting and Barry Windham vs. Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson!

On this classic episode of Highway to the Impact Zone that originally aired on the Place to Be Wrestling Network, join Logan, Jake and Matt as they live watch Destination X 2006! Listen to the crew discuss Abyss, Jeff Jarrett and AMW vs Rhino, Ron Killings, and Team 3D, Ultimate X for the X Division Title, Christian Cage vs Monty Brown for the NWA World Title and more!

On the latest .5 episode its all about the Western States Heritage Title as Barry Windham defends the title against two of the Four Horseman! After a brief overview of Barry's reign the boys get right into it! Up first is Barry defending against Arn Anderson on a 9/5/87 episode of NWA Pro! After that they watch a match that takes place the night before the Bunkhouse Stampede 1988 where Barry actually lost the title to Larry Zbyszko, as Barry defends against Tully Blanchard on a 1/23/88 episode of NWA Superbouts in a match with some big happenings that lead to the very first Clash of Champions! Spoiler: One of these is a Four Star watch!

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 3/16-3/21. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

We Watch Comics dives headfirst into the ever-expanding world of comic book movies and TV shows — one episode at a time.  Join Logan and Keithie as we being our Journey through the ArrowVerse; Arrow, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning & Batwoman, the boys will pull the thread of the fabric of the Multiverse and maybe have some fun doing it. This episode, Logan & Keithie find out just who is "An Innocent Man". Do they fail this show? Listen and find out.  

***Originally aired on Place to Be Nation in May 2022*** On Episode 42 of NWA Crock 'n' Roll, Calum, Scott and Dr. G complete the discussion on Crockett Cup 1986 with a recap of the remainder of the tournament. This episode covers baffling booking of a 20-minute draw,  an absolute epic encounter out of nowhere which gets a lot of love and everything in between! We also head back to the Metrodome in Minneapolis for another look at AWA WrestleRock '86 to discuss a pair of tag matches involving Buddy Rose and Doug Somers vs. the Midnight Rockers and Road Warriors vs The Freebirds in the Territory Spotlight.

On episode 42 of the Shit Take we look at a current day champion and a champion from the late 80s! Keith thinks CM Punk is the most overrated wrestler of all time! Shawn thinks Nikita Koloff does not get the love he deserves for his contributions to the wrestling business 

Backbone Wrestling Network, Welcome to the Ice Palace for this episode of Linking Up Luchas! Join your host Logan Crosland on this pod journey where he will be linking some of his most beloved friends up with one of his favorite short lived Lucha promotions, Lucha Underground. On this installment, he is joined by Jennifer Smith and Scott Shifflett as they continue season 4 by discussing the episodes from 10/17/2018 & 10/24/18! Join us and enjoy the madness that is Lucha Underground.

In 1988 history was made by JCP. A Premium Live Event given away free on TBS showcasing some of the best and brightest for our entertainment. Titles defended. Grudges resolved. Legends are born. Henceforth known as the Clash of the Champions. Join us as the Backbone on this journey recapping these amazing show of shows. This episode, Keithie welcomes back for the first of a two appearance, Scotty "Too Hotty" Shiff. Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush live from the McAlister Field House at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina were we see the Dudes with Attitudes mix it up with the Four Horsemen on the way to the Great American Bash 90! The Southern Boys vs The Fabulous Freebirds Bam Bam Bigelow vs Tommy Rich Fatu and Samoan Savage vs Tom Zenk and Mike Rotunda Mean Mark vs Brian Pillman NWA United States Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express vs The Rock 'n' Roll Express Barry Windham vs Doug Furnas NWA United States Champion Lex Luger vs Sid Vicious NWA World Tag Team Champions Doom vs The Steiner Brothers NWA Worlds Television Champion Arn Anderson vs Paul Orndorff (Non-Title) NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Junkyard Dog All these matches plus Shiff and I try to figure out the match of the night, Tony Schiavone's interviews, laughs and we find out why Shiff will be here for Clash XII.

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 3/9-3/14, as well as AEW's Revolution. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

In this episode of New Gen on a Mission, Justin Pratt and Tim Slomka talk the final days before SummerSlam 1995.   They discuss the end of Wrestling Challenge, a hot Bulldog turn, Mable being booked strong, poor Skip and as always Doink the Clown. Enjoy!

***Originally aired on Place to Be Nation in May 2022*** On Episode 41 of NWA Crock 'n' Roll, Calum, Scott and Dr. G continue on the journey through Crockett Cup 1986 with a recap of the full second round of the tournament. This episode covers new found love for the Sheepherders and the Fantastics, a pair of upsets involving two of the pre-tournament favorites and an in-depth discussion on a WWE 2K22 Create-A-Wrestler template involved in the tournament. We also get a stop-off to the Metrodome in Minneapolis for a look at another tag-team encounter from AWA WrestleRock '86 involving The Long Riders and two unknown guys called Scott Hall and Curt Hennig for this episodes Territory Spotlight.

Boys, the rules don't make much sense. But I believe in the rules. Some of us broke them. I broke them. I can't do this. I can't win like this. In a world where one man has only seen 30 or so movies comes a desire to learn from a master. A master of film. A master of cinema. A master who has led such a sad life.  Logan seeks the knowledge and he turns to his own personal “Yoda”; Keithie. Join Logan & Keithie on a wild adventure to discover as we watch along with a new movie each episode in THE MOVIE EDUCATION OF LOGAN CROSLAND. This episode, March Madness has arrived and with that, we go to college basketball on the big screen. Not Hoosiers or Coach Carter (I think Logan might have enjoyed those more), but Blue Chips.  The 1994 movie starring Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell and oh yeah, Shaquille O'Neal. Keithie, Logan and Tim talk sports, Shaq's entire resume, Morgan Freeman for some reason, and how much of a dick J.T. Walsh seems to always play.  Does Logan even notice how boss Bob Cousy is in this movie? Does Tim even know who Bob Cousy is? There's two words I didn't think could ever come out of my mouth. I didn't think I'd ever be able to say them.... I quit.

Backbone Wrestling Network...Welcome to Highway to the Impact Zone. Join host Logan Crosland, TNA expert Matt Souza, and special guest Scott Shifflett as they live watch the 12/13/07 Impact

On the new episode of YouTube Roulette, join Shiff, Logan, Matt, and their very special guest Keith Langston as they watch Steve Corino vs Homicide in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Match (Matt), Sabu vs Goldust from USA Xtreme Wrestling in 2007 (Scott), another Barbed Wire Ropes match between Steve Corino & Terry Funk  (Logan), and Danhausen vs Mantequilla from House of Glory in 2025(Keith).

On episode 24 of Hands of Z, Shawn and Keith once again look at matches involving our heroes, this time defending their respective TV titles. From October 1983 GCW, Garvin defends his National TV Title against Les Thorton, while Larry defends his WCW TV title in 6/18/1994 against future WWE Creative Director, Terra Ryzing! A very educational Hands of Z, including a Six Degrees of Les Thorton game and discussion on Vince McMahon's possible reaction to Terra Ryzing's stunning hair.

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 3/2-3/7, as well as NXT's Vengeance Day. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

We Watch Comics dives headfirst into the ever-expanding world of comic book movies and TV shows — one episode at a time.  Join Logan and Keithie as we being our Journey through the ArrowVerse; Arrow, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Black Lightning & Batwoman, the boys will pull the thread of the fabric of the Multiverse and maybe have some fun doing it. This episode, Logan & Keithie look to see if there is more than one "Lone Gunman". Do they fail this show? Listen and find out.  

***Originally aired on Place to Be Nation in April 2022***   On this episode of NWA Crock and Roll it's a 3-man booth as we celebrate the Big 4-0! It's April 86 part 4 with round 1 of Crockett Cup '86! After a quick synopsis of the event the team briefly recap 5 first round matches, then go deeper on full match watches on last 3 matches of round one. Did Fantastics vs. Fabulous Ones deliver? Koko B. Ware and Italian Stallion as a team? How good are Sawyer and Steiner together? How bad are the other Sawyer and DJ Peterson together? How the hell did Jimmy Garvin get stuck with Black Bart, causing one member of the crew to black out after ranting about their match. All this and the debut of a new segment at the end of the show that takes us to the night after Crockett Cup to the AWA and WrestleRock 1986 with a match featuring Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo against a team that's in the Cup!

In Episode 43 of the pod, Scott and Logan go over the 5/17/2000 Thunder, when Eric and Vince are gone the New Blood have no fun! Goldberg Monster Truck comes back to save Scott Steiner? Lex Luger kills Chuck Palumbo in a gym? Yes all of this happens and more! 

Backbone Wrestling Network, Welcome to the Ice Palace for this episode of Linking Up Luchas! Join your host Logan Crosland on this pod journey where he will be linking some of his most beloved friends up with one of his favorite short lived Lucha promotions, Lucha Underground. On this installment, he is joined by Jennifer Smith and Scott Shifflett as they continue season 4 by discussing the episodes from 10/3/2018 & 10/10/18! Join us and enjoy the madness that is Lucha Underground.

On episode 41 of The Shit Take we look at overdone wrestling phrases and the Wrestlemania main event! Keith brings up how he never needs to hear certain wrestling phrases ever again, while Shawn discusses its about time they reset Roman Reigns and had him win the Rumble to put him back in the main event of Wrestlemania against CM Punk for the title. Fun episode!

In this episode of New Gen on a Mission, Justin Pratt and Tim Slomka start the build to SummerSlam 1995.  They review the appointment of the fan friendly president, Skip and Sunny's relationship and Mo and Mable's climb to main event level. Enjoy!

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 2/23-2/28, as well as WWE's Elimination Chamber. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!

***Originally aired on Place to Be Network in April 2022*** On episode 39 of NWA Crock and Roll, it's a 3-man booth as we are 1 episode away from Crockett Cup 86! Topics discussed are a house show from Charlotte with a tag bull rope match, another Garvin/Arn banger and a new US champion crowned? There's also a whole lot of Wahoo, a fantastic TV Title match between Bull and Arn, two shoot style go home promos for the title match at the Cup between Flair and Dusty and wrap up with the final Crockett Cup Spotlights with matches featuring Miller and Jaggers and The Batten Twins. One of these matches kills the territory! All this and more in April 86 part 3!

On episode 40 of The Shit Take, Shawn and Keith share two controversial opinions from current day wrestling and wrestling past! Keith-The Ultimate Warrior's title run would have been successful with one or two tweaks Shawn-Ricky Saints is to Cody Rhodes what Brutus Beefcake was to Hulk Hogan

On this classic episode of Highway to the Impact Zone that originally aired on the Place to Be Wrestling Network, join Logan, Jake, Shawn, Matt, and Ben as they live watch Against All Odds 2006! Listen to the crew discuss Abyss vs Rhino in a Falls Count Anywhere match, Samoa Joe vs Christopher Daniels vs AJ Styles for the X Division Title, Christian Cage vs Jeff Jarrett for the NWA World Title and more!

Buongiorno! The Backbone FOOD Network brings you the meals and stories from the 2000 cookbook Can You Take the Heat by Jim Ross & The WWF Superstars. This episode, Chef Keithie brings the flavor of flounder to the table as he cooks up Ivory's favorite lean eats.  A veggie mix with white fish you say. Sign me up. Mangiare la mia famiglia

On the 23.5 episode of Hands of Z, Shawn and Keith look at two of Keith's favorite tag teams, The Fantastics facing The Midnight Express, except one Express is not like the other! Side note both matches are from 1988 AND both matches take up a full episode of NWA syndicated TV AND both matches run close to 40 minutes! Up first from March 26, 1988 (The day before the very first Clash of Champions), The Fantastics debut in the NWA to face current US Tag Team Champions, The Midnight Express of Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane w/Jim Cornette in a non-title match! Then from December 31, 1988 (Taped on 12/15 before Starrcade 88) The Fantastics defend the US Tag Titles against The Original Midnight Express of Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose w/ Paul E. Dangerously in a 2/3 Falls match! Fun episode with two fun matches! Can Keith and Shawn survive 2 matches that went 80 minutes total? Tune in and find out!

Welcome to The Crosup, a weekly look at the wrestling TV and PLEs from WWE, AEW, and TNA. Host Logan Crosland will take you the through the results, promos, and what he considers the top matches of the week. This week he will cover the TV shows from the week of 2/16-2/21. Join Logan each and every week as he guides you across the wrestling world on The CrosUp!