Wrestling Outsiders Podcast

With Brian unavailable due to a family emergency, Arya is flying solo this week and will be here to discuss everything in the wrestling world, from Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada to John Cena and Roman Reigns. Plus if anyone chooses to call in, they can attempt to complete a feat only few men can claim. They can try to Stump Arya!

It is the most infamous moment in WCW history. David Arquette, star of Ready to Rumble, wins the WCW World Title. If that's not enough he then goes one on one with Tank Abbott, who is being built up for Goldberg. PLUS Vince Russo decides to see how badly he can kill ticket sales and ppv buys for Slamboree. Hulk Hogan is here to kill Billy Kidman some more and former WCW Champion Jeff Jarrett is probably here too.

On this episode of Nitro, Jeff Jarrett, World Champion for 8 days, defends his title against Diamond Dallas Page inside a Steel Cage! Plus Eric Bischoff goes one-on-one with future World Champion David Arquette, Arya continues to go crazy and Mike Awesome wrestles his cousin, Hulk Hogan. Plus, who did Bret Hart hit with a chair last week?

The night after Spring Stampede, the level playing field has given us The New Blood with almost all the titles. Why did Kimberly turn on her husband? What do the New Blood have planned for Terry Funk and the Hardcore Title? Has Hulk Hogan broken out of prison and is here to finally get his hands on Eric Bischoff? All that, plus Bret Hart randomly appears! Has WCW continued to build his audience and gotten closer to Raw or has the rating already tanked? Spoiler: It's one of them.

Our quest to get through all of 2000 continues with Spring Stampede. All championships are vacant and will be determined through a series of tournaments. 14 matches in a 3 hour show, so you can imagine the length of some of these bouts and with good reason. Interference in 12 matches! Hulk Hogan has a gun pulled on him! Sloppy wrestling! Swerves! All that and so much more!

Our second season premieres with the relaunch of WCW Monday Nitro on April 10,2000. This season we are reviewing the entire Russo Reign Of Horror from 2000 and are starting right at the beginning. Watch as they spend 2 hours doing angles and storylines that go right over the heads of the audience. Bad wrestling, bad writing, bad announcing and the debut of ECW Champion Mike Awesome, a man that no one in the crowd seemed to know!

From our brief WrestlingOutsiders.com days, an interview with the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Drew Galloway. We discussed his upcoming match with Lashley, his WWE career, being one of Kurt Angle's final opponents and so much more!

One of the most listened to episodes from our TalkShoe days, an interview with Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. We discuss everything going on at the time of the episode, including TNA on Pop and why does he review MMA in a wrestling newsletter?

It is our final night on Blog Talk Radio and of course there was a ton of technical issues on BTR's end, so we had to tape the show to air later. Emerson and Brian review Clash 25 with Ric Flair vs Vader and a lot of bad matches! Plus Emerson rants about Tough Enough! Thank you for listening and tune into TalkShoe.com for future episodes!  

There were a lot of technical difficulties on BlogTalkRadio's part Sunday night, preventing a live recap of SummerSlam, but never fear! Emerson still recorded an episode and now you get to hear it! What happened in the huge rematch between Brock Lesnar and Undertaker? Who walked out of SummerSlam with 2 championships? Find out that and so much more by listening now!

Tonight is our second show in 5 days and first of two straight nights! Emerson and Brian return with a complete review of NXT Takeover: Brooklyn! Kevin Owens vs Finn Balor in a Ladder Match for the NXT Championship! Plus Bayley vs Sasha Banks and Samoa Joe vs Baron Corbin!

It's the granddaddy of em all: Starrcade! A show name that people remember fondly and think of great battles from the past. But we aren't talking about those. instead we're going to talk about the Lethal Lottery! 10 random draw tag team matches culminating in a 20 man battle royal! An idea that failed so bad that WCW still did it three more times and TNA has done it probably a dozen times! Plus more Tough Enough!

Two weeks before SummerSlam we go into SummerSlam mode as we review the first show of the century! The Rock, Triple H and Kurt Angle do battle in a Triple Threat match for the WWF Championship. Plus the first ever TLC Match with Edge & Christian, Hardy Boyz and Dudley Boyz. If that's not enough (and it never is) Emerson has yet another Tough Enough rant.

Emerson and Brian are back for yet another week and this time they go to the Battle of January 24. The very first Royal Rumble, live on USA, going head to head with the NWA's first live national ppv: Bunkhouse Stampede 88. What was better? What was worse? Plus More Tough Enough!

After the tragic and sudden death of WWE Hall of Famer Rowdy Roddy Piper on Friday, Emerson and Brian are back with a special edition of the Wrestling Outsiders Podcast

This week Emerson and Brian had no bloody clue what they were going to review when writing this synopsis, so the synopsis is we are going to watch something and then probably complain about it! Plus Brian Has An Opinion and it has nothing to do with Hulk Hogan being racist!

We're back to normal this week as Emerson and Brian go to May 2000 for Lance Storm's last ECW match, as he challenges Justin Credible for the ECW World Title. Plus the Rob Van Dam-Jerry Lynn match that no one remembers! If that's not enough, Emerson has yet another Tough Enough rant!

One year since they started doing post ppv shows, Emerson and Brian are back to review Battleground! Is Brock Lesnar the new WWE Champion? Or has Seth Rollins somehow survived with the belt? We discuss that plus run the entire show down from top to bottom!

This week the boys are joined by ECW's Quintessential Studmuffin, Joel "Insert Lewd Nickname Here" Gertner. We relive his ECW days, memories of MLW, TNA, WWE and so much more. All that plus we do another groundbreaking review of the groundbreaking WWE Tough Enough

Tonight we are joined by WrestleCrap's Art O'Donnell as we review quite possibly the worst announced pay per view in wrestling history: King of the Ring 1994! How much does this podcast weigh? Plus Emerson reviews Tough Enough and Paragon Pro Wrestling!

Tonight we are joined by a very special guest. Emerson and Brian welcome Jonny Fairplay, best remembered for being a contestant on Survivor and later on working with TNA. We'll ask him about his grandmother and the stories of him making $250,000 for less than 30 minutes of actual work.

Tonight the boys return to discuss Slamboree 95: A Legends Reunion, a show with 4-40 year olds in the main event and they weren't the legends. Plus Emerson discusses his trip to New York for the ROH Best in the World show.

E & B return to WOP to review Starrcade 1985! More blood than you can handle! Flair vs Rhodes! Blanchard vs Magnum! And so much more!

It's already time for yet another post show edition of the WOP. This time we are here to discuss Money in the Bank. Can the worst booked champion since Rey Mysterio find a way to be even shittier? Who has the briefcase? Find out everything here!

Following the sudden and tragic passing of wrestling legend the American Dream Dusty Rhodes, the guys are back with a special tribute show.

It is the final part of the Flair-Steamboat trilogy! Steamboat defends the NWA Title against Flair in Nashville! Plus all the talk about the post match angle. Plus the boys talk about surgery (yes again) and make picks for the Money In The Bank Ladder Match!

We go back to April 1989 and head to head with WrestleMania V is the Clash of the Champions 6! Steamboat vs Flair 2 out of 3 Falls! Plus it is the post game show for the Elimination Chamber show! Who is the new IC Champion? Who won the tag team Chamber match? Did Kevin Owens actually beat John Cena? We talk about all that and so much more!

Emerson and Brian have three dates with destiny and by destiny we mean "Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat" as over the next three weeks they will be reviewing the three WCW shows from 1989 with their three match series. First up, we go back to February 20 and go to the Chi Town Rumble! Plus we are joined by wrestling announcer Joe Dombrowski for a full hour in the most hilarious moment in WOP history

It's a special late start time with a special WOP double header! First we are joined by ring announce Joe Dombrowski to talk about his life and career in wrestling and then after shooting the shit with Joe, we have a full review of the NXT Takeover: Unstoppable show!

Payback has ended and tonight we find out who said I Quit. Was it John Cena or was it Rusev? Spoiler: It was Rusev. Plus the entire three hour show and more shenanigans!

Happy 29th birthday to Brian and Happy 1st Birthday to the Wrestling Outsiders Podcast! Tonight it is two seperate reviews, first Brian reviews Prime Time Wrestling from the day before his day of birth, May 12, 1986 and then Emerson reviews an episode of Tuesday Night Titans from the day he was born, October 29, 1984. What was better? What was worse? What was good? What was bad?

Tonight for One Night Only the boys turn their attention to TNA for the first time in one year as they look at the recent One Night Only: Hardcore Justice show! They don't know the matches and chances are, neither do you! So tune in for a surprise!

Bad WCW PPV Month finally comes to an end with a show smack dab in the middle of the end of WCW: The Great American Bash 1999! Van Hammer vs Mikey Whipwreck! The return of Sid! Crappy matches!

It is the post show for Extreme Rules! Who is the WWE Champion? Did Cena beat Rusev again? What did Roman Reigns do? Find out here first...you know unless you watched the show on the WWE Network

Bad WCW PPV Month continues with JAY LENO IN THE RING! It's Jay Leno and Diamond Dallas Page vs Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff in the main event of WCW's third Sturgis ppv! Plus Meng vs Barbarian, Public Enemy vs Alex Wright & Disco Inferno, Mongo vs Brian Adams! and so much more!

It is the first major strike against the New World Order as WCW promotes the first (and thankfully only) nWo pay per view, Souled Out. Complete with Hulk Hogan vs Giant for the fourth time on ppv, 3 hours of Nick Patrick, 3 hours of Eric Bischoff and Ted DiBiase, the Miss nWo Pageant, racist ring announcing and so much more!

#BadWCWPPVMonth kicks off with one of the worst pay per views ever, the Great American Bash 1991. Ric Flair has been fired so we get Lex Luger vs Barry Windham for the World Title. Plus Rick Steiner & Missy Hyatt vs Arn Anderson & Paul E Dangerously in a cage! A Scaffold Match with Terry Taylor, Steve Austin, Bobby Eaton and PN News! Plus so much more!

Emerson has returned from San Jose and the show is live with Emerson's recap of everything that happened including WrestleCon, ROH and the Hall of Fame. Plus a full look at WrestleMania, Emerson from a live perspective and Brian from a tv perspective.

It is WrestleMania Sunday and the boys are here with an exclusive preview of tonight's big event. They run down each and every match, along with giving predictions not just for this show, but for what will happen tomorrow on Raw.

It is the go-home show for WrestleMania and tonight the boys look at the final 5 Mania's. Shawn Michaels' retirement, The Miz WINS THE MAIN EVENT, ALEX RILEY MANAGES THE WINNER OF A MAIN EVENT, The Rock vs John Cena, The Rock vs John Cena, The Streak ending and even more details from our trips to Atlanta, Miami, New York and New Orleans! Also our thoughts on the tragic death of Perro Aguayo. Tune in this Sunday at 12:00noon for our special WrestleMania pre-show!

The boys return for their last live episode for 2 weeks! First they are joined by NWA President Bruce Tharpe looking at his early days in wrestling, how he became president and the impending NWA Classics on demand channel. Then they look at 5 quality WrestleMania's, including Akebono, Candace Michelle, Donald Trump, Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock and some actual wrestlers!

Tonight Emerson and Brian shockingly reach their 50th episode and decide tonight is the night to talk about Giants and Demons and Some Other Issues. No, we're not going to have George Noory or Steven Quail on, but we will be talking about some wacky shit! Including... The Giant vs Loch Ness from Uncensored 1996 Eli Cottonwood vs Kaval from NXT The Demon vs The Wall from SuperBrawl 2000 Screamin Demons vs XS from Uncensored 2000 Monster Mash Battle Royal from the Halloween 2007 ECW Great Khali vs Kane vs Batista from Great American Bash 2007 Andre The Giant vs Ultimate Warrior from Saturday Night's Main Event Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Jackie Gayda & Chris Nowinski Undertaker vs Giant Gonzales in a Rest In Peace Match from SummerSlam 1993 Vader vs Yokozuna from Raw in April 1996 Sharmell vs Jenna Morasca from Victory Road 2009 Brock Lesnar vs Big Show in a Stretcher Match from Judgment Day 2003  

A wacky episode where we go over the history of WrestleMania, looking at the 2000th edition all the way to the 20th edition,,,or something like that. Tables and Ladder and Chairs and Austin Heel Turns and Rock vs Hogan and Rock & Sock. Plus the final build to our FIFTIETH EPISODE SPECTACULAR THIS MONDAY NIGHT!

Emerson and Brian make way for the Attitude Era with a bevy of crap! These 5 Mania's produced one of the greatest matches in Mania history and a few decent-good World Title matches, but showed the talent depth issues the Fed had, even when they were at their hottest.  

The boys from the Ville are back for 60-ish minutes looking at the second part of their history of WrestleMania. Tonight Emerson and Brian tackle 6-10, including The Ultimate Challenge, War Exploitation, the last stadium show for a decade, WrestleMania IX and, of course, the famous Bret-Owen match and the first high profile ladder match

The live post PPV recap. Who is going to WrestleMania to challenge Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship? Did Cena overcome the odds and beat Rusev? Did anyone care for the Dust Brothers Exploding? Find out that and so much more!

The first part in our six week history of WrestleMania is tonight! The boys go to the 80's for the original 5 shows. Mania on a Monday? 3 locations for one show! 93,000 people! Liberace! All that, plus the Mega Powers EXPLODE!

We are live with a post show review of NXT Takeover! Who came out on top in the championship main event as Kevin Owens challenged Sami Zayn? Who is the new #1 Contender? Has Solomon Crowe finally debuted? Find out the answers to this and so much more!

The boys are back from the dead with a review of Royal Rumble 2007, plus Stump Emerson and This Week In Wrestling History!

Emerson does his first NXT audio report for AngryMarks.com and is being included as a special mini episode, while our main show is on a brief hiatus

Royal Rumble month continues with the 2001 edition featuring Stone Cold's third victory, Kane eliminating 11 people, Drew Carey and Undertaker tickling Kane's Big Red Nipple? All that plus a preview of the 2015 Rumble this Sunday!