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Slam Masters - One of the Greatest Videogames in the History of Our Sport 56:37

6y ago56:37

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The current status quo of big name professional wrestling is… not something that is easy to have enthusiasm for. But we’re a podcast about WCW, which means our ability to Remember the 90s is extremely well honed. This means it’s time to talk about not something actually about WCW, but a product of the same time, when wrestling was still wrestling, …

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Thunder in Paradise 1:33:14

6+ y ago1:33:14

1:33:14

In Jetta’s intro to this episode, she neglects to use the word “eulogize” to the normal intro of our show. That’s because what we have for you today isn’t a eulogy; it’s an invitation to those convened to speak up in respect for the deceased, so that we know who needs to be buried in the next few graves over. This, listeners, is the sort of thing t…

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DDP vs The Machine 47:46

6+ y ago47:46

47:46

Quick, how do you kill time on an episode of Thunder? How about having lightning strike the transmitter and ruin the broadcast quality for an entire episode. That is one way, but another is to debut an unknown against an established talent. In a nothing spot in the middle of the show, with him under a mask and coming to the ring wearing chaps, with…

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A Normal Episode (About the UWF) 57:40

6+ y ago57:40

57:40

It’s been a long time since last we reconvened. Live goes as ever it has, with its peaks and valleys, and without going into the nitty gritty, it’s nice to see some foothills for once. In the spirit of needing to get back into the swing of things, we decided to purge some wrestling vitriol. But not in the direction of WCW, because now’s the time to…

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The WCW Hardcore Championship 59:07

7y ago59:07

59:07

What Puerto Rico unleashed upon the world of wrestling was something that ECW picked up, WWF ran with and WCW… had. Yes, it’s the wonderful world of divisional Hardcore Wrestling, that area of kayfabe that wants you to assume there’s some official body in charge of regulating competitive Hit Each Other With Yard Implements Until One Can’t Move for …

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Spring Breakout 56:07

7y ago56:07

56:07

Spring Break is among our hinkiest holidays, one which carries a higher than normal percentile probability for public humiliation, an STI and misdemeanor offenses stemming from altered states and mob mentality. It is thus of total coincidence that WCW decided it would be a fertile ground to run shows at Spring Break events. But here’s where the rec…

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Spooky Wrestlers! 54:46

7y ago54:46

54:46

We missed the mark by a day, but such is life. At least it’s not as late as a modern Treehouse of Horror episode, and it’s also not a modern Treehouse of Horror episode either, so that’s two points of mitigation. Instead, we have submitted for your approval two creepy wrestling gimmicks, with a distinctly, terrifyingly WCW-like quality. Namely, tha…

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The Television Championship 58:47

7y ago58:47

58:47

Television was a terrifying prospect, as millions of homes across the world were threatened by new technology that allowed images raging locomotives and men getting shot with old cannons to be wired into the living room. The potential for this new tech was quickly proven in its ability to contain and transport professional wrestling to the eyes of …

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HULK FOR PREZ 48:03

7y ago48:03

48:03

Anyone who lives with the intrusion of disruptive thoughts knows that scary hypotheticals are only half of the horror; the other half is the wondering how feasible your waking nightmare actually was, and also, if it’s already happened. With that framing in mind, Hulk Hogan ran for president in 1999. He didn’t run very hard and returned to wrestling…

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WCW Logic 1:11:38

7+ y ago1:11:38

1:11:38

A common thing I caught myself saying in this episode, over and over, so as needing to restart my sentence so that it did not contain a cliche, was “trying to pull the wool over our eyes.” This was the first thing that came to mind when writing this synopsis, and though it is a really well worn cliche, it is entirely reasonable to say that WCW real…

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Socialism, Wrestling and WCW 59:57

7+ y ago59:57

59:57

We live in interesting times. As social progress struggles to avoid backslide in the US at the hands of one of the most repressive and unpopular cryptofascists to ever take office, the UK is being reimagined as a battlefield between working class people, and the elite and the media they control. It’s terrifying to watch as freedoms are stripped awa…

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The Invasion Angle, Part 3-1: INVASION PPV 1:36:46

7+ y ago1:36:46

1:36:46

We’re back after a long while, with more delving into the dark Gordian Knot of McMahon Self-Satisfaction. This time, the main course, WWF Invasion itself, a show that upends the toybox of professional wrestling into the promise of the sort of spectacle wrestling fans were waiting their whole life for, only to promptly light them on fire and make yo…

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Son of Moneyburners 49:15

7+ y ago49:15

49:15

Stuff happened. Stuff always happens, but this time it happened in sufficient quantities that we took an unscheduled break. But we’re back, and we’re hauling with us a payload of dollar bill ashes. Yep, we’re talking about the creative ways WCW found to burn their money again, and we’ve gotta dump it out right here, on you front lawn. Yes, this is …

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Backstage Assault 1:01:13

8y ago1:01:13

1:01:13

Welcome to the New Year! Did you miss us? We’ll fix that, as we unleash upon you the polygonal horrors of a game so misbegotten, it could only have come out at the end of both WCW and the Playstation’s life. Yes, we’re talking about WCW Backstage Assault, a wrestling game that makes the bold choice of not having a wrestling ring at all, thus breaki…

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WCW Superbrawl (SNES) 56:24

8y ago56:24

56:24

We’re back after a bit of a break, and in our journeys away, we have brought you this: a game in which the all-stars of WCW past shout at you from a highly compressed bitmap hell, while twitching and gesticulating from their character select prison. This is not a good game, folks, but we managed our own fun with it, in two very distinct ways. For o…

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The Invasion Angle, Part 2-2: Smackdown, July 12th, 2001 57:56

8y ago57:56

57:56

We continue on into the Vince McMahon show, featuring WCW and ECW, and things are not particularly sunny. We examine the exciting new kink of Erotic Denial of a Stunner (Receiving), Vince leaving the venue, which for some reason was its own segment, a modicum of wrestling and another fucking Alliance beatdown to cap things off. But hey, there were …

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The Invasion Angle, Part 2-1: Smackdown, July 12th, 2001 1:09:24

8y ago1:09:24

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Come with us, listeners, as we are about to delve deeper into the ennui of the greatest squandering of wrestling talent in the history of the industry, now with much improved audio! With Raw, you saw the emergence of the Invasion, and the group of WCW and ECW talent called the Alliance, except when they aren’t and are called the Coalition instead. …

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The Invasion Angle, Part 1-2: RAW, July 9th, 2001 1:47:17

8y ago1:47:17

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Welcome back to our reckless fanboat ride through a miserable swamp of wrestling history. We have for you today part the second of our first recording session, discussing a truly crushing episode of Raw, one that is fully Bad, and staring over the precipice of Worse. Topics of discussion include unending backstage segments, unclear face/heel alignm…

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The Invasion Angle, Part 1-1: The Preamble 1:14:33

8y ago1:14:33

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That’s right, fans, you know when a title’s got that many colons in it, business is picking up. We’re joined by Lucas Brown and Alex Hardison to talk about one of the greatest squanderings of talent in wrestling history, and no, we’re not talking about Stan Hansen being saddled with a comedy cowboy gimmick (JIM HERD.) No, we’re talking about the In…

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Revenge of Bad Gimmicks 1:01:39

8y ago1:01:39

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The Invasion crossover is in the pipe, but we’ve got something to tide you over until we can get everything zipped up. Namely, another delve into the deep barrel of awful gimmicks WCW talent got handed over the years. Come along with us, as we explore the world of baffling bodysuits, Barry Darsow’s violent putting challenge, things that got done to…

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ICP in WWW 1:06:58

8y ago1:06:58

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Fresh off a long helicopter ride, direct from the Gathering of the Juggalos, which we stole in our prison break for stabbing people. That’s the story of our delay, and we’re sticking to it. But What is a Juggalo? We don’t know, but we’re pretty down with these particular clowns when it comes to the world of wrestling. Like, if you’re looking for a …

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Your Questions, Our Answers 1:02:09

8+ y ago1:02:09

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You asked for it, brothers, sisters and those beyond and in-between, and you got it! It’s our first Q&A episode, where you come to us with pressing questions about WCW history and we mostly just goof on the responses. I mean, okay, we do so serious answering here, but we also note that modern-day Alex Wright has the unfortunate look of a typical MR…

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Warrior in WCW 2:00:08

8+ y ago2:00:08

2:00:08

Load the spaceship with the rocket fuel, load it with the warriors and put this podcast on the sound system, then prepare to break loose from all the vast sources of shouted incoherence across these weak planets. Yes, we’re talking about a man of many names on this episode, most known as Warrior, sometimes an Ultimate one, but with or without the f…

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WCW Gold, WWF Snubs 1:41:50

8+ y ago1:41:50

1:41:50

A lot of talent switched sides back in the day between the big two on the block. Some jumped ship to Play (look at the adjective) with the Big Boys, while others found a better life among wrestling mounties and hockey enforcers. Among this exchange of talent is a group of really, really good wrestlers that held the highest title in WCW, that nevert…

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WCW Video Games 1:02:32

8+ y ago1:02:32

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Like a lot of the big time pro wrestling promotions out there, WCW had quite a selection of video games out there to waste your time with. Some of them, like WCW vs nWo: World Tour, are much beloved titles. Others, like the much maligned WCW Backstage Assault, are baffling and best left as footnotes in the annals of wrestling game history. And what…

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Bad Tag Teams 1:27:09

8+ y ago1:27:09

1:27:09

Harlem Heat. The Steiners. Sting and Luger. The Outsiders. The Hollywood Blondes. Doom. WCW was not a promotion unfamiliar with memorable tag teams, either for their historical significance, their talent, or both. But for every success, there is a misstep. And sometimes, when you misstep, you wind up tripping over a guardrail, tumbling ass over tea…

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Collision in Korea 2:39:55

8+ y ago2:39:55

2:39:55

A day late, due to both the worst internet service Doc has ever seen and also due to the sheer size of this endeavour, we are delving into one of the lost artifacts of WCW, Collision in Korea. A goodwill mission of wrestling in the heart of North Korea, this highly watchable show is strange for a number of reasons, the least of which is a very poli…

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Cages, Non-Stacked 1:26:01

8+ y ago1:26:01

1:26:01

Welcome back to the realm of chainlink and questionable creative decisions! We have for you today selection that runs the full depth of the WCW experience, which is to say three matches that run the spread from “legendary greatness”, to “so bad it’s good”, to “go fuck yourself, Hogan.” Yes, it turns out that Hogan doesn’t need another two cages bal…

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Joshi in WCW (with SPECIAL GUESTS Megan Nielsen and Elle Collins!) 1:08:35

8+ y ago1:08:35

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Welcome to the world of colourful ring gear, makeup that doesn’t smear and stiffness that’s stronger than death- it’s Joshi, the wrestling subgenre of women hitting each other really, really hard. It turns out, WCW had a lot of this going on, which is surprising to everyone here but Doublecakes, apparently. But what do I mean, “everyone?” Well, we …

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Ave Ralphus! 1:02:44

8+ y ago1:02:44

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Chris Jericho spent a lot of time in WCW testing the boundaries that he could get away with. As it turns out, he could get away with a lot, like blatantly lifting a sequence from This is Spinal Tap for a backstage segment, and getting both himself and a WCW camera crew ejected from the Library of Congress. And, on top of that, it turns out he could…

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Movie Tie-Ins: Robocop 56:15

8+ y ago56:15

56:15

Back again after some moving and shaking in realms other than old-style man-grappling, we return to talk about WCW’s questionable choices in co-promotion. Particularly, their tendency to try and blur the lines between wrestling reality and movie make believe. It’s still real to us, dammit. Because as you can probably tell, there’s a difference betw…

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The Power of Positive Thinking, with Wrestling 1:30:48

9y ago1:30:48

1:30:48

Life comes at you quick, and it has a million ways to get you down. One such way is for an outspoken homophobe to debut to ovation on the biggest stage in professional wrestling- that’s a definite bummer. So in order to get the big happy party that is colourful spandex slap-grapplin’ back on track, we spend this freeform episode talking about the t…

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The Dungeon of Doom 1:36:30

9y ago1:36:30

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Beware, listeners, for Dark Wonders inhabit this episode and the fates of our podcasters are thus ETCHED IN STONE. Join us as we wander the halls of some weird faux-Aztec edifice apparently lost in the wilds of Georgia to expose the mysteries of WCW’s most Evil stable. Notice that it’s capital-E Evil, denoting whimsy, as opposed to the Col. Parker-…

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The Gospel According to Vince Russo, Part Two 1:22:55

9y ago1:22:55

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Comes now part the second of our exploration of Mr. Vincent Russo, delayed by Holiday Cheer and Holiday Burnout. Thought you could get away, huh? Too late, we’ve already trapped you in three cages stacked on top of each other! Within this edifice of steel and poor choices, we’ll discuss Russo’s tendencies towards race in his booking (they are all u…

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The Gospel According to Vince Russo, Part One 1:32:12

9y ago1:32:12

1:32:12

Vince Russo. Where do you even begin? How can it be that the man that helped to raise the WWF out of its 84 week slump also be the man that laid the boots to WCW in its dying days? The short answer is “because pure, unfiltered Russo is something no promotion’s lungs can handle.” The long answer is this, the first of a giant-sized two parter, where …

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