this week, we've lost patience with the Death Riders and we're fed up of complaining about the booking of the women's division (even though we're still annoyed about it) so we asked our Bluesky followers for some dilemmas and games and wow, they delivered. links and things: follow us: @wafflybollox, @wrassletrash and @awfullywaffly on Bluesky email…

for this special episode, we're joined by postmodern pro wrestler Liam Slater! Liam's the head coach at Pursuit Pro Wrestling in Sheffield, so we did ask him some sensible questions, but then we asked him about going to the supermarket, baby ducks, and which masked wrestler he thinks is the hottest. standard. more Liam: @liamsltr on Instagram and B…

did this week's Dynamite have the best opening 15 minutes of any episode ever or is that just us? we're delighted that a certain program seems to have been dropped in favour of a different one, so hopefully Tony Khan isn't teasing us because we are very much ready for some proper psychological torture!!! also, some of our fave little guys seem to b…

we've got some serious stuff to say this week. and then some silly stuff. the world is terrible, but we are joy-hunting truffle pigs, so we'll find something. but also, we're not gonna stop yelling about the bad stuff. just to warn you. links and things: follow us: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gm…

hey have you heard the good news? Kenny Omega is back! really and truly back. also, MJF tried to team up with Jeff Jarrett, and Ricochet pranked Hangman, and Harley Cameron sang a song about Mariah May. also Ring of Honor was really good this week. we're back, baby. Gremlin Report jingle by Morgan Brown links and things: follow us: wafflybollox, aw…

it's that time of year again! nope, not time for New Year's resolutions - time for New Japan Pro Wrestling subscriptions! we watched Wrestle Kingdom 19 and then Wrestle Dynasty, the brand new collaboration between NJPW, AEW, ROH, CMLL and Stardom. was that a lot of wrestling for one weekend? yes. are we slightly delirious? also yes. but Kenny's bac…

we watched AEW's final PPV of 2024, Worlds End, and we had a lot of thoughts and even more feelings!! one note though: why isn't there an apostrophe in "Worlds End"? it really feels like there should be. links and things: follow us: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly, @wrassletrash on Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy t-shirts: ko-fi.com/wras…

it's the end of the year so it's time for us to hand out our awards! who will win wrestling crush of the year? or saddest wettest meow meow of the year?? most importantly, who will be our overall champion of the year? only one way to find out... links and things: follow us: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on Bluesky email us: waffly…

as Worlds End approaches, everything's descending into chaos! but at least OC, Jay White, and Hangman had matching jackets. links and things: follow us: @wafflybollox @awfullywaffly @wrassletrash on Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and get 10% off at renderbomb.com with WAFFLY10 Learn more about your…

Sarah and MJ got rocketed back to the 1990s by Will Ospreay's haircut this week and... well, we're not that mad about it. we've also been persuaded round on lots of other storyline elements. it's all pretty emotional. also, Toni Storm's back?! hell yeah! links and things: follow us on Bluesky: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly, @wrassletrash email us: …

this week, we're SO BACK! yep, we've found our mojo, restored the feeling, and are generally back to our usual silly geese selves. thankfully. topics covered include Hangman's tree (of woe), Orange Cassidy's Hulk juice, and why didn't we get to see the Dynamite Dozen Battle Royal entrances properly?? links and things: follow us on Bluesky: @wafflyb…

it was Thanksgiving this week, so we decided to make a list of things we're thankful for. Kenny Omega features heavily. follow us: @wafflybollox @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy silly graps shirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and get 10% off at renderbomb.com with code WAFFLY10 Learn more about your a…

so, Full Gear happened, eh. links and things: follow: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on Bluesky email: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy t-shirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and get 10% off at renderbomb.com with the code WAFFLY10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Sarah and MJ are joined by Chris Welsh, founder and showrunner of Atomic Pro Wrestling, and quiz him on finding a suitable venue for an indie wrestling promotion, booking storylines, cat psychology, and the best energy drink flavours... and, inevitably, lots lots more. get more Atomic: follow @WrestleAtomic on all social media platforms book ticket…

we really really liked all our wrestling shows this week. sometimes it happens! we got lots of delicious angst and lots of plot advancement and we saw lots of our guys!! also, the Bucks are in the WON Hall of Fame, we're on Bluesky full time now, and we've learned lots about Hangman's garden. links and things: follow: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly …

well. this week was pretty rough for the world, eh? we've found refuge in wrestling, in good people doing good things, and... imagining what Hangman's garden looks like??? follow us: @wafflybollox.bsky.social, @awfullywaffly.bsky.social and @wrassletrash.bsky.social email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com tshirts: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop and use the …

this episode, we're delighted to be playing Hear Me Out with the hosts of Tea and Tussle, the first ever Black British female-led wrestling podcast. look, yes, maybe November 6th wasn't the happiest day in the world, but we made it work. contains chat about representation in indie wrestling, about promotions who "don't see colour", and lots lots mo…

this week was Halloween and frankly we scared ourselves with how much wrestling we watched. from Progress Chapter 172: Werewolves of London through Mystery Wrestling 11 and Fright Night Dynamite to three hours of Ring of Honor plus Rampage and Collision, there's been a lot to talk about this week. don't worry though, much of it is still very Chuck …

Dynamite this week was kind of like a horror movie, and it wasn't even Fright Night. the spectre of Mox and his crew loomed terrifyingly over the whole episode, and unfortunately we were too good at understanding story structure to feel safe when we saw our beloved Chuck Taylor show up. elsewhere, Shelton Benjamin surely qualifies to challenge for …

time for another special episode! we're joined by our pal Kato Garrigues, merch designer extraordinaire. you'll recognise his incredible Scapegoat and Hangman Adam Page tshirt designs, but there are lots more where those came from. this episode, we talk bad teenage screennames, tattooing, and imaginary perfumes... follow Kato: @KGarriguesArt on X @…

one week after WrestleDream and things sure are happening!!! this episode, we've given up and made up our own names for Mox's new faction, we celebrated Kenny Omega's birthday, we don't trust Adam Cole one bit, and we love everything the AEW and ROH women's divisions are doing. also Sarah got trapped in a car park. links and things: @wafflybollox o…

did you love WrestleDream? we LOVED WrestleDream. considering how whingey we've been the last few weeks, it feels good to be genuinely happy again. this PPV delivered. it even delivered Chuck Taylor, which was a treat we'd never even dared to hope for. get your verdicts and Heart Ratings here! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTub…

ready to meet your new favourite wrestler? put your hands together for the Centrepiece himself, David Francisco! in his own words, "a smug wrestler, full of himself". but also just a very brilliant human being. join us to chat bad promos, raw cheese, dogs driving cars, and much, much more. More David: @ImDFrancisco on X @ImDavidFrancisco on YouTube…

it's official, AEW is sticking around for years to come, and all the backseat economists on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter are fuming. there's actual steam coming out of their ears. it's quite funny. elsewhere, the former Blackpool Combat Club continue to be menaces, the Bucks continue to come out of the gremlin hole, but we are feeling a bit blue thi…

we're back!!! this week was AEW's Dynamite Grand Slam, and we found out that yes, Bryan Danielson is cleared to fight, but only if you play his expensive music. we also think women should get more than six minutes on the telly but uhh apparently not everyone agrees. elsewhere: what is Mox gonna call his new faction? and what did he do to his beard …

feeling frustrated and helpless seeing the news coming out of Gaza? yeah. we know the feeling. which is why we're thrilled to welcome the co-founders of Pro Wrestling Ceasefire, a series of fundraising events for UNICEF UK, to the podcast for a chat about their work. we also got to debut our new guest format, which listeners of a certain age might …

we didn't love this week's Dynamite, or at least we thought we didn't, but then we had a big chat about it and while there were definitely some bits we weren't super into (is Hangman really gonna be a big shouty man forever? why does Mox need to steal Darby's title shot instead of getting his own? what does Tony Khan have against literally every ta…

it's the pay-per-view from the depths of hell!!! or, as you might know it, AEW All Out 2024. went hard, that one, didn't it? we had MJF and Daniel Garcia trying to break one another's necks, Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale getting thumbtacks where thumbtacks shouldn't go, a shocking betrayal by the Blackpool Combat Club, and then, finally, t…

it's been one week since All In, and it's one week until All Out, so that means: time for shenanigans! wrestlers are being shuffled into position and we're already psyched because we know we're getting a Chicago street fight and a sexy steel cage match next week. also, Jon Moxley is up to something, and we wanna know what it is... links and things:…

the biggest AEW pay-per-view of the year is here - and we even got a bonus episode of Dynamite and Collision filmed in the UK! this week we're overtired and overexcited, but we watched a lot of wrestling and we'll still find the energy to cheer for Big Bill somehow. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffl…

we need to talk about All In. specifically, why so many of our guys don't seem to be booked in matches right now? hey Tony, what's going on please? elsewhere, we figure out what stipulation the next Hangman vs Swerve Strickland match should have, and probably offend all of Wales. sorry about that. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, Yo…

we're two weeks away from All In and we still don't know who Hangman is going to be fighting. we also don't know the rules of a casino gauntlet match. we do know which britwres legend we want to see downing beers in the ring though... links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tum…

you know what’s nice about having Hangman back on TV? we get to talk about Hangman. definitely didn’t do much of that when he wasn’t around. this week, we loved his match with Darby Allin, we thought Ring of Honor was great, we’re still sad about Best Friends, and we have some, uh, interesting thoughts on matches that Tony Khan technically could bo…

two big bits of business this week: it was Ring of Honor's Death Before Dishonor, and your hosts actually met one another in person for the very first time!! we watched some deathmatches together. the dream! this episode, we are mostly very tired, and a bit grumpy. Athena cheered us up though. our forever champ really is forever, you know. links an…

things got a bit messy this week. yep, it was Blood & Guts time. unfortunately, the storytelling was as messy as the ring, which is not really how we prefer our wrestling. lots more thoughts (and wailing) in the episode! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: …

MJF and Will Ospreay went a whole hour on Dynamite this week. guess how long we spent talking about it? (spoiler: it’s less than an hour, don’t panic.) We also checked in with all our faves to see what they were up to, and then played a game revolving around that list of unused wrestler names Chuck Taylor came up with that one time, because we are …

this week's wrestling was BRUTAL. we had an evil dinosaur taking out Kip Sabian, an unexpected cameo from Darby Allin beating up Brandon Cutler, and then Mariah May, well, Mariah May broke everyone's heart, especially Toni's. also, Hangman is not gonna main event All In? we have some thoughts. have a listen! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, In…

he’s back! he’s back! Hangman Adam Page is back and he is angry! also MJF did murder live on television, and we got some extremely fun questions from listeners. this week was an emotional rollercoaster and we loved it all, even though we were wrong about literally everything we predicted in our previous episode. but it’s fine, we’re still happy! li…

the naughty door is open again and all sorts of delightful people have popped round to say hello! yep, it’s our Forbidden Door 2024 review episode. which match was our favourite? only one way to find out! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gm…

we're very excited this week because AEW has announced there's going to be a Dynamite and Collision taping in Wales!!!! Cymru am byth!!! we also saw the beginning of the Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament this week, and we are eyeing that "wildcard" slot with great suspicion... and we're also side-eyeing all the wrestlers who got all up in one ano…

happy birthday to us! yep, your fave wrestling podcast is one year old this week, somehow?? and we haven't grown up even one tiny bit. as you'll find out when you listen to this episode and we're still wailing about our special little guys. we're having a bit of a sulk this week actually, because we see where a certain storyline seems to be going a…

this week we are saying a big old thank youuuuuuu to Renee Paquette for fixing our hearts with her Chuck Taylor interview. we thought we were gonna get hurt and instead we might have been… healed? we’re also still finding the learning tree hilarious, we’re happy to see MJF back, and we love Mariah and her love triangle but we’re a bit worried the i…

how do you solve a problem like Team AEW being significantly less likeable than Team Elite? we’ve got a foolproof solution and… yeah it’s Hangman, there’s no suspense there really, it’s just Hangman. also this episode, Trent wore a very nice suit that looked like it fitted him really well and we liked that, but we didn’t like what he did to Orange …

Vegas baybeeeeee! we watched Double or Nothing and we loved it. certified banger! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ t-shirts, hoodies, dresses etc: ⁠renderbomb.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic…

it’s Double or Nothing Eve, and your girlies are VERY EXCITED. and since the PPV is this weekend, we decided not to worry about what’s gonna happen in various ongoing storylines and instead just spend our time making a list of everything we popped for this week. lovely things include gremlins being gremlins, Malakai’s epic Carrie job, vampire lore …

after an unscheduled break last week, we're back!!!!! so now we've got two weeks' worth of wrestling to fit in, including what the gremlin Elite have been up to lately, why we want Cope and Mercedes to embrace the dark side, and, you guessed it, we're fantasy booking Hangman again. also, the ghost of Chuck Taylor haunts the narrative. minor silline…

Orange Cassidy got on the microphone and said “I hate this”, and you know what, we felt that. Chuck Taylor is never going to wrestle again and so we will never be happy again. luckily we saved a couple of our games from last week so we had something to cheer us up at the end, but listener beware: this one gets real weepy in the middle. links and th…

we’re sad girlies this week. Trent Beretta gave his Best Friend Chuck Taylor an ultimatum and then they made each other bleed about it in the parking lot at Daily’s Place. we are soft of heart and this was a lot to handle. (but there were light tubes, which is always nice!) also this episode, we are big fans of piledriving billionaires, we’ve solve…

we’ve just had a pay-per-view, and you know what that means… HEART RATINGS™. your girlies run down the AEW Dynasty card, from Zero Hour to the main event, dishing out infinite heart emojis as they go. the Bucks on ladders? new TBS champ Willow Nightingale? Adam Cole’s evilest face? and new world champion Swerve Strickland? SO MANY HEARTS. we also t…

you know when we said last week we'd got all sensible? yeah, no, not so much this week. topics covered include: lipstick warfare, hair bobble violence, breaking the fourth wall with Matthew Jackson, and a variation on the trolley problem where we mostly concluded that we should never be put in charge of anything important. much to think about. much…