Wrestling Podcasts

I really like Jericho's podcast, it's become must-listen for me when he's got a good guest. He's very natural on the mic and is a much easier listen just chatting than a lot of the wrestling guys, who seem to have trouble with the format. The guy could do live radio, easily. Aside from Cole & JBL, and maybe Cabana, I don't think any of the other PodcastOne guys could do that and it sounds like they need multiple takes to do their spoken bits whereas Jericho seems to breeze through it. Maybe that's just me with the radio background, I'm a sucker for good production and can't stand awkward clunkiness. Austin has the charisma to plough through that but the rest can be grating at times. JR's cold open is particularly awkward (surprisingly) and he could really benefit from having someone to bounce off.

Jericho annoys the Hell of me and his guests are from shítty metal bands

Goldberg isn't annoying but his guests are from ****ty American sports. I'm waiting for him to talk about more WCW stuff and the politics there, along with his fight with Jericho, though, I don't believe I heard Jericho mention anything about this either, so I doubt Goldberg will bring it up because I remember reading something about Jericho getting the better of him.

takamichinoku wrote: »

Doesn't Jericho mention it in his book? Something along the lines of he saw Goldberg charging at him and tried the first hold that popped into his head, says it was a total fluke?

Yeah, Jericho plays it down alot. Id imagine its modesty though. (I say that as a big Y2J fan )

the 3 podcasts I'm really liking at the moment:
-WHTSNXT
-Attitude Era Podcast
-Bauer & Pollock

I haven't listened to JR's 2 parter with Angle yet and haven't been following up AOW in quite a bit aswell.

Really enjoyed tommy dreamers two parter on austin's podcast. And he also reveals who was signed and meant to be takers opponent at WM XIX before the a train and big show stuff was suprising.

leggo wrote: »

Something people here might be interested in: I did an interview with Colt Cabana where he talked about getting into podcasting, his future plans, WWE release and more. I also reviewed the rest of the wrestling podcasts and would be interested to get others' thoughts.

Apparently, he was one of the people behind this: http://network.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/popular_wrestling_torrent_website_being_targeted_by_ring_of_honor_to_remove_content/14450080?linksrc=story_article_yb_original_head_14450080

jaykhunter wrote: »

You mean when Colt was in ROH? Or people stealing his free podcast! I'd be shocked if that got anywhere, considering the MPAA/RIAA can't take out much bigger torrent sites. It'd be hilarious if this fella went to jail over doing DDoS attacks, which are illegal.

It happened in March/April 2013.

Yeah, Nate Glass isn't too smart. Xtreme Wrestling Torrents isn't based in the U.S. and filesharing isn't like stealing because making duplicates doesn't mean it goes "missing" or "stolen". I remember the members discussing the legality of DDoS attacks on the site.

I believe Nigel McGuinness is another name who was accused of hiring Nate Glass. ROH as an enity may have been involved, but I can't remember because the forum was integrated with the site this year so the old posts are gone.

Only listening to jerichos podcast that features edge and Paul heyman. It's great I have to say.

Austin with Shamrock is good.

Yeah ROvert it was terrible, I shut it off

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Listening to Dreamer on Austins podcast.

Heyman not coming across well!

From everything I've ever heard about Heyman, I can't help but feel that he gets a harsh time for how ECW ended.

A promoter's job is to ensure that he himself profits through the success of a show using whatever resources available to him. That's it. He is under no obligation to pay a wrestler's mortgage for them. Wrestlers often trade off goodwill from fan support (which, in the case of many ECW guys especially, they only have because Heyman wrote them in such a way that their mediocre talent was made to look a million dollars) to try settle past personal grudges with promoters when we only ever hear one side of the story. Wrestlers often act as if the promoter is obliged to make them a millionaire and global superstar when that's not the case at all. They are just as liable to lie, manipulate, con and outright steal in their efforts to achieve that goal as any promoter. As much as Dreamer goes on about how he doesn't do politics etc, if I offered him $100k to appear at the next WWE Party and do a promo (or if he even sensed that I'd be willing to), he'd take it in a second and not feel bad about it despite knowing it'd be a dreadful deal for me. He's no saint either. And if he was, he wouldn't still be active in the business. I admire Heyman wearing his notoriety like a badge of honour. He's the only one in this scenario being completely honest with fans (even a bit harsh on himself).

Here's why a wrestler may not end up getting paid in any situation:

1) The promoter was more ambitious than realistic and over-promised in a vision that was unfortunately not financially viable. You can't pay someone money that doesn't exist, after all.
2) The promoter lied and deceived wrestlers into working without ever having the intention to pay them in order to turn a quick buck on their name.

If Heyman was guilty of option 2), then he damn sure wouldn't have gotten the likes of Dreamer and Van Dam their next gig in WWE when he almost definitely didn't need to. He would've kept them as far away from him as possible.

Reading between the lines, Heyman was a guy who had an ambition and vision greater than his budget. He was no clown either, mind, and knew how to get wrestlers on-side if he needed to, and probably traded off any residual guilt in knowing that those same wrestlers would likely do the same to him if they could. These wrestlers only hold onto this ill will because he outsmarted them, simple as. They are workers, people who take pride in their ability to work and deceive people, and they got worked themselves so they'll be forever butthurt by that fact.

It's not Heyman's fault he's more switched on than them, in fact as neutrals we should respect him way more for that. Who's the last remaining relevant person from ECW in pro-wrestling today? Exactly, and he's outlasted them all for a good reason.