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    #1652
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    I find wai grand on the Raw reviews to be honest, the product's the ****s for the most part but they're enduring it pretty well. Review A Wai has been poor for a good while now though, they've basically just exhausted their options (asides from watching Russo WCW each week, which sounds like hell on earth), and with RAW being a TV thing for them now, it's really the priority.


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    #1653
    jaykhunter
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    They've definitely covered pretty much everything at this point with Review-a-Wai. Perhaps doing a story arc over many episodes would be better, like what they did with the invasion, over like 6 weeks


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    #1654
    ERG89
    Registered Users Posts: 11,611 ✭✭✭✭ERG89


    jaykhunter wrote: »
    "for some reason"!
    I don't know how podcasters who review current wrestling can stick it for more than a year; WWE is SO MUCH WORSE when you have to pay attention so you can talk about it. Wai & John do RAW and a retro review every week for the last 6 years. Impact too for a few years. I can't believe they still do it for free without fail!

    They are employed & paid by The Fight Network, I am sure they are obliged to do them by their employers & not work for free.
    John works on the LAW, Bauer and Pollock, the MMA report & on camera with the network too which is basically how I catch up on mma news via YouTube uploads.
    I guess I expect him to be jaded more but he rarely shows it as much. As he said a few weeks ago he doesn't show it.


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    #1655
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    Review a Raw is part of their work obligations, from what I've gathered there's never been any pressure on them to keep at review a wai at all, it was a bonus thing they originally done to boost the downloads of the LAW but had to be split off due to its popularity and the size of the mp3s (this is a pre-Between The Sheets and Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast world where having an mp3 that's several hundred megabytes large was unheard of).

    Pollock's a machine in terms of all the stuff he does, endlessly amazes me he hasn't been given a chance at somewhere bigger (I bet I've said as much in the last page or two of this thread). Wai's not a host/journalist/reporter/whatever-Pollock-is and was never into it all in the same wai as Pollack so it'd be understandable that he'd be more easily wore down by the commitment involved.


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    #1656
    jaykhunter
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    Reiterating what you said there, ya only the on-camera stuff would be part of their work obligations (only since they became TV shows) and likely Sunday's LAW as it's on TSN 1050, but the podcast-only shows (like Bauer & Pollock) they do because they want to.

    With regards to getting something bigger, I remember John saying something about being reluctant to take a job in the WWE (I don't know if that was just theoretical or had been offered something) but it was between John and Matt Striker (and a few others) to do the American commentary for wrestle kingdom 9, thanks to John's coverage of the tournament in years past. Sadly they went for "he used to be a shít commentator on SD" over talent.


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    #1657
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Haven't in a while but dipped back into Colt's AOW. Always heard the stories of Teddy Hart but not being big on the indie scene I never really looked much more into it.

    What a wholly unlikeable guy. Comes across as (and most likely is) a compete tool. Himself and Colt were like chalk and cheese. Colt, like most of the listeners, cringed big time being fed Teddy's stories of drugs and other adventures in sleaze.


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    #1658
    noisenotmusic
    Registered Users Posts: 408 ✭✭noisenotmusic


    Teddy Hart is one of those guys I have no idea how he keeps getting hired. He did a shoot interview with Chuck Taylor called Best Friends with Teddy Hart where its clear everyone there is disgusted by him, he reveals he was in prison for rape and they just look horrified.


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    #1659
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    noisenotmusic wrote: »
    Teddy Hart is one of those guys I have no idea how he keeps getting hired. He did a shoot interview with Chuck Taylor called Best Friends with Teddy Hart where its clear everyone there is disgusted by him, he reveals he was in prison for rape and they just look horrified.
    Not being racist or anything, but almost all of his work is in Mexico, isn't it? They seem to be more tolerant of c*nts. On Between the Sheets there a few weeks ago they were talking about how Chris Benoit is still really popular in some parts of Mexico.


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    #1660
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,750 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Listening to Seth Rollins on jerichos podcast. He comes across really good. He seems like a sound guy.


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    #1661
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,750 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Also Seth Rollins name dropped becky lynch as someone he was in contact when he was out injured. Nice to hear that one of the top guys was giving her advice.


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    #1662
    themick
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭themick


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Also Seth Rollins name dropped becky lynch as someone he was in contact when he was out injured. Nice to hear that one of the top guys was giving her advice.


    The last woman in the company we knew he was texting didn't work out too well.


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    #1663
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Listening to Seth Rollins on jerichos podcast. He comes across really good. He seems like a sound guy.

    Seth does a pretty good impersonation of Vince McMahon as well.


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    #1664
    Ageyev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    Chain Smoker wrote: »
    Review a Raw is part of their work obligations, from what I've gathered there's never been any pressure on them to keep at review a wai at all, it was a bonus thing they originally done to boost the downloads of the LAW but had to be split off due to its popularity and the size of the mp3s (this is a pre-Between The Sheets and Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast world where having an mp3 that's several hundred megabytes large was unheard of).

    Pollock's a machine in terms of all the stuff he does, endlessly amazes me he hasn't been given a chance at somewhere bigger (I bet I've said as much in the last page or two of this thread). Wai's not a host/journalist/reporter/whatever-Pollock-is and was never into it all in the same wai as Pollack so it'd be understandable that he'd be more easily wore down by the commitment involved.

    John Pollock > Bryan Alvarez


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    #1665
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    Ageyev wrote: »
    John Pollock > Bryan Alvarez
    Damning him with faint praise, I see! :D


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    #1666
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Nancy benoits sister was on talk is jericho this week. A great listen and its not just a chris benoit bashing but some interesting stories about what he was like as a person and also the change in his behaviour after his wrestlemania win. Also she puts some myths to bed regarding that weekend


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    #1667
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users Posts: 45,558 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    ricero wrote: »
    Nancy benoits sister was on talk is jericho this week. A great listen and its not just a chris benoit bashing but some interesting stories about what he was like as a person and also the change in his behaviour after his wrestlemania win. Also she puts some myths to bed regarding that weekend

    I listened to it earlier. Well worth checking out and gives a lot of insight into the tragic events. She came across very well.


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    #1668
    Reebrock
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Reebrock


    ricero wrote: »
    Nancy benoits sister was on talk is jericho this week. A great listen and its not just a chris benoit bashing but some interesting stories about what he was like as a person and also the change in his behaviour after his wrestlemania win. Also she puts some myths to bed regarding that weekend
    Gonna listen no doubt, but Jericho seems dodgy doing this. Like, she should let them RIP, but he is actually profiting.


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    #1669
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Reebrock wrote: »
    ricero wrote: »
    Nancy benoits sister was on talk is jericho this week. A great listen and its not just a chris benoit bashing but some interesting stories about what he was like as a person and also the change in his behaviour after his wrestlemania win. Also she puts some myths to bed regarding that weekend
    Gonna listen no doubt, but Jericho seems dodgy doing this. Like, she should let them RIP, but he is actually profiting.

    Chris was a good freind of benoits and its a respectful interview. Think it was done so fans could understand the actual truths and what benoit and nancy were like as people


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    #1670
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    Yeah I was a bit cynical when I heard the idea, but listening to it today it doesn't come across that way at all. She's a really good interview, very warm and engaging despite everything she's obviously gone through.


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    #1671
    A Rogue Hobo
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭A Rogue Hobo


    Yeah as most of you have already said it was a really interesting piece and hats off to Jericho too, he was incredibly tactful with how he handled the interview, something not everyone in his position dealing with such a subject could achieve.


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    #1672
    Raven Runner
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Raven Runner


    ricero wrote: »
    Nancy benoits sister was on talk is jericho this week. A great listen and its not just a chris benoit bashing but some interesting stories about what he was like as a person and also the change in his behaviour after his wrestlemania win. Also she puts some myths to bed regarding that weekend

    I'm sure it's good but not my idea of fun, Benoit was a bully to a lot of the new wrestlers in WWE


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    #1673
    jaykhunter
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    I was braced for the worst, but she speaks warmly of Chris (the man before he was the murdering psychopath) and is pretty matter-of-fact of the days right afterwards (staying in the house to clean up - had to do the dishes from the BBQ earlier in the week) and misses seeing Daniel grow up most. Jericho has a great deft touch (as a family friend), which is not in any way exploitative. It's not a fun listen but it does have a sense of closure, to have someone so close to it move on.


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    #1674
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,750 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Ric flairs podcast is moving to mlw radio and the first episode is out tomorrow and the first guest is Cody Rhodes. That should be interesting.


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    #1675
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Ric flairs podcast is moving to mlw radio and the first episode is out tomorrow and the first guest is Cody Rhodes. That should be interesting.

    It could be seen to some as another indication that Cody hasnt really be released, of all the podcasts he goes to its one connected with WWE in a roundabout way. (Though its clear that Rhodes and Flair have tons of interlinked history too).


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    #1676
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    Brian Gewirtz's episode of Talk is Jericho was really good, can see how the guy managed to stick around the WWE so long, practically everyone seems to have some sort of chip on their shoulder but he was pretty level headed about everything and he seemed to have a very good recollection of stuff.

    Didn't try too hard to be funny either, which was a big surprise!


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    #1677
    spektorfive
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭spektorfive


    Maybe been mention before before I really enjoy Square Circle Gazette Monday night war timeline review. They go by show for show for both WCW/WWE with notes from the Observer. I don't care for there other shows, The Trials etc but timeline is good.
    Shout out to the Bottom rope, an Irish wrestling podcast. I think the raw review is pointless given the podcast comes out 5/6 days after Raw. But other wise the lads are sound and nice to hear and Irish podcast.


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    #1678
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    spektorfive wrote: »
    Maybe been mention before before I really enjoy Square Circle Gazette Monday night war timeline review. They go by show for show for both WCW/WWE with notes from the Observer. I don't care for there other shows, The Trials etc but timeline is good.
    Shout out to the Bottom rope, an Irish wrestling podcast. I think the raw review is pointless given the podcast comes out 5/6 days after Raw. But other wise the lads are sound and nice to hear and Irish podcast.

    Back in my day we had to wait four days to even watch Raw! Maybe they never broke that habit? :pac:


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    #1679
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,750 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Bayley is on jerichos podcast. She comes across well.


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    #1680
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,750 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Haha very funny bayley and ric flair story.


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    #1681
    noisenotmusic
    Registered Users Posts: 408 ✭✭noisenotmusic


    Luther Ward on Colt Canabas podcast was pretty interesting, good recap of the history of the Irish scene and how being a guy in NXT for about 10 minutes works.


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