I’ve wanted to do a wrestling podcast for a while. The usual excuses are what’s stopped me: a lack of time, insufficient understanding of technology, and an absence of people knowledgeable and willing enough to record the thing with me. As evidenced by this blog I’ve not got a shortage of opinions on the wrestling business, it’s just everything else I’ve missed.
This situation changed when Michael, a guy I worked with
in a bookshop, moved back to London. My technological ineptitude remains but I
now have someone to record a podcast with. So we’ve recorded one, very kindly
hosted by the Voices of Wrestling website (where odds and ends of my writing
can also be found).
I wanted to post something here on the blog for two
reasons. One is to plug the podcast, which I think we can all agree is a fairly
natural thing to do. The second is that, due to a general unease when getting
the thing onto the internet, I didn’t really manage to provide a decent summary
of the episode. Where better to do that than here?
The idea was that Michael and I would start out
discussing his time in Japan and then catch up on what’s been going on in
wrestling over the last year or so (because he’s not managed to keep up with
anything except the major developments). Aside from a couple of seconds to
check that the sound quality was decent (it is) I’ve not listened to the thing
back but I’d be surprised if we spend more than five minutes talking about
Japan. So if you’re hoping this is going to be puro-heavy (why you’d think that
when I never write about wrestling in
Japan I don’t know) you’re going to be disappointed.
Things got better once we moved onto American wrestling.
We discussed WWE a fair bit, although I can’t remember anything specific (which
entirely contradicts what I said above but so be it), as well as TNA and Ring
of Honor. The main TNA subjects were Bully Ray and Chris Sabin’s respective
world titles reigns and the Aces and Eights storyline. We touched on the fact
that the company’s future is pretty bleak, but that should surprise no one.
We picked our winners for the ROH world title tournament
and discussed the merits of Kevin Steen and Davey Richards. Steve Corino came
up too, if you still want to classify him as an ROH performer. In between all
of this we discussed gimmicks in modern wrestling (including an idea for a
mid-card WWE guy), WCW and Vince Russo.
It comes in at almost exactly two hours, which is a
pleasingly round number that we reached completely at random. Future episodes,
which will appear as and when we’ve time, will hopefully be shorter than that.
Give it a listen (you can download it through the Voices of Wrestling iTunes
account) and let us know what you think.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled complaints
and suggestions.
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