Showing posts with label Breaking Out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breaking Out. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 January 2014

That Wrestling Podcast Episode 32



Lovely blue trunks there
In a break from our usual ramblings about WWE this episode focuses on Ring of Honor. It’s not the AJ Styles signing chat your might expect, mainly because it was recorded weeks before ‘The Phenomenal One’s’ return to the promotion that helped make him famous was announced. That’s something I imagine we’ll cover in the next few weeks. There’s not much point talking about it until AJ’s made his comeback is there?

This episode’s topic is Breaking Out. We discuss how far up the ROH card three existing members of the roster could make it. The men in question are high-flyer extraordinaire ACH, wafer thin underdog Cheeseburger, and one half of reDRagon Kyle O’Reilly. Do any of them have what it takes to help ROH grow into a larger operation than it currently is or have they all gone as high as they can already?

Also discussed are drop kicks. Specifically who has the nicest drop kick in wrestling. I’m sticking with my pick of Lance Storm, but Dolph Ziggler and Hardcore Holly bother deserve a mention.

Sunday, 24 November 2013

That Wrestling Podcast Episode 21



Putting things up that are a little out of date is nothing new for this podcast. But it’s never been this bad. In the first several minutes you’ll hear us discussing Dixie Carter’s “recent” heel turn and how we think it’s going to go. I could have tried editing this out but, well, I’m lazy and I think it’s interesting enough (in so far as anything on this podcast is interesting) to stay in. It provides an insight into what Michael and I expected from TNA a month or to ago and where they’ve gone in that time.

Oh, and we also talk about Rey Mysterio’s potential comeback! I wonder how that will turn out…

The reason this happened is that this is a Breaking Out episode. Breaking Out? Yes, that’s the name we selected for those episodes where we discuss how far wrestlers can rise up their respective roster’s totem of standing1. The company in question in today’s episode is WWE. The wrestlers we discuss are Sin Cara, Wade Barrett, and Christian.

Plus, there’s a substantial tangents about the popularity of William Regal’s popularity in Britain and how WWE could (dare I say should?) go about creating their next masked character. These tangents are arguably more interesting than the episode’s main focus, so I’d recommend listening out for them.

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1 The phrase “totem of standing” is included for no other reason than that I like it. It doesn’t sit right, I know that. I also don’t care.