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Kris and David are joined by Scott Passner to discuss the week that was August 24-30, 1993, which Scott picked for us to do as a perk for dropping $50 on our Patreon, allowing him to not only request a week, but also sit in for a segment, which Scott does for the WWF section. Topics of discussion include:

• SummerSlam ’93 and how the show was considered a disappointment overall despite a huge crowd.
• The greatness of Jerry Lawler in the Hart Family feud, featuring a feisty Bruce Hart guest appearance.
• The Heavenly Bodies giving the Steiners a WCW-style Steiners match in the WWF.
• Mr. Perfect vs. Shawn Michaels disappointing everyone.
• Lex Luger vs. Yokozuna and how the countout finish buried Luger, especially with the pomp and circumstance celebration afterwards.
• Randy Savage cutting Lex Luger's go-home promo for him on Superstars how and it made you want to see Savage in Lex's spot instead.
• Jim Cornette and Yokozuna on “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee,” featuring Yoko playing tug o’ war with Regis and friends.
• The Wall Street Journal covers a special New Japan show.
• Michinoku Pro does some STUDIO WRESTLING in Japan.
• AJW selling out the Budokan for a major show.
• Ron Skoler’s IWC makes its debut as AAA’s American promoter, debuting with a series of shows in California where Dave Meltzer is boots on the ground for what he says was, at the time, the best live show he had ever been to: La Revancha at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
• Terry Funk makes his SMW TV debut in an amazing promo.
• Vince McMahon also cuts an amazing promo on USWA TV as McMemphis is in full effect.
• Jeff Jarrett shoots pool with Minnesota Fats.
• Brian Christopher gifts Miss Simpson (Toni Adams) her own personal valet in Miss Robin (Robin Smith/Veronica Lane/Vivacious Veronica).
• Ric Flair and Rick Rude's feud begins on Flair for the Gold.

This was a strong show, and it's always fun to have Scott on, so take a listen!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWF

1:50:42 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, WAR, FMW, Michinoku Pro, W*ING, PWFG, AJW, LLPW, CMLL, Moreno/Arena Naucalpan, & UWA

2:31:03 Classic Commercial Break

2:35:32 Halftime/RIP rovert

2:52:52 AAA

3:26:34 Other USA: WWN, NCW (NY), WWOW, Peach State, SMW, USWA, GWF, Big D, Oregon, & Hulk Hogan

4:49:37 WCW

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Kris and David are back as we discuss the week that was August 16-23, 1994. Topics of discussion include:

• Hulk Hogan giving a very candid interview to the Gainesville Sun newspaper talking about Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Vince McMahon, joining WCW, and more.
• The greatness of the Rhodes family vs. Stud Stable feud in Summer 1994.
• Jesse Ventura having issues as Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
• Antonio Inoki & George Foreman negotiating for a super fight in North Korea in 1995.
• Super Vader winning the UWFi World Title from Nobuhiko Takada in one of the most famous bouts of the era.
• Konnan cements his rudo turn in AAA as Los Gringos Locos become a major force.
• The drama between ECW, Dennis Coralluzzo, and Jim Crockett regarding the NWA World Heavyweight Title tournament seems to be getting smoothed over as everyone comes to an agreement so the tournament can take place.
• Shane Douglas and Paul E. Dangerously cut promos ECW TV about the tournament, with Shane specifically targetting "Dick Flair."
• The Gangstas’ first big show as main eventers flops and Dave Meltzer speculates on their future as New Jack calls out the Knoxville NAACP on SMW TV.
• Chris Candido and Tammy Fytch turn on Brian Lee after losing the SMW Tag Team Titles.
• Doug Gilbert gets suspended in the USWA, so he doesn't have to risk his mane in hair matches…yet.
• The greatness of Sid Vicious in the USWA and why he was so different there from anywhere else.
• Austin Idol returning to Memphis in grand fashion.
• Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler taking viewer phone calls on WWF Sunday Night Slam and what an experience that was.

All of that plus so much more on an extremely fun episode of BTS!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WCW

1:03:39 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, FMW, Michinoku Pro, RINGS, UWFi, JWP, Maharaj Promotions, CWA, AAA, CMLL, & UWA

1:39:40 Classic Commercial Break

1:43:46 Halftime

2:31:07 Other USA: NWA, ECW, NWA Sabu, IWA (OH), SMW, USWA, Mid-South, & GWF

4:10:27 WWF

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Kris and David are back as we discuss the week that was August 10-16, 2005. Topics of discussion include:

• WWE being in a total lame duck state with Spike TV as their contract is running out soon.
• SmackDown featuring the Eddy Guerrero/Rey Mysterio/Dominik Mysterio soap opera, guest starring MISS CRABTREE.
• Raw in Montreal, as Shawn Michaels is having the time of his life being the old HBK in front of a raucous crowd mocking Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan.
• Ashley Massaro winning the Diva Search over Leyla Milani.
• Ken Anderson becoming Mr. Kennedy.
• Masahiro Chono winning the G1 Climax as a tribute to Shinya Hashimoto.
• A wild angle in the WWC featuring Eddie Colon being imprisoned in the Dominican Republic.
• The Summer of Punk ends in ROH as he loses his title to James Gibson in Dayton and then loses his farewell match to Colt Cabana in Chicago Ridge.
• TNA Sacrifice on PPV and lots more TNA stuff in one of the most stable eras of that promotion's history thanks to Scott D’Amore’s booking and the impending debut of Impact on Spike TV.

That this was all 21 years ago is wild to think about. This was a really fun show, so check it out!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWE & OVW

1:53:48 Int’l: NJPW, Riki Pro, CMLL, IWA Puerto Rico, & WWC

2:14:17 Classic Commercial Break

2:19:29 Halftime

3:18:07 Other USA: Ballpark Brawl, CZW, & ROH

3:50:10 TNA

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Kris and David are back to discuss the week that was August 4-10, 1987. Topics of discussion include:

• Gordon Solie's 26½ year tenure as the lead announcer for Championship Wrestling from Florida comes to an end after a pay dispute with Jim Crockett.
• Ric Flair and Ronnie Garvin have one of the most epic exchanges possible on TV in front of a molten hot Spartanburg crowd.
• Terry Taylor's highly entertaining for the wrong reasons “press conference" from UWF TV.
• The greatness of Brian Pillman as a rookie.
• Owen Hart does his first pinfall job in 1987 on TV to Gama Singh, losing the British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Title.
• Mr. Olympia walks out of Continental and gets buried by Ronnie West on the house mic in Knoxville to a reaction that surprised the office.
• Mr. Olympia joins NASA, a new promotion in Alabama running in opposition to Continental.
• The Black Prince and The Commission in all of their glory in Memphis.
• The Jerry Lawler Show spotlights Fray Tormenta.
• Jammin' with Mitch and Donna and an angle featuring Tommy Rich stripping Sensational Sherri serve as the highlights of AWA TV during our week.
• Paul Boesch officially announces his retirement from promoting Houston Wrestling.
• Ken Patera injures himself at the absolute worst possible time.
• The team of Magnificent Muraco and Bob Orton Jr. falls apart.
• Mr. T returns to the WWF as a special enforcer.

All that and much more on a brand new Between the Sheets!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Jim Crockett Promotions/CWF/UWF

1:15:25 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, All-Star, Dale Martin, Atlantic Grand Prix, Stampede, & Tomko

1:47:00 Classic Commercial Break

1:52:03 Halftime

3:00:57 Other USA: NWF, Deep South, Continental, NASA, CWA/Memphis, WCCW, AWA, Central States, Paul Boesch, & Portland

4:36:08 WWF

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Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles as we discuss the month of July 1991 in World Championship Wrestling and pop culture in general. Topics of discussion include:

• The entire show is bookended by Ric Flair being fired at the beginning of the month and then WCW basically offering him the booking position at the end of the month.
• Ric Flair refusing to drop the title not just to Lex Luger but Barry Windham as well, as they were trying to get Flair to do business before he left.
• Flair's departure totally screwing up the production going into the Great American Bash PPV.
• The way Flair's departure was treated on TV as a complete shoot which was so foreign to how wrestling was presented on TV in that era.
• The total confusion of what Barry Windham was supposed to be.
• Axl Rose starting a riot at a Guns ’n’ Roses concert in St. Louis.
• Fans at house shows being very upset over no-shows, especially Ric Flair.
• The awesomeness of The Geto Boys.
• The end of the Desperados after all that damn TV time.
• “Boyz n the Hood” and “Point Break” being released on the same weekend and the impact “Boyz” had on the west coast's rise in pop culture.
• A full rundown of the Great American Bash PPV, including why it wasn't as bad as people want to think it was.
• The supposedly buried Brian Pillman being all over TV and in main events all the time while the supposedly overpushed Dustin Rhodes isn't in those spots.
• The first-ever Lollapalooza tour.
• Mike Tyson and Jeffrey Dahmer getting arrested on the SAME DAMN DAY.
• The end of WCW Pro Wrestling New York, as WCW they switches affiliates in NYC from WPIX to WCBS and Pro NY is replaced by Worldwide.
• MTV and who they pushed to the moon that didn't reach the expected level of success.

This is just a taste of what we talk about on the show as we have a complete and total blast here!!!

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Kris and David are back this week with Beau James (@kingofkingsport) joining us to discuss the week that was July 29-August 4, 1999. Topics of discussion include:

• "Curtis Comes Home" as Shane Douglas and Cody Michaels promote a benefit show for Brian Hildebrand in Rostraver, PA featuring long-time friends of Brian's — including Beau — working the show. Beau gives us a full rundown of the show, his relationship with Brian, and his eyewitness view of Bruno Sammartino's confrontation with Mark Madden.
• Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff's vision for WCW is not working in the slightest as their ideas regarding the main event scene are faltering.
• Wrestlers are upset that Tony Schiavone is coming back to work because they love Scott Hudson so much.
• Randy Savage and Dennis Rodman have quite the confrontation on Nitro.
• FRIENDS OF KONNAN talk a lot to the Pro Wrestling Torch.
• All Japan's decline after the death of Giant Baba starting to really show.
• Mr. Niebla vs. Mr. Niebla getting hot and heavy in Mexico.
• Paul Heyman also talks a LOT to the Pro Wrestling Torch about all things ECW.
• A weird ECW Arena show as the promotion is in a state of flux.
• The World Wrestling Federation officially announces its IPO and changes their corporate name as we give a full rundown of the prospectus with a lot of interesting financial information disclosed.
• The end of Super Astros and why that happened — as well as what they told the talent.
• The Dudley Boyz officially sign with the WWF and we get into why ECW didn't retain them when they had the chance.

Beau is always tremendous on our show and this one was no different, so we hope you enjoy!!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Curtis Comes Home

0:56:54 WCW

2:11:39 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, BJPW, FMW, High Risk, AAA, CMLL, IWRG, & Peru/Alex Lovett

2:33:17 Classic Commercial Break

2:34:28 Halftime

3:19:50 Other USA: ECW, NWA Worldwide, Memphis Power Pro, SoCal Lucha, & XPW

4:20:54 WWF

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For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.

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Kris and David are back this week to discuss the week that was July 20-26, 1990. Topics of discussion include:

• Jesse Ventura's departure from the WWF over making a deal with Sega to lend his name and likeness to a wrestling video game that would be in direct competition to the WWF games.
• Sgt. Slaughter debuts on a heel on WWF TV as we discuss how different his whole run goes if Iraq doesn't invade Kuwait…plus his final AWA TV appearances are still airing.
• The Legion of Doom also makes their WWF TV debut with a little bit of a different presentation than they would get weeks later.
• Paul Roma and Hercules turn heel on the Rockers in an angle that could've went better.
• Rick Rude and Bobby Heenan appear on The Arsenio Hall Show in what proves to be an awkward segment at times.
• The Road Warriors debut in New Japan, albeit for only a handful of shows since they are already signed to the WWF.
• Riki Choshu and Koji Kitao get into a major spat with Kitao hurling racial slurs and walking out of NJPW.
• Male fans coming to All Japan Women shows in real numbers for the first time since the rise of the Beauty Pair, and they’re cheering for the women that the female fans don't like, such as Aja Kong.
• Rumors of a new national promotion get going in the newsletters, and yes, this is the future Global Wrestling Federation.
• Wild and crazy times in Memphis with Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, and Tessa feuding with The Dirty White Boy, Eddie Gilbert, and The Dirty White Girl.
• Kerry Von Erich officially leaves the USWA and tells fans to watch him in the WWF on the way out.
• Jeannie Clarke has incriminating photos of Chris Adams to give to his wife Toni.
• The NWA not knowing what they want to be as far as a wrestling promotion.
• Harley Race and Buddy Landell subbing for Ric Flair and Stan Lane respectively on Florida shows, albeit for totally different reasons.

This was a blast of a show, so take a listen and enjoy!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWF

0:57:39 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, SWS, FMW, UWF, AJW, The Main Event (New Zealand), CWA, & England

1:21:50 Classic Commercial Break

1:25:40 Halftime

2:20:34 Other USA: “New National Promotion” (GWF), TWA, NAWA (NC), GASW, IWA (Russen), FCW, David Woods, USWA, TWF, AWA, PWA, LPWA, & Portland

3:48:59 NWA/WCW

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For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.

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Kris and David are back to discuss the week that was March 15-21, 1993, the last of our “backlog” shows. Topics of discussion include:

• WCW’s tour of the UK and Ireland, where they changed the WCW World Heavyweight Title twice in a week with Big Van Vader flipping the belt back and forth, plus why this really didn't get talked about much on TV.
• Ric Flair goes “Up Close” with Eric Bischoff on TV, talking about his return to WCW and Barry Windham being NWA World Heavyweighht Champion.
• The Cole Twins get a fan club.
• The Big Bossman returns to All Japan while Hulk Hogan is on his way to New Japan.
• New Japan’s faction warfare and how fun that was.
• The birth of Michinoku Pro Wrestling.
• The three major promotions in Mexico receive their David Awards.
• Chuck Wepner shows up at a New Jersey indie show to referee the most 1993 New Jersey indie match you could possibly think of.
• Arn Anderson works three house shows in SMW the same week that Chris Candido makes his debut as The Avenger.
• Kevin Sullivan brutalizes W*ING Kanemura on SMW TV in a famously gruesome moment.
• Bert Prentice sings live on Memphis TV. Sort of.
• Eddie Gilbert cuts a shoot promo about his position in the USWA and is basically done with the promotion as a result in true Eddie fashion.
• Vince McMahon misses Monday Night Raw’s first visit to Poughkeepsie to receive the Michael Landon Award, so Rob Bartlett joins Gorilla Monsoon as Bobby Heenan “Not Vince McMahon,” and that doesn't go too well.

All this and so much more on a damn fun episode of BTS!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WCW

0:57:20 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, FMW, Michinoku Pro debut show, NOW, PWC, W*ING, AJW, JWP, LLPW, Dino Bravo funeral, AAA, CMLL, Juan Herrera, Arena Naucalpan, UWA, & Tijuana

1:46:53 Classic Commercial Break

1:55:05 Halftime

2:40:18 Other USA: WIN, IWF (Mansfield), UWS/Chuck Wepner, WWWA (PA), NGWA, SMW, USA (AL), USWA, GWF, Big D, CWUSA, & Wrestling Fury/MidwestWA

4:02:49 WWF

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For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.

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Kris and David return to discuss the (almost-)week that was March 7-12, 2003. Topics of discussion include:

• Kurt Angle delaying his neck surgery and dropping the WWE Heavyweight Title to Brock Lesnar at a SmackDown taping in Pittsburgh weeks before WrestleMania so they can have their title match at Mania proper.
• We also go into the rash of neck injuries that ravaged WWE in the early 2000s.
• The Triple H-Booker T feud with its constant racial overtones.
• Just why did The Rock wrestle Hurricane on Raw instead of Booker T?
• Triple H vs. Maven totally tanking the ratings on Raw and why that happened.
• Yuji Nagata and Manabu Nakanishi going the full 60 minutes on a big New Japan show in Nagoya.
• Dave Meltzer giving his thoughts on the epic Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa match at Budokan on 3/1, which aired on Nippon TV during our week.
• The 1970s NJPW feel of Zero-One in this era.
• XPW running a big show at the Golden Dome in Monaca, PA promoted by Shane Douglas in what would turn out to be the last show in the original incarnation of the promotion.
• Brad Siegel being forced to resign from Turner Broadcasting.
• The supposedly retired Vince Russo is still helping TNA with creative the shock of all shocks.
• Lollipop “accidentally” gets exposed, showing off her new implants on the week’s NWA-TNA PPV.

All of this and so much more on a really stout episode of Between the Sheets.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWE

1:34:00 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, NOAH, WJ, Zero-One, Capture, IWA Kokusai, Michinoku Pro, Osaka Pro, Toryumon, WEW, WMF, GAEA, EWP, All-Star (UK), Stampede, CMLL, Super Calo/Tepic, IWRG, Monterrey, Reynosa, Tijuana, & IWAPR

2:35:24 Classic Commercial Break

2:39:52 Halftime

2:18:44 Other USA: USA Pro, CZW, Chikara, XPW, MarylandCW, NWA Wildside, MXPW, IWAMS, USACW, Rev Pro, Portland, & Brad Siegel

4:05:41 NWA-TNA

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Kris and David are back this week to discuss the week-plus that was April 28-May 5, 1986, a show requested by Joe Finnerty on our Patreon with a $25 pledge. Topics of discussion include:

• The final gasp of the glory days of World Class, as we talk about the 3rd Annual David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions at Texas Stadium, featuring the end of the Freebirds basically as they depart for the UWF, plus the return of Chris Adams from his "blindness" angle and much more.
• Hell freezing over as Harley Race makes his WWF debut in Toronto just days after working a Central States show in Kansas City.
• Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC featuring Hulk Hogan and the Junkyard Dog vs. the Funks, Jake the Snake DDTing Ricky Steamboat on the floor, and Uncle Elmer’s final WWF match, as he was fired right after the show.
• News from Roddy Piper filming the movie Body Slam, and how the battle lines were drawn on set as far as which wrestlers would hang out with other wrestlers from a given promotion.
• Andre the Giant refusing to cooperate with Akira Maeda, leading to one of the strangest pro wrestling matches ever on a New Japan TV taping, plus the story of how the video of the match, which never aired, originally leaked out.
• The last Pro Wrestling USA-branded show at the Meadowlands.
• Who is that masked man in Continental?
• Jerry Lawler strips J.D. Costello on Memphis TV, revealing Costello's garter belt.
• The Fabulous Freebirds contract signing video on UWF TV, which was fantastic.
• Bruiser Brody and John Nord getting suspended in Las Vegas for playing rough.
• For the 2nd straight year, an NFL 1st round draft pick is threatening to go to pro wrestling to get more money.
• Baby Doll returning to TV after being attacked Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express…and she’s joined by the James Boys to do her bidding.
• Tully Blanchard & Ronnie Garvin take up essentially the whole hour of NWA Worldwide Wrestling with their National Title match, and it's a great episode.

This was a tremendous show and we hope you will enjoy it!!!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WCCW

0:38:47 WWF

1:54:59 Int’l: JPW, NJPW, AJW, Montreal, Stampede, Vancouver All-Star, & WWC

2:17:44 Classic Commercial Break

2:20:53 Halftime

3:03:21 Other USA: PWUSA, NWF, CWF, Continental, CWA/Memphis, UWF, AWA, Central States, & Portland

4:32:22 Jim Crockett Promotions

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