Contesting Wrestling

Evan makes an announcement. Hell is contemplated. Season 2 begins.

As we close out our Mick Foley series, we watch his match with the Undertaker that arguably ended wrestling. We also watch the Undertaker fight Shawn Michaels, and finally watch a famous Foley-adjacent fight, the infamous Funk/Sabu Barbed Wire match, much to Evan's chagrin.

We reflect on our Mankind episode, and relay any personal experiences we've had with Mick Foley, who may or may not have murdered someone close to a host of this very podcast.

We continue our journey through the career of Mick Foley. He creates the cutest vehicle for the most horrifying move possible, puts his body on the line for his fans, and changes the boundaries of kayfabe from behind his weird mask.

In which we watch a recent Ciampa vs. Gargano audience-free match to determine if they can make this kind of cinematic style work. They cannot.

We take a break from our Foley series to discuss an utterly surreal, audience-free Wrestlemania. Evan only watched three matches, because this podcast has yet to successfully increase his tolerance: Undertaker/Styles, Wyatt/Cena, and Flair/Ripley.

Recorded on 4/20, we talk about, um....something, presumably. Oh! Wait....wait, no, it's gone. I feel like I remember advising people not to go by Mickey in their adult life, but there's no way we got 25 minutes out of that.

We begin our multi-level journey into the world of Mick Foley, a wrestler who elicits stronger feelings among the hosts of this podcast than almost any other in history. As he battles his classic foes Vader, Terry Funk and Sabu, Evan cannot help but ask: why do this to yourself?

In which we go over corrections/omissions from our R-Truth episodes, and muse on the similarities/differences between wrestling characters and comedy characters.

In our first remotely recorded lockdown episode, Doc, Katy and Ben guide Evan through the career of a lesser-known, and criminally underrated, performer: Ron "The Truth" Killings.