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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