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"Never Say Never Again" was the title of the movie in which the late great Sir Sean Connery revived his role as superspy James Bond. It was a joke on his promise after "Diamonds Are Forever" that he would never play Bond again. In 2016, Sting, who had only wrestled four matches in WWE, announced his retirement during his Hall Of Fame speech. It was announced Thursday that Sting will make his in ring return on February 26 during AEW Revolution. This week's MLW Fusion, which Lee covers for Sportskeeda, saw an official debut and a short, but mysterious interview with lead heel manager Selina De La Renta which may have given a lead into a new potential storyline. 

WWE has signed several new talents, including someone Steve has interviewed, and of course in the tradition where you did not exist before being signed by WWE, even if you've worked for WWE before, they're being slapped with new names. GCW has announced the first four matches for their free online "Fight Forever" event that will occur from January 29-30. 

The situation in Mexico is making it look bleak for lucha for the immediate future. Impact held its "Hard To Kill" pay per view on Saturday in which AEW champion Kenny Omega wrestled in the main event, the first time a non Impact wrestler had ever been ON an Impact card, let alone recognized as champion of another company. Speaking of which, a current New Japan wrestler, who used to be part of a group with half of that main event, is making overtures, but not to whom you might think.

Steve and Lee will cover these and several other stories this week.

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Wrestling Authority Radio "Wrestling With Nutrition"

With Special Guest Wrestler/Booker/Chef/Author Tony "Freakin" Rican

LIVE & EXCLUSIVLEY Live on Blog Talk Radio!

Thursday Night, January 21st, 2021

5 PM PST / 7 PM CST / 8 PM EST

with your hosts "Sadistic" Sean David, "The Dean of Wrestling Referees" Steve Cain, & "Khaotic" Kate Mason. 

TONIGHT on WAR "Wrestling With Nutrtion" LIVE on ERN on BTR:

We are joined by a SPECIAL Guest, someone that our own Steve Cain & Sean David have called a friend for a many number of years now. He was a wrestler, a booker, and now is a gourmet chef and published cookbook author Tony "Freakin" Rican. We will take a dive deep into Tony's illustrious wrestling and booking career. From there we will dicuss his latest projects including his cookbook and his upcoming projects for 2021. Tony will also be informing us all on how important it is to have GOOD nutrition if you are going to be an athlete. We will be giving a way a SIGNED copy of Tonys Cookbook TONIGHT LIVE ON AIR! All of this and SO MUCH MORE TONIGHT on WAR LIVE on ERN on BTR!

Just when you think things at Major League Wrestling couldn't get any more surprising, a former Lucha Underground writer/assistant executive producer has been hired by Court Bauer just as a former Lucha Underground champion is joining the company. We'll tell you who the producer is, his connections not only to Lucha Underground, but one of the most outrageous segments of WWF TV ever. Speaking of outrageous, a former WWF star, who was also involved in an outrageous segement many years earlier, has been suspended by Twitter for outrageous behaviour that is not wrestling related. 

There appears to be both a date and location change for this year's WrestleMania. Will the current COVID-19 situation affect even these plans? In what has to be considered a highly unusual situation, a WWE contracted talent has filmed an interview for the VICE series DARK SIDE OF THE RING. Anyone hoping to attend Royal Rumble at the end of the month is going to be out of luck, we'll explain why. 

Rumors abound about Ricochet concerning his contract, we'll give you the most accurate information we have. In the past, many wrestlers have gone after the dirt sheets and sites about unflattering things they have written and now Charlotte Flair joins the club. We'll tell you what she said and the site she's going after. All this PLUS Lee will discuss the interview he recorded yesterday with former WWF/WCW/TNA executive producer Vince Russo.

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"Letting The S**T Fly" Thursday Night, January 14th, 2021 5 PM PST / 7 PM CST / 8 PM EST LIVE & EXCLUSIVLEY LIVE on Blog Talk Radio! Join your hosts "Sadistic" Sean David, "The Dean of Wrestling" Steve Cain, & "Khaotic" Kate Mason for what promises to be 2 FULLY LOADED hours of purely professional wrestling talk with the people that KNOW wrestling going 7 years STRONG in podcasting with over 45 years of combined professional wrestling experience. TONIGHT on Rampage Rants Thursday Night Turmoil we are "LETTING THE S**T FLY" We will start things off again tonight with another Ten Bell Tribute remembering a few people we have lost since we were last on air. In hour one it's business as usual as we will be discussing all the news and reviews of everything going on in the world of professional wrestling and some of the the most recent news may SHOCK you. We also take a look forward to this weekends IMPACT Wrestling Hard to Kill PPV and give you our predictions plus so MUCH more! We will have details tonight about your chance to win a SIGNED COPY of next weeks guest on Wrestling Authority Radio Tony Rican's cookbook "The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook: 100 Recipes Made Simple" In hour two we are "LETTING THE S**T FLY". In what has been a very interesting week for two of our co-hosts based on two events that happened over the weekend that will be discussed in great detail here tonight they both have to do with Sean & Steves promotion and working relationship together. These discussions could get a little EXTREME so we are giving everyone fair warning NOW. What you may hear may shock and appall you but we promise you the story you will get from Sean & Steve is the 1000% ABSOLUTE TRUTH of how these events went down. You will not want to miss it!

After a two week hiatus for the holidays Steve and Lee are back with the latest news.

Wrestle Kingdom, New Japan's annual big show was done in two nights for the second time in two years, but this time without major North American talent. They not only had two good nights, there were title changes, a title challenge and a post match backstage interview/promo/possible shoot.

MLW, which Lee covers for Sportskeeda has been taping TV and a name that many people know from other places captured one of their titles.

AEW had an invasion for the first night of their New Year's Bash which was delayed a week for the Brodie Lee tribute show. After the invasion, the shirts came out. Also during this week, Snoop Dogg not only showed up, he made a splash, literally. Cody Rhodes told a story about working with him on Go-Big Show. There's been a turn in one of the Joey Ryan lawsuits, but it might not be what you think. WWE executive Bruce Pritchard did a company podcast the other week and let's just say it didn't get the best recption. Damien Priest was in NXT, then he's moving to main roster then he isn't. What's the deal? Ryback appears to be getting suppressd by WWE. And why wasn't Carlito at RAW Legends night? Well it depends on who you ask.

Get ready for 60 minutes of fun wrestling talk tonight.

Unfortunately we start 2021 the way we ended 2020. Bobby Davis was the man who made managing a big deal in the wrestling business. We will talk about his legendary career in our opening segment.

From there we will discuss RAW "Legends Night" which included at least one person we thought was coming back, and some people who weren't invited,.  From there we get into night one of New Year's Bash from AEW which had an ending NO ONE could see coming. We'll look at Impact Wrestling's first TV of the year which added more items for Hard To Kill as well as New Japan's annual big event, Wrestle Kingdom. We'll also discuss the AEW games and NXT and MLW.

In hour 2 we'll talk about our thoughts about what might happen during the coming year. NXT has a women's tag team tournament starting next week. Gee, where did they get THAT idea from? We'll also discuss the match pulled from last night's NXT New Year's Evil. WWE Hall Of Famer Mick Foley is asking Vince McMahon to remove someone from the Hall Of Fame. Game Changer Wrestling is looking to see how much of an insomniac you are. Former NWA TV Champion Zicky Dice is finally breaking his silence about leaving the promotion. What he was getting paid will absolutely shock you.

Katie, Steve and Sean are ready to start 2021, are you?

We could not have the last week of the year end well. We started out the year with a ten bell and we end it the same way. In total we lost 123 members of the wrestling industry, not just performers but office people and other behind the scenes personnel. We will begin tonight by remembering the last 3 members of the industry that we have lost since our last show.

Kevin GreeneDanny HodgeJon "Luke Harper" "Brodie Lee" Huber 

Sadly, it seems Jon couldn't be gone for a week before some "dirt sheet writer" had to post conspiracy theories about his death, forcing Amanda, his widow, who is already dealing with enough, to have to take the time to answer this fool instead of mourning the loss of her husband and the father of her children. 

In  considering 2020, obviously COVID-19 became a major player, not just in everyday life, but in nearly ending the wrestling business. Empty arenas, which was a sign of failure in the past, was now how TV was being conducted. When Game Changer Wrestling brought it's previously canceled WrestleMania week shows to Indiana under the name The Collective, it became a petri dish as several wrestlers wound up testing positive and scared fans were forced to test and quarantine.

While Miro defected to AEW to become "The Best Man", his wife, still in WWE, still known as Lana, was spending her Monday nights getting put through the announce table so many times we looked into hiring The Count from Sesame Street to keep up with Nia Jax vendetta against the former "Ravishing Russian".  Meanwhile, Roman Reigns was becoming "The Head Of The Table" and The Dark Order, originally considered a doomed to failure joke, added Brodie Lee as The Exalted One and brought the group into the upper echelon of AEW. 

Katie, Steve and Sean will talk about these stories and more.

Note: We will NOT be on for the next two weeks because of the holidays. Please enjoy them safely. 

Lee Walker will not be on this week. I'm hoping a certain cohost will join me.

What a year 2020 has been! We started out normally, then suddenly, because of this virus called COVID-19, in the words of the musical "Hamilton", "the world turned upside down". Not just independent promotions, but even AEW, Impact Wrestling & WWE were looking at the very real possibility of shutting down, so all three promotions scrambled to record as much TV as possible, dealing with gathering and other restrictions. After politics, namely Florida politics, entered the picture, things were brought back into play. However, not even limits in the amounts of people stopped the virus and both promotions were hit hard, even crossing promotions in one well known case, and some wrestlers even refused to work due to concerns for themselves and their families. The empty arena, once a very rare gimmick match, became the norm in wrestling.

As restrictions were eased, a big set of shows in one state faced backlash as several wrestlers came up positive after the event. A WWE star became the victim of an obsessed stalker who terrorized his would be victim even after he was behind bars. Today, stories of another WWE star recieving mail at her home bring back thoughts of that incident. Shows have opened with a ten bell so much that not opening a show that way became a miracle. 

Despite these restrictions, pro wrestling, once considered possibly finished, has instead kept going. Even the independent shows, with smaller, more distant and masked crowds, are starting to return. In other news, a former WWE talent, the son of a WWE Hall Of Famer, pled guilty to a serious crime today. All of this and more will be covered this week.

On December 10th, 2016 Midwestern Wrestling Alliance, Rebellious Wrestling Federation, & Wrestling Past Present Future all teamed up for one cause... Wrestle Wars 2016 Benefiting The Wounded Warrior Project. The event was hosted at the PNA Hall in Streator IL. It featured talent from all over the Midwest. Tonight we take a look back into this HISTORIC event... something Sean & Steve Cain had in the works for a LONG time. We will be joined by people that were a part of the event. From there if time allows we will do our normal reviews of whats happned in wrestling in the last week!

Imagine you're a WWE superstar. Imagine you're one of their titleholders. Now imagine your cousin is a world famous performer. He's even performed your entrance LIVE at WrestleMania. Now imagine in a few weeks your cousin is going to show up on (gasp) THE COMPETITION! Well you already know who we're talking about but what is the reaction at WWE? We'll tell you all about that.

At AEW the Inner Circle has been short one member as Santana has been missing for the last few episodes. We knew there was a personal issue that lead to his absence, now we know what that was.

Triplemania XXVIII will happen this Saturday night in an empty arena situation in Mexico City. That doesn't mean it won't be an exciting event. with seven matches scheduled including one involving a past guest of ours.Speaking of past guests, our friend Mel "Thunder Rosa" Cervantes had her next Mission Pro Wrestling event Thursday and we will try to have the results.

Steve and Lee will be covering these and other stories tonight, including a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT by our friend Bill Apter.