Episode 148 of Perched On The Top Rope sees former Dirtsheet Writer from Ringside News and SportsKeeda, Lee Walker opens the show with a ten bell salute following tributes to Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt.

AEW ALL IN Card + Plus Predictions

Zero Hour

FTW Championship

Jack Perry (C) vs HOOK

ROH World Tag Team Championship (pre-show):

Aussie Open (c) vs. MJF & Adam Cole

Will Ospreay vs. Chris Jericho

Coffin Match

Sting & Darby Allin vs. Swerve Strickland & Christian Cage

AEW World Trios Championship:

House of Black (c) vs. The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn

AEW "Real" World Championship:

CM Punk (c) vs. Samoa Joe

The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, Kota Ibushi & "Hangman" Adam Page) vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Bullet Club Gold (Jay White & Juice Robinson)

AEW Women's World Championship:

Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Saraya vs. Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker

AEW World Tag Team Championship:

FTR (c) vs. The Young Bucks

Stadium Stampede:

Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta), Santana & Ortiz vs. Eddie Kingston, Orange Cassidy, Penta El Zero Miedo & Best Friends

AEW World Championship:

MJF (c) vs. Adam Cole

#AEW #AEWALLIN #PerchedOnTheTopRope #AllEliteWrestling #ALLIN #AEWNews #AEWPredictions #RIPTerryFunk #TerryFunk #RIPBrayWyatt #BrayWyatt

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Terry Funk and Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt Tribute Show.

Yesterday we got the news WWE Hall Of Famer, Terry Funk, passed away. We pay tribute to Terry Funk.

Rest In Peace

Terry Funk

June 30, 1944 - August 23rd 2023

Today we learned Windham Rotunda passed away. We pay tribute to Windham who portrayed Bray Wyatt/The Fiend. We share personal stories meeting Wyatt and how he passed away.

Rest In Peace

Windham Rotunda

May 23rd, 1987 - August 24th, 2023

#WWENews #WWE #WWEHOF #WrestlingCommunity #WrestleTok #PerchedOnTheTopRope #RIPTerryFunk #TerryFunk #RIPBrayWyatt #BrayWyatt #TheFiend

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Episode 146

WWE

WWE Superstar Spectacle won't be live, won't be on Peacock. The show is in India is only being considered a, "live show."

WWE NXT stars Carmelo Hayes and Wes Lee make history at NXT Heatwave!

The Rock's daughter KIDNAPPED!

Tonga Kid fools everyone that Rikishi shaved his head

AEW

AEW Tony Khan media call highlights

ALL IN breaking ticket records

Changes to ALL IN card

Preview of ALL IN card

Jim Ross CANER FREE!!!

We review ratings from

AEW Collision (Saturday 8:00pm eastern)

AEW Rampage (Friday 10 pm eastern)

AEW Dynamite (Wednesday 8 eastern)

IMPACT Wrestling (Thursday 8 eastern)

WWE NXT (Tuesday 8 eastern)

WWE Raw (Monday 8 eastern)

WWE SmackDown (Friday 8pm)

which show is drawing best?

which show is drawing the worst? why? WE EXPLAIN IT ALL!

#WWE #AEW #ALLIN #WWENEWS #AEWNEWS #PerchedOnTheTopRope #WrestlingPodcast #SportsEntertainment

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AEW News

Cash Wheeler was arrested for aggravated assault with a firearm! Find out when it happened, and what is going on with AEW ALL IN!

We review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Deathmatch between Jeff Hardy and Jeff Jarrett

: Karen Jarrett goes 1-3 on her attacks

: Too dark to see who's involved and what is going on...

: Fans heard booing and yelling boring!

: We've seen WCW and WWF/E put on some weird matches, this joins that list

WWE

Not so Sunny days in court for Tammy Stych aka Sunny facing up to 25 years in jail and will serve a minimum of four years in jail.

Lacey Evans released from WWE (recap from episode 144: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e144-lacey-evans-released-from-wwe-wtf-is-with-cm-punk/id1562935713?i=1000624594376)

Edge is having his last match in WWE on SmackDown versus Sheamus! Will he...

1. Re-sign with WWE
2. Retire
3. Go to AEW

We will have to wait and see what happens... after all, spoiler free is the way to be!

#WWE #AEW #WWENews #AEWNews #WrestlingPodcast #SportsEntertainment #ProWrestling #Podcast #PerchedOnTheTopRope

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On Episode 144 of Perched On The Top Rope, former Dirt Sheet Writer Lee Walker what's hot in WWE and AEW.

Lee talks

WWE

Lacey Evans released from WWE contract!!!!!

WWE Women's Champion, Rhea Ripley is engaged to AEW Star, looks like Dirty Dom has a new Daddy to go with Judgment Day's Mimi.

AEW

CM Punk and issues with AEW Talents.

Ryan Nemeth

Jack Perry

Hangman Adam Page

Matt Hardy

Christopher Daniels

AEW ALL-IN Ticket sales!

#WWE #WWENews #AEW #AEWNews #SportsEntertainement #PerchedOnTheTopRope

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E143: AEW Dynamite 200 Review, IMPACT Wrestling Press Pass, WWE Summer Slam Predictions & More, OH MY!

AEW

What were the take-a-ways from AEW Dynamite episode 200?

#ANDNEW Champion

A one of a kind former WWE champion and Hall of Famer debuted on Dynamite and had to WALK to the ring and challenge Jack Perry for the FTW Championship.

IMPACT Wrestling

Perched On The Top Rope went back on the IMPACT Wrestling Press Pass to interview Gail Kim and World Champion, Alex Shelley

IMPACT to tour the UK in October

WWE

WWE Summer Slam Predictions

Who got bumped off the card?

What championship WON'T be defended at Summer Slam

Slim Jim re-signs with WWE and now have a Slim Jim Battle Royal

#WWE #AEW #IMPACTWrestling #SummerSlam #WWESummerSlam #ProWrestling #SportsEntertainment

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E141: WWF's Mike Halac aka Mantaur In His Final Interview

This is Mike Halac's aka Mantaur in his final interview before he had passed away. This interview was scheduled to come out the day he sadly passed away. After talking to a few of his friends, we chose to put this interview out so his fans could enjoy hearing his thoughts on the business one last time. Below is full list of everything talked about. Enjoy.

#RIPMantaur #RIPMikeHalac #RIP #WWFMantaur #WrestlingNews #WrestlingInterview #ProWrestlingPodcast #WWEPodcast #WrestlingPodcast #WWENews

Time Stamp

1:01: Talks his own podcast with PN News called: SOB Sports. 

3:30: Where can fans find the show

3:55: Tell us a little bit about it 1st figure w/ Kayfabe Wrestling Kollector

5:00: How it feels geting his first action figure

6:10: Is it true you wrestled as Bruiser Mastino against Nikoli Volkoff in two house 

shows before debuting on WWF television? How did you go from Bruiser to Mantaur?

7:55: How does someone go from Nebraska to being a main stay wrestler in Germany?

     - Training with Ken Shamrock, Carl Gotch, 123 Kid Larry and Den Melanko

19:20: Wrestling Owen Hart, Chris Benoit

What was it like working with names like Steve Regal, Dave Taylor, Lance Storm, Fit Finaly

20:35: Owen Hart Rib Stories?

25:00: Thoughts on Owen Hart Cup in AEW

26:50: Talks to big wedgie he gave Lex Luger in WWF Lumber Jack Match versus Yokozuna

27:50: Thoughts on ring announcer botching his name in his WWF debut match calling him The Manituar?

     - Talks standing at Gorilla position

     - Scratching his original match time to try getting in the ring with the big bullhead

30:00: With Hidden Treasure Show, do you have the Mantaur head or ring gear?

31:00: Thoughts on Kane/Glenn Jacobs being Bruiser Mastino in WCW while he was Bruiser Mastino in Germany

     - Shares story when he saw Glenn Jacobs and talked Glenn stealing the name

33:25: Being paired with Jim Cornette, how it happened?

     - Was really happy getting paired with Cornette

     - Thought character was going to go take off

     - Thought Cornette was funny, always made it a point to make Halac laugh and gave advice

35:30: Match with Razor Ramon and slap heard around the world. (cuts me off)

     - Calls Razor a pos

     - Talks Kevin Nash talking about it on podcasts

     - Confronting Razor after the match

     - "If someone in the Kliq didn't like you, they (WWF) got rid of you."

     - Started jobbing after that in WWF

39:29: How come the tag team Camp Cornette never made it to tv? (you and Dr. Tom Prichard)

     - Talks being okay jobbing to Adam Bomb and Duke, not okay with Bob Holly and people chanting, "Bullshit."

41:55: What he said during the three count in his last match versus Bam Bam

45:20: His thoughts on why he was released

45:45: In ECW, thoughts on Mantaur chants he received as Bruiser Mastino

47:10: If Paul E had plans for him

48:05: Dark match in WCW versus Damien 666

49:17: Being paired with Goldust as his bodygaurd versus Ultimate Warrior

52:50: Anyone he wanted to face but didn't get to in any promotion

54:18: Episode 175 Cornette Drive Thru: 2012: show in Sterling, Illinois ran by promotor Shawn David Hubbard

fan says: the show didnt draw and promotor didnt have money to pay you and you threatened to shoot him and 

went and got a gun

Shawn says: you had a show cancel in Iowa, you demanded more money, agreed on 250, he gave you 300.

claims you were sniffing something in your car. Claims you still demanded more money, says he never saw a gun 

but police were called and escorted you off property threatening his parents n never wrestled.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Fan Questions

1:04:31: RN: Toughest opponeats in each promotion he wrestled

        - CWA CannonBall Grizzly aka PN News

        - WWF Adam Bomb

        - ECW 911

1:05:22: Patrick Baker: Any upside being paired with Jim Cornette?       

    : Original thoughts on bullhead he had to wear as Mantaur

1:06:33: Alex Todd: If WWF had any plans on strapping him with the IC Title?

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The owner of Kayfabe Wrestling Kollector, Shawn joins our host Lee Walker to talk about his new action figure line, Kayfabe Heroes!

In the line are the following superstars

WWF Mantaur (pre-order August 1st)

WCW PN News

WWE/NJPW Yoshi Tatsu

WWF The Komet Kid

Each figure is show cased discussing all the work that went into the line from marketing, distribution, wrestlers part of the series and so much more!

to pre-order figures

USA: www.theasylumstore.com

UK/Asia: https://shopkwk.com/

#KWK #KayfabeWrestlingKollector #perchedonthetoprope #wweelitesquad #actionfigures #wrestlingfigures #wrestlingcollectibles #wrestlingcollector #figures #prowrestling #toys #collectibles

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Episode 140 Perched On The Top Rope host former Dirt Sheet Writer (Ringside News, Sportskeeda) Lee Walker is joined by a current Dirt Sheet Writer from TheSportster, and Botched Shots and Chair Shots Podcast, Will Gray as they give predictions for IMPACT Wrestling's Slammiversay!

Slammiversay Card Pre-show

Impact Digital Media Championship

Joe Hendry (c) vs. Kenny King (with Sheldon Jean)

Jody Threat and The Death Dollz (Courtney Rush and Jessicka) vs. The SHAWntourage (Gisele Shaw, Savannah Evans, and Jai Vidal)

Main Card

Jonathan Gresham vs. Mike Bailey vs. Kevin Knight vs. Angels vs. Kushida Ultimate X match to determine the #1 contender to the Impact X Division Championship

 Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship

The Coven (Taylor Wilde and KiLynn King) (c) vs. Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich

Eddie Edwards (with Alisha Edwards) vs. Frankie Kazarian (with Traci Brooks)

 

Impact World Tag Team Championship

ABC (Ace Austin and Chris Bey) (c) vs. Brian Myers and Moose vs. Rich Swann and Sami Callihan vs. Subculture (Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster) (with Dani Luna)

 Impact X Division Championship

Chris Sabin (c) vs. Lio Rush

Bully Ray and Deaner vs. Scott D'Amore and TBA

Darren McCarty will serve as the special guest enforcer

Impact Knockouts World Championship

Deonna Purrazzo (c) vs. Trinity

IMPACT Championship

Alex Shelley (c) vs. Nick Aldis

Mike Halac FKA Mantaur in the WWF passed away. We had conducted his final interview and will be releasing it on Sunday 1pm Eastern Time!

Mike Halac's GoFundMe: the family needs help with services pplease share and donate

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In this episode,

Former Dirt Sheet Writer and Host of Perched On The Top Rope, Lee is joined by Smacked Raw's The Rewind's Kyle and Ahron join us to give WWE Money In The Bank Predictions!

WWE Money In The Bank is Saturday, July 1st at 3pm ET

Match Card

• World Heavyweight Championship: Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor
• Roman Reigns & Solo Sikoa vs. The Usos
• Intercontinental Championship: Gunther vs. Matt Riddle
• Ricochet vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar vs. Butch vs. Damian Priest vs. Logan Paul (Men's Money in the Bank Ladder Match)
• Becky Lynch vs. Zelina Vega vs. Zoey Stark vs. Bayley vs. Iyo Sky vs. Trish Stratus (Women's Money in the Bank Ladder Match)
• Cody Rhodes vs. Dominik Mysterio
• WWE Women's Tag Team Championship: Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler vs. Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez

The guys share mixed opinions and thoughts as they give their thoughts who will win which matches and why. Upon having difference in their predictions, the guys play, "What if?" Kyle, Ahron, and Lee ask each other, "What if?" during predictions.

Topics:

What if Ronda and Shayna are the final WWE Women's tag champions and throw them out? They retired the NXT Tag titles and can now go to Raw, SmackDown and NXT. Problem, there's no women's tag teams.

What if Finn wins the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and Damien Priest wins MITB?

What if Logan Paul wins MITB?

What if Roman Reigns takes the pin?

#WWENews #MITB #MoneyInTheBank #WWE #PerchedOnTheTopRope #WrestlingPodcast #WrestlingCommunity #WrestleTok #SportsEntertainment

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