The Armchair Bookers Podcast - A Wrestling Podcast

Join Stoney, JK and The Ref about the weekly happenings in professional wrestling from WWE Raw, Smackdown! Live, and so much more!  Ronda Rousey Slams The Bellas! New Tag Team Champions on SmackDown?  HHH vs Batista teased with Evolution?  We review the awesome showing of Impact Wrestling's Bound For Glory. The matches were  Rich Swann and Willie Mack vs Matt Sydal and Ethan Page, Tessa Blanchard (c) vs Taya Valkyrie, Johnny Impact vs. Austin Aries, Eddie Edwards/Tommy Dreamer vs. Moose/Killer Kross, OVE vs Brian Cage and the Lucha Bros, LAX vs. The OGz, and Allie saving Kiera Hogan from Su Yung.  Music by John Kiernan.

Wrestling Theme Songs Top 5 List!  When a wrestler enters through the curtain and the first sound you hear is there theme music, who's theme music gets you in the mood to whoop some ass?? Join Stoney, Doc, JK, Fridge and The Ref as we attempt to list down our individual top five greatest entrance themes, then come up with the Armchair Bookers top 5 greatest of all time!  We also talk about Bobby Lashley turning heel, WWE Evolution, Becky Lynch and Charlotte's Last Woman Standing match, Jay White joining Bullet Club, DX vs Brothers Of Destruction and Shawn Michaels coming out of retirement, Miz TV with Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose's heel turn and so much more.  Music by John Kiernan.

Killswitch Engage's Mike D'Antonio joins JK of the Armchair Bookers Podcast to talk about metal, wrestling, Killswitch Engage and his other bands Overcast and his new band Death Ray Vision.  We talk Lucha Underground, his relationship with Marty The Moth Martinez, his work with WWE and their theme songs for wrestlers, CM Punk and more!  Join Fridge, JK, The Ref and Stoney for our recap of WWE, Impact, Lucha Underground and other news in the wrestling industry!  Neville returned to Dragon Gate?  Becky Lynch is the best person on SmackDown!?  Dean Ambrose teases a heel turn?  All that and more.  Music by John Kiernan.

We saw WWE's Top Ten Factions list and we're here to fix this (as a six piece this episode)!  Join JK, Stoney, Maverick, Doc, Fridge and The Ref as we discuss our top ten factions across all promotions including WWE, TNA/Impact, WCW, ECW and much more.  Music by John Kiernan.

Well, WWE's Hell In A Cell 2018 is in the books!  Join The Ref, JK and Fridge and hear what we thought about a pretty stellar show (with a questionable finish).  Also, at the end we discuss an interesting, yet gaining steam hashtag.  What did you think of it?  The match card was as follows: Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella vs. The Miz and Maryse, AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe for the WWE Championship, The New Day vs. Rusev Day for the Smackdown Tag Team Championships, Roman Reigns Vs. Braun Strowman for the WWE Universal Championship, Ronda Rousey Vs. Alexa Bliss for the Raw Women's Championship, Jeff Hardy Vs. Randy Orton, Charlotte Flair Vs. Becky Lynch for the Smackdown Women's Championship, and Dolph Ziggler + Drew McIntyre vs. Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins for the RAW Tag Team Championships.  Music by John Kiernan.

Join JK, Stoney, Fridge, The Ref and the returning Maverick to discuss WWE's Hell In A Cell 2018 and handle predicitons our third predictions champion!  The match card is as follows: Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella vs. The Miz and Maryse, AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe for the WWE Championship, The New Day vs. Rusev Day for the Smackdown Tag Team Championships, Roman Reigns Vs. Braun Strowman for the WWE Universal Championship, Ronda Rousey Vs. Alexa Bliss for the Raw Women's Championship, Jeff Hardy Vs. Randy Orton, Charlotte Flair Vs. Becky Lynch for the Smackdown Women's Championship, and Dolph Ziggler + Drew McIntyre vs. Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins for the RAW Tag Team Championships.  Music by John Kiernan.

Today Stoney sits with Kyler Khan of WWE's Crusierweight Classic and get his insights on his new character, the CWC and WWE / Independent wrestling as a whole!  Also join JK, Stoney, The Ref, Doc, and Fridge in our in depth analysis of Crusierweight wrestling, 205 Live and if/how the WWE will be able to build a division worth watching.

Join the full house of Armchair Bookers today as we highlight one of the biggest wrestling events ever, ALL IN in Chicago on September 1st, 2018. We run down the match card one by one and give our thoughts and predicitons (no title for us is on the line) and we may mark out a little hard today. Also, we review the PWI Top 500 list...how did Brock Lesnar make it to NUMBER FOUR??? All that and more on today's episode. Music by John Kiernan.

We are so stoked to announce that our first interview is with none other than Martin Casaus (Marty The Moth Martinez from Lucha Underground)! JK and Marty talk about everything from wrestling, heavy metal, Killswitch Engage, the upcoming wrestling show Ring Warriors, financial planning and so much more. You don’t want to miss this! Also join Fridge, JK, Stoney and The Ref on our recap of WWE SummerSlam 2018, NXT Takeover 4: Brooklyn, WWE Monday Night Raw and SmackDown! Live.  We talk about The New Day and their current role in WWE, Ronda Rousey and her championship victory, The Velveteen Dream's not-so-subtal message to Vince McMahon and so much more.  We also crown a NEW Armchair Bookers Champion!  Enjoy Episode 12!

Join JK, Stoney, The Ref, Fridge and a returning Maverick for our NXT Takeover: Brooklyn and Summerslam 2018 predictions.  We have two days of stellar matches to look at!  

For NXT Takeover, we have Tommaso Ciampa vs. Johnny Gargano in a street fight for the NXT Championchip, Shayna Baszler vs. Kairi Sane for the Women's Championship, Adam Cole Vs. Ricochet for the North American Championship, Undisputed Era vs. Moustache Mountain for the NXT Tag Team Championship, and Velveteen Dream vs. EC3. 

For Summerslam we have The B Team Vs. The Revival for the Raw Tag Team Championships, Rusev/Lana vs. Andrade Cien Almas/Zelina Vega, Cedric Alexander vs. Drew Gulak for the Cruiserweight Championship, Finn Balor Vs. Baron Corbin, Daniel Bryan Vs. Miz, Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Jeff Hardy for the US Title, Carmella Vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte for the Smackdown! Women's Title, Dolph Ziggler Vs. Seth Rollins for the Intercontinental Championship, Braun Strowman Vs. Kevin Owens for the Money In The Bank contract, Bludgeon Brothers vs. New Day for the Smackdown! Tag Team Championship, AJ Styles Vs. Samoa Joe for the WWE Heavyweight Championship, Alexa Bliss Vs. Ronda Rousey for the Raw Women's Championship, and Brock Lesnar Vs. Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship!

 

Music by John Kiernan.