Much to Kyle's delight, we completely skip Raw this week and focus our attentions on NXT Takeover: Chicago, which was great, and Backlash, which was... hey, did you all see NXT Takeover: Chicago? We jump straight in with huge praise for all things UK Championship, with Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne putting on a damn match of the year candidate. We consider what kind of match would best showcase Shinsuke Nakamura, then look at the improving state of the tag division in this beautiful Breezango-driven world. But then we have to mourn the end of DIY, and a week later we're still not really ready to face it. Oh, and Jinder Mahal is champion. Um. Yeah. So, you see NXT Takeover: Chicago?

Kyle and Alasdair compare and contrast what it was like to watch Raw on TV versus actually being there in the Prudential Center. Kyle found Raw roughly sledding from the comfort of home, but maybe Alasdair enjoyed it more live? (Well... yeah, but only a little.) If nothing else, we're both really getting into the mad magic of the Titus Brand. Then we check in on the SmackDown feuds with Backlash set for tomorrow. Alasdair drops his boldest take ever by suggesting Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal might actually have a sneakily okay match and he already regrets it. Plus he offers a quick breakdown of Friday's UK Championship special, with another round of praise for his favorite flippy Welshman, Mark Andrews!

We've got something super special in store for you today! We take a much-needed break from the week-to-week grind of WWE. Both Kyle and Alasdair attended shows for Ring of Honor and New Japan's War of the Worlds tour, with Kyle offering his thoughts on a Kenny Omega-headlined show in Toronto. Alasdair has a few thoughts on the New York show in the Hammerstein Ballroom, but mostly he's here to turn over the microphone to his girlfriend Rebekah, who literally had never watched any wrestling live or on TV before going to a joint ROH/New Japan pay-per-view. She shares her newcomer's perspective on the show, and let's just say Will Ospreay and Jay White will be very happy with what she has to say. Then Alasdair and Kyle answer some questions from listeners, including a whole lot on the various goings-on in WWE's women's divisions.

We've got something super special in store for you today! We take a much-needed break from the week-to-week grind of WWE. Both Kyle and Alasdair attended shows for Ring of Honor and New Japan's War of the Worlds tour, with Kyle offering his thoughts on a Kenny Omega-headlined show in Toronto. Alasdair has a few thoughts on the New York show in the Hammerstein Ballroom, but mostly he's here to turn over the microphone to his girlfriend Rebekah, who literally had never watched any wrestling live or on TV before going to a joint ROH/New Japan pay-per-view. She shares her newcomer's perspective on the show, and let's just say Will Ospreay and Jay White will be very happy with what she has to say. Then Alasdair and Kyle answer some questions from listeners, including a whole lot on the various goings-on in WWE's women's divisions.

Yeah, we both liked the House of Horrors match. Don't worry, this is (probably!) still worth listening to. We explain why we enjoyed the glorious trainwreck of Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton's final (surely, right?) encounter, then get into why A.J. Styles and Sami Zayn connect with us more consistently than similarly talented dudes of roughly similar stature like Seth Rollins and Finn Balor. We pay tribute to the last chapter of the JeriKO saga, then take a moment to recognize the brilliance of Breezango and the Fashion Files. All that and Kyle's preview of his upcoming trip to Ring of Honor and New Japan's joint War of the Worlds show in Toronto, featuring Kenny Omega!

Alasdair and Kyle talk about the upcoming PPVs Payback and Backlash, assuming they can tell the difference. (There's one point in which Alasdair legitimately can't.) Kyle discusses how WWE could go about building a better go-home show, then we take a bunch of questions from listeners on Twitter. We discuss the best and worst possible visions of the House of Horrors match, how to keep Braun strong even if he loses to Roman, and the awesome hilarity that is WWE actually naming a PPV Great Balls of Fire. That's amazing. Plus we pay tribute to Breezango, number one contenders!

Alasdair and Kyle talk about the upcoming PPVs Payback and Backlash, assuming they can tell the difference. (There's one point in which Alasdair legitimately can't.) Kyle discusses how WWE could go about building a better go-home show, then we take a bunch of questions from listeners on Twitter. We discuss the best and worst possible visions of the House of Horrors match, how to keep Braun strong even if he loses to Roman, and the awesome hilarity that is WWE actually naming a PPV Great Balls of Fire. That's amazing. Plus we pay tribute to Breezango, number one contenders!

We're dropping this podcast on a Monday, so we'll save the instantly dated Raw discussion. (All hail Braun, basically.) Instead, we discuss just what it means to have Jinder Mahal as the new number one contender to the WWE Championship, and whether either of us really has the courage to hinder Jinder in his quest for gold. Also, we talk about the lovely end to Tye Dillinger's NXT story with his steel cage match against Eric Young. All that and Alasdair checks in with an indie wrestling report about the greatness of Limitless Keith Lee!

Alasdair and Kyle record early one morning (Alasdair even has birds chirping in the background, just to set the mood) to discuss the results of the Superstar Shake-up! Or, at least they get to that eventually, once they are done paying all due homage to Braun Strowman flipping over a damn ambulance. Seriously, that happened and was amazing and Braun is our hero now. Plus we take a look at an exciting new era for SmackDown (and, uh, we guess Raw as well) with A.J. Styles getting monster babyface pops as the officially recognized heart and soul of the blue brand. And Alasdair checks in with a quickie NXT report, because why not?

A bunch of truly bizarre and maddening technical difficulties mean we're only just getting this out, but no matter! Come join the rest of our massive discussion of all things WrestleMania 33 here, as we look at Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho, the debut of Shinsuke Nakamura (and why Alasdair is way higher on those Roode-Nakamura matches than he probably ought to be), and whether the man who wants to be introduced as the face that runs the place is actually, you know, turning face. After these two episodes, we can officially lay WrestleMania weekend to rest, just in time for the superstar shake-up. (Which, by the way, we'll probably have to get to sometime next week, as Alasdair has some travel coming up this weekend. Till then, thanks for listening!)