Cody Rhodes and Santino Marella recently looked back on their wild OVW days on What Do You Wanna Talk About? — and Cody said something that perfectly sums up that era:

“This would never happen today.”

He’s right.

I was there from 2005–2008, living the OVW developmental life alongside Cody, Santino, CM Punk and a generation of talent chasing WWE contracts. In Episode 21, I break down the contract vs. nontract culture, Rip Rogers’ class, Santino’s unbelievable rise from Boris Alexiev to WWE Intercontinental Champion, Cody’s early days, and why that strange little wrestling ecosystem could never be recreated today. 

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Timmy Baltimore brings smartass wrestling commentary, backstage stories, industry history, wild speculation, and real conversations from inside the world of professional wrestling.

A wrestling announcer/commentator, booker, producer, and lifelong student of the business, Timmy has 25+years in pro wrestling — from the indys to WWE developmental in OVW, to WWE as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes’ junior booker in pre-NXT FCW , the first ALL IN, and beyond. He’s worked with the biggest names, learned from the legends, and has countless bizarrely hilarious insider stories.

This channel is home to «Timmy Baltimore» smartass commentary & insight, high-brow opinions on low-brow entertainment, and «LiMPiN AiNT EASY» tell all interviews with wrestling’s biggest stars about their stories & struggles.

If you love wrestling, backstage stories, sharp commentary, wild speculation, and wrestling’s REALEST interviews, then subscribe and ride with lil Tim Tim!

AJ Styles and Arik Cannon collided online after Cannon accused AJ’s 19-year-old son, Avery Styles, of avoiding setup work at a GCW event. AJ says Avery was booked to wrestle—not work ring crew. Cannon says helping behind the scenes is how a rookie pays his dues and earns the respect of his peers.

But is this really about folding chairs?

Timmy Baltimore examines nepotism, wrestling’s time-honored rites of passage and the enormous class divide separating the business’s haves from its have-nots. Should Avery have helped? Should Cannon have handled the situation privately? Did AJ hurt his son’s case by fighting the battle for him—and could this real-life heat become an actual wrestling angle?

Who gets to decide what “paying dues” means?

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WWE SummerSlam 2026 gave us two nights of spectacle—but did it give us professional wrestling or a collection of carefully staged performances?

Timmy Baltimore reviews SummerSlam and examines WWE’s emerging “Performative Era,” where wrestlers break character, embrace their opponents and take a curtain call moments after pretending to destroy one another.

From Brock Lesnar publicly passing the torch to Oba Femi, to Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins burying the hatchet, WWE keeps exposing the illusion while simultaneously asking its audience to suspend disbelief. Can WWE have it both ways—and does anybody besides Timmy actually care?

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• Nick Aldis’ emotional WWE in-ring debut against Gunther

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The Big Boss Man was my favorite wrestler growing up.

I never met him—but I once asked the Ultimate Warrior, moments after defeating The Undertaker in a Body Bag Match, to deliver a handwritten letter to Boss Man in Cobb County, Georgia.

Following Dark Side of the Ring’s emotional episode about Ray Traylor, I’m revisiting my childhood obsession with the Big Boss Man: the homemade Halloween costume, the action figures I refused to sell, the WWF house-show loss that ruined my ride home and the extraordinary talent behind the badge.

Ray Traylor never became world champion. He never needed to. Whether he was terrorizing Hulk Hogan, defending law and order or becoming one of the Attitude Era’s most depraved villains, Boss Man made everything professional wrestling asked of him feel believable.

This is a personal tribute to my childhood hero—and to the family who sacrificed their time with Ray so wrestling fans like me could have the Big Boss Man.

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Timmy Baltimore brings smartass wrestling commentary, backstage stories, industry history, wild speculation, and real conversations from inside the world of professional wrestling.

A wrestling announcer/commentator, booker, producer, and lifelong student of the business, Timmy has 25+years in pro wrestling — from the indys to WWE developmental in OVW, to WWE as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes’ junior booker in pre-NXT FCW , the first ALL IN, and beyond. He’s worked with the biggest names, learned from the legends, and has countless bizarrely hilarious insider stories.

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AAA came out of Noche de los Grandes on fire—but can they keep the momentum alive?

This week’s AAA Temperature Check looks at whether the booking is still delivering, the rise of Los Perros del Mal, Omos & Galeno, Las Tóxicas, El Grande Americano, and the biggest stories shaping AAA’s future. Is AAA still the hottest promotion in wrestling… or is the temperature already starting to cool?

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00:00 - The Honeymoon Phase

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Timmy Baltimore brings smartass wrestling commentary, backstage stories, industry history, wild speculation, and real conversations from inside the world of professional wrestling.

A wrestling announcer/commentator, booker, producer, and lifelong student of the business, Timmy has 25+years in pro wrestling — from the indys to WWE developmental in OVW, to WWE as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes’ junior booker in pre-NXT FCW , the first ALL IN, and beyond. He’s worked with the biggest names, learned from the legends, and has countless bizarrely hilarious insider stories.

This channel is home to «Timmy Baltimore» smartass commentary & insight, high-brow opinions on low-brow entertainment, and «LiMPiN AiNT EASY» tell all interviews with wrestling’s biggest stars about their stories & struggles.

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The Hulk Hogan bodycam footage of his death investigation has been released, and it gives a disturbing look into the final days and final morning of Terry Bollea — “The Immortal” Hulk Hogan.

In this special edition of The Stooge Report, Timmy Baltimore breaks down the Clearwater Police bodycam footage, the statements from Hogan’s home health aide, EMTs, and occupational therapist, the phrenic nerve claim, the CPR questions, the Narcan protocol, and Ric Flair’s controversial “street drugs” comments that were later walked back.

The official ruling says natural death.

This is commentary, analysis, and speculation — not a declaration of cause of death. 

THIS IS PURE SPECULATION!

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00:00 - The Stooge Report: Hulk Hogan Bodycam Footage

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Hey you jabronis! 

Timmy Baltimore brings smartass wrestling commentary, backstage stories, industry history, wild speculation, and real conversations from inside the world of professional wrestling.

A wrestling announcer/commentator, booker, producer, and lifelong student of the business, Timmy has 25+years in pro wrestling — from the indys to WWE developmental in OVW, to WWE as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes’ junior booker in pre-NXT FCW , the first ALL IN, and beyond. He’s worked with the biggest names, learned from the legends, and has countless bizarrely hilarious insider stories.

This channel is home to «Timmy Baltimore» smartass commentary & insight, high-brow opinions on low-brow entertainment, and «LiMPiN AiNT EASY» tell all interviews with wrestling’s biggest stars about their stories & struggles.

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Tommy Dreamer, Bully Ray, Mickie James, Jon Moxley, Josh Barnett, Joey Janela, and the IWC have all been pulled into a bigger conversation happening in pro wrestling right now.

This episode is not about declaring saints and sinners. It is about wrestling’s generational handoff.

The old guard wants respect. The young lions want accountability. And somewhere in the middle is the uncomfortable truth: both generations need each other.

The young generation should not have to inherit the old guard’s abuse. But they would be fools not to inherit the old guard’s wisdom.

We’re talking Tommy Dreamer drama, Bully Ray backlash, Mickie James loyalty, social media trials, old-school wrestling culture, modern accountability, and why every generation eventually becomes the thing the next generation wants to replace.

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Timmy Baltimore brings smartass wrestling commentary, backstage stories, industry history, wild speculation, and real conversations from inside the world of professional wrestling.

A wrestling announcer/commentator, booker, producer, and lifelong student of the business, Timmy has 25+years in pro wrestling — from the indys to WWE developmental in OVW, to WWE as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes’ junior booker in pre-NXT FCW , the first ALL IN, and beyond. He’s worked with the biggest names, learned from the legends, and has countless bizarrely hilarious insider stories.

This channel is home to «Timmy Baltimore» smartass commentary & insight, high-brow opinions on low-brow entertainment, and «LiMPiN AiNT EASY» tell all interviews with wrestling’s biggest stars about their stories & struggles.

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WWE Raw, AEW Dynamite, TNA Impact, AAA Lucha Libre... Timmy Baltimore watched it all last week so you wouldn't have to.

That's too much damn wrestling; nevertheless, Timmy B breaks it all down as only he can: through the eyes of a sharp, smug wrestling mind with over 25 years experience in this nonsense world of make believe.

So what's hot and what's not? Who's booking is cooking? Who's killing the game and who's dying a slow death playing it too long? 

Timmy Baltimore dives in and gives his brutally honest, often hilarious, critiques and feedback to the world's most successful athlete-entertainers, who are making tons of money and could care less about Timmy's high-brow assessments. But this show isn't for those jabronis. It's for you jabronis!

So pop a squat, crack a beverage, and let everyone's favorite little stooge take you on a ride through AEW's excess, TNA's minimal effort, AAA's hotstreak, and WWE's sing along show called Monday Night Raw.

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Timmy Baltimore isn’t just the “Handicaptivating Host”—he’s lived it. A physically disabled wrestling announcer, producer, writer, and booker with over two decades in the business, Timmy has earned the trust of the industry’s elite. From his early days in MCW and OVW, to working alongside “The American” Dream Dusty Rhodes in WWE’s developmental system, to calling the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship match between Cody Rhodes and Nick Aldis at ALL IN 2018, Timmy has seen–and survived–it all.

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AAA Noche de los Grandes II gave us a lower-key week after last week’s emotional mask-vs-mask masterpiece — and honestly, we probably needed it.

But low-key does not mean meaningless.

This week I break down the men’s cruiserweight contender 5-way, why too much motion without consequence kills a match, why the audience can’t watch two things at once, and why pretty moves mean nothing if nobody is actually trying to win.

Then we get to the real MVPs of the night: Las Tóxicas.

Flammer, Lady Maravilla, and La Hiedra understood the assignment. They cheated, they cut off the ring, they created heat, they made the babyfaces, and they gave La Catalina a real path toward Flammer’s Reina de Reinas Championship.

This is the difference between doing moves and doing business.

Qué onda, jabronis. Súbete al Camioncito.

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AAA Noche de los Grandes gave us one of the most emotional wrestling moments in years — but the real stars of the night were the Mexican fans.

In this episode, Timmy Baltimore breaks down AAA’s La Noche de los Grandes, including Rey Fenix vs. Laredo Kid, El Hijo del Vikingo vs. El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., The War Raiders vs. Psycho Clown & Pagano, the AAA American broadcast team, and the unforgettable main event between El Grande Americano and the Original El Grande Americano.

Chad Gable lost the mask, El Grande Americano had his moment, and the Mexican audience turned a story that started as a joke into something beautiful, emotional, and unforgettable.

La lucha libre nos une.

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00:00 - Let's Talk La Noche de Los Grandes

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Hey you jabronis! 

Timmy Baltimore brings smartass wrestling commentary, backstage stories, industry history, wild speculation, and real conversations from inside the world of professional wrestling.

A wrestling announcer/commentator, booker, producer, and lifelong student of the business, Timmy has 25+years in pro wrestling — from the indys to WWE developmental in OVW, to WWE as “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes’ junior booker in pre-NXT FCW , the first ALL IN, and beyond. He’s worked with the biggest names, learned from the legends, and has countless bizarrely hilarious insider stories.

This channel is home to «Timmy Baltimore» smartass commentary & insight, high-brow opinions on low-brow entertainment, and «LiMPiN AiNT EASY» tell all interviews with wrestling’s biggest stars about their stories & struggles.

If you love wrestling, backstage stories, sharp commentary, wild speculation, and wrestling’s REALEST interviews, then subscribe and ride with lil Tim Tim!

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