Gertrude Elizabeth Vachon better known as Luna Vachon, Born January 12, 1962 in Atlanta Georgia.The Vachon family is a French-Canadian family long associated with professional wrestling in Canada and the United States, headed by Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon, his brother Paul “Butcher” Vachon – both longtime NWA and AWA veterans – and their sister Vivian.They tried to dissuade her from entering the wrestling world feeling that it was too rough for women.Andre The Giant also tried to dissuade her while they were on a trip to Paris together in 1974.At the age of 16 she started training under her aunt Vivian and later The Fabulous MulahHer first son, Joshua, was born 1980 and her second, Van, in 1982.Gertrude started her professional career wrestling for Moolah’s all-women’s promotion.  She then moved to Florida and, competing under the ring name Angelle Vachon, became a member of a four-woman wrestling troupe led by Mad Maxine. While in Florida, she shared residence with wrestlers Scott Levy (later known as Raven), and Denny Brown.In 1985, she debuted in Florida Championship Wrestling, as a young, soft-spoken reporter named Trudy HerdShe was attacked by Kevin Sulivan during an award presentationThe angle had her driven mad by Sullivan’s treatment and she ended up joining Sullivan’s Army of Darkness stable under the new ring name, Luna Vachon. As part of her gimmick, she shaved one half of her head, which was the first step to her trademark Mohawk hairstyle, covered her face in bodypaint, and continuously sneeredShe would then bounce around the indy circuit including trips to Japan, Puerto Rico and Stu Hart’s Stampede WrestlingIn 1992 she was hired by the WWF before disappearing. She would be found working in Florida as a waitress after the WWF hired a private investigator to find her.Her first appearance was at WrestleMania 9 as a valet for Sean Michaels where she would attack Michael’s former valet, the Sensational SherriWhile that feud continued, Bam Bam Bigelow fell in love with her, referring to her as his “Tick” which the fans would turn into Luna-TickTogether they would battle together at both SummerSlam and Wrestlemania 10.The WWF then revived the Women’s title and put Luna up against Alundra Blayze. Blayze would win the title and  Luna would pick Bull Nakano to challenge for the title. She would leave shortly after that title match.Luna is the first female to appear in a WWF video game, appearing in the first WWF Raw video game.Luna would then move back onto the independent circuit and finally settling in ECWon the recommendation of Kevin Sullivan’s wife NancyShe would be brought in as Tommy Dreamer’s ValetLuna would then make a short tun in WCW in 1997. She would again wrestle Alundra Blayze, wrestling under her original name, Madusa.Later in 1997 she would return to the WWE to manage Goldust and see his transition to the “Artist formerly known as goldust”They would go on to battle Vader, Owen Hart and later HHH and Chyna.Goldust would then go on to team with Marc Mero which would lead to a split and a feud between Luna and Marc’s valet, SableAfter a number of feuds she would end up back managing her husband going under the name Gangrel in the WWEShe would end up being suspended a number of times during this run for backstage antics including a fight with Sale and dissatisfaction with the sexualization of women’s wrestling.Gangrel and Luna would move to the independent circuit after their release in 2000In 2007 she would finally retire after winning the Great Lakes Championship Wrestling women’s title a few month’s before.She was married 3 times, the last being David Heath (Gangrel)She was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and became a born again Christian in 2004. She was baptized by fellow wrestler Nakita KoloffAround Christmas of 2009 her house was destroyed in a fire. She lost most of her wrestling memorabilia and was forced to move in with her motherShe was foun

Drew Rages as we go over the draft that the WWE held over the last week. We also discuss AEW and their successes and failures as well as Eric Bischoff being fired from the WWE.

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The combined weight of really

top rope

Good evening and welcome to another edition of top rope wrestling podcast. I’m Rick and drew is over there on the couch. I am here and accounted for.

So I think we’re going to talk a little bit about the draft tonight. Yeah, and maybe some firings or some going on in the WWE World. Some firings. Yeah. It’s a firing Maybe some promotion some promotion a specific or just anyone who watches or keeps track of what’s going on should understand what we’re know what we’re going to talk about. Yeah. I’m actually excited about the promotion. So I’m I might be in the minority there but

we’ll see I think the promotions been doing that job anyway for the last couple months. You’re probably not wrong. Although I

don’t know it sounds. It didn’t sound like he was still more in the office. Yeah. Then he was actually out on the road. For those that don’t know what we’re talking about. Eric Bischoff was fired. He went Bye, bye. Yeah, he went Bye bye. Well, I can’t say he was fired. He is just no longer with the company. Oh, no, it said they said Vince McMahon fired Oh, did he say because I haven’t heard I haven’t kept

up with it completely. But my sources or the internet as everyone else calls it?

He said fired.

Got it. So we and then

Bruce Prichard has taken over as The I don’t know, what is the official title the not the President or rap director, producer, whatever. He’s the head guy for smack or for raw now. So that’s a hurdle for smack down.

That’s something to wrestle with.

Yes. Bruce Prichard was pretty sure he so he’s now the head of smack down. Okay. Right. Yeah. And and Paul Heyman has still ever with raw, but now separated from Brock Lesnar because Brock Lesnar is on the smack down, right. Well,

I’m pretty sure Paul Heyman will now be on both shows he won’t be on Robin right. It’ll be on air talent on smack down and an on site because he now has to be at both shows.

But I mean, it’s a Monday Friday, so it’s not really that big of a deal. And I’m assuming with his current job with raw he is at the office but are working most days I mean, pretty, pretty big, pretty big spot to fill. So what drew really wanted to talk about I really didn’t get a chance to watch like I looked over the results but I didn’t actually watch it but drew sent me a message he’s like we have to talk about this cluster fuck of a draft. Yes.

So I don’t know Do you want to like pull up who’s where now?

Yeah, I can

I can kind of fill you in while you’re doing that on what happened?

Yes, I like so I wasn’t watching this past week for them or I was a week ago. We can have whatever I will I wasn’t watching. Wednesday is now my wrestling day. I tend to watch AW, and then watch NFC afterwards and every I record MXD so you know, that’s my wrestling day and I because I enjoy both those promotions are both I guess one

I’ve been watching AW on like, Thursday. Well,

yeah, I’ve been watching it the day after a lot of mostly I actually I was last night I watched AW live and

We had a little issue with getting this episode out but here it is. Listen along with Rick and Drew as they watch the first segment of the Smackdown premiere on FOX!

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Orlando for a combined weight of really.

Hey guys,

welcome back to another edition of top rope wrestling podcast. I’m Rick and drew is over there on the couch. Yep.

And we are currently six minutes away from the historic debut. I mean, they’re making it historic. It’s really just it’s just a debut

has taken

boxes paid a crap load of money.

Yeah, to be out for smack down. And I don’t know, I don’t remember this

much fanfare when they went to UPN.

Know, there definitely was not that many when they went up and it was just a Well it started on up and so I didn’t even like it. So when I went to USA, actually sorry.

But this is the first time I remember this massive hype

about That’s what I’m saying. They’re really like Kofi and Charlotte and Roman, have been on every Fox Sports show this week in the last few weeks.

Yeah, it’s been a pretty insane amount of coverage that they’ve gotten over this.

So what we’re going to do is we’re going to see how this starts.

Yeah, we got we have it on in the background. So we’ll be watching along with you guys talking about it and talking about it. If you’re listening or if you’re watching live on Twitch, feel free to you know, tune in. We’re watching through the app, so we might be a couple seconds behind

you. You’re watching this listening and listening later

just go on the network and hit play. Yeah. And will will tell you exactly when the the kickoff show is over and when we’re on the actual show. Yes. That’s a That’s awesome.

I hope they don’t do this kickoff every week.

No, I don’t think they are. I think they’re gonna they’re supposed to be doing a post show though. Or some they might be doing a kickoff show. This is where CM Punk is supposed to be involved in some way, I think.

But I’m not 100% sure on that.

Paul Heyman is currently taking up most of my television set

and looking very old and bold.

Yes. Well, I mean, that’s he’s got that same look for ever pretty much. Yeah. long as I remember watching Paul Heyman or Paul II. What was it Paul? He dangerous Holly dangerous? Yeah, he

had hair then. Yes, he did. And then for a while he did have he was

he was starting to bald for sure. Yeah,

he had hair for a while. And then for a while he had the ponytail that he wouldn’t let go. Yeah, they’re on top.

Now he just has the god I forgot about the ponytail.

Yeah, he is now he says the middle aged man look that I will have in probably about three more years.

So it’s interesting like that. So they moved the raw announced team to smack down and is

Renee.

Yes. The Rock is officially in the house. So

wearing a salmon colored pants.

Why is he walking into the bathroom? Like that’s the bathroom trailer. I mean, I’m assuming he has to go to the bathroom. Maybe it’s an odd shot. I thought it was a makeup trailer. It could be the makeup trailer. But I don’t know.

Are they done?

I think so. I think got three minutes and three seconds.

That’s enough time for a few annoying commercials. Like Marco’s pizza. Yeah, Mar

This week we sit down to talk about the first week of the Wednesday Night wars as well as the premier of Raw earlier in the week.

We then preview the upcoming Hell in a Cell Pay-Per-View event happening this Sunday.

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Hey guys, welcome to another edition of the top rope wrestling podcast. I’m Rick and drew is over there on the couch. Let me in. So we It’s been a while since we’ve done a live show cuz I was doing other things yeah

I mean, I could tell you what they were but they were kind of boring. I was camping. I did a lot of camping over the last month. I have not slept in my bed at my house for over a month. Straight. Yes. I mean, over a weekend. Okay, sorry not and but over a weekend I have not slept in my bed. So sleeping on the floor. I know. I’ve been sleeping in camps and tents. And the first weekend was a hotel but everything else I’ve been intense on cots or on the ground sounds like a nightmare.

It was it was not fun. So, you know, I mean, it was fun because I got to learn a lot, but it was not not.

I can imagine it being a nightmare for you. So yeah, I’m not an outdoorsy person. I used to camp when I was a kid. I enjoyed it, but it’s

not your thing anymore. Yeah, I don’t have any kids to frickin take camping and 40 year old man hanging out in the woods is just creepy. Well, I mean, unless you’re homeless. Yeah, well, even that could be a little creepy. So it’s been a while we got a lot to catch up on. We have let’s see we have I’m just gonna be

Morrow Rinaldo and start making pop culture references from now. I say that because you said it’s been a while and I was gonna make a stain or effort. Oh, okay, well, thanks day and it’s been a while since we’ve been live. So.

Okay, so, enough of that. So we’re going to go ahead. And I mean, the big thing right now is the first week the while everybody everything premiered raw premiered smack down is getting ready to premiere. And AW. premiered this week it did and AW went head to head with an XT and XT lost the fuck out of that battle. It was like 500,000 view extra views which by the way, the I could go off on it forever, but ratings are a crock of shit anyway. So I mean, it’s it’s a guesstimate at best and on how many people are watching. Right? So I mean, is there just judging Nielsen families? Right, right. So if one person tunes out I think one person takes away

50,000 people. So you know, it’s not really a good way of doing it, you know, but whatever. It’s really the only way that they have right now. But that’s why I like podcasts and streaming is so much has gotten so much better, because are so much more attention is because they can actually tell you how many people started and ended in whatever. Yeah, so

it’s not quite actual viewership, but it’s a lot closer than Nielsen is right? Because we can’t tell like, through all the platforms, how many people listen to us get close, though. I mean, I we don’t have that many listeners, I can tell you that much, obviously. But I can tell you like who came from what or not who, but I can tell you how many people came from iTunes. How many people came from? Yeah, whatever. So

let’s say and then we also have hell in the cell going on on Sunday. Right? So we should probably preview we’re going to preview hell in the cell. Let’s talk a little have Have

We recorded this episode before the last Mayhem on Mills to talk about our experience as well as promote our appearance on the show. Well it was lost in time and we finally found it. Everything we think still holds true to this day and we can’t wait to see all of you at Will’s pub on October 13th for the next Mayhem on Mills

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from Orlando, Florida, the combined Raiders.

Hello, and welcome to another edition of the top rope wrestling podcast. I’m Rick and drew is over on the couch again. Yep. Yep. That’s going to be his response from now on just

Yep. It’s from a Saturday Night Live skit. I find it funny. Like, barely hear me.

It’s a little volume tripping yesterday works.

Yes, hopefully it does. If not, you might not be plugged in and we’ll see. So I can hear me. I just can’t hear me very loud. Got it. There we go. Okay, well, that’s cool. So he’ll do Here we go. Now singing into the mic to make sure that he can hear himself. All right. Yeah, I’m here. Awesome. Yep. So we’re going to talk a little bit about mayhem on Mills this week. I’m just the, in general, we hope to get some guy or we hope to get a little punk on soon. Who’s the one who runs the event? on his birth certificate, his name total and his last name? I think it might be. No, it is not. But that’s what we’ll refer to him as because I don’t know if he wants me to call it by his actual name. Yeah, sure. So, um, but it is a it’s an event that’s put on here in Orlando quarterly, it seems like yeah, I think the first one there was about a half a year in between, but they’re going to be on number six coming up. We just had our live broadcast recently with number five.

We stuck. We jumped in. And number four,

yes, we jumped in. The first time we went to an event was number four. And then we actually did the live broadcast for number five. And it was a lot of fun. And this one was inside. So that makes it a whole lot better than what we had before. Usually they’re outside they’re called

mayhem on Mills because in Orlando we have a road called Mills.

Yes. Which is kind of a central road in town because the mills 50 district is like this big thing in the type of area well, wills is definitely an indie type area A lot of that

pump does a lot of punk bands. I’ve seen tons of punk bands, their stuff like that. So they do kind of an independent wrestling thing. And yeah, they

do and it’s based on wills pub is the place that all of the other ones have taken place before this one this time it took took place across the street from wills pub in the orange studios, but they did bring over the world’s bartenders and they had beverages for everybody available what I

find cool is that they also not only not only do you get to see an Indy wrestling show, but they do bands and stuff too.

Yes they did. They had bands at they did a post party at at wills this time. We didn’t attend to the post party next time we’ll definitely go to the post party if they do it the same way. But the first time we went they had a band perform before the show. So they had bands that one or two bands perform before the show. And then immediately then the wrestling started right after the the one the band stopped report finished performing. And this is like Indy wrestling at its finest. I mean to tell you I