Waffly Bollox

This week’s episodes of AEW have your girlies (gn) feeling ALIVE. Partly in an angry way, partly in a very over-excited way. Also, we discuss whether Hot Steve needs to wear a mask of his own face, and there’s some Chuck Taylor-related nonsense as always. 

[00:00:00] Take your vitamin D and Hangman’s dream cake

[00:08:57] Let Marina Shafir kill men (in the ring)

[00:17:50] Untangling Blood and Guts from Anarchy in the Arena and other feuds

[00:21:25] The Last Outfit aka The Cut

[00:28:49] Anarchy in the Arena and Best Friends spiralling

[00:33:30] Can we get a crumb of time for setting up the women’s Blood and Guts?

[00:37:43] Aminata is the new TBS champion!

[00:43:33] Jack “dick biter” Perry and watching your guys lose

[00:47:36] Ilja Dragunov and the choreography of violence

[00:52:14] Everything’s very sexy over in the men’s trios title scene

[01:06:43] Still no Maxwell

[01:07:16] Happy things

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Sometimes we like to wait until after the Dynamite after a pay-per-view to give our reactions, and this week’s Dynamite has set our imagination alight! Also, WrestleDream was a banger so maybe we’ll stop advocating for cancelling it now.

[00:00:00] Kitten updates

[00:07:09] WrestleDream 2026’s Tailgate Brawl: Divine Dominion vs Sisters of Sin, a DCF squash, a big old 12 man tag, and FTR vs MCMG

[00:20:09] Mercedes Moné vs Thekla and her spider chariot

[00:30:09] Nick Wayne beat Chris Jericho!!!

[00:41:08] Young Bucks vs Kyle Fletcher and Kevin Knight (and Young Bucks vs Davis and Doyle)

[00:52:10] TBS Championship 4-way (and number one contender qualifier on Dynamite)

[01:04:05] Andrade El Idolo vs Tommaso Ciampa

[01:09:59] Trios 2-out-of-3 falls match: The Good, the Bad and El Guapo vs Swerve and the New Level

[01:26:10] Ilja Dragunov debuts! And we’re very proud of our beloved Speedy

[01:35:03] Mox vs the personification of crushing depression

[01:52:25] The mechanics of Clockwork Carnage and the upcoming Blood and Guts

[02:07:38] The promise of Toni Storm is a happy thing

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Listen, we don't know when the PPVs are. Constantly? Always. Every five minutes. But we decided to talk about the past week in AEW wrestling anyway.

[00:00:00] Extra long Dynallision, kitten updates, Dynasty ticket sales, and metronome mysteries

[00:08:34] WrestleDream is fast approaching

[00:10:49] The ongoing impact of Ben Satterley’s death

[00:31:07] Michael Oku fought Andrade in France!!

[00:39:01] Clockwork Carnage updates

[00:41:19] Punctured lungs and carriage clocks (plus a NJPW side quest)

[00:56:34] FTR’s shenanigans

[01:00:14] What the Elite doing? Feat. Hangman’s humiliation kink

[01:05:47] Nick Wayne is very good and he didn’t need to hurt us to make us say so

[01:07:43] Moving round the pieces in the women’s roster

[01:13:55] WrestleDream anticipation

[01:19:26] Happy things

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We took last week off podcasting because everything felt like a LOT, following the tragic death of PAC. And to be honest, we talk about that a lot this time. It’s big, you know? Grief is hard. We love you all. (And kittens.)

[00:00:00] Kitten updates

[00:04:07] RIP PAC, forever our Bastard

[00:18:09] Speedball’s best date night and MJF’s NJPW challenge

[00:28:41] Two weeks to WrestleDream and we’re seated for Thekla vs Mercedes

[00:34:42] Will Ospreay has put on some bangers then invented a new match format

[00:48:29] …and Orange Cassidy should be in it!

[00:53:44] Mox’s poignant final promo with PAC

[00:57:56] What the dog doing? (Get well soon, Jay White and Hot Steve!)

[01:02:36] Brawling Birds will defend their titles at WrestleDream

[01:04:16] Did these boys never get told off by PE teachers for wearing jewellery?

[01:10:28] The Good, The Bad, and El Guapo (and their clones)

[01:16:17] Paul Wight, genuine menace

[01:17:44] Happy things

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MJ had a special delivery of kittens this week! And also the wrestling got all psychosexual again and we were into it.

But mostly, kittens.

[00:00:00] A discovery of kittens (and other news)

[00:15:12] AEW’s trios title scene is SPICY

[00:28:40] Sheriff Garrison says bang bang bang

[00:30:11] United Speebo joins up with Will Ospreay’s new faction

[00:36:53] Mox proves romance isn’t dead

[00:39:15] Everyone’s swearing this week (including Nick Wayne)

[00:42:48] We’ll continue to hate Cope until he does better

[00:55:22] Miscellaneous things that happened this week

[01:04:24] Thekla and Mercedes Mone appreciation time

[01:10:02] The obligations billionaires have to improve the world

[01:15:27] Petition for Mox to change his entrance music to riot grrrl

[01:16:54] Happy things

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This might be the most ADHD episode we’ve ever done. Between crying over the Butcher tribute episode and taking a trip back to 2021 with AEW’s release of The House Always Wins, we’re in bits.

One coherent request, though? Please someone take a Hot Steve sign to an AEW show!

(00:00:00) News, updates, discourse

(00:11:43) Two minute hate (and fucking puka shell bullshit)

(00:18:39) All Out card preview

(00:26:08) All the tributes to the Butcher

(00:30:00) Can Mox start losing now? Plus other Butcher tribute matches

(00:38:36) We just want everyone to be okay

(00:47:01) The House Always Wins

(00:50:28) The difference between MLP and MLW (and some anti-AI ranting)

(00:59:23) Best Friends and everyone else we’ve lost along the way

(01:01:06) Listen this episode is a mess and these are guidelines at best

(01:08:39) The vibe shift between 2021 and 2026

(01:14:11) That time Cody Rhodes set himself on fire

(01:18:21) Inventing a Saturday morning AEW kids’ show

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This week's episode of Dynamite might have been the most heart-wrenching one they've ever done. Lots of love to the friends and family of Andy Williams and Rebel Tanea.

(00:00:00) General life updates (no more leaks!)

(00:04:00) Remembering Andy Williams aka The Butcher

(00:07:22) Rebel Heart

(00:16:58) Hot Steve

(00:22:44) The Swerve and Hangman of it all

(00:32:48) What the Young Bucks doing?

(00:39:26) How do you kill a Death Rider?

(00:49:29) Love for Mercedes Mone and Thekla

(00:55:18) Super into Vert Vixen and Janai Kai

(00:56:35) Someone save Andrade from this gimmick

(01:00:13) Odds and ends

(01:09:15) Happy things

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The sky might be falling, but your girlies (gn), like the wrestling, cannot be stopped! We watched All In plus loads of indie wrestling, and then we had a big ol yap about it. Get comfy, settle in...

(00:00:00) THE RAIN… is inside our homes and this episode is fully waterlogged

(00:05:53) Independent shows we watched on All In weekend, including Pursuit Pro Wrestling, Mystery Wrestling, and RevPro

(00:28:30) All In 2026: The Buy In

(00:43:22) Trios Roulette and the debut of the New Level

(00:54:46) Women’s tag team championship: Brawling Birds vs Divine Dominion

(00:57:48) Continental Challenge Cup Final: Mox vs Big Nige

(01:04:48) International Three Way: Kyle Fletcher vs Kazuchika Okada vs Konosuke Takeshita

(01:13:22) Men’s Casino gauntlet

(01:26:05) Men’s Team Team Championship match: Adam Copeland and Christian Cage vs Young Bucks

(01:35:17) TNT Falls Count Anywhere and Sting’s Large Adult Son

(01:39:39) Women’s World Championship: Willow Nightingale vs Mercedes Moné

(01:47:25) Men’s World Championship: Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay

(02:10:45) Where next for Ospreay?

(02:28:09) Happy things

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We’re pretty sure we shouldn’t be feeling like this, a week out from the biggest AEW PPV of the year, which just happens to be happening in the UK, but… the heart wants what the heart wants, and what it wants is not what we’re being given.

(00:00:00) The importance of a “fuck that guy” filter

(00:15:21) The build to Willow Nightingale vs Mercedes Moné at All In

(00:20:18) The Omega vs Ospreay of it all

(00:35:47) C3 updates

(00:41:08) Wrestlers vs Chocolate Oranges

(00:45:11) Load-bearing Lio Rush

(00:47:56) Hangman and the incoming trios clusterfuck

(00:55:10) Christian Cage makes us do upsetting maths

(00:56:00) Jonathan Cruz eats a beating intended for MJF

(00:57:24) Who’s got the remote for the pyro?

(00:59:31) Vaguely Shakespearian ideas for Kris Statlander’s next storyline

(01:03:03) Happy things

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The wrestling discourse never stops, does it?

(00:00:00) Heatwave blues and t-shirt based obscenity laws

(00:06:46) Nepo babies don’t do chairs

(00:12:11) PRODUCE Wrestling latest allegations

(00:16:38) PAC is coming to RevPro!

(00:19:10) Kenny Omega is an anime villain

(00:24:36) Swerve Strickland is back!

(00:37:03) A tiny crumb of women’s title feud building

(00:39:47) A crumb of women’s tag titles feud building

(00:43:13) Where next for the TBS title?(00:47:24) Should Kevin Knight have been turned heel?

(00:50:39) A grab-bag of Don Callis and Ring of Honor type stuff

(00:59:21) CCC updates

(01:05:42) Plotting a big old crashout for MJF

(01:14:40) Happy times

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