We’ve got two episodes of Dynamite - including Grand Slam Mexico - to catch up on, plus a Collision, and our two most load-bearing wrestlers made their returns, so let’s get into it!

(00:00:00) News and catching up

(00:15:52) Motor City Machine Guns (and other wrestlers from Detroit)

(00:20:53) Hangman’s back!

(00:33:05) Why does it always rain on Speedball?

(00:41:17) Death Riders and the new Continental Cup

(00:50:26) No dick pics thank you

(00:54:24) Welcome back MJF!

(00:59:28) Do we have to mash up the women’s world title and the women’s tag titles?

(01:04:01) More Persephone please

(01:07:15) Counting Will Ospreay’s enemies

(01:17:52) Missing: Kenny Omega?

(01:21:02) Happy times

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We watched so much wrestling this week, including the two shows of RevPro's inaugural Women's Grand Prix and then, of course, AEW Redemption. So we're in an uncharacteristically good mood!

(00:00:00) We went to the inaugural RevPro Women’s Grand Prix!

(00:12:46) AEW Redemption was fine, wasn’t it?

(00:21:17) Recapping the Buy In (and a bit of the shows from last week)

(00:30:21) 6-man ladder match for a shot at the International Title

(00:32:38) A whole room of Beast Mortos heads

(00:33:38) Big pop for Speedball and why ladder matches scare us

(00:44:31) Young Bucks vs Death Riders

(00:55:27) Kyle Fletcher’s new boot goofing

(01:02:40) A bloodless double chain match: the Dogs vs the Bang Bang Gang

(01:09:16) And new TBS Champion Maya World!

(01:16:22) Men’s Tag Team match: Cope and Christian vs Death Riders

(01:20:47) Obligatory Chris Jericho banter match

(01:27:35) Mick Foley bows down

(01:29:53) And new National Champion, Andrade el Idolo!

(01:39:30) And new Women’s World Champion, Willow Nightingale!

(01:51:18) And still Men’s World Champion, Kenny Omega!

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We’re in the midst of the third heatwave of the year and everything’s melting so what better time to invite round the Queen of Chaos herself, Aluna! We’ve seen her mixing it up in the ring at RevPro, EVE, Attack, Kamikaze, Friday Night Pursuit and many, many more, and now we’re on a mission to send her to Japan…

[00:00:00] Settling in (and being too hot!)

[00:04:50] Getting into wrestling through BritWres

[00:09:56] Fave places to wrestle and wrestling as a community

[00:14:47] What’s scarier, wrestling or horror movies?

[00:20:50] Choosing sleepover snacks

[00:21:42] Queen of Chaos, officially

[00:29:09] Favourite matches

[00:30:40] How do moonsaults work?

[00:39:23] Crowd work and sparkly pants

[00:42:48] What kind of pizza do you want?

[00:44:08] Dating your first wrestling crush

[00:45:48] Designing wrestling merch that stands out

[00:50:02] Dream wrestling scenarios

[00:55:29] Intergender wrestling and why we need women’s tag belts

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Feeling a bit underwhelmed this week, but at least Kenny Omega dropped some new weird pronunciations for us.

Also how is AEW Redemption NEXT WEEK?!

Chapters:

(00:00:00) News and RevPro Women’s Grand Prix updates

(00:11:18) Hangman returned!

(00:19:29) Not hyped for AEW Redemption

(00:21:20) Building to Thekla vs Willow Nightingale (while Thekla is in Japan)

(00:30:37) Are we getting any other women’s matches?

(00:35:25) Building to Kenny vs Kev

(00:49:58) Building to a men’s tag team defence

(00:52:41) PPV fatigue has set in

(00:56:55) Not streaming Orange Cassidy matches is a crime against Best Friends girlies

(00:59:06) Men’s National Championship business and Men’s International Championship business

(01:04:05) Why are we doing Jericho vs Ciampa again?

(01:11:58) Silly questions from Bluesky

(01:24:11) Happy things of the week

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We said we were gonna walk into the sea if Kenny didn’t win this week. And now it’s so hot in the UK we kind of want to walk into the sea anyway? But we made it to our recording sesh to break down AEW Beach Break…

(00:00:00) We’re too hot and we want to walk into the sea

(00:07:44) Loved that Beach Break set

(00:10:05) And new! Kenny Omega is our champion!

(00:36:41) And we’ve got our women’s title match for Redemption! Hi Willow!

(00:50:29) Andrade is wearing too many clothes now and other DCF problems

(01:02:50) We’ve had to stop ignoring Ciampa and Jericho

(01:06:03) That’s no pub!

(01:07:41) Not enough Lio Rush this week (except on Ring of Honor)

(01:11:31) Still no Hangman, huh?

(01:13:01) Happy times

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The Forbidden Door opened again and a surprising number of people popped in after all! Here's our rundown of AEW Forbidden Door 2026.

(00:00:00) Heatwaves and pub quizzes

(00:08:26) Overall Forbidden Door impressions

(00:10:27) Drilla Maloney vs Daniel Garcia

(00:12:29) Maika vs Skye Blue and Survival of the Fittest

(00:16:39) Divine Dominion vs Thunder Rosa and Olympia

(00:19:22) Bucks vs El Sky Team vs Unbound Company

(00:25:57) Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr

(00:35:50) Jon Moxley vs Bandido

(00:44:00) Shota Umino vs PAC

(00:49:28) Thekla vs Starlight Kid

(01:03:01) Cope and Christian vs The Dogs (and the return of Jay White)

(01:21:02) Mercedes Moné vs Maya World

(01:32:32) Death’s Door 12-man cage match

(01:58:49) Will Ospreay vs Swerve Strickland

(02:15:10) Happy things

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Vibe's way off this week, lads.

(00:00:00) News bits, including MyAEW nabbing some indie promotions, ROH Global Wars, Mark Davis coming to RevPro this weekend and ZSJ coming to Anniversary, and a garden update from Hangman

(00:10:49) Will Ospreay’s terrible promo and the even more terrible fan response that followed

(00:21:07) The steel cage match teams are confirmed… or are they?

(00:29:50) Never let them take Mercedes Moné away from us again

(00:34:22) Survival of the Fittest updates

(00:37:11) Thekla is keeping the door open

(00:39:00) Kenny has also opened the Forbidden Door, somehow in the wrong order

(00:43:26) Anyone know what Shota Umino’s deal is these days?(00:45:08) That Chicago Street Fight ruled

(00:51:13) Are the Bucks coming to Forbidden Door?

(00:54:34) Where next for Speedball?

(00:59:08) Which PPVs would you cancel?

(01:00:38) Fantasy booking the women’s world title

(01:02:46) Happy things

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We’re still missing a load-bearing Hangman, but you know what? Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr moves us. Forbidden Door promises to be fun… as long as Andrade keeps his pants on.

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(00:00:00) Newsy bits: three women announced for the RevPro Women’s Grand Prix; Eddie Kingston might be coming back to London for a tag match; David Francisco attacked JJ Gale but we’re on his side; Michael Oku beat Jay Joshua for the British Heavyweight title and did super sinister heel work; Progress’s ticket prices are wild; EVE needs a female commentator; we’re doing a Mick Foley livestream next week!

(00:25:04) Ciampa and Jericho could work a crowd in their sleep

(00:27:39) Women’s Owen Hart tournament updates

(00:34:55) Other things the AEW women’s roster are up to, including speculation on what Thekla might be doing at Forbidden Door

(00:39:00) Men’s Owen Hart tournament updates

(00:44:19) What’s going on with the Death Riders? Do we all remember that they broke Chuck Taylor’s neck and made Orange Cassidy drink bleach?

(00:50:59) MJF’s lack of friends makes us sad

(00:56:48) Andrade face turn when?

(01:06:08) Forbidden Door is two weeks away!!!!

(01:11:19) Make Orange Cassidy the men’s world champion please

(01:14:41) Forgotten why we were angry at Excalibur but we seem to have forgiven him

(01:15:19) Happy things!

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Basically just an hour and a half of Blackheart Lio Rush impressions.

(00:00:00) Newsy bits and pieces including the upcoming RevPro Women’s Grand Prix, Progress’s new owners, Beyond drama, and losing the Butcher and the Blade

(00:17:38) Mercedes Moné is back in AEW!

(00:23:22) Give us Persephone on commentary every week forever

(00:29:26) All hail the Toxic Spider, her live promos are everything

(00:32:57) We’re Best Friends girlies (gn) forever and you can’t stop us

(00:37:50) Lio Rush is a gremlin and we love him

(00:46:04) Bye bye now Rush, we don’t need any more from you

(00:54:35) Don Callis is taking over the show and his amorphous blob of men only grows

(01:07:17) TayJay survived five with the tallest women alive

(01:11:13) Happy times

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Bit of a different one today! After a bit of back and forth on social media about women's wrestling at RevPro, Andy Quildan offered to come and have a proper chat with us about his women's division, including the upcoming Women's Grand Prix shows, that unfortunate International Women's Day show, and much more.

(Also, we got into it a bit about Blackheart Lio Rush and David Francisco, because why not?)

The tweet that started it all: https://x.com/awfullywaffly/status/2057074718826483877

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