Waffly Bollox

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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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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