Wrestling with Problems: CaZXL AT Wrestlepro, Clash Of Champions, NXT On USA
On this week’s Wrestling with Problems King discusses CaZXL (Big Cass) had multiple incidents at a Wrestlepro event this past weekend as well as mental health/depression/alcohol abuse. Plus King’s Clash of Champions review. Later Vince McMahon & other top brass was not at Raw this week. Triple Hs comments on Vince’s involvement in NXT. The main matches for the debut of NXT on USA are discussused.
The web’s premier “punk rock ‘n wrestling” podcast, Bowling Shoe Handsome, airs each week. It’s packed tight with information and musings about pro wrestling and pop culture. Plus: it features tunes from some of the world’s best punk rock, indie, and alternative artists!
This special WrestleMania 28 Recap Edition takes a critical look at what went down at the biggest pro wrestling event of the year – as well as what the implications might be for the coming months. Kevin welcomes wrestling analysts Brock Koller and The Real Deal to offer their takes on what went down.
Musical Playlist:
Irish Handcuffs – Keepsake
Plow United – The World According to Me
Sweet Baby – This Talk About the Girl
Tin Armor – My True Step
Sass Dragons – Sleeptalking
Turkish Techno – Without You
Tin Armor – Life of Abundance
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The web’s premier “punk rock ‘n wrestling” podcast, Bowling Shoe Handsome, airs each week. It’s packed tight with information and musings about pro wrestling and pop culture. Plus: it features tunes from some of the world’s best punk rock, indie, and alternative artists!
This special “go home” edition of BSH previews WrestleMania 28 – which takes place this Sunday, April 1. The good, bad, and in between of the “Superbowl of Sports Entertainment” are previewed, as Kevin welcomes special guest, Mike Bessler, to provide his invaluable insight. Plus, find out more details about the upcoming Road to Ruin Fest – taking place April 20-22 in Philadelphia!
Musical Playlist:
The Please and Thank Yous – Peas ‘N Cheese
Ascetic Parade – Suburban Decay
Sass Dragons – 8 or 9 on a Bike
3rd Year Freshman – Hope It’s Not Me
Mike Bessler – It Begins
Captain We’re Sinking – Foster Brothers
Big Eyes – Since You Left
The Eeries – Walk You Home
Jack’s Smirking Revenge – Strangely Meta
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02.20.12 – WHAT VINCE HATH WROUGHT
Here it is, friends – the latest edition of BOWLING SHOE HANDSOME. This is the one podcast where you’ll get your required weekly doses of wrestling, pop culture, and punk rock. This week…
WRESTLING
Discussion of the creative (and biological) products of two notorious Vince’s. Hear about Vince Russo’s successes as a creative force during WWE’s “Attitude Era,” as well as his visionary concept for a “Judy Bagwell on a Pole” match. Then, learn how Shane McMahon has transcended the family business – and death defying physical stunts – to become an international business mogul. Plus, what does the future hold for both of these men?
POP CULTURE
The Grammy Awards show and its aftermath are discussed. Among the topics are Dave Grohl’s acceptance speech, Adele’s throat surgery, and the Chris Brown debacle. (SPOILER ALERT: We aren’t too thrilled about Chris Brown.)
PUNK ROCK
Great tracks this week from hardcore bands, Total Defeat and Drug Church. Plus, dig into the delightful pop punk of Third Year Freshman, Hold Tight, and Shang-a-Lang. Thanks to these artists for creating and sharing their great songs with us, and special props to Dirt Cult Records and Messy Life Records.
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01.30.12 – Midcarders and the Art of Tablesetting
Gather round the family’s old timey living room laptop or mp3 player and give a listen to this special, “retro” edition of the web’s most popular (only?) punk rock ‘n wrestling podcast. This week, hosts Kevin and Young John talk about that delicious creamy center – the art of “midcard wrestling” – including their picks for WWE’s best midcarders ever. Which future stars should the Attitude Era hangers-on, like Foley, Jericho, and Triple H, be working to elevate to the next level? Find out all of this, while enjoying tunes from Ascetic Parade, Drug Church, and Time Ghost on this week’s Bowling Shoe Handsome!
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This week IN THE ROOM, Brady Hicks, DJ, and Kevin McElvaney are joined by a special guest as Young John returns to the program. Together, the gang recounts all that they enjoyed – and all that miffed them – about this year’s WrestleMania show, from buildup to final fadeout. Listen as the gang goes in depth about The Rock/John Cena situation, The Undertaker/Triple-H match and what worked (and didn’t), and the disappointing elimination of Daniel Bryan/Sheamus from the televised card. Plus, Brady talks some Hall of Fame, and previews NEXT WEEK’s special guest.
I like everyone else just watched WrestleMania 27 and while it wasn’t the worst PPV I have ever seen (this year) there were certainly a whole lot of things wrong with it. From the bottom of the card to the top, planning and execution was bad and I don’t think there is any real excuse for it. Now obviously I can’t pretend to understand the complexities of running a live event the size of WrestleMania. What I can say however is that WWE do and should still know how to do it right. Continue reading Post ID 31477
This week, “The Living Legend” himself, Larry Zbyszko steps IN THE ROOM with Brady Hicks, DJ, and Kevin McElvaney to look back at his more than 30 year career in the wrestling business. Check it out as Zbyszko looks back on mentoring under (and turning on) Bruno Sammartino, his war of words with Chris Jericho, the instrumental role he played in WCW’s rise and the New World Order’s emergence, and his thoughts on how to change the business for the better. Plus, the guys offer their WrestleMania thoughts and predictions.
On Keeping Up With The Business:
To be honest, I just don’t find wrestling entertaining the way it is right now. I just don’t watch it. I wish it was better for the new generation, it could be great but they make the guys look like morons. I just don’t watch it because it’s all silly. There’s no suspense. You can see the same crap you saw tonight any night. Boring. They’ve just gotten stale because what they are doing today is the same thing they were doing 15 years ago. I can honestly say for any of these young guys coming up that I can see why they’d rather get involved in that Ultimate Fighting.
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Raw was awesome. OK maybe not the entirety of the show, the opening was atrocious, but Christian and Edge together, HBK making an explosive entrance and getting involved in what was the best confrontation of the night up until… The Rock. I’m not even sure what can be said about The Rock except that he made everyone including Edge/Christian, HBK, Hunter, and The Undertaker look like undercard players and he made Cena and The Miz (or however you spell his name) look like amateurs. From the moment he hit the walkway, he had the arena in the palm of his hand. Check that, he had the arena and me (and plenty of people I follow on Twitter) in the palm of his hand. After watching that last night I am really excited about Sunday night.
If I did have a complaint about it though, the actual wrestling was minimal (maybe 15 minutes out of 135) and the stuff not involving the “old” superstars was kind of meh… I actually dozed off during the Big Show and his happy band of ethnicities. But I can say this, if The Rock is going to be around more than just Wrestlemania and next night, I may very well be back on board.