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The weekly wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle. Hosted by wrestling superfans Perry Smith & Daryn Beasley.
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
It's FEST-ja vu all over again! It's that new hotness, it's Episode 105 Live! This is a very special episode (the rare occasion when you get more than one episode of The Whole Ref'n Show in one week). It's The Whole Ref'n Show LIVE from FEST 17! LIVE, on-stage at the magnificent and stoic Hippodrome Theatre in beautiful downtown Gainesville, Florida on Saturday, 28 October 2018 in the middle of the wild and crazy FEST, the world's biggest punk rock music festival! Our heroes Daryn and Perry brought together an amazing, esteemed, celebrated, enthusiastic, talented, beautiful and bad-ass panel to talk independent pro-wrestling, FEST Wrestling, the lives and times of indy wrestlers, the business of professional wrestling, and the FEST atmosphere that surrounded us! On the panel were the voices of FEST Wrestling, Rich Bocchini and Maxx Gregg, the (don't call him) manager of the Ugly Ducklings, Coach Mikey, the Child of the 8th Day Saieve al Sabah, Ronnie Rios and Kayden Greene of The Coda, F1rst Wrestling's Arik Cannon and the burgermeister himself, King FEST, Tony Weinbender! It's a great conversation between 10 passionate wrestling-minded individuals, with myriad perspectives on the business we all know and love. This is an intimate portrait of a lot of wrestling diehards, #dearlisteners. Get to know the minds of these individuals who wear other hats in their shoot lives, who wear promoter's hats, manager's hats and others. Listen to the tales of the relatively green and new to the savvy veterans, from indy darlings to those who have graced WWE's PPVs. This is an informative, very funny, extremely candid and totally warm look inside the business of pro-wrestling, behind the curtain of indy-wrestling and deep inside the minds of a lot of folks that take this business very seriously, take the camaraderie to heart, and take the experiences along with them all the days of their lives. If you couldn't be there in Hogtown (and you should have been!) you can hear it here now! It's the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle, it was LIVE, it was full of a bunch of your favorite folks, and it was the wrestling panel that was... it was The Whole Ref'n Show LIVE from FEST 17!!
Friday Oct 26, 2018
Friday Oct 26, 2018
From the controversial deserts of the Middle East to the harrowing diagnosis of a life-altering disease, this episode has some heavy, #dearlisteners. But there’s also the celebratory women’s “Evolution” to look forward to, a FEST Family reunion, and plenty of chuckles from our heroes Daryn and Perry! With FEST We Are Family 2 this weekend, the boys break down the bash in Hogtown, AND look forward to The Whole Ref’n Show LIVE from FEST 17!! But what about that Crown Jewel debacle? While its fate may lie in Washington DC, Vince’s toy soldiers begin their retreat from Saudi Arabia... but what about the Hulkster!? You will hear it all here, #dearlisteners, no BS, because this is the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle... The Whole Ref’n Show!
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Friday Oct 19, 2018
Jethro Tull said, "Life's a Long Song," and so is The Whole Ref'n Show, especially when played on your smart phone, streamed between your other favorite podcasts and whatever Spotify playlist you've thrown together to celebrate a budding relationship or grieve over an evaporating one. But this is episode is not a "Long and Winding Road," as The Beatles once talked about. But hey, #dearlisteners, Frankie Say Relax... we've also been told what Rod Stewart once said, "You Wear It Well." And why not? We ARE, in fact, the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle! But any episode that touts itself as the top of the pops in #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews had better deliver, and of course, our heroes Daryn and Perry do just that! After all, if David Bowie taught us anything, it's that "we can be heroes... if just for one day." Wrestling is very much a "Wild World" like Cat Stevens sang about, and small victories (signings), setbacks (long-term injuries) and finish lines (RIP) are all apart of that weird and wacky world. This week we cover news about the Mae Young Classic 2018, Impact's 'Bound for Glory' show, the passing of "Dirty" Dick Slater, Smackdown 1000 (sort of), and we take a look forward to next week's FEST 17 in Gainesville, Florida where on Saturday night, 27 October, The Whole Ref'n Show will be performing LIVE at The Hippodrome in downtown Gainesville with a panel (to be announced) that will rock your socks off! AND THEN there's Sunday, 28 October when FEST Wrestling brings you an ALL-DAY affair with dozens and dozens of the top talent in #indywrestling tearing up Gainesville for 'We Are Family 2.' This episode of The Whole Ref'n Show rocks just like any other, and we thank you, the faithful, the #dearlisteners, the #friendsoftheshow, for making it all possible!
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
#dearlisteners, it's a Super Show-Down at the Okay Network Special... ooh, wicked burn! But hey, this is the only wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle! This week on The Whole Ref'n Show, our heroes Daryn and Perry talk about the big trip down under for the WWE as well as all the brouhaha surrounding their return to the Middle East for the upcoming Crown Jewel show. In addition to that, the boys talk Kevin Owens's injury, Chelsea Green's signing, NXT UK's debut and Don Callis possibly being out in New Japan Pro Wrestling? This is a #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews heavy episode this week, friends. The boys have a lot to say about these stories, and they have a lot of tangential stories to boot (if you can believe that!). From the silliest to the most downright serious news, you can always count on The Whole Ref'n Show to be the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle. But wait, there's more! The boys are also going to remind you of the when and where for their LIVE performance of The Whole Ref'n Show at FEST 17 in Gainesville, Florida coming up in just 2 weeks on Saturday 27 October 2018! You GOTTA be there!
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Let's call this episode "Two Men and No Baby (Or Little Ladies or Boys)" shall we? Our heroes, our men if you will, Daryn and Perry are riding the crest of the wave that was Episode 100, and all the good will they garnered with that momentous and memorable episode seems to have emboldened them to go as outside the box as ever before. Remember Baby Jessica? Daryn and Perry do. What that has to do with Brie Bella giving Liv Morgan a concussion, we'll never know. But please come along on this fantastic voyage. As always, you will learn about wrestling, pop culture, film, music and the inner-workings of the minds of the last vestiges of Generation X. This show is conducted by kids that love Super Mario as much as Superstar Billy Graham, that love Steve Guttenberg as much as Steve Austin and remember the technicolor fabrics of their lives in excruciating detail. Oh yeah, and there's actual wrestling coverage. Listen here to hear all the breakdown of the first round of the Mae Young Classic 2018! All 32 combatants and 16 matches are discussed as our boys talk about some of the hottest and most sought after female wrestling talent out there today. It was quite a first round, and you can learn everything you need to know right here on the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle!
Saturday Sep 22, 2018
Saturday Sep 22, 2018
It's a celebration, #dearlisteners! It's the 100th episode of the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle! It is a time to party, a time to reflect, a time to chat with those that joined us along the way, and a time to look just as much forward as we do back! Our heroes, Daryn and Perry, kick off the episode remembering all the things that have come and gone and all the things that have come and stayed! From "We Were There" NXT house-show chats to themed segments featuring Arliss; from discovering FEST Wrestling to forcing themselves to watch TNA; the boys take a look at the natural evolution of the show as well as the times they felt it was time to shift gears. And the boys trek down that tract of memory lane known as the ghosts of interviews past! Remember James Ellsworth on the show? SoCal Val? How about Blue Pants herself, Leva Bates? And don't forget when John Bring kicked the hornet's nest known as the "Killing the Town" podcast. But wouldn't you know it? Some of those familiar faces give the boys a call to celebrate 100 episodes alongside them. ALL on this show are happy birthday chats with "The Weapon of Sass Destruction" Effy, "The World's Worst Role Model" Teddy Stigma and THE voice of Indy-Wrestling, Rich Bocchini! These lads were kind enough to join us and talk 100 episodes, talk podcasting, wrestling, life, controversy, rehab and all sorts of other tomfoolery. But that's not all on the guest frontier, all ye faithful, NO! Daryn was able to pre-record a little message from The Ugly Ducklings and Coach Mikey to help celebrate this huge milestone. And in addition to that, John Bring and Leon Scott dropped off their own messages, and those last two fellows weren't exactly in the best of moods. Those congratulations were laced with some strong opinions... And in the fashion of the previous 99 episodes, our heroes still manage to bring you the best in #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews as they discuss the results from WWE's Hell In A Cell 2018 network special! True to form, the boys tally up their head-to-head picks and talk blow-for-blow reactions to WWE's latest super-show. But THAT is not all, either, folks! As promised, it is Episode 100, and we finally bring you "The Glacier Story." It's a tale as old as time. It's a tale of hubris. It's an inside look at wrestling-done-wrong. We hope that if it's your first listen to The Whole Ref'n Show or your one-hundredth listen to The Whole Ref'n Show, that you enjoy every second of each portion of this bloody-rare labor of love. We promise that this is the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle. It's The Whole Ref'n Show!
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
Together again, gee it's good to be together again! Daryn and Perry sit down in The Whole Ref'n Show studios (where it all began) for the first time in a year! And the boys are rip-roaring with the hottest #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews. Want the latest in #wrestletalk? Here you go. Want the funniest, weirdest bunch of opinions on either side of the Mississipp'!? Here you go. Your heroes are in the same room and talking about the WWE and FEST Wrestling. It's the home of every type of wrestling you ever gave a damn about! The boys catch you up on the news ticker and then go head-to-head making picks for WWE's Hell In A Cell 2018 network special. Roman and Strowman in the devil's structure with Strowman's MITB on the line!? AND Mick Foley!? Ronda Rousey looking like a regular regular! This is a pretty stacked card. Can Vince and friends deliver? We know Tony Weinbender and friends can deliver, and that's exactly what happened last week at FEST Wrestling's 2nd Anniversary Bash! Daryn was in attendance, front row and hellbent on absorbing the blood, sweat and tears from the hottest independent wrestling promotion in the whole wide world, FEST! This was a barnburner of a show, and listen to Daryn's account of the show as he shares it with Perry. Talking Shotzi Blackheart's debut, Jamie Senegal's return, the dastardly antics of villains like CJ O'Doyle, Drennen, the Awaken crew and the match where FEST Wrestling World Champion Effy finally got his hands on the crook Jason Cade. What did the "Golden Boy of Grabass" do to the "Whipping Boy?" Listen and find out! Jason Cade can call us biased, but we will give the devil his due, because this is the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle!
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Friday Sep 07, 2018
ALL UP INS is what you could call this episode of The Whole Ref'n Show, because our heroes Daryn and Perry are going DEEP into the "ALL IN" pay-per-view spectacular held in Chicago. Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks put on a revolutionary and transformative wrestling show, and our guys are going to take you blow-by-blow, wink-by-wink, callback-by-callback to the one of the most daring, reverent, zeitgeist-embracing wrestling products of the last 30 years. And if that is NOT ENOUGH, #dearlisteners, Daryn and Perry bring you the very first look at FEST Wrestling's 2-Year Anniversary Bash just a day before the event itself! This discussion features a full match card discussion and a breakdown of all the wrestlers involved. From FEST Family favorites, sophomore efforts, debuts as well as "ALL IN" alums, the FEST card is STACKED, and you're going to hear all about it right here. It is a week to celebrate independent wrestling, folks, and there is nowhere better for the love and support of indy wrestling than right here on the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle, The Whole Ref'n Show!
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
Saturday Sep 01, 2018
We are ALL IN, #dearlisteners!? We are all in The Whole Ref'n Show gastro-lounge, mic'd up and ready to call EVERYTHING right down the middle! After Daryn spends the weekend in the hospital, Perry joins him back in the familiar realm of the podcast and out of the realm of intravenous nourishment and magnetospheres! Our heroes are alive and well here on Episode 97 and are talking about ALL the results of NXT: Takeover Brooklyn 4 and SummerSlam 2018, as well as some of the rumblings over the past 10 days since those shows. But the boys also discuss Hulk Hogan's cryptic nWo teases and what that means when VKM gets wind. And the boys also discuss what is coming down the tubes in the very near future which includes "The Biggest Independent Wrestling Show Ever" AKA "ALL IN," which is this weekend as well as FEST Wrestling's "2nd Anniversary Bash" coming on Saturday, 8 September 2018 from Gainesville, Florida! With those two shows on the horizon, Daryn and Perry are getting piqued, primed, and a little hot and bothered... but that might just be the meds talking! Regardless, all of us here at The Whole Ref'n Show wish all of you #dearlisteners a g'day and g'morrow, and thanks as always for listening to the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle (and notably absent from Starrcast - see you next time?), The Whole Ref'n Show!
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
We're serving up some Dave Meltzer soup on this episode of The Whole Ref'n Show... turns out the old wrestling journalist extraordinaire has gotten himself in a cauldron of hot water by talking about a certain someone's figure. Our heroes Daryn and Perry weigh in on the (non?) issue of Meltzer's comments about Peyton Royce's appearance. The boys also drop in on the goings-on of New Japan Pro Wrestling's G1 Climax, so tune in and find out who came out on top! We are also here to tell you that it's "The Big Red Monster" Kane that came out on top of Knox County, Tennessee's Mayoral race! The boys are not short of opinions on that topic either. But in sad news, the life and career of Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart is remembered on this week's episode as he passed just a few days prior to broadcast. One half of the mighty 80s WWF tag-team, The Hart Foundation, Anvil was everything a pro-wrestler should be: colorful, powerful, boisterous and proud. Jim Neidhart was larger than life in pink and black, a human steamroller that paraded around the superhero-era of pro-wrestling in a Sgt. Pepper's jacket and a pink leather skullcap. The boys remark on Anvil's uniquely funny and brutish persona and wish his family all the best in coping with his untimely death. #RIPAnvil. Our heroes must lift the veil and soldier on, though, as there is a weekend FULL of WWE's finest emanating from Brooklyn with NXT Takeover and SummerSlam 2018 coming LIVE on the WWE Network in just a matter of hours, #dearlisteners! Daryn and Perry go head-to-head breaking down 2 nights and 18 big-time bouts from the wrestling industry's biggest promotion! Who will leave NYC with gold? You will hear it here with all the other #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews, unbiased, unadulterated, unimpeded, unprecedented and unrivaled, because this is the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle... The Whole Ref'n Show!