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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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Friday Dec 15, 2017
Friday Dec 15, 2017
Rich Swann takes an unexpected place at the top of the news-ticker, but it's for a truly unfortunate reason. Meanwhile it's good news for The Rock! WWE goes to that WCW well and drops the defenite article to bring us all Clash of Champions! Smackdown Live's almost entire roster competes in this Sunday's network special. And then our heroes Daryn and Perry take a look back at last week's FEST Wrestling "Brawl by the Beach." The hottest independent wrestling going today stormed the beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, and you, dear listeners, can hear the blow-by-blow coverage right here on the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle!
Friday Dec 08, 2017
Friday Dec 08, 2017
What a weird, wild world of #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews! Every which way you turn, there is someone to observe and discuss, or in fact wrestle yourself!! This week, our heroes Daryn and Perry discuss the possibility of a Daniel Brian in-ring return, the dream maybe come true of NWA wrestling again on Superstation TBS, the Jackal's rise in the Great White North, Ronda Rousey riding a horse into a WWE ring very soon... and who woke Matt Hardy!? What a week just in headlines, dear listeners!! And then! Friend of the show, Rich Bocchini, of WWE, MLW, FEST Wrestling & Wrestlecircus fame drops by to talk to the boys about FEST Wrestling's "Pickle in the Tree 2," live this weekend in Gainesville, Florida. And then!! Daryn and Perry have the privilege of having an incredible discussion about wrestling with the one and only Serpentico! The man under the mask, Jonathan Cruz, highly decorated high-flyer from Puerto Rico and 16-year veteran of pro-wrestling, tells us all about his start in the bloody island days as a little kid, his two distinct periods of learning his trade and breaking into the business, adapting various schools of thought into one specific style of his own, and what it has been like "under the hood!" This is an excellent and honest, open and earnest look at the life and times of a top notch independent wrestling talent, and it is a DO NOT MISS listen for you all! Wow, what an episode!
Friday Dec 01, 2017
Friday Dec 01, 2017
The Starrs are out tonight! The Starr(cade)s! Our heroes Daryn and Perry are bringing you a bunch of out-of-time Starrcade discussion. We are talking about WWE's "Starrcade" house-show from last weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina AND a look back at Starrcade 1996 from the rich WCW/nWo vault! What did WWE do with Dusty Rhodes' and the NWA's baby? Did Dustin Rhodes do anything? Was Cody Rhodes there? We can promise you that the American Dream was at Starrcade 1996, and he was commentating up a storm on that night in Nashville, Tennessee. Did Starrcade 1996 deliver on the "Match of the Century" as it advertised? Were Hollywood Hogan and Roddy Piper icons at the top of their game or dinosaurs slopping around in a tar-pit? Our boys tell you what they think about that match, the many Japan vs the World matches, and lots more! As for the Greensboro mess, it's simply a matter of perspective... or is that respect? But it's not all Starrs and garters, there's talk of a Women's Royal Rumble match at that upcoming WWE Network special in January. The boys sink their teeth into that big hunk of sweetness. And then we all take a trip to the beach with FEST Wrestling, as Daryn and Perry run down the card for next weekend's "Brawl by the Beach" FEST show in St. Augustine, Florida! Find out what's going on in just a few days involving "The Golden Boy of Grab-Ass" Effy, The King of Dong Style Joey Ryan, Swerve Shane Strickland, Hell's Favorite Harlot Priscilla Kelly, those Ugly Ducklings and "The Blood Bride" Su Yung! They're going to be fighting! Listen up!
Friday Nov 24, 2017
Friday Nov 24, 2017
A podcast unexamined is not worth hearing! Our heroes get pretty deep more than once on this sixty-second rendition of the only wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle. In an episode designed primarily to deliver the results of WWE's long weekend in Houston, Texas, Daryn and Perry get a tad philosophical, a touch political, with a tidbit of anger and a tinge of frustration at the average, let's say, "hater." In the news, Paige is back in WWE, and both main brands are awash with female NXT call-ups. Hide your women's divisions! The boys do give us the full, blow-by-blow accounts of NXT Takeover: War Games and WWE Survivor Series 2017. Find out who won our heroes' head-to-head, find out WWE's "supreme brand," and find out who reigns in "The Match Beyond!" This is a must-hear episode for the truly discerning wrestling fanatic, for the deep thinker, for the reasonable human being. Happy Thanksgiving, dear listeners. We are thankful for you, for this amazing platform to discuss #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews and for the wacky and wild, but always wonderful world of professional wrestling!
Friday Nov 17, 2017
Friday Nov 17, 2017
It's the beginning and the end of all things in New Japan Pro Wrestling! It was announced that "Alpha" Chris Jericho would be taking on Kenny Omega at WrestleKingdom 12 in January 2018!! Our heroes Daryn and Perry react as only they can. And then the boys have to drop the sad news concerning friend of the show, James Ellsworth! And in other news, Jack Swagger begins mixing martial arts, Neville isn't as gone as you think, and is Paige back on the scene, sans Papi!? Ay caramba! But that's not all for this week, dear listeners! Our heroes go head-to-head with predictions for NXT Takeover: War Games & WWE Survivor Series! The return of "The Match Beyond" War Games has the boys excited, and the traditional 5-on-5 Survivor Series matches are extraordinary in substance. Daryn and Perry also offer up some very strong opinions about the booking on this upcoming night in WWE, controversial opinions at best! Nevertheless, you can always count on THIS wrestling podcast to call it 'right down the middle!'
Friday Nov 10, 2017
Friday Nov 10, 2017
It was twenty years ago today, Bret Hart brought the WWF Championship to play... he'd been going in and out of style, but he'd been guaranteed to keep the belt a while. OR NOT!! It's the anniversary of the "Montreal Screwjob," dear listeners, and our heroes Daryn and Perry take a look at the infamous WWF show, Survivor Series 1997, and they offer up some sharp, deep criticism and some wonderfully lauding praise for the booking and business that led to this momentous occasion. Work? Shoot? Who benefitted? And also on this episode, we have the boys' take on Impact Wrestling's "Bound For Glory" pay-per-view, more WWE firings, major title changes and ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary "Nature Boy." But, dear listeners, come for the wrestlenews, stay for the wrestleviews! The talk on this episode about the "Montreal Screwjob" is must hear!
Friday Nov 03, 2017
Friday Nov 03, 2017
It's just another week in wrestling paradise here on The Whole Ref'n Show. Some folks get future endeavored from WWE, and the twittersphere turns! Others make their return to Monday Night RAW! Did anyone notice their absence? In other news, that company up north starts making moves to celebrate a quarter-century on television with RAW, and they are on the verge of announcing the site of WrestleMania in 2019! But our heroes Daryn and Perry only had one destination this past weekend for the most amazing wrestling, and that was The Fest 16 and FEST Wrestling: We Are Family I'm Gainesville, Florida. The day after our boys held their LIVE podcast from The Fest (see: Episode 58), they stood front and center at "We Are Family" to take in nearly 7 hours of the hottest in indy wrestling and the raddest in punk rock! This Fest supercard was wild with representatives from CZW, Defy, Ronin, 1st Wrestling and more combining with and competing against FEST favorites. Matches featuring Chuck Taylor, Su Yung, Joey Ryan, Shane Strickland, Effy, Matt Cross, Joey Janela, Desmond Xavier, Priscilla Kelly and TONS more were right before our very eyes. Now hear the boys tell it like it was in Hogtown on that fateful day!
Sunday Oct 29, 2017
Sunday Oct 29, 2017
LIVE at The FEST 16!!! The Whole Ref'n Show broadcast live on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, the 28th of October 2017 from a theatre inside the monumental Hippodrome in Gainesville, Florida as part of The FEST 16, the biggest and best punk rock festival on Earth! Our heroes Daryn and Perry were invited to perform their particular brand of #wrestlenewsandwrestleviews in front of a live audience as part of a block of podcast-performers amidst a fever-pitched 5 days of punk rock, wrestling, stand-up comedy and podcasts. And the boys were not alone! They were talking FEST Wrestling, so they knew they had to bring that good good. Joining Daryn and Perry on stage were the hottest announce team in professional wrestling today, Rich Bocchini and Maxx Gregg, "The Weapon of Sass Destruction" Effy, the indomitable punk rock super-athlete Matt Cross, and the #1 Contender to the FEST Wrestling Championship at FEST Wrestling's super-show "We Are Family," "The Kentucky Gentleman" Chuck Taylor! It's quite a lively panel with a load of fun questions and personal answers. There is a great deal of ground covered by this group of chatty individuals, and the wrestling world, the "real" world, and all points in between get discussed with great passion, great humor and great insight. The audience gets involved with some excellent crowd Q&A. And no topic is off-limits when Effy is in the room... be prepared! The Whole Ref'n Show is thankful to Tony Weinbender, The FEST 16, the Hippodrome, Colt Cabana, Chris Gethard, the Lady to Lady Podcast, all the fans in attendance, the whole FEST Family, and YOU, dear listeners! What a great SPECIAL episode, what a great LIVE performance, what a truly wonderful experience! Download, subscribe, rate & review, please!! And hopefully we will see you on Sunday, 29 October at FEST Wrestling's "We Are Family!" The weekend isn't over yet...
Friday Oct 27, 2017
Friday Oct 27, 2017
Bumps, not mumps; that's what all the WWE Superstars are saying,l! Nevertheless, mumps will be the winner of the day, as the two main matches from the RAW-brand TLC Network Special will both be subject to change! Kurt Angle will be part of the response, and not simply as a mouthpiece. WWE doubles down on the specialness of an Angle return match by using the Olympic gold medalist as the shocking make-up, twist ending in an already convoluted match. And AJ Styles is flown in overnight across hemispheres and across brand splits to save the day, too. But in other news, Jeff Jarrett is given a golden ticket to rehab, apparently from VKM? And in the process, Anthem hands Jarrett back Global Force for his troubles and severs ties. All this and more, dear listeners, on the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle!
Friday Oct 20, 2017
Friday Oct 20, 2017
Don't go chasin' waterfalls! Download and listen to the ONLY wrestling podcast that calls it right down the middle! Our heroes Daryn and Perry, reporting for duty, reporting dutifully! Is there a mass exodus brewing up north? Are we about to see the Heartbreak Kid step back in the squared circle!? The boys also drop some more huge news about their upcoming LIVE stage-show version of the podcast at The Fest in Gainesville, Florida. AND they roll out the recently announced mega-card for FEST Wrestling's "We Are Family" indy super-spectacular! Last but not least, our heroes go head-to-head with their picks for this weekend's WWE RAW-brand Network Special, "TLC." Don't miss a second!