Series 2 - Episode 43 - Halloween Havoc 2000 Many people when naming the biggest WCW ppv of all time would say Halloween Havoc. A unique and memorable ppv with plenty of big moments had its last outing under the WCW brand in 2000 at the end of a dour year financially for the company. The AOL merger was now nearing and the end was nigh, but could WCW deliver one final top quality Halloween Havoc ppv? Join the Better Call Creative boys as they review a ppv headlined by Goldberg versus Kronik,...

Season 2 - Episode 42 - XPW Halloween in Hell 3 XPW in the early 2000s jumped into the waters left warm by ECW. As the land of extreme was gobbled up by McMahon and the WWF, XPW offered the blood thirsty wrestling fan indy wrestling with a Hardcore edge! Enter Rob Black, the mastermind behind XPW and a man with many many vices. These vices would lead to the organisations hiatus as Rob fought the law and the law won! Fast forward over a decade and Dark Side of the Ring who did an episode on...

Series 2 - Episode 41 - All Out 2022 What did we do to deserve an empty headed podcast like this one! Grab your muffins we are going to review All Out 2022! What should have been a wonderful return to the World Title for CM Punk ended with nearly a dozen men suspended, a scared dog, a chewed arm and a lot of hurt feelings! How did we get there? Well you had better call creative and find out! We review the event in full which features sum 11 matches, and 4 pre show matches, and the CM Punk...

Series 2 - Episode 40 - Unforgiven 1999 1999 was a time where the WWF could do no wrong! Top of the tree, making money like it was going out of fashion, this was a peak time for business. Creative however was in turmoil, the last pay per view before its head writer left for its competition, and with confusingly and inflated storylines, this pay per view could be called a little top heavy! 6 of its biggest stars in a main event and all without Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling, this was a...

Series 2 - Episode 39 - In Your House 3 Better Call Creative is the ultimate Triple Header and for our latest podcast we review wrestlings version of it. In Your House 3, the Triple Header. A main event in which all three active WWF titles were on the line as Shawn and Diesel took on tag team champions Yokozuna and Owen Hart.....well kind of....see Owen wasn't there....but he was...but he was replaced....oh this is all confusing so you had better listen and find out! The tide was high on the...

Season 2 - Episode 38 - The Brawl 4 All When you make a decision to focus your wrestling podcast on the worst of wrestling one thing is for certain....you will be watching the Brawl 4 All!  From the mind of Vince Russo, in 1998 the WWF had a lockeroom full of testosterone. Men who claimed to be the toughest, the baddest, the strongest. The biggest mouth of them all was Bradshaw and Russo wanted to shut him up! So he pitched to McMahon a shoot fight tournament to crown a brawl 4 all...

Series 2 - Episode 37 - Bull Buchanan Yes....we are doing a whole podcast on Bull Buchanan! It's a birthday podcast choice for our host and he has chosen to review the entire career of Bull Buchanan!  How many other podcasts can you say give you this kind of content! From Smokey Mountain, to South African White Supremacist. From a riot policeman to censoring conservative. From a white rapper to legitimate dog, this man has had a hell of a career but should it be more fondly remembered? Did...

Series 2 - Episode 37 - Summerslam 1996 The biggest party of the Summer was for the first time, not the biggest party! WCW had wrestled control of the top spot from the WWF in 1996 and Vince McMahon was desperate for their newest top stars to begin to shine. Enter Shawn Michaels, Vince's Sexy Boy was now the WWF champion. The formula that had always worked was the go to for Summerslam 1996, the plucky underdog against the big bad monster. Vader! Would this be Vader Time? Should this have...

Series 2 - Episode 36 - Tugboat - Typhoon -Shockmaster Our latest podcast will shock the world....well maybe not, the most shocking thing is it took so long for us to review one of the greatest botched debuts of all time! Fred Ottman had built a strong career in the WWF with gimmicks like Tugboat who hung and bung with Hulk Hogan on the deck of the titanic....and Typhoon, the red version of Earthquake!  However he would live in wrestling history when in 1993 he headed to WCW and became the...

Series 2 - Episode 35 - Bash at the Beach 2000 The legend of Bash at the Beach has lived on for almost a quarter century. A pay per view which perfectly captures a moment in time, and arguably the very moment WCW stopped being competition for WWF. Mid 2000s WCW was a mixed up mess, a power struggle behind the scenes which would play out in front of the very eyes of fans. Hogan, Russo and Bischoff would all implode, and it would end in a pay per view that has three different World Champions....

Series 2 - Episode 34 - Super Showdown 2019 When you mention the streak in wrestling, there is two trails of thought. The legendary Wrestlemania streak of the phenom, 21 straight wins at wrestlemania, a feat unlikely to ever be matched. Or you could be talking about Goldbergs unbeaten streak, 173 wins unbroken! Two huge legends, and in Saudi Arabia, 2019, these two streaks would clash! Legends would rise! A match that has now created a legend of its own for all the wrong reasons, we head back...

Series 2 - Episode 33 - TNA Slammiversary 2017 By 2017, TNA had gone through a lot of changes, and Slammiversary 2017 would bid farewell to the TNA brand entirely for a while, soon to be replaced by GFW, Global Force Wrestling led by....Jeff Jarrett! This show features some of the old of TNA, and some of the new faces. Lashley versus Alberto see's out the ppv but before that we are treated to the birth of a new comedy double act! Matthews and Steiner, move over Ant and Dec!  As we always say...

Series 2 - Episode 32 - Worst Ruthless Aggression Gimmicks After the success of the Attitude Era what the WWE needed most was breakthrough stars. The new Rock, the new Austin, they neded someone with Ruthless Aggression!  An era that was defined by the new stars of Orton, Cena and Batista, the rebirth of DX, the death of Vince McMahon....ok maybe not that but it also featured some of the weirdest, strangest and down right terrible gimmicks of all time. We are dusting off the Wrestlecup to...

Season 2 - Episode 31- JCW Legends and Icons It's Sam's Birthday Podcast and the choice was his. In true Sam style we get a swerve Russo would be proud of as he has chosen a JCW show! Legends and Icons! Bob Backlund vs Ken Patera Roddy Piper v Terry Funk Greg Valentine v Tito Santana in a cage...sounds great...but this was in 2011!  We may have foud the very worst wrestling show ever to be peddled out, and all this happened at 3am in front of drunk Juggalos!  Is there even a creative to call...

Season 2 - Episode 31 - The Death of Mr McMahon WWE in 2007 was not in the best shape, with the creation of new stars waining, and reliance on old acts like DX, Undertaker and Kane and the new ECW brand not hitting the mark there was an air of desperation. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and like an ailing soap opra, the best way to boost interest, is a death! Only one character was big enough to be killed off...Mr McMahon! A bewildered broken Mr McMahon would take his final step...

Series 2 Episode 28 - ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999 In 99 it is fair to say WWF had a stranglehold back on wrestling. It had fought away its nearest rival in WCW and was dominating the wrestling landscape. However, as ever, there was the third promotion, the cult rival to the big boys, who were chugging along and desperately trying to find its way with limited resources. By Mid 1999 gone were Raven and Sandman, both now in rival WCW, however there was a shock arrival in the land of extreme, the...

Series 2 - Episode 27 - The Death of the AWA In the early 80s, the AWA was the place to be. A talented roster that featured the future hall of famers of wrestling like Hogan, Hennig, Heenan and Bockwinkle, the promotion wasn't prepared for the aggressive expansion of Vince McMahon and the WWF. By the end of the decade, anyone with any star power had been snapped up by McMahon and taken to all new heights, and the AWA were left on the verge of bankruptcy and with a thin roster loyal to the...

Season 2 Episode 28 - JCW Bloodymania Wrestling is a spectrum, and a huge one at that. A million matches, thousands of wrestlers, and hundreds of wrestling companies, you simply never could complete it. However anyone who has watched Bloodymania from JCW in 2007 may very well be able to claim that they have found an watched wrestling's worst match! How ironic then that the match features two WWE Hall of Famers! JCW the ICP led and Juggalo backed promotion was making waves in the indies in mid...

SEASON 2 - EPISODE 27 - Bastion Booger Some gimmicks are destined to succeed, think The Wyatt Family, The NWO, The Ultimate Warrior...others...not so much! Mike Shaw found this out time and time and time...and time again throughout his some 3 decade career. Beginning in Canada, travelling to Mexico, and having ppv matches for both WCW and WWF, it is fair to say that Mike Shaw mad the most of his wrestling career. Not the most agile of big men, but a big man nonetheless, he would go through...

Wrestlemania XI -  When you have a legacy now at 40, you would be hard pushed to hit a home run every year. For every Wrestlemania 17 there is a Wrestlemania 9, for every Wrestlemania 20 there is a Wrestlemania 32....but one without comparasion may just be Wrestlemania XI. A Wrestlemania where it very much felt that wrestling got in the way, a Wrestlemania headlined by Football versus Wrestling, on a wrestling show, where wrestling.....lost! That though is just part of the story, as top stars...

SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY FIVE - Rock n Wrestling's Connection Anyone who has studied the history of wrestling will point to a moment in the early 80s where wrestling was transformed by it's connection with Rock n Roll Music! The MTV era hlpd launch wrestling into th show we all now know and love. Wrestling and Music has always had a great union, wrestling with music would just simply not be the same, and so we are here to celebrate that connection. From Rock and Rap Concerts, to classical...

SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY FOUR- Fastlane 2017 March now is the road to wrestlemania and in 2017 the WWE presented Fastlane, a pay per view one month ahead of Wrestlemania. A raw exclusive ppv this show would be headlined by Kevin Owens, the universal champion, fresh off turning on his Best Friend Chris Jericho, the Owens Show was the hottest heel, and on a sure fire fastlane to Wrestlemania. However on the road to wrestlemania was a huge bump in the road named....GOLDBERG! The return of...

SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY THREE - XPW Baptised in Blood III Here on Better Call Creative, we always celebrate birthday's differently. This year the power is going to be shared around. Jack celebrates his birthday in our first birthday episode, and with the power, he chooses a company we have yet to visit...XPW. Rob Black, Supreme, Death Match, this company has lived, died and been reborn in infamy. We are heading back to peak XPW in 2002 and Baptised in Blood III. The return of Shane Douglas...

SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY TWO - Elimination Chamber 2015 A new concept in wrestling is difficult to come up with. In 2002 on the back of the attitude era and the death of any real competition, the WWE created the Elimination Chamber. Four chambers, six competitors and a whole new way of deciding titles, contenders and feuds. Like any concept be it the Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Ladder Matches and the like, there will always be ups and downs. By 2015 the Chamber had its own ppv, but strangely...