We are back to break down Hollywood Hulk Hogan's first autobiography "Hollywood Hulk Hogan" (with Michael Jan Friedman.) This is Hogan's "worked" memoir as he would release another later on that told the "real story." That one was mostly b******t too! Join us as Hogan tells us about his childhood, engages in ridiculous fat shaming and breaks into the business! If you have the book we'll be reading up to page 135 for next weekend. Feel free to submit fake quotes I can fool Hulkamatt with...

We are back to break down Hollywood Hulk Hogan's first autobiography "Hollywood Hulk Hogan" (with Michael Jan Friedman.) This is Hogan's "worked" memoir as he would release another later on that told the "real story." That one was mostly b******t too! Join us as Hogan tells us about his childhood, engages in ridiculous fat shaming and breaks into the business! If you have the book we'll be reading up to page 135 for next weekend. Feel free to submit fake quotes I can fool Hulkamatt with next...

We are back with Erick Stevens talking his "big" push in ROH and why it flopped, plus hilarious stories or burials involving nearly everyone! Erick has tremendous insight into what went wrong with his FIP Championship push, and a slightly counterintuitive idea about how it should have been done. We go through the death of his push and why he left the company and wrestling. Plus a fantastic story about Nigel, Roderick Strong and the Hangm3n, hilarious stories about Necro Butcher, Kenny Omega,...

We are back with Erick Stevens talking his "big" push in ROH and why it flopped, plus hilarious stories or burials involving nearly everyone! Erick has tremendous insight into what went wrong with his FIP Championship push, and a slightly counterintuitive idea about how it should have been done. We go through the death of his push and why he left the company and wrestling. Plus a fantastic story about Nigel, Roderick Strong and the Hangm3n, hilarious stories about Necro Butcher, Kenny Omega,...

We are back with Erick Stevens, the 2007 Wrestling Observer Rookie of the Year! In part 1 we talk how Erick got into the business, how he met Roderick Strong followed by some incredible Roddy stories, how horrible the Florida indies were in the aughts, tape trading, FIP, Steve Madison, and his introduction into ROH with the Gang Wars of 2007. Erick is incredibly open about his career, the guys he liked, the guys he can't stand and what he thinks went right and wrong. This is part 1 because I...

We are back with Erick Stevens, the 2007 Wrestling Observer Rookie of the Year! In part 1 we talk how Erick got into the business, how he met Roderick Strong followed by some incredible Roddy stories, how horrible the Florida indies were in the aughts, tape trading, FIP, Steve Madison, and his introduction into ROH with the Gang Wars of 2007. Erick is incredibly open about his career, the guys he liked, the guys he can't stand and what he thinks went right and wrong. This is part 1 because I...

We are back, this time to talk about Nigel McGuinness, the undisputed greatest champion in ROH history! The 90's Rememberer Nut Bunnies joins Hulkamatt to talk Nigel, his heel turn, Gabe Sapolsky's questionable booking in 2008, Adam Pearce's questionable booking in 2009 and so much more! Lots of talk about one of the most interesting year's in Ring of Honor.

We are back, this time to talk about Nigel McGuinness, the undisputed greatest champion in ROH history! The 90's Rememberer Nut Bunnies joins Hulkamatt to talk Nigel, his heel turn, Gabe Sapolsky's questionable booking in 2008, Adam Pearce's questionable booking in 2009 and so much more! Lots of talk about one of the most interesting year's in Ring of Honor.

We are back with the history of TNA! We go in depth on Jonny Fairplay's TNA run and a bit about his pre TNA wrestling career! Learn about his crazy contract with TNA, how he got it, how TNA immediately violated it and much more! Sources: Bryan Alvarez, Figure 4 Daily, Interview with Jonny Fairplay Bryan Alvarez, Figure 4 Weekly, various 2003/2004 issues Alex Marvez, "No Wrestling With a Conscience" South Florida Sun Sentinel 12/26/03 Free Ron Niemi Legal Defense Fund:...

We are back with the history of TNA! We go in depth on Jonny Fairplay's TNA run and a bit about his pre TNA wrestling career! Learn about his crazy contract with TNA, how he got it, how TNA immediately violated it and much more! Sources: Bryan Alvarez, Figure 4 Daily, Interview with Jonny Fairplay Bryan Alvarez, Figure 4 Weekly, various 2003/2004 issues Alex Marvez, "No Wrestling With a Conscience" South Florida Sun Sentinel 12/26/03 Free Ron Niemi Legal Defense Fund:...

Game Changer Wrestling presented THE DYNASTY in Asbury Park NJ and what a show it was! Join us in the car (so the sound quality is no good!) as we rundown the card including PCO vs Masato Tanaka, Orange Cassidy vs Kikutaro, Nick Gage, KTB, Jungle Boy, Motorcycle Enthusiast Shlak, Teddy Hart promos with no Teddy Hart and more!

Game Changer Wrestling presented THE DYNASTY in Asbury Park NJ and what a show it was! Join us in the car (so the sound quality is no good!) as we rundown the card including PCO vs Masato Tanaka, Orange Cassidy vs Kikutaro, Nick Gage, KTB, Jungle Boy, Motorcycle Enthusiast Shlak, Teddy Hart promos with no Teddy Hart and more!

It's the 50th episode! We're going to pretend this is a big mega episode when it was just going to be more history of TNA! Join us as Hulkamatt gives his thoughts on the #NY64, we read from Russo's book, dive into his 2003 booking run, his firing from the company, what this meant for storylines, how they took a TNA like turn, Joe E Legend's Wikipedia and most importantly... HULKAMATT PREDICTS THE WRESTLEKINGDOM CARD BLIND! Skip to 53:00 if you only want to hear this. My new favorite segment...

It's the 50th episode! We're going to pretend this is a big mega episode when it was just going to be more history of TNA! Join us as Hulkamatt gives his thoughts on the #NY64, we read from Russo's book, dive into his 2003 booking run, his firing from the company, what this meant for storylines, how they took a TNA like turn, Joe E Legend's Wikipedia and most importantly... HULKAMATT PREDICTS THE WRESTLEKINGDOM CARD BLIND! Skip to 53:00 if you only want to hear this. My new favorite segment...

The New York 64 is a tournament to establish the most disgusting thing WWE has (allegedly) ever done. Please follow @NY64Tournament on twitter https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament and vote in each round. The 4 way play in rounds begin today! On one bracket we have policies or events that are more business practices than storyline events. On the other we have gimmicks, angles, storylines and other televised entertainment. They will meet in the finals to decide the worst of all! @epitasis and...

The New York 64 is a tournament to establish the most disgusting thing WWE has (allegedly) ever done. Please follow @NY64Tournament on twitter https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament and vote in each round. The 4 way play in rounds begin today! On one bracket we have policies or events that are more business practices than storyline events. On the other we have gimmicks, angles, storylines and other televised entertainment. They will meet in the finals to decide the worst of all! @epitasis and I...

Join us for a review of the Best of Music 14 and Game Changer Wrestling: Tha G Code! Hear all about problematic bikers, Teddy Hart, perhaps the craziest death match of the year, and your main event Nick Gage vs Jack Evans!

Join us for a review of the Best of Music 14 and Game Changer Wrestling: Tha G Code! Hear all about problematic bikers, Teddy Hart, perhaps the craziest death match of the year, and your main event Nick Gage vs Jack Evans!

We are back with the history of TNA! This time we go into Hulk Hogan's planned debut with TNA at Bound for Glory 2003. What was the plan? What were they thinking? No really, what were they thinking? Also Hulkamatts of the Week. Sources: TNA Press Release Bryan Alvarez's Figure 4 Weekly

Writer Cath returns to the show to talk about her experience on The Jericho Cruise, AKA The Chris Jericho Rock and Rager At Sea! Find out who threatened to murder her in cold blood, what was great, what was less great and who was the coolest cat at sea. Over an hour of memories of the greatest cruise in the history of wrestling!

Have you heard about the Nitro book everyone is talking about? Well, some people are talking about. You may have heard it's incredibly well researched and better than the Death of WCW. Is it? We'll go into the good, bad and ugly of the book. Who is it for? What does it get right, what does it get wrong? Join us for almost 90 minutes of analysis of the most significant wrestling book of 2018! For more information on the book or to buy it, visit the official site:...

This podcast is not about wrestling, it's about Bobby Fischer. Why? Because Hulkamatt was watching a bunch of chess and suddenly discovered Bobby Fischer was not such a great guy. So I linked him to an article and it was decided we should do an episode. So join us for an episode where Hulkamatt does half of the talking and we discuss the life and times of Chess Grand Master, World Champion, Anti-Semite, Cult Member and overall unstable person Bobby Fischer. From his upbringing to running away...

We are back with the history of TNA! We have some major shake ups in TNA Management in May of 2003 and we are here to cover them. Who is in? Who is out? How will TNA try to become a national player? Join us to find out! Sources: Borash, Jeremy. "From the Inside" accessed 10/13/18 https://web.archive.org/web/20030629182413/http://nwatna.com:80/2003/06/27/inside.shtml Alvarez, Bryan, Figure 4 Weekly, 5/28/05 Meltzer, Dave, Wrestling Observer Newsletter 7/13/15 Behrens, Bill. TNA Ownership...

Now with fixed audio! Join @ChampJulius and I as we go in depth about LA Park vs Rush! We talk both men's careers, how the feud began, what makes it so great, where LA Park might be going from here, our favorite matches, our favorite spots, and so much more. This was meant to be an hour long but when we did an off the cuff history of LA Park's career and a bit on Rush there was no stopping things! Sorry for the double upload, I didn't mix it. Hulkamatt is on vacation so we'll be back to the...

We are back! After the Hulkamatt of the Week we get to this week's topic, Joanie Laurer (Chyna) and her run in New Japan! How did Antonio Inoki decide to bring her in? How was her big match with Chono promoted? Why did he decide to make her a shooter? Find out in this tribute to Inokiism! My notes were corrupted right before recording so I lost my sources. Beyond cagematch, the Best Damn Sports Show Period, Observers, Figure 4s, an interview with Sean Waltman I also used some message boards...