Episodes
Orange Cassidy got on the microphone and said “I hate this”, and you know what, we felt that. Chuck Taylor is never going to wrestle again and so we will never be happy again. luckily we saved a couple of our games from last week so we had something to cheer us up at the end, but listener beware: this one gets real weepy in the middle. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us:...
Published 05/04/24
Published 05/04/24
we’re sad girlies this week. Trent Beretta gave his Best Friend Chuck Taylor an ultimatum and then they made each other bleed about it in the parking lot at Daily’s Place. we are soft of heart and this was a lot to handle. (but there were light tubes, which is always nice!) also this episode, we are big fans of piledriving billionaires, we’ve solved the Hangman problem, and we, um, played a game of going “do do do” to the tune of wrestling themes. it’s harder than it sounds. links and...
Published 04/28/24
we’ve just had a pay-per-view, and you know what that means… HEART RATINGS™. your girlies run down the AEW Dynasty card, from Zero Hour to the main event, dishing out infinite heart emojis as they go. the Bucks on ladders? new TBS champ Willow Nightingale? Adam Cole’s evilest face? and new world champion Swerve Strickland? SO MANY HEARTS. we also tried to make Chuck Taylor a triple crown champ using AI. it goes about as well as you’d expect. in short? biiiiiiig gremlin energy. links and...
Published 04/24/24
you know when we said last week we'd got all sensible? yeah, no, not so much this week. topics covered include: lipstick warfare, hair bobble violence, breaking the fourth wall with Matthew Jackson, and a variation on the trolley problem where we mostly concluded that we should never be put in charge of anything important. much to think about. much to giggle at. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email...
Published 04/20/24
well, the Bucks said they were gonna show backstage footage from All In, and boy did they. the internet fully exploded as security camera footage of CM Punk’s violent altercation with Jack Perry behind the scenes of AEW’s biggest show ever was aired as part of this week’s episode of Dynamite. and if we’d recorded this episode on, say, Thursday, there might have been most unhinged cackling, but actually we’ve had some time to think about it and we’re being quite sensible. other topics of...
Published 04/13/24
oof, what a manic weekend!  not that we watched, you know, that thing. instead, we’ve been gorging ourselves on indie wrestling courtesy of the GCW Collective, and then watching Supercard of Honor and having ALL THE EMOTIONS. every single one. did you know that we love Ring of Honor? because we do.  we also believe in workers’ rights, keeping receipts, and the sacred love between a wrestler and his best friend who’s also a wrestler and just happens to be beating hte crap out of...
Published 04/07/24
our hearts are broken this week, and yes we know never to trust a wrestler, but there are definitely some wrestlers we thought would never hurt us, and yet… here we are. broken. bruised. (still very ready to give Chuck Taylor a big hug.) this week’s Dynamite was an emotional one, but at least we had Toni Storm to pick us up. also, somehow we still managed to talk about Hangman for a bit this week? how? only one way to find out… links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and...
Published 04/05/24
if Hangman was a flavour of crisps, what flavour would he be? honestly, we can’t promise you any kind of answer to that question. this week, we’re just kind of all over the shop, but we did really love the two tag tournament matches on Dynamite this week, because we love our EVPs and we love our boys, and someone’s gonna win the big one so why not them? this is a silly one. we’re not even going to apologise.  links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and...
Published 03/30/24
good news: we’ve solved one of wrestling’s great mysteries! how do you attract casual fans? show them Orange Cassidy and a hardcore match. you’re welcome! this week Dynamite and Rampage were live back to back on Wednesday like a giant wrestling club sandwich, and that did throw us off our game a bit. how are we meant to know what day of the week it is if our shows move around? it’s okay, though, we got it together enough to take a tour through every championship title in AEW and Ring of...
Published 03/23/24
it’s annual review time! there’s a new CEO at AEW, and it’s time to assess everyone’s performance. Best Friends? you’re perfect, carry on. Wardlow? well… you’ve got some work to do. yep, Mercedes Moné made her entrance at Big Bu$iness, so it seems like things are gonna change around here! ideally, starting with changing everyone’s contracts so that when they wanna leave the company they can just hand in their notice rather than doing nonsense on Twitter? that’d be great, we...
Published 03/16/24
yes, it’s March, but it’s new season, new us, dumbasses! Dynamite has had a rebrand, and we’ve invited our pal Eden MW to join us for a bit to chat about the new logo and set. and then we watched the show, and got excited about basically everything?? is wrestling… really good? wonders will never cease. follow us:  @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠[email protected]⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt...
Published 03/09/24
a special mid-week treat: we watched Revolution, and we had thoughts!  from Zero Hour’s extremely silly 12-man match through to Christian Cage’s turtleneck shenanigans and Toni Storm’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes moment all the way through to Will Ospreay’s first proper proper AEW match, that World Title fight and Sting’s emotional goodbye, your girlies (gn) are here to yell about it all. spoiler: we’re very very happy Kyle O’Reilly’s back. follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube,...
Published 03/06/24
this week, Ring of Honor has been giving us all the feelings!! the women’s TV championship tournament is delivering banger match after banger match, Athena continues to be our forever fave, and poor Dalton Castle, well, he’s not having a good time. (can someone please check that Taya and Johnny are feeding the Boys properly?) in AEW business, we still do not intend to boo Hangman Adam Page and you can’t make us, and also, please do not take Orange Cassidy away, that’s our emotional support...
Published 03/02/24
this episode we are not happy with anything and we are awful geese. from FTR escaping Collision prison again to an uninspiring Wardlow promo to Dave Meltzer sending us into a tailspin about our fave little guys being injured, we have had a difficult week. luckily there’s always Christian Cage and Daniel Garcia to cheer us up. plus Orange Cassidy, we could never ever ever criticise that man in the slightest. follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky plus @awfullywaffly...
Published 02/24/24
what better Valentine’s Day gift could we possibly have asked for than a Texas deathmatch? Orange Cassidy and Matt Taven bloodied up the canvas, the floor, the tables, each other, and everything else in sight, and it was delightful. unfortunately, people are still booing Hangman, so we’re less happy about that. but hey, Rocky Romero is here to stay and we’ve got our first official announced Will Ospreay match, so overall things are… pretty good? pretty good. even if we don’t know the rules...
Published 02/17/24
your girlies (gn) are back and are having a lot of feelings about what happened in wrestling this week!  Hangman vs Swerve III happened, for one thing, and we’ve got strong opinions on who’s actually the babyface in this whole feud. Dalton Castle’s “friend” didn’t get to wrestle Johnny TV, which seemed a bit unfair. and the Undisputed Kingdom are very much in our bad books because: why would you attack Chuck Taylor? why would you do that? don’t you have a heart??? this whole thing...
Published 02/10/24
be warned: this is a two cuppa episode! this week, MJ and Sarah have largely been having a great time as EVPs Matthew and Nicholas Jackson continue their reign of terror, and Best Friends enter into an actual honest-to-goodness feud with the Undisputed Kingdom.  plus, Dalton Castle’s disgusting cheese gimmick and the shenanigans between Spanish Announce Project and the Baby Boys are bringing us joy over on Ring of Honor, and the Outcasts are funny now?? it’s new year, new me, dumbass for...
Published 02/04/24
it’s been another one of those weeks in the internet wrestling community - you know, the ones where you start to lose faith in humanity? luckily, we’ve got each other. and Hangman’s moustache. and, surprisingly, Chuck Taylor? topics covered this week include Vince McMahon’s resignation, AEW’s rankings, Orange Cassidy’s rise to power, and why we love the Young Bucks. also, we’re going to be saying “well that wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card” a lot because we actually did make 2024 bingo cards....
Published 01/27/24
this week, Tony Khan decided that he loves us and he wants to give us nice things, because this week on Dynamite we got chatty bits with the Young Bucks and Hangman Adam Page, a banger of a main event with Samoa Joe vs HOOK, plus the return of Rey Fenix and Chuck Taylor!!!!! we are beside ourselves. what a time to be alive. quick technical note: uh, Sarah’s microphone died at approx the one-hour mark and her computer automatically switched to the in-line one on her headphones, we know it...
Published 01/19/24
hey, look, if three of the Elite are going to make an appearance with moustaches, we can’t be held accountable for our reactions. this week, we are feeling very silly, and oh my god isn’t it nice to chat about wrestling without having to get too serious about it? this episode: Claudio vs Hangman, tributes to Brodie Lee, the relative sizes of wrestling rings, instant coffee disbelief, and we just love the Young Bucks so much it basically defies explanation.  also, we’re working on defining...
Published 01/13/24
okay so the main thing we need to talk about this week is Hangman’s moustache. what a glorious thing that was. also, hi Hangman! welcome back! we missed you lots! this week we also got to welcome back Private Party, and MJ would like to assure you that she’s definitely not a bot, no matter what some people on Twitter might like you to think. 100% organic human over here. and maybe we’re jumping the gun a little, but honestly, we’re kind of welcoming back the feeling, too. has Tony Khan...
Published 01/06/24
happy new year! time to talk about the end of the world. Or Worlds End, at least. MJ and Sarah talk through the latest AEW pay-per-view, match by match, and do our best Meltzer impressions by giving each match a Heart Rating. also? advocating for women, always. in 2024 we want some actual activism and not just lip-service point-scoring nonsense from some quarters. look, we’ll be honest, this PPV wasn’t our favourite, but we do have lots of reasons to be optimistic. you know what we’re...
Published 01/02/24
coming in hot, it’s your final episode of 2023! (probably!) we’re here to chat through our suspicions about the identity of the Devil before it’s revealed at World’s End (it is going to be revealed at World’s End, Tony, right? right??) as well as our delight at Riho nabbing a title shot and at the women’s street fight. more women’s hardcore matches in 2024 please!! other topics include Trent’s little worried face, festive BritWres chaos, an unlikely new sad wet kitten, and a secret hack...
Published 12/23/23
surprise! it’s a bonus mid-week episode from your favourite Ring of Honor-loving girlies. yep, this is our Final Battle episode, where we talk through the entire card of this not-really-a-pay-per-view-because-it’s-part-of-the-Honor-Club-subscription event and tell you why it’s so good. (it’s really, really good!) as per our self-imposed PPV rules, we’re giving every match on the main card a Heart Rating (™), which is a lot like a Meltzer star rating except better. don’t ask, just go with...
Published 12/20/23