Waffly Bollox

after an unscheduled break last week, we're back!!!!! so now we've got two weeks' worth of wrestling to fit in, including what the gremlin Elite have been up to lately, why we want Cope and Mercedes to embrace the dark side, and, you guessed it, we're fantasy booking Hangman again. also, the ghost of Chuck Taylor haunts the narrative. minor silliness ensues. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 discussion include how very sad Orange Cassidy is right now, how much we love a side of snogging with our graps, and cursed belts. also, it’s very possible neither of us knows what happens on dates in 2024. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 him.  editing note: we had some serious technical problems with this episode and would have lost the whole thing were it not for our Zoom backup, so please forgive the reduced audio quality! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 Honor, from the ones with exciting things going on around them through to the ones that might as well go straight in the bin. if you guessed we’re not really into the trios belts you can have a gold star. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 reckon. meanwhile, over on Ring of Honor, it turns out Taya Valkyrie does know what Boys eat, while Maria Kanellis-Bennett is getting possessed by Serpentico’s green mask and Orange Cassidy has learned a new dance. is wrestling the greatest art form of our time? it might just be. follow us:  @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop follow Eden: @queerbuccaneer on X --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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, and Bluesky, plus @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 Orange Cassidy, we would like to hang onto him for the foreseeable future. all the links you could possibly need (including to buy t-shirts!): https://linktr.ee/wafflybollox --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ buy tshirts: ⁠MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 of a triple threat match. follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky, plus @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy tshirts: MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 probably would’ve come in at around an hour long except someone asked us to fantasy book an entire women’s Continental Classic, and that meant a lot of maths… but we got there. Tony Khan, we will totally email you the league tables if you want to copy our homework? follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy tshirts: MJ's tshirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 the entire roster and we’re delighted about it. follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy tshirts: MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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. you love to see it. follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy tshirts: MJ’s t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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 doesn’t sound great, we’re working with what we’ve got, and also we have learned not to let our cats knock our microphones on the floor. sorry about that. normal service resumes next week. probably. follow us: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky email us: wafflybollox@gmail.com buy t-shirts: MJ's t-shirt shop --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message