Waffly Bollox

we're very excited this week because AEW has announced there's going to be a Dynamite and Collision taping in Wales!!!! Cymru am byth!!! we also saw the beginning of the Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament this week, and we are eyeing that "wildcard" slot with great suspicion... and we're also side-eyeing all the wrestlers who got all up in one another's faces this week but didn't do any smooching. go on, someone do some kissing please. please? links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com MJ’s tshirt shop⁠ Pride shirt: renderbomb.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

happy birthday to us! yep, your fave wrestling podcast is one year old this week, somehow?? and we haven't grown up even one tiny bit. as you'll find out when you listen to this episode and we're still wailing about our special little guys. we're having a bit of a sulk this week actually, because we see where a certain storyline seems to be going and we do not like it!!!!! but it's fine, Christian Cage has got our backs, we're pretty sure. wanna buy a cool t-shirt and support a good cause? MJ's Be Gay Do Clotheslines Pride shirt is available here. All proceeds go to Mermaids. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

this week we are saying a big old thank youuuuuuu to Renee Paquette for fixing our hearts with her Chuck Taylor interview. we thought we were gonna get hurt and instead we might have been… healed? we’re also still finding the learning tree hilarious, we’re happy to see MJF back, and we love Mariah and her love triangle but we’re a bit worried the internet is gonna make it weird. also, for the love of deathmatch, CAN WE GET HANGMAN BACK NOW PLEASE? links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com MJ’s tshirt shop⁠ more t-shirts, hoodies, dresses etc: renderbomb.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

how do you solve a problem like Team AEW being significantly less likeable than Team Elite? we’ve got a foolproof solution and… yeah it’s Hangman, there’s no suspense there really, it’s just Hangman. also this episode, Trent wore a very nice suit that looked like it fitted him really well and we liked that, but we didn’t like what he did to Orange Cassidy (again) and we also really want to warn wrestlers not to go to Dracula’s castle. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ t-shirts, hoodies, dresses etc: renderbomb.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

Vegas baybeeeeee! we watched Double or Nothing and we loved it. certified banger! links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ t-shirts, hoodies, dresses etc: ⁠renderbomb.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

it’s Double or Nothing Eve, and your girlies are VERY EXCITED. and since the PPV is this weekend, we decided not to worry about what’s gonna happen in various ongoing storylines and instead just spend our time making a list of everything we popped for this week. lovely things include gremlins being gremlins, Malakai’s epic Carrie job, vampire lore and new wedding traditions, and the indelible image of Darby Allin marching down the ramp with a flamethrower. after a very sad few weeks, we deserved this. links and things: @wafflybollox on X, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash on X and Tumblr email us: ⁠wafflybollox@gmail.com⁠ t-shirts, hoodies, dresses etc: renderbomb.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wafflybollox/message

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