BWF it’s your birthday! Happy birthday BWF! Yes, six years ago I started BoredWrestlingFan.com as a site for fans, by fans, and I’ve gotten to do some cool stuff over the years because of it. Not make any money, mind you, but I got to meet guys like Johnny Gargano and Gregory Iron, get threatened by the late Matt Borne, and talk yoga with Diamond Dallas Page. I’ve also been stuck doing this RAW review. Oh well, let’s go.
30 minutes home, the rest here, blah blah blah just click the link.
Punk looks so sad.
The gang’s all here to talk about the week in wrestling. We talk about Payback before we dive into RAW – and how difficult it is to watch live. We debate the options available as far as The Shield and Evolution’s futures following Batista’s departure and Seth Rollins’ betrayal. In the news, we find out where negotiations are as far as TNA and Spike TV go. We talk about the attendance, or lack thereof, at a recent TNA BaseBrawl event. Batista comments on the #Bluetista hashtag. Superstar Billy Graham tells us why he’s never watching wrestling again. We get updates on the status of both Sting and The Undertaker. Wrestling With Wregret‘s Brian Zane joins us to talk about his music and production work, his experience in the wrestling business, and his thoughts on the current mainstream product. All this and more on BWFRadio 129!
BoredWrestlingFan Radio Episode 129 (MP3, 2:07:24)
This week’s break song was “The Heel’s Lament (I’d Do Anything for Heat) by Brian Zane.
The only reason most people would tune into this episode tonight is to find out why Hornswoggle turned on his hair. All this and less, on Smackdown!
Spoiler alert! This did not happen on WWE, shocking, I know. Hop on it!
(Also: something, something, Seth Rollins)…
Joe would kill you, but you got injured.
It’s Thursday and people are still talking about Seth Rollins betraying the SHIELD on Monday night RAW. It was the main angle that sent the show out so that’s understandable. There are also some problems with it.
Twenty-five years I’ve been watching WWE television, week in, week out, without question. I never miss RAW, which since 1993 has been the only television show I watch on Monday nights. Well, aside from watching Nitro on picture-in-picture of course. But something happened last night that made me question why I’m such a loyal viewer of this program. I watched an entire 3-hour RAW live on TV. This was the first time since they made the permanent switch that I’ve watched the show live as it aired without actually being in the arena, and I’ve gotta tell you, I can’t understand how people do this every week. I found myself checking the time once every 15 minutes or so once I hit the 90 minute mark. “It’s gotta be close to 11 by now.” Nope, 10:15. The fact is, there wasn’t anything really going on to advance storylines or anything either. So we’re talking 3 hours of filler. In fact, only the overrun was worth watching. So today, I’m not going to watch the show over again and review it – I’m going to recap it using Ian’s Intense Post-Payback Raw Recap from AngryMarks.com as a reminder of what, exactly, I watched in those 3 agonizing hours last night.
Well, this should be interesting. Let’s go.
Let’s play “Where’s Zack Ryder?”
This week on BWFRadio, Joe, Jorge, JT, G, and Mark are joined by Gary Barnidge of the Cleveland Browns to discuss tonight’s WWE Payback event, as well as his charity work and vacation time in the NFL off-season. David Fuller joins in to talk about the IHWExperience event coming up next Sunday – but he’s taken out by a run-in from RWR’s Alice Radley! We talk more about the current state of the WWE product with both Alice and David, find out what’s coming up on the Jim Cornette Experience and RWR podcasts, talk about the Cauliflower Alley Club event coming up later this week, and even get some spoilers on some upcoming BWFRadio guests! Then the show devolves into a food discussion between Jorge and Alice. What a crazy episode! Tune in!
BoredWrestlingFan Radio Episode 128 (MP3, 2:34:29)
This week’s break song is Endless Mist of Nightmares by GatoPaint. Download it here!
Find out more about IHWE at IHWENow.com
Check out Alice’s RWR podcast at RWRPodcast.com
Old school hopping time!
There’s a PPV Sunday, it’s called, “Rematch”. And there is also an NHL semi final game 6 on right now, which I am watching on my other computer while turning on the abysmal Smackdown episode. If the Hawks win tonight, they will go head-to-head with said PPV for a game 7 in the same city as the PPV. Guess what I’ll be watching? As I write this, the game is tied 3 – 3 with 8:43 remaining in the third period…
After this I’ll be watching NXT Takeover. Wonder which I’ll prefer.
First things first. Happy Memorial Day, and a thank you to those who have made that ultimate sacrifice to allow guys like me to sit here and talk about whatever the hell they want to on the internet. Second, happy 3rd Anniversary to my beautiful wife, Mrs. ThinkSoJoE. Third, happy birthday to my friend and BWF Radio co-host Mark Noyce. Now that the formalities are out of the way, let’s get this 3 hour show out of the way. This is one of those “I don’t feel like watching this show” nights. So we’re going to skip through it and give you basically what you need to know to follow the current storylines. Sound good? Let’s go.
I watch 30 minutes, leave, then watch the whole show from the beginning, just so you don’t have to. Maybe that’s why ratings are slumping?