July 2021 is a big month for professional wrestling. WWE and AEW are returning to live touring. Impact Wrestling and Ring Of Honor are welcoming back live fans for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Somehow, professional wrestling survived more than a year of uncertainty, lockdowns and empty arenas.
Sorg and Mad Mike are trying to avoid talking about Monday Night RAW, WWE NXT UK invasions, and pregnancy angles to discuss bar fights at Prospect Pro Wrestling, close calls at Fight Society, the eve of Disney+, Chris Jericho and the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and more!
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Wrestling Mayhem Show 648: A Formal Protest of Sports Entertainment
We’re back from our holiday hiatus with Mad Mike, Larry, Mainstream Matt, and Sorg! And, there’s so much happening this week. Between celebrating our podcast birthday to prepping for this year’s Mayhem Mania we’ve got plenty of hilarity, including:
We’re back after our holiday break – and we’re officially a year older as we celebrate our birthday with Sorg and the crew.
We are enjoying Mad Mike’s Becky Lynch shirt for the show tonight.
Mayhem Mania is coming up – and the playing field just changed. Things could get REALLY interesting this year.
Sorg is sporting his sweet Shawn Phoenix shirt for the show tonight!
There was a formal protest of sports entertainment that happened this evening.
Live production is tough – Sorg is speaking in his professional experience, of course.
It was great to see Friend-of-the-Show Britt Baker on the All Elite announcement.
Chris Jericho was the big reveal of the All Elite announcement.
We’re speculating on who else we may see pop up in All Elite given the talent that appeared at the conference and some of the relationships we’re aware of.
Mainstream Matt made it in time for some birthday cake!
Mainstream Matt totally rolled in with his Sam Adonis shirt. Best. Birthday. Party. Ever.
Who else watched Wrestle Kingdom 13? We’re sharing some of our thoughts.
John Cena is slowly turning into John Laurinaitis.
Mainstream Matt is crushing dreams.
The biggest thing from Wrestle Kingdom 13? Okada’s short shorts.
Ibushi and Ospreay are magic.
There are a ton of exclusive contracts in various companies – how will that affect some of the former talent team-ups we’ve seen?
This week’s Big Question:
Part 1: Who was your favorite wrestler when you were 14?
Part 2: Make a match you’d want to see with your 14-year-old wrestler and someone from today’s roster.
We’re headed back in time to 2006 – remembering what wrestling was like when the Mayhem Show was born.
Mad Mike unearthed a fan mail from Juggalo Jamie – just for our birthday celebration.
This is the part of the show where Sorg gets weepy and retrospective about all that he’s seen as a result of the podcast.
Mayhem Mania is coming. Mainstream Matt is sharing some breaking news about how this year is changing.
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Wrestling Mayhem Show 618: Double Entendre Backlash
Sorg, Mad Mike and Larry are joined by the scariest dude we know in indy wrestling for this week’s episode. That’s right – Lee Moriarty joins us to talk this week in wrestling, including:
There’s some Chris Jericho news with a return to New Japan.
We have Kevin Owens to thank for Chris Jericho going back to New Japan.
The Bullet Club is getting their own POP figures?!?
Lucha Underground is dropping a new trailer this week!
We’re learning that our guest Lee Moriarty puts together his own hype videos for the
Ryse Wrestling shows.
Backlash was this past weekend, and we’ve got some strong thoughts.
This week’s Big Question: If there were a 3rd Money in the Bank match, which title would you like to be on the line?
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Wrestling Mayhem Show 611: Deep Into MayhemMania Season
We couldn’t have planned this week’s in-studio guest any better if we tried. Marcus Mann joins us on the big purple couch to talk about the road to WrestleMania! He’s joined by Rob, Larry, Sorg, Mad Mike, and Mainstream Matt as they talk about:
We’ve got the RYSE Wrestling Head of Talent Relations, Marcus Mann, on the sofa this week!
Sorg was in Florida over the weekend, and had a chance to visit the Hulk Hogan shop down there.
Marcus Mann is sharing some updates about what they’re up to down at RYSE Wrestling. Want to check it out? Head over to www.indywrestling.us
We’ll be getting to some Fastlane and WrestleMania talk shortly. But first – John Cena has a Road to WrestleMania and Marcus couldn’t be happier.
John Cena broke RAW.
We’re breaking down an interesting comparison between John Cena, Hulk Hogan, and Chris Jericho.
It’s the wrestler’s responsibility to take that #1 spot. If someone isn’t taking that spot, then it really belongs to the guy at the top. (In this case John Cena.)
Vince McMahon will not give anyone a Jr. suffix because he feels it is demeaning.
Sorg apparently ran into Paige at an ICP show last week?
Fastlane happened this weekend, and we’ve got a clearer picture about what we’ll be seeing at WrestleMania.
We found out Marcus Mann is apparently a huge Brock Lesnar fan, in addition to being a John Cena fan…and a Chris Jericho fan…
We’re taking a trip down memory lane…to Summer Slam 2002.
You think Brock Lesnar could kill a person – watch him punch Braun Strowman in the face. He’s the closest thing we can get to a Bruiser Brody.
Are we setting ourselves up for disappointment by setting our expectations too high for WrestleMania?
Thanks to The Bar we can no longer take discussions regarding setting the bar seriously.
When ranking WrestleMania events, which one is the “average” by which you should set your expectations by?
It’s time for MayhemMania! Let’s see what havoc we can wreak this week!
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Mayhem Mania 2018: Week 1
This. is. Mayhem Mania!
Not quite a game. Not really a contest. More like a competitive thought experiment. The object is to create the best WrestleMania card possible – NOT necessarily to predict what WWE will do.
This is not fantasy booking. It’s more like reality booking. Any match created must have at least a chance of happening in this year’s WrestleMania. That means all wrestlers come in their current physical, emotional and contractual state. Anyone selected for a match must have a reasonable chance of being hired by WWE to appear on the real-life WrestleMania card.
Simply put, you’re Vince McMahon with infinite cash and no self-control.
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Wrestling Mayhem Show 595: Six Star Matches
It’s a full show this week as we’ve got Old School Burt LeGrand in studio with Sorg and Larry. As a special treat, we’ve got Tonio Garza joining us online, and Mad Mike makes a stop by in the second half. They’re talking this week in wrestling, including:
AJ Styles v Brock Lesnar? Thank you WWE.
Does this mean we’ll see AJ Styles v Shinsuke Nakamura for Starrcade?
Survivor Series 2017 – we’re talking some of our predictions and speculations.
Burt is calling for an in-ring return of Daniel Bryan?
Garza is talking some New Japan and Chris Jericho v Kenny Omega.
So – we’re getting something we normally don’t get on the show. That’s right, we’re talking some Impact Wrestling.
Apparently Alberto El Patron’s promo was just weird.
Impact Wrestling has a casting call for paid background actors?
We go from Impact Wrestling to booking nostalgia matches (The Rock v Triple H or Triple H v Kevin Owens?).
Triple H with The Shield = Perfect
It’s time for this week’s Big Question: What would your Wrestle Kingdom dream match be?
We have e-mail! (Kinda.)
Stephen Amell is going to ROH?
There was an intergender match tonight?
Pete Dunne v Enzo Amore? Larry is confused, but okay with it.
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WWE Raw Wrap Up 4/24/17: Dumpster Fire
Sorg and Mad Mike talk about tonight’s Monday Night Raw! We talk about Dean Ambrose trying to make amends with Chris Jericho, Braun Strowman and Kalisto had a Dumpster match, Finn Balor teamed with Big Cass and Seth Rollins to take on Samoa Joe and The Club, and Alexa Bliss had some strong words for Bayley.
