Latest Professional wresting Podcast Episodes
High Spots
Reading Wrestling - January 18, 2022 03:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today we talk about high spots, the set-piece spectacles where wrestlers leap from great heights to inflict pain on their opponents and dazzle the crowd. What’s more iconic of wrestling than the Macho Man’s elbow...
Lumberjack Matches
Reading Wrestling - January 12, 2022 02:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to a classic match format, the Lumberjack Match. When a feud comes to fever pitch and needs a resolution devoid of scurrilous escape attempts, there are a couple of options. One is the techno...
Bonus Episode: A Conversation on Dusty Rhodes ft. Dan from Douglasville and Uncle Vinnie
Reading Wrestling - January 02, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs we promised you in our 12 Days of Wrestling Christmas episode, here is our gift to you to close out 2021: a special bonus episode featuring a conversation on Dusty Rhodes and Jimmy Valiant--with Dan from Douglasville and Uncle Vinnie! This was recorded at our launch party at Five Saints Disti...
12 Days of Wrestling Christmas
Reading Wrestling - January 02, 2022 14:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. This week we’re foregoing our usual style in order to bring you some light holiday listening. Instead of working through a theme, as is our usual format, we’re going to do a 12 Days of Christmas gift exchange with ...
Submissions
Reading Wrestling - December 30, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to one of the primary ways to win or lose a match: submissions. In a standard wrestling match, there are two ways to win cleanly: by pinning your opponent or forcing them to submit. But these...
Provocateurs
Reading Wrestling - December 20, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to a special role in wrestling, the impish, the sly, the mischievous provocateurs. Contemporary wrestling narratives often build to a flammable situation and just require someone to bring a m...
Feuds
Reading Wrestling - December 05, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to the long-simmering story arcs of wrestling, the feud. Feuds may seem related to rivalries in sports, but they are altogether different. The best wrestling feuds, which can begin by a per...
Around Town - Live Recording
Reading Wrestling - November 30, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIt's a special episode of the Reading Wrestling podcast--our first live podcast, recorded at our launch party at Five Saints Distilling in Norristown, PA, on 11/6/2021! Our topic, Around Town, takes you on a tour of Wrestletown, the wild and zany array of extra-arena spaces where interviews hap...
Dances, Poses, and Pre-TikTok Shimmies
Reading Wrestling - November 22, 2021 02:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to another hallmark of character building, the dances, poses, and, well, what we might term pre-TikTok shimmies wrestlers have crafted as part of their characters. Wrestling is, of course, famous...
Masks
Reading Wrestling - November 15, 2021 02:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to an icon of pro wrestling storytelling--the mask. Whether the mask is used to create a temporary mystery by withholding the identity of a wrestler or it’s an integral part of their characte...
Championships
Reading Wrestling - November 07, 2021 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry takes us to the pinnacle of the roster, the championship. The premise of wrestling as a competitive sport means that there must be an ultimate goal, a way to consummate the struggle for domination. Bu...
The Supernatural & Occult
Reading Wrestling - October 31, 2021 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHappy Halloween, Reading Wrestling fans! We thought it would be fun to do a seasonally appropriate episode, so today your favorite wrestling readers will be discussing instances of the supernatural and occult in professional wrestling. Amid the motley and colorful cast of characters in the sho...
The Supernatural & Occult
Reading Wrestling - October 31, 2021 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHappy Halloween, Reading Wrestling fans! We thought it would be fun to do a seasonally appropriate episode, so today your favorite wrestling readers will be discussing instances of the supernatural and occult in professional wrestling. Amid the motley and colorful cast of characters in the sho...
Promos
Reading Wrestling - October 24, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry is on one of the narrative linchpins of wrestling, the promo. Somewhere between a Shakespearean soliloquy where a character exposes their inner thoughts and a homily of public address lies this very p...
Change of Character
Reading Wrestling - October 17, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Reading Wrestling, your encyclopedia on the art of pro wrestling. Today’s entry is a complicated topic related to identity. And identity theft is not a joke, listener. Much like actors play disparate and dissimilar roles, a wrestler’s character or gimmick can change. Today, on Re...
Cage Matches
Reading Wrestling - October 10, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe wrestling readers are back for the 10th episode of the show--you can now pick your top 10 favorite episodes! We welcome back friend of the show Tom for a lively discussion on the topic of cage matches. Of all of the numerous types of match formats, perhaps the most iconic is the cage matc...
Managers
Reading Wrestling - October 03, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsYour lovable group of misfit wrestling readers is back again, this time to talk about one of the most beloved and reviled figures in professional wrestling--managers. Existing somewhere in the hinterlands between a sports agent, a boxing trainer, and a hip-hop hypeman, the manager is an extensi...
Heels
Reading Wrestling - September 26, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe've been looking forward to this topic, and it's finally here. Our wrestle-talkers take on the topic of heels in pro wrestling. AND we brought friends! We have our first ever guest, Tom, who, as those of you who follow the podcast know, is responsible for Noell's wrestling birthday on July 5, ...
Tag Teams
Reading Wrestling - September 18, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsYour friendly group of wrestle-talkers is back for episode lucky-number 7. There’s nothing like tag team wrestling. In many ways, it’s the most iconic of formats, even more so than singles wrestling. In no other arena will you see two partners, dressed in similar clothes, complementary in temper...
Foreign Objects
Reading Wrestling - September 07, 2021 02:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOur group of wrestlin' readin' yahoos are back again, continuing to create your encyclopedia on the art of professional wrestling. Today's entry is at the core of wrestling: foreign objects. There is perhaps no object more evocative of professional wrestling than the ubiquitous and humble foldin...
Finishing Moves
Reading Wrestling - September 04, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe wrestling readers are back again, here on episode 5, discussing a favorite topic for wrestling fans: finishing moves. Much like every comic book character or superhero comes equipped with her or his special power, so too does every wrestler have a finishing move. Meant as a punctuation to th...
The Crowd
Reading Wrestling - August 29, 2021 03:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn this week's episode, our ragtag(-team) group of podcasters discusses the biggest, the most powerful, the longest-standing champion in professional wrestling history: the crowd. Far from being passive spectators, the crowd actively makes the event through its participation. When you're at a ...
Commentators - Will You Stop It!
Reading Wrestling - August 20, 2021 02:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFollowing on our episode on entrance music, we move on to the voices of wrestling, and for some, the voices of our childhoods. Commentators like Tony Schiavone, Gorilla Monsoon, and early Vince McMahon are the omniscient narrators of wrestling. Their job is both to guide the viewer through a sto...
Entrance Music, Part I
Reading Wrestling - August 16, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNow that you know us, it's...surprising that you're still here. But we thank you for not having had enough already! Our first thematic episode is on a topic near and dear to the hearts of wrestling fans: entrance music. Chris, Noell, and Dave take on the showtunes of Ring Pan Alley. The episode...
Introductions, Wrestling with Affect
Reading Wrestling - August 15, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOur first episode introduces you to our ragtag group of wrestling nerds. Chris, Noell, and Dave talk about how they first got into wrestling. We each pick a singular moment in wrestling history that we found to be the most memorable and moving. You'll hear the amazing story of how Noell, a li...
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