Shake Them Ropes | Pro Wrestling Podcast | Wwe Nxt Njpw

This week an interesting show as the first part of the show was recorded with original STR host Rob McCarron after last Friday's Smackdown where Rock and Reigns were going to headline. The second part was recorded the following Saturday after the press conference with regular co-host Chris Novembrino. Plus firings in Stardom and TNA and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISMSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week: Vince officially steps down...again. Johnny Ace throws himself on the mercy of the court of public opinion and CM Punk is hurt...again. Then on THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: ICE COLD TAKES on the Royal Rumble, a preview of Vengeance Day, and Jeff's other co-host may have deconstructed every Dynamite match to the point Jeff can't unsee it.Plus: Don't go to grocery stores, go to restaurant supply warehouses.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

So we "celebrate" Ten Years by first bringing on Rob McCarron, who created this beast, then Chris and I get a little dark with the Vince McMahon lawsuit and the Netflix/Raw deal among the news of the week. Not the happy light party we were hoping for, and this one isn't for the kids.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, Chris does his best Taxicab Confessions impression, then we talk Okada leaving NJPW, injuries to Seth Rollins and Cora Jade and Tony Khan bringing back the rankings. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including asking if R-Truth is the best of this type of character WWE has done, Joe/Hook and what they got right and what they didn't, that Young Bucks promo and more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we talk the hiring of Lee Fitting to WWE which is not without controversy, Tony Khan in his feels on social media and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Does Adam Cole have only one promo when leading a heel faction? Has WWE found out about competency and nuance in character dynmaics? Also good comedy and bad comedy. Plus other nonsense.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week it's the biggest wrestling week of the year, and we watched some of it. Kevin Dunn is gone, the Rock is back, and Mercedes/Sasha is going somewhere eventually. News, injuries, comings and goings and THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including how you don't start breaking up a faction as soon as you debut it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week Chris and Jeff go through the news, review what Jeff thought were the top stories of 2023, and then on the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM we preview AEW World's End give our picks for our favorite matches and a few off base predictions.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jeff's travel woes caused this to be late but to make up for it we included King of the Ring 1993 on the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. Freezing Cold Takes on NXT Deadline and the guys critique where the Golden Jets/ Starks and Big Bill promo went wrong.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, post production in AEW going in a new direction, House Shows may be dead, and obnoxious in your advertising might be coming to WWE. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM with a preview of NXT Deadline and a week where things existed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week in the news: QT Marshall quits AEW, Jeff explains torn labrums, Flair being Flair and we mourn WWE cutting McKenzie Mitchell. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: Put your great promos on tv, the Punk promo was mid and in the wrong slot, fun matches from Rush/Mark Briscoe and Ilja/Nathan Fraser, and Chris tries to heal the world with a holiday EP and so much more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week: Hot Takes on War Games and Ice Cold Takes on Full Gear. THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM is in full effect as CM Punk is back in the WWE, and the Young Bucks are Killing the Business.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we preview Full Gear, the Observer Hall of Fame issue is out, and THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM. Now with 50 percent more positive things to say.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week: NXT to the CW, Vince is selling stock and a Bill Mercer sighting. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including: A bevy of topics including "fixing" women's wrestling, the tell don't show nature of AEW matches, who is the devil, and we pitch a match that is nothing but nut shots.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

We watched Crown Jewel so you get HOT TAKES for a change. Then the news and THE LAZY RIVER OF CRITICISM. We talk Ric Flair, we talk another intra-Elite angle and tie that into the discourse of AEW "losing its way"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Impact is now TNA again, Ric Flair is back onscreen again, and somehow Vince McMahon is Dana White's boss. Bad decisions abound as we talk all the news and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including giving flowers to the NBeXT era, are they pivoting to "Laundry Wars" for Survivor Series instead of the smart story and so much more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chris is back, Vince is out of creative, Sting is retiring eventually and all the news and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM including whatever we had time to watch this week. Plus: What would Shane McMahon's son's NXT name be?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week you get what you haven't in a long time: A HAWKINS RANT! Jeff wasn't happy with MJF/Juice, then Warren Hayes of the VoW family joins him to talk Tuesday's "war" and the LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM actually includes some New Japan. Plus at the end we get stupid by asking where the NWA ends up without answering "Who Cares?"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week: Quick hits on the deaths of Russ Francis and Dick Butkus, Adam Copeland is in AEW and that leads us to THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: ICE COLD TAKES on a fun weekend with NXT No Mercy and AEW WrestleDream, a preview of WWE Fastlane, and we talk bad comedy, good acting and logical plotholes from both WWE and AEW.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, Jade Cargill talk, Turnstile-gate and the THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM: previews of No Mercy and WrestleDream, why the MJF/Jay White segment was a net negative, and more! We start it off as all wrestling podcasts do: Duran Duran talk.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week, we're late, but you know, here. Smackdown goes to USA, WWE makes some cuts, and more news. Then THE LAZY RIVER OF WRESTLING CRITICISM where we see what we watched amongst all the voluminous amounts of content out thereSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/shake-them-ropes-pro-wrestling-podcast-wwe-nxt-njpw/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy