Published by Waffly Bollox
Two wrestling girlies setting the world to rights. Every Saturday, Sarah and MJ chew over the week in wrestling - we mostly watch AEW and ROH, but we also like some indie wrestling! We have a lot of feelings about this stuff. Expect giggling and strong opinions. Follow us on Bluesky at: @wafflybollox, @awfullywaffly and @wrassletrash
Listen on Apple PodcastsWe watched so much wrestling this week, including the two shows of RevPro's inaugural Women's Grand Prix and then, of course, AEW Redemption. So we're in an uncharacteristically good mood! (00:00:00) We went to the inaugural RevPro Women’s Grand Prix! (00:12:46) AEW Redemption was fine, wasn’t it? (00:21:17) Recapping the Buy In (and a bit of the shows from last week) (00:30:21) 6-man ladder match for a shot at the International Title (00:32:38) A whole room of Beast Mortos heads (00:33:38) Big pop for Speedball and why ladder matches scare us (00:44:31) Young Bucks vs Death Riders (00:55:27) Kyle Fletcher’s new boot goofing (01:02:40) A bloodless double chain match: the Dogs vs the Bang Bang Gang (01:09:16) And new TBS Champion Maya World! (01:16:22) Men’s Tag Team match: Cope and Christian vs Death Riders (01:20:47) Obligatory Chris Jericho banter match (01:27:35) Mick Foley bows down (01:29:53) And new National Champion, Andrade el Idolo! (01:39:30) And new Women’s World Champion, Willow Nightingale! (01:51:18) And still Men’s World Champion, Kenny Omega! Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Buy stuff: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re in the midst of the third heatwave of the year and everything’s melting so what better time to invite round the Queen of Chaos herself, Aluna! We’ve seen her mixing it up in the ring at RevPro, EVE, Attack, Kamikaze, Friday Night Pursuit and many, many more, and now we’re on a mission to send her to Japan… [00:00:00] Settling in (and being too hot!) [00:04:50] Getting into wrestling through BritWres [00:09:56] Fave places to wrestle and wrestling as a community [00:14:47] What’s scarier, wrestling or horror movies? [00:20:50] Choosing sleepover snacks [00:21:42] Queen of Chaos, officially [00:29:09] Favourite matches [00:30:40] How do moonsaults work? [00:39:23] Crowd work and sparkly pants [00:42:48] What kind of pizza do you want? [00:44:08] Dating your first wrestling crush [00:45:48] Designing wrestling merch that stands out [00:50:02] Dream wrestling scenarios [00:55:29] Intergender wrestling and why we need women’s tag belts Follow Aluna on Instagram: @aluna_wres Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feeling a bit underwhelmed this week, but at least Kenny Omega dropped some new weird pronunciations for us. Also how is AEW Redemption NEXT WEEK?! Chapters: (00:00:00) News and RevPro Women’s Grand Prix updates (00:11:18) Hangman returned! (00:19:29) Not hyped for AEW Redemption (00:21:20) Building to Thekla vs Willow Nightingale (while Thekla is in Japan) (00:30:37) Are we getting any other women’s matches? (00:35:25) Building to Kenny vs Kev (00:49:58) Building to a men’s tag team defence (00:52:41) PPV fatigue has set in (00:56:55) Not streaming Orange Cassidy matches is a crime against Best Friends girlies (00:59:06) Men’s National Championship business and Men’s International Championship business (01:04:05) Why are we doing Jericho vs Ciampa again? (01:11:58) Silly questions from Bluesky (01:24:11) Happy things of the week Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We said we were gonna walk into the sea if Kenny didn’t win this week. And now it’s so hot in the UK we kind of want to walk into the sea anyway? But we made it to our recording sesh to break down AEW Beach Break… (00:00:00) We’re too hot and we want to walk into the sea (00:07:44) Loved that Beach Break set (00:10:05) And new! Kenny Omega is our champion! (00:36:41) And we’ve got our women’s title match for Redemption! Hi Willow! (00:50:29) Andrade is wearing too many clothes now and other DCF problems (01:02:50) We’ve had to stop ignoring Ciampa and Jericho (01:06:03) That’s no pub! (01:07:41) Not enough Lio Rush this week (except on Ring of Honor) (01:11:31) Still no Hangman, huh? (01:13:01) Happy times Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Forbidden Door opened again and a surprising number of people popped in after all! Here's our rundown of AEW Forbidden Door 2026. (00:00:00) Heatwaves and pub quizzes (00:08:26) Overall Forbidden Door impressions (00:10:27) Drilla Maloney vs Daniel Garcia (00:12:29) Maika vs Skye Blue and Survival of the Fittest (00:16:39) Divine Dominion vs Thunder Rosa and Olympia (00:19:22) Bucks vs El Sky Team vs Unbound Company (00:25:57) Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr (00:35:50) Jon Moxley vs Bandido (00:44:00) Shota Umino vs PAC (00:49:28) Thekla vs Starlight Kid (01:03:01) Cope and Christian vs The Dogs (and the return of Jay White) (01:21:02) Mercedes Moné vs Maya World (01:32:32) Death’s Door 12-man cage match (01:58:49) Will Ospreay vs Swerve Strickland (02:15:10) Happy things Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vibe's way off this week, lads. (00:00:00) News bits, including MyAEW nabbing some indie promotions, ROH Global Wars, Mark Davis coming to RevPro this weekend and ZSJ coming to Anniversary, and a garden update from Hangman (00:10:49) Will Ospreay’s terrible promo and the even more terrible fan response that followed (00:21:07) The steel cage match teams are confirmed… or are they? (00:29:50) Never let them take Mercedes Moné away from us again (00:34:22) Survival of the Fittest updates (00:37:11) Thekla is keeping the door open (00:39:00) Kenny has also opened the Forbidden Door, somehow in the wrong order (00:43:26) Anyone know what Shota Umino’s deal is these days?(00:45:08) That Chicago Street Fight ruled (00:51:13) Are the Bucks coming to Forbidden Door? (00:54:34) Where next for Speedball? (00:59:08) Which PPVs would you cancel? (01:00:38) Fantasy booking the women’s world title (01:02:46) Happy things Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re still missing a load-bearing Hangman, but you know what? Kenny Omega vs Zack Sabre Jr moves us. Forbidden Door promises to be fun… as long as Andrade keeps his pants on. Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop (00:00:00) Newsy bits: three women announced for the RevPro Women’s Grand Prix; Eddie Kingston might be coming back to London for a tag match; David Francisco attacked JJ Gale but we’re on his side; Michael Oku beat Jay Joshua for the British Heavyweight title and did super sinister heel work; Progress’s ticket prices are wild; EVE needs a female commentator; we’re doing a Mick Foley livestream next week! (00:25:04) Ciampa and Jericho could work a crowd in their sleep (00:27:39) Women’s Owen Hart tournament updates (00:34:55) Other things the AEW women’s roster are up to, including speculation on what Thekla might be doing at Forbidden Door (00:39:00) Men’s Owen Hart tournament updates (00:44:19) What’s going on with the Death Riders? Do we all remember that they broke Chuck Taylor’s neck and made Orange Cassidy drink bleach? (00:50:59) MJF’s lack of friends makes us sad (00:56:48) Andrade face turn when? (01:06:08) Forbidden Door is two weeks away!!!! (01:11:19) Make Orange Cassidy the men’s world champion please (01:14:41) Forgotten why we were angry at Excalibur but we seem to have forgiven him (01:15:19) Happy things! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Basically just an hour and a half of Blackheart Lio Rush impressions. (00:00:00) Newsy bits and pieces including the upcoming RevPro Women’s Grand Prix, Progress’s new owners, Beyond drama, and losing the Butcher and the Blade (00:17:38) Mercedes Moné is back in AEW! (00:23:22) Give us Persephone on commentary every week forever (00:29:26) All hail the Toxic Spider, her live promos are everything (00:32:57) We’re Best Friends girlies (gn) forever and you can’t stop us (00:37:50) Lio Rush is a gremlin and we love him (00:46:04) Bye bye now Rush, we don’t need any more from you (00:54:35) Don Callis is taking over the show and his amorphous blob of men only grows (01:07:17) TayJay survived five with the tallest women alive (01:11:13) Happy times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bit of a different one today! After a bit of back and forth on social media about women's wrestling at RevPro, Andy Quildan offered to come and have a proper chat with us about his women's division, including the upcoming Women's Grand Prix shows, that unfortunate International Women's Day show, and much more. (Also, we got into it a bit about Blackheart Lio Rush and David Francisco, because why not?) The tweet that started it all: https://x.com/awfullywaffly/status/2057074718826483877 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Two things happened this week: an AEW pay-per-view, and a record-breaking heatwave in the UK. Your girlies (gn) made it through both, but we couldn’t say we were at our best. (00:00:00) We’re too hot and we’ve watched too much wrestling (00:04:52) Mick Foley is All Elite! (00:07:38) Pre-show: just a five-minute eliminator for the Divine Dominion, while people are still coming in? (00:10:54) Pre-show: Death Riders vs The Opps, for some reason (00:11:48) Pre-show: The Conglomeration plus Boom and Doom vs Shane Taylor Promotions (00:16:39) Pre-show: Some words of wisdom from Mick Foley for MJF and Darby Allin (00:21:22) Tag Team Championship New York Street Fight I Quit Match: FTR vs Cope and Christian (00:28:39) International Championship Match: Okada vs Takeshita (00:37:43) Owen Hart Foundation Quarter Final: Athena vs Mina Shirakawa (plus a heat-induced meltdown) (00:54:06) No Time Limit Continental Championship Match: Jon Moxley vs Kyle O’Reilly (00:59:51) Owen Hart Foundation Quarter Final: Will Ospreay vs Samoa Joe (and why we will never take on board what’s “definitely” going to happen six months down the line) (01:08:37) Owen Hart Foundation Quarter Final: Swerve Strickland vs Bandido (and some wrestlers we’d put on the bench) (01:16:24) Women’s World Championship 4-Way Match: Thekla vs Jamie Hayter vs Hikaru Shida vs Kris Statlander (and Kris vs Shida’s Philly Street Fight) (01:26:43) A moment of losing our minds in the heat (01:27:20) Stadium Stampede Match: Jericho and the Hurt Syndicate and the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and Jack Perry vs The Demand and The Dogs and Andrade El Idolo and Mark Davis, with bonus Luther, Lio Rush, MVP, and more (01:46:25) Men’s World Championship Hair vs Title Match: Darby Allin vs MJF (02:03:47) A heartbreaking heel turn, plus an outfit that defies description (02:10:10) The next challengers for the Men’s World Championship (02:21:15) Happy times Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Only three hours of AEW to discuss this week, and mostly we’ve concluded that we have no idea what’s going to happen at All In, it’s ages away yet, anything could happen. Hopefully Lio Rush wins a title though! (00:00:00) If we got black-misted, would anyone even notice? Plus: excess Ring of Honor, a month of RevPro chaos, and a bit of BOSJ (00:08:07) Swerve Strickland gives us our new reaction clip, and are we getting a visit from Mick Foley? (00:14:40) The latest from the AEW Men’s World title scene, plus wild speculation about what might happen at All In (00:26:56) More neck therapy for Will Ospreay from the Death Riders (00:30:34) The brackets for the Owen Hart tournament have dropped! (00:40:58) So many men are gonna be in the Stadium Stampede, just, so many (00:46:54) The return of Brian Cage (and Trent in a suit) (00:47:42) Lio Rush is the gremlin king (00:49:46) Goth ref, goth ref! (00:56:19) Double Or Nothing is literally next week (00:58:30) Happy times Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Weird one this week, wasn't it? Maybe a three hour show on a Wednesday is just a weird vibe. (00:00:00) Promotional malpractice, pay cuts at the Fed, and some anti-capitalism (00:11:24) Sending all our love to Rebel/Tanea Brooks and her family (00:14:55) Watch out for catfish in the IWC! (00:15:36) Three hours of Dynamite/Collision on Wednesday this week… and we’ve gotta talk about Orange Cassidy first, of course (00:25:31) Does Rush make you horny? And does Chris Jericho have four friends who aren’t the Hurt Syndicate? (00:28:40) Not sure about Bryan Keith’s new haircut, but it’s nice to see him. (00:32:12) Is there going to be a schism in the Don Callis Family? (00:33:15) Harley Cameron hulks out but we still don’t have enough women’s matches (00:37:59) The Brawling Birds and the Triangle of Madness are still feuding so where’s our Thekla promo? (00:41:02) Meanwhile in the men’s world championship scene… is Maxwell really gonna shave his head? And has Tony Khan considered that making Orange Cassidy world champion would make line go up? (00:53:27) Will Ospreay please tell us a story, we’re very worried that you’re rejecting character development (01:06:10) A 10 man party match featuring the Young Bucks? We’ve gotta get those tag belts out of the swamp (01:12:54) We’ve gotta make sure Swerve Strickland gets booed (01:16:27) Happy… times? Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Come for the episode recaps, stay for the increasingly unhinged fantasy booking. No, you're gonna like it, honestly. (00:00:00) Housekeeping, some sad WWE debuts, some WWE releases, and… no, we don’t know why we’re talking so much about that place either, sorry, won’t happen again (00:10:04) Lots of things on Dynamite made us happy this week. Starting with the further adventures of Orange Cassidy (featuring FTR, Cope and Christian, Ciampa, and hallucinogenic popcorn) (00:20:03) Belts and title shots for everyone… but none for Max Friedman byeeeeee (00:28:02) Okay, how you know? (00:32:42) Why wouldn’t you just put a belt on the coolest guy in the company? By which we mean Brody King, obvs. (00:36:27) Crispy Billy joins the Death Riders (00:43:29) The black mist lives!!!! Now we just need more time for women so we can do some stories with it (00:58:25) Okada had a banger but let’s not only let heels speak foreign languages please, we are hyper aware of the potential pitfalls here (01:00:33) Round up of other bits and bobs including Jack Perry vs El Clon, Bucks and Rascalz vs Death Riders and the Dogs, and other things that happened, we definitely know things that happened (01:04:07) Saving the best for last: Swerve Strickland made an appearance! We are SEATED. (01:13:35) The most adorable proof of life Email: wafflybollox@gmail.comShop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oof. Lots going on, eh? This week, we attempt to run down everything that’s happened since Dynasty, but unfortunately there’s a ghost in the machine (and it seems to be trying to type on MJ’s keyboard throughout?) (00:00:00) We try to remember how to do this podcast thing (00:09:54) We’ve got a new AEW men’s world champion since we last recorded, and we don’t like it (00:18:34) Maxwell crashout era? Finally? For us? (00:23:39) Put the title on Brody King, go on (or else we might just ignore the men’s world title for a bit) (00:31:05) Get the tag titles out of the swamp (00:34:21) Sad boys being sad (00:37:16) What are the Death Riders’ intentions with Will Ospreay? (00:42:49) Can we get a new challenger for Thekla please? (00:44:30) Shida got rumbled, and Stat might be having second thoughts… (00:52:30) Samoa Joe has returned! (00:54:08) Let Lio Rush be spooky (and stop talking over him!) (01:00:25) Can we please see Orange Cassidy vs Blake Christian one-on-one? (01:08:12) Happy times Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Roll out your sleeping bag and settle in for a natter! Wrestler LA Taylor joins us in our waffly den to chat Cornish representation, being an outsider... and the wildest pizza order you've ever heard. (00:00:00) Welcoming LA Taylor into the Waffly den (00:06:39) Choosing a movie: the joys of Shrek 2 and period dramas (00:13:37) All Japan Women’s wrestling, influences, and sharing a locker room with Aja Kong (00:17:03) First favourite wrestlers and the power of manifestation (00:19:56) The south-west wrestling scene, and social mobility in wrestling (00:28:05) Wrestling in summer camps (00:33:25) Representation, the weight of responsibility, and Progress’s first ever women’s Super Strong Style 16 tournament (00:37:54) Reinventing yourself in the age of COVID (00:44:18) Teaming with Skye Smitson (00:51:20) Being the Lana Austin Experience and getting ringside experience (00:54:09) Working heel and getting heat from six year olds (00:57:00) Coming back better than ever after an injury (00:59:34) What’s your pizza order? (01:02:23) The biggest challenges in BritWres at the moment (01:04:47) Childhood crushes (and recurring themes) (01:11:40) Watching deathmatches (and why women are better at them) (01:16:31) Goals Follow LA Taylor on social: @la_taylor_pw on Instagram @L_A_Taylor_ on X @lataylorpw.bsky.social on Bluesky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pop some champagen, Kyle O’Reilly’s back! And everything else that happened at AEW Dynasty 2026. (00:00:00) News and indie roundup (00:18:28) AEW Dynasty’s Zero Hour: the unwelcome return of Kamille, Alex Windsor vs Marina Shafir, the spectre of heel Shida, Jack Perry vs Mark Davis, and the Divine Dominion vs Maya World and Hyan. (00:40:10) The Young Bucks vs Okada and Takeshita (00:51:31) Ricochet vs Chris Jericho (and several tangents about the temperature and comfort of wrestling venues, and minor user interface issues with MyAEW) (01:05:29) Andrade El Idolo vs Darby Allin (01:11:41) FTR vs Cope and Christian (and the death of tag team wrestling in AEW) (01:22:56) TNT Title Casino Gauntlet match (01:30:53) Women’s World Championship match: Thekla vs Jamie Hayter (01:44.51) Continental Championship match: Jon Moxley vs Will Ospreay, where one line of commentary sends us into a spiral about bravery, stupidity, and what it means to be the best (02:02:34) Men’s Trios Championship match: The Dogs vs The Conglomeration (02:11:58) Men’s World Championship match: MJF vs Kenny Omega, with a nutshot-related recommendation for David Francisco’s recent match against Richard Holliday at RevPro Live in London 106 (02:33:58) Unhinged speculation about who might get the men’s world title next, and when Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We're having a sleepover, and you're invited! Veda Scott is a wrestling broadcaster who's worked with NPJW, TJPW, CMLL, GCW, AEW, North, and more. We were very, very excited to get into our comfies, plan snacks, figure out which wrestling matches to watch, and then set the world to rights with Veda. Also? We asked about the cave wrestling show. Because how could we not? (00:00:00) Hello Veda! (00:03:34) Settling into the inaugural Waffly Bollox sleepover (00:09:15) Choosing the right wrestling show to watch at a sleepover (and the perils of going back to old shows) (00:16:54) The joys of Tokyo Joshi Pro (00:20:52) Moving from wrestling into broadcasting (00:29:10) The most painful spots in wrestling (00:36:36) How it feels to call a match when you’re married to one of the wrestlers in it (00:43:46) Wrestling in a cave - the legend of Breed Wrestling’s Starrcave (00:54:46) BritWres, Speaking Out, and the ways in which kayfabe gives the worst people room to operate in a scene (01:07:01) Tackling the lack of non-male voices in this space (01:19:20) Who’s the hottest masked luchador? Follow Veda on social: @itsvedatime on X @vedascott1 on YouTube @vedascott.bsky.social on Bluesky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re just a weekly wrestling podcast, standing in front of a wrestling promoter, asking for some decent storytelling… (00:00:00) That Thursday Collision really messed with our sense of time and space (00:03:42) The return of Chris Jericho to AEW, and jobs for the boys (00:15:56) Kenny Omega’s guts could explode at ANY MOMENT (00:24:36) Imagine working in an office with The Demand (00:28:53) MJF as the foreign heel (00:31:11) Speedball and Kevin Knight pass the vibe check, unlike some other people (00:33:12) The visible hands of Don Callis: Okada has nothing to do, Aussie Open are cursed (get well soon, Kyle!), RPG Vice had a run-in with Cope and Christian, Don is taking bribes from MJF and deploying Andrade to keep Darby Allin busy, and something something title shots how why what is any of this nonsense (00:49:52) Nothing in the women’s division means anything right now (00:53:32) How do you ruin a perfectly good grudge match? Slap Continental Classic rules on it (00:58:17) The Death Riders are a problem tbh (01:02:29) What are we meant to be emotionally invested in? (01:04:52) Holy Shida! And introducing the Beltdel test, plus a grab bag of other stuff we didn’t have much to say about (01:08:58) Happy times (including dream cuppa rotations) Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We're never accepting that a "double main event" is a thing, especially if it means women never get to be the main event. (00:00:00) Double main events are nonsense, plus news from RevPro: our new women’s champion, a Mercedes Mone sighting, and a big old heel turn from One Called Manders (00:21:05) Things the internet has been arguing about this week, featuring Brody King, the disappearance of Toni Storm, and terrible brand synergy with transphobes (00:39:43) Who killed Toni Storm? Mina Shirakawa took on Marina Shafir and Thekla in her absence (00:47:28) Updates to the number one contender for the men’s World Title belt (but no EVP status for Swerve Strickland) (00:57:27) Swerve’s Kenny-referencing gear suggests the Elite mindset extends far beyond just “The Elite” as defined (00:58:47) No thank you Darby, we don’t want any (01:05:42) Trent is allowed back on Dynamite and Jack Perry has a pet squirrel?! (01:09:05) Ospreay is gonna fight the Death Riders, but do we still care? (01:11:25) Let Lio Rush be a demon if he wants to be (01:14:13) Some other stuff is happening I guess but everything just feels a bit baggy at the moment (01:18:51) Happy times Email: wafflybollox@gmail.com Shop: ko-fi.com/wrassletrash/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We grabbed some time with one of the busiest wrestlers on the scene right now to chat about becoming a powerhouse, Australian slang, and the best flavour of ice cream. Watch out for Lil Marz, you'll be seeing her EVERYWHERE. Find Marz on social media: @lilmzz on Instagram @LilMarzWrestler on X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices