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Episode 166: Business Casual Corbin
by John Pingel
Well, it’s been over TWO MONTHS since we last released an episode! We’re coming back at you with a slightly different format, but we’re still talking about all the weekly WWE programming! NXT TakeOver, Money in the Bank, RAW, Smackdown LIVE, and 205 Live! We also talk about the past week in professional wrestling news! […] More
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Episode 148: The YEP Movement: Party of One.
by John Pingel
Well, it was bound to happen at some point. John has decided to go solo for this episode! He discusses the MIXED MATCH CHALLENGE, RAW, SMACKDOWN LIVE, and previews CLASH OF CHAMPIONS. Plus: When should a WWE referee call for the bell when someone interferes? John tells you that, plus much more! More
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Episode 113: Suitmoa Joe & A Bag of Milk
by John Pingel
The bell has sounded, which means TTR is ready to bring you the weekly round up of ProGraps! We talk about the RAW debut of Samoa Joe, the oddly entertaining dual contract signing on SMACKDOWN LIVE, and the five way elimination match on 205 LIVE. We also preview the ELIMINATION CHAMBER event, talk a little […] More
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Episode 112: Mr. Steal Yo Girl
by John Pingel
The road to Wrestlemania starts here! We cover all of the weekly WWE programming that we can handle. On RAW, we saw the debut of Samoa Joe! But at what price? On SMACKDOWN LIVE we saw, what John called, “The worst segment on Smackdown Live since the brand split”! On 205 LIVE, we saw the […] More
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Episode 110: The World Needs Ditch Diggers
by John Pingel
The TTR crew is back and ready to give you their unique coverage of the past week on professional wrestling! This week, our duo talk about the brawl that opened RAW. As well as the fantastic RAW Tag Team Championship match that occurred. Then on the confirmed “A Show” SMACKDOWN LIVE, we saw the reveal […] More
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WWE UK Championship Tournament Night 2
by John Pingel
The WWE UNITED KINGDOM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT has come and gone, but TTR is still here to recap the finale! John is joined by Courtney as they rundown the fantastic event that crowned the very first United Kingdom Champion! What match stole the show? What fallout will the results have for the UK Independent scene? We […] More
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Episode 102: Sin Cara Fightin’ Round the World
by John Pingel
On this edition of TTR, we rundown the “go home” shows of RAW, SMACKDOWN LIVE, and NXT. Marianne gives us a recap of last week’s APW show, and we give our predictions for both SURVIVOR SERIES and NXT TAKEOVER: TORONTO! Who do we think will come out on top between Team Red and Team Blue? […] More
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Episode 99: Bobby Roode’s Lazy Susan
by John Pingel
This week we welcome in the host of The Spinning Heel Kick Podcast, AJ! He tells us a little about APW’s Halloween Hell, and more importantly meeting “Broken” Matt Hardy! Then, our trio talk all about Rusev’s family from RAW and GOLDBERG’s amazing promo. On SMACKDOWN LIVE, we talked about the state of the Women’s […] More
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Episode 96: Buy a Cardboard Cutout of Randy Orton, Man.
by John Pingel
As we get closer to the 100th episode of TTR, we’ve come to realize one thing: SMACKDOWN LIVE is the A Show. But before we get to Team Blue, we recap CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS and the RAW that followed. Just how many times did Mick Foley show up? How terrible was the crowd during […] More
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Episode 94: AJ, TJP, CWC, and Other Abbreviations
by John Pingel
WHAT A WEEK IT WAS, in the world of professional wrestling. On Sunday, SMACKDOWN LIVE put on one of the best WWE PPVs of the year in BACKLASH! We also kind of sort of watched RAW, couldn’t stop gushing about SMACKDOWN LIVE, and enjoyed Drew Gulak on NXT! Then, we talk about the CWC Finals […] More
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Episode 87: Dana Brooke & Guest
by John Pingel
#SHOOTWEEK has somehow made it’s way on to TTR! We, apparently, have many HOT TAKES and FEELINGS about ProGraps this week! We start off by going over the last RAW before the WWE DRAFT, and we try to make sense of the horrible New Day/Wyatt Family segment. Then, we talk about the one and only […] More
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Episode 86: It Takes a Lot of Fuel to Delete a Brother Nero
by John Pingel
TTR LISTENERS, WE KNEW YOU’D COME! This week, we start off the show by talking about THE FINAL DELETION. Marianne was fresh off watching it, so we get her reactions from it. We then talk about the Fourth of July RAW, and wonder who exactly threw that pie at Kevin Owens. NXT was fantastic this […] More