Wrestling 20 Years Ago Podcast

After a year where we lost two promotions but gained many more friends along the way, Rory McNamara helms our Ninth Annual End Of Year Awards Show! Chris White, Chris Lacey, Erick Landstrom and Dan Welling debate, discuss but mainly disagree their way through eleven categories covering both the very very good and very very bad of 2001! Listen along and let us know via the usual channels what your picks would be! Did we get it right?   See you in a few weeks for 2002!

Rory McNamara is joined by Del Muir and Pete Kimber to see off 2001. A year which even in its final four weeks still finds time to prepare(warn?) us for a forthcoming brand split, put on a PPV that takes us over two hours to review and best of all(YMMV) crown Chris Jericho the Undisputed Champion!   Thanks for all your support throughout the 2001/2021- and remember, the 2001 End Of Year Awards show will be landing on New Years' Eve!    

Rory McNamara is joined by Devinder Vargas to - finally! - put a bow on November 2001 by taking a close look at The Great Reset edition of RAW from 19th November 2001! Turns! Returns! Buns! The guys also find time to discuss the latest episode of JR Goes Back Home and to struggle with the concept of Undisputed Champion!        

Adam Joyce, Billy Johnson and Daniel D'Wit are on-hand for another month of independent wrestling from 2001! Listen out for appearances from wrestlers we haven't seen for a while, wrestlers we will likely never see again and wrestler we will definitely soon be getting used to!

Rory McNamara is joined by Chris Lacey, Erick Landstrom and Chris White to administer the final last rites to WCW and ECW in the form of Vince McMahon's brand of Sports Entertainment gleefully traipsing over their entrails!  Otherwise known as a review of Survivor Series 2001! Stay tuned for us casting our eyes back over the previous sorry four months of Alliance presentation plus yet another piece of Fantasy Booking Brain-Stroming!   Also check out our continually-updated Spotify playlist! (Don't worry, it's The Seekers' version of 'The Carnival Is Over' on there, not mine!)    

For our first of three shows looking at November 2001, Chris White is joined by Rory McNamara to....yeah...review another UK-PPV again, I know I know... but this one has Austin v Rock on it!   Stay tuned for some out-of-time-machine-mode reminiscences! 

Lacey, Del & Yullie are back to go over Octobers WWF tv and the No Mercy PPV, we talk Angle/Austin & RVD as they go for the WWF title, Rock & Jericho battle for the WCW title, and we get the new and now only scale to rate a show.

Daniel D'Wit, Billy Johnson and Adam Joyce are here once again to take you into every nook and cranny of the Indie wrestling landscape of September 2001! As ever you'll come across some names you are familiar with, alongside those who in an alternate universe you are familiar with! For more information on the matches discussed today check out the relevant page on our website right here!   For the latest information and to discover how YOU can get involved, follow the on guys on Twitter at @indywres20yrs  

We keep the time machine in the garage for this special edition of the Wrestling 20 Years Ago Podcast, as Erick Landstrom joins reality show expert Heather Olson to review season 1 of WWF Tough Enough on MTV!

Rory McNamara is joined by Bob Colling and Pete Kimber to look at the WWF in September 2001. After the grim-but-essential task of reviewing the Smackdown held shortly after the attack on the United States, the boys are able to turn their attentions back to professional wrestling by looking at the the stupendous build for Angle- Austin II, the Unforgiven PPV in full and their thoughts so far on the Invasion angle.

Billy Johnson, Daniel D'Wit and Adam Joyce are back to bring you another month of non-mainstream goodness! Today the guys look at a fascinating selection of contests from August 2001, which include a few very familiar names!  For more information on the matches and where you can watch them, check out the relevant page on our website right here!   Follow the podcast on Twitter @indywres20yrs to keep abreast on future shows and on how you can get involved!

Erick Landstrom, Chris White and Dan Welling cover a Very Good SummerSlam 2001, check in on the post-merger locker room (nothing to see here, folks), praise the incredible Steve Austin (what?), and discuss the alarming result of the biggest match of the month: the WWF vs. the WWF.

Adam Joyce, Billy Johnson and Daniel D'Wit are back for another deep-dive into the indie wrestling underworld, this time looking at July 2001! They take you on a World Tour - which like any good World Tour takes in a trip to Portsmouth - and they also drop in on Chris Lacey for an old time's sake ECW Reunion! Well, it has been four months...!   The chaps also bring you another Listener Pick Match - and be sure to follow them on Twitter at @indywres20yrs for how you can help make the call for next month's version!   For video links to all the matches discussed on today's show plus some more information, head to our website!  

Lacey is join by Yullie and Del as we go over one of the biggest months in wrestling history! We finally have WWF vs WCW (with added ECW)! We cover the Invasion PPV and all the TV going into it, another Austin turn, some amazing Heyman promos and then the small matter of the return of the Rock but will he go to the WWF or team WCW/ECW ?

Chris White and Erick Landstrom cover a busy June 2001 in the WWF. The guys discuss another great month from Steve Austin, DDP the Stalker (not so great), the burgeoning WCW invasion, and the 2001 King of the Ring.

Daniel D'wit, Adam Joyce and Billy Johnson are back with you for a second helping of Indie Goodness from June 2001. The guys pick two matches each, during which we will meet the likes of Low-Ki, Doug Williams, a pre-Mickie James Mickie James, The Amazing Red and many many more (oh yeah, The Barbarian and Tony Atlas too).  The guys will also take you through our first Listener Pick Match - and be sure to follow them on Twitter at @indywres20yrs for how you can help make the call for next month's version!   For video links to all the matches discussed on today's show plus some more information, head to our website!

The talking is over! Let the talking begin! Yes it's the first episode of The Indies 20 Years Ago Podcast! Join Billy Johnson, Daniel D'Wit and Adam Joyce as they take you through May 2001 in independent wrestling! They break down all the big and interesting news for the month before reviewing a selection of matches! If you wish to watch along with them then head over to our website for a full match-list with videos of the matches. ---- For those of you who are used to our format on the Wrestling 20 Years Ago Podcast, we are sure you will quickly pick up that these shows are NOT in strict Time Machine Mode, so if you hear things like "WWE" and "Blu-Ray" you don't have to bristle too much!  For those of you brand new to us, welcome! We hope you stick around and check out all the other content we have available on our feed! We've been looking forward to bringing this new direction to you all for a long time so we hope you enjoy it just as much the guys did making it and I did editing it! Follow the fellas

Rory McNamara is joined by Devinder 'The Hardest Working Man In Wrestling Interviewing!' Vargas for a month full of important in-ring action in the second of two shows looking at the WWF in May 2001:   Awww he gave her a paiw of Dudwey gwasses! Judgment Day 2001 Review We always knew it would all go well for Chris Jericho. Honest! HHH Toughs It Out TLC III: Must We? (It's Still Bloody Good Though) People are booing Austin! Really!

Rory McNamara is joined by Dan 'Star-Spotter' D'Wit to look at..oh..right....another UK-only PPV. But this one is good!! Really!! Well, some of it. Maybe...   Warning: Contains bad singing...

Rory McNamara is joined by Pete 'Black Widow' Kimber and Bob 'It's Still Real To Me, Dammit!' Colling to start on the long long long road with just one wrestling company for...er..company. I hope you brought a hip-flask! On the agenda for April 2001: Austin 4:2 Says...The Same Things As Before. Uh Oh.... People Want To Cheer HHH. People Are Weird, Man.... The Intercontinental Title is The Wanker's Title Are we all out on the Back-Lash? Chris Lacey also makes an appearance in order to finally lay ECW to rest...although "rest" is probably the wrong word!