How Wrestling Explains The World

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we talk about New Japan Pro Wrestling, the eighth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick break down what made New Japan a revelatory experience for many American performers, why the stories they tell focus more on Japanese performers and the ways in which the promotion continues to shape the industry today.  Our recommended matches from this episode require a New Japan World subscription, but both Dave and I highly recommend getting one (and it's cheaper than the WWE Network!) Nick's pick: Scott Norton v. Big Van Vader, Battle Autumn '91 Dave's pick: Minoru Suzuki v. AJ Styles, G1 CLIMAX 2014 If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe o

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized. This week, it's Fake News. If you ever wondered about any of the following: - Why Alex Jones is so effective at constructing a reality? - How the WWE should really act if they care about equality as much as they claim to? - What makes the Owen Hart voice so irksome? then, boy howdy, do we have a podcast for you.   If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song: Rate, Review and Subscribe to us on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and the Google Play Store.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we talk about Dirt Sheets, the seventh entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick breakdown the evolution of Apter mags into "dirt sheets" and how those begot wrestling beats, wrestling verticals and whatever the heck Pro Wrestling Sheet is.     If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song: Rate, Review and Subscribe to us on Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and the Google Play Store.    

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized. This week, it's Mystery Fiction, so join us as we investigate every Murder, She Wrote or game that's afoot we could possibly think of while spending an hour or so sussing out what makes a great mystery stay with us just as much as a great match. And if you ever wondered about any of the following: - What Mike Hammer and Lex Luger have in common? - Which trope Hulk Hogan's heel turn took from Dame Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"? - How can wrestlers use Columbo to make themselves better? then, boy howdy, do we have a podcast for you.     Oh, and just one more thing: We're going to post links to our recommendations at the end of each episode whenever possible, starting this week. Dave's Recommendation - "Death in the Clouds" by Agatha Christie  Nick's Recommend

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we talk about Ladder Matches, the sixth entry to our wrestling compendium. We discuss how the gimmick has changed over time, where it went wrong and how it's made its way back to glory over the past few years.    If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song: Rate, Review and Subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized. This week, it's Cover Songs: We start off with the DDT and successful post-Jake versions/why they work when so many others haven't, Ric Flair's "cover" of Buddy Rogers' Nature Boy gimmick, Buddy Landel's cover of Ric Flair's gimmick and why so very few bands and musicians can cover The Beatles in a way that resonates beyond the original work. Then we end the show with an extended conversation about how the WWE's women's division has transcended their "cover band" status in a way that the men's division has struggled to over the last twenty years.  If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we talk about The DDT, the fifth entry to our wrestling compendium. We discuss what made it work, how it informed Jake's career as well wrestling in general and who (if anyone) comes close to Jake in the ring and on the mic. We also have another announcement, though less earth shattering than usual.  If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized. This week, it's the two-time defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors: We start off talking about Draymond Green as High Chief of the Midcard before shifting our focus to Oakland's basketball legacy, the community's incredible support of the franchise over the last 40+ years and how the organization is turning their backs on them like so much WCW. After reminiscing about Eugenio Velez (ask your nearest 30-something San Francisco Giants fan) we finish things off by exploring about what makes sports, well, sports (as opposed to, say, professional wrestling.) If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we talk about The Four Horsemen, the fourth entry to our wrestling compendium. We discuss the original four, what made the group work, the fundamental differences between being a franchise and a team, and most importantly whether or not Arn Anderson should have been World's Champion at some point. We'll also be announcing next week's topic for How Wrestling Explains The World.    If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth weekly discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. Because we live their lives on the end of a lightning bolt and do not apologize for that, we've decided to try something slightly different for this week's topic, Slasher Films: After we spend some time dissecting the finer points of Big Van Vader's Mastodon mask, Nick sits down with NYWC's Rich Kasin and Andy Miller to talk about slasher films and monster heels, before coming back to end the show with Dave's breakdown of the Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl and its violent ramifications throughout wrestling history. If you liked the theme song, "Dog of War" by Dylan's band The Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to the show on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, we talk about Big Van Vader, the third entry to our wrestling compendium and a mutual favorite of ours. We'll cover what made Vader work as both a monster and a heel from the sumo halls of Tokyo in NJPW to Independence Arena in Charlotte, NC. We'll also be announcing some exciting news about Juice Make Sugar and next week's topic for How Wrestling Explains The World.    If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here twice monthly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week: We have Dylan Roth -- of The Hell Yeah Babies -- on to talk about the similarities between writing pop punk music and planning a match, how live performances can inform the final product, whether or not he's ever heeled out on a crowd and why we want to WALK WITH ELIAS despite his obvious musical deficiencies.   If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by Dylan's band The Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their first ever intentional minisode, a supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world. This week, Bash at the Beach '96 becomes the second entry to our wrestling compendium. We talk about the nWo v. T-Pain, Hulk vs. Hollywood and, ever so briefly, Steve "Mongo" McMichael vs. Joe Gomez.   If you like the theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week we cover professional wrestling's long lost English cousin, Nature Documentaries. We'll get into the limits of kayfabe in the natural world with a CBC exposé called "Cruel Camera," whether or not David Attenborough is just an animal wrestling promoter with a charming accent and how long-form documentary nature series are like PPV cards. We also have A MAJOR, EARTH SHATTERING ANNOUNCEMENT at the end of the episode.  If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week we cover Nick's favorite single piece of entertainment, The Music Man: Between Iowegians wanting to be lied to, to the striking amount of similarities between John Cena and Harold Hill, and the importance of a good lie,  we're here to tell you that -- by god -- we've got the entirety of River City covered just beyond that play button. Don't believe us? We guess you'll just have to listen for yourselves.   If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week: We cover disappointment as a concept in the context of wrestling fandom, dissect the difference between it and outrage, what causes one or the other to happen and how to avoid inflicting it on yourself.  If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are BACK to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week, IT'S THE ULTIMATE MINISODE. Actually, this is the opposite of true, as we will be doing regular pods to supplement our actual episodes -- the ones that are mostly pop culture references -- but you get the idea: We talk about Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt's Ultimate Deletion match in all its cinematic glory.  If you like the show, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.    

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here twice monthly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week: We have Darnell Mitchell -- of Capitol Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Iowa -- on to talk about the history of the Will They Or Won't They trope and how wrestling inverts it, why male friendships are so hard, the evolution of representation in wrestling and what the future may hold for LGBTQ+ fans & performers.   If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here twice monthly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week: We cover Vince McMahon, the auteur, televison character and huckster, through the prism of post-structuralism. Come for the Barthes references, stay for the Derrida references.  If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and the Internet's Nick Bond are here twice monthly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling. And what that means for the rest of the world. This week: We're back, but the argument is out as to whether we are "better than ever," but given the amount of audio clips we had to cut to drop into this episode -- from our topic, The Venture Bros. -- we sure hope so. This episode'll focuses on Venture Bros.'s use of kayfabe, the dangers of nepotism in a world without real consequence and what professional wrestling can learn from Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick.  If you liked our theme song, "Dog of War" by the Hell Yeah Babies, you should buy their album All The Things You Believe on Bandcamp If you like the show after the theme song, rate review and subscribe to us on Podbean or iTunes.