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Watch Great Wrestling

WGW is an informal research project with little-to-no methodology seeking to answer the question "What makes a great wrestling match, and why?" We watch the best wrestling matches of all time, suggested by you, and then show them to our friends to see if they hold up!
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Feb 24, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 2/19/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Feb 18, 2020

Back to Kuroken Hall, back to AJPW, but this time we're diving into something a little more contemporary. For the first time the gang will be discussing the somewhat divisive Kento Miyahara as we look at a main event contest from early 2019.

The Ace of All Japan Pro Wrestling Kento Miyahara defends his Triple Crown Heavyweight Title against challenger KAI. Will this be the first defense in a long 4th reign as Champion for the Miyahara, or will the King of Freedom finally climb to the top of the mountain?

And joining the team for this episode to add some data to our informal research project is Bryan Condon! (@BryanCondon)

[Kento Miyahara vs Kai, AJPW New Year Wars 2019, January 3 2019]

 

 

Feb 15, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 2/12/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Feb 10, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 2/05/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Feb 4, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 1/29/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Jan 29, 2020

We're back from our unintentionally long hiatus with a wild brawl for the WWWA World Tag Team Championships. It's Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita (the despicable, very loud LCO) vs Kumiko Maekawa & Tomoko Watanabe (the champions, U*Tops) in a 2 out of the 3 falls match-up that makes full use of the arena and is chock full of plunder.

Colorful chairs, crimsons masks, some incredible innovative offense and Joaquin turning heel on Kumiko Maekawa make this episode an instant classic.

Joining the insanity this week to break down all of the action is Jeff Trammell! (@MrJeffTrammell)

[Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita vs Kumiko Maekawa & Tomoko Watanabe, AJW Zenjo Transformation - Tag 36, 18 June 1997]

Jan 24, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 1/22/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Jan 17, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 1/15/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Jan 10, 2020

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 1/8/20**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Dec 20, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 12/18/19**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Dec 16, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 12/12/19**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Dec 12, 2019

"Friendship Torn Apart!"

While this tagline for WrestleMania VIII may have been referring to one of our two main events, it's just as appropriate to describe the build for this episode's focus: Bret Hart vs Roddy Piper. For the penultimate prize in the game, emotions are high even if the match's placement on the card isn't.

Roddy, the champ, is reluctant to battle such a close family friend. Bret, the challenger, knows that if they don't put everything they have into this fight, then the title means nothing.

Who will leave with the victory? Who will leave a champion?

Our guest this week to break down all of the action is Nathaniel McDonald (@lentilstew)

[Roddy Piper vs Bret Hart, WrestleMania VIII, April 5 1992]

Dec 3, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 11/27/19**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Nov 30, 2019

This week's episode is a return to the world of CMLL and the stakes couldn't be higher - it's Lucha de Apuestas with both competitor's beautiful, flowing locks on the line. This is the main event of CMLL's Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2016, and we're watching the incredible Volador Jr battle the ageless Negro Casas.

Oh, and Tirantes is there too. Yay.

Joining your hosts this week to help apply the (patent pending) STAR Rating system to this match is Brandon Huggett!

[Negro Casas vs Volador Jr., CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, March 18 2016]

Nov 14, 2019

At the halfway point of season 7 your boys are once again turning their critical eye toward NXT, this time discussing a match that marked an historic first in World Wrestling Entertainment: NXT Women's Champion Asuka defends her title against Sanity's Nikki Cross in the first ever Last Woman Standing Match.

This dangerous stipulation will test the mettle of both woman and find out which will be able to take a beating and continue, and which won't be able to answer the official's ten count. While the chaos of the situation seems to favor NXT's Twisted Sister, The Empress of Tomorrow is in the middle of a dominant undefeated streak that seems impossible to break.

And donning the 4th lab coat for this week's application of dubious scientific methodology is this episode's special guest Brian Moyer!

Nov 7, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 11/06/19**

The Unofficial AEW Dynamite Post Show.

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Nov 5, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 10/30/19**

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Nov 1, 2019

Tell me doctor, where are we going this time?
Is this the 50s or is it Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-Jo Hall?

Oh what's that? It's EXACTLY Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-Jo Hall? Then we must be firing up our flux capacitor and travelling back to 2017 because on this week's episode your boys are having a critical look at the underappreciated junior heavyweight classic between champion Hiromu Takahashi and challenger KUSHIDA.

Will KUSHIDA be able to overcome the pains of his humiliating 116 second defeat to Takahashi that spring, or is TIME UP for KUSHIDA's run as the ace of the junior heavyweight division?

Sliding in on a hoverboard to help your boys analyze the match is director Zack Sekuler! (https://www.zacksekuler.com/)

Find everything TIA at our landing page thisisawesomepod.com

Hit us up on twitter @TIAPOD or at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com

[KUSHIDA vs Hiromu Takahashi, NJPW Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-Jo Hall, June 11 2017]

Oct 28, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 10/23/19**

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Oct 24, 2019

On this week's episode, your boys diving head first into the decidedly UNcontroversial world of Inoki-ism. Love it or hate it, you absolutely can't deny that it was a thing that happened.

Kensuke Sasaki, seconded by his wife and TIA alum Akira Hokuto, defends his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against "Big in Japan" Bob Sapp, who comes to the ring surrounded by members of Makai Club, the Inoki-obsessed stable that he's just joined.

Will the former Power Warrior be able to defeat the Bad Boy, or will those dastardly Makai Club members prove too big a hurdle for the champ to overcome?

Joining us via the TIA Hotline is returning guest Ana Espinoza! (@espinoza_ana)

[Kensuke Sasaki vs Bob Sapp, NJPW King of Sports, March 28 2004]

 

Oct 17, 2019

For you, the day Harley Race and Terry Funk graced your venue was the most important day of your life. But for them, it was Friday. Friday, July 1st, 1977 to be exact. 

It's a two out of three falls contest which sees NWA World's Heavyweight Champion Harley Race defending against the Texas' own Terry Funk. It isn't the first time these two titans have squared off, and it won't be their last. Not by a long shot. In a fight like this, with both men so familiar with one another, it truly feels like no man has the upper hand.

Importantly, active wrestler Nick Kozak has been chosen by the NWA booking committee as tonight's official. With his unique brand of referee, we're sure to get a definitive conclusion to this highly anticipated matchup.

And of course, occupying the guest's chair this week and looking resplendent in his TIA lab coat is Matt Morris!

Don't forget to hit us with 5 stars on iTunes and leave a comment. You can find everything TIA at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com and can send us match suggestions via email at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com or on twitter @TIAPOD

[Harley Race vs Terry Funk, NWA Houston Wrestling, July 1 1977]

Oct 16, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 10/9/19** As such, apologies to any listeners bothered by the volume of the mix of the music from the live stream. We are working on smoothing out technical glitches on our end. Enjoy!

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Oct 10, 2019

Season 7 begins with a classic championship match from the Ruthless Aggression era. It's pre-sword-&-grenade tattoo Brock Lesnar defending his Smackdown World Championship against everyone's favorite liar, cheater and thief, Eddie Guerrero!

Eddie has the momentum behind him, and a redemption story that's as much rooted in his rise up the rankings as it is about moving past old demons, but he has a 26 year old beast of a champion in front of him looking to spoil this underdog story.

And hanging over all of this, like a goateed Sword of Damocles, is one Bill Goldberg who's beef with Lesnar threatens to throw the entire contest into disarray. Who will leave No Way Out and head to WrestleMania 20 as champion?

As always, we are joined in the lab this week by friend of the pod Courtney Mattox who will help us apply some soft science to our analysis of the match.

You can find everything TIA at our landing page thisisawesomepod.com

Hit us up on twitter @TIAPOD or via e-mail at thisisawesomepod@gmail.com We need match suggestions and we only get them from one place: you, the listener! And please throw us a rating and review on iTunes. If you leave a match suggestion in your rating we will talk about your match on the air and it could potentially be the subject of an entire episode of TIA.

[Eddie Guerrero vs Brock Lesnar, WWE No Way Out 2004, February 15 2004]

Oct 3, 2019

**This Audio Is Pulled From the Twitch Stream Originally Broadcast on 10/2/19**

Originally a podcast binging, recapping, and annotating YouTube’s favorite pro wrestling show Being the Elite, the scope of WTE has now grown to cover every aspect of All Elite Wrestling.

Streaming live (most weeks) after AEW Dynamite on Twitch, your boys break down all of the action and discuss all things Elite in your wrestling world.

Also keep an eye out for special preview and recap shows for all of AEWs major cards.

Join us at twitch.tv/beckyandfrank LIVE after every AEW and let us know what you think!

Oct 1, 2019

Welcome to episode 23 of Watching the Elite - The only podcast you need to stay current with everything All Elite Wrestling! Your hosts are the boys of This is Awesome? - Joaquin, Frank and Chuck.

For the September 2019 edition of WTE we are discussing Being the Elite episodes 168-172, episodes of Road to AEW on TNT, and Wrestlers in Hotel Rooms Getting Room Service. Highlights from this block of episodes include: A handful of finger crossings, Kenny's continued downward spiral and the reveal of the new and improved AEW Control Center!

If you have any questions, comments, or corrections please e-mail us at watchingtheelite@gmail.com or hit us up @TIAPOD on twitter.

 

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