A year after his surprise arrival in WWE, AJ Styles comes back to the Rumble, this time as champion of the World. But, there is one man standing in his way: John Cena. This match finished an epic trilogy between these two men. Was this one as p...

Welcome to Strong Grapple City, population 2. Mike Awesome and Masato Tanaka, two certified members of the CREAM TEAM, bring their feud to the States and inside an ECW ring. This feud is known for two power guys just power moving the hell out o...

Two former Shield brothers collide in the most dangerous structure in all of WWE - the Hell in a Cell. The fight starts on the top of the cage, is filled with many big bumps, and has elements you don't see coming. Is it a classic? We put it thr...

Two of the greatest that ever wrestled happened to be brothers - Bret and Owen Hart. This match came at the end of a near-year long feud between the two, including Owen scoring an upset victory over his brother at Wrestlemania a few months prio...

Two daredevils meet in this hardcore, no holds barred, falls count anywhere WWF Hardcore Title match on the biggest non-Wrestlemania PPV of all time. That PPV may have been considered a dud, but this was a standout match remembered for its high...

We are double dippin' into IIAC Maniac suggestions this week as our two matches come from our listeners.  In our first of two main events we discuss a fast-paced, high-flying Cruiserweight 8-Man tag match that opened up the WCW/nWo Souled ...

HHH brought out the sadistic side of Mick Foley when he morphed into his Cactus Jack persona for their classic street fight at Royal Rumble 2000.  But, their story didn't end there. Cactus was willing to put his career on the line in a Hel...

In the year 2000.... Triple H, during arguably his best run of matches in his career, came face to face with the rising star Chris Jericho. Both men had animosity in the ring, and backstage. Some of this came to a head in a Last Man Standing ma...

What was the match everyone was talking about coming out of Wrestlemania weekend? Seth vs Cody? Bianca vs. Becky? Knoxville vs. Zayn? It was none of these! On the first show of the Tony Khan era of Ring of Honor, FTR and the Briscoes tore the h...

It's been 1 year since our first definitive ruling if a wrestling match was a classic. Since then, our SCIENCE~! has changed, our tastes have been updated and we've become a little more polished at what we do (hopefully).  In that year, th...

Best friends. Better enemies. 13 years of wrestling everywhere together comes to a head at this battle at Battleground. They've run the gamut in the world of everything you can think of - besties, tag team champs, rivals without honor, best men...

Their first ladder match at Wrestlemania X is heralded as a classic, the jump start to an era of ladder matches. But, these two ran it back a little over a year later at Summerslam 1995 and brought the ladders with them. Does the second ladder ...

The greatest Wrestlemania triolgy comes to a head as The Rock battles Steve Austin in the people's main event of Wrestlemania 19. This would go down as Stone Cold's last match ever, as he would officially retire shortly after. This is two of th...

On this episode, four professionals get in the ring and deliver a fundamentally sound, old-school inspired, smooth, crisp, polished NXT Tag Title match. The Revival (currently known as FTR) face off against the team of Ciampa and Gargano in a m...

One of our co-hosts Danny welcomed his third child into the world this week so admittedly recording a podcast was not in the cards. So, we tossed it back to one of our BETA EPISODES~! This is what we dubbed episode 0.2 - the second of our "let'...

Two icons of professional wrestling put their careers on the line as Ric Flair takes on champion Hulk Hogan in a steel cage for all the marbles! There were lots of storylines leading up to this and lots of names involved: Jimmy Hart, Sting, Mr....

Ahead of the annual Elimination Chamber premium live event, we review the first ever match to take place in Bischoff's demonic structure. HBK, HHH, RVD, Y2J, T, Kane, lots of big name initials made up this match invented by Eric Bischoff. With ...

*ALERT* *ALERT* Someone sound the Steiner sirens, it's Solo ep time~! Danny is out of pocket so Chad is running solo this week. In this ep, Chad breaks down the headlines for the week. He then reminisces and plays a game involving classic and f...

On today's episode, the theme is brevity. That is why we chose what may be the greatest under 10 minute match of all time - Rey Mysterio vs. Kurt Angle at Summerslam 2002. This was the opener of arguably the greatest Summerslam of all time. The...

As we head into the Royal Rumble, we take a look at another version of the iconic match. This time, the men's version from 2018. It happened pretty recently, so can it be considered a classic? Was it better or worse than the 2001 match we revie...

30 men enter but only 1 man can be left standing. Who will go on to the Wrestlemania main event? The Royal Rumble is one of the most talked about and most anticipated matches each year on the wrestling calendar and 2001 did not disappoint. From...

It's the in-ring debut of one of the most dominate, destructive forces in WWE history: The Shield. As a last minute match is made, they are tasked with taking down Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan) and Ryback. And this isn't any ordinary mat...

Two of the biggest names in modern wrestling clash at the last ever No Mercy PPV.  Their mic battles led to this battle. This is a potential torch passing moment from one generation's star to the next. This match had big moves, lots of fin...

THE MATCH BEYOND! SUBMIT OR SURRENDER! One of the most famous matches of one of the most famous types of matches happened in Phoenix, AZ in WCW. Eight of the biggest stars of wrestling found in the brutal WAR GAMES match where there were no cou...

Who is the master and ruler of the world? Who is the showstopper? Who is the WWF Champion? Who can bring us a classic match? The main event of Survivor Series 1996 brought a long term storyline to a head as HBK Shawn Michaels and Sycho Sid clas...