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Contesting Wrestling

Ben is an academic who loves wrestling. Doc is a wrestler. And Evan...just doesn’t get it. After twenty-plus years of friendship, they’re going to try and understand each other, and hopefully make sen... Read more

Ranked #1

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 8.5 - Storytelling in Wrestling with Mitchell Fesh of XSW

Contesting Wrestling Episode 8.5 - Storytelling in Wrestling with Mitchell Fesh of XSW

Comedy wrestling impresario Mitchell Fesh of Xtremely Serious Wrestling (a league that often features our own Doc Diamon... Read more

2 Dec 2019

1hr 19mins

Ranked #2

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 11 - The Montreal Screw Job

Contesting Wrestling Episode 11 - The Montreal Screw Job

Evan demands an explanation of the most infamous event in wrestling history, when Mr. McMahon was born and the whole gen... Read more

23 Dec 2019

1hr 16mins

Ranked #3

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 17 - 02/14/20

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 17 - 02/14/20

In our AJ Lee postscript, we re-iterate the importance of staying out of the ocean. Also? Don't surprise make out with p... Read more

14 Feb 2020

23mins

Ranked #4

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 16 - AJ Lee

Contesting Wrestling Episode 16 - AJ Lee

In which we dive into the history of game-changing WWE superstar AJ Lee. We read from her autobiography "Crazy is My Sup... Read more

10 Feb 2020

1hr 8mins

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Ranked #5

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 8 - Best and Worst Matches, Joe/Kobashi, Suzuki/Gunn

Contesting Wrestling Episode 8 - Best and Worst Matches, Joe/Kobashi, Suzuki/Gunn

Evan steps into the world of indie wrestling when Doc and Ben show him one of their favorite matches of all time, one th... Read more

25 Nov 2019

1hr 12mins

Ranked #6

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 16 - 02/07/20

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 16 - 02/07/20

In the epilogue to our Cena series, we contemplate how we always need to have it both ways, and speculate about how much... Read more

7 Feb 2020

26mins

Ranked #7

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 15 - John Cena

Contesting Wrestling Episode 15 - John Cena

Take #2 of our John Cena episode, this time with Betsy Ross (@Good_Ole_BR) joining us. We examine the man who cannot be ... Read more

3 Feb 2020

1hr 12mins

Ranked #8

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 9 - 12/13/19

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 9 - 12/13/19

The similarities between wrestling and sex work, the time Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheik got caught smoking crack... Read more

13 Dec 2019

34mins

Ranked #9

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 9 - Hulk Hogan pt. 1: The 80s

Contesting Wrestling Episode 9 - Hulk Hogan pt. 1: The 80s

He is an inevitability. For years, he was the face of wrestling. He was one of only three or four wrestlers Evan could n... Read more

9 Dec 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #10

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 10 - Hulk Hogan pt.2: The 90s

Contesting Wrestling Episode 10 - Hulk Hogan pt.2: The 90s

We continue our examination of possibly the only man in history forced to explain to a judge the difference between his ... Read more

16 Dec 2019

54mins

Ranked #11

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 30 - Orange Cassidy

Contesting Wrestling Episode 30 - Orange Cassidy

We delve into the freshly squeezed career of the enigmatic genius known as Orange Cassidy.

18 May 2020

1hr 18mins

Ranked #12

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 30 - 05/15/20

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 30 - 05/15/20

Evan makes an announcement. Hell is contemplated. Season 2 begins.

15 May 2020

15mins

Ranked #13

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 29 - Hell in a Cell

Contesting Wrestling Episode 29 - Hell in a Cell

As we close out our Mick Foley series, we watch his match with the Undertaker that arguably ended wrestling. We also wat... Read more

11 May 2020

1hr 16mins

Ranked #14

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 28 - Mick Foley, Part Two (Mankind)

Contesting Wrestling Episode 28 - Mick Foley, Part Two (Mankind)

We continue our journey through the career of Mick Foley. He creates the cutest vehicle for the most horrifying move pos... Read more

4 May 2020

1hr 13mins

Ranked #15

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 27 - Wrestlemania 36

Contesting Wrestling Episode 27 - Wrestlemania 36

We take a break from our Foley series to discuss an utterly surreal, audience-free Wrestlemania. Evan only watched three... Read more

27 Apr 2020

1hr 5mins

Ranked #16

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 27 - 04/25/20

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 27 - 04/25/20

Recorded on 4/20, we talk about, um....something, presumably. Oh! Wait....wait, no, it's gone. I feel like I remember ad... Read more

25 Apr 2020

22mins

Ranked #17

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 26 - Mick Foley, Part One (Cactus Jack)

Contesting Wrestling Episode 26 - Mick Foley, Part One (Cactus Jack)

We begin our multi-level journey into the world of Mick Foley, a wrestler who elicits stronger feelings among the hosts ... Read more

20 Apr 2020

1hr 11mins

Ranked #18

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 26 - 04/17/2020

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 26 - 04/17/2020

In which we go over corrections/omissions from our R-Truth episodes, and muse on the similarities/differences between wr... Read more

17 Apr 2020

27mins

Ranked #19

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Contesting Wrestling Episode 25 - R-Truth

Contesting Wrestling Episode 25 - R-Truth

In our first remotely recorded lockdown episode, Doc, Katy and Ben guide Evan through the career of a lesser-known, and ... Read more

13 Apr 2020

55mins

Ranked #20

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Contesting Wrestling Minisode 25 - 04/10/2020

Contesting Wrestling Minisode 25 - 04/10/2020

In which we reflect upon a surreal Wrestlemania, and make corrections to the Charlotte Flair episode.

10 Apr 2020

22mins

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