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DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

The DEADLOCK Podcast is an off-the-rails retrospective look at pro wrestling"s highest & lowest points hosted by James Darnell, Anthony Douglas, & John Blud. Formerly the present, currently the past, sometimes the future - this podcast has seemed to do it all when it comes to the landscape of professional wrestling. If you enjoy wrestling, you"ll like it here. If you don"t enjoy wrestling, you"ll probably like it here even more. The boys are back in town.

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All Episodes

143:34

Revisiting WWE Raw 1997 ECW Invasion, AEW Announces...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/11/16

WWE wasn't doing so hot at the start of 1997. Things were very stale on Raw as Nitro was whooping their ass on a regular basis while things like the UFC are picking up steam & ECW is making a roar. WWE thought "hey, what if we did things with those guys?" In comes Ken Shamrock from the UFC & Paul Heyman with his ECW goons. Vince Russo takes over head booking around this time & well, here comes the Attitude Era. AEW announced a new video game partnership with former WWE 2K developer,

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134:53

AEW Full Gear 2020 Review, Darby Allin Face Of TNT,...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/11/09

AEW held their PPV AEW Full Gear 2020 this past weekend which saw the main event of Jon Moxley vs Eddie Kingston in an I Quit Match, Young Bucks vs The Revival for the AEW Tag Team Championships, Hikaru Shida vs Nyla Rose for the AEW Women's Championship, & more. Speaking of more, Darby Allin faced Cody for the AEW TNT Championship where he has been touting himself as the Face of TNT lately. James, Johnny, & Tony also talk about the best Triple H theme songs of all time and obviously we all

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148:05

Revisiting WCW Monday Nitro 2000 Vince Russo Wins WCW...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/11/02

WCW in the year 2000 is highly regarded as the best time in the company's history! ... okay, maybe not. But Scott Steiner was there & he has to dumb himself down when talking to these white trash & rednecks! Good enough for us. Vince Russo main events with Booker T in a cage match where the WCW Heavyweight Championship is on the line. It's been Vince Russo's dream since he was a kid to win the WCW Championship in a weird New York Giants knockoff jersey. AEW held the Inner Circle Town Hall

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166:27

WWE Hell in a Cell 2020 Review, AEW Le Dinner...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/10/26

WWE held WWE Hell in a Cell 2020 in the WWE Thunderdome where the main event saw Randy Orton face Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship inside the sinister structure, Hell in a Cell. The show also had Sasha Banks vs Bayley in HIAC & Roman Reigns vs Jey Uso in HIAC. Chris Jericho & MJF had a segment on AEW Dynamite called Le Dinner Debonair that seemed to split the wrestling community in two like a piece of lumber. James, Johnny, & Tony also discuss the best Stone Cold Steve Austin theme

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157:03

Revisiting WWE SmackDown Halloween 2008, Cody vs...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/10/20

WWE SmackDown 2008 was sort of no man's land, but then again, WWE wasn't exactly on the upswing in 2008. The good thing is: SmackDown had a Halloween episode! It even featured a casket match between Undertaker & Chavo Guerrero as the main event. Vickie Guerrero at the time was SmackDown General Manager & she thought yeah... Chavo vs Undertaker. So that's what we got! Orange Cassidy faced Cody for the AEW TNT Championship on AEW Dynamite this week in a match that went to a time limit draw

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153:23

Revisiting WWE ECW Halloween 2007, Favorite...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/10/12

The good ol' world of WWE ECW. It is October 30th, 2007 & WWE ECW is in the Halloween spirit! The show is main evented by a Monster Mash Battle Royal between Mark Henry, Great Khali, Kane, & Big Daddy V. The only person actually on the WWE ECW roster at that time was Big Daddy V! One of the Patreon $5 Q&A questions this week also asked us to name our favorite spooky/horror themed wrestlers, man October is really dope. This week on AEW Dynamite, Cody faced Brodie Lee for the AEW TNT

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122:53

Revisiting WWE SmackDown 2002 Halloween Party,...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/10/05

WWE SmackDown 2002 was knee deep in what fans refer to as the "SmackDown Six Era." During that era, WWE also held a special Halloween episode of SmackDown literally on Halloween - October 31st! It featured John Cena as Vanilla Ice, Eddie Guerrero as Zorro, & Kurt Angle as Ghostface. A lot of crazy stuff happened! On AEW this week, Butcher ended up facing Jon Moxley in the main event for the AEW Worlds Championship. Along with that, Cody Rhodes returned to cut one of the most bizarre promos in a

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114:44

WWE Clash of Champions 2020 Review, Revisiting...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/09/28

WWE held Clash of Champions 2020 live in the Thunderdome which saw Roman Reigns face Jey Uso in a WWE Universal Championship match along with other matches like Sami Zayn vs AJ Styles vs Jeff Hardy in a triple threat ladder match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship & Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre in an Ambulance match. Christian Cage made his TNA iMPACT! debut on Spike TV back in 2005 as we revisit an episode that also saw Abyss vs Rhino with a pretty nasty gore. Also, Serpentico is David

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161:22

Revisiting Mr America Lie Detector Test WWE SmackDown...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/09/21

WWE SmackDown has really taken a turn for the better in 2003 as Paul Heyman & co turned the SmackDown Six into a really well rounded show. Hulk Hogan is back as Mr America & is a thorn in Vince McMahon's shoes. Vince McMahon makes Mr America take a lie detector test to determine if he is really Hulk Hogan or not & it turns into one of the most memorable segments of all time. Vampiro's new documentary, Nail in the Coffin: The Fall & Rise of Vampiro is out now which goes over his

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130:55

Revisiting WWF Monday Night Raw 1999, Miro AEW Debut,...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/09/15

WWF is on the road to WrestleMania 15 and the Attitude Era is in full swing. Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Rock are preparing to go to war, but at the same time, the Big Show has become the newest member of the Corporation. It's causing a rift between The Rock & Vince McMahon. Tony & Johnny revisit an episode of RAW from 1999, where The Undertaker & The Ministry of Darkness sacrifice The Big Boss Man, and Kane shoots a fireball! Also Miro, formerly known as Rusev, makes his AEW

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136:34

AEW All Out 2020 Review, You Cannot Kill David...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/09/07

AEW held one of their flagship PPVs, AEW All Out 2020! The show was main evented by Jon Moxley vs MJF, also featuring Chris Jericho vs Orange Cassidy in a Mimosa Mayhem match, FTR vs Kenny Omega & Hangman Page, Hikaru Shida vs Thunder Rosa, & more. David Arquette released a wrestling based documentary named 'You Cannot Kill David Arquette' that featured his return to pro wrestling against the likes of Nick Gage, Ken Anderson, & some backyarder dudes. Jon Moxley also faced a lawyer by the

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91:26

WWE Payback 2020 Review, AEW Dark Order Casket Meme,...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/08/31

One week after WWE SummerSlam 2020, WWE decided to hold their next PPV, WWE Payback! The main event was a returning Roman Reigns facing off against The Fiend & Braun Strowman in a triple threat match where Roman Reigns can do whatever he wants cause hes the big dawg, baby! The Dark Order comes out with a Nightmare Casket just like the dancing casket meme after Brodie Lee straight up merked Cody last week to win the TNT Championship. Also in our $5 Q&A, we were asked how did we come up with

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167:59

WWE SummerSlam 2020 Review, Brodie Lee MERKS Cody AEW...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/08/24

WWE held SummerSlam 2020 in their new THUNDERDOME arena where The Fiend faced off against Braun Strowman in the main event, Drew McIntyre defended his WWE championship against Randy Orton, Mandy Rose faced Sonya Deville in a LOSER LEAVES WWE match, Seth Rollins faced Dominik Mysterio in a Street Fight, and more. Brodie Lee faced Cody for the TNT Championship on AEW Dynamite and completely merked him. The Dark Order followed up with an assault on the Nightmare Family. DEADLOCK is also celebrating

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118:14

Revisiting Hulk Hogan TNA iMPACT Debut, AEW Tag Team...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/08/17

TNA was finally making a profit in 2009, their roster was incredibly impressive, & things were finally looking stable. Dixie Carter decided to use that momentum & try to create a massive shift in 2010 by signing Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and every single former WWE wrestler she could possibly find. This would of course backfire in spectacular fashion, but it's fun (not really) to look back at moments in history like this every once in a while. AEW also held a special tag team appreciate

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125:05

Revisiting TNA iMPACT! First EVER Episode, Jericho &...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/08/10

TNA opened in 2002 running weekly PPVs out of Nashville, but in 2004 something big happened - TNA secured a tv deal with FOX Sports & started running shows out of Stage 21 in Universal Resort Orlando; TNA iMPACT! was born! X Division is the main event, Shark Boy is on the show, and AMW is the #1 tag team in the company... what a great time. AEW Dynamite held a SUPER DEBATE between Chris Jericho & Orange Cassidy with Eric Bischoff as the mediator. Jon Moxley also faced off against Darby Allin

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119:09

Revisiting Scott Steiner & Triple H WWE Pose Down...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/08/03

WWE Monday Night Raw back in 2003 was in the middle of the "Eric Bischoff Era" also known as the TNN era. Triple H was running roughshod over Raw as World Heavyweight Champion in the middle of his infamous "reign of terror." The 2003 Royal Rumble was coming up & HHH needed someone to face so who better than Scott Steiner? HHH & Scott Steiner spent weeks having contests & challenges against each other that include arm wrestling, bench presses, and the ever remembered POSE DOWN CHALLENGE

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140:18

Revisiting WCW Nitro Goldberg vs Hulk Hogan, Sammy...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/07/27

WCW was on fire in 1998 with the nWo & nWo Wolfpac leading the shows, but they also had a secret weapon: Goldberg. Goldberg had just broken 100 wins in his legendary streak when WCW booked a Monday Nitro show in Georgia, Goldberg's home town, in the Georgia Dome. 40,000 people attended this Nitro. Yeah, you read that right. 40,000 people attended a weekly episode of WCW Monday Nitro. With a house this big, WCW decided that it was time to finally let Goldberg get his big chance at the WCW World

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148:55

WWE Extreme Rules 2020 Review, Impact Wrestling...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/07/20

WWE held The Horror Show at Extreme Rules 2020 at the WWE Performance Center this past weekend which saw the two marquee matches being Seth Rollins vs Rey Mysterio in an Eye for an Eye match along with The Wyatt Swamp Match between Braun Strowman & Bray Wyatt. Impact Wrestling also held their yearly Slammiversary PPV event which saw a lot of new arrivals in the form of The Good Brothers, Eric Young, Motor City Machine Guns, & more. AEW held their special (not a ppv) event, Fight For The

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108:26

Revisiting All Wheels Wrestling, AEW Fyter Fest 2020...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/07/13

Back in 2011, TNA tried creating a wrestling product for Speed TV by the name of All Wheels Wrestling. A crossover between pro wrestling & racing! It featured Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, The Human Cyclone, & Shawn Daivari. Of course, Daivari had to be named Dubai. Pro wrestling really can't stop itself sometimes. AEW held Fyter Fest Week 2 which was main evented by Orange Cassidy vs Chris Jericho. Fyter Fest also saw Taz introduce the FTW Championship crowning Brian Cage the FTW Champion while

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141:23

Revisiting TNA iMPACT 2009, AEW Fyter Fest 2020 Week...

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast ·

2020/07/06

Back in the beginning of 2009, TNA iMPACT was still running strong. The Main Event Mafia was headlining the shows while the TNA Frontline tried to take them down themselves. This particular episode of TNA iMPACT, the Main Event Mafia took over the show completely! They produced the show themselves down to the commentators & ring announcer (Scott Steiner is ring announcing - it's fantastic). The famous Black Snow & Chet Lemon! IM BLACK SNOOOOOOW! AEW held their first week of Fyter Fest which

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