Relive the 90‘s wrestling you have such fond memories of right here. Join three fans on a voyage of discovery, reviewing and rating the warring Raw and Nitro shows that brought us the business’ golden age – The Attitude Era.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
The Monday Night Wars rumble into another week and your hosts Ste and Jim are back to discuss all the action. This week we broaden our broadcast team with the addition of Spanish Announce Table amigo, Los Liam. He talks cardboard superstars, petulant kids and more from WWF’s In Your House 4 pay-per-view.
We then sift through the PPV fallout on Raw, where Vince pulls some lads off the street to fill out a 20-man battle royal, there’s a women’s championship main event and a green Avatar does his level best to get the resident jobber over.
Meanwhile, Bischoff and the boys are up to their old tricks as WCW serve up a go-home show for the ages ahead of Halloween Havoc. We’ve got father-son super-villains, exploding icebergs and an insurance policy you won’t find on Compare The Market. What else would you expect on a wrestling show?
Strap in and get those headphones on – it’s going to be a lively listen.
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
We’re back with another battle for ratings supremacy! We join Monday Night Wars enemies Vince and Eric to see if Raw can pull ahead in the ratings battle, or if Monday Nitro can claw one back.
Your hosts Jim and Ste take you back to October 16th 1995 where, not to be outdone by WCW’s tiny cage last week, Raw puts Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart up against evil dentist and future-Kane Isaac Yankem inside a more sensibly proportioned steel structure this week. All while Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler is placed inside a shark cage and hoisted into the rafters to keep him from interfering - it won’t surprise you to hear that it does not…
We see a tale of two approaches to promos: some sublime stuff from Paul Bearer and Goldust, and some not-so-sublime stuff from the lads on Nitro…
We also have the future Game, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, clowning around with Pennywise-in-tights, Doink.
Hit that button for a dose of 90s nostalgia.
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
After last week’s surprise stalemate, Raw and Nitro are back on the wrestling battlefield and Ste and Jim talk you through every explosion. WCW locks two legends inside a steel cage that wouldn’t look out of place on a battery farm, a peace-making Sting defends a belt he doesn’t seem to care about against the ocean’s apex predator and Hulk Hogan is mourning the loss of his lip turf. Meanwhile, a flood of future WWE Hall of Famers fill the Raw ring for a classic six-man tag tussle, some rasslin' icons show the rest how to use the mic and a fresh-faced JR makes his TMNS debut. Hit the button to hear all about it.
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It's been a week of arm drag takedowns and city-wide lockdowns for us here - so this episode required a socially distant Monday Night Scorezone: please excuse the slight drop in our usual audio quality (we used Bishoff's mic after a Flair promo...). We've cracked it for next time - so tune in then to hear us sound like Mean Gene in honey. Thanks for bearing with us.
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
The premium 90’s wrestling podcast…made by two northerners in London is back for episode 4. Join Ste and Jim as they review another all-action week from The Monday Night Wars.
Hulk Hogan unveils his unexpected best friend, before having (quite literally) a close shave with the Taskmaster. Elsewhere, Lex Luger’s stay on WCW Nitro may be short; his job’s on the line against Randy Savage and some in-ring legends serve up wrestling clinics. Bret Hart graces the pod for the first time on Raw, with future-legends HHH and Kane braving the TV cameras sporting some…erm…questionable gimmicks.
We’re revving our engines towards The Attitude Era – make sure you’re along for the ride.
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Well, we've done it. It only took three episodes, but we've crossed the Rubicon. Entered the Twilight Zone. Jumped the Shark (no mean feat: he's a big lad...).
We're packed to the rafters (no baseball bats in sight ...yet) with absolute comedy, but don't worry there's plenty of grade 'A' wrasslin’ too, including:
- The most unlikely of unlikely PPV matches is booked (with the help of a pit crew)
- A perplexing Tag Title change explanation that we STILL can’t quite work out
- We finally see The Deadman in his sublime prime. But what're those things on his feet?!
All this and literally some more! Let’s get cracking!
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
This week: there's not a shopping mall in sight - it's regular arenas all round!
That hasn't stopped the jaw dropping chaos though - we relive the Monday Night Wars' second skirmish as belligerent bookworms take on beach-based Baywatch bench-pressers in the battle for ratings supremacy.
AND - a monster of a man drives a monster of a truck like he stole it. Or is that just his daily driver?! There's only one way to find out!
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
The Monday Night Scores swaggers down the ramp with a debut double(ish) bill.
Our quest to find out which of WWF or WCW produced the best-quality programming of The Monday Night Wars begins with an examination of the wrestling equivalent of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination – aka the first episode of WCW Nitro – followed by the first Monday night ratings ruckus between Raw and Nitro.
There’ll be pleather shills, shopping bills and dentist drills, but was it any good?
There’s only one way to find out.