Over the span of a few weeks in the summer of 2018, the world lost some legendary pro wrestlers. To pay tribute to those men, we decided to make a special mini episode of the Wrestling House Show to share some of our memories of Nikolai Volkoff, Brian Christopher, Brickhouse Brown, and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart.
Trish Stratus returns, Kevin Owens goes all in against Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman has a cunning plan, and more on a mostly good and entertaining episode of RAW.
Pete Dunne defends the UK Title against Zack Gibson, and Deonna Purrazzo returns to NXT when she faces Bianca Belair in an episode of NXT that was otherwise a recap of Takeover: Brooklyn 4.
Noam Dar and TJP battle in their rubber match, and the Lucha House Party take on the team of Murphy and Nese in a crazy fun main event!
New Day gets another shot at the tag titles in a No DQ match against the Bludgeon Brothers in a good episode of SmackDown Live containing lots of Summer Slam fallout.
Finn Balor finally gets his long-awaited Universal Title match on a pretty good episode of RAW.
NXT Takeover once again provides a great show with five great matches!
Strong faces Bate in the main event of a night that also gave Kairi Sane some momentum heading into her title match with Shayna Baszler.
Cedric Alexander endures a tough match with Jack Gallagher just days before Summer Slam, Akira Tozawa attempts to shut the mouth of Lio Rush, and Hideo Itami demands more respect on a good episode of 205 Live.
The final SmackDown before Summer Slam promoted all the matches from the blue side, though it didn’t really advance anything in any significant way.
The final RAW before Summer Slam added some anger to Reigns and Lesnar, some momentum for Corbin and Strowman, and a lunatic to Rollins and Ziggler.
Keith Lee debuts in NXT, Tommaso Ciampa gets more than he bargained for, Conti and Borne battle for a spot in the Mae Young Classic, and more on a pretty good episode of NXT.
Itami attempts to beat some respect into Ali, and Murphy and Nese try to silence the Lucha House Party on a good episode of 205 Live.
New Day and The Bar have a glorious battle to determine who gets a title shot against the Bludgeon Brothers at Summer Slam!
Ronda Rousey (finally) makes her in-ring debut on RAW, Ruby Riott returns from injury, Rollins is left alone to take on Ziggler and McIntyre, and more on an okay episode of RAW that, even though it had a lot of matches, was light on wrestling.
The month of June brought wrestling fans a great NXT Takeover, an uneven Money in the Bank, a fantastic NJPW Dominion, and a whole bunch of WWE television of varying quality. Listen to episode 111 of the Wrestling House Show as we talk all about it, including the best matches, the strangest story lines, and even the Devil himself!
AWA’s Super Sunday in 1983 featured legendary wrestlers including Jesse Ventura, Nick Bockwinkel, Jerry Lawler, Mad Dog Vachon, and Verne Gagne, but is it worth spending the time watching the whole show today? Listen and we discuss the good and the not so good and let you know what to watch in the latest installment of the Wrestling House Show’s series of retro reviews!
May was the month in which we got the first co-branded WWE PPV in weeks, saw both Ronda Rousey and Nia Jax become hypocrites, witnessed the continued excellence of Ruby Riott and Buddy Murphy, lamented the state of the RAW tag division, and much more! Join us for the May 2018 wrap-up episode and hear us explain everything we liked and didn’t like about a whole bunch of hours of WWE television!
Kairi Sane and Lacey Evans battle to end their feud, Johnny Gargano busts open Tommaso Ciampa, Roderick Strong fights Danny Burch, and more on a good episode of NXT.
Hideo Itami makes his intentions known on a good episode of 205 Live.