Mike’s NXT Recap 7/17/13

Mike’s NXT Recap 7/11/2013

EMMA defeated SUMMER RAE to advance to the finals of the NXT Women’s Title Tournament. Rae controlled most of the match, using her long legs for leverage in submissions and…

I Want My Wife: Absurdity, Truth, and Simulation on the Wrestling Edition of Celebrity Wife Swap

I sometimes fear that I come across as a curmudgeon of sorts: a loveable one, but a sourpuss nonetheless, ready and willing to tear down anything I encounter which I…

Off the Top Rope Episode 20: Spring Stampede 1999

0:00:30-0:05:00 – Introductions, Badstreet USA, and some show news, including next week’s guest host, The Only Way is Suplex‘s Carrie Dunn! 0:05:00-0:28:00 – The Wyatt Family and Raw. RUN. Follow…

Where the Big Boys Play #45: 80s End of Decade Awards

Chad and Parv briefly discuss Jackie Fargo, Matt Borne and 80s AWA before launching into their end-of-decade awards marathon for Jim Crockett Promotions / NWA. Here are a list of…

The War Games Retrospective

To commemorate the upcoming WCW War Games: WCW’s Most Notorious Matches DVD and Blu-ray release, we asked the Place to Be Nation staff to select their most memorable WarGames matches and share…

Strutting Out a Legacy

Tracing the ancestry of wrestling is a prickly path.  Influences have bound wrestlers for generations. All roads can lead back to Gotch vs. Hackenschimdt from 1908 to where we are…

Where the Big Boys Play #44: 80s TV Special – Part 2

Chad briefly discusses Jake Roberts vs. Jim Neidhart from the notorious Heroes of Wrestling PPV and Parv talks about seeing Revolution Pro at York Hall in London before launching into…

Exploring the Three Stages of Hell

When John Cena and Ryback clash at WWE Payback, they’ll compete in a match that only four other wrestlers can say they’ve survived.  In a professional wrestling landscape that is…

Where the Big Boys Play #43: Jim Crockett Promotions 80s TV Special

Chad and Parv briefly talk about the new PlacetoBeNation.com website, Chikara and US day-time TV soaps before tackling 16 of the hottest matches to air on TV from Jim Crockett…