ClobberCast An amateur podcast about professional wrestling.
Maya Hansen, Toben Shelby, and Stevo
Three friends gather on an irregular basis to casually discuss and dissect simulated violence as storytelling in its many forms around the world. AEW, WWE, NJPW, PWG, Stardom, ROH, CMLL, and whatever else catches our fancy. It ain't ballet, but it is amazing, stupid, hilarious, weird, confusing, and beautiful. It's professional wrestling, and there's nothing quite like it. Let's talk about it.
Five whole stars worth of Grand Prix action in Stardom! NJPW proceeds to destroy us all! We give our impressions on the now concluded Mae Young Classic! And so much more, mother fucker!
Shortly after recording the last episode, AAA’s big yearly show, Triplemania, happened. Many called it one of the worst pro wrestling shows of all time. Maya and Stevo watched it.
G1 Climax 27. The fucking G1. So good. Our favorite matches, MVPs, the death and rebirth of Daryl, the emotional return of Shibata, and more! We also cover all the dumb shit that happened at Summerslam, NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III, new developments from the Mae Young Classic, and a ton of other news from the world of wrestling!
Special guest Russ is back! Him and Stevo went to NJPW’s big debut in the USA, and they lay out their experiences with the ups and downs of live wrestling. It’s also tournament season, as we talk about the lineups and prospects of NJPW’s G1, PWG’s Battle of Los Angeles, WWE’s Mae Young Classic, and more!
THIS SUNDAY IN THE MOTHER FUCKING OMNI, all of us crying our eyes out! NJPW Dominion 2017! PROGRESS! PWG! And Wonder Ring Stardom, ripping our HEARTS from our GOD DAMN CHESTS.
Stardom’s Cinderella Tournament, and the dreams within the heart of its winner! The Young Bucks book shit from their YouTube channel way better than Ring of Honor! Wrestling Dontaku was a ton of fun and had some dope matches! Hopefully WWE’s women’s tournament is good! Maya and Toben have serious heat over the single pant-leg look! Our personal entrance music picks, plus some silly fantasy casting of wrestlers in all our favorite movies! (E-mail us more movies you want us to cast!)
First of all, Fuck JBL. We also talk about The Mania, have feelings about Shibata, and rank our cutest wrestlers. Along with all the other new happenings in NJPW, Stardom, ROH, Shimmer, PWG, and more!
Recorded LIVE during the #OctagonKingdom marathon stream, half-dead and running on fumes, our most reasonably-sized episode yet! Special guest Russ joins us to talk about a local wrestling event, the newest events of Stardom, NJPW, and Ring of Honor, along with whatever new dumb shit the WWE is doing!
Wrestle Kingdom 11. Ethical wrestling consumption under fascism. Twitter beef. Sandwich chat. The hot new heel stable: Bullet Gun. Minoru Suzuki as an assassin sent to kill Vince McMahon. The longest boy I ever did see. Dustin Rhodes’ great burden. The Royal Rumble. Would you smoke weed with Necro Butcher? They put Chris Jericho in a shark cage. FBI, all of this is a joke.
Well, it sure has been a year. Lotta good stuff, lotta bad stuff. Also, there was wrestling. We catch up on the newest NJPW happenings and get ourselves fully torqued for WRESTLE KINGDOM. We also talk about some of the hot fire happening in Stardom, Lucha Underground, and Ring of Honor. Then, we talk about some of our favorite matches, performers, and moments of 2016.