Kris and David are joined by Al Getz (@AlGetzWrestling) to discuss the week that was September 4-10, 1986. Topics of discussion include: Details on Jim Crockett's plans for taking over the Central States territory. Changes in the TBS weekend shows and why they are happening. Some really great promos from JCP TV, including TWO separate ones from the…

In this episode of Center Stage Chronicles, Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles to discuss the state of the NWA/WCW from mid-June through late July of 1989. We go over the backlash from the Clash of the Champions in Fort Bragg all the way to the Great American Bash PPV, which includes Lex Luger being an amazing heel, Ter…

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was August 26-September 3, 2000, a Patreon request from Ted Bell, who dropped the $25 for us to cover this week. Topics of discussion include: Changes coming for the WWF creative staff, which comes at an interesting time because.... Raw and Smackdown focusing on Triple H and Chyna interacting…

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor (@NINaylor) to discuss wrestling life and times of the awesome Sid Vicious. We go over his entire wrestling career in a way that only we can, as we were both HUGE fans of Sid. We hope that this love letter to Sid's career will make everyone realize what an amazing performer he was. RIP "Ruler of the World." --- …

Kris and David are joined by Tom Green (@NotThatTomGreen) to discuss the week that was August 21-27, 1996. Topics of discussion include: A wild Monday Nitro featuring the most heated nWo beatdown to date, plus the WCW debuts of Juventud Guerrera, Chris Jericho, and Ted DiBiase, memorably terrible post-match promos from Juvi and Jericho, and much mo…

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was August 11-17, 1991, a Patreon request from William Lanham, who dropped the $25 to pick this week. Topics of discussion include: An ominous blurb in Matwatch about the Ultimate Warrior and his contract demands to the WWF weeks before SummerSlam. Dave Meltzer getting praise from a mainstrea…

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was August 7-13, 1998. Topics of discussion include: WCW Road Wild featuring Jay Leno teaming up with Diamond Dallas Page against Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, including all of the insanity surrounding that match, plus the rest of that show, which was one of the worst PPV's of all time. Runni…

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and our good buddy Charles (a.k.a. Loss from Pro Wrestling Only) as we present another great episode of the Center Stage Chronicles.On this episode, we pick up where we left off last month, at Music City Showdown in Nashville, with Terry Funk subsequently running wild on NWA TV while Ric Flair is "injured," plus…

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was July 31-August 6, 1997, a Patreon pick from Christian de la Cruz, who dropped the $25 for us to do the show. Topics of discussion include: SummerSlam ’97 at the Meadowlands featuring Owen Hart injuring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin with a seated tombstone piledriver, Mankind and Hunter Hearst…

We take a break from pro-wrestling (except for the Hulkamatts of the Week) to talk Art Bell, specifically Bugs, the legendary Bigfoot killer but also Art in general. We briefly run down what we like about Coast to Coast AM, what we don't like, why I stopped listening, favorite episodes like Mel's Hole, and more. But we (unsuccessfully) try to focus…

Kris and David are joined by Beau James (@kingofkingsport) to discuss the week that was July 24-30, 1995. Topics of discussion includes: WCW trying to bring in top flight in-ring workers to fill out their roster before the first episode of Nitro and why it isn't working out like they hoped. Hulk Hogan giving one of the strangest interviews of his c…

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the partial week that was July 17-21,1999, a Patreon request via William Lanham who threw down the $25 pledge to pick this week. Topics of discussion include: UPN President Dean Valentine answering tough questions about putting SmackDown on his network considering the WWF's content at that time. The WWF tr…

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was July 10-16, 2003. Topics of discussion includes: TNA settling their lawsuits with Jay Hassman and Len Sabal and all that entailed. A.J. Styles publicly expressing his preference of working ROH over NWA-TNA while being the NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Scott D'Amore gaining power behind …

After trying for weeks to figure out when to do this, we found the time and here it is: David Bixenspan is joined by Joe Lanza of The Flagship Wrestling Podcast to talk about...well...everything that's been frustrating about the wrestling media landscape of late, some of which came to a head again this past week. Topics of discussion include: WWE f…

Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and Our Good Buddy Charles (Loss from Pro Wrestling Only) on Episode #2 of "The Center Stage Chronicles" where we cover March 1989 to WrestleWar ‘89: Music City Showdown on May 7th, 1989. We talk about all the major changes and happenings that went on in the NWA in that time period, featuring the end of George S…

Kris and David are joined by Daniel Makabe (@danielmakabe) for the first half of the show as we discuss the week that was July 3-9, 1999. Topics of discussion include: A crazy episode of WCW Monday Nitro at the Georgia Dome featuring Bret Hart's return to TV after the tragic death of Owen Hart, Bill Goldberg's surprise return after Megadeth’s live …

Kris and David are guestless as we discuss the week that was June 26-July 2, 1993. Topics of discussion include: The WWF announcing its intent to fight back in the world of public relations against the previous year's Titangate accusers — including Tom Cole and Rita Chatterton! — by using their house organ, WWF Magazine. Linda McMahon speaking very…

Kris and David are joined by Mark Coale (@black_bile) as we discuss the week that was June 19-25, 2014, which Mark requested on our Patreon by dropping the $50 to sit in for a segment of the show. Topics of discussion include: TNA heading to New York to tape lots of TV while trying to save their TV deal with Spike. An update on Global Force Wrestli…