Awesome Truth: A Wrestling Book Club
By Steve Cimino and Walt Schwenk
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The only thing better than watching wrestling and complaining about wrestling is reading about wrestling. That's why we have Awesome Truth, the internet's finest pro wrestling book club. On every episode, your hosts will discuss a classic wrestling book, movie, or documentary. WWE, AEW, even WCW, and ECW; they've got it all covered.
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Everything on the Menu With Braun Strowman
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Warrior and Hogan Survive a Jobber Barrage: The Survivor Series Watch-Along
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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The Smashing Machine
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Cena vs AJ for the Last Time: The Retirement Tour Watch-Along
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Ronda Rousey's Debut at Mania: The Stephanie McMahon Watch-Along
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Stephanie's Places, the ESPN+ Stephanie McMahon Show
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Cena Gets Squashed by Lesnar: The SummerSlam 2014 Watch-Along
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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WWE Unreal on Netflix: Worth a Watch?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Hulk Hogan vs 8 Guys in a Triple Cage: The WrestleCrap Watch-Along
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Hulk Hogan Is Dead
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Worst Match Ever? The Goldberg vs Undertaker Watch-Along
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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R-Truth on Table for 3: Unleash the Charm
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Remembering Sabu by Watching Him Bleed: The Born to Be Wired Watch-Along
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Bigger! Better! Badder! WrestleMania III and the Year It All Changed
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May 21, 2025 |
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WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle
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May 07, 2025 |
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Cody Rhodes & Roman Reigns Finish the Story: The WrestleMania XL Watch-Along
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Superfan: The Story of Vladimir
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The Lasting Legacy of WrestleMania III (w/ Keith Elliot Greenberg)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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John Cena vs Cody Rhodes, Round 1: The Road to WrestleMania Watch-Along
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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WrestleMania: The Album
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Dark Match, the Wrestling Horror Movie
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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HBK, Bulldog, and a Ring Full of Jobbers: The 1995 Royal Rumble Watch-Along
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Raw on Netflix: Yay or Nay?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Omega vs Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom: The Happy New Year Watch-Along
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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WWE: Ring in the Holiday
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Battle of the Bloodlines + CM Punk: The WarGames 2024 Watch-Along
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Bonesaw McGraw vs Spider-Man in a Cage: The Macho Month Watch-Along
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Macho Man Randy Savage's Rap Album
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Goldberg's Best Match Ever?! It's the Halloween Havoc Watch-Along
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Netflix's Mr. McMahon: Worth a Watch?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Mankind vs HBK in Philly: The Mind Games Watch-Along
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Damian Priest: The Rise of El Campeón
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Bret vs Taker w/ HBK in Pinstripes: The SummerSlam 97 Watch-Along
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Night WCW Ruined Hogan/Sting: An nWo Botch-Along
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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ESPN Reporter Marc Raimondi Discusses His New nWo Book
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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When Women Stole the Show at WrestleMania: The Becky Lynch Watch-Along
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Bret and Perfect Put on a Wrestling Clinic: The King of the Ring Watch-Along
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal
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May 22, 2024 |
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WCW Ring Announcer David Penzer on His New Book and a Life in Wrestling
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May 08, 2024 |
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Cena and Lesnar Bleed a Lot: The April Watch-Along
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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WrestleMania 40 Recap
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Roman Reigns' Heel Era on WWE Evil
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Cody's Torn Pec Makes History: The Road to WrestleMania 40 Watch-Along
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Twice in a Lifetime: The Rock/Cena II Watch-Along
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Ospreay: The Rise of an International Pro Wrestler
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Brock Lesnar Takes On Everyone: The 2020 Royal Rumble Watch-Along
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Iron Claw
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Austin, Rock, HHH, and Undertaker in a Cell: The Holiday Watch-Along
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The Legendary Al Snow on Netflix's Wrestlers, OVW, and His Top ECW Moment
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Dolph Ziggler and Sting vs The World: The Survivor Series Watch-Along
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Netflix's Wrestlers: Worth a Watch?
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Hogan vs Giant in Monster Trucks: The Halloween Havoc Watch-Along
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Cassandro, the Lucha Libre Biopic on Prime Video
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Omega vs Bryan: The AEW Grand Slam Watch-Along
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Angle
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Should We Tag In for Heels Season 2?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Bulldog Beats Bret in Wembley: The SummerSlam Watch-Along
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Awesome Classic: The Miz, Shawn Michaels, and Becky Lynch Make a Marine Movie
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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The Hart Foundation vs Stone Cold & Friends: The Canadian Stampede Watch-Along
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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WWE Legends: Dusty Rhodes
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The Story of Chris Candido and Sunny
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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CM Punk vs John Cena in Chicago: The Money in the Bank Watch-Along
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Writing the Vince McMahon Biography (w/ Abraham Josephine Riesman)
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May 24, 2023 |
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Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
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May 10, 2023 |
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Cena vs HBK vs Edge vs Orton: The Backlash Watch-Along
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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WWE 24: WrestleMania 38 (and Mania 39 Thoughts)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The Top 10 Wrestling Themes: Our 150th Episode Spectacular
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The Dawn of Tables, Ladders & Chairs: The WrestleMania Watch-Along
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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WWE Rivals on A&E: Hogan vs. Andre
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Daniel Bryan and Cody Get Upstaged by Santino: The Elimination Chamber Watch-Along
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Is the Ric Flair Peacock Doc Worth a Watch?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Roman and Rock Get Booed Out of Philly: The Royal Rumble Watch-Along
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Roddy Piper's Finest Role: John Carpenter's They Live
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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The Nine Lives of Vince McMahon
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Creating the Arn Anderson Comic Book (w/ Arn Anderson and Dirk Manning)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The nWo Slams a Cage Door on Ric Flair's Head: The WarGames Watch-Along
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Follow the Buzzards: Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Wrestling With the Pandemic (w/ Keith Elliot Greenberg)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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WWE's This Is Awesome Is Not Quite
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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There's Just One Problem... by Former WWE Writer Brian Gewirtz
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Pro Wrestling in The Players' Tribune: Eddie Kingston, Sting, and More
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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WWE Legends: Booker T
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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British Bulldogs Biographer Steven Bell Talks Dynamite and Davey
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Bonus: WWE After Vince McMahon
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Dynamite and Davey: The Explosive Lives of the British Bulldogs
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Lex Luger Slams Yokozuna on a Battleship: The July 4th Watch-Along
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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A History of Wrestling Injuries, from Austin and Edge to Cody Rhodes
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Is Sasha Banks WWE Evil?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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William Regal's Walking a Golden Mile
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May 25, 2022 |
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Better Than You: The CM Punk vs MJF Feud
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May 11, 2022 |
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Mick Foley's Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Corey & Carmella
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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WrestleMania, Then and Now
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Remembering Scott Hall
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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WWE Ruthless Aggression Season 2
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Butts in Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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The Good, the Bad, and the Elite
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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An AEW Tryout Story (w/ Leroy Patterson)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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WWE Untold: Angle vs. HBK
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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The Big Show Show Christmas Special
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Jon Moxley's MOX
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Heels Season 1
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Rise of the Deadman, Undertaker's Graphic Novel
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Netflix's Escape the Undertaker
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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WWE Superstar Drew Gulak Tells His Story
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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The Plane Ride from Hell
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Is Starz's Heels Worth Watching?
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Steve Austin's Broken Skull Sessions
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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WWE's Most Wanted Treasures
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The Dark Side of Brian Pillman
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Documenting the Ultimate Warrior
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Drew McIntyre's A Chosen Destiny: My Story
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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WWE 24: The Miz
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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WWE Untold: Two Dudes with Attitudes
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May 26, 2021 |
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Austin 3:16: 316 Facts and Stories about Stone Cold Steve Austin
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May 12, 2021 |
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The Definitive Top 5 Wrestling Books
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Creating the Tony Schiavone Comic Book (w/ Tony Schiavone and Dirk Manning)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Young Rock, Dwayne Johnson's NBC Sitcom
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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WWE 24: Big E
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Our Heroes Rock! (w/ Ettore "Big E" Ewen, Jonathan Davenport, and Andreas Hale)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Adam Copeland on Edge
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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WWE Icons: Yokozuna
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Wrestling with Pixels: The World Tour of Wrestling Games
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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We Promised You a Great Main Event: An Unauthorized WWE History
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Omega Man: A Wrestling Love Story
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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WWE Untold: Goldberg's Streak
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Matt and Nick Jackson on Being Tag Champs and Elite Authors
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Evan Husney, Co-Creator of Dark Side of the Ring
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Meeting the Undertaker
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Chris Jericho's Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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You Cannot Kill David Arquette
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Shamrock: The World's Most Dangerous Man (w/ Jonathan Snowden)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Too Sweet: Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution (w/ Keith Elliot Greenberg)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Bonus: Ben Giroux of The Big Show Show
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Netflix's The Big Show Show
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Ted DiBiase's The Price of Fame
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Beyond the Mat, the Legendary Wrestling Doc
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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The Resurrection of Jake the Snake
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Undertaker: The Last Ride
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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The Final Days of Owen Hart
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Benoit
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May 27, 2020 |
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New Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist
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May 13, 2020 |
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A Future WWE: The FCW Story
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Edge: The Second Mountain
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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WWE Ruthless Aggression Season 1
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Lex Luger's Wrestling with the Devil
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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WWE Day Of: Royal Rumble 2020
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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The Sheik
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Shinsuke Nakamura's King of Strong Style: 1980-2014
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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WWE 365: Seth Rollins
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Life Is Short and So Am I: My Life Inside, Outside, and Under the Wrestling Ring
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Netflix's The Toys That Made Us: Professional Wrestling
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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WWE Untold: That's Gotta Be Kane!
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Tommaso Ciampa: blackHEART
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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WWE's Greatest Rivalries, Now in Coffee Table Book Form
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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WWE vs AEW, Two Weeks In
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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The Jim Cornette Graphic Novel
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Kofi Kingston: The Year of Return
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Sabu: Scars, Silence, & Superglue
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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GLOW Season 3
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Hobbs & Shaw
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Tag Team, the Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura Cop Show
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Writing the Book on Indie Wrestling (w/ Keith Elliot Greenberg)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Our Best Interviews, From Ric Flair to New Japan
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Vice's Dark Side of the Ring
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Holy Grail: The Search for WWE's Most Infamous Lost Match
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May 29, 2019 |
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ECW One Night Stand 2005
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May 15, 2019 |
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Turning the Tables: The Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling (w/ John Lister)
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May 01, 2019 |
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WWE Chronicle: Charlotte Flair
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Bonus: John Oliver vs. WWE
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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All Things NJPW with Chris Charlton
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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WWE Breaking Ground
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Fighting with My Family, the Paige/Saraya Movie
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Something to Wrestle with Conrad Thompson
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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WWE 24 - WrestleMania: New Orleans
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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WWE Chronicle: Becky Lynch
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Bonus: Let Me Tell You Something, Mean Gene
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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The Marine 6: Close Quarters
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling by Jim Ross
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Living on a Razor's Edge: The Scott Hall Story
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling (w/ Aubrey Sitterson and Chris Moreno)
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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NITRO Part II: The Life and Death of WCW
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW (w/ Guy Evans)
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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WWE Chronicle: Samoa Joe
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Brutus Beefcake: Struttin' and Cuttin' (w/ Kenny Casanova)
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Writing the Ultimate Brian Pillman Book (w/ Liam O'Rourke)
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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GLOW Season 2
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Crazy Like a Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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The Hardys: Woken
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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NXT: The Future is Now (w/ Matt Reis)
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Bruno, the Bruno Sammartino Documentary
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May 30, 2018 |
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Eric Bischoff's Controversy Creates Cash
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May 16, 2018 |
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WWE 24: Raw 25
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May 02, 2018 |
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The New Day's Book of Booty
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Bonus: Andre the Giant's HBO Doc
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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The Mania of WrestleMania
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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Wrestling for My Life by Shawn Michaels
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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The "Classy" Freddie Blassie Autobiography (w/ Keith Elliot Greenberg)
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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No Holds Barred, Hulk Hogan's 1989 Feature Film
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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The True Story of the Royal Rumble
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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No Is a Four-Letter Word / Chris Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom 12
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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WWE 365: Kevin Owens
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Crazy Is My Superpower by AJ Lee
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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Nature Boy, the Ric Flair 30 for 30
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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Batista Unleashed, Dave Bautista's Autobiography
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan, the Hulkster's Autobiography
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Hitman Part II: Bret Hart's Best Matches
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling by Bret Hart
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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GLOW Season 1
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania by Daniel Bryan
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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Best Seat in the House by Justin Roberts
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Ric Flair: To Be the Man (w/ Keith Elliot Greenberg)
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Jun 20, 2017 |