Episodes

We've got another collabo-pod for you this week as Ryan joins Garrett Gonzales of The Fight Game Podcast. Ryan and Garrett discuss AEW's successes (and misses) when it comes to using former WWE stars as part of their company...

We've got a collabo-pod for you this week as we united with BJ Cruz and Jeremy Los from the Two Jabronis With A Wrestling Podcast show to talk this week's Wednesday Night Wars! We break down AEW Dynamite and NXT, including Ma...

Last week's WWE Extreme Rules PPV show got us thinking - what are the worst WWE PPV events in history? So decided to hit record and talk about it. Then, we talk about the return of live wrestling crowds in North America (whe...

AEW Dynamite this week was one of the very best in the history of the promotion. We discuss the show and contract that with what we saw from WWE at Extreme Rules this past Sunday. Plus, a little talk about Impact Wrestling's ...

Today's show is completely directed by you, the listener! We dip into the mailbag and answer your questions on a wide range of topics. They include: championship belts, the show's history, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Bruce Prich...

AEW presented another PPV style edition of Dynamite this week with Fight For The Fallen. Ryan, Kyle, and Justin check-in with their full review of the show. Plus, we're talking WWE Extreme Rules and making our picks for this ...

We're dipping into the Top Rope Nation archives for our Monday show this week. With so many new listeners over the last year, there's a lot of content we have put out in the four year history of the podcast that many of you h...

Night two of AEW Fyter Fest and NXT Great American Bash is in the books! Ryan, Justin, and Kyle check-in to review another exciting Wednesday night of pro wrestling. Who won the night? What was the match of the night? We brea...

On this week's special edition of 'Top Rope Nation Classics,' we go back in time and look at WWE King of the Ring 1993. We examine the full show (aka The Bret Hart Show), and also talk a lot about the context of the event its...

Night one of AEW Fyter Fest and NXT Great American Bash is in the books! Ryan and Kyle check-in to review an exciting Wednesday night of pro wrestling. Who won the night? What was the match of the night? We break it all down ...

The Undertaker has retired from WWE (for now), as revealed on the final episode of The Last Ride. We thought this would be as good of a time as any to look back at The Undertaker's career and rank his greatest matches. We g...

Wednesday brought news that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit WWE hard, with multiple talents now testing positive (including Renee Young). How will their own cases, Florida's dire situation, and new laws in the northeast affect ...

As WWE pushes on throughout 2020, one of the commonalities we are seeing is the age of their top tier talent: they're relying heavily lately on stars of yesteryear. Last week's Raw in particular was headlined by Randy Orton, ...

WWE Raw drew their best rating since the post-WrestleMania show back in April this week, and that comes on the heels of Paul Heyman's exit from the Raw creative team. We have some exclusive news on Heyman's exit from that dep...

WWE Backlash 2020 is in the book and we are here with our full review of the show. Did Edge vs. Randy Orton live up to the hype as the greatest wrestling match of all time? Plus, we talk the rest of Backlash as well and disc...

A new edition of WWE 24 was released this week focusing on Ric Flair, so we figured it'd be a good time to talk about the career of THE MAN. We're doing it in a way we've never done before on the show - we are having a draft!...

We're back with our NXT TakeOver In Your House review and results show! WWE brought back an iconic event from the 1990s and in some cases went to great lengths to recreate the feel of the 90s. Was that a good thing or a bad t...

While the United States and the world is in the midst of crisis, Top Rope Nation is back to hopefully put a smile on your face for an hour this week. However, we can't begin our show without addressing the bigger problems we ...

With WWE NXT set to revive the In Your House event this Saturday night at TakeOver, we thought this would be a good chance to go back and look at the previous editions of In Your House that were produced from 1995-1999. In do...

As WWE NXT gets ready for NXT TakeOver In Your House, there's a glaring issue with 2020's NXT television product. We're here to examine exactly what that is, as well as why the rest of the year will be interesting for the bra...

AEW Double Or Nothing 2020 is in the books and we are here to talk about it. Join us for our full AEW Double Or Nothing review! We're talking all of the highlights from the show (Stadium Stampede, anyone/), as well as any pos...

We are coming up on the 21 year anniversary of the tragic death of Owen Hart, and this week's Dark Side of the Ring season finale looked at Hart's death in Kansas City on May 23rd, 1999. We're reviewing that Dark Side of the ...

"Dark Side of the Ring" recently looked back at the career of the legendary wrestling tag team The Road Warriors (Legion of Doom), Hawk and Animal. On this podcast, we're examining what made the team arguably the greatest in ...

Becky Lynch revealed this week that she and Seth Rollins are expecting their first child, redirecting the WWE women's division down a whole new road as Asuka became the WWE RAW Women's Champion following her Money In The Bank...