Past A Mania

Past A Mania

A huge wrestling fan who loves to travel through nostalgia? Just getting into wrestling and wonder what the big moments in time are? Know nothing about wrestling and wants to waste the least amount of time experiencing long wrestling events vicariously through others? Past-A-Mania is the time capsule for you! Travel down the rabbit hole of wrestling eras and storylines from WWE, WCW, TNA, NXT, and more!

Episodes

November 13, 2019 107 mins

Wrestlemania 5 is an incredibly strange paradox. It's simultaneously better than you think it'll be and worse than you think it'll be. There are high highs. There are low lows. There are creamy middles. 

Adam has a beer. Newbs doesn't have a beer. And Jesse ponders if it's actually opposite day. 

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There are few sure things in wrestling. I will always contend that no matter what a Royal Rumble match will always be surprising, exciting, and incredibly fun. 

So here's Royal Rumble 1989 to make a liar out of me. 

Jesse gets bummed out by Jake the Snake's life story. Newbs has Jesse Ventura flashbacks. And Adam *unintelligible Andre the Giant grumbling*

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September 21, 2019 94 mins

Time to go back... TO THE FUTURE!

The far flung future of 1988. I'm sure all that 50s sci-fi was right and we're gonna have robot butlers and flying cars and-wait what? It seems that all we have are rest holds and 5 minute matches. WELCOME TO THE HULKAMANIA ERA BABY!

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August 29, 2019 128 mins

We've been asking for weeks and I really hope you have an answer to the question by now:

You think you know me?

It's the end of our Edge arc and the end of our journey through 2006. We're getting gas for the time machine as we embark on our next arc, which will take us back further than we've ever gone before. 

Jesse does.... something, Newbs does.... something, and Adam has had a busy week and got the episode up late and ther...

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August 7, 2019 109 mins

The biggest party of the summer and the penultimate episode of our Edge arc!

Join us as we watch a pretty better than average show and round third on our trip down 2006's memory lane. 

Adam hates thumb tacks, Jesse hates Brock Lesnar, and Newbs concocts a cuck theory. 

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July 22, 2019 106 mins

And we back. And we back and we back and we back and we back. 

No, I'm not going to make the obvious wrestling joke here. SOMEONE already did that and whether or not he's on the next episode remains to be seen. 

Here we have Vengeance 2006, a show in which the WWE championship match is right in the middle and the main event features a bunch of male cheerleaders. Not hate on male cheerleaders, though. Every single one of t...

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June 11, 2019 101 mins

ECDub! ECDub! ECDub! What happens when you mix a rabid and kinda awful fan base, the looming awful relaunch of a brand, and their hero against the corporate machine? You get ECW One Night Stand 2006! The folks in the crowd say "fuck" a lot. But so do we so who the fuck am I to judge? 


Newbs rocks out, Jesse laments the Rey Mysterio title run, and Adam wrestles (heh) with the lasting legacy of ECW. 

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May 24, 2019 106 mins
Then I get bumped from Backlash? I’m not good enough to call Backlash!? In ECW, I called live pay-per-views on my own, solo, no color commentators dragging me down. Wasn’t done before me, hasn’t been done since. But I’m not good enough to call Backlash because I’m not a sports entertainment storyteller. Well you know what? I am sick of sports entertainment. I am sick of male cheerleaders. I am sick of boogers and bathroom humour an...
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May 10, 2019 115 mins
We here at Past A Mania HQ love us a Royal Rumble. They’re fun, filled with surprising entrants and entertaining eliminations and spots. They never disappoint. Well, theoretically of course. In this episode Jesse rationalizes mediocrity, Adam finally realizes why people hate John Cena, and of course Newbs’ boy Shelton Benjamin’s momma.
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April 23, 2019 95 mins
FINALLY..... PAST A MANIA HAS COME BACK.... TO YOUR PODDDDDCAAAAST FEEEEED! It's nice to be back everybody with the first episode in our new Edge arc! New Year's Revolution 2006 sees the first ever Money in the Bank cash-in, an elimination chamber, three steps forward for women's wrestling, and 47 steps backwards for women's wrestling. Jesse reminisces on his fledgling days as a wrestling fan, Adam laments watching th...
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March 20, 2019 88 mins
GIVE ME BACK MY SONS In this episode Adam Sierras. Newbs Hotels. Jesse Indias. Don't forget to throw us an Echo on iTunes, make sure to Lima, and Delta us on social media, and as always thanks for SHIELD
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March 7, 2019 118 mins
You may be asking "Hey Adam I thought the Daniel Bryan saga ended at WrestleMania 30? Certainly a one off match against Kane doesn't really warrant another episode." Well allow me to retort: In this episode Adam THE SHIELD VS EVOLUTION, Newbs THE SHIELD VS EVOLUTION, and Jesse THE SHIELD VS EVOLUTION!!
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February 21, 2019 117 mins
A masterpiece of a show that deserves no introduction. On this episode Adam does a Yes Chant, Newbs does a Yes Chant, and Jesse does a Yes Chant
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February 7, 2019 93 mins
It is the top heavy final stop on the road to WrestleMania 30. Come joins us as Adam points out Bad News Barrett predicting the future, Newbs calls out Adam’s weird typing flex, and Jesse marks out over the Shield vs the Wyatts. Well, honestly we all mark out over the Shield vs the Wyatts
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January 23, 2019 94 mins
Okay but seriously how in the hell does John Cena's body do what John Cena's body does? It doesn't make one lick of sense. This week we're bringing you Hell in a Cell 2013. A solid 6.5/10 show if I've ever seen one. Jesse continues to lament the existence of Randy Orton. Adam defends that the ending of this show is actually pretty good in a vacuum. And Newbs revels in the Saints losing a big game on a bad call.
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January 9, 2019 133 mins
Our journey to chronicle the rise of the GOAT, both figurative and literal, has begun. Summerslam 2013 is a weird show. Out of 7 matches only 3 are really worth a damn, but those three are worth all the damns. Adam goes back in time to relive when he first watched this show (and also where he was on 9/11?) Jesse unpacks some of his feelings about CM Punk. And Newbs helps us come to the realization that, up to this point, there’s on...
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Hohoho! Merry Christmas from all of us at Past A Mania! Here's our gift to you: the most ridiculous Christmas special that has ever graced our culture. It's the basis for the classic Christmas tune "Santa Got Run Over by Del Rio." Join us as we go through this hilarious episode of Raw and we wax poetic about how strangely important this special really is. It solidified Adam's love of wrestling in his early days of watching, and got...
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What was the best wrestling show of the year? Who were the best performers of the year? What was the match of the year? Who can win in a quiz down between Newbs and Jesse? Why am I asking you this you didn’t make the episode we did. Listen for the answers to all this and much much more, like a lot there’s a whole game of trivia which is basically just answers.
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December 5, 2018 166 mins
The pinnacle of sports entertainment. The end of an era. No not HHH vs Taker... well, that’s here but, not that one. There is no more competition, there are no more obstacles, there are no more true oposing forces. There are plenty of moments in wrestling history people say they stopped watching. One truly based on the appeal of wrestling itself could be said here. With no more variety of different companies and a heel turn to end ...
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November 25, 2018 127 mins
Most shows from the Rumble to Mania get caught up in the build and fall to the inescapable hype of the Show of Shows. However No Way Out 2001 only barely lays down the ground work of what Mania X7 would become. Instead we get wild non-stop multiman matches, a tightly knit if not strangely ended world title match, and a beautifully painted 40 minute epic that is probably what ended up giving us the 2 man power trip. (Editor’s note: ...
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