New Blood Rising Podcast

We're back in Season Five! It's finally time to get Starrcade '92 in the books. It's Battle Bowl. It's the King of Cable. It's the NWA World Title. You name it, it's happening on this show. Will Sting repeat as a 2x Battle Bowl champion? This is an endurance show as many wrestlers are pulling triple duty, and we're here for all of it! Thanks for coming back and listening!

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There may not be a wrestler in WWF, WWE, WCW, NWA, or any wrestling promotion with a vault of classics like Bret Hart. Making a top ten list of his best wrestling matches is a fun draft, full of a requisite list of must-haves. Here's one that may sneak into yours. On July 11, 1994, Bret Hart defended the WWF Championship against 1-2-3 Kid in a TV match during the infancy of Monday Night Raw. Despite being embroiled in the feud with...

We're closing in on the end of 1992, on the cusp of the Starrcade. That must mean it's time for a Clash of the Champions, and here we are at Clash XXI, which is the video production bonanza of the year. There are so many tournaments going on, it's kind of ridiculous, but we've got plenty of action on this card. Paul E. versus Madusa in the "has not aged well" match of the night along with Rick Rude versus Sting in the semi-finals o...

It's become a tradition that we break out a MFGWLM episode for holiday season, and this year it's from WWE Studios, starring The Miz and Paige. It's Santa's Little Helper. Hope the holidays are treating you in a well in a year that hasn't for a lot of us. We'll see you all in 2021.

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WWE has finally brought Halloween Havoc out of its WCW's mothballs, and it worked out perfectly because here we are in Season Five with Halloween Havoc '92. "Spin the wheel, make the deal." Wow, what a pay-per-view marketing campaign? How did it pay off? Was it a good pay off? We will discuss as Sting takes on Jake Roberts in the main event.

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In this episode of the The Perfect 10's, William is joined by Tom Franken from the Stranger Rings podcast, who chose Mike Awesome vs. Masato Tanaka from ECW's One Night Stand '05. Awesome and Tanaka have an incredible feud that spans many wrestling promotions, most famously ECW from 1998-1999. One Night Stand was part of WWE's reboot of ECW, and this match became a signature for the show, and for a brief moment didn't feel like the...

By the time the year 2000 rolled around, WWE was missing its top draw with Stone Cold Steve Austin due to injury. A new top heel was needed, and thus Triple H was put on the on-ramp to wrestling superstardom while also becoming the definitive incarnation of his character as The Game. But he needed a match that would make people believe he was more than just Shawn Michael's buddy. Mick Foley, despite the massive wear and tear absorb...

This week, William is joined by Drew Wardlaw (@_burningspirits) from the You Don't Know Billy Jack podcast featured on the Place to Be Wrestling Network. Drew has picked Lex Luger vs. Ric Flair from WrestleWar '90 for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Luger has a complicated history and reception in wrestling, but this is a defining match for him and for Flair, and it's a great discussion about NWA, WCW, and WWF versions of t...

WWE always wants WrestleMania to be memorable, and in 2020 they certainly got that with WrestleMania 36.

Was The Undertaker versus AJ Styles going to be a memorable match if it was a one-on-one match in a ring in front of thousands of fans? We'll never know. What we do know is that because of COVID-19, WrestleMania changed and so did the matchup between The Phenom and The Phenomenal One. A match in the squared circle became The Bon...

If you're going to be doing a wrestling podcast about a Perfect 10 from Triple H, there is no one better than Scott Criscuolo from the Place to Be Podcast. We're talking through his Perfect 10, Triple H taking on Stone Cold Steve Austin from No Way Out '01. Huge WWF pay-per-view on the road to WrestleMania X7 and certainly a huge match for both Triple H and Austin for this part of their careers.

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On the heels of their discussion surrounding the 2001 Royal Rumble match, William and Charlie run it back and go through the historic 1992 Royal Rumble match where now over half the competitors are now in the WWE Hall of Fame. There's a long first part with the guys talking about the Ruthless Aggression documentary series on the WWE Network and Pixar's recent films. If that isn't your cup of tea, fast forward to the 38:00 mark to h...