Sunday, December 24, 2017

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 304 - The Good Old Days of 2011



What is up with wrestling? Did WWE just forget how to exist without a PPV every other week? Are they tripping over themselves trying to outthink the entire world of indy wrestling? Its a strange, strange world out there wrestling wise right now. 

Classy Ring Attire 303 - The Avengers of the WWE

It's a long and convoluted journey, but we manage to turn hype for the new Avengers trailer into something that's relevant to the WWE right now.

Monday, November 27, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 302 - These Long Winter Months Ahead



With Survivor Series behind us, and Royal Rumble on the distant horizon, we now settle in for a stretch of time that is populated by the weekly show and one single December PPV. 

Friday, November 17, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 301 - The World According to Survivor Series

With all the back and forth buildup to the two major wrestling shows this weekend, we have a good bit of material to run through, including the cards of Takeover and Survivor Series. 

All that, plus we say goodbye to a beloved wrestler lo these past many (1.5) years.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 300 - Survivor Series Just Got Phenomenal (with special guest star Chip)

Just in time for our extra big 300th episode, WWE finally does something great and lets AJ save us from the terror of the Champion vs Champion match we thought we were going to have to sit through.

Plus to celebrate our 300 episodes, we bring on long time friend Chip who has been watching Wrestling with us for years now. We also break down the past 300 podcasts, and predictions for what we'll be talking about on episode 400.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Classy Ring Attire - A Mini Fall Cleaning

It's a shorter episode than usual this week as we prepare for our big 300 episode. We run down the three biggest releases of the past week, and reflect on each of their time with the company.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 298 - Kurt's Roman Cosplay

A disease ridden locker room results in an unexpected card for TLC. We rundown the show, the results and what the fallout could be from this bizzaro world PPV.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 297 - TLC on a Technicality

Well it happened again. Just hours after recording, we are faced with the WWE changing everything around and rendering the majority of this episode inaccurate making us look like a pair of mooks. Still, for posterity's sake, here's a discussion on what the card for TLC could have been had the whole think not been ravaged by disease.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 296 - Friendship is Alive Again!!



Not one, but two long destroyed friendships have been reborn this week! It's a Hell in a Cell miracle! Three if you count Shane and his friendship with jumping on giant, dangerous structures. 

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 295 - Matches Go in Cells Now. Cells Are Cool

It's time to address our greatest feuds and settle them the only way we know how, In the great Hell in a Cell structure. (Note: greatest feuds can be supplemented by other feuds that may feature crazy man men who like to jump off of high places.)

Classy Ring Attire 294 - The Great No Mercy Letdown

We're here to recap a PPV with not one, but two major main events that by their powers combined manage to undo the enjoyment of the entire rest of the show. 
This is not the feeling that Cesaro sacrificed a tooth for. 

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 293 - Farewell to Bobby "The Brain" Heenan

It's a sad week as we mourn the loss of wrestling legend Bobby Heenan who in more ways than one was a driving force behind the shaping of the product as we know today.

Also on this episode, What Culture experiences a behind the scene shakeup and No Mercy Predictions.

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 292 - The Not Quite as Way Too Early WrestleMania Predictions



Every year, the day after WrestleMania, before Raw goes live that night, we both make a wrestling card of what we think will be the WrestleMania card of the next year. Well this year, even though we both made the cards, one thing led to another and we haven't gotten around to talking about them until today. So join us as we talk about predictions that were made several months ago and see how many of our matches already can't happen. 

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Classy Ring Attire - 291 A Week Late (But We're Still Here)



Due to technical issues, this isn't podcast isn't about this week's wrestling but rather last week's wrestling. So journey with us, back to the olden days of Slightly earlier in September of 2017 as we look back on what a crazy time it was. Cena was feuding with Roman. Can you believe it?

Monday, September 4, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 290 - Cena Tries to Pipebomb

Roman and Cena are finally facing off. And it's not even WrestleMania yet. We get a teardown promo this week as the two of them square off on the microphone. And guess which one is the winner. That's right, the one who actually knows how to cut a promo.

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 289: SummerSlam SummerSlam Sum Sum SummerSlam



It's the second biggest wrestling weekend of the year and all Chris wants to talk about is the concept of beach balls. So while we indulge the new obsession that Chris has, we also take time to review every event WWE had this weekend from Takeover to SummerSlam to the Raw and Smackdown that followed. 

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 288: Getting Back in Time for SummerSlam

It's finally time to rundown the massive card for SummerSlam this year. With a dozen or so matches and an extra hour of runtime, this year's SummerSlam has truly become the WrestleMania of the summer that WWE always dreamed it could be.

Monday, August 14, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 287: WWE Was So Boring That Joel Left*

*on vacation.

Joel picked a great time to take a week off. Neil fills in once again as he and Chris desperately try to have an original thought about wrestling. Are they successful? Do they rehash points made months and years ago? Does Chris use this opportunity to lobby for his own sports podcast? Only one way to find out!

Friday, August 4, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 286 - Hot Take Here: CM Punk Was Perfect and We All Miss Him

Somehow with all that's going on, we still managed to find a way to lament the fact that CM Punk isn't on the show any longer, and talk about how much better everything would be if they would all just listen to him.
It's been three years. Get over it guys.

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Classy Ring Attire - 285 Four Heads are Better Than Two?

Fortunately for all of us, it seems like WWE is on their way to fixing the SummerSlam main event, or at the very least finding one that won't bum us all out while we wait for the inevitable outcome we're all dreading.

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 284 - The America Themed Battleground



Smackdown's Battleground PPV this weekend has an interesting wrinkle to it. We go into detail, breaking down the card, and we also address a few key events from Raw this week, namely the ending match and Kurt Angle's big news. 

Monday, July 17, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 283 - Our Nerves Were Shaken and Our Brains Rattled



Great Balls of Fire you guys. Lesnar vs. Joe. Cass vs. Enzo. And Roman Reigns tried to kill a guy. We breakdown the whole event for you including the finer points of the laws surrounding attempted vehicular manslaughter. 

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 282 - Goodness Gracious...

It's a PPV title that's been made fun of for months. But this week we finally have to break down the card and discuss the matches themselves. 
We address Joe vs. Lesnar as well as the rest of the rundown. 

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 281 - You Can't Say That On Television

With no pay-per-view to review and no upcoming on to focus on, Raw makes up for it this week by having a good old fashion scandal to focus on. We break down what happened, what was the goal, and where it all went wrong. 

Monday, June 26, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 280 - Joel Plays Catch Up

He was only gone for a week, but it was a busy week. Not only do we have to cram in all of the events Joel missed out on by being absent last week, we also have Money in the Bank, and the fallout from all of that to go through as well.

Friday, June 16, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 279 - Okada/Omega II (w/ special guest Neil)


Joel is away for the week so Neil joins Chris this week to discuss Okada and Omega's sequel to their instant classic match from this past January. And of course, we preview WWE's next pay-per-view Money in the Bank and make predictions.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 278 - The Mysterious Third Host

Extreme Rules fallout includes the surprise winner of the Fatal Five Way that will be facing Brock Lesnar at (sigh) Great Balls of Fire next month.

Monday, June 5, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 277 - Five Guys (The Wrestling Match, not the Restaurant)

Raw's next PPV is upon us, so we break down the card including the main event, a fatal five way to decide who will face Brock Lesnar at the next PPV which is apparently STILL being called Great Balls of Fire

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 276 - Backlash or Payback Review (We're Not Sure Which)

Well... Didn't see that ending coming did you? We have to start at the end and work backwards this week as we kick off the show talking about the ending of Backlash and then work our way back through the card and then to NXT Takeover.

Classy Ring Attire 275 - An Upbeat Week if it Kills Us

After the major downer of the previous week, we're going to be positive no matter what. Which may be a challenge since this is the week we're running down the Backlash card. 

Sunday, May 14, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 274 - Time For Another Doom and Gloom Episode

It seems like every few episodes or so, we get one where we just have to get all of the "nothing works, everything sucks, the end of wrestling as we know it is nigh" out of our system. 
This week is one of those episodes as our heroes continue their never ending quest to discover what is fundamentally broken at the very core of wrestling as a whole. 

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 273 - Payback Pulls it Off

Despite an alarmingly lackluster buildup, the actual event that was Payback actually managed to be pretty impressive. We breakdown the card match by match, including the already infamous House of Horrors match that we take particular time to really delve into. Where it went right, where it went wrong, and why the wrong bits were just so wrong.

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 272 - The Raw Exclusive Cross Promotion Event

The first event after WrestleMania, is somehow both a Raw brand PPV and a cross brand PPV. Thanks, awkwardly executed Superstar Shakeup.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 271 - The Shake Up Breakdown

After a week off to recover from the monster that was WrestleMania weekend, Classy is back to discuss the Superstar shakeup, what it means for each show and the wrestlers that have traded red for blue and vice versa.

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 270 - The WrestleMania Weekend Recap Pt 2

The Second part of our coverage of the massive week of wrestling surrounding WrestleMania. This episode covers the shows after WrestleMania including Raw, Smackdown and NXT.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 269 - The WrestleMania Weekend Recap Pt 1

In the first of two podcast this week, we cover NXT Takeover, and the Big Event, WrestleMania itself. This podcast was recorded after WrestleMania, but before Raw the following night. Hear the initial reactions to all the wrestling that's taken place in the last 48 hours. The ups, the downs, and the moments not to be forgotten.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 268 - Our Official WrestleMania 33 Card Rundown

It's finally here. After months of waiting WrestleMania is this weekend. We've got what may be the biggest event card every in the history of the show (depending on what metric you use to measure that) and a whole additional card from NXT the night before, so there's not a lot of time to do much but jump straight to the card on this one.

Monday, March 27, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 267 - And the World Goes Insane

Just over a week left before WrestleMania, and the big event is hardly even mentioned this episode. It seems that every wrestling related story this week has struggled to outdo every other wrestling related story, so strap in as we fly through every breaking news event that's happened since the last episode. Its a lot guys.

Monday, March 13, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 265 - Anger at Fast Lane

Anger at the execution of Fast Lane has been stewing all week, and now it all comes out as we break down match by match were everything, and we mean EVERYTHING went wrong.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 264 - The New and "Improved" Impact

TNA (Which is no longer TNA) has been dominating the news this week with people leaving, name changes, title changes, talks of the future, and how all of that could possibly impact (no pun intended) the wrestling world at large.

Monday, February 27, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 263 - The Post Raw Phone Call

It's been a whole week since the greatest friendship ever broke up and we still don't know why!
But on the bright side, just enough CM Punk things happened after Raw went off the air that we can spend a huge chunk of the show on wild CM Punk related speculation.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 262 - Elimination of Your Best Friend

We've got something big from every show this week. A Festival of Friendship and a championship match on Raw. A triple threat main event on Smackdown. And obviously an elimination chamber match for a champion at Elimination Chamber.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 261 - First Stop on the Road. The Chamber

As we head down the road to Wrestlemania, we have to make our first stop, the Elimination Chamber PPV, the final Smackdown PPV event before WrestleMania. We run down the card, and make the usual predictions.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Friday, January 27, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 259 - Lets Finally, FINALLY Get Ready to Rumble

Its seems like it's taken forever, but Rumble Weekend is finally upon us. We breakdown the card for both The Royal Rumble and NXT the night before, including our long thought out discussion as to who will with the Rumble this year. For the first time in five years, it doesn't seem like a foregone conclusion, which is  a pretty exciting thing to consider as we kick on the 2017 Road to WrestleMania.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 258 - The WWE's Gap Week

It's too late in the year to have any more "Best of 2016" conversations, but still to early to do our predictions for the Royal Rumble. WWE seems to be in a holding pattern as far as forward momentum goes on any of there shows, so join us for what is apparently going to be the first of two different weeks of go home shows from all four of WWE's main shows.
Plus talk about NJPW's possible future.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 257 - Match of the Year Has Been Taken Care Of

With only a few weeks into the new year, we already have not only a contender for match of the year, but a match that will more than likely go on to win the whole thing. Wrestle Kingdom 11 ends with a match that not only has us talking abut match of the year already, but one that forces us to address the five star rating system for matches as a whole.
Also the Undertaker came back, so we talk about that a little bit.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 256 - The 5th Classys Show

It's time once again to celebrate the year past with the most important award show in all of wrestling the Classys. Joel and Chris reveal their picks for the biggest awards of the year.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Classy Ring Attire 255 - As The Year Comes to a Close...

It's the final podcast of 2016. We look at the way that WWE closes out the year, plus a year in review for 2016. The ups, the downs, the regrets, etc. We also tease next week's traditional Classy's and a look forward to 2017.