Classy Ring Attire 394 - Wrestling in the Time of COVID

With the world on pause and everybody stuck at home, we have experienced the oddest WrestleMania of all time. Classy Ring Attire is on hiatus right now, but we've never let a WrestleMania pass us by without discussing it before, so we put together a brief reaction to help us through our national quarantine.

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!

Classy Ring Attire 228 - Roman Tests Positive for Tater Tots

With Money in the Bank in our rear view mirror, we now look at the aftermath of Dean Ambrose cashing in and we wonder would it have even happened if Roman Reigns hadn't gotten himself suspended. Also, is there such a thing as too much wrestling? Joel explores this ideas as we might be finding out in a couple of months.

The Classy Ring Attire #209 "Daniel Bryan Group Therapy"

It turned out to be true, Daniel Bryan retired and we all got a punch in the feels during his retirement speech on Raw this week. Now, Joel and Chris do their best to process all of this and pay homage to one of the best wrestlers ever who managed to log in a thoroughly impressive career.

The Classy Ring Attire Podcast #203: The Yearly Classys Show

It's the end of the year, which means that it's time for the most important award show in all of wrestling! The annual Classys!

Classy Ring Attire 199 - One Episode Shy

We're almost to the grad 200th episode, but first we have to make it through the 199th episode. And it looks like Raw got a tiny bit better but does that mean we should forgive it for everything that has been going down? Let's go now to Mick Foley for the answer. 

Classy Ring Attire 127 - Reaching the End of the Pocket

As Money in the Bank comes to a close, we get two pretty great days of wrestling right in a row. We get a few returns, two quality ladder matches, a face turn, and just a all around excitement for the summer season of WWE.

Classy Ring Attire - The Legendary 100th Episode

It is time for a celebration in true Classy Ring Attire fashion. Join the guys and the bring back a whole slew of past guests to talk about Wresting today, how it's been the past two years and what it might be like in the next two.

Editors note: Because of the extended editing that happened for this episode, it was unfortunately not without its casualties. Because this was the first time we attempted such a thing, The beginning of the final segment was lost into the editing abyss which is why it starts so awkwardly. Apologies for that.

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Classy Ring Attire - Payback and The Monday After

Payback and Raw were loaded, so we have to cram, Punk's return, Mark Henry's retirement, A McMahon struggle, some rather excellent Diva development, the RVD announcement, and the best WHC match in recent memory all into a single hour.

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Classy Ring Attire - Raw on Silent

With a different viewing setting of this week's Raw, we discuss the ups and downs of watching Raw close captioned. Plus, less Jerry commentary, Minus, can't hear Mick Foley.

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Classy Ring Attire: The Written Word Version (Survivor Series)

I hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving week, like we mentioned in last week's podcast, we will have a podcast for everyone this week but alas it was pre-recorded seeing as how we knew everyone would be going their separate ways for the holiday. We also mentioned that there will be a post sharing our thoughts about Survivor Series. Well, this is that post and by "our" I mean "mine." So let's get to it, yes?

I didn't watch the pre-show shenanigans, did I miss anything other than Matt Striker's impressive 'stache?

Bonus Elimination Tag Team Match: Brodus Clay, Tyson Kidd, Justin Gabriel & Masked Failure vs. Primo, Epico, Tensai and Prime Time Players

I dug this match, mostly because I enjoy traditional Survivor Series matches and less because of who's in it (usually). That being said, it's weird to say that I like this match when the only thing that really stuck with me days later is how Tensai sandbagged Brodus. I will say that it's interesting that the two big guys were the first to be eliminated. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that WWE intentionally did that to make up for always favoring the big guys almost always. I'm not saying that because they would need to do a lot more to accomplish that, honestly I just find it...interesting.

Diva's Championship Match: Eve(c) vs Kaitlyn('s Boobs)
I liked a Diva match? I believe this would have been the right time to put the belt on Kaitlyn but who are we kidding? It's the Diva's division so her spot on the championship rotation will come up in a month or so. That being said, I really dug Kaitlyn's new ring attire as well as the gut buster finisher.

US Championship Match: Antonio Cesaro(c) vs R-Hooch
I promise I won't go on another rant about how badly Cesaro needs a new gimmick and I promise I won't remind everyone about how Truth needs to go back to heel. I just won't do neither of those things because we've talked about it for so long and I just can't do that to my audience right now. You all deserve better, much like we deserve Cesaro with a new gimmick and having R-Heel, but I'm not gonna mention those things.

It seems taboo to be complaining about a segment that leads to AJ being on my TV but we really didn't need scandal update. The only real purpose that it served was to bring out Tamina. There are better ways, friends, so much better.

World Heavyweight Championship Match: Big Show(c) vs Sheamus
Once again, a decent match between these two. The recent trend for rivalry matches is that the 2nd PPV match is more of a story-telling match and this is no exception. The story that was suppose to be delivered was that it takes a lot of put Sheamus. Not a very original message seeing as how that was beat over our heads during the Del Rio program. The chaotic ending was to make it feel like the match was incomplete and will carry on towards TLC so maybe that's when we will see everything fall apart.

Survivor Series Elimination Match: Dolph Ziggler, Damien Sandow, David Otunga, Wade Barrett, Alberto Del Rio vs Team Friendship, Randy Orton, The Miz, Kofi Kingston
How fun was this match? I believe Joel and myself both agree that this match may end up in our list of top matches for the year. It seemed like every person in the match had their own moment were they elevated the match for a time before essentially handing it off to the next guy. I actually like Del Rio in this match, he had some high moments and actually put a big effort into carrying the match at the right times. Also, who would've guessed  Ziggler cleanly pinning Orton in for the final pin? Great signs for what is in the future of Ziggler and just maybe we will finally see him cash the briefcase in soon.

Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship: CM Punk(c) vs John Cena vs Ryback:

This match had some pretty cool moments in it like Cena actually squaring off against Ryback and Cena and Punk briefly joining forces to try to take Ryback out. Sure, we would've always liked to see Punk win cleanly but then we wouldn't have Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and the other guy so I'm gonna let this slide.

Well does it for me, hope everybody is enjoying their Thanksgiving. Look out for our special podcast for this week and we will be back with our regular-scheduled Classy Ring Attire next week.

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Classy Ring Attire: A second strike against Evan (and a big strike on AJ)

This week we had to face the fact that once in a great while House shows are still relevant as we learned that the tag team titles changed hands at a house show. We also discuss the triumphant return of Mick Foley and what do you know, it looks like he's going to get his very own storyline.

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Classy Ring Attire: Did you wonder Wh(Y) the (2)nd of (J)anuary?

The great mystery wrestler behind the Jan 2nd videos is revealed but the point behind the videos remains a mystery. In this episode, our heroes discuss the return as well as take their first look at matches that might happen come WrestleMania time.

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