I listen to way too many podcasts on a weekly basis. There is not enough time in the week to listen to every podcast, but for the most part, I listen to as many pro wrestling podcasts as I can.
The amount of wrestling podcasts that are available for fans have grown over the past few years. A few years ago, I worked for Monday Night Mayhem, one of the first wrestling podcasts to gain national attention. After working for that show and understanding what goes into a good podcast, I became a very hard critic. There has to be cohesion between the hosts, continued conversation throughout, and most importantly, amazing topics.
This article will look the top our podcasts according to me that are available to listen to. All the following podcasts can downloaded through iTunes, Stitcher and any other ways you get your podcasts. Let’s start with a podcast that goes through pro wrestling and politics at times.
The Jim Cornette Experience
I was late to the game when it came to The Jim Cornette Experience, I admit. I’ve been a fan of Cornette through his long career as a wrestling manager and when he began doing shoot interviews, I immediately wanted more of anything Jim Cornette had to say.
The podcast has gone through some changes after Cornette’s original co-host and producer Alice Radley left the show after a heated conversation about Muslims. Cornette is a liberal (tough to believe for someone from Kentucky) and he uses his podcast to eviscerate Republicans and now President Donald Trump. In regards to wrestling, he speaks more about old school wrestling and why it was so much better than the current product. Cornette however is beginning to watch current pro wrestling and has even enjoyed some work, especially from The Revival from NXT.
Something To Wrestle With Bruce Pritchard
Bruce Pritchard has worked in the wrestling industry for well over 30 years, with his most notable position as a creative team member with the WWF/E. His experience is vast and the stories he tells are legendary as Pritchard has worked with the who's who of the wrestling industry. The beauty of Something To Wrestle With is that Pritchard and co-host Conrad Thompson take on a single topic, that is selected in a poll by fans, and go in-depth into the topic from the beginning to the end.
Thompson is a lifelong wrestling fan and someone who puts hours into his research in the various topics the podcast delves into. Pritchard is great at telling the true stories of the topics and deciphering what is fact from fiction and although he does sometimes dodge questions, Pritchard is always forthcoming and attempts to let the fans in on the inside stories of things that has ever been talked about.
The Ross Report
Jim Ross is arguably one of the greatest wrestling play-by-play announcers in the history of professional wrestling. After the WWE fired him for the 1,075th time, Ross took his talents to Podcast One, where he has had a successful podcast for the last three years. What resulted was a highly insightful podcast where Ross analyzes the wrestling world and gives his honest critique on the direction of the business.
The second half of the podcast features one or two interviews with big names from the wrestling business where Ross shows off his interview skills. Ross makes his guests feel comfortable and they in turn open up to Ross about the industry and their careers. The Ross Report is a great listen once you get pass the constant live reads for advertisers (which happens on all podcasts now) and his odd Terry Funk (former wrestling champion) and Jim Barnett (former wrestling promotion owner) voices.
The Art Of Wrestling
This podcast was at the forefront of the wrestling podcast scene when it began in 2010. Host Colt Cabana is an independent pro wrestler who understands the issues that pro wrestlers go through. His show, unlike many others, chooses to let the fans to get to know wrestlers, not through their career, but their personal lives and how their upbringing played a role into their careers. Instead of going over why a particular wrestler didn't get the title in their former company, Cabana instead wants to know where they were born and how their parents treated them.
The great thing about The Art Of Wrestling is that Cabana interviews lesser known wrestlers, who may not have a big name but has a great story that fans would enjoy. Cabana does a great job of asking follow-up questions that goes with the particular of a segment and to get the guests to open up about topics that they otherwise may not want to discuss. Colt Cabana continues to up the wrestling podcast game and continues to be the model on what new wrestling podcast should be.
If you like what you read on iDigitalTimes, check out our very own Bob Fekete's wrestling podcast Small Package. It's a look at all the news in the wrestling world and it's one of us here at iDigi, so you know it's good. Check it out in addition to the four that I mentioned.
What are your favorite wrestling podcasts? Let us know in our comment section.
