Smash The Mat #89 - 2022 New Year Kickoff

It's been a big news week in the wrestling world from shows to events to people leaving companies and the STM crew is here to guide you through it all with their special way of talking about wrestling.

The STM crew is back and there is so much on tap on the Road to Wrestlemania especially now that the Rock has entered the chat. It seems the Wrestling community is split on who they wanna see in the Main Event and Smash the Mat will help out with the understanding of this and more situations.

Smash The Mat is back with their first show of the new year where they make their predictions for the Royal Rumble. Including possible surprise entrants, and who should be facing who at Wrestlemania. Speaking of WWE there are some HEAVY Sex trafficking allegations against Vince McMahon and they cover that as well.

The STM crew is back doing the thing they do best, Talk wrestling. With the landscape of wrestling ever changing promotions like AEW are making changes for better or worse and they discuss those changes. Also with the TKO merger and HHH taking over WWE is continuing to strenthen their hold as the #1 promotion.

The STM crew is back to talk about the most talked about topic in wrestling....CM PUNK!! They talk about what they expect out of him and what potential matches. Also what is AEW going to do now?

It's that time of the year when Pro Wrestling Illustrated drops a list and ppl like us start talking about them. Do we agree or disagree, move some slots or not. Also big news coming out of the NWA as their owner Billy Corgan negotiated a TV Deal that could move NWA up the ranks of the wrestling hierarchy.

The STM crew is back to talk about the battle of Tuesday Night from this week when AEW moved to Tuesday night to go head to head with NXT. We talk about Tony Khan cutting up on social media and what are some of the worst wrestling gimmicks ever.

After the merger of WWE and UFC to form TKO, roster cuts were made and now the STM crew break down the moves made by the newly formed TKO. They go over the recent stories of AEW and talk about the show "Wrestlers" on Netflix.

The STM Crew unpack the Termination of CM Punk with AEW. They discuss where he might end up next, if he even decides to go anywhere. They also discuss possible Wrestlemania plans, what's next for Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, and more.

The STM crew like the wrestling world was caught up in our feelings after hearing Legendary Pro Wrestler Terry Funk passed away. Hours before we started the show it was brought to our attention that Bray Wyatt also passed away. We held a discussion about our fallen wrestlers and then we made predictions for AEW All In.