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In advance of this Friday's AEW Collision featuring Ricky Steamboat as guest referee, we've unlocked this Premium Episode in which we the first ever match between Bryan Danielson and CM Punk, which took place at the ROH Reborn Stage One event, which was the last time Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat refereed a CM Punk match. We also delve deeper into the career of AJ Lee, discussing her FCW Divas title victory over Naomi Knight on 12/10/2010 and her WWE Divas title defense against Paige on the 4/7/2014 episode of Monday Night Raw. Subscribe at  at Patreon.com/contestingwrestling for $5 a month to access our complete Premium library including almost 100 exclusive episodes!!!
 
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This time on Contesting Wrestling Doc, Ben, and Scotland Green watch the CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe trilogy from ROH in 2004. This episode was recorded six months before we are releasing it, but since it is for matches that happened almost 20 years ago, that's ok! These matches are some of Doc and Ben's favorites, but Scotland hasn't seen them before so we get down to the analysis and contesting.

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This time on Contesting Wrestling we talk to Eddia McNamara, author of "Toss Your Own Salad", about matches where one participant famously carried the other through the match! An interesting topic to breach, for a variety of reasons sometimes one participant has to take control and lead the other, step-by-step, through what they're doing. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. 

Eddie McNamara is an author. He can be found on Twitter @EddieMcnamara

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In celebration of Thanksgiving, we've unlocked one of our earliest Premium Episodes, from the beforetimes of 2019, in which we discuss the classic Survivor Series 1993 match pitting the Hart Family against Shawn Michaels and his "Kings" as well as the first one on one match between Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns from Fastlane 2015!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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As a slightly belated Halloween gift, please enjoy our Premium Episode from last year covering the WCW Halloween Havoc event, featuring Sting vs Sid Vicious in the main event for the World Heavyweight title, Lex Luger vs. Stan Hansen for the U.S. championship and the classic encounter between the Steiner Bros. and the Nasty Boys for the U.S. Tag Team titles, plus much much more!!! Subscribe to Patreon.com/contesting wrestling to access our complete Premium library of more than 100 episodes!!!

This time on Contesting Wrestling Doc, Ben and out guest Zack Pond talk about early CM Punk. Punk in IWA: MS, Punk in TNA and the first ROH Punk vs. Raven match! We will be doing a series on CM Punk as we have time and this is a good start. 

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Doc, Ben and our guest AJ Lupo contest a selection of matches from Wrestlemania 38! We look at a few matches, and we give our opinions on today's WWE! We check out Biana Belair vs. Becky Lynch, AJ Styles vs. Sami Zayn, Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins and more! 

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This time on Contesting Wrestling Ben and Doc talk with their dear old friend and older wrestling fan Omar about Bob Backlund, one of the longest reigning WWF champions of all time and later, one of the shortest. We have a great time talking about nice old crazy old Mr. Backlund so check it out!

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Doc, Ben and three time Contesting Wrestling Guest Space King Bobby talk music! We talk about some of our favorite and least favorite wrestling theme music and what that music means to the wrestling fan. We have fun as always on this one so check it out!

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Merry Christmas, folks! Join Ben and Doc for a discussion of an event we went to personally that shaped our fandom and relationship with wrestling. In 2007 JAPW was a large regional indy that competed directly with ROH and had a different roster and a different flavor. We attended this event in early 2007 and wanted to give our modern impressions, as well as illustrate the growth of the indy world at the time. Subscribe for $5 a month to access our full catalog of nearly 100 premium episodes at patreon.com/contestingwrestling ! 

In this episode of Contesting Wrestling, Doc and Ben bring on Will Fink, one of Ben's oldest friends who has watched wrestling only sporadically over the years to talk about Bret, Yokozuna and Hulk Hogan and the events where they all traded the WWF Championship. This episode is full of nostalgia and (surprise) a lot of praise for Bret Hart. Enjoy!

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In celebration of Thanksgiving and the recent Survivor Series, please enjoy one of our earliest Premium Episodes, featuring the debut of The Undertaker at Survivor Series 1990 and 2 matches from Xtremely Serious Wrestling, including one with Orange Cassidy! Subscribe for $5 a month at Patreon.com/contestingwrestling to access our full Premium library of nearly 100 Premium episodes! Happy Thanksgiving!

As a belated Halloween gift, please enjoy this premium episode from last year, in which we discuss the late, great, spooky wrestling manager extraordinaire, William Moody, aka Paul Bearer. Ohhhhh Yesssss!!!!!! 

The Contesting Wrestling gang went to AEW Grand Slam and we took a new guy! Ben's friend Sergio (Instagram: @gomdiaz) had never been to a live wrestling event before and had barely paid attention to it in his life so let's get his impression of all the action.

We at Contesting Wrestling are always interested in getting impressions from those who aren't otherwise soaked in pro wrestling and Sergio does not disappoint. We saw all the big AEW stars, and he has no idea who any of them are. Maybe Sting. 

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Evan, Ben and Doc talk to author, philosopher and scholar of Islam Michael Muhammad Knight! We talk almost exclusively about wrestling. Shawn Michaels vs. Sid from Survivor Series 1996 and the triple cage match from Nitro 2000! The sudden popularity of Sid and the almost unexplainable existence of Vince Russo make this a must-listen.

Michael talk about his history of fandom and compares wrestling and religion. We had wanted to do an episode with Michael for a very long time and are thrilled that he was able to come on the show. Follow him on Twitter @MM_Knight

This episode is the next-to-last with Evan on it so keep an eye out for Evan's farewell, coming soon! We will be continuing Contesting Wrestling of course. Just in a new phase.

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To celebrate the return of CM Punk to pro-wrestling and Samoa Joe's return to the ring in NXT, here's a Premium Episode in which Ben and Doc revisit the first ROH show they ever attended, back in 2004, which was also the first time they saw either Punk or Joe, who battled in the main event for the ROH World Championship. Subscribe for $5 a month at Patreon.com/contestingwrestling to access our full library of now almost 100 Premium Episodes with a new one dropping every week!

Evan, Ben and Doc check out some British Wrestling! Plus, Evan has had enough and addresses his status with Contesting Wrestling. 

On this edition of Contesting Wrestling we check out both classic and modern British wrestling, as well as what it looked like through the WWE lens. We see Marty Jones take on Terry Rudge in a World of Sport classic, Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Zack Gibson from NGW and the Duchess of Queensbury rules match from WWE Backlash 2001 between William Regal and Chris Jericho.

Evan is on the verge of tapping out. We only have a couple episodes maximum with him left so check this one out! 

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A short message from Dr. Ben Abelson for the purpose of excusing our recent absence

In Contesting Wrestling Premium Episode 76 we are joined by @matt2jay Matt Josephson and discuss a classic Madison Square Garden WWF House Show featuring one of the first ever one on one meetings of Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair. Subscribe at Patreon.com/contestingwrestling $5 a month gets you a new Premium Episode each week plus access to our full library of Premium Episodes.