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Tights and Fights

Ep. 166: A rabbit hole of WWE history w/ Bill Hanstock

Tights and Fights

Maximum Fun

World Wrestling Entertainment, Society & Culture, Arts, Aew, Lindsey Kelk, Wwe, Dynamite, Danielle Radford, Hal Lublin, All Elite Wrestling, Comedy, Wrestling, Raw, Smackdown

4.7735 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week Hal and Lindsey are joined by Bill Hanstock. He’s known for his wrestling writing in Uproxx and SBNation. But now he’s got a new project: a book about the complete and comprehensive history of WWE. Yeah. In addition to getting all the details about that, we’ll also talk about a bunch of recent wrestling programming. For one, RAW had no women’s matches. It certainly didn't make the show easier to watch, especially as the build to the Saudi show is in full swing. What did get us excited though was the debut of Humberto on Monday nights. AEW Dynamite continues to keep us entertained. One common criticism has been that each show has only one women’s match. How long are we willing to give the company the benefit of the doubt? We’ll explain. Plus, our thoughts on what they could continue to do from a production standpoint to truly stand-out from WWE and, yeah, we’ll weigh in on the Marko Stunt’s "controversy". In contrast to AEW, NXT has maybe as deep a women’s roster as they’ve had in years. Multiple stars are vying for Shayna Baszler’s women’s championship. We’ll discuss who should get the nod as number one contender and explain Roderick Strong’s cast-type in film. The Three Count Lindsey put over Emily Pratt’s article about the Daddy’s of WWE. Hal put over the Bayley’s heelish actions on twitter. Hosted byHal Lublin, Lindsey Kelk and Bill Hanstock. Produced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun. If you want to talk about more wrestling throughout the week be sure to join us on Facebook and @TightsFights on Twitter and Instagram. If you liked the show, please share it with your friends and be sure to leave us a quick review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts.

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0:00.0

Tyson's

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podcast

0:03.1

is the perfect wrestling

0:06.6

podcast

0:07.8

There's a guy named pal and there's Daniel

0:13.9

And this guy my

0:16.2

Eagle is there as well

0:19.1

Tyson bites Podcast Dides and Fights,

0:21.6

Podcast, Tides and Fights and Fights.

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I'm back,

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and better than ever.

0:32.6

Well, maybe the same, who knows.

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I'll let you judge, but don't tell me about it,

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because I don't care.

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Welcome to Tides and Fights, the show that discusses wrestling with the sincerity and hilarity

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that it deserves. I'm host, Hostington, Hal Lublin, and I'm joined today by my fellow members of

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the nation of conversation, the Brit Factor, Lindsay Kelk. That's me. And our special guest,

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you have nothing, no further comments I know. You just identify it.

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You're saying that's correct.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I am the Brit.

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