Phil and Nick Explain Wrestling ... To Each Other - Episode 2, WrestleMania VII and WAR

Phil Schneider is a widely respected wrestling historian. Nick Bond is a useful idiot.
And at least once (sometimes as many as twice!) a month, they get together to talk about professional wrestling the way it was meant to be discussed: each picking a match from wrestling history, presumably as a way to work out feelings about their childhood and the neverending creep of time. Or, like, talk about how much fun it is to see people beat each other up.
For their second episode, Phil and Nick two of their favorite matches:
For Nick, it's WrestleMania VII's "classic" between The British Bulldog and The Warlod, while Phil has chosen a NJPW/WAR interpromotional tag match between Riki Choshu & Shinya Hashimoto and Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa from 1993.
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2.3 - How the Royal Rumble Explains Wrestling

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world.
In honor of the newspeg provided by this weekend's Royal Rumble, the boys have made it the 19th entry into their ever-expanding wrestling compendium. For today's Part 1, they'll be taking a look at the Rumble's place in the evolution of the battle royal, what the WWF actually got right with the event and all of the things that have went wrong whenever variations have been tried elsewhere. 
In Part 2, coming out tomorrow, they'll be breaking down must-watch matches from the PPV's storied history.
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1.35.EV - How Survivor Series Matches Explain Wrestling

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world.
Today is Part 2 of our look into Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Matches, the fifteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick spent the half framing the big picture legacy of the match yesterday and today, they'll apply that lens to some must-watch matches that made Survivor Series matches one of the most enduring gimmicks in wrestling history. 
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1.33 - How Halloween Havoc Explains Wrestling

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world.
This week, we're talking about Halloween Havoc, the fourteenth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick spent Part 1 this week on the big picture legacy of WCW's most confounding event. 
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1.29 - How Bobby "The Brain" Heenan Explains Wrestling

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their off-cycle supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world.
This week, we talk about Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, the twelfth entry to our wrestling compendium. Dave and Nick look at the greatest all-around performer in wrestling history, how he changed the industry and what he'd be like if he were working now. 
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1.28 - How Wrestling Explains Parks And Recreation

The Wrestling Estate‘s David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here weekly to provide a pleasantly in-depth discussion on a specific subject that professional wrestling helps explain in ways you may not have realized.
This week, it's Parks and Recreation. If you ever wondered:
- When it's worth selling out your characters?
- Why Michael Schur is so great at building babyfaces (and why Vince McMahon is so bad at it)?
- Whether Leslie or Ron would make a better GM on WWE TV?
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1.9 How Bash at the Beach '96 Explains Wrestling

The Wrestling Estate's David Gibb and Juice Make Sugar's Nick Bond are here with their first ever intentional minisode, a supplement to the pleasantly in-depth discussion on what makes professional wrestling, well, professional wrestling (and, at least every other week) what that means for the world.
This week, Bash at the Beach '96 becomes the second entry to our wrestling compendium. We talk about the nWo v. T-Pain, Hulk vs. Hollywood and, ever so briefly, Steve "Mongo" McMichael vs. Joe Gomez.  
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