Better Call Creative Wrestling Podcast

Season Two - Episode 46 - No Way Out of Texas After a few difficult years 1998 was the year WWF would turn the corner and take back their spot at the top of the world of wrestling thanks in no small part to Stone Cold Steve Austin! After a successful Royal Rumble, Stone Cold heded in to his home state heading up an 8 man tag however who would replace Shawn Michaels in the bout after his injury? Representing Los Boriques....Savio Vega! A phrase that will live in the minds of many wrestling fans for a long long time! We head back to 1998 to review this ppv and reimagine what could have been if somebody...anybody else replaced Shawn Michaels in the match! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 Episode 45 - Royal Rumble 2005 We are back for 2025 and another year of reviewing the worst of wrestlings past! We kick off our road to a wrestlemania review with a review of a classic Royal Rumble! We are going back to 2005 and checking out a Rumble with one of the most memorable finishes of all time but not entirely for the reason you would expect! A night that Vince McMahon's quads would never forget as the future of the WWE becomes the now with a huge night for Batista and John Cena!  A rumble with some memorable matches as Triple H faces Randy Orton, and of course who could forget The Undertaker in a casket match against John Heindenreich!  Join Better Call Creative as we Rebooks, Reviews, Reimagines and RUMBLES all over you! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 - Episode 44- Thanksgiving Smackdown 2004 It's Thanksgiving folks and we would like to send our love over the sea to our America listeners and wish them a very Happy Thanksgiving! And as our way of saying thanks, we are checking out a special thanksgiving episode of Smackdown from 2004! Oh and how thankful we are to be able to review this show as it features one of the greatest promos in wrestling history given by Reigns...on Smackdown! We acknowledge you Luther Reigns and your strange obsession with Peas!  So if you have had peas before then you had better push aside the turkey and give Creative a call! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 - Episode 43 - Halloween Havoc 2000 Many people when naming the biggest WCW ppv of all time would say Halloween Havoc. A unique and memorable ppv with plenty of big moments had its last outing under the WCW brand in 2000 at the end of a dour year financially for the company. The AOL merger was now nearing and the end was nigh, but could WCW deliver one final top quality Halloween Havoc ppv? Join the Better Call Creative boys as they review a ppv headlined by Goldberg versus Kronik, but filled with top matches like Jeff Jarrett versus Sting, and Booker t versus Scott Steiner for the WCW title! Will this be just another dud for WCW in 2000, or is this one a hidden gem? Find out before the Better Call Creative boys reimagine what this event could have been, before rounding out with a Handicap Fantasy Card! You had Better Call Creative! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Season 2 - Episode 42 - XPW Halloween in Hell 3 XPW in the early 2000s jumped into the waters left warm by ECW. As the land of extreme was gobbled up by McMahon and the WWF, XPW offered the blood thirsty wrestling fan indy wrestling with a Hardcore edge! Enter Rob Black, the mastermind behind XPW and a man with many many vices. These vices would lead to the organisations hiatus as Rob fought the law and the law won! Fast forward over a decade and Dark Side of the Ring who did an episode on the strange land of XPW, and an audiance was found for a relaunch! Halloween in Hell 3 arrived in 2023 with more violence and XPW had not missed a step! We review this Halloween horror show intervals and all! The return of the Hardcore Ho....well the return of Angel to take on the King of the Deathmatch SHLAK! If Hardcore wrestling is your bag, take a listen whilst we try and call creative!  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 - Episode 41 - All Out 2022 What did we do to deserve an empty headed podcast like this one! Grab your muffins we are going to review All Out 2022! What should have been a wonderful return to the World Title for CM Punk ended with nearly a dozen men suspended, a scared dog, a chewed arm and a lot of hurt feelings! How did we get there? Well you had better call creative and find out! We review the event in full which features sum 11 matches, and 4 pre show matches, and the CM Punk media scrum after event, which lets face it is what people remember from this event.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 - Episode 40 - Unforgiven 1999 1999 was a time where the WWF could do no wrong! Top of the tree, making money like it was going out of fashion, this was a peak time for business. Creative however was in turmoil, the last pay per view before its head writer left for its competition, and with confusingly and inflated storylines, this pay per view could be called a little top heavy! 6 of its biggest stars in a main event and all without Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling, this was a chance to flex its muscles! Rock, Mankind, Triple H, Big Show, Kane and the Unde....no wait...is that British Bulldog! Yes the Bulldog is back and is immediately in the main event scene again getting the title shot he so truly wants! One hell of a main event right? Oh boy, this is going to be an eye opener...and did we mention, the Kennel from Hell! 1999...Russo is going...who do we call for Creative now? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 - Episode 39 - In Your House 3 Better Call Creative is the ultimate Triple Header and for our latest podcast we review wrestlings version of it. In Your House 3, the Triple Header. A main event in which all three active WWF titles were on the line as Shawn and Diesel took on tag team champions Yokozuna and Owen Hart.....well kind of....see Owen wasn't there....but he was...but he was replaced....oh this is all confusing so you had better listen and find out! The tide was high on the New Generation at this point, and wrestling couldn't be more out of touch with its audiance...want proof? A wrestling match fought over a wrestlers leather jacket! Nothing says blood feud more does it....the real issues! This is a healthy dose of 90s nostalgia but don't be fooled that pay per view was anything other than awful! You'd Better Call Creative and find out why!  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Season 2 - Episode 38 - The Brawl 4 All When you make a decision to focus your wrestling podcast on the worst of wrestling one thing is for certain....you will be watching the Brawl 4 All!  From the mind of Vince Russo, in 1998 the WWF had a lockeroom full of testosterone. Men who claimed to be the toughest, the baddest, the strongest. The biggest mouth of them all was Bradshaw and Russo wanted to shut him up! So he pitched to McMahon a shoot fight tournament to crown a brawl 4 all champion! Little did he know but this would be a decision that would live in history! From the shadows came an unlikely winner but that...is just a small part of the story! You'd Better Call Creative to hear the rest Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.

Series 2 - Episode 37 - Bull Buchanan Yes....we are doing a whole podcast on Bull Buchanan! It's a birthday podcast choice for our host and he has chosen to review the entire career of Bull Buchanan!  How many other podcasts can you say give you this kind of content! From Smokey Mountain, to South African White Supremacist. From a riot policeman to censoring conservative. From a white rapper to legitimate dog, this man has had a hell of a career but should it be more fondly remembered? Did wrestling miss a star? It's Bull Buchanan...of course they did! You'd Better Call Creative and find out why! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/better-call-creative-wrestling-podcast--3014789/support.