Behind The Gorilla Wrestling Podcast

Season 3 - Episode #8: A Flair for the Insane with Little Natch It's our 1 year anniversary! So to celebrate we have a little longer episode where we go on the journey of Ric Flair as WCW President. It includes he firing everybody, going crazy, being committed to a mental hospital and Charles Robinson becoming his personal referee and eventually Little Natch! There's a lot in this one so please enjoy! Leave us a rating and review on iTunes! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #7: Paul Bearer Buried In Cement At the Great American Bash in 2004 The Undertaker had a match against the Dudley Boyz. The issue was Paul Bearer had been kidnapped by the Dudleyz and Paul Heyman and was being held hostage. If Undertaker didn't lay down and let the Dudleyz win then Paul Heyman was going to bury Bearer in cement! Also our thoughts on what's going on in wrestling and our weekly segment on what David Arquette is up to! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #6: Undertaker vs. Underfaker Before the Undertaker was the most respected man in the company, he had several very bad feuds in the early 90s. One of the strangest is when he battled himself! SummerSlam 1994 pitted The Undertaker vs. a fake? Undertaker. Oh yeah and the angle involved Airplane and Naked Gun star Leslie Nielson and it's glorious! Also we debut new music for our What's Going On With David Arquette segment! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #5B: WCW Monster Jam 1995 This week we delve into the infamous feud between Hulk Hogan and The Giant in WCW in 1995. The Giant makes his debut and it leads to a Monster Truck Sumo Match at Halloween Havoc which lead to Giant falling off the top of the building and then coming back to life! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #5A: Royal Rumble/NXT TakeOver 2019 Review Here we are with our review of one of the biggest shows of the year! We talk about everything we liked and some things that we absolutly hated. Part 1. The second part will be our actual show this week. Out now as well! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #4: Fat Chick Thriller/That 70's Guy ECW champion Mike Awesome came to WCW in April of 2000 because ECW was out of money. You'd think a 6'6" athletic guy would be an asset. He was for a short while but then he was given several gimmicks that were, how do we put this, HORRIBLE! So that is what we are talking about this week. Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #3: Our Interview With David Arquette! Our show is complete. The unthinkable has happened. Our Patron Saint, David Arquette himself joins us for an unbelievable episode of Behind the Gorilla! We talk all about his wrestling career, some untold stories of traveling as WCW champion, his time in a graffiti gang, the origin of the Candyman entrance and he busts Harris for not liking Ready To Rumble! All that and a whole lot more fun as well!Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts!Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #2: WK13 Review and DDT's Empty Tokyo Dome Match This week we talk about probably the most insane match of all time! DDT Wrestling is known for it's strangeness but they took it to a new level when they had a title match inside the Tokyo Dome. But it was empty! No tickets were sold so you have two people fighting on a baseball field with no ring and no crowd! Also we talk about WrestleKingdom 13! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 3 - Episode #1: Ready To Rumble As you know David Arquette is the Patron Saint of our show. We've done an episode of his involvment in WCW but that is not where it starts. This week we go to the beginning. He stared in the film Ready to Rumble which had WCW as a partner and it is an absolute perfect topic for this show. We discuss this film in all its glory and find out both Mark and Harris's thoughts! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2 Episode #16: The History of WCW Road Wild In August of 1996 WCW started it's rise to become the biggest wrestling company in the world. The nWo had just started and everything was hot. But Eric Bischoff decided it would be a good idea to go into the middle of nowhere in Sturgis, South Dakota and host a PPV at the world's biggest motercycle rally in a parking lot for free admission. The quality of life was terrible for the wrestlers, most were unhappy and the work rate suffered. So naturally they went back three more times. Also our weekly update on our Patron Saint David Arquette. Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2: Episode #15: Chamber of Horrors AKA Death Row WCW was a little rough in the early 1990s. But every now and then they had a gem and this was one. At Halloween Havoc 1991 they had a Chamber of Horrors match where the goal was to put your opponent in an electric chair and pull the lever. Yes seriously. Plus our thoughts on the current state of wrestling and our weekly segment on our partron saint David Arquette! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2 Episode #14: Donald Trump vs. Rosie O'Donnell With one of the worst RAW's of all time behind us we thought we'd check out another one of the worst RAW's of all time. This is mostly focused on the abysmal segment of a fake Donald Trump taking on a fake Rosie O'Donnell in a match that lasted nearly 10 whole minutes! Also we go through all the latest WWE news. Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2: Episode #13: The Strange Characters of Memphis Wrestling Memphis Wrestling was always at the forefront of entertainment in professional wrestling. The creative of both Jerry Jerrett and Jerry Lawler knew no bounds. But with the creativity sometimes came some pretty wild moments and characters. This week we delve into some of them including Apocalypse, Lord Humongous, Ta-Gar the Lord of the Volcano and that time Adam West showed up as Batman! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2: Episode #12: Price Is RAW Remeber when WWE was using guest hosts to run Monday Night RAW every week? Well it was awful. But this particular week they struck gold. When Bob Barker came to host the Price Is RAW! His interaction with the Chris Jericho is legendary! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Bonus Episode: NXT TakeOver Review/Survivor Series 2018 Preview Hear our thoughts on NXT TakeOver and the upcoming Survivor Series! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2: Episode #11: Little Jimmy In 2011 R-Truth went from an afterthought midcarder to an insane villian hearing voices, to an insane face with an imaginary best friend. And all of it was entertaining! This is the story of the creation of the Little Jimmy character R-Truth first became famous for! Also Mark and Harris touch on all the current wrestling news! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2: Episode #10: WCW In North Korea, Crown Jewel and Evolution lot on tap this week. First we talk about the incredibly Evolution PPV then the abysmal Crown Jewel. Also Mark has a hottake on Ronda's armbar. Then we get into the main show and it is all about the time WCW went to North Korea in 1995 to put on a show and it went about as poorly as you can imagine, until Ric Flair stole the show! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2: Episode #9: Hulk Hogan, I Mean Mr. America In 2002 Hulk Hogan returned to WWE. After a brief period of success, by 2003 his heat was fading. So he was suspended on TV by Vince. Only to return under a mask fooling absolutly no one! Here is that story! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2 Episode #8: Sting's Partner...RoboCop In 1990 WCW was still very much a regional wrestling company but was starting to branch out and try and get mainstream attention. Around this time the second RoboCop film was coming out so naturally this was a great idea to get some publicity so at Capital Combat the robotic police office appeared with the face of the company. Here is that story! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co

Season 2 Episode #7: Vince's Long Lost Son? (The Worst Angle Ever) This week we discuss probably the worst angle in the history of the WWE. This is the story of when Vince McMahon found out he had an illegitimate son. Who turned out to be Hornswoggle. This angle was awful, not funny, way too long and no one benefitted. Here we go! Follow us on Twitter @Behind_Gorilla send questions, comments and ideas for future podcasts! Follow Mark @MARKYMARKBRAND and Harris @HarrisWiIson Find out more at https://behind-the-gorilla.pinecast.co