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Ian and Mike return for a bumper show as they look over a wXw’s recent cards from Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt - a trio that ended with 1 Called Manders leaving the country with the wXw Unified World Wrestling title. We also pore over the names from wXw that’ll be a part of this week’s events in Las Vegas around WrestleMania, and run through upcoming wXw events. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: “Summon the Rawk" by Kevin MacLeod

Ian and Mike are back to dissect this year's wXw 16 Carat Gold, as the lads do a deep dive into all the big talking points from the tournament. They'll go over the winner of the tournament and when they’ll face Elijah Blum for the vacant wXw Unified World Wrestling title… plus talk of title changes over #wXw16Carat weekend and more! Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: “My Story” by Sirius Beat

Ian and Mike are back to look ahead to this weekend’s 16 Carat Gold festival - with a rundown of all the announced matches, entrants for Carat and AMBITION, and a whole lot more. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: Disko King Frankie und die Goldener Reiter - Carat ist nur einmal im Jahr

Ian and Mike are back for a quick look at last weekend’s Dead End in Hamburg, featuring a scare for Young Blood in the main event, and an even closer shave for Bobby Gunns. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: Kevin Macleod - Summon the Rawk

Ian and Mike are back to talk the breaking news out of wXw - with Peter Tihanyi’s injury forcing a change of plans for 16 Carat Gold weekend. The lads also review last weekend’s Road to 16 Carat Gold tournament, which saw Bobby Gunns claim the final spot… and look ahead to next week’s show in Hamburg, which could see Bobby leave bald. The LJ Cleary vs. Zozaya match we mention can be found on YouTube via https://tinyurl.com/FFPW38ZozayaLJ Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: Deep Haze by Kevin MacLeod

Ian and Mike return for a new episode of Auf Die Fresse, looking back at last weekend’s Back to the Roots featuring a major change for Elijah Blum in the Käfigschlacht. We also go over the latest announcements for 16 Carat Gold weekend, the new format for the autumn Pro Wrestling Grand Prix festival, and a little bit of TV Total’s Promi Wrestling (which you can watch-along with on YouTube thanks to Mike’s handy playlist at https://tinyurl.com/tvtotal-promi-wrestling Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: Heavy Metal Hyperbole by TeknoAXE

Happy New Year everyone! Ian’s joined by Dohmi to talk about wXw’s last events of 2024 - We Love Wrestling Live in Borken, and the 24th Anniversary show - giving a mixture of the at-home and in-person experiences at Anniversary. We also chat about next weekend’s Back to the Roots… and what could be for 16 Carat Gold later this year. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Dohmi on Twitter @RealPhillipDohm - and over on Twitch for his retro In Your House streams at twitch.tv/dohminator43. Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: Dude, What’s Up With Your Time Signature? by TeknoAXE

It’s that end-of-term feeling as Ian and Mike sit down and chat about most of the year that was 2024 in wXw - looking back on the top stories of the year, and dish out our picks for wrestler of the year, match of the year, newcomer of the year… and some predictions going into 2025. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: “Punk Sitcom Intro” by TeknoAXE

(mors mors!) Ian and Mike return to take a look over Broken Rules - perhaps the best wXw show of the year - from a packed Markthalle in Hamburg. The lads chat about OSKAR’s latest homecoming success, the surprise appearance of Ludwig Kaiser, and just what’s going on with Bobby Gunns in wXw? Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: “Hyperbole” by TeknoAXE

Ian & Mike return for a quick look at this past weekend’s wXw FAN from Frankfurt, featuring a LOT of High Performer Limited, with Elijah Blum looking to upset Peter Tihanyi’s reign at its start. We chat about that, announcements for 16 Carat Gold, Ambition, and a spot of the Young Gym Pump Guns?! Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram. Intro music: “Break Me Down” by Our Waking Hour

The dust has settled on another festival of wrestling in Oberhausen. Ian and Mike return to talk about 2024’s wXw World Tag Team Festival - a weekend that saw every title change hands once again, the return of Timothy Thatcher, and the Y2Kuties going all New Jack on us. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram. Intro music: "Retrofuture Dirty" by Kevin Macleod

Twelve tag teams - and a whole lot more - are about to descend on Oberhausen as 2024’s World Tag Team Festival kicks off later this week. Ian Hamilton and Mike Kilby run through what to expect, as the tag festival weekender also sees a wXw homecoming for Timothy Thatcher, and a return of an extreme wrestling party. This episode was recorded before the Shotgun vlog dropped - and features the cards as of that point. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram. Intro music: "Retrofuture Clean" by Kevin Macleod

Ian and Mike return to look over the last stop before wXw’s World Tag Team Festival - topped by Aigle Blanc’s latest defence of the European championship. We look at the return of an Avalanche, a pair of qualification matches, and some El Hijo de Performante Jr. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram. Intro music: "Heavy Metal Hyperbole" by Teknoaxe

The Dream Factory opens its doors once again as Mike Kilby (“@MikeKilby on everything”) joins us to talk about this past weekend, where Rev Pro tore down the Copper Box Arena at their 12 Year Anniversary show. We go over the Michael Oku vs. Luke Jacobs main event, Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Hechicero, the Cut Throat Collective’s no-disqualification outing, and the rest of a stacked show - along with a quick look at this upcoming weekend’s cards in Berlin with the GWF, and the usual stop at the 229 in London. Note: this weekend's Rev Pro shows with the GWF can be streamed via www.youtube.com/@GWF Reviews of Rev Pro shows, and links to our photo albums, can be found over on backbodydrop.com Find us on social media… @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram. For the websites, it’s @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram/Threads. Intro music: Forever Never - As I Lie

Rev Pro’s 12th anniversary show hits the Copperbox this weekend - and we’re here to preview of much of it as we can on the Dream Factory! Ian’s joined by Voices of Wrestling’s Neil David (@chubby_chtulu) to go over Saturday’s card, along with a quick check over the results from this month’s Summer Sizzler and Live in Southampton events. There's even time for a quick chat over the state of independent wrestling streaming, and why shows feel like they're either going live or being forgotten. Reviews of Rev Pro shows, and links to our photo albums, can be found over on backbodydrop.com Find us on social media… @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram. For the websites, it’s @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram/Threads. Intro music: Forever Never - As I Lie

We’re back for another episode as Ian and Mike take a look at High Performer Ltd.’s latest acquisition - and how that’s changed the landscape of wXw going into World Tag Team Festival. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram. Intro music: “Deep Haze” (edited) by Kevin MacLeod

We’re weeks away from Rev Pro’s 12th Anniversary at the Copperbox Arena in London - so what better time to kick off a new podcast? We take a look at Rev Pro's Live in Coventry show… which ended with MJF popping up out of nowhere and challenging Michael Oku for York Hall. The remainder of the card for Summer Sizzler came out today, so we’ll take a look at that, along with a look at what’s announced for Rev Pro's 12th Anniversary show and the rest of a packed end-of-year. Reviews of Rev Pro shows, and links to our photo albums, can be found over on backbodydrop.com Find us on social media… @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram. For the websites, it’s @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram/Threads. Intro music: Lipstick on a Pig - Teknoaxe

Auf Die Fresse returns as Ian and Mike take a look at the Wrestling EM from Frankfurt, with an eight-man tournament to crown wXw’s first ever European champion… we also take a look ahead to next month’s Shortcut to the Top, with announced names and some spitballing at who could be surprise entrants. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram. Intro music: Curtain Call by Our Waking Hour

It’s a quiet month as wXw took the month off for the Euros - even if football didn’t come home to Germany. Instead, Ian and Mike spent the time going through one of wXw’s iconic rivalries - and on this episode we go through five matches from the back catalogue of WALTER and Ilja Dragunov. We also cover the latest news bits, as we finally have a line-up for the Wrestling EM in Frankfurt! You can watch all the matches we talk about on this show on wXwNOW.com: Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram/Threads/BlueSky. Intro music: Unstoppable by NEFFEX

Am Freitag kommt der Fußball nach Haus… but first, Ian and Mike return for a look at this month’s Drive of Champions - an eventful show that marked the end of a reign, and maybe the end of an era. We also bring you up to speed with announcements for Frankfurt and October’s World Tag Team Festival. Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found via @IanWrestling on Twitter/X/Instagram/BlueSky/Threads along with @bigbackbodydrop on Twitter or @backbodydrop on Instagram/Threads/BlueSky. Intro music: I’ve Got a Bazooka by TeknoAXE