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Episode 21: Mike Fazioli

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #21 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, my guest is my old boss Mike Fazioli, former editor of Raw Magazine and WWF/E Magazine!

Between the two of us, there are lots of stories of the behind-the-scenes goings-on while working in the WWE Publications department of the early 2000s, and I think you’re gonna love it!

This week, Shut Up and Wrestle goes back inside Titan Tower!

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Episode 15: Righteous Reg

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #15 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, my guest is Pro Wrestling Illustrated columnist and co-host of the Grapsody podcast on Fightful, Righteous Reg!

We delve into 1990s wrestling, with a little WWF, a little WCW and a lot of ECW! This conversation was so much fun, just great chemistry, and I hope you enjoy it!

Take a trip back to the ’90s this week on Shut Up and Wrestle!

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Episode 14: Steven Bell

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #14 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, my guest is Steven Bell, author of Dynamite & Davey: The Explosive Lives of the British Bulldogs!

We take a look back at the amazing and influential careers of one the greatest tag teams of all time, plus a deep dive into UK wrestling history!

It’s a trip across the pond this week on Shut Up and Wrestle!

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Episode 13: Denny Burkholder

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #13 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, my guest is longtime wrestling journalist Denny Burkholder!

Denny goes back to the WrestleLine days of the early wrestling internet, and these days makes his home at CBSsports.com!

We look back on what made us want to write about wrestling, when we knew the business was a work, and much more!

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Episode 11: Rob Van Dam

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #11 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, my very special guest is The Whole F’n Show himself, Rob Van Dam!

Rob was kind enough to write the foreword to my now-available biography of The Original Sheik, Blood and Fire, and we chat all about his time training with The Sheik, as well as his experiences as a young fan and a rookie in the business!

Listen in on my convo with one of the greatest to ever do it!

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Episode 8: Debra Jaswaye

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #8 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

In the first in a series of conversations with my fellow Titan Tower corporate employees, my guest is Debra Jaswaye, a former WWE Creative Director!

From coming up with Chyna’s name, to designing those awesome Royal Rumble collage posters, to catching the eye of Classy Freddie Blassie, she’s got some stories to tell!

This is the kind of stuff only we former Titan troopers can share!

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Episode 3: Keith Elliott Greenberg

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #3 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This one is very special to me, as my guest is someone I’ve known and worked with for 22 years, and whose work I’ve known for much longer than that: Keith Elliott Greenberg. You may know him from the pages of WWF/WWE/Raw Magazine, etc.; his best-selling biographies of Freddie Blassie, Superstar Billy Graham and Ric Flair; or his most recent book, Too Sweet: Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution. Trust me, this is one you won’t want to miss!

Listen in as I catch up with an old friend and fellow old-school wrestling fanatic!

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Episode 2: Blue Meanie

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for the second episode of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This time, my guest is the ECW icon and lifelong wrestling fan Brian Heffron, better known as The Blue Meanie! Can’t talk to the Meanie without touching on the Land of Extreme and how he rose to fame there, but we actually spend most of our time talking about his years as a fan following the WWF and NWA, and dreaming of one day being part of the action.

Today, Shut Up and Wrestle, like Pepperland, goes BLUE!

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