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Episode 178: Dan Madigan

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #178 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian welcomes former WWE creative team member Dan Madigan to the show!

It’s a peek inside the WWE writer’s room that you won’t want to miss! Brian and Dan both worked for WWE during the Ruthless Aggression era, and have a lot to say about working for the McMahons and lots of other stuff.

Plus, Dan talks about writing the script for See No Evil, and there’s other horror movie talk slipped in there as well!

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Episode 177: Rick Del Santo

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #177 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian welcomes podcaster, journalist, lifelong wrestling fan and fellow Connecticutian Rick Del Santo to the show!

Brian and Rick get into all the wrestling they loved as young fans in the ’80s and ’90s, bringing back more WWF/NWA/WCCW/WCW/ECW nostalgia than you can handle! From the wonders of cable television, to the glory of late night radio shows, and all the great stuff that made us fans, it’s all here.

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Episode 175: Joe Marotta Talks WrestleMania IX… and More

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #175 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian welcomes podcaster and classic WWF enthusiast Joe Marotta to the show once more, this time to discuss the legacy of WrestleMania IX!

In light of WWE’s recent documentary, WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle, Brian and Joe break down this controversial and much-discussed watershed event in WWE history, and happily go on lots of other early ’90s WWF tangents as well…

It’s everything from Max Moon to Chris Walker to Giant Gonzalez, this week on Shut Up and Wrestle!

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Episode 173: Discussing Queen of the Ring w/ BJ Colangelo

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #173 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian is joined once again by film critic, film maker and wrestling aficionado BJ Colangelo, this time for a discussion of Queen of the Ring!

Brian and BJ give their unfiltered views on the new Mildred Burke biopic from director Ash Avildsen, as both wrestling fans and film buffs. Unlike with wrestling itself, no punches are pulled in our honest appraisal of this cinematic take on the ultimate pioneer of women’s wrestling!

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Episode 168: Lavie Margolin

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #168 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian welcomes author and podcaster Lavie Margolin to the show!

Lavie is one half of the Business of the Business podcast, and author of the 2018 book TrumpMania: Vince McMahon, WWE and the Making America’s 45th President, and is here for a wide-ranging discussion of politics and business related to the world of pro wrestling, as well as lots of nostalgia and other topics!

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Episode 167: Tom Burke Returns

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #167 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian welcomes collector, historian and old-school wrestling fan supreme Tom Burke back to the show!

Tom brings his 65+ years as a wrestling fan to bear on another wonderful conversation that encompasses Paul Bowser’s Bedlam from Boston, the great Killer Kowalski, Jack Pfefer, Tommy Dee and much more.

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Episode 166: Tom Buchanan Talks WrestleMania

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #166 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This WrestleMania week, Brian welcomes longtime WWF photographer Tom Buchanan back to the show to remember the first WrestleMania and beyond!

Tom talks all about getting started with the WWF in 1985, and his sixteen subsequent years with the company, including memories of other early WrestleManias. Plus, Tom’s unique friendship with Lord Alfred Hayes, and more.

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Episode 165: Ed Helinski

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #165 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian welcomes former WWF Magazine editor Ed Helinski to the show!

Brian and Ed both worked for WWE Publications in different eras, and in this conversation they compare notes, but also–Ed shares incredible stories and memories from being in on the ground floor at Titan Sports during the national expansion days.

From Jim Barnett to Tony Altomare to Mel Phillips to Chief Jay Strongbow and more, Ed has some tales to tell that you’re not going to want to miss.

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Episode 162: Keith Elliot Greenberg Returns

Hello, wrestling fans! It’s time for Episode #162 of Shut Up and Wrestle, with Brian R. Solomon!

This week, Brian’s great friend and colleague, the author and historian Keith Elliot Greenberg, returns to discuss his new book, BIGGER! BETTER! BADDER! WRESTLEMANIA III AND THE YEAR IT ALL CHANGED.

Come for the in-depth conversation on WrestleMania III and the WWF’s national expansion, stay for the theology lesson, and the ethics of kayfabing your children about wrestling.

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Episode 160: From the Archives – Ric Flair

“I knew every day I woke up I was the best wrestler alive, I went to bed knowing it. I didn’t think about it, it was so natural.”

It’s time to go back into the Brian R. Solomon archives this week for a 2006 interview Brian did with “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair!

The interview took place during a WWE Magazine photo shoot in Utica, New York, and features Slick Ric discussing everything from his insecurities, his skills as a heel and his second divorce, to his arrests, his favorite matches and why Rudy is his favorite movie of all time.

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