Tunnel Talk – Details, episodes & analysis

It's Tunnel Talk's fourth anniversary and we start with a little reflection on just how far we've come! Then it's over to the International Title scene where The Tournament to win a date with Kenny Omega finally wraps up with a surprising result--Kenny's taking two people to the prom! Then it's time for the Men's World Title, which is a little less interesting--for now. We talk about the Street Fight, plus do a little light speculating on where we could go next. Then we shake and quake right along with Megan Bayne, Kris Stat and Toni Storm! PLUS, it's the semifinals of our Best Bods Tournament!

0:00 4 year anniversary reflections!

16:17 International Tournament

32:51 Mox/Cope

55:41 Title Scene Speculation

1:11:04 Women’s Division

1:21:30 Best Bods

It’s Post-Revolution, and as always, your girls are right on time with their thoughts and observations! We bust through all the goings on at a breakneck pace, covering Nana acknowledging Swerve as his liege lord, Hangman’s new short curlycut, the final act of Mariah and Toni’s tragedy, Ospreay’s VERY good day at preschool, and of course, the quarterfinals of our Best Bods tournament! Join us!!!

0:00 chit chat time

7:08 general revolution thoughts

8:51 Swerve/Ricochet

18:27 Mox/Cope

35:12 Hangman/MJF

47:10 Toni/Mariah

55:40 Mercedes/Momo/Billie Starkz

57:41 Ospreay/Fletcher

1:12:16 Kenny/Takeshita/Tournament

1:25:22 Best Bods Tournament Quarter Finals

We might not be back to feeling normal yet after our big Young Bucks interview, but the episode format? It's back to normal, baybee. Did we process that much of what happened at World's End? Maybe not, but we're here to discuss it anyway, along with what trends we want wrestlers to consider "In" for 2025, and what we'd like them to usher "Out." We talk Continental Classic, we talk Kenny's big return, we talk Cope, and oh yeah, what everyone's been waiting for, we talk Jeff Jarrett! All this and more on this week's Tunnel Talk!

(00:00) Young Bucks interview debrief

(9:39) World’s End PPV overview

(12:47) Continental Classic World’s End matches

(13:25) Ospreay vs. Fletcher

(16:24) Ricochet vs. Okada, Swerve

(18:09) Ricochet and Swerve, Undisputed Kingdom, Jay White

(22:32) Okada vs. Ospreay & Kenny’s return

(27:46) Mox vs. OC vs. Hangman vs. Jay White & Cope return/RatedFTR

(46:15) OC vs. Hangman in singles

(59:58) Mercedes Mone and Kris Statlander

(1:05:42) Acclaimed breakup

(1:11:46) MJF and Adam Cole

(1:18:44) Jeff Jarrett

This week on Tunnel Talk: we discuss the surprise debut of Jay White of NJPW, who appeared in a match with Juice Robinson to beat down Ricky Starks. Next, Tony Khan’s latest anticlimactic Big Announcement: AEW will get their UK debut with All In at Wembley Stadium. On Rampage, Malakai Black and Brody King fought Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta, leading to OC and Best Friends’ match vs House of Black on Dynamite for the trios title. So we get to talk about Chuck Taylor three weeks in a row, mostly legitimately! Then: we get to celebrate MJF Day on Long Island, and check in on the Four Pillars. But after that, Unfortunately We Have To Talk About Sammy. Then it’s this week’s All Access episode, which unfortunately was also Sammy heavy. Plus much more!

Allie's out of town, so Lea and Anne are walking themselves with the help of special guest Sarah this week, and we had a lot to talk about with the premiere of AEW All Access! We talk reality show tropes, wrestling kayfabe vs. reality kayfabe, and what kind of cocaine they put on the wrestling ropes that make injured wrestlers so desperate to go back. We also get into Danny Garcia's adventures with streamers, Lea puts on her Victorian mourning garb for Matt Jackson's injured bicep, and we discuss the villainous unpredictability of Don Callis. Best Friends actually did some stuff this week, so we got to discuss Chuck Taylor two weeks in a row, which was very exciting. Plus we give Taya Valkyrie a New Woman Rating and talk the comedy genius of the Firm! 

Happy two years of Tunnel Talk! The girls get blastered on Orange Cassidy cocktails and reflect back on how far we've come--Remember Mister Italy? And hilarious jokes about loving Chris Jericho?  We manage to do a little bit of wrestling talk and discuss why Don Callis is keeping Kenny and Hangman apart, the unreal things Vikingo was up to, and how Stokely Hathaway's Big Match sent us into hysterics.   Plus we finally throw the schedule to the wind and unrepentantly have a Chuck Taylor segment, where we get into it about his hair, his teeth, and his behaviors. Love you, our beautiful boy!  Then it was onto the games!  Listeners threw us some wrestlers, and we sent 'em out on dates, some of them more successful than others!  We're pretty trashed by the end, but we had so much fun and we hope you do too.  Happy two years, babies!  Let's do it for many more!

Wrestling was good this week! It was a huge week and your hosts are here to break it down for you, as AEW finally kicked off a new season’s worth of storylines. First up: BCC fought Hangman, Evil Uno, and special Canadian guest Stu Grayson in a six-man tag, and we get into BCC’s heel turn. In the main event, we had the Elite vs JAS vs House of Black. And then, thrillingly, at the end of the show, the BCC/Hangman/Dark Order fight spills out onto the stage, Mox, Claudio, and Yuta menace Hangman, the Elite show up to back Hangman, Hangman turns to them, and then: Fade To Black. So that’s going to kind of take up most of the show this week! But we do have time for MJF and his Re-Bar Mitzvah, and the three ghosts who visited it. Plus! On the women’s side, we explore the Outcasts, and get into the dynamics of heels as a whole. 

Hey, it's a bonus pod! Have you ever wanted to listen to audio of three people watching a video you're not watching? How about listening to people react to gifs you're not looking at? If so, you're in luck, because we're FINALLY making good on our promise to watching things our 5-star reviewers requested! First up requested by Listener Nicole is the main event from Black Label Pro's "Ground Control to Filthy Tom" where we became women watching Daniel Garcia wrestle Tom Lawlor. After that, Listener Emi requested we queue up Hangman Adam Page playing video games with Evil Uno and everyone takes a bold position on caffeine. Finally, Listener CasuallyPretentious asked us to review a tweet thread where someone explained Naito and Hiromu, and we were intrigued enough to want to know more!

Is this good content? You tell us!

THE THINGS WE WATCHED:

From Nicole: Ground Control To Filthy Tom Lawlor on IWTV

From Emi: AEW Games stream with Hangman

From CasuallyPretentious: Why I Love The Hiromu/Naito Relationship

Happy PPV week to everyone out there! It's an extra long pod as we get into all the action on Revolution and the Revolution fallout, starting with the new buy-in format and ending with a little QT and Hobbs callback, as a treat. We talk fashion, from Ricky's pearls to Christian Cage's sleeveless turtleneck! We talk corporate synergy, with the International All-Atlantic Traveling Belt for Boys joining forces with TK to promote Shazam! Fury of the Gods! We honor the Mommy's Little Hams among us! We vow to stop reading unpleasant opinions on the internet! We talk about grieving your real dead father by putting a father figure in a coffin on live television! There were high highs this week (Hangman and Mox absolutely destroying each other for our entertainment) and low lows (FTR came back) and we're here to talk about every last detail. 

Your girls committed a mutiny this week!  We sped through the pay-per-view matches at a breakneck speed, covering such topics as Why The Elite Are Being Silenced, What's The Hell Is Going On With The Four Match, Where Does Eddie Think He's Going, and How Is Hangman/Mox The Only Reason We're Buying The PPV? 

It doesn't matter—none of it matters. Who cares! What's really important is that Producer Marjorie gave us nine random names, and out of them, we fashioned a Fellowship of The Ring. Is Dave Meltzer going to give you an intellectual debate over whether Shida makes a good Gimli?  We don't think so!