Happy Festivus! Pro wrestler “Kingpin” Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett return for what seems to be a yearly tradition - the Festivus Special! Crockett talks a little about his video series "Today In New England Pro Wrestling History" and Brian speaks on his role as trainer at the Beyond Institute Of Wrestling, an owner of Rad Pro Rasslin, a…

YUP! Former Ring Of Honor wrestler "Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are back at it again, bringing you our first regular episode in almost exactly THREE YEARS! In this show, we talk to Max Smashmaster AKA Big Scott about going into business with Brian to launch a new pro wrestling promotion set to make its debut in Amesbury, MA on …

Happy Festivus! Former Ring Of Honor wrestler "Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett return after nearly TWO YEARS to catch up on Brian's post-ROH life. This one was a long time in the making, but FINALLY Milonas can give the true scoop on his entire run with Ring Of Honor, before the company shut down and Tony Khan purchased it. Hear Th…

Exactly one year after the last official WPAN episode, Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas & referee-on-hiatus Mike Crockett are back to talk about the year that was. The true story of the end of the podcast, pandemic fun, Brian's recent struggles with weight, not watching wrestling, failed social media gimmicks, being in the #ROH…

In this ALL-NEW bonus episode, The WPAN's Mike Crockett is joined by Julian Starr & Matt "Tarzan Taylor" Spectro from the Truth, Justice & The New England Pro Wrestling Way podcast (@prowrestlingway) to wrap-up last week's episode of their show (also featuring Brian Milonas & Brian Fury) that revealed the All-time New England Indy Wrestling Top Ten…

Welcome back to WPAN: The Interviews! Before he was Dominik Dijakovic in WWE NXT, he was Donovan Dijak in the independent and in Ring Of Honor. Take a listen to this classic conversation from before his WWE signing! PLUS, will there be a WPAN reunion on a DIFFERENT podcast? FROM 2016: Pro wrestler "The Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crocke…

This time on WPAN: The Interviews, it's independent wrestling standout Josh Briggs! We got him before he got his EVOLVE contract and before the WWE put him on the Network. PLUS, if you're involved in the New England wrestling scene, we NEED to hear from you. Listen for details! FROM 2018: Pro wrestler "The Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Cr…

This week on WPAN: The Interviews, we hear from maybe the hottest (maybe the only?) heel in wrestling, All Elite Wrestling's Maxwell Jacob Friedman. MJF peels back the curtain in a way that just doesn't happen for him these days, so take a listen! FROM 2017: Pro wrestler "The Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are joined for a compell…

Here's another in our new series - WPAN: The Interviews! With WrestleMania this weekend, we're going to hear from one of the busiest guys this time of year, former wrestler and current WWE gear maker Mikaze! FROM 2017: Pro wrestler "The Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are talking shop with an old friend who made wrestling gear for …

We're back with WPAN: The Interviews! It's one of our most awesome, yet most overlooked conversations with New England talent turned NXT superstar Axl Keegan, known to us as Max Bauer! FROM 2016: Pro wrestler "The Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are back with Max Bauer, also known in WWE Developmental and NXT as Axl or Mickey Keega…

Presenting WPAN: The Interviews! First up, our conversation with WarBeard Hanson, the future Ivar of WWE's Viking Raiders! FROM 2016: Pro wrestler "The Kingpin" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett bring you an in-depth interview with one half of War Machine, Ring Of Honor Wrestling's WarBeard Hanson! Hear about his tumultuous journey from the b…

At the end of episode 200 last week, Brian Milonas, Brian Fury & Mike Crockett ended the podcast after a four-year run. Here's the audio in case you missed it. We're very appreciative of those who said nice things after the announcement. Many thanks to anyone who ever checked us out. Still waiting on Fury's bio.…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas, Chaotic Wrestling's Brian Fury and referee Mike Crockett are all back together again to celebrate the big one! It's been a while since we've been in the same room so there's a lot to talk about. AND, in honor of the occasion, the Dirt Sheet Shuffle comes out of moth balls and Fury is put to the…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas flies solo! Referee Mike Crockett and the New England Pro Wrestling Academy's Brian Fury are both MIA, so Milonas is in the driver's seat this week. And as a bit of a pre-celebration for next week's 200th episode, he's sharing some classic clips of his good friend Crockett at (what he says is) h…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is hitting the highways, biways and airways, but Chaotic Wrestling's Brian Fury returns to join referee Mike Crockett for an interview with his oldest friend! Justin McIsaac (@Justin_McIsaac), known as Justin Powers or Justin Shaype in the ring, went to high school with Fury and their careers st…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett kick it old school without Chaotic Wrestling's Brian Fury this week, and "old school" is our friend Adult Mark's middle name (a weird, two-word middle name, incidentally), so he steps in for our look back at what was the gateway to pro wrestling super fandom back in the…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are without Performance Center regular Brian Fury this week, but they've done this before. Milonas called in a favor, and we've got ROH's play-by-play man Ian Riccaboni (@IanRiccaboni) with us - a guy who made his official debut as lead announcer the same night Brian ma…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas steps back in, joining the New England Pro Wrestling Academy's Brian Fury and referee Mike Crockett to follow up on last week's episode where we talked about what should be BANNED from wrestling forever. This week, we are giving you the things that we want to PLEASE COME BACK to pro wrestling! W…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is out being honorable, so joining Chaotic Wrestling's Brian Fury and referee Mike Crockett is (possibly) the new permanent guest host Sonny Goodspeed! So, you know those sequences you've seen time and time again in matches? How about that finishing move that is just played out? What about the d…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas, the New England Pro Wrestling Academy's Brian Fury, and referee Mike Crockett are all about the busts! No no, not THOSE busts - wrestling's busts! C'mon, you know what we mean. Alright, what if we say FLOPS, will that work? Jesus, you can make anything sound dirty. Anyway, this week, we're look…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas, Chaotic Wrestling's Brian Fury, and referee Mike Crockett congregate in the middle of this holiday season to provide an all-new episode for you! With just a couple days remaining in 2019, we are looking ahead to the new year and new decade and giving our thoughts on the wrestlers, locally and n…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are without UPS's Brian Fury, but that doesn't damper the festive mood as today, they celebrate FESTIVUS! And, as any Seinfeld fan worth their salt knows, Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances! Mike and Brian have their own, and of course, they invited friends a…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas, the New England Pro Wrestling Academy's Brian Fury, and referee Mike Crockett are all back in the same place again, at Fury's school, and they've invited a guest who is very familiar with that facility! He's a former trainer at the original school, the Chaotic Training Center, where he put youn…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is buried in boxes at the moment, so Chaotic Wrestling's "Firebrand" Brian Fury used this opportunity to take over the podcast from referee Mike Crockett! What was supposed to be a NXT & AEW review show became a confrontation - an intervention of sorts - where Fury gets to the bottom of Crockett…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett have been at this for a while - long before Brian Fury came around. While we nurse our turkey hangovers, we're sharing with you some of the best WPAN material from the BDA Radio days. Gang warfare has long been a part of wrestling lore, and we give our takes (Milonas an…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is Disney-ing it up, so Chaotic Wrestling's "Firebrand" Brian Fury and referee Mike Crockett invited on a fella who is also chunky, while being funky, New England wrestling veteran Sonny Goodspeed! With Thanksgiving upon us, it's an opportune time to give thanks and praise for all independent wr…

Brian Fury is back from Walt Disney World and feeling the magic, so Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett ease him back into the show by having a discussion on the most magical moments in wrestling history! What instances in wrestling - how ever brief they may have been - really let you forget what you're w…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett, sans Brian Fury, are taking a long, hard look at the recent controversies in the wrestling business and how they have blown up on social media. Starting with Saudi Arabia, and the affect "Wrestling Twitter" had on accelerating this story (or non-story?) to astronomical…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett, the WPAN originals, are without Brian Fury this week and instead are talking wrestling figures with the Chief Marketing Officer of independent toy maker Figures Toy Company, Chris DePetrillo! FTC is the company behind Ring Of Honor's action figure line, so I think you …

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas, Chaotic Wrestling's "Firebrand" Brian Fury and referee Mike Crockett are celebrating Halloween by talking about the super good and SCARY bad costume changes in wrestling's history - in other words, the business' best and worst gimmick changes! For example, Hunter Hearst Helmsley's transition to…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas, Chaotic Wrestling's "Firebrand" Brian Fury and referee Mike Crockett are all back together again and put the show in YOUR hands! It's our second annual AMA, or more accurately, ABA - Ask The Brians Anything! Subjects include: Selling merch as a heel, strengths and weaknesses of pro wrestling to…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are long-time veterans of the podcasting mat wars. That's why in this episode, we're showcasing some killer content from the BDA Radio days that we're betting you haven't heard before. First, take a listen as we recall the Weirdest Venues we've ever seen independent wre…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas' situation is addressed this week, and referee Mike Crockett and Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) have a MAJOR, MONUMENTAL, EARTH-SHATTERING ANNOUNCEMENT! You gotta hear this to believe it. Once that is over with, in the aftermath or wrestling returning to TNT (and we give our initial thoughts on All …

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas was bleeding buckets this past weekend, and referee Mike Crockett and Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) are talking about it! Milonas made a (red) splash in his pay-per-view debut at ROH's Death Before Dishonor - his face a crimson mask as he battled in a Barroom Brawl alongside his Bouncers partner th…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas has his name here for no reason really, as referee Mike Crockett and Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) harken back to the olden days of the WPAN and Episode 048, The Name Droppers! In that episode, we talked about interesting run-ins we've had with the well-known stars of pro wrestling. Now, some two-a…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is anywhere but here, so referee Mike Crockett and Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) do the damn thing and sit down at the New England Pro Wrestling Academy with one of its standout students - "Top Talent" in Chaotic Wrestling, Beyond Wrestling, Limitless Wrestling and more - Christian Casanova (@Kill4…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas doesn't show up anymore, so it's referee Mike Crockett and Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) being joined by our oldest pal, one of the hosts of the podcast "Truth, Justice & The New England Pro Wrestling Way" (@prowrestlingway) Matt "Tarzan Taylor" Spectro! It's been over a year since we've reviewed a…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is again missing in action, so referee Mike Crockett is joined by permanent guest host Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx), owner of Chaotic Wrestling, and we welcome special first-time guest The Ray from the For The Pops podcast (sometimes) to the show! After we introduce our long time friend and get th…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is out gallivanting with the Beer City Bruiser, so referee Mike Crockett called on Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) of the New England Pro Wrestling Academy to give special insight on pro wrestling training. In fact, this Saturday, August 31st is one of the Academy's Fantasy Camps (email neprowrestlin…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett have seen the Twitterverse hype. We're on the verge of the next great wrestling war on television between WWE and AEW! So I guess it's time to talk about it! Not only that, but we have our ears to the ground with independent wrestling and have seen back and forth battle…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett have done so much podcasting that we're sure you haven't heard all of it. That's why this week, we're sharing some of our absolute best stuff from when we were doing two shows a week for BDA Radio. First, it's our Favorite Enhancement Talent - yes, the "jobbers" as some…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett grew up as wrestling fans, and wrestling fans love their toys. This week, we're talking all about wrestling figures - NOT DOLLS, figures - and joining us is the man behind the @flexcollects Instagram account, the former Flex Rumblecrunch, our old pal Sean Burke! From th…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas has mysteriously vanished, so referee Mike Crockett has gone to his officiating brethren to fill his shoes! ROH head referee Todd "Fatpants" Sinclair is back on the podcast after a long break, and live to tape from the New England Pro Wrestling Academy, we reminisce about all the famous talent t…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett have booked wrestling, and they've booked some good wrestling... and they've booked some god awful wrestling. This week, we are looking back at some of the worst stuff we put out there as bookers of an independent organization. What returning tag team's music caused the…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are wrestling documentary guys. In fact, we talked about our favorites in episode 160! We've just seen a great new doc called "350 Days" and now we're speaking with executive producer and director of the film, Fulvio Cecere. The movie explores the highs and lows of the …

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett took a break in between episodes of "Stranger Things" on Netflix, and the Mind Flayer forced us to record a podcast about the Strangest Things we can think of in pro wrestling! Strange characters, angles, strange wrestling tropes and a whole lot more - what's your pick …

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett are back together, AND back on "the road" watching territorial wrestling television from every region 'til we see them all! "Truckin' Thru The Territories" brings us to the Midwest for Central States Wrestling in the year 1984 - and we're digging it! Well, except for th…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is without referee Mike Crockett once again, so the permanent guest host of the WPAN, the owner of Chaotic Wrestling and owner/head trainer of the New England Pro Wrestling Academy Brian Fury (@xbrianxfuryx) steps in to help take an interesting look at his trainees. Recorded from the Academy dur…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas is joined this week by longtime podcasting compatriot Mike Mills from Booking The Territory (The Unprofessional Wrestling Podcast - @BTT_Podcast) to discuss something that a Southerner like Mike is a fan of, and a Northerner like Brian watched die - tag team wrestling! Listen in as the discuss t…

Ring Of Honor Wrestling's "The Brawler" Brian Milonas and referee Mike Crockett got this episode recorded just in time to release on Monday, but as you now know, that didn't happen. But here it is - Brian's recap of his weekend at (the hotel that hosted) the New England Pro Wrestling Hall Of Fame and the New England Fan Fest that followed! Hear abo…