The Scores is back to review a new Monday night fight between WWE Raw and it’s WCW rival Nitro. We may have been on the sidelines for a spell, but Nitro settled us back in with the usual mess as a bribed Booker T, the presence of the Taskmaster and Hulk Hogan forgetting his own name all had us scratching our heads. Meanwhile, over on Raw, it was th…

TMNS take their first trip to WrestleMania, with the 1996 edition of the WWE’s annual extravaganza coming under review. An Iron Man epic for championship gold featuring Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels filled the main event slot on a show that also included a big debut, an inexplicable squash and an unscheduled bra and panties match. For our thoughts o…

Join us for this special episode as two thirds of the Scores squad report their findings from London’s O2 Arena, where they attended WWE’s Money In The Bank 2023.By Sefton Sounds

There’s a double dose of WCW in this episode of The Scores, before Raw takes us home for Wrestlemania XII. We start with a review of the PPV Uncensored, a title that also applied to all of Eric Bischoff’s booking meetings for the show, then it’s on to Nitro, where the Lex Luger renaissance builds up a head of steam. Across the aisle, there were fir…

The Scores steamer is leaving the station for another review of Monday Night Wars action, with Nitro looking to build on their 13-10 lead over Raw. Bischoff’s boys are flying thanks to the white-hot Steiners and the shock resurgence of Lex Luger, while the Dungeon of Doom’s turgid quest to kill Hulk-a-Mania continues…unfortunately. Raw have got Wre…

It’s a 2-on-1 handicap match on this episode, as two Raws go under the Scores microscope alongside a solitary Nitro. There’s some biblical ball dropping from the boys booking WCW, pitting The Giant against Hacksaw Jim Duggan to counteract WWF’s official unveiling of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Thankfully, there’s a show-saving performance from the Ste…

Our short break is over and the Scores Squad are striding back down the ramp for the first TMNS of 2023. The latest Nitro features a Chicago-centric squabble involving the Road Warriors and WCW’s tag team champs, while the uneagerly-anticipated debut of the Bootyman besmirches the main event slot. Meanwhile, on Raw, we hit a traffic jam on the road…

Join us for Raw, Nitro and In Your House 6 on this episode, as the WWF returns to the Monday Night Warzone following a week-long stint on the sidelines. Vince McMahon’s troops served up a stellar show featuring Goldust, a Stone Cold Ringmaster and The Undertaker, while Razor Ramon delivers a promo for the ages after a PPV to forget. Meanwhile, The …

With the network forcing Raw into a seat on the sidelines as America’s finest canines slid into their regular time slot, this week in ’96 allowed Nitro a free swing at Monday night’s wrestling masses. Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and Ric Flair all featured, but Bischoff’s boys’ decision to unleash the Loch Ness Monster on the helpless TV audience and p…

Nitro’s ratings win over Raw last time levelled The Monday Night Scores at 9-9 and the boys are back to review another 90’s wrestling ruckus as both brands look to reclaim the advantage. Plenty of revelations on this week’s shows – Hulk Hogan can’t do first aid, Diesel swings both ways and, thanks to mystery assailant Paul Orndorff, we learn the br…

Be warned - the temperature of the warmest July on record is about to go up as TMNS returns with some smoking hot takes on 25-year-old wrestling. There’s confusion on Nitro, as Hulk Hogan impersonates the Yetay, Ric Flair hijacks the commentary booth and home favourites, The Road Warriors return…in their away kit. Meanwhile, WWF treat us to some st…

This week’s episode of The Scores packs more meat than a triple-stacked Big Mac, as the team review the ’96 Royal Rumble, in addition to the regular Monday Night Wars wares. It’s mishap mayhem on Nitro, where botches galore and Hulk Hogan thunder theft underlines an episode to forget for Bischoff and the boys. While on Raw, Jim Cornette unleashes a…

The Monday Night Scores boys are back in town for Season 2 of the 90’s wrestling podcast everyone (or, more likely, only one) is talking about and we’re roaring down the road to the Royal Rumble. With their self-proclaimed Super Bowl equivalent just around the corner, WWF put some stars in the ring, some chaos on the camera and some Sunny in the ba…

It’s another 90’s wrestling review from the Monday Night Scores squad and this time we’re joined by a very special guest. Yes, here to talk us through the Brother Love Show is only Vince McMahon. Sounds difficult to believe, doesn’t it? If you’re questioning the claim…well, your suspicions are absolutely spot on, but we HAVE got the next best thing…

The banners are up and the cakes are out at TMNS Towers as we celebrate our first anniversary. And to mark this momentous milestone we have gone…MANIACAL. Yes, that’s right, we have succumbed to the powers of Hulk-a-mania and produced a highlight reel showcasing the finest TMNS moments featuring the prayer-uttering, vitamin-gulping, baldness-denyin…

With 95’s festive frivolities finished, the WWF and WCW duly resume their ratings ruckus, giving the MNS boys a first glance at the wrestling wares being peddled in ’96. First, we check in on Vince McMahon’s clan, who flushed a dismal ’95 down the (Raw) bowl and welcomed the new year with a new-fangled American football-themed, tag team elimination…

The summer is heating up, so cool off with a trip back to the winter of ’95 and Part Two of our WCW Christmas Special. We sample the offerings from box office blowout Starrcade ’95, as WCW’s flagship PPV bombed like a Blitzkrieg pilot in 1941. Ted Turner’s coin counters may have been wanting for action in the days that followed, but what few punter…

Christmas ’95 saw a brief armistice called in the Monday Night Wars, but there was no time for no man’s land football between Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff, as Nitro went it alone for their Starrcade go-home show. We saw all three competitors scheduled to feature in Starrcade’s triangle match take to the ring, as Lex Luger met Scotty Riggs and St…

Coming in hot from a short stint on the sidelines, the MNS boys are back with another dose of 90s nostalgia. This time we’re reviewing week 15 of The Monday Night Wars, as the run up to Christmas ’95 continues apace. Raw held their festive bash the night before this episode aired in the shape of box office blow out, In Your House 5: Season’s Beatin…

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a clash between in-laws and In Your House 5: Season Beatings sees two turkey-chewers from the Hart family dinner table collide with gold on the line. We’ve got the champ, Bret Hart, taking on his sister’s lesser half, The British Bulldog, in the main event of this Yuletide PPV, with said sibling/wife, Diana Smith, s…

The lads are back with another episode of mid-90s wrestling action featuring more comedy than you can shake a 2x4 at. Speaking of which, we see perennial woodsman Hacksaw Jim Duggan go head to head with the Total Package Lex Luger on WCW Monday Nitro, where Duggan’s terrifying tease has Los Liam diving behind el sofá. It’s not all scary though as w…

Ste, Jim and Liam return to ’95 to cast their eyes over another instalment from wrestling’s most famous ratings fracas. Raw grant an unimaginable amount of air time to the most unpalatable of sources in a tasteless segment that has far outstayed its welcome…as Brother Love returns for another interview. There’s plenty of time for talking this week …

Three shows, three “giants” and three times the Mean Gene segments anybody could reasonably expect... Never mind the rag sheets, this is where the real scoops are at! Join Ste, Jim and Liam for a comedy-packed run through of WCW’s World War 3 ‘95 PPV with a right mess of a main event. We then deal with the fallout on Nitro the following night where…

It’s a new year, but the same old tin hats are back on as we review our first Monday Night Wars battle of 2021. First up, Los Liam gives us the low down from Survivor Series ’95, where the Undertaker delivers a royal beating and Bret Hart takes Diesel’s WWF title, much to the delight of…erm…Diesel, apparently. The following night on Raw, HBK is at …

Join us as we roll out the red carpet and wield Hulk Hogan’s Maid Marion sword to anoint the knights of the 1995 wrestling realm in the first ever TMNS New Year Honours List. The debate is fierce as we look to bestow such prestigious accolades as Best Wrestler, Best Match and Jobber of the Year on the most deserving grapplers and, as we dole out th…

The numerous outtakes videos online and beyond show you that even the most accomplished of microphone maestros make mistakes sometimes. Well, if the pros drop the ball on rare occasions, you can imagine the terrible mess we make of almost every recording. Having spent the last few months laughing at wrestlers getting things wrong, we thought we’d t…

Jump in the TMNS time machine and travel back to 1995 for another week of Raw and Nitro wrestling reviews. Hulk Hogan’s internationally-broadcast descent into insanity continues with one of the strangest promos you’re ever likely to encounter on WCW but, thankfully, Eric Bischoff and the boys deliver with some indelible in-ring action that is not t…

Ste, Jim and Los Liam are back with another review of the battle between Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff, as The Monday Night Wars enters its ninth week. On Raw, we’ve got recaps, previews and a cameo from the 42nd President of the United States…or so some of us thought. There’s a little bit of wrestling to talk about too. Over on Nitro, we push th…

The mushroom cloud of Halloween Havoc ’95 is in the rearview as Ste, Jim and Los Liam hurtle down the highway towards another week of Monday Night Wars action. The Raw comms team donned their fancy dress to mark All Hallows Eve, but some ghastly promos unintentionally supplied WWF’s biggest fright of the night. Also on the show, Owen Hart and Razor…

It’s 25 years to the day since Halloween Havoc ’95 was unleashed on innocent *cough* erm… we mean *cough* paying members of the public and, after weeks of build up on The Monday Night Scores, we felt it was something we simply had to watch. After all, who can pass up the chance to see a real-life Yeti? Join us as we take leave from the Monday Night…

The Monday Night Wars rumble into another week and your hosts Ste and Jim are back to discuss all the action. This week we broaden our broadcast team with the addition of Spanish Announce Table amigo, Los Liam. He talks cardboard superstars, petulant kids and more from WWF’s In Your House 4 pay-per-view. We then sift through the PPV fallout on Raw,…

We’re back with another battle for ratings supremacy! We join Monday Night Wars enemies Vince and Eric to see if Raw can pull ahead in the ratings battle, or if Monday Nitro can claw one back. Your hosts Jim and Ste take you back to October 16th 1995 where, not to be outdone by WCW’s tiny cage last week, Raw puts Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart up against e…

After last week’s surprise stalemate, Raw and Nitro are back on the wrestling battlefield and Ste and Jim talk you through every explosion. WCW locks two legends inside a steel cage that wouldn’t look out of place on a battery farm, a peace-making Sting defends a belt he doesn’t seem to care about against the ocean’s apex predator and Hulk Hogan is…

The premium 90’s wrestling podcast…made by two northerners in London is back for episode 4. Join Ste and Jim as they review another all-action week from The Monday Night Wars. Hulk Hogan unveils his unexpected best friend, before having (quite literally) a close shave with the Taskmaster. Elsewhere, Lex Luger’s stay on WCW Nitro may be short; his j…

Well, we've done it. It only took three episodes, but we've crossed the Rubicon. Entered the Twilight Zone. Jumped the Shark (no mean feat: he's a big lad...). We're packed to the rafters (no baseball bats in sight ...yet) with absolute comedy, but don't worry there's plenty of grade 'A' wrasslin’ too, including: The most unlikely of unlikely PPV m…

This week: there's not a shopping mall in sight - it's regular arenas all round! That hasn't stopped the jaw dropping chaos though - we relive the Monday Night Wars' second skirmish as belligerent bookworms take on beach-based Baywatch bench-pressers in the battle for ratings supremacy. AND - a monster of a man drives a monster of a truck like he s…

The Monday Night Scores swaggers down the ramp with a debut double(ish) bill. Our quest to find out which of WWF or WCW produced the best-quality programming of The Monday Night Wars begins with an examination of the wrestling equivalent of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination – aka the first episode of WCW Nitro – followed by the first Monday …

One of Sefton's greatest assets is its 22 miles of natural coast. A designated Special Area of Conservation, it contains rare species of animals and plants along its sand dunes and woodlands.Ashleigh Panther investigates the natural and man-made threats to this wildlife haven, as well as the efforts being made to preserve it.She talks to Dave Merce…

As part of our Another Place documentary, we followed a project at Forefield Junior School in Crosby, where pupils were creating a musical composition inspired by the sounds of the Iron Men.They discussed their experiences of the installation in class, before going to Crosby Beach to draw — and pretend to be — Iron Men. They then created their own …

As part of our Another Place documentary, we asked the Internet to give its opinion on the Iron Men.The first part of this track consists of people describing the installation in five words. The second is a dramatisation of what happened when we posed the question on the Qlocal Southport forum.Part of the Coastlands project: six documentaries about…

"Wistful contemplation of the sea." "Council bullied into buying scrap." Antony Gormley's Another Place provokes diverse opinion. So what is the value of public art in Sefton?Through the fictionalised narrative of a pirate radio station, manned by a local with serious spleen against the Iron Men, Phil Montgomery looks for answers.We follow pupils f…

The Sefton Coast has witnessed a millennium, and is privy to an ancient, transcendent wisdom.This documentary seeks the spiritual side of Sefton — partaking in a gong bath and joining an earth chant on Formby Beach.How do we connect now to traditions long lost, and to nature itself? Meet the people who think they know the answers.Part of the Coastl…

This is the documentary that started with a man from the Church of England shouting at us, and ended with police involvement.Writer and journalist, Helen Stenson, investigates Sefton's spooks. She meets Steven Tucker, author of Paranormal Merseyside, and learns about local legends such as Old Trash — the demon dog of Formby, and Teresa Higginson — …

A cab is like a confessional: passengers tell drivers things they wouldn't tell a priest. And now you can join a ride through Southport, from one dawn to the next, hearing what the cabbie hears, seeing what the cabbie sees.From candyfloss to clubbers, and businesswomen to bartenders, Southport is a place of contrasts. Its culture and character shif…

He runs around Sefton 48 hours a day, eight days a week. Some say he is training for a new series of Takeshi's Castle. Others say his right nipple is the same shape as the Nürburgring. But who is the Litherland Running Man? This documentary fearlessly seeks out the answers.Created by Emma Little.Part of the Coastlands project: six documentaries abo…