Episode 572: HorseNeck Salami

On episode 572 of The Shining Wizards Wrestling Podcast, Kevin is joined by Kate Hensler of fightful and The Mark Order Podcast.  They do a heavy dive into AEW and are then joined by The NWA’s Sam Adonis aka El Rudo.  It’s a deep discussion about his experiences in pro wrestling and his take on the landscape today.  Pittsburgh independent wrestler Zeke Mercer also stops by to introduce himself to The…

Episode 556 : A Comedian & A Ninja Walk into a Podcast

It’s Monday Night, and You Know What That Means. It’s another episode of The Shining Wizards Wrestling Podcast Matt and Kevin kick off the show & catch up quickly before jumping into the world of the WWE. Some Crown Jewel talk, quickly turns into the Becky/Charlotte saga, and its not too long before the boys are joined by Late Tony. Tony says his piece and the boys talk some more…

Episode 555: The Fantastical Kerry Morton

It’s Monday Night, and you know what that means Kevin and Matt are back with a jam packed show. Kevin recounts his weekend at WrestlePro, & the pressures of working backstage with the show airing live on FITE TV. We can’t get too much into it, as we are joined by our guest for the night. Future Legend Kerry Morton, the son of Ricky Morton. Son and Father are on…

Episode 547: Mickie James – Empowerrr

Tony’s back from vacation, Matt survived a hellish week at work, Kevin is on the way back from Boston after being stuck there last night, and Kate from Fightful & the Mark Order Podcast is sitting in on this HUGE episode. Wrestling Legend Mickie James joins us to talk all things NWA, NWA Empowerrr & NWA 73. We talk about the process of coming up with the PPV, if it…

Episode 546: Dropping Bombs & Rok’s

Its Monday Night, you know what that means The Shining Wizards are back. Tony is in the Great Lakes or the Finger Lakes, but he’s not with us. Kate the Great from the Mark Order Podcast & Fightful sits in with us as we talk all things wrestling After the usual small talk we jump right into AEW Rampage and the huge title change that opened up the show, and…

Episode 523: Barbed Wire Explosion

Fresh off the AEW Revolution PPV, we have a loaded show We first address why we don’t have a guest on the show tonight, then we do something we haven’t done in what seems like YEARS. We talk about last week’s Monday Night Raw. Tony watched the show, Matt is convinced that he will never get to face Bobby Lashley & Kevin believes Bob & Matt will one day be…

Episode 518: Beer City Rumble

Hot off the Royal Rumble and stuck inside from the massive snowstorm that was dumped on us, the boys got a lot to talk about. We jump right into the picks, and the 2021 Royal Rumble. Talk about the pre show tag match, Goldberg/Drew, gloss over Sasha/Carmella and get to the Women’s Royal Rumble. Everyone is on the same page with who won, its everything else that creates tons to…

Episode 517: Sparks Will Fly Again

It’s Royal Rumble week. Who is Bad Bunny? Matt has zero interest in the event. Tony can’t remember who won it the last few years and Kevin shows brief glimpses of Corporate Kevin. We are joined by Kayla Sparks, who started training at 13 years old, we talk about a variety of topics, from training as a 13 year old to retiring at 17, the Undertaker, The Godfather, the Spice…

Episode 516: Use the Hatch

It’s Monday. You know what that means   Kevin, Matt and Tony are back, we kick off the show with the crowning of the 2020 Shining Wizards Picks Champion. Once the gloating and shit talking is done, we go over some facts from the 2020 Picks, then dive right into Impact’s Hard to Kill. We cover the card from front to back. Whats the next chapter in AEW vs Impact….

Episode 515: Maestro’s Birthday Christmas.

January 11th, 2021, its the Mikko Maestro Birthday Bash Boys are ready to celebrate and kick off the show with Kevin’s Top 5 List of Greatest Royal Rumble Eliminations that DIDN’T win the Rumble. Someone how we get into talking about Shawn Michaels from 1997, and that leads us down an interesting rabbit hole. We are then joined by the special guest Mr Mikko Maestro to celebrate his birthday. We…

Episode 511: Reindeer Stew – The Mikko Maestro Story

Its a jam packed show, we start hot with the Impact/AEW Show Tuesday night, or shall we say Impact Show with Kenny Omega at the end. The question is raised, did Impact drop the ball with the show itself, we hit on a few Impact topics, including the happenings from Impact Resolution. We are joined by our Finnish friend Mikko Maestro for a bit, covering a range of topics that…

Episode 492: Overtime with TJ Crawford

Matt, Kevin and Kate the Great are back for another action packed episode. We catch up on where Matt was last week, he buries Tony, then we chat some AEW and the Matt Cardona thing before being joined by one of the up & coming stars in the NorthEast TJ Crawford. Talks include time spent during COVID, ring rust, the Beach Bums, Heavy Metal and much more. After a quick…