Roadtrip Music: ChaChaLaLa by Jim Johnston (Fandango)

Somehow I’ve managed to do a (mostly) weekly series on wrestling music for five months and not even mention Jim Johnston. That’s gotta change! The man is the most prolific contributor to the soundscape of professional wrestling there is, thanks to his three decades of composing music for WWE. This is an odd one to be the first one, but […]

Roadtrip Music: Symphony No. 9 in Em, “From the New World”, Op. 95, iv. Allegro con fuoco by Antonin Dvorak (WALTER, Imperium, Ringkampf)

For the first time in quite a while I tuned into NXT to see the follow up to the much-heralded match from 2020 between WWE United Kingdom champion WALTER and Ilja Dragunov. Between the way the Capitol Wrestling Center is decked out, the changed commentary team and the wrestlers involved – the presentation was a long way from the NXT […]

The Wrestling Roadshow: June 11, 2021

Our second podcast! On this episode Chris and Greg have a chat about wrestling. Topics we cover include the NWA Women’s title, Chris’s issues with Ring of Honor, New Japan and COVID, early FMW and WING, deathmatches and Greg’s discovery of ECW, Dark Side of the Ring and more. We even talk about WWE for once! There’s a little bit […]