Ready to Rumble - When Making a Movie Does NOT Save the Failing Company

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 11:58 p.m.

This week stumbled into yet another production oddity--the 2000 film that was meant to promote World Championship Wrestling (WCW) but ended up effectively bankrupting it instead, leaving the WWE as the only big-name player in town. Now, we think wrestling is pretty neat but our knowledge of it is...uh. Limited, shall we say. So we had to call in a ringer to tell us all the cool wrestling history facts and references in this Arthurian quest narrative. Or: wow, this held up so much better than the last movie from the turn of the century movie we tried to rewatch! CONTENT WARNING for discussion of homophobia, transphobia, and anti-worker practices Last Week Tonight on Wrestling('s lack of) Insurance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs History of the Golden Lovers: https://medium.com/we-need-to-talk-about-wrestling/that-one-tweet-thread-about-the-golden-lovers-annotated-e9fc604e3a7f 2:30 Why Wrestling is Rad 9:00 FUCKIN LUSK, WY 17:00 Wrestling History Corner 25:00 A Noble Quest 32:00 When It's Good... 38:30 Women Nominally Existing 46:00 TRIPLE CAGE MATCH 54:00 Should You Watch This Say hi to Dorothy and Vrai on Twitter @writervrai and @dorothynotgale Join us every two weeks on Soundcloud, iTunes or Stitcher – and if you’d leave a rating and review, so that more people can find their way to us, we’d appreciate it!