David Bixenspan talks to friends and other guests from the worlds of pro wrestling and sometimes MMA.
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David Bixenspan (or is it David Kaleidoscope?) and Dylan Hales finally return for an all-new episode of The Trade Marks in which we discuss: The launch of NWAClassics.com. Whoo! Wrestling’s triumphant return with the release of the A.J. Styles vs. Jimmy Rave match. Hulk Hogan’s legal entanglements with Gawker, which somehow gets us sidetracked into…
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For the third episode of The Trade Marks, Dylan and I are joined by Kevin Kleinrock, currently the President of Masked Republic (which owns LuchaShop.com – Use coupon code BIX to get 10% off all items!) and formerly the Vice President of XPW and Big Vision Entertainment to talk about the rise and fall of DVDs in pro wrestling. We cover a ton of rel…
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Josh Watko of JW’s Wrestling Memorabilia joins me to talk everything wrestling memorabilia, including lots of action figure talk covering rarities, AOL’s old WWF action figure message board, and more, vinyl records, autographs, oddities like press kits, home videos, random trinkets, holy grails including the George “The Animal” Steele “Mine” stuffe…
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Wrestling historian, Exile on Badstreet podcast host, and all-around good guy Kris Zellner joins the show to have a loose, sometimes disconnected conversation about old newsletters and other elements of wrestling fandom like radio shows, tape trading, the early days of the internet…and whatever tangents we go off on. Longer episode than usual, but …
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Sean Wheelock, the voice of Bellator MMA, joins the show to talk about growing up as a wrestling fan in Kansas City in the ’80s, including seeing Ric Flair’s first NWA World Heavyweight Title win live at Memorial Hall. We also talk about MMA, including topics related to “Is This Legal,” his book with Art Davie about the creation of the UFC, as well…
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After some updates/follow-ups on topics from episode #1, like the status of FWE, WWN Live woes, and the WrestleMania bootlegging lawsuit, we look at everything going on w/ Pro Wrestling Tees including WWE sending a C&D, their new MMA brand, and their past takedowns sent to fan art print sites, then finally we go over the Doug and Tommy Gilbert’s la…
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Doug Gilbert, who’s been everywhere from Memphis to Bill Watts’ UWF to WCW to the Savoldis’ ICW to the Global Wrestling Federation to ECW to the WWF, joins the show this week. We cover everything from the Brad Armstrong Memorial Show to growing up in a wrestling family to who he learned from throughout his career to why Lance Russell is the best wr…
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For the second episode of The Bix Show, we’ve got two different guests in separate segments: We start off with the legendary voice of Memphis wrestling, Lance Russell, who joins the show to, among other things, get us up to speed on what he’s been up to lately, including the Memphis Grizzlies’ Wrestling Night, the Gulf Coast Wrestlers’ Reunion, sit…
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Sherdog.com contributor/MMA preview expert and Heavy Hands Podcast host Patrick Wyman joins me to discuss his lapsed wrestling fandom being reignited by Brock Lesnar and WrestleMania chatter We touch on Patrick being a Nitro-era WCW guy who didn’t quite “get” Mick Foley, why Brock Lesnar is the most compelling man in the world, how Patrick knew com…
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Welcome to the first episode of The Trade Marks, the first episode of a new show from David Bixenspan (me!) and Dylan Hales A jumbo-sized inaugural episode outlines our concept and touches on: The arrest of UFC/WWE torrent capturer Sir Paul and if it actually means anything. WWE’s anti-counterfeit lawsuits to enable them to seize merchandise in the…
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