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A unique new wrestling podcast, where we review Pro Wrestling;s worst gimmicks, storylines and ppv's and take on the challenge to rebook it better. Nothing is off limits, if it failed, flopped or was critically panned, we will be ready to take on the challenge to make wrestling gold from wrestlecrap.
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY FOUR- Fastlane 2017 March now is the road to wrestlemania and in 2017 the WWE presented Fastlane, a pay per view one month ahead of Wrestlemania. A raw exclusive ppv this show would be headlined by Kevin Owens, the universal champion, fresh off turning on his Best Friend Chris Jericho, the Owens Show was the hottest heel, …
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY THREE - XPW Baptised in Blood III Here on Better Call Creative, we always celebrate birthday's differently. This year the power is going to be shared around. Jack celebrates his birthday in our first birthday episode, and with the power, he chooses a company we have yet to visit...XPW. Rob Black, Supreme, Death Match, this…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY TWO - Elimination Chamber 2015 A new concept in wrestling is difficult to come up with. In 2002 on the back of the attitude era and the death of any real competition, the WWE created the Elimination Chamber. Four chambers, six competitors and a whole new way of deciding titles, contenders and feuds. Like any concept be it …
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY ONE - Uncensored 1995 Oh 1995 what a terrible year you were! Well at least in wrestling terms it was, WWF was struggling to find a new direction with a New Champion in Diesel, but over in WCW despite having hold of the two biggest names in Wrestling, they were putting out pay per views like Uncensored! A show that featured…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWENTY- Wrestling Weddings Love is in the air this valentines day as Better Call Creative celebrate the truest way one can express their love in the world of wrestling, a wrestling wedding! Since the early 80s it seems that wrestling and weddings have gone together like a horse and carriage as the old song says! From Butcher Vach…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE NINETEEN - WCW Sin Going into 2001, WCW was on life support. On the back of a terrible year creatively, and financially, with a series of bookers coming and going, it's fair to say optimism wasn't high. A rebrand of the ppv schedule was designed, around the seven deadly sins. The launch for this concept was the ppv named Sin, and…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE EIGHTEEN - Royal Rumble 1999 Timing in life is everything isn't it. Given the terrible revelations and at the time of publishing, allegations about Vince McMahon, it is somewhat poorly timed that we would release a podcast looking back at his Royal Rumble win. However, creatively this show is a show that has performed poorly agai…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE SEVENTEEN - Giants in Wrestling In the immortal words of the Hall of Fame opener, it started with one! Well kind of anyway. For many when you say Giant and Wrestling, Andre will be the first name from their lips. So imposing was his legacy that it can be easy to forget those who came before and after him. However the legacy he ca…
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BONUS EPISODE - TNA Impact No.1 A podcast favourite is our trips to TNA Impact and so we have been excited at the imminent return of the TNA wrestling brand! We celebrate the TNA brands wonderful past, buy looking back at it's first ever TNA Impact back in 2004! A show that highlights everything that makes TNA so wonderful, Don West, Shark Boy, AJ …
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE SIXTEEN - Starrcade 1998 We round out the year in wrestling tradition as we look back on Starrcade from 1998. One of the biggest years in WCW history, and whilst the 83 weeks dominance of WWF has now gone, WCW continue to look strong with the rise of the undefeated WCW Champion Goldberg going into 1999! All he must do is survive …
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE SIXTEEN - Crown Jewel 2018 It's Christmas time and we wanteed to keep everything on gimmick, and celebrate all things christmas....but that Saudi Blood Money was just all too much to turn down so we are going back to 2018 and the return match for Shawn Michaels! DX versus the Brothers of Destruction and a World Cup! Well.....it's…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE FIFTEEN- AEW All Out 2020 2020 was hardly a stealler year for any industry, but with the recovery from covid in its early stages, the wrestling industry had been hit pretty hard. A commitment to delver a product for an audiance unable to watch it live meant stilted stage hands at ringsides, with little to no atmosphere being crea…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE FOURTEEN- Survivor Series 1994 It's the Annual Thanks Giving Tradition! It's the Survivor Series! Yes this maybe the least important of the so called big ppvs, but it still has played host to many memorable moments. The Screwjob, the Undertaker's Debut, Stings WWE Debut....and Dink, Wink and Pink! 1994 was a very strange year for…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE THIRTEEN- TNA Destination X 2007 Oh how we've missed TNA. It was great news to hear that Impact Wrestling will return to the once loved brand of TNA Wrestling in early 2024. We will be back to celebrate TNA's legacy around that time but before we do, we are checking out one of the reasons why the brand needed a break. In 2007 TNA…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TWELVE- ECW November to Remember 1996 We take a well earned vacation in the land of extreme and head back to Autumn 1996, and a November to Remember! ECW were riding high, with a tv deal being ut together and a long awaited debut on ppv a few months away, this card was set to build the main event for that show, Taz versus Sabu! W…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE ELEVEN- Halloween Havoc 1991 We have reached the end of our Horror Month here on Better Call Creative and we land on All Hallows Eve, Halloween night and we are reviewing Halloween Havoc 1991. Remembered for the Chamber of Horrors match, an 8 man tag taking place inside a cage structure where the match ends when somebody is legit…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE TEN- Send in the Clowns Horror and Clowns go together like.....well Wrestling and Clowns! It seems that clowns have been in and around the wrestling world for many decades and whilst many fans will know the name Doink the Clown, many may not have as wide a knowledge of Dave the Clown, or Fukigen Death, or Pogo the Clown. In our t…
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SEASON TWO - EPISODE NINE - IWA King of the Deathmatch 1995 Can you consider one of the biggest tape trading wrestling events ever, considered my some to be the finest "Hardcore Wrestling" card, and featuring Mick Foley and Terry Funk, something worthy of being reviewed by Better Call Creative? Can you truly say that this show was a bad show? Well,…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE EIGHT - Blood Runs Cold - Glacier On the back of our Invasion Arc we head into the month of October and a month full of the horrors of wrestling's past. We start with a podcast well overdue for one that focuses on the worst of wresting, as we check out Glacier and the Blood Runs Cold storyline! The brain child of Eric Bischoff at…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE SEVEN- Survivor Series 2001 In the immortal words of Jim Johnston, The End is Here! We have reached the final stop in the Alliance Storyline, and it's winner takes all, the WCW and ECW Alliance's five best feautring well a lot of WWF's best, going up against the WWF's best...and Big Show! Survival is on the line, only one entity …
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE SIX- Rebellion 2001 We are in the last legs of the Alliance angle now but before we can reach the peak and stick a flag in it, we take a quick detour to jolly old England! Manchester to be precise, as the WWF and the Alliance invade the UK for it's annual Rebellion ppv. Normally considered a C show, lower priority, this show woul…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE FIVE- No Mercy 2001 We are on leg four of our Invasion Story Arc as we start of the 2nd half of the storyline picking up where we left Unforgiven 2001, with Kurt Angle as WWF Champion...well no quite! The twists and the turns of the Alliance angle is in full gear here as the landscape of the WWF changes dramatically it seems week…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE FOUR - Unforgiven 2001 We reach the half way point in our Invasion Story Arc and as ever plenty has changed. However it's not just in the WWF where the landscape is changing, the Twin Towers attacks of September 11th takes place a few weeks before Kurt Angle's Summerslam rematch with Stone Cold Steve Austin, so will our olympic a…
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BIRTHDAY PODCAST - Ben's Time Machine We round out our year of birthday podcasts with one final hop into the wrestling time machine as Ben has the controls. His 6 desitinations will be a wrestling match from the month of August from the last six decades. A time machine which will make stops to check out the Dynamite Kid, Walter, Bret Hart and Kurt …
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Season 2 - Episode Three- Summerslam 2001 We continue our 6 episode story arc as we look back at the WCW and ECW invasion of the WWF from 2001, and we have reached Summerslam! After the shocking events of the Invasion pay per view with Stone Cold Steve Austin turning his back on the WWF, it seems that the WWF may be crumbling around them. They have…
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SEASON TWO - Episode Two - Invasion 2001 We begin the first story arc of Season Two of Better Call Creative, and it is a huge story arc! We are reviewing the WWF vs. The Alliance, WWF vs WCW and ECW. It was the stuff of dreams, what would happen when Austin faced Hogan, Undertaker faced Sting, Rock faced Goldberg....What we got however was somethin…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE ONE - King of the Ring 1994 We start a brand new season of episodes with Season 2 Episode One and well, how much does this show weigh? It is the infamous pay per view of King of the Ring 1994. Remembered mainly for the so bad it may be good commentary of Art Donovan, but is the ppv a dud because of it, inspite of it or as well as…
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Episode One Hundred - Heroes of Wrestling Look at little old us, reaching one hundred episodes! After 99 previous episodes reviewing the worst wrestling has to offer, there could only be one way to celebrate the 100, and that is watching, reviewing and reimagining the Heroes of Wrestling ppv from 1999! If you are a fan of wrestling the chances are …
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Birthday Episode - Sam's Wrestling Time Machine Our second Birthday episode see's Sam take the reigns of the Wrestling Time Machine, visiting the month of June in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s. Six matches that Sam would hop into a Time Machine to visit and re-watch! An episode featuring Ted Dibiase, Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Bayley, Chad Gabl…
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Episode Ninety Nine - No Mercy 1999 US So after reviewing the first No Mercy in 1999 from the UK, our 99th episdoe see's us review the second No Mercy from 1999. This one from the United States and featuring a bumper card full of deep storylines! Steve Austin facing Triple H for the WWF Title he lost at Summerslam, and the last Double J Jeff Jarret…
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Episode Ninety Eight - No Mercy 1999 (UK) Very few things in wrestling remainly fairly rare. Nowadays wrestling storylines and angles tend to be rehashed versions of the old. Most wrestlers feel very much old hat after a year or so on a roster, but back in 1999 WWF did something fairly rare. That was to hold two pay per views called No Mercy, five …
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Episode Ninety Seven - Kurt Angle's Retirement The most important memory someone has of you, is the last one. So they say, and so the way you retire a wrestling hall of famer can be just as important as the career they have had. Case in point, Kurt Angle. A grand slam champion in the WWF, one of the fastest rises to the top at a time where the WWF …
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Episode Ninety Six - Wrestlemania 4 With Vince McMahon sitting this past Wrestlemania out, only to return like the dastardly villian he truly is, the debate will be long and hard about the quality of the booking decisions from Triple H. A debate that has always seemed to stem from Wrestlemania, and maybe it began as far back at Wrestlemania 4. The …
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WRESTLECUP PODCAST - Worst Wrestlemania Main Event A few years ago we opened up our Wrestlecup episodes by crowning the worst Wrestlemania Match of all time! Then it was Undertaker and the Giant Gonzales taking home the crown, but as chance would be, that wasn't the Main Event! So we decided to celebrate Wrestlemania weekend with crowning the worst…
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Episode Ninety Five - Booker T's Big Mania Moment It's Mania season once again and as fans we all love to talk about who will have this years Mania moment. From Daniel Bryan at Mania 30, to Austin's era beginning at Mania 14, there seems to be one Mania moment every Wrestlemania. At Wrestlemania 19 it seemed from the outside that the 5 time WCW Cha…
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Episode Ninety Four - Uncensored 2000 As a podcast that focuses on reviewing the worst of wrestling's past, is there anything more trashed than WCW in 2000. Hulk Hogan is back in the Red and Yellow and he is carryign an Indian Yapapapi Strap or two, to turn the hind of Ric Flair Raw and Pink! Yes its that famous promo and match, but is there anythi…
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BIRTHDAY EPISODE - Jack's Time Machine It's the first of our three birthday episodes for 2023, and this year we are dusting off our wrestling time machines and checking out a match from our respective birth months, from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s. Six matches this episode chosen by Jack from wrestling past, and in the words of Gorilla Mons…
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Episode Ninety Three - ECW Champions in WWE In the mid 2000s, with no real competition to speak of WWE started a love affair with the ECW Brand. Purchased after the company fell on hard times, there seemed to still be a desire in the fan base for a rebirth of the brand and after successful one night stand ppv's WWE pulled the trigger on a third bra…
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WRESTLECUP EPISODE - Worst ECW Wrestler ECW is well loved by most wrestling fans, well except Sam maybe. However as with any wrestling company, history tends to be kinder to ECW than most, but not everyone who has wrestled under the ECW banner have been well remembered. Well we are Better Call Creative, and ahead of our celebration of all things te…
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Episode Ninety Two - TNA Against All Odds 2011 2011 was a strange and difficult time for TNA. Bischoff and Hogan had been with the company now a year and had given it a new look, pushed and tried different things, and we arrived in 2011 with little reward for the investment. So why not try to capture the magic of the Hogan heel turn and try to turn…
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Episode Ninety One - Royal Rumble 2022 As we head into this years Royal Rumble event, we do so with hope and optimism that this year's event is going to be a cracker...and mainly that it is better than last years! So what happened in 2022 and why was it so bad! We..here comes to spoiler....it was booked by Shane McMahon who was quietly sent packing…
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Wrestlecup Episode - Worst Royal Rumble Winner For Wrestling fans, there can be very few more exciting times than that of Royal Rumble season. Here we are again with hopes of surprises, shocks and most importantly of all the right and correct winner ahead of wrestlemania. However that hasn't always been the case. Some winners are much more worthy t…
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Episode Ninety - WCW Thunder Retrospective It is a strange thing beign a wrestling fan sometimes. Strangely something can be an utter disaster, unwanted and unwatched by fans and promoters alike during its original run, yet hold a fond place in the hearts of those who lived through it. Thunder is a little like that, one of the most requested shows …
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Wrestlecup Episode - Worst Starrcade Main Event To the wrestling fans at least, WCW's flagship PPV was always Starrcade. The longest ppv in wrestling history when still active, Starrcade had history, had legacy, and had its fair share of terrible main events. For every Flair versus Race, there was a Black Scorpion or a Battlebowl. What better way t…
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Episode Eighty Nine - Starrcade 1994 It's our second podcast in our special Starrcade Month of December. We are checking out what is widely regarded as one of the worst...if not the worst...Starrcade's ever. Hulk Hogan's first ever Starrcade having burst onto the WCW scene in mid 1994, and with a whole new roster of talent to work on top with, who …
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Episode Eighty Eight - The Black Scorpion It's December, as in wrestling terms at least, the biggest ppv event of the Christmas period was Starrcade! This year we celebrate the annual tradition with a special Starrcade month, and our opening episode see's us review the Black Scorpion angle leading to the main event of Starrcade 1990. When the guy w…
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Episode Eighty Seven - Survivor Series 2015 As WWE prepare to once again inject some life into the Survivor Series concept, we look back at one of the more forgettable Survivor Series from the past decade. A show dominated by a WWE Title Tournament, with little to no focus on the Survivor Series concept, and littered with many questionable booking …
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Episode Eighty Six - November to Remember 2000 We head back to the land of extreme for this November to Remember. And it's not just any November to Remember, but it is the last ever November to Remember! And what a way to go out, with the title in not just Jeopardy...but double Jeopardy! A unique match type that was one and done, two matches going …
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Episode Eighty Five - Kamala As we reach the spookiest time of year, this Halloween we take a deep dive look at one of the longest running wrestling Horror gimmicks, well at least it started as horror. The Ugandan Headhunter/Cannibal/Giant depending on where James Harris was booked, Kamala grew to become one of the most legendary wrestling gimmicks…
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Episode Eight Four - Taboo Tuesday 2005 2005 can be best described as a transitional year for the WWE. In limbo before the move to PG, and in desperate need for a new mega star, WWE seemingly were ready to try new things and new concepts. One year prior, a new fans choice concept was created, a Tuesday PPV, the first for 10 years, and a show voted …
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