WIth This Ring #47

No stop signs, speed limit, nobody’s going to slow us down. Ryan and Cindy have reached the Highway to Hell and discuss SummerSlam 1998 and all that led up to it, including:
Cindy finding out we skipped over the epic Val Venis/Kaientai feud and us being forced to watch it as soon as we stopped recording
Discussions on how CAHOOTS was the most used word on WWF TV in 1998 on Kane and Undertaker
How this led to the forgotten Hell in a Cell match between Kane and Mankind
The new addition of Sunday Night Heat and how that helped add a pre-game show for PPV nights.
An undercard filled with exciting singles matches for European titles, hair and inside Lion’s Dens.
A star making performance in a ladder match between two upper mid-carders,
Undertaker and Steve Austin having a landmark Attitude Era main event. 
Enjoy!

With This Ring #46

With This Ring #46: Fully Loaded 1998
Ryan and Cindy are back in the summer of 1998 and smackdab in the middle of the Highway to Hell! Unfortunately before we get to SummerSlam they cover Fully Loaded 1998. Topics discuss include:
The big July 6th Nitro from the Georgia Dome featuring Goldberg against Hollywood Hogan and how the WWF countered it…UNDERKANE!
The continued slow first hour of the secondary Pay-Per-Views, outside of D-Lo Brown and X-Pac
The Dungeon match and how disgusting wrestling around the rest of the Hart House would have been
Was 30 minutes too much for Rock/Triple H at this time?
Jerry Lawler going full blown pervert
Is it a good idea for the Fully Loaded Pay-Per-View main event to just be table setting for the SummerSlam main event?
Enjoy the show!

With this Ring #45

With This Ring #45: King of the Ring 1998
Ryan and Cindy continue to journey through the 1998 Pay-Per-View calendar, going over the historic King of the Ring. Topics include:
Jeff Jarrett's career seeming a bit stalled at this point
D-Lo Brown and his protective chest pad, 
WWF was setting up a Shamrock/Severn final 
Ken Shamrock’s beginnings in pro wrestling
Long discussion about the Hell in the Cell
Steve Austin and Kane having two great matches in two nights
Then they rank the matches and see where King of the Ring goes in our overall rankings. Enjoy the show!

With This Ring #44: Over the Edge 1998

With This Ring #44: Over the Edge 1998
In this edition of With This Ring, Ryan and Cindy continue their journey through the WWF in 1998. Included are the following topics:
-Legion of Doom, Sunny and Droz
-The lackluster IYH Undercards
-Nuclear Rock
-Austin vs. Dude Love
They finish it with their top 2 matches and ranking of PPV shows overall. Enjoy!
 

With This Ring #43: Unforgiven 1998

In this edition of With This Ring, Ryan and Cindy look at the WWF’s follow-up to WrestleMania XIV, In Your House: Unforgiven.
-Steve Austin/Vince McMahon feud and how Mick Foley is put in as Mr. McMahon’s proxy title challenger
-The Raw/Nitro ratings war and gave Raw a much needed win
-The the continuation of Nation/Faarooq/Ken Shamrock feud
So much to talk about they completely forgot to mention the Jeff Jarrett/Sawyer Brown duet. Enjoy!

With This Ring #42

Tis the season! In this episode of With This Ring, Cindy and Ryan continue their journey through 1998 with the Granddaddy of them all, WrestleMania XIV. DIscussion includes Tag battle royals, the rise of the Rock continues, is the DX band Star Spangled Banner/America the Beautiful the worst performance in WrestleMania history, They then look at the Raw after WrestleMania, one of the first truly big Raws after WrestleMania. We took about the new belts, Steve Austin’s first of many trips to jail, the Rock rising even higher and the new and “improved” DX, including a brutal cage match for Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie. Enjoy!

With This Ring #41

In this episode of With This Ring, we put a final bow on the GWWE list and start our new project of the year, reviewing 1998 WWF.
We begin our look at one of the most pivotal years in wrestling history with a double feature, looking at both Royal Rumble and No Way Out: Of Texas 1998. We talk about mini’s, Goldust’s transformation, the emergence of the Rock, how hot Stone Cold Steve Austin is, Mick Foley’s historic Rumble, Mike Tyson and another Undertaker death. We then quickly look at the Cactus Jack/Chainsaw Charlie match that led to attempted murder via dumpster, before moving onto No Way Out.
We talk about how No Way Out completed its job of being a bridge towards WrestleMania, but putting all the big stars in one main event leads to a lot of filler on the mid-card. We also talk about how great of a surprise Caribbean legend Savio Vega is. Enjoy the show!

With This Ring #40: Randy Savage

This month we wrap up the GWWE project with the one and only, Macho Man Randy Savage! We look at Macho’s full WWE career, from his debut as the hottest free agent in wrestling to his eventual exit in the fall of 1994. From Ricky Steamboat to the Mega Powers to Jake Roberts, they cover everything that was MACHO in Savage’s WWF tenure. In 2017, Randy Savage finished #1 on their list and the overall list. Will history repeat itself? Listen and find out, OOOOH YEAHHH! 
Randy Savage vs. Tito Santana - Intercontinental Title Match - Boston Garden 02/08/86
Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat - Intercontinental Title Match - Unreleased Macho Man DVD
Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase - WWF Title Steel Cage Match - MSG 06/25/88
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan - WWF Title Match - WrestleMania V
Randy Savage vs. Hulk Hogan - WWF Title Match- Madison Square Garden 04/24/89
Randy Savage & Sherri vs. Dusty Rhodes & Sapphire - WrestleMania VI
Randy Savage vs. Jake the Snake Roberts - Tuesday in Texas
Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair - WWF Title Match - WrestleMania VIII
Randy Savage vs. Repo Man - Raw 01/18/93
Randy Savage vs. Yokozuna - WWF Title Match - Raw 02/28/94