Category: The Bix Show

The Bix Show Episode #6 – Josh Watko on wrestling memorabilia

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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” stuffed animal, and much more. Lots of fun going over decades of collecting experience. Make sure to check out Josh’s blog and Twitter account for tons of cool pictures and stories.

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The Bix Show Episode #5 – Kris Zellner

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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 this was a LOT of fun.

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The Bix Show Episode #4 – Sean Wheelock

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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 as intersecting topics like the effects of the death of kayfabe on pro wrestling, shoots and double crosses, what pro wrestling moves work in reality, and more. Sean is a lot of fun and I can’t wait to have him back on. Also make sure to check out Let’s Get it On, his podcast with the dean of MMA referees, “Big” John McCarthy.

P.S. I know some listeners aren’t big MMA fans, but there’s a good bit of wrestling content first and most of the MMA content here has pro wrestling overlap.

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The Bix Show Episode #3 – Doug Gilbert

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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 wrestling announcer ever among many other topics. There are some technical issues thanks to cell phone reception that hold us back for a few minutes, but that’s over with quickly and it turns into a really awesome conversation.

Doug’s upcoming schedule:

P.S. MMA fans stay tuned for some kind of ridiculous, time constraint free podcast thing w/ Patrick Wyman previewing this weekend’s UFC on Fox: Machida vs. Wyman that’ll be coming before Saturday.

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The Bix Show Episode #2 – Legendary Announcer Lance Russell; AVClub’s LaToya Ferguson

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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, sitting down for WWE’s Jerry Lawler DVD, and his upcoming appearance at PopCon in Evansville, Indiana. We also cover all sorts of historical topics including some of his non-wrestling broadcasting memories, wrestling content that got him in trouble as director of programming,rescuing a bad promo, his enjoyment of Tony Charles and other British-style wrestlers, the unveiling of Dr. Frank, and much more.

In the second segment, LaToya Ferguson, reviewer of Monday Night Raw (among other, non-wrestling shows) for AVClub.com joins me to talk about a number of topics including reviewing Raw as a TV critic more than a wrestling fan, how TNA’s Paprazzi Productions of all things got her back into wrestling a decade ago, and more.

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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 Lance Russell

01:11:05 LaToya Ferguson


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The Bix Show Episode #1 – Brock Lesnar is the Id of Middle America

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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 coming in cold that Roman Reigns wasn’t quite ready, and more.

After that, we move into the MMA and kickboxing realm with a look at UFC’s surprising strong morning/afternoon card this Saturday covering topics that include whether or not Ricardo Lamas is boring and the greatness of Al Iaquinta. Finally, we briefly delve into this week’s Glory card, as well as the awesomeness of UFC Strawweight Champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk.

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Time stamps:

0:01:44 Patrick Wyman: Un-lapsed wrestling fan.
0:15:43 WrestleMania discussion.
0:41:58 UFC Fight Night: Mendes vs. Lamas
1:01:07 Glory 20: Van Roosmalen vs. Ristie
1:02:48 Just how awesome is Joanna Jedrzejczyk?


If you enjoy the show, please consider using my Amazon Associates link and/or donating to my Patreon, both of which are also handily linked in the top menu of davidbix.com. If you’d like to donate on a one-time basis, you can use the PayPal donation button in the right sidebar.

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