[PODCAST] Wrestling 2 the MAX # 163: NXT Takeover Respect Preview, WWE RAW Ratings Slump, TNA BFG 2015 Preview, & More

We headline today with four mega previews from four different promotions with the WWE in Madison Square Garden show, we preview TNA Bound For Glory 2015, we do a NXT Takeover Respect Preview, and we also touch on AAA’s Immortal Heroes IX near the end too.

We also discuss this ratings slump for WWE and if it means anything for the future of the program. Has WWE become one of those shows you watch out of habit? Or can they turn it around? Either way the WWE RAW Ratings Slump is in full effect.

However, we start with Quick Hits (7:00-35:00) discussing some ROH talent heading to New Japan for the World Tag League, Go Shiozaki leaving All Japan to be a free agent, John Cena going on personal leave and how it could affect WWE, and more.

We are trying something different with WWE RAW (35:00-74:00) this week, we are going to have five questions that discuss the main points of RAW and we still talk about the matches and what not, but we are trying to cover the show with the same breadth, but trying to find a new way to do it, because taking one hour or sometimes longer to cover RAW is just too long.

We do our segment on the reality of WWE’s RAW Ratings slump (74:00-79:15)

After that, we hit our first preview discussing the card on the WWE MSG show (79:15-87:00) and then we move on to discussing the go-home episode of NXT (87:20-108:00) and then do a NXT Takeover Respect Preview (108:00-123:00) as well.

Next, we hit this week’s ROH TV (123:00-130:00) episode and then go right into this week’s go-home episode of TNA Impact 130:20-151:15), which is their final show before their biggest show of the year TNA Bound For Glory 2015 (151:15-160:15). We preview BFG 2015 here too.

Finally, we end the show previewing AAA’s newest I-PPV, Heroes Inmmortales (Immortal Heroes IX) (160:15-170:00), and then we do our Top 5 W2M Power Rankings. (170:00- End)

We will be back on Sunday night with another W2M Special reviewing the WWE Madison Square Garden Show and doing our first “What We Watched” segment, on the 1991 edition of Halloween Havoc, which includes the Chamber of Horrors match.

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