Talking Taker Alex Doriot

They just played a role in the main event of WrestleMania 40, so now we're looking back 25 years at the origins of The Undertaker and The Rock's rivalry on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join our cohosts and wrestling buddies Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take the time-traveling hearse back to the height of the chaotic Attitude Era in June of 1999. Taker and The Rock have a highly memorable build up to their match including The Rock busting out his own Brahma Bull symbol, plus we try to unravel every loose thread and plot hole from the Greater Power reveal and so much more. Enjoy this trip back in time and be sure to join us May1st for our next brand new episode covering 25th Anniversary of the pilot episode of Smackdown featuring our friends Mike and J.V. from The Bottom Line Wrestling Cast! 
 
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Can The Undertaker break The Von Erich Curse? Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they take their time-traveling hearse back to Dallas in 1989 to cover some of the earliest footage of Mark Calaway as The Punisher facing off with The Modern Day Warrior Kerry Von Erich and many more characters from the USWA. This episode is inspired by the award-winning film "The Iron Claw" and we'll give our thoughts on the movie before discuss these "deleted scenes" and why we think The Punisher got cut out of the movie. We'll discuss some matches and characters we never thought we'd talk about on this show including Taras Bulba, Latin Lover, Uncle Elmer, Cousin Junior, Billy Toe Travis, Eric Embry, Gentleman Chris Adams, Matt Borne, and more. Along the way we'll cover The Punisher roaming free in the badlands, grown men ripping cigs in the front row of these matches, grandmas going nuts over The Von Erichs, brawls running through the fire exits, whether or not Uncle Elmer is a trained athlete, Marc Lowrance's unintentionally funny commentary, Kerry's amazing babyface promo, the pure fun of territory wrestling, the returns of Percy Pringle III and Skandor Akbar and P.Y. Chu Hi, plus a final encounter between The Undertaker and The Texas Tornado in the WWF. All that and another jam-packed edition of Undertaker Sightings for the month of March including predictions for The Dead Man at WrestleMania XL. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy! 
 
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This year marks the 15th Anniversary of the first match of The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels/Triple H WrestleMania Quadrilogy, and we're celebrating this momentous occasion with a special MEGASODE edition of Talking Taker! Collected here for the first time is all 4 of our Watch-Along alternate commentaries joined by special guest Randy Turco for each of these matches, back to back to back to back! We'll give you the time cues and invite you to join our three man booth as we look back The Undertaker vs Shawn Michales from WM 25 and 26 and The Undertaker vs Triple H from WM 27 and 28. It's the greatest story in Mania history and some of the best matches in WWE history, and this feels like a fitting way to honor them. It's also the perfect audio for you to listen to on the Road To WrestleMania whether you're traveling to Mania 40 in person or just getting hyped from your own home. So sit back, relax, rewatch these classics with us, and Taker Easy! 
 
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We're taking the time-traveling hearse back to the ATL with Randy Turco in tow on an all new Talking Taker! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White on their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they bring their time-traveling correspondent Randy along to revisit a classic WrestleMania match between The Undertaker and Triple H. It's the 15th anniversary of the beginning of Taker's WrestleMania rivalry with DX, and this is the last match of that rivalry that Alex, Travis, and Randy have yet to cover Watch-Along style, so we decided it needed to get done! Along the way we'll discuss more stories of Alex and Travis's experience watching this one in the Georgia Dome, what it was like for Randy watching on PPV, the music edits on Peacock, the chairshots that led to fines, the huge crowd reactions, Triple H's picture-perfect tombstone, the action figure representations of this match, the place it holds in Undertaker's history, the aftereffects of Abdullah The Butcher's restaurant, and of course a comparison to of this match to a Batman movie. Download, enjoy, and Taker Easy! 
 
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For one episode only, Talking Taker becomes SPITTING VENOM! Join wrestling superfans Alex Doriot and Travis White as they take a detour from their encyclopedic exploration digging up The Dead Man as they pay tribute to the icon whose career mirrored The Undertaker's in so many ways, the man called Sting! With The Stinger's retirement match coming up this weekend we look back at his unparalleled career and share some of our favorite memories and moments from his runs through WCW, TNA, WWE, and AEW. Sting was also Travis's gateway into pro wrestling and we reminisce about all the reasons why from the Surfer Sting days to The Crow to the Wolfpack and more. That all leads up to our main event - breaking down the ultimate dream match of both men's careers that we never got - Sting vs. The Undertaker! We discuss all the possible times it would have made sense to happen, why it never worked out, what made fans dream of this match for so long, and both give our fantasy bookings for how it could have played out. You don't want to miss this very special episode - download, enjoy, and #TakerEasy!
 
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We're celebrating the 20 year anniversary of a milestone moment in Alex and Travis's friendship on this month's BACK FROM THE DEAD! Join our cohosts and wrestling buddies as they reminisce about Alex's 18th Birthday gift - an all-expenses paid trip for these best friends to WrestleMania XX! It's not only one of the greatest experiences of our lives as wrestling fans, and not only one of the most important matches of The Undertaker's career, but this just so happened to be a historic episode for our podcast as we hit the 100 episode mark. We had to get together to record episode 100 live, and Alex even invited his parents on to question their sanity in sending a couple of high school kids from a small town in Georgia all the way to New York City. Enjoy this trip back in our time-traveling hearse and be sure to join us March 1st for our next brand new episode covering the greatest "What If?" in The Undertaker's history: The Undertaker vs. Sting!