The dust’s barely settled on last weekend’s Shortcut to the Top… and Ian and Mike are back to recap all of the news coming out of that show. We’re also going to talk about the breaking news of Ilja Dragunov’s release from WWE - and fantasy book a potential wXw return - as well as go over the finalised fields for next month’s Pro Wrestling Grand Prix.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Barge by Gunnar Olsen

Ian and Mike return for a quick look at this month’s Broken Rules - featuring an excellent main event with the Cowboy Way against Ahura and Elijah Blum - before pondering over the upcoming weeks for wXw ahead of the Pro Wrestling Grand Prix. Come for the wXw talk, stay for the dig at football transfer gossipers…

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Mass Pike Road Rage by TeknoAXE

We’ve got a catch-up episode as Ian and Mike return to look over a pair of wXw shows - True Colors from Hamburg, and Drive of Champions from Oberhausen. We’ll talk about Quick & Dirty, Yota Tsuji, Eddie Kingston, Jun Akiyama, and the rest of those shows, plus the pick and mix stuff that dropped on Thursdays in the meantime.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Melood by Meizong

After a few weeks off, Ian and Mike return to recap a hattrick of We Love Wrestling shows - looking over shows in Frankfurt, Dresden and Leipzig. There’s a lot of wrestling to go over, and a lot of news to talk about, including the latest round of WWE tryout offers, and the stacked Drive of Champions line-up in June.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Dangerous Waves by TeknoAXE

The lads are back from Oberhausen, and Ian & Mike have got a LOT to talk about. In this bumper episode, we cover the nuts and bolts of just about every show from 16 Carat Gold weekend, the winners, the losers… and yes, the return of Shotgun! It’s our longest episode yet, so buckle down!

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Sirius Beat by My Story

It’s wXw 16 Carat Gold week! So you know what that means… Ian Hamilton and Mike Kilby return for our Carat preview podcast, running down every match that’s been advertised for this upcoming week in Oberhausen (since the shows in Gelsenkirchen and Essen are mystery cards so far!) Whether you’re going to the Ruhrpott, or sitting down to watch it at home on wXwNOW this weekend, we’ve got you covered… apart from the change that was made after we recorded this!

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Sirius Beat by My Story

With wXw 16 Carat Gold around the corner, Ian Hamilton and Mike Kilby return to take a look at a pair of wXw shows that set the table - the Road to 16 Carat Gold out of Leipzig, featuring a tournament for the final spot in 16 Carat Gold; and Dead End, with Los Tranquilos de Japon challenging for the tag titles… and a wild trios main event that saw Ahura face Elijah Blum one last time in Hamburg.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Base Chase Theme by TeknoAXE

We’ve got a surprise episode as wXw’s Managing Director Felix Kohlenberg joined Ian Hamilton and Mike Kilby to talk about next month’s 16 Carat Gold weekender. We talk about the variety of names being brought in for Carat - such as former IWGP World Heavyweight champion Tetsuya Naito, Erick Stevens and Chihiro Hashimoto - and take a trip down memory lane as we also bring up wXw’s return to Essen over Carat weekend.

- Watch wXw Dead End 2026 this Saturday (February 21st) on wXwNOW.com or IndependentWrestling.tv

- 16 Carat Gold will also be available to stream through both those platforms - or if you want to grab last minute tickets, head over to wxw-wrestling.com

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Deep Haze by Kevin Macleod

We’re headed towards 16 Carat Gold season, but first we’ve got to go Back To The Roots as Ian Hamilton and Mike Kilby take a look at wXw’s first marquee event of the year - featuring Elijah Blum’s pure rules triumph against Peter Tihanyi. There’s also a quick look at how wXw fared among the FSM 50 list, and some surprise picks that came out of the Voices of Wrestling 2025 Match of the Year polling as well. Clap, get into it!

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: You Thought It Was Safe To Sit Down by TeknoAXE

Auf Die Fresse returns for the first show of the year as Ian and Mike take a look back at We Love Wrestling #72 from Bielefeld… along with some choice action from the We Love Wrestling Live tapings in Rüthen and Münster, before diving into a round-up of what happened in 2025. We even go over our predictions for the year that’s just gone and see how badly our guesswork was…

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Mass Turnpike Roadrage by TeknoAXE

In the final Auf Die Fresse of 2025, Ian and Mike delve into the wXw 25th Anniversary tour finale in Oberhausen. Mike provides some live insights from the show, including the bloody street fight between Elijah Blum and Robin Christopher Fohrwerk, as well as Ahura's challenge for Peter Tihanyi's Unified World Wrestling title. We also chat about the future, and ponder whether wXw’s nearing the "good old days" as the promotion heads into 2026.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: This Ain't The End of Me by White Comic

After a few weeks off, Ian and Mike return to recap the latest clutch of wXw shows - including the 25th Anniversary Tour stops in Bielefeld, Frankfurt and Hamburg. We’ve a lot to cover, including the game of hot potato with the tag titles that bled into wXw’s long weekend in East Germany…

We’re talking about the Greedy Souls’ brief run as tag champions… Peter Tihanyi seeing off 1 Called Manders (and what’s next for Tihanyi), Dennis Dullnig’s latest defences… and just about everything from a hot weekend in a chilly Hamburg.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Dangerous Waves by Teknoaxe

The dust has settled on wXw's Pro Wrestling Grand Prix festival, and Ian and Mike are here to break down every moment from the four-day weekender! New champions, three tournaments, and a whole lot more to talk about on the new episode of Auf Die Fresse!

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Retrofuture Dirty by Kevin Macleod

We’re a little under two weeks away from wXw’s inaugural Pro Wrestling Grand Prix festival - but with most of the matches announced, Ian and Mike drop by for a preview episode of Auf Die Fresse, looking at the tournament fields, the matches, and give our picks for the winners.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: Retrofuture Clean by Kevin Macleod

Auf Die Fresse returns after a break with Ian and Mike running down August’s newsworthy Shortcut to the Top - a show that started with a cracker of a wXw Unified World Wrestling title defence, and ended with a Shortcut to the Top match that saw several surprise returns. We also go over the final names announced for the Pro Wrestling Grand Prix, along with other news tidbits, including a look at how wXw’s 2026 is shaping up.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: “Mass Turnpike Roadrage” by TeknoAXE

Ian and Mike return to cast their eyes over last weekend’s Broken Rules, featuring a dog collar submission match with wXw’s hottest feud between Ahura and Elijah Blum… plus Stephanie Maze and Jane Nero’s no DQ, no ropes outing, and a bodybag match that may have spelled the end of a group.

WATCH: Marius al-Ani vs. Bobby Gunns for free at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSAtFY2dc7M

WATCH: Millie McKenzie vs. Orsi at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFRktkO7eM

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: “Hyperbole” by TeknoAXE

Ian and Mike are here to recap all the action from wXw Drive of Champions! Get our full breakdown of the Elijah Blum vs. 1 Called Manders Texas Death Match, plus some discussion on the upcoming farewells for Aigle Blanc and Mike D Vecchio, and the latest announcements for September’s Pro Wrestling Grand Prix.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: “Radiator” by Meizong

Ian and Mike are back for a look at two wXw shows from the month of May - starting with Papenburg’s edition of We Love Wrestling featuring a rematch from this year’s 16 Carat Gold tournament… then this past weekend’s FAN from Hamburg, topped off with Robert Dreissker’s ECW Rules match with Masato Tanaka.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: “Summon the Rawk" by Kevin MacLeod

Ian and Mike return for a bumper show as they look over a wXw’s recent cards from Dresden, Leipzig and Frankfurt - a trio that ended with 1 Called Manders leaving the country with the wXw Unified World Wrestling title. We also pore over the names from wXw that’ll be a part of this week’s events in Las Vegas around WrestleMania, and run through upcoming wXw events.

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Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: “Summon the Rawk" by Kevin MacLeod

Ian and Mike are back to dissect this year's wXw 16 Carat Gold, as the lads do a deep dive into all the big talking points from the tournament. They'll go over the winner of the tournament and when they’ll face Elijah Blum for the vacant wXw Unified World Wrestling title… plus talk of title changes over #wXw16Carat weekend and more!

Reviews of wXw events can be found over on backbodydrop.com

Over on social media, you can find Mike at @MikeKilby on pretty much every platform… Ian can be found by searching for IanWrestling or BackBodyDrop on BlueSky/Instagram.

Intro music: “My Story” by Sirius Beat