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3:08 the beginning.

Im 32 and it feels like 100 years ago to me. 2006 was a very different time for us all. Sweet home Chicago baby!

HBK vs. Eddie would have been awesome. Two of my favourites.

Bruce's JR impersonation always cracks me up. "Well, god damn, he's from Oklahoma!"

Shelton was and still is the most talented person I’ve ever seen in a wrestling ring. Should have been, and still should be WWE champion.

Bruce and Conrad make my day while I'm at work listening to the podcast. Makes oblivious to the nonsense that goes on at work...thank you guys!!!!

The Edge/Mick Foley hard-core match is one of my all time favorite matches!

3:08 Road 2 Wrestlemania 41:09 Wrestlemania 22 Begins

I remember being at this show and man it was great to hear 75% of that building booing Cena out the door.

"It was more clothes tearing, bad wrestling" Well, sums up Torrie Wilson's career...

Rarely do I disagree with Bruce but I thought the Foley Edge match was just incredible. I still remember it to this day.

“We had a call with Vince at home, and we were talking about the preliminary plans for WrestleMania. I know there’s this romanticized story about how Eddie was going to get the title, and that was the plan that he was going to get it that night or at Survivor Series. That wasn’t the plan. I think Stephanie said that, or alluded to it on the air, and that was not the plan. The plan was that he would lose, and I think they were going to return in December. We had talked about a fascinating idea; I’m not the biggest Bruce Pritchard fan, but to his credit, I believe it was Bruce Prichard who pitched putting Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania against Shawn Michaels and doing the parallels of their careers. Being the heartthrob in Mexico and this mercurial figure south of the border, and the American version being HBK. They had never really worked, and you would’ve had such a great dynamic between the two with heel Eddie versus Shawn. That’d be your ‘tear the house down,’ high quality match at WrestleMania 22 in Chicago. Vince was like, ‘God damn, that’s really appealing. We could parallel their careers. What kind of footage of Eddie do we have outside of WCW? We could really do some impressive packages." SOURCE: The Court Bauer & John Pollock Show November 14, 2013

I like Joey Styles, but I'd rather have JR at WM. WM was JRs show.

Main event should have been Cena vs Edge (c). Edge's cash in a few months earlier was awesome. He should have held that belt until Mania then dropped it to Cena but they rushed that feud to make room for Triple H

Sherrie has one of the best speeches in HOF history

They knew Bret wouldn't be at Mania due to a commitment, but still had Howard say he was "uncomfortable" to the Chicago crowd to make him seem like a flake again. They manage to screw him again AFTER his great HOF speech....

Being a Chicagoan I can say yep, whether it's pro or amateur, we're watching!

BRO WERE GONNA HAVE TWOYNAMENTS BRO!

Mickie v lick best mania moment eva

I definitely turned on Rey at that time and my reason wasn't because of Kurt,it was because of Eddie and how much I missed seeing him on tv. It felt like to me Eddie was gone,so now let's put Rey into that spot and we were just suppose to go along with that,the entire usage of Eddie's name in storylines in 2006 left a bad taste in my mouth. Looking back I feel a little bad about it because Lord knows that wasn't easy for Rey or anyone else to get through and Rey earned his spot.

Didn’t they already do Shawn vs Kurt II at Vengeance 2005?

It’s so nice to get regular stw latey

“Bruce, take a few minutes off of Mania and go make a new podcast. It’s good shit.” -Vince

Love the press your luck theme

Austin's favorite building to work in was The Rosemont.

So glad Bruce disagreed about the streak picking up steam! It was definitely a year or two before this match!

Mysterio was BOO'd for the same reason as "Die Rocky Die". He was overpushed . . . down everyone's throats. I was boo'ing him too. Winning the Rumble from the starting-bell was too much. Nobody could believe that. Instead of giving him credibility, it worked against him, because he was a high-flier and not an endurance-man. It just smacked of "he's the chosen one" . . . but, why? If Mysterio had entered the Rumble, say, #10, or #15, and won, that would have been more believable, and he'd have had less heat at WrestleMania.

We need more Bio episodes.

As much as I'd like to like Joey Styles, I find him the most overrated play-by-play announcer. To me he always overacted, screaming and yelling. 'Oh, my God' indeed.

I kinda agree with Conrad , I wanted and was going for Kurt Angle to win

I have become such a big fan of Prichard in the last several months because of this podcast. I think hes one of the most entertaining people I've ever listened to. I dont even listen to podcasts but ive been listening to SWC podcasts every day as part of my routine. Prichards is my fav, but I like them all.

WrestleMania night one was incredible, great job Bruce!! Cannot wait for night two tomorrow!

Female violence with blood? It's wrestling, it's sports entertainment, it's entertaining action there is nothing wrong with it at all.

For Once! I love Bruce.. hammered Bruce is amazing, my brother

This was one of the best weekends of my life. I loved the details and appreciate all of the BTS info and insight to how it all came together.

Damn Wrestlemania 22 is one of my favorites WM's and i have absolutely NO MEMORY of a Undertaker vs Mark Henry match😮😮 it must have been that bad😂 😂😂

That mobster outfit and entrance was guaranteed heel heat on Cena. Many of us in Chicago are sick and tired of hearing about Al Capone. Nobody equates Italy with Mussolini, and that's two decades more recent.

Brother Love is great at this….gotta be top 5 wrestling podcast.

3 things: 1. I heard a rumor that the reason the crowd turned on cena was because after an appearance, cena left a building and just ignored fans on the way to his ride. Triple h however, stayed, took pictures and posed for photos. 2. Why was bruce ok with the vince/hbk match but not the foley/edge match? 3. Why was it that the royal rumble winner stopped headlining some of the wrestlemanias?

Man they did Booker dirty

I'd say the greatest Kurt Angle match I've ever seen was his Royal Rumble '03 with Chris Benoit. Sadly, in WWE, this match no longer exists.

Lita was Roll Tide as hell in this time period.

Lmao I love how everyone in the higher ups gets upset at the Micky James spot but Vince McMahon blasphemy against god is just “good shit”

Hilariously, the har-har about Vince over-tanning in 2006 concerns the same year as he was sued for sexual harassment by a woman who worked at a tanning salon.

We are getting another stww oh my god is my birthday or Christmas

Bruce shit all over Mick Foley’s Wrestlemania moment…and the match that proved Edge wasn’t just a pretty boy. This match was to Edge what the IYH Mind Games Mankind match was for Shawn Micheals. It proved Edge was tough. This match was a highlight of the event.

My favorite wrestlemania

Wow releasing a tag team you NEED in your women's division is just beyond mind blowing. This company just hires talent just to WASTE them.

Then again thinking back it seemed like the company was building itself around orton and cena in 04 so if anything batista was orton replacement cuz orton couldnt play a good face lol

Did they cover wm 2000 yet?

I love it when Bruce rips Meltzer a new one. Meltzer acts like Clint from Hershey when he does his reviews. Torrie Wilson vs Candice Michelle was a fun match to calm down the crowd after Rey won the World Heavyweight Championship. This is such an underrated mania. I liked this one edition. I loved the hall of fame class. Sherri Martel scared shitless of Eric Bishoff being there my favorite moment. I agree with everything that Conrad and Bruce said about this mania.

What Mickie James did was in poor taste. Next segment Vince McMahon get on his knees and prays to God.

Mickie James was just released today. SMH

Jim Ross sounds very childish when it comes to "his spot" and "his jersey" , Vince Russo was right about JR having an ego that a commentator shouldn't have

Michael Cole is absolutely NOT a good play-by-play guy. He is dreadful.

Wrestlemania 22 15 yrers anniversary 😍😍❤️

Cena’s coronation.

1:29:50 What you all came here for

1:45:59

Batista was huge in 05 it was like cena and batitsa after that injury batista had it was over from there.

Sounds like Bruce was three sheets to the wind in this episode

One 0f my fav Manias 4Sure...

Women bleed in horror movies all the time. If WWE didn't want the horror crowd in 06, they wouldn't have had this match. Or Gene Snitsky licking Mae Young's feet...

I love thus interviw.

That beaver joke was funny

UNPOPULAR OPINION:: WrestleMania 22 is Overrated in my opinion. I used to enjoy this WrestleMania back in the day when I was in High School. However, as I get older, I like it less & less. One of the reasons why I started to dislike this WrestleMania is because of the matches that COULD HAVE BEEN instead of what we ended up with. Batista was injured so we didn't get to see him go against Randy Orton. John Cena should have face Edge and Triple H should have went against Mick Foley. And had Eddie Guerrero not passed away, we could have seen Eddie versus Shawn Michaels. Imagine that dream match. Not to mention I wasn't a fan of the Chicago crowd. This WrestleMania is known as HEELAMANIA because most of the faces were booed whereas the heels were cheered. John Cena was booed, Rey Mysterio was booed even though he was doing it for the late Eddie Guerrero, and even Trish Stratus was booed over Mickie James. I remember hearing JR. saying something like, "This crowd must have come from the insane asylum!" There was a old wrestling forum from 2006 where the Smarks were HATING ON JR. & saying things such as "WE CAN BOO AND CHEER WHOEVER WE WANT!!" I think some fans like this WrestleMania because it was the last one held in an arena. After this, all of the WrestleManias in the future would be held in stadiums. I don't hate WrestleMania 22 but I don't like it as much as I use to.

My favorite part of these shows is when Bruce kinda gets defensive about something and then Conrad says "Alright you ain't gotta get hot about it"..lol..

I don’t like the way Bruce and Conrad are basically shitting on the Mick Foley versus edge match that was literally the best match at wrestlemania 22 even if it wasn’t your traditional wrestling match, they stole the fucking show if it wasn’t for their hardcore match wrestlemania 22 wouldn’t even be remembered because it was a mediocre event. Just like Bret Hart vs Austin at wrestlemania 13 nine years prior to this if it wasn’t for their match wrestlemania 13 would have sucked

Is Meltzer deaf, or did he not hear the loud boos for Bret's no-show and JBL's Eddie mockery?

“Get me another crown royal”

I could hear red *ss Jr saying that about stop playing games and bring in the professionals 🤣

Which was the worst loss for booker t. This wm when he lost to the boogeyman or when he tapped out to a bear hug from the shockmaster at wargames 93?

Why was there no mention of tony Atlas HOF induction?

Conrad I wanna hear you eat a xl pizza and breath in a telephone daddy.

I'm sure that Ladder Match lasted longer than 12 minutes lol

My favorite Wrestlemania from my era of watching from 03 to present.

This was a bad episode and I’m upset because this could’ve been so much better ….. Bruce needs to just leave the podcast

Undertaker at the time was 41 not.44 Meltzer

I dONt ReMEmBeR tHe SpeCifICs oF iT just say, you dont wanna say Bruce, jesus christ

bret hart was an still is jealous of shawn michaels! I bet it really chaps the shitman's ass that hbk had such a long & prosperous career

So what I don't get is what Mickie James did is not in good taste, but both Shawn Michaels and Triple H x chopping was? I know that they were bringing back DX, but that actually proves my point more because DX was allowed to do sexual stuff all the time in their skits. Or doing the kiss my ass club? That is a weak answer and bad of Conrad not to push a little bit on that part.

What happened to this podcast 😞

Peacock is garbage. Yeah, the WWE's own network had problems, but it was much better than what Peacock has done.

Man there #s have went way down what the hell is going on here?

Mickie Crotch grab too far but the prayer is cool??🤨 what?!?

Classic beaver joke

Stopped to listen if this got any better and sure didn’t, exited out in 3 min

Just sighed up with peacock 🦚 love it ! Adds suck though

wow one part you didnt talk about was vince actually getting busted open with the ladder cause he refuses to protect himself

Simon Miller of whatculture could have "played God", in his wizard of the sky outfit...

22 is probably my favorite Wrestlemania as far as pure entertainment. It's a shame the WWE edited out some of the crowd chants and the V lick