Wrestling talk with side quests.
DDT Wrestling starts with professional wrestling, then happily wanders into games, books, food, movies, and whatever happened that week. The appeal is the rapport: dry teasing, long memory, and enough sincerity to make the jokes land warmer than expected.
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DDT Wrestling is a wrestling show that has learned to stop pretending wrestling is the only thing on its mind. DC Matthews and Doc Manson still talk shop. They cover AEW streaming plans, NXT history, masked gimmicks, MJF, Kenny Omega, Will Ospreay, Chad Gable, Ludwig Kaiser, Pete Dunn, Tyler Bait, and the odd places wrestling stories drift when nobody is fully steering them. Then the show turns a corner. Suddenly the conversation is about Dungeon Crawler Carl, a burning car on the ride home, a restaurant breakfast, curry, pho with the Matthews and Manson families, or a recording mistake involving the wrong microphone. That looseness is the point. DDT Wrestling feels less like a scheduled panel and more like checking in with two friends who happen to have shared references and a lot of opinions still left in them. The humor is dry. The timing is shaggy. A joke may get corrected before it finishes, and a topic may circle back only after a detour through old PC games or action movies. Wrestling fans will find plenty to chew on, especially when the show surveys the current landscape with amused fatigue rather than hype. The broader appeal comes from the way those opinions sit inside ordinary life. Listener emails matter. Missed weeks matter. Breakfast matters. So do tier lists, horror movie homework, Dragon's Lair, Theme Park, Warcraft, StarCraft, Tekken, Killer Instinct, Jean-Claude Van Damme comparisons, and whatever piece of pop culture has become the latest shared fixation. The show is also capable of real tenderness. Its remembrance of Glenn Abbott shows how much community history sits underneath the running bits. It can be blunt without feeling mean. It can be silly without feeling empty. It can spend a long stretch on books, games, or food and still sound recognizably like a wrestling podcast because the relationship between the voices is the real continuity. DDT Wrestling suits listeners who enjoy fandom as conversation rather than coverage. It is for people who like opinions with side roads, jokes with memory behind them, and a show willing to let the most interesting part be the thing nobody planned to talk about.
Made for: For wrestling fans who enjoy conversational shows with room for games, books, movies, food, and listener mail. It especially suits listeners who prefer lived-in chemistry over tight format control.
What sets it apart: DDT Wrestling stands apart by letting professional wrestling share space with the wider friendship and nerd culture habits. The tangents are not filler; they are the show's organizing charm.
A long time ago, in the distant era of 2015, DC Matthews and Doc Manson began a podcast about professional wrestling. Then, sometime over the course of the last few hundred episodes, the show became about so much more. Life, community, and finding your happy. DDT Wrestling is ostensibly a podcast about wrestling (sometimes), but with a healthy dose of personality and humor. It's a veritable variety show of auditory goodness. Won't you be our bestie?
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
DDT Wrestling turns current wrestling developments into loose, funny conversation shaped by DC Matthews and Doc Manson's contrasting levels of engagement.
DC Matthews and Doc Manson treat professional wrestling as a conversation worth keeping loose. AEW streaming plans, championship changes, masked-wrestler gimmicks, and NXT availability arrive through an easy exchange in which one host often supplies the current detail while the…
Coconut curry gets interrogated, and your appetite for tangents finally has a tag team.
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Book seven talk gives way to gaming memory, and the detours feel like part of the appeal.
DDT Wrestling spends this episode on Dungeon Crawler Carl, with DC Matthews and Doc Manson moving through book seven, the battle of Larrakis, and the worry that the 10th floor may turn Mario Kart-ish.
A loose wrestling hour that starts with a burning car and ends with AEW title chatter.
DDT Wrestling opens on a burning-car story and then settles into the week’s wrestling conversation, moving from a Volkswagen engulfed in flames and another car with melted front tires to El Grande Americano, Ludwig Kaiser, and Los Americanos.
AEW streaming confusion opens the door to relaxed wrestling chat, classic PC game nostalgia, and a warm sign-off.
DDT Wrestling starts with DC Matthews and Doc Manson trying to make sense of AEW's latest streaming-service announcement, from the price and the My AEW name to access, archives, and the slippery promise to "stream the past." The result feels less like clean news analysis than a…
Curry talk gives way to a loose set of tier-list ideas.
DDT Wrestling opens with curry and a Trader Joe's beef bulgogi dinner in the background, then settles into D.C. Matthews and Doc Manson talking through Kevin's coconut curry chicken and the appeal of coconut itself.
A warm Glenn Abbott farewell with nerdy side roads and dry affection.
The DDT Wrestling Podcast becomes a remembrance for Glenn Abbott, known as Armbar, after his death following an illness. DC Matthews and Doc Manson sit with the loss of someone they describe as present from the show's earliest days, with DC noting he cannot remember a time…
AEW streaming questions lead into a warm, wandering run through classic PC games.
DDT Wrestling Podcast begins with AEW's announced streaming service, as DC Matthews and Doc Manson sort through the quoted $9.99 monthly price and the hazier questions around international access, archives, live viewing, and VPN use.
A Skype freeze turns a wrestling podcast into a loose, funny ramble through anime logic and internet culture.
DDT Wrestling opens on the odd practical question at the heart of a hundred-girlfriends premise: what that many partners would actually mean for the man involved.
DC Matthews and Doc Manson open with a humorous discussion about the anime '100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You'.
The hosts discuss audio issues from the previous episode and reminisce about the 80s movie 'The Chipmunk Adventure'.
DC Matthews and Doc Manson return to discuss AEW's confusing new streaming service announcement and recent wrestling news, including Danhausen's WWE debut and WrestleMania matchups.
DC Matthews and Doc Manson open on Dungeon Crawler Carl.
DC Matthews opens by wondering about burning cars.
["DC Matthews and Doc Manson open with AEW's streaming partnership with Kiswi, the reported $9.99 monthly price, and the uncertainty over whether U.S.
DDT Wrestling starts with curry.
The show opens with DC Matthews and Doc Manson mourning Glenn Abbott, remembered as Armbar, who passed away on December 18 after what was described as a battle with an illness.