Episode 6 Part 2: War on the Shore 20th Anniversary Special

The Morecambe Wrestling Podcast

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Friday, 28 March 2025 - 1 hour 8 minutes

On March 26 2005, Raven vs Alex Shane headlined the biggest ever wrestling event to be held in Morecambe - FWA War on the Shore I.

The show also included Max Voltage vs Mark Sloan, Stevie Knight vs Stevie Lynn, Doug Williams and Aviv Maayan vs James Tighe and Mark Belton, Spud vs Jack Storm, Jack Xavier vs Declan O'Connor of The Manchester Massive (with Joey Hayes) and appearances by Dr Dirk Feelgood with Nurse Stephanie Scope, Greg 'The Truth' Lambert and Stixx. Referees were Mike Bishop and Lance Lenahan, and ring announcer was Chris Brosnahan. 

On this episode of The Morecambe Wrestling Podcast, to mark the 20th anniversary, Greg Lambert and SilentMark look back at that historic event at The Dome, which was broadcast in its entirety on The Wrestling Channel on Sky TV.

Topics include:
The FWA in decline
Alex Shane Supershows
Creative roadblocks
As Good as it Gets
Mick Foley hits the UK
Morecambe's Rumble in the Jungle
Dann Read=Alex Shane
The Monty Python cult
Mark Sloan's paper round
Training Drew McIntyre
Facials
Flippy openers
White grandad shirt
Divorced dad just after court
The Dome's velvet curtains and FWA turnbuckles
Ferreting about
Raven signed my booking sheet
A tight eight
The FWA Open Invitational Disaster
The giant booking team
The Mystery Attacker
Max and Ivan
Purposefully dull
Aviv Maayan is not Welsh
The Clown Suit match
Slapping fans in the teeth
Bite to the willy
The Great Kestrel
Dodgems vs Log Flume
Fat-shaming
The British Dean Malenko
The Pavement Slam
"You need a partner Aviv!"
Flip camera phones
The longest tie in wrestling
Spud's Sum 41 phase
Barry Charalambous and SAS
The Loughborough Heavyweight Champion
You can't have two J Storms
The FWA Flyweight Title Tournament
News of the World tabloid sensationalism
Burberry and yellow pants
Joey Hayes on the rob
The Manchester Massive theme tune
Thrown through the guard rail
Where's Donna?
Killing chavs
The Dr Dirk Feelgood experiment
Raven vs CM Punk
Raven in Hitchens
Cousin David
Raven Slept in my Bed
Seven minutes of brawling
The Dome bar shutters
Stixx cameo
Quoting the Raven
'Good show old bean'

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