Living Room Lariats
Living Room Lariat is your smart-meets-funny weekly wrestling recap show.Hosted by Peter Klein, a Canadian professional broadcaster with over a decade of mainstream radio experience (and a lifetime of yelling at TV matches), this weekly show brings you:📝 WWE & AEW recaps that…
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WWE Is Watered Down, Don't Waste Oba Femi + AEW's All In Build Is Hitting (opens the original)
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Peter Klein vents some real frustration with where WWE is at right now: the same guys in the same spots, matches too short to tell meaningful stories, and a creative direction that is starting to rhyme uncomfortably with the worst parts of WCW's Monday Nitro era. Then, a genuine concern that WWE is going to let Oba Femi cool off by holding his title win for WrestleMania when they should be pulling the trigger now. And to close, some well-deserved credit to AEW for a genuinely strong build headin
WWE SummerSlam 2026 — Why the Creative Has Let Down the Biggest Party of the Summer (opens the original)
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SummerSlam is here, and it just doesn't feel like it should. Peter Klein breaks down why WWE's creative direction has deflated what should be one of the most anticipated events of the year. The lack of meaningful stakes, results without consequences, the bloodline reunion undoing one of the best long-term stories wrestling has ever told, and a roster full of exciting performers being blocked by the same veterans cycling through the same top spots. Oba Femi had the King of the Ring. Braun Breaker
Is Wrestling Losing Its Spark? + Fantasy Booking A WWE Forbidden Door | Living Room Lariat (opens the original)
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Has professional wrestling lost some of its momentum? In this episode of Living Room Lariat , I discuss why WWE and AEW don't quite feel like must-watch television right now despite having incredible talent across both companies. Is it a lack of compelling stories? Are companies relying too heavily on established stars? Or is the wrestling landscape simply in a quieter period? Then, I have some fun fantasy booking what a WWE version of Forbidden Door could look like using the company's current p
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