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Behind the Gorilla Wrestling Podcast

The wild, wacky and crazy side of professional wrestling.

The Insane Career of 'The Monster' Abyss

He's a TNA staple who's been their since the beginning and seen it all. This is the strange career of Abyss!

Season 2, Episode #5: The Insane Career of 'The Monster' Abyss

He's a TNA staple who's been there since the beginning and seen it all. This is the strange career of Abyss and some of his best matches! At the beginning of the show we also touch on the horrible return of Brie Bella has been. 

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Se7en

Why would you build up a huge, supernatural angle just to scrap it on the first night? Find out here!

Season 2, Episode #4: Se7en

Join us as we discuss the infamos angle from WCW in 1999 where Dustin Rhodes left WWE and his popular Goldust gimmick to go to WCW and start another weird, supernatural one. Allthough he never really started it. 

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Bear With Us

Mark and Harris go over the insane history of bears in pro wrestling.

Season 2 Episode 3 #: Bear With Us

At one point in time the use of live bears in professional wrestling was quite common. We delve into that history in this episode. Stories of Bobby Heenan, Superstar Billy Graham and Rowdy Roddy Piper are all included. 

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Cactus Jack Was A Sailor?

That time Cactus Jack was given amnesia by Big Van Vader.

Season 2 Episode 2: Cactus Jack Was A Sailor?

In WCW in 1993 there was an angle with Big Van Vader and Cactus Jack which culminated with Vader powerbombing Jack on the concrete floor and putting him in the hostpital. What follows is absolute madness! 

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ALL IN & Kenny vs. Girl

We're back! Hear us discuss ALL IN and that time Kenny Omega wrestled a little girl.

Season 2 Episode #1: ALL IN & Kenny vs. Girl

Behind the Gorilla finally returns after taking the summer off! We discuss Harris's trip to NXT TakeOver and SummerSlam 2018 in Brooklyn and the historic ALL IN PPV! Then this week's episode is about that time Kenny Omega wrestled a 9-year-old girl for Japan's DDT

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S1E13 - Episode 13: Jeff Hardy vs. CM Punk and The Rise of Bayley

For a change, we discuss two of our favorite moments in wrestling history.

**Episode 13: Our Favorite Moments

This week for our finale episode of Season 1 of Behind The Gorilla we decided to change it up. Instead of a crazy and weird moment in wrestling history, we each picked one of our favorite moments! 

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Episode 12: Sexual Chocolate, You Are The Father!...Of A Hand?

Mark Henry's run as Sexual Chocolate ended up with him impregnating Mae Young, with a hand.

Episode #12: Sexual Chocolate, You Are The Father!...Of A Hand?

It's one of the strangest characeters in wrestling and some might say helped usher in the Attitude Era. Mark Henry's Sexual Chocolate pushed the early boundaries of adult themes in wrestling. 

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Episode 11: The Year 2000 In WCW

It was the strangest year in the history of World Championship Wrestling.

Episode #11: The Year 2000 In WCW

This was the last gasp in a dying World Championship Wrestling. It also happened to be the strangest and one of the most entertaining in the worst way! Join us as we delve into the year 2000 in WCW from vacated titles, to Vince Russo as champ, and a match that was

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Episode 10: Casket Riding

That time when Big Boss Man dragged Big Show on his father's casket.

Episode #10: Casket Riding

Big Boss Man and The Big Show had a very personal feud in late 1999 where Boss Man mocked Big Show for his father being sick and dying. It escalates to massive proportions leading to Boss Man driving Big Show on his own father's casket. 

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Episode 9: The Inter-Gender Champion

When a comedian became the most hated man in professional wrestling.

Episode #9: The Inter-Gender Champion

Andy Kaufman was a huge wrestling fan and made himself into the the most hated heel in wrestling by wrestling women in Memphis and then went on to have a historic feud with the great Jerry "The King" Lawler. 

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