50 Years Of Pro Wrestling Rankings with Joey Cassata
6/26/20261 hr 4 min
Author, musician, and Jericho Cruise favorite Joey Cassata returns to discuss his incredible new book, Wrestler Rankings: The Complete Year-by-Year History (1975-2025)! Joey explains how he spent 18 months compiling 50 years of wrestling history into one massive volume featuring the biggest stars, champions, rankings, rivalries, and moments from every era. He and Jericho relive the glory days of wrestling magazines, debate legends like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Dusty Rhodes, and the Road Warriors, and talk about how the territorial system gave way to WWE's global expansion. Joey shares the painstaking process of researching decades of wrestling history, recreating classic magazine layouts, and even using AI to bring iconic moments back to life. Plus, they swap stories about the Jericho Cruise, Joey's hilarious annual cruise gifts, KISS, and Joey’s gig as Twisted Sister’s new drummer.
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First 90 secondsChris Jericho· Host0:00
[upbeat rock music] Talk Is Jericho, baby. Talk Is Jericho. Ah, ah, ah. Talk Is Jericho, mama. Talk is me. All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho. It's the pod of thunder and rock and roll, and you know what time it is. It's time for the highly anticipated Duff McKagan Joke of the Week.
Duff McKagan· Soundbite0:23
[upbeat electronic music] Chris Jericho, Duff McKagan calling you. Um, hope you're doing well. Hope everybody's doing well. I'm, uh, in, in Europe, you know, uh, touring. Uh, listen, what do you call a short-sided dinosaur? A do-you-think-he-saw-us. Do you think he saw us? [drumbeat] Thank you very much. Goodbye.
Chris Jericho· Host0:47
Ah. I mean, uh, [laughs] I'm not sure if that even makes sense, but whatever. It's Duff calling in all the way from Europe, Guns N' Roses, before they come to the United States next month, starting July 23rd in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thanks to Duff for always calling in the jokes, whether they're classics or, um, [laughs] or the one that we had. They're always here, and we thank him for that. Uh, Quarantine also on the road. We started last night in Chicago at the WC Social Club. It was an amazing debut of new song. Tonight, Friday, June 26th, we're in Milwaukee at The Shank Hall. June 27th in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at Double Z's. Then we're back for a run in August. August