About this podcast
Mat Elfring and Chris Hayner are the Wrestle Buds! Each week, the duo discusses something from the world of wrestling, and often times, it ends up being about food that's wrestling branded. Also featuring, interviews with actual wrestlers and a horde of neverending characters that refuse to leave us alone.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 25 episodes
- Our Version Of The SPOOKY Mount Rushmore Game: Part 2 · 1 h 24 min · Episode 24It's a special Halloween episode of Wrestle Buds! Chris and Mat are doing the Mount Rushmore Game again, but this time... IT'S SPOOKY. Find out the most and least spookiest…
- The Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match... We Were There. It Was Dark. · 38 min · Episode 23The last time Chris and Mat hung out was in 2023 in San Antonio, Texas, for the 2023 Royal Rumble. During the event, Bray Wyatt had his final wrestling match before passing away…
- One Weird Smackdown: Halloween Party Backstage And John Cena Raps For The First Time · 1 h 6 min · Episode 22It's spooky season, and is there any better way to kick things off than to discuss a not-so-great episode of WWE Smackdown from 2002? We don't think so. This week, Chris and Mat…
- WWE's Main Event on Rumble: What is Rumble and Why this Matters · 21 min · Episode 21Jokes are aside for this short episode. Mat discusses the recent WWE deal where its show Main Event will be hosted on the video platform Rumble. He explains what Rumble is, who…
- We Watched Every Dungeon of Doom Vignette... And Lost 5 Years off Our Lives · 1 h 9 min · Episode 20Over the years, Chris and Mat have made many jokes about the WCW faction the Dungeon of Doom and their "reign of terror." Recently, every vignette for the DoD popped up on…
- Was The First WCW Nitro Any Good? (Spoilers: It Was Very Good) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 19On September 4, 1995, WCW officially entered the Monday Night Wars with WCW Monday Nitro. The debut episode took place in the Mall of America, and no one go hurt on the…
- The New Level Takes AEW To A New Level · 52 min · Episode 18With the arrival of Austin Creed and Kofi at All In, Chris and Mat discuss The New Level coming to AEW and how they'll finally be appreciated as a tag team at a company with a…
- We're Too Tired And Did A Post-Show/Ask Werner Anything · 28 min · Episode 17We're releasing another one from the vault. This week, Mat and Chris discuss the future of Wrestlemania and WWE deciding to go overseas. Additionally, to introduce the new video…
- The Lost Episode! · 49 min · Episode 16With Mat out sick, it's been a little tough to record, but FEAR NOT! We have episodes on the backburner. This week, it's the original pilot episode for Wrestle Buds that we never…
- What Else Happened When DX Invaded WCW? · 1 h 31 min · Episode 15The year was 1998, and on one spring evening on WWF Raw/War Zone, a group named Degeneration-X saw that WCW Nitro and Raw were running wrestling events in the same town…
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day (We Mention Seth Rollins During The Episode. That Counts, Right?) · 43 min · Episode 14Seth Rollins has a bunch of scenes filmed for Captain America: Brave New World, so this week's episode does have a wrestling connection. It's mentioned this week. Outside of…
- Summerslam 2026 Thoughts/Mat Says Gable's Theme Is AI Slop (Allegedly, Reportedly) · 57 min · Episode 13WWE's Summerslam happened, and why not talk about the two night show? Mainly, this whole episode exists because Mat thinks (allegedly, reportedly) that Chad Gable's new theme…
- Our Version Of The Mount Rushmore Game: Part 1 · 1 h 39 min · Episode 12So many interviews with wrestlers ask the question, "Who is your Mount Rushmore of wrestlers?" You know what, we should do that too! Chris and Mat come up with their own…
- Lan Pitts Writes Wrestling Comics, And Other Things (Featuring Lan Pitts) · 1 h 31 min · Episode 11The Wrestle Buds welcome comic book writer and former coworker Lan Pitts onto the show! Lan discusses his career in writing wrestling comics--and comics in general. There's also…
- Movie Time: No Holds Barred Is Absolutely Awful · 1 h 30 min · Episode 10Rip em! Chris and Mat watches No Holds Barred, and it is absolutely the worst movie they've ever watched. Does this movie make one lick of sense? No. Do the Wrestle Buds make…
- WWE 2K26's Ringside Pass And Creative Suite: Thoughts, Prayers, And More? · 1 h 35 min · Episode 9A few months after the release of WWE 2K26, Chris and Mat have a lot of opinions about the game and changes that could be made in future installments. They both really like…
- Who Is The Best Wrestler-Turned-Actor? It's Not Randy Savage, Surprisingly · 1 h 0 min · Episode 8There have been many wrestlers who have stepped into the world of acting either during the height of the career or at the end of it. Throughout the years, there have been so many…
- Chris Buys Seth Rollins And Becky Lynch's Coffee · 32 min · Episode 7This week, Chris recounts the recent adventure in Florida where he headed to Tom Pestock's (FKA Baron Corbin) Autonomy Coffee Lab where Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins held an event…
- WCW's Halloween Havoc Isn't Spooky Enough But It Does Have Monster Trucks · 1 h 12 min · Episode 6This one is a journey... Mat wishes it was the holidays, so he could talk about WCW holiday shows, but there's no good Christmas episodes. So Mat decides to watch a bunch of…
- XWF: The Post-WCW/Pre-TNA Weird And Failed Promotion The Put The "X" In "Xcitement" · 49 min · Episode 5After WCW closed up shop, there was a void in wrestling, Chris stumbled up a pre-TNA federation that tried to fill that void: XWF. It was a wrestling promotion that couldn't get…
