"The Voice of the Voiceless Women Wrestling Fans" Ryanne

Ryanne, the goddess of wrestling podcasting, had a humble start to watching wrestling ... she was limited to only watching WCW back during the Monday Night Wars. She and her brother would watch and cheer for the n.W.o. red and black Wolfpac ... as well as Chris Jericho and Sting. She stayed away from the WWF due their their reprehensible language, subject matters, and degradation of women.

Because of this ... she went down with the sinking ship that was WCW, and that's when she stopped watching wrestling. However, she always held a torch to the way things used to be.

She got back into wrestling, kind of out of love. Her husband, Mike, was getting back into wrestling and she wanted to be able to share it with him, rather then doing what most wives would do ... ridicule and mock them incessantly until they have no self esteem and are a crying, hot mess on the living room floor. (Right Mrs. Derek?)

Ryanne, unlike most female wrestling fans, hates Randy Orton ... which is nice, because I can't compete with that. She loves Christian, Chris Jericho, and Drew McIntyre ... but hell, who doesn't?

Ryanne, the heart and soul of 3CR, continues to be most of the reason the male fans (and female ones) constantly return to the show. Everyone loves Ryanne.

Ryanne's Stats

Favorite Wrestler (All time): Chris Jericho
Favorite Wrestler (Current): Christian
Favorite Tag Team: The Outsiders
Favorite Match: Chris Jericho vs Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith in a Steel Cage
Favorite PPV: Money in the Bank 2011
Favorite Finisher: The Liontamer
Favorite Championship Belt: The United States Championship
Favorite Wrestling Moment: When Jaws Pops out of the water.

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"The Improbable One" Brad

Ever since Brad was a young man, he has been groomed to be a wrestling nerd. Forced to watch hours upon hours of classic Hackenshmidt vs Frank Gotch matches, he to this day can recite every move for their classic 1911 MSG match. The only time he was allowed to not watch wrestling was while sleeping, however he was required to listen to Bobby The Brain Heenen read the audiobook version of the WWF Encyclopedia.

When he was 12, Brad escaped from his "dungeon" and hit the road, wrestling in the independents as "The Mirror Man," he wore a Lucha mask and his gimmick was to counter every single one of his opponents moves. As you would think, this gimmick was not very popular with the guys, and he later had to retire from wrestling after receiving 324 spinebusters in a row from a young Ryback.

Back home, Brad instead devoted his life to only watching and trying to come up with a way to make his mark on wrestling in a different way. Finally just out of high school, Brad attended a RAW in Minnesota, where he sat in the front row. And during this show, Brad began repeating something a popular wrestler at the time, Stone Cold Steve Austin was saying.

Yes ... Brad was the first person to do the "WHAT!?!" chant.

Because of this Brad has had to live most of the rest of his life in hiding, only coming out Tuesday nights to talk about wrestling with the only others who know his true location, his fellow hosts of 3 Count Radio.

Brad's Stats

Favorite Wrestler (All Time): Glacier
Favorite Wrestler (Current): Little Jimmy
Favorite Tag Team: Los Conquistadores
Favorite Match: Rocky vs Thunderlips
Favorite PPV: World War 3 1999
Favorite Finisher: The Small Package
Favorite Feud: Brock Lesnar vs Bill Goldberg
Favorite Wrestling Moment: The Rock's Birthday on RAW in 2011.

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"The Lord of the Ring" Derek

Derek began watching wrestling on Monday nights when his mom and dad were none the wiser. Coming from a strict extremest Muslim household, things like Hulk Hogan, Freedom, women with jobs, and pyrotechnics were frowned upon. Ok, that's not true, pyro was fine as long as it was being used to blow up the infidels.

Derek and his tight-knit group of friends would always watch the Monday night shows, and it would be thee topic of conversation at school the next day. You never wanted to be the kid that forgot to watch as it would come with a severe beating and being tied to the merry-go-round, upside down, and without pants. 

Derek (being a giant) ... naturally gravitated to Big Daddy Cool Diesel, not realizing he was both a terrible wrestler and a terrible person. Derek's first live WWF event was the "In Your House" where Diesel and HBK won the tag team titles from The British Bulldog and Yokozuna by pinning Owen Hart (who had just arrived to the arena following traffic issues.) *Note* Derek did not take his best friend Mike to this event and Mike will one day have his revenge for this ultimate act of betrayal.

Derek had an off and on again relationship with wrestling throughout high school, watching it when his friends did and when he wasn't busy with his other hobby of raising and taming wild box turtles. However, after a tragic accident involving a toy wrestling ring and two of his favorite turtles, he vowed to never watch wrestling again. 

That is until he found his long lost friend Mike in 2009, and they say down to watch an episode of Smackdown when the future endeavored wrestler John Morrison dressed up like Mel Gibson in that totally accurate Scottish movie. After seeing this comedy gold, Derek was hooked again and decreed that all other things, such as food, family, and work must be put on hold to do the podcast known as 3 Count Radio and GAIDEN! (Seriously ... how ironic is that last sentence?)

Derek's Stats

Favorite Wrestler (All Time): Diesel

Favorite Wrestler (Current): Heath Slater

Favorite Tag Team: Men on a Mission

Favorite Match: Alicia Fox vs Melina

Favorite PPV: Survivor Series 1998 (Deadly Game)

Favorite Finisher: The Goon's Body-check (A Shoulder Block on the outside, wins via count out)

Favorite Feud: The WWE Divas vs TV Time

Favorite Wrestling Moment: When it Winked at Jerry Lawler.

Favorite WWE Championship Title: The Purple Old New IC Title that I think Jeff Hardy Had.

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