"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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3 Count Radio Network Universe Facebook Group

The 3 Count Radio Network Universe is a Facebook Group where fans of 3 Count Radio and the former network shows can come to talk about wrestling with each other. Even though most of the network shows aren't around anymore, their loyal fans still come to the group often!

 The 3 Count Radio Network Universe!

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"Mr. 3 Count Radio" Mike

Mike started watching wrestling on Saturday Mornings after the good shows were done, like X-Men and Spiderman, and it was really just something to do other than playing outside.

The first wrestling show that Mike really paid attention to was Summerslam 95’ with the second Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon ladder match. From that show on, Mike was a wrestling fan. He watched every Monday night, and probably cried more than he should have when HBK won the title back at Wrestlemania XII.

He watched both WWF and WCW off and on, mostly cheering the heels with some exceptions. By the time the Montreal Screwjob happened, he rarely watched. That event, plus DX forming, sucked him back in as it would most impressionable 15-year-olds. He would watch the first hour of Nitro and then flip it over to RAW for the rest of the time. Mike stayed loyal to the WWF, with the n.W.o and Chris Jericho being the only two things that made him keep the tv on TNT. This was also the time he attended the most live events, including the Zamboni Stone Cold Raw, and the Radicals coming to the Smackdown for the first night.

Also in high school, Mike delved into the deep annals of wrestling nerdom, by joining both an online wrestling roleplaying federation and doing backyard wrestling with his friends. Known as the Sniper in both incarnations, Mike won several online titles because he was pretty good at it, and only had about 10 backyard matches because it was more trouble than it was worth.

By the time 2000 rolled around, it was back to off-and-on watching, and by 2001 he had stopped watching all together.

Mike tried to start watching again in 2007 after listening to an unnamed wrestling podcast, but then the Chris Benoit tragedy happened and it left a sour taste in his mouth, so he stopped again.

Finally in 2008 when he moved to Florida and started working with Brad, he started watching again, fueled by the Comedy of Santino (I know right?) and the feud between Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels, his two favorite wrestlers of all time.

He had been podcasting as a hobby with Derek since 2006, so it was only natural that they would start up a show to take on the Millions (and millions) of other shows for Wrestling podcasting supremacy.

Mike’s Stats

-Favorite Wrestler All Time: Chris Jericho

-Favorite Wrestler Current: Daniel Bryan

-Favorite Tag Team: Edge and Christian

-Favorite Match: Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 25

-Favorite PPV: Wrestlemania X or Wrestlemania 28

-Favorite Finisher: Liontamer (Not Walls of Jericho)

-Favorite Feud: Mick Foley vs The Rock

-Favorite Wrestling Moment: When Shawn Michaels won the WWE title at WM 12

-Favorite WWE Championship: The White Intercontinental Belt

-Notable Events Attended: The RAW where Stone Cold drove the Zamboni into the ring, The Smackdown where the Radicalz debuted in the ring and Eddie Guererro broke his elbow, Wrestlemania 27, Wrestlemania 28, The "Yes!" Monday Night Raw the night after Wrestlemania 28

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The Undertaker vs Triple H

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3 Count Radio Entrance Music Madness

The Winner of the first ever 3 Count Radio Madness Tournament was EDGE in Entrance Music Madness! Congrats to Edge and Thank you for Everyone that voted Edge's music as the best wrestling theme of all time. 

THE FULL BRACKET

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