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The era of wrestling where being obnoxiously certain of the superiority of your opinion could actually make you an OK living is where we're returning to this time. Yet again, Simon (@simoncross3) has picked an event that he attended live, but this time Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) doesn't have as many kind words to say about the promotion that it is, as opposed to 2016 NXT. What he does have many words...

With a mixture of trepidation and a very obnoxious sighing, Simon (@simoncross3) has to take another chance on watching the shoot-style pro wrestling of the late 80s and early 90s that was a prototypical presentation of what would eventually become mixed martial arts. This time it's Akira Maeda's debut RINGS show. The fall of the Iron Curtain saw an influx of Russian wrestlers, many of them traine...

After the previous Match of the Week saw Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) recount his adventures around attending an ROH event, Simon (@simoncross3) takes his turn to recount his favourite live match wrestling experience. No disrespect to a theatre in the outskirts of Liverpool, but Simon's trip to Dallas for WrestleMania 32, including this NXT Takeover event, is a bit of a one-up. It's a debut and a farewe...

A pairing of episodes this time from LMTYS lads, as they take it in turns to discuss the favourite match they both saw live. It's Lorcan's turn (@lorcanmullan) this week, as we travel back to 2007, where a young Lorcan on a whim took a journey to Liverpool in order to see his favourite promotion live and a title match between the Delaware siblings Jay and Mark Briscoe, and the Dragon Gate duo of S...

For the fourth time, Will Ospreay and Shingo Takagi have fought each other in a singles match. For the fourth time, it has achieved or surpasssed the five-star score for Dave Meltzer. This match, the first for a championship in the form of Ospreay's IWGP World Heavyweight title, is the top rated of all four, and sees Meltzer hand out the rare (but nowhere near as rare as it used to be) sixth full...

Has there been a single wrestling fan who hasn't dreamt of wrapping the same championship belt around their waist, or draped over their shoulder, that was held by their favourite wrestler? If they do exist, they're not the sort of people Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) want to associate themselves with during this conversation.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspo...

It's the most recent MOTW by a long distance this week, as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) travel back in time to March 2021. At first it appeared it might have been one for the Meltzer Five-Star Project, but after Big Dave gave it a paltry 4.75* rating, the LMTYS boys themselves decided there was enough within the match, and the entire build-up, reaction, and surrounding wrestling...

The Young Bucks defend their AEW tag titles for the first time since making their attitude adjustment. Will the return of the heel Bucks mean a continuation of fantastic tag team matches? If they want to pick a team opposite them to have an action-packed bout, it would be two-thirds of the Death Triangle team, as PAC makes his five-star debut and in teaming with frequent perfect score achiever Rey...

Before there was Progress, RevPro, Will Ospreay, Zack Sabre Jr, and all the other big names and promotions of the UK scene, there was Jody Fleisch and Jonny Storm. Out of the doldrums of the post-World of Sport world, their fast-paced, intricate, jaw-dropping matches were the first ones that started to put British wrestling back on the worldwide map, and they took those talents to a cold CZW crowd...

After spending so many episodes discussing great wrestling matches, whether or not they gained a perfect score from Dave Meltzer, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have decided to go down a different path and discuss a match involving electricity and underwhelming special effects long before Eddie Kingston had to explain his actions on a panic attack. Team 3D attempt to win the NWA W...

Last week's 5-Star match saw Will Ospreay defeat Zack Sabre Jr in the second round of the New Japan Cup. Ospreay proceeded on through two more opponents to reach the final, where he faced off in a second tournament final against Shingo Takagi, their Best of the Super Juniors 2019 final being that year's Wrestling Observer Match of the Year. Those are some pretty big boots to fill. Do they succeed...

It's another Battle of the Brits, and the first time that the same match-up has been awarded five stars by Dave Meltzer in two different promotions. The plucky babyface Ospreay of last year has been replaced by the arrogant leader of the United Empire, and he and Sabre have a battle not just of fast-paced reverals and limb work, but also verbal sparring you might expect on Broad Street rather than...

In under ten minutes, Samoa Joe and Necro Butcher helped merge and reinvent, the indy wrestling scene by combining the world of technical and strike based serious wrestling with that of the world of garbage, weapons filled brawls. Perhaps if this match hadn't happened, a PPV in 2021 wouldn't have had an exploding barbed wire match be the main event. Whether that's something to proud of remains up...

Time waits for no man, and whilst it's plausible that the man could still be running the company into the next decade, maybe even two, but at some point Vince McMahon will no longer have the final say on the day-to-day operations of the WWE. Whether that would be because his family has inherited the company, or it has been swallowed up by a larger corporate entity, it's something that Lorcan (@lor...

It's here! It's finally here! The collision of the top two faces and the top face team of WCW sees big moves being thrown by all four men: Sting, Lex Luger, Rick and Scott Steiner. A much younger, more naive Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) at some point in the past discuss a match from even further in the past, but almost as far in the future.https://patreon.com/lmtysodhttps://twit...

It's... it's Christian. Captain Charisma's recent return at the Royal Rumble has got Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) curious to reappraise the career of a man that often found himself playing second banana to his partners or rivals, but had a career that, taken as a whole, is truly impressive and well worthy of discussion.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twtitter.com/lmtyspodhtt...

The final five-star match of January sees Shingo Takagi appear in his second match of 2021, and the year has barely begun! This time the former Dragon Gate ace defends his NEVER Openweight Championship against the 'Ace of the Universe' in the resurgent Hiroshi Tanahashi. Will the brawling powerhouse prove that Tanahashi's time has come and gone? Or will the IQ wrestler use his skills and strategy...

Now Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have Wrestle Kingdom in their rear view mirror, they look with eagerness to get past the final days of the first week of January, as they tackle the fifth match of 2021 to gain the perfect score from Dave Meltzer, as Kenny Omega defends his recently won AEW World Championship against the man who he defeated for the first belt in his little collec...

The fourth and final match from Wrestle Kingdom to gain a perfect score or higher from Dave Meltzer has finally been reached, and despite their exhaustion, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) still have plenty they want to discuss, particularly when it comes to 'Switchblade' Jay White, who hopes to poop yet another party. This time at the expense of newly crowned IWGP double champ Kota...

Whilst New Japan have been knocking out five-star matches in the eyes of Dave Meltzer for a few years now (this is the third of four in just the first week of 2021!), but less frequent amongst those matches has been clashes where matches contested for the NEVER Openweight Championship is concerned. Well, now it's in the hands of recent favourite Shingo Takagi things are changing. Takagi finds hims...

We're not even at the halfway point of the first week of 2021 for five-star matches, as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) follow up the Okada-Omega clash with the very next match on the card as Naito defends the Intercontinental title he picked up at Night 1 of the previous year's Wrestle Kingdom, and the Heavyweight title he won on the next night, against the G1 Climax winner Kota I...

The first week of 2021 was a record breaker for Dave Meltzer, as he handed FIVE perfect or above-perfect ratings out. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) start their month-long journey to cover a week of Meltzer bliss with an attempt to gain vengeance for a betrayal, as 'The Rainmaker' Kazuchika Okada battles a man he saw as a brother in the newly renamed 'Commonwealth Kingpin' and lea...

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are back to the drawing board as they continue to hammer out the story beats on a movie about the Monday Night War. How do you cover the fall of Nitro? How does Paul Heyman feature in this? When will there be a line of actual dialogue written?https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hoste...

A special tribute to honour the death of Jon Huber, better known in AEW and the wrestling indie scene as Brodie Lee, and in the WWE as Luke Harper. Gone far too soon, but never to be forgotten by those who followed him throughout his career, Lorcan and Simon have chosen perhaps the best match of his career to discuss and see not only why Huber was so highly thought of as a performer by all thsoe w...