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The year 2020 has happened. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) talked about it, then walked away like cool guys ignoring an explosion in the background. You may choose to listen to this episode, we hope you do. After that, let's never speak of this year again.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See ac...

For the first time since 2004, Dave Meltzer has rated a match from NOAH five stars. What's perhaps even more surprising is that it comes from two wrestlers who have been a part of the promotion from either at or near its inception. The weight of history on both Takashi Sugiura and Go Shiozaki is heavy throughout this match, and it's an epic one. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are...

As his stable of wrestlers in AEW continues to expand, and he provides fun commentary during episodes of Dark, Taz has had a great year. But before he was a commentator, trainer, and overall amusing figure for internet wrestling, he was a pioneer in the MMA-influenced, Japan-influenced, more serious style of wrestling that now populates so many corners of the wrestling world. So Lorcan (@lorcanmul...

It's back to the days of smoky town halls and blue-rinse haired elderly ladies as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) catch a bit of classic British wrestling that is half rough-and-ready Ken Loach working class social-realism, and half good old fashioned panto. The jester of the UK grappling scene (and all around menace to the locker room) Les Kellett gets under the skin of Leon Arras...

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) get their creative juices flowing this week as they try to turn their hands to movie making and brainstorming ideas for what may one day become a full draft of a script about the Monday Night Wars, perhaps when wrestling was at its cultural zeitgeist. As long as you aren't one of those who don't take kindly to historical liberties being employed when...

It's a superfist party! Not in that way, you sicko!!!The match that has been many years in the making finally took place, as the two most talked about (for both good and ill) tag teams of the past decade locked horns for the first time, with not just the AEW tag team titles on the line, but the last time the Bucks will challenge if they fail again. Will high flying defeat ground and pound? Will sp...

After thirty incarnations of the high workrate love-in that is the G1 Climax, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are returning to the very first tournament, as Keiji Mutoh faces off against Big Van Vader. It's the days before NJPW World so they were working from a fan-cam footage version, but given that this was a match that Brian Pillman once told Dave Meltzer is the greatest he's ev...

Der ouch! Two of Europe's finest battle it out in front of no fans, but it's certainly not a quiet encounter. For the second time, a WALTER title defence of his NXT UK Championship achieved at least a perfect score from Dave Meltzer, and Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are prepping for their second lockdown and hoping the worst thing to happen to their chests are the occasional, bu...

You may have had to wait a week for another five-star match, but for the lucky people who saw the Ibushi-Suzuki match from last week, they literally only had to wait a minute or two before Kazuchika Okada and Shingo Takagi locked horns and had another match that Dave Meltzer gave a better-than-perfect 5.25 star rating. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to see what this clash...

I suppose we should have made a bigger deal about this being the 150th match to get rated five stars or higher. But we didn't, so there's that. A relatively barren G1 Climax as far as perfect scores go, but Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are still being treated to a match with hard hitting and loud yelling in Japanese, as the Golden Star faces another challenge on his final end po...

We're back with another match of the week, and this time Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) return to the world of lucha libre to review the match rated as the best of the year by Wrestling Observer readers in 2000, and the match that is more often than any other cited as the greatest in the history of lucha libre.patreon.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@g...

Part match review, part discussion on the current day wrestling crowd, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are in a more philosophical mood this time as they both try to understand how the situation we're in at the moment does or doesn't affect the artistic merit of a wrestling match. I don't know if I've sold this episode well...https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspod...

It's Simon's go this time, and he's decided to go into that most often derided sub-genre of wrestling: the celebrity match. In the biggest show of them all (and the one most associated with these matches) at WrestleMania XXIV as The Big Show battles arguably the greatest boxer of all time in Floyd Mayweather. The boxer vs. wrestler match is a gimmick almost as old as wrestling itself. Did they do...

Just before the world shut down and required a reboot that's been suffering from severe lagging issues, AEW had provided us with another five star match between two top tag teams. Six months later, another clash between two teams, but in a very different environment, has also earned a perfect score. So Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have packed their lunches, been dropped off and...

A new series sees the LMTYS lads Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) take it in turns picking a match from long and varied history of pro wrestling and discuss it for as long as they feel like discussing it. Lorcan's pick sees the man oft-cited as the greatest wrestler of all time, Lou Thesz, defend his NWA World Heavyweight Championship against the much more flamboyant, and first WWWF...

We went all over the place with this one. 200 episodes will get to your brain in some way, shape or form, so it was somewhat inevitable...lmtyspog@gmail.compatreon.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspod"I condense it down to this. Those people who like professional wrestling, no explanations needed. For those who don't like it, any explanation would not be acceptable."Max Crabtree -...

So the world went a bit crazy this year, didn't it? Well, thanks to an interim that wasn't intended to be quite so sparse on the upload front, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to give you an update on where they're going for the forseeable future, as LMTYS will now become a year-long weekly podcast with a series of different shows within the show. To make that a sustainable...

For the first time in a while, Dave Meltzer has gone beyond the five-star rating when assessing a match, and has even gone so far as to suggest this one may be the greatest tag team match of all time. With action, moves, and more hurt feelings than those poor saps who dress like the characters from Inside Out after they've been assaulted by numerous children at Disneyland, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) a...

It's an all-British affair this time as RevPro Wrestling hosts its first five-star match in the eyes of Dave Meltzer as Zack Sabre Jr and Will Ospreay, not only possibly the two best wrestlers from the UK, but two of the best wrestlers in the world, clash again for the British championship after a match in New Japan a couple of weeks earlier that Meltzer awarded 4.75 stars. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan)...

They screwed up a bit in not checking the fine print of the recent Wrestling Observers, but it's better late than never for Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) after the return from a well-earned break to go back to the two-night Wrestle Kingdom show that kicked off 2020 to re-watch the Double Gold Dash finale and possibly the end chapter to the greatest long-term story told in wrestli...

It's the second of two matches to gain above-perfect scores from Dave Meltzer in one show, as we're now in the main event of night one of Wrestle Kingdom 14. Kazuchika Okada is defending his IWGP Heavyweight Championship against the man who defeated him in the G1 Climax block finals en route to earning this Tokyo Dome title shot. Can 'The Golden Star' win his first title on the biggest stage of th...

They're a bit punch drunk and were hoping not to necessarily be back on the podcast marshes so soon into 2020, but Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have rejoined the playing field because New Japan has held its biggest event of the year and have taken pre-emptive measures to record an episode for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship clash between 'The Aerial Assassin' and the re...

It's been a decade of pipe bombs and bullet clubs, shoots and worked shoots, six and seven star ratings, and a whole mess of cultural steps forwards and backwards. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have been watching it all with a keen eye and are now here to impart their wisdom. If we can call it wisdom. Which we really can't. But it's out podcast, so who cares?lmtyspod@gmail.com Ho...

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) and the world in general have obviously had a year full of incident, but that's been matched by the wrestling industry. From the formation of a new promotion, the WWE starting a new lucrative TV deal with FOX, and many other events across the wrestling globe have happened this year. Can they cover it all in one year as well as provide predictions for...

They only went and bloody did it. By they, we mean Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3), and here they are to provide some final thoughts, some final lists, and a final definitive five matches. Some stats are offered, some opinions have been switched, and some reflection on what they've been through is provided. Thank you for listening if you picked us up during this project, and we hop...