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If Tanahashi thought that his successful defence of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Okada at Wrestle Kingdom had been enough to put the 'Rainmaker' back in his place for at least the forseeable future he was much mistaken. Just as he'd been with his first IWGP title challenge, and his first entry into the G1 Climax, Okada won the New Japan Cup on the first time of trying and here we are...

The year-long rivalry that began at Wrestle Kingdom 6 with the returning Kazuchika Okada jumping the queue to challenge Tanahashi, and then back up his brashness by actually beating the undisputed top guy of the promotion. Tanahashi had to use every atom of energy in his body to reclaim the title, and now they are at Wrestle Kingdom 7, with Okada winning the G1 Climax at his first time of trying a...

Tanahashi received such a beating that he lost a tooth. Can he reclaim his championship against the upstart Okada? 'The Rainmaker' enters even more confident in himself now that he's backed up his bravado by defeating Tanahashi for the title and successfully defending it against Tetsuya Naito and Hirooki Goto. If Tanahashi reclaims the title it will mean fighting through a lot of damage. Can he do...

After breaking the record for the most successful IWGP Heavyweight Championship defences, Hiroshi Tanahashi was surprised at the ego on display from Kazuchika Okada who, having just beaten YOSHI-HASHI in an unimpressive return match, challenged him for a title match. Tanahashi accepted the challenge, but warned Okada that he was biting off more than he could chew. Like doing fifteen podcasts in co...

A new December tradition, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) look back on one of the great rivalries in wrestling history match-by-match. They kick things off with the battle for both the IWGP Heavyweight title and the designated 'Ace' positino of New Japan. But before we had a 'Rainmaker', Kazuchika Okada was a young prodigy picked up by New Japan to join their Young Lion dojo, and t...

Whilst Hogan and Flair were the stars of the WWF and the NWA, there was still a third major promotion in pro wrestling when the boom period of the mid-80s began. Unfortunately for those involved, its popularity and influence was waning. Despite this, some great wrestling - the foundation of the AWA and its owner Verne Gagne - was still taking place. A textbook example of the young challenger attem...

After watching the first season of the Netflix series, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have gone back to the original source material, commercials and all, to experience a full episode of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. As well as the advertised main event, the LMTYS hosts also discuss the other matches on Season 1, Episode 22, which include a handicap match of Matilda the Hun fa...

Will Ospreay is now just one match shy of reaching Mitsuharu Misawa's all-time record of matches rated at least five stars by Dave Meltzer. His latest entry is also the first time he's appeared on this series against Tetsuya Naito. Having previously defeated Niato in the semi-finals of this year's G1 Climax, Ospreay is this time defending his United States title against a man who has made his feel...

Taken from us before its time, the people behind 'Orange is the New Black' followed up that early Netflix hit with this series, inspired by the 2012 documentary about the mid-80s wrestling show for which this comedy-drama shares the same name and time period. Starring Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men), Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie), and Marc Maron (Maron, WTF podcast), the show uses the world of pro...

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FTR continue their remarkable year with another five-star match, this time in the UK against an Australian team for Japanese tag team titles. In a dream match, Dax & Cash face the NJPW Strong Tag Team champions Aussie Open. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) try to cut-off the podcast from small talk and deliver an incisive and thorough critical assessment of the first IWGP Tag Te...

Hulk Hogan executing drop toe-holds? It happened in Japan, and that's where we are today as 'Ichiban' returns to the first country that he attained superstar status before becoming the face of the WWF's national and global expansion. He faces off against perhaps the most popular and longest serving Gaijin of all time in the tobacco spitting Stan Hansen. This bloody battle of burly American men in...

One of the most important figures in the history of professional wrestling died on the same year the promotion he founded celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Antonio Inoki was a lightning rod for controversy and creativity within pro wrestling and even the wider world of politics. Although known for pushing the notion of pro wrestling as the "King of Sports" and engaging in matches with high-prof...

Be it a manger or an agent, a bodyguard or a valet, or maybe your childhood ventriloquist dummy requisitioned from the remnants of your demolished housing estate, many a wrestler has had a ringside accomplice. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) accompany each other in a thoughtful conversation about this very subject matter.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttp...

Walter's second ever Meltzer five-star match was when he defended his NXT UK Championship in Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena in front of 3,600 fans against plucky underdog Tyler Bate. Three years and three days later, he is now Gunther, he's defending the WWE Intercontinental Championship in Cardiff's Principality Stadium in front of just under twenty times that number. This time his opponent is the de...

The final chapter of the Ospreay-a-thon sees 'The Commonwealth Kingpin' round out the month of August with his fourth five-star-plus match in a third different continent. Having just fallen at the final of the G1 to Okada, and then lost his RevPro title to RKJ, he's headed to the States with his United Empire partners (and five-star debutants) Aussie Open and hope to become the first ever AEW Trio...

It's the third of four Will Ospreay matches to gain at least five stars from Dave Meltzer. The previous one only occured three days earlier on an entirely different continent, but Ospreay has already defended the title once a day before against Mike Bailey (a mere 4.75 stars) and now it's the third and last shot for the third generation RKJ on RevPro's tenth anniversary show. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan...

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The first of (at least) four matches involving Will Ospreay that Dave Meltzer has rated five stars or higher. First, Ospreay faces off for the fifth time with Shingo Takagi, and continues the record they have achieved in all their singles matches for getting at least perfect score from the Observer. Does it match such lofty standards, and what is there left for the duo to do that won't feel unorig...

The re-match to what is currently the closest to a consensus pick Match of the Year for 2022, FTR look to continue their remarkable year of matches and triumphs by defending their ROH World Tag Team Championship against the team that they won the title from, looking to start their thirteenth reign as tag champs, and doing so in the 2 out of 3 falls stipulation that they have a history of dominatin...

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) discuss a not particularly important event that happened this week and it's potential immediate and longer consequences.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a title vs. title match between the champions of the main two sister promotions of WWNLive, as the Evolve Champion Drew Galloway, in the middle of a reinvention after his unceremonious dumping from the WWE only a few years after being introduced by Vince McMahon himself as a future world champion, against Dragon Gate USA's Open the Freedom Gate Champion Johnny Gargano, a man who had carved a...

El Hijo del Santo and Negro Casas face off in a lucha des apuestas match where the hatred is so intense you don't know if it's un trabajo o un rodaje Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El Santo is arguably the most important a cultural figure that any wrestler has even been in a single country. A superhero who played his role, and wore his mask, in the ring, in public, and in over fifty films. For their first pick of this particular sub-genre that has a cult following to this day, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have picked a battle royal of a movie, with Santo a...

Before we had the PR campaign called the Divas Revolution, some women wrestlers in the default no. 2 US promotion post-WCW pre-AEW were putting on matches that were an equal to anything the men could do and were garnering praise and presenting a very different kind of story to what we were being force-fed with the narrow aesthetics requirements of the WWE's Divas division. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) a...