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For the first time since Cena-Punk at Money in the Bank 2011, Dave Meltzer gave a match on the main roster WWE a five-star rating. And all it took was for one of the participants to wrestle the entire match with a torn pec, with brusing covering almost half of Cody Rhodes's torso and arm. Meltzer considered it 'among the most compelling matches in pro wrestling history', but is there actually anyt...

For the third time in the three-year history of AEW, the two teams of brothers who so often wrestle as mirror images of each other, engaged in a match that Dave Meltzer gave the perfect five-star rating as a minimum rating. This time there are no championships on the line, and both are looking to rally themselves after recent defeats. Will Penta & Fenix continue to stretch out their lead on overal...

Only the one five-star match from Meltzer for the latest AEW pay-per-view, this is a match that certainly lives up to its billling of 'Anarchy in the Arena'. The shit hits the fan before the wrestling even starts, and it gets a rocking soundtrack for a lot of the chaos too! Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) reach perhaps their most diametrically opposed when a point of contention rea...

Before there were Divas and Women's Revolutions, there was a brief moment where two women wrestled some of the most exciting and state of the art matches in all of North America. For once, Alundra Blayze has an opponent who can keep up with her pace, as she faces Bull Nakano. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to help assess the fluctuating qualities of women's wrestling in t...

Max Oleskar and Ivan Gonzalez are a successful live comedy double act who created Edinburgh Fringe history with their bi-annual show at the Pleasance Grand that pit comedians alongside and against pro wrestlers. As a result of the success, Max & Ivan have now written and co-star in this new series set within the small town petty politics of low-budget wrestling promotions in North West England. Ca...

It's been two decades of news updates, feuds, factions, temper tantrums, face and heel turns, championship runs, and most importantly RKOing out of nowhere. Randy Orton is a man for whom it's almost impossible for any wrestling fan to have neutral feelings towards. His pluses and minuses are discussed on this episode of LMTYS to commemorate the recent twentieth anniversary of his TV debut on the 2...

It's a tag team dream match that lived up to the hype and was close to a consensus choice for best match to take place at any show during WrestleMania weekend. FTR have a week to remember for the ages, first by challenging the perennial top dogs of Ring of Honor on their own turf in the first show of the Tony Khan era of that promotion. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) deftly link u...

It's the second half of a ZSJ double bill as the submission specialist faces off against the MVP of New Japan in 2021. Who will come out on top and reach the final of the New Japan Cup? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) spoil that fairly early on in this conversation, but it's about the art of the match, not the result itself, that matters with the LMTYS lads!https://patreon.com/lmty...

It's the first half (or maybe first third?) of a ZSJ double bill, as Zack Sabre's journey through the 2022 New Japan Cup tournament brings him to a quarter-final rematch of last year's second round opponent (and fellow Meltzer five-star rating generator) Will Ospreay. 'The Commonwealth Kingpin' won what Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) described as the most impressive fight outside...

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Before Jon Moxley headlined WWE and AEW PPVs, before Nick Gage became a cult legend, and before Drake Weurtz started yelling crazy shit at school board meetings, they were all slicing each others' faces, backs, and whatever else was available on their bodies in front of two-figure audiences in the middle of nowhere in South Carolina. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) exchange metapho...

Before Jushin Thunder Liger became the centrepiece for the explosion of junior heavyweight wrestling in the 1990s, he learnt his craft in the New Japan dojo and on his learning excursions where he gained experience in a variety of styles and fused them together. One of those stops on the way was a time working on the UK circuit, and he faced off against a man who was no stranger to Japan and its w...

Wrestling is a deep and wide world of matches, angles, promos, feuds, and botches, with decades and decades worth of the stuff. How to make senseofit all to someone with fresh eyes? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have picked up their notepads and pens and have crafted together some honourable mentions anddefinitive picks for a match in each of the five categories to help someone e...

In anticipation of CM Punk's Dog Collar Chain match against MJF at AEW's Revolution PPV, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) travel back nearly twenty years to watch the match, and what is usually cited as the peak of the feud, between Punk and Raven. Just as MJF projected so much of the scars of his youth onto Punk, so to had a young Punk against the recovering addict Raven. But inste...

NINE belts are on the line in this one. Dean Malenko has been the ace of cruiserweight division since its inception earlier in 1996, and now he caps off the year hoping to gain eight more titles to his colleciton by defeating J-Crown champion Ultimo Dragon. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) talk about both this clash of experts in the grapple game and what led to perhaps the biggest...

It's a comedy double bill as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) watch an episode each of South Park and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that show the respective ensembles try to enter the world of pro wrestling, but both have a limited knowledge of what that means. In the case of at least one of these shows, it would appear that the creatives behind it didn't really know much about...

His belt collection may now be lacking the IWGP World title, but Will Ospreay is still a man with a lot of luggage to carry with him, and his longest-held championship is what's being defended this time, as 'Billy GOAT' defends against rising UK star Micahel Oku for the RevPro British Championship. Having recently beaten Oku by stoppage in the twenty-ninth minute of a match with a thirty-minute ti...

Only two five star matches in the eyes of Dave Meltzer during the first month of 2022? That's a bad sign if ever there was one. But despite all that despair and suffering, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have survived to watch and discuss AEW's opener for the final Dynamite of January, as Cody Rhodes defends his TNT Championship against the man who he beat to start this third reign...

In anticiation of the upcoming Owen Hart Cup tournaments in AEW, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are looking back at the legacy of the youngest sibling, but probably the best athlete, of the Hart family. Instead of going to his best known WWF matches, they are looking further back to the point where Owen was the top gaijin wrestler in New Japan's junior heavyweight division. Having...

It's the land of Extreme that Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are venturing into this time, as Rob Van Dam faces the man he often cites as his favourite opponent of all time in Jerry Lynn. It's the Whole F'N Show against the New F'N Show, and perhaps where your alleigances lie tells a lot about the sort of wrestling fan you are.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtysp...

This time last year we were spoilt for choice with the number of five-star matches. This year it's a veritable drought with only one match producing a rating of five stars or above from Dave Meltzer. Fortunately for Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) it's a five-and-three-quarter-star match! Or is it? It's the match to finally decide the undisputed IWGP World Heavyweight Champion afte...

Another gap is plugged as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (simoncross3) travel back to All Japan. The six-man tag matches between Tsuruta-gun and the Super Generation Army were maybe what made the LMTYS hosts fall in love with All Japan wrestling, so this being a prequel to that rivalry, with Jumbo's previous great rival Tenryu leading his army of disciples, including a young zebra-print wearing...

2021 was a year, wasn't it? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to talk about it.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Less than a month since his five-and-a-half-star (in the eyes of Dave Meltzer) title win over Kenny Omega, 'Hangman' Adam Page faces two different challenges. First the challenge of the reinvigorated 'American Dragon' Bryan Danielson in-storyline, who has had a fun time tormenting him in the build up to this match, but also Page faces the challenge of keeping up with the top names in all of wrestl...

I don't know whether this was accidentally deleted, or I just failed to upload it in the first place, but this is an early recording of Match of the Week that we're now reuploading in anticipation of Bryan Danielson achieving a second ever five-star match in the eyes of Dave Meltzer. A match we cite frequently in other episodes, this is probably as close as we got to Bryan Danielson in Daniel Brya...