Puro Pourri Podcast

The tea is not so much cold as absolute zero, but you don't listen to this podcast for the timeliness of the things we cover, do you? And if you do, we really hope you at least got something out of that episode where we reviewed Nick Bockwinkel vs. Billy Robinson. Join George, Daniel and David as they spit their vitriol and spurt their sweet balm of praise over NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13, in which Da...

NOTE: At present this is a rough cut of the audio, a refined version will be going live within the next few days. Listen at your own risk! (Although we could say that about any of our episodes to be honest.) It's the most wonderful time of the year, the ladgter is very much in the offing, and it's time once again for the Puro Pourri Podcast to celebrate Christmas is the only way they know how; by...

When a Michinoku Pro match involving The Undertaker isn't even the weirdest thing covered in an episode, you know we're in for some fun. The hosts conclude their side-eyed look at Hulkamania-era WWF wrestlers in Japan with a vast smorgasbord of delights including Hacksaw Jim Duggan embarking upon the worst reading of an audience since Michael Richards in 2006, Hulk Hogan proving that he can wrestl...

It's about to come crashing down, and by gum I believe it's about to hurt inside. In the first of a two-parter, the hosts finally leave PRIDE behind and dive into an underappreciated but very interesting aspect of the Hulkamania era - what its biggest stars were getting up to in Japan. Just like his best friend's wife, you'll have to wait for the Hulkster to come, but in the meantime we've got fou...

The P to the P to the other P return with the third and final instalment of their PRIDE Fighting Championship retrospective! Daniel, George and David have for your delectation another tranche of fights that combines the equal parts classic brutality and shitty nonsense that characterised Japan's greatest ever MMA promotion. Along the way we discuss the relative merits of violent combat sports and...

The half-time oranges have been eaten and the surreptitious shots of ephedrine plugged into their arse cheeks, and the boys are back for the second part of #FootballIsProWrestling. Hepped up on a combination of extreme tiredness (George), inebriation (Daniel) and just being Scottish (David), podcasting's greatest back three run their VAR-enhanced eyes over the most rigged football matches of all t...

Fresh off the heels of our warmly-received Robot Wars special, that good ol' P-to-the-P-to-the-other-P brings you #FootballIsProWrestling, an irreverent look at exactly why the greatest sport in the world can be explained in terms of the greatest simulated sport. In this, the first part of two, we cover footballers who turned their hand to pro wrestling, footballers we reckon would have excelled i...

Dan has internet again, so we're back with the long-awaited (shut up) second part of our PRIDE FC retrospective. Join George, Daniel and David for another dive into the legitimate businessman-fuelled madness that was the boom period in Japanese MMA. We've got it all; the world's greatest pub car park fight, the most brutal German suplex outside of mid-90s AJPW, a succulent Chinese meal, and the mo...

With Daniel still fighting the greatest match of his career (against the internet providers of Madrid), Sarah Parkin joins George and David for a special look back at the career of one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, the legendary Aja Kong. Featuring a diverse selection of matches from across her career ahead of her UK debut for Pro Wrestling EVE on 5 May 2018, we take a trip through stiff...

With one third of the podcast currently between flats, please find submitted for your delectation by David and George, to fill the gaping Triple P-shaped hole in your rich and fulfilling lives, a light and breezy look at Japan's biggest wrestling show of 2018, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12! Discover the secrets of the law offices of BRUCE THARPE DES, which New Japan wrestler's name can be sung to the tu...

Welcome, one and all, to the first ever Puro Pourri Podcast Christmas Special! Join your intrepid hosts, two of whom are royally hungover and one of whom is getting steadily more wasted on cheap wine in a misguided attempt at solidarity with his stricken brethren, and see how quickly you can guess which is which. In this cornucopia of Christmas cheer, Daniel, David and George shoot the breeze abou...

And now for something completely different as, following hot on the heels of their series on the humiliation and eventual collapse of the shoot style promotion UWFI, George, David and Daniel cover what Nobuhiko Takada and friends did next; the MMA phenomenon that was PRIDE FC. In this first episode, the boys dip into the formation of the promotion, and review a few fights that really sum up the ma...

The Puro Pourri Podcast presents something a little bit different, in the first of a series called #EverythingIsProWrestling. George and David are joined by Rob E. Harmlessly and Benjy (also the Hitman) from ACTIVATE! The Robot Wars Podcast, to discuss the many ways in which the UK TV series Robot Wars is pro wrestling in another form. Along the way we'll discuss robot fighting as a live spectacle...

Join the hosts and, returning to the podcast, the TWO TIME! TWO TIME! Puro Pourri Podcast guest Sarah Parkin, as they conclude their look at All Japan Women's Wrestling's Budokan Hall Show in 1985. In this episode the team are privileged enough to bring you analysis, chat and gags about two of the greatest pro wrestling matches of the 80s, but the deep wisdom offered doesn't stop at wrestling, oh...

The good ol' Triple P makes a welcome return to the world of women's wrestling, with Daniel, George and David joined by imaintainthedoublefootstompissilly.com's resident AJW expert Sarah to discuss one of the greatest wrestling shows of all time regardless of gender, AJW's Budokan Hall show from August 1985. In this, the first of a two-parter, Sarah gives us an alternative history of women's wrest...

Our dive into a trio of notable puro matches concludes with the last of our trilogy. But will it be more Return of the King than Return of the Jedi? (It's the former.) George, Daniel and David present an in-depth look at one of the greatest displays of pro wrestling acrobatics you'll ever see, and along the way take in the genesis of Dragon Gate, class war, male pattern baldness and its role in wr...

Strap yourselves down and force your eyelids apart with cocktail sticks, as the boys are back with their second in a trilogy of in-depth looks at classic Japanese pro wrestling matches a little off the beaten track. This time around Daniel, David and George are hurtling back into the dim and distant past (the 1980s) to run the rule over a clash between two of the greatest technical wrestlers the W...

Join George, Daniel and David for the first in a new series called Match Microscope, in which our intrepid hosts tackle a single puro match in detail and tie it in with what it meant to Japanese pro wrestling at the time. Then, in Part 2, the guys welcome Jamie from Dramatic DDT for an expert interview about the DDT promotion, and try to unpick the full story of this most offbeat of promotions. Fe...

The NJPW vs. UWFI saga marches to its heady climax as David, George and Daniel look at the death rattle in UWFI's dessicated throat. Marvel as Riki Choshu continues his Burial Tour '95-'96, a fat Elvis impersonator shows why he was the most badass action hero of all time, and the guys laugh at Yoji Anjo some more. They also somehow manage to mention a storyline where a sumo wrestler hatches out of...

After our brief diversion into the strange and terrifying world of modern-day WWE, the boys are back on familiar terrain, though no less strange and terrifying. 1995 is solidly behind us as we move into what 1996 meant for the New Japan-UWFI feud, mourn the sad death of Yoji Anjo one more time, gush over one of the greatest wrestlers of all time (and talk about Antonio Inoki as well), and referenc...

The hosts conclude their look at the best Wrestlemania for at least twelve months. Between Daniel's impassioned defence of Roman Reigns, George's unaccountable love for Triple H and David's interior decorating, they take in fake wedding proposals, Love Actually, Bob Marley's disappointing children and, of course, when Pitbull will finally be given his long-sought green light.

With scorching cold takes fresh from the barrel, the Puro Pourri Podcast boys are here with a slight deviation from the norm, as they look at Wrestlemania 33. Along the way we take in Daniel's visceral hatred of Mojo Rawley, David's small part in getting Impact cancelled in the UK, and the time George got his ass handed to him by a grandmaster (a chess grandmaster, not Brian Lawler). Give these th...

After a difficult gestation involving lost audio, a re-recording and one of the presenters' dogs shitting everywhere mid-episode, George, Daniel and David are back with another look at the famous NJPW vs. UWFI feud from 1995-1996. Continuing their look at the October 1995 Tokyo Dome show, the hosts bemoan booking, laugh themselves into a stupor at one of the most hilariously one-sided squash match...

Episode 4 sees the hosts begin their first story arc, as they start to explore one of the most famous and most controversial feuds in the history of puroresu - New Japan vs. UWFI. Join George, Daniel and David as they give you the lowdown on the history of shoot style and New Japan's dalliances with martial artists, get into Street Fighter and Nuts TV, and discuss how long they think they'd have l...

Episode 3 sees the hosts looking at Daniel's first Japanese wrestling match, as they review one of the hardest-hitting fights you're ever likely to see outside of Friday night in Newcastle. On this episode we explore the answers to life's mysteries, such as: What is Dan's holy book and why does it have so many star ratings in its pages? Does the fact that George went to a school with a house crick...