Category: Podcasts
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JNPO: Pro wrestling year in review – A month of unthinkables
On a new Josh Nason’s Punch-Out, Fightful’s Kate Elizabeth returns to co-host the April 2023 edition of my pro wrestling year in review series. And what a month it was. The day after a hugely successful WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles, the fate of WWE was announced with the news they would merge with UFC…
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Fight Game: What’s next for CM Punk in WWE?
John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new Fight Game Podcast, starting off the show talking about, who else, but CM Punk as he made his return to WWE last Saturday at Survivor Series. We then got to the rest of the Top 5 which included: The idea of Punk vs. “Stone Cold”…
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Bryan & Vinny Show: AEW and NXT reviews, five great matches across both shows!
The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about as we review two great shows, AEW Dynamite and NXT! Five good to GREAT matches across both shows, plus all the highs and lows that accompany both, especially NXT. A fun show as always so check it out~!
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Wrestling Observer Live: AEW Dynamite, Continental Classic, ratings, CM Punk boost
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including AEW Dynamite from Wednesday night, line-ups for Rampage and Collision, a look at the rating from this past week and more on how Punk boosted numbers, feedback and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
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Wrestling Observer Radio: Punk return, why HHH wasn’t at RAW, Dynamite and NXT reviews, more
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including all the ratings notes from the return of CM Punk and AEW going head-to-head with War Games, why HHH was not at RAW, Wembley ticket sales, American MVP, AEW and NXT TV reports plus Rampage spoilers at the…
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Figure Four Daily: Lance Storm watches RAW and the Tammy Sytch sentencing
Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including, yes, he skipped NXT this week for RAW, so thoughts on all of those segments and matches, plus the return of Orton and Punk. He also watched the Tammy Sytch sentencing, so a lot of notes on that.…
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JNPO: Pro wrestling year in review – Of AEW Iron Man matches & Instagram drama
AEW My annual Punch-Out month-by-month audio recap of the year in pro wrestling continues with a stop in March and this episode’s co-host Bryan Rose of F4WOnline. It was a stretch highlighted by a fun AEW Revolution, main evented by an Iron Man match between AEW World Champion MJF and Bryan Danielson that turned out to…
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Wrestling Observer Live: Punk & Orton pop WWE Raw ratings, two awesome NXT matches
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including how CM Punk and Randy Orton moved numbers on Monday’s WWE Raw, last Friday’s WWE SmackDown numbers and why they were so low, TWO AWESOME MATCHES ON NXT, a preview of AEW Dynamite, plus all the news and…
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Bryan & Vinny & Craig & Shawn Show: Saturday Night’s Main Event S8:E1, plus Granny!
The Bryan & Vinny & Granny & Craig & Shawn Show is back with our usual Granny segment, a look at what everyone got for Black Friday, Granny’s wrestling and soap opera reports and memoir reading, then the boys review Saturday Night’s Main Event S8:E1! A fun show as always so check it out~!
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We’re Live, Pal: CM Punk is back in WWE – but is he better than ever?
It’s a brand new We’re Live, Pal with Andrew Zarian and I, also available for free on YouTube by clicking above. We opened up the show talking about CM Punk’s return to WWE at the Survivor Series on Saturday. We also discussed: Punk’s promo on RAW Randy Orton’s return at Survivor Series How big Randy…
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Wrestling Observer Live: CM Punk returns to RAW, long and short-term booking, tons more
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including the return of CM Punk to RAW and his short and long-term booking scenarios, NXT and Dynamite line-ups, MJF’s torn labrum, QT Marshall leaving AEW, Survivor Series and Wembley business notes, and tons more. Plus the world famous…
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: 1984 & 1985
Celebrating the release of my new book, DragonKingKarl’s 1984-1985 Pro Wrestling Omnibus, this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show looks back at these two massively important years in pro wrestling history. Some highlights: Hulk Hogan wins the WWF World title, the WWF national expansion begins in earnest including the takeover of the WTBS time slot, the…
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Wrestling Observer Radio: Tammy Sytch, RAW with CM Punk, Wembley tix, MJF, latest WWE lawsuit
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including Tammy Sytch being sentenced to prison and her history in wrestling, the latest WWE lawsuit, CM Punk’s promo at the end of RAW, the full RAW report, plus Wembley ticket sales, Match of the Year, MJF’s torn labrum,…
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Filthy Four Daily: Smackdown, War Games, Rampage, Sponsorship Snackdown, more
FILTHY FOUR DAILY with Bryan Alvarez and a madman named Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about including Smackdown, AEW Rampage, the Smackdown Survivor Series matches, and, yes, a new SPONSORSHIP SNACKDOWN. A FUN SHOW as always so check it out~!
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Wrestling Observer Live: CM Punk to WWE, Survivor Series fallout
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about as we look at the fallout from Survivor Series, the return of Punk, WWE’s motivations in signing him, all the top matches from the weekend and Survivor Series and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
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JNPO: Pro wrestling year in review – One night in Montreal
WWE The yearly tradition of the JNPO pro wrestling year in review series has returned: a month-by-month look at nearly everything that happened in 2023. This episode covers February which was dominated by the run-up to WWE Elimination Chamber in Montreal and the discussion of whether Sami Zayn could leave his home country with the…
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Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show: WWE Survivor Series, Punk return, AEW Rampage and Collision
The Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show is back with tons to talk about including full reviews of Survivor Series with two War Games matches and the return of CM Punk, AEW Rampage and Collision from Saturday night, and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
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DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: Meet the first pioneer era influencer
If I told you that today’s look back at the pioneer era of pro wrestling involved a bear eating a kid and a funeral invaded by corpse eating cats, you might think me ridiculous. Well, welcome to the world of Richard K. Fox: pioneer era pro wrestling influencer. It was Fox, via his National Police…
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Wrestling Observer Live: CM Punk returns to WWE, Survivor Series recap
I am back with another Sunday edition of Wrestling Observer Live, talking about the biggest stories this week — headlined by CM Punk’s surprise return to WWE at the end of Saturday’s Survivor Series. Punk came out right as the show was going off the air. I break down how this came together, who knew…
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Wrestling Observer Radio: All the details of CM Punk’s return, Survivor Series, Collision, Rampage, and more
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including everything you ever wanted to know about CM Punk returning to WWE, when talks started, who quickly it came about, who knew and when, and more, plus Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins incidents after the show, a full…