Category: The Fight Game Podcast
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Fight Game: Vince McMahon, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17 & New Year Dash
John LaRocca and Garrett Gonzales are back to talk about McMahon’s latest power play. John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new episode of The Fight Game Podcast. We started by talking about the latest news on Vince McMahon’s attempt to get back into power at WWE. Jeremy Finestone and Steven Conway from…
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Fight Game: Our 2022 pro wrestling awards, 2023 predictions
Garrett Gonzales talks to Ben Cruz, Jeremy Los, and Ryan Droste about the past and the future. It’s the second Fight Game Podcast of the week as we bid farewell to 2022 and look ahead to 2023 in pro wrestling. I brought on Ben Cruz from The Ringer, Ryan Droste from Top Rope Nation, and former…
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Fight Game: Beast Mode Samoa Joe, our wrestler & match of the year
John LaRocca and Garrett Gonzales review the New Year’s Smash edition of AEW Dynamite. John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new episode of The Fight Game Podcast. Before John and I recapped the New Year’s Smash edition of AEW Dynamite, we talked about Dragon Lee signing with WWE along with John revealing…
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Fight Game: AEW’s Jamie Hayter & Hikaru Shida tear it up, the best & worst of Impact’s 2022
Mike Gilbert talks about the year that was in Impact Wrestling. John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new episode of The Fight Game Podcast. John and I recapped the Holiday Bash edition of AEW Dynamite, focusing on the following: Ricky Starks’ confidence level Bryan Danielson’s unconditional love for William Regal Jon Moxley’s…
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Fight Game: Dave Meltzer on Mandy Rose’s release, Vince McMahon developments
Dave & John also recap Wednesday’s AEW Winter is Coming. John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new episode of The Fight Game Podcast. Before we recapped AEW Dynamite’s Winter Is Coming, I talked to Dave Meltzer about Mandy Rose’s release from WWE as well as the Vince McMahon Vice documentary and the latest Wall…
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Fight Game: The 2022 pro wrestling draft
John LaRocca and I will be back with our normal show next week, but this week is…draft week. Knowing our show would be off its normal cadence because of vacation, we pre-recorded this episode with the idea that we were CEOs of new wrestling companies and could pick from all the existing wrestling talent. In our…
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Fight Game: Dave Meltzer Q&A
The following is a free show. Just click below to listen. John LaRocca and I are off for the next two weeks, but that doesn’t mean this feed is going dark. While we’re not going to have our normal show of current pro wrestling discussion and a review of AEW Dynamite, we do have something special…
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Fight Game: Ranking AEW’s underutilized young talent
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we review AEW’s Fyter Fest Dynamite from Wednesday, we talk about our schedule over the next two weeks since I’m going on vacation and what we’re going to do. Don’t worry: it’s going to be fun stuff. We also look at…
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Fight Game: Are there any transcendent wrestling stars today?
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we review AEW Dynamite from Wednesday, we talk about all the transcendent wrestling stars from 1984 until today and wonder if we would add any current wrestlers to that list. Then, we review AEW Dynamite from Rochester, New York, including: Wardlow’s…
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Fight Game: AEW Blood & Guts review
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we review AEW Dynamite from Wednesday, we talk about John’s thoughts on Sunday’s Forbidden Door pay-per-view and watching it with friends at Big Dave’s house. We also talk about the uninspired promotion for WWE’s Money in the Bank on Saturday. Then,…
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Fight Game: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door preview
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we review AEW Dynamite from Wednesday, we talk about WWE going to the Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar well again for SummerSlam. John remembers being at a local independent show with John Cena very early in his career as The Prototype. …
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Fight Game: Vince McMahon, New Japan Dominion & AEW Road Rager recaps
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we break down the Road Rager episode of AEW Dynamite from Wednesday, we look at the big Wall Street Journal piece on WWE’s board of directors investigating Vince McMahon. We also talk about New Japan’s Dominion show, including Jay White beating Kazuchika Okada…
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Fight Game: The bumpy road to AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we break down AEW Dynamite from Wednesday, we look at the WWE babyface scene after Cody Rhodes’ injury. Who should they push? We also look at the AEW interim World title situation and how it was put together. Then, we review…
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Fight Game: MJF vs. Tony Khan, AEW Dynamite LA debut thoughts
John LaRocca and I are back with another Fight Game Podcast. We break down AEW’s first Dynamite in Los Angeles at the Kia Forum. We recap the entire show, focusing on the following: CM Punk’s not-so-great match to open the show The weak introduction of Hiroshi Tanahashi Our thoughts on what is work, shoot, and a…
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Fight Game: Live AEW Dynamite report, Double or Nothing preview
John LaRocca and I are back with another Fight Game Podcast. At the start of the show, staff writer Paul Fontaine joins to chat about being live at AEW Dynamite in Las Vegas. He talks about the different feel from the live crowd and let us know who the fans were into most. Then, John and I break…
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Fight Game: An alternative look at the Sasha/Naomi/WWE situation
John LaRocca and I are back with another Fight Game Podcast. To kick things off, we take an alternative look at the Sasha Banks and Naomi situation with WWE that reached a boiling point as they walked out prior to Raw Monday. Then, we break into our AEW Dynamite review. We talk about the full show,…
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Fight Game: The MJF Show, NJPW’s Karl Fredericks interview
John LaRocca and I are back with another Fight Game Podcast. We interview New Japan Strong’s Karl Fredericks who wrestles three times this weekend including on Saturday’s NJPW Capital Collision pay-per-view. Before that, we recap AEW Dynamite from Wednesday which was a fun show with a strong bizarro world-like crowd. We talk about the full show, including: The…
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Fight Game: Freddie Prinze Jr.’s wrestling promotion idea, Owen Cup fantasy booking
John LaRocca and I are back with another Fight Game Podcast. We first talk about Freddie Prinze Jr.’s idea for a wrestling promotion before moving on to which matches at Sunday’s WrestleMania Backlash are must-see for us. We go over last week’s NXT releases and try to rank them based on priority of who we would sign. Lastly,…
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Fight Game: What’s next for the Blackpool Combat Club?
John LaRocca and I are back with another Fight Game Podcast. We’ve made some small changes to the show which we discuss right at the top. We talk about the upcoming AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door pay-per-view and offer up a few dream matches that we’d like to see. We talk about Randy Orton’s 20 years…
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Fight Game: Grapsody’s Will Washington & R8ed R on AEW’s debut music album
John LaRocca and I are both out of town this week so instead of our normal show, I interviewed Grapsody’s Will Washington and rapper R8ed R, who worked on the AEW Music release, Who We Are Vol. 1. We talk about their contributions to the album, how they first got involved, what they consider to be the best track they…