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Nov. 2 Figure Four Daily with Mercedes Martinez: Shimmer and WSU, 70-min match, TNA and WWE, more~!

November 2, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with current nearly two-year WSU champion Mercedes Martinez to talk women’s professional wrestling! We’ll discuss how she fell into wrestling, starting with Shimmer and helping put the company on the map, holding the title in WSU for so long, ROH, serious injuries she’s suffered, working for TNA […]

Nov. 2 Observer Radio: Carpentier, Raw Report, D-Day for Linda, McMahon skit, injury updates, Lita

November 2, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including today’s historic election, the Vince McMahon skit on Raw, the government laying down the law, updates on Lita, CM Punk and Rey Jr., a full Raw report, notes on the life of Edouard Carpentier, […]

Karl Stern Classic Wrestling Audio Show: Eye ball popping real american heroes

November 1, 2010 - The new edition of the Karl Stern Classic Wrestling Audio Show presents topics and Q and A including: Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair as world champions, eye ball popping, Clarence THE KANSAS DEMON Whistler, Rick Rude, Bruiser Brody, football vs. Wrestling in the old days, Miss Elizabeth, wrestlers out of time, hot chick teams, the […]

NOV 1 Wrestling Observer Radio: WEC/UFC, Linda campaign end of the road, WWE injuries, Impact w Dave

November 1, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight with a packed news show! We’ll discuss the final day of Linda’s Senate campaign, her future in politics, the WEC/UFC merger, Bellator wanting to co-promote with Strikeforce, injury updates for Rey Mysterio and CM Punk, WWE’s Fan Appreciation Night, lots of TNA Impact and […]

FREE TODAY! Halloween Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports Byline USA Radio Network

November 1, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns tonight with our week in review show~! Tons to discuss including the WEC/UFC merger, what it means for both companies and various fighters, more on the Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar confrontation at UFC 121, DGUSA, Smackdown, Raw, Impact, and tons more. Best of all it’s […]

Oct. 30th Adam & Mike Show: DG USA, NOAH NTV League, New Japan, Indy Sleaze, Halloween

October 30, 2010 - It’s the rare weekend edition of the Large Sound Hallucination with quick thoughts on hockey, TV, as well as hockey on TV leading into musings on the DGUSA iPPV, taking the loin fruit out for Halloween, taking Auburn and the over, and then it gets indyriffic. Not our doing, it was just a lo-fi week, […]

Oct. 30 Bryan & Vinny Show: DGUSA with awesome I Quit match, great Smackdown, wacky guest, more

October 29, 2010 - WE’RE BACK AGAIN. The Bryan and Vinny Show returns tonight with a make-up show for Tuesday with a look at the Friday night Dragon Gate USA iPPV on gofightlive.tv, which featured an awesome I Quit match among things, plus the best Smackdown in God knows how long with Bryan Danielson vs. Dolph Ziggler and an […]

Oct. 29 Bryan & Vinny Show~! We’re back, Granny returns, review of a quite awful edition of Impact

October 29, 2010 - THE BRYAN AND VINNY SHOW IS BACK~! There was no show Tuesday but FEAR NOT, we’re back today with a brand new show! We’ve got a full review of a pretty godawful edition of Impact, so nothing new, plus we’re joined by Granny for her usual outstanding segment which we have determined is, in fact, […]

Oct. 28 Figure Four Daily 2 with Todd Martin: UFC 121, Strikeforce, Bragging Rights, Raw

October 28, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Todd Martin returns today with tons to discuss. We’ll open with Dave Meltzer talking the UFC/WEC merger, what it means, positives and negatives, and more. Then we’ve got a major discussion on the Undertaker/Brock Lesnar confrontation with backstage notes from the show, UFC 121, Bragging Rights, Raw and […]

Oct. 28 Figure Four Daily with Gabe Sapolsky: Big DGUSA weekend, two shows, iPPV, Akebono, Aries,etc

October 28, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with Gabe Saplosky to talk all the news in Dragon Gate USA and EVOLVE~! They’ve got a big weekend with an iPPV tomorrow and PPV taping Saturday so we’ll talk both cards, big matches signed, big talent (meaning Akebono), how that got set up, thoughts on EVOLVE, […]

Oct. 28 Observer Radio: UFC announcement, Vince lawsuit, spoilers, buyrates, three-hour Raws, Benoit

October 28, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer returns tonight to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including the big UFC announcement Thursday, Vince vs. Connecticut, Smackdown spoilers, TNA spoilers, the Night of Champions buyrate, more three-hour Raws, Michael Benoit, King of the Ring, and your questions on a number of different […]

Oct. 27 Figure Four Daily with Dr. Lucha~! CMLL, AAA, WWE, Alberto, plus UFC weekend thoughts

October 27, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with a brand new show talking all the news south of the border with the world famous DR. LUCHA STEVE SIMS~! Tons to discuss including WWE’s last tour, Alberto Del Rio, CMLL and AAA business woes, Lucha Libre USA and Lucha Las Vegas, Perros Del Mal epic […]

FREE TODAY: Oct. 26 Observer Radio: Raw report, Impact tapings, Taker vs. Brock, Matt vs. Dave, more

October 26, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight with a packed news show! We’ve got tons to discuss including all the details and angles from Raw Monday night, the Impact tapings with a concussion angle from Monday in Orlando, Turning Point matches, the latest on Linda’s campaign and Michael Benoit, Dave vs. […]

Oct. 25 Observer Radio: More on Taker vs. Brock, Bragging Rights recap, TNA tapings, your calls, etc

October 25, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight with a packed news show~! Topics include the latest on Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar and whether it might ever happen, more on UFC 121, the WWE Bragging Rights PPV from Sunday night, Survivor Series, TNA tapings, plus your questions on a ton of different […]

Oct. 24 Observer Radio: Full UFC 121 recap, Brock vs. Cain, Taker confrontation, tons more

October 24, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight with a full rundown and analysis of UFC 121~! We’ll talk all the fights including Brock vs. Cain for the heavyweight title, Kampmann vs. Shields, Tito vs. Hamill, and more! Also, tons of notes from the weekend including the post-fight confrontation between Undertaker and […]

Oct. 22 Observer Radio: Live from, uh, ANAHEIM with talk of UFC 121, weigh-ins, TNA, Reaction, Vince

October 23, 2010 - Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez are back tonight on Wrestling Observer Radio, and what an awesome show it is, live from ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA~! We’ll talk all the news from the weekend including UFC 121 weigh-ins, odds for all the fights, all the gossip from the UFC hotel, and more. Also, Dave’s thoughts on Impact and […]

Oct. 22 Bryan & Vinny Show: Granny returns, Q&A, full Impact review from Thursday nights, tons more

October 22, 2010 - The damn Bryan & Vinny Show returns tonight with fun, and also excitement! We’ll talk to Granny about the trials and tribulations of life at 80, plus look at more old saying and her usual Q&A. Then Vinny and I have a full and ridiculously long review of this week’s TNA Impact TV show. The […]

Oct. 21 Figure Four Daily with Lance Storm: Raw and Smackdown tapings,NXT,Tough Enough, TUF, UFC 121

October 21, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with one of our most popular guests, Lance Storm~!, to discuss a million topics including his trip to Raw and Smackdown Tuesday night, NXT, his upcoming World of Hurt documentary project, Tough Enough and different ideas for it, this season’s Ultimate Fighter, UFC 121 this weekend, and […]

Oct. 20 Wrestling Observer Radio with Ariel Helwani: UFC 121 preview and predictions, backstage news

October 20, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight with a huge UFC preview show featuring MMA reporting superstar ARIEL HEWLANI~! We’ll talk Brock vs. Cain, the Countdown specials, Ariel’s predictions, the Jake Shields and Tito Ortiz fights, stories from the press conference this afternoon and UFC at the O2 Arena last weeks, […]

Oct 20 Figure Four Daily: Bryan and Todd talk MMA with both Urijah Faber and Brian Stann of UFC/WEC

October 20, 2010 - It’s MMA MANIA on Figure Four Daily today as Bryan Alvarez and Todd Martin are joined by two big UFC guests. First, we’ll talk to former 145-pound champion Urijah Faber about his move to 135 for a fight with Takeya Mizugaki, weight-cutting, his early days in the sports, his mom’s reaction to his first loss, […]

FREE TODAY! Oct. 20 Bryan & Vinny Show: Raw and Smackdown reviews, PRIME TIME WRESTLING, UFOs, more

October 20, 2010 - It’s the return of the mighty, mighty BRYAN AND VINNY SHOW~! Lots to talk about tonight including Raw from Monday Night, Smackdown with some great wrestling and PAUL BEARER, UFOs, the MONSTER MASH, plus some classic PRIME TIME WRESTLING FROM 1988, which was right around the time I became a fan of pro-wrestling. All that […]

Oct. 19th Adam & Mike Show: Major NOAH issues, IWGP Title changes, and 49,205 Thumbtacks Match

October 19, 2010 - Okay, so we missed a week, but the Grande Sonic Terror is back this week with 65 minutes of purorageousness with topics that include, but aren’t limited to: the very intriguing possibilities of a NOAH company split and NTV being back in the mix, Z-1’s bottom-third-of-the-PWI 500 show featuring Tag Team Partner #2 and Mr. […]

Oct. 19 Figure Four Daily with Jon Moxley: DGUSA, training with Thatcher, CZW death matches, more

October 19, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with DGUSA, CZW, FIP and EVOLVE star Jon Moxley to talk a ton of different subjects including breaking in with Les Thatcher and HWA, spending several months in Puerto Rico wrestling at age 21, going from a traditional worker to doing death matches, his DGUSA matches with […]

Oct. 19 Observer Radio: Dave and Bryan on Raw, Bragging Rights, ROH HDNet, Vince nuttiness, Batista

October 19, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including last night’s go-home show for Bragging Rights, Smackdown, a great ROH on HDNet, Vince McMahon going all nutty this afternoon, why he wasn’t on Raw, Bret Hart, the Montreal Screwjob (yes), Batista and his […]

FREE TODAY! Oct. 17 Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports Byline USA Radio Network

October 18, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns tonight to talk the week in review! We’ll discuss UFC 120, Bound for Glory, the Impact rating, Raw live in Seattle, Matt Hardy, Lesnar vs. Cain, and so much more. Best of all it’s FREE, so please post the link or file elsewhere and help […]

Oct. 17 Observer Radio: UFC 120 review, Cain vs. Brock, Dave’s thoughts on Impact, Matt Hardy done

October 17, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including UFC 120 at the O2 Arena, hometown boys getting beat, a Lesnar/Cain preview, thoughts on their interviews last night, next week’s TV, the release of Matt Hardy, and Dave gives his thoughts on the […]

October 16 Wrestling Weekly: Impact, Raw, Cena/Nexus, Luna Vachon, Lance Cade, Matt Hardy

October 16, 2010 - Will, Doc, and Les find out who won the PPV prediction game from Night of Champions, and discuss a non-wrestling Impact, John Cena/Nexus and why its too much too soon, why a heel is a heel, Matt Hardy’s release, Great Khali’s new reality show, Luna vachon and Lance Cade’s toxicology, Mad Men, Ric Flair’s mistreatment […]

Oct. 15 Bryan & Vinny Show: Impact with 6 minutes of wrestling in 2 hours, Granny fun, songs, more

October 15, 2010 - It’s the weekend Bryan & Vinny Show~! We’re back tonight with a show a one hour and ten minute show that is actually shorter than the amount of time on Impact with no wrestling to speak of whatsoever. We’ll discuss that show and also have some actual fun talking to Granny about stuff that has […]

Karl Stern Classic Wrestling Show: Who are the greatest ever?

October 14, 2010 - A new Karl Stern Classic Wrestling Audio Show. On this episode: famous arenas, is Shawn Michaels in the top 5 greatest of all time? Ric Flair and Bret Hart lack of respect toward each other, getting older sucks, King Kong Bundy, Dirty White Boy and Girl, racist angles including Plowboy Frazier angle, meth labs can […]

Oct. 14 Figure Four Daily II with Todd Martin: UFC 120 and 121, Bound for Glory, JWoww, PWG, Stann

October 14, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Todd Martin returns today with our week in review show! We’ve got tons to discuss including UFC 120 and UFC 121 the new two weekends, JWOWW~! on Impact tonight, Todd’s rant on Bound for Glory, the PWG show from last weekend, Brian Stann’s book (Stann will be on […]

Oct. 14 Figure Four Daily I with Dr. Lucha Steve Sims: WWE Mexico Tour, Santo patent, Mistico/AAA

October 14, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with the one and only Doctor of Lucha himself, Steve Sims! We’ll talk the WWE tour of Mexico, highlights of the shows, the Mystery Second Mexico City Date, why they didn’t draw as well as usual, Santo trying to legit patent a move, Mistico and AAA, and […]

Oct. 13 Observer Radio: UFC 120 talk, Smackdown and Impact spoilers, tons of calls, more

October 13, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer returns tonight with a packed show! We’ll talk UFC 120 from the O2 Arena in London this Saturday night, talk the card and the power of the hometown superstar, look at the TNA and Smackdown tapings from this past Tuesday night, and then take a ton […]

Oct. 13 Bryan & Vinny Show~! Review of Raw, Smackdown, WCCW from 1983 with DOG vs. KIMALA, more~!

October 13, 2010 - IT’S THE RETURN OF THE BRYAN AND VINNY SHOW~~!! Lots of stuff to discuss today including Vinny’s thoughts on Raw is Seattle, Smackdown from Friday night with an awesome main event, and our TOP SHOW OF THE WEEK, old school CLASSIC WCCW FROM 1983, featuring a main event anywhere in the world, KIMALA VS. JUNK […]

Oct. 12 Figure Four Daily with TROUBLE KING Steve Corino: ROH, Cabana/Generico feud, ECW, Colby, etc

October 12, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with the one and only TROUBLE KING himself, Steve Corino! We’ll talk the year-long Corino & Steen vs. Generico & Cabana ROH feud, the big blow-off matches coming, who is helping put it together, ECW vs. ROH, Cornette vs. Heyman, Pearce vs. Delirious, favorite feuds, his son […]

FREE TODAY~! Oct. 11 Observer Radio: LIVE Raw report, Cena/Barrett angle, TNA taping wackiness

October 12, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight with a fun show, our fourth in four days. We’ve got LIVE RAW THOUGHTS, a look at what you didn’t see on TV, a full review of the show, notes on the TNA tapings Monday night with swerves galore, plus lots of discussion about […]

FREE TODAY! Oct. 10 Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports Byline USA Radio Network

October 11, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with our week in review program! We’ll preview Bound for Glory, always fun in hindsight, look at the Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley match from Impact, and talk all the new in wrestling and MMA from the past week including Strikeforce Saturday night, a […]

10-10-10 OBSERVER RADIO: TNA PPV report, new champion, big angle, Strikeforce near-fight, tons more

October 10, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez is back with our third straight show, this time covering TNA’s biggest show of the year, Bound for Glory 2010! We’ll talk all the matches on the show, the new TNA Champion, the revelation of THEM, and tons more. Also, news on a backstage fight at […]

Oct. 10 Wrestling Observer Radio: Strikeforce recap, Bound for Glory talk, Batista update, Foley,Q&A

October 10, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio is back today with our second show of four straight! We’ll open with a full rundown and analysis of last night’s Strikeforce in San Jose show, with thoughts on the women’s title change, Noons vs. Diaz II, upcoming fights, backstage news and more. Also, notes on Bound for Glory Sunday, a preview, […]

Oct. 8 Observer Radio with MICK FOLEY: Countdown to Lockdown, Bound for Glory, TNA, WWE and more

October 8, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns with a special bonus show tonight, 90 minutes with Mick Foley talking his match with Ric Flair and the promo the week prior, Bound for Glory this weekend, his new book Countdown to Lockdown, the long piece he wrote about Dave’s criticism of his promos, […]

Oct. 8 Bryan & Vinny Show~! Halloween song debuts, Granny fun, Impact go-home show review, more

October 8, 2010 - The Bryan & Vinny Show returns tonight with our weekend update~! We’re joined by Granny for her usual weekly segment talking everything under the sun, then Vinny and I break down the final Impact before 10/10/10. We’ll talk the Abyss attack, Foley vs. Flair I Quit, the battle royal, the good, the bad and the […]

Oct. 7 Figure Four Daily with Lance Storm: Thoughts on WWE soma ban, falling PPV buys, pink singlet

October 7, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns today with Lance Storm to talk some very important subjects including his column on the potential death of PPV and his theory of storyline/angle vs. match is the wrong direction to go. We’ll talk about basic ideas to make things better, and also talk the WWE’s ban of […]

October 6 Observer Radio: Schiavello interview, then Bryan and Dave talk tons of news and analysis

October 7, 2010 - A nearly 90 minute Wrestling Observer Radio concludes my three-show schedule for today. We’ll open with a 30-minute interview with Michael Schiavello talking the K-1 Final 16, the Grand Prix Finals, K-1 Max, the best fight he’s ever seen and where you can see it this Friday, and more. Then Dave and I are back […]

Oct. 6 Figure Four Daily II with Dutch Mantell: Fixing pro-wrestling, TNA, Puerto Rico, SMW, more

October 6, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez returns with our second of three shows today! We’ve got a one hour interview with territorial legend Dutch Mantell talking all sorts of topics including what can be done to make the wrestling business in 2010 more viable, stories from his book, the Gathering of the Juggalos and his […]

Oct. 6 Figure Four Daily with Todd Martin: HIAC, Raw, WWE issues, developmental, Strikeforce,Y2J DVD

October 6, 2010 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Todd Martin returns today to talk all the news in MMA and pro-wrestling with some SPIRITED DEBATES~! We’ll talk Hell in a Cell, the continuing Undertaker vs. Kane storyline, WWE’s ongoing issues and what can be done to solve the problem, WWE developmental and whether it’s an issue […]

Oct. 6 Bryan & Vinny Show: Hell in a Cell, Raw, ROH on HDNet, NITRO FROM 1998, songs, shout-outs

October 6, 2010 - The Bryan and Vinny Show returns and it’s a HYOOGE won, nearly 90 minutes in length. We’ve got thoughts on — get ready — Hell in a Cell, Raw, Wade Barrett vs. Cena, Daniel Bryan’s doom, ROH on HDNet, an awesomely great WWE Classic, MONDAY NITRO FROM SPRING 1998, tons of songs, shout-outs, and more! […]

Oct. 5 Adam & Mike Show: New Japan in the U.S., Kobashi, Joshi, Indy Sleaze, Hockey

October 5, 2010 - Overcoming off-air audio difficulty and being AVERY’D~! to bring YOU, the fine listener of this website, a disheveled – but not distressed – original alternate. Topics this week include, but aren’t limited to: bringing back the BBC’s Lillibullero, no booze, no buys at BWI, everybody make the Kobashi face, WAVElations including those two tranny types, […]

Oct. 5 Observer Radio: Bryan and Dave review Raw, Cena in Nexus, Linda debate, Ross update, ratings

October 5, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA! We’ll open with a full review of Raw, including a look at Cena’s entry into Nexus, where the storyline could be going, how to make it work (or fail), and more. Then we’ll discuss Jim […]

Oct. 3 Wrestling Observer Radio: Dave and Bryan on Hell in a Cell, stip PPVs, Syfy, K-1, Foley, etc

October 4, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns tonight to talk the WWE Hell in a Cell PPV. A very in-depth analysis of the event including the two Hell in a Cell main events, talk about why the stipulation PPVs are a failure, who ran in during the Cena match, and much more. […]

FREE TODAY! Oct. 3 Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports Byline USA Radio Network

October 4, 2010 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today with our week in review program! We’ll talk all the major stories in wrestling and MMA including a preview of Hell in the Cell, potential spoilers, Smackdown’s debut on Syfy, NXT, ratings, the K-1 show from Friday night, and tons more! Best of all […]

Oct. 2 Bryan & Vinny Show: Live Smackdown on Syfy debut, Impact from Thursday, Granny Q&A, NORM

October 2, 2010 - It’s the weekend Bryan & Vinny Show~! Back tonight with a packed, 75 minute show talking the live Smackdown on Syfy debut, a pretty pointless show that featured a segment which made me more upset than anything on Impact, and Impact, which despite not featuring a segment quite as bad as the one on Smackdown […]