Tag: Shinsuke Nakamura
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Wrestling Observer Live: WWE Payback recap, AEW All Out preview, CM Punk fired
I am back with another Sunday edition of Wrestling Observer Live, talking all the latest wrestling news and once again, there is a lot of it. In a surprise announcement Saturday afternoon, AEW announced they had terminated CM Punk’s contract with cause. I discuss why this happened, how Tony Khan and the company handled it,…
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Fight Game: Remembering Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt
John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new Fight Game Podcast. We veered away from our normal show because of this week’s passing of both Terry Funk and Windham Rotunda (Bray Wyatt). Here’s what we talked about: Our memories of the Husky Harris character that preceded the Bray Wyatt character The great Wyatt Family…
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Wrestling Observer Live: WWE SmackDown, AEW Rampage, Stardom
Jim Valley previews Impact Rebellion & remembers Butch Miller. Stardom It’s Saturday and that means it’s time for Wrestling Observer Live. Does it feel like we’re in the middle of a post-WrestleMania lull? WWE is somewhat spinning its wheels waiting for the draft in two weeks and Backlash after that. It’s hard to tell what has…
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Wrestling Observer Radio: A million weekend shows, tons of Japan news, reviews, more
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including A MILLION SHOWS, Rampage, Smackdown, Rumble on 44th Street and the Night Before, Defy with Filthy Tom vs. Suzuki, Smackdown spoilers, RAW preview, Karl Anderson and the NEVER Title, Nakamura vs. Muto and tons more. A fun show…
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Wrestling Weekly: Les & Vic open the mailbag and answer your questions
Today’s edition of the show relies heavily on the mailbag, so thank you for helping us put together a show this week! We’ll start with some thoughts about Raw and SmackDown, then open the mailbag to discuss why there hasn’t been another wrestling boom since the Attitude Era (5:41), has the disappearance of the “tough…
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Adam & Mike: Breaking news on NOAH’s 1.31 show and the booking fallout for 2016, SAYONARA SHINSUKE~!
Doing almost as many shows in January as we did during all the months last year,the original alternate returns with topics that include, but aren’t limited to: As NOAH turns (literally): the ongoing Suzuki-Gun vs. NOAH feud, Sunday’s results,Hiroshi’s Tanashoulder,the Hirooki Goto conundrum (how many times has a variation of that been in these teasers?),…
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Adam & Mike Big Audio Nightmare: Nakamura, Bullet Club, NJPW, WWE, Mauro on Smackdown, more~!
Not wanting to be liars (again), the original alternate has actually kept its word, and recorded a show for the second consecutive week in a row. And while we're slowly getting our groove back, the world of puroresu has been speeding along on another level. So, naturally, the main topic this week was the situation…