Tag: The Adam and Mike Show
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Big Audio Nightmare: Miyahara-Suwama, COVID-19’s continued impact
The Big Audio Nightmare is back this week with continuing coverage of COVID-19’s impact on the world of professional wrestling in Japan and on all of our lives in general. In this week’s full show, Adam Summers and Mike Sempervive take you through the latest wrestling news in Japan like what shows are happening, what shows…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Wrestling in Japan and life in uncertain times
The Big Audio Nightmare is back this week with continuing coverage of COVID-19’s impact on the world of professional wrestling in Japan and on all of our lives in general. In this week’s solo voyage, Adam Summers takes you through the wrestling news in Japan like what shows are happening, what shows have been canceled,…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Akiyama and WWE, NXT Japan, Wrestle-1
Adam and Mike are back this week with breaking news coverage of Jun Akiyama’s discussions with Triple H and WWE. Could this lead to the long-rumored NXT Japan, and if so, what does that mean for AJPW and the Japanese wrestling scene as a whole? Also, Wrestle-1 calls it quits, more companies cancel shows as…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Stardom cancellations, NJPW preview, NOAH MOTY candidate
The Big Audio Nightmare is back this week with breaking news coverage of Stardom’s cancellation of their upcoming tour due to coronavirus concerns, as well as the precautions NJPW is taking. In this week’s solo voyage, Adam Summers also takes you through the wrestling news in Japan, including an incredibly unique match of the year…
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Big Audio Nightmare: NJPW New Beginning tours, NOAH, AJPW, Stardom
Image: NJPW It’s New Beginning season! The Big Audio Nightmare is a solo voyage this week, as Adam Summers takes you on an audio tour of NJPW’s treks across the United States and Japan, with particular focus on last weekend’s shows in Sapporo and the major show this coming weekend in Osaka. We also look at…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Stardom anniversary recap, more Japanese wrestling talk
The original alternate featuring myself and Mike Sempervive returns to the airwaves by taking a tour around the Japanese wrestling scene. Topics this week include: – The great January 19 Stardom show and where the company is at the beginning of the decade – Title or not, Kaito Kiyomiya’s career standing has never been higher…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Wrestle Kingdom 14, Liger retirement, New Year Dash
Image: NJPW Back again and feeling semi-lucid, Adam & Mike are on the digital airwaves. In our 15th consecutive year of bantering about it, we go match-by-match and story-by-story as we break down the January 4 and 5 New Japan Tokyo Dome extravaganza. We give our predictions and opine about what could come next for…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Wrestle Kingdom 14 preview, other Japan news
The original alternate has returned…and look who decided to show back up? But before I take more time out for these messages about the Mid-Atlantic events coming to your area, Adam Summers and I give our thoughts on what we think will go down this weekend at the Tokyo Dome. Before those 90 minutes get started,…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Road to Tokyo Dome, Warrior Wrestling, more
It’s WRESTLE KINGDOM season! The Big Audio Nightmare is a solo voyage this week, as Adam Summers takes you on an audio tour of the NJPW Road to Tokyo Dom shows: Hiromu’s return, Liger says farewell to Korakuen, and much more. We also look at recent Dragon Gate, NOAH, and AJPW, and Adam gives a live…
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Big Audio Nightmare: NJPW & AJPW Tag Leagues, NOAH, Destroyer Memorial
It’s TAG LEAGUE season! The Big Audio Nightmare is a solo voyage this week, as Adam Summers takes you on an audio tour of the NJPW and AJPW tag team tournaments –what is worth checking out and what should steer clear of, and more. We also look at an absolute WAR last week in Pro…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Power Struggle, Hiromu returns, NOAH, MLW
The original alternate is back — and this time Mike decided to show up. Did he add anything? We’ll leave that up for you to decide. But — after an extremely busy weekend — there wasn’t a lack of things to talk about. Most of the focus is spent on New Japan’s Power Struggle, including proper…
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Big Audio Nightmare: NJPW King of Pro Wrestling preview, AJPW, NWA
The Original Alternate flies solo this week as Adam Summers takes you through more than 40 minutes of discussion on the Japanese scene, including a preview of the NJPW King of Pro Wrestling show and the Super Junior Tag League, along with a preview of the AJPW Real World Tag League. Additional topics include: comparing…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Young Lion Cup, Miyahara-Nomura II, more
Unexpected venting about prospective and current American NJPW partners, Kento Miyahara vs. Naoya Nomura II, New Japan’s 12th Young Lion Cup, NOAH’s N-1, KENTA-Ishii, El P < Eagles, some other random thoughts, and maybe even some randomer thoughts. It’s the radio show that’s not afraid to make up words — It’s the Adam and Mike…
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Big Audio Nightmare: G1 29 finals, KENTA & Shibata, AJPW, more
The Adam & Mike Big Audio Nightmare. The G1. We Climaxed. Plus, the All Japan Aoki Memorial Convention, the ballad of Tetsuya Naito, Taichi time, you know you love Jay White, much KENTA-Shibata extrapolation (because how can you not?), old school heat and other benefits that come from caring about details and not treating your fans…
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Big Audio Nightmare: G1 check-in, Budokan weekend preview
Have you heard way too much talk about the New Japan G1 Climax? Hell no you haven’t. Because of that, Adam and Mike are back with their thoughts on how the tournament is progressing. We take a look at who has stood out to us, along with some of our favorite matches since the last time…
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Big Audio Nightmare: Checking up on the G1 Climax
The original alternate is back with another “brief” edition of the show — which we cheerfully recorded at the crack of dawn. Disheveled, but not deterred, we give our thoughts on the ongoing New Japan G1 Climax tournament. Who has stood out most to us, both good and bad? Plus, some of our favorite matches,…
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Big Audio Nightmare: The G1 Climax 29 preview and prediction show
The original alternate here at the Empire is back to bring you the world famous G1 Climax 29 Prediction Show! The annual adventure where Adam Summers and Mike Sempervive run down each night of New Japan’s summer showcase, giving their predictions for every single match, as well as dropping knowledge and opinion along the way.…
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Big Audio Nightmare: NJPW G1 Dallas, Moxley and AEW-New Japan, more
Adam and Mike are back with a short edition of the original alternate, giving their thoughts on the full New Japan G1 schedule being announced. While it’s certainly not the annual, award-winning G1 preview show, we look at how the blocks are set up, some of the non-tournament fun that could be, Jon Moxley, main event…
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Big Audio Nightmare: KENTA, NJPW Dominion, that Naito-Ibushi match
The original alternate is back for a quick show and the final word on Sunday’s New Japan Dominion card…and, yes, Ibushi and Naito are still complete lunatics. Adam Summers and I give our thoughts on those two, because how can you not? We then move on to other aspects of what was a really a…
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Big Audio Nightmare: NJPW BOSJ finals, Jon Moxley, more
The original alternate is back, and boy are they full of it. Full of the spirit of the New Japan Best of the Super Juniors finals, that is! Adam and Mike recorded this immediately after the BOSJ finals went off the air, this morning, and — no surprise — the praise is effusive for Will…