Voices Of Wrestling Podcast Network

This week on Wrestling Omakase we talk some really good matches and, uh, some really bad ones too! If you haven't listened to a 5 Matches episode yet, every week John and the guest each choose 2 matches to watch and talk about on the episode. Then we each choose a third match, which is put up to a vote on the @wrestleomakase Twitter account, letting the listeners choose our fifth and final match of the week. It's a fun retro format featuring all sorts of different wrestling!As we talk about on the show, Wrestling Omakase is about to launch our brand new Patreon! We go live on Monday June 1st at www.patreon.com/wrestlingomakase. For just $5 per month you'll get: TWO bonus full 5 Match episodes of Omakase per month (our first two Patreon-exclusive guests will be Alan4L of PWTorch and Rich of the VOW Flagship!), our new 1 Match series where John will discuss an entire series of matches in bite-sized podcasts (each covering a single match) starting with every single Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahas

Joe and Rich return for a brand-new Voices of Wrestling Flagship Podcast talking about the fallout from AEW's Double or Nothing PPV, Mike Tyson's involvement in AEW, the tragic death of Hana Kimura, the latest in Pro Wrestling NOAH, 2A-DUB, Dragon Gate and more! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to Episode 74 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe. It’s backlash from Double or Nothing, and the gang is here to play ELITE OR DELETE about this week’s episode of Dynamite, which included the debut of FTR, the huge Jericho vs Mike Tyson show close angle, and a whole lot more. As well, we get into ratings and fallout from the Pay Per View, talk about how you deal with both a lawn mole and an armadillo infestation, who would be a modern Four Horsemen, and much much more!Our podcast provider, RedCircle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/everything-elite and you can donate a single time, or set up a monthly donation to Everything Elite!Please follow our twitter account https://twitter.com/EverythingAEW, subscribe to us on the podcast platform of your choice, and rate and review the show if you have the chance!Everything Elite has l

Liam and Garrett give a quick and dirty review of Double or Nothing before breaking down a newsworthy Dynamite featuring the debut of The Revival as well as Chris Jericho's confrontation with Mike Tyson plus NXT main evented by the unique and great Fight Pit match!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with your King of Gate Update. Each week during King of Gate, Case and Mike will have a shorter episode breaking down the recent tournament matches, and looking ahead to the future matchups. On this second episode, they talk about the second round matchups that aired on Dragongate Network on May 22nd, 23rd, & 24th, and talk about the disparately in match quality in each blocks, and a much needed conversation of Eita and Ben-K. After that, they talk about the the Block Finals happening this week, the Second Chance Battle Royal and the U-T Return match against one Ultimo Dragon!Our podcast provider, RedCircle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/open-the-voice-gate and you can donate a single time, or set up a monthly donation to Open the Voice Gate!Please Rate and Review Open the Voice Gate on the podc

**** This podcast contains sensitive topics and subject matters including mental health discussions that may not be suitable for all audiences ****With announcements made in Japan about a return of live events, Joel and Damon give their thoughts on what a NJPW return might look like. The boys also give their thoughts and opinions on the tragic passing of Hana Kimura, answer listener questions, and so much more.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode of Music of the Mat, Andrew teams up with Rich Kraetsch (Voices of Wrestling) to tackle the themes of Kevin Nash! Known by many gimmicks and singlets, Nash is one of the more polarizing figures in modern wrestling history due to his combination of laid back coolness and backstage politicking. Andrew and Rich give their thoughts on the big man, but more importantly break down his many entrance themes from over the years. From Oz to Diesel to the nWo Wolfpac and beyond, this is an episode you don't want to miss (unless you're too lazy to hit the play button).This episode is dedicated to the memory of Larry Csonka. To support Larry's family, you can contribute to their GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/larrymania-living-on-in-his-girlsFollow Music of the Mat on Twitter: @MusicoftheMatFollow Andrew on Twitter: @AndrewTRichFollow Rich/Voices of Wrestling on Twitter: @voiceswrestlingAll VOW podcasts, articles, previews, and reviews: VoicesofWrestling.comJoin the VOW Discord to di

Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate - Rewind and Rewatch, where Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are Rewinding and Rewatching the Dragon Gate USA era of shows.This episode covers Uprising, from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on May 8, 2010 at the International Centre.It’s time for the North American complexion of DGUSA to start to change as DGUSA ends their only Canadian tour with BxB Hulk defending the Open the Freedom Gate title against his World-1 teammate Masato Yoshino. Also on this show, we talk about the debut of Brodie Lee, the company’s usage of Kamikaze USA and Johnny Gargano, the first time ever that Masaaki Mochizuki and Akira Tozawa face off in the states and a stellar CK-1 vs Shingo Takagi & YAMATO tag match!The show review starts at 00:22:43 on this episode.Our podcast provider, RedCircle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/open-the-voice-gate and you can donate a

This week on Wrestling Omakase we talk, honestly, a whole lot of mid-to-late 2010s NJPW. If you haven't listened to a 5 Matches episode yet, every week John and the guest each choose 2 matches to watch and talk about on the episode. Then we each choose a third match, which is put up to a vote on the @wrestleomakase Twitter account, letting the listeners choose our fifth and final match of the week. It's a fun retro format featuring all sorts of different wrestling!John is joined by first time guest Liam, co-host of fellow VOW network podcast Wednesday War Games (@WarGamesPod). Before they get into the fun stuff, John and Liam do briefly touch on the tragic week in wrestling, including of course Hana Kimura's incredibly sad and sudden death, so I wanted to make sure you're warned about that here. We do not spend very long on this subject nor do we get into any details surrounding how it happened; John briefly talks about meeting Hana at the STARDOM NYC show last year and both talk a little abou

Chris and Jeff discuss the untimely deaths of Larry Csonka of 411Wrestling and Shad Gaspard of Cryme Tyme. In less important stuff we discuss Drew Gulak leaving WWE, if Charlotte needs to be on all three shows, how Aunt Pam has grown in the empty arena era, the last stand of Drake Maverick and our feeling of "eh" going into Double Or Nothing.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

How safe is it to continue running empty arena wrestling events in the United States and Florida compared to Japan or Tokyo? Brandon Thurston looks at the data around testing, cases, and deaths.What do Google searches tell us about the title reigns of WWE champions and the popularity of WWE from 2004 to the present?The latest on TV viewership, including the success of the Dark Side of the Ring series.For more information visit http://www.wrestlenomics.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Garrett and Liam break down the fairly lackluster final Double or Nothing build plus talk NXT on the road to In Your House.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today on the Voices of Wrestling Flagship podcast we preview of AEW's Double or Nothing, talk Dragon Gate's King of Gate tournament, AAA's Lucha Fighter tournament, Dark Side of the Ring's Owen Hart special and the unfortunate deaths of Shad Gaspard and Larry Csonka. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to Episode 73 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe. The Road to Double or Nothing is OVER and it’s time to talk all about the go home edition of AEW: Dynamite, play ELITE OR DELETE and the returning Hangman Meter game, talk about ratings, preview Double or Nothing and predict and guess its buy rate!Our podcast provider, RedCircle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/everything-elite and you can donate a single time, or set up a monthly donation to Everything Elite!
Please follow our twitter account https://twitter.com/EverythingAEW, subscribe to us on the podcast platform of your choice, and rate and review the show if you have the chance!Everything Elite has launched their own Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/everythingelite and check out our three tiers of content that we are offering for your monthly pledge.Advertising In

We continue in our Classic Watch-Along series with matches featuring Yoshihiro Takayama, Tomoaki Honma, Hulk Hogan, and Kensuke Sasaki. Joel and Damon also give their thoughts and opinions on the art of blading, Story Time With Damon with an epic Abdullah the Butcher , Knightmare memories, and so much more. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with your King of Gate Update. Each week during King of Gate, Case and Mike will have a shorter episode breaking down the recent tournament matches, and looking ahead to the future matchups. On this first episode, they talk about the first round matchups that aired on Dragongate Network on May 15, 16 & 17th, and discuss the positives and the negatives about them doing this sort of empty arena tournament. After that, they talk about the second round matchups happening this weekend, their predictions for the remainder of the tournament, and the upcoming rookie debuts!Our podcast provider, RedCircle, offers the listeners the option to sponsor the show. Click on “Sponsor This Podcaster” at https://redcircle.com/shows/open-the-voice-gate and you can donate a single time, or set up a monthly donation to Open the Voice Gate!Please Rate and Review Open the Voice Gate on the podcast platfor

The 5 Star Match Game returns with a show dedicated to Pro Wrestling NOAH, as Joe Gagne takes contestants Alan Counihan (@Alan4L), Joey Bay (@joey_bay), and JoJo Remy (@jojo_runs) through a true global honored competition over the last 20 years of NOAH! Another great competition that comes down to the wire!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate - Rewind and Rewatch, where Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are Rewinding and Rewatching the Dragon Gate USA era of shows.This episode covers Open the Northern Gate, from Windsor, Ontario, Canada on May 7, 2010 at the Windsor Armoury. As Dragon Gate USA refused to treat this disappointing sojourn as a B-Show, OTVG refuses to as well as Case and Mike broke down the news and events between Mania Weekend 2010 and the May 7th show, including some big indie happenings, another departure from the DGUSA universe and the 2010 editions of King of Gate and Dead or Alive. After that, they review a very weird but very fun show with the conclusion of the Dragon Kid and Masato Yoshino storyline, the DGUSA debuts of PAC and Akira Tozawa, the reintroduction of Johnny Gargano to the DGUSA audience, and much much more!The Open the Northern Gate awkward YouTube video we talked about is included at the end of the show or can be seen at: https://w

After briefly discussing current joshi shows, including Stardom’s upcoming no fans shows, Aaron and Taylor continue their mini-series covering Stardom from the beginning with the promotion’s fourth through sixth shows from March 27, 2011, April 3, 2011, and April 10! They also bring back their classic segment ranking the eight Stardom rookies through the first six shows!Then, they look at current joshi shows coming up in the next two weeks.Please follow us on twitter: @jbombaudioYou can support this podcast at http://redcircle.com/jumping-bomb-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Chris and Jeff celebrate the career of Becky Lynch. The parallels to Daniel Bryan are amazing. Also amazing were some of the storytelling decisions: Asuka during the Becky promo, Otis as Gollum and killing his babyface aura in a two show (he's not Dusty), Charlotte's one week heel turn, etc. An extended show for your weekend.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy