Eastern Lariat

This week on the Eastern Lariat, Dylan flies solo and guides you through nights 9 & 10 of the G1 with thoughts on both shows and his take on the whole tournament through it's halfway point. Then he covers the latest in Pro Wrestling NOAH, talking the announcement of the MLW partnership, the announcement of the first 2 N1 Victory competitors in Hije del Dr. Wagner Jr. & Alex Hammerstone, plus the situation involving Atsushi Kotoge. Finally it's AJPW talk as he covers the weekend's shows from Osaka, covering the Jr. Tag Battle of Glory last two nights and 3 different title matches capped off with a wonderful Triple Crown match between Kento Miyahara & Zeus.

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Dragon Gate ran their biggest show of the year and maybe their biggest in the company's history because it saw the return of Ultimo Dragon to the promotion after over 15 years. Because of that and for the main event between Ben-K and PAC for the Open the Dream Gate Championship this show was highly emotional and featured some outstanding matches and moments. STRIGGA & Dylan got together to talk about this show from Kobe and also some other news and notes regarding Fujita „Jr" Hayato, Sareee and Pro-Wrestling NOAH.

The Eastern Lariat returns with a new show covering the G1 Climax triple header that saw some outstanding matches between Thursday and Saturday and after 7 events of the tour STRIGGA & Dylan name their top 5 matches of the tournament. Before going to the main topic of the show though STRIGGA runs down some news and notes on Guts World, 666, Big Japan, ZERO1, All Japan, Jiro "Ikemen" Kuroshio and Takayamania.

This week on Pure Heart, Pure Lariat Dylan Fox (@DylanZeroSky) is forming his super trio of Joshi focused podcasts with Justin from the Joshi Joshi podcast (@coffeeyay) & Derek Tillotson (@PrivateEyeball) of the Private Eyeball Show returning, with the three talking about the best of Joshi Puroresu so far in 2019. We have a plethora of fun categories we had nominations and picks for, controversy and debates, capped off the only way it reasonably could, an honorary shoutout to Ai Hara. Nearly every major promotion had at least one pick, check it out and get the perspectives from 3 of the biggest and best Joshi focused podcasts. Whether you're a dedicated follower or casual and wanna catch up, the 2019 Half Year Awards Show is where it's at, and it's right here on Pure Heart.

A lot of great matches, moments and rivalries of the first half of each year in japanese wrestling get forgotten by the end of the year due to the G1 Climax being so domineering which is why the Eastern Lariat team decided to introduce the Half Year Awards. Based on the Tokyo Sports Awards STRIGGA & Dylan go through each of these categories – and more! Besides the top three for each you will also get some honorable mentions and some ballots that you, the listeners sent in!

The holiday Umi no Hi traditionally is a very busy day in japanese pro wrestling so STRIGGA & Dylan at first focus on DDT's Wrestle Peter Pan show from Ota Ward Gymnasium before going over the G1 Climax show from Hokkaido that saw Jay White vs. Tomohiro Ishii and Tetsuya Naito vs. Taichi. In a rare preview the Eastern Lariat crew talks about the big Dragon Gate Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival that will see the return of Ultimo Dragon and towards the end they debate Jun Akiyama stepping down as president of All Japan Pro Wrestling.

It's this time of the year! STRIGGA & Dylan return to action with their review of the Ota Ward double header of the G1 Climax that saw some great matches for the G1 Climax beginning on japanese soil after it started in the United States. The Eastern Lariat crew discusses all the matches, stories and possible routes for some of the wrestlers and they also look a little bit more behind some of the characters and their motivations like Jay White, Hiroshi Tanahashi or KENTA.

Dylan's join by first time guest and TJPW expert Matt (@mattsdl on Twitter) to talk about the entire Tokyo Princess Cup, the Final, and TJPW as a whole in 2019.

Dylan Fox rides solo to look back at the opening show to this year's G1 Climax tournament from the American Arilines Center in Dallas, Texas!

This week on Pure Heart, Pure Lariat Dylan (@DylanZeroSky) brings on his first repeat guest, going back to the original, WH Park (@whpark9) from POST Wrestling as we take a look at fellow POST Worker Damian Abraham (lead singer of Fucked Up) and his documentary show on Viceland TV, The Wrestlers, with this entire show dedicated to the episode focused on World Wonder Ring STARDOM. The episode itself revolves around Mayu Iwatani, Rossy Ogawa, Fuka, Kris Wolf, Jungle Kyona, AZM, with cameos by others. The conversation turns much longer than expected when we take a deep dive into Japanese culture as brought up on the documentary and WH gives his thoughts on Western takes on Japan and Japanese culture, along with both he and Dylan talking about Rossy Ogawa, a live perspective of Korakuen Hall, a deep dive on Shin-Kiba 1st ring's "locker rooms", and the native Japanese fans of STARDOM with some records getting set straight and pure talk about more than just wrestling.