Kris & David are joined by Daniel Makabe (@danielmakabe) to discuss the week that was January 20-26, 2003. We talk about Hulk Hogan making yet another return to WWE, this time to heat up his angle with Vince McMahon for WrestleMania XIX in Seattle, which Dan attended. We also talk about all of the other WWE news, such as the dependance on big names and part-timers for WrestleMania that still goes on today, The Rock speaking with "Jake T. Icon" about his future in pro wrestling, John Hennigan & Matt Cappotelli winning contracts in the finale of Tough Enough season 3, and a set of house shows in Japan & South Korea, which included Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Ric Flair, Satoshi Kojima, & Keiji Mutoh all hanging out together in a fantastic story. Speaking of Japan, we go over basically all of the promotions—of which there are many—and we were all watching as much of it as we could at the time, so we have some interesting and detailed takes on what was going on. We also talk about the ECCW Pacific Cup in British Columbia that Dan also attended, plenty of lucha libre goodness that was marred by CMLL going into reruns in the U.S., a lawsuit over Ray Gonzalez in Puerto Rico, IWA Mid-South's 300th show and the shockingly big crowd it drew, and much more. Finally, in TNA, we talk about the weekly PPV featuring Dusty Rhodes beefing with Nikita Koloff, SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT XTREME, & the TNA debut of Raven, among other things. This was a tremendous show, one that features some old friends talking about the shit they loved and hated some 18 years ago.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 WWE

2:41:29 Eurasia: AJPW, NJPW, NOAH, World Japan, Zero-One, BJPW, CMA, Eagle Pro, K-Dojo, Osaka Pro, Rainbow, Toryumon, WMF, Akira Maeda, AJW, Neo Ladies, & All-Star Wrestling

3:44:00 Classic Commercial Break

3:45:57 Housekeeping/The Amazon Game

4:17:08 Other North America: Stampede, ECCW, CMLL, IWRG, Monterrey, & IWA Puerto Rico

4:49:18 Other USA: CSWF, IWC, IPW, IWAMS, IWR, SDW, XPW, Kip Frey, & Portland Wrestling

5:27:58 NWA-TNA

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