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This week on SportsMiddle, the crew talks about space, plans to adjust the NASCAR and NHL seasons, and more! They also find a VHS tape, which is weird.

We watched Big Van Vader wrestle Stan Hansen in New Japan in 1990, and his eyeball popped out. How on topic did we manage to be??? Not very!! But this match ruled! And LB tried to wear a child's cowboy hat the whole time!

Welcome to Fanfyte, our premiere pro wrestling and MMA appreciation podcast! This week, Wrestling Editor LB Hunktears brought the show’s first tag team match, 2014’s dynamic duel between the heels at reDRagon and the babyfaced Time Splitters.

Then, in the MMA section, we took a look at the historic heavyweight championship match between Brock Lesnar and Randy Couture from 2008. 

(Small content note: this episode contains a brief discussion of food!)

This week, the crew brings on SB Nation's Bill Hanstock (@sundownmotel) to talk about MLB, NBA, and the continued dearth of sports and sports entertainment. They also remember some guys (that they went to high school with and now play professional sports).

Today on Fanbyte’s premier MMA and pro wrestling podcast, we took a trip back to the mid-90s with the hybrid shoot-wrestling and pro wrestling promotion Pancrase. It’s a wildly entertaining combination of real MMA grappling with some flair and fixings from the pro wrestling world, and we watched two of the most exciting matches in the show’s history: 1995’s Ken Shamrock vs Minoru Suzuki and 1994’s Masakatsu Funaki vs Minoru Suzuki.

Hunktears and Colette are back to talk about the 1994 FMW No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Dynamite Pool Elimination Death Match. You know, where everyone rode a dinghy to get to the ring because it was in the middle of an enormous swimming pool. Colette sings the praises of Atsushi Onita, LB makes plans to become Mr. Pogo, and then they talk about boats. Do you know anything about boats? We sure don't. Please put "boats" in the body of the five star review you leave us though.

On this episode of SportsMiddle, we welcome SB Nation's Natalie Weiner to the program to chat about the WNBA Draft, ESPN's The Last Dance, and the NFL draft.

Once again, we didn’t do this on purpose, but both our MMA fight and pro wrestling match this week have a sort of similar energy. In both, there’s a wily veteran vs. a scrappy, younger up-and-comer, and in both, we have fun, dynamic matchups that go places. This week, it’s Kairi Hojo vs. Meiko Satomura from 2015, and Roxanne “The Happy Warrior” Modafferi vs. Antonina Shevchenko from last year’s UFC St. Petersburg card (the first UFC women’s bout in Russia).

Sports! This week, your favorite video game podcasters surround themselves with an iRacist, the ragtag group of terrible sports owners who are going to save the economy, and hot F1 racers!

This week on the Fanfyte podcast, LB brought Danielle a wildly fun AEW match in Orange Cassidy vs. Pac, a classic fresh-faced babyface vs. heel kind of situation. Then Danielle brought the explosive headliner from October 2018, Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor lightweight championship. That was an intense fight that ended in a massive brawl in the stadium, so you can say there was a lot of pro wrestling energy all around this week.