GRAPPL Spotlight

On a special edition of VERSUS, Benno sits down with his former trainer, the owner and promoter of Grand Pro Wrestling, Johnnie Brannigan. 

In a wide ranging conversation they talk GPW's upcoming 20th Anniversary Show, as well as the history of the promotion and it's place in the North West wrestling scene, the big names who've came and gone and changes Johnnie has seen in British Wrestling over the 20 years as a trainer, wrestler and promoter, with a look forward to what the future of GPW holds.

Get Tickets to Grand Pro's 20th Anniversary Show: Skiddle

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Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

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On the GRAPPLpod this week, GRAPPL Gareth joins Benno & JP for a full review of what some are calling the show of the year - AEW and New Japan Forbidden Door, as the lads talk Ospreay vs Omega, Danielson vs Okada, CM Punk channelling Bret Hart in 1997, and everything else on the stacked card. They also talk Collision Week two, GRAPPL Gareth’s thoughts on the show so far, and more!.

SHOWNOTES

0:58 Intro, Plugs, Joe vs Punk, TIME, The Story of Evolution, Early 2000s fashion

17:10 AEW Collision Week Two, Gareth’s AEW Catchup

27:55 AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door Full Review

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

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Video Version available on GRAPPL Youtube, with the full raw uncut video available free for everyone on GRAPPL Patreon!

GRAPPL Spotlight Presents Episode Two of "TIME", a nostalgic look back at May 2000 through the four pillars of culture - Music, Films, TV and Sport.

Join JP, Gareth, Matty and Liam at they travel to May 2000 and dive into some wacky topics, glorious nostalgia and downright weirdness that was life in the beginning of the Millennium!

SHOWNOTES

12:16 Music

1:07:48 Sports

1:56:52 Movies

2:25:49 TV

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Matty: @MattyEdwards86

Liam: @LFDOOM

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to current Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Simon Mulvaney 

Get the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, as well as live video, daily updates, weekend previews and all our bonus content at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

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For the first time ever, we are doing a survey of GRAPPL Spotlight listeners, please if you can take a couple of minutes to let us know what you think of the podcast, what we can improve, what you like and dislike and anything else at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WNHJJFW!

On this week's show, Benno & JP talk their impressions of the first episode of AEW Collision on Saturdays with a newsworthy CM Punk promo following his interview with ESPN, as well as the rest of the happenings on the big debut show. They also talk Rampage and this coming week’s Dynamite, as well as the build to Forbidden Door, Dark Side of the Ring, Smackdown, 21 Years of TNA, NJPW vs AJPW and more!

SHOWNOTES

0:38 Intro, Plugs, Joe vs Punk Trilogy, Global Force Wrestling, TIME

14:48 AEW Collision Debut Show, CM Punk promo

1:06:33 Rampage, Dynamite Preview

1:28:33 Dark Side of the Ring - The Graham Family

1:39:50 Smackdown, NJPW vs AJPW

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

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On this week's show, Benno & JP talk the debut of Collision this week and their excitement levels going into the big show as well as more tickets opening up for Wembley, Forbidden Door taking shape and the G1 schedule and block announcements.

They also talk WWE TV possibly ending up on Disney, two well received main events from Impact’s Against All Odds and the NJPW/AJPW/NOAH crossover show All Together Again - plus reviews of AEW Dynamite and the latest episode of Dark Side of the Ring!

SHOWNOTES

0:18 Intro, GRAPPL x Poisonrana Sells Out

07:43 Plugs, Joe vs Punk Trilogy, Observe This, TIME

16:18 AEW Collision Era Begins, Main event announced, ticket sales

35:04 All In update, Forbidden Door card

43:18 G1 Schedule and Blocks

51:10 WWE TV Renewal/Disney, Drew McIntyre

1:02:12 Impact Against All Odds Review

1:14:25 NJPW, AJPW & NOAH All Together Again Review

1:30:15 Dark Side of the Ring Magnum TA Review

1:38:18 AEW Dynamite Review

2:03:11 Bonus Audio: Samoa Joe vs Necro Butcher from Samoa Joe Mixtape on GRAPPL Patreon

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

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It’s official, GRAPPL is All Innit, as we're going to Wembley with our friends at Poisonrana for a LIVE show from the Trinity Bar in Harrow London. Come and hang out the afternoon of All In on Sunday 27th August for a live GRAPPL podcast with Benno, JP, Matty & Gareth, as well as live games and trivia from Poisonrana with Davie & Braden. Get your tickets now at http://grappl.bigcartel.com!

On this week's show, it’s a slick tight show as the lads have lots to discuss with the announcement of GRAPPL and Poisonrana LIVE, plus they talk whether New Japan is back with a well received Dominion card at the weekend, the huge announcements of Ospreay/Omega and Bryan/Okada and a fresh looking G1 Lineup featuring Eddie Kingston.

They also talk a great week for Dynamite and Rampage, some CM Punk, GCW, Smackdown, Chris Candido on Dark Side of the Ring and some bonus audio on the best wrestling themes of all time!

SHOWNOTES

0:18 Intro, GRAPPL x Poisonrana Live in London Announcement

08:04 GRAPPL Patreon in June

13:21 Forbidden Door, G1 announcements

30:50 NJPW Dominion

53:11 AEW Dynamite, Rampage

1:13:54 Dark Side of the Ring, Chris Candido

1:35:58 GCW, Smackdown

1:49:06 Patreon Preview: 5 to 1 - Top 5 Wrestling Themes

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

Get the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, as well as live video, daily updates, weekend previews and all our bonus content at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

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For the first time ever, we are doing a survey of GRAPPL Spotlight listeners, please if you can take a couple of minutes to let us know what you think of the podcast, what we can improve, what you like and dislike, and anything else at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WNHJJFW!

On this week's show, it’s a bumper edition of Spotlight with a full squad as Benno and JP are joined by Gareth and Matty to talk both AEW’s Double or Nothing and WWE’s Night of Champions from the weekend as they debate whether Double or Nothing was AEW’s worst ever PPV and talk whether the Bloodline story has ran cold (again).

They also talk the rest of a packed few days of shows with the New Japan Best of the Super Juniors Finals, Impact’s Under Siege and NXT Battleground, as well as the latest on Wembley sales, the confirmation from Tony Khan that ROH and Collision will not take place on All In Weekend and lots more.

SHOWNOTES

0:32 Show Intro

07:12 AEW Wembley Update, ROH and Collision

20:44 AEW Double or Nothing Review

1:30:50 WWE Night of Champions Review

2:10:53 Impact Under Siege

2:34:19 NJPW BOSJ Final

2:43:01 NXT Battleground

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

Get the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, as well as live video, daily updates, weekend previews and all our bonus content at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

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Get shows like this every week, as well as the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, with live video, daily updates, weekend previews and more at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

In lieu of there being no live Spotlight this week (due to a massive GRAPPL Patreon Town Hall on Sunday and not too much happening last weekend), find here "The Phil Special" with audio from the GRAPPL Patreon Weekend Show about everyone's favourite shit stirring miserable bastard (JP's words) and the AEW Collision announcement.

After that included is the full episode of GRAPPL Flashback from GRAPPL Patreon recorded after Brawl Out, as Matty and GRAPPL Gareth joined Benno and JP and looked at the career of CM Punk via the lens of his 2012 WWE DVD documentary - CM Punk Best in the World.

In the show, the lads compare Punk's WWE bust ups with his then status on the outs with AEW (how times change), as well as talk his many friends, enemies and other contentious relationships over the years through the indies, OVW and ECW through to the the Straight Edge Society and the Pipebomb in WWE!

SHOWNOTES

0:00 Intro

02:07 AEW Collision, CM Punk and Ace Steel bust up

26:24 CM Punk Best in the World Flashback Review

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt.

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On this week's show, the great WH Park drops by to chat this week’s stellar AEW Dynamite with a universally praised Kenny Omega vs Jon Moxley match and the lesser praised Four Pillars story and everything else going on in AEW in the build to Double Or Nothing.

The lads also talk the latest on Wembley, with discussion on the biggest paid wrestling attendances of all time, as well as the biggest attendances in modern UK history, plus AEW's game changing TV deal, the New Japan BOSJ and more!

SHOWNOTES

0:32 Show Intro, Eurovision, TV 

12:33 Plugs, Hulk Hogan Film Club, WH’s Top wrestling themes of all time

22:57 Wembley, The biggest wrestling attendances of all time, Rev Pro at Copperbox

1:08:27 AEW TV Deal

1:17:26 AEW Dynamite

2:04:49 NJPW BOSJ

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

Get the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, as well as live video, daily updates, weekend previews and all our bonus content at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

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On this week’s show GRAPPL Gareth joins the show for a major update on the status of GRAPPL going forward.

After that though, Benno, JP and Matty review WWE’s Backlash from Puerto Rico on Saturday, talk the latest Wembley updates as ticket sales pass 60,000 and surpass all expectations, plus the lads review Dynamite, Rampage and everything else they've watched this week, with some quick chat on Eurovision, King Charles and the best Wrestling Themes of all time!

SHOWNOTES

0:00 Cold open, GRAPPL App Announcement

17:33 Show Intro, Kings Coronation, Eurovision, Best Wrestling themes

29:57 Wembley Sales Update

54:03 WWE Backlash Puerto Rico

2:00:20 AEW Dynamite, Rampage

2:25:15 Impact, NOAH, All Japan roundup

Thanks to our patrons for supporting the podcast, with special thanks to Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns & Chris Platt. 

Get the extended version of Spotlight with pre and post-show, as well as live video, daily updates, weekend previews and all our bonus content at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

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