GRAPPL Spotlight

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Tuesday Update w. JP 24.1.23

- Positive update on Jay Briscoe's daughters Gracie and Jayleigh Pugh

- Steve Austin-Mania update

- Updated Royal Rumble card

- R*w XXX filth results and fallout (sounds shit actually)

- Battle in the Valley card update

- Warner Bros executive comments on Power Slap. Fucking cowards

For one week only to celebrate the GRAPPL Spotlight Patreon 2 Year Anniversary, we are making our Patreon shows free for all on the main feed. If you are enjoying this content consider subscribing at Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

Monday Update w. Benno 23.1.23

- Spotlight is tomorrow, live & free on Youtube - subscribe! 

- Rampage & Smackdown results

- New Japan, NOAH results & happenings

- Great Muta cunt tour rolls on

- Raw XXX preview for those arsed, looks like a porno when you write that down doesn't it

On this week's show PW Torch's Will Cooling joins Benno & JP to follow up on last week and talk all the McMahon family drama with Stephanie officially out, Vince making moves back into creative and the Saudi buyout & Khan family rumours and other wild stories that took hold in the hours and days since last week's show. 

Benno and JP then talk Impact's Hard To Kill with Mickie James "last" match and another great week in AEW with three highly praised matches from Dynamite, the return of Adam Cole, the non-debut of Mercedes & even some quick Brit Wres chat at the end of the show!

SHOWNOTES

00:00 Intro 

01:20 McMahon Family Drama, WWE sale

53:10 Raw Month One, Patreon

1:11:30 Impact Hard To Kill Review

1:33:10 LA Forum AEW Dynamite Review, Rampage 

2:09:45 Misc, Brit Wres

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Well to call this a cursed show is an understatement. 20 minutes after we finished our original recording session, news broke that Stephanie McMahon had left WWE. Here in the intro Benno and Rich Fann cover that story (with possibly more big news to break) before the original recording with Benno, JP and Rich talking Vince McMahon back in power in WWE, lots of Succession parallels and some theories that would both date well and not so well an hour later.

The lads also talk a stellar run AEW from the last few weeks, Jay White rumours, New Japan, and more!

SHOWNOTES

00:00 Stephanie McMahon Resigns Breaking News

13:55 Main Show Intro

22:47 Vince McMahon Returns

1:27:05 AEW Catchup, Dynamite Preview

2:09:35 New Japan, Jay White

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On this week’s show, it’s a rare Wednesday Spotlight as Benno & JP review the full Wrestle Kingdom show from Wednesday morning with an Ospreay/Omega MOTYC doing crazy numbers on the GRAPPL app, a not so good debut for the former Sasha Banks (and Benno’s run in with Sasha Banks Twitter), plus the rest of the show, the current state of New Japan, Nakamura vs Muta from NOAH, Stardom and more!

SHOWNOTES

0:15 Intro, Benno vs Twitter, New Year

14:59 Plugs, Patreon

19:00 Don West

26:15 New Japan Wrestle Kingdom 17 Review, Ospreay/Omega, Mercedes Mone

1:45:33 NOAH, Nakamura vs Muta, Stardom

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It’s the 2022 GRAPPL & Friends Christmas/New Year Q&A Spectacular as Benno, JP, Gareth and Matty end the year in a marathon session answering all of your questions where anything goes, with plenty of booze (and tea - some of us are sick) drank as friends of the show Alan 4L, Karen Peterson, Andy Ogden, Carl Gac, LF DOOM, Will Cooling and the rest of the GRAPPL Spotlight IWC come together for #AskGRAPPL!

You can get the full 6 hour recording session unedited on the GRAPPL YouTube in glorious video, or in audio free for all on the GRAPPL Patreon (and for patrons of all levels, in their personal RSS feed)

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On this week’s show, Benno, JP, Gareth and Matty take stock and look back at the very best of 2022 with the second annual GRAPPY Awards!

Join the lads for some laughs and some surprising (and not so surprising choices) as they talk their favorite wrestlers, angles, moments, shows and promotions of the year, as well as some non-wrestling awards looking at the best in Film, TV and Music - plus stay to the end for the world famous Big 6 Awards as they talk the most important subjects, the Soft Drink, Crisps, Chocolate, Beer, Meal & Food Establishment of the Year for 2022!

SHOWNOTES

0:29 Intro

8:30 Main Awards

- Male Wrestler of the Year

- Female Wrestler of the year

- Tag Team of the Year

- Feud/Storyline of the Year

- Promo/Angle of the Year

- Moment of the Year

- PPV of the Year

- Promotion of the Year

- Commentator of the Year

- Best Ring Entrance Music

- GRAPPL Gareth Live Show of the Year

- Biggest U-Turn/Wrestler who has surprised you

- Wrestler Most Excited for in 2023

2:05:07 Misc Categories

- News Story Of The Year

- Best Podcast (wrestling & non wrestling)

- Best Media Personality/Best on Twitter

- Film of the Year

- Album of the Year

- TV show of the Year (current & rewatch)

- Best Sporting Moment

2:53:42 The Big Six

- Soft Drink, Crisps, Chocolate, Beer, Meal & Food Establishment of the Year

- Patreon Show Of The Year

If that’s not enough (or too much positivity for you) you can get the CRAPPY Awards with the Worst of the Year, Get in the Bin awards and a game of Likely/Unlikely at Patreon.com/GRAPPL exclusively this week, as well as extended versions of every episode of Spotlight with pre and post-show, live video, daily updates, weekend previews, weekly bonus shows and all our other bonus content!!

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.

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On this week’s show, Benno and JP are joined by Alan Counihan to review ROH’s Final Battle from the weekend featuring a match of the year contender in FTR vs The Briscoes and lots of title changes as ROH resets with the big news coming out of the show of no TV deal for the time being and plans for the show to be on Honor Club.

The lads talk that, the shitshow of a press scrum following the show and more as Alan also joins in on a review of Dynamite, talks his WON Hall Of Fame ballot and plugs some Dragon Gate, before Benno and JP go in on Regal (again) and talk NXT Deadline and Josh Alexander vs Speedball Mike Bailey. Also, lots of chat on Irish telly.

SHOWNOTES

0:17 Intro, Plugs

18:39 ROH Final Battle Review

1:47:46 ROH TV on Honor Club

2:14:10 AEW Dynamite

2:34:38 Alan’s Hall Of Fame Ballot, Dragon Gate

2:54:20 Dynamite continued, NXT Deadline, Josh Alexander vs Mike Bailey

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Hello there! After much delay and frantic schedules, its the finale of Andor as we join JP & WH for a recap of the final three episodes of this outstanding series. We talk prison breaks, Luthen's ridiculous ship (which only proves WH' s theory), how Cass' stuff was still on top of a shower, MORE political and social allegories at work , Syril's seeming sucessful stalking campaign, even Mo Mon Mothma problems again, some proper cheeky Easter Eggs and our thoughts on Season 2!

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On this week’s show, GRAPPL Gareth joins Benno and JP to check in on AEW and his thoughts on the product the last few months as the lads tackle a wide ranging discussion of the state of the company heading into ROH’s latest PPV Final Battle.

They also talk William Regal and his return to WWE, review Dynamite and Rampage from the last week, look at the Final Battle card itself and talk some Tales of The Territories (and JP’s personal feud with David MANNING), plus some MLW chat, the Top 10 GRAPPL matches in November and even some bonus World Cup chat!

SHOWNOTES

0:17 Intro, World Cup 2022 

30:05 Plugs, Bret in WCW, Patreon

41:33 State of AEW 

1:31:03 AEW Dynamite, Rampage

2:27:50 Tales from the Territories, MLW, GRAPPL Top 10 in November

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.

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