It's the first of a double bill of Spotlights this week as we try to cover the mad volume of big time wrestling that we've been hit with since New Year. And with Benno away and as its Tokyo Dome season, I am joined by the Empress of wrestling podcasting and Karen Peterson!

Join us as we talk both Wrestle Kingdom 19 and Wrestle Dynasty where the highs are very high and by God, the lows are very, very low. We chat Kidd vs Omega, Takeshita's weekend, the issues that New Japan curently face, THAT double main event from Day One, Karen's highlights of the whole Japanese wrestling week and much, much more!

Enjoy

JP

(Benno & Matty will be back with a second recorded show late on Tuesday, reviewing the Raw on Netflix debut)

SHOWNOTES

0:00:00 Intro

0:03:05 Wrestling Kingdom 19 Review

0:36:20 AEW x NJPW x CMLL Wrestle Dynasty Review

1:23:58 Karen's highlights from the week in Puro

Find Karen at ⁠@Karensensei.bsky.social on BlueSky⁠ and her weekly Dream Slam column at ⁠POST Wrestling⁠ 

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The GRAPPL Weekend Show was taped live on GRAPPL Patreon on Thursday night. To get the show every week, become a Patron or YouTube Member on any of our live or audio tiers!⁠ - Benno

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Carl Gac!

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at⁠⁠ ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠⁠⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at⁠⁠ ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠⁠⁠ 

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Benno & JP are back for a wide ranging Spotlight proper as Matty joins them for the first half of the show as they talk SNME, ad breaks, winged eagle belts and Jesse Ventura, before Benno & JP talk Kenny Omega, the Continental Classic, Mercedes and more out of AEW, as well as New Japan in the USA, the return of Tessa Blanchard to TNA and everything else going on in the wrestling world this week ahead of Christmas season and the fourth annual GRAPPYs and CRAPPYs next week!

SHOWNOTES

0:00 Intro, Plugs
10:25 WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, Raw on Netflix
46:01 AEW, Kenny Omega, Collision, ROH
1:16:24 NJPW, Mercedes, TNA, Tessa Blanchard

1:43:50 PATREON PREVIEW: The STORY of Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Carl Gac! You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠ 

Get the the new line of GRAPPL merchandise with FREE SHIPPING to the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand at https://chopped-tees.com/en-uk/collections/grappl

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It's a special Millennium edition of TIME, with a nostalgic look back at December 1999 through the four pillars of culture - Music, Films, TV and Sport!

We have a Christmas catch up on the soaps with star laden episodes of Eastenders & Corrie, Ron Dixon fears of the Millenium Bug in Brookie, the single worst Christmas Top 10 in history, Bond, Sixth Sense and Arnie in movies, the brilliance of the the Kevin Phillips/Niall Quinn partnership and a brilliantly told recap of the career of Lennox Lewis - we cover everything happening in TIME, in December of 1999.

SPOILER - the world didn’t end

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JP: @grappljp

Matty @MattyEdwards86

Liam: @LFDOOM

Gareth: @GRAPPLGareth

The GRAPPL Weekend Show was taped live on GRAPPL Patreon on Thursday night. To get the show every week, become a Patron or YouTube Member on any of our live or audio tiers! - Benno

The big man is back as John Paul Houlihan himself joins me for the GRAPPL Weekend Show as we review Dynamite from Wednesday night, talk WWE/Netflix, Ryan Nemeth, more on the ring boys scandal and all the other news and previews. Apparently NXT have a PLE. News to me too.

SHOWNOTES
0:00 Intro
12:38 WWE news, TNA
55:26 AEW Dynamite Review, AEW news
1:24:31 The Weekend Previews

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Carl Gac! You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠ 

Get the the new line of GRAPPL merchandise with FREE SHIPPING to the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand at https://chopped-tees.com/en-uk/collections/grappl

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL, or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at http://www.Patreon.com/GRAPPL! 

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It’s Episode 11 of BRETRO and as we get closer to Christmas, there’s a reminder that A Dog Is For Life… Bulldogs anyway.