With Hiroshi Tanahashi's retirement at Wrestle Kingdom 20, TSC Wrestling host Fred Richani looks back at our Fwb. 2018 interview with New Japan Pro Wrestling commentator, historian and author Chris Charlton about the rise, fall, and rebirth of NJPW! 

Charlton also discusses his critically-acclaimed book "Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling," Kenny Omega, the success of the Bullet Club after the departures of AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows to WWE, Kazuchika Okada's incredible IWGP heavyweight title run, Tetsuya Naito's reinvention with Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ), and his Tokyo Dome book "Eggshells: Pro Wrestling in The Dome"! 

Note this interview took place one full year BEFORE the formation of All Elite Wrestling and the eventual AEW / NJPW Forbidden Door partnership! 

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