The Fight Game Podcast: Pro Wrestling, MMA & Boxing

It's Shark Week for Warner Bros. Discovery networks, and AEW played good corporate partner by putting a shark cage in the main event of Dynamite. Unfortunately, the match was horrible.

Meanwhile, the entire wrestling business shifted on its axis with the forced retirement of Vince McMahon. James and Kevin give their thoughts on McMahon's tainted legacy and how a HHH-run WWE could be hard times for AEW but great for the wrestling business as a whole.

Also:

ROH Death Before Dishonor highlights

The controversy around Jonathan Gresham

The greatness of Dax Harwood

Ricky Starks' hot streak

Brody King doing Brody King things

Rampage's diminishing returns

Kevin's idea for a new streaming service

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Ryan and Paul are back to talk the week that was and is to come in the world of MMA on the latest episode of In the Clinch. In the "We Have to Talk About" segment, they discuss the big fight that was made just as last week's episode was dropped, the main event of UFC 279, which features Nate Diaz and Khamzat Chimaev in the last fight of Diaz' contract. They then recap a busy week in MMA headlined by the big show from London which continued the rise of Paddy the Baddy and Meatball Molly. The show also had a second straight unsatisfying finish to a main event with Tom Aspinall suffering a freak injury 15 seconds into his fight with Curtis Blaydes. The UFC 277 preview, which Ryan will attend live, goes over title fights in the women's bantamweight divison and men's flyweight along with the rest of the main card and prelims in what is a solid but unspectacular undercard. In a light news week segment, Ryan goes over a stacked UFC 280 card scheduled for October in Abu Dhabi to close out the show. 

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The latest episode of The WRAP is now live for your listening pleasure! Keila Cash, Scott Young, and extra special guest Jeremy Finestone recap the week that was in WWE. Vince McMahon’s retirement from WWE sent shockwaves across the wrestling industry as the crew takes a deep dive into Vince’s downfall surrounding hush payments to cover up sexual misconduct and extramarital affairs and what it means for the company moving forward. From creative to development to every forbidden door in between, the conversation is wide-ranging, thoughtful, and shady when need be as 2022 continues to deliver one surprise after another. A mini-SummerSlam preview ahead of Saturday’s premium live event wraps the show on an entertaining note. Enjoy and leave a five-star review today!

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This show was originally posted on our Patreon. Scott wanted to let the folks who are listening to the free version of this show get a full taste of what's on the Patreon.

Scott and Parker of the Five Star Joshi Show breakdown Stardom’s biggest tournament of the year, 5 STAR Grand Prix. They'll discuss each competitor in the two blocks, potential winners, best matches, dark horses, top matchups, and so much more!

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On this weekend's Take It Home Podcast, John went back to check out the European wrestling scene. John watched the Loser Leaves Town match in NXT between NXT UK Champion Ilja Dragunov and Jordan Devlin.  John looks at a 60-minute Iron Match at WXW in Germany between the WXW Champion, Tristian Archer and Axel Tischer.  John continues on to Scotland to watch one of the wrestling brightest young stars, Daz Black take on European Wrestling scene veteran Mark Haskins at Insane Championship Wrestling.  

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Fumi Saito & Justin Knipper focused on the latter half of Ultimo Dragon’s career in today’s episode, which focuses more on Dragon’s influence outside of the ring rather than inside. They talked about some of his star pupils that came through his school in Mexico, like Kazuchika Okada and Taiji Ishimori, among many others, and Dragon’s overall influence on today’s wrestling scene.

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Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin put on an instant classic in the main event of a very fun Impact in a number 1 contender match. Plus Jordynne Grace and Mia Yim vs VXT, and Ace Austin and Chris Bey vs OGK!

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Robert Silva is back to talk about Ryan Garcia's knockout victory, more Q&A, and then profiles the great Juan Manuel Marquez.

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Ryan and Paul are back to go over the week that was and is to come in the World of MMA. In the "We Have to Talk About" segment, Ryan talks about the UFC lightweight title fight that was booked for UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi and the reasons why. The guys then recap a very fun show from Long Island with a flat finish in the main event that ended when Brian Ortega's shoulder popped out. What looked like freak accident may have actually been a result of an offensive move by Yair Rodriguez and Ryan explains why. They then preview this coming week's huge show from London which features a ton of European fighters in front of what should be a rabid crowd. Molly the Meatball and Paddy Pimblett will be front and center on the undercard before the main event of Curtis Blaydes and Tom Aspinall in a huge heavyweight fight. They then goes over the news of the week including updates on Nate Diaz, Stipe Miocic, Jon Jones and more. 

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Halfway through AEW's Fyter Fest, the big story is the surprise win by Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee for the Tag Team Championship. James and Kevin celebrate Swerve and Keith finally getting their due as top guys and talk about how it has the potential to send the tag titles in a whole new direction... or maybe right back to The Young Bucks. It's also ROH Death Before Dishonor week, and James wonders if this show is worth the price increase. Is Tony Khan asking for too much from wrestling fans?

Plus:

Santana's injury status and future in (or out) of AEW

Why FTR/Briscoes is a wrestling fan's heaven

Orange Cassidy vs. Wardlow

Cryptic tweets from Fuego Del Sol

Christian's turtlenecks

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