The Flagship Wrestling Podcast

The Flagship returns at full strength this week to preview this weekend's AEW Full Gear 2025 PPV, recap and react to Tony Khan's interview with Ariel Helwani, plus thoughts on the NWA World Heavyweight Title switch, ZERO1 vs. NOAH, & more!

AEW Full Gear 2025 Instant Reaction LIVE

Don't forget to join us Saturday immediately following the AEW Full Gear 2025 PPV for the best, most detailed, thorough, and passionate post-PPV review show in the game: Instant Reaction LIVE!

The show is available both live and on demand exclusively on our $10 tier at FlagshipPatreon.com.

An important announcement from The Flagship Podcast

This week on The Flagship: AEW announces they are adding the National Title to their lineup—just one problem: the NWA already has the NWA National Title! We discuss everything that went into this controversy, who has a real claim to the title, the title's history, and more.

Plus, in other AEW news, we preview next week's Blood & Guts Dynamite, look at the Full Gear 2025 card, and more.

Also on The Flagship: a recap and review of WWE's Saturday Night's Main Event, the announcement of a tournament for John Cena's last opponent, and some NJPW news and notes, including the World Tag League lineups, results from Hiroshi Tanahashi's Final Homecoming show, and so much more.

-AEW/NWA National Title Controversy

-Blood & Guts Lineup

-Full Gear 2025 Taking Shape

-WWE Saturday Night's Main Event Review

-John Cena Tournament Opponent

-World Tag League Lineups

-Hiroshi Tanahashi's Final Homecoming Show

This week on The Flagship: an extensive recap and review of MLW's Symphony of Horrors, Austin Aries' resurgence has him heading to CMLL, Bobby Fish breaks his silence on CM Punk, WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, Hiroshi Tanahashi's Final Homecoming, against all odds The House of Torture making it to the finals of the Super Jr. Tag League, the bizarre Vince Russo/JCW/NWA story, and perfunctory Halloween discussions including what Joe's kids are dressing up as and our yearly candy discussion.

• MLW's Symphony of Horrors
• Austin Aries' Resurgence
• Bobby Fish/CM Punk
• WWE Saturday Night's Main Event Preview
• Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Homecoming
• Super Jr. Tag League
• Vince Russo/JCW/NWA
• Perfunctory Halloween Discussions

This week on The Flagship: how WWE is performing on ESPN Unlimited, the WWE AI story, Go Shiozaki vs. Kento Miyahara, the beginning of NJPW's Super Jr. Tag League, AAA Heroes Inmortales 2025, NXT Halloween Havoc, and more!

• WWE/ESPN Unlimited
• WWE AI story
• Go Shiozaki vs. Kento Miyahara
• NJPW Super Jr. Tag League
• AAA Heroes Inmortales 2025
• NXT Halloween Havoc
• Marigold running Sumo Hall with IYO SKY vs. Mayu Iwatani
• & more!

This week on The Flagship: a preview of AEW WrestleDream 2025, AEW's shallow main event scene, the latest on Andrade, TNA going dark(ish) for the next four weeks, NJPW's King of Pro Wrestling, NOAH Wrestle Odyssey, Go Shiozaki's jump to AJPW, and also for some reason legendary WCW jobber The Gambler.

• AEW WrestleDream 2025 Preview
• Latest on Andrade
• TNA going dark(ish)
• NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling Review
• NOAH Wrestle Odyssey Review
• Go Shiozaki jumping to AJPW
• & more!

Join us immediately following Saturday's AEW WrestleDream 2025 PPV for Instant Reaction LIVE—the best post-PPV review show in the game.

Available exclusively on the FlagshipPatreon.com $10 tier.

This week on The Flagship: a classic spray-to-all-fields show covering NXT, TNA, NWA, MLW, NJPW, and much more!

We NXT ShoWdown featuring the TNA Invasion, preview TNA's Bound for Glory, look at the upcoming NWA Samhain 3, review MLW Slaughterhouse, talk Santo Escobar's new contract, share more thoughts on the new Big Data + Panel ratings system, preview NJPW's King of Pro Wrestling, discuss the retirement of Australia's Davis Storm, and much more.

The Flagship returns this week with a very special show as Rich enlists the help of three very special guests to fill in for Joe and cover a wide range of topics!

In our first hour, Scott Edwards (http://www.youtube.com/@ScottEWrestling) joins the show to discuss STARDOM's huge show last Friday, Saya Kamitani vs. AZM, what's going on with STARDOM, why you should be watching the company, plus Saya Kamitani's MVP case.

After that, J. Michael of Voices of Wrestling (voicesofwrestling.com/author/mastromuzieken/) discusses his The State of the Lionmark series, analyzing the state of NJPW in October 2025 as we quickly approach one of the most important Wrestle Kingdoms ever. Plus De La Soul, Cheap Seats, Toe Jam & Earl, and more.

In our final hour, Justin Bissonnette (patreon.com/newtexaspro & newtexaspro.com) joins the show to talk about New Texas Pro Wrestling's upcoming show: "We Know Ball," the dynamics of booking independent wrestling in 2025, some of their favorite up-and-comers in the scene, and so much more.

This week on The Flagship: a detailed recap and review of CMLL's 92nd Anniversary show, including the incredible MJF vs. Mistico match, the unmasking of Valiente, and more!

A review of WWE's debut on ESPN Unlimited with Wrestlepalooza, highlighted by Brock Lesnar's decimation of John Cena, the return of AJ Lee, and a lot of very bad discourse about an ESPN writer giving the show a "C."

Plus impromptu previews of TNA Victory Road, NXT No Mercy, MLW Fury Road, discussions on AJPW & more!

Instant Reaction LIVE: AEW All Out 2025

For a full review of AEW All Out 2025, listen to Instant Reaction LIVE available exclusively on the $10 tier at http://www.flagshippatreon.com.

This week on a special Tuesday episode of The Flagship: we preview AEW All Out 2025, WWE Wrestlepalooza, if anyone actually understands how to get ESPN Unlimited, CMLL's 92nd Anniversary show plus reviews of MLW Fightland, AAAxWWE Worlds Collide & more!