James is joined by Chelsea Spollen, Alex Edwards and Alex Watt to review New Japan's biggest show of the last decade; Wrestle Kingdom 12. There is plenty for everyone to get their teeth into this week as New Japan's annual visit to The Tokyo Dome offers up dream matches like Tetsuya Naito vs Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Title, Chris Jericho making his shocking return to the company after 16 years to face Kenny Omega for the IWGP US Heavyweight Title and "Switchblade" Jay White challenging the living legend Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Intercontinental Title. British interest was strongly served with Marty Scurll defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title against Hiromu Takahashi, KUSHIDA and Will Osperay. Minoru Suzuki put his hair and NEVER Openweight Title on the line against former Champion Hirooki Goto. The Killer Elite Squad defend their IWGP Tag Team Titles against The Tag League Winners Evil and Sanada. In A breathtaking singles bout Cody takes on Kota Ibushi. With a round up of the New Year's Dash event and the follow press conferences that lead us to New Beginnings, its a packed card and packed show!

James is joined by Chelsea Spollen this week to take a look at a free show provided by the denizens of BritWres cool, Pro Wrestling EVE. The company recently provided a taster of their streaming service for free on their YouTube Channel which can be found here;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2WXlT6Nswk&feature=youtu.be

James and Chelsea breakdown the show and talk about EVE's phenomenal year, and what they hope to see from the company in 2018.

James is joined by Alex Watt this week to preview the NJPW Tokyo Dome show on the 4th of January, Wrestle Kingdom 12. Headlined by Tatsyua Naito vs Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP Championship this is a stacked card from top to bottom and has one hell of a legacy to live up to. New Japan are also trying to widen their base in North American and Europe with the battle for Winnipeg Supremacy with Chris Jericho's surprise jump to the company giving him a IWGP US title shot agains the leader of Bullet Club Kenny Omega.

Alex and James break down matches angles and stories and give their unique takes and background on the biggest card of the year outside of the WWE.

James is joined by Chelsea Spollen of Shoulders Up and Marcus Green of wrestletalk.tv to discuss whats gone on in 2017 in North America. They give their annual Truepenny Show awards and reflect on the big stories in wrestling of the last 12 months.

James is joined by Alex Watt and Alex Edwards to start a new era for the Truepenny Show by reviewing the year of 2017 in Asia. They look at the big matches, the ongoing trends and give out the annual Truepenny Show Awards.

Impact Wrestling's biggest show of the year landed last week on the same day, NJPW delivered its last non Tag League show before Wrestle Kingdom, so this was an opportunity to contrast how the two companies are doing in today's market place. James is joined by Marcus Green of wrestletalk.tv to discuss the two cards.

"The Japanese Flying Angel" Manami Toyota has retired. James is joined by Chelsea Spollen and Alex Watt to pay tribute to the greatest wrestler to ever live(in James Opinion at least). An emotional rollercoaster ride through her days as a tag team Queen, Ace of AJW, and her later career working for a myriad of companies where she shed her shinning light on Joshi how it should be done.

To celebrate Atsushi Onita's 60th Birthday, James is joined by Chelsea Spollen of shouldersup.net and Marcus Green of wrestletalk.tv to discuss FMW in 1993, their Origin and Summer Spectacular Baseball Stadium filling, blood, barbed wire and explosion extravaganzas. FMW were really hitting their stride at this point both financially and artistically. James, Chelsea and Marcus discuss the violence and the drama that made FMW such a success in such a short time.

In April of 1993 the women of Joshi were on fire. As we looked at least year they had delivered with Dream Slam I in Yokahama, eleven days later they headed to Osaka and tried to pull off the same trick and they may have actually topped it. AJW, LLPW, JWP and FMW come together to deliver a breath taking card featuring Chigusa Nagayo, Bull Nakano, The LCO, Combat Toyoda, Megumi Kudo, Shinobu Kandori, Dynamite Kansai, Mayumi Ozaki, Toshiyo Yamada and Manami Toyota. James is joined by Chelsea Spollen of ShouldersUp.net to explain the action.

Kazuchika Okada is all set to go to Wrestle Kingdom as the longest reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion of all time, can EVIL from LIJ stop him?

Tetsuya Naito also has a signed sealed and delivered contract for the Tokyo Dome and the chance to main event against Kazuchika Okada for that very same title, Tomihrio Ishii is the last man in the way of Natio's destiny.

KUSHIA defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Will Osperay in a thrilling match.

James is joined by Alex Watt to discuss the ups and downs in this card and to see how it lays the table for the Best of Super Juniors Tag tournament, The G1 Tag League and of course Wrestle Kingdom in the Tokyo Dome.