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An early week Flagship talking Impact Wrestling's Rebellion including Rich Swann vs. Kenny Omega, AJPW's Champion Carnival, MLW's new TV deal, a catch-up on Chicago indie AAW & a review of A&E's "Stone Cold" Steve Austin documentary.

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Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

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This week’s update covers the doubleheader on 4/18 in Fukuoka. Case and Mike talk about their favorite matches and moments on this surprisingly strong set of shows. Afterwards they finish up the show previewing the eventful looking April Kobe Sambo Hall show and the first show of Masato Yoshino’s retirement road, Speedstar Final Countdown in Yoshino’s hometown of Higashiosaka!

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Everybody here comes 2 Cold Scorpio! On this episode of Music of the Mat, Andrew is joined once again by JoJo Remy (Voices of Wrestling) to discuss the themes of 2 Cold Scorpio. Scorpio is one of the most preeminent high-flyers of his generation, and he has some rather fun (and funky) themes to boot! Andrew and JoJo discuss Scorpio's career, his level of influence, and the many songs that had us moving and grooving as Scorpio made his entrance.

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This week on Wrestling Omakase we review the latest Korakuen shows from NOAH & Tokyo Joshi, plus we TALK SOME TITAN and a lot more on a real tangent-heavy episode!

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John is joined by returning guest Kevin Brown from the Bad Wrestling Podcast (@badwrespodcast). John & Kevin discuss the current pace of vaccine rollout, Round 1 arcade rankings and more, before getting into this week's first topic of discussion: Pro Wrestling NOAH's Neo Breeze Korakuen from April 18th. Well, actually just the top three matches of it for reasons out of their control (damn you Abema geoblocking!). They go into great detail on these matches to make up for it though, talking the controversial Keiji Mutoh GHC title reign and his hype match to set up his upcoming second defense with Masa Kitamiya, a junior heavyweight title match with Atsushi Kotoge and Nioh (with a bonus deep dive into Kotoge lore, discussing one of the weirdest wrestling careers in modern times!), and finally another hype tag for the upcoming Fujita/Sugiura National Title match, with a lot of praise for 'ol Ironhead.

Once that's out of the way they turn to Tokyo Joshi, our first trip back to that promotion in a while, to break down April 17th's Still Incomplete show, also from Korakuen Hall. The two of them discuss being two of the true TJP Oldheads who can remember when these wrestlers were mostly horrible and no one watched it, and then break down a fun show full of good to great matches. They also talk a surprise retirement, upcoming title matches on next month's Korakuen, RAKU'S TRAIN OF THE DAY, and more! Finally, they wrap up the show with the main event, TALKIN' TITAN, as John & Kevin discuss the horrible ending to the Attack on Titan manga. There are major spoilers here for people watching the TV series, but not to be worried if you're trying to avoid them- we give plenty of fair warning when we discuss them and it comes after all of the wrestling talk. But it's been a recurring bit for all of Kevin's Omakase appearances, so we had to wrap things up here with a fittingly terrible end of a truly terrible series.

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Aaron and Taylor start by reviewing Tokyo Joshi Pro’s 4/17 Korakuen Hall show, Still Incomplete, including a tag team title change and Rika Tatsumi’s Princess of Princess title defense against Maki Itoh!

After that, they dive into the first round of Stardom’s Cinderella Tournament and break down the rest of the bracket for the finals on 4/30!

Then, they look at the other shows that have happened (or aired) in the past two weeks, including Ice Ribbon’s 3/27 Korakuen Hall show, and the next two weeks of shows, including previews of the GAEA show on 4/29 and Ice Ribbon’s 4/29 Korakuen Hall show!

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A big week for TV ratings: AEW got its second-highest total audience ever, NXT had its first week in its new permanent Tuesday slot, Raw had a big audience for its post-Mania episode, Miz & Mrs. is back with new episodes, plus Impact and Smackdown.

WWE put out its annual proxy statement, disclosing information about executive compensation and ownership.

And Brandon stumbles across an SEC filing that sheds light on WWE's biggest customers and possibly NXT's TV rights fees.

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Sponsored this week by MyBookie, visit http://mybookie.ag and use code ROPES to get up to 1000 matched on your first deposit. Also sponsored by MANSCAPED, use code "Ropes" to get 20 percent off and free shipping at http://manscaped.com. The yearly week after Wrestlemania purge happened: out with the old, in with....nobody yet. Backlash is now Wrestlemania...Backlash. How were the follow-ups? Baffling, especially on Smackdown with the Street Profits. Why is Jack Starz the only pure babyface in the WWE expanded universe? Also why a song in a Sami Zayn video is nightmare fuel for Jeff, and Chris explains Bucks-itis.

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A busy week on the VOW Flagship Podcast as we review WrestleMania weekend, discuss the most recent set of WWE cuts and the first post-Wednesday Night War ratings from AEW and NXT.

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Welcome to Episode 120 of Everything Elite!

This week, AB, Nate and Mike are here to talk about all things All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe! This week EE plays ELITE OR DELETE about the 4/14 episode of AEW Dynamite including The Young Bucks’ rebrand/title match against Pac & Fenix, Anthony Ogogo’s debut, interference and more! After that, they breakdown the remainder of Dynamite and argue about turntables!

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Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

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This week’s update covers the 4/9 Korakuen Hall show and the announcement of King of Gate 2021. Case and Mike first review Korakuen, talk about the concerning trend in regards to their Tokyo main events, discuss the first one on one Apuestas match in the Dragon System in almost 20 years and the rest of a very strong show. After that, they take their first look into this year’s King of Gate tournament, talk about the format, and the matches they are most excited about on their first looks!

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