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Aaron and Taylor start by discussing reports that WWE refused to let Kairi Hojo work in Stardom, and what that might mean for Stardom’s future!

After that, they review TJPW’s 1/4 show from Korakuen Hall, including discussing the English announce team and Rika Tatsumi winning the Princess of Princess Title!

Then, they look at Ice Ribbon’s RibbonMania show, including the excellent ICExInfinity Title match between Suzu Suzuki and Saori Anou!

Finally, they look at other shows that have happened in the last two weeks, and the shows that are coming up in the next two weeks, including a preview of Stardom’s 1/17 Korakuen Hall show!

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NJPW has an India TV deal. A media deal in the U.S. and U.K. seems imminent. WWE Raw scores big ratings for its Legends Night program. Vince McMahon has countersued Oliver Luck. What does MLB's apparent downgrade in TV rights fees from ESPN mean for the sports rights market? Linda McMahon contributes millions to her Trump super PAC.

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This week on Wrestling Omakase it's a compilation of our two live reaction shows after each night of NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15, previously available exclusively for Patreon subscribers but now here on the free feed as well!

The Wrestling Omakase Patreon is your best source for coverage of Japanese wrestling, from yesterday and today. Again, patrons were able to listen to our Wrestle Kingdom 15 coverage LIVE after the end of each show, and they got to hear the audio back on demand a full 5 and 6 days before this hit the free feed. You can also check out our now-completed 2020 Year in Review series, with Patreon-exclusive episodes covering DDT and Joshi. Plus, check out our ongoing series covering every Tokyo Dome main event in order, continuing throughout the month of January, and you can submit matches for our second round of patron-picked 1 Match episodes, coming in February! You also get instant access to everything else we recorded during 2020 too- tournament coverage, shows covering every Okada-Tanahashi and Naito-Ishii matches in order, ANIME OMAKASE, and a whole lot more. You can get access to all of this right now for only $5 at www.patreon.com/wrestlingomakase!

John is joined by not one, not two, not three, but FOUR guests to break down two fantastic nights of Wrestle Kingdom! VOW contributors Chris Samsa (@TheChrisSamsa, also of course from Sport of Pro Wrestling), Jeff Andrews (@Jeff_andrews21) & Jon Hernandez (@FatmansAlright) and also Liam McCann (@liam_d_mccann) from the Super J-Cast discord are all on the line for both nights. They break down every single match and moment from two huge nights of Wrestle Kingdom, again each recorded just minutes after each show went off the air. Some major arguments about El Phantasmo, EVIL and the nature of heel heat break down toward the end of Night 1, and in both cases you can actually hear the energy escaping from our bodies in real time at like 8 am on the east coast (without any sleep). A patron referred to them as "the Monster's Ball matches of audio: five competitors unable to sleep for 24 hours and then released", which is.....probably a compliment! It was definitely some unique audio, that is for sure!

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MyBookie presents Shake Them Ropes, use code ROPES and get 50% added to your initial deposit. It's been a rough week, but Chris and Jeff are here to talk the Legends Reunion, a sneaky watchable Smackdown and two enjoyable shows on Wednesday, while NXT UK breaks Jeff's heart.

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Welcome to Episode 106 of Everything Elite, presented by MyBookie!

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 Night One of the New Year’s Smash AEW Dynamite (1/7/21), talk ratings, discuss the two title matches with Kenny Omega defending against Rey Fenix and Hikaru Shida versus Abadon, and of course a ton about the Impact invasion and reunion of The Elite with Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows!

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140 Super J-Cast Wrestle Kingdom Review - Joel and Damon return with one of our most popular podcasts of the year. We review Wrestle Kingdom nights one and two with match analysis, reactions and a full post-show breakdown. The guys also discuss the Jay White promo, future matches for Kota Ibushi, give praise to Jeff Cobb, touch on New Year Dash, answer listener questions and so much more.

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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.

It’s Dragongate’s winter break, so OTVG is taking this week to do a retrospective and talk about their Best of 2020! Case and Mike decide their DG MVPs, Most Outstanding, Rookie of the Year, Most Improved, Breakout Star, Best Tag Team, Feud of the Year, Show of the Year, Small Show of the Year and then each of their ten top matches in Dragongate for the year of 2020. Concluding the show, they talk about the unit shake up, the injury list, and discuss how the current State of Emergency could affect January’s shows (Note: This episode was recorded on 1/5, before DG moved the times of their 1/12 & 1/13 Korakuens).

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Welcome back to Open the Voice Gate - Rewind and Rewatch, where Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are Rewinding and Rewatching the Dragon Gate USA era of shows. 

On episode 40, Case and Mike review Heat 2013 from the Pappy Pineda Dome in Huntington Park, CA on 1/27/2013.

Before getting into today’s episode, they look at the bigger moments of the wrestling world to start 2013 including some bad ROH TV tapings, the first ever Wrestle Kingdom live-stream and the fallout from that, and much more. 

After that, they get into Heat 2013, the conclusion of DGUSA’s final ever triple-shot weekend. The main event is a dream partners tag team of AR Fox and Akira Tozawa versus the Young Bucks along with Jimmy Susumu vs Sami Callihan and Johnny Gargano defending the Open the Freedom Gate against Brian Kendrick. 

The show review starts at 00:48:15

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This week on Wrestling Omakase we bring you our annual Year End Awards episode, as John and five guests break down the best and worst of wrestling from the cursed year that was 2020!

The Wrestling Omakase Patreon is your best source for coverage of Japanese wrestling, from yesterday and today. We'll be bringing you LIVE COVERAGE via Youtube the moment that each night of Wrestle Kingdom 15 ends, exclusively for patrons! Even if you didn't see this in time to sign up for the live audio, you can still get access to it days ahead before the free feed does! You can also check out our now-completed 2020 Year in Review series, with Patreon-exclusive episodes covering DDT and Joshi. Plus, check out our ongoing series covering every Tokyo Dome main event in order, as we recently talked the second and final SWS Dome show with a divisive Hulk Hogan vs. Genichiro Tenryu main event, with more to come throughout the month of January. You also get instant access to everything else we recorded during 2020 too- tournament coverage, shows covering every Okada-Tanahashi and Naito-Ishii matches in order, ANIME OMAKASE, and a whole lot more. You can get access to all of this right now for only $5 at www.patreon.com/wrestlingomakase!

It's our annual Year End Awards episode, and John is joined by a great panel: VOW's Suit Williams (@SuitWilliams), Gerard Di Trolio (@GerardDiTrolio) and Harley Duncan, plus Monumental Pod's Mongo Ebooks (@mongo_ebooks) and One Wrestling Podcast's TJ (@aspir_). The year 2020 sucked real bad of course, but that doesn't mean we can't honor the best and bury the worst of what was still an eventful year in wrestling! Here's all the awards we covered on the show, in order:

-Worst Weekly TV Show

-Worst Major Show

-Worst Promotion

-Worst Feud

-Worst Match of the Year

-Best Weekly TV Show

-Best Major Show

-Most Outstanding Wrestler

-Best Promotion

-Best Feud

-Tag Team of the Year

-Match of the Year

-Wrestler of the Year

Each of the guests gives their picks before we give the overall winners of the Omakase Awards, voted on by the vast majority of the guests who appeared on the podcast during the calendar year 2020. New for this year, we also have separate award winners voted on by the Omakase patrons, so it was fun to compare and contrast the results between what the guests picked and the patrons picked (often similar, but not always!). Join us in a look back at how wrestling helped us all get through this incredibly crappy pandemic year.

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This week we explain how the modern wrestling media economy works and just why cable TV gives WWE and AEW so much money for rights fees.

Plus, Covid prevalence in Japan and Tokyo are on the rise as Wrestle Kingdom approaches.

And WWE Smackdown gets a huge lead-in on Christmas day, followed by normal viewership on New Years Day.

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