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Joel and Damon are back this week to preview NJPW's NEVER six man tag team tournament along with a preview of the New Japan Cup USA shows via New Japan Strong on August 7th. The guys also discuss Mark Rocco's passing, the return of hockey, a quick review of last week's Summer Struggle shows, and so much more. 

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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.

DGUSA is finally in Atlanta, and it's time for their second Wrestlemania Weekend! To help us out in reviewing the first ever WWNLive iPPV, friend of the show Joey Bay (https://twitter.com/joey_bay) stops by to talk about how it was like watching Mercury Rising 2011 from Atlanta's Presidental Ballroom on 4/2/2011 in person, and what it's like watching back over this show! PAC defends the Open the Brave Gate Title against Akira Tozawa in this show that also features the Open the Freedom Gate defense of YAMATO vs Austin Aries, who is threatening to leave the promotion if he loses. The DG Six-Man Tag is back for 2011 as this year's edition is Blood Warriors of CIMA, Ricochet and Naruki Doi versus the first all American team of Ronin consisting on Johnny Gargano, Rich Swann and Chuck Taylor! It's a weird Mania show, but it's a fun one to recount!

The short timeline/news section is from 00:11:08 to 00:23:48

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This week on Wrestling Omakase we talk a crazy 14-man elimination tag from Dragon Gate, a coming out party for a super rookie in STARDOM, a WWE classic from 2004, a rare good match for Yujiro Takahashi and an infamous TNA tag sprint from 2008. If you haven't listened to a 5 Matches episode yet, every week John and the guest each choose 2 matches to watch and talk about on the episode. Then we each choose a third match, which is put up to a vote on the @wrestleomakase Twitter account (or on the Patreon!), letting the listeners choose our fifth and final match of the week. It's a fun retro format featuring all sorts of different wrestling!

Wrestling Omakase's Patreon (http://patreon.com/wrestlingomakase) brings you tons of awesome bonus audio featuring both historical and current content. If you like 5 Matches episodes you can listen to four Patreon-exclusive full episodes right now from June & July, plus there's another one coming up next week with guest Todd Martin of the PWTorch. You can also hear our completed series covering every Okada-Tanahashi match in chronological order, plus our in progress series doing the same for every Naito-Ishii match as well. And for current wrestling, check out our exclusive Sengoku Lord review from next week, and upcoming tournament coverage of the King of DDT next week. Plus, Anime Omakase covering the wide world of anime and a whole lot more! All of this is yours for only $5 per month, so sign up today at http://patreon.com/wrestlingomakase!

John is joined by returning guest Andrew Rich (@andrewtrich), host of the VOW network podcast Music of the Mat. We talk a little bit about the neverending boredom of our current pandemic lives, because really what else is there to talk about, before John makes a brief but impassioned plea for everyone to #WatchHameFura. We then get into this week's 5 Matches, which in order are:

1. Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, Magnitude Kishiwada, Gamma, Cyber Kong, Genki Horiguchi & Jack Evans vs. CIMA, Ryo Saito, Susumu Yokosuka, Dragon Kid, BxB Hulk, Anthony W. Mori & Matt Sydal, DG 4/17/07 (https://www.bilibili.com/video/av65526322/, Note: Does not work on mobile, only desktop)

2. Mayu Iwatani vs. Utami Hayashishita, STARDOM 9/24/18 (STARDOM World: https://www.stardom-world.com/set/1678/contents/1677?fcid=2)

3. Cactus Jack vs. Randy Orton, WWE 4/18/04 (WWE Network: https://watch.wwe.com/episode/Backlash-2004-11880)

4. Tetsuya Naito vs. Yujiro Takahashi, NJPW 7/21/14 (NJPW World: https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00232_1_6)

5. Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino vs. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin, TNA 6/12/08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwyGtQSjlg)

Topics that come up along the way include: clipping woes, Andrew the Move Name Robot, lots of flash pins, Utami impresses, Mayu bends, actual good WWE announcing, Mr. Socko or Barbie, Yujiro's awesome saxophone theme, Naito will never get his revenge, the most stereotypical theme song of all time, USA ack-pooey and a whole lot more.

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Missed any of the 5 Matches episodes or just want to revisit one of the matches discussed previously but aren't sure what episode it took place on? Here's a handy Google Doc with links to every single match we've discussed on this series so far, which will continue to be updated every week: https://bit.ly/3dv3BjF

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We definitely waited until Saturday to upload this week's episode solely to do an August 1 Warning bit. No other reason we're this late.

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WWE does 4 times the profit. In a pandemic. We tip the cap. We talk Q2, Warhorse, Aunt Pam and Sasha, and Chris ends the show with a tribute to his grandmother.

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This week on the VOW Flagship Podcast we talk about wrestling that is bad (most of it) and wrestling that is good (some of it). Topics include NJPW Sengoku Lord, NJPW's new KOPW title, WWE Q2 financials, a five-star indie match & more.

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Avid reader of SEC filings Brandon Thurston breaks down the WWE Q2 2020 earnings report as only he can. We look at all the news as the company was even more profitable than the market expected, leading to an increase in shares in after market trading.

Plus: How did Vince McMahon respond to questions about declining TV viewership? Online merchandise sales are way up. Live Event business is almost non-existent to due COVID. Yet the company is more profitable than ever.

In fact, WWE is so profitable that executives (yes, those very executives who cut costs and laid off workers in April) are thinking about resuming the company's stock buyback program.

For more, go to wrestlenomics.com

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Welcome to Episode 83 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe.

Well, the great episode streak of AEW Dynamite is over, and the gang talks all about what things really didn't work on this week's episode, and the few bright points with ELITE OR DELETE, they do some ratings talk as Mike gives another sermon from the Church of the Demo God, they break down the rest of Dynamite, preview next week's episode, and finish the episode talking about the Deadly Draw, Nightmare Factory news and Excalibur.

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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 time for the first Big Match of 2020! This episode of OTVG has Case and Mike quickly review the last taped show of July, Kobe Sambo Hall, then they get into a Memorial Gate in Wakayama 2020 preview! The gang goes through each match on offer for August 2nd's big show, give their thoughts and their predictions. Are we about to enter the Era of Eita? Does the rocket pack of Kota Minoura's push end with holding the Twin Gate titles? What exactly is a Wakayama Lottery, and what do they hope to see on the show?

Closing the show, they look ahead at the jam-packed August slate of shows for Dragongate, with eight shows including the lead up to September's Dangerous Gate

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Joel and Damon are back this week to review NJPW's Sengoku Lord In Nagoya show, along with the first of many Summer Struggle Korakuen Hall shows. Also, we discuss Hiromu as the face of the company, a big outdoor show at Jingu Stadium, interference debates, and so much more. 

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