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This week on Wrestling Omakase we present our mid-year awards for 2020, doing what we can to highlight the best (and drag the worst) of this very strange and terrible half-year!

We're returning to mostly covering current wrestling here on the free feed, but if you miss our 5 Matches format featuring discussion of older matches you can still catch brand new episodes at our Patreon! Head to http://patreon.com/wrestlingomakase where you can listen now to a brand new exclusive 5 Matches episode with Nate from VOW network podcast Everything Elite, as John gives their controversial (?) thoughts on the Kenny/Page-Young Bucks match from Revolution earlier this year. Plus we cover Naito-Tanaka from 2013, Tanahashi-Nakamura from 2015 (the G1 final), the WCW HARDCORE JUNKYARD INVITATIONAL from 1999 and a whole lot more! In addition at the Patreon right now you can find two more exclusive 5 Matches episodes from last month with Alan4L & Rich Kraetsch, 11 episodes in our ongoing series covering every Okada-Tanahashi match in order, 2 episodes of Anime Omakase, and our New Japan Cup pick 'em. You can get access to all of this bonus audio plus more to come throughout the month for just $5!

Here in the strange and cursed year of 2020 John brings on an esteemed panel of VOW contributors to help them break it all down. The guests are: Andy (@trillyrobinson), Paul (@Darth_Dragon), Ricardo (@wallyrgr), Taylor (@tamaimbo), Thomas (@rasslinratings) and Tyler (@TheRealForno). Below you can find all the awards we covered in their order of appearance on the podcast (everything up to Best Weekly TV Show was 1 pick per person and every award after that was 3 picks per person):

-Worst Weekly TV Show

-Worst Major Show

-Worst Promotion

-Worst Feud

-Worst Match of the Year

-Best Weekly TV Show

-Best Major Show

-Best Promotion

-Best Feud

-Most Outstanding Wrestler

-Match of the Year

-Tag Team of the Year

-Wrestler of the Year

Hear all of our picks for the best and worst of a very shitty year, this week!

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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.

This episode of Rewind and Rewatch covers the first DGUSA show of 2011, United: NYC, from B.B. King’s Bar and Grill in New York City on 1/28/2011. It’s time to figure out who will be the first DGUSA Open the United Gate Champions, and that brings us to DGUSA’s debut in New York City. Before we get into the card itself, we talk about the very busy first few weeks of 2011, including the comings and goings in Japan, things announced for DGUSA, and finally, the formation of Blood Warriors!

After that, we talk about a show that ended up being a return to form for DGUSA including two outstanding United Gate tournament matches in Chuck Taylor & Johnny Gargano vs Naruki Doi & Ricochet and the main event of Masato Yoshino & PAC versus CIMA & Dragon Kid. As well, the Open the Freedom Gate title is the line between BXB Hulk and YAMATO, Reby Sky’s start in pro wrestling, and a whole lot more!

The show review starts at 00:28:46

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Fyter Fest and the Bash. Better late than never. Plus, a lot of Aunt Pam and Sasha praise.

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Super J-Cast : 114- New Japan Cup 2020 Part Three - Joel and Damon return to catch you up on the 2020 New Japan Cup with three show reviews including match break downs, analysis, best and worst performances , MVP's, and all of the highs and lows from this year's Cup.  - Black Lives Matter - How You Can Help : https://www.timeout.com/things-to-do/how-to-support-black-lives-matter

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What can we learn from Google web search data related to the biggest stars in WWE and AEW?

Why is the linear wrestling audience so old? Is it representative of the actual consumer base or skewed by media choices?

Plus, Brandon Thurston goes into detail talking about research he recently did breaking down the quarter-hour data in the Wednesday night competition between NXT and AEW.

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After a week off, the VOW Flagship Podcast is back at it as Joe and Rich cover the latest news and notes in pro wrestling.

Topics today include NJPW's New Japan Cup, Karl Frederick's move to heavyweight, the return of Kawato, Jun Akiyama's move to DDT, the end of ZERO-1, the official sale of EVOLVE to WWE, the latest from All Japan Pro Wrestling, and more! 

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Garrett and Liam each give separate individual reviews of AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT because that's how all podcasts hosted by two people work, right?

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Welcome to Episode 79 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe. It’s FYTER FEST WEEK ONE YA’LL!! The gang plays ELITE OR DELETE about the first week of the Midsummer Somewhat Classic, talking about the three big title matches and more. After that, they talk about ratings, further breakdown the show, preview Fyter Fest Week Two and look ahead to Fight for the Fallen!

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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 finally here! The first set of Dragongate shows in front of live crowds are coming up on 07/04 & 07/05, but before that, we gotta wrap up Lapis Hall. Case and Mike breakdown the final set of empty arena matches from 6/27 and 6/28, talk about the stylistic change that’s going on with the newer generation of wrestlers, discuss the place setting that these shows have done. After that, they break down the cards for this weekend, do a big more speculating on X, and preview the upcoming Hopeful Gate schedule!

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Aaron and Taylor start with a review of Stardom’s 6/21 Shinkiba show--a wrestling show in front of fans!--including the current status of Oedo Tai, a reappraisal of Donna Del Mondo, and Taylor insulting Aaron’s favorite wrestler!

They follow that up with a discussion of upcoming shows, including those happening over the next two weeks that they’ll discuss on the next podcast.

Then, they resume their Stardom 2011 project with the 5/8/11 show, in which Taylor is forced to apologize to Eri Susa and Aaron comes around to Taylor’s view on the main events just in time for Taylor to have abandoned his earlier view!

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