Voices of Wrestling Podcast Network

As people across the U.S. protest racism and police brutality, we divert from the usual focus on wrestling business.

Audio clip sources:

-Xavier Woods, UpUpDownDown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmmTyEmCZpE

-MVP, Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-QQM4xcLMU0

-James Baldwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwhNWPLVF-Q | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmL3F5uylo

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xsbt3a7K-8

-Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, “Tears We Cannot Stop”: https://www.audible.com/pd/Tears-We-Cannot-Stop-Audiobook/

-Toni Morrison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2txzMkT5Pc

-Nikki Giovanni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikpa5o3cu3Y

-Malcolm X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_uYWDyYNUg

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Overall the wrestling was pretty good, but WWE makes some moves that step in it a bit with R-Truth, Mandy Rose and the Drake Maverick angle. We liked a lot in WWE, AEW and NXT. All hail Aunt Pam. Also we preview NXT Takeover: In Your House

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Garrett and Liam talk about a fairly run-of-mill Dynamite and a somehow more lackluster NXT go-home show for In Your House.

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Black Lives Matter. Find a charitable cause and donate: https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-for-black-lives-matter.html

This week on Wrestling Omakase we talk some pretty incredible Japanese wrestling, including a triple dose of Toshiaki Kawada! 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, 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 has launched its brand new Patreon. Head to www.patreon.com/wrestlingomakase where you can get, right now, two episodes in our new series covering all of the Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi matches in order (with a third to follow shortly after this goes up) as well as the first edition of Anime Omakase. And next week it will be the ONLY place to catch Wrestling Omakase #148, our first Patreon-exclusive episode of the podcast, with debuting guest Alan Counihan (@Alan4L) from PWTorch. Get all of our Patreon audio for just $5 a month!

John is joined by debuting guest Brandon Thurston (@BrandonThurston) from the Wrestlenomics podcast, right here on the VOW network. John and Brandon open things up discussing a little about getting into Japanese wrestling at a similar time, and Brandon talks a bit about how he evaluates matches as a wrestling trainer. Then we get into our 5 picks of the week, and it's a real stacked lineup:

1. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi, AJPW 6/9/95 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2OLvGT5ROU)

2. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Shinya Hashimoto, AJPW 2/22/04 (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7cw715)

3. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Kensuke Sasaki, NJPW 10/9/00 (NJPW World: https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00156_1_1)

4. Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito, NJPW 3/4/12 (NJPW World: https://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00190_1_2)

5. Hikaru Shida vs. Aja Kong, OZ 9/17/18 (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7musls)

Topics that come up along the way include: how you can break all the rules when you get over, that old school AJPW Budokan vibe, little bro Kawada, two wrestlers meeting toward the end of their careers, Japan's long history of interpromotional matchups, the NJPW/AJPW feud of the early 00s, babyface Naito was more over than you remember, Okada and Naito having an absolute classic that you may have never even watched, Aja Kong says you have to bring the action to her, and much, much more! This is an episode where we honestly go on so many tangents I can't even recall them all now writing this description, but it's definitely one I think you'll find enjoyable. Brandon brings a great perspective as someone who's been in the ring before.

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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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Welcome to Episode 75 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe.

Starting off this show, the guys talk about current events in regards to Black Lives Matter and the police within America, and how people can support the ongoing efforts. To educate yourself more on the ongoing situation, please visit: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#educate and if you’d like to find a way to support this necessary action please visit: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#.

After this, the gang talks about the last week in news about AEW, including 6/3/2020’s AEW Dynamite, play ELITE OR DELETE, talk about ratings and Double or Nothing buyrate news, the build to Fyter Fest and much more!

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An abbreviated episode discussing why Joe didn't join us today, how you can help your community, the heartless Drake Maverick storyline and a short preview of NXT TakeOver In Your House.

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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 your King of Gate Update. Each week during King of Gate, Case and Mike will have a shorter episode breaking down the recent tournament matches, and looking ahead to the future matchups. On this third episode, they talk about the Block Finals, U-T Return Match from May 30th and 31st, as well as preview the final four people in King of Gate going into its last weekend on June 6th and 7th along with the impending debuts of Madonna Kikuta and Sora Fujikawa!

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After briefly discussing their memories of seeing Hana Kimura live and interacting with her before and after shows (this segment ends at 16:52 if you want to skip ahead), Aaron & Taylor reflect on Arisa Hoshiki’s career in light of her recent retirement. Along with general thoughts on Arisa, they offer some of their favorite matches of hers.

Then, they look at Japan’s plans for reopening, and when we might see joshi with live crowds again.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Hana Kimura.

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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 covers Enter the Dragon 2010, Dragon Gate USA’s 1st Year anniversary on July 24, 2010 at the The Arena in Philadelphia. It’s an incredibly stacked show with sudden return of Bryan Danielson to DGUSA as he took on Shingo Takagi along with the blowoff for Kamikaze USA vs Chikara Sekigun. Case and Mike take a look at the big two months between DGUSA’s Canadian shows and their anniversary show, which includes why Danielson was back on the indies and appearing for DGUSA, Kobe World 2010, and so much more. The episode concludes with the pair trying to figure out where they put Enter the Dragon 2010 on the pantheon of DGUSA shows, and if they saw the best match in DGUSA to that point!

The show review starts at 00:50:25 on this episode.

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