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This week Wrestling Omakase's third annual Year in Review series continues! Each week from now until the end of the year we will recap the 2019 of a specific promotion, promotions, or type of wrestling, covering all their major shows and moments and giving our picks for the major award categories. It's a great way for you to catch up with wrestling you may have missed this year and identify matches you may want to watch or rewatch before doing your end of the year awards voting!

We've almost reached the end of another Year in Review series. In our penultimate episode, John is joined by returning guests and VOW contributors Thomas Fischbeck (@rasslinratings) & Paul Volsch (@Darth_Dragon) to talk a great deal of the Japanese wrestling scene. Basically we're covering all the major men's puro companies other than NJPW & DDT today, and we start with a long look at the year of All Japan Pro Wrestling. Even though business stagnated a bit, how much is the booking to blame? And was the wrestling still among the best in the world? We then turn our attention to a promotion that's received a great deal of hype this year in Pro Wrestling NOAH, as we discuss that hype vs. the reality and also some of the positive business signs for the company. We then take a look at the always-perplexing world of Big Japan Pro Wrestling, talking how their year went in some wacky directions and discussing their big shows and tournaments. Then we take quicker looks at Dragon Gate, Wrestle-1 and ZERO1.

Along the way we preview all the major early January shows for all these promotions, and then end up just playing a "Wrestle Kingdom Week: Path of Greatness" game where we map out what shows we would go to if we were going to Japan that week. If you happen to be going for the first time we also discuss the geography of various venues, in case you're wondering how quick it will be to travel between them. Then we pick our awards winners for all of these promotions in the usual categories, including a strong Match of the Year list and more. Finally we wrap things up with your questions on all sorts of different topics. It's a fun trip through a ton of different puro companies, this week!

You can take a look at Thomas' doc for all the announced shows and matches for Wrestle Kingdom week here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-zlTqyAkdhA_JnVIKHP8Ahv-uuWKrcJln7sXhS9ys_k/edit?usp=sharing.

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Break out the Nog. A lot of Wednesday Night Wars talk following a strong end of the year episode for NXT. Plus, we asked for questions, you could ask us anything, and you asked about wrestling. So we obliged with our answers.

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Welcome to Episode 10 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate, and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe. Topics they cover on this episode is AEW: Dynamite from Corpus Christi, TX and they talk about the big positives and big negatives of the show with ELITE OR DELETE along with running down the full show. A TON of talk about the controversial end to Dynamite, AEW’s first ratings loss, AB and Nate’s Japan trip and a whole lot more!

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This week Joe and Rich recap the horrendous wrestling weekend they forced themselves to watch for some reason with recaps of WWE TLC, ROH Final Battle 2019 and NWA Into the Fire. We'll also talk about the issues with AEW, what can be fixed and why we're so disappointed by the product so far.

Additional topics include the deaths of Moondog Spot, Rene Goulet and the much-needed cleanse of Dragon Gate Final Gate and the incredible Naruki Doi vs. Ben-K main event.

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Garrett and Liam break down everything from a Takeover level edition of NXT as they delivered the two biggest matches they possibly could while AEW ended the show with the formal double down on The Dark Order. Plus a lot of talk about the holes in AEW's big picture presentation that need to be addressed in the New Year and history was made in the listener poll. Also most importantly, Australian Christmas. 

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Open the Voice Gate is back to talk about December in Dragon Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) review the 12/4 Tokyo Korakuen Hall show with a match that would be loved if it was on NWA Powerrr and a huge turn and then talk about the earth-shattering 12/15 The Final Gate show where the entire title landscape of Dragon Gate changed. After that, they preview DG’s 2019 Tokyo Farewell that takes place on 12/18 and touch on Shun Skywalker in Mexico, some final red demon mask speculation, the new logo/company name and 2020’s Toryumon reunion show!

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This week Joel and Damon preview the Road To Wrestle Kingdom shows from Korakuen Hall to help get you set for Wrestle Kingdom in January. They also discuss Tokyo Sports awards, NJPW talent as Christmas characters, we revisit the Super J-cast Hunk Zone, plus answer listener questions.

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This week Wrestling Omakase's third annual Year in Review series continues! Each week from now until the end of the year we will recap the 2019 of a specific promotion, promotions, or type of wrestling, covering all their major shows and moments and giving our picks for the major award categories. It's a great way for you to catch up with wrestling you may have missed this year and identify matches you may want to watch or rewatch before doing your end of the year awards voting!

AEW and ROH are two American wrestling companies that had very different 2019s, and we discuss them both on this episode of Omakase. John is joined by returning guest and VOW contributor Sean Sedor (@SASedor2994) and Nate (@epitasis) of Everything Elite (@EverythingAEW) as we start out with some talk about Nate's upcoming trip to Japan and thus some NJPW talk, including who is walking out of Wrestle Kingdom with both belts. We then talk Ring of Honor's incredible decline. Was there anything they could have done to prevent their fall? Just how bad has it gotten in the back half of the year? We then move over to discussing the first calendar year in existence for All Elite Wrestling, as we break down how things are looking for them as they exit their proverbial honeymoon period. We talk some of the big mistakes they made in terms of perhaps trying to promise to be all things to all people, and why some types of fans may have turned on them recently. But of course we also talk some of our favorite matches, moments and Dynamite episodes so far. Finally we wrap things up with our award winners and another spirited mailbag.

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It's not December without a couple of releases and wellness violations. A rather upbeat look at the week that was, as Chris and Jeff enjoyed Smackdown for different reasons and found the two NXTs to be fun. Sprinkle in a little AEW and you have what we do. Next week is a show where we take all questions, so dm them @ShakeThemRopes

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Welcome to Episode 50 of Everything Elite! This week, AB, Nate, and Mike are back to talk all about All Elite Wrestling and the Elite Extended Universe. Topics they cover on this episode is AEW: Dynamite from Garland, TX and they talk about the big positives and big negatives of the show with ELITE OR DELETE along with running down the full show. As well, the gang talks about the recent ratings news, who AB thinks will be the new character in Smash Bros Ultimate, the next PPV on AEW’s schedule and AEW wrestlers in New Japan!

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