Voices of Wrestling Podcast Network

Chris Harrington (@mookieghana) and Brandon Howard Thurston (@brandonthurston) are joined by Will Cooling (@willcooling) of Fighting Spirit Magazine to talk all things WWE in the United Kingdom and other international business. How much has TV viewership of RAW and SmackDown declined recently? Will the company get another raise from their TV partners at Sky?

Plus Chris and Brandon discuss a new Bloomberg Business article on WWE and play Mainstream Wrestling Article Bingo.

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* WWE PPV schedule changes, all will be co-branded after WrestleMania

* More on the decline in venue merchandise sales in 2017

* Mookie's 2nd Rey Mysterio poll

* FloSports CEO leaving company

* Powerbomb.tv fires co-founder

* Michael Elgin files lawsuit against accuser

Check out Mookie’s work at wrestlenomics.com and indeedwrestling.com. Read Brandon’s latest at WrestlingINC.com.

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Wrestling Omakase returns after a brief period off with an exciting new episode looking at the entire history of the World Wonder Ring, STARDOM! John is joined by returning guest Sean Williams (@TheDragonSuplex), author of the STARDOM Project blog, and new guest Tara Wrist (@ae2501maeth), longtime STARDOM and joshi fan, to discuss the entire history of this incredibly interesting joshi promotion! The three start right at the beginning in 2011 and discuss a ton of different topics as they work all their way up to the present day: the early days and first rookies, Nanae Takahashi and Rossy Ogawa, gravure idol turned joshi star Yuzuki Aikawa, Act Yasukawa and Yoshiko's careers and their infamous incident, the match quality of the promotion, idols and merch sales, Oedo Tai, starting STARDOM World and targeting Western fans, and much more! Plus a number of other topics come up including other joshi promotions, today's joshi world vs. the dark ages of the 00s, true idol promotions and matches involving AKB members, and much more! It's a fun and packed nearly 3 hours of discussion entirely on joshi, and we hope you enjoy it.

This week on the Voices of Wrestling flagship podcast Joe and Rich recap NJPW's The New Beginning in Osaka, NJPW's 46th Anniversary Show, EVOLVE 100 & 101, the history of EVOLVE and much more. 

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The Aarons are back with a full preview of this weekend’s EVOLVE shows! On this week’s episode, we talk EVOLVE 100 and 101, WWN’s WrestleMania Weekend ticket sales and the always convoluted internal dynamics of Catch Point. In addition, we break down EVOLVE’s performance in the Voices of Wrestling match of the year poll, The Problem With Ranking Matches and a spirited debate over whether Austin Theory will win the EVOLVE championship Saturday. Only one #WrongBoy can be Fully Wrong. Who will prevail!?

Oli and Arn are here for our first standard episode under our more conversational format. They cover all the delights of European Grappling's January and early February, including an early Match of the Year contender between Timothy Thatcher and WALTER. Plus the boys discuss the pairing between the Oceania and European region, as well as their dream imports to see in 2018.

This was one up and down week of WWE television, folks. The highs of Raw, featuring Braun and Elias in a musical battle... The lows of Smackdown featuring Baron and Dolph entering the World Title picture. Plus, Rusev and Lana dress for the occasion, Buddy Murphy makes weight, and Akira Tozawa is still depressed over not being named 205 Live General Manager. 

All that and more on an all new Shake Them Ropes!

Chris Harrington (@mookieghana) and Brandon Howard (@brandonthurston) discuss the week’s topics in wrestling business news:

* Top WWE 2017 financial stories

* Mookie scores each segment of WWE's business

* Rey Mysterio vs. Jushin Thunder Liger announced for NJPW Long Beach show

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Check out Mookie’s work at wrestlenomics.com and indeedwrestling.com. Read Brandon’s latest at fightful.com.

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In this week's episode of the New Japan Purocast, we give our thoughts on "The New Beginning in Osaka" from 2/10\. Plus, we run down the card for New Japan Road on 2/14 and much more!

This week on the Voices of Wrestling flagship podcast we discuss the new and improved 205 Live, the difference Triple H has made in the product and the history of Vince McMahon's wrestling mind. Other topics include a preview of NJPW's The New Beginning In Osaka, a review of All Japan Pro Wrestling's recent Osaka show, shirtless Tongans, what Winter Sport Joe should compete in and much more.

We ran out of time and were unable to discuss and wrap-up our Match of the Year. We've moved that to our Overrun segment on the VOW Flagship Patreon (Details Below) 

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The road to Elimination Chamber, Fastlane, and WrestleMania continues with twists and turns and Roderick Strong beating Hideo Itami WHAT!?