Voices of Wrestling Podcast Network

In this week’s edition of the New Japan Purocast, we take a look at the World Tag League as a whole up to 11/26 and give our thoughts on the best matches and teams thus far. Plus, will WK 12 have a prime time slot on AXS TV? All that and much more fun!

Chris Harrington (@mookieghana) and Brandon Howard (@brandonthurston) talk WWE TV rights negotiations and how UFC’s current negotiations have an effect, WWE cutting from 16 to 14 PPVs in 2018, NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 news. Plus an update on WWE’s ongoing legal proceedings and a look into how often wrestlers who are released from the company comeback.

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As a special bonus appended to this episode, we had an impromptu talk about Brandon’s life in independent wrestling!

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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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Our 2017 Year in Review series continues this week with everyone's favorite promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment! John is joined by the only two members of the VOW family who can be reliably counted on for WWE PPV roundtables, Kelly Harrass (@comicgeekelly) & August Baker (@augustbaker12), as we break down WWE's 2017! We discuss what the top WWE and NXT contenders might be for various year end awards (MVP, Most Outstanding, Show of the Year, and more), whether the return of split brand PPVs was a success, and even give a brief review of Sunday's Survivor Series PPV. Plus, Kelly & August each give their overall top 5 matches of the year for all of WWE (including NXT). And since this week's episode isn't exactly breaking new ground, the three go a bit off topic discussing everything from current favorite anime and tokusatsu to knife shows on the history channel and even do a live reading of the first couple paragraphs from disturbing "giant squid has sex with the Hogwarts building" Harry Potter fanfic (while John's pronunciation reveals they are not a big Potter fan). Don't worry though: most of the really off topic stuff is toward the end of the show if you'd like to avoid it. Most of it. Probably. Enjoy!

Arn is joined by Robin to discuss the recent Global Wars UK weekend that New Japan and Rev Pro jointly hosted. These shows featured the much talked about Keith Lee vs. Tomohiro Ishii and the amazing conclusion of the Ospreay and Sabre trilogy.

In this week’s edition of the New Japan Purocast, we take a look at the categories and nominees for the 3rd Annual Purocast Year End Awards! Plus, WTL discussion and much more!

Rob and Jeff review WWE Survivor Series 2017 featuring Raw vs Smackdown, plus NXT Takeover: War Games featuring the return of a WCW classic. Also, what's next for EVERYBODY!?

Chris Harrington (@mookieghana) and Brandon Howard (@BrandonThurston) discuss recent events in wrestling news, including: WWE in India, NXT vs. ROH in San Antonio, James Ellsworth, NJPW's revenue for the year, Wrestle Kingdom 12 possibly coming to PPV, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens sent home from European tour, Zayn vs. Roman Reigns as an attendance draw, WWE legal update, the NWA title and more!

Become a Patreon supporter and see the show notes with exclusive detail, article links, commentary from the hosts and much more! Go to patreon.com/wrestlenomics.

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

Email questions and comments to [email protected].

Dedicated Wrestlenomics Radio RSS feed: https://audioboom.com/channels/4561995.rss

Topics on this week's Voices of Wrestling flagship podcast include a look at the much-anticipated Tim Storm/Nick Aldis match, what's next for Storm and the NWA and how their simple approach to building matches is working. We then get very WWE-heavy as we preview their upcoming weekend including NXT TakeOver: War Games, WWE Survivor Series 2017 as well as discussions about the release of James Ellsworth and changes to the WWE India Tour.

This week on Wrestling Omakase we begin our Year in Review Series! Each episode will recap a specific promotion's 2017 with passionate fans/viewers of the company, giving you match recommendations, picks for various awards (MVP/Most Outstanding/Show/Tag Team/etc.), and an overview of what the past year has looked like. It's a great way to wind down 2017, and it starts this week with All Japan! Our guest is Eyean (@skrongstyle), a very devoted AJPW fan, and together he and John break down their entire year. We talk all the various titleholders, Kento Miyahara's historic reign, the controversial rapid fire Triple Crown changes from the past few months, the return of KAI, Shuji Ishikawa becoming a player, the cursed run of injured tag team title holders, and much more! It's nearly two hours from two fans who really love AJPW, so whether you're a fan yourself or totally new to the company, find out all about the past year in Zen Nihon on this week's Omakase!

WWE Survivor Series happens this Sunday, and Shake Them Ropes is here to run down all of the numerous card changes from this week's WWE TV. We discuss the most anticipated matches, how we expect them to unfold, and whether or not Kurt Angle will wrestle in a shirt.

Plus, NXT Takeover preview as War Games may just be the most anticipated show of the weekend. Could the return of the infamous WCW match type lead to a resurgence of NXT? And is it Nikki Cross' time in the NXT Women's Division?

Also, Jack Swagger changes professions + the return of Paige. So much to get to on this week's Shake Them Ropes!