Fumi Saito & Justin Knipper are back with a special episode on the history of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in Japan, where they discuss how much influence the NWA would have on the Japanese wrestling fanbase from the 1950s into the late ’80s. The two went over a variety topics, like Rikidozan’s famous championship matches against Lou Thesz, Jules Strongbow’s working relationship with the Kokichi Endo and Yoshino Sato & JWA from 1967, Dory Funk Jr. vs. Gene Kiniski for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship, the perception of what a cowboy is in Japan and how the Funk family embodied it, and later, an extended conversation on the Funks, Jumbo Tsuruta and Bruiser Brody.

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