On this week’s Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live, Jim Valley tours the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame with president and former wrestler Johnny Mantell. Walking through, talking, and describing the exhibits and telling stories, some I had never heard before. We talk about
**Editor’s Note: This is a free show. Just click the red button below to listen. On this week’s Portland Wrestlecast, I look at how longtime Portland booker Don Owen came within just two votes from being inducted into the Wrestling Observer Hall of
It’s time for another Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live with Jim Valley. PCO was perhaps the most inspirational story of 2018. A year later, the story climax of him winning the ROH title from Rush at Final Battle 2019 should have been
It’s special edition of the Pacific Rim Pro Wrestling Podcast. Dave Meltzer joins Fumi Saito and Jim Valley less than a month away from Wrestle Kingdom 14 in Tokyo for some discussion about our coverage and audio shows subscribers can expect that week. Fumi offers his
It’s the Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live with Jim Valley. SmackDown started with a possible kidnapping and ended with Roman Reigns being force-fed dog food. Ever since SmackDown moved to Fox, it feels like it has gotten a lot less serious. Maybe
FREE SHOW! In the late 1980s, Portland Wrestling completely changed its presentation that was virtually unchanged for decades. Booker Len Denton modernized the product by adding things like entrance music, improved production values, and theatrical storylines. Carl Styles benefited from those changes. In the past,
Wrestle Kingdom 14 is one month away. For the first time, New Japan Pro Wrestling’s biggest show is two nights of action. On this episode of Pacific Rim, Fumi Saito offers his advice for fans visiting Tokyo during Wrestling Week. Fumi spotlights some cards, locations, stores, and restaurants to
On this week’s Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live, I talk about a weird SmackDown on FOX even by modern WWE standards. At times it felt more like it was 1995 with Roman Reigns as Diesel and King Corbin as King Mabel. Plus was shaving Daniel Bryan a
On this week’s Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live, I preview a very busy weekend of wrestling with NXT TakeOver, both War Games matches, Balor vs.Riddle and more. After that, we talk Survivor Series and what the return of DX, especially Triple H,
It’s a very special free edition of Pacific Rim with Fumi Saito’s longtime friend Chris Jericho. They’ve known each other since Chris’ first tour of Japan for Frontier Martial Arts in 1991. Fumi and Jericho share stories of Chris’ early tours in Japan, what it was like,
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