Dave Meltzer and I are back on Wrestling Observer Radio talking all the latest news in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter including stories on the G1 starting this weekend, ROH’s upcoming pay-per-view, and the UFC on ABC. But first, we talk about Ric Flair’s last
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we review AEW’s Fyter Fest Dynamite from Wednesday, we talk about our schedule over the next two weeks since I’m going on vacation and what we’re going to do.
As always, this is a free show. Just click below to listen. The original alternate here at the EMPIRE~! is back to bring you the world famous New Japan G1 Climax 32 prediction show. This is the annual odyssey where Mike Sempervive and
My rotation of classic pro wrestling history topics continues on this week’s DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show. On a “From the Pages of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter” edition, we look back at Dave Meltzer’s biography on the death of Gorilla Monsoon which subscribers can read
We continue our series of 100 of the darkest moments in pop culture history by looking at the recent death of country music star Naomi Judd. Judd was 76 years old and all of The Judds’ hit songs were behind them, so in
Dave Meltzer and I are back on Wrestling Observer Radio talking all the latest news in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter including stories on Kota Ibushi, New Japan 2.1, PWG’s influence on today’s wrestling, TV ratings analysis, and more. But first, we talk about the
John LaRocca and I are back with another episode of the Fight Game Podcast. Before we review AEW Dynamite from Wednesday, we talk about all the transcendent wrestling stars from 1984 until today and wonder if we would add any current wrestlers to that
In my rotation of retro pro wrestling podcasts on the DragonKingKarl Wrestling Show, I am adding old magazine reviews. The newsstand pro wrestling magazines were a staple of wrestling from the 1950s through the 1990s and especially peaked in the 1970-80s. Before the
In my continuing series on the 100 darkest moments in pop culture history, I look back at the 1997 death of folk and country music star John Denver who was killed in an experimental aircraft crash at the age of 53. While Denver’s
The Portland Wrestlecast is back with the history of the biggest feud in Portland Wrestling history. It was bigger than Piper vs. Rose or Rip Oliver vs. Billy Jack. In 1968, “Tough” Tony Borne vs. Lonnie Mayne drew thousands of fans to the
