July 28, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio returns tonight with a packed show! We’ll talk the crowning of the newest UFC megastar, Jon Jones, who destroyed Shogun Rua in the main event of last night’s UFC 128! We’ll talk all the matches in detail, backstage notes, big upcoming fights, and more. Plus, a new ROH Champion, Dave’s thoughts from […]

July 28, 2017 - FILTHY FOUR DAILY with Bryan Alvarez and Tom Lawlor is back with a ton to talk about including a great Smackdown from Tuesday night, the best Royal Rumble we’ve seen so far and one of the better ones ever from 1990, Geek of the Week and tons more! A fun show as always so check […]

July 27, 2017 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back tonight with an experimental show here. Bryan is in Oregon and Vinny is in Bothell and Granny is at her house. It doesn’t sound its best, but Bryan did some adjustments after the show and HEY! it’ll sound better on Sunday. So with that said, NXT, Lucha Underground […]

July 27, 2017 - Image: Karl Stern On today’s episode, host Karl Stern presents an episode of his Old Time Wrestling Hour Show where he takes mailbag questions. One of the questions asked is a great one about Adrian Street and the later years of his career. Right click save

July 27, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons to talk about including WWE’s financial report, the WWE Network numbers, Smackdown ratings and TV show, Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar and more, plus an appearance by Chris Harrington! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 27, 2017 - Finally, we have a huge UFC show to get excited for. Saturday’s UFC 214 is the promotion’s biggest event since last November’s Madison Square Garden show, headlined by a blood rivalry between light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier and former champion Jon Jones. Previewing the show on the latest Punch-Out is The Guardian’s MMA writer, podcaster, and […]

July 27, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back today with tons to talk about including Smackdown and 205 Live, the AJ Styles finish with Kevin Owens Sunday, Chris Jericho, New Japan G-1, UFC 214, the CTE study and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 27, 2017 - As part of my continuing deep dive into the WGAM MMA Show archives, we head back to June 16, 2011 — a show where yours truly and co-host/producer P.J. Huot learned a few key lessons. If you’re new here, the WGAM MMA Show was a weekly ESPN NH radio show I did for nearly a […]

July 27, 2017 - On today’s show, host Karl Stern takes a look back at the history of a championship that he often heard about but didn’t get to see a lot of back in the day — the NWA National Heavyweight title. The belt was one of the top titles for Georgia Championship Wrestling during the TBS era […]

July 26, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Mike Sempervive is back, running down last night’s very newsworthy SmackDown. It featured The Return of Jericho, along with a number of possible scenarios which could play out at SummerSlam. Plus, Omega as Murdoch, Toru Yano and wrestling’s newest “controversial” match moment. New Japan’s G1 continues, new ABC MMA weight classes, […]

July 25, 2017 - The Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show is back with tons to talk about including two very bad shows from 19 years ago this week. Raw was bad but it was at least historic, and it wasn’t bad nearly to the level of Nitro, by far up to that point in time the worst Nitro […]

July 25, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons to talk about including a look at the New York Times story on CTE in football players, the situation with AJ Styles and Kevin Owens at BattleGround, Dr. Lucha joins us to talk the latest from south of the border and […]

July 25, 2017 - Good grief, how did anyone ever think this was good? Well, host Karl Stern explains that context is everything. Make no mistake about it, this show does not hold up well and there are many reasons why. Karl takes you back to the time period and what was going on in the world of wrestling […]

July 25, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back tonight with tons to talk about including a full recap of Raw from Monday night, all the matches and angles as we head into SummerSlam, preview of the next three days of G-1, tons of mailbag questions and more! A fun show as always […]

July 24, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with, yes, fallout from the WWE BattleGround PPV. And there is a ton of it. Flooded with feedback and it’s your turn to get it all off your chest. A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 24, 2017 - What is the reality of the mythology of the early career of Hulk Hogan? Host Karl Stern and a number of pro wrestling researchers once investigated and researched in detail the early years of Hogan’s career. Did he wear a mask? Who was his true first opponent? Did he quit wrestling for a while and work […]

July 24, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back tonight with tons to talk about including the WWE BattleGround PPV, all the matches and angles leading into whatever the hell is next, UFC ratings disaster, G-1 notes from yesterday and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click […]

July 24, 2017 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back tonight with our full review of the WWE BattleGround PPV. Outside a few bright spots, including a great opener, this was one terrible show. We’ll talk about all the matches and angles and where they may go from here. A fun show as always so check it out~! […]

July 24, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons to talk about including WWE Battleground, a full preview of the show, SummerSlam, the G-1 tournament, thoughts on all the matches from the first three days and tons more! This download is FREE so please spread the word to your wrestling […]

July 23, 2017 - On today’s show, host Karl Stern is joined by pro wrestling historian Seth Hanson. If you are on Twitter or Facebook then it is likely you have seen Seth posting some of his wrestling clipping collection. Karl talks to him about how he got interested in pro wrestling and what some of his favorite areas and […]

July 23, 2017 - On today’s show, DragonKing Dark host Karl Stern continues his series of podcasts looking at UFO activity in antiquity. We examine the reports of Julius Obsequens, an AD 400 era writer who reported on unknown objects in the sky in the period leading up to the birth of Christ. Can he be trusted? Do his writings […]

July 23, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back today with tons of news to talk about including Dave’s thoughts on the Bruiser Brody and George Best documentaries, tons of notes on the G-1, a Battleground preview, all sorts of news from the weekend including full UFC results and more! A fun show […]

July 23, 2017 - Eric Darsie from the Wrestling with the Dawg podcast returns one final time to talk 1990s-2000 era pro wrestling, including stars like Mankind, Steve Austin, The Rock, Chris Jericho, and Shawn Michaels. Eric grew up in a different time period than host Karl Stern. While Karl’s formative years as a wrestling fan were in the […]

July 22, 2017 - Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer are back today with special guest Kevin Kiley, aka Alex Riley of WWE fame, to talk a ton of different subjects including GLOW on Netflix, his acting career, memories from WWE including the circumstances involving his departure and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right […]

July 21, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons of news including the latest on WWE BattleGround, John Cena talks his WWE future, Jinder Mahal talks Battleground and tons more! Plus, calls, emails and texts! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 21, 2017 - As the July marathon rolls on, Eric Darsie of the Wrestling With the Dawg podcast returns to talk more pro wrestling history with host Karl Stern on today’s show. Eric was on earlier in the month and will be back again tomorrow as he and Karl discuss the 1990s and 2000s (mixed in with some 1980s). […]

July 21, 2017 - The Bryan & Vinny & Granny Show is back today with tons to talk about including Granny’s Weekly Wrestling Report covering 205 Live and a surprise bonus match, then Bryan and Vinny talk NXT and an AWESOME edition of Lucha Underground, probably the best show of the entire season! Also, a song for the ages. […]

July 20, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez returns today to talk the biggest WWE angle in perhaps many years, the violent destruction of Monday Night Raw at the hands of the cast of the first season of NXT. We’ll talk the three major invasion angles going on right now, how WWE can follow […]

July 20, 2017 - Today is part two with Kris Zellner of the Between the Sheets and Exile on Badstreet podcasts. We discuss a variety of topics, including more on Georgia Championship Wrestling, Continental Wrestling, and the giant television block of wrestling that aired on Atlanta TV back during the 1980s with Joe Pedicino. Right click save

July 20, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons to talk about including the latest on Brock Lesnar, WWE Battleground, Alberto Del Rio and Paige, WWE ratings and more, plus Dave Meltzer appears to talk the latest stories in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter! A fun show […]