August 1, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back tonight with tons to talk about including Raw from Monday night, SummerSlam, Smackdown, G-1, a bunch of UFC notes from the weekend, a mailbag segment with history and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 31, 2017 - It’s the final day of the July Classic Wrestling Marathon! I had tried all month to schedule Dave Meltzer for an interview, but there was just too much happening and Dave and I could never make the connection. But I promised you Dave Meltzer and I give you Dave Meltzer! Only the twist is this […]

July 31, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live starts your week off right, with Mike Sempervive holding things down until Bryan Alvarez gets back. What direction is the big SummerSlam four-way going? Cyborg-Becky banter, Jason Jordan, Moose, G1, and more. Then, Dr. Lucha Steve Sims joins in to talk about Rey Mysterio’s options, AAA’s bumpy road to TripleMania, narco violence, your […]

July 31, 2017 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with a trip back in time to July 4, 1987 and that week’s WCW Saturday Night! THE VERY FIRST WAR GAMES takes place that evening so this is the preview show and it’s absolutely awesome. A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 31, 2017 - In the 1600s in Puritan Massachusetts, the governor of the colony wrote of two UFO experiences. In the final part of our series looking at UFO sightings before the age of airplanes and man-made flying objects, we look at what the people of New England in the 1600s saw in the night sky.  Right click […]

July 31, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons of news to talk about including UFC 214, Brock Lesnar vs. Jon Jones, WWE SummerSlam, tons of emails and text messages and phone calls and more! Two full hours of wrestling talk and a fun time as always so check it […]

July 30, 2017 - Here’s a flashback for you. The very first July Classic Wrestling Marathon show took place on July 1st, 2013, and here it is again. This show was a mailbag episode talking a number of topics including Kerry Von Erich.   Right click save

July 30, 2017 - Les Thatcher and Vic Sosa return with discussion on Kenny Omega vs. Toru Yano from the G1, comedy in wrestling, how times and most things change (but not quite everything), some eye-opening (and worrying to Vic) quotes from Hiroshi Tanahashi, Davey Richards leaving GFW, and Chris Jericho’s conversation with Dave Meltzer about Chris Benoit. Thanks […]

July 30, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back today with tons to talk about including a very newsworthy UFC with a new champion, a potential Brock Lesnar match for down the road, great fights and more, plus the New Japan G-1, WWE financial report notes, Braun Strowman vs. Karen Jarrett and tons […]

July 29, 2017 - Image: Karl Stern As the July Classic Wrestling Marathon enters its final days, Karl Stern takes a look at wrestling merchandise and talks wrestling video games, action figures, and much more on today’s show. Karl gives a little history and an update on pro wrestling action figures and the modern Mattel era of figures, plus Karl […]

July 29, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Mike Sempervive is back with a special Saturday edition of the show. He runs down tonight’s UFC 214 PPV, featuring the much anticipated rematch between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier, along with a pretty stacked undercard. Plus, thoughts on the most recent news coming out of the G1 (including the new greatest match and greatest […]

July 29, 2017 - By special request, host Karl Stern does an audio biography special on Kamala the Ugandan Giant for today’s show. Kamala’s story is a complicated one to tell in 2017 and it’s a somewhat tragic tale. The man behind Kamala is James Harris and his journey from obscure regional wrestler to main event matches in the […]

July 28, 2017 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today with tons to talk about including SummerSlam, UFC 214, your calls and more, plus Court Bauer joins us to talk MLW One Shot coming up in October at the GILT Nightclub! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

July 28, 2017 - Social media can be a strange, yet beautiful thing at times. It’s a place where a self-proclaimed tech geek with a soft spot for rescue animals can be confused daily with one of the best MMA fighters of all time who constantly finds himself in trouble. As an aside from the usual UFC 214 coverage […]

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 […]