August 5, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with a FREE episode talking tons of different topics! It’s the usual Granny Q&A, surely a baffling segment for first-timers, her WEEKLY WRESTLING REPORT, then Bryan and Vinny talk NXT, the awesome Cruiserweight Classic, RAW and more! A fun show as always so check it out! And […]

August 3, 2016 - Filthy Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and UFC star Tom Lawlor is back today with tons to discuss! We’ve got some UFC 201 thoughts, then it’s the now-usual Wednesday tradition, full reviews of both Smackdown Live and TNA Impact! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

August 2, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show is back today with a crazy show! It’s Retro Raw and Retro Nitro, and this week we’ve got the fallout of Bret Hart winning the WWF Title at SummerSlam 1997, the build to Montreal and Kane’s debut, and, over on Nitro, a THREE HOUR SHOW featuring Lex Luger’s […]

August 1, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with tons to talk about including full reviews of the last two weeks of WWE TV, which were AWESOME, the NWA World Championship Wrestling review from 1986 which with a couple of exceptions was decidedly NOT AWESOME, and tons more! A fun show as always so check […]

August 1, 2016 - Exactly what is our place in the universe? That topic has been debated since the dawn of man, but unfortunately it has also gotten very muddled with politcs, religion, greed, and nationalism. Over 20 years ago the man-made object deepest in space turned its camera homeward and captured a tiny pale blue dot of light, our […]

July 31, 2016 - The final day of the July Classic Wrestling Marathon is finally here. And for the last show, host Karl Stern takes a listener request deep cut looking at the lesser successful member of the Hart Foundation, Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart. Neidhart did have a wrestling career prior to the Hart Foundation working in Memphis, Mid-South, Florida, and of […]

July 30, 2016 - Host Karl Stern again takes a look at another iconic enhancement wrestler from the 1980s in second-generation wrestling star Iron Mike Sharpe. If you were a fan of WWF Superstars or WWF Wrestling Challenge in the 1980s, you likely saw many matches with the big screaming Canadian and Canada’s Greatest Athlete, Iron Mike Sharpe. But Sharpe got […]

July 29, 2016 - Les Thatcher and Victor Sosa open with a bit on the first week of the latest WWE brand split, where it sure looked like there was a definitive “A” show and “B” show right out of the gate. We’ll revisit the Dick Steinborn match Les referenced last week (12:28), and say a bit more about why he and […]

July 29, 2016 - WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels had an incredible career — easily one of the top ten of all history in pro wrestling — but what about the other half of the Midnight Rockers? Early on, many thought Marty Jannetty might be the standout of the duo and he certainly had the skill. He began his career as Marty […]

July 28, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back tonight with another packed episode! Granny joins us for her usual Q&A as well as her WEEKLY WRESTLING REPORT covering NXT and BattleGround. Then, full reviews of NXT from Full Sail, the Cruiserweight Classic and Raw from Monday night! Also, Vinny watches Braun Strowman’s match with a LOCAL […]

July 28, 2016 - On today’s July Classic Wrestling Marathon show, host Karl Stern takes a look at the greatest pro wrestling manager of all time, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan. Heenan had a quick wit and was a tremendous bump taker. He knew his role better than anyone, and played the part of a sports agent who was intent on destroying […]

July 27, 2016 - On the latest edition of the July Classic Wrestling Marathon, Karl Stern takes a look at one of the greatest announcers of all time: legendary Memphis wrestling announcer Lance Russell. Russell was more than just a play-by-play announcer, and was every bit as important a character to Memphis TV as Jerry Lawler or Bill Dundee was. It was Russell’s smooth […]

July 26, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show is back tonight with our weekly look back at Retro Raw and Retro Nitro from 19 years ago this week! Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Owen Hart, Steve Austin, Undertaker and more, plus Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger, Giant, Eric Bischoff and Ric Flair on Nitro! A fun show as […]

July 26, 2016 - This show was a lot of fun for Karl Stern to research and put together. It all started from a research project Karl is doing on Sputnik Monroe. Knowing Norvell Austin only from his time as part of the Midnight Express and the PYT’s, Karl discovered just how important a cultural figure Austin was. Oh […]

July 25, 2016 - Yo Joe! You had to know that host Karl Stern was going to include Sgt. Slaughter in his list of favorite wrestlers for this year’s July Classic Wrestling Marathon. Karl is a massive G.I. Joe collector and pro wrestling fan, and Sgt. Slaughter was a major character in both! Slaughter was a top star in the […]

July 24, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back tonight with a full recap of the WWE BattleGround PPV, a pretty good show with at least one awesome match, plus we find out where the WWE Title is going. The good, the bad, the ugly, booking thoughts and more! A fun show as always so check it […]

July 24, 2016 - With one of WWE’s most important weeks upon us, Josh Nason’s Punch-Out turns to the squared circle for its 45th episode, recruiting SI.com wrestling writer Justin Barrasso to help set the stage for what’s ahead. In their hour-long conversation, Josh & Justin went over the following and more: – The WWE Draft & whether people’s […]

July 24, 2016 - On this week’s episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern answers a listener email that leads to a discussion about the spark of imagination and how important it is to the quality of life. This discussion also leads to some interesting conversation about the constellation of Orion. There is a discussion about how skeptics have hijacked […]

July 24, 2016 - Photo Credit: Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman On today’s July Classic Wrestling Marathon Show, host Karl Stern takes a look at another of his personal favorite wrestlers in “Dr. Death” Steve Williams. As far as tough guys go, Williams certainly had the reputation for being just that. A standout football player and wrestler at the University of Oklahoma, Williams […]

July 23, 2016 - On the eve of THE GREATEST DAY OF WRESTLING ON THE PURORESU CALENDER, the DKP brings you a last minute preview of all the big events which go down on July 24th. Alan goes solo on this one, and if you can tolerate him talking uninterrupted for over an hour, then you’ll hear an impromptu history of […]

July 23, 2016 - For many years he was the face of ECW, having long reigns as ECW world champion and ECW TV champion. But in the many times ECW has since been attempted to be resurrected, Shane Douglas has seldom been front and center of it. Douglas is a controversial, outspoken personality. He started out training in the Northeast […]

July 22, 2016 - Les and Vic start the show with a bit on the WWE Draft, as Les is unfamiliar with one particular call-up from NXT. We’ll transition into this week’s Cruiserweight Classic (11:13) episode on the WWE Network and why Akira Tozawa vs. Kenneth Johnson may not have been the best match on the show, but was the best […]

July 22, 2016 - Today, host Karl Stern takes a look at the career of Bill Eadie, best known under two gimmicks, the territory traveling Masked Superstar and later as the face-paint wearing Demolition Ax.   Eadie was a world traveler who competed for the NWA, WWF, and top New Japan championships over the course of a long career. Starting out […]

July 21, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with tons, and we do mean TONS of stuff to talk about! Full reviews of NXT from Full Sail, the WWE Cruiserweight Classic, Ultima Lucha Dos two-hour season finale, Raw from Monday, plus Granny joins us for not only her Q and A but also her WEEKLY […]

July 21, 2016 - Big Poppa Pump. The Big Bad Booty Daddy. One half of the Steiner Brothers. Scott Steiner started off as a super-athlete working smaller promotions, then came to WCW in the early 1990s where he was paired with his brother Rick in one of the most dominant tag teams of the era. After a run in both WCW […]

July 20, 2016 - Apparently, post-nuclear war, mankind will take off their shirts, dawn old football shoulder pads, and paint their faces. They may or may not have weird haircuts. Hockey masks may or may not be included. We will run around the planet chasing gasoline, but above all, else we will look really, really bad ass.  In the early 1980s […]

July 19, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show is back today with a BIGGER THAN EVER show as we’ve not only got Retro Raw and Retro Nitro smack dab in the middle of arguably the most exciting year in the Monday Night Wars, but we’ve got the POST-DRAFT REPORT. Who’s going where, who almost went where […]

July 19, 2016 - Photo by Joseph Currier We’re joined by podcast royalty this week on the DKP, as the man who was Alan’s first ever guest all the way back in 2009 drops by! Yes, Joe Gagne is back on the show, having attended the debut event in MA for EVOLVE. This came as part of a double-shot […]

July 19, 2016 - Who is “Gentleman” Ken Timbs? Today you will find out. Timbs worked many areas during the 1980s, from Georgia Championship Wrestling to Central States to Southwest to Mexico’s EMLL. He was a tag team partner to Eric Embry and had a great program with Lizmark in Mexico. He was also very important in host Karl Stern’s pro wrestling […]

July 19, 2016 - We have a ninety-minute Wrestling Observer Radio for you tonight covering everything, the WWE Draft, Raw from Monday in great detail, the lawsuit filed against WWE today, G-1 night one thoughts, LA Park vs. RUSH, Jon Jones’ hearing today, tons of mailbag questions and more! A fun show as always so check it out~! WWE: […]