August 16, 2016 - How are you? You feeling good? How about great? Well, if you would have watched the 2016 New Japan G1 Climax you’d be orgasmic right now. Actually, you’d be laying there as a post-coital ball of giggly satisfaction. And, as a fan of such feelings ourselves, the original alternate is back to try and extend your […]

August 14, 2016 - The mighty Bryan & Vinny Show is back today and we’ve got two big shows to review — ROH on Sinclair, which wasn’t quite as good as the past two week’s shows but still a fine go-home angle for this coming Friday night’s PPV, plus NWA World Championship Wrestling from 30 years ago this week […]

August 14, 2016 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer returns today with a packed show talking so much stuff, including the G-1 semifinals and finals from the last two days, why it ended up being such a well-booked tournament, awesome matches, TNA and their new belts, Dave’s thoughts on HHH’s ESPN interview, Conor McGregor, GSP, […]

August 14, 2016 - What a special weekend it’s been for New Japan Pro Wrestling. But really it’s been a special four weeks, and your buddies on the DKP wanna talk about it ALL!!! Alan is joined by Joey Bay and Matt McEwen to run down a month’s worth of incredible wrestling provided by the warriors of the Grade-1 […]

August 14, 2016 - On today’s DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern turns away from the serious deep stuff of recent shows to something fun and lighthearted — the current Pokemon Go craze. Karl’s wife began playing Pokemon Go (like almost everyone else on earth apparently) and brought Karl into a strange but familiar world of Japanese monsters fighting! Mutated bugs and […]

August 12, 2016 - Les and Vic return this week with special guest Danny Cage, owner and head trainer of the world famous Monster Factory to talk about the MF Super Camp happening next weekend! Lots of interesting discussion this week, including what anyone interested in attending next week’s Super Camp can expect, thoughts on training, things that separate trainers who […]

August 12, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with tons to talk about! We’ve got the usual Granny WEEKLY WRESTLING REPORT, plus the Cruiserweight Classic with KOTA IBUSHI VS. CEDRIC ALEXANDER, NXT from Full Sail, Raw from Monday night which was apparently 100 times better on Hulu than USA, and tons more! A fun show […]

August 11, 2016 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back tonight with tons to talk about including Smackdown Live, the Cruiserweight Classic and NXT, G-1 update, ratings for Raw and Smackdown, Ryback, Sandow, the CMLL Anniversary show, UFC tickets for next weekend, GSP’s return and tons more! A fun show as always so check […]

August 10, 2016 - Filthy Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and UFC star Filthy Tom Lawlor is back today with a packed show! We’ve got news! We’ve got Smackdown Live! We’ve got TNA Impact! We’ve got — uh — more news! And more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right click save

August 9, 2016 - We’re kicking off our studio revamp with a trip back to the OLD SCHOOL, with not only our usual RETRO RAW AND NITRO reviews from this week in 1997, but, yes, we’ve got some great new songs to debut! Raw vs. Nitro, the debut of the Rock and DX, Lex Luger’s fall and tons more. […]

August 9, 2016 - Karl Stern returns to the regular format of questions and answers and begins catching up on questions generated during the July marathon. Questions, corrections, and conversations include: When Tommy Rogers isn’t Tommy Rogers The wonderfully horrible job Sports Illustrated did with their ranking of wrestlers Marathon follow-ups on Canek, Marty Jannetty, and Sgt. Slaughter An incredible article […]

August 7, 2016 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with a PACKED episode of the show! We’ve got full reviews of ROH on Sinclair with the continuation of the best angle in forever with Jay Lethal and Adam Cole, NWA World Championship Wrestling from 20 years ago this week, and Tomohiro Ishii vs. Kazuchika Okada from […]

August 7, 2016 - Recently, a listener to DragonKing Dark suggested the Bender family murders as a topic. Host Karl Stern, knowing nothing about the topic, began researching the story or the mysterious Kansas family. Then Karl received multiple emails with information about the serial killer family from Kansas in the 1800’s. Once he read it had ties to LITTLE HOUSE ON […]

August 5, 2016 - This week, training is the primary subject, as Les is just got back from conducting another successful weekend camp.  We’ll talk about how the weekend went (8:05), the infamous triple five drill and what the purpose of it is (13:21), and then Les will talk about one of his pet peeves he’s seeing way too much […]

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 […]