December 12, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including the return of Toni Storm, whether world champions should only henceforth fight for world championship, all the news and more. Then, TJP joins us to talk NEW JAPAN and INDY WRESTLING and DEMONS! A fun show as always, […]

December 12, 2024 - Image: WWE We’re at the halfway point of my annual JNPO wrestling year in review series, hitting on the month of June. Joining me for the first time is Garrett Kidney of the ‘You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me‘ podcast looking back at TNA history one month at a time. Some of the many topics […]

December 12, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including what changes are coming with Raw’s move to Netflix, Bronson Reed’s surgery, who won the Japanese Awards this year, ratings, AEW Dynamite and NXT reviews, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~! Timestamps:Start: […]

December 11, 2024 - Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including thoughts on NXT, the art of working, the Women’s US and IC Titles, more two-day PLEs, and tons more. A fun show as always, and it’s FREE! Sign up however you are listening, wrestlingobserver.com, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or […]

December 11, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with the conclusion to the story of Bryan’s torn meniscus, Bronson Reed is getting surgery, what will Cody bring to SNME, the best ending in NXT history, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~! Right Click Save As

December 11, 2024 - Image: TNA Somebody at TNA Wrestling scheduled two app specials in two weeks, leaving the crew scrambling to throw a card together for last Thursday’s Impact with no time to waste. That means I have no time to waste on this week’s Big Vinny V Show with a recap of the beginning of the final […]

December 10, 2024 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with Shawn and Craig and — yes — Granny checking in from her new Senior Living facility. She’ll hopefully have Internet by next week. We’ll do a Q&A and then review Mid-South Championship Wrestling S6:E5! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right Click Save As

December 10, 2024 - One half of the British Bulldogs, Dynamite Kid, is already in the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame. So putting the team in the Hall of Fame is really a question about putting in Davey Boy Smith, right? Not so fast. I make the argument that really isn’t the case at all. Plus, I talk more […]

December 10, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including the weekly RAW report with the build to Saturday Night’s Main Event, AEW ratings and All In ticket sales and why Bryan thinks they’re going to do well, news and commentary and more! A fun show as always […]

December 10, 2024 - Image: WWE Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including this weekend’s UFC with Paul Fontaine, AEW’s All In on-sale celebration and news coming out of it, injury updates, two-night PLEs increasing, ratings, the RAW report, Saturday Night’s Main Event, line-ups and tons more. A fun […]

December 9, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including Bryan’s prediction for the Continental Classic, WWE injuries coming out of War Games, Rey Fenix’s complaints about AEW, contracts and more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right Click Save As

December 9, 2024 - Filthy Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about including our usual Smackdown report, Rampage with Continental Classic matches, who we think will win the tourney, plus, yes, a POWER SLAP finale. A fun show as always so check it out~! Right Click Save As

December 9, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including notes on all the big shows this weekend, NXT, UFC, the New Japan Tag League Finals, Rampage, Collision, Smackdown, line-ups for the week and more. A fun show as always so check it out~! Timestamps:Start: UFC 310 recap7:07: […]

December 8, 2024 - The Bryan & Vinny & Craig Show is back with tons to talk about as we review two big shows, the NXT PLE with two Iron Survivor Challenge matches, and AEW Collision with a bunch of Continental Classic bouts. Rampage will be covered by Filthy on Monday! A fun show as always so check it […]

December 8, 2024 - On a new DKK Classic Wrestling Show, I continue with my 1000 Hours podcast subseries which covers pre-1900 pro wrestling. Now that my new book is out, we are working our way through it with my additional commentary and thoughts. Today, we return to before the American Civil War and find that our pro wrestling […]

December 7, 2024 - It’s a special Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live as we’re looking ahead to next week’s return of Saturday Night’s Main Event as well as looking back to the 1980s. The show is paying tribute to its 80s roots with a retro look, Jesse Ventura, Jimmy Hart, and the original theme song: the inimitable ‘Obsession’ […]

December 6, 2024 - Dave Meltzer and I are back with our Friday episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, talking about all the big news from today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Here were some of the things we covered: Click here to listen (sub needed) or watch on YouTube (video sub needed)

December 6, 2024 - With Bryan Alvarez on the move, Mike Sempervive flies solo. A preview of the weekend, including Saturday’s NXT Deadline show, HENARE’s injury and how it may affect New Japan’s plans, WWE news and a bow is placed on this week’s talk of AEW splitting rosters. (Thank God.) It’s a fun show as always, so check […]

December 6, 2024 - Image: WWE On a new Wrestling Weekly, we talk about where WWE is headed after a newsworthy Survivor Series and the return of Drew McIntyre. We also look at AEW’s Continental Classic and some good matches happening on Rampage and Collision. Thanks for listening and have a great weekend~! Click here to listen (sub needed)

December 6, 2024 - John LaRocca and I are back to talk about the major topics in the world of wrestling on this week’s Fight Game Podcast. We kicked off the show with our Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down winners and losers of the week before going through our Top Five topics which included: Click Here to Listen (sub needed)

December 5, 2024 - After Dark Radio with Bryan Alvarez is back with part one of our interview with special guest Tex Wesson talking cryptids, specifically BIGFOOT AND DOGMAN. We’ve also got a big announcement regarding After Dark moving to Sports Byline USA, and all the news! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right Click Save […]

December 5, 2024 - The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about including an excellent edition of Dynamite with great action and good storytelling, a fun edition of NXT leading into the PLE this weekend, and more! A fun show as always so check it out~! Right Click Save As

December 5, 2024 - On a new Pacific Rim Pro Wrestling podcast, we take a trip back to the late-90s, specifically 1998. 26 years ago on December 5, 1998, the finals of the All-Japan Pro Wrestling Real World Tag League took place as Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama faced off against Vader & Stan Hansen. Fumi Saito talks to […]

December 5, 2024 - Image: AEW Josh Nason’s Punch-Out nears the halfway mark in my annual 12-part pro wrestling year in review series with a stop in May featuring returning guest Andrew Thompson of Post Wrestling. Andrew & I go deep (two hours and 30 minutes~!) into happenings like: Click here to listen Here’s the rest of the series:

December 5, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including a long discussion on the positives to having two different rosters on Dynamite and Collision (we will try not to say the dreaded words BRAND SPLIT), plus all the latest news and more! A fun show as always […]

December 5, 2024 - Image: AEW Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including Ryan Nemeth’s AEW complaint, lawsuit updates, ratings, AEW and NXT TV reports, Conor McGregor, UFC this weekend, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~! Timestamps:Start: Ryan Nemeth’s AEW complaint8:51: WWE ‘ring […]

December 4, 2024 - Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including Dynamite tonight, why AEW really needs to split the rosters despite arguments to the contrary, tons of RAW to Netflix notes including what’s up with the RAW library, and more! A fun show as always so check it […]

December 4, 2024 - On this week’s DragonKingKarl, I continue to examine the cases for those who have not yet been elected into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. This week, I look at one of the most contentious contenders: the Junkyard Dog. Yearly, I get requests to consider him for the HOF, but the case just hasn’t […]

December 3, 2024 - Bryan & Vinny & Craig & Shawn & Granny Show is back with tons to talk about including, yes, ANOTHER FINAL SHOW IN THE OLD HOUSE WITH GRANNY. She doesn’t move until Friday, so we’ll do Facebook, the soap opera report and the trivia contest, then the boys review Mid-South Wrestling S6:E4 with a MUST-SEE […]

December 3, 2024 - Image: TNA On this week’s Big Vinny V Show, it’s all about last Friday’s Turning Point streaming special The main event saw Nic Nemeth defending the TNA World championship against Eddie Edwards in an excellent main event that raised further questions about the champ’s relationship with John Layfield. We also saw the continuing rise of […]