JNPO wrestling year in review series: Ricky Starks’ strange month, CM Punk owed a favor, AEW/GCW drama
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The Josh Nason’s Punch-Out pro wrestling year in review series arrives in November with returning guest Rich Kraetsch of Voices of Wrestling.
Even though we cover things that happened just last month, there was a lot to dissect and talk about including:
- WWE Survivor Series, CM Punk being owed a favor from Paul Heyman for joining the OG Bloodline WarGames team, and all that could mean for WrestleMania 41
- A relatively newsless AEW Full Gear which saw the in-ring debut of Big Boom AJ of The Costco Guys
- The very strange month of Ricky Starks which included a long interview, a big GCW entrance and him subsequently getting pulled from future GCW shows due to comments by Effy
- AEW booking the Hammerstein Ballroom for three straight nights which irked GCW a tad
- All the other notable headlines of the month which included Crown Jewel, two new WWE women’s titles, the first slate of WWE ID prospects, plus TNA, NJPW and the best of the rest.
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Here’s the rest of the series thus far:
- January: PWTorch’s Rich Fann
- February: ProWrestling.net’s Jason Powell
- March: Voices of Wrestling’s Jesse Collings
- April: Voices of Wrestling’s Warren Hayes
- May: POST Wrestling’s Andrew Thompson
- June: Podcaster Garrett Kidney
- July: Interviewer Jack Farmer
- August: Fightful’s Kate Elizabeth
- September: POST Wrestling & Poisonrana’s Davie Portman
- October: Instinct Culture’s Denise Salcedo
Josh Nason
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.