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Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom and special in-studio guest Nixi XS are back to talk this bizarre NXT show with whatever that was involving Grayson Waller, PRODUCE from this past weekend and their upcoming show, Dynamite and Impact previews, Triple H's house show thoughts, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~!

What a show we have today! It's the Bryan & Vinny & Shawn & Craig & Granny & NIXI XS SHOW! Nixi joins us and picked the show today, In Your House: Seasons Beatings with the HOG PEN MATCH and a great Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog match. Also, Granny with the wrestling report, soap opera report, trivia contest and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Two massive shows to discuss on the Big Vinny V Show this week! We'll start with TNA Impact, where the Righteous Deletion drew the promotion's most viewers since the jump to AMC. We'll break down what made the segment so successful. It was the main event, however, that stole the show. Nic Nemeth vs. KC Navarro was an outstanding match, better than a lot of recent pay per view outings. Also, Moose & Elijah face AJ Francis & Kazarian, the Knockouts TV Title tournament continues, and Mustafa Ali learns the next challenger for his International Championship. Then in AAA, it's Night 1 of Verano de Escandalo. Lola Vice & Mister Iguana defend the AAA Mixed Tag Team Championships against La Hiedra & Laredo Kid. And the massive main event sees El Grande Americano team up with Dominik Mysterio to face Los Perros Del Mal. Don't miss a second of a jam-packed Big Vinny V Show! (Apologies for the audio issues, they'll be fixed for next week's show.)

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including ESPN meaning nothing for WWE viewership, Impact ratings way up, how fans get into wrestling in 2026, the Mike Santana name change and why we should be careful ridiculing names, the RAW report and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

I continue my look at the new William Muldoon biography by author Scott Beekman. On this episode we find William Muldoon traveling to San Francisco to continue touring with the play As You Like It with Madame Modjeska and Maurice Barrymore. Muldoon continues to wrestle as well and begins working in San Francisco and other places on the West Coast. However, as always, troubles both legal and otherwise follow him. Muldoon's schemes not only continue to cost him friendships but also his marriage and he ends up arrested as well. Oh yeah, and there is that time he sort of helped kill a dude on a boat... this episode is worth hearing, I promise.

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including the line-up for both nights of SummerSlam, ESPN not airing matches for free this time around, YouTube TV and ESPN Unlimited, AAA and CMLL news notes, ratings, the full RAW report, and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about as we recap the AEW Redemption PPV, talk timing out matches and why going short is a positive sometimes, Smackdown thoughts on the Punk vs. Cody and Gunther vs. Aldis angles, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with a full recap of the AEW Redemption PPV, the highs and lows of the show, Wembley, the press conference Dynamite Wednesday, and more, plus Arena Mexico notes, the G-1 update, SAG and Paramount/Skydance, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

GG and Jeremy Finestone recapped AEW Redemption featuring a very angle heavy PPV. They wonder where the Kenny Omega/Will Ospreay/Death Riders angle was originally supposed to take place and go over the show match by match.

The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about including a full recap of the AEW Redemption PPV, a marathon five-hour show that was largely very good, although it had two bad matches, one bad enough to be classified as terrible, in fact, a rarity in AEW. A fun show as always so check it out~!

On a new Wrestling Observer Live, Josh Nason gives your final preview of Sunday's AEW Redemption in addition to some thoughts from the week that was.

Wrestling Action Figures are big business. Look no further than all the releases from Mattel and other independent companies this week during San Diego Comic Con. We'll talk to an action figure expert about what looks cool from all of this year's announcements. Friday Night Smackdown added several matches to SummerSlam including one off TV. Plus, AEW Redemption, Busted Open thoughts and more. Check it out.

Dave and Garrett are back on Friday WOR talking about Dave's trip to watch CMLL live, AEW Redemption, the latest on Paramount/WBD, SummerSlam, and WWE Radio.

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about including Smackdown tonight, WWE releases and where some might be going, another TNA release, Tony Khan's media call, Swerve Strickland, and more, plus Adam Abdallah joins us to talk Produce Wrestling this Sunday prior to the AEW PPV! A fun show as always so check it out~!

The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about including a full recap of the go-home show for AEW Revolution, a good effort at trying to make people interested in a throw-away show, and the NXT review which involves Bryan trying to talk Vinny off the cliff. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Hear Tony Khan talk all about AEW and AEW Redemption 2026 on his pre-event media call.

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including AEW Dynamite and the build to Redemption, what Bryan thought were the big positives to last night's show as compared to last week, WWE RADIO TAKING OVER THE AIRWAVES, WWE releases all free as of today and who is available, and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including JP Morgan discussing WWE creative, updates on Sammy Guevara and Bayley, the G-1 update for this week, Arena Mexico, ratings, the AEW Dynamite report, a new match added (on social media), plus the Redemption line-up and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!

After Dark Radio with Bryan Alvarez is back with special guest CLIFF BARACKMAN of Finding Bigfoot and the North American Bigfoot Center fame, and we've got Bigfoot 201 to talk about today, everything you ever wanted to know about the topic that we can squeeze into one hour. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about including the situation with Sammy Guevara, AEW has a new meet-and-greet planned for Wembley Stadium, all TV seems to be doing better this week, plus Tom does the NXT TV report. A fun show as always so check it out~!

TNA Impact wasn't a bad show this week, but it was plainly inferior to what AAA had to offer. Nothing on the former felt particularly important, while everything on the latter left you looking forward to the next show. The theme on Impact seemed to be undercutting young talent, including Ricky Sosa's first loss in the company; Harley Hudson losing to an outsider in the Knockouts TV Title tournament; and KC Navarro getting a World Championship match against Nic Nemeth, but doing so in the most pitiful manner possible. Oh, and Fabian Aichner, who only debuted with the company a couple of months ago, has already gotten and lost his shot at the X Division Championship. AAA, on the other hand, had two excellent matches with obvious rewards for the winners, and a hot show-closing angle to set up the main event of their next big show. We'll have all the details on the Big Vinny V Show!

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including Janel Grant vs. WWE and Vince McMahon, the WBD lawsuit, Sammy Guevara and Bayley, some notes from RAW and a lot on WWE ticket sales of late, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Today on the DragonKingKarl show I begin a deep, deep dive into the true history of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World heavyweight title. The NWA World title actually began before most people realize it did. Although the National Wrestling Association World title had been around for years before the Alliance, there was an actual NWA World title associated with Orville Brown before the official version. Today, I look back at the forgotten origins of the NWA World title and its earliest years.

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including the Janel Grant lawsuit being dismissed within days, latest on the WBD lawsuit, ratings notes from this past week, Tony Khan interview notes, the RAW report from Monday night, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including Dave's trip to Mexico City for show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, notes on Smackdown, Collision and Saturday Night's Main Event, updates to the SummerSlam and AEW PPV cards, G-1, Ben Askren, and more. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Editor's note: This is a stereo version of the previous upload which was mono. Rookie mistake. On a new Wrestling Observer Live Sunday, Josh Nason begins his summer residency to talk about Bryan Alvarez's recent rants, Tom Brady, Fanatics Fest, and more.

Are Tom Brady and Logan Paul building to a WWE match? It begs the question, "How much money did Brady lose in his divorce and crypto scam?" On the road to SNME and SummerSlam, Smackdown had a lot of stuff, but not a lot of wrestling or clean finishes. TNA Dark Side of the Ring put a lot of blame, maybe rightfully so, on Dixie Carter. But what about the carny wrestlers who, once again, looked for the short-term pay off rather than long-term stability and health of the company? Why do they never seem to take any blame? Not everyone gets built into a "star" in WWE. Plus, G-1 Climax, Tenzan retirement, AEW Collision preview, thoughts on Dynamite, AEW Redemption and more. Check it out.

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including Smackdown having NO LINEUP for the show tonight, ticket sales for upcoming shows which remain unimpressive, Saturday Night's Main Event preview, many personal anecdotes and a live Q&A! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about including all the news in wrestling, more on Ludwig Kaiser, another AEW head-to-head battle with WWE, and more, then the full Dynamite report and LOTS of thoughts about that show. A fun time as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including the Paramount lawsuit, Ludwig Kaiser legal case update, Vikingo injury, more TNA Dark Side of the Ring, CMLL Grand Prix and TripleMania tickets, ratings, UFC news and notes, THE DYNAMITE REPORT, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

After Dark Radio with Bryan Alvarez is back with special guest Ross Allison to talk ghosts, hauntings and more! We've got stories, including what happened when he visited an alleged haunted castle in Europe, and his visit to the site of the incident that sparked the book and movie The Exorcist. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Filthy Tom Lawlor is back with tons to talk about including last night's NXT show, Dynamite tonight and their lack of follow-up to last week's show, the proposed main event for the Redemption, Ludwig Kaiser's side of the story in his assault case, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

There was a common thread between TNA Impact and AAA lucha libre this week: both shows were focused on laying down the foundations for bigger events down the road. Yes, TNA did have Lei Ying Lee getting her rematch against Xia Brookside for the Knockouts Championship, but even that seemed to hint at a bigger payoff down the line. Elsewhere, you had the Hardys defending against the Great Hands, which resulted in a big decision for Mustafa Ali; a pair of promo segments that set up two opponents for Moose and a challenger for Nic Nemeth; two more fun matches in the Knockouts TV Championship tournament; and Ricky Sosa & Leon Slater starting to gel as a tag team. In AAA, the big news is that Dominik Mysterio and El Grande Americano, likely opponents at TripleMania, have formed a tense alliance to battle Los Perros Del Mal. Also, the Jack Cartwheel vs. Mini Vikingo vs. Dragon Lee three-way to name a top contender to Rey Fenix was one of the best matches around the world for the week. Come join the fun on the Big Vinny V Show!

Today the time machine takes us back to August 1986 from the pages of my latest book DragonKingKarl's 1986-1987 Pro Wrestling Omnibus available from Amazon. In August 1986 Ric Flair won his fifth NWA World title from Dusty Rhodes. WWF was dominating the wrestling scene and doing massive TV tapings for its new shows Superstars and Challenge. The AWA was out of luck, and Stan Hansen defended the AWA World title he no longer held in Alabama!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including the death of the first ECW tag team champion, Paramount/Skydance lawsuit, Wembley attendance, ratings, CMLL this Friday which Dave is attending, plus notes on the G-1 opening night, Smackdown, Collision, the RAW report and more! A fun show as always so check it out!

The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about including full recaps of both the New Japan G-1 opening night in Chicago on Saturday with an awesome main event, and the Smackdown show on Friday with, among things, the return of BARON CORBIN. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Dave Meltzer, Garrett Gonzales, and Paul Fontaine are back on Wrestling Observer Radio to talk about Conor McGregor's return, and injury, during UFC 329. They recap the show and talk about AEW Collision. Then, Garrett and Dave talk about night one of the G1, SmackDown, and Dave Meltzer's wrestling vacation next weekend.

On this edition of the 1000 Hours Podcast, the podcast all about the pioneer era of pro wrestling, I continue my look at the new William Muldoon book by author Scott Beekman who dives deep into the life and controversies of the Solid Man. In this episode we look back at how William Muldoon got into acting and how his first national tour feel apart and the first signs of trouble between William Muldoon and Clarence Whistler. I also compare the striking similarities between William Muldoon and Hulk Hogan who came along 100 years later. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Please check out my book on the pioneer era of pro wrestling available from Amazon titled DragonKingKarl's Pioneer Era Pro Wrestling Omnibus.

Dave Meltzer and Garrett Gonzales are back on the Friday WOR talking about Kenny Omega and CM Punk winning their respective World titles on TV this week, AEW & WWE business, Conor McGregor and MMA media, and the Dark Side of the Ring featuring Jeff Jarrett's story on TNA.

John LaRocca and Garrett Gonzales are back on The Fight Game Podcast talking about CM Punk and Kenny Omega winning world titles on TV in the same week. They also talk about the first two episodes of Dark Side of the Ring on TNA.

The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about as we recap two big and fun shows, the AEW Dynamite BEACH BREAK show with two title changes including a new AEW World Champion, and a wild edition of NXT with some great wrestling and also all the usual tropes. A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including Kenny Omega's title win, the full Dynamite recap and what Wembley is looking like, tons of thoughts on the TNA Dark Side of the Ring, Conor McGregor, Sheamus, Tiger Mask, ratings, more notes from the shareholder lawsuit, and more! A packed show so check it out~!

After Dark Radio with Bryan Alvarez is back with special guest Jason Hewlitt to talk all manner of topics including Ogopogo, lake monsters, Bigfoot, his own encounters in the woods and at his home, ghosts and hauntings and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

The Bryan & Vinny Show is back with tons to talk about including our weekly chat with Granny, natural disasters, the wrestling, soap opera and trivia reports, then the boys review the July 1, 2015 edition of NXT! Boy, a lot to discuss. A fun show as always so check it out~!

The Big Audio Nightmare is back as Adam Summers and Mike Sempervive bring you a slightly different but (we think) ultimately satisfying edition of the annual G1 Climax Preview and Prediction Show!

It's the return of the invincible Big Vinny V Show! We're set up and ready to go in our new location, so it's time to jump back into action with reviews of TNA Impact and AAA Lucha Libre. It's a brave new world in TNA, with Tommy Dreamer, Mike Santana, and Eric Young all apparently gone. Nic Nemeth is once again TNA World Champion, but he's dealing with infighting amongst his crew. There's a tournament going on for a new Knockouts TV Championship. We have a six-way to name a challenger for Cedric Alexander's X Division championship. And Ricky Sosa and Leon Slater are battling the System, and forming an alliance in the process. In AAA, Damian Priest makes his presence known, Flammer suffers her first singles loss in forever, Mister Iguana & La Parka shine in tag team action, and Los Perros Del Mal ruin things for everyone. Come join the fun!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including Vikingo's injury, CM Punk winning the World title on RAW, Summerslam, Tony Khan interview today with lots of show announcements, G-1 kicks off this weekend, Conor is back to UFC Saturday, Dark Side of the Ring, the RAW report and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back with tons to talk about including notes on Sheamus leaving WWE and what his future might hold, Tomoaki Honma retiring, some Brian Pillman and Nick Bockwinkel stories, Smackdown recap, line-ups for RAW, NXT and Dynamite, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!

Dave and Garrett are back on the Friday WOR talking all the news from today's WON issue.

John LaRocca and Garrett Gonzales are back on The Fight Game Podcast and discuss the following: * Forbidden Door live thoughts * Sami Zayn winning the strap * Roman vs. Seth * The AEW main event scene (MJF/Kenny/Will/Hanger) * Mercedes the ring general * Gunther vs. Nick Aldis * Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar