The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today with a packed edition of the program! We’ve got the usual NXT from Full Sail report, Vinny’s Raw reactions from Monday Night, Granny joins us for another contest plus SHE HAS WATCHED WRESTLING RECENTLY AND WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Success can’t be determined by merely looking at a single number in the world of pro wrestling and it’s time to rethink how we gauge success. To help navigate our way through what we know and what we should look for, we brought in the talented Brandon Howard of Voices of Wrestling for the 29th episode of Josh Nason’s Punch-Out!
Brandon and Josh talked for an hour on a variety of wrestling topics like:
– His research project on RAW TV ratings, house show attendance, and the year that was 2015
– Who the best wrestler in the world when star ratings are taken into consideration and why WWE talent didn’t make the top 25
– Whether he’s excited for AJ Styles to come to WWE and what his leaving Ring of Honor might mean to their bottom line
– Our shared cynicism about whether WWE can get Nakamura and friends right
– What one stat/business metric he’d love to get from WWE
– HHH’s sincerity (or lack thereof)
– His deep dive into social media statistics and what indy organizations can learn from it
– Why he decided to become a pro wrestler and what he learned when he first started training
– And lots more. Geek out on some wrestling business with us, will ya? (Note this show was recorded before the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards were released.)
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Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back today with special guest Good ol’ JR Jim Ross to talk his new gig doing commentary for New Japan on AXS, tons of thoughts on current and former pro-wrestling, the art of announcing, his podcast and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including Raw and TNA ratings notes, the Royal Rumble, ROH being canceled due to weather issues, plus Dave Meltzer makes his weekly guest appearance talking Josh from Tough Enough and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer returns today with tons to talk about including a full breakdown of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter 2016 Awards, thoughts on all of the category A winners, who may have ended up higher or lower than maybe they should have and more! Plus, Smackdown, Raw ratings, Matt Hardy’s heel turn on Impact and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including Royal Rumble, a new match signed for the pre-show, TNA on POP TV, more on Tough Enough Josh, Faarooq as babyface GM and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
The Bryan & Vinny Show is back today and it’s RETRO TUESDAY! That means Raw and Nitro from 19 years ago this week! WWF following the 1997 Royal Rumble and a really fun edition of Nitro all the way up until Eric Bischoff storyline tried to make the show better. A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including all the heat on Josh From Tough Enough, Raw from Monday night, a bunch of ideas for the WWE Royal Rumble, and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Audio Show – Questions and Answers! The return of the popular questions and answers format. Topics and questions today deal with a variety of things but I have to start off with the death of “Iron” Mike Sharpe. If you grew up watching WWF in the 1980’s like I did then you undoubtably saw many “Iron” Mike Sharpe matches. He came from a wrestling family and I think he could have been a pushed star in certain areas had he not been typecast in the WWF prelims. I also revist the topic of who has had the most matches in wrestling history. A listener to the show writes in questioning the 9,000 matchs or more number that we talked about a few shows ago. We talk about the reality of that number.
Then the main topic this show comes from an email I got just yesterday. What are the origins of kayfabe and the sport becoming a work? It is a question we have talked about many times on the DragonKingKarl show. Still, it is a great question to revist from time to time and discover just how pro wrestling came to be. How did the carnivals and the circus get tangled up with wrestling? How did wrestling evolve out of the civil war? Was Frank Gotch, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, or Lou Thesz actually “shoot” wrestlers? Just when did it change from being a legit contest to theater in a ring? If you are interested in getting a copy of the Pioneers of Wrestling Special that I reference on this show, it is available as part of the massive amount of data on the Super Stern Stick available at my personal website http://www.dragonkingkarl.com
Today’s show is a free one! I have not given away a show in years but I am giving away today’s show so we can have a good discussion about the origins of pro wrestling. I hope you enjoy!
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer returns today with tons to talk about including our weekly Raw report, the go-home show for Royal Rumble, all the matches and angles, and more, plus the death of Iron Mike Sharpe, UFC ratings from this past weekend, tons of questions and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!