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Wrestling Omakase #281: 2025 VOW Match of the Year & John's WON Awards Ballot w/ 4 guests! Feb 02, 2026

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With Japanese wrestling having an uncharacteristically quiet week, it's the perfect opportunity for us to take a look back at the best of 2025! Voices of Wrestling just rolled out its 2025 Match of the Year poll (always one of the coolest things the site does every year), and John is joined by four fellow voters: Joshi-ing Around's Tim Hunter, Social Suplex's Chris Whitehead, VOW's Sean Sedor and Brady from, uh, an organic cooking company? Anyway! All five of them go over their own personal ten favorite matches from 2025 in great detail, as it's basically 4+ hours of them raving about what they loved most in wrestling last year (and also throwing some shade about what they didn't love so much- ok, mostly just John does that). Then, as if that wasn't enough 2025 award audio for you, John also recorded 45 minutes of solo audio that's tacked onto the end where they go over their Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards ballot in detail, explaining who they voted and why for Flair/Thesz, Most Outstanding Wrestler, Best Promotion and a whole lot more!

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397 Super J-Cast Listener Q/A Show Feb 01, 2026

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Joel and Damon are back to dig deep into their mailbox to answer your pressing New Japan Pro Wrestling questions including updates on SANADA, New Japan in the US, will the promotion ride this momentum?, and so much more.

Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast #127: Whatever Happened To The Rocketpack Push? Jan 31, 2026

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On the latest episode of the Gentlemen’s Wrestling Podcast, host Jesse Collings is joined by Sarah from the Trish and Sarah Wrestling podcast to discuss how wrestlers seem to rarely get pushed all the way to the main event at an early stage of their career. They talk about the booking patterns of AEW, WWE and NJPW that have wrestlers on longer trajectories to stardom, the changes in the industry that have made fresh new stars less essential, and a lot more.

The Flagship: Royal Rumble, TNA/AEW Ratings, AJPW, Korean Smark Awards, Contract/Injury Season! Jan 30, 2026

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This week on The Flagship: a preview of this week's Royal Rumble show and the potential last match of AJ Styles' ...WWE career?

We also dive into recent ratings from TNA, AEW, and WWE, contract season updates, a large swath of recent injuries, the Korean Smark Awards, and review the January 25 AJPW show featuring a Triple Crown Title match between Kento Miyahara and Talos.

Shake Them Ropes. Rumble 2026 Jan 30, 2026

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This week we start with some Rob audio as he recovers from surgery then Jeff welcomes his Dynamite Show host to preview the Royal Rumble and the news.

Emerald FlowShow #99: All Aboard the Talos Train Jan 30, 2026

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Gerard is joined by Dylan Fox of the Eastern Lariat to talk about EVIL leaving New Japan, the FSM 50, NOAH's booking, All Japan's surprisingly strong January and which company is putting their best foot forward in 2026 so far.

Open The Voice Gate - Dragon System Chili Jan 28, 2026

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Welcome back to Open The Voice Gate! Case (https://twitter.com/_inyourcase) and Mike (https://twitter.com/fujiiheya) are back with an update on the comings and goings of Dragongate.

Mike is iced-in while Case is on assignment, so it’s time to throw a pot on the stove and make some Dragon System Chili! Dragongate’s off this week, so Mike previews the Memorial Gate and Truth Gate shows (2/1, 2/4), looks for direction towards Uno Dos Tres, Gajadokuro Produce Sell Out, Monday Magic, GLEAT’s January, VOW MOTY and a project tracking wrestling prospects!

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Mike & JD Show ep.126: Free Agency Frenzy, NJPW Exodus + TNA's AMC Debut TV Ratings Breakdown Jan 27, 2026

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Mike & JD are back discussing a hige week in pro wrestling free agency news featuring big moves from Will Hobbs, Trey Miguel, Tomasso Ciampa, Killer Kelly and more. Plus a big mass exodus is looming in NJPW with Evil offiicially leaving and Hiromu Takahashi and The War Dogs not far behind him. Finally they discuss the ratings for TNA's debit on AMC. Patreon.com/themikeandjdshow

JBA: Mayu Iwatani 15th Anniversary, Tokyo Joshi Max Heart Tournament, SEAdLINNNG, Stardom Supreme Fight Preview and more! Jan 26, 2026

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Kelly and Taylor are back, and as a treat, they get to talk their very favorite promotion!

That's right, the show kicks off with a review of Marigold's Mayu Iwatani 15th Anniversary show, including Taylor kicking voters out of the WON Hall of Fame process, Kelly's vote for funniest match of the year so far, and a lot of talk about announcers. Not only that, they also cover the start of two tournaments, Tokyo Joshi's Max Heart tournament, and SEAdLINNNG's title tournament headlined by Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. MIRAI!

After that, they preview the next two weeks in joshi highlighted by Stardom's Supreme Fight in Osaka and the semi-finals of the Max Heart Tournament!

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Wrestling Omakase #280: NJPW 1/19 & 1/20, STARDOM 1/21, Marigold 1/24 & DDT 1/25 Korakuens, GLEAT 1/20 Shinjuku FACE w/ Velkej Jan 26, 2026

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Wrestling Omakase is finally back to its regularly scheduled programming, as we're once again going weekly from here on out following our part-time schedule earlier in January (due to a combo of Japan trip, post-Japan trip blues/jet lag and then work stuff). John is joined by returning guest Velkej Bracha to discuss NJPW's 1/19 & 1/20 Road to New Beginning Korakuens (feat. the end of EVIL, a classic tag match, and a hot unit feud), STARDOM's 1/21 Korakuen (feat. the Tokyo HATE Squad Showdown and more blissful Maki/Saori interactions) and Marigold's 1/24 Korakuen (feat. Mayu Iwatani's 15th anniversary, now without STARDOM IP). People needing to take Ls is a big overriding theme as you'll find out. Then John goes solo to discuss two more shows, DDT's 1/25 Korakuen (feat. unit movement and A Second Suzuki Incident Has Struck The Building) and GLEAT's 1/20 Shinjuku FACE show. Yes, this is a GLEAT podcast now, apparently. Who knew?

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