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It's the third of four Will Ospreay matches to gain at least five stars from Dave Meltzer. The previous one only occured three days earlier on an entirely different continent, but Ospreay has already defended the title once a day before against Mike Bailey (a mere 4.75 stars) and now it's the third and last shot for the third generation RKJ on RevPro's tenth anniversary show. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to arrange the party streamers and tin cups and give their own assessments of the action.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, what do you think we should talk about this week on our wrestling podcast? A match from a month ago? LET'S DO THIS THING!https://pateron.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first of (at least) four matches involving Will Ospreay that Dave Meltzer has rated five stars or higher. First, Ospreay faces off for the fifth time with Shingo Takagi, and continues the record they have achieved in all their singles matches for getting at least perfect score from the Observer. Does it match such lofty standards, and what is there left for the duo to do that won't feel unoriginal? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to find out.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The re-match to what is currently the closest to a consensus pick Match of the Year for 2022, FTR look to continue their remarkable year of matches and triumphs by defending their ROH World Tag Team Championship against the team that they won the title from, looking to start their thirteenth reign as tag champs, and doing so in the 2 out of 3 falls stipulation that they have a history of dominating. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to provide two straight falls of opinion. Will they ever bring in a third thought? Almost certainly not. Listening to other people's opinion is not what podcasts are for. Now listen to us talk about a forty-five minute wrestling match for more than forty-five minutes.patreon.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) discuss a not particularly important event that happened this week and it's potential immediate and longer consequences.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a title vs. title match between the champions of the main two sister promotions of WWNLive, as the Evolve Champion Drew Galloway, in the middle of a reinvention after his unceremonious dumping from the WWE only a few years after being introduced by Vince McMahon himself as a future world champion, against Dragon Gate USA's Open the Freedom Gate Champion Johnny Gargano, a man who had carved a reputation over the previous years as one of the best wrestlers on the indie scene. Together they would both raise in stature and profile in WWE's NXT a few years alter. And many traces of those NXT matches can be found right here in front of a small-ish indie crowd. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) compare the journeys of both men before and after this match and how certain aspects of the match ring differently today.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El Hijo del Santo and Negro Casas face off in a lucha des apuestas match where the hatred is so intense you don't know if it's un trabajo o un rodaje Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

El Santo is arguably the most important a cultural figure that any wrestler has even been in a single country. A superhero who played his role, and wore his mask, in the ring, in public, and in over fifty films. For their first pick of this particular sub-genre that has a cult following to this day, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have picked a battle royal of a movie, with Santo and co-star Blue Demon, arguably the second biggest star in all of lucha libre history, battling a marauding band of supernatural horror villains that bear more than a striking resemblence to the Universal horror movie villains of the 30s and 40s. Although the costumes don't quite measure up...https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before we had the PR campaign called the Divas Revolution, some women wrestlers in the default no. 2 US promotion post-WCW pre-AEW were putting on matches that were an equal to anything the men could do and were garnering praise and presenting a very different kind of story to what we were being force-fed with the narrow aesthetics requirements of the WWE's Divas division. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) pick up their conversation from Blayze-Nakano to further discuss the shifting and changing role of women in pro wrestling and the stories they are allowed to tell, and what issues they may have that are part of their own struggles, and what fit into the wider aspects of wrestling culture. Still two blokes talking about it, though.https://pateron.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the first time since Cena-Punk at Money in the Bank 2011, Dave Meltzer gave a match on the main roster WWE a five-star rating. And all it took was for one of the participants to wrestle the entire match with a torn pec, with brusing covering almost half of Cody Rhodes's torso and arm. Meltzer considered it 'among the most compelling matches in pro wrestling history', but is there actually anything to the match itself beyond Rhodes's war wounds going in? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to find out one way or the other.https://pateron.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the third time in the three-year history of AEW, the two teams of brothers who so often wrestle as mirror images of each other, engaged in a match that Dave Meltzer gave the perfect five-star rating as a minimum rating. This time there are no championships on the line, and both are looking to rally themselves after recent defeats. Will Penta & Fenix continue to stretch out their lead on overall wins, or will Matt & Nick Jackson claim their first victory over their Mexican counterparts in their home promotion of AEW? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to find outhttps://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Only the one five-star match from Meltzer for the latest AEW pay-per-view, this is a match that certainly lives up to its billling of 'Anarchy in the Arena'. The shit hits the fan before the wrestling even starts, and it gets a rocking soundtrack for a lot of the chaos too! Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) reach perhaps their most diametrically opposed when a point of contention rears its head in this episode. Let us know where you stand on this matter!Outro music: John Foxx - Stars on Firehttps://pateron.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before there were Divas and Women's Revolutions, there was a brief moment where two women wrestled some of the most exciting and state of the art matches in all of North America. For once, Alundra Blayze has an opponent who can keep up with her pace, as she faces Bull Nakano. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to help assess the fluctuating qualities of women's wrestling in the U.S, both in the past and the present, through a match and rivalry that has rightly been placed on a higher pedestal within the WWE, and wrestling fandom in general, in recent years.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Max Oleskar and Ivan Gonzalez are a successful live comedy double act who created Edinburgh Fringe history with their bi-annual show at the Pleasance Grand that pit comedians alongside and against pro wrestlers. As a result of the success, Max & Ivan have now written and co-star in this new series set within the small town petty politics of low-budget wrestling promotions in North West England. Can they translate their comedy skills (and Max's experience as a one-time pro wrestler himself) into that most challenging of all mediums - the sitcom! Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have go their analytical Goggleboxes on and discuss where the series goes and where it could go in the future.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been two decades of news updates, feuds, factions, temper tantrums, face and heel turns, championship runs, and most importantly RKOing out of nowhere. Randy Orton is a man for whom it's almost impossible for any wrestling fan to have neutral feelings towards. His pluses and minuses are discussed on this episode of LMTYS to commemorate the recent twentieth anniversary of his TV debut on the 25th April 2002 episode of Smackdown. Has "The Viper" staked his claim as one of the all-time greats? Do his most ardent critics have a point? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are going to try to untangle it all whilst fitting in as many important landmarks in Orton's two decade on-screen that can fit into a somewhat reasonable length of time for a podcast.https://pateron.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a tag team dream match that lived up to the hype and was close to a consensus choice for best match to take place at any show during WrestleMania weekend. FTR have a week to remember for the ages, first by challenging the perennial top dogs of Ring of Honor on their own turf in the first show of the Tony Khan era of that promotion. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) deftly link up with quick tags of talking and double team moves of trenchant observation.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the second half of a ZSJ double bill as the submission specialist faces off against the MVP of New Japan in 2021. Who will come out on top and reach the final of the New Japan Cup? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) spoil that fairly early on in this conversation, but it's about the art of the match, not the result itself, that matters with the LMTYS lads!https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the first half (or maybe first third?) of a ZSJ double bill, as Zack Sabre's journey through the 2022 New Japan Cup tournament brings him to a quarter-final rematch of last year's second round opponent (and fellow Meltzer five-star rating generator) Will Ospreay. 'The Commonwealth Kingpin' won what Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) described as the most impressive fight outside of a Wetherspoon's they've ever seen. Can they live up to the hype again this year? Listen on to find out.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.comhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Before Jon Moxley headlined WWE and AEW PPVs, before Nick Gage became a cult legend, and before Drake Weurtz started yelling crazy shit at school board meetings, they were all slicing each others' faces, backs, and whatever else was available on their bodies in front of two-figure audiences in the middle of nowhere in South Carolina. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) exchange metaphorical light tubes of knowledge and opinion with each other to see what this says about all three men involved, and can it explain where they are now and how this style of match now sits in the modern context of pro wrestling.https://pateron.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.