Category: Wrestling Omakase

This week on Wrestling Omakase our primary topic is the first 3 nights of the G1 Climax.

Yet another G1 Special in San Francisco review, albeit with the unique perspective of a lapsed ex-New Japan fan!

This week on Wrestling Omakase we present our first ever Mid-Year Awards!

This week on Wrestling Omakase we talk the two biggest promotions in Tokyo, NJPW and DDT!

The Fantasy Draft series of Wrestling Omakase rolls on this week, as we turn our attention to the US & UK indies!

NJPW Dominion is the subject of this week’s Wrestling Omakase, as John is joined by first time guest and retired indie wrestling star Gran Akuma to break down NJPW’s 2nd biggest standalone show of the year!

It’s time to wrap up the Best of the Super Juniors for 2018, and to do so John is joined this week by returning guest Joe Gagne of the 5 Star Match Game and many other places and projects.

It’s back to our Fantasy Draft series this week on Wrestling Omakase! John is joined by returning guests and Burning Spirits co-hosts Brennan Patrick and Kevin Hare, as well as first time guest Tanner from the All You Can Hear podcast, as the four of them compete to draft from indie puroresu!

We’re back to the VOW Fantasy Draft series this week on Wrestling Omakase with our promised second edition!

This week on Wrestling Omakase, John is joined by first time guest Kyle of Sheet Sandwich to discuss terrible, no good, awful WWE Backlash and the two NJPW Wrestling Dontaku shows.

John and their three guests have been named the General Managers of four new brands, and this draft is being held to create their initial rosters.

This week on Wrestling Omakase: John is joined by first time guest Jahmale (RealHero) to discuss the AJPW Champion Carnival so far!

This week on Wrestling Omakase John is joined by first time guest Bryan from the self-proclaimed “#1 anarcho-comedy radio show” Street Fight! The main topic discussed is Wrestlemania, as the two of them talk in great detail about every match on the main show.

Wrestling Omakase reaches its 40th episode as John is joined by the first ever member of the 5-time guest club! Jesse makes her latest appearance on the show to discuss all things DDT.

On this week’s Omakase John is joined by first-time guest Jamie, longtime runner of the popular English fan blog Dramatic DDT, to preview DDT’s biggest show of the year: DDT Judgment!

John is joined by first-time guest Chris Charlton author of the forthcoming EGGSHELLS: Pro Wrestling in the Tokyo Dome to discuss the very topic of his upcoming book!

Wrestling Omakase is back with a very special episode! John is joined by two returning guests: Michael Spears and Rich Kraetsch to discuss their shared history with a quirky little thing called e-wrestling.

Wrestling Omakase is back with another historical episode, as John is joined by returning 3-time guest Andrew Rich (@AndrewTRich) from the Music of the Mat podcast to discuss a period of WWE both of them still remember well.

Wrestling Omakase looks at the entire history of the World Wonder Ring, STARDOM with returning guest Sean Williams, author of the STARDOM Project blog, and new guest Tara Wrist, longtime STARDOM and joshi fan, to discuss the entire history of this incredibly interesting joshi promotion!

Omakase is back for a rare second time within a week as we break down the 2017 VOW Match of the Year poll! John is joined by five guests, all of them VOW MOTY voters, for a roundtable discussion

Kara & Aaron join John to help them break down the two NJPW New Beginning in Sapporo shows, and then the WWE Royal Rumble.

Wrestling Omakase returns this week with a jam packed show full of variety including RAW 25, Puro Grab Bag, All Japan, NOAH and Wrestle-1.

Wrestling Omakase is ready to kick off our 2018 season in earnest, and we start things out with the first of two weeks focused on current puroresu.

The unveiling of the first-ever Wrestling Omakase Year End Awards: Best Promotion, Feud of the Year, Most Outstanding Wrestler, Best Major Show, Best Tag Team, Match of the Year & Wrestler of the Year/MVP.

John is joined by Joe Lanza and NJPW writer/match of the month organizer Lawson Leong as the three of them give a thorough look back at NJPW’s 2017!

We’re nearing the end of the road in the Wrestling Omakase Year in Review series, and in our penultimate episode we talk all things Big Japan Pro Wrestling!

The Year in Review series marches on this week on Omakase, as we take a critical look at where Ring of Honor stands in pro wrestling in 2017!

The Year in Review series heads into the realm of joshi as John is joined by returning guest Alexandra of Squared Circle Sirens.

We take a break from our Year in Review series to take another look at another American indie wrestling mainstay: Pro Wrestling Guerrilla!

Wrestling Omakase’s 2017 Year in Review series continues this week with everyone’s favorite promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment!

On this week’s episode of Wrestling Omakase, John is joined by Jake & Kevin Brown to discuss CZW, the longtime northeast independent promotion.

This week’s episode of Wrestling Omakase sees us welcome a brand new guest, the King of Banter himself, Joe Lanza of the Voices of Wrestling flagship!

JR Goldberg returns to discuss WON HOF candidates from Mexico including Blue Panther, Caristico/Mistico, Dr. Wagner Jr, LA Park and more!

We’re seeing green this week on Omakase, as we board the ark and take a great voyage to Yokohama!

On this week’s edition of Wrestling Omakase, John is joined by VOW Rich Kraetsch to talk Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame!

On this week’s episode of Wrestling Omakase we shift back to Shin Nihon, once again being joined by returning guest Andrew Rich break down all things NJPW.

On this week’s episode of Wrestling Omakase, John is joined by a man who is literally world renowned in his field of study: VOW’s own Garrett Kidney

This week on Wrestling Omakase, we get really meta! Yes, the topic of this wrestling podcast is…..wrestling podcasts with the one and only Joe Gagne.

Wrestling Omakase continues its trip down northeast US indie memory lane as John and Michael Spears discuss the history of CHIKARA.

On this week’s episode of Omakase we’re proud to bring you a free-ranging, free-flowing, very unique conversation on the glory years of ROH!

Dylan is with us this week to discuss the show he reviewed for the VOW site, the very same show John attended live: DDT Peter Pan 2017!

It’s time for a very special episode of Wrestling Omakase, as John is coming at you live from Tokyo to discuss an amazing 9 days of Japanese wrestling!

Wrestling Omakase is back with our latest episode, and this week it’s all about the New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 Climax!

Two weeks ago we brought you a crash course into men’s puroresu, this week we’re back to talk Japanese women’s pro wrestling or Joshi!

This week’s focus is Big Japan’s biggest show of the year, the annual Ryogokutan show and as such we have two passionate BJW fans on to discuss it!

Wrestling Omakase returns with a doozy of an episode as we attempt to bring you up to speed on SIX different Japanese wrestling companies.

Wrestling Omakase is back and this week John is joined by Jeff Hawkins of Shake Them Ropes and Fightful to talk all things WWE.

The debut episode of Wrestling Omakase, a new podcast based around a rotating co-host concept and covering a wide variety of the wrestling. Today: NJPW!