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On this week’s show, Benno and Gareth talk everything AEW Dynasty with a full review of the show as well as their thoughts going into it, starting with Ospreay vs Bryan and whether it is a 5 Star match, as well as Jack Perry’s return at the conclusion of FTR vs The Young Bucks and of course, Swerve Strickland’s big AEW World Title win against Samoa Joe.
They then talk the rest of the card as they discuss the state of Jay White, PAC vs Okada, the absolute state of Chris Jericho, WIllow Nightingale and everything else on the show, with some bonus chat at the end on WWE’s releases, TNA’s Rebellion and more!
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SHOWNOTES:
000:00 Intro, Rock Film Club, Ewan Cameron KOTM pick
0:10:37 AEW build to Dynasty, current state of company
0:29:40 AEW Dynasty PPV Review, Bryan/Ospreay, FTR/Bucks, Swerve wins the title
1:45:32 Rest of Dynasty card, Pac/Okada, Willow Nighingale, Jay White, overall thoughts
2:27:52 WWE releases, Raw and Smackdown notes, NJPW, TNA Rebellion

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On this week’s show, Benno and JP talk everything going on across AEW, WWE & NJPW as Jon Moxley wins the IWGP title, Kenny Omega speaks on CM Punk and being an EVP, and the Bloodline B-Team Civil War kicks off in WWE and everything in between.

They also talk Vince McMahon and his prospects of starting a new company, Documentary Corner returns, as well as all the news around the world as the lads catch up with everything going on in wrestling this week.

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SHOWNOTES:

0:00:00 Intro, Rock Film Club
0:08:30 AEW, Kenny Omega, CM Punk, Tony Khan
0:23:32 Dynasty PPV build, the weekend in TV, Dynamite
0:47:40 NJPW, Moxley wins IWGP title, Jack Perry, Windy City Riot
1:16:23 Vince McMahon sells TKO shares
1:24:39 WWE, Sami Zayn vs Chad Gable, Bloodline Civil War, Roman, Nu Wyatts
1:52:05 Documentary Corner, Harley Race, Chris Colt
2:06:21 Rossy Ogawa, MARIGOLD
2:16:29 PATREON PREVIEW: Top 5 Pub Snacks (GRAPPL 5 to 1 )

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On this week’s show, Benno, JP, Gareth and Matty wrap-up GRAPPLMania Week with a full review of WrestleMania Saturday and Sunday as Cody both ends his STORY and begins another with the alleged “Paul Levesque Era”, plus possible defenses of Uso vs Uso, an unexpected edition of GRAPPL warfare over WALTER vs Sami (and Drew McIntyre), and all the other highlights and lowlights of the shows.

The lads also talk their overall thoughts on the weekend with their best and worst matches, best performers and best shows across the board covering the Collective, IWTV, WrestleCon, NXT, ROH, DDT, Stardom and everything in between.

If you missed GRAPPLMania week, you can replays of all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL, or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at http://www.Patreon.com/GRAPPL!

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SHOWNOTES:

0:00:00 Intro, GRAPPLMania Week plugs
0:08:58 Cody finishes the story, Roman Reigns loses, The Paul Levesque Era
0:51:22 Cody & Seth vs Rock & Roman, WrestleMania Saturday review
1:45:32 WrestleMania Sunday review, overall thoughts
2:27:03 WrestleMania Weekend indie shows NXT, ROH
3:11:42 CM Punk All In footage, Matt Hardy

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt, Simon Gunn, Ewan Cameron and Simon Mulvaney!

Join us on the brand new GRAPPL Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/KqeVAcwctS⁠

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On this week’s show, Benno, JP, Gareth and Matty start GRAPPLMania Week with the Big Preview of WrestleMania and ALL of the major shows happening in the Philadelphia area and beyond from ROH, GCW, WrestleCon and more - plus other shows happening this week from around the world.

Before that though, they talk CM Punk on Ariel Helwani, mass releases from AEW this week, the latest on Vince McMahon, and WWE’s announcement of Clash at the Castle in Scotland.

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SHOWNOTES:

0:00:00 Intro, GRAPPLMania Week
0:19:01 CM Punk on Ariel Helwani
0:46:18 Vince McMahon
0:51:36 Clash at the Castle
0:54:15 AEW Releases
1:05:05 Rev Pro Rumble
1:10:52 Raw, Final WrestleMania build, Smackdown
1:28:37 WrestleMania Night 1 and 2 Preview
2:22:41 WrestleMania Week Preview, WrestleCon, The Collective
GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Robert Brockie, Carl Gac, Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt, Simon Gunn, Ewan Cameron and Simon Mulvaney!

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As we head into Mania Weekend and find out if Cody will finish the story, find here our Patreon Dealer's Choice episode, where we looked back at his entire run in AEW, with Gareth's Dealer's Choice pick - "CODY - AEW Nightmare"!

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It's the end of dealers choice month and for some weird reason Gareth's choice is always last but he always picks a corker. And it's no different this time round as he reclaims his DEEP CUT gimmick with a dangerously contemporary choice of CODY - AEW Nightmare!

Join Gareth, Matty, Benno and myself as we talk the ultimately mad run of Cody Rhodes in AEW *SLIDING DOORS ALERT* where we go in depth from his initially promising early stages run with some cracking promos and angles.

It being Cody though, we have plenty of batshit Codyverse stuff including his Oliver Dreamer impression, COVID Wrestling, TNT Kit Kat title belt, introduction of Eddie Kingston, GLOCK, the nightmare of Brandi, and whatever the fuck the end of run was. So sit back, enjoy the madness of the Codyverse and fantasy book his never-to-exist monster heel run.

DISCLAIMER: Any previous opinions/daft predictions that we may have raised on previous podcasts, do not apply and we were probably right anyway  Enjoy  NB In classic Gareth-style, the Playlist is attached in old school Excel, as well as available here as a YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMZhf4Yz5WZvxLhNzxa1c0i62E94stT4T

- JP

It’s BRETRO episode 5!

Yeah baby, it’s time for some Anvil as Matty & Gareth jump into the tag division to discuss the Hart Foundation’s two World Tag Team Title wins.

We go back to 1987 for the win over the British Bulldogs (well, DAVEY anyway), and then there’s no place to hide in 1990 as they go against all three members of Demolition.