Let Me Tell You Something!

We're not even at the halfway point of the first week of 2021 for five-star matches, as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) follow up the Okada-Omega clash with the very next match on the card as Naito defends the Intercontinental title he picked up at Night 1 of the previous year's Wrestle Kingdom, and the Heavyweight title he won on the next night, against the G1 Climax winner Kota Ibushi, who Naito granted a title shot to after he lost his entitled G1 championship match to Jay White a few weeks earlier. Will this act of charity undo Naito with two defences in as many days? If Ibushi wins, will it leave him too weak and limit him to a one-day reign? Will those factors and the tendency of these two men to crush each other's necks in their previous encounters provide a positive or negative effect on the final rating our LMTYS boys give their match? Listen to find out.Outro track: Gold Stardust (unknown artist)https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmty

The first week of 2021 was a record breaker for Dave Meltzer, as he handed FIVE perfect or above-perfect ratings out. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) start their month-long journey to cover a week of Meltzer bliss with an attempt to gain vengeance for a betrayal, as 'The Rainmaker' Kazuchika Okada battles a man he saw as a brother in the newly renamed 'Commonwealth Kingpin' and leader of new faction The Empire, Will Ospreay at the Tokyo Dome.Outro song: Hyperborean Skies - Betrayed by the Starshttps://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are back to the drawing board as they continue to hammer out the story beats on a movie about the Monday Night War. How do you cover the fall of Nitro? How does Paul Heyman feature in this? When will there be a line of actual dialogue written?https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A special tribute to honour the death of Jon Huber, better known in AEW and the wrestling indie scene as Brodie Lee, and in the WWE as Luke Harper. Gone far too soon, but never to be forgotten by those who followed him throughout his career, Lorcan and Simon have chosen perhaps the best match of his career to discuss and see not only why Huber was so highly thought of as a performer by all thsoe who worked with him, but also his part in the greater story of one of the finest in-ring achievements for the WWE in years and years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The year 2020 has happened. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) talked about it, then walked away like cool guys ignoring an explosion in the background. You may choose to listen to this episode, we hope you do. After that, let's never speak of this year again.https://patreon.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 2004, Dave Meltzer has rated a match from NOAH five stars. What's perhaps even more surprising is that it comes from two wrestlers who have been a part of the promotion from either at or near its inception. The weight of history on both Takashi Sugiura and Go Shiozaki is heavy throughout this match, and it's an epic one. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to see if they can go the distance themselves.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As his stable of wrestlers in AEW continues to expand, and he provides fun commentary during episodes of Dark, Taz has had a great year. But before he was a commentator, trainer, and overall amusing figure for internet wrestling, he was a pioneer in the MMA-influenced, Japan-influenced, more serious style of wrestling that now populates so many corners of the wrestling world. So Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are taking a trip back in time to what is often cited as the best ever ECW PPV and watch Taz face off against the much larger Bam Bam Bigelow, one of the most talented big man wrestlers of all time, to both defend the (recently reactivated) FTW Championship and avenge a loss that was seen at the time as a huge upset.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's back to the days of smoky town halls and blue-rinse haired elderly ladies as Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) catch a bit of classic British wrestling that is half rough-and-ready Ken Loach working class social-realism, and half good old fashioned panto. The jester of the UK grappling scene (and all around menace to the locker room) Les Kellett gets under the skin of Leon Arras, better known as thespian of stage and screen Brian Glover.https;//patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) get their creative juices flowing this week as they try to turn their hands to movie making and brainstorming ideas for what may one day become a full draft of a script about the Monday Night Wars, perhaps when wrestling was at its cultural zeitgeist.As long as you aren't one of those who don't take kindly to historical liberties being employed when recounting stories from the past, you should have a fun time listening to two minds working together to start crafting something new out of something old and well-known to anyone who is passionate enough to be listening to a wrestling podcast in the first place!https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a superfist party! Not in that way, you sicko!!!The match that has been many years in the making finally took place, as the two most talked about (for both good and ill) tag teams of the past decade locked horns for the first time, with not just the AEW tag team titles on the line, but the last time the Bucks will challenge if they fail again. Will high flying defeat ground and pound? Will spectacle defeat solid work? Will sizzle beat steak? Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to find out.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps;//facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After thirty incarnations of the high workrate love-in that is the G1 Climax, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are returning to the very first tournament, as Keiji Mutoh faces off against Big Van Vader. It's the days before NJPW World so they were working from a fan-cam footage version, but given that this was a match that Brian Pillman once told Dave Meltzer is the greatest he's ever seen (and is often listed as a Meltzer 5* match, which we're not sure about either way) it's fair to say that, based on repuation, this should be good in nearly any quality recording.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Der ouch! Two of Europe's finest battle it out in front of no fans, but it's certainly not a quiet encounter. For the second time, a WALTER title defence of his NXT UK Championship achieved at least a perfect score from Dave Meltzer, and Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are prepping for their second lockdown and hoping the worst thing to happen to their chests are the occasional, but not constant, cough.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may have had to wait a week for another five-star match, but for the lucky people who saw the Ibushi-Suzuki match from last week, they literally only had to wait a minute or two before Kazuchika Okada and Shingo Takagi locked horns and had another match that Dave Meltzer gave a better-than-perfect 5.25 star rating. Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are here to see what this clash of the New Japan ace against, until recently, the Dragon Gate ace in a battle of the Ultimo Dragon trainees.Outro music: Horizun the Alien - Star Moneytwitter.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.compatreon.com/lmtyspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I suppose we should have made a bigger deal about this being the 150th match to get rated five stars or higher. But we didn't, so there's that. A relatively barren G1 Climax as far as perfect scores go, but Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are still being treated to a match with hard hitting and loud yelling in Japanese, as the Golden Star faces another challenge on his final end point of IWGP success. This time it's against Minoru Suzuki, in only his second five-star match as he shows that men in the 50s can still get the job done!patreon.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with another match of the week, and this time Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) return to the world of lucha libre to review the match rated as the best of the year by Wrestling Observer readers in 2000, and the match that is more often than any other cited as the greatest in the history of lucha libre.patreon.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part match review, part discussion on the current day wrestling crowd, Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) are in a more philosophical mood this time as they both try to understand how the situation we're in at the moment does or doesn't affect the artistic merit of a wrestling match. I don't know if I've sold this episode well...https://patreon.com/lmtyspodhttps://twitter.com/lmtyspodhttps://facebook.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Simon's go this time, and he's decided to go into that most often derided sub-genre of wrestling: the celebrity match. In the biggest show of them all (and the one most associated with these matches) at WrestleMania XXIV as The Big Show battles arguably the greatest boxer of all time in Floyd Mayweather. The boxer vs. wrestler match is a gimmick almost as old as wrestling itself. Did they do this justice? Did the showmanship of Mayweather make him a natural at the theatrics of pro wrestling? Simon (@simoncross3) and Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) have gone back in time to re-watch and find out.https://patreon.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.comtwitter.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just before the world shut down and required a reboot that's been suffering from severe lagging issues, AEW had provided us with another five star match between two top tag teams. Six months later, another clash between two teams, but in a very different environment, has also earned a perfect score. So Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) have packed their lunches, been dropped off and podcast school, and are producing another episode, at long last, in their Meltzer 5-Star series.lmtyspod@gmail.compatreon.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new series sees the LMTYS lads Lorcan (@lorcanmullan) and Simon (@simoncross3) take it in turns picking a match from long and varied history of pro wrestling and discuss it for as long as they feel like discussing it. Lorcan's pick sees the man oft-cited as the greatest wrestler of all time, Lou Thesz, defend his NWA World Heavyweight Championship against the much more flamboyant, and first WWWF World Heavyweight Champion, 'Nature Boy' Buddy Rogers. A clash of personalities and ideologies whose echoes are still heard to this day.patreon.com/lmtyspodlmtyspod@gmail.comfacebook.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We went all over the place with this one. 200 episodes will get to your brain in some way, shape or form, so it was somewhat inevitable...lmtyspog@gmail.compatreon.com/lmtyspodtwitter.com/lmtyspodfacebook.com/lmtyspod"I condense it down to this. Those people who like professional wrestling, no explanations needed. For those who don't like it, any explanation would not be acceptable."Max Crabtree - When Wrestling Was Golden (2006) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.