Posted by dropkick on January 27, 2012
Following on from our successful pilot episode we welcome you to the first official episode of The Dropkick Radio Japanese Wrestling Show with Jeremy Graves and Matthew Lappin.
In this episode discussion includes the NJPW Wrestle Kingdom VI event & the fallout leading to the 'New Beginning' event set to be headlined with Okada, yes the same Okada who has (apparently) been in TNA for last year, challenging for the IWGP title. Dragon Gate Infinity #145 featuring footage from January 9th, Pro Wrestling NOAH news including two title changes, Japanese wrestlers coming to Europe and more!
A fun 70 minutes of Japanese wrestling discussion and it's available for you now!
Posted by dropkick on January 24, 2012
It has arrived, the fourth anniversary show of the Dropkick Radio Wrestling Show. A program packed with wrestling talk and two interviews with a very British flavour to them.
Discussion this includes a variety of topics relating to the past weeks wrestling television shows including great promo from CM Punk at the end of Raw, the burial of Jack Swagger just so John Cena showed he 'embraced the hate', the first flag match on WWE TV since (possibly) 1997, how gimmick laden theme of Smackdown proved to be a detriment to the program, the return of Alex Shelley to Impact, the random booking of Samoa Joe & Magnus (WARNING: SPOILERS ARE TALKED ABOUT DURING THIS TOPIC) and more!
When it comes to the two interviews we mentioned we welcome the 'Baby Jesus Of British Wresting' the Rockstar Spud to the program to discuss how the 'Rockstar' came to be, the state of British wrestling, favourite places to party, worst beatings and more! We also welcome the former Desmond Wolfe, Nigel McGuinness back to the program in a very open forty minute interview covering topics including his recent retirement tour, becoming an announcer with Ring Of Honor, wrestling at Wembley Arena with TNA, the inception of Desmond Wolfe, future plans and more!
Of course there's also time for the weekly pub quiz, a few competitions and more! It's a loaded anniversary show with a duration of over three hours and it's available for you now.
Posted by dropkick on January 17, 2012
It’s a landmark show from Dropkick Radio this weeks as it marks the conclusion of our fourth year of broadcasting before we enter our fifth year on next weeks Anniversary program.
This week topics include, but are not limited to, the debut of the FUNKASAURUS, Hulk Hogan added the TNA UK tour, Edge and The 4 Horseman being inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame, the Daniel Bryan/Big Show no DQ title match that ended in a no contest, Hunico claiming his custom low rider bicycle symbolises part of his culture, an update on possible future locations for Wrestlemania and more!
Plus we’ll bring you a review of the final show at the world famous ECW Arena – ‘Evolve 10′ that was headlined by Johnny Gargano vs. Ricochet and also featured a tribute to the arena. If that wasn’t enough there will be week two of the DKR Pub Quiz league, an announcement concerning our Anniversary program next week and more!
It's available for your listening pleasure now!
Posted by dropkick on January 10, 2012
It is our first live broadcast of the year and boy was it a fun one as this week Jeremy Graves & Martyn Licchelli travel across the globe to bring you discussion on the past few weeks of WWE (including the return of Chris Jericho & Daniel Bryan being the World Champion), TNA (including Samoa Joe & Magnus as a team & Eric Young putting people in lockers), Brock Lesnar retiring from MMA, TNA set to tape IMPACT at Wembley Arena, some recent Lucha Libre shows, the DDT promotion in Japan & the madness that can ensue with its biggest show of the year, the NJPW Wrestle Kingdom VI event and more!
Plus we have comments from Abyss of TNA Wrestling ahead of the UK tour, we launch the Open Beta version of our 'pub quiz league' (head over to our FACEBOOK page for the link to take part), bring you thought on the TNA Genesis PPV and more! It's a loaded show kick off the new live season of shows with and it's available now!
Posted by dropkick on January 2, 2012
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! We hope you all had great new year celebrations. As it is now the year 2012 it's only fitting that we begin the year with a podcast featuring over three hours of wrestling talk.
This weeks show has three key elements to it. First of all a delve back in time to look back at the past twelve months in both the WWE and TNA reflecting on the good, the bad, the ugly and more than likely the odd thing here or there that has been lost in the annuls of time. (It's certainly amazing at times to think how much can happen in a year and then realise how much you'd probably forgotten too.)
The next element of the program is our detailed review of the Ring Of Honor 'Final Battle' iPPV from December 23rd in New York City headlined by the Davey Richards vs. Eddie Edward ROH title match. A review that went far longer than we anticipated but for very good reasons given how the event played out and how it came across on iPPV.
The third key element to the program is an interview with the Dragon Gate USA 'Open The Freedom Gate' Champion Johnny Gargano to talk a whole host of topics that include winning the Open The Freedom Gate championship, getting started in DGUSA, going on a tour to Japan with Chuck Taylor & Rich Swan, some of the randomness that ensued during that tour, the DGUSA/Evolve merger, being a member of F.I.S.T. in Chikara and more in a very passionate yet enlightening interview!
Then if that wasn't enough we also bring you a community segment comprised of questions sent in by the DKR Community, announce the results of the DKR Year End Awards and bring you a (fairly random edition of the) pub quiz with a variety of topics on the year 2011! It's a loaded show to the kick off the new year and it's available for your listening pleasure right now!
Posted by dropkick on December 28, 2011
A few weeks go I (Jeremy Graves) exclaimed at the conclusion of a recent broadcast my desire to embark on a new side project to Dropkick Radio that would focus purely on the world of Japanese wrestling. I received feedback from various listeners encouraging me to make this project happen. So after a bit of planning I decided to record a pilot edition of the show with a good friend of mine and fellow Japanese wrestling fan Matthew Lappin to talk a variety of topics for what was originally planned to be thirty minutes, but ended up going seventy minutes without realising it.
So here for you is the pilot edition of The Dropkick Radio Japanese Wrestling Show!
The Dropkick Radio Japanese Wrestling Show Pilot Episode - ft. NJPW Wrestle Kingdom VI Preview [Recorded December 26th 2011]
Join Jeremy Graves and Matthew Lappin for the pilot edition of a new monthly side project to Dropkick Radio focusing entirely on the world of Japanese Wrestling.
We went into this episode with the mindset for this to act as an introduction to Japanese wrestling (for those new to it) while making sure not alienate those already followers of the scene too. When recording started we had two primary topics in mind; to discuss how we both discovered & got into Japanese wrestling in the first place and to preview the upcoming January 4th 'Wrestle Kingdom VI' event at the Tokyo Dome. But you know how things go. When you start talking about subjects you are passionate about you end up talking for nearly seventy five minutes about a whole host of topics including what you set to out to talk about originally.
So if you are in the mood for something a little different from the norm by Dropkick Radio, why not give this a shot.
NOTE - While recording there was some background noise that we were not aware of. This shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the show but we wanted to make note of it now before you began listening.
If you would like to submit feedback, questions, topic suggestions or comments in general to us, you can so by emailing DropkickRadio@hotmail.com with the subject 'DKR Japanese Podcast'. You can also submit feedback via FACEBOOK and TWITTER.
Posted by dropkick on December 25, 2011
Here is our special Christmas show for you. Not that it's a Christmas themed show but more a special concept program being released on Christmas day. With the mention of Christmas now being grossly overused in this description let's get onto what this program is about.
This is program where Jeremy Graves and Martyn & Angelina Licchelli sat down in front of the TV to watch the 1994 WWF Royal Rumble Match and while watching conveyed their feelings on what was happening before their eyes! (The idea being you watch the match and play the audio of us talking about it at the same time!) Should this be a little confusing do not worry as all is explained at the start of the program and we've made sure to make it easy to sync up the video and this audio too!
It's the pilot edition of a very unique concept from us. We hope you enjoy it and because it hasn't been mentioned enough already, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY~!
Posted by dropkick on December 19, 2011
This week is the final live broadcast of the year for Dropkick Radio but fear not as Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli make sure to bring two and half hours of wrestling talk that includes subjects such as the WWE Slammy Awards edition of Monday Night Raw, the poor build up to the TLC PPV, the return of Kane (with two unique view points on the angle), the entire WWE TLC PPV which saw the crowning of two new champions with perhaps some of the best gimmick matches in a long time and a big difference of opinion when it comes to the epic Ladder Match battle that Kevin Nash vs. Triple H. Plus talk on the fallout to TNA Final Resolution in the form of IMPACT Wrestling that saw an overtime period to the world title match at the PPV and the start of a month long wild card tag team tournament. Plus Ring Of Honor TV with All Night Express vs. Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin, a preview of the Final Battle iPPV this weekend and Florida Championship Wrestling.
But that's not as there's discussion on the new anti-Cena shirt that WWE are selling that continues the talk of turning John Cena heel, the reason Jeff and Karen Jarrett got fired in storyline, the epic card that PWG have for their January event gets better and more! Plus the community segment featuring questions from the DKR community and the weekly pub quiz with the topic being 'Ricardo Rodriguez' and more!
It's another packed edition of the program, that may include run ins from the trio of Angelina, Falco & the ominous cat, and it's available now!
Posted by dropkick on December 12, 2011
This week Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli discuss a whole host of topics that include this past weeks editions of WWE Raw (featuring the overkill of Zack Ryder), Smackdown (with Daniel Bryan going mental on Michael Cole and Orton & Barrett in a Beat The Clock challenge), TNA Impact (with an amazing promo by James Storm) and Ring Of Honor (featuring one of the best segments in ROH TV history that involved Kevin Steen, Jim Cornette & Steve Corino.)
There's also recaps of the Dragon Gate USA iPPV 'Freedom Fight' featuring Johnny Gargano challenging for the Open The Freedom Gate title against Yamato and the TNA Final Resolution PPV. The latter is discussed at the very end of the program so as to avoid spoiling results for UK viewers.
Plus the latest news including the possible closure of the ECW Arena and the New Japan Pro Wrestling 'Wrestle Kingdom VI' card, the weekly pub quiz on the WWE career (thus far) of Alberto Del Rio and much more!
Posted by dropkick on December 5, 2011
Join Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli for another two and half of hours of wrestling talk that includes topics stemming from the past weeks wrestling televisions show such as the possibility of John Cena turning heel following the Pipers Pit segment on Raw & how would be the best way to do it, Daniel Bryan and his quest to become world champion, the TNA knockouts and their ability to dominate Impact with their lack of clothing & car washing abilities, Dan 'The Beast' Severn on ROH TV and the start of our weekly coverage of Florida Championship Wrestling!
But that's not all. There is talk on the Royal Rumble reportedly going back to a 30-man format this coming January, what Bully Ray will likely be doing during the TNA January UK tour, an update on the Xplosion Maximum Impact tournament, ROH has an 80 minute main event, the Dragon Gate USA iPPV 'Bushido Code Of The Warrior 2011', a preview of the TNA Final Resolution PPV, the weekly pub quiz with the topic being the 2006 ECW December To Dismember PPV and more!
It's another jammed packed to the rafters edition of Dropkick Radio and it's available for your listening pleasure right now!
Posted by dropkick on November 28, 2011
This week we bring you discussion on the fallout to WWE Survivor Series with discussion on CM Punk, Daniel Bryan and his now void attempt at his Money In The Bank cash in, the Thanksgiving edition of TNA Impact featuring 'Thanksgiving Thong Thunder' and Ring Of Honor with Davey Richards vs. Kyle O'Reilly. There are also reviews of the Dragon Gate USA iPPV 'Revolt', the Fight Club:PRO and IPW:UK events from this past weekend, discussion on some news including the passing of Bison Smith, 'That' Sin Cara shirt and DGUSA & Evolve merging.
There's also time to launch a competition ton win the new video game "WWE '12", the pub quiz focusing on WWE Title changes that have happened on Raw and more! It's another loaded program and it's available for your listening pleasure right now!
Posted by dropkick on November 22, 2011
This week Jeremy and Martyn are back to bring you another 3 hour dose of professional wrestling talk in the form of The Dropkick Radio Wrestling Show.
Topics this week include, but are not limited to the WWE Survivor Series PPV featuring the return of the Rock to in-ring action, last weeks editions of WWE Raw (the three hour episode with 'This Is Your Life: John Cena) & Smackdown (with Daniel Bryan being the victim of an attack by Mark Henry), Impact with fallout to the TNA Turning Point PPV and Ring Of Honor featuring the American Wolves reforming to take on the House Of Truth.
But that's not all. We also bring you an interview with Chris Jericho conducted on November 13th prior to Fozzy performing in Brighton, discussion on the latest news including Matt Hardy being in Jail, the injury to Sin Cara and what his future may hold and TNA & OVW's working relationship potentially having it's first casualty. Plus the weekly DKR Pub Quiz and more!
It's another loaded edition of the program and it's available right now!
Posted by dropkick on November 15, 2011
Dropkick Radio with Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli is back to give you another three plus hours of wrestling discussion!
This weeks the program includes a full run down of the first ever Chikara iPPV 'High Noon', a surprise live interview with Mike Quackenbush of Chikara talking about that very just under 24 hours removed from it. Recaps of the weeks wrestling television shows (that includes both WWE Raw & Smackdown in the UK), some of the latest news (including the injury to Christian, Henry Godwin in a car wreck), exclusive comments from a forthcoming interview with Chris Jericho on the anniversary of the passing of Eddie Guerrero and the weekly DKR Pub Quiz focusing on past WWF/WWE UK PPVs & Supercard events.
But that's not all as the program concludes with talk on TNA Wrestling. They had a PPV by the name of Turning Point so there's a run down of that event along with the most recent Impact and a preview of the Impact tapings. (The TNA talk concludes the show as the PPV doesn't air in the UK until later in the week.)
It's another mammoth program and it's available to you now!
Posted by dropkick on November 8, 2011
Join Jeremy and Martyn on a trip to the world of professional wrestling which includes a full preview of the Chikara iPPV event 'High Noon' on November 13th! This preview includes two interviews, a near 40 minute interview with Icarus of the F.I.S.T. trio and Tursas of the BDK.
There's is also talk on the Rock joining forces with John Cena, how Bobby Roode winning the TNA world title on Impact looked, the great street fight between Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes, Evan Bourne and the future of Air Boom!, AJ Styles injury potentially impacting the main event of the Turning Point PPV this weekend and more!
But that's not all as there is also the weekly pub quiz focusing on the career of The Rock, the DKR Community Segment and more!
Posted by dropkick on November 1, 2011
Join Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli for another trip into the world of wrestling for discussion on the weeks wrestling television including HHH being attacked by Kevin Nash, the greatness of CM Punk on Smackdown, the post James Storm title win edition of Impact and the first ROH TV show from the second set of tapings! Was this venue change an improvement for ROH? We will give you full lowdown on it!
We will also go into *SPOILER* territory as Martyn divulges to Jeremy (who has somehow, as usual, managed to remain spoiler free,) what occurred at the recent TNA Impact Tapings (set to air this coming week and next week). Could there be a passionate rant on hand?
However that's not all as tThere are two interviews included in this program. The first is with returning guest and former World Champion Chris Jericho talking about his impending UK tour with Fozzy, some wrestling and his passion for Halloween! Then we bring you an interview with current NWA World Heavyweight Champion Adam Pearce to discuss all sorts of topics to do with wrestling including the presence of the NWA on a worldwide level, wrestling in the UK, Ring Of Honor, a little detail on the wrestling revolution project and much more!
But wait there's more! There is also a rare treat as we look back at the infamous 'Chamber Of Horrors' match from Halloween Havoc 1991, a Halloween Havoc themed pub quiz, the community segment with lots of questions on a variety of topics, and more!
It's another loaded program and is available for your listening pleasure right now!
Posted by dropkick on October 25, 2011
On this weeks program Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli bring you a live event review of all three nights of the Dragon Gate UK weekender, discussion on the WWE Vengeance PPV, James Storm winning the TNA World Title, Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara in a mask vs. Mask match, week four of Ring Of Honor, some of the latest news, a thirty minute interview with Andy Quildan of IPW:UK discussion the upcoming joint IPW:UK/NWE event in April, the weekly DKR Pub Quiz with the theme being past 'Vengeance' PPVs and much more!
It's a whopping three hours and twenty minutes of wrestling discussion and it's available for your listening pleasure right now!
Posted by dropkick on October 17, 2011
Join Jeremy Graves and Martyn Licchelli for lots and lots of fun times as they take you a on journey from this past week in the world of professional wrestling. It's a mammoth show, clocking in at nearly ??? minutes! Here is what you can expect on this weeks program.
Proceedings begin with talk on the weeks television shows WWE Raw (featuring the conclusion of the 'walk out'), WWE Smackdown (featuring the largest battle royale in the history of WWE) and week three of Ring Of Honor with the ROH World Title match between Roderick Strong and Davey Richards.
[There is talk on TNA Impact, but it's saved until the end of the program as is the review of TNA Bound For Glory.]
Attention then turns to some of the news of the past week that includes Hulk Hogan saying the wrong things ahead of Bound For Glory, a title match added to Dragon Gate UK this weekend, former WWE, TNA and NJPW wrestler Tomko in jail, IPW:UK & NWE announce a joint show to take place in London in April 2012 and much more.
Then a shorter than usual community segment comes into the frame with the weekly DKR Pub Quiz focusing on WCW PPV events from 1998!
From here the talk turns to TNA wrestling. First of all there is discussion on the most recent IMPACT Wrestling and then a complete review of the TNA Bound For Glory PPV featuring Bobby Roode challenging Kurt Angle for the TNA World Title & Hulk Hogan vs. Sting amongst many other bouts. [The reason the that the TNA talk is reserved for the end of the broadcast is that the Bound For Glory PPV doesn't air in the UK until Wednesday evening. We wanted to accommodate listeners who wanted to remain spoiler free of the event.]
It's a very enjoyable packed program of wrestling talk and is available for your listening pleasure right now!
Posted by dropkick on October 10, 2011
This week Dropkick Radio features discussion on the 2011 incarnation of the official Hulk Hogan retirement, the full TNA Bound For Glory PPV card, the WWE 'walk out' on Raw and how this was followed up on Smackdown, the return of Big Show on Smackdown, Vince Russo no longer being the head writer of TNA, the rumour of Brock Lesnar set to be announced for the upcoming WWE 12 game, the DKR Pub Quiz on past TNA Bound For Glory PPV's and much more!
Posted by dropkick on October 5, 2011
Dropkick Radio is proud to present a program a long time in the making! Seeing as we are sponsoring the Press Conference on the afternoon of the October 22nd Dragon Gate UK event we wanted to produce a show bringing you up to speed on all things Dragon Gate relating to the UK shows. Join Jeremy Graves as he welcomes Mark Robinson of Faces For Radio and Alan Counihan of the Wrestling Observer 'Dr. Keith Presents' program to talk a whole host of topics relating to Dragon Gate. But that's not all as this program also features an interview with current TNA star and Dragon Gate UK roster member Mark Haskins talking his time wrestling for Dragon Gate in both the UK & Japan, adjusting to the lifestyle in Japan, differences between UK and Japanese events and much more in this loaded near three hour show!
As this is quite the loaded show, we wanted to give you an approximate run down of the timings of subjects. Here is the rough schedule of this program -
- Start - 31 mins : Introductions, how we first discovered Dragon Gate, memories of past DG UK events
- 31 mins - 1 hr 25 mins : discussion on the big storylines in Dragon Gate over the last year (since the 2010 UK tour)
- 1hr 25mins - 2hr 2mins: Interview with Mark Haskins 2hrs 7 mins - end : DGUK 2011 event previews
- 2hr 2 mins - end: Preview of all three October 2011 DGUK events
If you are not familiar with Dragon Gate we recorded this show so that you can be more familiar with the product as a whole before they hit the UK in a few weeks time. If you want to be in with a chance of winning tickets, we have three pairs for the October 22nd Nottingham show up for grabs! Full details on that competition are HERE.
NOTE - This program does contain some strong language.
Posted by dropkick on October 3, 2011
Dropkick Radio is back in full force this week with a loaded show of wrestling talk that includes full coverage of the WWE Hell In A Cell PPV event, discussion on the past weeks wrestling television shows including the first Ring Of Honor show, the latest news from around the wrestling world, we launch a competition to win tickets to the October 22nd Dragon Gate UK event, the DKR Pub Quiz focusing on past 'Hell In A Cell' matches, a full explanation of what the heck happened to Jeremy last week and much more!
Following on from our successful pilot episode we welcome you to the first official episode of The Dropkick Radio Japanese Wrestling Show with Jeremy Graves and Matthew Lappin.
