The Wrestling Insomniac: Recent Episodes
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The Wrestling Insomniac is a show of nothing but WRESTLING! WRESTLING! WRESTLING! A show for the fans, by the fans of new, old, and everything in between of wrestling. A weekly wrestling podcast where the guys sit around the broadcast table and talk wrestling news, rumors and breakdown the wrestling shows and the big PPV’s.
Cousin Paul is back on the show to help Mike celebrate 150 episodes of wrestling podcasting! We talk what we've been watching, Mike's upcoming book, some current wrestling tidbits and more.
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In this episode Tony Oettinger (@Bassprokvd on twitter) joins Mike on the show to talk about his wrestling fandom and his passion of collecting wrestling cards. Tony doesn't collect sets of cards he's out for some very unique specific cards and he explains what they are.
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This week fellow wrestling fan and trading card creator Dominic from DElenas Trading cards is on the show talk about his wrestling fandom and how he got into making custom trading cards. I can say first hand that he does a great job. You can find him on Instagram user name delenas_tradingcards (delenas (underscore) tradingcards)
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Inter Species Wrestling founder and promoter Mike Rotch is on the show. We have a conversation about wrestling, the pandemic and a whole bunch more. You can find Mike on twitter @RotchyKing and @ISDub
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"Boston Bad Boy" Jason Rumble is on the show! We talk about his time in semi pro football, breaking in with Killer Kowalski being mentored by the original "Boston Bad Boy" Tony Rumble, being the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, what he's doing today in wrestling and more
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After a six month hiatus the podcast is back and joining Mike is cousin Paul. They talk about the current state of wrestling, Dark Side of The Ring, and the classic wrestling they have been watching
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This week Mikey is back on the show as he and Mike drive to Orono, Maine for Let's Wrestle Vol. 10 "Don't Lose Your Head". On the drive up we chat about the show plus we look at AEW, NWA Powerrr and everything wrestling that comes to mind. On the drive home we run down the results to the show.
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Mikey joins Mike on the podcast this week as they travel from Maine down to Lowell, Mass for New Japan Pro Wrestling's Fighting Spirit Unleashed tour. The show as recorded in two parts, on the road down and back from the show. They talk about the show, C4 Wrestling, Limitless Wrestling, and more.
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In this short episode Mike talks about the time he met the legendary Harley Race in 2009
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Brandon returns to discuss out favorite wrestling merchandise and collectibles that we have acquired over the years including, figures, magazines, trading cards, carnival glass, and more than I can list
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FINALLY Brandon has come back to the podcast! This episode we discovered the new recording featuring that Skype offers and I think it went well. We chat about pretty much everything, NWA Crockett Cup, Indymania, WWE, NJPW, AEW, AAA, Progress Wrestling SSS16, and so much more.
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Mikey joins Mike on the ride home after spending a few days in New York City taking in a half dozen wrestling shows and the WrestleCon Convention! The audio isn't the best, it was recorded on my phone and we were driving home in a rainstorm and you can hear that and the wipers at times.
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For episode 138 Mike starts out solo talking about the upcoming Beyond, WrestleCon, NJPW at MSG, and JJSB P2 then Paul joins him to Discuss WrestleMania 35, Hall of Fame, and TakeOver!
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Episode 137 Mike talks about going to New York in a couple weeks for WrestleCon, his second trip to Madison Square Garden, and everything else he and his friends are doing WrestleMania week.
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Episode 136 was recorded on the road to and from Limitless Wrestling: Welcome to the Dance in Westbrook, Maine Along with me is my buddy Alex. We chat about his wrestling fandom an experiences going to shows and on the way home we talk about the show itself.
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Paul joins Mike once again, and this week we look back at the WWE Weekend of Wrestling featuring NXT Takeover Phoenix & the Royal Rumble. We also chat a bit about New Japan and other wrestling and non-wrestling related nonsense.
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Mike talks about attending the Let's Wrestle Rumble in Orono, Maine from January 19, 2019. The then breaks down his thoughts on the Royal Rumble Weekend of the WWE World Collide tournament, TakeOver, and of course the Royal Rumble itself. He also gives his opinion on the New Japan Pro Wrestling USA New Beginning tour and the lack of Japanese wrestlers on the show.
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Paul joins Mike this week to chat about the NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool event, Mike introduces Paul to Walter and Progress Wrestling along the way.
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This week Mike gives us his thoughts on Wrestle Kingdom 13, New Year's Dash the upcoming shows of NJPW, NWA's Pop-Up Event results, Impacts Wrestling's Homecoming PPV, and looks at the upcoming NXTUK Takeover: Blackpool, plus a bunch more!!
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It's 2019 and TWI returns withs with a wrap up of December Shows and looking ahead at three big shows this weekend with WrestleKingdom 13 on Friday, NWA Pop-Up show on Saturday as well as NJPW New Year's Dash, and Sunday Impact Wrestling goes back to the Asylum with Homecoming. Mike also talks a bit about All Elite Wrestling.
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Sadly the Dynamite Kid Tom Billington passed away and this episode Mike talks about one his all time favorites. A man that was light years ahead of his time in the ring. Mike also talks about the recent Limitless Wrestling show he attended. This weeks themes is Dynamite's entrance music from All Japan Pro Wrestling
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Paul stopped over and we chatted the big weekend in wrestling that we just had. We talk about the David Arquette wrestling Nick Gage for GCW, NJPW World Tag League and of course the Survivor Series and NXT Takeover War Games!
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Welcome to episode 128! This week Mike talks about going to the first night of ROH & NJPW Global Wars here in Maine. Plus he's looking at the WWE Championship change, changes to Survivor Series, Takeover WarGames and a bunch of thoughts on New Japan Pro Wrestling, all crammed into 25 minutes.
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Cousin Paul stopped by to watch Crown Jewel and about an hour into the show we decided let's record a spell. We chatted about what we watched, plus our thoughts on WWE events past, present, and future.
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This weeks episode Mike talks about The NWA 70th Anniversary Show, Bound For Glory, a bunch of WWE news, New Japan Pro Wrestling, the upcoming ROH show he's going too and more.
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