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 Stars https://patreon.com/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod

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The Meltzer 5-Star Project: #155 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay (NJPW, 04-01-2021)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS #35 - The Monday Night War: The Movie (Part 2, More Brainstorming)

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.

LMTYS Match of the Week (Jon Huber Tribute) - The Wyatt Family vs. The Shield (WWE, 23-02-2014)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS #34 - 2020 in Review

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

The Meltzer 5-Star Project: #154 - Go Shiozaki vs. Takashi Sugiura (NOAH, 06-12-2020)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS Match of the Week #006 - Taz vs. Bam Bam Bigelow (ECW, 02-08-1998)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS Match of the Week #005 - Les Kellett vs. Leon Arras (Joint Promotions, 14-03-1974)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS #33 - Monday Night Wars: The Movie (Part 1, Brainstorming)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https;//facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

The Meltzer Five-Star Project: #153 - FTR vs. The Young Bucks (AEW, 07-11-2020)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS Match of the Week #004 - Keiji Muto vs. Big Van Vader (NJPW, 10-08-1991)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

The Meltzer 5-Star Project: #152 - WALTER vs. Ilja Dragunov (WWE, 29-10-2020)

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 Money twitter.com/lmtyspod facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com patreon.com/lmtyspod

The Meltzer 5-Star Project: #151 - Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi (10-10-2020)

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/lmtyspod twitter.com/lmtyspod facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

The Meltzer 5-Star Project: #150 - Kota Ibushi vs. Minoru Suzuki (NJPW, 10-10-2020)

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/lmtyspod facebook.com/lmtyspod twitter.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

LMTYS Match of the Week #003 - Atlantis vs. Villano III (CMLL, 17-03-2000)

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/lmtyspod https://twitter.com/lmtyspod https://facebook.com/lmtyspod lmtyspod@gmail.com

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