Name: The Beginner's Guide To Japanese Wrestling Part 51; The Megumi Kudo Special by The Truepenny Show Channel in Joshi
Duration: 1 h 4 min 35 s
Description: James and Chelsea look at Megumi Kudo on this edition of The Beginnner's Guide to Japan!

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James and Marcus celebrate 19 years of Ring of Honor as they produce their Anniversary PPV.

ROH 19th Anniversary

James is joined by Ben Spindler to look back into the history of Lucha Libre and the second schism in Lucha as CMLL starts to unravel. However there are some big stars in big matches as Ultimo Dragon, Vampiro, Pieroth Jnr Lizmark, El Satanico and Pirate Morgan combine for a hellacious card in Arena Mexico.

CMLL In 1992 Wth Ben Spindler

James and John take a look back at the career of Dump Matsumoto.

The Beginner's Guide To Japan Part 81; The Life & Destruction Of Dump Matsumoto

James and John look back at how Joshi coped with bring up new stars once the 26 rule had passed into history in LLPW and AJW.

The Beginner's Guide To Japan Part 82; Starting Over With AJW & LLPW

James looks at today's action in the BOSJs 29 as Hiromu Takahashi takes on Yoh.

Today At BOSJ 29 Night 8

Darragh and Martin take a look at Forbidden Door from AEW and NJPW.

The Wrestling Rewind #98 - AEW Forbidden Door Review - 05 - 07 - 22

James welcomes John Dinsdale back to look at the life and times of KAORU Maeda from her start in the early 80s all the way up to her recent retirement.

The Beginners Guide To Japanese Wrestling; Part 82 The Life And Times Of KAORU

James is joined by John Dinsdale pay tribute too Antonio Inoki in this very special edition of the Truepenny Show

Antonio Inoki

James is joined by Anna this week to look at some Classic Joshi as Bull Nakano & Sninobu Kandori go at it in a chain match, Megumi Kudo absolutely buries any of her girl next door image in an out right assault of a wrestling match and the LCO just flat out start taking souls. As LLPW challenges the world in 1994 and gets way more than they bargained for.

The Beginners Guide To Japanese Wrestling; Part 83 LLPW Takes On The World

James is joined by Marcus Green for a trip back to 1993 and the "1st Anniversary of Revolution" show that WAR produced alongside NJPW and the WWE. With the last three matches featuring the then darlings of the NJPW Locker Room The Three Musketeers, it was sure to be a huge night for both Japanese companies as a wrestling legend Genichiro Tenryu faces off against NJPW rising star Shinya Hashimoto, a bizarre WWF tag team match, and one of the best hair/moustache combinations in wrestling history!

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The Beginner's Guide to Japan Part 30; WAR 1st Anniversary of Revolution

In the week that North and South Korea finally come together to talk peace after half a century of stand off, James and Si look at the depth of wrestling diplomacy that was Collision in Korea, the NJPW/WCW/AJW Co-Promotion that was unbelievably held in North Korea at a time when no one got into North Korea

"The Nature Boy" Ric Flair  and Antonio Inoki have their first ever meeting in a match in the main event. Scott "Flash" Norton wrestles "The Destroyer" Shinya Hashimoto  as the pair try and redefine what Strong Style was about before your very eyes. The Steiners reignite their feud with Kensuke Sasaki and Hiro Hase.

And of course Bull Nakano, Akia Hokuto, Manami Toyota and Mariko Yoshida steal the show.

The Beginner's Guide to Japan Part 34; Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace

Mike is joined by Tony Cottam this week to discuss Scott D'Amore and Impact Wrestling's relationship with Ring of Honor, Matt Riddle's transition to NXT, they pay tribute to Jose Lothario and discuss what Tetsuya Natio may or may not have done during his recent contract negotiations with WWE.

FWR - Episode4

James and Chelsea look at Megumi Kudo on this edition of The Beginnner's Guide to Japan!

The Beginner's Guide To Japanese Wrestling Part 51; The Megumi Kudo Special

James is joined by Alex Watt to discuss the late, great Rollerball Mark Rocco.

Brit Wres And Beginner's Guide To Japan Special The Life And Times Of Rollerball Mark Rocco

Darragh and Dave are joined by James Truepenny of the Truepenny Show to go through their nominations for the Year End Awards.

The Wrestling Rewind #51 - Year End Awards - 2020 With James Truepenny

Darragh and Dave look at WWE Smackdown in the late 90s edition of Smackdown in their retro review and look forward to Hard to Kill from Impact wrestling.

The Wrestling Rewind #52 - The Triple H Challenge Aka WWE Smackdown 23rd 1999 - Hard To Kill 2021

Five shows that try and give well rounded discussion to everything in wrestling around the world.

The latest show in the Truepenny Show family is All About All Japan as Christy invites guests to discuss Japan's legendary promotion and its rising stars in her own unique way. Featuring guests from across the wrestling commemorate.

The Wrestling Rewind is hosted by Darragh O’Connor and Dave Stephens as they take an in-depth look at the stories in North American pro wrestling from the previous week. They look at WWE, Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor with a wry sense of humour but go deep on the issues facing the industry in North America.

If it's wrestling and it's a little bit different, The Truepenny Show covers it. James Truepenny and his crew of wrestling experts from around the world; Chelsea Spollen, Christy of Wrestling Sexism and NJPW Gifs, Alex Watt, Alex Edwards, Marcus Green, John Dinsdale of Steel Chair Magazine, Simon Heath, Canadian Indie Expert Anna, Queen of Tokyo and DDT historian Michelle Cain take you on a journey around the pro wrestling world.

Today at . . . is James’ show where he gives a quick round up of the day's action at any given event around the world on any wrestling day. The G1, The Best of Super Juniors, World Tag League and Wrestle Kingdom week have been covered so far with more shows to look at throughout the year.

Tellin' Stories looks back at James' writing  career as he looks back on articles he had written in the past that have become relevant once again or were just a fun read, re read with notes for your listening pleasure.

The Beginner's Guide To Japanese Wrestling Part 51; The Megumi Kudo Special

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