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.
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James and Christy skip back in time to see what happened to all the major players at Wrestle Kingdom 19. The missed opportunities, the rising stars and the confusing booking decisions that only NJPW can bring!
James welcomes back Marcus to take a look at the second half of Jaguar Yokota's stunning career. Picking up up with her comeback match in 1995, the pair follow her through her years with JD Star, freelancing across the Joshi landscape and bang up to date with her own self produced shows.
James and Christy take deep dive on Dominion 6 15 from NJPW as the company seems to be finding a groove with the return of some big names and some important title changes as Shingo Takagi challenges for the IWGP Heavyweight World Championship.
James is joined by Marcus Green to talk about one of the mots important wrestlers of the modern era. Rimi "Jaguar" Yokata was the dominant star for AJW between The Beauty Pair and the Crush Gals, inspired and trained by the prior to inspire and train the latter. She was arguably the best professional wrestler of her era and the most influential trainer on women's wrestling history. Enjoy part I of this epic story.
James and Christy talk the final of the NJPW Best of Super Juniors 32 as YOH takes on Kosei Fujita to see who is the best Junior Heavyweight in the World!
James and Christy talk about the last night of Block Action in the Best of Super Juniors 32. YOH, El Deseperado, Nick Wayne and MAO are all in contention, but who can make it to the final on Sunday?
James and Christy bring you all the block action from Night 11 of Best of Super Juniors 32. With Hiromu Takahashi, Kosei Fujita, Clark Connors and Master Wato all in contention to get to the final.
This fifth episode looks at the second half of Champion Carnival, the great matches that were on its final show, THAT amazing MUSASHI vs Seiki Yoshioka title match, and the many ways in which we love to fangirl about wrestling.
James is joined by Christy and Marcus Green to look at the oldest tournament in Japan The Champion Carnival. First held in 1974, this year's final night gave us two semi finals, an All Asian Tage Title match, a World Junior Heavyweight Championship match for the ages and a fun chat between three friends who love pro wrestling!
James and Christy look at today's action as the tournament starts to peak. Despe takes on Kevin Knight in a battle for the ages and Master Wato tries to continue his growth against the ultimate road block in Hiromu Takahashi.
James and Christy talk about the action from nights 4 & 5 of the Best of Super Juniors 32 as Hiromu Takahashi takes the lead but falls behind and a unsung hero of last year steps to the plate. Plus all the usual shenanigans, segues and dream booking of the Defy title.
James and Christy break down all the action on Night 3 of Best of Super Juniors as the tournament starts it's two night residency at Korakuen Hall. Big names come a cropper on this stunning card with some of the must fun wrestling you will see all year and some intense new rivalries on the horizon.
James welcomes Darragh O'Connor of the Wrestling Rewind to talk AJW WrestleMarinpiad in 1994. A card that stands out for its main event, but this show turns into a thorough top to bottom examination of the cutting edge wrestling at AJW was producing in 1994.
James and Christy breakdown the action on Night 1 of the Best of Super Junior tournament with a cracking main event featuring Titan & El Desperado as well as discussing the news from Resurgence and catching up with Christy and her thoughts on the departures of Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI
This fourth episode is a mad dash of getting through as many awesome Champion Carnival matches as we can while also spending way too much time on a glorious main event that wasn't meant to be one, all brought to you by not one but TWO people who run All Japan podcasts.
James and Marcus discuss the retirement of show of Meiko Satomura, the matches, her place in wrestling history and the enduring legacy of one of the Greatest Wrestlers to ever live.
James looks at all the action from Night 2 of Wrestling Dontaku as Tetsuya Naito and Bushi say their farewells and Callum Newman steps up to the plate to challenge Hirooki Goto for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
James rounds up the action in Fukoka on the first night of NJPW's Wrestling in Dontaku as the Bullet Cub Civil War continues in a Dog Pound Cage Match.
James and Marcus talk about one of the latest shows from NOAH, what to look out for as a new watcher, how to understand the factions and directions of the company and some deeper historical context. They also look at the Bloodpsort show from WrestleMania weekend and the depth of talent Josh Barnett manages to bring together from companies all over the world.
James and Marcus look at the Sendai girls show from Shinjuku FACE were Meiko Satomura continues here retirement run in a war of attrition with The King himself Minoru Suzuki and Utami Hayashishita defends Big Red against the Monster from Hanover Bozilla!
James and Christy discuss the action from the first week of action in the AJPW Champion Carnival 2025 as Kento Miyahara takes on Hideki Suzuki on the first night of the tournament.
James and Christy break down three shows from the NJPW's Sakura Genesis tour Night 3 from the Road to Shows, NJPW's Junior show from Korakuean Hall as El Desperado defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match against War Dog Clark Connors and David Finlay challenges for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Sumo Hall against current Champion Hirooki Goto.
