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NJPW WRESTLE KINGDOM 12 [Bible Report]: Best in the World.

If you thought the hype was REAL for last year's Wrestle Kingdom 11 spectacular, New Japan Pro Wrestling made even broader strokes this year with Chris Jericho's surprise return to the Lionmark logo in a heated street fight confrontation against, arguably, the best wrestler in the world, Kenny Omega. Japanese heel fan favorite Tetsuya Naito …

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THE APOSTLE AWARDS [Best Wrestling of 2017]: All the Stars, Aligned.

Calling all smarks across the globe: It's the second annual Apostle Awards! To come up with the very Best of Everything in Pro Wrestling for 2017, we asked 10 members of the Ringside Apostle congregation to vote. And, damn did we have answers -- answers that ranged from the highest mountaintop of World Wrestling Entertaiment …

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NJPW G1 CLIMAX 27 [Wrestler Profiles]: Suzuki! Tonga! Yano! Evil! Naito!

Ringside Apostle "The" Christian Orozco will constantly update this story with profiles for each of the twenty G1 Climax combatantants. Keep this bookmark saved until July 17th, when the annual New Japan Pro Wrestling tournament begins! Today's update: 7/17 - Minoru Suzuki, Tama Tonga, Toru-Yano, EVIL, Tetsuya Naito 7/15 - Bad Luck Fale, Togi Makabe, Yoshi-Hashi, Satoshi …

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NJPW G1 Special in the USA [Ringside Apostle Review]: ‘Raining’ over Long Beach.

The weekend in Long Beach was so crazy, we forgot to record a podcast. But that's alright. Your favorite wrestling fanatics--the Ringside Apostles--are back at it with a brief roundtable review of New Japan Pro Wrestling's first-ever G1 Special in the USA. While each of these four horsemen may have differing views, one thing we …

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TEKKEN 7 [Face-Off Review]: The ‘Rainmaking King’ of Fighters.

TRAVIS "Monsignor" MOODY: Quite obviously, my hype for Tekken 7 got real when Bandai Namco announced that it hit the "hot tag" with the gods of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Just look my t-shirt collection. So, coming from that angle of wrasslin' mark-slash-Tekken-n00b (having only played the franchise's earlier entries), it's a joy to tell …

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RINGSIDE APOSTLES [NJPW #BOTSJ / WWE Extreme Rules Wrap-Up]: Back II The Future.

In this week's Ringside Apostles Show (err, Sunday Solo Smarkcast), the "Monsignor" Travis Moody reviews New Japan Pro Wrestling's Best of the Super Juniors 2017 tournament and finale, a preview of NJPW's Dominion PPV, and a review of last night's WWE Extreme Rules event. You can listen to the just above 30-minute show in the …

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