The Flagship Wrestling Podcast

This week on The Flagship: WWE Crown Jewel moving to a new venue, NOAH's Sumo Hall show featuring Tetsuya Naito defeating OZAWA, a check-in on AJPW's Hokkaido tour, ZERO1's Junior Final, for some reason, the NXT Halloween Havoc 2026 go-home show, Joe's haunted house & more!

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The Flagship returns this week with what can best be described as a classic spray-to-all-fields edition!

With no major shows to review or preview, we'll touch on a wide range of topics tonight, including Montez Ford's lawsuit, Tiger Jeet Singh slicing someone with his sword, Shotzi and Shayna Baszler to TNA, Kairi Sane to AEW, NXT going head-to-head with Blood & Guts, a "Fun in Wrestling" discussion, White Men Can't Jump and so much more.

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A PACKED episode of The Flagship reviewing WWE Money in the Bank 2026, NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling, TNA Bound for Glory 2026, plus The Aggregators Are At It Again, Max Caster is out of TNA, an AEW WrestleDream preview, and so much more.

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On this episode of The Flagship: a review of NOAH's N-1 Victory Finals, news and notes around NJPW on the path to King of Pro Wrestling, a preview of this weekend's WWE Money in the Bank 2026, Laynie Luck, Max Caster, Anthony Bowens, Lady Frost, and more!

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This week on The Flagship, Rich recaps an emotional episode of AEW Dynamite dedicated to PAC's life, WWE counter-programming the show with Worlds Collide, WWE's obsession with AEW & more.

Then Rich is joined by John Carroll (Wrestling Omakase) for an extended BOUNCIN' AROUND JAPAN as they look at the finals of AJPW's Royal Road tournament, NJPW Destruction in Kobe, the latest edition of Sareee-ISM, the closing of Shinjuku FACE & so much more.

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This week on The Flagship, Rich is joined by special guests Suit Williams (https://suitwilliams.com/) and Jesse Collings (The Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast) to preview AEW All Out and WWE/NXT/AAA Worlds Collide, review CMLL's 93rd anniversary show, talk about The Aggregators, Paramount/WBD's merger & so much more!

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The Flagship is back to full strength this week as Joe and Rich recap and review both nights of AAA TripleMania, discuss two major WWE Title matches from this week, preview CMLL's Anniversary show this weekend, talk recent wrestler movement/free agent news, and so much more.

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With Joe out this week watching his beloved Rams, Rich welcomes two special guests to The Flagship.

In the first half of the show, Kris Zellner (Between The Sheets/Center Stage Chronicles) joins to talk about the life and career of Bill Dundee.

In the show's second half, Jesse Collings (Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast) hops on to recap and review WWE's Sunday Night's Main Event, talk about slow pushes of younger talent in modern wrestling, and pro wrestling's new Kliq.

Links

• Between The Sheets: https://redcircle.com/shows/between-the-sheets
• Between The Sheets Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/betweenthesheets/
• Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/gentlemens-wrestling-podcast
• Is A New Kliq Controlling WWE’s Main Event Scene?: https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2026/03/11/is-a-new-kliq-controlling-wwes-main-event-scene/
• Trapped in the Cagematch: Hoarding Wrestling’s Future: https://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2026/08/04/trapped-in-the-cagematch-hoarding-wrestlings-future/

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On this episode of The Flagship: a massive preview of AEW's biggest show of the year, AEW All In London, and all the other festivities taking place during the weekend.

Plus a review of ROH Death Before Dishonor, a tribute to Rovert & much more!

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This week on The Flagship: a review of the final two nights of NJPW's G1 Climax 36, including the much-talked-about final between Ryohei Oiwa and Yuya Uemura as well as the final match of Hiroyoshi Tenzan's career.

Other topics on the show are a preview of ROH Death Before Dishonor (yes, there is an ROH PPV this weekend), a check-in on WWE's April 2026 releases and who has popped up elsewhere, TNA Lockdown, Road Dogg, and so much more!

The Overrun!

Bounce on over to the FlagshipPatreon.com $5 tier for THE OVERRUN as we review the final night of ZERO1's Fire Festival, recap the free STARDOM 5-STAR GP Semifinal, and Bounce Around Japan for a wide range of topics in the region.

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This week on The Flagship: a preview of NJPW's G1 Climax 36 Semifinals & Finals, Hiroyoshi Tenzan's retirement, Tetsuya Naito wins the GHC Title, NOAH reveals their N1 blocks, AEW's All In card takes shape, Avery Styles won't pick up chairs & so much more!

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The Flagship returns this week for a packed show discussing AEW's two-night visit to Arena Mexico with recaps & reviews of the CMLL vs. AEW show and last night's Grand Slam Mexico Dynamite.

Additional topics include the life and career of Dory Funk Jr, indie drama between PRODUCE and Joey Janela, David Shoemaker's embarrassing new Hulk Hogan book, Busted Open crying about media seats, and so much more.

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A free preview of this week's SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Flagship Podcast. To hear this show in its entirety, subscribe now at http://patreon.com/voicesofwrestling on our $5 Tier.

Topics include...

• Midpoint analysis of G1 Climax 36
• Advice for Tony Khan & AEW
• SummerSlam Preview
• What's next for (fka) New Day
• AND MORE!

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The Flagship returns for a packed show discussing WWE and SiriusXM launching WWE Radio, reviewing WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, announcing WrestleMania Weekend in NYC, WWE running Chicago during All Out weekend, "Mike Santana" "debuting" in NXT, previewing AEW Redemption, reviewing NOAH's Summer Epic, checking in on NJPW's G1 Climax, the life and career of Sivi Afi, and so much more!

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The Flagship is back to full strength this week as we preview a massive wrestling weekend featuring the return of NJPW's G1 Climax, Shota Umino bowing out of the tournament, WWE's Saturday Night's Main Event from MSG, RevPro's Summer Sizzler, NOAH's Summer Epic, Dragongate's Kobe World, Osaka Pro's Castle Festival 2026 plus thoughts on the final episode of Dark Side of the Ring on TNA & so much more.

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On this episode of The Flagship, Rich is joined by special guest Jeremy Donovan of the Keepin' It Strong Style podcast to preview NJPW's G1 Climax, his experience at Dynamite Beach Break, and his 95th percentile baby.

After we say goodbye to Jeremy, Rich talks about Tiger Mask IV's retirement show, the first two episodes of TNA's Dark Side of the Ring, stunningly low SummerSlam ticket sales, an anniversary that should make any wrestling fan angry and so much more!

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On this episode of The Flagship, we review a massive weekend of wrestling, including fallout from AEW Forbidden Door 2026, WWE's Night of Champions, NXT The Great American Bash, TNA Slammiversary, a stacked card for next week's Dynamite Beach Break, several TNA releases, the life and career of Joe Doering, and so much more.

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On this episode of The Flagship, we get you ready for a packed wrestling weekend with previews of AEW's Forbidden Door 2026 PPV, WWE Night of Champions, TNA Slammiversary, and NXT The Great American Bash.

We also review AJPW's Super Power Series show featuring a Triple Crown Title match between Kento Miyahara and Hideki Suzuki, G1 Climax lineups, ticket sales, & announcements, and so much more.

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This week on The Flagship: the life and career of "The Duke of Dorchester" Pete Doherty, a review of NJPW Dominion 6.14 in Osaka-jo-Hall, a look at the G1 announcements, NJPW's upcoming schedule, a check-in on Forbidden Door, AEW All In Wembley ticket sales, a review of NOAH's Neo Global Tag League finals, a preview of AJPW's Super Power Series show, and more!

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This week on The Flagship: rumors on CM Punk and his absence from WWE TV, whether wrestling reporters should report on rumors or not, plus a review the Best of the Super Juniors finals, a preview NJPW's Dominion, a review Osaka Pro's June 7 show, a review of AJPW's June 6 show, and the latest free agent updates on Steve Maclin, Shun Skywalker, Enzo Amore, and more!

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