![]() ![]() #INCREDIBLE HULK TAS RAW POWER PRO#It is impossible to fathom where the industry would have headed without a figure like Inoki, who was so tied to its growth from his debut in 1960 and rise through the JWA and later forming New Japan Pro Wrestling twelve years later. Many major outlets have dedicated stories on his passing including a piece in the New York Times that covered the Ali fight, and his political career where he was first elected to the Japanese Diet in 1989. The death of Antonio Inoki has generated worldwide coverage because of his reach beyond professional wrestling and into a mainstream cultural figure within Japan and many attach him to Muhammad Ali’s legacy from their 1976 fight at Nippon Budokan. Sunday: Wrestlenomics Radio w/ Brandon Thurston, Chris Gullo & Jesse Collings THE DEATH OF ANTONIO INOKI Saturday: WWE Extreme Rules POST Show w/ John & Wai 8 w/ Rich Fann & WH Park (Patreon)įriday: Rewind-A-SmackDown w/ Wai Ting & Kate from Montreal (Midnight ET – Special Free Edition)įriday: IMPACT Bound for Glory POST Show w/ John Pollock & John Siino (Patreon) Wednesday: Shot in the Dark with John Siino ![]() Tuesday: upNXT with Braden Herrington & Davie Portman Tuesday: Rewind-A-Wai – WCW Great American Bash 1996 (Patreon) Tonight: Rewind-A-Raw with John Pollock & Wai Ting (11 p.m. **Gareth Hodgson is the guest on The Long & Winding Royal Road this month with WH Park to discuss the January 1989 match between The British Bulldogs and Dean & Joe Malenko at Korakuen Hall. ** Wrestlenomics from Sunday features a discussion on Antonio Inoki and some of the major gates he was responsible for including his mammoth retirement show in April 1998, the trends involving WWE & AEW at the end of the third quarter, tribalism among pro wrestling fans, and the perception changes at WWE since this past summer’s change in creative leadership. ![]()
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