The Truepenny Show

James and Marcus breakdown the historic career of Akira Hokuto, the biggest of all AJW's Game Day Players from the 80s and 90s, taking a trip from Korakuen Hall to Yokahama Baseball Stadium via Arena Mexico. The pair dive into what made her so great and such a wonderful story teller in an era of incredible performers. Watch along with this incredible playlist of matches: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDFKuMLm7OZCK2QcBGHipLeLcnRH41CrN&feature=shared

In this special bonus episode Milo, Ruth, and Christy talk about the amazing Rising HAYATO versus Atsuki Aoyagi final and discuss some of the other important matches on that card.

James and Christy get to the final of the G1 Climax after 19 nights of competition it came down to Konosuke Takeshita and EVIL. The pair go through the whole and trace the threads of the feuds to come and go deep on the final least likely. Controversial yes, but not nearly as bad as everyone thought it would be and lays up a lot of intrude for the future.

James and Christy try their level best to explain the Semi Finals of the G1 Climax 35, but God its hard. There was other wrestling also, but if you want to listen to two people revaluate their life choices in real time this ones for you.

James and Christy brave the 30 Degree weather, over heating computers and ovens that won't turn off and watch some wrestling as Shota Umino wrestles Yota Tsuji and David Finlay goes up against Konuske Takeshita in the semi finals of G1 Climax 35!

James and Christy brave the heat, literally and figuratively to bring you the last night of Block B Action.

James and Christy talk the last night of A Block Action as Yuya Uemura, David Finlay, Oleg Boltin and Ryohei Oiwa all in with a chance of reaching the playoffs!

Christy is Back! After a one day lay off she returns to talk to James about Nights 13 & 14 of the G1 Climax as the tournament reaches its final stages both blocks tighten up.

James pines for his Broadcast Colleague Christy who unavailable so he instead ploughs through the results of the today's show single handed normal service will resume tomorrow.

James and Christy deep dive into the G1 on Night 12 as B Block starts the wind up to the final week. ELP already out of the tournament meets Drilla Moloney, YOSHI-HASHI has his first meeting with Konuske Takeshita, and finally Zach Sabre Jnr, takes on Shingo Takagi for the 9th time.

James & Christy welcome Sonal to talk #njpw #g1climax as the tournament moves on to night 11 as Yota Tsuji takes on his former mentor Hiroshia Tanahashi and David Finlay runs into Evil one more time!

James and Christy dissect all the action from night 10 of G1 Climax 35 and go in depth on the usual segues, oddly relevant stories from wrestling's past and Mullets.

James and Christy bring you all the action from today's G! Climax 35 show from Hiroshima as Taichi faces down Yota Tsuji & Yuya Yuemura goes up against The Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi.

This month we talk about all of July's shows, focusing on All Japan's junior tournament and all of its amazing matches, we answer some questions, and we turn our wrestler wheel of fortune. Get ready for 4 hours of junior appreciation!

James and Christy bring you all the action from Night 8 of the G1 Climax as Shota Umino wrestlers Shingo Takagi and Zach Sabre Jnr heads into a showdown with Konosuke Takeshita.

James and Christy talk Night 7 of NJPW G1 Climax as the Kids start to take over. Ryohei Oiwa taks on Hiroshi Tanahashi in the main event, while the semi main features Evil vs Yuya Ueamura.

James and Christy bring you all the action from NJPW's G1 Climax 35 on Night 6 of the tournament. Shingo Takaagi goes up against Konosuke Takeshita in a long awaited rematch from earlier in the year as well as Shota Umino taking on his long time rival and former tag partner Ren Narita.

James and Christy talk about all the matches and fall out from Night 5 of the G1 Climax Tournament as Hiroshi Tanahashi takes on David Finlay in the main event!

James and Christy bring you all the news from G1 Climax 35 as redemption is due for Shota Umino and YOSHI-HASHI continues to live the dream. The first ever House of Tortue Derby Match!

James & Marcus review Ring of Honor's Annual Extravaganza Supercard of Honor and Margold's 1st Anniversary Tour. As Athena and Thunder Rosa deliver a killer ROH title match and Konuske Takeshita breaks the mould with Bandido over that other ROH title. Takumi Iroha & Utami Hayashishita produce a piece of sheer art in K Hall as Marigold celebrate their first year.

James and Christy take you through all the action from Night 2 of the G1 Climax 35. Another loaded show starts with some bitter disappointment, but builds to an epic crescendo with Yuya Uemura taking on Taichi as the former Just X Guys guys, do battle, to be tope guy. Guy.

James and Christy get together for a chat about the first night of G1 Climax 35, with a loaded show topped off with Taichi going up against Hiroshi Tanahashi and key match ups like Gabe Kidd vs Konuske Takeshita and Yota Tsuji vs SANADA.

James looks back at his continuing story of Meiko Satomura's early career. Relives his interview with Kim Longinotto who directed the film GAEA Girls and follows her run to the top of GAEA via Akira Hokuto & Aja Kong.

This month guest Rachael and I talk ELPIDA disbanding, a bunch of exciting and upsetting title challenges, the upcoming junior tournament (and who has the best chance of winning), and we spin the wrestler wheel of fortune.

James, Christy and Sonal bring their perspectives to the line up for the G1, taking an in depth look at the big stars, drafting their own picks to look at through the tour and making predictions for who they would like to see in the final!

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.

Darragh and Martin review the recent WWE PPV Backlash as John Cena defends the WWE Title against Randy Orton.

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 NJPW Best of Super Juniors and catch you up on the three shows that happened this week.

James and Christy talk about all the action on Night 6 of Best of Super Juniors 32 as Hiromu Takahashi wrestles Clark Connors in his home town.

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 catches you up on all the action from today's card in Miyagi.

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.

It's the Rewind Christmas Special!