This week on W2M, we headline with a full NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 Preview and give out our third annual W2M Awards, as voted on by you the listeners. The three of us will also give our individual choices for categories like: Wrestler of the Year, Match of the Year, Promotion of the Year, Major show or PPV of the Year and so on. There are 14 categories in all and we have discussions about each one.
Of course, we start things by discussing the wrestling news in “Quick Hits” (13:00-35:25) where we talk about WWE being concerned about Finn Balor and Bayley, Cameron promising to improve, Hernandez wanting to sue Lucha Underground, the next WWE Network special, The Mighty Don’t Kneel could be headed to WWE, and more.
We reveal the award winners for biggest disappointment, Tag Team of the Year, Most Impactful NXT call-up of the Year, and NXT Rookie of the Year (35:25- 56:15.)
We move on to answer our questions about the final WWE RAW of 2015 (56:15-1:29:10)
We give out another batch of awards here with Best Commentary Team of the Year, Best Non-Wrestler of the Year, Worst Major Show of the Year, Biggest News Story of the Year, and Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (1:29:10-1:50:35)
The other three shows we cover are all doing best of episodes for this week, so this episode will be shorter on actual reviews.
However, that gives us more time to devote to our NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 Preview (1:50:35-2:16:15.) We go through all of the matches giving our thoughts on what could happen, what we’d like to see happen, and of course we make predictions for it as well.
Finally, we finish out with the last of the awards with Promotion of the Year, Major Show of the Year, Match of the Year, Female Wrestler of the Year, and Male Wrestler of the Year (2:16:15-End.)
Wrestling 2 the MAX: NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 Preview & 2015 W2M Award Show
Wrestling 2 the MAX is the “Every Wrestling Fan” Pro-Wrestling podcast because it covers everything from WWE, NXT, TNA Impact, and ROH to other global entities like Lucha Underground and New Japan Pro Wrestling. This show is informative, fun, and meant for every kind of pro-wrestling fan out there. Wrestling 2 the MAX airs live on early Friday mornings at 1AM EST (on Spreaker.com) and then is available immediately after airing on-demand via I-Tunes, Stitcher, LAST WORD RADIO on I-Tunes and Stitcher, Tune-In Radio, Youtube (Via W2M Network) the PodBean App, The Spreaker App, Player FM, VOC Nation Radio Network, Bluburry, Downcast, and other podcast hosting locations. W2M also has a Facebook group you can join and listeners can follow them on twitter @wrestling2max
Sean Garmer: studied Journalism at the University of North Texas. Sean loves pro-wrestling so much that he even trained to be a wrestler at the age of 17. Though he eventually had to quit wrestling to go to college, he still returned to do play-by-play commentary, help write storylines, and most of all, to watch matches. Sean started his love of pro-wrestling at the age of five after watching a Hulk Hogan match. Due to his family hating sports-entertainment, there were many years he missed. However, he returned full-time to being a fan in the late 1990’s. Since then, Sean has gone on to write for various wrestling websites in a number of capacities, but he discovered his true passion, Podcasting, two years ago when he and Gary started the Wrestling 2 the MAX Podcast.
Gary Vaughan: is a native North Texan with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas. His time in college actually rekindled his love of pro wrestling he had lost somewhere along the way. Gary’s enjoyment of the sport began around 1996. As a fan, he has become a student of the wrestling business and gains knowledge through many platforms. WCW is dear to his heart because of it being his introduction to the scene. Now, Gary is a proud podcast host, as well as a writer for wrestling columns.
Paul Leazar: is a recent college graduate from the University of North Texas with an immense amount of time on his hands because nobody wants to hire the idiot with the History degree. He was born an’ raised in the great state of Texas, and began his love affair with pro wrestling at the tender age of five after watching WWF’s Summerslam 1993 pay-per-view. The relationship turned serious with the growth of independent wrestling and the internet in the early 2000’s, which has seen the love affair turn into a full blown addiction that led him to write about it sporadically for various websites, and co-host the Wrestling 2 The Max podcast.
