Put on your red shoes but don't dance the blues because in this episode Joaquin, Chuck and Frank are watching another full-blown Hoss match all the way from New Japan Pro Wrestling. It's Tomohiro Ishii vs Tomoaki Honma for the vacant NEVER Openweight Championship.
And helping your boys understand the Mania of Honma-Mania this week is Buzzfeed Creative Producer Mike Price!
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[Tomohiro Ishii vs Tomoaki Honma, Feb 14 2015, The New Beginning in Sendai, NJPW]
Japanese athletes competing in a Lucha-rules match in front of an American audience. How very cosmopolitan.
This week your boys Joaquin, Frank and Chuck are checking out a five-star spectacle from Dragon Gate by way of Ring of Honor. It's Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi) taking on Blood Generation (Cima, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino) in a glorious display of high-flying and tag team wrestling that will leave you breathless.
Joining your boys this week is illustrator, cartoonist and animator Leigh Luna!
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[Do Fixer (Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi) vs Blood Generation (Cima, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino) - Supercard of Honor -ROH - March 31, 2006]
The following match is rated TV-MA for disturbing Dad screams and unsettling use of bloody furniture. Viewer discretion is advised.
If you're still on board, join your boys as they dive into the deep end of NWA closed-circuit broadcasts. It's the I-Quit-Cage-Match to end all I-Quit-Cage-Matches. Tully Blanchard with his lovely Baby Doll takes on Magnum TA with the United States Heavyweight Championship on the line! Expect blood, robes, mustaches and a few fantastic Earl Hebner bumps.
Joining in this week to make sense of the carnage is TV writer Mary Oliver Masi!
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[Tully Blanchard vs Magnum TA, Starrcade 1985: The Gathering, November 28, 1985]
Back at it again with some delicious wrestling pizza for your ear mouths (that will make sense after you listen), your boys are talking the instant classic from last year's WrestleMania weekend: Shinsuke Nakamura vs Sami Zayn. Like two incredibly charismatic ships passing in the night, these two match up for the first time and tear the house down. Dope entrances, stellar commentary and chants on chants on chants...what more could anyone ask for?
Joining Joaquin, Frank and Chuck this week is Bleacher Report's very own C.J. Toledano!
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[Shinsuke Nakamura vs Sami Zayn, NXT TakeOver: Dallas, April 1, 2016]
What's This is Awesome doing in The Impact Zone?! Watching the X-Division Championship match from TNA's Unbreakable 2005 show, of course. This week Joaquin, Frank, and Chuck dive into their first triple threat match as they break down all of the total nonstop action inside the hexagonal circle. Anime button-downs, bad POD covers and racist puppets - this episode has it all.
Running in this week to talk wrestling is art director, cartoonist and illustrator Evan Palmer.
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[Christopher Daniels vs AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe, TNA Unbreakable, September 11, 2005]