The Long & Winding Royal Road

“The Empress” Karen Peterson returns to The Long & Winding Royal Road and walks down an emerald path this episode with WH Park to discuss a Pro Wrestling NOAH match from July 16, 2006: KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji vs. Takeshi Rikio & Takeshi Morishima from Budokan Hall.

In honor of Yoshinari Ogawa’s recent retirement, WH Park & Dylan Fox take a look at one of his best matches against his rival Jun Akiyama from September 11, 1998.

Japanese wrestling historian Cameren Lee makes his L&WRR debut to share his knowledge of the legendary Jumbo Tsuruta’s history with WH Park.

Daniel Makabe joins WH Park to review one of the most famous tag matches in 90s AJPW history: Doug Furnas & Dan Kroffat vs Kenta Kobashi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi from May 25th, 1992.

WH Park & Neal Flanagan talk about THIS IS ALL JAPAN DOJO, a 2020 documentary chronicling AJPW dojo training featuring Francesco Akira.

JP Houlihan from Grappl Spotlight joins WH Park to talk about an example of a modern take on King’s Road as they go to 2019 to talk about Naoya Nomura vs. Kento Miyahara.

Wai Ting joins WH Park’s L&WRR for the first time to discuss Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada from the 1995 Champion Carnival.

Rich Kraetsch from Voices of Wrestling joins L&WRR for the first time to discuss Toshiaki Kawada vs. Genichiro Tenryu for the vacant Triple Crown from October 28th, 2000.

WH Park and Braden Herrington take a look at the career of the late, great Terry Funk in All Japan Pro Wrestling and discuss his first retirement match and ceremony.

Bruce Lord joins WH Park to discuss Kenta Kobashi challenging “Dr. Death” Steve Williams for his Triple Crown Championship from September 3rd, 1994.

Mike Spears from The Open the Voice Gate podcast joins WH Park to talk about the life and career of the greatest American wrestler to ever step foot in a Japanese ring, Stan Hansen.

Brandon Thurston from Wrestlenomics joins WH Park to discuss Toshiaki Kawada vs. Gary Albright from October 25th, 1995.

Dylan Fox from the Eastern Lariat joins WH Park to discuss the epic AJPW vs NJPW tag match between Toshiaki Kawada & Masanobu Fuchi vs. Yuji Nagata & Takashi Iizuka.

WH Park is joined by Kieran Lefort from Must See Matches to review Kenta Kobashi vs Vader from the Champion Carnival final on April 16, 1999. 

John Siino and WH Park chat about a PWF World Junior Heavyweight Championship match between Rob Van Dam and Dan Kroffat from June 9, 1995.

Alan4L joins WH Park to talk about a hidden gem of a match featuring Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Jun Izumida & Tamon Honda.

On this episode of the Long & Winding Royal Road, WH Park welcomes Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham to discuss Atsushi Onita vs. Hector Guerrero from April 20, 1983.

WH Park welcomes New Japan Pro Wrestling’s “Filthy” Tom Lawlor to talk about a hidden gem of a match between Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Masahito Kakihara from January 15, 1999.

WH Park welcomes the creator of the Grappl App, Gareth Hodgson to discuss The British Bulldogs vs Joe & Dean Malenko from January 28th, 1989.

WH Park welcomes Daniel Makabe back to discuss a 1989 Real World Tag League match featuring the superteam of Genichiro Tenryu & Stan Hansen taking on the not-so-super combination of Giant Baba and Rusher Kimura.