It’s that time once again as the lads look back on 2024 with the fourth annual GRAPPY awards! 

Join Benno, JP and Matty as they discuss the year that was with their picks for best promotion, wrestler, match of the year, STORY of the year and more, as well as some non-wrestling awards with the four pillars of TIME, the newly christened Scran of the Year and much more!

SHOWNOTES
0:00 Intro
6:28 2024 Wrestling Awards
2:10:31 Non Wrestling Awards

Make your picks: https://conor-olo.notion.site/Community-Entries-15e9b7911c02803da7e9cbae7d536c62?pvs=4

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The GRAPPL Weekend Show was taped live on GRAPPL Patreon on Thursday night. To get the show every week, become a Patron or YouTube Member on any of our live or audio tiers!⁠ - Benno On this week's Weekend Show we talked Ospreay/Darby, a new gimmick for Ricochet and the rest of this week's Dynamite, as well as AEW's big weekend in Hammerstein, Lee Fitting, Rev Pro, TNA contracts, the WWE Netflix kickoff - plus all the news and some very special previews ahead of Christmas week! SHOWNOTES 0:00 Intro 12:01 News, Lee Fitting, BJ Whitmer, WWE Netflix launch, TNA 50:41 Dynamite Review, AEW news 1:27:07 AEW/ROH Hammerstein, Rev Pro, other Previews 1:46:22 The Christmas Day TV Schedule w. GRAPPL Charlie

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Carl Gac!

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at⁠⁠ ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠⁠⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at⁠⁠ ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠⁠⁠ 

Get the the new line of GRAPPL merchandise with FREE SHIPPING to the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand at ⁠⁠https://chopped-tees.com/en-uk/collections/grappl⁠⁠

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL, or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠⁠http://www.Patreon.com/GRAPPL⁠⁠! 

You can also join us on the GRAPPL Discord for free at ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/KqeVAcwctS⁠⁠

Benno & JP are back for a wide ranging Spotlight proper as Matty joins them for the first half of the show as they talk SNME, ad breaks, winged eagle belts and Jesse Ventura, before Benno & JP talk Kenny Omega, the Continental Classic, Mercedes and more out of AEW, as well as New Japan in the USA, the return of Tessa Blanchard to TNA and everything else going on in the wrestling world this week ahead of Christmas season and the fourth annual GRAPPYs and CRAPPYs next week!

SHOWNOTES

0:00 Intro, Plugs
10:25 WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, Raw on Netflix
46:01 AEW, Kenny Omega, Collision, ROH
1:16:24 NJPW, Mercedes, TNA, Tessa Blanchard

1:43:50 PATREON PREVIEW: The STORY of Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Carl Gac! You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠ 

Get the the new line of GRAPPL merchandise with FREE SHIPPING to the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand at https://chopped-tees.com/en-uk/collections/grappl

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL, or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at http://www.Patreon.com/GRAPPL! 

You can also join us on the GRAPPL Discord for free at https://discord.gg/KqeVAcwctS⁠

It's a special Millennium edition of TIME, with a nostalgic look back at December 1999 through the four pillars of culture - Music, Films, TV and Sport!

We have a Christmas catch up on the soaps with star laden episodes of Eastenders & Corrie, Ron Dixon fears of the Millenium Bug in Brookie, the single worst Christmas Top 10 in history, Bond, Sixth Sense and Arnie in movies, the brilliance of the the Kevin Phillips/Niall Quinn partnership and a brilliantly told recap of the career of Lennox Lewis - we cover everything happening in TIME, in December of 1999.

SPOILER - the world didn’t end

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The GRAPPL Weekend Show was taped live on GRAPPL Patreon on Thursday night. To get the show every week, become a Patron or YouTube Member on any of our live or audio tiers! - Benno

The big man is back as John Paul Houlihan himself joins me for the GRAPPL Weekend Show as we review Dynamite from Wednesday night, talk WWE/Netflix, Ryan Nemeth, more on the ring boys scandal and all the other news and previews. Apparently NXT have a PLE. News to me too.

Benno

SHOWNOTES
0:00 Intro
12:38 WWE news, TNA
55:26 AEW Dynamite Review, AEW news
1:24:31 The Weekend Previews

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt & Carl Gac! You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠ 

Get the the new line of GRAPPL merchandise with FREE SHIPPING to the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand at https://chopped-tees.com/en-uk/collections/grappl

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You can also join us on the GRAPPL Discord for free at https://discord.gg/KqeVAcwctS⁠

It’s Episode 11 of BRETRO and as we get closer to Christmas, there’s a reminder that A Dog Is For Life… Bulldogs anyway. Bret Hart was intrinsically linked to The British Bulldogs over his whole career and we look at two matches a decade apart. We shoot all the way back to 1985 as Dynamite Kid is the opponent for the blue and black attack, and then we leap forward 10 years as Bret faces his brother-in-law Davey Boy Smith once again at In Your House 5. Bret Hart vs Dynamite KidKid https://youtu.be/Ei8C2_IJ73M?si=Gx2YsFDHpAxjoKdu Bret Hart vs Davey Boy Smith https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x3l64u

It’s a special edition of Spotlight this week as we put together the inaugural GRAPPL Hall Of Fame. Find here Part One of our discussion as we name our Top 5 nominees and wildcards, lay out the rules and begin the mammoth task of rating them all one by one, starting with our wildcard picks. Part 2 of this discussion will be available here next week, but if you can’t wait that long, the uncut, unedited SICKOS version of our live recording is available right now exclusively for Patrons at Patreon.com/GRAPPL with video replay also available for Members at YouTube.com/@GRAPPL! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 The Nominees & Wildcard Reveals 00:33:39 GRAPPL HOF Wildcard Scoring THE RULES: Nominees are scored out of 10, in each of the following four criteria: In-Ring: Match quality, skill and proficiency. The ability to deliver in-ring and work to the highest standard.

Mic Skills & Charisma: The ability to connect with the audience, deliver compelling promos & develop character.

Drawing: The ability to attract audiences & drive interest including ticket sales, merchandise, tv & ppv numbers.

Significance: Historical significance & impact, including influence, longevity, & notable contributions.

Round One - As this is the first class, we each have picked our Top 5 nominees ahead of the show, strictly to the criteria based on resumes in our lifetime (or post-1984). On the show we will run through each of our Top 5's, and then announce 3 additional Wildcard picks each that haven’t yet been selected by anybody else.

Round Two - We'll then take all of the nominees and wildcards, and go through their case one by one, category by category individually scoring them, until we total up the numbers and determine the overall Top 5 on cumulative points - the inaugural GRAPPL HOF. If you would like to play along you can make a copy of the cheatsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bYnvPiH5ff-Z4oWOH-pRYwj-tV0Ug39i/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102594463000022660825&rtpof=true&sd=true

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt, Ewan Cameron & Carl Gac!

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠

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It’s episode 10 (or X) of BRETRO - “Owen”.

Matty & Gareth left you on a 30 year old cliffhanger at the end of the last episode. Find out what happened next when they visit WrestleMania X and Episode 1 of Action Zone as the Bret & Owen Hart STORY continues.

GRAPPL Spotlight is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt, Ewan Cameron, Mark Buckeldee, Carl Gac & Simon Mulvaney! You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠ 

Get the the new line of GRAPPL merchandise with FREE SHIPPING to the UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand at https://chopped-tees.com/en-uk/collections/grappl

You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL, or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at http://www.Patreon.com/GRAPPL! 

You can also join us on the GRAPPL Discord for free at https://discord.gg/KqeVAcwctS⁠