Once again, hosts Geoffrey Wessel and Steve Cash find themselves attempting to make sense out of New Japan Pro Wrestling and while the rest of the crew is either off due to their own jobs or other ongoing stuff, two of the originals break down the following: * A warm welcome to new listeners from our new hosts at Place To Be Nation! * Changes coming to the show * Burials of Steve Cash * Wrap up of BOSJ * Preview of Dominion such as it was at time of recording * More burials of Steve Cash * More babble about G1 Special in USA, our plans for it, updates on Shibata, Honma, Lion's Gate and more! * And of course, even more burials of Steve Cash (...it's an ongoing joke, you see) As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, we actually want to know how we're doing) or you can read our usual banter at @StrongStylStory over on Twitter.

The gang gets themselves mostly together with a bit of help this show as Geoffrey Wessel and Lawrence O'Brien are joined by Dion Wells and Bunches of the SOS Wrestle Talk podcast in order to attempt deciphering through the wonderful and sometimes weird world of New Japan Pro Wrestling, covering the following topics: * Wrestling Dontaku cycle results * ROH War of the Worlds results, including the introduction of the IWGP U.S. Heavyweight title that will see its first champion at the G1 Special shows * Best of the Super Juniors stuff - including how much everybody believes Hiromu Takahashi to be the absolute truth and how much Taichi still sucks * Plugs, plugs and some more plugs

In their excitement from actually managing to get through the clusterfudge that was getting "G1 Special in USA" tickets, the original quartet of Geoffrey Wessel, Chris Damasceno, Steve Cash and JB Roe find some time to attempt to make sense of New Japan Pro Wrestling and all else in between - the subjects covered as follows: * G1 Special - WE GOING! * Sakura Genesis - How insane is Shibata? * Quick AJPW shoutout for selling out Korakuen * Wrestling Dontaku previews * Plugs, plugs and more plugs! As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, we actually want to know how we're doing) or you can read our usual banter at @StrongStylStory over on Twitter.

In the twenty-second episode of the Strong Style Story podcast, almost everybody sans the producer/editor manages to get in there as Geoffrey Wessel, Steve Cash and Lawrence O'Brien plus special guest Abbey Arthur of the Angry Marks podcast attempt to make sense of New Japan Pro Wrestling...AND JB ROE JOINS THE PARTY JUST A FEW MINUTES INTO THE SHOW, all of it ending up being a great time talking about the following: * New Japan Cup Finals * Sakura Genesis * G1 Special in USA * Merch Stuff + Social Media Plugs * Steve having horrible ideas for future Strong Style History episodes So, as always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, we actually want to know how we're doing) or you can read our usual banter at @StrongStylStory over on Twitter.

In the twenty-second episode of the Strong Style Story podcast is somewhat of an empty house compared to usual but Geoffrey Wessel and Lawrence O'Brien hold down the fort while the other co-hosts are either busy with life (like Chris, JB and Steve in this particular bit) and attempt to make sense of New Japan Pro Wrestling as per usual, talking up the following: * Anniversary Shows * NJ Cup - FUCK, THREE FAVORITES ARE OUT IN TWO NIGHTS, NOW WHAT?! * Volador v. Yoshitatsu was a disaster and we still hate Yoshitatsu so much! * Let's NOT bury Kojima's English Tweets! ...Because BREAD CLUB is great! * Let's talk a T-Shirt, guys! ...Because the G1 Special is coming and these tickets are sooooo not buying themselves. >_> As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, we actually want to know how we're doing) or you can read our usual banter at @StrongStylStory over on Twitter.

On the twentieth first edition of the Strong Style Story Podcast, Geoffrey Wessel, "Papa" Steve Cash (who welcomed a baby girl into the family days before the recording) and Lawrence O'Brien hold down the fort and attempt to make sense of the current ongoings of New Japan Pro Wrestling. On this edition, they cover the Togi Makabe 20th Anniversary show, the first of the two ROH/NJPW Honor Rising shows along with previewing the 45th Anniversary Show, going over the Pro Wrestling Masters show from 2/8 but the biggest scoop of Strong Style Story thus far is in the middle as Geoffrey Wessel interviews none other than the former IWGP Intercontinental Champion and current NJPW wrestler "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin, as they talk about pro wrestling, NJPW, Glory Pro and much more. This is an edition of the show you don't want to miss. As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, etc, etc) or you can read our usual banter at @StrongStylStory over on Twitter.

The twentieth official episode of the Strong Style Story Podcast is upon us, as Geoffrey Wessel, Chris Damasceno and Lawrence O'Brien discuss all of the recent NJPW graps - including both New Beginning shows in Sapporo and Osaka - covering the matches, particular moments, their preferences on the main event in Sapporo, Lawrence and Chris reminisce on how much they miss Bruce Tharpe-des, ROH gets buried yet again and there is also a discussion in regards of Korakuen Hall attendance over the course of January 2017 and how NJPW stacked up against other companies plus what that means in the long haul...and of course, all the banter you could ask for from three dudes trying to make sense out of New Japan Pro Wrestling. As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, etc, etc) or you can read our usual banter at @StrongStylStory over on Twitter. Opening Music - "Happy Rock" by Bensound (www.bensound.com)

In the nineteenth episode of the Strong Style Story Podcast, most of the gang is here as Geoffrey Wessel, Chris Damasceno and Lawrence O'Brien (recently graduated from Young Lion status) are joined by special guest Dion Wells of the SOS Wrestle Talk podcast to make sense of New Japan Pro Wrestling. The gang talks Fantasticamania, we preview the New Beginning show's major championship matches, banter happens, the gang even has a couple of bold predictions of their own in regards of the upcoming year in New Japan. Also, Chris and Lawrence fangirl about SANADA a lot. It's a thing that happens. You can find Dion Wells on Twitter (@thedionwells) and the SOS Wrestle Talk podcast on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/soswrestletalk) plus the show's Twitter page at @SOSWrestleTalk. As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, etc, etc). Opening Music - "Happy Rock" by Bensound (www.bensound.com)

Wrestle Kingdom 11 has come and gone, but your usual suspects in Geoffrey Wessel, Steve Cash and Lawrence O'Brien (plus Chris Damasceno handling post-show analysis due to being out of town at time of the recording) break down the action and try to make sense of what was a really, really good show overall alongside the following day's "New Year's Dash!!" and how it'll take us into the new year (plus, they end up doing a quick ROH burial because reasons). And in order to do so, we bring in fellow CMLL expert Cubsfan of luchablog.com/ to break down the Fantasticamania 2017 tour that brings us some interesting match-ups between NJPW and CMLL talents and from there, we move on to talking a bit about the New Beginning tour and cards in both Sapporo and Osaka set-up in place for some big match-ups to come. - You can find Cubsfan on Twitter at @luchablog and at luchablog.com/ alongside his "Como Estaz" podcast with RobViper at http://www.thecubsfan.com/cmll/tag/como-estaz/ As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, etc, etc). Opening Music - "Happy Rock" by Bensound (www.bensound.com)

So, the whole gang is almost here as Geoffrey Wessel, Chris Damasceno, Steve Cash and Lawrence O'Brien celebrate the Strong Style Story Podcast's one year anniversary mark by doing what they do best...and that's bantering and attempting to make sense of New Japan Pro Wrestling. That said, this episode ends up covering a myriad of things such as the World Tag League and its results, the entire Wrestle Kingdom 11 card, we take some listener questions from Twitter, Facebook and beyond and Geoff even has some questions for the rest of the panel and some kudos are thrown out in the process to all who have helped us and supported us in making it a full year of Strong Style Story. We cannot thank you enough for your support!!! As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, etc, etc). Opening Music - "Happy Rock by Bensound (www.bensound.com)

So, the usual suspects in Geoffrey Wessel, Chris Damasceno, Steve Cash (who's finally back after being buried multiple times and we're still not sure why) and guest/podcast freelancer extraordinaire Lawrence O'Brien talk some puroresu without getting technical difficulties in the process. Be it Power Struggle and all of its events, Global Wars UK, the On The Mat Charity Pro Wrestling in New Zealand, Wrestling World 2016 in Singapore and some more conversation about Gedo's booking over the past year before we talk about the current ongoings of the World Tag League, make some predictions, and the usual shout-outs and plugs happen at a point where calling it the Super Strong Style Story Episode 16 was just fitting (also, because Chris is a massive PROGRESS Wrestling mark and loves their Super Strong Style 16 tournament a lot). As always, please feel free to leave us some feedback by checking us out at our blog at http://strongstylestory.tumblr.com/, by going over to our Twitter: @StrongStylStory or even shooting us an e-mail at [email protected] along with checking us out on iTunes (to which we definitely encourage leaving a review, giving us stars, etc, etc)