Alan 4L’s ProWres Paradise

VIP AUDIO 6/27 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Genki Horiguchi’s big night, Miracle Violence Connection, Open the Triangle Gate and Triple Crown classics (44 min)

June 27, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by Danny Kuchler to discuss a pair of matches from both the Dragon System and ’90s All Japan. It’s been […]

VIP AUDIO 6/15 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Brian Elliott stops by to talk classic and modern All Japan, Reslo, Kung Fu, and one of EVOLVE’s best matches (101 min)

June 15, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by Brian Elliott after his epic three-hour appearance on Will Cooling’s British Wrestling Report here at PWTorch VIP. After tackling […]

VIP AUDIO 6/8 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Final edition of “Best of the Super Junior” classics. Robin Reid joins the show as we discuss El Samurai, Ohtani, Ospreay, and the baby versions of Tajiri & Nakajima (78 min)

June 8, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by VOW’s Quizmaster Robin Reid to finish out our Best of the Super Junior retro series. In this episode we […]

VIP AUDIO 6/1 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: More of New Japan’s “Best of the Super Junior” classics. WH Park joins the show as we discuss Shelley, O’Reilly, AKIRA, Ibushi, and more! (107 min)

June 1, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by the great WH Park for our latest edition of Super Junior classics. This week, we have two technical classics […]

VIP AUDIO 5/25 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: More of New Japan’s “Best of the Super Junior” classics. Devitt, KUSHIDA, Owen Hart, Shingo Takagi, and more! (89 min)

May 25, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by Mark Robinson for our second edition of Super Junior classics. This week, we have more Prince Devitt with two […]

VIP AUDIO 5/18 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: New Japan “Best of the Super Junior” classics. Kanemoto, Liger, Devitt, Hiromu, Milano, and more! (100 min)

May 18, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by Sarah Flann for the first in a series of Best of the Super Junior retrospective podcasts. This is the […]

VIP AUDIO 5/11 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Episode #100, cause for celebration! Classic matches involving Kobashi, Dusty Rhodes, The Andersons, Jumbo, Liger, and Danielson (97 min)

May 11, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by his good friend Dean Knickerbocker for a celebration of 100 shows at the Torch! What better way to celebrate […]

VIP AUDIO 5/4 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: On a very different Golden Week in Japan, a look at classics of Golden Weeks past. Tanahashi, Mochizuki, Sekimoto, and Nagata, amongst other greats! (90 min)

May 4, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by Joey Bay to talk four classic matches from Golden Week history in Japan. Whilst celebrations were muted across the […]

VIP AUDIO 4/27 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Lucha Libre week on the show, four matches revisited – La Familia de Tijuana, Rey Misterio Jr., Sombra, Valiente, Ricky Marvin, Gran Apache, and many more! (93 min)

April 27, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L dives into the wonderful world of Lucha Libre for a look back at four matches which showcase all that makes that scene […]

VIP AUDIO 4/20 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Hot crowds, simple stories, and buckets of charisma – four great matches from All Japan, Smoky Mountain, PWG, and New Japan (113 min)

April 20, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by the wise man Matt McEwen to talk about this week’s selection of matches from the vault! We go to the […]

VIP AUDIO 4/13 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Four matches to serve as tonic if you’re missing NJPW. Andrew Rich stops by to talk Nakamura, Roppongi 3K, Bullet Club, Ishii, and more of your New Japan faves! (97 min)

April 13, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined for the first time by the man behind the highly acclaimed Music of the Mat podcast, the great Andrew Rich! […]

VIP AUDIO 4/3 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Old friends (and ghosts) of past WrestleMania journeys get together for some light-hearted antics ahead of the Granddaddy of Them All with some semi-serious analysis thrown in occasionally! (116 min)

April 3, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L takes you on a magical seasonal adventure in the midst of the most depressing WrestleMania season ever. Joined by our old pal Justin […]

VIP AUDIO 3/30 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: A quartet of great matches with guest Mike Falcone, featuring Stone Cold, Vader, Kaientai, 123 Kid, El Generico, Tyler Black, and more! (53 min)

March 30, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by the ray of sunshine that is Mike Falcone to discuss four great matches from 1997 (x2), 2010, and 2011. […]

VIP AUDIO 3/23 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Special episode focusing on “The Lost Boys” of 2000s Puroresu. Sawa, Hoshikawa, Makai Club, Mammoth Sasaki, Florida Brothers, and New Japan’s 2007 Brand Extension! All that and much more with our special guest Golazo Dan (116 min)

March 23, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by Golazo Dan, a fellow veteran of Japanese wrestling fandom! Dan is the perfect guest for a topic we were […]

VIP AUDIO 3/15 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Digging through the archives again for more classic matches to watch during these Social Distancing times. Tajiri, Doc & Gordy, Hero, Tanahashi, and more of our BattlARTS faves Ishikawa and Ikeda! (92 min)

March 15, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L continues to combat COVID-19 by delving deep into wrestling’s past and watching a bunch of awesome matches to help with the blues. This […]

VIP AUDIO 3/8 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Classic matches for when COVID-19 ruins your plans. Kobashi, Duggan, Pirata Morgan, Goldberg, Ikeda, Otsuka, Dick Togo, Marufuji, and many more (70 min)

March 8, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is forced into Plan B as COVID-19 meant traveling to Germany for wXw’s incredible 16 Carat weekend wasn’t possible. But we made […]

VIP AUDIO 2/26 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: New Japan’s Coronavirus cancellations, Alex Shelley, Aoki vs. Abe, and Big Japan’s Strong Climb tournament! (79 min)

February 26, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L discusses the impact of the cancellations of shows across Japan as a result of the Coronavirus – most notably New Japan’s Anniversary […]

VIP AUDIO 2/17 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: OTT post-show thoughts on The Road to ScrapperMania with special guests Dave Ryan and Lee Malone of Days of Thunder! (56 min)

February 17, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, we bring to you a very special THUNDER-BUDDIES IN PARADISE! Yes, for the first time we unify the brilliant Days of Thunder podcast with ProWres […]

VIP AUDIO 2/5 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Melbourne City Wrestling, the Australian independent scene, ROH rejuvenation, NOAH & AJPW great matches, OTT! (93 min)

February 13, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L takes a trip Down Under as we dip into the waters of the Australian wrestling scene with the help of the mysterious […]

VIP AUDIO 2/5 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: The philosophies of the WWE Performance Center, OTT’s ScrapperMania build, MOTY Top 10! (62 min)

February 5, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L goes solo for the first time in a while to hit on a mixed bag of topics that have been occupying space […]

VIP AUDIO 1/29 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Sale of NOAH to CyberAgent. NOAH expert Hisame with all the details (35 min)

January 29, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is here to talk about the huge news that has broken in Japan today with DDT’s parent company CyberAgent acquiring Pro Wrestling […]

VIP AUDIO 1/19 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: 20 year anniversary of WWF’s momentous UK terrestrial TV deal with Channel 4 – Insight and memories with premier UK wrestling historian John Lister (71 min)

January 19, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by the UK wrestling historian John Lister who brings his wealth of knowledge to the table for an interesting chat […]

VIP AUDIO 1/12 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: Great matches from the turn of the year – Miyahara, AXIZ, Mochizuki, Starr, Stevens, and more (72 min)

January 12, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L is joined by John LaRocca of the Fight Game Podcast to discuss some great matches that happened around the world as the […]

VIP AUDIO 1/1 – Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise: FSM 50 rundown with Sarah Flann. A look at the best wrestlers of 2019! Okada, Cody, Ospreay, Okabayashi, and so many others discussed in detail (96 min)

January 1, 2020

SHOW SUMMARY: In our latest episode of Alan4L’s ProWres Paradise, PWTorch columnist Alan4L rings in the New Year with Sarah Flann from “Journey Through Guerrilla Island” to discuss this year’s FSM 50! Both Sarah and […]

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