The Long & Winding Royal Road

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.

Karen Peterson & WH Park discuss a pivotal match in the post-Exodus era of AJPW: Satoshi Kojima vs. Toshiaki Kawada for the Triple Crown from February 16, 2005.

POST MMA correspondent Eric Marcotte joins WH Park to talk about the first match in one of the greatest rivalries in pro wrestling history: Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada from October 21, 1992.

WH Park & John Pollock discuss what many consider to be the greatest tag match in wrestling history: Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue from June 9th, 1995.

WH Park is joined by British Wrestling Experience’s Benno to talk about a legendary NJPW/AJPW match between Big Van Vader and Stan Hansen from February 10, 1990.

AEW wrestler Eddie Kingston joins WH Park to discuss one of his favorite matches – the Triple Crown Title match between champion Toshiaki Kawada and Kenta Kobashi from June 12, 1998.

Robert McCauley joins WH Park to talk about a World Tag Team Title match between Burning (Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama) and NO FEAR (Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama) from October 30, 1999 at Budokan Hall.

Episode #20 of the Long & Winding Royal Road brings us another biography, this time with the person referred to as the “Fifth Pillar” in Jun Akiyama.

WH Park and BWE’s Martin Bushby venture outside of both the 1990s and AJPW to jump to Pro Wrestling NOAH and 2003 to review Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Kenta Kobashi for the GHC Heavyweight Title from March 1st.

On this month’s Long & Winding Royal Road, WH Park is joined by Dylan Fox (The Eastern Lariat) to look at an important match in the Toshiaki Kawada vs. Mitsuharu Misawa rivalry from AJPW’s 25th Anniversary Show at the Tokyo Dome on May 1, 1998.