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As the year draws to a close, Les Thatcher & I look back on 2024 in both WWE and AEW as well as our predictions for AEW’s Worlds End PPV this Saturday.
Thanks for listening and Happy New Year~!
Tag: 2024 year in review
JNPO wrestling year in review series: Arrivals, departures, ladders & airport meetings
The second half of the Josh Nason’s Punch-Out pro wrestling year in review series continues with July and debuting guest Jack Farmer, a wrestling media free agent formerly of Wrestling Inc.
Jack and I go in-depth on all kinds of happenings including:
- WWE Money in the Bank where CM Punk again shafted Drew McIntyre
- The significance of WWE signing Stephanie Vaquer and moving away from Bobby Lashley and MVP
- The announcement of the ’25 John Cena retirement tour
- AEW putting all the big matches in place for August’s All In
- MJF winning the AEW International title and subsequently renaming it
- The Shane McMahon/Tony Khan meeting
- Continuing crossovers in NXTNA and two big WWE stars heading to Japan for matches
- Hundreds of other headlines and topics
Here’s the rest of the series thus far:
- January: PWTorch’s Rich Fann
- February: ProWrestling.net’s Jason Powell
- March: Voices of Wrestling’s Jesse Collings
- April: Voices of Wrestling’s Warren Hayes
- May: POST Wrestling’s Andrew Thompson
- June: Podcaster Garrett Kidney
JNPO wrestling year in review series: WWE’s newsworthy & nightmarish January
For WWE in January, it was the best of times and the worst of times.
That and more kicks off my third annual Josh Nason’s Punch-Out pro wrestling year in review series where I do 12 episodes covering all the news and happenings for WWE, AEW, TNA, Japan and everything else that made headlines.
Helping me kick things off with January 2024 is Rich Fann of PWTorch and POST Wrestling fame.
Among our topics:
- Janel Grant sues Vince McMahon for sex trafficking, sexual assault and sexual abuse which resulted in McMahon resigning from his TKO leadership post and a lot of fallout
- WWE announcing a megadeal with Netflix to bring Raw to the streaming service
- The Rock announced as joining the TKO board and also beginning his insertion into the WrestleMania 40 main event scene
- TNA officially rebranded itself and kicked off a new era
- NJPW began to prepare for a massively transitional new year with two big stars preparing to leave
- The other AEW, WWE and news from other smaller promotions
Join me here twice a week as I continue the series with new guests. Did I forget anything from the month? Let me know.