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Hello everybody and welcome to episode 14 of the Eggshells Podcast Companion.

This is an audible companion to Eggshells Pro Wrestling in the Tokyo Dome, a book that chronicles the history of

pro wrestling inside Japan's most famous stadium. In this podcast we take a look at

a different year of history each episode and with a different

guest and joining me this time is a fellow author he's chronicling the

history of Pride Fighting Championships for the first time in his book before a fall.

Lee Daly is joining me.

Thanks for having me, Chris.

Thanks for joining me.

And what I always do at the start of every podcast is just to get an impression of your background.

What was your connection? You know and we're going to talk about

2002 being a huge year for pride in just a second. But what was your what was your

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