Hello everyone and welcome back to the long and winding Royal Road.

My name is W.H. Park and of course this is a show that looks at the greatest era for

in-ring professional wrestling in my opinion at least and that's 1990's All Japan Pro Wrestling

and joining me today on a very special episode is someone who does a great podcast not about

All Japan or New Japan or anything but Dragon Gate professional wrestling with a former guest

on the show, K-Slow. It's Mike Spears from the Open the Voice Gate podcast. Mike, thank you

for joining me here today. Thank you so much for having me. I feel like we've talked about

doing this kind of episode for a while and I'm glad that now we are committing and doing

this and you complete the Open the Voice Gate. I don't know if it would be like the

biathlon. I mean one episode about Kabashi, the other episode for Hansen. It kind of works out.

Somehow case and I managed to work this out in a way that we managed to kind of do our own little

thing. But I'm so stoked to be here and talk about all Japan in the 90's and Stan Hansen

one of my favorite wrestlers of all time. So Mike has revealed it. He's still in my thunder here,

but that's okay. No, no, no, no, no, it's all good. It's all good. We are doing the return of

the biography episodes. Of course, we have done Masawa, Kawada, Kobashi, Tawa, and of course,

the unofficial fifth pillar, Junakiyama. We did we did biography episode of him today. I would say

in my opinion, the sixth pillar more than more than even Jumbo who I love dearly, but I would say

maybe more important to the four pillars and their development as main event guys through the

ranks of all Japan wrestling is one Stan Hansen. What would you say about that Mike? I think that

when you look at the four pillars and when you are just like how this promotion was like, and I

think it's something that with Hansen, he filled this role like within, especially this era,

it was so important to have natives versus foreigners. And you had Stan Hansen who with the

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