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John Pollock and Wai Ting review AEW Dynamite from Daily’s Place with Matt Hardy confronting Chris Jericho . [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:17:54] AEW’s second week in an empty arena setting saw some adjustments from week one. The show built towards a confrontation between Matt Hardy and Chris Jericho , plus a AAA Mega Heavyweight title match between Kenny Omega and Sammy Guevara , an update on Nick Jackson...

On today’s show, John Pollock speaks with Jeff Marek about the new Dark Side of the Ring documentary covering Chris Benoit. Marek opens up about his close friendship with Benoit than spanned many years from covering him, working alongside Benoit through his website, the role Marek played when Benoit left WCW and having an insight into the individual that few had. They go through the documentary, t...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review another empty-arena WWE Raw from the Performance Center . [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:39:30] On Monday’s show, several new matches were added to WrestleMania 36 , Brock Lesnar made his way to the WWE PC alongside Paul Heyman , AJ Styles lists the stipulation for his match with The Undertaker, Randy Orton answered the challenge laid out by Edge from one week ago, Seth Roll...

John Pollock and WH Park are back for an update on how the country is reacting to the global pandemic. The two are back with WH Park providing an update from Japan on how the country is handling the COVID-19 pandemic , the impact it has had on everyday life, the response from the pro wrestling industry, and how it compares to the U.S and Canada. They also discuss the recent empty arena shows in th...

WH Park and Case Lowe from Voices of Wrestling’s Open the Voice Gate podcast talk for the first time to review Jushin Liger vs. Dragon Gate’s Eita in the Super J-Cup 2016 . Click here to watch this match on New Japan World (account required). Next week on Thunderstruck: Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka vs. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (4/07/2002) WH Park and a special guest look back...

On this installment of The Rocky Maivia Picture Show , Nate Milton and Brian Mann (Complex, Keep It 2000 ) reunite to tackle two of Dwayne Johnson’s most important film roles with The Other Guys and Pain & Gain ! Topics discussed include The Rock’s career resurgence in the 2010’s, DJ’s correlation to Mark Whalberg, and what the heck was going on with the music scene in 2013?!? All that and so...

John Pollock and Wai Ting discuss the latest on WWE's taping schedule, more cancelled shows, and the sudden return of the Wrestling Retribution Project. NOTE:  To hear the entire edition of Rewind-A-SmackDown including a review of Friday's empty arena show - subscribe to the POST Wrestling Café NEWS OF THE DAY [00:04:10]   WWE to air past WrestleMania events on ESPN , beginning this Sunday night T...

With John Pollock away on dad duties, join Wai Ting for a special, self-isolated Café Hangout as he takes your calls right from his home. How has COVID-19 affected your part of the world? What are you doing to occupy your time during self-isolation? Call in to share your story. UPDATE 3/20: In light of Illinois' shelter-in-place order, "Warehouse Wars" has been cancelled [00:15:26] Freelance Wrest...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review AEW Dynamite from an empty Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida highlighted by the debut of Matt Hardy . [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:36:55] AEW followed suit with WWE by pressing ahead with AEW Dynamite closed to the public. The show was headlined by the Inner Circle vs. The Elite for the numbers advantage in Blood and Guts, the reveal of The Exalted One , The Lucha Bro...

Highspots owner Michael Bochicchio speaks with John Pollock on the fallout from the cancellation of WrestleCon and the impact the ongoing crisis is having. Mike speaks about the overwhelming support from the past few days after issues arose with the Marriott in Tampa, the ongoing issues they face and financial measures he has had to make, the process of refunds, the effect this will have on the in...

NEWS OF THE DAY   WrestleMania 36 is moved to the WWE PC , WWE’s related events that week are off Three doctors weigh in on how safe it is for wrestlers to be performing Highspots vs. Marriott following WrestleCon's cancellation The UFC calls off its next three cards, moving forward with UFC 249 Photos Courtesy: WWE, Highspots  Music: Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmm...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review an empty-arena WWE Raw from the WWE Performance Center . [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:29:59] Edge drives 17 hours to challenge Randy Orton to a Last Man Standing match, The Undertaker and AJ Styles have a contract signing, Becky Lynch pulls up in a truck, and Steve Austin returns to the show for 3:16 Day. Plus, a re-airing of this year’s men’s Royal Rumble that ate up half...

John Pollock & Wai Ting present a special Sunday night bonus POST Roundtable assessing the latest news and developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the wrestling industry’s response . They’re joined by Andrew Thompson and Nate Milton for a roundtable chat about the past week, how WWE, UFC and AEW have handled the pandemic, how this has affected everyday life, the latest warning from th...

Japanese Audio Wrestling partners WH Park and JoJo Remy reunite to complete the trilogy of shows featuring Jushin Liger taking on Shinjiro Otani ; this one from 1998 for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight title. Click here to watch this match on New Japan World (account required). Next week on Thunderstruck: Jushin Liger vs. EITA (7/20/16) WH Park and a special guest look back at the greatest matches of Jus...

John Pollock is joined by guest co-host Mike Murray to go through all the latest news updates, show cancellations, and the impact COVID-19 is having on the industry. NOTE:  To hear the entire edition of Rewind-A-SmackDown including a review of Friday's empty arena show - subscribe to the POST Wrestling Café NEWS OF THE DAY   WWE Raw moved from Pittsburgh to the WWE Performance Center and closed to...

John Pollock and Wai Ting take your calls and discuss the latest surrounding COVID-19 and its effects on the wrestling world. [00:19:34] British Wrestling Experience’s Benno joins us to discuss Europe’s reaction to COVID-19 , its impact on independent wrestling, and his experience travelling to wXw 16 Carat tournament this past weekend. ( Click here to read his live report.) [00:47:57] We’re joine...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review AEW Dynamite from Salt Lake City and discuss the latest on COVID-19 . [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:34:54] Off the top, it’s a long discussion about the measures being taken to handle the coronavirus virus outbrea k with President Donald Trump introducing travel restrictions , the NBA suspending its season , WrestleMania ’s status in the air, other major events affected, an...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw featuring the return of Edge to confront Randy Orton . [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:36:13] Edge returned on Monday’s episode seeking revenge on Randy Orton , AJ Styles laid out his WrestleMania challenge for The Undertaker while vowing to kill the man, Becky Lynch addressed Shayna Baszler following her Elimination Chamber victory, Paul Heyman and Drew McIntyre buil...

John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE Elimination Chamber headlined by an Elimination Chamber match between Natalya vs. Liv Morgan vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Asuka vs. Ruby Riott vs. Sarah Logan to determine the No. 1 Contender for Becky Lynch ’s Raw Women’s Championship. We also discuss the Elimination Chamber match for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship , Aleister Black vs. AJ Styles , Braun Strow...

WH Park and “The Godfather of Perth Wrestling”, Davis Storm have a very fun discussion about the J-Crown title match between Jushin Liger and Koji Kanemoto from 1997. Click here to watch this match. Next week on Thunderstruck: Jushin Liger vs. Shinjiro Otani  (2/7/98) . WH Park and a special guest look back at the greatest matches of Jushin Thunder Liger’s career in Thunderstruck , a limited-editi...

John Pollock is joined by Phil Chertok for the UFC 248 POST Show to review Saturday’s card from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The two over the bizarre main event between Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero for the UFC middleweight title, how they scored the fight, the audience’s reaction to it, the next challenger for Adesanya, and more. Then, they discuss one of the best fights in UFC history with...

John Pollock and Wai Ting are joined live in-studio by Evan Husney , Executive Producer of Vice’s Dark Side of the Ring . We discuss the upcoming season of the series, the success of Season 1, plus your phone calls and Wednesday night’s NXT and AEW ratings . Watch the Dark Side of the Ring Season 2 Trailer : https://twitter.com/DarkSideOfRing/status/1234945887064948741?s=20 Watch this show and fol...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review AEW Dynamite with the fallout from Saturday’s Revolution pay-per-view. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:29:44] Wednesday’s episode in Colorado featured Chris Jericho promising to leave for 60-days if Jon Moxley walked out of the building under his own power with Jericho & Sammy Guevara taking on Jon Moxley & Darby Allin in the main event. Plus, Cody addresses his loss...

John Pollock is joined by Cody Saftic from the Dog or Pass Podcast and Fight Network to chat about the latest MMA news and this weekend’s UFC 248 card. The two discuss the recent Tyson Fury fight with Deontay Wilder, Deiveson Figueiredo’s knockout of Joseph Benavidez, the next step for the flyweight division, the UFC’s bantamweight division, Petr Yan to fight Marlon Moraes in June, the decision to...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw featuring Beth Phoenix’s medical update on Edge. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:43:46] Monday’s episode featured The Street Profits challenging Seth Rollins & Murphy and it’s Now or Never for the Raw tag titles , AJ Styles meets Aleister Black after Black runs the OC gauntlet, Shayna Baszler’s first match on Raw facing Kairi Sane , the plight of poor Ricochet , a...