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John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE SmackDown where 2-of-3 Falls matches took over the show including the main event between Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:34:34]   Also on this week’s show from the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon: The Miz took on Elias for the chance at another match with Shane McMahon, Nikki Cross took on Bayley in order to secure another title shot for A...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from Everett, Washington. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:35:10] Monday’s Raw following Stomping Grounds featured a surprise appearance from The Undertaker to set up a match at Extreme Rules, the expected Mixed tag match involving Seth Rollins & Becky Lynch vs. Baron Corbin & Lacey Evans was put together, a match involving Ricochet and AJ Styles, many 24/7 tit...

John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE Stomping Grounds from Tacoma, WA headlined by Seth Rollins vs. Baron Corbin for the WWE Universal Championship with a mystery referee. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:17:28] Plus, John discusses seeing Aqua last night, your phone calls and feedback from the POST Wrestling Forum . Watch this show on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5aqvR03gcY WWE Sto...

WH Park welcomes one of the co-hosts of the Eastern Lariat podcast, Dylan Fox to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 8th G1 Climax tournament: Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kazuo Yamazaki from August 2, 1998. Dylan and WH discuss Big Mouth Loud, a history of Kazuo Yamazaki, the merits of ¥5,000,000 cheques, and a bit of talk about latter-day FMW among other topics. Click here to watch this match on New Japan Worl...

WH Park welcomes the co-host of POST Wrestling’s NXT review show, upNXT - Braden Herrington to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 7th G1 Climax tournament: Kensuke Sasaki vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan from August 3, 1997. Braden and WH discuss their meeting in Tokyo and the niceties of Japanese family restaurants, WH’s favourite matches he’s seen live, who would be who if Braden and Davie Portman were the tag te...

John Pollock and Wai Ting broadcast live from the POST Office for this week’s Café Hangout: **The latest news in pro wrestling and a full preview of Sunday’s WWE Stomping Grounds ** Damian Abraham joins us to discuss a double-header of Viceland’s The Wrestlers. Episode 5 features a look at how victims of domestic abuse have been able to find empowerment through pro wrestling. Featuring profiles of...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE SmackDown from Ontario, California. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:34:31] The final episode of SmackDown leading into Stomping Grounds featured Seth Rollins & Kofi Kingston teaming against Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn in a 2-of-3 Falls match, an Elimination Tag match with The Miz & R-Truth vs. Drew McIntyre & Elias, a 24/7 title change, Daniel Bryan on comment...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:42:45] The final Raw leading into Stomping Grounds featured the main event between Seth Rollins and Daniel Bryan, Rollins on the attack with his chair, a rare IIconics’ tag title defense, a fatal five-way to determine the #1 contender to face Samoa Joe, Baron Corbin is pinned heading i...

John Pollock is joined by WH Park  for the June edition of POST Puroresu. They go through the news coming out of Dominion, the appearance by KENTA, the reaction to Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito, and WH’s live experience at Osaka-jo Hall. Then, they share their thoughts on the excellent Best of the Super Juniors tournament, the best matches & performers, Will Ospreay’s tournament and title vict...

WH Park welcomes the co-host of the Eastern Lariat podcast, STRIGGA to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 6th G1 Climax tournament: Riki Choshu vs. Masahiro Chono from August 6, 1996. STRIGGA joins WH to talk about how he became a wrestling fan growing up in Germany, his various wrestling related projects, the start of Chono’s Aristrist look, Choshu’s background going into the G1 and the nuances of Japa...

Have a nice apocalypse, POST-Marks! On this edition of The Rocky Maivia Picture Show, Nate Milton welcomes  Brian Mann ( Keep It 2000 /Complex) back into the theater to review 2006’s Southland Tales . **Does director Richard Kelly’s sprawling sci-fi satire deserve it’s negative reputation? Is this film an under-appreciated classic? **Is this secretly one of DJ’s best on-screen performances? **Will...

WH Park welcomes the host of POST Wrestling’s British Wrestling Experience ,  Martin Bushby to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 5th G1 Climax tournament: Keiji Mutoh vs. Shinya Hashimoto from August 15, 1995. Martin and WH talk about the origin of Martin’s wrestling fandom in American, British and Japanese wrestling, wrestling video games, the makeup of Japanese audiences, Muto’s last run in WCW among...

John Pollock and Wai Ting broadcast live from the POST Office for this week’s Café Hangout: ** Anthony Kingdom James joins us to talk about The Union of Independent Professional Wrestlers and what it’s like to run an indy show during SummerSlam 2019 Weekend in Toronto. Tickets for “Never Say Never” on August 8th in Toronto:  http://www.wrestlersunion.ca/ ** Damian Abraham joins us to discuss Vicel...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE SmackDown from the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:19:24] On Tuesday’s show, Big E. was back again to team with Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods against Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens, R-Truth gets shipped to Los Angeles, 30-minutes of The Miz to start the show including three matches, no Roman Reigns, and YOLO County...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from San Jose, California. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:22:55] As the only two Canadians that watched Raw Monday, John & Wai discuss the quick turnaround until Stomping Grounds - It’s Time to Kick Ass and Take Names. We had Seth Rollins take on Kevin Owens in the main event with Sami Zayn as the outside referee, Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins defended the Raw ta...

Cruel Summer #4: Masahiro Chono vs. Power Warrior [Kensuke Sasaki] (1994) w/ Mavs Gillis CLICK TO DOWNLOAD WH Park welcomes New Japan English commentator, Mavs Gillis to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 4th G1 Climax tournament: Masahiro Chono vs. Power Warrior from August 7, 1994. NJPW English commentator Mavs Gillis joins WH to discuss Mav’s interesting story of how he got his New Japan gig, hanging...

John Pollock and Phil Chertok are back to review Saturday’s UFC 238 pay-per-view from Chicago, Illinois. In the main event, Henry Cejudo attempted to become a double champion going back to bantamweight to fight Marlon Moraes for the vacant title in the main event. Valentina Shevchenko set out to defend her flyweight title for the first time in a fight against heavy-underdog Jessica Eye. Plus, a hu...

WH Park welcomes Damon MacDonald of the Super J-Cast show (which you can find at Voices of Wrestling ) to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 3rd entry of the G1 Climax tournament: Hiroshi Hase vs. Tatsumi Fujinami from August 7, 1993. Damon joins WH to talk about their mutual love of 80s music, the challenges of sitting in Sumo Hall, early 90s WCW, dating tips as a wrestling fan and of course, Hase vs....

John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE Super Showdown and welcome guests for a discussion about WWE’s ongoing relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. TIME STAMPS: 00:03:30 – Super ShowDown review 00:41:11 –  Will Cooling (Fighting Spirit Magazine) joins us 01:08:09 –  Karim Zidan (BloodyElbow.com) joins us 01:40:12 – Phone Calls Plus, your phone calls and feedback from the POST Wrestling Fo...

John Pollock & Wai Ting are joined in-studio by Damian Abraham on this week’s Café Hangout : **We discuss rumours of Alexa Bliss & Natalya possibly being allowed to wrestle in Saudi Arabia for Friday’s WWE Super ShowDown. **We preview Sunday’s NJPW Dominion. **We talk Episode 3 of Viceland’s The Wrestlers featuring a profile of the world’s top women’s wrestling promotion, Stardom. Watch Th...

John Pollock and Wai Ting  review WWE SmackDown from the Sames Auto Arena in Laredo, Texas. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:48:46] Tuesday’s episode featured the appearance of Bill Goldberg, who was briefly confronted by The Undertaker leading into Super Showdown, a #1 contender’s match between Carmella, Alexa Bliss, and Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown women’s title, Dolph Ziggler’s video packages, a 24/7...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from Austin, Texas. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:40:22] Monday’s episode featured The Undertaker’s lone promo building up his match against Bill Goldberg, a show-long tease that Brock Lesnar would cash-in on Seth Rollins, the latest in the Ricochet vs. Cesaro series, Triple H has BALLS, R-Truth hides out under the ring, Shane McMahon threatens to submit Roman Reign...

WH Park welcomes Matt McEwen to discuss the finals of NJPW’s second G1 Climax tournament: Masahiro Chono vs. Ravishing Rick Rude from August 12, 1992. Matt is a Canadian wrestling fan who’s been a guest on numerous wrestling podcasts. He and WH talk about Chono’s judicious use of the Yakuza kick at this point in his career, Rude’s possible creation of a modern dance move, plus Canadian Maritime an...

Braden Herrington and Davie Portman  of upNXT are back reviewing NXT TakeOver: XXV. The lads run down the entire card including Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano II, Io Shirai vs Shayna Baszler, Tyler Breeze vs Velveteen Dream, & more! You can also check out a video version of the podcast on YouTube by going to https://youtu.be/acH_tFcGiyM NXT TakeOver XXVSaturday, June 1st, 2019Bridgeport, CT at We...

WH Park welcomes John Pollock to discuss the finals of NJPW’s inaugural G1 Climax tournament: Keiji Mutoh vs. Masahiro Chono from August 11, 1991. WH talks about the inspirations for Cruel Summer. He and John look at the history and creation of the G1 itself, John’s love of 90s pop music, what would the Yakuza/Mafia kick be called in other countries and giant cheques in wrestling. Click here to wa...