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John Pollock & Wai Ting are joined by a number of guests on this week’s Café Hangout : ** Andreas Hale (The Corner Podcast) joins us to discuss his recent Starrcast II panel on race, gender and minority representation in wrestling. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9v8tnnZrKU **Smash Wrestling’s Sebastian Suave talks about Smash’s partnership with China’s OWE for SummerSlam Week...

John Pollock and Wai Ting to review WWE SmackDown from the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:32:02] SmackDown featured several 24/7 title changes revolving around R-Truth, the main event involving Roman Reigns & Truth taking on Elias & Drew McIntyre, dissension among Charlotte Flair & Lacey Evans, a rematch with Kofi Kingston taking on Kevin Owens, and Daniel Bryan le...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from Kansas City, Missouri.  [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:26:36] The show featured a Fatal Four-Way involving Baron Corbin, The Miz, Bobby Lashley & Braun Strowman to determine Seth Rollins’ opponent for the Super Showdown card, the introduction of The Electric Chair interview segment involving Sami Zayn, Lance Anoa’i faced off with Shane McMahon, The Usos’ Blo...

John Pollock  chats with Fred Ottman about breaking into the industry through Boris Malenko, his territorial work, meeting Dusty Rhodes in Florida, the call from the World Wrestling Federation that led to the Tugboat character, teaming with John Tenta as The Natural Disasters, the connection to Hulk Hogan, the legend of The Shockmaster and its viral popularity, plus his thoughts on AEW and his nep...

John Pollock & Wai Ting review AEW Double or Nothing from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. We review the entire card headlined by Kenny Omega vs. Chris Jericho, an incredibly violent bladejob from Dustin Rhodes, and the AEW debut of Jon Moxley. Plus, your phone calls and feedback from the POST Wrestling Forum . Watch this show on our YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/wa...

John Pollock  details the making of his  Owen Hart's Final Day: A POST Profile  audio documentary and discusses the 20th anniversary of Owen’s passing with Wai Ting . Click here to listen to  Owen Hart's Final Day: A POST Profile . [50:42] Damian Abraham joins us for a weekly post-discussion about his Viceland series, The Wrestlers. This week we chat Episode 1: The Best New Talent in America focus...

John Pollock and Wai Ting to review WWE SmackDown from the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Tuesday’s show featured the Money in the Bank rematch between Roman Reigns and Elias, the return of Dolph Ziggler to attack and set up a title match with Kofi Kingston, the continuation of R-Truth’s reign as 24/7 champion, Big E. returns and is attacked right away, and Becky 1 Belt teams wi...

John Pollock is back with Wai Ting to review WWE Raw from Albany, New York. Coming off Money in the Bank, Raw featured Mick Foley’s announcement of a new 24/7 title eligible for members of any roster with multiple title changes on the first night. Brock Lesnar appeared to tease a cash in on either Seth Rollins or Kofi Kingston as the show-long hook. Plus, Becky 1 Belt, another match added to Super...

John Pollock goes back to May 23rd, 1999, the night Owen Hart tragically passed away in Kansas City, Missouri. In this special audio documentary, we speak to those that knew Hart and were present at the Kemper Arena that evening, as well as media members that covered the story and were around Hart in the hours before his passing. In the coming weeks, we will release the interviews in full on the P...

John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE Money in the Bank 2019 from the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut. We discuss our thoughts on the men’s and women’s MITB ladder matches, the shocking return of Brock Lesnar, Bayley cashing in and winning the SD Women’s Championship, controversy surrounding Samoa Joe vs. Rey Mysterio, an excellent match between Seth Rollins and AJ Styles, and much more. Plus,...

On this edition of The Rocky Maivia Picture Show, Nate Milton welcomes video game aficionado/pop-culture critic/brave soul Jason Chapa into the theater to review 2005’s sci-fi/horror/action mash-up, Doom ! The guys fight their way through one of Dwayne Johnson’s biggest box-office bombs, Nate debuts a new segment called “A Moment With Sting”, and our doomed duo tackles the following topics: The Ro...

John Pollock & Wai Ting are joined by The Wrap’s Tony Maglio to discuss details of AEW’s television deal with TNT. We’ll also be taking your calls talking Lars Sullivan’s $100,000 fine, WWE creative problems, HHH being frustrated and more. We then preview and give our predictions for Sunday’s WWE Money In The Bank from Hartford, CT. Watch this show and follow the live chat on our YouTube chann...

John Pollock is joined by Wai Ting to review WWE SmackDown from the O2 Arena in London, England. The final episode before Money in the Bank featured Raw talent all over the show with the Wild Card Rule including a 4-on-3 handicap match involving Shane McMahon, the announcement of the Kabuki Warriors, Kevin Owens relied on a Raw ally against Kofi Kingston, Daniel Bryan made it onto the kickoff show...

John Pollock is back with Wai Ting to review WWE Raw from London, England. Monday’s episode featured a Falls Count Anywhere match between Braun Strowman and Sami Zayn for a spot in the MITB Ladder match, closing promos from Seth Rollins and AJ Styles before MITB, the Firefly Fun House took a dark turn, Miz TV featuring Roman Reigns, a double contract signing involving Becky Lynch and her opponents...

John Pollock is solo with the UFC 237 POST Show. Off the top, Pollock goes over the news regarding Silver King’s passing at a Lucha Libre London card on Saturday where he collapsed during his match and died. Then, a full review of the UFC 237 card from Brazil where Jessica Andrade made an enormous comeback in her fight with Rose Namajunas to win the UFC strawweight title, Jared Cannonier took out...

John Pollock is joined by WH Park  for the latest edition of POST Puroresu. They go over the highlights of the Champion Carnival tournament, Kento Miyahara’s win, and the standout matches & performers. Then, it’s on to New Japan with the big shows from April, the plight of Jay White, Wrestling Dontaku notes, a big preview of the Best of the Super Juniors, and Chris Jericho wrestling at Dominio...

On a special edition of the Café Hangout , Wai Ting welcomes Brent Chittenden (True North Nerds) for a look back at the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’ll discuss our thoughts on the cultural significance of the MCU and the box-office success of Avengers: Endgame, plus our picks for Best Movie, Actor, Director, Fight and Moments from the past 22 films, predictions for the future and more. True North...

Wai Ting is joined by Nate Milton ( The Rocky Maivia Picture Show, Kings of Sport ) to review WWE SmackDown from Louisville, Kentucky: New SmackDown Tag Team Champions are crowned, Kofi Kingston defends the WWE title against Raw’s AJ Styles and Sami Zayn, and the Wild Card Rule continues to take effect. At 01:13:00, Damian Abraham joins us to discuss the official launch of Viceland’s The Wrestlers...

Wai Ting and upNXT’s Davie Portman review WWE Raw from Cincinatti, Ohio. Vince McMahon institutes a new “Wild Card Rule” allowing a set number of Raw and SmackDown stars to jump brands. SmackDown’s Roman Reigns, Kofi Kingston, Daniel Bryan and Lars Sullivan appear. SmackDown’s Shane McMahon and Elias also appear (but they don’t really count). The Usos continue humiliating The Revival by engineerin...

John Pollock and Wai Ting welcome Conrad Thompson to discuss Starrcast II. We’ll also be joined by Court Bauer to discuss tomorrow’s special edition of MLW Fusion, Executive Produced by Salina de la Renta. Plus, your calls discussing the week in pro wrestling. Starrcast II schedule and information: https://www.starrcast.com/ Starrcast II on Fite: https://www.fite.tv/article/starrcast-2/ MLW Fusion...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review Tuesday’s episode of WWE SmackDown from Columbus, Ohio. This week’s episode saw the remaining participants revealed for the Men’s and Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder matches, The Hardys vacate the SmackDown tag titles, Jeff Hardy’s phantom attack by Lars Sullivan, the follow-up to the Kofi Kingston vs. Kevin Owens program, Roman Reigns placed into a handicap match...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from Lexington, Kentucky. The mysterious Superstar Shakeup continued with more roster moves reflected on the show, the Raw participants for both Money in the Bank Ladder matches were announced, Seth Rollins and AJ Styles had a contract signing for their upcoming Universal title match, the return of the Firefly Fun House, Shane McMahon chokes The Miz unconsc...

John Pollock is joined by Nate Milton for the Impact Wrestling Rebellion POST Show. The two review Sunday’s Rebellion card from the Rebel Entertainment Complex in Toronto featuring a Full Metal Mayhem match for the Impact tag titles, Johnny Impact defends the Impact title against Brian Cage, Lance Storm serves as the special referee, Gail Kim’s final match with Tessa Blanchard, a cameo from Tully...

Twinkle-Twinkle, Baby! On this edition of The Rocky Maivia Picture Show, Nate Milton welcomes Brent Chittenden (the “ True North Nerds ” podcast) into the theater to review 2005’s Be Cool ! The guys sit through one of the most random big-budget films to ever come out of Hollywood and come away with a TON of questions: Does this sequel to 1995’s “ Get Shorty ” live up to the expectations set by the...

John Pollock and Wai Ting welcome Brandon Howard Thurston ( Wrestlenomics, Fightful ) to break down WWE’s First Quarter 2019 Earnings report. We discuss the company’s net loss of $8.4 million for the quarter, plus whether “superstar absences” may have truly contributed to WWE's live event and ratings decreases. Brandon’s coverage of WWE’s Q1 Earnings Report https://twitter.com/wrestlenomics . John...