POST Wrestling

John Pollock and Wai Ting review Tuesday’s episode of WWE SmackDown from Lincoln, Nebraska. On Tuesday’s show, Kofi Kingston took on Shinsuke Nakamura with a big angle closing the show to set up Kingston’s next program, Charlotte Flair took on Bayley in a #1 contender’s match, Roman Reigns was not fired for attacking Vince McMahon, and we played Memento with Finn Balor and Andrade going right back...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from Des Moines, Iowa. The mysterious Superstar Shakeup continued with more roster moves reflected on the show, a pair of three-way matches took place with the winners facing off to determine Seth Rollins’ next challenger for the Universal title, an insane re-introduction of Bray Wyatt, the transformation of Bobby to Robert Roode, an update on The Vikings a...

John Pollock and Wai Ting welcome NWA Vice President David Lagana to discuss the revival of The Crockett Cup tag team tournament, the selection process of participants such as Yuji Nagata, PCO and The Rock ’n’ Roll Express, the importance of basing storylines on reality in the Cody vs. Nick Aldis build-up to ALL IN, and how he and Billy Corgan want to make the most out of the average wrestling fan...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown from Montreal, Quebec and the second night of the Superstar Shakeup. On Tuesday’s show, the show built towards the announcement by Vince McMahon of the “biggest acquisition in the history of SmackDown”, a champion from Raw was moved over, Lars Sullivan ends a one-day run on Raw, Kairi Sane is called up from NXT, and Kevin Owens teamed...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review the first night of the Superstar Shakeup with WWE Raw from Montreal, Quebec. The show featured a six-man tag main event with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns teaming with the incoming AJ Styles against Drew McIntyre, Bobby Lashley & Baron Corbin, Lacey Evans met Natalya to determine the next Raw women’s title challenger, the Viking Experience made their Raw debut,...

John Pollock is joined by Phil Chertok to review the excellent UFC 236 card from Saturday night featuring two of the best fights of 2019. The two go through the entire card from Atlanta with Dustin Poirier fighting Max Holloway for the interim lightweight title and Israel Adesanya and Kelvin Gastelum fighting for the interim middleweight title. MAIN CARD *Max Holloway vs. Dustin Poirier for the in...

John Pollock and Wai Ting welcome Benno ( British Wrestling Experience, GRAPPL Spotlight ) to recap a very eventful WrestleMania 35 Weekend in New York/New Jersey, discussing its best matches, best shows and standout performers. Watch this show and follow the live chat on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVqxWzac6nE Café Hangouts are recorded live every Thursday. Patreon Double...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown from Brooklyn, New York at the Barclays Center. The WWE wrapped up WrestleMania Week with the New Day teaming against The Bar and Drew McIntyre, The Hardys challenging The Usos for the SmackDown tag titles and battle to see who were the “better brothers”, a follow up involving Becky Lynch and Lacey Evans, the return of Paige, another...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw After WrestleMania 35 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Coming off WrestleMania 35, Raw saw an unadvertised appearance by The Undertaker to interrupt Elias, a Title vs. Title bait-and-switch match involving Seth Rollins and Kofi Kingston, the return of Sami Zayn with a new direction, the main roster debut of Lars Sullivan, a tease of Becky Lyn...

John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE WrestleMania 35 from the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. We discuss our live experience attending the longest show in WWE history featuring Becky Lynch defeating Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair in the first women’s WrestleMania main event, Kofi Kingston defeats Daniel Bryan in one of the best moments in WrestleMania history, Seth Rollins defe...

[Check out this special preview from upNXT. Braden and Davie review WWE NXT every Thursday. Subscribe by searching "upNXT" wherever you download your podcasts.] Braden Herrington and Davie Portman are LIVE in Brooklyn to review NXT TakeOver: New York. They are joined by friends of the show Scrump & Jesse from The 6 to give their live perspectives. The lads run down the entire card including Jo...

John Pollock and Wai Ting deliver a special edition of the Hangout discussing all the highlights of WrestleMania Week 2019. We preview WrestleMania, NXT TakeOver, ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard, and every other show you might want to check out during the busiest weekend of the wrestling calendar. Check out John’s schedule of WrestleMania Week events at www.postwrestling.com/mania Get your tickets for POST...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown from Baltimore, Maryland. On the final episode before WrestleMania, Daniel Bryan and Kofi Kingston engaged in the annual WrestleMania contract signing, Becky Lynch left jail under her own recognizance and was driven to Baltimore, the SmackDown tag titles will be defended at WrestleMania in a fatal four-way, The Miz took on Sanity, and...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review the final WWE Raw before WrestleMania from Washington, D.C. [NOTE: There were some issues with Wai’s mic for the first 20min of the show. Excuse the temporary change in quality as we resorted to a backup recording.] On the final Raw before WrestleMania, Ronda Rousey teamed with Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch against The Riott Squad before the main event participan...

John Pollock is joined by WH Park  for the latest edition of POST Puroresu. The two recap the New Japan Cup, share their top five matches and MVP of the tournament, sticking with originals plans of Kazuchika Okada going for the IWGP title at Madison Square Garden, and the booking of the 32-man tourney. Plus, a preview of All Japan’s Champion Carnival and the G1 Supercard lineup, reviews of Kento M...

John Pollock and Wai Ting are joined by Nate Milton to discuss the racial themes explored in the Kofi Kingston’s WrestleMania storyline for the WWE championship. Plus we take your phone calls, chat about NJPW’s G1 Supercard, X-Men in the MCU, and a special unboxing of new POST merchandise, including our "secret audio cassette". Watch this show and follow the live chat on our YouTube channel: https...

John Pollock is joined by Mike Bohn of MMA Junkie & USA Today to chat the latest in MMA. They discuss the UFC’s stacked welterweight division, Anthony Pettis’ big win over Stephen Thompson and what that sets him up for, the Conor McGregor story and how the UFC goes about handling his situation, the leverage the UFC obtained through the new ESPN+ deal, two title fights reported for UFC 239 in J...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown from Uncasville, Connecticut. Tuesday’s episode features a Tag Team Gauntlet match involving Big E. and Xavier Woods running the table for Kofi Kingston’s last chance to face Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania, Asuka defended the SmackDown women’s title against Charlotte Flair causing changes to the WrestleMania card, a stipulation has been...

John Pollock sits down with Kenny Omega to discuss “Omega Man: A Wrestling Love Story”, which premieres on TSN Wednesday night. They discuss Omega’s decision to go through with a documentary, his initial concerns, his final months with New Japan Pro Wrestling, reflecting on the match with Hiroshi Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom, the building of All Elite Wrestling, New Japan’s decision not to reach o...

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw from Boston, Massachusetts. Monday’s episode featured a Last Man Standing match between Drew McIntyre and Dean Ambrose, Triple H quotes the Spice Girls as his career is threatened, SNL hosts added to the WrestleMania battle royal, Roman Reigns answered Drew McIntyre’s challenge, Kurt Angle has one more match with Samoa Joe, and for some reason there was a B...

We have a special bonus show up with Damian Abraham stopping by for an in-studio chat with John Pollock .The two go off in many directions, including Damian’s yet-to-be-released wrestling documentary series, spending a day with Atsushi Onita, going to the home of Rossy Ogawa, the spectacle of WrestleMania Weekend and where the growth potential lies for non-WWE promotions, talent crossing over outs...

It’s an entire show focused on the latest Mixed martial arts news as John Pollock welcomes New York Ric of ESPN to the show. The two discuss the breaking news that TJ Dillashaw is relinquishing the UFC bantamweight title after an “adverse finding” in his drug test following the Henry Cejudo fight in January. We discuss what this means for the division and the ripple effect. Plus, a discussion the...

  John Pollock is joined by guest co-host and former WWE writer Brian Mann to review SmackDown Live from Indianapolis, Indiana. The two review Tuesday’s show with Kofi Kingston running the gauntlet for a chance at the WWE title for WrestleMania, the United States title match for ‘Mania is announced, The Miz responds to Shane McMahon, The IIconics score a win over Bayley and Sasha Banks, a brawl er...

Wai Ting is on vacation and stepping in as guest co-host is Garrett Gonzales from the Wrestling Observer website and Fight Game podcast to join John Pollock .Pollock and Garrett review Monday’s Raw from Chicago with the announcement of Kurt Angle’s opponent for WrestleMania, Drew McIntyre pinning Seth Rollins and laying out his challenge to Roman Reigns, the confirmation of the Andre the Giant Mem...

On this edition of The Rocky Maivia Picture Show, Nate Milton welcomes Paste Magazine Editor Garrett Martin & Political Science Professor Kris Ealy ( "The Twenny Twin-Twin"/"NWA: Nubian Wrestling Advocates" ) into the theater to review 2004’s Walking Tall ! The guys watched Dwayne Johnson’s first foray into the world of remakes and came away with LOTS of questions: Is the 2004 movie better tha...