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John Pollock and Wai Ting couldn't do their live show in Tampa this year, but that won't stop them from bringing it to your homes with the first ever Café Grande Hangout. Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-VFLf-1IyFw They’ll be joined by special guests from the POST Network while they take your questions via Skype Calls and YouTube Super Chats. Commemorate the first ever Café Grande Hangout with our limited-edition t-shirt by artist and event producer Robert S. Pearson. (Click Here) 100% of proceeds from the shirt and our Super Chats go towards Sunnybrook Foundation and The New York Community Trust to support their fight against COVID-19. Links Sunnybrook Foundation: Research team has isolated the COVID-19 virus The NY Community Trust: The NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Café Hangouts are recorded live every Thursday at 3pm ET (12pm PT / 7pm UK). All Patreon supporters have access to watch, chat and call-in live each week. Music: “Down In New Orleans” by Giorgio Di Campo for freesoundmusic.eu Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Pollock and Wai Ting review AEW Dynamite from an undisclosed location. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:45:44] The show featured Cody & Darby Allin taking on Sammy Guevara & Shawn Spears ahead of next week’s TNT Championship tournament. Kenny Omega took on Trent, Lance Archer made his AEW debut, an on-location scene with Vanguard 1 invading the palatial estate of Chris Jericho, and the reveal of the full bracket for the TNT title tournament. CAFÉ GRANDE HANGOUT: Join us for a special 2-hour Q&A live stream this Thursday 2PM ET at YouTube.com/postwrestling. NEWS OF THE DAY [00:08:23] Florida issues a stay-at-home order for at least 30 days, effective Thursday WWE and FOX Sports announce a deal for WrestleMania and Tuesday night programming WWE Raw viewership hits another low for this week’s episode Jon Jones enters plea agreement following last week’s arrest Tony Ferguson addresses the fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov being off An update on Hana Kimura on Terrace House Dark Side of the Ring schedule for season two  Plus your feedback, comments, and questions from the POST Wrestling Forum. Photo Courtesy: AEW Rewind-A-Dynamite Theme by Jacob Chesnut Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Pollock and Wai Ting review the final episode of WWE Raw before WrestleMania 36 this weekend. [REVIEW STARTS AT 00:46:44] The go-home show for WrestleMania featured finals words from The Undertaker as he prepared for Allen Jones, Edge addresses Randy Orton for the final time, Becky Lynch is attacked by Shayna Baszler, Andrade’s replacement is revealed, the WWE women’s tag title is officially added to WrestleMania, and Paul Heyman has a show-closing message directed at Drew McIntyre. CAFÉ GRANDE HANGOUT: Join us for a special 2-hour Q&A live stream this Thursday 2PM ET at YouTube.com/postwrestling. NEWS OF THE DAY [00:08:57] Roman Reigns posts video addressing his decision to pull out of WrestleMania 36 Edge speaks about his comeback AEW adding the TNT Championship with an eight-man tournament beginning April 8 Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson is likely off, UFC still moving forward with UFC 249 Bellator cancels its shows in May, PFL puts its season on hold The very unique match between Go Shiosaki and Kazuyuki Fujita from Sunday’s Pro Wrestling NOAH show And your Café feedback, comments, and questions from the POST Wrestling Forum. Photos Courtesy: WWE Rewind-A-Raw Theme by Colby John: soundcloud.com/colbyjohn Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Pollock & Wai Ting present a special Sunday night bonus POST Roundtable featuring three guests stopping by: [00:03:55] Dr. Alex Patel returns for the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic, how things have changed, the public acclimating to social distancing, his feelings on wrestling shows continuing, Roman Reigns & more. [00:28:57] Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics discusses the financial implications of WWE’s move to stage WrestleMania at the Performance Center and the importance of WWE’s television deals during this time. [00:53:37] Marcus Vanderberg of Yahoo Sports and The Kings of Sport joins us from Los Angeles to discuss how the city is handling the pandemic, WrestleMania next weekend, what to expect from major sports leagues when play resumes, and what WrestleMania Week in LA could look like in 2021. Music: C. Scott – ”Round It Goes” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

WH Park and Alan4L from Pro Wrestling Torch’s ProWres Paradise pontificate about many topics including this awesome tag match between Jushin Liger & Minoru Tanaka taking on the NOAH Jr. team of Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. As a bonus, we veer off on a tangent about the awesome “Stop the Matsunaga” storyline featuring deathmatch wrestler Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (don’t ask but just listen). Click here to watch this match on YouTube for free Next week on Thunderstruck: Jushin Liger & Takahiro Murahama vs. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji (7/16/2003) WH Park and a special guest look back at the greatest matches of Jushin Thunder Liger’s career in Thunderstruck, a limited-edition podcast from POST Wrestling. New episodes every Sunday. Music: https://filmmusic.io | "Neolith" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) | License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Follow WH Park on Twitter Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Pollock and Wai Ting discuss the latest news involving major changes to WrestleMania 36 including Roman Reigns, Miz and Andrade being taken off the show, the latest on Jon Jones' arrest, Brodie Lee on TIJ, and Dana White speaks. 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 Roman Reigns, The Miz & Andrade off the WrestleMania 36 and all the latest changes to the show with updates across the board Stephanie McMahon outlines the precautions WWE is taking while moving forward with their shows Update on Teddy Hart following his arrest on Thursday More details on Jon Jones’ arrest Brodie Lee’s interview on Talk is Jericho and decision to leave WWE Becky Lynch interviewed by Ariel Helwani and talks about WrestleMania Photos Courtesy: WWE RASD Theme by THE IDENTiTY CRiSiS: theidentitycrisis.com / youtube.com/theidc Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join John Pollock and Wai Ting for the Café Hangout as they take your calls and discuss the Chris Benoit episode of Vice’s Dark Side of the Ring. Plus, the latest on today’s arrests of Jon Jones and Teddy Hart. Watch this show and follow the live chat on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/fmLIJfe49t4 Café Hangouts are recorded live every Thursday at 3pm ET (12pm PT / 7pm UK). All Patreon supporters have access to watch, chat and call-in live each week. Music: “Down In New Orleans” by Giorgio Di Campo for freesoundmusic.eu Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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, Brodie Lee’s first AEW match and his aversion to those that sneeze, Cody takes on Jimmy Havoc and joins Tony Schiavone on commentary for the show. GIVE-A-WAI: We’ve released the first 25 episodes of our retro wrestling review podcast, Rewind-A-Wai for free. Click here to download. NEWS OF THE DAY [00:03:53] AEW tapings WrestleMania 36 tapings Dana Brooke and Rey Mysterio not working WrestleMania Brie Bella’s comments about Daniel Bryan and working the shows in Orlando WWE Raw rating falls significantly Dark Side of the Ring doc on Chris Benoit does a big number Three foreigners out of the Champion Carnival  Plus your feedback, comments, and questions from the POST Wrestling Forum. Photo Courtesy: AEW Rewind-A-Dynamite Theme by Jacob Chesnut Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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, the major takeaways, the impact of Eddy Guerrero’s death, the double murder-suicide from 2007, how he found out about the news and trying to make sense of it thirteen years later. Jeff Marek is one of the leading hockey analysts in Canada and can be seen on Rogers Sportsnet and on 31 Thoughts: The Podcast  Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 Rollins responded to Kevin Owens, a handful of matches including talent from EVOLVE utilized, and they moved the HARD CAM! GIVE-A-WAI: We’ve released the first 25 episodes of our retro wrestling review podcast, Rewind-A-Wai for free. Click here to download. NEWS OF THE DAY [00:15:07] WWE adds matches to WrestleMania 36 WWE Network making lots of content available for free Friday Night SmackDown does a strong number AEW makes location changes for additional episodes of Dynamite Notes for this week’s AEW Dynamite Updates on New Japan, Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor & latest cancellations Suwama wins the Triple Crown from Kento Miyahara The latest on UFC 249 with Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson And your Café feedback, comments, and questions from the POST Wrestling Forum. Photos Courtesy: WWE Rewind-A-Raw Theme by Colby John: soundcloud.com/colbyjohn Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.