POST SCHEDULE
Tonight: Rewind-A-Raw with John Pollock & Wai Ting
Tuesday: MCU L8R – New Mutants with guest Scrump (POST Wrestling Café)
Wednesday: Pollock & Thurston (New start time – 1 p.m. ET)
Wednesday: upNXT with Davie & Braden
Wednesday: Rewind-A-Dynamite
Thursday: Rewind-A-Wai – WWE Beast in the East (POST Wrestling Café)
Friday: POST Puroresu with WH Park & Karen Peterson
Friday: Rewind-A-SmackDown (POST Wrestling Café)
Saturday: AEW All Out 2024 with John & Wai
Braden Herrington and Andrew Thompson have a review of NXT No Mercy.
Jack Wannan has a story on the new Death Tour documentary, which can be screened on the CBC Gem service in Canada and includes an interview with director Stephan Peterson.
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WRESTLING NEWS
**Asuka has signed a new long-term deal with WWE, according to Mike Johnson of PWinsider.com. The 42-year-old is currently recovering from knee surgery and has been inactive since May. The former Kana has been wrestling for twenty years and got her first experience wrestling in the U.S. with SHIMMER when she was brought over in 2011. She worked extensively with NEO Women’s Pro Wrestling and later with Pro Wrestling WAVE and JWP before signing with WWE in 2015 and being assigned to NXT. This led to a 510-day title reign as NXT Women’s Champion beginning in April 2016 and lasting until August 2017 when she was called to the main roster. Within months, she won the first women’s Royal Rumble match and challenged Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans. She’s held the two versions of the WWE women’s title four times and won the tag titles four times with partners Flair, Kairi Sane, and Alexa Bliss. For the past two years, she has been part of Damage CTRL.
**It was noted to us on Monday that Odyssey Jones’ profile was removed from the Superstars section of the WWE site. POST Wrestling has reached out to WWE to see if there is anything to it and we are awaiting a response. Jones was recently re-introduced on television as part of the New Day story and last appeared on the August 19 episode in a six-man tag with Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods against The Final Testament.
**NXT No Mercy drew approximately 7,000 to the Ball Arena in Denver for Sunday’s premium live event based on the final update from WrestleTix. This was a very promising sign as unlike events like Stand & Deliver or the Heatwave show in July, this did not piggyback off a WWE premium live event as you aren’t drawing from a traveling audience but instead, the local market, which already has more than 10,000 attending tonight’s Raw at the same building. It was a very good show and the first two matches on the card were outstanding with the tag title change, and Zachary Wentz beating Wes Lee. The big news was Giulia’s on-screen debut as she confronted Roxanne Perez, which had been teased for months and the audience knew who she was. While Halloween Havoc is the brand’s new PLE, the priority should be the launch on CW beginning October 1 with the show in Chicago. It was announced that Ethan Page will defend the NXT title on the first CW event, which CM Punk will be part of at the Allstate Arena.
**Tonight’s edition of Raw in Denver is most noteworthy for the debut of Joe Tessitore as the new play-by-play commentator with Wade Barrett. Tessitore has an extensive resume calling boxing and college football for ESPN and enters as a big fan of the product as seen in previous interviews he has conducted. His time on Raw is limited as it has been announced that Michael Cole & Pat McAfee will take over duties when the program moves to Netflix in January. Below are the announced matches tonight:
*Intercontinental Title Tournament: Sheamus vs. Ludwig Kaiser vs. TBA
*Intercontinental Title Tournament: Ilja Dragunov vs. Dragon Lee vs. Dominik Mysterio
*IYO SKY & Kairi Sane vs. Isla Dawn & Alba Fyre
*Ivy Nile & The Creeds vs. Maxxine, Otis & Akira Tozawa
*Shayna Baszler vs. Zelina Vega
*Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill appear
**Adam Pearce announced that Bronson Reed is off tonight’s show due to COVID-19 and a replacement will be named tonight. Reed was scheduled to face Sheamus and Ludwig Kaiser in the Intercontinental title tournament.
**British-based wrestler Ashton Smith is retiring at the age of 35. Smith debuted in 2007 wrestling against Zack Sabre Jr. and became a regular on the U.K. independent circuit as Derice Coffie, D-Rok, and later, under his real name. In Preston City Wrestling, he won the group’s Cruiserweight Championship in 2016 and held it for six months. He was among the talents signed by WWE for the NXT UK brand and formed a team with Oliver Carter (now wrestling as Oro Mensah in NXT). The two won the NXT UK tag titles in April 2022 from Trent Seven & Tyler Bate but were forced to vacate the belts when Smith was injured. Smith was released in August 2022. Smith returned to the independent circuit later that year and won the ICW tag titles with Rampage Brown twice. They lost the titles on Sunday to Arcade Violence at The Garage in Glasgow. Smith said in his statement he has one more show left and doesn’t want to give up any more weekends away from his family.
All the best God Bless ❤️❤️🥃 pic.twitter.com/PpzYG7wdut
— ‘The Collect’ Ashton Smith (@ashtonsmith_uk) September 1, 2024
**Kevin Nash reflected on the passing of Sid Eudy on the latest Kliq This. Nash knew Sid from the start of his career and linked throughout the ’90s. Nash had just left WCW when Sid returned in 1993, but they were reunited two years later when Sid returned to the WWF as the bodyguard for Shawn Michaels during his program with Nash for WrestleMania 11. After Mania, Nash and Sid worked on three straight pay-per-views together with Nash as the WWF champion. The pair feuded again in WCW in 1999 throughout the year and into 2000. Nash stated during the podcast that he was aware that Sid had cancer. Eudy died last week at the age of 63 with his son Gunnar disclosing that he had battled heart issues since 2016 and was diagnosed with stage four non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2021. A service was held for Eudy over the weekend.
**Cody Rhodes spoke with Inside the Ropes and discussed his handling of the lead-up to WrestleMania 40 this past year and the response from the fans after he gave up his spot to The Rock after the Royal Rumble.
If people knew the real plan for me, they’d be even more angry. I can’t share the real plan for you, The Rock plan, whatever it may be. That was going to be on my mind in terms of how do we make that work? How do we accomplish that? I had a really good team of people around me.
That’s where DDP hit me with the famous, whatever happens to you will be the best thing that ever happens to you line, and I thought, that’s insane, that’s madness. I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, and he was right. Including if it had gone the other way, he would have been right because the audience was what mattered, and I got to be really quiet and I got to say nothing, I got to watch the fire grow and I realised maybe I had every right to be confident. Maybe I had every right to not be concerned. But yeah, definitely, let’s say it was a Wheatley Vodka-sponsored few days.
**Nikki Garcia, Rey Mysterio, and Omos were all scheduled to participate in the Netflix broadcast of “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef” on Monday. Garcia is hosting the event with Rob Riggle and Mysterio & Omos are presenting a championship belt to the winner.
**Sawyer Wreck and Matt Borruso have released a t-shirt with proceeds to support the non-profit group, Safe Horizon. The organization is based out of New York and assists victims of abuse and violent crimes. The shirt was introduced last weekend during GCW’s Homecoming events in Atlantic City, New Jersey to coincide with Wreck’s return to GCW for the first time since April.
**Bobby Fish will face Kevin Knight at MLW’s TV taping at Center Stage in Atlanta on September 14.
**Netflix has released a second trailer for The Queen of Villains on the life of Dump Matsumoto. The five-episode series will premiere on September 19 from director Katsuhito Mogi and produced by Haruhiko Hasegawa and Hidehisa Chiwata.
Meet Dump Matsumoto, the notorious heel who ruled 80s women's wrestling. Dive into her untold story in the gripping semi-autobiographical drama, The Queen Of Villains. Premiering September 19 ⛓ pic.twitter.com/2PTyJ6yvpB
— Netflix (@netflix) September 1, 2024
**The WWE Vault has released footage from a 1996 motion capture session for the In Your House game involving Shawn Michaels, Ultimate Warrior, Ahmed Johnson, Triple H, and British Bulldog.
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NXT No Mercy 2024 Review
Braden Herrington is joined by Andrew Thompson to review NXT No Mercy 2024 featuring Ethan Page vs Joe Hendry for the NXT Championship.
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COLLISION COURSE
John Siino & Kate from MTL review AEW Collision featuring Kyle Fletcher vs. Tomohiro Ishii and a four-way with Hikaru Shida, Serena Deeb, Queen Aminata, and Thunder Rosa, and more.
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WWE Bash in Berlin 2024
Wai Ting & Neal Flanagan review WWE Bash in Berlin 2024 from Berlin, Germany featuring Gunther vs. Randy Orton, CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre, and The Terror Twins vs. Dominik Mysterio & Liv Morgan.
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REWIND-A-SMACKDOWN
John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE SmackDown from Berlin with a Street Fight between Nia Jax and Michin for the Women’s Championship.
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ASK-A-WAI Mailbag Show
John Pollock and Wai Ting answer their patrons’ questions about anything and everything in the August 2024 edition of Ask-A-Wai.
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