ASK-A-WAI: Questions Thread

Alexander from Portland

back in the 90’s many wrestlers had gimmicks based off of jobs, including corrections officers, accountants, and dentists. If you two had to be 90’s wrestlers which jobs would you base your characters off of?

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Branavan from Ajax:

I was listening to the Voices Of Wrestling Flagship for February 26th and during it they mentioned a promotion called Global, just Global, and talked about it ending up on ESPN. So my question is what was Global? And what happened to it? Thanks for all the great podcasts.

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Jordan from Kitchener,

I must admit I really miss nightly updates on Wai’s parents. How are they doing? Do their neighbors still have their Christmas decorations up?

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Jesse from the 6

This February marked the 4th anniversary of Kevin Owens losing the Universal Championship to Goldberg in a squash match. I stopped watching WWE (main roster) TV after that year’s WrestleMania. I couldn’t see the point in watching the same wrestlers work hard every week in repetitive storylines only to be barely focused upon when the big events came around. The argument at the time was that Lesnar vs Goldberg was the bigger draw than Jericho vs Owens and so the former feud should have the title.

First, Lesnar vs. Goldberg didn’t even main event that year’s 'Mania (that was Reigns vs Undertaker in a god awful match). Second, the very fact that Lesnar & Goldberg were more over proved the need to make new stars. I was steadfast in my opinion at the time that Jericho & Owens should be the title program and I think history has vindicated me.

But do you agree? Was Vince right to flip the title to Goldberg or was it a mistake and, indeed, emblematic of his booking failures over the past two decades?

Take Care

The Miz: Best Entertainer/Worst Wrestler in the 2000’s? I can’t think of another person in the WWE where I could watch cut promos on a show but can’t remember their last “great” match.

Hey guys! I’m wondering if you’d be willing to share your process for grabbing audio clips from TV/movies to insert into your episodes? For instance, is there a specific program you use to pull the clips? The quality always sounds top-notch at POST and a friend and I are trying to learn the ropes to insert audio clips into our own Kevin Costner movie review podcast.

Thanks!

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Brian from New Jersey.

Not sure if you guys ever talked about this topic, but: Do you guys have any pets? Or did you guys have pets growing up?

Are either of you at all looking forward to Shinya Aoki vs Sage Northcutt? It’s a clashing of worlds on multiple levels with wrestling and MMA and TNT. Do you see AEW promoting this at all or Aoki being a person that could be promoted due to the AEW/DDT relationship along with TNT’s partnership with ONE?

Anthony from Detroit

Hello guys! Question for both of you

Favourite venue you have seen a wrestling show at?

Bucket list venue you would like a see a wrestling show at (when it is safe to do so)?

Is it ever at the back of your minds, when reviewing RAW and other shows, that certain storylines and segments are meant purely for kids?

For example, Randy Orton on RAW this week

10 year old me would have gone wild for that.

40 year old me thinks it’s very hokey.

John, kind of a morbid question, but when you hear a wrestler/wrestling personality is in a very bad way, do you begin to write their post-life summary or do you wait for the confirmation of their passing?

Hey, first time ever asked a question but was just wondering…

Since you separate art from real life really well when it comes to wrestling reviews (Chris Benoit the main example) do you do the same in whatever your watching/listening to in your spare time?
My favourite actor of all time was Kevin Spacey but now I feel awkward watching his films because I’m watching a Spacey film mainly for his performance. Marilyn Manson is someone I still listen to at least once a week but if all this coming out ends up being true I don’t think I’d be able to listen for entertainment purposes.

Is there anyone in any other form of entertainment that you used to love but stay away from now? Or just carried on watching/listening as you’ve separated the art from the real person?

Thanks for all the amazing content!!

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Jake from The Windy City

First of all, Happy Birthday Mr. Pollock. God bless you for all the hard work and dedication you have put forward to provide us wrestling fans an escape all these years. We truly appreciate it!

I know that you’ve thoroughly enjoyed ESPN’s The Last Dance last year and how that era of the NBA really made you a passionate fan back in the mid to late 90s. After chronicling Michael Jordan and the Bulls, are there any other teams or athletes out there that you would like to see an in-depth docuseries out of?

And I know you’ve pretty much fallen off the NBA in recent times, but whenever you do have the chance of watching the occasional game here and there, do you still enjoy watching the sport? I have friends who were huge fans back in the day and have quit watching it recently because of complaining how “soft” it has become, or the refs making fouls on the smallest of thing, etc. I still love it ever since watching it as a kid and there’s still such a high level of intense competition to this day, IMO.

Are exploding barbed wire death matches off the table in North America for a generation after how the end of Revolution turned out? Generally indies copy and then run into the ground stuff that has worked in the big companies, but I can’t see even the bigger indies trying to do an exploding barbed wire death match now.

Thanks!

Diego from San Antonio

From GLOW to American Vandal, it feels that some great shows aren’t destined to finish conclusively. Are there any shows you wanted just one more season of to finish off properly?

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Meanderings

-John what is your all time fav Randy Couture fight? Mine is the Nogueria fight also the james tony one

-Wai if you could make improvements on the sound and quality of the post podcast what could you do

-my dad took my mom for a procedure and they took my brothers daughter. So my brother Simon who quit watching wrestling after sting fell off the tron by vampiro and he saw the crash pad called my father to ask how she was doing. My father goes oh she is great I took them to “fish fillet” it’s chick fillet we laughed

Talk to you soon happy brithday my fellow Aries brother pollock

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Brandon from Oshawa

Does it ever annoy you when callers constantly ask you how you’re doing? I ask, because I used to listen to Mike Wilner after Jays games, before work. While I could not stand the guy, one of my favorite things he did, was his snarky responses he gave, to people who constantly asked the same question, call after call.

Same thing when people call in to The LAW as well. LOL, I think Pollock once said to incoming callers and “they are doing good” so that they won’t ask the same question over again. haha

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Roy from Rhode Island.

Two hindsight questions for you guys:

  1. What, if anything could have salvaged Goldberg’s 2003/2004 WWE run? Would him winning the title at Summerslam 03 have been enough, or was he always going to be hampered by the the one year contract and WWE’s attitude toward booking ex WCW stars?

  2. What, if anything could have salvaged Jinder Mahal’s WWE title run?

Vince from Sacramento, CA

Hi John and Wai, huge fan here. I have a more challenging question that I’d love to get your opinions on. As a current philosophy student at the graduate level, I wanted to get your opinions on a very controversial topic in metaphysics, what do you guys think happened before the Big Bang? How were the first things put in motion to cause the big bang and the origins of our universe? Theists often try to use this to say there was some supernatural mind involved, but what are your guys thoughts? Thanks again for all of your hard work!

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