Bauer & Pollock

John Pollock of The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling & MLW Radio's Court Bauer return to chat about numerous topics:

--The WWE's Hell in a Cell show and the Shane McMahon program with Kevin Owens

--The WWE championship run of Jinder Mahal and feud with Shinsuke Nakamura

--The problems with WWE building up babyfaces

--A future program for Triple H

--The Bullet Club goes to Raw and return home with a cease & desist

--Impact announced Bound for Glory for Ottawa, Ontario and Bauer conducts a site survey on the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa

--The viability of running Ottawa for six consecutive nights

--The issues Impact has had throughout 2017 and where The Hardys would have fit in, if they stayed

--FloSlam drops all WWN programming and the fight between the two sides over the past week

--What is next for the WWN shows?

--The leaked memo and reaction from Gabe Sapolsky

--Lucha Underground does low number for first week of Ultima Lucha Tres

--Wrestling books on from Ric & Charlotte Flair, Jim Ross and biography on Mad Dog Vachon & more

John Pollock of The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling & MLW’s Court Bauer are back chatting all the big stories going on in the industry this week:

--Ronda Rousey attends the Mae Young Classic Final but no angle is shot

--Her prospects within the WWE, how a deal would & could be structured

--If she has a future with the UFC

--The WWE’s big emphasis on television matches over the past few months

--The loaded up No Mercy card for Los Angeles

--Reaction to the Vince McMahon / Kevin Owens angle

--The headbutt controversy

--Where Owens is slotted on SmackDown coming off Tuesday’s angle

--The Jinder Mahal run as WWE champion

--The Global Wrestling Network

--GFW creative changes

--Otto Wanz passes away

--CMLL’s 84th Anniversary card this Saturday

--The year that All Japan Pro Wrestling is having

--New Japan returns with their Destruction card in Hiroshima this weekend

--The WWE runs show in Hawaii & more

John Pollock of The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling & MLW Radio’s Court Bauer return after multiple attempts to chat about the following:

--The announcement of Asuka vacating the NXT women’s title at Thursday’s television tapings

--The main roster move for Asuka and challenges ahead

--The influx of new talent to NXT over the next few months

--The ongoing lawsuit involving Dr. Chris Amann and CM Punk & Colt Cabana – new information on the case, the inclusion of Cabana in the suit as the case drags on

--The injury to Big Cass

--The future for Enzo as he moves to 205 Live

--The Jon Jones drug test failure, his future, how this affects Brock Lesnar going into his next set of contract negotiations

--The future of The Undertaker, if there is one inside of the ring for the WWE

--A surprising character for the WWE 2K18 video game

--TripleMania streaming for free on Twitch this weekend with the main event airing on Televisa in Mexico

--Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman headlining No Mercy on Sept. 24th with the perfect event theme song for these two monsters

--Global Force Wrestling eyeing a streaming service and its viability and the necessity for a bigger television platform within the U.S.

--The plight of FloSlam

--An update on Tyson Kidd with the WWE

--Big discussion on Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Conor McGregor on Saturday night & more

John Pollock of The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling and Court Bauer from MLW Radio are back chatting all of the news:

--New Japan Pro Wrestling’s releases business figure for their fiscal year, 2017-18 expectations, how well is New Japan World performing and their weekly viewership on AXS TV

--A look at this week’s press conference from Los Angeles to announce details for the 7/1 and 7/2 cards in Long Beach and where they will be airing

--The future of Kenny Omega, and yes that discussion needs to start now

--Hiroshi Tanahashi suffers a torn biceps but plans to wrestle in a few weeks and won’t miss Dominion

--The WWE’s U.K. special launches today with Jim Ross & Nigel McGuinness calling the show

--Packed weekend of cards, including NXT Takeover and Backlash taking place from Chicago

--The push of Jinder Mahal and whether he has clicked in the new position he finds himself in

--The good and the bad of Impact Wrestling coming out of this week’s episode

--The role that international television rights are playing when it comes to non-WWE professional wrestling

--Impact announces the signings of several performers

--Psycho Clown and Dr. Wagner putting their masks on the line prior to their mask vs. mask match at the end of August

--A new color commentator for CMLL’s international television

--CM Punk is offered $1 million dollars by the U.K. based Five Star Wrestling promotion

--Dana White and Conor McGregor state their side is done and now White can begin negotiations with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his team

--Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart planning a bus tour?

Court Bauer and John Pollock reunite on Cinco de Mayo for a big one-shot talking:

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 comes out today featuring Dave Bautista as DRAX tracking for a HUGE opening weekend

ESPN cuts - Will this affect UFC having ESPN as a bidder for rights package? Same with WWE if others scale back on high $$ for rights

WWE Q1 Earnings Report

WWE in Middle East

WWE Network adds over 120 episodes of a classic TV series

World of Sport tapings delayed with additional details

Undertaker in Manhattan for surgery most likely on his hip

Charlotte Flair hacked; photos leaked

Titus O’Neil leaks a photo himself of Braun and Roman sightseeing in Rome

Monetization of wrestling content on YouTube update

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku results and what’s next

APW at Cow Palace tomorrow night

Adam Cole is now a free agent

Sean Waltman’s weird weekend

Mauro Ranallo’s next move?

By popular demand, Bauer & Pollock are back with another One-Shot! On this episode, the King and the Fish talk the new YouTube wrestling algorithm, the reincarnation of Jinder Mahal, IMPACT at week 7 of its reset, WWE's Business Partner Summit, Shibata and Vader's health issues in Japan, a big independent show bringing wrestling back to the Cow Palace, FMW returns with Onita and an exploding bat, FLO at month 6 and more!

John Pollock & Court Bauer are back for a special "one shot" show to chat all the recent news in the industry and provide all the details for WaleMania III & The LIVE Review-A-Wai Podcast in Orlando over WrestleMania weekend.

Topics on today's show include:

--THE WRESTLEMANIA 33 CARD – WHAT IS WORKING AND WHAT ISN’T

--WHAT MATCH CLOSES THE SHOW?

--BILL GOLDBERG POST-MANIA? SHOULD THIS BE HIS SWAN SONG WITH THE COMPANY?

--THE BUZZ OR LACK THEREOF REGARDING NXT

--THE CHANGES TO IMPACT WRESTLING; RATING STAYS FLAT; CRITICISM OF THE FIRST EPISODE;

--BROKEN HARDYS, JEFF CONFIRMS ROH DEAL IS “SHORT TERM”, RIGHTS TO THE GIMMICK

--NEW JAPAN CUP UPDATE WITH THE SEMI-FINALS SET

--DANA WHITE REVERSES OPINION ON MAYWEATHER VS. McGREGOR AND THINKS IT WILL HAPPEN

--TALENT AT THE WWE PERFORMANCE CENTER OVER THE PAST WEEK

--THE FINAL YEAR OF BROCK LESNAR'S WWE CONTRACT AND REPORTED MATCH WITH ROMAN REIGNS FOR WRESTLEMANIA 34

--WWE NETWORK SUBSCRIPTION PREDICTION?

--TALENT LEAVING RING OF HONOR

It's the final show! John and Court go out in style as they discuss:

--The Royal Rumble build and possible programs coming out of the show for WrestleMania

--The Rumble poster with poor A.J. Styles lost in the mix

--The state of TNA, the return of Jeff Jarrett as an advisor and what ideas could be generated for TNA to move forward

--How the market has changed since the Spike TV era of the company

--Kenny Omega's market value and his value to NJPW

--The booking Gedo in 2016

--The work of Neville in the Cruiserweight division and the title match set up for the Royal Rumble

--The future for Kyle O'Reilly

--The WWE U.K. tournament this weekend on the WWE Network and what it could signify

--Kassius Ohno / Chris Hero returns to WWE

--The departure of Steve Corino from ROH and the NJPW commentary team

--Mark Hunt's lawsuit filed against Brock Lesnar, Dana White and Zuffa LLC

--The UFC's changing face in 2017 and difficulty booking major fights for the first half of the year and more

This week Court and John discuss:

--UFC 205 – live thoughts and fallout from the card, sets new gate record at Madison Square Garden

--Conor McGregor seeking out equity stake in the UFC

--WWE take over Toronto this weekend with NXT Takeover, Survivor Series and Raw

--Ticket sales for the three respective events

--WWE will run NXT, PPV, Raw and Smackdown in host city for all four major events of the year

--The Undertaker’s return on Smackdown this past week for the 900th episode

--WrestleMania 33 tickets going on sale

--The build towards Royal Rumble at the Alamodome followed by WrestleMania at the Citrus Bowl

--The WWE Network’s style of promotion and how the paying subscribers react to the constant free promotions

--The Joey Styles story from EVOLVE, dropped by Beyond Wrestling and CHIKARA as well and more

Court and John are back to talk: 205 LIVE coming to the WWE Network, TNA risking a domino effect, Undertaker returning, Hulk and WWE, ROH contracts expiring, Brock heading to Mexico, NOAH sold and more.