Naomi's Announcement: WWE Raw 8/18/25 Review | REWIND-A-RAW
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw with Naomi’s announcement and Becky Lynch vs. Natalya for the Intercontinental title.
XL: A big rundown of the G1 Climax Final with Konosuke Takeshita taking the trophy, a new wrinkle to the WWE’s Sept. 20 PLE, reaction to Triplemanía XXXIII, and a big angle involving MJF and Místico.
Plus, we announce the winners of the POST Wrestling G1 Climax Contest!
The XL Edition continues at POSTwrestlingCafe.com with News of the Day and Feedback, ad-free and timestamped.
- Konosuke Takeshita wins the G1 Climax
- Attendance down 11.5 percent from 2024
- Possible broadcaster for WWE PLE, per report
- TripleMania XXXIII
- Worlds Collide on Sept. 12
- Title vs. Mask match at CMLL’s 91st Anniversary
- Friday Night SmackDown tops TV in demo
- NXT & AEW Dynamite lineups
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- Tuesday: WWE Unreal - Ep. 3 with John & Wai
- Wednesday: DCU L8R - Peacemaker (Season 1 Review)
- Thursday: Rewind-A-Wai - WWF King of the Ring 2001
- Saturday: Collision Course
- Tuesday: The Wellness Policy
- Tuesday: upNXT
- Wednesday: Rewind-A-Dynamite (XL in the Café)
- Wednesday: Pollock & Thurston
- Friday: Rewind-A-SmackDown (XL in the Café)
- Sunday: AEW Forbidden Door
- Sunday: NXT Heatwave with Poisonrana
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind to Raw, |
| 0:06.2 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com, $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.4 | When Ryan's, when it's time to begin, it's on to rewind around with John Pollack and waiting the A team that makes sense of these things we see in the ring every week on TV. |
| 0:28.7 | It's Rewind a rock for Monday night, then load a Tuesday morning from the post- Wrestling site. |
| 0:34.2 | It's Rewind a Rewind Monday night on USA now on the John |
| 0:38.7 | and Wade take the mic |
| 0:40.1 | Yes, it is time for Raw. |
| 0:47.0 | Way Ting and John Pollock with you. |
| 0:49.3 | We're just getting warmed up. |
| 0:51.0 | We just spent an hour |
| 0:52.3 | going through the G1 Climax finals, Triple Mania, |
| 0:58.2 | WWE and this September 20th war that they are declaring, and the biggest of all, the breakdown |
| 1:05.5 | of the annual post-dressling G1 Climax contest. Who won the contest? And more importantly, who won the C block? Only those |
| 1:14.2 | on the post wrestling cafe have that knowledge. But you know what? I think we can give everyone a |
| 1:19.6 | wink and a nod that it is now King Ting. Was it ever in doubt? Come on. Oh, man. |
| 1:32.3 | Of course, those of you who don't have Post Wrestling Cafe access, first of all, shame on you. |
| 1:33.4 | What do you get out of? |
| 1:33.9 | Get out of here. |
| 1:34.6 | What's wrong with you? |
| 1:39.5 | But if you do want to find out how you did in this year's post wrestling contest, you can go to postwrestling.com slash G1, find Chris Engler's final post, and can well um just bow to my feet because i probably |
| 1:46.6 | did way better than you wow man the uh the ego has has not subsided with this uh this victory |
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