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Raw is Stranger Things: WWE Raw 1/5/26 Review | RAR

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw’s 1-Year Netflix Anniversary “Stranger Things” episode featuring CM Punk vs. Bron Breakker, Maxxine Dupri vs. Becky Lynch, and Kabuki Warriors vs. Rhea Ripley & IYO SKY.

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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.

0:17.5

When raw answers, 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 from Monday night, download a Tuesday morning from the post-restling site.

0:34.2

It's Rewind a Rewind a night on USA now on the john and way take the mic

0:40.2

welcome everybody all you freeloaders out there it is the stranger things edition

0:49.0

of rewind a raw i suppose so i i haven't seen Beeline the first season. So it's not going to be very good. I didn't even know you'd seen the first season. Yeah, of course. Well, who hasn't seen a little bit of stranger things? Well, we will talk about the, the aesthetics of the show, of the Stranger Things tie in. If you're just joining us now and you're saying, hey,

1:12.2

where's all my news? What can I, what can I do to get more out of John Pollock and Waiting?

1:16.8

Well, you can get the XL edition of Rewind to Raw by becoming a member at post wrestling cafe.com.

1:22.4

We just did about 40 minutes going through a very busy day of news from Shinske Nakamura,

1:28.3

speaking to Tokyo sports after Hiroshi Tanahashi's retirement. A big rundown of New Japan's New Year dash

1:33.5

card, which had its best attendance since 2020. A lot of news coming out of that show, some

1:40.0

potential exits, some new groups, and Gabe Kid challenging Andrade, whatever the fuck,

1:47.1

for a match on February the 11th, Aaron Wolf's next opponent, and even more on the Death

1:53.6

Vegas Invitational. A show that I'm thinking of just adding. I'm not going, but I think you and I, we have to watch this show.

2:03.3

I'm down for that.

2:03.7

You're going to regret saying that because that's going to be such a busy weekend, but yes.

2:08.6

What day is the 16th on? Is that, I feel that's before like the weekend weekend.

2:13.7

I feel like that's the Thursday or Friday, but I don't know.

2:16.6

16th in April? It's the Thursday. It's a Thursday. All right. They're smart. They're getting in there before it gets. Thursday's pretty busy, man. Like it's before Smackdown. Sure. It's before WrestleMania. But yeah, Thursday is a pretty busy day. I'll take this over Smackdown. I think our audience will too. Okay. Yeah. Plus

2:35.0

Sia Kamatani taking a minimal break from, from stardom, discussion on Jordan Grace and AI technology and how we can look at it. If you are a performer, specifically one in like WWE, for instance. I think this is a really

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