Reigns Chooses Punk: WWE Raw 2/2/26 Review | REWIND-A-RAW
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Wai Ting review WWE Raw with an explosive Roman Reigns & CM Punk segment solidifying their WrestleMania 42 main event. Plus: Stephanie Vaquer vs. Raquel Rodriguez for the Women’s title, and Gunther speaks after retiring AJ Styles.
XL: John & Wai discuss the death of Frankie Cain, Hiromu Takahashi leaving NJPW, Ava’s anti-ICE message, Tommaso Ciampa winning the TNT title, and announcements for Joey Janela’s Spring Break.
The XL Edition continues at POSTwrestlingCafe.com with News of the Day and Feedback, ad-free and timestamped.
- Frankie Cain / The Great Mephisto passes away
- Hiromu Takahashi to leave NJPW
- Ava slams the Trump administration
- Tomasso Ciampa wins the TNT title
- AAA recap feat. La Parka qualifying for Rey de Reyes
- Katsuya Murashima wins Young Lion’s Cup
- Joey Janela’s Spring Break X news
- NXT & AEW Dynamite lineups
POST Wrestling Café Schedule:
- Tuesday: WWE Unreal Season 2 Episode 3 Review
- Wednesday: Rewind-A-Dynamite XL
- Thursday: Rewind-A-Wai - Shinya Hashimoto Retrospective
- Friday: MCU L8R - Wonder Man Ep. 3 & 4 Review
- Friday: Rewind-A-SmackDown XL
- Saturday: Collision Course
- Monday: Rewind-A-Raw
- Tuesday: upNXT
- Wednesday: Pollock & Thurston
- Wednesday: Rewind-A-Dynamite
- Friday: Rewind-A-SmackDown
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When Ryan, when it's time to begin, it's on to rewind around with John Pollock and |
| 0:05.9 | Waiting the A team that makes sense that these things we see in the ring every week on TV. |
| 0:11.6 | It's Rewind a rock from Monday night, then load a Tuesday morning from the post-wrestling site. |
| 0:17.1 | It's Rewind a Rop from Monday night on USA now on the John and Way take the mic. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:26.7 | It's John Pollock and Wei Ting. |
| 0:29.0 | That's us. |
| 0:29.7 | We're here to talk about Raw from Monday night in Philadelphia. |
| 0:34.6 | Way's favorite arena name, the X-Finity Mobile Arena. |
| 0:40.6 | Oh, of course, yeah. |
| 0:41.9 | I mean, I hated the Wells Fargo Arena. |
| 0:45.5 | But the X-Finity Mobile Arena completely, you know, it's fresh, it's original, it's meaningful. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.7 | It's not until, like like I know we go over these |
| 0:55.8 | arenas every week it's not until I did my rumble recap that I'm looking at all the different |
| 1:01.5 | name like because there's these repeat cities and just the amount of corporate changeover |
| 1:07.3 | it's crazy like it's just it used to be the lifespan of some of these names would be |
| 1:11.7 | like a decade. And now I feel it's like it could be every two or three years. Some of these names are |
| 1:16.3 | just getting flipped over to the next brand that's willing to spend money on these. Like this is |
| 1:21.1 | like multiple incarnations that you have seen wrestling in this arena under different names in |
| 1:25.9 | Philadelphia. Well, these days, these really are just billboards, aren't they? |
| 1:30.3 | You know? |
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