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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Ahead of the release of the new A24 film starring Dwayne Johnson, enjoy this free edition of Rewind-A-Wai #150 from February 2024 as John Pollock and Wai Ting review the original 2002 documentary, The Smashing Machine, profiling MMA pioneer Mark Kerr’s rise in Pride FC and struggles with painkiller addiction.
They discuss Kerr’s successful amateur wrestling career (including a rivalry with Kurt Angle), the film’s portrayal of MMA in its earlier days, its raw depiction of drug use and addiction, and their expectations for Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming adaptation of the story.
Rewind-A-Wai #150's subject was chosen by Espresso Executive Producer, Robert Holzhammer.
If you like this documentary review, check out this week's Rewind-A-Wai for Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017).
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a 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 | Hey, everybody. This is Waiting here, and we are here about to present to you a free edition of a post-wrestrestling cafe exclusive, known as Rewind Away. |
| 0:28.4 | Of course, out today is The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne Johnson, a biopic about Mark Kerr. |
| 0:34.2 | What many of you may or may not be aware of is that it is a movie based on an |
| 0:38.5 | existing documentary, which we have previously reviewed. So some of you may have some interest |
| 0:43.4 | in knowing a little bit more about the Mark Kerr story before you watch the movie. Some of you |
| 0:47.3 | may have already seen the documentary or maybe plan on seeing the documentary before or after |
| 0:51.2 | watching the movie. Well, save this podcast and treat it as a preview for all 191 editions of Rwandaway. |
| 0:58.6 | So again, post-Rustlingcafe.com for access to the entire archive. |
| 1:03.2 | Let's take it all the way back to February of 2024 as we talk about the Smashing Machine documentary on Rwandaway. |
| 1:11.0 | Because we're just getting started. |
| 1:15.4 | And as you can see, Strzok Watsky really put together. |
| 1:21.8 | Waiting for my man. |
| 1:24.3 | What you're waiting, what you're waiting, what you're waiting, what you're waiting, what you're waiting for? |
| 1:31.3 | Wait for a star to fall. |
| 1:34.3 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Rewind Away, number 150. The party has begun. Big zero at the end of this number congratulations way |
| 1:47.9 | 150 one away from one five one i know 150 um i i never well i expected us to make it this far, actually. |
| 2:01.5 | I can't say I never. |
| 2:02.3 | It's the exclamation point anniversary. |
| 2:04.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
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