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John Pollock is a Canadian sports reporter best known for his work on Fight Network Radio, '' Live Audio Wrestling'' and founding the website ''
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''. He has also produced the acclaimed documentary '' Survival of the Hitman'' about professional wrestler
Bret Hart Bret Hart (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE under a legend's contract. A member of the Hart wrestling family and a second-generation wrestler, he has an amateur wrestling back ...
.


Early life

Pollock was born in
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Career

Pollock began his career as a professional wrestling and
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reporter with the
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for their radio show '' The LAW'' with co-host Wai-Ting. After the show was cancelled in 2017, due to financial issues from the parent company Anthem, the two of them created their own website ''
POSTWrestling ''Live Audio Wrestling'' (also known as ''The LAW'') was a Canadian sports radio talk show hosted by "The Mouth" Dan Lovranski and Jason Agnew. The program primarily covered news and events surrounding professional wrestling (such as WWE) and m ...
'' where they report on news and feature podcasts. Pollock also produced the 2010
documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
'' Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman'' which is about Canadian professional wrestler
Bret Hart Bret Hart (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE under a legend's contract. A member of the Hart wrestling family and a second-generation wrestler, he has an amateur wrestling back ...
who is Pollock's favorite wrestler, the film is about Hart's return to the wrestling industry after 10 years of isolation. In 2019 he also produced and starred in the audio documentary '' Owen Hart's Final Day''.


Personal life

Pollock is friendly with former wrestling referee
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and helped him get work on
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.Kordeas, Jim;
The Three Count: My Life in Stripes As a WWE Referee
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References


Further reading

* Chris Charlton; ''Eggshells: Pro Wrestling in the Tokyo Dome'', 2018


External links


Website
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