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NXT Great American Bash Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #702 – 7/27/23 · Real. Guy. Pods.

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It's stupid. What are you up? Welcome everybody, Welcome to this week's
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edition. This is the Real of the Show. Episomber seven hundred and two
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for July twenty seven. Two Doubts four gree did your NXC Great American Bash
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Preview and Predictions edition of ass t you? I am one aff the show.
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I am Jeff back joined every single week in my coast, I only
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got you Cray Franklin, Doctor Trey. While it may be NXT, it's
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still really cool to say Great American Brash preview predictions my friend. Oh no,
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absolutely, And being somebody of my age growing up on you know,
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the n w A and WCW and the Great American Bash and you know that's
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where war Games came in and all those things like this to me is like,
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oh whatever, the Great American Bash roll around. To me, that
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was like, okay, it's summer and if you haven't been outside, it's
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summer. Oh yeah, why do you think of all the WCW names for
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pay per views, like the only ones that have made it has been Great
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American Bash. They've done that time and time again. They've done Clash of
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Champions a couple of times. They did a starcade I think once or twice.
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Think one time it may have been televised on ww network when they used
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to do like exclusive live events, and then the other time it wasn't.
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Why do you think Great American Bash is the one that stood out? Because
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I always felt like, if you're going to do any type of w CW
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esque pay per view, I would have figured starcade. Yeah, but I
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think the problem with Starcade is the fact that that was the answer to WrestleMania,
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you know, back in the day that was you know, WCW,
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Ted Turner. That's kind of what I think. That's kind of why they
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left alone where you know, the Great American Bash, Clash of Champions,
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Halloween Havoc, those were kind of yeah, I will say ancillary shows,
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but they weren't on the level what Stark was supposed to be. So um,
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you know, I'm still waiting for like an NWBO sold out show to
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come back, you know, Uh, try to think it's the other one
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where something I can't remember something the Beach Slamboree, well, bashing the Beach
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got taken by aw no, no, no, it's back Cody had Cody
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Haddy owns it. Cody owns it, and then I think to trade off
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the Cody Road's name coming back. They got Bashed the Beach back. Remember
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w W E let like a bunch of trademarks go. Cody like took them
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all. I think maybe him and Conrad did, and I know they aw
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did Bashed the Beach and then I'm pretty sure that the way that Cody got
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the Road's last name back was by giving a lot of the w trademark pay
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per view names that he took and given them back to w W. A.
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All right, well that's seems like a fair trade, especially now that
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Cody's in WWE, so he basically gets to be a part of the stuff
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that he gave away. Anyway, But you know, I mean, and
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honestly, some of those names, like a slam Marie like that just sounds
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dated anyway. But you know, Great American Bash sounds fun, Halloween Havoc
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sounds fun. You know, Clash of the Champions sounds fun, Starkade sounds
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cool. But once again, I just think it's one of those we don't
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want to bring something back that was seen as the rival to wrestle media.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess it's always it's always cool to say,
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like Great American Bash. The old schooled fans and us certainly love it.
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But um yeah, Well, we'll preview and predict the Great American Bash
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towards the end of this week's edition of SRTU, so stay tuned for that.
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First thing I want to start with, Doctor Trade talked about war Games
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and a sibling. A copycat of War Games is Blood and Guts from AW,
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which aired this past Wednesday. The Blood and Guts match basically was the
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entire second half of AW Dynamite this past Wednesday or depend when you listen to
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this, I guess two wednesdays ago. I thought the match for ninety percent
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of the time was great. I really enjoyed the match. I thought it
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was a lot of fun, job well done by everybody. These you know,
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these guys when they put their bodies on them like that, like ton
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of respect for that. But there was one major thing that I have a
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buggaboo over, Doctor Try and I have a buggaboo over this for a lot
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of things that AW does when it comes to their production. So the match
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ends with I believe either one of the Jackson's and Hangman page had the chain
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around Wheeler ut his neck and they're choking him out and the match gets called
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like, okay, did Wheeler pass out? Did the ref make the decision?
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Did he tap out? You know? The Golden Lead is celebrating the
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victory in about two minutes after the match was called Tony Shiavanni Tazz Excalibur.
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They're all on commentary making a point that the way that the match ended was
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that John Moxley surrendered. So John Moxley is in between both rings, he
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is handcuffed to one of the turnbuckles. He can't move, he's bloody,
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he's beaten up, and he's watching Wheeler Utah get choked out and he surrenders
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to save Wheeler Utah. Okay, the problem here is that aw never showed
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that happening. The commentators didn't know it, the production team didn't know it,
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and we miss a excuse the pun golden opportunity for the most impactful part
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of the match to air on television. I'm thinking, before we get your
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thoughts on this, another thing, I'm thinking, well, they probably got
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footage that they could replay. No replay on Dynamite, no replay on Rampage,
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no replay on collision. They never got footage of John Moxley surrendering to
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cost his team the match and to give up and give the VIC to the
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Golden League. I loved this match for ninety five percent of the time,
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but you cannot miss that moment. From a production standpoint, What the hell
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gives you a doctor? Trey so um Aw's been on the air now for
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what three years now, three almost four years. Yeah, they emulate a
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lot of WCW, but they also be laid a lout of W and Wwe
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would not miss that shot. I mean they may miss it live, but
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some cameraman is hitting his mark. For them to have such a big match
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that's been hyped up for you know, weeks in I mean borderline months to
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build to this with you know, Coda Abushi, you know, making his
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debut and Pock returning to the company after being away for months, and to
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have this match be as good as it was, it was really in entertaining
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match, Like you said, those guys like I mean literally like they spilled
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blood for the entertain these fans. To miss that shot is just catastrophic because
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like that's the whole point of the match is to get to that finish.
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You know, That's one thing that I've learned in wrestling over years, over
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that my years in it is that people remember entrances, and they remember finishes,
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and they remember emotion. That's it. The moves in the middle don't
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even matter for the most part. Like I've said before, Sean Michael's Brett
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Hart. You know, wrestle banias one my Ironman match, one of my
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favorite matches all time. I remember the entrances, I remember the finish.
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I couldn't tell you really what happened in the middle. Just remember how I
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felt the same thing here. Moxley surrendering is a big moment. And how
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do you have multiple cameraman around the ring with headphones on, with producers in
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the back, and nobody says, hey, somebody hit a camera on Moxe.
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That's just like Bush League that that's what happens at independent shows and to
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have it happen on a naturally televised, well funded show is just terrible.
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It's just misses the point completely. I mean, that's that's what TNA did
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back in the Hogan Bishop area. I mean, that's where we're at right
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now. That's what WCW did the last year they were in business. Is
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missed the important shots, especially when you have a build to this match and
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the match itself was really great and then you just blow the finish completely.
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I mean, I don't know it's worse than this, this this one or
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Moxley Omega exploding ring batch when it comes to finishes. For AW, that
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was pretty bad. This is more from a production standpoint, I feel like
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and this I feel like this happens often. I'm a fan of AW.
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I really enjoy the program, especially lately. Creative has been on high.
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We've talked about this last couple of weeks are on the podcast, and like
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I said, if anybody's like, oh man, they're just bashing AW,
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hear me out on that match. I love the final five percent, Like
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is this portion and it was just a completely missed opportunity by AW. I
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felt like the production team let there was some sort of communication breakdown. Somebody
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let somebody down so that the viewers at home could not see that moment and
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then nothing is captured on replay. That was like, okay, well,
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you know, say face here we missed it on a live show, but
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here it is in replay on Rampage later that you know, the replaced stuff
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with Dynamite, and then on Collision that you could play on forever. I
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mean, John Moxley, the way that he has been built up in AW
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is one of the toughest sons of bitches you'll ever meet. In real life.
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He is one of the toughest s obs you'll ever meet. And for
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him to surrender because he couldn't take Wheeler you to you know, being he
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wasn't going to tap out, he was going to be choked out is like
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a very talent emotional moment in the match. And not only that, who
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knows if that was supposed to play into anything now coming out of this feud
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with the Golden Elite that was going to take a take aim on AW television
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each week, and as doctors trying to record this AW Dynamite to Erring right
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now, it's very well possible that maybe that carries itself over on Dynamite tonight
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as we record the pod. Nonetheless, this happens very often on AW programming
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where there's a moment in a match that you miss because they are, you
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know, watching somebody do another flip over the top rope or something like,
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I just feel like whenever there's a match going on, they're missing something and
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it has caused problems. And I don't understand the production element side of professional
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wrestling as a wrestling fan. I sit down, I'm the viewer. I
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watch. I need to see the most necessary points play out on my television
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because that's how I get the emotional investment in the product. I know the
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physicality and athleticism that I'm seeing in the ring is fantastic, that's great,
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but I need to see the moment, especially the most crucial moment of the
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match, as to why the match ended. So I was reading some sort
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of article this week, and come to find out, I think it was
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I was reading the article about Orange Cassidy, or maybe it was the Cody
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Road stuff, because so Cody was talking about like the last thing he did
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for AW as producing match that Ruby Soho was in, and I think maybe
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Orange Cassidy, who is now working doing some producing stuff behind the scenes for
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AW. There was some talk about this as well. So the producer is
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the one responsible that they talked to the wrestlers. They map out the match,
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they lay out the most important points, and then they go back to
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production and they say, hey, these are gonna be the most important points.
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This is how it's going to carry itself over, and that is where
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the production team is then supposed to, you know, make sure that they're
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watching. You know, Matt Jackson dumped the thumb tacks from the top of
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the cage onto you know, the second ring in the Blood and Guts match.
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I don't know what have you. So somewhere there was a communication breakdown,
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whether it was the producers involved in the match or the production team itself,
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somebody missed a very crucial spot and it just blew my mind. At
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the end of Dynamite, I mean, I was like, man, this
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is a great match, cool finished, cool ending. Chivanni, ex Caliber,
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Tazz are all chiming in that the reason why the Golden Elite one was
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because John Moxley surrendered. I'm looking for a replay. It doesn't happen a
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downe of my clothes out you miss it? Nothing on YouTube again, nothing
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on rampage and Collissen and I just pulled my hair out, like how do
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you miss this as a major wrestling promotion in the United States? So I
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don't know, Doctor Trey. It just left a very bad taste in my
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mouth, and it's something that AW needs to clean up because, as you
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stated, you know, this is a four year old company. They've been
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on television now in the United States for forty years this October. They got
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to clean this shit up because by not doing it, I mean, what
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an ample opportunity that was missed. And I'm disappointed as a wrestling fan because
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I wanted to see that visual like why did Moxley do it? What did
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you know? What was the emotion on his what led to him doing that?
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The fact that AW production whoever missed this, it just really left a
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bad taste in my mouth for a really fun match last Wednesday on Dynamite.
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Yeah, the really frustrating part of it is that that sequence was not quick
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like it was a drawn out process, like you know, they got the
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chain around around you to they're choking him out. This wasn't like the chain
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went around his neck and then all of a sudden Moxley surrendered. There was
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time in there, and somebody in production like dropped the ball, because that
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should be the queue to put a camera on Moxley, Like, you know,
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I understand the announcers not knowing what happened because I know from my experience
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doing commentary over the years that typically we don't know the finish. They just
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want a real life reaction from the announced team. So I get it why
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they you know, to try. You know, they had to cover it
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up at the end, but I mean, to have multiple cameras around the
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ring and nobody say, oh, guys, here's the finish, somebody get
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a camera on Moxley like it is just like it's it's bush league. I
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mean, I don't know how else to put it, because you know,
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it's like this is a big thing because I don't know about you. Moxley.
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Surrendering to me is a baby face move, Like baby faces are the
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ones that surrender your edge surrenders, yell that I quit to save his wife.
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It's a baby face thing to do when you surrender to save your partner.
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So this is something that there's a storyline that should be coming out of
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this, and to miss that shot almost blows that angle completely, Like,
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yeah, are we going to see on Dynamite you to come out and be
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mad at Moxley for surrendering? You know, is Brian Daniels is gonna be
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mad? Is somebody is Claudia is is somebody gonna be mad at mocks?
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You know, does that kick make Mocks get kicked out out of you know,
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Blackpool Combat or whatever. Like, there's a lot of storylines you can
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play office, and to miss that shot is just reg I could understand it.
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Like we've seen fishing before, where also the camera missed a superkike or
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missed something suddenly missed an arc you know, just barely cut an r KO.
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But to have something that played out roughly for about thirty seconds, to
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miss that is just that stuff that you see in like the lower level independent
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leagues. So there's also two elements the report they came out on Wednesday night.
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Two two major parts that were missed by the Blood and Guts match,
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And it was just from a timing standpoint, So there's supposed to be a
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big spot with Hangman page that was cut, and then at the end of
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the match there's supposed to be like five minutes left over, I think,
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and they wanted to close out Dynamite with the Blackpool Combat Club and the Golden
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Lead shaking hands. That moment ended up taking place, but off air again,
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Doctor Treynor are recording this while Dynamite is literally on the air right now,
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so I have no clue if they ended up airing that. I did
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not see anything again on social media or YouTube that I could recall. So
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again, so timing issues now with a match, major moment with Hangman Page
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that was supposed to take place, cut, the handshake to end the feud
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was cut, and then of course John Moxley surrendering. It's just not it's
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just these these things about AW still Doctor Trey that are a little bit wet
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behind the ears still, and these things need to be worked out the more
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that they grow. And I think it's to the point where you know,
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there's frustration here in the voice of Doctor Trey and I where maybe it's gone
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on too much. I mean, you're a four year old company, you
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know, back in May, four years on US television this October, Like,
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you got to clean this shit up if you want to really go toe
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to toe with w right now, because you're missing times. So some more
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stuff coming out of blood and guts the match itself again ninety five percent of
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the match. I really enjoyed, very fun episode of AW Dynamite, but
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those final five minutes the Moxley surrendered. It's like, are you kidding me?
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I did not want to have one problem in the match, but I
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did and had nothing to do with the actual athleticism. And then way that
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the match went on, it was everything to do with production and how the
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hell did that happened? Because it shouldn't happen. So aw, blood and
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guts nonetheless, fun match. Moxley surrendering, How the hell did we miss
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that? Switching gears to W right now, Doctor Trey. One of my
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favorite things on television right now is the Judgment Day Finn Balor, Damian Priests,
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Rea Ripley, Dirty Dome Masterio. They are at a all time high
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as a stable. They are confident. It is playing out on television that
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they are confident. They are over with the fan base. Whether you're getting
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cheered or booed, they are riding a high right now. And just like
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every time a stable is riding high, it certainly feels like that W creative
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maybe coming for them to do a cut and now let's to get ahead of
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this. Is it time to break it up? I feel like we had
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this discussion recently, so let's have it again because we're heading into SummerSlam.
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We preview predicted on next week's show, Finn looks poised to go over for
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the world title at SummerSlam, or Damien Priests may cash in. Right.
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Could we live in a world where Finn defeats Seth Rollins Avenges at SummerSlam loss
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from the very first Universal Championship match, only for Damian Priest to come out
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cash in on him and he becomes champion and Finn holds a title for a
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very small amount of time, as was alluded to by Seth Roninds during his
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promo recently. A couple of weeks ago, almost a month ago, we
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saw Finn Balor talking to j D mcdonah when there was cracks in the Judgment
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day between he and Damien Priest. We have not seen j D mcdonneh since.
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JD mcdonneh has been someone who has had Finn Balor's a mentor. So
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is JD mcdonnah hurt or is he looming? Ria Ripley's blowing up, She's
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getting baby reactions. Domisterio is coming into his own and he's breaking out.
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Even though he's getting very heel reactions. You could tell the fans are loving
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him. We were wrong about breaking up the Shield when WWW we decided to
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we love the Judgment Day. The riding high right now is now heading into
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SummerSlam in the next week or two or the next month. Is now the
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time to break up the Judgment Day? No, I think you need to
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kind of ride a hot streak. We saw with the Bloodline. It took
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him three years to kind of break up the Bloodline. I think the difference
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between the Judgment Day and the Shield was I think WW looked at every single
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member of the Shield as at least a main event or upper mid card,
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borderline main event guy. I know. The crazy thing is, as we
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say here now, like Seth was the guy that you know, it seemed
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like w W had had questions about could he be a main event guy?
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But I just think we look at on paper, does Triple H and to
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a degree Events believe that all three, all four members are made of vent
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people like I Obviously Rhea is a main event player, but do you see
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Finn, do you see Damian Priest? And do you see Dom being made
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of vent guys? You might move one out and bring somebody else in,
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but the whole purpose of a stale is to help baby faces get over and
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establish top level guys coming out of it, and I just don't know.
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If I don't know about you, I just as much as I love Finn
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Valor, just because of how badly he had been booked for so long,
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I still don't see him as the top guy on a brand. And Damian
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Priests, I think is getting close, but I don't think he's there yet.
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And it may take them moving Damian Priests out or moving Finn out for
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somebody to ascend up. But on paper, right now, I just I
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look at three guys and I'm like, I just don't think one of those
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guys is ready to kind of break out on his own and assume the top
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spot on Raw. All right, great points there, So if we're not
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breaking them up now, what is the compelling storyline right now? Because this,
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to me, judgment day stuff has like this is beginning of year one
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of Bloodline right The way that the Bloodline has taken over professional wrestling with their
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storyline has been some of the best step stuff that we've seen in a very
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very, very long time. And I feel like w we could have the
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same luck when it comes to the Judgment Day. So what do you do
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with them now, right like coming out of SummerSlam, we'll pre even predicted
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on next week's show. You know, I'm right now leaning towards that maybe
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Finn walks out as world champion. Maybe you're thinking he doesn't. You've got
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Damian priests looming with the briefcase. Does he cash in? Maybe Seth rollins
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retains as he cash in and become world champion, and then that's the storyline
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between he and Finn. I feel like we're still directionally pointing towards tension in
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the judgment day, and I don't know how right now we get out of
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that potential tension, because three weeks ago they tease tension. It's been great
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since like three to four weeks, they've been back on the same page.
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Close of raw contract signing, Finn is down, Damien comes in, takes
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out Seth with the briefcase, stares at the briefcase. Finn gets up,
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stares at Damian staring at the briefcase, and we get to tease before Sammy
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Zane's music hits. So they keep going back to that, even though it's
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like that rubber band. It's like they go to it, then they come
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back away from it. They go to it, they gope back to it.
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So if we're not breaking them up, now, what is the storyline
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with him? What do you think the direction is coming out of SummerSlam that
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we see with the Judgment Day Because it certainly feels like, you know,
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they could be that compelling bloodline ask for Raw that brings people in and keeps
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them interested and entertain each and every week and they can run rough shot on
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Raw for the next year like they have. You know, they've been very,
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very good, and this is a pretty crucial time for creative to come
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up with something really compelling for this group that seems to be over. Whether
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you'd like to cheer them or boo them, Yeah, for me, it's
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it's a little bit of what we've been seeing with you know, them battling
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with Sammy and Kevin and then whichever Kylie we saw with Imperium, with Sammy
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and Kevin and Matt Riddle against Imperium. Where you take your tag team champions,
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you line them up against Judgment Day, you mix in another baby face.
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But to me, I think they're gonna end up putting the tag belts
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on Finn and Damien here before long, and then with the briefcase in the
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middle, just keep teasing that tension back and forth until they decided to pull
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the trigger. I still think it's too early to take the belt off Seth.
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He's only had it for two months. Like you still have to establish
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some credibility behind that tip, because like right now, if you watch Draw
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to me, the Intercontinental title is more valuable than Seth's title just because Gunther's
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had it for so long and when somebody finally beats him is going to be
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a huge thing. Sets only had that belt for sixty days, so I
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think you need to keep the belt on set to kind of help build up
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that prestige some more. So maybe you move the tag belts over to Finn
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and Damien. They keep bickering over money the brain briefcase, Sammy and Kevin
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Handy with them have a good feud. I like him putting the putting a
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title on Dom just because it gives Dom a little more credibility, even though
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you know he's a heel and you want to buy chicanery. But you know,
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if you can get the tag belts on Finn and Damien, while Dom
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has the NXT North American title and Maria has the Raw or the Women's Championship
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and Raw that you get all four titles on one group. That's pretty impressive,
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and I think that's a good way to kind of run that angle until
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you decide to split somebody up. The other angle would be you brought up
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JD. Mcdonnaugh is to have Finn win the belt, Damien go to cash
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in, and Begunna run in to stop Damian from cashing in, and then
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basically kicking Damien out out of the Judgment Day for trying to use surf Finn
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balor instead. So there's a couple of different ways to play with it if
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you if you really wanted to, Yeah, I don't know. It's it's
25:29
really confusing right now. I feel like the best thing that they could do
25:33
is put the title on Finn and keep writing this Judgment Day wave. And
25:37
I know you'd like to think that Seth Rollins shouldn't have a short reign as
25:41
champion because he just won the title in May, But there's some things that
25:45
I'm seeing in interviews and new sites what have you right where leading into and
25:52
becoming World of the Weight Champion. Seth was starting to do some movie roles.
25:56
Granted, I think movies are basically shut down with with the strikes going
26:00
on. But he was involved with some movie rules and then I saw something
26:04
recently that he needs some sort of surgery, like it's on his back that
26:08
he's been wrestling with a bad back basically for three years, and he needs
26:15
to take some time off eventually to get surgery to clean this up whatever,
26:19
And it's like, man, is this Could this be what they're doing right
26:23
now? Could they theoretically, you know, did they have Seth win the
26:29
championship first too, to make it a big deal and set up this entire
26:33
storyline that makes a ton of sense creatively with Finn Balor at SummerSlam. Revisiting
26:37
their match at SummerSlam twenty sixteen seventeen in the first Universal Championship match where Finn
26:44
got hurt and Finn avenges it and then Seth goes away, like that could
26:48
be the storyline to their Doctor Trey. I mean, as I talk it
26:52
out loud, maybe Finn ends up injuring Seth in the match and Seth goes
26:56
away for a couple of months, Like I could see Seth going away again
27:00
for a little bit of time. Maybe he returns Survivor series. Maybe they
27:03
hold him off until the rumble heading into Rustlemania forty season. There's a lot
27:07
of different things here, but I think a loss at SummerSlam for Finn equals
27:14
a Judgment Day like breakup, or a Damien priests cash in at SummerSlam leads
27:21
to a Judgment day breakup. I think you have Finn win the title,
27:26
and then the compelling storyline for the next three, four or five months is
27:30
Damien wants to cash in the money in bank. Briefcase, would he do
27:34
it on Finn the entire time and then eventually he does turn it on Finn
27:40
and maybe that's your Rustlemania forty match. No, that's a really good point
27:44
too, because, like as you were talking, I was like, well,
27:45
if Seth needs to have surgery and take some time off, you know,
27:49
his wife has a big match with Trish, which is to blow off
27:52
to their feud, I wouldn't be surprised to see that match in and both
27:56
ladies go away for a while and then that way Seth and Becky me off
28:00
with their daughter and convalesce together. Um, you know, the Finn with
28:04
the title and Damien constantly kind of teasing the cash in is a great storyline
28:11
as well, Like that would be really fun to watch, especially if they
28:14
end up do bringing in you know what, JD mcdunn or something that you
28:18
know that way Finn feels like not because right now, if you watch Judgment
28:23
Day, it kind of feels like Damian, Dom and Rhea are their own
28:27
little click and Finn's kind of to the side. If Finn brings in McDonough
28:33
to be back up to be his support within that, then I can see
28:37
that playing out and then you split it evenly and Dom and uh, Damien
28:41
go off together, Finn and JD go together, and then you have a
28:45
few that way. So uh, but the idea of Damien cashing in on
28:49
his own, on his own brethren would be really good TV. So if
28:53
they do, if they go that route, that'd be fantastic as well.
28:56
Yeah, it's um, it's good stuff right now right Like I would also
29:00
say, in a perfect world, if you're looking for a cool storyline coming
29:03
out of all of this, keeping the Judgment Day together, figuring out whatever
29:07
you do with the bloodline, I would love to see some sort of intersecting
29:11
with the bloodline of Solisico Roman reigns and some of the members of the Judgment
29:17
Day. Like, I think that would be pretty compelling television as well.
29:19
But you also have some other stables. They may be being built presently.
29:22
You've seen Bobby Lashley talking with Carmelo, Hayson, Trick Williams, he was
29:27
talking with the Street Profits on SmackDown the last couple of weeks. Maybe there's
29:32
something there so good times. Stables in professional wrestling, Doctor Trey I think
29:40
are so successful. They were successful in the Attitude era. They were successful
29:44
in WW in the late nineties as well. During that run, they went
29:48
away for about twenty years. They're back now in w W, and they're
29:52
bringing Capelli Television to w right now. And I guess you could say the
29:56
same for AW presently as well, coming out of the Blackpool, Combat Loud,
30:00
Golden Elite stuff. That stables are a really good way to make fans
30:06
care and give you compelling storylines. Because the Judgment Day, I mean,
30:11
I think they've superseded in a way the popularity of the bloodline that was going
30:17
on, because the Bloodline is basically no more at this point, and the
30:21
stuff that you're seeing with the Judgment Day on RAW and NXT and when they
30:23
do show up to smack down from time and time again, has made sure
30:27
some really entertaining TV on w right now, and it's so organic and it's
30:32
enjoyable, which I always like to see as a as a wrestling fan,
30:37
never understood when stables kind of went away, because you know, to me,
30:41
wrestling is supposed to be somewhat of a mirror to a degree of real
30:45
life. And you know, most people have a friend or have two friends,
30:49
and we didn't have stables. It was like, you know, a
30:52
good guys getting beat up by three bad guys and no good guy comes out
30:56
to help. Is like, well, is he actually a good guy behind
31:00
the scenes because nobody's coming and save him and he's getting his ass kicked.
31:03
So, you know, nowadays it kind of feels like everybody has somebody to
31:08
watch their back, which I think is a much more reflection of life.
31:14
And then like you know, wrestling mirroring life, so um, you know,
31:18
can you have too many stables? Yeah? Maybe aw has too many
31:22
stables, but you know in WW when you only have like a couple of
31:26
stables and a couple of tag teams, it gives you storylines also to playoff
31:32
of and build people with that. So you know, we saw it with
31:34
you know, Biggie winning the world title when he kind of broke out from
31:37
the New Day. You know, we've seen it with you know Jet,
31:41
We're going back to the Shield. We've seen it with the Ya family.
31:44
We've seen it with other stables or the last you know, eight years.
31:48
It's just a good formula for success if done properly. All right, let's
31:52
get to u NXT Great American Bash preview and predictions. It comes this Sunday
31:56
on Peacock from the H e B Center and Cedar Park, Texas, says
32:00
doctor Trey. Your Southern is it h e B? What is that?
32:04
HEB is a grocery chain? Okay, so I think it's a h B.
32:08
But he's always called Hebe. I didn't know. I didn't. I
32:10
never shopped in there. I just saw it a lot when I was traveling
32:14
through Texas. But yes, it is a kind of like Giant Foods and
32:20
oh stop the shop. Yes, hib is a regional chain. Okay,
32:24
there you go, and the more you know. Here on this week's edition
32:27
of sr TU, let's get to the first match here. It's the pre
32:30
show match eight person mixed tag team match Dragon Lee, Nathan Fraser, Luisa
32:35
Leon and Valentine of Freroy's take on the metaphor of No Man, No m
32:37
Dar, Oral Mensa, Jacar Jackson and lash lens It Legend Doctor Trey.
32:43
I'm going to take the metaphor in this one, yes, because I love
32:45
the name because of that's just that's fantastic. It was a great name.
32:49
So eever came up with that, kudos them. I am taking metaphor because,
32:52
like you said, we like stables, so uh just beaters. Who
32:58
takes the pinfall on the other team? Because you have Dragon Lee and then
33:00
you also have the Heritage Cup champion of Dathan Frasier, I'm assuming probably one
33:05
of the ladies will take the pinfall on next match. Here's the triple threat
33:08
match for the NXT and North American Championship. Dirty Dom Mysterio Defense against Wesley
33:14
and Mustafa Ali Doctor Troy. Who do you like in this one? It
33:17
might be the hardest match on the show for me to predict because I really
33:22
want Dom to keep the belt. But then do we see the North American
33:25
Title on you know, Raw and NXT every single week? Does that actually
33:31
give an XT a boost. I think I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Dom.
33:37
I'm gonna take Dom to somehow steal the way and keep the belt for
33:40
another month or two at least. I agree you. This is a very
33:44
tough match to call, and there were periods of time triple threat match titles
33:47
on the line. I'm like, man, you know, maybe Mustafa Ali
33:52
gets the pin on Wesley and they protect Dom. Dom goes away for a
33:55
little bit. But viewership is up in NXT right now. A lot of
33:59
how to do with the Judgment Day. I think they want to keep the
34:01
Judgment Day on NXE television for a period of time, So I'm gonna have
34:05
Dirty Domasteria retain as well. Next match, here is Tiffany Stratton defending against
34:10
Theia Hale, and I say, a mission match for the Nexy Women's Championship.
34:14
I've really enjoyed this bill. That's been very basic and simple and it's
34:16
been fun to watch. Tiffany Stratton retains in my opinion. She says she's
34:22
going to debut a new submission move. She keeps tapping out to Thia Hale
34:24
with that. I think she defeats the Hail. On Sunday, Yeah,
34:29
I'm with you. I think as much as I love Fia Hale, I
34:31
love her and she kind of reminds me of you know, A Live Morgan
34:35
was an NXC which he first came up. I think thea Hale could be
34:40
a bigger star here in a couple of years. But right now, Tiffany
34:45
Stratton is your new Mandy Rose and they're going to run that for a while,
34:47
so I'm thinking Stratton ever retain as well. Next matches for the NEXC
34:51
Tag Team Championship is Gallus of Mark Coffee and Wolfgang defend against the Family of
34:55
Tony D'Angelo and Channing Stacks, Lorenzo, Doctor Trey. Who do you like?
35:00
This is one of the ones where, like on paper, I take
35:02
Dallas, But with all the stuff they've been doing with D'Angelo and Stacks over
35:07
the last few months, with D'Angelo going to jail and then Stacks turn them
35:12
in, with all of that stuff, they have to have a payoff for
35:15
the baby faces, So I am going to take D'Angelo and Stacks the family
35:19
to win the NXECY Tag Team titles. Yeah, they've been doing that storyline
35:22
for the entire time of Tony d being arrested getting out of jail, the
35:27
chase for them to become the NAXE Tag Team Champions. If they were to
35:30
lose this match, it would be strange unless there was some sort of turn,
35:35
and I don't see that happening right now based off of the way that
35:37
the entire storyline played out. With that said, I'm going to go with
35:40
the family Tony Day and Channing Saxe Lorenzo to win the NXC Tag Team Championship.
35:45
Next match is Gabel Steveson making his in ring debut against Baron Corbin.
35:51
Gabel Steeveson not going back to college, not going to the Olympics next year,
35:55
he is going to be wrestling in NXT. Have to think that this
36:00
is the beginning of a potentially big career for someone who is an Olympian,
36:07
Golden Medalist, Olympian. We know how that works out in WI with Curt
36:12
Angle. So I am not going to pick against Gabel Stevenson in his debut
36:15
match. I have him defeating Baron Corbyn. Do we feel bad for Baron
36:21
Corbyn right now? Like That's where I'm at right now, Like I'm picking
36:24
Gable Stevenson who win as well, but I'm just like, I'm looking at
36:27
going damn Baron Corban up until you know, three weeks ago when jay Uso
36:32
pin Roman Rains was the last guy to pan Roman Reins three years ago,
36:37
and he has come all the way down to where he's basically probably gonna be
36:40
a squash match for a new debuting superstar. So on one hand, I
36:45
feel bad for Baron Corbyn. On the other hand, I know he's well
36:47
paid and you know, pretty happy with his job and his career. So
36:52
but that Bean said, I'm taking Gable Stevenson, and then I'm wondering when
36:54
we're gonna get the Damon Kemp tiant because aren't they brothers. They did tease
36:59
that during the Eddie Thorpe Damon Kemp stuff that was going on with NXC Underground
37:04
and Gabe Steveson was helping Eddie Thorpe out. But yeah, maybe they carry
37:08
that over a little bit. The stuff with Barren Corby. I just read
37:12
an interview I think he was on After the Bell with Corey Grays and Kevin
37:14
Patrick THEE podcast, and he said he requested to go down at NXT and
37:20
refresh his character a little bit. So he seems to be enjoying it,
37:22
and I think he's the perfect person on the NXC roster to have that first
37:27
big debut match in NXT. So Baron Corbyn Gabel steveson this Sunday at NXC
37:32
Great American Bash. Next match here is he Weapons wild match as Roxann Perez
37:37
takes on Blair Davenport Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one?
37:43
Kind of gone back and forth because I'm trying to fig out that, you
37:45
know, we need another challenger for Tiffany Stratton. Roxanne Perez makes a bunch
37:49
of sense, but you're still trying to establish Blair Davin boards. I think
37:54
I'll take as a weapons match, I'll take a Rock Sam. This one's
37:59
been really hard for me too. I think I'll take Rock Sand just because
38:01
the baby faces typically don't lose weapons matches, So I'll take the baby face.
38:07
Roxam Perez get the whinever Blair Davenport. Yeah, Roxam Perez needs a
38:12
big victory. She has been taking a lot of els. They did a
38:15
cool segment on Tuesday's NXT where her and Blair Davenport battled and like a gas
38:21
station supermarket and it is very um head nod to the Booker t Stonehold grocery
38:29
store segment from SmackDown like in two thousand and one, two thousand and two,
38:34
So that was pretty cool and roxand looked good in that, and I
38:37
think that needs to carry over in Weapons Wild because She's She's definitely not been
38:40
booked great in my opinion in the last couple of months on NXET, So
38:45
I'm taking roxam Perez as well, and that takes us to our main event
38:49
is Carmelo Hayes defends the NXCAT Championship against Eliot dragging Off. I'm really looking
38:52
forward this match. This match kind of came out of nowhere. Did not
38:54
see Carmelo feuding with Elia, and it's been pretty good on XC television so
39:00
far. Elie definitely looks pretty strong. He closed out NXT taking out Carmelo
39:05
Hayes, which, if you are a long time listening the show knows that
39:07
that typically doesn't pan out well for the pay per view match itself. So
39:10
I'm gonna take Carmelo Hayes to retain the NXC champiship at the Great American bashover
39:15
Elia dragging Off. You look at dragging Off over the past couple of months.
39:20
I mean he got he got a victory of a braun breaker, he
39:22
had that great falls count Anywhere match with with Ordi Jack. He's for a
39:30
guy who's like one hundred and eighty five hundred ninety pound, they're almost booking
39:34
him like a monster, So kudos to him. But you know, wrestling
39:37
one on one says, whoever gets the upper hand on the go home show
39:40
means they're losing the pay per view. So although the stuff of Bobby Lashly
39:45
is an interesting and it could be a way to transition out of it,
39:47
but I just don't think it's time for that yet. So I think Carmelo
39:50
retains. So there you go. Carmelo Hayes retains from both of us here
39:53
and Doctor Train I had the same prediction. So if you're looking for some
39:57
changes in the pay per view prediction records, you probably won't see it at
40:00
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40:06
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