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- 0:01Heartbreak, disappointment, the first loser. These words describe the runner up in
- 0:09anything from a championship game, to a race, even to a tournament.
- 0:18On this special episode of The Grill Out, three friends twenty competitors fighting for
- 0:24their shot at redemption for one royalty for the other nineteen obscurity. The Grill
- 0:33Up presents the twenty twenty four Key of the Ring runner Up Tournament. Hello,
- 0:42ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of The Grillout. I'm
- 0:47your host, Hollywood Jeff Patty, and I am joined by my illustrious co
- 0:53host, Ploral because the two of them. Yeah, hostess, you know
- 0:58I'm not a hostess. I I want to host this cake right now,
- 1:03Josh co Maybe I'm not a snack for you. Jeff, You're also not
- 1:07a chicken sandwich. Nope. Yeah. And the reflection of perfection Jason Likings.
- 1:14That's me. Yes, that is you. So this is me.
- 1:17It's a medium audio, so never do that. No, I will do
- 1:22what I want. No. But so this is a special edition of The
- 1:26Grill Up because WWE is doing their King of the Ring tournament today. Okay,
- 1:30when this podcast comes out, we queen, but there's only been one
- 1:36those. Yeah, we yeah, there's only been one Queen of the Ring.
- 1:40But they're doing both them and it's in Saudi Arabia. Correct, Yes,
- 1:44yes, yeah, okay, so they're doing their annual Saudi shows only
- 1:47the very first King of the Ring event since twenty fifteen, first time on
- 1:51pay per view since two thousand and two premium live event e l e.
- 1:55We pay per views. Yes, but that's not now now it's a plea.
- 1:59Yeah. I was gonna say, we don't need Nick con coming in
- 2:00here and correcting us. We could. I mean, I imagine it'd be
- 2:05good for ratings, heyn. If you're looking to be interviewed, you can
- 2:09call us. Do you think it'd be good for ratings? If I hit
- 2:12Josh with a chair, we could try. I mean, maybe let's do
- 2:15it for charity, for charity, yes, okay, I will pay us
- 2:20five dollars. Okay, all right, we got five dollars. Josh,
- 2:23you hear it. You're getting hit with a chair, all right, all
- 2:25right, put them hands up. Yees are wrapped around a chair. So,
- 2:31because of the King of the Ring tournament, we decided to go ahead.
- 2:36This is actually Jason is the one that originally pitched this idea, and
- 2:38we've been sort of working on this for the past few months. We've taken
- 2:43the runner ups for all of the King of the Ring tournaments excluding too yes,
- 2:47okay. And the reason why those two are disqualifies because they want it
- 2:52later on. Kurt Angle and Macho Man, Yeah, they are excluded from
- 2:55this. But the current participants for the King of the Ring runner up tournament
- 3:00on the grill out is the Iron Cheek, Pedro Morales, King Kong,
- 3:06Bundy, Rick Martel Erwin r Sister Irs, Bam Bam Bigelow, Razor Ramon,
- 3:14Sabbio Vega, Jake Roberts, Mankind, the Rock X, POC,
- 3:17Rikishi, RVD, Bobby Lashley, c M Punk, John Morrison, Neville,
- 3:23Chad Gable and Finn Balor. Okay, And there are a few things
- 3:28that you have to remember with this. Okay. The Rock is not the
- 3:31Rock as we know it now. This is the Nation of Domination Rock,
- 3:37Yes, okay. This is not in the main event of matches Rock.
- 3:40Yeah. And same thing for like Jake Roberts. We're not talking like nineteen
- 3:44eighties, Jake Roberts, We're talking nineteen ninety six he lost to Stone Cold.
- 3:47Yes, okay, that's the Jake Roberts we're talking about. Yes,
- 3:51so Nell, not pac Yes, not poc Neville specifically twenty fifteen Neville.
- 3:58So if you would like to do Jason, you can give us because it's
- 4:01we're starting off with a wild card round right, yes, round one?
- 4:05There are four matches, yep? Okay, Jeff, do you want to
- 4:09go down the rules that we have? Okay? So, as as far
- 4:12as rules, since there is three of us here, there's not gonna be
- 4:15a tie on the vote. We you know, Jason gives the matches.
- 4:18We vote on who we think is going to go over and said match.
- 4:24If there is a discrepancy amongst us, like a two to one vote,
- 4:29then we will go to sort of a debate. So that's pretty much everything
- 4:32you need to know about it as far as I know, I think.
- 4:35Yeah, okay, Josh, are you ready? Yes, sir, Jeff?
- 4:39Are you ready? I am ready? Okay? Opening round one,
- 4:45Match one, we have John Morrison versus Jake the Snake Roberts. Who do
- 4:50you got? I'm going Morrison Morris Lewson. Okay, wow, I was
- 4:59going Jake, but no, I will I will save my Actually, no,
- 5:03what I was thinking. Okay, here's what I'm seeing in it.
- 5:06Morrison goes for the starship pain, Jake rolls out, gets up, kick
- 5:14to the gut DDT. That's it. But if you still want to go
- 5:19Morrison, I'm happy to go with it. I am going to go with
- 5:25Morrison simply because as to what we stated, this is nineteen ninety six.
- 5:29Jake Roberts. Yes, if this were late eighties Jake Roberts, different story.
- 5:33Yes, I could see what the scenario you just laid out. I
- 5:36could see that happening with you know, but keep in mind for what my
- 5:41argument could be every time we disagree, is not this is a nineteen ninety
- 5:46six Jake Robert. Right, yes, but it's also a runner up.
- 5:49Jake Robert. Yeah, we have a point there, but all of them
- 5:54are runner ups. So yeah, it is what it is. I'm gonna
- 5:58say they kind of cancel some of them. Yeah, I think Roberts would
- 6:00make Morrison look good anyways. Oh yeah, I mean like Roberts is and
- 6:05it's not He's not underrated. He is one of the greatest psychological minds in
- 6:11professional wrestling. I mean, just go watch old old royal Rumbles, Like,
- 6:15I think he's one of the first people that kind of went into the
- 6:16match and was like, I'm just gonna sit back. Yeah, I just
- 6:18wonna let everybody else wear themselves out. So you both are going Morrison still
- 6:23going to Morrison? Okay, well then we will go Morrison here, all
- 6:31right? Okay Morrison is one. Next match, Bobby Lashley versus Rikishy.
- 6:39Who do you got, Jeff Bobby Lashley versus Rakishey, we're talking two thousand
- 6:47and six e c W Champion Bobby Lashley. Oh, that's my choice.
- 6:57We're talking. We're talking also like two thousand I did it for the Rock
- 7:01Rakishi exactly, which I'm pretty sure is who set Cody's bus on fire.
- 7:06It was Rakishi because he did it for the Rock, he did it for
- 7:10the people. Yeah hmm. That's an interesting interesting matchup because was it Rakeishi
- 7:16in like a six way match that year in Armageddon for the WA Championship where
- 7:24they did the They say it was a choke slam. It was a choke
- 7:27push. It was a choke shove where he landed in the back of the
- 7:32truck full of cedar chips and pats that had been terrifying though. Yeah,
- 7:36I mean he's a big guy, just and I'm just saying, anybody like
- 7:41you just falling, just straight back and I'm looking Spike Dudley would do it,
- 7:44no problem. Oh yeah, I mean you have Rakeshi one. Rakeshi
- 7:47climbed the hell in a cell to get up there. Good point, Good
- 7:51point anyways, So yeah, Bobby Lashley Rakishi, I'm going Bobby Lashley.
- 7:56I am also going Bobby Lashley. Yeah, I could see it being Rakeshi,
- 8:00but again we're talking ECW World Champion Bobby Lashley. Yeah. I also
- 8:05think that it is uh that match would line up more for trying to give
- 8:09an idea of what Bobby Lashley would have to come down the road, because
- 8:13you know, if he did the dominator to Rakishi or anytime that he would
- 8:16pick Rakeshi up, it's going to make Bobby Lashley look like a million bucks.
- 8:20Yeah. Yeah, Okay, Match three Mankind versus Savio Vega. Josh,
- 8:24who do you have? I've got Mankind Mankind, which my choice just
- 8:30man because I I'm not that familiar with Sevivega. Okay, that's fair,
- 8:35I'm not either, but I know that he had some he did have a
- 8:37good program with Austin. He did. Yeah, I think it was right
- 8:41as he went first went to the stone cold character. If mine serves me
- 8:45correct, Vega is he is good? He is? You know, Yeah,
- 8:48Savio Vega was a great worker. Underrated He still is. He's still
- 8:52doing it underrated work. I agree. But talking nineteen ninety seven, Mankind,
- 9:01we're talking was this when he was when Paul Beher was his manager,
- 9:09because this is this is before the title, this was before he won the
- 9:11world title. It potentially could be it's still in the kind of like boiler
- 9:18room time of Mankind. Though. M okay, well you're thinking, okay,
- 9:24go ahead, I would go Savio Vega. And here's how. Okay,
- 9:30Mankind initially wins, but he keeps the mandible claw on, so the
- 9:35match gets overturned for Savio Vega being the winner. I was I was thinking
- 9:41of something similar to that. I feel like that Mankind would allow his emotions,
- 9:48his unstableness to kind of get the best of him towards the end of
- 9:52the match, like he could he could be destroying Savio. Yeah, and
- 9:54then just at the end, you know, I'm actually gonna go Savio on
- 9:58that one. I'm trying to conceding too, because I think with this Salvio
- 10:03Vega would need it more than Mankind because the thing that got Mankind mcfoley over
- 10:09in WCW was how he lost. Yes, so I think this would be
- 10:13one of those instances. Yeah, exactly. And and with this scenario,
- 10:18you Savio Vega does not you know, he looks credible somewhat going forward,
- 10:22he gets to win. Nevertheless, he gets to move on and Mankind,
- 10:26yes, it doesn't look weak. And I will say that Savio progressing will
- 10:33highly play into my next round. But okay, the final final one for
- 10:37the first round. Final one for the first round, and it might be
- 10:39a toughie Razor Ramone versus c M punk Ooh yeah, Jeff, who you
- 10:46have? This is two thousand, two thousand and eight CM punk taken on
- 10:52nineteen ninety four Razor Ramone. Yeah, this'll let you think about that.
- 10:58A lot of my choices are based on later matchups as well, Okay,
- 11:01as they go along. So okay, I'm gonna go Ramone. I'm going
- 11:13to Razor Ramone. I can see this would have been world heavy with champion
- 11:16punk Yeah, but I feel like it's still, I feel like the veteran
- 11:22Razor is going to get because Punk is like, even though he is a
- 11:26veteran at this time in the world of professional wrestling, but as a world
- 11:28champion NWW and everything, he is still relatively young, relatively new. I
- 11:35think the experience with Razor is going to play more into it. Okay,
- 11:39Josh, what do you think I'm going to see him Punk, Go and
- 11:41see him Punk. Okay, see him Punk best in the world. Here's
- 11:45the thing. Oh, I'm sorry going going. Uh I was gonna say,
- 11:48I mean, Razor Ramone is crazy is I didn't see him too much
- 11:54as Razor Ramones. I didn't quite see his greatness in so I saw him
- 11:56as Scott Hall and I just feel like, even still then I'm going to
- 12:01see him Punk. I will say you missed out a lot with Razor Ramone.
- 12:03Then Yeah, as much as I would love to say Razor Ramone,
- 12:11I'm putting CM Punk on the kind of one two three kids scale here,
- 12:16and I'm saying Flash win for CM Punk kind of a roll up and also
- 12:22like that kind of that does make sense because where Punk is a big fan
- 12:26of like old school like wrestling type stuff, I could see him going for
- 12:30something now that what I was hoping would happen, because this is a random
- 12:33generated one. Yeah. Yeah, because I was hoping that it would have
- 12:35been Razor Ramone versus x poc oh, because I mean that's later rendition of
- 12:41one two three kid. But what we have is Razor Ramonte cempunk. So
- 12:43Josh and I are both going to seem punk. So Jeff, what do
- 12:48you think? I know you said Razor. I also just feel like a
- 12:50benefit punk more. That's true, that's true, I'll go punk. I'll
- 13:00just yeah, that way we can get out of the first round. And
- 13:03I like, I like the argument of it's it's going to be a one
- 13:05two three kid type deal will roll up because you because who knows Ramon could
- 13:11be in there just just whipping them lasting, right, And yeah, I
- 13:13mean the way one two three kid did it was the moon Salt off the
- 13:16top rope hit Razor Ramone got the flash one two three off of it.
- 13:22Yeah, and then that's whenever the kid became the one two three kid.
- 13:26Yeah. And I also I don't like I could see Punk like setting up
- 13:28for the GTS but not hitting it on Ramone and something like that happening,
- 13:33yeah, because I mean I think it'd be one of those things of like,
- 13:35oh, look at how much bigger Razor Ramone is. Then see him
- 13:39punk and then he gets him up and yeah, okay, okay, So
- 13:43we're out of the first round. Second, yes, we are. Now
- 13:48in the first match of round two. We have Chad Gable versus John Morrison.
- 14:00Josh, what do you think? So they both have great background like
- 14:05in real wrestling amateur wrestling should say, but I feel like Chad Gable is
- 14:09basically at the Kurd Angle here and I'm gonna go Chad Gable, You're gonna
- 14:13go, Yeah, Gable, I feel he's gonna ede him out just a
- 14:15little bit more and well edges and this that's true Edge one actually one o
- 14:20King of the Ring as Kurd Angle. That was one. Yeah, that's
- 14:24when Angle had his head shaped right. Yeah, what year Chad Gable is?
- 14:28This is twenty twenty nineteen, I think before he became Shorty No,
- 14:33shorty God, that's terrible. So wait a minute, so are we talking
- 14:37like Alpha Academy like with Jason Jordan Chad Gable right now? I think this
- 14:43is like right after this is whenever they were doing the Kurd Angle son is
- 14:48Jason Jordan. Time should have been Chad, It should have it should have
- 14:52been Yeah, absolutely, the story, the story was there just because of
- 15:01that. I'm going to go Morrison. Really. Yeah, if we're talking
- 15:07like n x T, you know Alpha Academy, Yeah, Chad Gable,
- 15:15Chad Gable with Jason Jordan, we're talking that, or if we're talking current
- 15:18American Alpha, American Alpha. Okay, I knew I was getting the name
- 15:22American Alpha Chad Gable possibly if we're talking Chad Gable now, I could see
- 15:30it, but that version of Chad Gable, I could see Morrison doing it.
- 15:35Wow, Okay, see I was I was also going Chad Gable because
- 15:43Chad Gable has always had this like ground swell of support behind it, and
- 15:48so I think especially at that time where it was, Okay, you know,
- 15:52this is Jason Jordan, is Kurt Angle's son, illegitimate son or whatever.
- 16:00But put Chad Gable out there. I see John Morrison making him look
- 16:03like a million bucks, but Chad Gables still getting the wine. Tell me
- 16:12why you think it would be Morrison? Why do I think it would be
- 16:15Morrison? See if you can sway me here because I just I think that
- 16:19with it being twenty nineteen, Chad Gable, I just with what was Yes,
- 16:26he had the ground swell of support, but I don't I just I
- 16:29don't see him him doing that John Morrison. What was John Morrison doing it
- 16:34in twenty ten? Also, we are viewing this as though this is all
- 16:38a one night tournament. Yes, yes, yeah it is. It's a
- 16:41one night tournament. But these versions of them are the It's kind of like
- 16:45if we we had a time machine, we went back, we grabbed and
- 16:48we brought him to the present. I'm what's Morrison doing in twenty ten?
- 16:52I can't, I can't cannot remember exactly. I just for some reason,
- 16:56I just have a feeling that it's it would be Morrison. Did Morrison ever
- 17:03went win the ECW OR world title? Yes? Was it in? Was
- 17:07it around this time? It would have been before that because the title was
- 17:10retired in early twenty ten. Mm okay, okay, so we're already talking
- 17:14like former world champion John Morrison. Well, also, John Morrison would have
- 17:19been in a match with Jake Roberts, that's true. Then he comes into
- 17:23this with Chad Gable and Chad's fresh right, Yes, oh, Chad,
- 17:27I didn't think about that. Yeah, Chad is fresh. Ah. Okay,
- 17:32yep, you know what that I think that one actually swayed me.
- 17:34I completely forgot that Chad was Chad was the fresh one in US. Yeah,
- 17:37because technically the first round was a wild card round. Yes, you
- 17:41know, Chad, I should have told you that. It's okay, Yeah,
- 17:44Chad went on to the next round. Actually, as we go on,
- 17:47just you know, point out which one. Actually I'll go with Chad
- 17:48on that one now now that you pointed that out. Okay, So in
- 17:52twenty ten he was just having some matches. He had some championship matches,
- 17:56but didn't win any of those matches. Okay, okay, so we are
- 17:59going Chad Gable then yep. Okay. So here is finally one that is
- 18:07well, not not finally. It is a very large time gap though.
- 18:11Okay, Okay, we have Finn Balor versus Pedro Morales. So we have
- 18:17twenty twenty one Finn Balor, Yeah, taken on nineteen eighty six Pedro Morales.
- 18:22Yes, oh did it? Uh gotta look something up real quick,
- 18:30go ahead, go ahead and talk amongst yourselves. So, Josh, what
- 18:33year was Pedro Morales the Icy champ. That's what I'm looking up. Okay,
- 18:41I was was it late eighties or early nineties? I don't think it
- 18:48was early nineties. No, no, no, no, no, no,
- 18:51I do know he was the very first triple Crown champion. And this
- 18:55is twenty twenty one, Finn Ballor. Yeah, so Judgment Day Finn Baler,
- 19:00is that who we're dealing with? Or was this before he went with
- 19:03Judgment Day? I think it's it's right before, I believe, yeah,
- 19:07right before Judgment Day. Okay, Okay, so this is kind of so
- 19:11Okay, Pedro Morales won the title, won the Icy title in nineteen eighty
- 19:15Okay, so this is six years after that. Okay, yeah, so
- 19:23he did win the world title, right, Yeah, that was before Okay,
- 19:27yeah, that was in the seventies. Okay. Honestly, with that
- 19:30in mind, even though this is not like full Finn Balor, like not
- 19:37even demon Finn Balor, I'm gonna give it to Finn. I'm gonna give
- 19:40the edge to him. I'm going Pedro, going Pedro. Yeah, okay,
- 19:45I'm also going Pedro. Okay, all right, you can can try
- 19:49to try to convince me on this one veterans knowledge on that. Yeah,
- 19:53just because this is also I mean, just another thing that I think would
- 20:00be a catalyst for making Finn Balor go more judgment Day. He was kind
- 20:06of like the cracks were already there at the time. I think this would
- 20:10just help further that character arc because you have the long established VET at this
- 20:18point. I mean, also, who did Finnbauer lose to in this tournament?
- 20:22Baron Corbyn? The actual tournament? Oh, Aaron, Oh it was
- 20:27yeah, completely forgot about that. Oh, the one who retired Kurting's that's
- 20:33true. And Morales looking at it right now, he was in the WWF
- 20:38for a couple more years after this. He retired in nineteen eighty seven,
- 20:45so this is one year, a couple of years nineteen eight well, actually
- 20:51no, I thought it was eighty six. It was it was eighty six,
- 20:53So this is one year before his so called retirement according to I mean
- 21:00this is Wikipedia, but I think he did a couple other things, but
- 21:03this was. Yeah, so we're at the we're basically at tail end Pedro
- 21:07Morales and pre judgment Day Finn Balor. I mean, I would say give
- 21:15it to Morales, give him his at least one king of the ring branch
- 21:22match. Let Finn lose be more of a catalyst for those cracks breaking even
- 21:30larger. Yeah, that's just me. That's just looking at this from a
- 21:34potential story point perspective. Josh, do you have anything to add? Yeah?
- 21:40God, And I was gonna say, and maybe, like where you
- 21:41did talk about how the veteran's knowledge would play into this, like maybe he
- 21:45was able to ink something out like at the very end, I mean,
- 21:48Ballor could be laying it to him in there. Yeah, Ballor could be
- 21:52winning the entire match. And then he goes for one move in particular,
- 21:57misses that gets some and Pedro stalk a guy. Yeah, you know,
- 22:03he's a lot of power. Even though this is yeah, about a year
- 22:07before he retires, so he still still has that power. He's you know,
- 22:11actually, yeah, I'll give it the page. And also remember long,
- 22:17you know, a while back, wrestlers were retiring at a much younger
- 22:21age. Yeah, so we all going Pedro. Yeah, yep, I'm
- 22:26gonna go, yep, going Pedro. Next one is a fresh x poc
- 22:33so not wrestled yet, against Bobby Lashley two thousand and six. Bobby Lashley
- 22:38taking on a fresh at nineteen ninety nine x POC. This is Bobby Lashley
- 22:42who previously went against Rakishi. Yes, so he's got to be a little
- 22:47little tired, so he has gone from one end of the weight spectrum to
- 22:49the other end. That's true, that's true. I'm giving it the Lashly
- 22:56Lashly Okay, Josh. As much as this could be one two three kid
- 23:00situation, I'm going to lash as well. See, I would love for
- 23:03it to play out almost identical to one two three Kid versus Razor ramone where
- 23:08he goes for the back flip, Lashly catches him and just finishes it.
- 23:14Yeah. So because because even though he went through the match with Rakishi,
- 23:18and he's coming in there, he's gassed, he's tired, He's Bobby lash
- 23:22He's Bobby lash And they call it XPOC heat for a reason, Like yeah,
- 23:26yeah, he probably made somebody mad to where they're going to bear you
- 23:30know where this is gonna happen to him out there? Okay, Bobby Lashing
- 23:32moves on. Okay. Do you all see this as a like competitive match
- 23:36or a squash match? What between the two? Yeah? I see it
- 23:40as a little bit of both. I see I see Lashley coming out,
- 23:45yeah, and sort of like in a in the beginning squash like a squash
- 23:49match in the beginning, but starting to gas a little bit and x POC
- 23:53starting to you know, capitalize on that. But ultimately he can't like like
- 23:59what you say, his backflip lastly catches him, finishing him right there.
- 24:03So next match is the Rock Nation of Domination Rock versus Neville, a man
- 24:11who gravity for God. So nineteen ninety eight Rock taken on twenty fifteen neveal
- 24:17Nation of Domination Rock. He was he was Icy Champion at this time.
- 24:22Correct or I think he won that year around It was around this time.
- 24:26Yeah, okay, so not made of Rock, not final Boss Rock Nope
- 24:34is somewhere around the Icy title Rock yeah, right right as he first joined
- 24:40the Nation of Domination. Yes, when Rocky Myavia went away and the Rock
- 24:45came to stay. Okay, and twenty fifteen Neville. I don't know of
- 24:51anything very spectacular on that one. I just don't. I'm going to rock,
- 24:57Josh, I am going to go Neville. Okay, Well, Josh,
- 25:03it is going to be up to you to convince us on this one,
- 25:06because I'm also going to Rock. The only thing for me that Neville
- 25:11ever had was his finisher, because they gave him a stupid entrance attire.
- 25:17Now, if this were park, different different different story. But the man
- 25:22that Gravity forgot, yeah, Champion, I still love the park, screamed
- 25:29that the guy at the wrestler named Gravity, you will not define me.
- 25:32That was amazing, Josh, Josh convinced us for Neville, let's see younger.
- 25:41I think he was younger at this time. Was he younger just time?
- 25:44I don't know about that. I think he's more athletic. For one.
- 25:48Uh, the Rock has always been good about putting people over, and
- 25:51I don't think the Rock needs this because I feel like the Icy was more
- 25:55for him than a King of the Ring. I don't know, I just
- 26:03I just feel like that you're really committed to Neville. I feel like they're
- 26:07just going to feed Neville to them. Yeah, because because yeah, they
- 26:10got the Icy title on them. I feel like Rock's gonna go deep in
- 26:12this tournament. Okay, well, Josh, let me tell you this.
- 26:15Whoever wins this match, they then go against Bobby Lashley. And that's why
- 26:19I chose, That's why I said. My choices played until later. So
- 26:26I'm still sticking with the Rock because I think the Rock Bobby Lashley is a
- 26:33lot sexier of a match, yeah than Neville. I see, I don't
- 26:40know. I just I was never really blown away with Neville. No,
- 26:45when I chose this, because I actually wrote these down wild back. Yeah,
- 26:51I think my mind was also still thinking in pac as opposed to Nevill's.
- 26:53Yes, that's fair, like I'm I at times am struggling, Like
- 26:59with Jake Robert's versus John Morrison. I'm like, no, that's like old
- 27:02school Jake the Snake, not stone cold. Steve Austin just got done beating
- 27:07them. Yeah, as yeah, so I am sorry, Josh, but
- 27:15the Rock has won this with two votes to one. Rock's going over on
- 27:19that one. How many? How many matches have we got left in this
- 27:23round? Four? Four? Okay, the next one is a really easy
- 27:27one for me. But you have a fresh Rick the Model Martel What year
- 27:33nineteen eighty nine? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is Model year against a
- 27:41already wrestled Savio Vega. Mm hmm, Savio Vega's good though. Yeah,
- 27:48I'll tell you right now though, just the way that I booked it in
- 27:52my head it's gonna be Rick Martel. If Savio Vega won by them overturning
- 28:00the mankind victory, which which in an our scenario in this they did,
- 28:06Yeah, we overturned it. It went to Yeah, honestly, I could
- 28:10see Martino. I could see it being an easy victory for Martel. Yes,
- 28:11even though Savio Vega again like, well, I know that we've said
- 28:15this. This would be the third time. He is a very underrated worker
- 28:18Martel. In my original thing, I had mankind going over in the first
- 28:25match, and then if this had been the match Ricky Martel, Rick Martel
- 28:27versus Mankind, I would have had mankind go over there. Okay, but
- 28:30yeah, I don't have any good heart argument, so I'm gonna go with
- 28:33Rick Martel. I don't really I'm not familiar at all with Rick Martel,
- 28:36so okay, definitely worth looking up. Rick Martel was in a tag team
- 28:41with Tito Santana. Then he turned on Tito Santana and became the model Rick
- 28:48Martel where he had this it was like a bug sprayer, but it was
- 28:53of his cologne called arrogance. So what I would see is, you know,
- 28:57this exhausted Salvio Vega coming out barely getting there, Rick Martel gets the
- 29:03ref distracted, sprays him with the arrogance Salvio Vegas. Blinded, Rick Martel
- 29:10takes out his leg, puts him in the Boston Crab and that's it.
- 29:11His finisher was the Boston Crab. So I say, Rick Martel, yep,
- 29:17Martel goes over. Okay, now this this is a different one.
- 29:22It's a different one. You have King Kong Bundy versus Rob Van Damn,
- 29:30Jeff, and we're talking nineteen eighty seven King Kong Bundy. So this was
- 29:36wrestlemane. That was WrestleMania four? Was that year? Am I correct?
- 29:41Was that three? Because one was? Yeah, eighty seven three Okay,
- 29:48so WrestleMania two was Hogan King Kong Bundy, Yes, and then King Kong
- 29:53Bundy never main evented again. Yeah. And we're talking like Invasion and you
- 30:00know Intercontinental Champion Rob Van Damn right now, like everybody, like all sides
- 30:07of the Invasion wanted RVD. Yeah, the whole show. Yeah, the
- 30:11whole Dagon show, that whole flipping show. I'm going rv D. Yeah,
- 30:18RVD. I think it would be entertaining, absolutely, But yeah,
- 30:25I'm definitely going RVD and I am not stalling because this computer just keeps spinning.
- 30:32Okay, there we go. So now we have a Bam Bam Bigelow
- 30:37against on that is a fresh bam bam Bigelow, no previous matches against a
- 30:44already one Charles Montgomery punk So oh oh man nineteen ninety three Bam Bam Bigelow
- 30:56sety three? Is that a Lawrence Taylor wrestlemine Bam bam Bigelow? I think?
- 31:03So? Hold on? What was that was that? WrestleMania eleven?
- 31:07I want to say that was ten? No ten was a that was the
- 31:12Brothers. That was Owen Hart brad Hart who was in the main event of
- 31:15ten. I can't remember. Ten was also the lighter match between Razor and
- 31:19Sean Well, then ten the main event would have been Yogo Zoo and brad
- 31:29Hart. Yeah, okay, yeah, so it wasn't ten because the main
- 31:33event of whichever WrestleMania was was Bam Bam Bigelow versus Lawrence Taylor. Yeah that
- 31:41was ninety five, Okay, so this is ninety three Bam bam. This
- 31:45is ninety three bad ninety three Bam bam. Okay, So this eleven could
- 31:49be around the time that he's feuding with Doink. But I mean, nevertheless,
- 31:59like Bam Bam is a force to be reckoned with one of the best
- 32:01big men of all time. Absolutely, and we're talking a fresh Bam Bam.
- 32:07And that's why I'm going to see him punk. That's why you're going
- 32:08to see him Punk? Is it? Are you going? I am actually
- 32:12going to see him Punky. That's not the reason. I just story wise,
- 32:19throughout the throughout the tournament, it would be pretty interesting to have Punk
- 32:22get one over on Bam Bam, bamam. And if he's feuding with Dooink
- 32:29at the time and we're kind of we're not talking main event WrestleMania against Lawrence
- 32:34Taylor Bam Bam No, but I could also see Dooint coming out distracting Bam
- 32:39Bam. Yes, you know, even if it's just on the the Terrible
- 32:45Titan Tron that they had back in the nineties, and even if seeing Punk
- 32:47is gassed, like you know what, I might go Punk on this one.
- 32:51I really want to go Bam bam, you know what. Okay,
- 32:52Josh, tell me, why do you think it's going to be punk?
- 32:55Because I want to see him to love the way. Okay, that was
- 32:59a terrible I'm like, okay, Josh, help me story wise, help
- 33:04me, you know, get me in this, and you I want to
- 33:06see him win. I feel like Punk would be much better for Punk than
- 33:09Bam Bam. Like, yeah, you just said that you want to see
- 33:14him go? Yeah? How like, how is he doing this? How
- 33:16is he winning it? I like the idea of you saying that point comes
- 33:22out. I don't see I see Bam Bam destroying Punk. Honestly, if
- 33:27Punk moves on, I don't see. I don't see him going all the
- 33:30way. I don't see. I could see him inching away from Bam Bam,
- 33:34just barely, like he's you know, he's he's running out of luck
- 33:37through this tournament. But I could see him, you know. So he
- 33:42gets kind of two fluke wins back to back, yep, but he ain't.
- 33:46He's not getting a third one. Yeah see, I'm also fine going
- 33:50Punk. I just wanted to see what you all thought. That's that,
- 33:52That is my that's my argument for Punk. So Josh, you you're going
- 33:55Punk because you want to see him win. I didn't say win. And
- 34:01also, if we're talking, if we were talking ninety five bam bam.
- 34:06Yeah, I would go bam bam. If we were talking ECW bam bam,
- 34:10I would go bam bam. But we're talking ninety three bam bam.
- 34:15Bigelow. I just feel like Punk is going to He's going to inch By,
- 34:19but I think he's just going to outsmart him. They're at the end
- 34:21impossibly to dlink experience too, and just to add on to that, I
- 34:27don't know if it's so much out smarting, but like if this were twenty
- 34:32twelve Punk, possibly I could see him out smarting him there, because that
- 34:37was what twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen was when he was when he went against
- 34:40the Undertaker. No. Twenty fourteen is when he left. Twenty twelve was
- 34:45when he went against the Undertaker. I think at WrestleMania twenty thirteen, WrestleMania
- 34:49twenty nine, I could see that Punk like out smart him. But I
- 34:52could see this one just kind of getting a fluke quin this version of Punk
- 34:55two thousand and eight Punk. So that that's my that's my argument. Form
- 35:00okay, okay. A final match in round two, we have Irwin R
- 35:06Shyster I R S. What year is he nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety
- 35:10one. So this is million dollars ink, Yes, I R S Erwin
- 35:16R Shyster going against the Iron Chic. What year Iron Chic nineteen eighty five?
- 35:22Nineteen eighty Oh, baby, that's about what four years? It's a
- 35:30few years after after he was a transitional champion, I think yeah, a
- 35:37year or so. Yeah, they skogan want or eighty four. Okay,
- 35:44so this is just a year after that. Again, it's I R S
- 35:46nineteen ninety one. I dude, it's cheeky baby. Yeah, yeah,
- 35:52we don't even need to discuss it. It's cheeky baby all right now.
- 35:57But with that, I mean, you have two heels. Do you see
- 36:00any like either one of them kind of playing the baby face with it?
- 36:07I really no. I could see ir S getting the sympathy though. Okay,
- 36:13so she can't get no, he ain't no face. But here's kind
- 36:17of how clutch here, Yeah, I mean, here's here's kind of how
- 36:21I see it. Okay, you know you have the whole I R S
- 36:25thing. Million dollar man comes down, tries to buy out Iron Chic.
- 36:30Iron Sheek takes the money, so he takes the briefcase that irs has,
- 36:35you know, with the money in it. The ref turns around, hits
- 36:38I r s in the back of the head with the briefcase, puts him
- 36:42in the camel clutch. That's it. Okay, So okay, that is
- 36:47the end of round two, all right, and we are actually going to
- 36:51stop it there. All right? How many more rounds we got left after
- 36:54this three? I think? No? Well, yeah, we got the
- 36:58quarterfinal, semifinals and then the finals. Yep. Okay, so we're gonna
- 37:01end it there. We're gonna take a quick break, all right, Stay
- 37:06tuned. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, back to the Grill Out King
- 37:25of the Ring Runner Up Tournament Special. Basically that yeah, yeah, Basically,
- 37:30I'm your host, Hollywood, Jeff Petty, and I'm joined by Josh
- 37:35Cole Babee the Maestro, the Maestro, our belt collector, our belt expert
- 37:43yep. And then we'll see in the future our current reigning and defending Grill
- 37:50Out predictions. You see, I didn't want to say anything because I don't
- 37:53know when this is airing. This is going to be airing the day of
- 37:58the King and Queen of the Ring Tournament. So that well, then,
- 38:01yeah, I will definitely still be the champ. That's either going to age
- 38:06like fine line or actually wait, technically yeah yeah, your technically will still
- 38:10be champed. Okay, because the last predictions are either at tie and you're
- 38:15losing. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty much. And see the previous either
- 38:22either something crazy happened and I'm the champion, or what we thought was going
- 38:27to happen happen and I'm not listening. That's why I have the champions advantage.
- 38:32But that's not important right now. What's important right now is in our
- 38:37King of the Ring runner up tournament. Yes, we are now at the
- 38:40quarterfinals. Okay, Now do you want to break down of every quarter final
- 38:45match or do you just want to go one by one for the sake of
- 38:51the audience. Yeah, just go ahead and just give us the matches.
- 38:53It's four matches, okay, well that would be quarter yes four four?
- 38:59Yeah, yeah, listen. I know you and I both have a calm
- 39:02degree, but that is listen, that is almost basic enough math for us.
- 39:08I was gonna say, with with our brains connected with Josh's brain,
- 39:12we can do this. We can. Yeah, Josh, next time you
- 39:16have a thought, let it go, let it go. Okay. So
- 39:22first match of the quarterfinals, we have Chad Gable versus Pedro Morales, which
- 39:27will be followed up by Bobby Lashley versus The Rock nineteen ninety seven Rock right,
- 39:35nineteen ninety eight Rock. Sorry, Then it is going to be Rick
- 39:38Martel The Model versus Rob Van Dam and then finishing up the quarterfinals will be
- 39:45Charles Montgomery Punk Cum Pup versus Make You Humble, Break Your Back the Iron
- 39:52Chicaby. That's right, a man who cut a promo on a cartoon character
- 40:00via Twitter. Oh, the Iron Shack is amazing. Quarterfinal round. Okay,
- 40:09So Jeff, let's start with you, Chad Gable versus Pedro Morales.
- 40:13Who you got and why? Nineteen eighty six Pedro Morales, right, Yeah,
- 40:20So a few years later he would retire. Yeah, actually he retired
- 40:23the next year. Okay, the next year, yeah, nineteen eighty seventy,
- 40:25retired next year. I'm gonna give it to Chad Gable. Chad Gable,
- 40:31I am because Pedro could do it. But if this were a few
- 40:36years before, we're close to retirement. He's still a powerhouse. But Chad
- 40:40is the younger, faster, just he want he to me, he's more
- 40:45hungry going through this tournament, So I'm going with Chad. Okay, Josh,
- 40:49let's go over to you. I agree with that. I had Chad
- 40:52down as my winner here. It would do a lot more for him.
- 40:55And like he said, Pedro is at the end of his career. He's
- 40:59already been to World Champion, Triple Crown Champion by this point. This would
- 41:01do so much more for Gable. You see, I'm the old man here
- 41:08and I was wanting to give it to Pedro, but you both have convinced
- 41:13me. Chad Gable will be going on to the semi finals. Yes,
- 41:21to the semis get shorty. Oh that was such a terrible gimmick. Yeah,
- 41:28it was so. Bobby Lashley ECW Heavyweight champion at this time, Bobby
- 41:34Lashley, Yes, two thousand and six, Bobby Lashley versus nineteen ninety eight.
- 41:37Not main event Rock. This is joining the Nation of Domination soon after
- 41:45would be Intercontinental Champion. I do believe. So this is not main event
- 41:52Rock, but it is kind of a main event. Bobby Lashley still very
- 41:58blamed. Bobby Lashley. Yeah. And also we're so we're approaching this.
- 42:01I'm assuming like like we're booking it not Vince, right, Yes, okay,
- 42:07because if it's if this is Vince, Rock's going over because he will
- 42:10not let the ECW World champion. No. And also if this was Vince,
- 42:14King Kong Bundy would win. If this were Vents King Kong Bundy nineteen
- 42:19eighty seven, King Kong Bundy. So refreshman, I know we're like plucking
- 42:23them from time, but are we taking into consideration their future success or if
- 42:28that future never existed? I thought we were just we were just going with
- 42:32like the time period. Yeah, this is them from that time. So
- 42:36so basically the way we described it in the first segment was like we we
- 42:39have a time machine, we go back, we grab this specific version of
- 42:44them and bring them to the present. So we're ignoring future success. Yes,
- 42:47yes, yeah, the future stuff doesn't matter. But what does matter
- 42:52is like things that were going on at that time, you know, potentially
- 42:58storylines that they had going on. That's why I brought in the Bam Bam
- 43:01dooint the clown? I say, yeah, that was yeah, because because
- 43:06now now if that were like uh l t taken on Bam Bam, it
- 43:10would have that that match would have been a little different. But this is
- 43:15Bam Bam Bigelow feuding with nothing against doing just you know. So this one,
- 43:22let's uh, let's start with you, Josh cole bebe Mobby Ashley versus
- 43:27The Rock shortly after becoming The Rock previously or formerly known as Rocky Maya Villa.
- 43:37Who do you got? I Christ because this this changed from my previous
- 43:45thing is previous when I had to set out it was a different person facing
- 43:49Lashly. Here was it? Who was I remember who it was? I
- 43:54think it was? Well, I mean I have the bracket right in front
- 43:58of it. That's who the Rock beat. I'm gonna go with Bobby Lashley.
- 44:02Bobby Lashley. Yeah, okay, okay, see this, this one's
- 44:07kind of a tough one. Yeah, you could. I could see it
- 44:10going either way. I mean obviously right now, The Rock, no matter
- 44:15which version of him, except for Rocky Myovia, has much more charisma than
- 44:19Bobby Lashley. It's all like Bobby. I'm probably gonna have to go with
- 44:23Bobby on this one, really, yeah, because I just want Bobby.
- 44:28Bobby's a world champion at this point, The Rock. Yes, this is
- 44:32ECW world champion, Bobby Lashley. This is Battle of the Billionaires. Bobby
- 44:37Lashley. Yes he's still green. Yes he's still playing, but he's still
- 44:40a destroyer the Rock. Whereas we're starting to see that, you know,
- 44:47what's going to be his future come out, he still hasn't. I think
- 44:52he's still got some of that some of that greenness to him. Like he
- 44:55like he's going to get a little overconfident in the match and Bobby's going to
- 44:59make him make him pay for it. I'm sorry, this is one that
- 45:01I am going to have to sway one of you. I'm going to Rock.
- 45:07And here's why. You have Nation of Domination Rock. Yes, okay,
- 45:10this is during the time that the Rock is trying to take over the
- 45:14Nation of Domination from Faruke. Yes. So you have people like Mark Henry
- 45:19who are in there that are following the Rock. You have Dlo Brown who
- 45:22is following the Rock. You have I mean, just with those two alone,
- 45:28Okay, those two alone assisting the Rock to get over on Bobby Lashley.
- 45:32Okay, it's gonna be the Rock. The Rock's gonna do it,
- 45:38you know, the Rock. Okay, let's say the Rock distracts the ref
- 45:44Okay, Mark Henry comes in, World's Strongest Slam to Bobby Lashley, you
- 45:49know down the road. That's then going to set up a match between Bobby
- 45:52Lashley and Mark Henry. So you're going to have, you know, that
- 45:57story going on at that time, you're gonna have whenever he was kind of
- 46:01peak world's strongest man. I just I don't see Bobby Lashley doing this.
- 46:08So like maybe maybe at the start of the match to Rock, like ap
- 46:12purchased Bobby and it's like, you know, we'll make this easy. Join
- 46:15the Nation, you know, to kind of kind of go that angle.
- 46:19Bobby, he's a face no, not doing it, and then okay,
- 46:22then we got to do this the hard way, and then that's when the
- 46:24Nation starts coming in and really kind of just picking Bobby apart throughout the match.
- 46:30Is that? Is that? How? The problem I have with that
- 46:32is, Okay, let's say you have that setup. The setup is Bobby
- 46:37joined the Nation. They're all standing there and they put the fist up in
- 46:42the air. Bobby Lashley stands there and then he does it. Okay,
- 46:45but I think then that would be a ploy by Bobby to then attack the
- 46:51Rock. Okay, so he's then getting the jump on the Rock. Because
- 46:57he catches Rock at a vulnerable spot. So then if the ref is distracted
- 47:02by let's say Delo Brown trying to get Delo out of the ring, Mark
- 47:08Henry then attacks Bobby, maybe hits them with a foreign object. Maybe if
- 47:13common Mustapa is still there, hits them with the gold chains that were melted
- 47:16down from the Undertaker's urn. Okay, I just I don't see Bobby Lashley
- 47:24winning this. So with all of that said, yeah, I'm going with
- 47:29Rock as well now, but also looking at my what's coming up. It
- 47:35provides a very interesting matchup coming up, and I like what's happening better with
- 47:38this matchup than the previous one I had, You know, you sway my
- 47:43my position as well. On that that I mean, I'm I am also
- 47:47looking at what the next match would be for whoever this is, and I
- 47:52think the Rock Chad Gable is more enticing than Babyface Babyface true true, true.
- 47:58See I'm a maybe it's because I don't have it in front of me.
- 48:00I'm not looking at it that way. I'm literally taking a match by
- 48:04match. Yeah. Well no, I mean, I think that's the fun
- 48:07way to do it. But I'm also trying to think about it from a
- 48:09storyline perspective, and yeah, okay, all right, yeah, I'm going
- 48:15with Rocks. The Rock is advancing to the same as Okay, okay,
- 48:19so now we have the model Rick Martel, who just got done with an
- 48:23easy victory over Savvio Vega, yes, against Rob van Dam, who just
- 48:30got done with a victory on King Kong Bundy. Yeah, we're talking two
- 48:36thousand and two, Rob van Dam. Yeah, like Alliance RVD taking on.
- 48:44And I don't know what Morales was doing at this time, not Martel,
- 48:49Martin Martel. Yeah, I was looking at Russell Pedro Moreles. I
- 48:52don't know what Rick Martel was doing around this time. Okay, here's nineteen
- 48:54eighty nine. But here's what you need to keep in mind. Okay,
- 49:00Rick Martel handed a victory in the last match. Okay, he's still a
- 49:07fresh guy. Rob van Dam just faced King Kong Bundy. However, heavy
- 49:15King Kong Bundy is massively larger than Rob van Dam. M hmm. Okay,
- 49:23So Jeff, which way are you going? Oh man, that's a
- 49:29hard one. Yeah, all like, these quarterfinal matches are all kind of
- 49:34kind of difficult to figure out who you want to go. M hmm.
- 49:40I'll just interject I want to go r v D, but I'm like,
- 49:44storyline wise, I kind of would lend to Martell being handed another easy victory.
- 49:50Yeah, you got a point there, got a point there. M
- 49:57I might go with that now that but you see, here's the thing.
- 50:00Okay, before you say anything, okay, uh if Rick Martel wins,
- 50:06Okay, what you were then setting up is a fresh heel going into the
- 50:14semi finals. Yes, so you have that. So if you're looking for
- 50:21heat in the story, you're getting heat yeah real quick. Yes, Oh
- 50:28okay, all right, okay, all right, I know I know how
- 50:30I'm going to do this. I'm gonna go Martell. Actually, okay,
- 50:36I'm gonna go Martel. He's gonna get it, behnded another victory. Rvd's
- 50:38not gonna go out without a fight. He's gonna get those babyface points.
- 50:43He is gonna chip away at Martel a little bit. Okay, he's not.
- 50:46He's not gonna get a full like walk away victory, but RVD already's
- 50:51gonna make him work for it. Okay, So, but I am gonna
- 50:53go Martel. Okay. Josh I had originally put down RVD based on previous
- 51:00results before he got changed when we made discussions and whatnot. But I think
- 51:05I'm gonna go Martel as well, give him a second easy victory. Okay,
- 51:09I was actually gonna go r v D. Really, I was,
- 51:13where are you gonna go? Rv D. So the way that I was
- 51:15seeing a play out in my head, r v D he's doing the r
- 51:21v D e c W injured, still fighting, coming down to the ring,
- 51:25limping. Yeah, okay, uh, Rick Martel, super self centered,
- 51:34egotistical heel taunting, uh kicking out r v d's leg Every time RVD
- 51:42stands up, kicks the leg back out, he's posing, maybe doing a
- 51:46little dance like a Renee du pre dance. Even Yeah, okay, who's
- 51:51from from Canada? Not Francis. If you listen to these out of order,
- 51:57that will that comment wonders, you'll understand. Go back and listen to
- 52:02the April twenty eighth episode. So then he goes for the kick, goes
- 52:09for the kick again, RVD jumps the leg, spinning back kick. Yep,
- 52:16hit him rolling thunder five star frog splash. When that was me.
- 52:24It's an upset victory. It shows that the heel was so self absorbed with
- 52:31just with just making himself look amazing. Yes, that he was not focused
- 52:37on the match. See, I was, honestly, I was originally thinking
- 52:43that, yeah, and I was originally going to go with that. But
- 52:46I sat there and thought real quick. I know that I was saying I
- 52:50was taking this match by match, But I sat there and I realized what
- 52:52the next match was, and I know exactly how I'm going to how that
- 52:55one's going to go for me in my head, and I'm trying to set
- 52:59up for the of my finals. I'm still sticking with Martel Martel. Josh,
- 53:04listen, I will tell you this, Okay, if you stick with
- 53:06Martel, I am perfectly fine with it. I mean, that's that's a
- 53:10gray scenario which you laid out, Like I love Rick Martel, like I
- 53:15am fine with him advancing. But that was just the initial thing that I
- 53:20saw. Because you had the first round easy victory for Martel. He goes
- 53:24in overly confident going against RVD, who just faced this bohemoth of a man.
- 53:32M But I am perfectly fine putting Rick Martel over. It's it's a
- 53:39solid case for both. Yes, you know, it just depends on which
- 53:47direction you're wanting to take a story. Yes, you know what we have
- 53:52here with the King of the Ring Tournament is a branching narrative that for every
- 53:57action there's a reaction. And what I'm definitely not doing is stalling so Josh
- 54:04can figure out what he wants. This is a lot more, in my
- 54:07opinion, interesting than just this sound. Yeah, not that Josh I was
- 54:14trying to get. Yeah, so Josh, no, no, no,
- 54:17I'll just say it with you. So, Josh, what do you have?
- 54:22You know what? RVD was my original answer, So you know what,
- 54:25I'm gonna go with that with rv D. Going with RVD, okay,
- 54:30So we're now going two to one r v D. Okay. I
- 54:36like the idea of Mortel and getting an easy victory, but you know,
- 54:38yeah RBDY works for me too. I mean, thinking about I kind of
- 54:43wanted Martel, but I just I just in my head, I can see
- 54:47RVD doing just getting that baby face, you know, sort of the Ricky
- 54:52Morton, you know, just just getting the crowd behind him and then just
- 54:54Martell just getting him at the end. Yeah, he just he was just
- 55:00too much for him. But like I said, no, I mean it
- 55:01makes perfect sense, but both great arguments, both great Next and final round
- 55:07match. For the quarter finals, we have one Charles Montgomery Punk see Him
- 55:15Punk versus Cheeky Baby the Iron Chic. Do we start with you last time?
- 55:22Jeff, Let's go, Josh, Cold Baby, I'm sorry, Shaky
- 55:27Baby, see Him Punk? Oh no, I'm going Shaky Baby, Chiky
- 55:31Baby, Cheeky Baby gonna come out there, break his back and make him
- 55:37humble. Okay, let me real quick, let me just say why.
- 55:42Why? Well, I was actually about to ask both of you because I'm
- 55:45on the fence. You're on the fence, so I need to be swayed.
- 55:47So you want to go first, Josh. The final I have set
- 55:52up in my head is why. But I don't want to give it away.
- 55:57It's okay, that's okay, okay, Jeff, tell me why so
- 56:06okay. One in the previous rounds, Punk has gotten to me two.
- 56:12We've given him two fluke victories. This is what year is a Cempunk?
- 56:17This is two thousand and eight Punk Again. This is not later in his
- 56:21career, Punk. This is you know, he's he's a world champion.
- 56:23That sound, but he's going to get nineteen eighty five Iron Chic not like
- 56:31a few years after he's the transitional champion and everything. I can just I
- 56:37don't see Punk getting another fluke victory over the Iron Chic. And also like
- 56:43if we're doing this a whole runner up tournament thing, like who who did
- 56:46Chic runner up to in his King of the Ring? Does same body?
- 56:50No? Off the top of their head? What year was nineteen eighty five?
- 56:52Don Morocco is non Morocco? Okay? The original rook Okay, I
- 57:00I really want I just I don't see Punk beating cheeky baby. Just I
- 57:06feel like she's just going to be too much for him. If it were
- 57:07later in his career, I could, I could see it, But just
- 57:12two thousand and eight, c M Punk not so much, Josh, do
- 57:19you have anything to try to swing me towards one colossal monster punk Punk versus
- 57:30rock? That's why? Okay, so I'm going Iron Sheep. Are you
- 57:38seriously going Chic? Yeah? I'm going chy. I just I just cheat.
- 57:44Listen. I love CM Punk. I think Smpunk's great, but with
- 57:49this because also the way that I had played it out with the Iron Sheek
- 57:54versus I R S was you know, Iron Sheek kind of does the blind
- 58:00attack camel clutch, not exactly much of a match. See him Punk just
- 58:06got done with Bam bam. Uh see him Punk beat Bam bam with kind
- 58:12of the one two three kid finish from Razor ramon the Moon Salt. I
- 58:16just I don't know. I just see Chic coming through on this. Yeah,
- 58:22and nothing nothing against the m Punk. I do like I do like
- 58:25Punk. I think Punk is amazing. I just he's gotten two fluke victories
- 58:30so far in this tournament one no two two. Sorry, Yeah, I
- 58:36just don't I see his luck running out when he gets to the Chic,
- 58:38when he gets to the Iron Chic with his clubs doing doing his little club's
- 58:45thing. We need a camera in here to see this, say this.
- 58:49Do we want to see rb D versus Chic or arv D versus Punk.
- 58:55That's what's next. It is but this is a worn down RVD, like
- 59:02a barely holding on RVD. And I think, personally, okay, if
- 59:09you have babyface Punk going against RVD, if Punk wins, it makes him
- 59:17into a heel yes yep, which because he he did. He go hill
- 59:23not too long after two thousand and eight, was that when did the Straight
- 59:27Edge Society start? Was that twenty ten? I think something like that.
- 59:34I mean I could see that, I could see it being, you know,
- 59:36turning punk. He'll I just like I said, I just he's already
- 59:38gotten too fluke victories in this tournament. I just don't see him going any
- 59:42further. Yeah, that's me. I mean, I I feel like the
- 59:47Iron Cheek you're still going with punk. I don't really got any good rebuttal
- 59:54well, I'm sorry, Josh, it is it is going to be the
- 59:58Iron Cheek, all right. So we're in our semifinals now we are.
- 1:00:04Indeed, the semi finals are now Chad Gable versus The Rock nineteen ninety eight
- 1:00:08and RVD versus The Iron Cheek. Yes, semi final. Wow. So
- 1:00:17first match Chad Gable versus The Rock. Now, Chad Gable started off going
- 1:00:25against John Morrison and picking up that victory after Morrison had beaten Jake Roberts.
- 1:00:31Then Chad Gable one and bested Pedro Morales. Yes. The Rock however,
- 1:00:40started off against Neville and then went against Bobby Lashley. So truly both of
- 1:00:50them have had like a sort of not an easy victory, but a sort
- 1:00:54of easier victory and then yeah, I would make them if you were playing
- 1:01:00the game, if you're playing WWE two K right now, I would put
- 1:01:02them both at equal stamina and equal health yep, and not in the green
- 1:01:09Okay, So that's where I would put them mentally right now. And we're
- 1:01:13talking nineteen ninety eight Rock against twenty nineteen Chad Gable. Yeah before Shorty g
- 1:01:19Yes, God, that was a terrible gimmick. Awful, it was absolutely
- 1:01:22awful. I could see, Okay in this match. I sort of see
- 1:01:32Chad Gable being Ken Shamrock a little bit. Okay, Like he's going to
- 1:01:37come in, He's going to do the submissions, he's he's going to give
- 1:01:40Rock a lot of he's gonna give me a headache. He's gonna give him
- 1:01:45River his money. But I see Rock doing it, okay. Yeah,
- 1:01:49I see Rock again Nation domination coming through. Yeah. I didn't even I
- 1:01:52didn't never took that in because there is consideration. Until he brought it up.
- 1:01:55I can see the nineteen ninety eight Rock like I am, like he's
- 1:01:59he is. He is pretty much hell bent on being the king of the
- 1:02:01ring. He's no matter what, And Chad Gable I mean, who's he
- 1:02:05got Jason Jordan. I don't even think he's got Jason Jordan, So it's
- 1:02:09just him. I mean it's one of those things where it's like Chad Gable
- 1:02:13is always the bridesmaid and never get the bride. Yeah. Yeah, so
- 1:02:16Josh Gable stories ending here. Yeah, so Shorty g is about to begin.
- 1:02:23Is this what sends this Chad Gable? Are we really sending Chad Gable,
- 1:02:30one of the best in the business, down the route of Shorty g
- 1:02:35We have to crown that next travel chief, Shorty G. I see,
- 1:02:42I was very confused. As soon as as soon as Chad Gables walk into
- 1:02:45the back, they got this, They got the suit ready for him,
- 1:02:49Like all right, all right, pal, got your next gimmick, Shorty
- 1:02:55g. Think about it. I don't really want to think about it.
- 1:03:00Think about it. You're short and your last name's Gable, Shorty j shaving
- 1:03:15because he can't let the beard win, and not understanding what a burrito is.
- 1:03:20That one still turns me for a loop. I want to meat wrap
- 1:03:23like a like a steak burrito? What's a burrito? Who knows what a
- 1:03:28burrito is? Vince? Not that you're ever going to listen to this,
- 1:03:31But man, I grew up in a trailer park, like you, I
- 1:03:35knew what a burrito was. Yeah, I mean, come on, did
- 1:03:40not know? Okay, so all three of us are going to rock then,
- 1:03:45yeah, okay, so that smells funky. So next we have RVD,
- 1:03:52Rob Van Dam Versus, the King of the Camel Clutch, the iron
- 1:04:00chic who probably legitimately killed someone back in the day. I mean that's one
- 1:04:09of the reasons why he came from Iran. Oh yeah, I mean there
- 1:04:14was like a because he he was like the bodyguard for the basically their president
- 1:04:16or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, okay, you know what I completely forgot
- 1:04:20about. Yeah, it's like mirrcro co cop cro cop in mm A.
- 1:04:25Uh you know he was special Forces he was. Yeah, he was a
- 1:04:30Croatian cop, right yeah because yeah, well I mean he also had that
- 1:04:34like ungodly powerful right head kick. Yeah, because like the left leg was
- 1:04:40the names were like left leg Hospital, right leg morgue. Yes. Yeah.
- 1:04:45Anyways, yeah, so Rob Van Dame versus c him Punk RVD,
- 1:04:51who started off against King Kong Bundy winning that victory. Uh, then picked
- 1:04:57up a shock victory over Rick Martel, which has now led him into the
- 1:05:01semi finals as one tired Robbery victorious Daniels rv D Rob Van Damdels against the
- 1:05:15Iron Chek, who started off with his quick win over Irwin R Sister I
- 1:05:19r S and then followed that up with a victory over one CM Punk,
- 1:05:25which has now led him into these semi finals against Rob Van Damn. Josh,
- 1:05:31I think, baby, baby, why I mean? And you can
- 1:05:38just say, because if that's honestly your reasonly you you don't have to have
- 1:05:43this big elaborate story. You could just say because that's why I like.
- 1:05:47Okay, I originally had to see him Punk here, and I had Punk
- 1:05:51going over. Okay, so now she replaces Punk in this scenario, and
- 1:05:56I'm just gonna go with she is that. I think Rock versus She would
- 1:05:59be pretty inner matchup. Okay, Okay, So it's it's Chic versus rv
- 1:06:03D. Right, Yes, the no iron cheek, the iron cheap yeah,
- 1:06:08yeah, yeah, the o G Sheek's nothing yeah no, and not
- 1:06:11and not Kenny Omega's uncle the Golden cheek either and this is the iron cheek.
- 1:06:16So the Iron Cheek taken on rv D. Keep in mind that The
- 1:06:21winner of this goes on to face nineteen ninety eight Nation of Domination Rock Chic
- 1:06:30Chic Chic. The reason why I'm going chic rv D. I think he's
- 1:06:34just too gased at this point. Yeah, he is chic quick victory over
- 1:06:39I. R S took out who is it? They took took out a
- 1:06:45A C. M. Bunk who had who had another who had you know,
- 1:06:47two fluke victories and just wasn't gonna go any further in this tournament rv
- 1:06:51D. I didn't have him advancing to the semi finals as it is.
- 1:06:56Yeah, I don't see him advancing to the finals. I don't see him
- 1:06:59getting past schiky baby, especially with him being in the match with Rick Martel
- 1:07:02already being kind of gas coming in there. Yeah, breaks his back makes
- 1:07:08them humble how quickly? Like? Is this a squash match? Or does
- 1:07:14r VD have a fighting chance because he still has two working arms, and
- 1:07:17any man with two hands has a fighting chance. Uh. I think he'll
- 1:07:23put up a decent fight, but he'll be a pretty short match. Yeah,
- 1:07:26it's they're gonna they're gonna go about eight or nine minutes. They're not
- 1:07:30gonna go. No, they're not going over that. Rvd's gonna give him
- 1:07:34some like he's gonna put up a fight. He's not gonna go down without
- 1:07:36a fight. This ain't gonna be a squash match with him. So do
- 1:07:39you think maybe rolling thunder Chiki gets the knees up. R v D back
- 1:07:45lanes on the knees, he's on the mat. Cheeky goes over camel clutch.
- 1:07:49Yeah that, or or RVD goes for frog splash. She moves and
- 1:07:56then he camel clutch breaks his back, makes him humble. I should have
- 1:08:00wore my sheet shirt. Okay, So we're going iron chic and we have
- 1:08:05a final. I'll be honest, this is not the final that I thought
- 1:08:11it was going to be. Okay, Okay, before we go into what
- 1:08:14Okay, first, Josh, who you said yours was? Like, did
- 1:08:18you want Originally I had Bobby lash was seeing punk. Then when we made
- 1:08:23changes, it became rock seeing punk. Now it's rocks and cheek So but
- 1:08:28so your original one was seeing punk and Bobby lash one. Yeah, like
- 1:08:30that was your original final that you wanted from what I saw? Yes,
- 1:08:35okay, I didn't have one. You didn't have one. I honestly,
- 1:08:41I did not go into this thinking about like think about how the book this.
- 1:08:45I just kind of, like I said, I went match by match
- 1:08:48up until these excuse me, up until these last few matches. Yeah,
- 1:08:53that's when the vision started to come and I really wanted Rock versus the Iron
- 1:08:58Cheek. I don't know what I wanted, Like the the randomly generated stuff
- 1:09:05here is not the matches that I would have wanted to start off with,
- 1:09:14just because I think there's with some of these too much of current generation,
- 1:09:19like Chad Gable, John Morrison, Iron Chic Irs. You know, I'd
- 1:09:27want to switch things up a little bit like Saviovega, Rick Martel Mankind and
- 1:09:30Savio Vega, you know, switch a few around. But I'm not sure.
- 1:09:36I think an interesting one could have been Razor Ramone xpoc in the final,
- 1:09:42just going back to the Razor Ramone versus the Kid on the third episode
- 1:09:48of Monday Night Row. I think that's when it happened, and I think,
- 1:09:54yeah, it might not been the third, but it was Sean Waltman
- 1:09:59as the Kid his third match because he had previously lost to mister Hughes and
- 1:10:05I don't remember the second one. But nonetheless, what we have now is
- 1:10:13the Rock versus the Iron Chic the final round. We have Nation of Domination
- 1:10:20Rock. We have heel versus heel. Yes. So also we have the
- 1:10:28originator of the word Jabbroni. It's a true person who made jibbroni the word
- 1:10:33famous. That's true. It's kind of how the angle I was going with
- 1:10:36this. So who is the bigger Jabbroni? Who's going to lose? Yeah?
- 1:10:44I mean I because you have you have again, you have Nation of
- 1:10:47Domination Rock. Okay, but you have the Iron Chic and not just any
- 1:10:56iron cheek. Yeah, nineteen eighty five, nineteen eighty five chic a few
- 1:11:00like I said, a few years removed as the world champion iron cheek.
- 1:11:06So you have you have a guy who's already tasted that breath ring. He's
- 1:11:11already grabbed a hold of that brath ring. Baby, he's already pulled it
- 1:11:15down and he's pulling himself back up. And then you have someone with the
- 1:11:18Rock who hasn't made it to that breath ring yet. Baby, he's climbing
- 1:11:21the ladder trying to get to that breath ring. His hands are so close.
- 1:11:27Is this going to be that change that he gets with Maybe he just
- 1:11:29takes another step up that ladder. Is he gonna Is he going to trip
- 1:11:32and maybe fall down the wrong baby? What's gonna happen? Josh, let's
- 1:11:36go to you. Baby. Oh I could cut up. I know you
- 1:11:45can't. I do think this shall be the ascension of the original tribal well
- 1:11:50not the original, but the tribal chief, the Rock, the high Chief,
- 1:11:54my via. Okay, so you think Rock's going over w Yeah,
- 1:12:01Okay, He's gonna lead that nation. He's going to lead the nation,
- 1:12:04so it will be his nation of domination. In the runner up to the
- 1:12:11King of the Ring tournament where he finally becomes the king, Baby, he
- 1:12:15gets a little bit of that breath ring baby gets the taste for the champagne.
- 1:12:19Baby was so sweet. Yeah, now, Jeff, Jeff, look
- 1:12:26at me, Look at me, Jeff, Yes, yes, okay,
- 1:12:30So Josh's gone the Rock. He's going with the Rock. He's going with
- 1:12:32the Rock to win the whole thing. You did it for the Rock.
- 1:12:36He did it for the Rock. Okay, did for the people. So
- 1:12:42look at me, Jeff, look at me. I to eye man to
- 1:12:45you. You've got the Rock versus the iron chic who do you got so
- 1:12:55it doesn't matter what you think. Teet it up right there, Rocks coming
- 1:13:02out the cocky is all all could be. Yeah, he's got the nation,
- 1:13:08he got the nation with him. He you know chic, he's coming
- 1:13:12out. He's got well himself. Yeah, he's got himself. But we
- 1:13:17ain't just talking about any ordinary man. No, we're talking about the Iron
- 1:13:21Cheic, not the Golden Chic, not the oj she. He might have
- 1:13:26killed a man, the Iron Cheek, the maneen eighty five Iron Chic.
- 1:13:32Yes, nineteen eighty five Iron Chic. I could see the match going,
- 1:13:40you know. Now, keep in mind nineteen eighty five Iron Chic had classy
- 1:13:45Freddy Blasty with him. Oh okay, he's coming out with classy glassy Yeah.
- 1:13:49I mean if the Rock's got the nation, then Chiky's got the blassy
- 1:13:54Yes and is he was so classy? Yes, I could see. Don't
- 1:14:00forget this is the man who came up with your pencil neck geek. That's
- 1:14:04Freddy blasting, not Iron Cheek. That would have been was great. I
- 1:14:12could see this match, you know, going back and forth with one another.
- 1:14:15I could see the nation getting involved. I could see, you know,
- 1:14:20Shiky baby, is getting worn down by Freddy Blast. He's trying to
- 1:14:25do what he can. It's all behind the referees back until the referee sees
- 1:14:31it, and the referee throws everybody else. You see, I was going
- 1:14:34to say, the same thing sends everybody. Now, it's just down between
- 1:14:39the rock and the iron cheek. It's yes, the rock and the iron
- 1:14:43sheet the rock. He is young, he is cocky. He is wanting
- 1:14:46this. He wants that ring. Dang it, yes, he wants it.
- 1:14:54He goes in for the rock bottom. He don't get it. No,
- 1:15:00what happens? He does not get it? Does he? She just
- 1:15:03with the arm there. He tries to go up. She is not letting
- 1:15:09him. He's wrapping that leg around, wrapping leg, wrapping the leg around
- 1:15:12him. Leg gives him an elbow. No, no, no, the
- 1:15:18bottom. They're standing up side by side, man by man, arms in
- 1:15:24un locked. He keeps trying to lift him up, and she could just
- 1:15:28keeps locking the legs, locking it. He ain't letting him go. Rocky,
- 1:15:34he was not prepared for this. Sheik's experience is kicking in. He
- 1:15:39gets he's been using the weights. He's been using the weights. He gives
- 1:15:43one big old elbow to the back of rocks head just starts whipping them at
- 1:15:46that point, just welling at him, goes down, goes down, gives
- 1:15:53him the body slam makes it, breaks his back, It makes him humble.
- 1:15:59Camic lunch, camel colk for the iron ch Rocky passes out. He
- 1:16:03doesn't tap out, He doesn't tap out, but he passes out. Why
- 1:16:06doesn't he tap out because he can't. He does not want He does not
- 1:16:11want to give up. He's not going to give up, Rocky. Rocky
- 1:16:14as long as he's conscious, he ain't given up. But then you're putting
- 1:16:17him in baby faced territory. True true, true true at that point,
- 1:16:21at that point, I'm still going shiky okay, and then then you know
- 1:16:28what, take that back Rock the beginning of the corporate takeover because Rock because
- 1:16:33because throughout this match, Sheik's been trying to get this camel clutch in and
- 1:16:36Rock knows if he gets the camera clutch in, it's it's not going to
- 1:16:40be pretty, you know. And he gets the camel clutch in, but
- 1:16:43somehow flips it over into a pin clips Rock flops. He's still applying it.
- 1:16:47While he's still applying it that's a good one. I could still see
- 1:16:55he's yeah. Okay, now that we're going with looking at it from a
- 1:16:58hills perspective, Rock for ex Rock can't get out of it. He's doing
- 1:17:01everything he can. She just just just cinches it in more crowds going crazy,
- 1:17:08just make some humble makes some tap, they make some tap. Is
- 1:17:13your King of the Ring runner up, tournament winner? I mean I could
- 1:17:15see it. I can see I can see it either way. But that's
- 1:17:17that's how I'm picturing it in my head. Okay. So we have Josh
- 1:17:21Cole with the rock. Yeah, we have Hollywood Jeff Petty, Yes,
- 1:17:30with the iron cheek. Yes. So this falls on me. You're you're
- 1:17:36the tiebreaker. Yeah. That cheat shirt I should have or the sheep shirt
- 1:17:43Josh? Yeah? Can you give me something on the rock because I'll tell
- 1:17:47you this. Jeff painted a pretty picture. He did picture sublime. That's
- 1:17:58a reference of the Barbie moving. Yeah. I haven't seen that. It's
- 1:18:01it's pretty good. Yeah, Okay, I mean I'm not opposed to watching.
- 1:18:05I'm just I'm just saying that that there's a part in the movie where
- 1:18:09Ryan Gosling says sublime and it's it's just perfect and apparently it was improvised.
- 1:18:14Okay, yep, so it's even better sublime. My issue on this is
- 1:18:17that I'm not as familiar with this version of the rock and I'm just not
- 1:18:23really familiar at all with Chic, So I yeah, I don't have a
- 1:18:27great rebuttal on it. Ah, okay, so peak behind the curtain?
- 1:18:35Yeah, okay, I have no problem with you. I don't. I
- 1:18:43don't mind you. The problem is is that if I agree with Jeff on
- 1:18:48this, then it really seems like that I have a problem because the last
- 1:18:54one with Iron Chic and RVD, no with uh yeah, Iron she Can
- 1:18:59RVD were you were like O r VD and I'm like, no, Iron
- 1:19:01Chic. You know, it's not because that I dislike you, because I
- 1:19:05don't. I think you're okay. Also real quick time out, Yeah,
- 1:19:13is is Sheic like? And I'm still gonna stick with my pick just because
- 1:19:16I want to see the chic win. Is she babyface at this time?
- 1:19:20No, he's here, that's right. You said to begin heel versus here.
- 1:19:24But we but with my scenario, we turned chic face. Why why
- 1:19:30do you turn the sheep face? The k who has like always been anti
- 1:19:36America. The only time the Shek was ever babyface was when he was on
- 1:19:43Howard Stern. You gotta gotta point there. You got a point there,
- 1:19:55Josh. Do you have anything? I don't have anything America America. You
- 1:20:04vote chic, you hate America? Gee? Thanks? I mean you see,
- 1:20:12that was just gonna sound bad for me casting my vote here. Know,
- 1:20:17but but that was before he said it, like I quickly want to
- 1:20:23be like the Iron Chic, but I don't want people to be like,
- 1:20:25oh, he hates America. It's like I was born here. Just let
- 1:20:30him clutch from my pillows. Yeah, you know, I really think that
- 1:20:33between the two, the the image of both parties getting thrown out, yes,
- 1:20:42the Nation and Freda Blathe getting thrown out the rock going for the rock
- 1:20:48bottom, only to be countered into the camel clutch. It's just it's it's
- 1:20:57too sweet to give up because you have the rock with the Nation, and
- 1:21:01this is only going to drive him down that hill mode even more. And
- 1:21:05he has used a nation for almost all of his victories. Yeah, so
- 1:21:14something's got to give it at some point. Yeah, Freddy Blassi has not
- 1:21:17gotten involved once until now. Well, I think we've came to a conclusion
- 1:21:27that the winner of the first ever grill Out King of the Ring runner Up
- 1:21:33tournament is the Iron Chic from nineteen eighty five. Yes, so Shiki Baby
- 1:21:44has finally done it. Sublime, sublime, So Chiky. Wherever you're listening,
- 1:21:51wherever you are in the Great Wrestling Ring in the Sky, I mean
- 1:21:57where wherever you are listen. I'm not judging. I'm just saying, wherever
- 1:22:03you are. Whatever you believe, if you believe, I don't care.
- 1:22:08What I care about is that twenty twenty four, the grill Out has crowned
- 1:22:15the first ever grill Out. Predictions, it's not a prediction. The grill
- 1:22:19Out King of the Ring runner Round Tournament to the nineteen eighty five version of
- 1:22:26the Iron Cheek. Yes, come back in ten years and we'll do another
- 1:22:30one with the next ten keypers. Yeah, I'll be honest with Yeah.
- 1:22:35Between us three, I really hope I'm not here with you. Thanks,
- 1:22:43You're welcome, many thanks, And if you all enjoyed this, let us
- 1:22:46know. If you have ideas for tournaments that we can do, let us
- 1:22:53know. And actually, and I'm who do you believe is going to be
- 1:22:58the King of the Ring runner up tournament email at the grill Out the grail
- 1:23:00Out in ninety five at gmail dot com. Send it to us on Facebook.
- 1:23:03We will probably post it on Facebook. So yeah, that's going to
- 1:23:08be the end of our first Grill Out special. Yes, what Jason said,
- 1:23:12send us some ideas. I mean we've been trying to We've been brainstorming
- 1:23:15a little bit. This was. Honestly, this was very fun to do.
- 1:23:19Was it more fun than you all thought it was going to be?
- 1:23:21Yes? Yes, yeah, because I mean you both seemed slightly hesitant.
- 1:23:28Yeah, yeah, well, and I want I will say this, I
- 1:23:31loved the idea when you first pitched it. It was just finding the time
- 1:23:35to do it, and I wanted, like I wanted it to be.
- 1:23:40I didn't want to be a throwway episode because at one point this was there's
- 1:23:42gonna be a throway upsode in a way, it's gonna be a filler It
- 1:23:45was very adamant that it wasn't. Yes, so I'm glad you were,
- 1:23:50but it was going to be kind of filler episode. But with the King
- 1:23:54of the Ring stuff coming up, I just felt like more weekend and everything.
- 1:23:58Yeah, we're just timing is going to work out great for this.
- 1:24:00So you know what, maybe if listeners have a wrestler, an individual wrestler,
- 1:24:05yes, current or from history, that they would like more information on
- 1:24:10tell us and maybe we'll do a wrestling life of so and so episode.
- 1:24:16You know, I've honestly, I've really wanted to do stuff like that.
- 1:24:19Yeah, like especially with like that, with the interviews that that some of
- 1:24:25y'all have been listening to, like with Chris Statlander and Adam Harrison, and
- 1:24:29we try to we focus on what they have coming up, but we're also
- 1:24:34trying to give you a background on some of these people. I'm give you
- 1:24:36a good profile on them, whether you know, even with Statlander, we
- 1:24:40got are sitting there talking NASCAR, which still kind of blows my mind a
- 1:24:43little bit. But I just, yeah, like the best like life of
- 1:24:46I would love to do that. I mean it kind of as both if
- 1:24:49you know, I kind of already have a couple of scripts ready to go
- 1:24:51or something like that. For example, people who love the Undertaker, Yes,
- 1:24:56Okay, his first match was against Bruce Brody, So if it was
- 1:25:01not for Bruiser Brody, you probably wouldn't have the Undertaker. So maybe we
- 1:25:09do a life of Bruiser Brody. Yeah. Another thing is doing it like
- 1:25:15the history of professional wrestling. I really truly want to do something on the
- 1:25:18gold Dust Trio talk about because they were kind of the ones that ushered in
- 1:25:24this era of k fabe of we're going to do this as a work.
- 1:25:27We're not gonna this is not going to be a legitimate or whatever. This
- 1:25:30isn't going to be a shoot. This is all going to be a work.
- 1:25:31Another thing, a history wise, I've wanted to do, and just
- 1:25:34because it's just very interesting how Japanese wrestling has went, is the history of
- 1:25:40it going all the way back to Ricky Dozon with a jack. I think
- 1:25:43the promotion was Japan Pro Wrestling, and that that promotion branched off into All
- 1:25:49Japan and New Japan, and then then All Japan of course had to split,
- 1:25:55and then that's how you get pro wrestling. Noah, well, it
- 1:25:57even goes back before that, I believe with Gotch Yeah, Carl got yeah,
- 1:26:03yeah, Carl Gotch was was instrumental. I mean, he's he's highly
- 1:26:08regarded in what is known as put. I can't pronounce it correctly. I
- 1:26:12have to slow myself down when I'm saying, but you know, if you
- 1:26:15all be interested in hearing about that, let us know, let us know
- 1:26:17what you're not interested in hearing about, and we still might do it anyways
- 1:26:21because I don't care exactly exactly, so uh yeah, it's whatever this is.
- 1:26:28But this is Yes, this is our first special. We're looking to
- 1:26:30do eventually, do more specials for the girl out And again, if you
- 1:26:34have any that's what Jason, if you have anything, maybe some fantasy booking.
- 1:26:39Again, this was This was very fun. This was a very fun
- 1:26:43thing, and I appreciate you pitching this to us. Well I appreciate me
- 1:26:46too. So with that being said, until next time, fellow wrestling fans,
- 1:26:53have a good one. Good Bye, Ah and Joy the Night's friend.