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Sound Off 933 - Crown Jewel FALLOUT, Cena's Final Opponent and WAR GAMES PLANS Revealed! · Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 3: of Glory show was insane, absolutely jam packed, as packed
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Speaker 3: as I've ever seen it inside the NYC Arena to
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Speaker 3: see the Hardys beat main event Jylyon and Midas Black
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Speaker 3: title for title winner take All. It was TNA Tag
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Speaker 3: team titles on the line, hog Tag Team titles on
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Speaker 3: the line. The Hardys were there with their new NXT
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Speaker 3: tag team titles as well, first time we've seen those
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Speaker 3: in a House of Glory ring, although they were not
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Speaker 3: on the line. So I mean, think about this, You
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Speaker 3: had a TNA tag team holding the NXT titles in
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Speaker 3: an hog ring. Wild times that we live in. But
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Speaker 3: the Hardys are the new Hog Tag Team Champions. That
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Speaker 3: makes four sets of belts they now possess. Not their
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Speaker 3: first time holding them either, They first won them back
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Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen, so it's been a very long time.
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Speaker 3: Had that match gone the other way, that would have
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Speaker 3: caused a pretty big change to Bound for Glory. Tonight,
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Speaker 3: in the main event between Charles Mason and men like Dereise,
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Speaker 3: who was the reigning Progress World Champion, we had an
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Speaker 3: unexpected recreation of one of the most infamous moments in
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Speaker 3: ECW history when the fans began throwing chairs into the
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Speaker 3: ring for them to use. That was very scary, but
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Speaker 3: it made for one hell of a visual. It's one
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Speaker 3: of those times I'm very happy I don't do commentary
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Speaker 3: at ringside anymore. So that was insane. And then Killer
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Speaker 3: Cross made his Hog debut with a win over Matt Cardona.
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Speaker 3: Zillafot I retained his Crown Jewel title, the only Crown
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Speaker 3: Jewel title that really matters, over Bear Bronson and the
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Speaker 3: amazing Red and Leon Slater, the TNAX Division champion.
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Speaker 1: They tore it up.
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Speaker 3: Indy Hartwell retained her Hog Women's Championship.
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Speaker 1: Over Zeta Steel. It was a hell of a night.
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Speaker 3: And I got to meet a lot of you as usual,
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Speaker 3: some of you for the very first time. I know
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Speaker 3: a lot of people were also in town for Comic
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Speaker 3: Con and came straight over from that. Shout out to
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Speaker 3: Randy from Brooklyn. He's been a fan going back to
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Speaker 3: the early eighties WWF, maybe even earlier than that, and
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Speaker 3: he's a big fan of the podcast and of a
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Speaker 3: TNT on Tuesdays. So it was great to meet him
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Speaker 3: and just incredibly proud of my Hog family, not just
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Speaker 3: all the talent, but all the folks on camera and
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Speaker 3: off who make these shows possible. The Hardys will be
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Speaker 3: back to defend those titles. I mean they kind of
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Speaker 3: have to be now. But first we've got our Long
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Speaker 3: Island debut coming up on November fifteenth, in conjunction with
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Speaker 3: the Big Event Expo's gonna be a lot of wrestlers there,
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Speaker 3: So now kind of like Comic Con this week, if
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Speaker 3: you're going to be hitting up the big event, you
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Speaker 3: may as well stick around because that night you get
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Speaker 3: to see a wrestling show. And then later that week
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Speaker 3: on November twenty first, we are back in Chicago. Now
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Speaker 3: I mentioned Zeta Steele, this will kind of blend well
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Speaker 3: here into our first news item, I mentioned Zeta Steele.
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Speaker 3: She was the first talent signed to a WWEID contra
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Speaker 3: last year. For someone as young as she is, only
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Speaker 3: twenty one years old. She carries herself like a total star.
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Speaker 3: She just has a confidence about her that really makes
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Speaker 3: her stand out. And I noticed that, you know, in
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Speaker 3: doing my research and putting some notes together before the show,
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Speaker 3: I was watching a couple of her recent interviews and
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Speaker 3: you just listen to her speak and talk about wrestling
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Speaker 3: and her journey and all that. I mean, this woman
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Speaker 3: is a total star and she will be a name
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Speaker 3: that you see on TV in a prominent role in
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Speaker 3: these next five years. But she made some news this
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Speaker 3: week on Thursday when she announced I've decided not to
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Speaker 3: renew my WWEID contract. I am incredibly grateful for all
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Speaker 3: the knowledge, experience, and opportunities that I've gained along the way,
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Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, I have to
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Speaker 3: do what's best for me now. I talked about the
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Speaker 3: WWEID program after it was first launched last year. So
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Speaker 3: basically it provides indie talent with some limited financial support.
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Speaker 3: Evidently not a lot of financial support, but they say
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Speaker 3: there's some money involved, and they provide them with that
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Speaker 3: wwe ID designation. That talent could then use to kind
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Speaker 3: of market themselves, and promotions can use it when they
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Speaker 3: promote these talents for their shows. But really what it
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Speaker 3: does is it gives WWE first DIBs on these talents
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Speaker 3: should they eventually want to sign them to a proper
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Speaker 3: contract before anyone else has the chance to do so.
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Speaker 3: So when you sign a WWE ID deal, you're not
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Speaker 3: really signing a WWE like a full time deal, a
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Speaker 3: developmental deal, or a main roster deal. It's basically them saying, Okay,
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Speaker 3: we see something in you. There could be something here.
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Speaker 3: We're not ready to kind of sign you full on
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Speaker 3: just yet, but we have first DIBs and so maybe
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Speaker 3: in six months, maybe in a year, maybe in two years,
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Speaker 3: we decide, you know what, we want to pick you
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Speaker 3: up full time. But it also kind of prevents certain
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Speaker 3: other places from getting their hooks in on these men
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Speaker 3: and women if WWE, you know, wants them first. So
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Speaker 3: you get that WWE ID stamp of approval, you have
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Speaker 3: the freedom to continue working indies. I'm sure there are
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Speaker 3: some restrictions on certain places they cannot work. You can
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Speaker 3: figure out what those places are. But like, if you
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Speaker 3: start generating a buzz and you continue to improve and
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Speaker 3: up your game, then chances are they'll probably want to
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Speaker 3: sign you to a full time developmental deal. So the
9:27
Speaker 3: program is barely a year old, and I wouldn't exactly
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Speaker 3: call it a resounding success so far. I don't think
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Speaker 3: they've signed anyone new in months, and in fact, there
9:38
Speaker 3: have been several names that have either been cut, which
9:41
Speaker 3: you know you would expect there would be some over time,
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Speaker 3: but names that have either been cut or announced their
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Speaker 3: departure by their own choice. In just the last couple
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Speaker 3: of months. You know, Zara Zacher just announce that her
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Speaker 3: WWEID contract expired and she's taking a step back from wrestling.
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Speaker 3: Kylie Ray recently vacated her WWEID Women's Championship because she
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Speaker 3: is pregnant with her second child, so they told her
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Speaker 3: that they're not renewing her contract. Meanwhile, it's been almost
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Speaker 3: a month and there's been no word on what they
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Speaker 3: even plan to do with that title. They don't really
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Speaker 3: seem to be in any great rush to figure it out,
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Speaker 3: and nobody seems to care. So I get that the
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Speaker 3: program is probably more of a long term play, so
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Speaker 3: we'll see how things pan out, you know, if the
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Speaker 3: program is even still a thing, let's say two years
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Speaker 3: from now, three years from now. They also pulled their
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Speaker 3: ID designation from Knox Pro after the Psycho ste incident.
10:34
Speaker 3: I'm going to have some news on that later and
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Speaker 3: that wasn't their fault, but that's not the kind of
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Speaker 3: publicity that they want to be associated with. So a
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Speaker 3: year in and it is still very much up in
10:45
Speaker 3: the air as to what kind of success this program
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Speaker 3: is going to be. There was other NXT and developmental
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Speaker 3: news this week as well, in the form of several releases.
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Speaker 3: Now in developmental, there are always going to be people
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Speaker 3: coming in and going out. That's just of developmental. If
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Speaker 3: you're not progressing as quickly as they would like, or
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Speaker 3: they don't see main roster potential in you, they're gonna
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Speaker 3: get rid of you. Stevie Turner, Drake o' knox, Jamar Hampton,
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Speaker 3: jin Tala Hayes, Jamison my god, some of these names, Summer, Sorell,
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Speaker 3: and bj Ray are all gone from the company. Stevie Turner,
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Speaker 3: I guess being the most prominent, not that she was
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Speaker 3: all that prominent to begin with, but the most prominent
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Speaker 3: of them all, and even her, she hadn't wrestled the
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Speaker 3: match since February. You know, she was used primarily as
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Speaker 3: an assistant to Ava on NXT, and I think she
11:35
Speaker 3: was also the general manager for Evolve. So she tweeted,
11:39
Speaker 3: can't believe I'm gonna get to wrestle again. You know,
11:43
Speaker 3: none of those names are surprising to me, but one
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Speaker 3: name that was very surprising to hear about, and that
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Speaker 3: is wes Lee, Desmond, Xavier, fight Full, and Corey Hayes.
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Speaker 3: A PWN reported that Weslee was released by WWE. Now,
11:59
Speaker 3: wes Lee had not won a match on TV since May.
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Speaker 3: He hadn't worked a match of any kind at all
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Speaker 3: on TV since July, so it's almost like the writing
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Speaker 3: was on the wall here. But you know, more recently
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Speaker 3: he's been aligned with the high Rise Group in NXT.
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Speaker 3: But you know, at one point he was one half
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Speaker 3: of the NXT Tag Team Champions when he was part
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Speaker 3: of MSK. He's a former NXT North American Champion, so
12:23
Speaker 3: he found success on his own as a single star.
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Speaker 3: He's a super talented guy. I think he was better
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Speaker 3: in the babyface role than the heel role, and I
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Speaker 3: think he had underdog babyface potential on the main roster,
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Speaker 3: you know. And it's one thing to say that, well, look,
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Speaker 3: if you're in developmental and you're not progressing as quickly
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Speaker 3: as they would like for you, too, they're gonna cut you.
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Speaker 3: Wesley does not fall into that category. Okay, Wesley, if
12:49
Speaker 3: you tell me, well, you know, Wesley was not really
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Speaker 3: progressing and the way that they wanted to clearly that
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Speaker 3: doesn't apply to him. So there was some other reason
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Speaker 3: why they felt the need to get rid of him,
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Speaker 3: and unless it was something he requested, and that's certainly
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Speaker 3: not the impression that I'm under. It just sounds to
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Speaker 3: me like they decided, we don't have any real plans
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Speaker 3: for him on the main roster to call him up,
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Speaker 3: and so we're gonna cut bait and move on. And
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Speaker 3: I just think that's completely ridiculous, because again, he's an
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Speaker 3: uber talented guy who I think you absolutely could have
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Speaker 3: found a role for, whether it was singles or tag team.
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Speaker 3: So that one caught me by surprise. And there was
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Speaker 3: yet another release this week. They weren't done yet, Supposedly,
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Speaker 3: I think Brian Alvarez mentioned there might even be more
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Speaker 3: coming up this week, but for now, this was the
13:32
Speaker 3: other release this week, and this time it was a
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Speaker 3: Bloodline member. Lance Atawaii, the son of Samu, announced on
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Speaker 3: Friday that he too was released by WWE, so he
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Speaker 3: did not in fact make it. Meltzer was right after all.
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Speaker 3: If you know you know, Lance posted this, I am
13:55
Speaker 3: officially announcing my departure from WWE. I didn't have the
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Speaker 3: best of lucks since I arrived. I will not let
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Speaker 3: this stop me from achieving to be great. I've worked
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Speaker 3: hard on the indies for fifteen years. Now let's get
14:07
Speaker 3: back to work. Thirty days accepting bookings at book Lanceanoye
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Speaker 3: at gmail dot com. You know he's not kidding when
14:17
Speaker 3: he says that he didn't have the best of lux
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Speaker 3: and signing he signed in November as part of the
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Speaker 3: NXT roster never appeared on TV, but he actually now
14:24
Speaker 3: here's a little interesting trivia note. He actually wrestled Shane
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Speaker 3: McMahon once in a match on Raw back in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 3: I'll bet there's a memory unlocked for you. But shortly
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Speaker 3: after signing last year, he suffered an injury and he
14:39
Speaker 3: was supposed to be cleared earlier this year, but then
14:41
Speaker 3: he ended up suffering another injury and that sidelined him
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Speaker 3: even longer than expected. He still hasn't wrestled the match
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Speaker 3: since August of last year, so when all the time
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Speaker 3: that he has been signed with WWE, he has not
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Speaker 3: wrestled officially wrestled a single match. We had him in
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Speaker 3: House of Glory for a match early last year and
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Speaker 3: he looked the best that I had ever seen him.
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Speaker 3: So when he got signed, I was happy for the guy.
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Speaker 3: And then he just got bit by the injury bug
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Speaker 3: and he ended up losing his dream.
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Speaker 1: Job earlier in the week.
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Speaker 3: And funny enough, just days after the fire triple H
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Speaker 3: hashtag picked up some steam on social media, there was
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Speaker 3: a report that WWE would be making some changes behind
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Speaker 3: the scenes to the SmackDown creative team because, let's be honest,
15:27
Speaker 3: SmackDown has largely been a rinse repeat show now for months.
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Speaker 3: It's fucking boring. It needs a roster shake up as
15:34
Speaker 3: much as it needs a creative one. You know, the
15:37
Speaker 3: tag team division, the tag team division really was propping
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Speaker 3: up the show for many, many months. That tag team
15:42
Speaker 3: division has now gone cold. Now it's sammy' Zin and
15:45
Speaker 3: his weekly US Open challenges that are keeping the show interesting.
15:49
Speaker 3: The women's division is just in dire need of some
15:51
Speaker 3: fresh faces, and the main events scene has been very
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Speaker 3: weak now. Perbodyslam dot Net, WWE is said to be
15:59
Speaker 3: moving forward with internal changes aimed at improving the quality
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Speaker 3: of SmackDown, which means they even they recognized the show
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Speaker 3: needs to be better. But road Dog Brian James is
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Speaker 3: expected to stay on as lead writer, but there will
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Speaker 3: be additions to the team to make the show more
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Speaker 3: enjoyable moving forward. SmackDown, I should point out, has also
16:22
Speaker 3: been hit hard by these new changes to the Nielsen
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Speaker 3: measurement system, just like NXT and aw Dynamite have been.
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Speaker 3: SmackDown last week on USA network was down to just
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Speaker 3: a million viewers. Now, this is their normal night on
16:35
Speaker 3: their normal network, and they were down to just a
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Speaker 3: hair over a million viewers, down roughly twenty percent from
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Speaker 3: the week before. I would say that'll inspire some creative
16:46
Speaker 3: changes real quick, more than any hashtag ever will. That's
16:50
Speaker 3: the lowest total the show has done since twenty twenty three,
16:53
Speaker 3: and that's only because the show that night was moved
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Speaker 3: from Fox to FS one and they always took a
16:58
Speaker 3: hit when they moved to a different network. You know,
17:02
Speaker 3: soon we're gonna have fans online saying the same thing
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Speaker 3: that they used to say about Dynamite when the numbers
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Speaker 3: on Wednesdays started to creator no Milli, no Milli for SmackDown.
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Speaker 1: It could happen now.
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Speaker 3: One of the changes we saw on Friday, and this
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Speaker 3: may have nothing to do with creative, but it's a
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Speaker 3: welcome change and I'd like to see more of.
17:23
Speaker 1: It, was some old theme.
17:25
Speaker 3: Music that we got back. The Street Profits got their
17:28
Speaker 3: old music back, as did Shinsky Nakamora, who returned to
17:31
Speaker 3: accept Sammy's Ain's US title Open challenge. I would not
17:35
Speaker 3: read too much into this yet. I don't think def
17:37
Speaker 3: Rebel have been given their walking papers, but Russell Votes
17:41
Speaker 3: did say that sources indicate several WWE stars have been
17:45
Speaker 3: requesting music changes for some time now, and some have
17:48
Speaker 3: been very outspoken about it, like Drew MacIntyre and Shamus,
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Speaker 3: and time will tell if those requests are granted. You know,
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Speaker 3: I would say Shamus needs his old theme song back,
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Speaker 3: but what good is it if he's never on tea
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Speaker 3: to actually hear it.
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Speaker 1: They could give it back to.
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Speaker 3: Him, but you know, if he's not actually appearing on
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Speaker 3: the show, it kind of defeats the purpose. The Street
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Speaker 3: Profits got their old music back only to then lose
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Speaker 3: to the Wyatt Six in their tag team title match.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they only got their music back for one week
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Speaker 3: before they break them up.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: But Nakamura answered the open challenge and he did not
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Speaker 3: win the US title. The match was foiled. It was
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Speaker 3: ruined by the MFTs hitting the ring and attacking both men.
18:31
Speaker 3: Toma Tonga is back and he had white face paint on,
18:36
Speaker 3: as did all of the other members of the MFTs
18:38
Speaker 3: except for Solo Socoa. But Tomatonga, as expected, was the
18:42
Speaker 3: one that Solo was referring to when he said something
18:45
Speaker 3: was missing. Tama was the missing piece. You can put
18:50
Speaker 3: all the clown makeup on that you want if they
18:52
Speaker 3: don't take the time to flesh out these characters more.
18:55
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give any more of a shit
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Speaker 3: about these guys next week than I did the last
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Speaker 3: six months. But they did come back out later in
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Speaker 3: the show to confront the Wyots after the match with
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Speaker 3: the Profits, and we got Nicky Cross staring down Solo Socoa. Well,
19:10
Speaker 3: I can't wait for that match. That's going to be
19:13
Speaker 3: a hell of a match. Tomatanga and Nakamura were not
19:18
Speaker 3: the only returns on this show. Selena Vega is back
19:20
Speaker 3: as a heel with her husband Alister Black. She came
19:23
Speaker 3: out at the end of his Last man Standing match
19:25
Speaker 3: with Damian Priest, which was very good. She was there
19:28
Speaker 3: in the crowd for the distraction because they were both
19:30
Speaker 3: on top of some equipment cases and they were battling,
19:33
Speaker 3: and it was pretty clear somebody was going to be
19:35
Speaker 3: taking a table bump here because there was a table
19:37
Speaker 3: down below. But then all of a sudden, there she is.
19:40
Speaker 3: There's Zelena Vega, and that gave Black enough of a
19:43
Speaker 3: distraction to then throw a fireball in Priest's face, and
19:49
Speaker 3: then he blackmasked him off the cases and threw a
19:51
Speaker 3: table down below, and he did not respond to the
19:53
Speaker 3: referees ten count. They don't go to the flash paper
19:57
Speaker 3: very often in this company, so that was different. At
20:00
Speaker 3: least he didn't have a Hogan and Warrior moment on
20:03
Speaker 3: Live TV. I like the pairing, you know, it's only natural,
20:07
Speaker 3: and it's a different role for Zelena on TV that
20:10
Speaker 3: I think she could do well in, you know, as
20:12
Speaker 3: the plucky baby face. She really wasn't getting over you know,
20:15
Speaker 3: she would come out to crickets every single week. Now
20:17
Speaker 3: she could still wrestle, she doesn't have to just be
20:20
Speaker 3: a valet. But I think the pairing will do them
20:22
Speaker 3: both very well. So there were signs of some of
20:25
Speaker 3: those creative changes that we heard about. Whether these end
20:27
Speaker 3: up being good changes or bad changes. There were some
20:30
Speaker 3: that I think were good. There were some that time
20:33
Speaker 3: will tell. But you know, the show needs changes, so
20:37
Speaker 3: let's give it some time and see how the changes
20:39
Speaker 3: play out. I mean, this is what a lot of
20:40
Speaker 3: people have been asking for, so you can't just judge
20:43
Speaker 3: them in one week.
20:44
Speaker 1: You know.
20:44
Speaker 3: I'm encouraged that they're at least taking the steps to
20:47
Speaker 3: shake things up a little bit. Now they need to
20:50
Speaker 3: focus on Julia and her United States championship and placing
20:54
Speaker 3: more of an emphasis on that now. WWE held its
20:58
Speaker 3: Crown Jewel Show in Perth, Australia yesterday. Definitely not a
21:03
Speaker 3: C show this time. It was an upgrade from Wreussell Palooza.
21:08
Speaker 3: I thought it was a good show. It was more
21:10
Speaker 3: in the range of a B plus this time, largely
21:14
Speaker 3: carried by the John Cena aj Styles match, which was
21:16
Speaker 3: a match that was just thrown out there with no
21:19
Speaker 3: story outside of the history that they shared together almost
21:23
Speaker 3: a decade ago. That in and of itself does not
21:25
Speaker 3: make a story. But it was just two you know,
21:28
Speaker 3: legends in the company whose careers are both winding down,
21:33
Speaker 3: and they looked at the card and said, we want
21:35
Speaker 3: to just throw something out there that's going to be
21:36
Speaker 3: a special attraction and get people excited.
21:39
Speaker 1: That's what this match was.
21:41
Speaker 3: And I pointed this out of my review since turning
21:43
Speaker 3: back Babyface right before SummerSlam, John Cena, the guy that
21:47
Speaker 3: was washed and couldn't hack it in the ring anymore,
21:51
Speaker 3: has now stolen the show at three of the last
21:53
Speaker 3: four pls and he secured his one hundredth pl win,
21:58
Speaker 3: moving him to second place all time behind the Undertaker
22:02
Speaker 3: with one oh seven. And I loved everything about this.
22:06
Speaker 3: You know, AJ Styles coming out in the throwback TNA gear,
22:09
Speaker 3: you know, him wearing the trunks instead of the tights
22:12
Speaker 3: was a little weird. It's been a while, so that
22:14
Speaker 3: was interesting. And then John Cena comes out and he
22:16
Speaker 3: hands a piece of paper to Alicia Taylor and he
22:20
Speaker 3: wants her to do a very special introduction for Aj
22:22
Speaker 3: Styles that evidently Aj was not warned about or told
22:26
Speaker 3: about in advance. He had no idea it was coming.
22:28
Speaker 3: And his reaction was genuine because they kept the camera
22:31
Speaker 3: on him as they had Alisia reading off this piece
22:36
Speaker 3: of paper and it said the definition of total NonStop action,
22:39
Speaker 3: the ace and undisputed Boss of the Bullet Club. It
22:44
Speaker 3: is our honor as fans, in my honor as an opponent,
22:47
Speaker 3: to see if he can beat up John Cena one
22:49
Speaker 3: final time. He is the face that runs the place,
22:53
Speaker 3: the phenomenal Aj Styles. It's a great introduction, and I
22:58
Speaker 3: tell you, you know it didn't really he hit me
23:01
Speaker 3: at the time, but undisputed Boss of the Bullet Club.
23:06
Speaker 1: Could that be a.
23:06
Speaker 3: Reason for Finn Balor to confront Aj Styles on Raw?
23:11
Speaker 3: You'd think you're the undisputed boss of the I mean
23:13
Speaker 3: AJ didn't write it, but you know Aj had a
23:16
Speaker 3: big smile on his face when Sena said it.
23:19
Speaker 1: Could they use that line?
23:20
Speaker 3: Of course they can, I don't know if they will,
23:21
Speaker 3: but could they use that line to you know, create
23:25
Speaker 3: friction between Balor and aj Or? Does Balor maybe confront
23:31
Speaker 3: John Cena on Raw next month? Because we're not going
23:33
Speaker 3: to see John Cena again until Boston on November tenth.
23:36
Speaker 3: He's only got four dates left Boston November tenth, Madison
23:40
Speaker 3: Square Garden the week after that, San Diego for Survivor
23:44
Speaker 3: Series on November twenty ninth, and then Saturday Nights Made
23:47
Speaker 3: Event on December thirteenth in DC. That's it. We are
23:50
Speaker 3: down to the final four. I cannot imagine that we
23:54
Speaker 3: get John Cena on Raw his final Raw appearances back
23:58
Speaker 3: to back weeks, and he does not wrestle at least once,
24:02
Speaker 3: if not on both of those shows. So could we
24:05
Speaker 3: get Finn Balor in the Judgment Day coming out to
24:07
Speaker 3: confront John Cena. Maybe we get an impromptu John Cena
24:10
Speaker 3: Finn Baalor match in Boston, you know, or maybe at MSG.
24:14
Speaker 3: That's what happened with Sammy's Ain, you know, we got
24:16
Speaker 3: that imprompt two match on his final SmackDown. John Cena
24:20
Speaker 3: wrestled on his final SmackDown. There's no way he's not
24:22
Speaker 3: wrestling in Madison Square at least Madison Square Garden if
24:25
Speaker 3: not Boston.
24:26
Speaker 1: So I just throw that out there.
24:28
Speaker 3: They could always use that line to create an issue
24:31
Speaker 3: between him and Balor, and you do a match between
24:33
Speaker 3: the two of them. Trying to think, did John Cena
24:35
Speaker 3: and Finn Balor have a singles match like a PL
24:39
Speaker 3: match or I guess even a TV matt I don't remember.
24:44
Speaker 3: I really don't recall. But aj Styles, you know, John
24:47
Speaker 3: Cena is not the only one who is calling it
24:49
Speaker 3: quits very soon. We've heard AJ Styles talk about this before.
24:53
Speaker 3: He talked about it to Tokyo Sports recently because they
24:56
Speaker 3: have those dates coming up next weekend in Japan. He
25:00
Speaker 3: had done an interview with Tokyo Sports and he said
25:03
Speaker 3: that his plan is to retire in twenty twenty six.
25:06
Speaker 3: He said he's not even sure if he'll be at
25:07
Speaker 3: WrestleMania next year. The belief is that his deal may
25:10
Speaker 3: be up in the early part of next year. But
25:12
Speaker 3: I can't imagine they don't sign an extension or something,
25:15
Speaker 3: you know, and get him to WrestleMania at least.
25:17
Speaker 1: So if he.
25:18
Speaker 3: Stays true to his word and he retires next year,
25:21
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that we have him for the entire year.
25:23
Speaker 3: Like he could very well be done in Vegas at
25:26
Speaker 3: WrestleMania next year.
25:28
Speaker 1: But on the pre.
25:28
Speaker 3: Show, they had the kickoff show for Crown Jewel on Friday,
25:31
Speaker 3: and he reiterated his plans to retire from the ring,
25:35
Speaker 3: and he said on the Crown Jewel kickoff, Look, I'm
25:38
Speaker 3: getting old, folks. If I could find the fountain of
25:41
Speaker 3: youth and take a couple of SIPs, I would wrestle
25:43
Speaker 3: for the rest of my life. But you know, I
25:45
Speaker 3: am getting older. The fear of embarrassing myself is getting closer.
25:50
Speaker 3: And you know what, there comes a time in a
25:52
Speaker 3: man's life when he has to take care of business.
25:55
Speaker 3: But when business is done, it's time to take care
25:57
Speaker 3: of his family. I need to spend time with my family.
26:01
Speaker 3: The whole idea with wrestling and having an amazing future
26:04
Speaker 3: in this business is to be able to retire one day,
26:07
Speaker 3: and in twenty twenty six, I will retire. This match
26:12
Speaker 3: felt like the end of an era in many ways.
26:15
Speaker 3: You know, we heard about Undertaker and Triple H Helenasell
26:18
Speaker 3: WrestleMania the end of an era, and it did. It
26:21
Speaker 3: really did feel like the end of an era, even
26:23
Speaker 3: though as it turned out, they both continued to wrestle
26:28
Speaker 3: after WrestleMania twenty eight, so it really wasn't the end
26:30
Speaker 3: of an era. But here that's kind of what it
26:32
Speaker 3: feels like I take John Cen at his word when
26:35
Speaker 3: he says that we will never see him in the
26:37
Speaker 3: ring wrestling again after December thirteenth. I believe him, and
26:41
Speaker 3: maybe I'm a fool, because there's been so many people
26:43
Speaker 3: in wrestling that have said that and then they come back,
26:46
Speaker 3: even just for one match, right many years later. Sean
26:49
Speaker 3: Michaels did it, and Steve Austin did, although Steve Austin
26:51
Speaker 3: never officially retired. But it's like everybody comes back at
26:56
Speaker 3: some point.
26:56
Speaker 1: Right.
26:57
Speaker 3: If the Saudi money is such that John Cena consume,
27:00
Speaker 3: not say no, he'll be back one day, right, But
27:02
Speaker 3: he seems to be doing well for himself in Hollywood,
27:05
Speaker 3: So I believe that John Cena's final match this year
27:08
Speaker 3: will be his final match AJ Styles. I tend to
27:12
Speaker 3: believe him, you know, when he says that he's going
27:14
Speaker 3: to retire in twenty twenty six. But I you know
27:16
Speaker 3: what with AJ, I could see him being coaxed out
27:19
Speaker 3: for a match here and there. With AJ, my read
27:22
Speaker 3: on it is more, Look, I'm getting old, my body's
27:25
Speaker 3: getting more beat up. I don't want to embarrass myself.
27:27
Speaker 3: I have a certain standard I have to live up to,
27:30
Speaker 3: and so I've decided that before I turn fifty in
27:33
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six, I'm going to retire and call it quits.
27:37
Speaker 3: I could see him coming back for a match here
27:39
Speaker 3: and there, though, right, But it just feels like these
27:42
Speaker 3: two guys are from the same generation. They both got
27:44
Speaker 3: their start around the same time, Aj a little before
27:47
Speaker 3: Sena but not too much. And now here we are,
27:51
Speaker 3: you know, twenty plus years later, twenty five years later,
27:53
Speaker 3: whatever it's been, and you know, they have one foot
27:57
Speaker 3: out the door and their careers are winding down, and
28:00
Speaker 3: so this was their last chance to get in the
28:02
Speaker 3: ring together and rekindle some of that magic that they
28:05
Speaker 3: had during that feud in twenty sixteen, because the matches
28:08
Speaker 3: they had back then, and they had three very prominent
28:11
Speaker 3: singles matches on pay per views pls, whatever you want
28:15
Speaker 3: to call them, and then a television match on SmackDown
28:20
Speaker 3: that was very good in twenty eighteen. You know, they
28:22
Speaker 3: came into this all knotted up a two wins apiece.
28:25
Speaker 3: Could they recapture that magic right the way that Sena
28:29
Speaker 3: and Punk kind of did when they wrestled back in June?
28:32
Speaker 3: You know, could Styles and Scena do the same thing here,
28:35
Speaker 3: and the answer is yes. Now, it was a very
28:38
Speaker 3: different type of match because in this match here, they
28:41
Speaker 3: were basically paying tribute to all of the people that
28:44
Speaker 3: they have wrestled in the past over their career that
28:47
Speaker 3: have helped kind of bring them to the point that
28:49
Speaker 3: they are here in their careers. So you had John
28:53
Speaker 3: Cena using a skull crushing finale right with a little
28:55
Speaker 3: hat tip to the Miz And you had him using
28:58
Speaker 3: a camel clutch which was a hat to the Accolade
29:01
Speaker 3: and russev and their WrestleMania match back in twenty fifteen.
29:05
Speaker 3: And the big one was John Cena using his sister Abigail,
29:09
Speaker 3: including kissing aj on the forehead just like Bray Wyatt
29:12
Speaker 3: used to do that. I mean, the place went nuts
29:14
Speaker 3: and they got a great near fall out of it,
29:16
Speaker 3: and the fans took their phones out and the fireflies,
29:19
Speaker 3: and they had this moment where Sena was sitting there
29:21
Speaker 3: and he looked around and he kind of looked up
29:23
Speaker 3: at the heavens and he kind of nodded.
29:25
Speaker 1: It was like this.
29:26
Speaker 3: Really cool, really emotional moment, you know. And they got
29:30
Speaker 3: to work together several times as well. A couple of
29:32
Speaker 3: WrestleManias actually, and then Sena did some Randy Orton moves,
29:36
Speaker 3: including an RKO and everybody popped styles. He was busting
29:41
Speaker 3: out some moves too. You know, he used the Shawn
29:43
Speaker 3: Michael sweet Chin music. Now he never got to work
29:45
Speaker 3: with Shawn Michaels. I know he very much wanted to.
29:49
Speaker 3: He just never got that chance. What a match that
29:51
Speaker 3: would have been. But you know, he used the stinging
29:55
Speaker 3: Scorpion death drop and the Coquina clutch from Samoa Joe.
30:00
Speaker 3: Michael Cole never mentioned Samoa Joe, but he did say
30:02
Speaker 3: Cokina clutch. He hit an Angel's Wings as a tribute
30:06
Speaker 3: to Christopher Daniels and then a dead eye fade to
30:10
Speaker 3: black as a tribute to Frankie Kazari. And I mean
30:13
Speaker 3: there was other stuff too, Undertaker, the choke slam that
30:15
Speaker 3: Sena did to him, and the fans wanted seeing it
30:19
Speaker 3: to do a six P one nine, which would have
30:21
Speaker 3: been hilarious, and that got cut off.
30:23
Speaker 1: So that was.
30:25
Speaker 3: Really the majority of the match was that. And I'm
30:28
Speaker 3: sure some people will look at that and go, wow,
30:30
Speaker 3: this sucks. I don't know why people, because I already
30:33
Speaker 3: saw some comments under the YouTube video. I don't understand
30:37
Speaker 3: why people think this match was good. It was just
30:39
Speaker 3: stealing other people's moves and it was finisher spam. And
30:43
Speaker 3: I said this in my review. If it was almost
30:45
Speaker 3: anybody else, if Cody Rhoades and Seth Rollins had gone
30:49
Speaker 3: out there and they had this kind of a match
30:52
Speaker 3: where all they did was just steal and spam moves
30:54
Speaker 3: from other people and get near falls, right, that probably
30:58
Speaker 3: would have turned me off. But in this case, I
31:01
Speaker 3: don't mind it. You know, it was it was just
31:04
Speaker 3: the atmosphere and the circumstances around this match. I could
31:07
Speaker 3: tell why they were doing what they were doing, and
31:09
Speaker 3: they were having fun doing it. The fans were having
31:12
Speaker 3: fun doing it. We don't have a whole lot of
31:14
Speaker 3: time left to see these guys in the ring, you know,
31:18
Speaker 3: and seen it. Now finally, in this retirement run, after
31:20
Speaker 3: so much wasted time, is able to go out there
31:23
Speaker 3: and have fun with it in a way that he
31:25
Speaker 3: wasn't able.
31:25
Speaker 1: To before because he had to be the heel and
31:27
Speaker 1: he had to be scared.
31:28
Speaker 3: He had to kick people in the dick and hit
31:30
Speaker 3: him in the head with the belt and it was
31:31
Speaker 3: fucking terrible. So I don't mind it, it added to
31:35
Speaker 3: the match, it made it a very fun match. And
31:38
Speaker 3: the other thing also, And I can't believe I didn't
31:40
Speaker 3: pick up on this, because I definitely noticed it in
31:42
Speaker 3: their Royal Rumble match in twenty seventeen when Sena one
31:45
Speaker 3: number sixteen, they had that great match at the Alamodome.
31:49
Speaker 3: One of the great things about that match is that
31:51
Speaker 3: they never left the ring. They went to the apron
31:54
Speaker 3: right styles would go to the apron to do the
31:56
Speaker 3: phenomenal form, but they never left the ring. They didn't
31:59
Speaker 3: go out outside and use weapons and garbage and plunder
32:02
Speaker 3: and do table spots on the announced desk and pick
32:04
Speaker 3: up the ring steps and go through the timekeeper's barricade
32:07
Speaker 3: and all the bullshit that we see in every fucking
32:10
Speaker 3: match in wrestling these days. It's so fucking overdone. They
32:13
Speaker 3: didn't do any of that. Like the Rumble match, they
32:17
Speaker 3: kept it in the ring. They never left the ring
32:21
Speaker 3: a single time in that entire match. I can't believe
32:25
Speaker 3: I didn't notice it. But that's just one of those
32:27
Speaker 3: little things about it that just makes it even better
32:29
Speaker 3: to me, because there's just such an over reliance on
32:31
Speaker 3: all of this other stuff, and there's a place for it,
32:33
Speaker 3: but when everybody does it in every single match, it
32:35
Speaker 3: just gets very old. They didn't have to rely on that,
32:39
Speaker 3: so they had a great match. John Ceno won as
32:41
Speaker 3: I expected him to. They hugged and embraced and it
32:45
Speaker 3: was just, you know, this great moment and it was
32:48
Speaker 3: easily the highlight of the night. It was the best
32:50
Speaker 3: thing on the entire show. The show was not a
32:53
Speaker 3: bad show if you take this match out, but it
32:55
Speaker 3: was not nearly as good if you take this match out.
32:58
Speaker 1: Now.
32:58
Speaker 3: Also, let me point out John, there's some news here.
33:01
Speaker 3: This comes from Dave Meltzer and The Observer this past week,
33:03
Speaker 3: John Cena has his final match coming up Saturday Night's
33:07
Speaker 3: main event December thirteenth. According to Meltzer, we now know
33:12
Speaker 3: who his final opponent is going to be, and according
33:15
Speaker 3: to him, according to current plans, the plan is for
33:19
Speaker 3: Gunther to wrestle John Cena in his final match, he says.
33:23
Speaker 3: Multiple WWE sources confirm the name this past week, with
33:27
Speaker 3: two saying that the current plan is for the company
33:30
Speaker 3: to build it up by announcing a tournament where the
33:33
Speaker 3: winner would face John Cena. Says, keep in mind plans
33:36
Speaker 3: chained frequently but we also got a storyboard which listed
33:40
Speaker 3: the goals of where they are going on some of
33:42
Speaker 3: the major shows, and the only match listed for that
33:45
Speaker 3: Saturday Night's main event was John Cena against Gunther. Now
33:50
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean that that will be the only match
33:51
Speaker 3: on that show. The Saturday Nights main event shows are
33:55
Speaker 3: usually two hours. This is these next two will be
33:59
Speaker 3: interesting thing to see if that changes, if they go
34:02
Speaker 3: a little bit longer, just because they're not on NBC
34:05
Speaker 3: anymore the show. I don't know how it is internationally,
34:08
Speaker 3: but in the US going forward they will only be
34:11
Speaker 3: on Peacock, so I'm hoping we don't have the same,
34:15
Speaker 3: you know, onslaught of commercials in the middle of the
34:17
Speaker 3: matches like we used to have on NBC. So I
34:20
Speaker 3: don't know how that might affect the length of the show,
34:22
Speaker 3: if it's going to be longer, if it's going to be,
34:24
Speaker 3: you know, shorter, I don't I can't imagine it's shorter,
34:27
Speaker 3: So I don't know. I'm sure there will be at
34:29
Speaker 3: least a couple of other matches on that show. I
34:31
Speaker 3: can understand logistically if it's not really feasible to just
34:35
Speaker 3: have John Cena against Gunther and then fill the rest
34:37
Speaker 3: of the show up with tributes. I would not, you know,
34:41
Speaker 3: put together a full card for that show. You know
34:44
Speaker 3: it should be seen a Gunther and if you want
34:45
Speaker 3: to have maybe two other big matches, I would just
34:48
Speaker 3: keep it at that. But if the plan is seen
34:51
Speaker 3: it in Gunther, I like it. I was floating two
34:54
Speaker 3: names for months as far as a potential final opponent
34:56
Speaker 3: for John Cena, Gunther or Drew McIntyre. I would be
35:00
Speaker 3: fine with either one of those. And somebody on the
35:03
Speaker 3: stream last night asked me about, well, what if John
35:07
Speaker 3: Cena taps out to Gunther, and I said that would
35:10
Speaker 3: be a bad idea. I don't see that happening, And
35:12
Speaker 3: it doesn't make any sense either, because John Cena, his
35:16
Speaker 3: whole mantra has been never give up as a heel.
35:20
Speaker 3: If he was still playing heel, him giving up, that
35:22
Speaker 3: would have made sense, but he's a babyface now and
35:27
Speaker 3: I don't even think people want to see John Cena
35:29
Speaker 3: lose in that final match, even though I think he will.
35:32
Speaker 3: But him giving up or him tapping out a it
35:36
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense, and B I just think it's.
35:38
Speaker 1: A bad idea. Now.
35:39
Speaker 3: What I can see is, let's say Gunther putting him
35:41
Speaker 3: in a sleeper hole, and John Cena just stays true
35:44
Speaker 3: to those words and just refuses to give up, and
35:47
Speaker 3: he passes out. And some people might see that as
35:50
Speaker 3: being anti climactic. I'm not saying that has to be
35:52
Speaker 3: the finish, but I definitely would not have him tapping
35:56
Speaker 3: out or surrendering or anything like that verbally giving up
36:00
Speaker 3: because it just doesn't fit. It doesn't fit the John
36:02
Speaker 3: Cena character. And I don't think it really makes a
36:05
Speaker 3: difference one way or the other. If he gives up
36:07
Speaker 3: or if Gunther puts him out. It's a win for
36:10
Speaker 3: gun Thro either way. It's a feather in his cap
36:12
Speaker 3: that he can now go around and say that he
36:14
Speaker 3: retired John Ceen.
36:15
Speaker 1: Right.
36:16
Speaker 3: He didn't just retire Bill Goldberg. He retired John Sena
36:20
Speaker 3: as well. And I was talking about AJ styles. You
36:23
Speaker 3: look ahead to WrestleMania next year. If they get AJ
36:26
Speaker 3: to that last match, let's say, and it's at WrestleMania.
36:30
Speaker 3: I like the idea of AJ and Gunther, even if
36:33
Speaker 3: you forget the scene of stuff. Let's say gun there
36:35
Speaker 3: is not John Cena's final opponent. I just would like
36:37
Speaker 3: to see that match. We've never gotten to see AJ
36:40
Speaker 3: and Gunther in the ring together, So I actually think
36:43
Speaker 3: he would be at the top of my list for
36:46
Speaker 3: potential final opponents for AJ styles as well. Maybe that
36:49
Speaker 3: just becomes his thing, you know, where he could say
36:51
Speaker 3: I retired all of these different legends. But I also
36:54
Speaker 3: think that, you know, he's one of those guys that
36:57
Speaker 3: you know, gives them an opportunity to have just a
36:59
Speaker 3: great final fucking match, because I just think Guntherer is great.
37:04
Speaker 3: So anyway that is from Meltzer, it looks like it
37:07
Speaker 3: will be Gunther. I don't mind the tournament idea. I
37:10
Speaker 3: think it would be a good way to bring some
37:13
Speaker 3: real meaning and value to some of the matches that
37:16
Speaker 3: we would see on television in the lead up to it.
37:20
Speaker 3: You know, they did something similar for Undertaker. If you
37:22
Speaker 3: remember Undertaker's opponent for WrestleMania twenty nine, how they decided
37:27
Speaker 3: his opponent that year. I think it was a fatal
37:29
Speaker 3: four way match and that's how CM Punk got the shot,
37:33
Speaker 3: and that just I just thought that was a terrible
37:36
Speaker 3: way to go about doing that. And I actually think
37:37
Speaker 3: the writer who came up with that idea ended up
37:40
Speaker 3: getting either demoted or fired. But in this case, this
37:44
Speaker 3: is a little bit different. You know, this is not
37:45
Speaker 3: just it's another WrestleMania match, it's another Undertaker, you know WrestleMania. No,
37:50
Speaker 3: this is a big deal. Like this is in many
37:52
Speaker 3: ways bigger than some of the championships in this company.
37:57
Speaker 3: You get to be the one to go in there
37:58
Speaker 3: for the final time against guy who they tell you
38:01
Speaker 3: every single.
38:01
Speaker 1: Week is the goat.
38:02
Speaker 3: Right, he's the greatest of all time and he's the
38:05
Speaker 3: last real champion. So it's going to be a very
38:08
Speaker 3: coveted spot that a lot of people are going to
38:10
Speaker 3: want to fight for. I like the idea if you
38:12
Speaker 3: do a tournament of having some of his old opponents
38:15
Speaker 3: in there. There's no reason you cannot have someone like Seamus,
38:19
Speaker 3: for example, be in a tournament like that. You can
38:22
Speaker 3: get another Gunther shamous match out of it. You could
38:25
Speaker 3: have other people too. Me you want to have rusce
38:27
Speaker 3: Evan there, you want to have Miz some of the
38:29
Speaker 3: people he was paying homage to in that match last night,
38:32
Speaker 3: and you build a little tournament around it. You could
38:34
Speaker 3: even tie it into current storylines. You got the Mizz
38:37
Speaker 3: and Carmelo Hayes are beefing on SmackDown and the idea
38:40
Speaker 3: that maybe Carmelo Hayes, you know, one of the younger
38:43
Speaker 3: talents that John Cena has never had the chance to wrestle,
38:46
Speaker 3: put him in the tournament and we can get a
38:48
Speaker 3: Miz and Mellow match out of it in the tournament,
38:51
Speaker 3: and you know, maybe they end up sort of canceling
38:54
Speaker 3: each other out. But I'm just using that as an
38:56
Speaker 3: example where you can use a current storyline. It kind
38:59
Speaker 3: of feed into this and you can use it in
39:02
Speaker 3: that way as well. So I don't think that's a
39:04
Speaker 3: bad idea at all. As far as the rest of
39:07
Speaker 3: the car we had the two Crown Jewel title matches
39:10
Speaker 3: Seth Rollins. He had to win this. I mean, there
39:12
Speaker 3: was no reason for Cody. Cody literally had nothing to gain.
39:15
Speaker 3: There was nothing on the line here really except the
39:18
Speaker 3: meaningless championship that we're not going to see again for
39:20
Speaker 3: another twelve months. But Cody he won last year. He
39:25
Speaker 3: had nothing to gain. Not only did he win last year,
39:28
Speaker 3: he came into this up three to zero on Seth
39:30
Speaker 3: Rollins in singles matches.
39:32
Speaker 1: Seth Rollins.
39:33
Speaker 3: They tried to tell this story about I have to win,
39:35
Speaker 3: I have to win this, and Paul Hayman was teasing,
39:38
Speaker 3: you know, if you don't win, you're gonna lose everyone's respect,
39:41
Speaker 3: and that could very well be the end of the vision.
39:44
Speaker 3: They were really leaning in hard on that. I was
39:47
Speaker 3: happy that we had a real story they tried to
39:49
Speaker 3: create at least around this match, because again, the Crown
39:52
Speaker 3: Jewel title, it might look nice, but it don't mean shit.
39:56
Speaker 3: So at least this one, unlike the women's match, had
39:58
Speaker 3: an actual story built around it. Stephanieva Ker and Tippety
40:01
Speaker 3: Stratton had nothing. It was two baby faces, champion against champion.
40:05
Speaker 1: They went in there.
40:06
Speaker 3: They're not on the same brand, so we never really
40:08
Speaker 3: see them interact, and the interaction we've had from them
40:11
Speaker 3: the last few weeks was very just surface level, you
40:15
Speaker 3: know stuff. There's really nothing to it. And they had
40:18
Speaker 3: a match and it wasn't great. You know, it was good,
40:20
Speaker 3: it wasn't great, and that was it. I mean, it's
40:24
Speaker 3: like okay, So at least Cody and Seth had a
40:26
Speaker 3: little more than that. I thought Cody and Seth had
40:29
Speaker 3: a strong match. I didn't like it as much as
40:31
Speaker 3: some people did. This This was one of those instances
40:35
Speaker 3: where they went it won near fall. Too many and
40:39
Speaker 3: some of the big moves they were doing, and I
40:41
Speaker 3: thought they was At some point it dragged for me
40:43
Speaker 3: and I thought it was kind of dull, and then
40:45
Speaker 3: it kind of picked up more at the end. So
40:48
Speaker 3: it was a strong match. It wasn't a favorite of mine.
40:50
Speaker 3: It was the outcome that I expected. There was no
40:52
Speaker 3: outside interference from any of the Vision members. There wasn't
40:55
Speaker 3: any new Vision member. I'm gonna be talking about that
40:58
Speaker 3: here in a second. But what it came down to
41:01
Speaker 3: was him using the watch. He wore the watch to
41:04
Speaker 3: the ring, the watch that Cody gifted him after WrestleMania
41:07
Speaker 3: last year in Philadelphia when Seth was his shield, and
41:12
Speaker 3: he thought at first, I don't know. He put the
41:14
Speaker 3: watch on his fist at one point he was going
41:16
Speaker 3: to use it, and he's like, ah, I can't. He
41:18
Speaker 3: takes the watch off and he puts it on the
41:20
Speaker 3: mat in the corner. But then they came back around
41:22
Speaker 3: to it a few minutes later and he popped him
41:24
Speaker 3: right in the head with it, right in the chin,
41:26
Speaker 3: and he ended up beating Cody with the help of
41:29
Speaker 3: the watch. So I guess, you know, Cody, Cody didn't
41:34
Speaker 3: really watch himself. I'm sorry, I guess it. Really, it
41:39
Speaker 3: wasn't his time last night. All right, that's an I
41:42
Speaker 3: promise that's the last one. On the women's side, it
41:45
Speaker 3: was Stephanie Vequerre. She got the win over Tiffany Stratton
41:49
Speaker 3: to win the Crowns World Championship. This title took up
41:52
Speaker 3: almost the entire front half of her body. It was
41:54
Speaker 3: so big just watching Triple h strap the title around
41:58
Speaker 3: I say around her waist, he trapped. He strapped the
42:00
Speaker 3: title around her body like it was a fucking bomb.
42:04
Speaker 3: So on the post show, one of the questions I
42:07
Speaker 3: had in my review was what's next for Stephanie. I'm
42:09
Speaker 3: the post show. Stephanie said that she would like to
42:12
Speaker 3: face Rhea Ripley next and that could be a wrestle
42:15
Speaker 3: media match. But it's almost like, if they don't go
42:17
Speaker 3: with Rhea soon, who else do they go with? Right,
42:20
Speaker 3: So we're probably gonna get Stephanie and riea sooner rather
42:22
Speaker 3: than later. One of the things I talked about was
42:25
Speaker 3: though my fear and it may end up being completely unfounded.
42:30
Speaker 3: I hope it is because Stephanie. I love Stephanie. Stephanie's great,
42:34
Speaker 3: She's a total star. She's a great wrestler, and she
42:38
Speaker 3: deserves all the success that has come her way, but
42:40
Speaker 3: is it too much too soon? Because she got called
42:43
Speaker 3: up to the main roster and it wasn't very long
42:46
Speaker 3: and they put the Women's World Championship on her, which
42:48
Speaker 3: I don't believe they would have done had they gone
42:50
Speaker 3: through with the original plan for her in Naomi in Paris.
42:54
Speaker 3: I feel like they would have ended up waiting a
42:56
Speaker 3: little bit longer, which is what I would have done.
42:58
Speaker 3: I would have taken my time with it. I would
42:59
Speaker 3: have built up to it at some point next year.
43:02
Speaker 3: And instead she had that great match with Eo.
43:04
Speaker 1: She won.
43:05
Speaker 3: She's the champ right, didn't even sniff the IC title.
43:09
Speaker 3: First she went right for the Women's World Championship. Now
43:12
Speaker 3: she wins the Crown Jewel Championship. She's got a belt,
43:14
Speaker 3: she's got a ring. It's coming up ass for Stephanie Vicaire.
43:20
Speaker 3: The problem you run into, though, is you get to
43:23
Speaker 3: a point where people are going to look at this
43:24
Speaker 3: and go, you know, she's being shoved down our throat.
43:29
Speaker 3: They've given her everything, right, what's left for her to do?
43:33
Speaker 3: And after a while things might get a little stale
43:36
Speaker 3: and some of the fans. Not all the fans, but
43:39
Speaker 3: some of the fans may start to turn against Stephanie
43:42
Speaker 3: and they may start going, oh, man, I can't wait
43:44
Speaker 3: for liv Morgan to come back, and I hope Live
43:46
Speaker 3: beats her. We got to put the belt on Live.
43:48
Speaker 3: We gotta put the belt on this person or whoever
43:50
Speaker 3: it may be. That's the risk that you run by
43:53
Speaker 3: doing this if they don't have a really good feud
43:57
Speaker 3: or story for her in mind. I just I hope
44:01
Speaker 3: they have something in mind where they come up with
44:03
Speaker 3: something really good for her to do, because it's gonna.
44:06
Speaker 1: Get real boring after a while.
44:08
Speaker 3: If she just won everything and she just keeps beating people,
44:12
Speaker 3: there has to be some element of struggle. And that's
44:15
Speaker 3: the thing I worry about. She hasn't struggled. There's been
44:17
Speaker 3: no struggle at all. There's been no obstacle for her
44:20
Speaker 3: to overcome. It's just it really does feel like it's
44:23
Speaker 3: been handed to her, whether you think she deserves it
44:26
Speaker 3: or not. That's what they've done, and that's great for
44:29
Speaker 3: her for now, But three or four months from now
44:34
Speaker 3: are we going to feel the same way. So that's
44:37
Speaker 3: the only thing I think they have to be careful
44:38
Speaker 3: of Ria and EO. They beat Oscar and Kyrie in
44:42
Speaker 3: the tag team match. I thought that was a good match.
44:44
Speaker 3: Rio was always winning in Perth. I mean, come on
44:47
Speaker 3: the issues between the four of them. I don't know
44:50
Speaker 3: about the four of them, but certainly EO and Oscar.
44:52
Speaker 3: We still have to get that match with them, and
44:54
Speaker 3: I could see them doing that on Saturday Night's main event,
44:57
Speaker 3: which is coming up on November first. Bronson Reid got
45:02
Speaker 3: the biggest win of his career beating Roman Reigns. Absolutely
45:06
Speaker 3: the right decision to make. I thought it was the
45:09
Speaker 3: wrong decision back in Paris when they had Roman beat him.
45:13
Speaker 3: But if the plan was always to come back with
45:15
Speaker 3: this match and give Read the big win in his
45:17
Speaker 3: home country, then I'm okay with that. Because he had
45:22
Speaker 3: to win this match. He had to to go in
45:24
Speaker 3: there and lose twice to Roman Reigns. It just would
45:27
Speaker 3: have been death for this guy. It's like, oh, well,
45:29
Speaker 3: this guy can't, boy, this guy can't win the big one, Caddy.
45:33
Speaker 3: He beat a man who, outside of Cody Rhodes, nobody
45:36
Speaker 3: else in his singles match has pinned Roman Reigns outside
45:40
Speaker 3: of Bronson Reid now since twenty nineteen. You would have
45:43
Speaker 3: to go back before COVID to find the last time
45:47
Speaker 3: that someone pined Roman Reigns in a singles match, and
45:50
Speaker 3: that person, of all people was King Corbin fucking might mean.
45:54
Speaker 3: My god, that's how far back it would go if
45:56
Speaker 3: you were to look back at his win loss record.
46:00
Speaker 3: Now he's in this, you know, very very exclusive club
46:03
Speaker 3: with Cody Rhodes and also someone who has pinfall wins
46:07
Speaker 3: over Roman Reigns and Kazuchka Okada when Okada was still
46:10
Speaker 3: rocking and rolling back in the New Japan days. You know,
46:13
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about Okada now in aw and so
46:18
Speaker 3: they are all knotted up at one win apiece. They
46:20
Speaker 3: could come back and run it back again and have
46:22
Speaker 3: a third match. Maybe that's a Saturday Night's main event match,
46:26
Speaker 3: but this was something that was needed also, and Seth
46:29
Speaker 3: winning was needed because the Vision is going to end
46:31
Speaker 3: up on the heel side in wargames. I'm sure at
46:33
Speaker 3: Survivor Series you got to keep them strong going into
46:36
Speaker 3: that show. Now, of course there's some bloodline drama because
46:40
Speaker 3: when the match was over, Roman who lost in part
46:43
Speaker 3: because his cousin jay Usso accidentally speared him through a
46:47
Speaker 3: table that was propped up in the corner in this
46:49
Speaker 3: street fight here, and because Reid had help from bron
46:53
Speaker 3: Breaker who came out, but then the USOS came out,
46:56
Speaker 3: so in effect, they kind of cancel each other out.
46:58
Speaker 3: There was actually more out there on Roman's side than
47:03
Speaker 3: Reid had on his side, and Red still got the wind.
47:06
Speaker 1: But it backfired.
47:06
Speaker 3: The usso's interference or the USO's help backfired, and so
47:10
Speaker 3: that was the real story here. And so when the
47:12
Speaker 3: match was over, Roman was obviously very upset and he
47:14
Speaker 3: looked over at them and said, people think I can't
47:17
Speaker 3: do shit on my own. He goes, I love you, guys,
47:20
Speaker 3: I don't want to see you though. I don't want
47:21
Speaker 3: to see you until Christmas. And Jay was very upset
47:25
Speaker 3: about this, and he's yelling at Jimmy after Roman left
47:28
Speaker 3: and said, I'm out. You know this is He's always
47:30
Speaker 3: been like that, I'm out.
47:31
Speaker 1: I'm out.
47:32
Speaker 3: So a lot of problems going on right now within
47:35
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: I mentioned the Meltzer News this week about John Cen
49:58
Speaker 3: his final match in Set Nights Made event. There was
50:01
Speaker 3: a lot of other dudes that came out of Meltzer
50:03
Speaker 3: in The Observer this week Saturday Nights Made event on
50:06
Speaker 3: the thirteenth, we already know it's John Sted his final match,
50:09
Speaker 3: but before that, there's another one coming up on November
50:11
Speaker 3: first in Salt Lake City, and he says that currently
50:14
Speaker 3: there are three matches scheduled, with seth Rawlins against CM
50:18
Speaker 3: punk as the headline attraction for the World Heavyweight Championship.
50:23
Speaker 3: He says, the other matches are Tiffany Stratton against Jade
50:26
Speaker 3: Cargill for the WWE Women's title. And I mean, I
50:31
Speaker 3: don't know what the purposes of going back to that,
50:33
Speaker 3: but if they're going back to it, that just feels
50:36
Speaker 3: like it has to be a title change.
50:37
Speaker 1: Otherwise, what the hell is the point in going back
50:39
Speaker 1: to it?
50:40
Speaker 3: And he says the other matches Drew McIntyre against Jacob
50:43
Speaker 3: Fought two, which is listed as a match where the
50:45
Speaker 3: winner would get a shot at Cody Rhodes for the
50:48
Speaker 3: WWE Championship. Now McIntyre against Fat two is actually scheduled
50:53
Speaker 3: for SmackDown this Friday, so I assume that would mean
50:57
Speaker 3: we're not going to get a clean cut winner, and
50:58
Speaker 3: then maybe they run it back at Saturday Night's main
51:01
Speaker 3: event they say the winner gets Cody for the WWE Championship.
51:04
Speaker 3: That feels like Survivor Series. And I've talked about this recently.
51:09
Speaker 3: We talked about this. Coming out of Russell Palooza. There
51:11
Speaker 3: was a report that Cody and Drew had pitched an
51:14
Speaker 3: idea to WWE Creative for how to book the finish
51:18
Speaker 3: of their championship match on that show. And obviously, if
51:21
Speaker 3: that's true, that idea was shot down or delayed because
51:25
Speaker 3: that's not how the match played out. But the idea
51:27
Speaker 3: was a great one where Randy Orton gets involved and
51:30
Speaker 3: ends up accidentally costing Cody the WWE Championship and the
51:34
Speaker 3: title ends up on McIntyre. Things are still set up
51:37
Speaker 3: in such a way where they could absolutely do that,
51:40
Speaker 3: but do it at Survivor Series, And in fact, that's
51:42
Speaker 3: the idea that I endorse. Do a title change there
51:45
Speaker 3: on that show, and you could get Randy Orton involved
51:48
Speaker 3: in that way where he accidentally or accidentally on purpose
51:52
Speaker 3: cost Cody the WWE Championship, and then you just go
51:55
Speaker 3: from there. And even if Drew only has a run
51:57
Speaker 3: of you know, a couple months or something, it's a
52:00
Speaker 3: great way to shake things up and make things a
52:02
Speaker 3: little more interesting and loop it back into this whole
52:06
Speaker 3: Cody and Randy thing, because the direction has to be
52:09
Speaker 3: getting us to Cody Roads and Randy Orton. They've given
52:12
Speaker 3: us so many teases for it that at some point
52:14
Speaker 3: soon we have to actually get the match.
52:16
Speaker 1: So that could absolutely work. I like that idea.
52:19
Speaker 3: He mentions that Survivor Series at Petco Park in San
52:22
Speaker 3: Diego is listed as Cody Rhods defending against the winner
52:25
Speaker 3: of that match on Saturday Night's Made Event. He also
52:27
Speaker 3: says that Dominic Mysterio is currently scheduled for an Intercontinental
52:32
Speaker 3: title defense against John Cena, which not that we didn't
52:39
Speaker 3: already know this, but kind of gives away the outcome
52:41
Speaker 3: of Dom's title defense against Penta in Perth on Raw tomorrow.
52:46
Speaker 3: But he says that Sena only has limited dates left
52:50
Speaker 3: and so this will be one of his last, maybe
52:52
Speaker 3: possibly even the second to last. I guess it would
52:54
Speaker 3: be the second to last match, right. It would have
52:56
Speaker 3: to be, because the only other show after Survivor Series
52:59
Speaker 3: is his last show, so Dominic Mysterio would be his
53:03
Speaker 3: second to last opponent ever if this is true, and
53:06
Speaker 3: it would be John Cena challenging for the Intercontinental title
53:09
Speaker 3: and going for the Grand Slam that everybody seems so
53:12
Speaker 3: keen on John Cena winning me, I can't bring myself
53:15
Speaker 3: to get very excited about it. To me, I don't
53:17
Speaker 3: give a shit like John Cena. They already call him
53:19
Speaker 3: the greatest of all time. They build him up like
53:21
Speaker 3: he's this mythical figure seventeen world championships. Who gives a
53:26
Speaker 3: shit if he wins the Intercontinental title and wins a
53:30
Speaker 3: meaningless Grand Slam. He's won every other championship, Seriously, who cares.
53:35
Speaker 3: He's been WWE Champion, he's been World Heavyweight Champion, he's
53:39
Speaker 3: been United States Champion, he's been a tag team champion.
53:42
Speaker 3: He's won multiple Royal Rumbles, He's been in multiple WrestleMania
53:46
Speaker 3: main events.
53:47
Speaker 1: Have I missed anything?
53:48
Speaker 3: He's never been King of the Ring, he hasn't won
53:51
Speaker 3: one of those big crown jewel belts. But he's done
53:54
Speaker 3: all that he needs to do and winning the Intercontinental
53:57
Speaker 3: title at this point, I'm sorry it doesn't move me. Oh,
54:00
Speaker 3: I don't really give a shit either way. I don't
54:02
Speaker 3: see the need to put that title on him. I
54:04
Speaker 3: would not book him to win the Intercontinental Championship. But
54:09
Speaker 3: that's just how I feel about it. I think people
54:11
Speaker 3: just make way too much about Oh, he's got to
54:13
Speaker 3: win the Grand Slam. No he doesn't, He really doesn't. Now,
54:16
Speaker 3: let's talk about these war Games matches. The Wargames plans
54:21
Speaker 3: as of a week ago on the men's side had
54:25
Speaker 3: a team of CM Punk Roman Reigns, Jay Usso, Jacob
54:31
Speaker 3: faugh II, which kind of gives away who would be
54:34
Speaker 3: challenging Cody for the WWE Championship on that show, along
54:39
Speaker 3: with an unknown fifth man not yet decided, but it
54:43
Speaker 3: would be between Jimmy Usso and La Knight. Apparently those
54:46
Speaker 3: are the two candidates at this point, taking on a
54:49
Speaker 3: heel team of Seth Rollins, bron Breaker, Bronson Reid who
54:53
Speaker 3: hopefully stays off the top of the cage this year,
54:57
Speaker 3: brock Lesner, who will definitely stay off the top of
55:01
Speaker 3: the cage no shooting star presses in Wargames, brock Lesner,
55:07
Speaker 3: and Austin Theory.
55:11
Speaker 1: Yes.
55:11
Speaker 3: I had to do a double take when I read this.
55:15
Speaker 3: So the two notable items he says is that even
55:17
Speaker 3: with Lesner's win over John Cena at Russell Palooza and
55:21
Speaker 3: the teases in recent you know Cody's recent promo. It
55:25
Speaker 3: now looks like Cody Rhodes against Brock Lesner is scheduled
55:30
Speaker 3: at some point. I fucking hope not. The biggest surprise
55:36
Speaker 3: is Austin Theory's name being involved here. He says Theory
55:39
Speaker 3: has been out with an injury. They spent a year
55:42
Speaker 3: plus building a split between Grayson Waller and Austin Theory
55:45
Speaker 3: that seemed to be building toward Theory as a babyface.
55:49
Speaker 3: Then Theory was injured and it was just dropped cold.
55:52
Speaker 3: Now it looks like he's coming back as a main
55:54
Speaker 3: event level heel when he left as an undercard comedy guy.
56:00
Speaker 3: He says he is one of those guys who, because
56:01
Speaker 3: of his look, will get more chances to be a
56:04
Speaker 3: top guy, even if he's not over like a top guy,
56:07
Speaker 3: because the powers that be look at him and think
56:09
Speaker 3: he looks like a star. Austin Theory has a great look, right,
56:15
Speaker 3: he's in shape. He's just he looks like somebody that
56:18
Speaker 3: you would pick out of a lineup if you said, hey,
56:21
Speaker 3: you know who can I put on my poster to
56:23
Speaker 3: be on my professional wrestling show? Right, And he's a
56:26
Speaker 3: very good wrestler. You know, he's had some good matches before,
56:29
Speaker 3: he's got the tools. He just hasn't been able to
56:31
Speaker 3: put it all together, and Creative has not been kind.
56:33
Speaker 1: To him either.
56:34
Speaker 3: To be honest, one of the few people who can
56:37
Speaker 3: say they got to win over John Cena at WrestleMania
56:39
Speaker 3: and it was completely wasted. It was a waste of
56:43
Speaker 3: a John Cena loss at WrestleMania. They wasted it. And
56:49
Speaker 3: Dave is absolutely right in that theory has been booked
56:52
Speaker 3: as a I came say mid card as an undercard
56:56
Speaker 3: comedy guy for the last couple of years, and it's
57:01
Speaker 3: just a very weird thing that if this is accurate,
57:04
Speaker 3: the plan is to bring him back in a top
57:08
Speaker 3: heel role on the show, when the last time we
57:11
Speaker 3: saw him he wasn't even able to get TV time.
57:14
Speaker 3: All the segments that he and Grayson Waller had very
57:17
Speaker 3: similar to The New Day Now, where a lot of
57:18
Speaker 3: it is like during the commercial breaks and it's off
57:21
Speaker 3: camera or it's off TV, and this is how you're
57:24
Speaker 3: going to bring him back. That's a big leap of faith.
57:28
Speaker 3: It sounds like a big leap of faith that they're
57:30
Speaker 3: taking on Austin theory. From the same people who had
57:32
Speaker 3: the power to book him in a much more prominent
57:35
Speaker 3: position the last couple of years and shows not to
57:37
Speaker 3: do so. Now we're supposed to believe that, oh, they're
57:39
Speaker 3: going to book Austin Theory like a top guy. They're
57:41
Speaker 3: going to book him like a top heel. Triple H
57:43
Speaker 3: has had the book now for a couple of years.
57:46
Speaker 3: Color me skeptical that they are that invested in Austin Theory.
57:50
Speaker 3: It would be quite the turnaround. But if it's true,
57:55
Speaker 3: that tells me that if they're doing Seth Rollins and
57:58
Speaker 3: cm Punk, it's Saturday Night's main event. That's where we
58:01
Speaker 3: get Theory debuting as the newest member of the Vision,
58:04
Speaker 3: and he costs CM punk because cmpunk is not winning
58:07
Speaker 3: the World Championship on that show, and we get Theory
58:11
Speaker 3: added to that group. Jacob Fatu being added to wargames
58:15
Speaker 3: on the surface here makes no sense, so there would
58:18
Speaker 3: have to be a storyline reason for him to join.
58:21
Speaker 1: I suspect there will be.
58:22
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Roman turns to Jacob, you know,
58:26
Speaker 3: a different member of the family instead of Jimmy and Jay,
58:30
Speaker 3: because he's pissed at them right now and he turns
58:32
Speaker 3: to Jacob for help and Wargames, but Jay is listed
58:34
Speaker 3: as being in the Wargames match and possibly Jimmy two,
58:37
Speaker 3: so that wouldn't really make sense. I would rather them
58:40
Speaker 3: set up like Brock Lesner against Fatu coming out of this,
58:43
Speaker 3: than Lesner challenging Cody for the WWE Championship. I have
58:46
Speaker 3: no interest in seeing that whatsoever, So having them on
58:50
Speaker 3: opposite sides that could lead to something with Lesner and
58:53
Speaker 3: fa Tu that would interest me.
58:55
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking at.
58:56
Speaker 3: This though, like this honestly feels like a Wargames match
58:59
Speaker 3: that would be better suited for four on four and
59:02
Speaker 3: not five on five, just because oh, that's the way
59:04
Speaker 3: we always do it. It's gotta be five on five. No,
59:06
Speaker 3: it doesn't. You could do four on four. You don't
59:10
Speaker 3: have to do anything. You could do it whichever way
59:13
Speaker 3: you want now, he claims. The women's war Games match
59:18
Speaker 3: at this point is listed as aj Lee, Rhea, Ripley,
59:21
Speaker 3: Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss, and Eosky against Becky lynch Oska, Kyrie,
59:26
Speaker 3: saying Naya Jacks and Lash Legend. Lash Legend getting called
59:33
Speaker 3: up is something that we have talked about recently in
59:37
Speaker 3: the Q and a super chat portion on one of
59:40
Speaker 3: the streams, somebody asked me about potential NXT call ups
59:43
Speaker 3: this week and her name was brought up. Lash Legend,
59:47
Speaker 3: just like Obafemi, are gonna make fine additions to the
59:50
Speaker 3: main roster. But so would Jordan Grace Show, so would
59:54
Speaker 3: Blake Monroe, so would sol Ruka. Right, take your pick.
59:57
Speaker 3: You can't call them all up at the same time.
1:00:00
Speaker 3: But Lash Legend, had you know from the last match
1:00:03
Speaker 3: of hers that I saw, and God was it?
1:00:06
Speaker 1: The was the Battle Royal they did at Evolution.
1:00:08
Speaker 3: I think she was one of the last ones right
1:00:09
Speaker 3: in that Battle Royal at Evolution. She has made some
1:00:12
Speaker 3: great strides and great improvements since the early days of
1:00:15
Speaker 3: two point zero. All Right, I have to give her credit.
1:00:18
Speaker 3: I think that she's gonna do well and she could
1:00:21
Speaker 3: be a real standout attraction once she hits the main roster.
1:00:24
Speaker 3: Her being on this team again, like the Austin theory thing.
1:00:27
Speaker 3: When I looked at this, I had to do a
1:00:28
Speaker 3: double take, like, where the fuck did that come from?
1:00:32
Speaker 3: Lash and Naya being on the same team. I could
1:00:35
Speaker 3: see something happening there where they end up feuding coming
1:00:37
Speaker 3: out of it and they try to push lash as
1:00:40
Speaker 3: a babyface on the SmackDown side, Like I could see
1:00:44
Speaker 3: that visual of her like slowly hoisting Naya up for
1:00:48
Speaker 3: like a big body slam and them treating that like
1:00:50
Speaker 3: a big deal, Like when she did that with Otis
1:00:53
Speaker 3: that one time on NXT and the people went nuts.
1:00:55
Speaker 3: Met three hundred people of the fucking PC. But like,
1:00:57
Speaker 3: imagine her doing that in front of ten thousand people, right,
1:01:01
Speaker 3: they would lose their minds. Becky and aj leading their
1:01:05
Speaker 3: own teams would make sense, right, We have to get
1:01:07
Speaker 3: that match at some point for the Intercontinental title. The
1:01:11
Speaker 3: rest of the lineup that I'm looking at here is
1:01:13
Speaker 3: fairly believable, But I mean there's some two K twenty
1:01:16
Speaker 3: five stuff going on here with some of these lineups.
1:01:20
Speaker 3: We'll see what actually pans out. I'm not against it, though,
1:01:23
Speaker 3: you know, this product needs a shakeup and getting some
1:01:27
Speaker 3: new names in the mix, or names that we haven't
1:01:29
Speaker 3: seen in a while up in higher positions on the card.
1:01:33
Speaker 3: I'm all for trying something new, like even Jacob being
1:01:37
Speaker 3: involved in wargames with the top names, like that's where
1:01:40
Speaker 3: he belongs. They just need to make sense of why
1:01:42
Speaker 3: he's there.
1:01:45
Speaker 1: Now. One man who will not be in wargames.
1:01:48
Speaker 3: I can guarantee you this, And he was briefly gone
1:01:51
Speaker 3: from WWE, but now he's back. Is Santos Escobar. PW
1:01:57
Speaker 3: Insider mentioned earlier in the week when this whole saga
1:02:00
Speaker 3: began here that unless there was a last second hail
1:02:03
Speaker 3: Mary pass that leads to him agreeing to a new deal,
1:02:06
Speaker 3: Santos Escobar will depart WWE as of midnight. At that
1:02:11
Speaker 3: point he will be a free agent and available to
1:02:14
Speaker 3: wrestle or sign anywhere he wishes. We are told his
1:02:17
Speaker 3: contract expires at the end of the day and that
1:02:19
Speaker 3: WWE made overtures to keep Escabar, including a higher contract offer,
1:02:24
Speaker 3: but he turned down the offer. So then PW Insider
1:02:28
Speaker 3: after that had some more information on what was going on,
1:02:31
Speaker 3: and they said from multiple sources that it has nothing
1:02:35
Speaker 3: to do with money. Sources within WWE confirmed that the
1:02:39
Speaker 3: word making the rounds within the company is that Escobar
1:02:42
Speaker 3: was offered a raise as part of a new deal,
1:02:44
Speaker 3: but that he turned that down. We are told that Escobar,
1:02:47
Speaker 3: according to sources that have spoken with him in recent weeks,
1:02:50
Speaker 3: made it clear that he wasn't concerned about getting a
1:02:53
Speaker 3: raise as much as he was concerned about having a
1:02:56
Speaker 3: laid out plan to show how he would be utilized
1:02:59
Speaker 3: by the company going forward. We were told that it
1:03:02
Speaker 3: wasn't even so much of a concern about getting a
1:03:04
Speaker 3: big push, but about locking himself in when there wasn't
1:03:07
Speaker 3: a plan and then being in a situation where he
1:03:10
Speaker 3: would be spinning his wheels instead of performing in the ring.
1:03:14
Speaker 3: Then on Wednesday, so this like the midnight deadline came
1:03:19
Speaker 3: and went and he would have officially become a free agent.
1:03:22
Speaker 3: And then on Wednesday, PW Insider confirmed the WWE and
1:03:28
Speaker 3: Santos Escobar have come to terms on a new deal
1:03:32
Speaker 3: and that he is back with the promotion, just days
1:03:35
Speaker 3: after his contract expired. That left the second generation Lucastar
1:03:40
Speaker 3: a free agent. We are told that WWE management considered
1:03:43
Speaker 3: Escobar's creative concerns and we are told made Escobar a
1:03:48
Speaker 3: sizeably larger offer than any of their previous overtures. At
1:03:52
Speaker 3: that point, Escobar agreed to terms. The belief is that
1:03:55
Speaker 3: they came to an agreement late in the day yesterday.
1:04:00
Speaker 3: This would have been on Tuesday. I guess there is
1:04:02
Speaker 3: no word when Escobar will be back on the road,
1:04:05
Speaker 3: but he is signed with the company once again, and
1:04:08
Speaker 3: then per F FOURW online, they said Escobar's new contract
1:04:12
Speaker 3: is said to be a very big money deal with
1:04:15
Speaker 3: a lot of perks. I haven't seen anything mentioned about
1:04:19
Speaker 3: his creative demands is not really the right word, but
1:04:23
Speaker 3: his creative concerns being addressed. All I hear is like
1:04:27
Speaker 3: they offered him a lot more money in a much
1:04:29
Speaker 3: bigger deal and some perks, you know, maybe some time
1:04:32
Speaker 3: off or you know.
1:04:33
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about his creative concerns.
1:04:36
Speaker 3: So the question I have now is was the financial
1:04:39
Speaker 3: offer so great that he just said I can't say
1:04:43
Speaker 3: no to this, or did they, in fact, you know,
1:04:46
Speaker 3: put something in writing. I don't know that they would
1:04:48
Speaker 3: have put something in writing necessarily, but did they address
1:04:50
Speaker 3: his creative concerns? Because I completely understand where he's coming from.
1:04:54
Speaker 3: He just wants to know, dude, are you going to
1:04:56
Speaker 3: use me in any meaningful way? Like I'm not looking
1:05:00
Speaker 3: for a guarantee that I'm going to be the champion.
1:05:02
Speaker 3: I'm not looking for a guarantee I'm going to be
1:05:04
Speaker 3: headlining plees. But like we haven't even seen him on
1:05:07
Speaker 3: TV in months, Like he's been doing nothing, so it's
1:05:11
Speaker 3: a perfectly valid concern. I would want to know the
1:05:14
Speaker 3: same thing. I'm not saying you have to put pen
1:05:16
Speaker 3: to paper and sketch out my next six or twelve months,
1:05:19
Speaker 3: But for God's sakes, tell me if you actually plan
1:05:21
Speaker 3: to use me in a meaningful way, and if not,
1:05:24
Speaker 3: I will go somewhere else.
1:05:26
Speaker 1: Now.
1:05:27
Speaker 3: According to bodyslam dot Net, Escobar was scheduled to defeat
1:05:31
Speaker 3: l Eho del Vikingo for the Triple A Mega Championship
1:05:34
Speaker 3: before his WWE deal officially ran out at midnight on
1:05:38
Speaker 3: October sixth. And I'm a little confused on this timeline
1:05:41
Speaker 3: because obviously vi Kingo had already lost the Mega title
1:05:45
Speaker 3: to Dominic Mysterio. It's not like he just lost that
1:05:49
Speaker 3: championship last week. So when when was that plan? Like,
1:05:54
Speaker 3: was the original plan going back a couple of months
1:05:57
Speaker 3: for Escabar to win the title, but as he resisted
1:06:00
Speaker 3: let's say their contract renewal offers, they decided to go
1:06:02
Speaker 3: in a different direction and put it on dom and
1:06:04
Speaker 3: dom was the backup. Is that what I'm hearing here?
1:06:09
Speaker 3: They say this title win was fully mapped out as
1:06:12
Speaker 3: part of Escobar's rise within Triple A following its acquisition
1:06:16
Speaker 3: of WWE, he was not going to be alone. Angel
1:06:20
Speaker 3: and Humberto were reportedly slotted to capture the Triple A
1:06:25
Speaker 3: World Tag team titles alongside Escobar's push. The storyline was
1:06:29
Speaker 3: meant to reset their position within the new Triple A
1:06:32
Speaker 3: WWE structure, but once Escobar decided not to renew his contract,
1:06:36
Speaker 3: those creative plans were dropped. Everything that had been in
1:06:40
Speaker 3: motion was shelved before it ever reached TV. With him
1:06:43
Speaker 3: back in WWE after deciding to resign, it remains to
1:06:46
Speaker 3: be seen if these original plans are brought back to
1:06:50
Speaker 3: the table. So that sounds like they had a long
1:06:52
Speaker 3: term plan here, and you know, the title going to
1:06:55
Speaker 3: Dominic was actually meant for Escobar. So again, are we
1:06:59
Speaker 3: going to see, you know, kind of a reset where
1:07:03
Speaker 3: they do end up getting around to kind of the
1:07:06
Speaker 3: destination they wanted to get to, which was Escobar as
1:07:09
Speaker 3: the Mega Champion. Did that idea now fall to the wayside?
1:07:13
Speaker 3: Does he not want to, you know, spend his time
1:07:15
Speaker 3: in trip I would imagine he probably doesn't mind. I mean,
1:07:18
Speaker 3: the more the merrier, right, Look at dom He's got
1:07:20
Speaker 3: a title in WWE. He's got a title in Triple A.
1:07:23
Speaker 3: He's going back and forth between the US and Mexico.
1:07:26
Speaker 3: He's a bigger star now than he's ever been in
1:07:28
Speaker 3: his life. So I'm sure if they told Escobar, hey,
1:07:31
Speaker 3: we want to put the Mega title on you, and
1:07:32
Speaker 3: you'll split your time between there and here, he would
1:07:36
Speaker 3: probably love that. I don't know now if those plans
1:07:38
Speaker 3: are are out the window completely or if they're going
1:07:41
Speaker 3: to come back around to it or not. He's a
1:07:43
Speaker 3: very talented guy. Santos Escobar is never going to be
1:07:46
Speaker 3: WWE champion. It's just not going to happen. But he's
1:07:50
Speaker 3: very talented. You know, he can cut promos, he can work,
1:07:54
Speaker 3: he can like all the things you would want him
1:07:56
Speaker 3: to do. He can do, and he can be, you know,
1:07:58
Speaker 3: a solid guy to have in that mid card on
1:08:02
Speaker 3: Raw or on SmackDown. And if you want to surround
1:08:04
Speaker 3: him with other people like Los Guars, if you want
1:08:06
Speaker 3: to add other members, you know, to the fold and
1:08:09
Speaker 3: create a whole heal faction out of it, you could
1:08:12
Speaker 3: do that too. So I'm glad they were able to
1:08:14
Speaker 3: come to an agreement. I'm glad that they were able to,
1:08:16
Speaker 3: you know, find some common ground that apparently he's going
1:08:19
Speaker 3: to end up with a much better deal now than
1:08:21
Speaker 3: he had before. I think it speaks volumes about how
1:08:25
Speaker 3: Triple H and WWE felt about Carrying Cross. That his
1:08:29
Speaker 3: contract was coming due and he very clearly wanted to resign,
1:08:34
Speaker 3: and then they really didn't show all that much of
1:08:36
Speaker 3: an interest in bringing him in Scarlett back, and he
1:08:39
Speaker 3: wasn't very impressed by the offer that they made to him,
1:08:42
Speaker 3: and he's no longer in WWE. That is not a work.
1:08:46
Speaker 3: Santos Escobar says, I don't want to resign. Let's his
1:08:49
Speaker 3: contract expire. They come back to him and blow them
1:08:52
Speaker 3: away with some amazing offer, and now he's back in
1:08:55
Speaker 3: the company. I think that says a lot about certain
1:08:59
Speaker 3: people in the hierarchy there in that company that were
1:09:01
Speaker 3: not happy with Carry and Cross. But they gave Escobard
1:09:05
Speaker 3: the deal that they did. They wanted him back, and
1:09:07
Speaker 3: one would hope that means that they actually have plans
1:09:09
Speaker 3: to use him. So I hope, so I hope he
1:09:13
Speaker 3: I'm sure that he felt like, Okay, I'm comfortable that
1:09:17
Speaker 3: they have, you know, indicated to me, they actually have
1:09:19
Speaker 3: plans for me. It would be very shitty if they
1:09:22
Speaker 3: kind of led him to believe that and then re
1:09:23
Speaker 3: signed him and now and now it's like he's in
1:09:25
Speaker 3: the same spot he was in before. I would certainly
1:09:28
Speaker 3: hope that's not the case. But good for him, you know,
1:09:30
Speaker 3: he got himself a better deal and now hopefully he'll
1:09:32
Speaker 3: get himself a better push now. The NXTTNA Showdown on Tuesday.
1:09:38
Speaker 3: I watched that and Dynamite at the same time. They
1:09:41
Speaker 3: went head to head. I hope I never have to
1:09:43
Speaker 3: do that again, but we'll probably be back next year
1:09:45
Speaker 3: doing the same thing. Because Dynamite had title Tuesday, they
1:09:48
Speaker 3: were bumped from Wednesdays because of baseball. I thought they
1:09:52
Speaker 3: were both solid shows. I like the NXT show more.
1:09:56
Speaker 3: On that show, there was a title for title match.
1:09:58
Speaker 3: It was the hard Ease and Dark State NXT Tag
1:10:01
Speaker 3: Team titles on the line, TNA tag team titles on
1:10:04
Speaker 3: the line, and the Hardys win the NXT titles, the
1:10:07
Speaker 3: first TNA talents to actually win gold from WWE, and
1:10:12
Speaker 3: naturally it was the Hardy's. It was not a TNA original.
1:10:16
Speaker 3: It was the Hardys, who are already looked at as
1:10:19
Speaker 3: WWE guys anyway, right, it was a safe choice for
1:10:21
Speaker 3: them to put the belts on them, and the Hardys
1:10:24
Speaker 3: now are on this expedition of gold again as they
1:10:26
Speaker 3: were many years ago, where they have multiple sets of
1:10:28
Speaker 3: tag team titles. Now we find out, according to Fightful,
1:10:32
Speaker 3: that their deal with TNA their deals with TNA, unless
1:10:37
Speaker 3: they have very quietly signed an extension or a new deal,
1:10:41
Speaker 3: they are due to expire next month because they had
1:10:45
Speaker 3: re signed with the company in November of twenty twenty
1:10:48
Speaker 3: four on one year deals. So TNA source is told
1:10:53
Speaker 3: Fightful select the deal has been mutually beneficial and a
1:10:56
Speaker 3: lot of positive has emerged from it. The Hardys have
1:10:59
Speaker 3: regularly stayed eight hours after TNA shows to fulfill heavily
1:11:02
Speaker 3: in demand meet and greets, and unless a new extension
1:11:07
Speaker 3: was quietly reached, their current deals are about to expire
1:11:10
Speaker 3: very soon and the company is hopeful but not certain,
1:11:14
Speaker 3: that they will resign Matt and Jeff Hardy.
1:11:17
Speaker 1: And it's not just the Hardys.
1:11:18
Speaker 3: Sources within TNA have revealed that no less than a
1:11:22
Speaker 3: dozen contracts are set to expire between now and the
1:11:25
Speaker 3: end of the year, including several names that have already
1:11:28
Speaker 3: been reported, including the Inspiration Right, the former Iconics and
1:11:33
Speaker 3: Cedric Alexander and many are expected to stay, but nothing
1:11:36
Speaker 3: is official until it's official, so we'll see how that
1:11:39
Speaker 3: plays out. I think the Hardys have a good deal
1:11:43
Speaker 3: going right now where they're on WWE television, obviously in
1:11:48
Speaker 3: a limited capacity, but they're on WWE television. They're literally
1:11:51
Speaker 3: holding WWE belts right now. But they work for TNA, then,
1:11:56
Speaker 3: I'm sure they get paid well by TNA, and they
1:11:59
Speaker 3: still have the freedom to go out and do signings,
1:12:02
Speaker 3: and they have the freedom to go out and work
1:12:04
Speaker 3: independent promotions like House of Glory right in other places
1:12:08
Speaker 3: that they would not be able to do if they
1:12:10
Speaker 3: had full time, you know, or even part time WWE contracts.
1:12:16
Speaker 3: The question is do they think they could get more
1:12:18
Speaker 3: money and get better deals by working for WWE, Because
1:12:21
Speaker 3: think about it like this, I don't know what they're
1:12:23
Speaker 3: making in TNA, right, I'm sure they're not getting paid peanuts, right,
1:12:26
Speaker 3: they probably have very good deals. They probably would be
1:12:29
Speaker 3: making more money. I think it's safe to say if
1:12:32
Speaker 3: they were to sign with WWE, right even if they
1:12:34
Speaker 3: signed like a short two year deal to kind of
1:12:37
Speaker 3: end their careers, Let's say in WWE, they'll get some
1:12:41
Speaker 3: of that TKO money if they're not making as much
1:12:45
Speaker 3: money for TNA as they would be making working for WWE,
1:12:49
Speaker 3: but they're working WWE shows.
1:12:52
Speaker 1: I could see where it's like, wait a.
1:12:54
Speaker 3: Minute, WWE, It's clear what they're getting out of it.
1:12:58
Speaker 3: They're getting the benefit of using the hard but they
1:13:00
Speaker 3: don't have to pay the hardies. Then if I'm Matt
1:13:03
Speaker 3: and Jeff, I'm looking at that and going, Okay, we
1:13:05
Speaker 3: need to have a conversation here about, you know, kind
1:13:08
Speaker 3: of what we want to do because this is a
1:13:10
Speaker 3: little unfair. And again I don't know the numbers and
1:13:13
Speaker 3: the terms, but I could see where maybe they would
1:13:15
Speaker 3: look at it and go, Okay, we have to reevaluate
1:13:17
Speaker 3: our entire situation here, because boy, they're really they're getting
1:13:20
Speaker 3: us at a discount, you know, in effect. So I
1:13:24
Speaker 3: think for TNA, you do what you can to keep
1:13:26
Speaker 3: them because they're one of the biggest attractions they have
1:13:29
Speaker 3: right now. And TNA is looking now to get television,
1:13:31
Speaker 3: like a new television deal that's probably going to be
1:13:34
Speaker 3: announced any month now. I would think at least to start,
1:13:37
Speaker 3: you would want an attraction like the Hardy's on your show.
1:13:41
Speaker 3: You know, you don't want to go into this new
1:13:42
Speaker 3: TV deal and then you'll lose them. So if I'm
1:13:45
Speaker 3: Carlos Silvan TNA, I'm doing everything I can to try
1:13:47
Speaker 3: to retain their services. If that means you got to
1:13:49
Speaker 3: pay them more, well you better find the money and
1:13:51
Speaker 3: pay them more, because I think they've proven to be
1:13:54
Speaker 3: worth it. But they had Ethan Paige and Mustafa Ali
1:13:58
Speaker 3: for the North American title that stole the show. That
1:14:01
Speaker 3: was the best match on either show Tuesday night. I
1:14:03
Speaker 3: fucking great match. Ali is so good and Pages as well.
1:14:07
Speaker 3: Ethan retains the North American Championship in an excellent match,
1:14:11
Speaker 3: and then they had two Survivor Series style elimination matches,
1:14:14
Speaker 3: which made me just really wish that Triple H would
1:14:17
Speaker 3: still have one or two traditional Survivor Series matches, just
1:14:21
Speaker 3: you know, just to maintain the tradition. But I guess,
1:14:24
Speaker 3: you know, you'd have to do one for the men,
1:14:26
Speaker 3: you'd have to do one for the women, and you
1:14:28
Speaker 3: already have two War Games matches, and that's that's a
1:14:31
Speaker 3: bit much. But they had Team NXT on the women's side,
1:14:36
Speaker 3: beating Team TNA, which was captained by NXT star Kilanie Jordan,
1:14:41
Speaker 3: because Klanie Jordan is currently the Knockouts champion, so the
1:14:45
Speaker 3: NXT women led by j C. Jane took the win there.
1:14:49
Speaker 3: And speaking of which, there was a tag team match
1:14:52
Speaker 3: at an NXT House show in Columbus, Ohio on Thursday
1:14:57
Speaker 3: where j C. Jane, the NXT Women's Champion, suffered an
1:15:01
Speaker 3: apparent leg injury in a tag team match that pit
1:15:05
Speaker 3: her and Fallon Henley against Soul, Ruka and Zaria. One
1:15:09
Speaker 3: report indicated that Jane suffered a possible quadriceps injury during
1:15:13
Speaker 3: the bout and tagged out of the match for the finish.
1:15:16
Speaker 3: The report goes on to state that the referee threw
1:15:19
Speaker 3: up the dreaded X, indicating a legitimate injury, and that
1:15:22
Speaker 3: medical personnel had to help Jce to the back following
1:15:26
Speaker 3: the match. She's been the NXT Women's Champion since May.
1:15:30
Speaker 3: She even had a brief run as the TNA Knockouts champion.
1:15:34
Speaker 3: She was actually the one who beat Stephanie Vecaer, who
1:15:37
Speaker 3: hasn't lost very many matches this year. That might be
1:15:39
Speaker 3: the only one that she lost.
1:15:40
Speaker 1: She lost to j C. Jane, So that tells you
1:15:43
Speaker 1: what Sean Michaels thinks of j C. Jane.
1:15:46
Speaker 3: You hate to hear about anybody getting hurt. I have
1:15:48
Speaker 3: not seen any updates on her conditions since, and this
1:15:50
Speaker 3: was days ago, so I don't know if it's a
1:15:53
Speaker 3: serious injury.
1:15:54
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not. I hope it's not, but we'll.
1:15:57
Speaker 3: See if we hear anything this week on Tuesday, because
1:16:01
Speaker 3: if she has a serious injury, then we'll know about
1:16:03
Speaker 3: it by then. Now Team TNA won on the men's side,
1:16:08
Speaker 3: they beat Team NXT. Team TNA was captained by Mike Santana.
1:16:12
Speaker 3: Team NXT was captained by the NXT Champion. Ricky says
1:16:16
Speaker 3: that he had the TNA World Heavyweight Champion on his team.
1:16:20
Speaker 1: The TNA World Heavyweight.
1:16:22
Speaker 3: Champion is an NXT star who wrestled for Team NXT
1:16:27
Speaker 3: because Team TNA and Santino Morello, the Director of Authority,
1:16:31
Speaker 3: did not trust Trick Williams, which that at least made sense,
1:16:36
Speaker 3: But it's still funny to me that we had the
1:16:38
Speaker 3: TNA World Champion representing Team NXT and guess what, Santino
1:16:44
Speaker 3: was right, Tricky Dicky cannot be trusted because he walked
1:16:48
Speaker 3: out on his partner. He left Ricky Saints Hy in
1:16:50
Speaker 3: dry and I think it came down to Mike Santana
1:16:54
Speaker 3: and Moose they were the sole survivors. They won it
1:16:56
Speaker 3: for Team TNA. Now I mentioned that j c J
1:17:00
Speaker 3: got heart on a house show this week. There are
1:17:02
Speaker 3: some main roster names that were set to appear for
1:17:05
Speaker 3: NXT on their house show tour this weekend. Starting on Thursday,
1:17:10
Speaker 3: NXT was in the Midwest for three consecutive live events,
1:17:15
Speaker 3: and they announced that Johnny Gargano and Tamaso Champa would
1:17:18
Speaker 3: be competing at all three shows, and the MotorCity Machine
1:17:22
Speaker 3: Guns Alex Shelley and Chris Saban were set for Friday's event,
1:17:25
Speaker 3: which was in their hometown of Detroit, so they were
1:17:28
Speaker 3: only wrestling on the Detroit show, and they said Ethan
1:17:31
Speaker 3: Page would be defending his North American championship on all
1:17:34
Speaker 3: three shows against yet to be announced opponents. So Thursday
1:17:38
Speaker 3: they were in Columbus, Friday they were in Detroit at
1:17:41
Speaker 3: the Masonic Temple where AW hosted Dynamite there a few
1:17:46
Speaker 3: months ago, and then yesterday they were set to run
1:17:51
Speaker 3: the Agora Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. And running more house
1:17:55
Speaker 3: shows outside of Florida is something that Shawn Michaels talked
1:18:00
Speaker 3: about last month. He was interviewed by Chris Van Vliet,
1:18:03
Speaker 3: and he said the reception that they get in I
1:18:06
Speaker 3: don't know, Charleston, or in Augusta, Georgia, and maybe another place,
1:18:13
Speaker 3: all three would be different. This last time on the road,
1:18:17
Speaker 3: they all experienced that and it was something that threw
1:18:19
Speaker 3: them all off and they didn't really understand it because
1:18:22
Speaker 3: so many of the things that they do all the
1:18:24
Speaker 3: time didn't work. So those are aspects that they once
1:18:28
Speaker 3: that Once they experienced that, I can now begin to
1:18:31
Speaker 3: associate with them on a level that we haven't been
1:18:33
Speaker 3: able to do before. And I think that's why it's
1:18:37
Speaker 3: so important. You've got to do these live events. You
1:18:40
Speaker 3: got to do it, and especially with NXT, it's very
1:18:43
Speaker 3: important that you get out there on the road outside
1:18:45
Speaker 3: of that little Florida loop that they've done before. You've
1:18:49
Speaker 3: got to get them out there in front of actual
1:18:51
Speaker 3: crowds in other places, other states, other cities, and get
1:18:55
Speaker 3: them accustomed because they're going to get different reactions in
1:18:57
Speaker 3: different places.
1:18:58
Speaker 1: And just like he said in.
1:18:58
Speaker 3: That interview, like what works in one place or what
1:19:01
Speaker 3: works in Florida is not going to work somewhere else.
1:19:04
Speaker 3: It's not going to work in Cleveland. You know, it
1:19:06
Speaker 3: may not work in Erie, Pennsylvania, and so that's why
1:19:10
Speaker 3: it's so important to get them out there in front
1:19:12
Speaker 3: of actual people outside of the PC, outside of these
1:19:16
Speaker 3: little armories in Florida, and get them experience in front
1:19:20
Speaker 3: of different crowds, you know. And I think the same
1:19:23
Speaker 3: thing about the main roster because they've cut down so
1:19:25
Speaker 3: much on the number of house shows, and I think
1:19:28
Speaker 3: it's great that they're not running them into the ground
1:19:31
Speaker 3: by running too many shows, but they just seem intent
1:19:34
Speaker 3: to keep cutting and cutting and cutting. I mean, they
1:19:36
Speaker 3: plan on cutting even more live events next year. And
1:19:39
Speaker 3: I talked about this on Monday. You know, we had
1:19:40
Speaker 3: a match on raw between Becky Lynch and Maxine Dupre,
1:19:43
Speaker 3: which was a hell of a lot better than I
1:19:46
Speaker 3: was expecting.
1:19:46
Speaker 1: It to be.
1:19:47
Speaker 3: You could see the little improvements that Maxine has made.
1:19:50
Speaker 3: Maxine is still not great, but she's made improvements from
1:19:54
Speaker 3: where she was six months ago and a year ago.
1:19:56
Speaker 3: But we never get to see her in the ring
1:19:57
Speaker 3: un raw. So it's like, Okay, well, I hope she's
1:20:00
Speaker 3: working house shows, and then I realize, like I look
1:20:03
Speaker 3: at her recent matches, and she's had some main event matches,
1:20:07
Speaker 3: but she's not having a lot of matches because they
1:20:10
Speaker 3: don't run hardly any house shows anymore. And she is
1:20:14
Speaker 3: someone who should be in NXT. She should be on
1:20:17
Speaker 3: that NXT tour that they ran this weekend. Maybe she was,
1:20:20
Speaker 3: I don't know, but she was somebody that got plucked
1:20:22
Speaker 3: out of developmental way too quickly because they had a
1:20:25
Speaker 3: certain role in mind for her. And if she's going
1:20:27
Speaker 3: to be a valet, that's fine, but they wanted to wrestle,
1:20:29
Speaker 3: So why the fuck did you take her out of NXT.
1:20:32
Speaker 3: That's the whole point NXT was built. It was designed
1:20:35
Speaker 3: for people like her to improve and learn and cut
1:20:38
Speaker 3: their teeth and then when the time is right, you
1:20:40
Speaker 3: call them up to the main roster. So she's had
1:20:43
Speaker 3: to go through that period of growing pains. And I
1:20:46
Speaker 3: know she's been training with Natty at her school in
1:20:49
Speaker 3: Florida and you could see again the improvements that she's made.
1:20:53
Speaker 3: But she's someone who really suffers, I think, from the
1:20:56
Speaker 3: lack of live events now when it comes to the
1:20:58
Speaker 3: main roster, because that's how you get better. You work
1:21:01
Speaker 3: with people like Natty, you work with people like Becky,
1:21:04
Speaker 3: maybe you even work with people like you at the
1:21:06
Speaker 3: same experience level. But you go out there, you're not
1:21:08
Speaker 3: on television, so you don't have that pressure on you.
1:21:10
Speaker 3: You go out there for ten, twelve, fifteen minutes, you
1:21:13
Speaker 3: probably get a lot longer than you would on TV,
1:21:15
Speaker 3: right TV, Maxine's lucky if she gets fucking four minutes.
1:21:19
Speaker 3: You go to a live event, she's wrestling nine, ten,
1:21:21
Speaker 3: twelve minutes, and she's able to try stuff and this works. Oh,
1:21:25
Speaker 3: this didn't work, you know, and you just you learn.
1:21:28
Speaker 3: Wrestlers talk about this all the time. She's someone who
1:21:32
Speaker 3: I think is a victim of their slashing so many
1:21:37
Speaker 3: live events. So for NXT, it's super important to get
1:21:41
Speaker 3: them on the road and they should be doing more
1:21:44
Speaker 3: of that.
1:21:46
Speaker 1: Now.
1:21:46
Speaker 3: Bound for Glory is tonight mentioned TNA. I am hoping
1:21:51
Speaker 3: to go live after the show and do a review.
1:21:53
Speaker 3: I have not put together any artwork at all so far.
1:21:58
Speaker 3: By you're just gonna see me on three. There's gonna
1:22:00
Speaker 3: be nothing else. Yeah, I don't know. If I can't
1:22:03
Speaker 3: get that done, I don't know what's going to happen.
1:22:04
Speaker 3: So but I'm hoping I can go live because I
1:22:07
Speaker 3: am planning on watching the show. And again, if you are,
1:22:11
Speaker 3: I talk about the VPN all the time with WWE shows.
1:22:15
Speaker 3: If you want to use it for boun for Glory,
1:22:16
Speaker 3: it's very easy. You sign into your Express VPN, you
1:22:19
Speaker 3: find any international pay per view distributor for the show
1:22:24
Speaker 3: right wherever the show is airing, whether it's trailer or
1:22:27
Speaker 3: wherever it may be, and you should be able to
1:22:30
Speaker 3: buy the show, yes by the show for a fraction
1:22:35
Speaker 3: of what you would.
1:22:36
Speaker 1: Pay here in the US.
1:22:37
Speaker 3: I actually have not tried it before with a TNA show,
1:22:40
Speaker 3: but I would imagine it works the same way. But
1:22:42
Speaker 3: boun for Glory real quick. Here's the preview. They are
1:22:46
Speaker 3: inducting Mickey James and the beautiful people into the TNA
1:22:50
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. I think that's happening before the show
1:22:53
Speaker 3: goes Love. The show goes live at seven Eastern, and
1:22:56
Speaker 3: I think they're doing something at six o'clock with the
1:22:58
Speaker 3: actual inductions. They're having the Call Your Shot Gauntlet match.
1:23:02
Speaker 3: They have Tessa Blanchard against gam Miller. They're having a
1:23:06
Speaker 3: hardcore war with Mustafa Ali, Agent Zero, Jason Hotch, John
1:23:14
Speaker 3: Schuyler and Tasha Steeles against Eddie Edwards, Moose, Brian Myers,
1:23:19
Speaker 3: j DC, and Alsia Edwards. That's the system Frankie Kazarian
1:23:24
Speaker 3: defends the TNA International Championship against Steve Macklin.
1:23:27
Speaker 1: I'm going with Steve Macklin for the win. There.
1:23:30
Speaker 3: Leon Slater is defending the X or the NXC the
1:23:33
Speaker 3: TNA it may as well be TNA X Division Championship
1:23:37
Speaker 3: defending it against Javon Evans. That match is going to
1:23:40
Speaker 3: be fucking insane. Kalanie Jordan is defending the Knockouts Championship
1:23:45
Speaker 3: against Indy Hartwell. We have a tables match for the
1:23:48
Speaker 3: final time, twenty five years after they innovated the Tables,
1:23:52
Speaker 3: Ladders and Shares match one last time. The Dudley Boys,
1:23:58
Speaker 3: Bubba Ray and Devon Team three D. I guess they're
1:24:01
Speaker 3: calling them because it's TNA taking on the Hardys who
1:24:05
Speaker 3: are putting their TNA and NXT Tag Team championships on
1:24:09
Speaker 3: the line. And I could tell you as the commissioner
1:24:12
Speaker 3: that I would not permit them to defend their Hog
1:24:14
Speaker 3: Tag Team titles. So the House of Glory Tag team
1:24:17
Speaker 3: titles will not be on the line. I had to
1:24:20
Speaker 3: draw the line somewhere here, but the other two sets
1:24:23
Speaker 3: of titles will be And then in the main event,
1:24:24
Speaker 3: Mike Santana challenges Trick Williams to try to bring the
1:24:27
Speaker 3: TNA World Have Youweight Championship back to home base. This
1:24:32
Speaker 3: has to be it. I didn't mention I got Leon
1:24:36
Speaker 3: Slater beating Javon Evans, Klanie Jordan retaining over Indy Hartwell,
1:24:40
Speaker 3: I've got the Hardys beating the Dudleys, and I've got
1:24:42
Speaker 3: Mike Santana winning in the main event. Don't be surprised
1:24:46
Speaker 3: if we see a cameo from Ricky Saints giving Santana
1:24:49
Speaker 3: the assist, especially after Trick walked out on Ricky on Tuesday.
1:24:53
Speaker 3: I could definitely see that happening. So that is your
1:24:56
Speaker 3: bound for glory card. Let me mention this here before
1:25:00
Speaker 3: I get into some aw news. This kind of came
1:25:04
Speaker 3: out of nowhere and was unexpected, but is sort of entertaining.
1:25:09
Speaker 3: Paul Haman issued a response to a social media post
1:25:14
Speaker 3: from former WWE Universal champion Braunz Stroman, where Stroman had
1:25:20
Speaker 3: called him Oswald cobble pot. Stroman's post on Monday came
1:25:25
Speaker 3: in response to a line from a Hayman promo on
1:25:27
Speaker 3: Raw where Hayman said that no one but the Vision
1:25:30
Speaker 3: had ever forced Roman Reigns to do a stretcher job
1:25:34
Speaker 3: before Stroman posted an image of an angle where Roman
1:25:37
Speaker 3: was stretchered out at the hands of Stroman that was
1:25:39
Speaker 3: many years ago, and then Stroman tipped over the stretcher.
1:25:43
Speaker 3: Stroman wrote, yeah, okay, Oswald cobble Pot. Of course, for
1:25:48
Speaker 3: those who don't know, Oswald Cobblepot is the name of
1:25:52
Speaker 3: the penguin from Batman. Hayman responded in an Instagram story
1:25:58
Speaker 3: on Wednesday, writing, dear miss Stroman, your post was brought
1:26:02
Speaker 3: to my attention. I have nothing negative to say about you,
1:26:05
Speaker 3: nor to you. In fact, I am actually relieved, in
1:26:08
Speaker 3: indeed celebratory, to learn that you are still alive, something
1:26:12
Speaker 3: most of us did not realize and even fewer cared about.
1:26:15
Speaker 3: With love and respect, Paul Hayman. I'm sure the folks
1:26:20
Speaker 3: at USA Network must be delighted as they begin to
1:26:23
Speaker 3: promote Stroman's new food show, which is debuting after SmackDown
1:26:28
Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks that Paul Hayman is posting
1:26:30
Speaker 3: on social media that nobody even knew this man was alive.
1:26:34
Speaker 3: So this all stems from there was a beef earlier
1:26:37
Speaker 3: this year with Hayman and Stroman. If you remember Hayman
1:26:41
Speaker 3: was on the Pat McAfee show, and this was around WrestleMania.
1:26:45
Speaker 3: It might have been the night after WrestleMania forty one,
1:26:48
Speaker 3: and Hayman shared a story that Stroman had approached him
1:26:52
Speaker 3: crying because he wasn't part of the WrestleMania card. And
1:26:57
Speaker 3: Hayman said that he told Stroman to his face that
1:27:00
Speaker 3: he sucks and that's why he was left off the show.
1:27:04
Speaker 3: So that might be the root of some of the
1:27:06
Speaker 3: animis here between these two men. Let me get into
1:27:09
Speaker 3: some aw stuff here. There was a story, a kind
1:27:13
Speaker 3: of embarrassing story this week regarding the all In Texas
1:27:17
Speaker 3: attendance from Globe Life Field back in July. This comes
1:27:21
Speaker 3: from Wressell Nomics. A lower than expected turnout for July's
1:27:26
Speaker 3: aw all In from Arlington, Texas's Global Life Field will
1:27:29
Speaker 3: result in the company getting a reduced reimbursement from the state.
1:27:33
Speaker 3: The news comes from public records obtained by Wressell Nomics
1:27:36
Speaker 3: that revealed the actual turnstile count aka ticket scan for
1:27:40
Speaker 3: those coming into the venue at twenty one, nine hundred
1:27:44
Speaker 3: and seventy three, which included two hundred and seventy four
1:27:47
Speaker 3: Sweet tickets out of six hundred and seventy eight that
1:27:50
Speaker 3: were actually sold. Actual attendance in the venue was listed
1:27:54
Speaker 3: as twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine according
1:27:57
Speaker 3: to the documentation, While not specially, the difference could be
1:28:01
Speaker 3: arena workers and other personnel. The total amount of tickets
1:28:05
Speaker 3: sold and distributed was not provided in the records. Wressel
1:28:08
Speaker 3: Tics had previously estimated twenty seven thousand, two hundred and
1:28:12
Speaker 3: forty five as total distributed. Following the event, AW president
1:28:16
Speaker 3: Tony Kahan had said that he thought the attendance was
1:28:19
Speaker 3: nearly twenty nine thousand. In pre show media, he said
1:28:23
Speaker 3: that all In was nearing the three million dollar mark
1:28:25
Speaker 3: in gate revenue. Why that scan count matters is the
1:28:29
Speaker 3: Texas Event Trust Fund, which uses both state and local
1:28:32
Speaker 3: funding to help cover expenses for certain events coming into
1:28:35
Speaker 3: the state. AW was set to receive a million dollars
1:28:40
Speaker 3: in pre approved funding based on a February estimated attendance
1:28:45
Speaker 3: of thirty three thousand, four hundred and ninety with thirty
1:28:48
Speaker 3: two thousand, five hundred of those being fans. Arlington City
1:28:52
Speaker 3: Manager Trey Yelverton confirmed to Wrestle Nomics in the report
1:28:56
Speaker 3: that AW would end up receiving around seven hundred thousand
1:28:59
Speaker 3: dollars in reimbursements towards all in costs. Additionally, documentations showed
1:29:04
Speaker 3: that there was originally both New Japan and CMLL events
1:29:08
Speaker 3: planned for All In week, in addition to a Chris
1:29:10
Speaker 3: Jericho Fozzy Swerve Strickland combo concert that never happened. So
1:29:17
Speaker 3: that's kind of embarrassing. I would say, Yeah, they were
1:29:20
Speaker 3: talking about twenty nine thousand, you know, thirty thousand people
1:29:23
Speaker 3: there for All In, and now we find out that
1:29:26
Speaker 3: the number was actually quite a bit less and they're
1:29:30
Speaker 3: not in fact getting the million dollars that they were
1:29:32
Speaker 3: expecting to get. When WWE exaggerates their numbers, we talk
1:29:36
Speaker 3: about that. If AW does the same thing and they
1:29:39
Speaker 3: get exposed, we got to talk about that too. Unfortunately,
1:29:44
Speaker 3: we also got to talk about Coda Ibushi, and this
1:29:46
Speaker 3: is something I would rather not be talking about. Coda
1:29:49
Speaker 3: Aboushie made his return at the Collision taping this past
1:29:53
Speaker 3: week in Jacksonville. They had their homecoming shows from Daily's place.
1:29:57
Speaker 3: They were live on Tuesday. They taped Coalition on Wednesday,
1:30:01
Speaker 3: and Cody Ebushi was making his in ring return. The
1:30:04
Speaker 3: first time we would have seen him since Forbidden Door
1:30:07
Speaker 3: back in August, and he made his return in a
1:30:10
Speaker 3: match against Josh Alexander and he got injured, and he
1:30:14
Speaker 3: got injured very badly and had to be carded to
1:30:17
Speaker 3: an ambulance outside the venue. They did air the match
1:30:20
Speaker 3: last night. I was wondering if they were going to
1:30:22
Speaker 3: keep that in or edit the whole thing out, because
1:30:25
Speaker 3: they were wrestling for a good I don't know, ten
1:30:27
Speaker 3: twelve minutes maybe before the injury happened. They did air
1:30:31
Speaker 3: the full match right up until and through the injury
1:30:33
Speaker 3: and the postmatch stuff, so we got to see it
1:30:36
Speaker 3: in living color exactly what happened here, and it was
1:30:40
Speaker 3: just a complete accident. So what happened was they did
1:30:43
Speaker 3: a spot where Alexander had Abushie on his shoulders while
1:30:47
Speaker 3: he was sitting on the top rope, and I don't
1:30:50
Speaker 3: know what he was going for. I don't know if
1:30:53
Speaker 3: he was going for a Lambeau plunge or what he
1:30:55
Speaker 3: was going to do. But Alexander picked up Eboushie on
1:30:59
Speaker 3: his shoulder. It was in a fireman's carry position and
1:31:03
Speaker 3: they slipped. It was actually like Alexander was kind of
1:31:05
Speaker 3: like falling backwards and they fell out of the ring.
1:31:09
Speaker 3: Alexander actually fell backwards, which was scary enough, and he
1:31:13
Speaker 3: hit the apron on the way down, but otherwise he
1:31:15
Speaker 3: was fine. Ibushi just fell straight down. It wasn't even
1:31:18
Speaker 3: like he fell on his head or anything like that,
1:31:20
Speaker 3: but he fell and in doing so, he landed badly
1:31:25
Speaker 3: and he broke his leg, and Doc Samson came out.
1:31:30
Speaker 3: The referee ended up counting Ibushie out of the ring.
1:31:34
Speaker 3: Don Kallus then gets on the mic and he cuts
1:31:36
Speaker 3: a promo and Mark Davis comes out with him. Yes,
1:31:39
Speaker 3: Mark Davis is back, talk about an uneventful return, and
1:31:45
Speaker 3: they had him go over and start pounding away on Ibushie,
1:31:48
Speaker 3: who's laying there in agonizing pain. I mean, at least
1:31:51
Speaker 3: he didn't hit him in the leg. Kenny Omega runs
1:31:54
Speaker 3: out with the garbage can to run them off. What
1:31:56
Speaker 3: they did not show were the house lights then were lowered,
1:31:59
Speaker 3: medical person and ellissisted Iboushi. Eventually they carried him out
1:32:02
Speaker 3: on a stretcher to an ambulance. Tony Khan addressed the
1:32:05
Speaker 3: live audience after the match, saying, most challenging sport of
1:32:10
Speaker 3: all when it comes to injuries, The hardest hitting sport
1:32:13
Speaker 3: of all is pro wrestling. Thank you for being respectful.
1:32:16
Speaker 3: Let's give it up for Koda Ibushi.
1:32:20
Speaker 1: Now.
1:32:20
Speaker 3: Ibushi has since confirmed on his Instagram that he underwent
1:32:24
Speaker 3: successful surgery to repair a broken femur, which is a
1:32:28
Speaker 3: terrible injury. The femur is the strongest, I think, and
1:32:31
Speaker 3: longest bone in the human body, and he broke it.
1:32:36
Speaker 3: Think of all the times he landed on his fucking
1:32:38
Speaker 3: neck and didn't break his neck, but he broke his femur.
1:32:43
Speaker 3: And he posted this note along with a photo. There
1:32:46
Speaker 3: are actually several photos of him in the hospital bed,
1:32:49
Speaker 3: but one of them he's in the hospital bed holding
1:32:51
Speaker 3: a bouquet of flowers with a note from Tony Kahan,
1:32:53
Speaker 3: a handwritten note from him, and Ibushi posted the following,
1:32:57
Speaker 3: and this is translated. He says again question mark again,
1:33:02
Speaker 3: I've done nothing but suffer serious injuries. This time it's
1:33:06
Speaker 3: aphemeral fracture, said thigh bone, and the broken bone was
1:33:11
Speaker 3: about to pierce through the flesh. It feels like life
1:33:15
Speaker 3: is telling me enough already.
1:33:17
Speaker 1: Stop.
1:33:18
Speaker 3: The surgery was successfully completed, and then he says in parenthesis,
1:33:22
Speaker 3: if I end up with another serious injury after this,
1:33:25
Speaker 3: dot dot dot, he said, from now on, I think
1:33:28
Speaker 3: I'll live as an ordinary person. For about the past
1:33:32
Speaker 3: five years, I've been constantly breaking, healing and getting into accidents.
1:33:36
Speaker 3: But this can't be the way it ends. More than anything,
1:33:39
Speaker 3: the greatest president hashtag Tony Khan and my comrade, the
1:33:44
Speaker 3: Vice president hashtag Kenny Omega, who helped me with so
1:33:49
Speaker 3: many things, the best in the world. Aw I never
1:33:52
Speaker 3: imagined it that the President himself would personally give me
1:33:56
Speaker 3: a bouquet and a letter after something like that. How
1:34:00
Speaker 3: could I ever quit? I cried. I don't know if
1:34:04
Speaker 3: it'll take a year or a year and a half
1:34:06
Speaker 3: to recover, but I'll start doing whatever I can. Right now,
1:34:09
Speaker 3: I can only move my toes unbearable pain. I was
1:34:14
Speaker 3: shocked that I could even still feel pain. Mister Tony Khan,
1:34:17
Speaker 3: I've got no choice but to keep fighting, And I
1:34:22
Speaker 3: just feel bad for the guy. This was just a
1:34:25
Speaker 3: complete freak accident. It wasn't even like he did something
1:34:28
Speaker 3: that was just really, really crazy, And of course you
1:34:31
Speaker 3: know that's the risk you take. I mean, they were
1:34:34
Speaker 3: on the top rope getting ready to do something. There's
1:34:36
Speaker 3: always going to be risk involved in that, but especially
1:34:40
Speaker 3: by Yubushi standards, this was really nothing out of the ordinary,
1:34:43
Speaker 3: and it just was a freak thing that happened. You know,
1:34:46
Speaker 3: Ibushi is forty three years old with a body that
1:34:50
Speaker 3: has been ravaged by injuries, and not only the shoulder
1:34:54
Speaker 3: injury that he suffered in that G one final with
1:34:56
Speaker 3: Okada a few years ago, but last year he was
1:34:59
Speaker 3: wrestling with an already broken ankle and he ended up
1:35:02
Speaker 3: injuring himself even worse. I think he hurt both ankles.
1:35:05
Speaker 3: That's why he missed so much time, Like that man
1:35:08
Speaker 3: needed an intervention from someone. He was going down a
1:35:12
Speaker 3: bad path. Then he comes back this year and he
1:35:16
Speaker 3: actually looks more like his old self, only for this
1:35:19
Speaker 3: than that happened. I mean, maybe maybe the wrestling gods
1:35:23
Speaker 3: are trying to tell him something.
1:35:24
Speaker 1: I don't know. I could see why he wouldn't want
1:35:26
Speaker 1: his career to end like that. I'm sure.
1:35:27
Speaker 3: I'm sure he'll be back, but at some point, like
1:35:31
Speaker 3: if he does get hurt again, that's it. To me,
1:35:34
Speaker 3: that's a wrap, Like how much more can one person
1:35:37
Speaker 3: take here? So I mean, it's just a completely shitty situation.
1:35:42
Speaker 3: And as far as plans it may have impacted, I
1:35:46
Speaker 3: assumed you know him coming back now? Why would they
1:35:49
Speaker 3: bring him back now?
1:35:50
Speaker 1: Right?
1:35:51
Speaker 3: Well, we're heading into Blood and Guts in November. We
1:35:55
Speaker 3: know we're getting a women's blood and Guts. They have
1:35:58
Speaker 3: not said there won't be a men. We may get
1:36:00
Speaker 3: one of each, and I know he's been in a
1:36:02
Speaker 3: previous one with Omega. I could have envisioned a scenario
1:36:06
Speaker 3: where Omega and Eboushi end up on the baby face
1:36:08
Speaker 3: side in a blood and Guts match. So it's entirely
1:36:11
Speaker 3: possible that was what they had planned for him, and
1:36:13
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1:36:15
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Speaker 3: from Saint Louis, Kazuska Okata and Kenoski Takeshta. They will
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Speaker 3: be taking on Bandido and Brody King for the AW
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Speaker 3: Tag Team titles after their win over the champions in
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Speaker 3: that non title eliminator match on Wednesday. Also added to
1:39:20
Speaker 3: the card, Jurassic Express will be taking on the Young
1:39:24
Speaker 3: Bucks in a match with five hundred thousand dollars at
1:39:27
Speaker 3: stake because the Bucks are broke, there are the Brocass
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Speaker 3: Bucks again. They need money, so they got Tony Kin
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Speaker 3: to put some money on the line in that match,
1:39:34
Speaker 3: and also added Kyle Fletcher will defend the TNT Championship
1:39:38
Speaker 3: against Mark Brisco, So that now is added to a
1:39:41
Speaker 3: card that already had Darby Allen and John Moxley in
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Speaker 3: an I quit match, and Chris Statlander defending the AW
1:39:48
Speaker 3: Women's World title against Timeless Tony Storm and Hangman Page
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Speaker 3: putting the AW World Championship on the line against Samoa Joe.
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Speaker 3: So there is going to be a three hour Dynamite
1:40:00
Speaker 3: Collision combo here on Wednesday, oh Joy three hours on
1:40:06
Speaker 3: Wednesday Night, Trio's titles are on the line. The Ops
1:40:10
Speaker 3: defend against La Faxion Ingobernable, Kenny Omega and Jurassic Express
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Speaker 3: will team up to take on Josh Alexander Hetchesero and
1:40:19
Speaker 3: Mark Davis. I love how Kenny Omega was viciously attacked
1:40:25
Speaker 3: and put out of action for weeks by Kyle Fletcher,
1:40:29
Speaker 3: and he comes back to TV, doesn't go after Kyle Fletcher,
1:40:34
Speaker 3: but ends up getting ambushed by Andrade. And now Kenny
1:40:38
Speaker 3: Omega is tagging the Jurassic Express against the other members
1:40:42
Speaker 3: of the Don Kallis family and still really nothing from
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Speaker 3: Omega and androde or Omega and Fletcher. So maybe he's
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Speaker 3: just going to make enemies out of each individual member
1:40:52
Speaker 3: of this faction one by one. I don't know, but
1:40:55
Speaker 3: John Moxley and Darby Allen are going to have a
1:40:57
Speaker 3: face to face the Hurt Syndicate are going to be
1:40:59
Speaker 3: taking on the Game of Agony. Actually, that's another match
1:41:02
Speaker 3: I believe that was just added last night to the
1:41:04
Speaker 3: Wrestle Dream Card. They're doing another match between the Hurt
1:41:07
Speaker 3: Syndicate and the Demand. That's what Ricochet and Goa are
1:41:11
Speaker 3: calling themselves. Did anybody demand this match. I mean, I
1:41:16
Speaker 3: guess it's the rubber match, right, They're one and one,
1:41:18
Speaker 3: so I mean, I guess that makes sense. Claudio Castignoli
1:41:22
Speaker 3: on Wednesday takes on Roderick Strong, Chris Statlander and Tony
1:41:25
Speaker 3: Storm will have their famous last words. I guess that
1:41:28
Speaker 3: last hard sell for their match. Wheeler Yuda and Daniel
1:41:31
Speaker 3: Garcia take on Orange Cassidy and Kyle O'Reilly and Sky
1:41:35
Speaker 3: Blue will take on Jamie Hayter and Jamie Hayter and Tekla.
1:41:39
Speaker 3: That was another match that was added to the Wrestle
1:41:41
Speaker 3: dream Card. I forgot some of these other editions from
1:41:44
Speaker 3: Collision last night. Speaking of Collision, there was a backstage
1:41:47
Speaker 3: segment on Collision that showed Jack Perry, who was still
1:41:51
Speaker 3: very much dressing up like scapegoat Jack Perry. Even though
1:41:54
Speaker 3: their back Jurassic Express is reunited and they got their
1:41:57
Speaker 3: old music back, he still dressed up in the denim.
1:42:00
Speaker 3: He still has a knife that he carries around with him,
1:42:04
Speaker 3: and he enters Kenny Omega's locker room and he apologized
1:42:07
Speaker 3: to Omega for what happened to Cody Abushi earlier in
1:42:10
Speaker 3: the show and also for his past actions, and he
1:42:14
Speaker 3: wanted Omega to know that they share a common enemy
1:42:17
Speaker 3: in the Don Kallis family, and he offered to have
1:42:19
Speaker 3: Omega's back, and Kenny had no interest in this. He'd
1:42:22
Speaker 3: declined the offer. He let Perry know he doesn't trust
1:42:25
Speaker 3: him or his big dumb dinosaur, but he is running
1:42:28
Speaker 3: low on friends, so if he really wants to prove himself,
1:42:31
Speaker 3: then he should show up to Dynamite. And again, the
1:42:34
Speaker 3: match on Wednesday is supposed to be Kenny omegaan Jurassic
1:42:38
Speaker 3: Express against the Kallus family. And I bring this up
1:42:42
Speaker 3: because someone sent me this. It was posted on Reddit
1:42:46
Speaker 3: earlier this week, and it's actually very interesting. I'm just
1:42:49
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna paraphrase him. I canna read the entire thing,
1:42:52
Speaker 3: but it's a scenario that someone floated as it relates
1:42:55
Speaker 3: to Jack Perry in this supposed reunion of Jurassic Express.
1:43:00
Speaker 3: This person says, ever since Jurassic Express reunited, I have
1:43:05
Speaker 3: felt that something was off. I feel that last night's
1:43:08
Speaker 3: match all but confirmed my suspicions that Jurassic Express is
1:43:12
Speaker 3: not okay. In the lead up to the reunion, we
1:43:16
Speaker 3: saw vignettes of what appears to be Jack Perry in
1:43:18
Speaker 3: a dingy room with Luciasaurus on an operating table and
1:43:23
Speaker 3: he's shocking him and cutting him like Doctor Frankenstein reviving
1:43:26
Speaker 3: his monster on Dynamite. We saw them back together in
1:43:29
Speaker 3: their first match, and it featured Lucasaurus doing all the
1:43:32
Speaker 3: work and Jack distracting the referee. I think there was
1:43:36
Speaker 3: also I think he pulled the turnbuckle pad off at
1:43:39
Speaker 3: one point, but he says that they hit their finish
1:43:44
Speaker 3: and Jack just stares at the camera with a smirk
1:43:46
Speaker 3: on his face, which he did, and then they play
1:43:49
Speaker 3: Baltimore a tarzanboy and everyone's cheering and throwing beach balls around.
1:43:53
Speaker 3: If Jack Perry is supposed to be a good person,
1:43:56
Speaker 3: why show these scenes of him doing some really greasy
1:43:59
Speaker 3: shit to Lucasaur. Why is he trying to cheat? Why
1:44:01
Speaker 3: is he yelling at Lucasaurus? Why is he smirking? It
1:44:05
Speaker 3: feels off because Jack Perry is still a villain. Nothing
1:44:09
Speaker 3: has changed for Jack. He is still carrying knives like
1:44:12
Speaker 3: a freak. He is still hitting the crucifix pose. He
1:44:15
Speaker 3: is still cheating. The only difference is the music. He
1:44:19
Speaker 3: hasn't shown any signs of remorse or that he has changed. Well,
1:44:24
Speaker 3: who does that remind you of by the way Roman Reigns.
1:44:28
Speaker 3: I say it all the time. Roman came back after
1:44:30
Speaker 3: he lost the ww Championship and the people were cheering
1:44:34
Speaker 3: for him like he was the biggest baby face in
1:44:36
Speaker 3: the company. And not a damn thing changed in Roman's demeanor,
1:44:40
Speaker 3: in his behavior, and his presentation.
1:44:43
Speaker 1: Nothing.
1:44:44
Speaker 3: He's still a fucking heel. And that will be the
1:44:48
Speaker 3: only time that you ever hear me compare Roman Reigns
1:44:50
Speaker 3: to Jungle Boy.
1:44:53
Speaker 1: But it does.
1:44:53
Speaker 3: It's a very interesting scenario, and I do think that
1:44:55
Speaker 3: there is something going on here. I don't think Jack
1:44:58
Speaker 3: Perry is a He's not Jungle Boy again, He's not
1:45:01
Speaker 3: coming out in the fucking loincloth. But I think he's
1:45:04
Speaker 3: still a heel. I think this person's onto something. I
1:45:06
Speaker 3: think there's something going on here in this reunion of
1:45:09
Speaker 3: Jurassic Express is probably going to be a short lived thing.
1:45:14
Speaker 3: The only other thing I wanted to mention here from
1:45:15
Speaker 3: this was Mercedes Monette. She got a win in her
1:45:19
Speaker 3: open challenge over Lacey Lane. We had Caden Carter and
1:45:23
Speaker 3: Katana Chance as a tag team in WWE. She was
1:45:26
Speaker 3: Caden Carter, so now she's going by the name Lacy Lane.
1:45:29
Speaker 3: They had a match on Dynamite. It was okay, it
1:45:32
Speaker 3: wasn't really anything out of this world, but it was
1:45:35
Speaker 3: the only women's match on that entire two and a
1:45:37
Speaker 3: half hour show because the women in AW I've noticed
1:45:41
Speaker 3: are largely relegated to the B Show. They're largely relegated
1:45:45
Speaker 3: to Collision, which they know gets a much smaller audience.
1:45:49
Speaker 3: And I love how they announced women's tag team titles,
1:45:53
Speaker 3: and they also had Jamie Hayters, you know, put that
1:45:55
Speaker 3: challenge out a couple of weeks ago to women's you know,
1:45:57
Speaker 3: Blooding Guts, and since then they haven't said anything about
1:46:01
Speaker 3: either one of them. Now, they still have time before
1:46:03
Speaker 3: we get to November twelfth, which is when Blood and
1:46:05
Speaker 3: Guts is going to be, but it's like there's been
1:46:08
Speaker 3: no real movement yet on that front. Mercedes was in
1:46:13
Speaker 3: Denmark on Friday and she wrestled a Lessa Ink for
1:46:19
Speaker 3: the Body Slam Wrestling Championship, a title that Ink has
1:46:24
Speaker 3: held for more than three years. And guess what happened, everybody,
1:46:31
Speaker 3: you guessed it. We got Mercedes ten belts. She is
1:46:35
Speaker 3: ten belts monet, so I believe she is now tie
1:46:39
Speaker 3: Ultimo Dragon one more championship and she breaks Ultimo Dragon's record,
1:46:45
Speaker 3: and it's going to happen. In fact, you're not gonna
1:46:47
Speaker 3: have to wait very long for it, because it's going
1:46:49
Speaker 3: to happen on Is it Sunday? I believe it's Sunday,
1:46:53
Speaker 3: October nineteenth. Winnipeg Pro Wrestling is having their Rumble in
1:46:58
Speaker 3: the Bert in Winnipeg, and I believe Jody Threat is
1:47:03
Speaker 3: defending her title on that show against Mercedes Todare you go?
1:47:08
Speaker 3: Mercedes is about to become eleven belts monet after next weekend.
1:47:13
Speaker 3: For anyone who is tracking this, she really isn't doing
1:47:16
Speaker 3: fuck all in aw right now, but she's still collecting
1:47:19
Speaker 3: belts everywhere else, so she'll have another one coming her
1:47:22
Speaker 3: way in about a week. Some other news and notes,
1:47:27
Speaker 3: The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday that Rajah Jackson,
1:47:31
Speaker 3: the son of MMA legend Quintin Rampage Jackson, will face
1:47:35
Speaker 3: two charges concerning his August attack on indie wrestler Psycho
1:47:39
Speaker 3: Stew that drew worldwide criticism and media attention. Jackson will
1:47:44
Speaker 3: be charged with one count of felony battery that caused
1:47:48
Speaker 3: serious bodily injury and one count of misdemeanor battery. The
1:47:52
Speaker 3: attack took place at a show for Knox Pro Wrestling
1:47:55
Speaker 3: on August twenty third. What was originally a planned spot
1:47:59
Speaker 3: turned in to a legitimate situation, with Jackson bloodying Stu
1:48:03
Speaker 3: and sending him to the hospital. The attack came after
1:48:05
Speaker 3: Stu had struck Jackson in the head with a beer
1:48:07
Speaker 3: can backstage. Says prosecutors will also seek a sentencing enhancement
1:48:13
Speaker 3: because Jackson allegedly caused Stuart Smith, which is Psycho Stu's
1:48:17
Speaker 3: real name, to suffer great bodily injury. Smith lost several
1:48:21
Speaker 3: teeth and suffered a laceration on his lip during the attack,
1:48:24
Speaker 3: which saw Jackson body slam the wrestler and then punch
1:48:26
Speaker 3: him in the head and face more than twenty times.
1:48:30
Speaker 1: So that was.
1:48:31
Speaker 3: Earlier in the week, and then on Thursday, Rajah Jackson
1:48:33
Speaker 3: made an appearance in court. He pleaded not guilty, which
1:48:38
Speaker 3: is standard.
1:48:38
Speaker 1: Ship.
1:48:38
Speaker 3: People were making a big deal how he play. That's
1:48:41
Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do. That's just standard. If his
1:48:44
Speaker 3: lawyer told him to plead any other way, it would
1:48:47
Speaker 3: be very unusual. But he pleaded not guilty in response
1:48:51
Speaker 3: to the charges, one of which is a felony that
1:48:53
Speaker 3: could see him serve up to seven years in jail
1:48:56
Speaker 3: if convicted. He is facing one count of felony battery
1:48:59
Speaker 3: and one count of misdemeanor battery, which could see him
1:49:02
Speaker 3: serving an additional six months for that charge. When approached
1:49:06
Speaker 3: by TMZ at today's court date in La, Jackson did
1:49:09
Speaker 3: not offer any comment. His next court appearance is scheduled
1:49:12
Speaker 3: for at November and per TMZ, wearing a black shirt,
1:49:16
Speaker 3: black pants, and a black tie, Raja stared ahead as
1:49:19
Speaker 3: he strolled into the building, flanked by men who appeared
1:49:22
Speaker 3: to be his lawyers. Also this is from TMZ, it
1:49:28
Speaker 3: appears Raja Jackson has ended Psycho Stu's time inside the
1:49:32
Speaker 3: Squared Circle, as one of the wrestler's good friends tells
1:49:35
Speaker 3: TMZ Sports that he is sure that Stu's in ring
1:49:38
Speaker 3: career is over following the violent attack. Douglas Mallow, who
1:49:43
Speaker 3: actually helped rip Jackson off of Psycho Stu during his
1:49:46
Speaker 3: outburst back in August, sat down with us this week
1:49:50
Speaker 3: after prosecutors officially levy charges on Rampage Jackson's son, and
1:49:55
Speaker 3: he told us that he cannot see Stu ever mixing
1:49:58
Speaker 3: it up between the ropes again.
1:50:00
Speaker 1: Said.
1:50:00
Speaker 3: His close friend that I talked to that's throwing this
1:50:03
Speaker 3: benefit event said that Stu's done with any ring work,
1:50:08
Speaker 3: said Malo when TMZ asked if he thinks that Stu
1:50:10
Speaker 3: would like to wrestle again to help find closure, and
1:50:14
Speaker 3: then I also know about some of the stuff that
1:50:15
Speaker 3: he was dealing with from when I talked to his
1:50:17
Speaker 3: wife last and his friends. I don't think being in
1:50:20
Speaker 3: the ring would ever work again. Malo said that he
1:50:24
Speaker 3: thinks it would be cool to do an angle where
1:50:26
Speaker 3: Stue makes a safe for him, reversing the situation that
1:50:29
Speaker 3: played out when he helped stop Jackson's attack, but Malo
1:50:33
Speaker 3: doesn't know if even that would be a smart idea.
1:50:35
Speaker 3: He said that was a lot of damage that he
1:50:37
Speaker 3: received plus what he was already dealing with. You know,
1:50:40
Speaker 3: he wasn't necessarily a spring chicken before the event. A
1:50:44
Speaker 3: show to help Stu is being put on by Valor
1:50:47
Speaker 3: Pro Wrestling on November fifteenth. Malo is excited to see
1:50:51
Speaker 3: Stu there and give him a big hug. To this point,
1:50:53
Speaker 3: Malo has tried to mostly avoid reaching out to Stue
1:50:56
Speaker 3: directly because he doesn't want Stu to have to relive
1:50:58
Speaker 3: the trauma that he experienced. Malo also said that he
1:51:01
Speaker 3: hoped Stu could at the very least do some work
1:51:04
Speaker 3: in the wrestling world that did not require getting physical.
1:51:07
Speaker 3: He also said at some point he might file a
1:51:10
Speaker 3: civil suit against Rajah, noting the attack of him with
1:51:13
Speaker 3: a hefty hospital bill that he is still on the
1:51:16
Speaker 3: hook for so. It took long enough, but good. The
1:51:21
Speaker 3: wheels of justice turned very slowly, but hopefully Rajah Jackson
1:51:24
Speaker 3: will get what he has coming to him. Former ECWWCW
1:51:30
Speaker 3: and WWE star Raven scott Levy revealed that he has
1:51:34
Speaker 3: been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease. Appearing on Wednesday's
1:51:40
Speaker 3: Ariel Helwane Show. He was promoting his new documentary Never
1:51:43
Speaker 3: More The Raven Effect, which hits Amazon Prime on November eighteenth,
1:51:48
Speaker 3: and he said that at this point in his life,
1:51:50
Speaker 3: he is as content as I've ever been, other than
1:51:53
Speaker 3: this stupid tremor I got from the Parkinson's. Helwani mentioned
1:51:57
Speaker 3: that he noticed in the documentary that he was suffering
1:51:59
Speaker 3: from the disease and asked how he is doing with it.
1:52:03
Speaker 3: Raven said, I'm lucky it hasn't affected me too bad.
1:52:06
Speaker 3: When I get anxious the tremor gets worse, or if
1:52:08
Speaker 3: I'm really tired, I have a sleep disorder. You gotta
1:52:12
Speaker 3: pay the piper sometime for all the drugs and alcohol
1:52:15
Speaker 3: and share shots I took to the head. You gotta
1:52:17
Speaker 3: pay for the damage at some point, admitting that those
1:52:19
Speaker 3: three things resulted in his current state. He also admitted
1:52:23
Speaker 3: that he has tons of regrets and that anyone that
1:52:25
Speaker 3: says they don't is full of shit, but he would
1:52:28
Speaker 3: not have changed anything. He said, it made me who
1:52:31
Speaker 3: I am. I am happy with who I am. I
1:52:33
Speaker 3: would rather be happy with who I am at the
1:52:35
Speaker 3: end of my life rather than earlier in my life
1:52:38
Speaker 3: and not be happy.
1:52:39
Speaker 1: At the end.
1:52:41
Speaker 3: Also on the health front, we had former WWE star
1:52:45
Speaker 3: and Nexus member Michael Tarvor. He revealed that he recently
1:52:49
Speaker 3: suffered a stroke. Sharing a message about the experience Wednesday
1:52:54
Speaker 3: on his Instagram, he said, last night I was told
1:52:56
Speaker 3: I was having a stroke. I don't ever emotever sell,
1:53:00
Speaker 3: as we say in the wrestling business, where I spent
1:53:02
Speaker 3: twenty years of my life, I told nobody until I
1:53:05
Speaker 3: was forced to last night.
1:53:07
Speaker 1: I had at.
1:53:07
Speaker 3: Two to two over a one fourteen blood pressure reading,
1:53:11
Speaker 3: and the few people I told right before taking myself
1:53:14
Speaker 3: to the er. I'm thankful for your persistence and also
1:53:18
Speaker 3: that I actually listened. I was in my bed for
1:53:21
Speaker 3: a few hours as they were testing and working to
1:53:23
Speaker 3: get my blood pressure down, and I actually started to
1:53:25
Speaker 3: have thoughts about my mortality. What a way to die.
1:53:28
Speaker 3: I worked two jobs, I trained twice a day. I've
1:53:31
Speaker 3: never drank or smoked in my life, and to fall
1:53:34
Speaker 3: asleep and not wake up because of my blood pressure.
1:53:37
Speaker 3: I thought about my babies, who are all adults now.
1:53:39
Speaker 3: In all of my years of fighting depression and suicide
1:53:43
Speaker 3: attempts over the past twenty years, I thought about my family,
1:53:46
Speaker 3: and I just felt this overwhelming responsibility to get up
1:53:49
Speaker 3: out of that bed and live. I haven't shared this
1:53:51
Speaker 3: much detail with anyone, as I am still processing all
1:53:54
Speaker 3: of the weird emotions that I'm being overcome with. But
1:53:57
Speaker 3: the sun came up, and so did I. That is
1:54:00
Speaker 3: a terrible blood pressure reading, by the way, that's very scary.
1:54:04
Speaker 3: He's forty eight years old. I mean, look, strokes can
1:54:06
Speaker 3: happen at any age, but you worry more about it
1:54:09
Speaker 3: as you get older. You know, you worry about a
1:54:11
Speaker 3: lot of things the older you get. But I mean
1:54:13
Speaker 3: he's not exactly an old man. He has not wrestled
1:54:17
Speaker 3: since twenty twenty one. I don't think he's actively wrestling anymore.
1:54:21
Speaker 3: But scary experience, but thankfully he went to the hospital
1:54:25
Speaker 3: and got the help he needed. And one more health
1:54:28
Speaker 3: note here, it feels like the sky is falling.
1:54:31
Speaker 1: Man.
1:54:31
Speaker 3: We talk about the Rajah Jackson stuff. We talked about
1:54:34
Speaker 3: Kodyaboushi and his broken femur, talked about a whole bunch
1:54:38
Speaker 3: of different things here, but former Men on a Mission
1:54:41
Speaker 3: member Moe of Moe and Mabel Fame real name Bobby Horn.
1:54:45
Speaker 3: He could use some positive vibes right now. He is
1:54:48
Speaker 3: currently in the hospital in the intensive care unit with
1:54:50
Speaker 3: a severe blood infection and pneumonia, So all the best
1:54:55
Speaker 3: to him. Dark Side of the Ring is returning for
1:54:59
Speaker 3: a seventh season. Speaking of Rajai Jackson, I think he'll
1:55:03
Speaker 3: make for a great episode one day. Maybe when they
1:55:05
Speaker 3: get to like season ten, they could do an episode
1:55:08
Speaker 3: on him and his father. They could cover his upbringing
1:55:11
Speaker 3: and the incident and the time that he's about to
1:55:14
Speaker 3: spend in the Big House behind bars. A PW insider
1:55:18
Speaker 3: reported on Tuesday that the show has been renewed for
1:55:21
Speaker 3: a seventh season by Vice TV. Additionally, they report that
1:55:24
Speaker 3: the series is actively shooting new episodes and was filming
1:55:27
Speaker 3: several weeks ago in Louisville, Kentucky. Isn't that where Cornette is?
1:55:33
Speaker 3: I wonder if they were filming stuff with him. The
1:55:35
Speaker 3: sixth season premiered back in March, with shows focusing on
1:55:38
Speaker 3: Superstar Billy Graham, Billy Jack Haynes, Daphne Ludvig Borga, and
1:55:43
Speaker 3: Mohammad Ali, Muhammad Ali, Mohammad Hamad Ali, Mohammed Hassan. I mean,
1:55:50
Speaker 3: he does have a connection to wrestling. But so you know,
1:55:54
Speaker 3: we look ahead here to the seven season. I still
1:55:56
Speaker 3: watch it. I know some people have checked out in
1:55:58
Speaker 3: recent seasons, but I'll enjoy doing the reviews. I think
1:56:01
Speaker 3: you guys enjoyed me doing the reviews. I get a
1:56:04
Speaker 3: lot of positive feedback to them. So you know, once
1:56:07
Speaker 3: the new season drops, I'm sure we'll bring back the reviews.
1:56:10
Speaker 3: As far as potential topics for a seven season, Hulk Hogan,
1:56:16
Speaker 3: who just passed away, you could probably get an entire
1:56:18
Speaker 3: season out of just Hogan alone, his entire life. But
1:56:23
Speaker 3: I did mention, you know, at the end of last season,
1:56:25
Speaker 3: I mentioned that there was talk of a Trent Acid episode.
1:56:28
Speaker 3: Acid was a big independent name who died of a
1:56:30
Speaker 3: drug overdose about fifteen years ago, so that's one possibility.
1:56:35
Speaker 3: But I just mocked up a short list here, and
1:56:37
Speaker 3: these are a lot of names you've heard me mentioned before.
1:56:40
Speaker 3: I think that you could choose from any of these names.
1:56:42
Speaker 3: They would be an appropriate subject for an episode. Rick
1:56:46
Speaker 3: rud and his untimely passing, Perry Saturn, Mike Awesome, and
1:56:53
Speaker 3: I think there's a reason why the Mike Awesome episode
1:56:55
Speaker 3: is not going to get done has to do with
1:56:56
Speaker 3: his ex wife, but he would be a good topic
1:57:00
Speaker 3: for one of these episodes. Ashley Massorrow is definitely a
1:57:04
Speaker 3: dark side of the ring story to Keshi Morishima is
1:57:07
Speaker 3: another one. Crash Holly Right. I think a real name,
1:57:11
Speaker 3: Mike Lockwood, Rock and Roll, buck Zumov, that piece of shit.
1:57:16
Speaker 3: He could have his own episode. Sweet and Sour. Larry Sweeney,
1:57:21
Speaker 3: I'll keep mentioning him. I think he would be an
1:57:24
Speaker 3: interesting topic as well, and I think there are some
1:57:27
Speaker 3: good lessons that could be learned from his story as well.
1:57:31
Speaker 3: And then, of course you could always do one on
1:57:32
Speaker 3: the speaking out movement from twenty twenty and all the
1:57:35
Speaker 3: names that it took down again, they may want to
1:57:37
Speaker 3: put some more distance between that and the time they
1:57:39
Speaker 3: do that episode, but there were a lot of names,
1:57:42
Speaker 3: a lot of independent names that were fairly big on
1:57:44
Speaker 3: the wrestling scene who you don't hear about anymore. So
1:57:48
Speaker 3: it took down a lot of people. I think that
1:57:49
Speaker 3: could definitely be an episode they do at some point
1:57:51
Speaker 3: in the future. I'm going to get back to your
1:57:55
Speaker 3: mail beg questions next week. I just there's so much
1:57:57
Speaker 3: going on this week and I just did not have
1:57:59
Speaker 3: time to just go through everything. We'll get back to
1:58:02
Speaker 3: that next week. I did want to share an email though,
1:58:04
Speaker 3: that I got here and some advice from one of
1:58:07
Speaker 3: our longtime listeners. Shout out to Jacob. This is what
1:58:11
Speaker 3: he wrote in and just wanted me to share, urging
1:58:15
Speaker 3: others to seek out therapy or any other source of
1:58:19
Speaker 3: mental health assistance if they needed. He says, I'm a
1:58:22
Speaker 3: federal worker who has had the constant fear of losing
1:58:25
Speaker 3: my dream job held over me this year, and have
1:58:28
Speaker 3: had other personal issues that trouble me each day. Then
1:58:31
Speaker 3: I recently lost my grandpa who raised me as his son.
1:58:34
Speaker 3: All this has weighed on me heavily and brought me
1:58:37
Speaker 3: to a place where I thought there wasn't any way
1:58:39
Speaker 3: out except the end. I felt so sick one day
1:58:42
Speaker 3: that I had to find a therapist before I could
1:58:44
Speaker 3: do anything that I would regret.
1:58:46
Speaker 1: It saved me.
1:58:47
Speaker 3: I'm not back in a good place, but I know
1:58:48
Speaker 3: I can get better now. I just want to urge
1:58:50
Speaker 3: others to seek help if they need it, because I
1:58:53
Speaker 3: know others who write in also struggled with various issues.
1:58:56
Speaker 3: Thank you, Solo Monster. I'll be here at the House
1:58:59
Speaker 3: of Glory show in Chicago soon well, Jacob. I hope
1:59:03
Speaker 3: I get to see you there. And that is great
1:59:04
Speaker 3: advice for anyone listening. Whatever form of help you may
1:59:08
Speaker 3: want to seek out, it really doesn't matter. Even just
1:59:11
Speaker 3: talking to a friend or a family member sometimes can
1:59:13
Speaker 3: be incredibly helpful. But just know that there is someone
1:59:16
Speaker 3: out there to speak with who can help talk you
1:59:18
Speaker 3: down from the proverbial ledge, because that is not a
1:59:21
Speaker 3: place that you or anyone else should ever feel like
1:59:24
Speaker 3: you have to be. Thank you, guys for all of
1:59:27
Speaker 3: the support and all the love this week and every
1:59:29
Speaker 3: week again.
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1:59:43
Speaker 3: If I could actually put some artwork together here, which
1:59:46
Speaker 3: I'm going to have to go right to as soon
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Speaker 3: as I'm done here. That's the next the order of
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Speaker 3: business here, So hopefully I'm able to do that. Tomorrow.
1:59:53
Speaker 3: Raw is live at eight am. It's another early WWE
1:59:57
Speaker 3: show because they're still in Australia. I have no idea
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Speaker 3: when I'm going live. I would rather not wait until
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Speaker 3: ten o'clock or eleven o'clock at night. I'm sure I'm
2:00:06
Speaker 3: not going to wait. It could be eight o'clock, it
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Speaker 3: On Tuesday, we're back in our normal time slot. Wednesday
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Speaker 3: I would be saying that, by the way, if it
2:00:34
Speaker 3: was WWE two, there's just no need to have a
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Speaker 3: three hour fucking show. Friday is SmackDown. I know Wressell
2:00:42
Speaker 3: Dream is next weekend. I'll keep you posting on that.
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Speaker 3: In the back Becky Lynch approach Maxine Dupre and Akira Tozawa.
2:01:22
Speaker 3: She mocked Dupree for being a loser. Lynch called herself
2:01:25
Speaker 3: the greatest of all time and reminded us that everybody
2:01:27
Speaker 3: was saying it, including Sports Illustrated and the Bleacher Report.
2:01:30
Speaker 3: You know what I think I'm gonna do? You know,
2:01:32
Speaker 3: usually I wait until the end of the Year for this,
2:01:33
Speaker 3: you know, and I announced her Wrestler of the Year
2:01:35
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff. I'm gonna make a
2:01:37
Speaker 3: declaration right now that officially Solo Monster Sounds Off approved.
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Speaker 1: Becky Lynch is the best wrestler in the world.
2:01:42
Speaker 3: So if we get that out there, she can incorporate
2:01:45
Speaker 3: that into her promo so she could go, I'm not
2:01:46
Speaker 3: the only one saying it. ESPN is saying it, the
2:01:49
Speaker 3: Bleacher Report is saying it, even the Solo Monster is
2:01:51
Speaker 3: saying it.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: Well, we'll hear that each week on the show. Let's
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