Latest / WCHS Network Podcasts / Episode 72: WrestleMania 41 Announcements, AEW Grand Slam Results, WWE 2K25 and More!
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Are you ready right, said, oh.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff day Quel clean of o'clock. I got one
- 0:21Speaker 2: hundred and forty one and took those chance of winning.
- 0:24Speaker 3: But brought out I am bad and ain't no, I'm bad.
- 0:27Speaker 3: I'm a peggy out the paving a dollar, you sleep, missed.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Out and shell time. Well cousin to the Grillouse from
- 0:37Speaker 2: the heart Uphilliam, West Virginia. Here's your host, Hollywood, Jeff Petty.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Welcome back, ladies, gentlemen to the Grill House, episode seventy two.
- 0:47Speaker 3: I'm your host, Hollywood, Jeff Petty, and I'm joined by
- 0:51Speaker 3: Josh Coy.
- 0:54Speaker 4: I was not late today. I did not get caught
- 0:56Speaker 4: up in a math equation chasing and are.
- 1:00Speaker 3: And depending Grill Out Predictions Champion Jason li Likens.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Listen, I'm going to tell you exactly what I told
- 1:06Speaker 2: Jeff as soon as I came in. A champ is
- 1:08Speaker 2: neither late nor on time. A champ arrives precisely when
- 1:13Speaker 2: they intend to Bilbo Baggins. So well, I want to
- 1:21Speaker 2: I just want to share something with you two that
- 1:23Speaker 2: I discovered last night, okay, and I sent it to
- 1:26Speaker 2: one of my friends and he didn't understand what I
- 1:30Speaker 2: found funny about this, Okay, So I enjoy watching Peacock. Okay, Yeah,
- 1:37Speaker 2: and uh so on there I saw last night. My
- 1:42Speaker 2: continue watching okay, and I just want to run through
- 1:49Speaker 2: these items for you all really quick and tell me
- 1:52Speaker 2: if anything stands out. And this is all one hundred
- 1:56Speaker 2: percent what I have been watching, Okay. E CW Wrestling
- 2:03Speaker 2: Massacre on Queens Boulevard ECW CyberSlam nineteen ninety seven. Murder
- 2:09Speaker 2: she wrote e c W Hardcore Wrestling Wrestle Palooza. Do
- 2:15Speaker 2: you all know what murder she wrote is? No? It
- 2:17Speaker 2: was a show from like the nineties starring Angela Lansbury,
- 2:21Speaker 2: the woman who did the voice of the Teapot and
- 2:23Speaker 2: Beauty and the Beast, where she is an author JB.
- 2:26Speaker 2: Fletcher and she goes around solving murders. All right, yeah,
- 2:31Speaker 2: all right.
- 2:31Speaker 3: So and speaking of like Peacock, they have like all
- 2:36Speaker 3: of the Saturday night Lives when they're like all of them. Yeah,
- 2:39Speaker 3: and Ivy currently is watching every single one from beginning
- 2:43Speaker 3: to now. Good lord, Yeah, she's in like season three
- 2:47Speaker 3: right now. She just got to the special episode where
- 2:49Speaker 3: they had a special like host and it's a little
- 2:54Speaker 3: old lady, so yeah, that's kind of well.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Let me ask you this really quick. Well, we're talking
- 2:58Speaker 2: about Saturday Night Live. Okay, out of all the people
- 3:01Speaker 2: in the world, why did they have Jimmy Fallon do
- 3:04Speaker 2: the Blues Brothers. I hate Jimmy Fallon, but I love
- 3:08Speaker 2: the Blues Brothers. Yeah, so I couldn't watch it because
- 3:11Speaker 2: I loathe Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon laughed in every bit
- 3:15Speaker 2: he was ever in You're not Carol Burnette, get off
- 3:18Speaker 2: my TV, Jimmy Fallon.
- 3:20Speaker 3: And speaking of math, the numbers don't lie, and.
- 3:24Speaker 2: They smell disaster for you and sacrifice. See, but I'm
- 3:28Speaker 2: gonna break it down for you ladies. Would you all right?
- 3:33Speaker 4: That was that was Steiner math the aid Oh okay, okay,
- 3:38Speaker 4: sound weird for Josh.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Sorry, Yeah, that was Steiner Math. We were talking about
- 3:41Speaker 3: Matt so I just had to tie it in the
- 3:43Speaker 3: wrestling somehow.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon has a one third and three percent chance
- 3:49Speaker 2: of making money of being funny, and that's why it
- 3:52Speaker 2: come to you, Simojoe. Twisted Metal season two's coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 4:01Speaker 2: it is right.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Also, speaking of wrestling, because this is a wrestling show. Yes,
- 4:07Speaker 3: Jay Uso made his choice as to who he will
- 4:10Speaker 3: face at WrestleMania, and that is surprise, surprise Gunter.
- 4:15Speaker 2: He will be facing.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Yes, he will be challenging Gunter for the World Heavyweight
- 4:18Speaker 3: Championship at WrestleMania forty one. This leaves the unspeeded titles
- 4:23Speaker 3: challenger to be determined. Got unspirited, let me alone.
- 4:27Speaker 4: I'm not saying that to you, just WW in general.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, to be determined with the elimination chamber.
- 4:33Speaker 3: So I don't know exactly who is in the full
- 4:36Speaker 3: everybody in the elimination chamber. Yet we do know about
- 4:39Speaker 3: John Zena.
- 4:39Speaker 4: There's John Cena, see him Punk, Drew McIntyre.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Logan Pole, Logan Pole, and uh.
- 4:47Speaker 4: Damien Precious qualified. Okay, So we have one more yep, yeah,
- 4:52Speaker 4: last match of be between Seth Throwins and Tin Balor.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Okay, and we have one more? One yeah more? Hey,
- 5:07Speaker 2: you know what, you know what we have? Here's what
- 5:09Speaker 2: we have. We don't have two, we don't have three.
- 5:11Speaker 5: We have less than that. We have one more.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh. Life finds a way.
- 5:17Speaker 5: Finds away Charlotte. Yes, speaking of life finding a way.
- 5:23Speaker 5: If Charlotte flares breathing, she's probably going to be in
- 5:26Speaker 5: the title match.
- 5:27Speaker 2: Uh huh.
- 5:28Speaker 5: But who is it gonna be because Charlotte finds a
- 5:30Speaker 5: way Uh huh.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Speaking of Charlotte, she'd made her choice a couple of
- 5:39Speaker 3: nights ago on w W SmackDown.
- 5:41Speaker 6: Tiffy, Wake up, Tiffy, plink if you can hear me, Tiffy,
- 5:54Speaker 6: wake up, Tiffy, it's still Tiffy time.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Sit up. If you can, Tiffy, the Queen chooses you.
- 6:16Speaker 2: And there you have it, Ladies, John, I don't care. Yeah,
- 6:20Speaker 2: I don't care.
- 6:21Speaker 3: Charlotte Flair is challenging Timmy stratt.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Don for the one championship care I'm so tired of
- 6:27Speaker 2: Charlotte Flair being she just got back to I. And
- 6:31Speaker 2: here's the thing. If she hadn't won the Royal Rumble,
- 6:33Speaker 2: I wouldn't be as tired of her. But because she
- 6:36Speaker 2: has the persona of her dad with the politics of Hogan,
- 6:40Speaker 2: I can't stand her.
- 6:43Speaker 4: Fair Fair and Ordy got divorced.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Okay, save that one for entertainment tonight.
- 6:51Speaker 3: No, but Charlotte did make her choice last night. She
- 6:53Speaker 3: is going challenge at Tiffany Stratton. We also and Josh
- 6:57Speaker 3: and I did talk about this briefly off the air.
- 7:00Speaker 3: I think that there were a good portion of people
- 7:02Speaker 3: that thought she was going to challenge Riho Ripley. I
- 7:05Speaker 3: think we even talked about this a little bit on
- 7:07Speaker 3: the show, thinking that she was going to challenge Riho
- 7:09Speaker 3: Ripley to reignite that feud she had with her. Yes, exactly,
- 7:14Speaker 3: it made sense. But maybe it made too much sense.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Maybe the problem is that Charlotte didn't want to lose.
- 7:23Speaker 2: That ain't gonna work for me, brother, That's not going
- 7:26Speaker 2: to work for me, sister. Yeah much love, h much
- 7:30Speaker 2: love CF wait ante uh.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Ashley for yeah Ashley, Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Ashley
- 7:41Speaker 3: much love Ashley. But yeah, so right now, both Royal
- 7:44Speaker 3: Rumba winners have made their choice as to who they
- 7:47Speaker 3: will face at WrestleMania j Usso choosing Gunter, Charlotte choosing
- 7:53Speaker 3: Tiffany Stratton.
- 7:54Speaker 4: They chose their own brands champions. They didn't do a
- 7:56Speaker 4: cross brand.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that is true. It's kind of kind of
- 7:59Speaker 2: weird that they did that, but hey, hey whatever whatever.
- 8:02Speaker 2: So it's almost like it's scripted.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, you know, I know, who would have thought
- 8:08Speaker 3: that professional wrestling is predetermined?
- 8:12Speaker 2: I mean, so if Jay US picked Cody Rhodes, then
- 8:15Speaker 2: how is John Cena supposed to pick him?
- 8:17Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, that's true, and and and and so
- 8:21Speaker 3: so so do we think that John Cena is gonna
- 8:24Speaker 3: win the elimination Chambers and he's he's taken on Cody Roads.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Now does John Cena go in as the heel?
- 8:32Speaker 4: He should?
- 8:33Speaker 2: Okay, just do it. Just pulled the trigger on it. Now,
- 8:36Speaker 2: just do it.
- 8:36Speaker 3: We we like it's been teased for years, people have
- 8:39Speaker 3: been wanting it.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Is it now? This is another question I have, Is
- 8:42Speaker 2: it Thomas Now?
- 8:44Speaker 3: I was going to ask is it too late?
- 8:46Speaker 2: Now?
- 8:46Speaker 4: Though he started his career as a appeal basically doctor thuganomics,
- 8:52Speaker 4: I mean, was just the squeaky clean baby peace at first,
- 8:56Speaker 4: but the trunks, that's true.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I mean his big yeah push came as a heel. Yeah,
- 9:01Speaker 2: that's true. That's very true.
- 9:02Speaker 3: When he won the United States title from Big Show
- 9:06Speaker 3: WrestleMania twenty I believe, yeah, and then after that once
- 9:11Speaker 3: you know, from jbl At Wressemana twenty one, and then
- 9:14Speaker 3: he wasn't super Sena yet, but a few years after
- 9:18Speaker 3: that he just pretty much became super Sena. Yeah, and
- 9:21Speaker 3: was just this generation's Haul Cogan and yeah, questionable decisions
- 9:27Speaker 3: here and there.
- 9:28Speaker 2: I don't know if seen it goes in as a
- 9:30Speaker 2: full heel. I don't even think that. He just goes
- 9:34Speaker 2: in wanting to win.
- 9:37Speaker 3: Ah, that's you know. I'm glad you brought that up.
- 9:41Speaker 3: Because Adam Bombier years ago on What Culture did a
- 9:46Speaker 3: fantasy booking of sorts of along those lines, except it
- 9:50Speaker 3: involved the Undertaker streak. Whereas John Cena wanted to beat
- 9:55Speaker 3: the Undertaker at WrestleMania is so bad that he was
- 9:57Speaker 3: going to do anything it took to beat the Undertaker,
- 10:01Speaker 3: and if that meant doing something turning heel, he was
- 10:05Speaker 3: going to. He was going to do anything he could
- 10:08Speaker 3: to win to do that. So maybe to take you know,
- 10:10Speaker 3: control ce control v that to the championship that Cody
- 10:15Speaker 3: Road has the undisputed title. I mean, according to John.
- 10:18Speaker 4: Cena, he says it's best for business for him to
- 10:20Speaker 4: be mean inventing WrestleMania so so so hm.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Hmm, that's it. To be honest, I am I am
- 10:28Speaker 2: more interested in that than I am the jay Usogonter stuff. Again,
- 10:32Speaker 2: I go back to the fact that I don't care
- 10:34Speaker 2: for jay U so single work. I don't. Yeah, no,
- 10:38Speaker 2: especially that match him and Jimmy U. So it was terrible.
- 10:41Speaker 3: When it's yes, it's different, Yeah, it's okay, somebody's computer.
- 10:47Speaker 3: When it's it's yeah, I kind of I understand that
- 10:50Speaker 3: because when it's your tag team partner, your brother, who
- 10:53Speaker 3: you're supposed to have this chemistry with, and you pull
- 10:57Speaker 3: off a dud like that, Now, is there a possible
- 11:00Speaker 3: it could? They could have just had an off night
- 11:03Speaker 3: that night. Yeah, But does every other move you have
- 11:06Speaker 3: to have in a match be a super kick?
- 11:08Speaker 2: True? Every other move or spear? And again I go
- 11:13Speaker 2: back to some people shouldn't do a spear. Some people
- 11:16Speaker 2: it looks like crap. Jay US's looks like crap. Broad
- 11:20Speaker 2: Breakers though, No, Baker, keep doing it. Yeah, no notes
- 11:25Speaker 2: perfect chef's kiss ten out of ten, exactly, no notes,
- 11:30Speaker 2: Keep doing what you're doing, Jay Stop. Okay, Okay, Well
- 11:37Speaker 2: that's all I've got to say about that baby.
- 11:40Speaker 4: He might be a main event jay Usue, but I
- 11:42Speaker 4: don't see him being either Knight's main event.
- 11:45Speaker 2: No. No, just because you call yourself the main event
- 11:48Speaker 2: doesn't mean you are the main event. Yeah.
- 11:51Speaker 3: Like, now, now where would you place him though? On
- 11:54Speaker 3: the card, like I would put him all night one.
- 11:58Speaker 3: I'm glad Jason's so that's not where I I put
- 12:03Speaker 3: him Night one. I definitely would maybe maybe the start.
- 12:07Speaker 3: Actually yeah, it starts because the crowd loves him.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he's got he's got the crowd. He
- 12:14Speaker 2: just doesn't have I don't know. The only thing I
- 12:18Speaker 2: could say is it. Yeah, he doesn't have it, like.
- 12:23Speaker 4: That's it.
- 12:24Speaker 3: That's true, that's true.
- 12:25Speaker 2: Yeah, he has a gimmick. That wasn't it belonged to
- 12:28Speaker 2: someone else? True?
- 12:30Speaker 3: True, true, yes, somebody that did belong to somebody else.
- 12:34Speaker 3: And we won't go any further than that. But speaking
- 12:36Speaker 3: of world title matches, last weekend, New Japan's New Beginning
- 12:41Speaker 3: in Osaka was happening. After winning the New Japan Rando
- 12:44Speaker 3: It's a Battle Royal at Wrestle Kingdom nineteen to determine
- 12:47Speaker 3: the number one contender last month on January fourth, Hirokic
- 12:51Speaker 3: Godo challenged Zach Saber Junior. Last weekend at the New
- 12:55Speaker 3: Beginning in Osaka. After nearly twenty two years in New Japan,
- 12:59Speaker 3: Hiroki Godo won the i w GP World Heavyweight Championship
- 13:02Speaker 3: from Zach Saber Junior. First challenging for it at the
- 13:05Speaker 3: G One Climax in two thousand and eight. To now,
- 13:08Speaker 3: go To has challenged for the Big Belt nine different times,
- 13:12Speaker 3: but this is this was his first challenge in nine
- 13:14Speaker 3: years since his last challenge, and.
- 13:16Speaker 2: Go To is finally the iw GP World Heavyweight Champion.
- 13:24Speaker 3: I was wondering when they were going would be his
- 13:25Speaker 3: first time win. Uh yeah, yeah, he's He's finally at
- 13:30Speaker 3: iob GP World Heavyweight champions Well.
- 13:32Speaker 4: I was just saying because technically the last time he challenged,
- 13:34Speaker 4: it wasn't the World Chavyweight Championship.
- 13:36Speaker 3: That's true, it was it was simply just the i
- 13:39Speaker 3: w GP Heavyweight Championship. But see that, Yeah, that was
- 13:44Speaker 3: their top title, and it was weird because it was
- 13:47Speaker 3: never considered a world title, even though it kind of
- 13:50Speaker 3: was treated as such. Then you know, I uh new
- 13:54Speaker 3: Japan combines the i w GP Heavyweight title with the
- 13:58Speaker 3: inter continental title, put them together.
- 13:59Speaker 2: You have the world title.
- 14:01Speaker 3: So yeah, her workI Godo is finally an IWGP World
- 14:05Speaker 3: Heavyweight Champion. And yeah, and like I said, I was
- 14:11Speaker 3: wondering how much longer they were going to have Zach
- 14:13Speaker 3: Saber Junior as the champion. I did not see him
- 14:16Speaker 3: losing the belt to show to Umino at Russell Kingdom
- 14:19Speaker 3: last month.
- 14:21Speaker 2: But you know, yeah and yeah. Also Michelle McCool Hall
- 14:29Speaker 2: of Fame. Yeah, Hall of Fame announcement on.
- 14:33Speaker 3: ESPN's Get Up this past week. They were joined by
- 14:36Speaker 3: WB Hall of Famer The Undertaker and his wife Michelle
- 14:39Speaker 3: McCool when Triple H showed showed up via video call
- 14:44Speaker 3: to announce that Michelle McCool will be a part of
- 14:46Speaker 3: the WB Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five.
- 14:49Speaker 3: So so far we have Triple H and Michell McCoo
- 14:52Speaker 3: who are going to go to.
- 14:52Speaker 2: The Hall of Fame trip When he made that call,
- 14:55Speaker 2: you think it was in DC?
- 14:56Speaker 3: Probably quite possibly? Yeah yeah, yeah know for the comment maybe.
- 15:01Speaker 2: But what do you think about Michelle McCool going into
- 15:04Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame? Really quick, I want us to
- 15:06Speaker 2: play a game. Tell me your favorite Michelle McCool match, Jeff.
- 15:11Speaker 4: Josh, I didn't watch a whole life at the time.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Uh huh, Yeah, I was going I'll tell you probably
- 15:20Speaker 2: the Rumble from two years ago, because I know she
- 15:26Speaker 2: was in that. Yeah.
- 15:28Speaker 3: Yeah, because going into this year's Rumble even said it
- 15:31Speaker 3: on the show. Oh Yeah, Michelle mccol's going to show
- 15:33Speaker 3: up because she's been in every single one. You watch
- 15:35Speaker 3: the actual rumble, there's the stat of, well, there's only
- 15:38Speaker 3: been two people who have actually competed in every single one,
- 15:40Speaker 3: and Michelle McCool was not one of them.
- 15:43Speaker 2: At one point it did say Mike she was going
- 15:44Speaker 2: to be in every single one. I believe it was
- 15:48Speaker 2: on the you know where she was told that she
- 15:51Speaker 2: was going to the Hall of Fame. Why she showed
- 15:53Speaker 2: so shiny, I don't know, like very very shiny. Yeah,
- 15:58Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe it was the lighting that they had.
- 16:00Speaker 2: I mean, Lake was fun. Yeah, and it was correct me.
- 16:05Speaker 3: If I'm wrong, because, like Josh, that was during the
- 16:07Speaker 3: time when I was not watching a whole lot of wrestling.
- 16:10Speaker 3: I wasn't watching any of it. Actually, that was right
- 16:13Speaker 3: before like the quote unquote Women's Revolutions. Okay, so that
- 16:18Speaker 3: was pretty much the bridge between again, correct me if
- 16:21Speaker 3: I'm wrong, Trust Stratus Leader Jazz Company, Yeah, and the
- 16:26Speaker 3: Women's Revolution. They were the bridge in between the two.
- 16:30Speaker 2: So there for me personally, there are definitely women I
- 16:33Speaker 2: would put in from that generation before Michelle McCool, Hey,
- 16:37Speaker 2: Jay Lee with Victoria Victoria. Victoria is so underrated.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Yeah, like and I know and I know that we've
- 16:46Speaker 3: said this before on the on the show she is
- 16:48Speaker 3: she is incredibly underrated, yes, and I yeah, I don't
- 16:54Speaker 3: know why she is not. She has not been inducted
- 16:57Speaker 3: into the Hall of Fame yet.
- 16:58Speaker 2: I think even Natalia has done more for women's wrestling
- 17:03Speaker 2: than Michelle McCool. Yeah, Michelle McCool and greened. Natalia is
- 17:08Speaker 2: a charisma vacuum. She is wonderful worker. Yeah, amazing, Yeah.
- 17:13Speaker 4: Apparently she was pretty awesome with her the Heart Dojo.
- 17:16Speaker 4: What is it called the Dungeon, the Due Yeah.
- 17:19Speaker 2: I have no doubt because she's an amazing worker. She
- 17:21Speaker 2: just can't talk.
- 17:23Speaker 3: And you know what outside of maybe Owen, Yeah, that's
- 17:28Speaker 3: gonna say.
- 17:29Speaker 2: That's kind of the the mo for the Heart Family.
- 17:32Speaker 2: I hate to say that. True. I wasn't a great talker,
- 17:36Speaker 2: but he was the excellence of execution. I asked him,
- 17:38Speaker 2: he'd tell you. Yeah, Bi Goldberg, Oh okay, real quick.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Would you rather take five spearits from bron Breaker? From
- 17:49Speaker 2: Bill Goldberg? Goldberg Goldberg, I'll go with that.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I feel like bron Breakers hurts.
- 17:56Speaker 2: Yeah, like I don't think.
- 17:57Speaker 3: I don't think Goldberg's I think gold is going to
- 18:01Speaker 3: be definitely painful because he's a former NFL player.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Goldberg doesn't get that run up to you.
- 18:06Speaker 6: No, he does.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Understanding though, Goldberg didn't really try to protect you. He
- 18:11Speaker 4: just went at you like if he was legit sparing you.
- 18:15Speaker 2: What Goldberg didn't try to protect something? I don't.
- 18:21Speaker 3: To one William Goldberg's name, good, Sir Bill Goldberg. No, So,
- 18:28Speaker 3: Michelle McCool, what.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Do you think, Joe, I don't.
- 18:31Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know how it feels. Yeah,
- 18:35Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it's okay. I'm curious as to
- 18:38Speaker 3: who else is going to go in now.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Since honestly, i'd put Vicky Guerrero in before Michelle McCool,
- 18:45Speaker 2: I mean sort of. I would tell me one catchphrase
- 18:51Speaker 2: that has like just annoyed a crowd more than excuse me.
- 18:56Speaker 3: That's true, that's very true. As soon as she starts
- 18:59Speaker 3: at the crowd start, yeah, to get very hostile.
- 19:02Speaker 4: If what happened to her in real life, what a
- 19:05Speaker 4: couple of years ago didn't happen, I would say, yeah,
- 19:08Speaker 4: but I don't know.
- 19:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm honestly I'm not sure on that one. So
- 19:13Speaker 2: this isn't even a bit at a break. You tell me,
- 19:17Speaker 2: and then if we come back and I'm like, hey,
- 19:20Speaker 2: you know what I said about Victor, Like there there
- 19:25Speaker 2: is definitely people I would put in over over Michelle.
- 19:31Speaker 2: Victoria definitely is one of them.
- 19:32Speaker 3: It's it's a it's criminal that Victoria is not in there,
- 19:35Speaker 3: but she is. She sort of this best way to
- 19:39Speaker 3: put it in my head, and it's just reverting back
- 19:41Speaker 3: to NASCAR. She's like the Mark Martin of her generation.
- 19:45Speaker 3: As she was no but she was. She was great
- 19:51Speaker 3: while she was around the greatest, like she like Victoria,
- 19:56Speaker 3: Victoria is up there, but I wouldn't put her up
- 19:59Speaker 3: there with Trish Stratus. I would put trist Stratus up
- 20:03Speaker 3: above her. But Victoria criminally underrated though, like criminally. So
- 20:11Speaker 3: just to wrap up this segment before we get to
- 20:14Speaker 3: on this day in wrestling history, A to B Grand
- 20:15Speaker 3: Slam was last night. It was a special pretty much
- 20:21Speaker 3: in place of Collision. Kenny Omega and Will Osprey defeated
- 20:24Speaker 3: the don Kallis families, Canetske, Tequeshta, and Cal Fletcher. Mercedes
- 20:28Speaker 3: Monette defeated Hurley Cameron to retain the TBS Championship.
- 20:31Speaker 2: What Mercedes Monette one, Harley.
- 20:34Speaker 3: Cameron, I'm making it. I'm saying it right now. She's
- 20:36Speaker 3: going to be the breakout start in twenty twenty five,
- 20:38Speaker 3: just saying it.
- 20:39Speaker 2: I'm already. Yes, it's a W. Yes, No, she is
- 20:44Speaker 2: a dull.
- 20:47Speaker 3: I believe that she is the Death Riders beat Jay
- 20:50Speaker 3: White and Cope in the Brisbane Brawl.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Who Jay White and who Adam Copla?
- 20:56Speaker 3: Oh?
- 20:57Speaker 2: I see? Yeah, sorry I didn't understand the.
- 21:00Speaker 4: Air man who may or may not care about the title.
- 21:02Speaker 3: Yeah, may or may not, you know, a little questionable
- 21:05Speaker 3: because it's go caught up beat Buddy Matthews to retain
- 21:08Speaker 3: the AW Continental Championship and timeless Tony Storm, Yeah, I
- 21:13Speaker 3: may to win the a W Women's World title and
- 21:15Speaker 3: Josh and Ford fourth time.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Yes? Was it too soon?
- 21:21Speaker 3: No?
- 21:22Speaker 2: Should it have been at an actual pay per view?
- 21:25Speaker 3: This should have been a pay per view that it
- 21:28Speaker 3: wasn't This was originally supposed to be a payer view ready.
- 21:30Speaker 4: Well, according to.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Well, it was weird.
- 21:34Speaker 4: They announced it, they never said what it was going
- 21:36Speaker 4: to be true, and then like a week or two ago,
- 21:39Speaker 4: Tony was like, yeah, it was always planning to be
- 21:40Speaker 4: a TV special, Like, why do you announce it that way?
- 21:45Speaker 4: I mean, granted Grandson has always been a TV special,
- 21:47Speaker 4: but still the way it was originally promoted, it sounded
- 21:50Speaker 4: like it was going to be a pay per view.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:51Speaker 3: Also, like I just that first Grand Slam at Arthur
- 21:54Speaker 3: Ash Stadium was magic.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, anyway, I I think you could make
- 22:01Speaker 2: the argument. But at the same time, I don't think
- 22:05Speaker 2: it was I think maybe it was time to police.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Yeah, you had you had this special show, you had
- 22:12Speaker 3: to do something to make some headlines coming out of it.
- 22:15Speaker 3: Thomas Tony Storm being the winning her fourth A to
- 22:19Speaker 3: b A women's world title is I think the best
- 22:21Speaker 3: way to go for that unless you were Because I
- 22:23Speaker 3: don't see Buddy Matthews beating Kazuchiko Okada. I just don't
- 22:28Speaker 3: Okada is gonna win that one, and then, like as
- 22:31Speaker 3: much as I do and I will die on this
- 22:34Speaker 3: hill that Harley Cameron will be the breakout start of
- 22:36Speaker 3: twenty twenty five in the women's division. I did not
- 22:41Speaker 3: see her beating Mercedes Monette. Maybe later this year depending
- 22:45Speaker 3: on how they built her, But right now, no, that's
- 22:48Speaker 3: that was a no. No.
- 22:49Speaker 2: That was not what happened for me. I think the
- 22:50Speaker 2: most that you're gonna get on that is a visual pinfull. Yeah,
- 22:54Speaker 2: but not a win. Exactly exactly.
- 22:57Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna shift gears to on this day
- 23:00Speaker 3: and wrestling history. February sixteenth, nineteen eighty five, Bruno San
- 23:15Speaker 3: Martino came out of retirement to wrestle his first match
- 23:18Speaker 3: in three years. He teamed with his son David to
- 23:21Speaker 3: face Paul Orndorf and Bobby Heenan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 23:24Speaker 2: I'll tell you what that is an equal match. You
- 23:28Speaker 2: have you know the current wrestler in that, David sant
- 23:32Speaker 2: Martino and Paul Orndorf teaming. You know those two going
- 23:36Speaker 2: against Okay, you have Paul Orndorf with Bobby Heenan and
- 23:42Speaker 2: David sant Martino with the equal to Bobby Heenan, Bruno
- 23:48Speaker 2: san Martino. Yes, yes, and keep in mind Bruno and
- 23:52Speaker 2: David are the baby faces in this. It's going against
- 23:55Speaker 2: the wrestling classic of Bobby Heenan and Paul Orndorf.
- 24:00Speaker 3: That's like the equivalent of today of having a Roman
- 24:03Speaker 3: Reigns take on Paul Hayman. Yes, that's the exact equivalent
- 24:09Speaker 3: all right. February sixteenth, nineteen ninety eight, on WWF Monday
- 24:13Speaker 3: Night Raw from Dallas, Texas, it was announced that Rocky
- 24:15Speaker 3: Mayavilla would once again defend his Intercontinental Championship against Ken Chamber,
- 24:20Speaker 3: the World's Most Dangerous Man, at WrestleMania fourteen. It was
- 24:25Speaker 3: this edition of Raw which further teased a power struggle
- 24:28Speaker 3: in the Nation of Domination when The Rock presented the
- 24:32Speaker 3: leader Faruke with a life size picture of the intercontinental
- 24:35Speaker 3: title holder so himself, Yes, yeah, yep, so is he
- 24:41Speaker 3: Rocky my view or the Rock in that sitution?
- 24:43Speaker 2: He he was kind of in between at this point. Yeah,
- 24:45Speaker 2: I was still Rolla but slowly starting to call himself
- 24:49Speaker 2: the Rock.
- 24:49Speaker 3: And then I think the Raw after correct me if
- 24:52Speaker 3: I'm wrong, Jason the Raw. After this Mania, he pretty
- 24:55Speaker 3: much went fully as.
- 24:56Speaker 2: The Rock, I believe, so yeah, which also, I don't
- 24:58Speaker 2: know if you ever saw the dinner for three with
- 25:02Speaker 2: three members of the Nation. It was Mark Henry, Ron
- 25:06Speaker 2: Simmons and maybe d Loo, but The Rock had sent
- 25:12Speaker 2: them all presents, and The Rock sent whoever the other
- 25:17Speaker 2: two that weren't Ron Simmons Rolexes, but sent Ron Simmons
- 25:24Speaker 2: a picture of himself again tying back to this. That's
- 25:28Speaker 2: that's funny. That's funny.
- 25:30Speaker 3: Then, just to finish up this segment. February sixteenth, twenty ten,
- 25:34Speaker 3: ww presented the last ever episode of ECW on Sci
- 25:37Speaker 3: Fi from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. In
- 25:40Speaker 3: the main event, is Eeko Jackson defeated Christian in an
- 25:43Speaker 3: extreme rules match to become the last ever ECW champion,
- 25:47Speaker 3: as the title was immediately retired along with the ECW brand.
- 25:51Speaker 2: And we're gonna stop right there, ladies.
- 25:53Speaker 4: Gentlemen, they should have like not retirded there and had
- 25:56Speaker 4: a unification match with the WWE title. Yeah, that way,
- 26:00Speaker 4: you know, wwttalle could have absorbed you ww andy w title.
- 26:03Speaker 2: Oh do you think Vince McMahon cared? He might have.
- 26:06Speaker 4: He actually wore the title.
- 26:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:07Speaker 3: But the zombie Yeah yeah, that that very first episode.
- 26:12Speaker 3: I remember a kid watching it. I was so excited
- 26:14Speaker 3: that the zombie came out.
- 26:15Speaker 2: I'm like, what is this? Yeah? Yeah, I'm gonna take
- 26:19Speaker 2: a break, crip quick. Yeah exactly. When we come back,
- 26:23Speaker 2: we're gonna talk to w W two k twenty five
- 26:25Speaker 2: along with wrestling video games. Stay tuned. It's time for
- 26:35Speaker 2: more of the grill Out. Here's Hollywood jefat.
- 26:38Speaker 3: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to the Grill Outs. I'm
- 26:41Speaker 3: here's Hollywood Jeff pitt In. I'm joined here by Josh Cole.
- 26:45Speaker 4: I like the video games he does.
- 26:46Speaker 3: Like the video games. And then our Raining and Defending
- 26:51Speaker 3: Girl Out Predictions Champion, which.
- 26:53Speaker 2: You could make me in any video game of wrestling
- 26:56Speaker 2: based and have me as your longest reigning defending cham
- 27:00Speaker 2: I approved that message.
- 27:02Speaker 3: You know, if somebody I would I would laugh if
- 27:05Speaker 3: somebody made us in two.
- 27:07Speaker 4: K twenty five and a grill Championship built, Yes.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Yes, that would be very ten ounces of plastic.
- 27:12Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, make the ten ounces of plastic in two
- 27:14Speaker 3: K twenty five. You know it's do it, you cowards.
- 27:20Speaker 3: Do it, and then send us a picture of it
- 27:22Speaker 3: and we will post.
- 27:23Speaker 2: It and then upload it onto the creator suite and
- 27:27Speaker 2: see how many people don't download it. Yeah, let us
- 27:31Speaker 2: know how low those numbers actually are.
- 27:34Speaker 3: So, speaking of w W TWOK twenty five, it will
- 27:36Speaker 3: be coming out on March fourteenth.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Yes soon, yes, very in like a few days. Well
- 27:43Speaker 2: that's in a few weeks. Well, it depends on when
- 27:46Speaker 2: you're listening to this, that's true. Sure, if you're listening
- 27:48Speaker 2: to this on the twelfth of March, then it's a few.
- 27:52Speaker 3: Days and you probably should have listen to our episodes
- 27:54Speaker 3: after this between Yeah, February sixteenth and March twelfth, is so.
- 28:02Speaker 2: But it's going to come out with three different packages, of.
- 28:05Speaker 4: Course it is.
- 28:06Speaker 2: It always does. I bet all of them will be
- 28:08Speaker 2: needfully priced. Oh no, no, No.
- 28:11Speaker 3: The cheapest one, and this is for stream U, Steam
- 28:15Speaker 3: and PC players, will be fifty nine to ninety nine.
- 28:17Speaker 4: Why is it more expensive on the consoles?
- 28:20Speaker 3: You Steam PC version is going to be better, Yeah,
- 28:22Speaker 3: but it won't.
- 28:23Speaker 2: It will not have the island that they're going to have.
- 28:26Speaker 4: It's weird.
- 28:27Speaker 3: So it's something I guess that NBA two K started
- 28:30Speaker 3: doing where they had something where like players can interact
- 28:33Speaker 3: with each other like it's, you know, like a hub.
- 28:37Speaker 3: Pretty I wanted to interact with people, I would go outside,
- 28:42Speaker 3: gotta touch grass. I'm allergic, No, I'm I know. I
- 28:48Speaker 3: know people who are legitimately allergic to cut grass. I
- 28:52Speaker 3: know people who smell like they're allergic to water.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and the odorant.
- 28:59Speaker 3: Sixteen ninety nine is the price for Xbox and PlayStation.
- 29:04Speaker 4: That's just the standard price of games now Saturday.
- 29:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember back in my day when they were
- 29:09Speaker 3: forty nine, nine or nine.
- 29:11Speaker 4: Actually, I do remember sixty four games being like sixty
- 29:13Speaker 4: some bucks.
- 29:14Speaker 2: Really remember back when it was a nickel and a handshake.
- 29:19Speaker 2: That was all you had to have your head no
- 29:23Speaker 2: no with Deck, I just keep shutting my collar. Okay, sorry,
- 29:33Speaker 2: Jeffy's gone. Jeffy won't be back. Jeffy haunts me.
- 29:40Speaker 3: But there is a new feature with this that is
- 29:42Speaker 3: called the Island, which is an open world where you
- 29:45Speaker 3: can interact with other players when going from one part
- 29:47Speaker 3: of the game to the next.
- 29:48Speaker 2: Interact how like.
- 29:50Speaker 4: I guess, like chat or hey, you want to want
- 29:52Speaker 4: to play a match or something? I don't know.
- 29:54Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's what I mean. Like it's it's gonna
- 29:56Speaker 3: be like a hub in the middle of the world.
- 29:58Speaker 4: I wanna go at ten this event, I guess.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 30:01Speaker 3: Well, and I have seen screenshots of the quote unquote Island,
- 30:04Speaker 3: and it looks really cool, like there's a giant like
- 30:06Speaker 3: Roman Reigns.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Statue and everything. Ninety nine ninety nine For the dead.
- 30:12Speaker 3: Man Edition, it's an automatic season pass seven days of
- 30:15Speaker 3: early access.
- 30:16Speaker 2: Why am I gonna buy a game if it's gonna
- 30:18Speaker 2: kill me? Yeah?
- 30:20Speaker 3: Well, you can get the Wyatt six Bonus Pack, the
- 30:23Speaker 3: dead Man Bonus Pack, and you can unlock the entire
- 30:26Speaker 3: roster with a Supercharger, plus a few other things.
- 30:29Speaker 2: That's for the dead Man Edition. The Bloodline Edition, which is.
- 30:32Speaker 4: One heard you like spending more money?
- 30:34Speaker 3: Yeah, one twenty nine ninety nine. No, it's the Bloodline Edition,
- 30:41Speaker 3: same as the dead Man Edition, except the blood Line
- 30:43Speaker 3: Edition pack. You get a Ringside Pass, it's an enhanced
- 30:46Speaker 3: version of the Season Pass, and the WrestleMania forty one pack,
- 30:49Speaker 3: which will not be available right away but will be available.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Later this summer. You also, I think, get a couple
- 30:55Speaker 2: other things with it. So yeah, that's the price for
- 31:00Speaker 2: it so far. Why, I just it's I don't know,
- 31:04Speaker 2: I'm not I'll say this, I'm not getting.
- 31:06Speaker 4: The because that that way, like in a month's time,
- 31:09Speaker 4: we broke the records for the most video games sold
- 31:12Speaker 4: this year, yeah us grossing.
- 31:15Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because there will be people there definitely will
- 31:18Speaker 3: be people who buy the Bloodline Edition and people who
- 31:20Speaker 3: will buy the dead Man Edition, and et cetera.
- 31:24Speaker 4: I will mostly I just wait until about January of
- 31:27Speaker 4: next year, and I get it for free from PlayStation plus.
- 31:30Speaker 3: Fair because I got two K twenty four and two
- 31:32Speaker 3: K twenty three that way fair. I will say I
- 31:36Speaker 3: haven't bought a WWB game in quite a while. I've
- 31:39Speaker 3: kind of done what you've done, except with Xbox.
- 31:42Speaker 2: What is it?
- 31:43Speaker 4: I have them, but I haven't played them.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Well, I mean, but I have thought about actually going
- 31:47Speaker 3: and buying this which one two K twenty five.
- 31:51Speaker 4: No, I know which tradition.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Oh just stated.
- 31:54Speaker 3: I don't make the money to get the dead Man
- 31:56Speaker 3: or the Bloodline edition, trust me, I just I absolutely
- 32:00Speaker 3: do you know, as the champ, I could, uh you know,
- 32:04Speaker 3: with that, with that stipend that we give you, when.
- 32:08Speaker 2: Would you say, be on PlayStation? Probably know the station
- 32:14Speaker 2: would probably get it for me in January on the
- 32:21Speaker 2: on the PlayStation network. Yeah yeah, I thought you had Xbox.
- 32:26Speaker 2: You do have Xbox? I do, yessah? Yeah, well not
- 32:30Speaker 2: a PS five, it's a PS one. Yeah.
- 32:32Speaker 3: Oh well I have two. I have a PS four
- 32:35Speaker 3: and an Xbox. My brother has a PS two. I
- 32:38Speaker 3: actually want to buy off of him.
- 32:39Speaker 2: But I digress.
- 32:41Speaker 3: Speaking of wrestling video games, though they are and I
- 32:44Speaker 3: think both of you can agree with me on this.
- 32:46Speaker 2: They they are video games. They are video games.
- 32:49Speaker 4: There are games that you play via the video medium.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Yes, but like okay, Joe, Joe, the the the video game.
- 33:01Speaker 2: The video games themselves are sort of.
- 33:06Speaker 3: They are synonymous with professional wrestling now as much as
- 33:10Speaker 3: action figures are.
- 33:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and they have been for quite a while. Yeah.
- 33:14Speaker 2: I think a lot of video games are just kind
- 33:16Speaker 2: of the newer digital versions of action figures. Because you
- 33:21Speaker 2: get in, you play with these characters, You can create
- 33:24Speaker 2: your own in your mind, can create your own stories.
- 33:27Speaker 4: Yeah, you can actually do what you want to do,
- 33:29Speaker 4: but on there not just thanks Josh, just not pretending
- 33:34Speaker 4: smashing your little figures. You can actually do it on
- 33:36Speaker 4: the game.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:37Speaker 3: And and and you know what, you know, since it
- 33:39Speaker 3: did take me a minute to get that out.
- 33:40Speaker 2: I'll just I'll just do this to myself. So that's fair.
- 33:44Speaker 2: You deserve it. Yeah. You know, there's one on there
- 33:47Speaker 2: with the Vince McMahon that we're not going to at
- 33:51Speaker 2: the Super Bowl.
- 33:52Speaker 4: And he looked he looked like Vince McMann.
- 33:54Speaker 2: He did. He didn't have to. He did not have
- 33:56Speaker 2: the mustache. But I will say, what was up with that?
- 33:58Speaker 2: Hat that the Undertaker was away. I don't know, you
- 34:01Speaker 2: know what mcmahin does not look like in mcmahin anymore.
- 34:04Speaker 2: Linda mcmahin, Nope, no, she does not.
- 34:11Speaker 4: Going to spit that water.
- 34:12Speaker 2: He did, so if you don't know what we're referring to.
- 34:17Speaker 3: There was the confirmation hearings I guess for the Secretary
- 34:20Speaker 3: of Education or whatever, and Linda McMahon is a part
- 34:23Speaker 3: of we're not gonna get into politics. But Triple Hu's
- 34:26Speaker 3: sitting right behind her, takes a sip of his water
- 34:30Speaker 3: and you can almost see his body language want to
- 34:34Speaker 3: spit it out, like so many years. I wonder if
- 34:38Speaker 3: that happens when he's like in his office by hisself,
- 34:41Speaker 3: he takes a drink of his water.
- 34:42Speaker 2: He's like, it's like spits a little bit, like, oh no,
- 34:44Speaker 2: they come in there, Paul, do you have a leak somewhere?
- 34:47Speaker 2: He's like, no, that was a thirsty any pedigrees. So anyways,
- 34:55Speaker 2: wrestling video games, wrestling.
- 34:56Speaker 3: Video games, so we haven't done a Mount Rushmore and
- 34:59Speaker 3: quite sometimes so I'm throwing out we should do Mount
- 35:01Speaker 3: Rushmore right now of wrestling video games. Yeah, so my
- 35:05Speaker 3: first one that I'll just go ahead and go first. Yeah,
- 35:10Speaker 3: it's my show. Mine is SmackDown Here Comes to Bane.
- 35:18Speaker 2: The third one, that's one with Brockles.
- 35:22Speaker 3: Yes, that's the PlayStation two one number.
- 35:26Speaker 4: Yeah on one, two, then three had the rock on
- 35:30Speaker 4: the cover. Four was shut your mouth, and then five okay,
- 35:33Speaker 4: so it was I think so or wait no, just
- 35:37Speaker 4: bring it wait anyways, I'm going.
- 35:42Speaker 2: Yeah, no it is, and it's on.
- 35:44Speaker 3: It was the first wrestling video game I played as
- 35:46Speaker 3: a child, and I just have a lot of fond
- 35:49Speaker 3: memories with it, like it's it's a.
- 35:52Speaker 2: It's definitely replayable, I have.
- 35:54Speaker 3: I've played it as an adult, and it does have
- 35:56Speaker 3: some replayability, and I think it is definitely one of
- 35:59Speaker 3: the Is.
- 36:00Speaker 2: That why you're wanting to buy the PS two, Well, there's.
- 36:03Speaker 4: Plenty of other reasons why. I want to tell you
- 36:05Speaker 4: what you get five and you get places plus premium.
- 36:07Speaker 4: You can just stream it, but.
- 36:10Speaker 2: I don't want to do that.
- 36:13Speaker 3: But yeah, so SmackDown Here Comes to Pain is going
- 36:16Speaker 3: to be my very first one.
- 36:19Speaker 2: So Josh, what about you, buddy, I'll stick WWE.
- 36:24Speaker 4: For a minute. I'll go with the original SmackDown versus Raw. Okay,
- 36:30Speaker 4: which will be in the game right after Here comes
- 36:32Speaker 4: to Pain.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so real quick.
- 36:35Speaker 3: SmackDown one, SmackDown two was no your role, SmackDown three
- 36:40Speaker 3: was just bring it. The fourth one will shut your mouth,
- 36:42Speaker 3: and the fifth one was here comes to Spain Raw five, six, seven, eight, nine,
- 36:48Speaker 3: W thirteen, and then two case ins. Then yes, yep,
- 36:52Speaker 3: so that is the chronological of w W video games.
- 36:56Speaker 2: So what was Josh's the original SmackDown? Which was that
- 37:01Speaker 2: the sixth game? That's that? That is a very good one. Well,
- 37:05Speaker 2: I am definitely about to show my age.
- 37:10Speaker 4: I'm gonna go old here in a minute, but maybe
- 37:13Speaker 4: not this old.
- 37:14Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 37:15Speaker 2: So for me, one of the best wrestling games ever
- 37:19Speaker 2: made is Techmo World Wrestling.
- 37:22Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I'm not that old.
- 37:24Speaker 2: No, this was an original Nintendo game. It was. It
- 37:30Speaker 2: was just a great game. Came out in nineteen eighty nine.
- 37:33Speaker 2: Oh my god, and my brother and I played the
- 37:38Speaker 2: life out of this game.
- 37:40Speaker 3: So who who recognizable is in that game? No one?
- 37:45Speaker 6: No one?
- 37:46Speaker 2: So was it just like a bunch of random like
- 37:49Speaker 2: but like pretty much? Yeah, okay, let mean, well let's see,
- 37:53Speaker 2: let's let me just read a tiny bit of the
- 37:57Speaker 2: gameplay from here. It says a tech World Wrestling contains
- 38:01Speaker 2: more than twenty moves per wrestler by virtue of not
- 38:05Speaker 2: having a dedicated grapple button. Instead, a grappler is initiated
- 38:09Speaker 2: whenever the wrestlers walk into each other, and from there
- 38:12Speaker 2: combinations of joypad and buttons can be used to perform
- 38:15Speaker 2: a variety of holds and slams. Let's see if there's
- 38:19Speaker 2: any I mean there is l T. Gray the Tiger. Okay, yeah,
- 38:28Speaker 2: I mean there's literally none of these are are you know,
- 38:34Speaker 2: actual wrestlers, none whatsoever, or.
- 38:36Speaker 4: At least at that time or never at.
- 38:39Speaker 2: All.
- 38:40Speaker 3: Right, my next one, I may get a little bit
- 38:44Speaker 3: of flack on this one, probably, let's hear it. Yeah,
- 38:48Speaker 3: WWE Legends of WrestleMania was that GameCube.
- 38:51Speaker 2: It was on PlayStation two as well. Yeah, I also
- 38:55Speaker 2: believe it was on Xbox three sixty. I think it was. Yeah.
- 39:00Speaker 2: It was the one that if you had one of
- 39:02Speaker 2: the other wrestling games with it, you could link them
- 39:06Speaker 2: and have the raw roster on the Legends of WrestleMania.
- 39:13Speaker 2: I believe, yes, and I'm wrong.
- 39:15Speaker 3: It was on PlayStation three actually, and it was on
- 39:19Speaker 3: Xbox three sixty. I just remember as a child renting
- 39:23Speaker 3: this from a local video game slash tanning place called
- 39:28Speaker 3: Galaxy Videos. You did, it was pretty much blockbuster. I
- 39:34Speaker 3: would go there and I would honestly rent that video
- 39:36Speaker 3: game probably once a week at one point because we
- 39:41Speaker 3: just my mom was not going to end up going
- 39:42Speaker 3: and buying the games. I was like, I am just
- 39:44Speaker 3: going to aggregate these people, and it honestly introduced me
- 39:49Speaker 3: to a whole host.
- 39:50Speaker 2: Of like classical classic wrestlers like Andre the Giant.
- 39:53Speaker 3: Of course I knew who hul Cogan was, but I
- 39:55Speaker 3: had heard about like the Road road Way or Hawking Animal,
- 39:58Speaker 3: but I didn't know too much about them, and then
- 40:00Speaker 3: wrestling as them, I got to know more about them.
- 40:03Speaker 2: He'll Billy Jim, you know, I think maybe Paul Orndorf
- 40:08Speaker 2: was in that.
- 40:08Speaker 3: I mean, it was it it I think for a
- 40:12Speaker 3: younger wrestling fan at the time who didn't have because
- 40:16Speaker 3: you didn't have WW Network, then you had to really
- 40:19Speaker 3: dig for certain wrestlers if you wanted to learn about them,
- 40:23Speaker 3: And to me, it was just a way for.
- 40:26Speaker 2: Me to learn more older wrestlers.
- 40:29Speaker 3: Even though it has a seven out of a out
- 40:31Speaker 3: of ten, along like average amongst reviewers, so.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Josh.
- 40:40Speaker 4: So now I'll go a little old school, not that
- 40:43Speaker 4: old school, but back to Nintendo sixty four w W
- 40:47Speaker 4: NW Revenge.
- 40:50Speaker 2: That's close to my next one. It's close. No Revenge
- 40:54Speaker 2: was great.
- 40:55Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's probably like I think they might have been.
- 40:57Speaker 4: I don't know if the very first video gamest the
- 40:59Speaker 4: one I really remember the as a kid just enjoying
- 41:02Speaker 4: the crap out of it.
- 41:04Speaker 2: For me, it would have to be w CW versus
- 41:08Speaker 2: nWo World Tour, just because of the the world aspect
- 41:13Speaker 2: with it. Also, my favorite character, hands down, was always
- 41:18Speaker 2: playing as Ultimate Dragon on it.
- 41:21Speaker 3: So all right, this is the next one is old
- 41:26Speaker 3: school as well that I have turn your volume down.
- 41:34Speaker 2: We're supposed to be professionals in here. We're live, we're
- 41:38Speaker 2: live out.
- 41:41Speaker 3: This next one I didn't. I didn't play it until
- 41:44Speaker 3: like later on in life. I didn't have an Nintendo
- 41:47Speaker 3: sixty four. Really, I had cousins and friends who had
- 41:50Speaker 3: Nintendo sixty fours. But this one is I think it's
- 41:54Speaker 3: going to be criminal if one of us does not
- 41:56Speaker 3: include it somewhere, and that's WWF no mercy.
- 41:59Speaker 2: I mean yeah, like.
- 42:02Speaker 3: That that particular game has been rehashed like re skinned
- 42:09Speaker 3: with an updated roster so many times now there's people
- 42:13Speaker 3: that still play WWF, no mercy.
- 42:15Speaker 4: I don't see the appeal.
- 42:21Speaker 3: Okay, what whatever actually really played it?
- 42:25Speaker 2: I can see I can see that the appeal as
- 42:27Speaker 2: it is a cheap way of updating the roster.
- 42:32Speaker 3: Also, the mechanics to it was sort of the first
- 42:36Speaker 3: time where you could actually I guess late chain wrestle
- 42:38Speaker 3: and stuff and stuff like that. I just I played
- 42:40Speaker 3: it a little bit as as like a teenager, like
- 42:43Speaker 3: I said, at friend's house or at my cousin's house
- 42:45Speaker 3: or whatever, and I just you know, I enjoyed it,
- 42:48Speaker 3: and I just like I said, I felt like it
- 42:50Speaker 3: would be criminal if one of us did not include
- 42:52Speaker 3: it somewhere on our Matt Rushmore.
- 42:54Speaker 2: No, I mean that's very fair.
- 42:56Speaker 4: It's a great game when against the Cabin included it.
- 43:02Speaker 2: You know what I'm trying to pill. I'm trying to
- 43:03Speaker 2: pill to the people, all right, Josh, yeah, hmm. It
- 43:11Speaker 2: was a toss up. I know, I'm number one, fifty
- 43:14Speaker 2: fifty chance.
- 43:19Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to go smack down versus are all
- 43:22Speaker 4: two thousand and eight. Wow, that was the first on
- 43:25Speaker 4: the PS three. If I remember correctly, and it was
- 43:28Speaker 4: one I probably the one I most enjoyed, Like last
- 43:31Speaker 4: one I most enjoyed, two thousand nine was okay, and
- 43:33Speaker 4: then I kind of got out of the games after that. Okay, good,
- 43:37Speaker 4: and I've only played a couple.
- 43:39Speaker 2: Here and there.
- 43:39Speaker 4: But yeah, I think I go two thousand and eight
- 43:41Speaker 4: because that was the first one I think, at least
- 43:42Speaker 4: PlayStation wise, I had like online play, Yeah, I remember, correctly,
- 43:46Speaker 4: and I played a lot of online at the time.
- 43:49Speaker 3: I you know now that you mentioned the online aspect
- 43:52Speaker 3: of it. Yeah, I do remember that because I downloaded,
- 43:55Speaker 3: like I think it was either two thousand and eight
- 43:56Speaker 3: or two thousand and nine is one of them where
- 44:00Speaker 3: I downloaded so many different skins for wrestlers, like so
- 44:04Speaker 3: many different gear that they had or whatever. And I honestly,
- 44:07Speaker 3: I think the creative Suite is one thing that keeps
- 44:10Speaker 3: people coming back to these games because you don't.
- 44:13Speaker 2: It's it's kind of like the WWF.
- 44:15Speaker 3: New Mercy argument, like I can keep updating this or
- 44:19Speaker 3: if this wrestler is not in this game, I can
- 44:21Speaker 3: just create them and put them onto the creative suite,
- 44:24Speaker 3: or if I'm not that good at creating wrestlers, surely
- 44:29Speaker 3: somebody has them somewhere.
- 44:31Speaker 4: I would always look up online the exact stats of
- 44:33Speaker 4: how to create people like aj Styles and Christopher Daniels
- 44:36Speaker 4: from TNA and such.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Oh wow, he went deep. Yeah. No, I mean I
- 44:40Speaker 2: remember doing that with one of the Oh which one
- 44:46Speaker 2: was it? I think it was, for the love of me,
- 44:50Speaker 2: I don't remember which game it was. It might have
- 44:53Speaker 2: been like WrestleMania something for Xbox and I remember looking
- 44:58Speaker 2: up exactly how to create Adam Bom and did that
- 45:01Speaker 2: and it looked really well. But my third pick, I
- 45:07Speaker 2: guess it's going to be another out there one. But
- 45:11Speaker 2: it is from two thousand and seven in America. It
- 45:17Speaker 2: is Fire Pro Wrestling Returns PlayStation two. Yeah, it is
- 45:23Speaker 2: a great, great, great wrestling game, a lot of characters
- 45:29Speaker 2: from all around the world, granted under a different name,
- 45:34Speaker 2: but still great for three hundred and twenty seven wrestlers.
- 45:39Speaker 3: I feel like the Fire Pro Wrestling games are a
- 45:43Speaker 3: little and I hate to keep saying underrated, but they
- 45:46Speaker 3: are underrated in a way.
- 45:48Speaker 2: Now.
- 45:48Speaker 3: I did have Fire Pro Wrestling World on I want
- 45:52Speaker 3: to say PlayStation three, PlayStation four. It's PlayStation four.
- 45:56Speaker 2: I had it. How was it the mechanics is really weird.
- 46:00Speaker 3: Like I couldn't it did not really explain to me how.
- 46:04Speaker 2: To use the mechanics of the game. Yeah, it's like
- 46:08Speaker 2: that was That.
- 46:09Speaker 3: Was my one gripe with it, because like for people
- 46:14Speaker 3: out there who are below the age of like who
- 46:16Speaker 3: are probably listening to this, who are teenagers or whatever,
- 46:20Speaker 3: I try my best not to go online and start
- 46:23Speaker 3: looking stuff up right away. Yeah, like I'm I guess
- 46:25Speaker 3: it's like old school mindset. I don't want to do
- 46:28Speaker 3: that right away. I want to try to figure out
- 46:30Speaker 3: the game and then for the life of me, if
- 46:32Speaker 3: I can't, then I am not I'm going to go
- 46:35Speaker 3: over on one and that's mainly with like Dark Souls
- 46:38Speaker 3: and Elder and ringing them. But I just felt like
- 46:41Speaker 3: if that's what I have to do to even start
- 46:43Speaker 3: the game, then I don't, you know, yeah, do.
- 46:47Speaker 2: You think before And this would be one of the
- 46:50Speaker 2: very few times that I asked this, before we give
- 46:53Speaker 2: our fourth one, we can do one honorable mention each
- 46:56Speaker 2: because there's so many wrestling games, and I mean there's
- 47:00Speaker 2: a lot of them that I just kind of put
- 47:02Speaker 2: in the same category, like the N sixty four No
- 47:05Speaker 2: Way Out and in sixty four WrestleMania two thousand. I mean,
- 47:08Speaker 2: for me, those two are kind of just interchangeable because
- 47:11Speaker 2: it's the same gameplay, same graphics, a little bit different
- 47:14Speaker 2: of a roster.
- 47:15Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, yeah, now we can definitely do that
- 47:19Speaker 3: because I was sort of going to do something along
- 47:22Speaker 3: those lines.
- 47:24Speaker 2: I was thinking over here.
- 47:26Speaker 3: So if we're going to go with honorable mentions, I'm
- 47:30Speaker 3: going to go ahead.
- 47:31Speaker 2: And Paul Cogan's main event. No not because.
- 47:37Speaker 3: I'm going to say two K sixteen WW two K
- 47:40Speaker 3: sixteen as an honorable mention. Yes, everybody's heard me on
- 47:44Speaker 3: the show talk about how much I like Stone Cold
- 47:46Speaker 3: Steve Austin. I loved the showcase on this one where
- 47:50Speaker 3: you were able to go through Stone Colds, you know,
- 47:52Speaker 3: the highlights of his career and stuff. And I let
- 47:56Speaker 3: no Hollywood blondes, Yeah, no, stunning ste Yeah, no superstar Steve, No, no,
- 48:02Speaker 3: no Dragon Slayer Steve Austin.
- 48:04Speaker 2: No.
- 48:05Speaker 3: No, That's what I mean. Like hit the highlights, but
- 48:08Speaker 3: didn't hit everything.
- 48:09Speaker 2: I would have.
- 48:10Speaker 3: I probably would have put it on the mount rushmore
- 48:12Speaker 3: completely if it were if it had all of them,
- 48:15Speaker 3: but it didn't. And it's not like it's a licensing
- 48:18Speaker 3: issue either, like they have the license to all of these, so.
- 48:22Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 48:23Speaker 3: Maybe it was just memory in the game. They didn't
- 48:26Speaker 3: want to put too much, but I felt like maybe
- 48:27Speaker 3: an expansion expansion package should have been put out for that.
- 48:31Speaker 3: So my honorable mention is going to go two K sixteen.
- 48:34Speaker 4: Okay, Josh, I was up in the air between going
- 48:38Speaker 4: between a WSW game on places, you know, because I
- 48:40Speaker 4: have fond memories of those, But I thin I'm gonna
- 48:43Speaker 4: go WWE SmackDown Shut your Mouth okay, because I played
- 48:47Speaker 4: a lot of that game, like possibly the most out
- 48:50Speaker 4: of that all of the games.
- 48:51Speaker 2: What's the w W one that you were.
- 48:53Speaker 4: I's thinking maybe Thunder or Mayhem.
- 48:55Speaker 2: Okay, shut your Mouth is a good one.
- 48:58Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 49:00Speaker 2: The thing that I really liked about Nitro and Thunder
- 49:03Speaker 2: is putting in the codes and then just getting all
- 49:04Speaker 2: of the ungodly random characters and then having it to
- 49:09Speaker 2: where you could just start making everyone in the match dance.
- 49:13Speaker 2: Oh wow. Yeah. Anyways, for me, just because of the
- 49:18Speaker 2: ludicrous customization and the absolute monsters that you could create,
- 49:26Speaker 2: it would have to be ww RAW For the original
- 49:29Speaker 2: Xbox ah, my brother and I created some absolutely hellacious
- 49:35Speaker 2: creations on there that to this day we still reminisce
- 49:39Speaker 2: and laugh about with just some of the customizations you
- 49:44Speaker 2: can make with entrance and just everything else. It was
- 49:49Speaker 2: complete garbage, but I love it. Yeah.
- 49:52Speaker 3: Yeah, They're All series does not have as fond of
- 49:55Speaker 3: a reputation as a SmackDown series.
- 49:58Speaker 4: Yeah. I only got to play I think once at
- 50:00Speaker 4: a friend's house because I didn't have Xbox.
- 50:01Speaker 2: So yeah, really quick, I want to run this line
- 50:05Speaker 2: of dialogue from WWE WrestleMania twenty one, maybe it was
- 50:13Speaker 2: an Xbox game, a WrestleMania game. Eric Bischoff is the
- 50:16Speaker 2: GM okay, and you are the created character, and you're
- 50:22Speaker 2: trying to main event WrestleMania, and before your next match,
- 50:28Speaker 2: like you know, Eric Bischoff has been getting these legends
- 50:32Speaker 2: of wrestling that you have to go and you have
- 50:34Speaker 2: to beat and you have to try to get through.
- 50:37Speaker 2: But Eric Bischoff says, uh, and I loosely quote I
- 50:43Speaker 2: have literally had to go to hell or go through
- 50:46Speaker 2: hell to get your next opponent. And your next opponent
- 50:51Speaker 2: is Andre the Giant. Wow. Wow wow. So that was
- 51:02Speaker 2: about it.
- 51:03Speaker 3: That was kind of whoever wrote that, it's not us
- 51:06Speaker 3: but whoever put that together on there, I kind of
- 51:09Speaker 3: knew which where you were going with this.
- 51:12Speaker 2: If you say literally and then the person is dead,
- 51:17Speaker 2: not like prior, not after the game was released, and
- 51:20Speaker 2: not very much prior, and not like you know, Kine
- 51:23Speaker 2: or somebody like that. No, but but wow, launder it. Yeah. Anyways, okay,
- 51:28Speaker 2: so Jeff, your your fourth and final out rush.
- 51:32Speaker 4: I should say a little trivia effect about to shut
- 51:34Speaker 4: your Mouth. That was the first WWE game.
- 51:39Speaker 2: Really yeah, w F.
- 51:42Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was when they made the changeover, because
- 51:45Speaker 3: Shut your Mouth was two thousand and two, and Here
- 51:49Speaker 3: Comes to Pain was two thousand and three.
- 51:50Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, okay, just bring it was the last WWF.
- 51:54Speaker 2: Yes, that's true, that is very true. That was in
- 51:56Speaker 2: two thousand and one. My last one is one that
- 51:59Speaker 2: I agree with Josh did. I did two K sixteen.
- 52:06Speaker 3: SmackDown versus Raw, the original one. I thought, coming off
- 52:12Speaker 3: of the heels of Here Comes to Pain, I thought
- 52:14Speaker 3: the soundtrack the SmackDown versus Row was one point. Yeah,
- 52:19Speaker 3: the when World's Climb power Man five thousand is that?
- 52:22Speaker 3: Who is?
- 52:23Speaker 2: Yes?
- 52:25Speaker 3: Whose front man of that is the younger brother to
- 52:28Speaker 3: Rob Zombie fun fact there.
- 52:30Speaker 2: Yeah, but I just.
- 52:35Speaker 3: Outside of Here Comes to Pain, SmackDown versus were all
- 52:38Speaker 3: the original one. I played a lot as a kid,
- 52:41Speaker 3: Like I played as Edie Errero on that thing so much.
- 52:43Speaker 4: I wore that game completely outs doesn't work anymore.
- 52:47Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, that was mine. I just I
- 52:51Speaker 2: played it. So it would have been nice if you
- 52:53Speaker 2: had told me that before I bought it off of you. Yeah,
- 52:57Speaker 2: you can can can determine that, like.
- 53:01Speaker 4: That would be funny if you bought my collection. I
- 53:04Speaker 4: did sell any bay Oh wow.
- 53:07Speaker 2: But uh but yeah, so that is mine, Josh, so.
- 53:12Speaker 4: You said it first, but this is my number one.
- 53:14Speaker 4: Here Comes to Pain.
- 53:15Speaker 2: Okay.
- 53:16Speaker 4: I felt like it had the perfect just all around
- 53:19Speaker 4: balance of like gameplay, graphics, the story. I don't remember
- 53:23Speaker 4: much of his story, but yeah, so.
- 53:28Speaker 2: I get it. Okay, I'm the old man in the
- 53:33Speaker 2: I get it. My my favorite wrestling video game of
- 53:39Speaker 2: all time is not a console video game. Oh wow,
- 53:43Speaker 2: it is not a cell phone video game. It is
- 53:44Speaker 2: an arcade machine video game from nineteen ninety one. And
- 53:51Speaker 2: this is the one and only WWF Wrestle Fest. Ah okay,
- 53:57Speaker 2: I've heard about this. So here are your playable characters.
- 54:02Speaker 2: Big Boss Man, Ted Dbassi, Mister Perfect, Demolition, Crush Demolition, Smash,
- 54:13Speaker 2: Road Warrior, Animal, Road Warrior, Hawk, Ultimate Warrior, Sergeant Slaughter,
- 54:20Speaker 2: Jake the Snake, Earthquake, and much love. Hh. This game
- 54:30Speaker 2: was an absolute coin eater. Do you know what a
- 54:32Speaker 2: coin coin eater is? Yeah, you're just constant. Yeah, you know.
- 54:36Speaker 2: I have to realize that my two associates in here
- 54:41Speaker 2: are younger than I am. I am the youngest. But no,
- 54:46Speaker 2: it is my favorite wrestling video game of all time,
- 54:52Speaker 2: and I still would love to be able to get
- 54:56Speaker 2: this on a console. Yeah, I agree. I've seen gameplay
- 55:00Speaker 2: of it.
- 55:01Speaker 3: It looks it was very revolutionary for its time.
- 55:04Speaker 2: It was because, I mean, if you look at this
- 55:06Speaker 2: and then you look at other wrestling games from nineteen
- 55:10Speaker 2: ninety one, they don't compare, No.
- 55:13Speaker 3: Not at all, all right, So that's our Mount Rushmore
- 55:16Speaker 3: for wrestling video games. Remember WW TWOK twenty five will
- 55:19Speaker 3: come out on March fourteenth. March, no, yeah, March fourteenth,
- 55:24Speaker 3: So that is a little over a little under a
- 55:26Speaker 3: month from now. World Shift gears real quick to the
- 55:29Speaker 3: main event.
- 55:30Speaker 2: It looks like all the talk has been done night
- 55:33Speaker 2: It's time for the main event.
- 55:36Speaker 3: And Welcome to the main Event, where we go ahead
- 55:38Speaker 3: and let you know what your upcoming week of professional
- 55:40Speaker 3: wrestling is going to look like internationally, nationally, and of
- 55:42Speaker 3: course locally. We don't have a whole lot on the
- 55:45Speaker 3: main event this week February nineteenth, This week running through Friday,
- 55:50Speaker 3: February twenty Eighth, JPW NU Japan presents CMLL Fantastica Mania,
- 55:56Speaker 3: an annual tour in Japan that will bring that will
- 55:58Speaker 3: begin on Wednesday, February nineteenth Sunday, February twenty Third. British
- 56:02Speaker 3: Indie Promotion Progress Wrestling Progress Wrestling pro Grad.
- 56:06Speaker 2: It's per Grad'll leave me a line.
- 56:09Speaker 3: We'll hold Chapter one seventy seven, My Own Destiny, airing
- 56:13Speaker 3: at ten am Eastern Time on progress is streaming platform
- 56:18Speaker 3: Team Demand, Progress Progress Plus.
- 56:23Speaker 2: I just keep saying it, rogies.
- 56:26Speaker 4: Don't listen to proges.
- 56:28Speaker 3: Yeah, and luckily we only have one show this upcoming week.
- 56:33Speaker 3: It will be on Saturday, February twenty second. World Domination
- 56:36Speaker 3: Wrestling Alliance will be in.
- 56:37Speaker 2: Action for only the Strong Survive.
- 56:41Speaker 3: At the Bennington Volunteer Fire Department in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
- 56:45Speaker 3: Bell toime is six fifteen and tickets are twenty dollars.
- 56:48Speaker 2: And that's going to note for that segment. Ladies and gentlemen,
- 56:50Speaker 2: when we come back, we're gonna wrap things up.
- 56:52Speaker 5: They do.
- 57:00Speaker 2: Once again.
- 57:01Speaker 3: Here's Hollywood, Jeff Petty, Welcome back, lady and gentlemen.
- 57:04Speaker 2: Two at the grill Outs.
- 57:06Speaker 4: I'm here.
- 57:06Speaker 3: It's Hollywood, Jeff Betty, I'm Jorined here with Josh Cole,
- 57:09Speaker 3: Bye bye, and our reigning and defending Grill Out Predictions champion.
- 57:13Speaker 2: Jason linkins, Josh, you have any idea how long I've
- 57:15Speaker 2: been champed?
- 57:16Speaker 4: Now this time I can tell you in like four seconds.
- 57:19Speaker 2: Okay, well you look, Jeff, keep.
- 57:21Speaker 3: Talking and we only got about a minute left. We're
- 57:24Speaker 3: all wrap it up right here. While Josh does that,
- 57:26Speaker 3: he'll give you a quick update. Go follow us on Facebook,
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- 57:31Speaker 2: You can email us the gridlut ninety five at gmail
- 57:33Speaker 2: dot com.
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- 57:36Speaker 3: grill Out dot bsky dot social.
- 57:39Speaker 2: And since we did a.
- 57:40Speaker 3: Mount rushmore video games, go ahead and let us know
- 57:42Speaker 3: what your mount Rushmore video games is.
- 57:44Speaker 2: Tell us if you've played any of these games and
- 57:46Speaker 2: if you liked them, yes, exactly, and then we may
- 57:49Speaker 2: talk about it on the air. Have you found it yet?
- 57:51Speaker 3: Yes, yeh yeh josh yeah, and that's all folks.
- 57:57Speaker 2: Oh okay, well I guess no, eighty four days, eighty
- 58:00Speaker 2: four days? What what's the record?
- 58:02Speaker 4: Uh you ey?
- 58:04Speaker 2: Ninety oh my last one?
- 58:07Speaker 3: Yeah, so so because when this airs will be eighty
- 58:10Speaker 3: five Oh okay, eighty five days.
- 58:13Speaker 2: Yeah. Eighty five days is how long Jason has been.
- 58:16Speaker 2: Grow up predictions, Champion. Does that help? It'll be all right.
- 58:21Speaker 3: That's gonna do it for ladies, gentlemen, and until next.
- 58:23Speaker 2: Time, fellow wrestling fans, have a good one five and
- 58:41Speaker 2: good nights.