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AEW WrestleDream & NXT No Mercy Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #711 – 9/28/23 · Real. Guy. Pods.

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It's still up. Welcome everybody. Welcome. So this week's Editionisto Realta Show
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Episode number seven, eleven September twenty eight T Doctor twenty three, Welcome to
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your NXT no mercy in eight and w rest three preview and prediction edition of
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ass r T with You. I am one after show. I am Jeff
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Peck. Typically joined every single week on my cost one only doctor Trey Franklin.
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I typically asked Doctor Trey, what is up, my friend? But
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no Doctor Trey right now. This is just a solo show with yours truly
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here on this week's edition of s r T. You for those of you
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that have been long time I'm fans of this podcast. From time to time
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we do a solo show. It's it's kind of like an old school sports
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radio type edition of SRTU where I just talk to myself and y'all listen.
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I give my thoughts while we're recording, obviously duh. And then at the
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end of the show, I say thanks for listening, I hang up the
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podcast I stopped recording, and you guys go on your merry way with the
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rest of your day and listen to whatever podcasts that come your way next,
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So solo edition of SRTU seven eleven. Of course September twenty eight, twenty
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twenty three, no Mercy preview predictions, aw Wressell Dream preview and predictions.
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So yeah, we'll cover professional wresting as best we can here on a one
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man solo show edition of SRTU, and of course we we kick things off
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with what I deem to be the biggest story, one of the biggest stories
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this week, as MWe officially has signed former AW TBS champions and Jade Cargill
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to a contract. It was announced on ESPN. ESPN broke the news that
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Jade card Gill had signed with WWW on a multi year deal. They broke
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it on Tuesday morning around ten am or so. Mark Rimaldi from ESPN broke
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the story, and uh, you know, we had heard rumors that Jade
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was going to be heading to WWE from AW. That she wrapped up that
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loss that she had with Chris Statlander on Rampage and rematch from the TBS Championship
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match, The Hug, the Goodbye, that that was her swansong in AW
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and that ended a little over a two year run in All Elite wrestling.
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She has always come off as someone that was like a WWE talent in all
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elite wrestling, So I don't think it's it's too surprising that she has officially
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landed in WWW. You know, Jade card Gill is a star. Like
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visually you can see like, this is someone that can be in professional wrestling
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in five for five years, and then after those five years could hit Hollywood
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and become one of the biggest action stars, movie stars, what have you
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in the world of entertainment. If Jade card Gill wanted to host a daytime
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talk show, I could see it. If she wanted to compete in a
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reality TV show like Survivor, I could see it. If she was the
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co leading lady in some badass action movie that hits the summer months, I
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could totally see it. Jade Cardgill is an absolute star. The professional wrestling
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has definitely had our critiques as a wrestling fan. It's always difficult for me
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in a chair that does a podcast and be like, yeah, you know,
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you could tell that she's a little bit green because I've never wrestled in
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my life and she has more athleticism her pinky than I do in my entire
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body. But it's obviously visible for a long time wrestling fans that from an
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in ring standpoint, she's not a fully complete package, but from an outside
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visual standpoint, she is. As a character. She's great when she gets
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on the microphone, cuts a damn good promos. She's phenomenal, and she
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has been a figurehead for all elite wrestling in these last two years, especially
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in the Win's division. I mean, it was just always poised that when
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they gave her the undefeated streak, when they gave her the TBS championship,
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when she held it as long as she did, it was like, all
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right, how are they going to get this title off of versea that she
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gets a run as the ad AW Women's World Champion. That was always the
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vibe that I got. I thought that she would be an AW for a
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longer period of time than she was and then would potentially make the switch over
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to WWW. I think the timelines happened a lot faster than any of us
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would expect, and WWW is getting a talent that maybe under their umbrella working
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out at the performance center, working at with some of the producers or some
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of the other women in the on the roster, could become a finished phenomenal
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talent when her current WE contract comes to an end. This to me,
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has really big ramifications in the w w E, AW battle for supremacy and
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professional wrestling that we don't really talk about or want to talk about. Both
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promotions say they don't want to talk about, even though sometimes each of them
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do. But this is a huge get for WE from AW because this is
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the first homegrown AW talent that has jumped over to the w E side,
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and to me, the biggest thing in this all. And we talked about
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this several years ago when Cody made the jump to WE was our Cody's quote,
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guys, are his people? Are they going to be starting to come
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over to w w WE once they see how successful Cody Rhodes has been,
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or is there are other talents that may not be quote Cody's people that are
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looking and saying, man, he's been so successful AW, I've maybe hit
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a ceiling or I've only reached a certain amount of money that I can make
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and some many eyes that I can that can see me. Do I go
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over to the competition? Do I go over to w WE? And will
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I have the same success or do I get buried? I think Cody showed
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that you won't be buried. Instead, you will be pushed up the chain
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as is maybe the number one guy in the company right now on the baby
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face side, and that's very appealing. So Jade Cargill, who is close
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with Cody Rhodes, saw what was going on and made that jump, she
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said in an interview with The Ringer via Wrestling Inc. Cargill Quote. Cargill
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then confirmed that Cody Rhodes, who was instrumental in bringing her to aw in
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twenty twenty, played an equally vital role in persuading her to leave Tony CON's
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promotion for WE. Cargill believes Rhodes laid out the blueprint for others looking to
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jump from AWWE. Following his return at Wrestling thirty eight, twenty twenty two,
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Jade said, he's a phenomenal man. I've seen what the business did
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for him. I've seen him just be the stellt athlete that he is.
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I didn't see it any different for myself, but yes, he was one
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of the guys that led me to a great decision. So here's Jade Cargill
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flat out saying I saw the success that Cody Rhodes had leaving AW the competition
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and going to w E, and it's something that I want to do.
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It's something that I want to sink my teeth into and have the same success.
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And if there's anybody that was in AW on September one, including Jade
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Cargill, that could have that same equal success in WI, there's only handful
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of them. Jade Cargill is one of them, and I fully believe that
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her time in w will be very successful. I think you could already pencil
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her in as someone that will be in a top WrestleMania spotlight in six months
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from now in Philadelphia. Unless she herself holds herself back, I think the
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sky's the limit for Jade Cargill. But again, the big news here is
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Cody Rhodes. Cody helped bring her into WWE. Jade saw Cody success like
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AW has made so many major signings away from w whether the releases or people
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that their contracts rolled off, whether b Adam Cole Moxley, Brian Danielson,
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They've made a lot, and those people have made just as equal of an
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impact. Cody is the one name that came from AW to WWE, and
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I thought that was a really big played move by awor excuse me, WA
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to take him because they wanted to show that what you may think in AW
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about w E has changed. You can be a star over in AW and
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when you come over here, look at what happened with Cody. It was
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a very calculated signing, a very calculated move, and the creative behind Cody
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has been very calculated because it's it's opening the door to potential, not only
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Jade Cargill, but others. And we could talk about some of those others
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here in just a second. So I thought that move was very telling.
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And now here's the first domino effect. Jade Cargill, one of Cody's people,
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jumped from AW to w A. Somebody who's been a homegrown talent in
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AW did not know about her pre AW and I actually had a tryout,
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did not get signed by w A, and here she is successful in AW.
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Karen then over to w E and we rolled out literally the red carpet
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for her signing, something we have not seen them do for any signings in
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quite some time. Cargill an interview with ESPN once again via Wrestling Ink,
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on Cody being one of her top three reasons to join WWE, She said,
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quote top three reasons, and Cody Rhodes was top two. Cargill said,
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Cody is a phenomenal wrestler, He's a phenomenal father. He's very honest,
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even when he has to get brutal with it. I respect Cody,
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I respect him trusting the system, and when I first came into AW was
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one of the few people that sat me down and was honest with me about
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this entire industry. And I appreciated that. So one thing I'm not going
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to do is let him down. I'm a come in here and do the
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work and show them why I'm a great pick. Again. Jade Cargill is
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flat out saying Cody Rhodes is one of the reasons why I'm there. I
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don't know what the top three other reasons were that she listed. Maybe it's
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the ceiling, the doors that open up by coming to w E put her
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top three reasons. At least the top two. One of them was Cody
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being there, So here we are again the domino effect. Cody's people.
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Who are some of those others that that stick out? I think if you
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go back to his farewell speech in AW, he mentions Jade. Who else
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is in there? Maxwell Jacob Freban MJF the current AW World champion. Where
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will he go come January? I think how I feel right now in September,
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the way that he's being booked, in the way that he has talked
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about and carried that company, it would lead me to believe that he has
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either resigned or is planning on resigning with AW, because it's like, why
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would you talk about that engine that could and not stick with the company.
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Ricky Starks is another Cody Rhodes person. He was backstage at the Rumble twenty
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twenty three. We saw the mostly probably saw the security cambradge footage. He
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was there support Cody Rhodes. Wardlow is another guy that is someone that is
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under that Cody Rhodes banner. If you will you know, and I think
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from a behind the scene standpoint, I was kind of surprised that QTM Marshall,
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who is one of Tony Kahn's right hand men behind the scenes, was
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not in line for potentially joining W. I know he just signed a short
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term extension. I don't know if that leads to a long term extension,
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but I wouldn't be surprised if QT Marshall from a behind the scene standpoint,
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who still co runs the Nightmare Factory with Cody Rhodes, could end up in
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WW at some point. So, you know, I think those are some
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of the big names right there, Ricky Stark's MJF. Wardlow as folks that
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could be jumping over from AW to WE. Next year's contracts is already being
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shaped up as one of the biggest contract years ever in professional wrestling. W
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RE signed a ton of people five years ago in twenty nineteen when AW launched
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to prevent them from going to AW. So now that aw A is a
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formable competition to them that offers equal, if not more money to WW,
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folks are going to start potentially make in that jump. I think I saw
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the names of like Becky Lynch, Shamus, we all know about Edge,
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Drew McIntyre, who's getting a little bit of a push lately. These are
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folks that could be available on the w E side, we'll WWE sign them
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up, or will AW swoop in and take some shots at the Armor of
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w E as well, And then on the AW side, obviously the big
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one is m JF. To me, that would be a crushing blow,
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but I don't think it's out of the remo possibility because to me, Jade
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Cargill, for the longest time, sans maybe Britt Baker was always positioned that
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company as the number one A or one B woman on the roster. She
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was a homegrown talent. She's someone that you did not know about pre aw
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again and here she is two years later, a superstar signed with w E
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and the sky is the absolute limit for her. So it's an exciting move
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for WWE. It's former aw star. To me, that felt like a
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WE talent in that in all elite wrestling, and I think this is a
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good fit for her. I think this is a great fit for WWE,
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and if all the only thing really is if she can fine tune that in
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ring ability. I think Jade Cardial is going to be an absolute star for
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World Wrestling Entertainment going forward. So big signing by WWE obviously a blow to
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a w but they'll recover. I mean they always do, just like WWE
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always recovers when they lose a big name as well. But being that WWE
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has only had so few many top aw names come over to their way,
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this is this is a big blow. You know, Cody and Jade are
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are in the WWE banner and that's that's why all to think about it,
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especially three years ago when this all started. I think she made her debut
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probably like November twenty twenty to set up that match in February twenty twenty one,
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Mark twenty twenty one where it was Cody and Brand versus Shack and Jay.
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That was her introduction. So great run so far for Jade Cargill.
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Again, if she could just fine tune that in ring ability, Uh,
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nobody is going to stop that ceiling. I think sky's the absolute limit for
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Jade Cargill. It's funny because we've often compared her to Tiffany Stratton over an
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NXT, who is starting to pick things up lately as well and is not
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looking as green as she has as of late. So it's the while that
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that women's roster and rold wrest Entertainment is top down an absolute all star roster
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from SmackDown a Raw to NXT. They're they're really putting it together and hopefully
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that pushes AW to do the same because there's a lot of great women wrestlers
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in AW and we just hope that they can give us this equal entertainment and
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entering product that we see from the w w E side as well. One
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thing that was obviously big last week, I think it was announced last Friday,
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so post recording, of course, w WE had one of those days
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where it's always unfortunate where talent have been released and cut from their contract.
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W made several cuts through the main roster in the NXC system. Did not
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hear of any producers that were let go. It just seemed like it was
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basically main roster and NXC talent. Those names, and we'll go through the
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list here, starting with Matt Riddle, Dolf Siegler, Shelton, Benjamin,
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Elias, Mussafa Al Lee, Emma Riddick, moss A, Leah Topdala,
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Rick Boogs, Mace Monsour, Dana Brook, Dobacado, Shanky, Ikey Manjiro
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Louisa, leon Quincy, Elliott Bryson, Mantana, Montana, Kevin Ventura,
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Cortez, Daniel MacArthur, Alexis Gray, Brooklyn Barlow, and Abaduel Abadie Fitzgerald
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were all released from World Rest of Entertainment Week. I think the ones where
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you start here is the most surprising obviously looking at this list, it's surprising,
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but almost not surprising because of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes
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around the news, one being Matt Riddle. WWE has given Matt Riddle the
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keys to the car a lot to be very successful. I remember listening too.
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I think it was something to wrestle with and it may be the ones
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that were on the WE network. And Conrad Thompson asked Bruce Pritchard, who
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heads creative or is one of the creative heads in WE, who can you
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see on the current roster right now that could be the next John Sena for
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the next fifteen twenty years something along those lines. It was it was definitely
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like who's the next Sena? And he said, without question, Matt Riddle.
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He saw Matt Riddle being the next face of the company, which is
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an absolute huge thing to be said by someone who is literally writing the creative
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books for w WE and lead you to believe since Bruce got back involved,
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that he felt that same way because of the storylines that Matt Riddle was given
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Riddle when he came over from NXT to the main roster. I think it
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was the SmackDown side during the beginning stages of the pandemic. It was like
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this big touted debut over he kind of floundered a little bit on that brief
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period of time it SmackDown. I think once he was moved to raw,
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things started to pick up, and obviously we know where things went for him
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with r K Brow. RK Brow was one of the best odd couple pairing
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tag teams that we've seen since since Team hell Now. They were extremely over,
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extremely fun, got a lot of great stuff out of Randy Ornt that
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we hadn't seen in some time, got a lot of great stuff out of
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Matt Riddle, and it just felt like that the eventual lead to all this
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was going to be pre or before Randy Orton got hurt, was to lead
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to a Matt Riddle Randy Warn't match. I would believe it would happen at
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something like a Summer Slam or a Wrestlemanian. I'd believe there had been pitches
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it sometimes that they wanted to turn on Matt Riddle and Riddle would be the
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bayface or it would be the heel. They'd have a great, let's say,
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three to four month feud and that would help elevate Matt Riddle up as
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as a main event talent. That obviously didn't happen because Randy Warton got hurt.
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He's been out since. And then you know, Riddle that point was
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had matches with Roman Reigns. It was one of the most more recent Roman
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Reigns title defenses on network television on SmackDown Great Match. Then he went on
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to feud with Seth Rollins for a little bit, and again there you go.
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I mean, you're in the ring with Roman Rains, You're in the
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ring with Seth Rollins. Obviously the company thinks highly of you, and they
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ran with that feud for a while and it was a very personal, intense
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feud, you know. And then he was brought back recently and did some
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stuff with Drew MacIntyre before obviously being released. The stuff that's on the opposite
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side of this end of this is same time during the pandemic, during the
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Me Too movement, Matt Riddle was accused of sexual assault. It went to
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court by a former co worker at Evolve Wrestling, Candy Cartwright, a fellow
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wrestler. They had an affair and she was claiming sexual assault. That went
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to a court case or was in litigation. All of that led to eventually,
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I presume Matt Riddle's personal life taking the same hit where his wife had
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divorced him. They had about three or four kids together and they went their
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separate ways. Riddle also had some drug test failures that harpened him from coming
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back. He was in rehab for a little bit, and then most recently,
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the belief is that he may have been somewhat inebrad intoxicated during an incident
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in JFK where he accused a TSA agent or Port Authority police officer belief for
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sexually assaulting him, and that seems to have been the final straw. And
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w WE had given Matt Riddle so many chances, and I think the reports
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that were out there recently was he went through all of his chances. So
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this is one of those cases that you see from time to time in WE
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where it's like someone has given the keys to the city and they don't know
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what to do with it, and they kind of self destruct. They lose
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that opportunity. Sometimes they regain it and get a second chance, and sometimes
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they don't. I immediately think of folks out there like Rye Back. Right
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Back was given the Keys to the City at one point, and he's gone
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with the company and has never been brought back. But here we are Matt
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Riddle, and what happens next with him is pretty important. I don't think
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AW would sign him. I know that there are some MMA promotions, according
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to Dave Meltzer, that are interested in him, but I don't know where
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he goes from here. I think he's kind of damaged goods at this point
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and he needs to kind of self reflect, get his stuff together and see
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if professional wrestling is the direction he wants to go. It really goes one
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or both ways for me, in my opinion, I think either Riddle ends
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up in wween cleans up his act and cleans up his image is or morseful
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for his previous sins, or he just leaves professional war wrestling all together,
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and maybe he does a couple of matches here and there, but we never
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really see Matt Riddle again, and then like ten fifteen years from now,
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he's doing some sort of shoot interview or signing autographs at some sort of comic
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book con or wrestling function. But in the meantime it was surprising, but
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also not surprising. Was surprising was Dolf Sigler being released. But again,
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also you can make the case not surprising. He is one of the most,
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if not the most underutilized professional wrestling talents we've ever seen. This is
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a world champion quality wrestler who for whatever reason, could not get the time
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of day, the light of day to ever be a consistent main event player.
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There were times that he had gone up the card, had a World
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Championship run and Matt was it and nothing ever came of it. One of
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the best money in the bank moments of all time, the Cash in the
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Night After Wrestling Mane twenty nine. He was a beloved superstar from a lot
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of wrestling fan standpoints, but he just couldn't crack it in the creative side
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of w W. WE all knew if they gave him the ball, he'd
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knock it out of the park. So such a joy to watch and a
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damn shaman he's in WWE. But if there's one talent on this list who
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would really benefit from AW, it is without adult Dolf Sigler. I would
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also throw in Shelton Benjamin is someone I would love to see an AW.
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I think he'd be great, even at his age He's still kicking ass a
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ton of fun to watch. Elias was somebody that I think was a big
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w w wheat or excuse me, a bit sick man type talent, big
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guy, great gimmick, cut a good promo, had a really cool air
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about him. Decent ent ring performer as well, but in the new regime
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he just couldn't catch on. And it's kind of similar to what happened with
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Rick Boogs as well, which I believe Boogs basically insinuated in the YouTube video.
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Another big surprise was Mustafa Ali. I mean he's was slated for a
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title match at NXC No Mercy this Saturday against Dirty Domastereo. Had been really
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enjoying his run on NXT. He was starting to do the character that I
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guess he was pushing to do when he just before he had asked for his
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release. Mustaf Ali is a highly coveted town that I think if AW snatches
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up and hope that they snatch up, can be very, very very successful.
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He is a great creative mind from what I've seen, great and ring
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worker, and I just really always enjoyed watching Mustafa Ali. I felt bad
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for Emma and top Dollah, who recently came back to the company, especially
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Emma, who is a high quality female talent female wrestler. No idea why
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they brought her back for like maybe two three months and then took her off
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television. Riddick Moss had had some run in there that I think could have
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been good, but again I think with the way that Triple H does some
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booking that maybe Riddick Moss fell off a little bit as well. And then
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on the NXC side of things, where if there was any type of shock,
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I mean, they had danham Brooke on television recently and she had a
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little bit of a bit more of an edge of her on her characters,
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So that's kind of shocking when it's somebody that's frequently on television like Mustafa Ali.
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Most of these names were not on television recently, so it wasn't too
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much of a shock. But I would also say Quincy Elliott was being pushed
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in NXC for a while. I had a good connection with the fans.
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It was a gold Desk esque type character that I guess did not translate over
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the last couple of months. If there was one thing about Quincy Elliot was
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obviously the in ring work was not fully there from my perspective as a fan,
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so no longer employed by w E. And then I think, really,
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who is going to be the most successful post WE? I would say,
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I'll give you three names. I'm gonna go with Dolf Siegler for everything
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that I mentioned before. I think he goes to AW and as an upper
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card top talent, mustaf Ali because he is highly creative and a great in
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ring worker. And then I'm going to say Emma because I think her addition
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to the female roster of an AW would be very, very very beneficial.
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So I'm gonna say Ziggler, Emma, and mustaf Ali will be the most
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successful post WWE fall on their release. Always a shame when when folks lose
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their jobs, But I think the bright side here is is that several of
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them can be very successful post World rest Entertainment. I think Zach Ryder Matt
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Cardona has shown that you could be very successful post ww release, and I
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don't see why they can either. I think to me, mustaf Ali is
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like the most comparable to Matt Cardona on the success that he could face post
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WWE release. I think I think he can go into any promotion and uses
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social media and be very very uber popular depending where he where he picks up.
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So why did these releases take place? Dave Meltzer wrote in the wrest
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Of Observer newsletter via Wrestling and Inc. That it was quote well known there
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would be massive cuts end quote with plants who cut back on fifty two one
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hundred million expenses on the W side of TKO Group holdings. He also noted
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that most of the cuts have been made due to quote duplication of work on
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the endeavor side of things, an issue more commonly referred to as redundancy.
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Employees were poorly told that all major cuts made were related to the merger,
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So there you go. They wanted to cut some money. There were some
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folks that weren't being utilized in WW felt it was best to instead of writing
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out a paycheck or finding ways to use them, to let them go.
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And I know this has been a topic of discussion. I know Tony con
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addressed it recently in his media call I believe with for Wrestle Dream that there
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were folks that are on again the tribalism and wrestling folks that are on the
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W side, saying it's great that de wit releases them because they can go
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out and be on their merry way and carry on their career have a little
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bit of buzz behind them, versus the AW side where they continue to pay
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you, don't use you and let your contract expire, where there is no
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buzz coming off of entering the free agency. I don't know where I sit
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there. I think I kind of agree with the W side of things.
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There's no easy way to fire a talent, especially those that are extremely talented,
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like the names I said. But I guess give them a little bit
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of a buzz. You give them ninety day pay. You know, now
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people are counting down the days and the hours until Dolphs can become a free
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agent, mussaf Ali can be a free agent, and they could use these
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next three months to kind of reboot themselves and get ready for the next chapter
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in their careers. That I hope they're very, very successful in so W
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we made in a recent round of talent cuts. Hopefully that is the end
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of it for the rest of this year. Some surprise, some not surprising,
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and always some shout outs to to see who can be the most successful
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post of we feel free to chime in at SRTU podcast on Twitter slash x
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or Facebook dot com Slash the realt Still Real to Us Show. With that
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said, let's get some preview predictions in. If we get doctor Treys,
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we'll post it up on our Facebook page, Facebook dot com slashes the realto
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Show and maybe throw them up on Twitter as well. Then on next week's
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podcast, the first podcast for the month of October. October the fifth,
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we will recap and review everything from Nxcino Mercy and aw Russell Dream. So
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let's start with the Saturday show. N Xtino Mercy Preview Predictions is Saturday from
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the Mechanics Bank Arena and Bakerville, Bakersfield, California. The first match here
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is a fatal four way match for the NXC Tag Team Championships. Did d'angela
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family take on OTM, Lucian Price and Broco Neema? The Creed brothers Brutist
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Creed and Julius Creed, and I don't know if they're going by Loso Thorios
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anymore. They were promoted as Carreo and Angel Garza, so on Britio Correo
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and Angel Garza. I liked the D'Angelo family in this one. I could
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make a play for one of these teams to steal the championship from the D'Angelo
31:14
family and become the new tag Team champions. But I feel like they're going
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to keep the titles on the D'Angelo family a little bit longer. I think
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that will be the best It's it's pretty good. I think it's a pretty
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good opportunity for the D'Angelo family gets this runs as NXC Tag Team Champions,
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So I like the D'Angelo family winning and retaining. Next match, here is
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no am Dar defending the XC Heritage Cup in a British rounds rules match against
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Butch. I really enjoy the Global Invitational tournament that they had, and I
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thought it was a good way to develop a new number one contender. My
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only drawback was, why aren't you doing the British rules rounds matches, like
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if you're trying to get going for the NEXC Heritage Cup, like, do
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those style matches for the right to take on the NEXC Heritage Cup winner or
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trophy holder. I thought that was the only thing that was strange. Nonetheless,
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I like Butch winning this one. If there was a time for an
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NXT talent to defeat a main roster talent on this card. It would be
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this match because I think the metaphor could help distract or interfere in this one
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and help No m Dar retain, which noem Dar has been phenomenal. Metaphor
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has been really good. They have found some great stuff there with great stuff
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for utilizing oral mensa lash legend who had been on the roster for a little
32:44
bit really not doing much, and Jakar Jackson is very talented. So the
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metaphor stuff has been very entertaining and fun. And it's read that you could
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see a stable where there's equal mounts men and women. So I like what
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they're doing on NXT, but I do have butch retaining this one. Next
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matches for the NXC North American Championship is Dirty Domasterio Defense against Trick william with
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Dragon Lee as a special guest referee. Good way by we to get things
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going here after msaf Ali was let go and where they were going to move
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from this point forward, and they put all together with the NXC episode this
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past week. The Trick Williams character has been very compelling as of late.
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I think this could be a really turning point show for Trick Williams as a
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character in both wins or losses. In this instance, I do have Dirty
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Dom masterial retaining. I think Dragon Lee being a special guest referee is added
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to this one because it plays a big factor, whether that is accidentally costing
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Trick Williams the match or you know, leading to a rekindling of the feud
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between Dirty Dom and Dragon Lee. Is the way I could go, and
33:52
it just feels like Dragon Lee is the guy that is poised to win the
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championship eventually from Dirty They had a great match on Raw and I just feel
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like the way the things are going and that is the plan. But I
34:05
don't think it'll be the last of Trick Williams at Nxcino Mercy. Next match
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here is Braun Breaker versus Baron Corbyn. This feud has kind of been met
34:13
at best. It's been lacking a lot, and it was like concerning heading
34:22
into the show of where things were headed, and then they picked it up
34:27
this past Tuesday. I really enjoyed that final sequence, that final segment on
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NXEY Television that closed out the show with them battling around that car. They
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did. They absolutely destroyed that car, and I thought that was a good
34:38
way to hype up their match. It saved a little bit that got my
34:42
interest and intrigued in this one. So I braun Breaker defeating Baron Corbyn on
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Saturday Night, and that was just a weird feud because they're both heels right
34:51
now. I mean, they're both not well liked by the audience, so
34:53
it's rare that you see a heel versus heel feud happening. Would have figured
34:58
one of them would have been a baby face and I would have actually believed
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Baron Corbyn. Next match, here's an extreme rules match for the NXEY Woman's
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Championship. Is Becky Lynch defends against Tiffany Stratton. I like Becky Lynch retaining
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and winning this match, but I think this has one of those really cool
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instances that you see from time to time where this veteran wrestler gets the most
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out of a young star in a very violent match. And I think of
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two thousand and four hardcore rules match of Mick Foley and Randy Orton in their
35:30
feud, and I don't know if that has the same degree to it,
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but I think Becky Lynch helps elevate Tiffany Stratton to become a bigger star following
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this pay per view. In a loss, sometimes a loss does as much
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as a win, So I like Tiffany Stratton putting on a good show.
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I feel like this match is gonna be very physical and violent, but I
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still like Becky Lynch retaining and I think she helps elevate the game of Tiffany
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Stratton on Saturday Night. And then finally, Carmelo Hayes defends the NXC Championship
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against Elia Dragonoff. I'm going to take dragging Off to win and become the
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new NXC champion. I think this is where you see Trick Williams turn on
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Carmelo Hayes cost him the championship, and we have a new NXC champion.
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I can't see a world right now where Elie Draggonoff leaves nxcy No Mercy without
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the title. I think his character has been on the rise and it would
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be a slight to him if he doesn't win the championship. I think the
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time is now to pull that trigger, and then that would also add to
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a Trick Williams Carmelo Hayes feud where if Trick Williams cost Carmelo the loss and
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the championship, Trick can come out and say that the only time he ever
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won was because of me, and now you can't win without me. And
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there's been this little seeds planted over the last couple of weeks. We sound
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it kind of saw it going a little bit more of an overdrive on Tuesday's
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edition of NXT where Trick Williams was talking to Carmelo Hayes and he was very
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into his phone and reading whatever notes or maybe the contract heading into the contract
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signing with Eli Draggonoff and then Carmelo Hayes talking about all the opponents that could
37:00
not stop Elia Dragonoff that he is no Wesley, he is no Trick Williams,
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which got an O from the crowd and got a little bit of a
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reaction. I thought that was a nice little sea that was planted, and
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I think we fully see it executed on Saturday show where a Trick Williams turn
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on Carmelo Hayes takes place. Because if not now same thing with the only
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dragon Off with the championship, then when like when do you pull the trigger
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on this? And I think you've got to do this at a big event
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like a PLA. So I fully expect that Eli Draggonoff will walk out of
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nxcn No Mercy as the new NXC champion, all thanks to Carmelo Hayes excuming
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Trick Williams for costing Carmelo Hayes the title and the match all right, then,
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shifting gears to AW Wressell Dream Preview and Predictions is Sunday from the Climate
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Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. The first match he's a four way tag
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team match for a future AW World Tag Team Championship match whenever they want.
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The Young Bucks taken on the Guns Luch Brothers and Orange Cassidy and Hook.
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FTR has been down the road with the Young Bucks for a little bit,
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so I don't think we get another FTR Young Bucks match. They've done their
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stuff with the Guns as well, though, I feel like the Guns could
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be the winners of this one. Luca Bros. We've seen them take on
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I believe as well, not recently though. To me, the outlier here's
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Orange Cassidy and Hook. I would not be shocked if they go with Orange
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Cassidy and Hook and what's going on with them? Maybe that odd couple weird
38:30
pairing tag team playing out that we talked about earlier in the show with like
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an RK bro playing out on Ali Wrestling Television. So I'm gonna go with
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Orange Cassidy Hook to win this one and to have an eventual aw ROLD Tag
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Team Championship match. Next match Here's for the AWTBS Championship is Chris Statlaner takes
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on Julia Hart. Let me first by saying that I've watched the last couple
38:51
Julia Hart match. I think she had a match on Rampage and Collision recently.
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I think back to back nights, she has really come a long way.
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I really like her submission finisher. A lot of times in submission finishers
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they don't look like they actually hurt the person hers does, and it looks
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really really legit. Got a figure that maybe Maliki Black played a little bit
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of a role in there behind the scenes to help give her a really cool
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submission finisher, and her in ring work has really really improved. With that
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said, I do like christ Atlanta retaining, but I think this match surprises
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us on Sunday Night. Next match here's for the ROH World Championship in New
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Japan. Strong Open Weight Championship. He has Eddie Kingston defense against Katiora Shabata,
39:32
the current ROH Pure champion. I'm really looking forward to this one big
39:37
Shabbata fan, but I don't think you put the championship on Kingston ten days
39:42
ago for him to lose the Shavada on the very first pay per view.
39:45
So I have Eddie Kingston retaining, but I think this is gonna be a
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really, really fun match. Shabata is so much fun to watch, one
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of my favorites, Like I just wish he got more praise and opportunity to
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to be out there as much easy is. But that's probably a lot to
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do with his his injury that nearly cost him his life. But thankfully he's
40:08
he's still with us and it's a miracle that he's wrestling today. Next match,
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here's two out of three falls. Match for the AWT and T Championship
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is Christian Cage defense against Darby Allen. I went back and forth on this
40:21
one. I was like, man, I can see Darby Allen, but
40:23
they just put the T and T Championship on Christian Cage in a really good
40:28
triple threat match. Really enjoyed the booking where Cage pins Lucasaurus of all people.
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Following the Coffin drop, Lucasaurus is starting and like you know, he
40:37
held the championship for the first time. He's starting to realize that, like,
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hey, that was a lot of fun. That was cool. Maybe
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I'm being used by this guy. So I don't think they want to execute
40:45
that storyline just yet. I think it plays out somewhere. Lucasaurus obviously plays
40:51
roles here and helps Christian Cage retain, but we're starting to see the ground
40:55
crack a little bit where Lucasaurus will eventually turn Christian Cage. So I got
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Christian Cage retaining. Next match, here's christ Jericho and the Golden Elite of
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Kenny Omegan, Cody a Bushi taking up members of the Don Callis family,
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Kenosk Takeshka, Sammy Cavarr and Will Losprey. I've got the Don Callis family
41:13
winning this match. I just think that the Kenny Omega Coda Jericho els are
41:19
adding to this feud a lot more and it's getting the booze from Don Callis's
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family and Don Callis to be even louder, and I think that could should
41:28
continue. So I've got the don callis family winning this match. And I
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should also say that we are recording this just before AW Dynamite on Wednesday night,
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so if there's any new matches, which I'm sure there will be.
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It is an AW pay per view. There's only nine announced. They usually
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like to have eleven or twelve. Unfortunately we can't preview here on this edition
41:45
of the podcast, but we obviously will recap review it on next week's edition
41:50
of the show on October the fifth. Next matchers for the ROH World Championship
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Better than You, Baybay Adam Colin MJF defending against the Righteous of Vincent and
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Dutch. Obviously, we don't know the severity of Adam Cole's injury. They
42:02
could be announcing right now that he is out for the next six months for
42:06
all I know, and this match has been canceled and it will be a
42:09
vacant ROH World Championship match instead. But I'm going on the premise that he
42:14
is good to go. I have not seen any report saying otherwise other than
42:16
he went to the hospital than came out of the hospital on crutches. Hopefully
42:20
there is no break. Hopefully there is no tear and it was just a
42:22
tweak for Adam Cole, but I tend to believe that it's probably not a
42:27
tweak. My biggest gripe in this should the match take place, is the
42:30
Righteous being in this. I'm a fan of Vincent and Dutch, but how
42:36
do you go on and on of pushing the Kingdom of Matt Tavan and Mike
42:40
Bennett, of having issues with Adam Cole and better than U Baba as they're
42:45
tied to the hip with Roderick Strong being a really fun phenomenal act on AW
42:50
television lately, and not give them this match but include them in the nor
42:52
Win Contenders match. Very very weird that they did that booking, but nonetheless
42:58
they decided to go with the Righteous and I like better than U bebe retaining
43:01
again, I just find it weird that you had that opportunity to give us
43:05
better than Ubbe and the Kingdom and a pay per view you didn't do it.
43:08
Anyway. Next match here's for the AW World Tag Team Championship is FTR
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take on Assie Open, Cole Fletcher and Mark Davis. This should be a
43:16
fun one. I honestly went back and forth in this one because I think
43:20
Aussie Open deserves around with the AWU Tag Team Championship, especially when they took
43:23
the l at all in just to put over better than you babe for the
43:29
ROH World Tag Team titles. But I do think FTR continues to go a
43:32
little bit with these championship. I mean, as I'm even saying this,
43:37
I'm very tempted to pick Aussie Open, but I'm gonna go with FTR retaining.
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So I'm gonna have FTR retaining a World Tag Team champiship. But I
43:44
could see a world where Aussie Opened wins Young Bucks win that fatal four way
43:47
and then that goes on and on and on. But nonetheless, I'm gonna
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stick with FTR, so I'm gonna go FTR to retain. Next match is
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Hangman Atam Paid Chicken on Sport Strickland. I'm really excited for this one.
43:59
Such a fun on like mid card upper mid card feud with two guys that
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were our great talents and kind of flounder a little bit here and there,
44:07
could use some new stuff, and this is a fresh coat of paint for
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both of them in a feud that has the poise to being very very good
44:15
talking about guys who have been released by w WE that have had success post
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WWE release, Swerve Strickland is one of them. Swerve Strickland has been awesome
44:27
in All Elite Wrestling. I think he's been there now for it's almost two
44:30
years now. I mean he's been great, and he's put on some muscle,
44:36
he's put on some mass. His in ring work has always been there
44:38
as Microphone, he's even more confident than he was ever before. I know
44:43
he's always Serve confident, but he's so much more confident. His act with
44:46
a Mobile Embassy and Prince Nanah is super over. He is great. He
44:51
is a great heal and professional wrestling and a great in ring worker. I'm
44:54
so happy for him. I could see this guy next year being an All
44:58
Elite Wrestling world chan being. Even with that said, I think this is
45:01
the first match to help a rise sort of Strickling into the next level of
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aw's ladder. And I'm going to take him to defeat Hangman in a page
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on Sunday Night, and then that takes us to the dream match. Two
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of the best technical wrestlers of all time, Brian Danielson taken on Zach Saber
45:19
Junior from New Japan Pro Wrestling. Fully expect a lot of wristlocks, a
45:23
lot of great phenomenal this is awesome chance, a lot of amazing chain wrestling,
45:30
a lot of hard kicks. This is going to be a lot of
45:32
fun, folks. This is something that wrestling fans have wanted to see for
45:36
a long time. When Brian Danielson, then known as Daniel Bryan, was
45:39
commentating during the Cruiserweight Classic and Zach Saber Junior was in the tournament for wa
45:45
all I could think of was like, man, could you imagine ZSJ taken
45:50
on the American Dragon? And it looked like at that point, obviously with
45:53
Danian Bryan and retire, that it would never happen. And then he has
45:59
come out of retire, he was in w E Zack Saber Junior tearing up
46:01
in New Japan RevPro wherever, and it seems like it could never happen.
46:07
Daniels comes to a w and I feel like this has been a dream match
46:09
in the waiting for a long time. So Danielson seems to be checking off
46:14
a lot of boxes. If this is his last run as a full time
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active performer. He did Okada a couple of months ago. He's got CSJ
46:22
this Sunday, and this match is going to be a ton of fun and
46:24
I'm gonna take Brian Danielson to get the victory again. I'm tempted to pick
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ZSJA, but I think Brian Danielson walks out of his hometown the winner at
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Ali Wrestling wrest of Dream, the first ever Russell Dream pay per view.
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So there you go. There's our preview and predictions. Again. We will
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recap and review it on next week's edition of the podcast on October fifth,
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and if we get doctor Trey's predictions, we will post it up on Twitter
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then we'll hopefully recap and review it together on next week's edition the podcast.
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