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Proceed With Caution · The 3Ts: Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders

• WEBVTT 00:00:11.319 --> 00:00:13.740 What is up, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome into 00:00:13.740 --> 00:00:16.199 another episode of the Tables, Tailgates, and 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.320 Top Loaders podcast. I am your host, TB, aka 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.120 Tim Beardsley, and this is episode eight. So 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:24.140 thank you all so very much for stopping in and 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:26.559 checking out the three Ts. So much to get to 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.600 today. So much wrestling to talk about over the 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:31.859 weekend. Don't want to waste any time. I want 00:00:31.859 --> 00:00:34.789 to dive right in and start. with the Bills fans. 00:00:34.969 --> 00:00:38.049 Mafia members, you are on the clock. How are 00:00:38.049 --> 00:00:40.770 we feeling? I want to get to you and the top 00:00:40.770 --> 00:00:43.189 loaders portions first before we do a deep dive 00:00:43.189 --> 00:00:45.390 into the world of professional wrestling. But 00:00:45.390 --> 00:00:48.250 Bills fans, James Cook, have you seen that he 00:00:48.250 --> 00:00:52.310 cracked the top 100 of the top NFL players moving 00:00:52.310 --> 00:00:56.729 into the 2025 season? He came in at number 89, 00:00:56.829 --> 00:01:00.490 and this is his first trip on the list. So how 00:01:00.490 --> 00:01:03.969 does this affect his contract? negotiations we 00:01:03.969 --> 00:01:06.750 shall see what happens but number 89 how are 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:08.769 we feeling about that last year if you remember 00:01:08.769 --> 00:01:12.370 the 2024 top 100 list the bills only had two 00:01:12.370 --> 00:01:16.010 players crack the top 100 they had deon dawkins 00:01:16.010 --> 00:01:18.709 obviously left tackle extraordinaire guarding 00:01:18.709 --> 00:01:23.250 ja17 guarding his his left side there he came 00:01:23.250 --> 00:01:25.930 in all the way at number 96 and then josh allen 00:01:25.930 --> 00:01:29.790 made his entry into the list all the way up at 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:32.609 number 12. I think J .A. is going to be much 00:01:32.609 --> 00:01:35.370 higher. He should be at least in the top five, 00:01:35.370 --> 00:01:38.489 if not top three. Deion is going to be on there. 00:01:38.650 --> 00:01:40.840 And then, obviously, James Cook. Cracked the 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.340 list at 89. But who else we think is going to 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:45.379 make this list? I think we have a shot at probably 00:01:45.379 --> 00:01:48.180 five players. Obviously, you have James Cook, 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.180 Josh Allen, Deion Dawkins. Maybe Spencer Brown 00:01:51.180 --> 00:01:53.959 makes the list. He had a hell of a year coming 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:57.659 in there at the right tackle position. And then 00:01:57.659 --> 00:01:59.980 maybe we see Christian Benford crack the top 00:01:59.980 --> 00:02:02.900 100. I think the Bills have a legit shot of getting 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:05.459 at least five players on the list, which, when 00:02:05.459 --> 00:02:07.859 all is said and done, will look pretty good. 00:02:08.139 --> 00:02:11.259 So how does this affect James Cook's contract 00:02:11.259 --> 00:02:14.199 negotiations? If I were a betting man, I would 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:17.219 say that the minute he came out at number 89, 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:21.419 his agent probably sent the article or the drop 00:02:21.419 --> 00:02:25.039 to Brandon Bean and said, yeah, you really need 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.379 to re -sign this guy. Now, if you all follow 00:02:27.379 --> 00:02:30.419 the news, an article came out just under a week 00:02:30.419 --> 00:02:33.789 ago. And this article is in the USA Today saying 00:02:33.789 --> 00:02:36.310 that now suddenly there's growing optimism that 00:02:36.310 --> 00:02:38.169 James Cook and the Bills can reach a contract 00:02:38.169 --> 00:02:40.289 agreement before the start of training camp, 00:02:40.409 --> 00:02:42.750 which would be crazy. So if you remember a few 00:02:42.750 --> 00:02:44.689 episodes back, we talk about this James Cook 00:02:44.689 --> 00:02:47.789 saga and how he was disconnected with the team 00:02:47.789 --> 00:02:49.610 and the city and all this stuff. And now there 00:02:49.610 --> 00:02:53.270 is a article that came out, obviously someone 00:02:53.270 --> 00:02:58.509 speaking on condition of secrecy and anonymity 00:02:58.509 --> 00:03:01.169 or however the hell you say that word. A person 00:03:01.169 --> 00:03:04.430 allegedly familiar with the situation told USA 00:03:04.430 --> 00:03:06.629 Today that both sides are motivated to get a 00:03:06.629 --> 00:03:09.169 deal done and that they have been in talks since 00:03:09.169 --> 00:03:12.629 he showed up at mandatory minicamp. I said as 00:03:12.629 --> 00:03:14.710 soon as he showed up to minicamp that he's not 00:03:14.710 --> 00:03:16.449 going to be holding out to training camp. That 00:03:16.449 --> 00:03:18.349 just doesn't make any sense. Training camp is 00:03:18.349 --> 00:03:21.250 getting ready to start here in just over another 00:03:21.250 --> 00:03:25.030 week, July 22nd. And he didn't skip minicamp 00:03:25.030 --> 00:03:26.889 because he basically said, I don't want to get 00:03:26.889 --> 00:03:30.129 fined because I like my money too much. Now we 00:03:30.129 --> 00:03:33.030 have this article coming out saying that they're 00:03:33.030 --> 00:03:35.310 in negotiation and it wouldn't surprise me. So 00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:38.110 where do we want to see that contract land? He 00:03:38.110 --> 00:03:40.569 was asking for 15. We talked about that before. 00:03:40.610 --> 00:03:43.810 I said 15 is an absolute ridiculous number and 00:03:43.810 --> 00:03:46.530 there's no way that anyone should be paying James 00:03:46.530 --> 00:03:49.729 Cook $15 million because only three running backs 00:03:49.729 --> 00:03:51.389 in the whole league are making that much money. 00:03:51.789 --> 00:03:53.889 And he's not the bell cow. He is not the guy 00:03:53.889 --> 00:03:56.830 that's going to be playing 90 % to 95 % of the 00:03:56.830 --> 00:03:59.270 snaps. He is part of a committee. Whether we 00:03:59.270 --> 00:04:01.169 like that or not, I'm not saying he's not good. 00:04:01.370 --> 00:04:04.419 But the other guys on the team. Ray Davis, Ty 00:04:04.419 --> 00:04:06.860 Johnson, they have roles. They have very specific 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:09.620 roles, and they do different things. James Cook 00:04:09.620 --> 00:04:11.780 is not the guy you want in there to pass block 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:14.659 for Josh Allen. He's just not. That's not the 00:04:14.659 --> 00:04:18.139 type of player he is. He is an electric, awesome 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:20.439 player to have on the field, and he's probably 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:23.379 one of the two to three players that at any time 00:04:23.379 --> 00:04:26.379 could take the distance and score a touchdown. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:30.709 But he's not the guy that you want. If the defense 00:04:30.709 --> 00:04:33.310 is throwing an all -out blitz at Allen, he's 00:04:33.310 --> 00:04:35.889 not the one you want back there protecting him. 00:04:36.110 --> 00:04:39.069 So where would we be comfortable with this contract 00:04:39.069 --> 00:04:42.290 landing? Maybe $10 million, $11 million. I think 00:04:42.290 --> 00:04:44.410 I'd be okay with that. Is he going to be okay 00:04:44.410 --> 00:04:46.709 with that? Now that he's cracked the top 100 00:04:46.709 --> 00:04:50.709 NFL list at 89, is this giving him more ammunition 00:04:50.709 --> 00:04:53.310 for that fire? I don't think it's going to bother 00:04:53.310 --> 00:04:55.790 Brandon Bean one bit. I am encouraged that they 00:04:55.790 --> 00:04:57.709 are actually talking. I would like to see a deal 00:04:57.709 --> 00:05:00.389 get done. But at the end of the day, I don't 00:05:00.389 --> 00:05:03.550 want the bills to spend crazy money. on a long 00:05:03.550 --> 00:05:05.589 -term running back investment. I just don't think 00:05:05.589 --> 00:05:08.089 it's a smart way to run your football team, but 00:05:08.089 --> 00:05:11.250 we shall see. The way they are slow rolling this 00:05:11.250 --> 00:05:14.370 top 100 list this year, they put out a couple 00:05:14.370 --> 00:05:16.189 of players here and there and we're gonna work 00:05:16.189 --> 00:05:18.189 our way all the way to the top. But it should 00:05:18.189 --> 00:05:20.529 be interesting to see where Allen comes in. I 00:05:20.529 --> 00:05:23.649 would hope that after an MVB season and he just 00:05:23.649 --> 00:05:25.269 keeps getting better and better, I would hope 00:05:25.269 --> 00:05:27.589 that number one, he makes the top five at least 00:05:27.589 --> 00:05:30.759 and number two, he is not. on that most overrated 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.259 player in the NFL award list this year because 00:05:34.259 --> 00:05:36.959 that was an absolute joke. I love how he took 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.300 that, used it as fuel, and then basically laughed 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:42.519 in everyone's face all the way to the MVP. But 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.819 anyway, so speaking of Josh Allen, I don't know 00:05:45.819 --> 00:05:48.360 if you all saw this. The news came out a few 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.420 days ago that he has listed his California home. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:54.920 He has put it on the market after getting married 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.339 to Haley Steinfeld. And we're going to dive right 00:05:58.339 --> 00:06:01.079 in to the If Money Were No Object Buy of the 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.500 Week because here's what we're doing. I saved 00:06:03.500 --> 00:06:05.800 everyone a ton of money the last couple episodes. 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.240 I bought some low -end hobby boxes. I think last 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:12.629 week I bought the... upper deck Scooby -Doo hobby 00:06:12.629 --> 00:06:14.610 box for the low, low price of like, I don't remember 00:06:14.610 --> 00:06:16.649 what it was, 125 bucks. Well, that's because 00:06:16.649 --> 00:06:21.350 I was saving it all for this $8 .5 million. Josh 00:06:21.350 --> 00:06:24.589 Allen's California home has just hit the market 00:06:24.589 --> 00:06:29.100 and he originally bought it for 7 .2. Obviously, 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.519 he might have made some improvements here and 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.800 there, but now that sucker is all the way up 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:38.199 to $8 .5 million. It's in a lovely gated community 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.240 at a private beach club, and it's crazy. So this 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.240 house, what I didn't know because I looked into 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.339 it because that's my job here, it's listed at... 00:06:47.610 --> 00:06:50.949 as being in a city called Dana Point, California. 00:06:50.970 --> 00:06:52.949 Now, I had no idea where Dana Point, California 00:06:52.949 --> 00:06:56.129 was, so I pulled out the old Google Maps, and 00:06:56.129 --> 00:06:59.389 what did I find? I was actually... Less than 00:06:59.389 --> 00:07:03.310 15 minutes from Josh Allen's house in November 00:07:03.310 --> 00:07:06.589 of 2024. My wife actually works for a company 00:07:06.589 --> 00:07:10.149 whose headquarters is in Aliso Viejo, California. 00:07:10.569 --> 00:07:12.889 And so I had the opportunity to fly out there 00:07:12.889 --> 00:07:16.129 with her last year. And lo and behold, I had 00:07:16.129 --> 00:07:18.029 no idea that I could have met Josh Allen for 00:07:18.029 --> 00:07:20.810 a beer. I could have practically walked to his 00:07:20.810 --> 00:07:23.129 house because he was only 15 minutes down the 00:07:23.129 --> 00:07:26.540 street. And now this house. at a lovely 8 .5 00:07:26.540 --> 00:07:29.439 million is up for sale. So what do we think? 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:32.620 It is a four bedroom, three bathroom house, relatively 00:07:32.620 --> 00:07:36.040 modest 2 ,800 square feet. So for a superstar 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.180 quarterback, that's not a very big house, not 00:07:38.180 --> 00:07:40.740 a very big house at all. I actually pulled up 00:07:40.740 --> 00:07:43.680 the listing for this and I was looking through 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.699 it. It's on a, I love how the way they tell you 00:07:46.699 --> 00:07:49.540 what the acreage of the house is. It's listed 00:07:49.540 --> 00:07:54.579 on 0 .2732. So just over a quarter acre, but 00:07:54.579 --> 00:07:58.279 they call it private acres exterior space because 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:00.560 that's what these crazy real estate agents in 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.800 California have to call lot size out there because 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:06.980 no one has any land. These houses are literally 00:08:06.980 --> 00:08:09.120 on top of each other. Well, this house. was built 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.120 in 1962. It's a single family home. It's one 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:16.439 story. And some of the amenities, you have a, 00:08:16.540 --> 00:08:20.079 obviously there's a HOA fee associated with this 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:23.100 craziness, but you get pickleball and tennis 00:08:23.100 --> 00:08:27.399 courts and all kinds of amenities to go in this 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:30.040 nice gated community. As I said, it's a four 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.009 bedroom, three bath house. I was expecting to 00:08:33.009 --> 00:08:35.330 be kind of blown away if this house is being 00:08:35.330 --> 00:08:38.870 listed for freaking 8 .5 million. And it's fine. 00:08:38.990 --> 00:08:42.250 It's fine. It's nothing that I'm going to go 00:08:42.250 --> 00:08:45.830 absolutely crazy over. But yeah, so 8 .5 million, 00:08:45.990 --> 00:08:49.190 Dana Point, California. I think I'm going to 00:08:49.190 --> 00:08:51.809 have to go if money were no object by the week 00:08:51.809 --> 00:08:55.769 and buy Josh Allen's house because as a Bills 00:08:55.769 --> 00:08:59.389 fan. What cooler merch could you buy than your 00:08:59.389 --> 00:09:03.129 star quarterback's multi -million dollar? California 00:09:03.129 --> 00:09:07.090 home. Not too much else going on in the Bills 00:09:07.090 --> 00:09:09.990 world as they are ramping up. Like I said last 00:09:09.990 --> 00:09:12.409 week, this is a slow time for football. Training 00:09:12.409 --> 00:09:15.149 camp is about to get underway in just over a 00:09:15.149 --> 00:09:18.110 week and a half. And we shall see. We're going 00:09:18.110 --> 00:09:20.049 to do probably a deep dive into the schedule 00:09:20.049 --> 00:09:21.950 and really look at things and start breaking 00:09:21.950 --> 00:09:24.269 down the team and positions and what we're worried 00:09:24.269 --> 00:09:27.029 about moving forward in future episodes. But 00:09:27.029 --> 00:09:28.950 I thought I would just hit you with the James 00:09:28.950 --> 00:09:31.980 Cook story and the Josh Allen's house. being 00:09:31.980 --> 00:09:34.580 up for sale and see who else wants to go in with 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:38.240 me. Maybe we can get a GoFundMe or pull together 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.379 some Bills Mafia funds and make this purchase. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.539 So trading card enthusiasts, sports cards enthusiasts, 00:09:44.580 --> 00:09:48.019 how are we feeling? Lots of stuff going on in 00:09:48.019 --> 00:09:50.940 the world of sports cards. I did see a couple 00:09:50.940 --> 00:09:53.580 articles that I wanted to talk about. There was 00:09:53.580 --> 00:09:57.360 a small card shop in Massachusetts. called First 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:00.200 Edition Collectibles. And what happened to this 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:03.279 shop, unfortunately, last Tuesday, it got broken 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.779 into. And in under 30 seconds, some clown stole 00:10:06.779 --> 00:10:11.840 a bunch of Pokemon cards valued at roughly $115 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.399 ,000. So he came in, smashed through the door, 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.279 opened some cases, and took a bunch of stuff 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.820 in under 30 seconds and came out with a whole 00:10:21.820 --> 00:10:27.919 bunch of high -end Pokemon cards about, I don't 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.039 know, an hour or so outside of Boston, maybe 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:32.240 a little less than that. But it's crazy when 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.059 this stuff happens. You know, you got a local 00:10:34.059 --> 00:10:36.200 mom and pop that are just trying to make a living. 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:39.590 And he came out and said. that he believes it 00:10:39.590 --> 00:10:41.909 was premeditated. He thinks that this guy knew 00:10:41.909 --> 00:10:43.929 exactly what he was going for because he was 00:10:43.929 --> 00:10:47.289 in and out in about 30 seconds. And he believes 00:10:47.289 --> 00:10:49.750 that the person responsible also knew the building 00:10:49.750 --> 00:10:52.490 well because they cut the lock off the gate and 00:10:52.490 --> 00:10:55.789 got in through the back door with no direct street 00:10:55.789 --> 00:10:59.450 access. So they think they know, or they think 00:10:59.450 --> 00:11:01.690 they believe that this person had been in the 00:11:01.690 --> 00:11:03.409 store. So now they're going back and watching 00:11:03.409 --> 00:11:05.769 old video and trying to figure out, you know. 00:11:06.220 --> 00:11:08.000 what's going on. But this store has only been 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.759 open a couple of years and now this clown has, 00:11:11.860 --> 00:11:13.840 hopefully they had, hopefully they had insurance. 00:11:14.590 --> 00:11:16.870 But yeah, it was a pretty good list of cards. 00:11:17.110 --> 00:11:19.250 I think what they said was about five to seven 00:11:19.250 --> 00:11:21.690 rare Pokemon cards. Most of them are graded, 00:11:21.690 --> 00:11:23.549 if not all of them. And he took a few vintage 00:11:23.549 --> 00:11:26.029 boxes. So five to seven cards in a few boxes 00:11:26.029 --> 00:11:29.570 and it's totaling almost $115 ,000. That's crazy. 00:11:29.970 --> 00:11:34.529 Absolute crazy. I know one was a BGS 8 .5 Crystal 00:11:34.529 --> 00:11:38.049 Charizard and some other high -end Pokemon stuff. 00:11:38.269 --> 00:11:40.309 So I don't know a ton about Pokemon, but for 00:11:40.309 --> 00:11:44.120 him to steal five to seven cards and some vintage 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.500 boxes and it'd be worth that much money we're 00:11:46.500 --> 00:11:48.840 talking crazy stuff he said one of them is considered 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.179 quote the crown jewel of the entire pokemon collection 00:11:52.179 --> 00:11:56.019 the first edition based set charizard so hopefully 00:11:56.019 --> 00:11:58.440 they can track this clown down these are pretty 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:00.399 rare cards so if they're trying to move them 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.000 i mean that's the thing you steal like high end 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.039 Trading cards, you steal stuff like that that's 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.399 serialized or that there's not very many of in 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.220 the world. Sooner or later, you're going to get 00:12:10.220 --> 00:12:12.580 caught because there's really not too many places 00:12:12.580 --> 00:12:15.700 that you can move this stuff without somebody 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:18.559 asking questions. So hopefully, trading card 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.440 community, we can come together, help this shop 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.000 out. You hate to see it. People are out there 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.120 working hard and they just want to make a living. 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.600 And this is kind of the kind of nonsense. So 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:29.460 what else is going on? One of the things I saw 00:12:29.460 --> 00:12:32.980 coming up for sale here shortly, 2025 Topps Archive 00:12:32.980 --> 00:12:36.039 Signature Series. So here's what this is. It's 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.779 one box. And each box contains one card. Now 00:12:39.779 --> 00:12:41.620 you're probably thinking, well, one card, what 00:12:41.620 --> 00:12:45.340 the heck? This one card is an encased buyback 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:47.659 autographed card. So what does that mean? Topps 00:12:47.659 --> 00:12:50.100 goes out, they buy back all these cards. Where 00:12:50.100 --> 00:12:52.320 they get them from, who knows? Secondary market, 00:12:52.500 --> 00:12:54.360 I have no idea. Maybe they're pulling product 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.039 off the shelf and they are opening it. And then 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.460 they take these cards from various random sets 00:13:01.460 --> 00:13:04.700 across their Topps catalog. So Bowman Stadium 00:13:04.700 --> 00:13:07.320 Club, what have you. They have the player sign 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.860 the card. It's then serialized. It's numbered. 00:13:10.019 --> 00:13:13.720 Every card is numbered less than 99, so 99 or 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:17.450 under. It is then sealed and put in. a case, 00:13:17.690 --> 00:13:22.049 and it's also stamped with a gold foil logo saying 00:13:22.049 --> 00:13:24.309 that this product is now part of this signature 00:13:24.309 --> 00:13:27.350 archive series. So this year, the stamp is going 00:13:27.350 --> 00:13:30.210 to say Topps Archive Signature, Certified Autograph 00:13:30.210 --> 00:13:33.669 2025, and then they put a number on it. There's 00:13:33.669 --> 00:13:37.409 no checklist per se, but what they do tell you 00:13:37.409 --> 00:13:42.809 is the players who are for the product. And this 00:13:42.809 --> 00:13:46.850 year for 2025, there are 128 players. Now the 00:13:46.850 --> 00:13:50.190 price of this box for one card, one card, one 00:13:50.190 --> 00:13:53.610 auto numbered 99 or less, the price is at the 00:13:53.610 --> 00:13:57.669 time pre -sale was $79 .99 and they have sold 00:13:57.669 --> 00:13:59.970 out. So I don't know where they're going to land 00:13:59.970 --> 00:14:02.029 on the secondary market. I think I saw Dave and 00:14:02.029 --> 00:14:05.210 Adams had them for $125 or $130, somewhere around 00:14:05.210 --> 00:14:07.509 there. So a bit of a markup there. But I'm looking 00:14:07.509 --> 00:14:10.009 through the autograph signers list. Again, 128 00:14:10.009 --> 00:14:12.429 players. And there are some good players. So 00:14:12.429 --> 00:14:14.830 you got Bobby Witt, Aaron Judge, players like 00:14:14.830 --> 00:14:18.529 that, your high -end guys. But then you get some 00:14:18.529 --> 00:14:21.610 pretty... Crappy low -end players that you're 00:14:21.610 --> 00:14:26.789 like, if I paid 80 bucks for a Gio Urshela autograph 00:14:26.789 --> 00:14:30.129 or a Harrison Bader, and you know, I'm not like, 00:14:30.129 --> 00:14:32.210 let's just look at this and call it for what 00:14:32.210 --> 00:14:34.549 it is. A Jonah Heim autograph. Do I want to pay 00:14:34.549 --> 00:14:38.429 80 bucks for, or 130, 125 for a Jonah Heim autograph? 00:14:38.889 --> 00:14:41.789 Lane Thomas, now Lane Train, back in the day, 00:14:41.809 --> 00:14:44.809 he was fast, right? But he's been trash since 00:14:44.809 --> 00:14:47.370 the last, I don't know, two, two and a half years. 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.320 I would be disappointed if I spent $100 on a 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.940 Lane Thomas autograph. Nate Evaldi, he's all 00:14:52.940 --> 00:14:55.620 right. Nathaniel Lowe, anyone? Anyone want a 00:14:55.620 --> 00:14:58.980 Nathaniel Lowe autograph? How about a Oswald 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:01.840 Peraza autograph? Patrick Bailey, anyone? I mean, 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:03.740 I'm going through the list. Now, you hit a PCA, 00:15:03.779 --> 00:15:06.720 a Pete Crow Armstrong or a Pete Alonzo or a Paul 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.200 Skeens, oh, heck yeah, you're making bank. But, 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.139 you know, if you're pulling a Sal Freelick or 00:15:13.139 --> 00:15:17.379 a Sean Murphy auto, Yikes. So I don't know. I 00:15:17.379 --> 00:15:19.980 don't know how I feel about this. I have purchased 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:24.000 these cards off eBay. One of the players IPC 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.120 is Royce Lewis from the Minnesota Twins. But 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.659 I did purchase a 2023 Topps Archive Signature 00:15:29.659 --> 00:15:33.139 Series Royce Lewis card. This was a Bowman card 00:15:33.139 --> 00:15:38.820 of his from the 2019 set. So you had a 2019 Bowman. 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.470 It's signed. And it was serialized 34 out of 00:15:43.470 --> 00:15:46.929 99. And I think I paid under 20 bucks for this 00:15:46.929 --> 00:15:50.629 card. So, and again, it comes in a magnet case 00:15:50.629 --> 00:15:55.169 and tops puts a seal over the top of it. So pretty 00:15:55.169 --> 00:15:57.830 cool. It's on card. It looks nice, but yeah, 00:15:57.870 --> 00:16:00.070 maybe wait, maybe wait. And you can find these 00:16:00.070 --> 00:16:02.809 on the secondary market for pretty, pretty decent. 00:16:02.970 --> 00:16:04.610 Now, obviously you're not going to get your high 00:16:04.610 --> 00:16:06.990 end guys for less than a retail. You know, if 00:16:06.990 --> 00:16:09.610 you're chasing specific players that aren't the 00:16:09.610 --> 00:16:11.940 top of the top, You're not trying to get PCA, 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.059 Paul Skeens, what have you. I think you could 00:16:14.059 --> 00:16:16.720 do well waiting. But, you know, if you can find 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.700 them for 80 and you're feeling a little lucky, 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.440 sure, roll the dice. Roll the dice. So what else 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.220 do we want to talk about in the card market? 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.259 I did see another product coming up that piqued 00:16:27.259 --> 00:16:29.980 my interest. And this is going to tie right into 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:33.220 our huge wrestling weekend. So what is this product? 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:38.940 It's 2025 Upper Deck AEW. SP Game Used Wrestling 00:16:38.940 --> 00:16:42.899 Hobby Box. Now, these look pretty cool. They 00:16:42.899 --> 00:16:46.519 are pre -order right now. And Dave and Adams 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:50.019 has them for around $120. Now, what this is, 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:53.220 it's a first edition, 100 -card base set, including 00:16:53.220 --> 00:16:57.279 the most... popular veterans and 20 rookies and 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:01.059 etc etc this set is absolutely loaded with different 00:17:01.059 --> 00:17:04.160 memorabilia and it's pretty wild so you have 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.119 authentic fabrics which are t -shirts things 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.059 like that from different wrestlers that are worn 00:17:11.059 --> 00:17:15.180 in actual matches you have different autos that 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:17.420 are attached to some of these fabrics as well 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:20.779 you have ring blends which are pieces of mats 00:17:20.779 --> 00:17:24.390 so these are all very specific wrestling Match 00:17:24.390 --> 00:17:27.829 used, whether it's an outfit, whether it's a 00:17:27.829 --> 00:17:31.349 piece of the ring. There's actual turnbuckles 00:17:31.349 --> 00:17:33.829 that they have in here. There's pieces of different 00:17:33.829 --> 00:17:37.269 weapons. It's kind of crazy. They use chair covers. 00:17:37.390 --> 00:17:39.529 They use different ladders. They have all kinds 00:17:39.529 --> 00:17:41.809 of stuff that I've never seen before in a product. 00:17:41.910 --> 00:17:45.750 They have a specific thing called a no DQ relic. 00:17:45.950 --> 00:17:49.130 And it's very low end numbered. I think they're 00:17:49.130 --> 00:17:51.789 numbered to 10. And they could be from a table, 00:17:51.970 --> 00:17:55.279 a trash can. stick and they even advertise a 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.259 coffin so i'm not sure what that is but hey that 00:17:58.259 --> 00:18:01.750 sounds pretty freaking cool so Yeah, this set 00:18:01.750 --> 00:18:04.549 looks pretty, pretty awesome. You're not getting 00:18:04.549 --> 00:18:07.009 a ton of cards in the set. You're guaranteed 00:18:07.009 --> 00:18:10.349 one autograph, two memorabilia or tech cards 00:18:10.349 --> 00:18:13.930 per box, three base cards or authentic rookies, 00:18:13.930 --> 00:18:17.329 and then one red or gold base set authentic rookie 00:18:17.329 --> 00:18:20.230 per box. So in total, you're looking at seven 00:18:20.230 --> 00:18:23.529 cards, roughly 120, but I think some of the things 00:18:23.529 --> 00:18:26.640 on here are pretty freaking cool. All right, 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.440 well, that is enough of that. Now we have to 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.039 get to the main event because now we have to 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:35.000 talk about all the crazy wrestling that happened 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.960 over the weekend. And there was so much wrestling. 00:18:38.059 --> 00:18:41.019 It was absolutely insane. And here's the thing. 00:18:41.059 --> 00:18:43.240 The great thing about wrestling is that there 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.640 should always be something for everybody, right? 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.460 It's almost like a buffet. You go to a buffet. 00:18:50.140 --> 00:18:52.019 Maybe some people like the salad bar. Maybe some 00:18:52.019 --> 00:18:53.960 people like the desserts. Maybe some people like 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.680 the meat carving station. There's something for 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.039 everybody no matter what type of food you like 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:02.660 at a buffet. With this much wrestling packed 00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:04.960 into one weekend, there should be something for 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.640 everybody. And I will tell you, some of it I 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.599 loved and some of it just wasn't for me. And 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.759 that's okay because that's the great thing about 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.660 wrestling. You should be able to find something 00:19:15.660 --> 00:19:17.559 you love, something that you can walk away and 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:19.339 go, hey, that was pretty damn cool. So where 00:19:19.339 --> 00:19:21.380 do we want to start? Let's start by what I didn't 00:19:21.380 --> 00:19:24.700 watch. I did not watch NXT Great American Bash. 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.000 I'm sorry. You can come at me if you want. You 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:28.099 know, at the end of the day, you got to make 00:19:28.099 --> 00:19:30.480 some choices. And I knew All In was going to 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:36.490 take up a ton of my time on Saturday. It did 00:19:36.490 --> 00:19:39.269 probably too much of my time, but that's okay. 00:19:39.390 --> 00:19:41.769 And I knew something had to be sacrificed. So 00:19:41.769 --> 00:19:44.250 I'm sorry, wrestling fans. I'm sorry, wrestling 00:19:44.250 --> 00:19:47.069 marks. I couldn't watch NXT. I heard it was pretty 00:19:47.069 --> 00:19:49.490 good, but I'm not going to talk about it because 00:19:49.490 --> 00:19:51.609 I really don't know what happened. I read the 00:19:51.609 --> 00:19:53.869 results and we'll go from there. But let's start 00:19:53.869 --> 00:19:56.650 with All In Texas. I believe this is the first 00:19:56.650 --> 00:20:00.430 time they did this outside of England. So obviously 00:20:00.430 --> 00:20:02.809 it took place in Arlington, Texas, Globe Life 00:20:02.809 --> 00:20:06.869 Field. I'll be the first to tell you when I saw 00:20:06.869 --> 00:20:09.250 the opening shots, the stage looked awesome. 00:20:09.390 --> 00:20:11.910 It looked great. And the place was packed. So 00:20:11.910 --> 00:20:14.930 well done, AEW. The pay -per -view started. It 00:20:14.930 --> 00:20:16.869 looked great. The stage looked great. The ring 00:20:16.869 --> 00:20:19.589 looked great. It looked badass. I was super, 00:20:19.710 --> 00:20:22.549 super excited to see. Now they did the pre -show 00:20:22.549 --> 00:20:25.490 stuff. The pre -show started at 1. If you... 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:27.980 do quick calculations of when this thing ended, 00:20:28.099 --> 00:20:30.519 which was probably around, I don't know, nine 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:33.500 o 'clock. I did have to pause it at some point 00:20:33.500 --> 00:20:36.839 to, you know, take care of things around the 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:40.720 house and whatnot. But you're talking eight hours, 00:20:40.900 --> 00:20:44.660 eight hours of programming, which is way too 00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:46.539 much time. I didn't watch the pre -show matches. 00:20:46.619 --> 00:20:49.549 There were three. Three matches prior to the 00:20:49.549 --> 00:20:51.230 three o 'clock pay -per -view actually starting. 00:20:51.329 --> 00:20:53.069 I didn't watch them. But let's start with the 00:20:53.069 --> 00:20:55.390 Trios Championship, which is the first match 00:20:55.390 --> 00:20:58.349 on the actual main card. You had the Death Riders 00:20:58.349 --> 00:21:00.650 against the Ops. It was an okay match. It was 00:21:00.650 --> 00:21:04.349 fine. Samoa Joe hits his finisher on Yuta for 00:21:04.349 --> 00:21:07.970 the win. And then post -match, he gets his head 00:21:07.970 --> 00:21:10.970 put in a chair and he gets taken out on a stretcher. 00:21:11.069 --> 00:21:14.170 It was fine. I thought it was probably not the 00:21:14.170 --> 00:21:17.009 best match to start your show with, but it was 00:21:17.009 --> 00:21:19.519 fine. Then from there, we go to the men's casino 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.000 gauntlet match. Now, here's the thing. When you're 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:24.759 doing something like this and you already know 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:27.299 that the winner of the match is going to get 00:21:27.299 --> 00:21:31.900 a title shot, it eliminates 90 % to 95 % of your 00:21:31.900 --> 00:21:35.019 entrants. Because based on the people that came 00:21:35.019 --> 00:21:37.980 out to the ring, who you have no idea who these 00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:40.799 participants are going to be, but you knew, hey, 00:21:40.859 --> 00:21:42.299 it's only a handful of guys that can actually 00:21:42.299 --> 00:21:44.480 win this thing. And I think that was the problem 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.759 with this match. Ultimately... It comes down 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:49.059 to MJF. Mark Briscoe was in there for a while, 00:21:49.140 --> 00:21:51.460 and they had kind of a feud going into this match. 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:54.230 It was kind of predictable. It was fine. And 00:21:54.230 --> 00:21:56.529 the entrances, they were all over the place. 00:21:56.609 --> 00:21:59.349 So that was the problem with this match, in my 00:21:59.349 --> 00:22:02.289 opinion. You had the spacing of the participants 00:22:02.289 --> 00:22:04.410 was just totally random. Sometimes it was 30 00:22:04.410 --> 00:22:06.309 seconds. Sometimes it was two minutes. Sometimes 00:22:06.309 --> 00:22:08.849 it was five minutes. It really made no sense. 00:22:08.869 --> 00:22:10.890 But the match was fine. It was whatever. There 00:22:10.890 --> 00:22:13.329 were too many jobbers in there, too many fillers. 00:22:13.730 --> 00:22:17.490 And MJF won. Great. Fine. Whatever. He's the 00:22:17.490 --> 00:22:20.220 right winner. Let's move on. Then from there, 00:22:20.259 --> 00:22:22.819 you go to Adam Cole coming down to the ring. 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.759 You learned earlier that the match between him 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:27.720 and Kyle Fletcher wasn't going to take place 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:30.759 and that he actually had to relinquish his TNT 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:34.160 title. And so he's able to come out to the ring 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.380 in street clothes. And he basically gives, while 00:22:37.380 --> 00:22:39.160 he doesn't come out and say it's his retirement 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:43.789 speech, he gets pretty emotional. Kind of seems 00:22:43.789 --> 00:22:46.190 like it could be his retirement speech, which 00:22:46.190 --> 00:22:48.549 kind of sucks because Adam Cole's pretty good. 00:22:48.930 --> 00:22:52.210 So he gives up the belt. He says he's not medically 00:22:52.210 --> 00:22:55.329 cleared. And everybody, you know, you hope for 00:22:55.329 --> 00:22:58.650 the best for Adam Cole. Obviously, O 'Reilly, 00:22:58.789 --> 00:23:01.250 Roddick Strong come out, and they're all hugging 00:23:01.250 --> 00:23:03.650 in the ring. They're all crying. So you know 00:23:03.650 --> 00:23:06.509 something's really not good. But then we have 00:23:06.509 --> 00:23:09.690 this fatal four -way match, and it's for the 00:23:09.690 --> 00:23:13.069 TNT title. And I got to tell you, like, Dustin 00:23:13.069 --> 00:23:14.930 Rhodes winning this thing. So you had Daniel 00:23:14.930 --> 00:23:17.809 Garcia, Sammy Guevara, Dustin Rhodes, Kyle Fletcher. 00:23:18.650 --> 00:23:20.809 Everyone was assuming Kyle Fletcher was going 00:23:20.809 --> 00:23:24.549 to win this. And then the match was just, I don't 00:23:24.549 --> 00:23:27.569 know. It was all right. It was fine. But then 00:23:27.569 --> 00:23:30.509 Dustin Rhodes wins. And I guess they were going 00:23:30.509 --> 00:23:33.549 for this whole Texas hometown nostalgia thing. 00:23:34.109 --> 00:23:37.569 But it was whatever. I feel like he gets the 00:23:37.569 --> 00:23:39.670 one, two, three. And everyone's kind of looking 00:23:39.670 --> 00:23:42.220 around like. Is that really supposed to happen? 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.980 Was he supposed to win this? And then all these 00:23:44.980 --> 00:23:46.940 people come out and celebrate, and I'm like, 00:23:47.019 --> 00:23:50.480 dude, this is the third match of the night, and 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.059 we're going crazy over Dustin Rhodes winning 00:23:53.059 --> 00:23:56.720 a TNT title? I'm like, okay. And at this point, 00:23:56.740 --> 00:23:59.759 I check my watch when this match is over, and 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:02.019 we're almost at 5 o 'clock. We're almost two 00:24:02.019 --> 00:24:04.490 hours into this pay -per -view. And I feel like 00:24:04.490 --> 00:24:06.869 nothing of significance has happened yet. So 00:24:06.869 --> 00:24:09.690 AEW has a significant problem with pacing these 00:24:09.690 --> 00:24:11.450 pay -per -views out. I watched the last one. 00:24:11.529 --> 00:24:14.130 The last pay -per -view was Double or Nothing. 00:24:14.569 --> 00:24:17.329 And I talked about it before on here that that 00:24:17.329 --> 00:24:19.309 pay -per -view was awesome. But it was still 00:24:19.309 --> 00:24:21.009 too long, but that pay -per -view was awesome. 00:24:21.029 --> 00:24:24.089 The matches were really good. They probably could 00:24:24.089 --> 00:24:25.990 have cut a couple matches, but... It was good 00:24:25.990 --> 00:24:29.529 stuff. Here, you're two hours in, and I feel 00:24:29.529 --> 00:24:31.390 like the show hasn't even started yet. Anyway, 00:24:31.549 --> 00:24:33.950 it's almost 5 o 'clock, and we finally get, in 00:24:33.950 --> 00:24:36.549 my opinion, we finally get the start of the pay 00:24:36.549 --> 00:24:39.410 -per -view. So here we have Will Ospreay, Swerve 00:24:39.410 --> 00:24:41.829 Strickland versus the Young Bucks. Now, Ospreay's 00:24:41.829 --> 00:24:43.789 entrance, kind of cool. He comes out with this 00:24:43.789 --> 00:24:47.210 Assassin's Creed thing going on. There's samurai. 00:24:47.329 --> 00:24:49.309 They're jumping around. There's lots of pyro. 00:24:49.390 --> 00:24:52.630 It's pretty cool. Swerve Strickland's next. JoJo 00:24:52.630 --> 00:24:55.099 Offerman, if you know. one of my favorite, Bray 00:24:55.099 --> 00:24:58.440 Wyatt. This is his wife, his girlfriend, whatever. 00:24:58.740 --> 00:25:01.059 I'm not sure if they were married, but it doesn't 00:25:01.059 --> 00:25:03.619 matter. She comes out and she starts singing 00:25:03.619 --> 00:25:06.420 and she sings essentially Swerve Strickland to 00:25:06.420 --> 00:25:08.799 the Ring. Pretty cool. And then the Young Bucks 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:13.619 come out and in pure bad guy fashion, they are 00:25:13.619 --> 00:25:17.440 in a boat and this boat is slowly making its 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:21.180 way down various parts of the arena. And the 00:25:21.180 --> 00:25:23.660 announcer is giving this long drawn out speech, 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:26.259 Basically pissing everybody off about how great 00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:29.039 the Young Bucks are. So it was pretty funny. 00:25:29.140 --> 00:25:32.519 Clearly they're doing it to annoy everyone, which 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:35.000 is exactly what their job is. It was really cool. 00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:39.380 Anyway, this match gets going and... This match 00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:41.819 is a banger. Now, I've seen a lot of negativity 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:45.319 about this match online because people were saying 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:48.240 that there's this one section of the match where 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.880 the four of them are literally, it's like watching 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:53.980 a video game. I don't know how they did this 00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:55.859 sequence, but it's back and forth. It's move 00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:58.819 after move, and people are bitching because they're 00:25:58.819 --> 00:26:01.299 saying that the guys in the match, all four of 00:26:01.299 --> 00:26:03.440 them, are essentially no -selling each other's 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:06.000 moves. Yes, you could look at it that way, that 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:09.359 for this. 30, 45 second stretch of the match. 00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:11.700 They are no selling. However, you could also 00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:14.539 look at it as, holy cow, the things that these 00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:18.140 guys are doing in such rapid sequence is absolutely 00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:20.480 freaking amazing. And maybe we should just watch 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:23.099 it and enjoy it instead of complaining about 00:26:23.099 --> 00:26:24.880 everything. But I thought this was one of the 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.759 best matches of the night. Crazy sequence. The 00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:31.049 crowd at this point. of the two -hour program 00:26:31.049 --> 00:26:34.089 had maybe they had been there since one so now 00:26:34.089 --> 00:26:35.809 we're at the four hour section of the program 00:26:35.809 --> 00:26:38.710 but they finally start to wake up uh the match 00:26:38.710 --> 00:26:41.349 gets going and it's just the last 10 minutes 00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:43.690 of this thing are just pure fire it was a banger 00:26:43.690 --> 00:26:47.329 great match you have the combo move the combo 00:26:47.329 --> 00:26:50.470 finisher swerve and osprey do their house call 00:26:50.470 --> 00:26:53.569 slash hidden hidden blade finishers at the same 00:26:53.569 --> 00:26:57.049 time and they get the win and the young bucks 00:26:57.049 --> 00:27:00.640 lose their evp title so Well done. That was an 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.339 awesome match. Well done. Next, we move on to 00:27:03.339 --> 00:27:07.059 the women's gauntlet match. This match was actually 00:27:07.059 --> 00:27:09.480 way better than the men's gauntlet match, and 00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:11.359 you had Athena winning. There were some good 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:13.339 spots in this match, but I think they made the 00:27:13.339 --> 00:27:16.720 right call. Hopefully, she'll get some more TV 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:19.619 time and make a run at the women's champ, who 00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:21.980 we're going to talk about here in a minute. But 00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:24.279 yeah, women's gauntlet match. In my opinion, 00:27:24.339 --> 00:27:27.000 it was much better than the men's. Then we get 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:29.400 the triple threat tag team match. You had the 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.720 Hurt Syndicate, Jet Speed, one of the worst names 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:34.480 ever. Then you had Christian Cage and Nick Wade. 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:38.019 This match was fine. It was fine. I don't know 00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:41.019 whether I was getting tired at this point or 00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:43.619 whatever the case may be, but it was a good match. 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:46.559 It was just fine. It wasn't great. I really liked 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:48.819 the Hurt Syndicate, but yeah, I don't know. I 00:27:48.819 --> 00:27:51.319 don't know. I feel like I've seen this. over 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.759 and over again anyway the match is over and lo 00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.559 and behold wade turns on christian cage post 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:01.160 match and you hear the greatest theme song in 00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:03.900 wrestling uh from altered bridge which is edges 00:28:03.900 --> 00:28:07.539 music aka adam copeland aka cope i hate that 00:28:07.539 --> 00:28:11.319 freaking name but here comes copeland Adam Copeland, 00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:12.759 Cope, whatever the hell you want to call him. 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:15.559 He makes his triumphant return. Obviously, he 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.079 was put on the shelf a few months back by FTR. 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.519 And now here he is to save the day. But he did 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.839 the thing. He did the thing that Penta did a 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.079 couple weeks ago that really ticked me off. His 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:28.039 music hits. And then he's at the top of the ramp. 00:28:28.140 --> 00:28:29.960 And instead of running down to make the save, 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:32.059 he's doing his dance off. And he's doing his 00:28:32.059 --> 00:28:34.140 poses. And he's playing to the crowd. And I'm 00:28:34.140 --> 00:28:36.460 like... This makes no sense. If you're supposed 00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:38.380 to be a good guy and supposed to be here helping 00:28:38.380 --> 00:28:41.259 your buddy, what are you doing playing to the 00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:42.660 crowd? You're supposed to be getting your ass 00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:45.299 to the ring and making a save. But anyway, he 00:28:45.299 --> 00:28:47.380 comes down, he makes the save, and then he turns 00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:49.980 to Christian and he tells him to go find himself, 00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:53.039 which who knows what the hell that means. I don't 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:55.559 know. They're probably going to rejoin again. 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:58.660 And hey, if this brings back the three -second 00:28:58.660 --> 00:29:01.700 pose, then I'm all for it. And then we got to 00:29:01.700 --> 00:29:04.759 talk about, in my opinion, the best match on 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:07.380 the whole card this was the woman's world championship 00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:10.480 between tony timeless tony storm and mercedes 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:13.460 monet and this is the first time we see mercedes 00:29:13.460 --> 00:29:15.619 come out and she doesn't have all the thousands 00:29:15.619 --> 00:29:18.779 of belts draped around her and their entrances 00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:21.980 are cool monet comes out with with the cheerleaders 00:29:21.980 --> 00:29:24.680 and then timeless tony storm does this black 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:28.200 and white vignette in which she's acting like 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:31.019 this real old lady Then her entrance starts and 00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:32.940 she kind of hobbles out with a cane and it's 00:29:32.940 --> 00:29:35.019 all in black and white. And she chucks the cane 00:29:35.019 --> 00:29:38.220 and loses the robe. And it's really cool. It's 00:29:38.220 --> 00:29:40.480 really well done with the color scheme, the black 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:43.019 and white, their splashes of red. And it matches 00:29:43.019 --> 00:29:47.359 her outfit and her, I guess, makeup to a tee. 00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:49.599 And it looks really cool. Really cool. Anyway, 00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:52.740 this match was awesome. This match was freaking 00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:55.279 awesome. I can't say enough good things about 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:58.750 this. And then she hits three. different storm 00:29:58.750 --> 00:30:02.490 zeros on mercedes monet it was kind of scary 00:30:02.490 --> 00:30:06.130 and then the match ends with a avalanche storm 00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:08.430 zero from the top rope or the second rope or 00:30:08.430 --> 00:30:10.750 whatever i can't remember and i thought mercedes 00:30:10.750 --> 00:30:14.930 was dead uh so it was a crazy sick spot but these 00:30:14.930 --> 00:30:17.630 two went at it they told a great story it was 00:30:17.630 --> 00:30:19.970 awesome there was a lot of back and forth two 00:30:19.970 --> 00:30:23.140 of the best wrestlers on the planet They put 00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:26.180 on a show, and it was awesome. And one thing 00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:28.799 that I couldn't help but think about as I'm watching 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:32.079 this match is Tony Storm's great, but I wish 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:35.420 there was a way we could get some of these crossover 00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:40.180 events where AEW would agree to have matches 00:30:40.180 --> 00:30:44.730 against certain WWE. because I would freaking 00:30:44.730 --> 00:30:47.230 love to see Timeless Tony Storm against Becky 00:30:47.230 --> 00:30:50.730 Lynch, the man. I think that would be fire. Some 00:30:50.730 --> 00:30:53.230 of the promos they could do, some of the in -ring 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:56.029 segments leading up to a banger of a match. I 00:30:56.029 --> 00:30:58.210 think that would be awesome. I want to see that 00:30:58.210 --> 00:31:00.289 match. Anyway, great job. That match was awesome. 00:31:00.529 --> 00:31:04.950 And then we get to Omega versus Okada. Now, look. 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.299 I've seen most of their matches. I know that 00:31:08.299 --> 00:31:11.099 there's a ton of history there. I was looking 00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:13.819 forward to this match probably more than most 00:31:13.819 --> 00:31:16.220 of the matches on the card. I was super excited 00:31:16.220 --> 00:31:20.640 about this match. And the crowd is getting jacked. 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:23.299 The entrances are awesome. It was a good match, 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:27.019 but I don't know, guys. I was kind of like, ugh. 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:30.019 I don't know. I feel like it just went on too 00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:33.279 long. I feel like it was Rainmaker after V -Trigger. 00:31:33.789 --> 00:31:35.750 one after the other, after the other, just different 00:31:35.750 --> 00:31:37.910 variations of the same move over and over again 00:31:37.910 --> 00:31:39.670 and kick out, kick out, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:31:39.750 --> 00:31:42.769 And I'm just like, okay, I don't know. I couldn't, 00:31:42.769 --> 00:31:45.289 I feel like I couldn't get into this match for 00:31:45.289 --> 00:31:47.910 some reason. I don't know what it was about it. 00:31:47.950 --> 00:31:49.829 Maybe I need to go back and watch it again. Maybe 00:31:49.829 --> 00:31:51.829 it was because they kept talking about the stupid 00:31:51.829 --> 00:31:54.930 diverticulitis nonsense over and over and over 00:31:54.930 --> 00:31:56.970 again. And I'm just like, is this the only thing 00:31:56.970 --> 00:31:59.150 that we're ever going to talk about now? Every 00:31:59.150 --> 00:32:02.089 time Kenny Omega gets into a wrestling match, 00:32:02.190 --> 00:32:03.859 anytime he's in the ring, This is all we want 00:32:03.859 --> 00:32:06.700 to talk about is his stupid diverticulitis. Like, 00:32:06.740 --> 00:32:09.859 I don't care. I just want to see these guys beat 00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:11.400 the hell out of each other and have a good match. 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:14.440 Can we not make this the focal point for 35, 00:32:14.619 --> 00:32:17.759 40 minutes? Maybe it's just me. I get it. Every 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:19.460 match tells a different story. I'm just sick 00:32:19.460 --> 00:32:22.339 and tired of hearing that story. But anyway, 00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:25.660 they did bring Jim Ross out to join the announce 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:28.339 team, which was nice. It's nice to see JR back 00:32:28.339 --> 00:32:31.259 in the table. That was great. And then finally. 00:32:31.900 --> 00:32:34.960 We have the main event. This is the match that 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.519 we've been waiting for, for what seems like forever. 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.720 We have Hangman Adam Page versus Jon Moxley, 00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:45.099 Texas death match for the title. And I'll be 00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:47.940 honest with you. So Hangman, his entrance, they 00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:51.579 had a guitar player and a professional whistler. 00:32:51.579 --> 00:32:54.339 Is that right? So this lady starts whistling 00:32:54.339 --> 00:32:59.930 his theme. All I can picture in my head as he's 00:32:59.930 --> 00:33:02.730 coming out was the Muppet movie, where if you 00:33:02.730 --> 00:33:06.390 remember this movie, there's a scene where the 00:33:06.390 --> 00:33:08.670 main Muppet, Walter, not to be confused with 00:33:08.670 --> 00:33:12.369 Gunther, but Walter the Muppet, and they're trying 00:33:12.369 --> 00:33:15.849 to save the Muppet Theater. He finally gets his 00:33:15.849 --> 00:33:21.049 big shot to perform and he whistles as his performance. 00:33:21.230 --> 00:33:23.329 And that's all I could think about as Hangman 00:33:23.329 --> 00:33:26.329 is being whistled to the ring. But anyway. I 00:33:26.329 --> 00:33:29.910 digress. So within two minutes of the match starting, 00:33:30.049 --> 00:33:34.390 we visibly see Hangman take a fork to Moxley's 00:33:34.390 --> 00:33:38.630 head. And it's like you're watching one man practically 00:33:38.630 --> 00:33:41.769 stab another man in the head because the cuts 00:33:41.769 --> 00:33:43.990 are opening up and the blood is flowing. And 00:33:43.990 --> 00:33:47.690 it's like I said earlier at the beginning, it's 00:33:47.690 --> 00:33:50.250 a buffet, right? And there's something for everybody. 00:33:50.509 --> 00:33:53.329 The beginning of this match was maybe not for 00:33:53.329 --> 00:33:57.380 me. I get it. There's different stuff for everybody. 00:33:57.539 --> 00:34:01.420 But yeah, they beat the absolute hell out of 00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:03.440 each other. There were forks. There were broken 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.960 glasses. There were chair spots all over the 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.480 place. There was barbed wire and tables, violence 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:13.679 galore. And it was pretty good. And then at the 00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:17.070 end, we get... even more schmoz fest with all 00:34:17.070 --> 00:34:20.389 these people we had the return of brian danielson 00:34:20.389 --> 00:34:23.630 we had the return of the mountain man darby allen 00:34:23.630 --> 00:34:28.230 who had probably one of the most slow descents 00:34:28.230 --> 00:34:31.119 into the stadium It was so weird. They do this 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.679 voiceover of him showing him on the mountains 00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:37.099 when he was doing his mountain climbing nonsense. 00:34:37.260 --> 00:34:40.000 And then all of a sudden you see the camera and 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.679 he's suspended from the top of the arena and 00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:46.360 he's slowly rappelling down into the ring. And 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.780 I got to tell you, he didn't really look that 00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:52.139 great. So I don't know whether. Darby has not 00:34:52.139 --> 00:34:54.900 been hitting the gym or what the case may be, 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:57.239 but hopefully, maybe it was the camera angles. 00:34:57.360 --> 00:34:59.960 I don't know. It just seemed weird to me, but 00:34:59.960 --> 00:35:02.860 needless to say, a lot of craziness happening. 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.119 It was pretty wild. And then Hangman literally 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:09.699 hangs Moxley with this big chain that's thrown 00:35:09.699 --> 00:35:12.159 to him by Swerve Strickland and all is right 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:14.539 in the world. Mox taps out and then you have 00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:17.239 a new champion. He opens the briefcase and the 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:19.750 heavens open. The angels are singing. Paige finally 00:35:19.750 --> 00:35:21.730 gets his belt. All is right in the world. End 00:35:21.730 --> 00:35:24.789 of show. So all in all, I thought it was a pretty 00:35:24.789 --> 00:35:28.530 good pay -per -view. However, way too long. Way, 00:35:28.530 --> 00:35:32.449 way too long. I mean, we're going on nearly six 00:35:32.449 --> 00:35:35.210 hours of the main show. Like I said, had the 00:35:35.210 --> 00:35:39.269 pay -per -view started at five and had gone four 00:35:39.269 --> 00:35:42.150 hours, if it had started with the Swerve, Osprey, 00:35:42.170 --> 00:35:44.329 Young Bucks match and gone from there, it would 00:35:44.329 --> 00:35:45.909 have been a perfect pay -per -view. The first 00:35:45.909 --> 00:35:48.500 three matches were not good. They were just kind 00:35:48.500 --> 00:35:50.519 of whatever and they took way too damn long. 00:35:50.659 --> 00:35:52.960 And so I think it just drug the whole thing down. 00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:56.079 And like I said, I had to pause it and kind of 00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:58.559 come back during the day because there was just 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.659 too much going on. But anyway, by the time it 00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:04.619 was over, it allowed me to roll right into Saturday 00:36:04.619 --> 00:36:07.940 Night's Main Event, which I'm not too sure I 00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:10.579 was glad to watch because that was kind of a 00:36:10.579 --> 00:36:13.820 crap show. Again, something for everybody. Saturday 00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:17.150 Night's Main Event was not for me. At all. The 00:36:17.150 --> 00:36:19.230 whole Jelly Roll, Randy Orton thing. What are 00:36:19.230 --> 00:36:21.530 we doing? Now we've set up a SummerSlam match 00:36:21.530 --> 00:36:24.269 where Jelly Roll is Randy Orton's tag team partner. 00:36:24.969 --> 00:36:26.909 Are you kidding me? Randy, you're better off 00:36:26.909 --> 00:36:29.190 going to the ring by yourself. Because what are 00:36:29.190 --> 00:36:31.590 we doing with Jelly Roll? Jelly Roll is freaking 00:36:31.590 --> 00:36:33.150 everywhere. I can't stand when they do this. 00:36:33.230 --> 00:36:35.769 I know why they do this. And it's not lost on 00:36:35.769 --> 00:36:38.489 me that this is how WWF, way back in the day, 00:36:38.550 --> 00:36:42.110 got a lot of traction by crossing genres and 00:36:42.110 --> 00:36:45.429 bringing huge superstars from entertainment and 00:36:45.429 --> 00:36:48.360 music. into the mix. I get it. Look, I'm not 00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.280 naive enough to know why they're doing this. 00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.059 It wasn't for me. Jelly Roll is not one of my 00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:55.019 favorites. I don't need to see him on my television 00:36:55.019 --> 00:36:57.500 every week. The best part of this was him getting 00:36:57.500 --> 00:37:00.440 claymored by Drew McIntyre. That part was awesome. 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:03.360 So I'm hoping that at SummerSlam, Randy Orton 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:07.420 turns bad and we see him RKO Jelly Roll. That 00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:10.159 would be fantastic. Can't wait to see that. They're 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:13.800 already calling this RK Roll, which is... terrible 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.699 i hope he rk rolls his head off and it goes down 00:37:17.699 --> 00:37:20.500 metlife stadium steps i i don't know something 00:37:20.500 --> 00:37:23.360 crazy but i don't want to see jelly roll but 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.980 it is what it is they had solo sukoa versus jimmy 00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:28.440 uso that match was fine but of course you had 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.139 all the bloodline there and xbox diesel aka tala 00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:37.159 tonga and what it's just ridiculous anyway jacob 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:39.840 fatu comes down and there's a big square off 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:43.039 and everyone's fighting everybody and Yeah, I 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:44.940 mean, we're going to draw the battle lines here 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:47.579 soon. So we're going to have one team, old school, 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:50.239 new school of the bloodlines. Here we go again. 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:52.860 It's exactly what I thought it was. And then 00:37:52.860 --> 00:37:56.760 LA Knight versus Seth Rollins, and this sucks 00:37:56.760 --> 00:38:00.539 because it appears Rollins is legit hurt. There's 00:38:00.539 --> 00:38:03.039 a spot where he does some springboards off the 00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:05.780 second rope, and he tweaks his knee, and all 00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:08.159 reports are that he's going to be out for quite 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:11.260 some time. I'm not sure what the finish of that 00:38:11.260 --> 00:38:14.000 match was supposed to be, but Knight ends up 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.139 hitting him with his finisher, and yeah, that's 00:38:17.139 --> 00:38:20.280 it. And it was weird. It was short, but it looks 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:22.840 like it was a legit injury, and we shall see 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.119 where they go from here, especially with Seth 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:28.400 having the briefcase, the Money in the Bank briefcase. 00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:30.880 I really hope he's able to come back in time 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:34.320 to cash in, but we shall see. And then finally, 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.920 finally we have... the Goldberg of it all. Now 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.460 they had been showing promo package after promo 00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:43.679 package, video after video throughout this whole 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:46.099 show. And it was just too much. And then the 00:38:46.099 --> 00:38:49.000 match starts. Obviously they do the long Goldberg 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.860 intro, his entrance. He's brought all sorts of 00:38:52.860 --> 00:38:56.119 people back from his career. They're in his entourage 00:38:56.119 --> 00:39:00.280 and his son now is grown. Obviously, if you've 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:03.539 listened to the Goldberg podcast, you know all 00:39:03.539 --> 00:39:05.860 about his son Gage because I've talked about 00:39:05.860 --> 00:39:08.360 him at length. And we know the history there, 00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:13.260 but whatever. This was not for me at all. They 00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:16.139 did you no favors because just when the match 00:39:16.139 --> 00:39:19.420 was... trying to get good and there's the spot 00:39:19.420 --> 00:39:22.340 outside where Goldberg misses Gunther with the 00:39:22.340 --> 00:39:25.119 spear and he goes through the barricade it cuts 00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:27.500 to like a five freaking minute commercial and 00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:29.300 the next thing you know you're back in the ring 00:39:29.300 --> 00:39:32.940 and they're in the ring and Gunther's got him 00:39:32.940 --> 00:39:35.059 in some hole I'm like what what just happened 00:39:35.059 --> 00:39:37.820 I thought I missed something in the in the broadcast 00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:40.880 I thought because I had pause and come back to 00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:42.739 it. I thought I missed a big portion, but no, 00:39:42.820 --> 00:39:45.260 it was just a five minute commercial break in 00:39:45.260 --> 00:39:47.239 the middle of your main event where you have 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:49.219 no idea how they transitioned from outside of 00:39:49.219 --> 00:39:51.360 the ring to back in the ring, but it was freaking 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.139 stupid and made absolutely no sense. But anyway, 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:58.000 the match ends and this is where you start to 00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.920 wonder, was this really supposed to be the ending 00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:02.019 with the whole Seth Rollins injury thing? But 00:40:02.019 --> 00:40:04.420 Goldberg, he gets choked out in the middle of 00:40:04.420 --> 00:40:06.340 the ring and that's it. People are saying, oh, 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.860 this was his greatest match in some time. Well, 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:11.400 okay. Fantastic. Congratulations. And here's 00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:13.699 the funny thing. Then after the match, he's in 00:40:13.699 --> 00:40:16.460 the ring and Michael Cole does the, oh, tell 00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:18.619 us about what you're feeling, blah, blah, blah, 00:40:18.659 --> 00:40:20.219 blah. And they hand Goldberg the microphone. 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.519 He literally talks for 25 seconds and the camera 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:28.010 feed goes. And so the show's over and he's. You 00:40:28.010 --> 00:40:30.090 see the footage, the fan footage from videos 00:40:30.090 --> 00:40:32.110 that people have taken. And he's talking for 00:40:32.110 --> 00:40:34.929 like six minutes. You spend your whole show talking 00:40:34.929 --> 00:40:37.449 about how this is Goldberg's last match. He has 00:40:37.449 --> 00:40:39.849 his match. He loses. He's trying to give his 00:40:39.849 --> 00:40:42.570 retirement speech. And you cut the footage. You 00:40:42.570 --> 00:40:45.829 cut the feed. I'm like, what are you doing? Come 00:40:45.829 --> 00:40:48.449 on, get it together. Oh man, that was crazy. 00:40:48.869 --> 00:40:50.889 Saturday night's main event, it sucked. That 00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:53.409 one, definitely not for me. Which brings us to 00:40:53.409 --> 00:40:57.070 Sunday. Women's evolution. Ladies, you crushed 00:40:57.070 --> 00:40:59.849 it. You crushed it. This pay -per -view from 00:40:59.849 --> 00:41:04.190 top to bottom was awesome. Far exceeded. my expectations, 00:41:04.269 --> 00:41:06.530 I'll be the first to tell you that this was the 00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:08.269 best show of the weekend. From top to bottom, 00:41:08.349 --> 00:41:10.550 this was by far the best show of the weekend. 00:41:10.610 --> 00:41:13.349 It started out with an absolute banger, triple 00:41:13.349 --> 00:41:16.190 threat, IC title match, Bayley versus Lyra, Valkyria 00:41:16.190 --> 00:41:18.929 versus Becky Lynch, the man. These three absolutely 00:41:18.929 --> 00:41:22.269 set the stage for a freaking fantastic night 00:41:22.269 --> 00:41:24.750 of wrestling. They basically came out, they said, 00:41:24.889 --> 00:41:26.969 yeah, we know there's a ton of wrestling over 00:41:26.969 --> 00:41:29.050 the weekend, but we're gonna start the show, 00:41:29.250 --> 00:41:31.489 we're gonna start it on fire, and they basically 00:41:31.489 --> 00:41:34.389 said, top this. It was so much fun. All three 00:41:34.389 --> 00:41:36.150 of them are great. Lyra keeps getting better 00:41:36.150 --> 00:41:37.909 and better every time she's in the ring. The 00:41:37.909 --> 00:41:39.969 ending to this match was awesome. If you haven't 00:41:39.969 --> 00:41:42.429 seen it, Bayley hits the rose plant on Lyra. 00:41:42.530 --> 00:41:44.829 She goes for the pin. And then Becky does this 00:41:44.829 --> 00:41:46.349 thing I've never seen before. It's like this 00:41:46.349 --> 00:41:49.789 matrix spin where she's rolling over, grabbing 00:41:49.789 --> 00:41:53.730 Bayley, flipping her onto her shoulders for the 00:41:53.730 --> 00:41:55.929 pin. And it's one, two, three. It's just awesome 00:41:55.929 --> 00:41:58.789 stuff. Awesome, awesome match. And again, just 00:41:58.789 --> 00:42:02.000 like the Toni Storm. Mercedes match. I'm watching 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:05.039 this match wishing that I could see Becky Lynch 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:07.780 versus Toni Storm because I think that match 00:42:07.780 --> 00:42:10.820 would be fire. Second match, JC Jane versus Jordan 00:42:10.820 --> 00:42:14.480 Grace. Before the match, you have Blake Monroe 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.780 agreeing to be in her corner. I don't know a 00:42:16.780 --> 00:42:19.760 ton about the NXT, the roster, but the whole 00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:21.780 purpose of this match seemed to be a mechanism 00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:25.860 for Blake Monroe to turn. to turn heel, to do 00:42:25.860 --> 00:42:28.599 a real quick turn. I know she was Mariah May 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.400 over at AEW. She recently came over. She went 00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:33.780 to the Performance Center, NXT, blah, blah, blah, 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.559 blah. And now she's thrust into this storyline 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.579 and she's instantly a heel, which I think is 00:42:39.579 --> 00:42:41.579 a good thing for her. This match was fine. It 00:42:41.579 --> 00:42:45.039 was pretty good. I think Jordan Grace is... Pretty 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:48.280 good. I'm not sold on JC Jane as your champ. 00:42:48.460 --> 00:42:50.840 I think she's all right. But I think what they're 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:54.139 trying to do is make her the weak heel champion. 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:57.019 And who knows what's going to happen. But yeah, 00:42:57.079 --> 00:42:59.340 pretty good. Fatal four -way tag match. This 00:42:59.340 --> 00:43:02.059 was pretty awesome. This was great. Lots of action. 00:43:02.099 --> 00:43:04.820 The first five minutes, obviously, you have Roxanne 00:43:04.820 --> 00:43:07.860 Perez, Raquel Rodriguez against Kabuki Warriors. 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:11.309 Then you have the team of... Zarya and Sol Ruka 00:43:11.309 --> 00:43:15.010 from NXT, and then Charlotte Flair and Alexa 00:43:15.010 --> 00:43:20.530 Bliss in a crazy mix of superstars that they 00:43:20.530 --> 00:43:22.889 put together. First five minutes, it comes out 00:43:22.889 --> 00:43:25.570 pretty good. And then Flair gets the hot tag 00:43:25.570 --> 00:43:28.130 and the place goes nuts. The place goes nuts. 00:43:28.250 --> 00:43:30.429 And I think this is what everyone was clamoring 00:43:30.429 --> 00:43:32.630 for. We don't want to see Flair automatically 00:43:32.630 --> 00:43:35.909 be handed the women's title. We don't want to 00:43:35.909 --> 00:43:38.050 see her in championship match after championship 00:43:38.050 --> 00:43:40.789 match. We want to see her do something different. 00:43:40.929 --> 00:43:42.949 And this is the perfect pairing. Put her with 00:43:42.949 --> 00:43:45.650 Alexa Bliss, who everyone loves, who's great. 00:43:45.809 --> 00:43:48.469 And I think these two can be a lot of fun. It 00:43:48.469 --> 00:43:51.250 can be great. And so this match was fast -paced. 00:43:51.349 --> 00:43:54.510 Lots of good stuff going on. one point flair 00:43:54.510 --> 00:43:57.710 saves bliss from a spear zarya ends up spearing 00:43:57.710 --> 00:44:00.969 sol ruka now if you don't know sol ruka now i 00:44:00.969 --> 00:44:04.210 don't know everybody but if you can pull up youtube 00:44:04.210 --> 00:44:07.769 videos of this the soul snatcher this is one 00:44:07.769 --> 00:44:10.130 of the craziest moves craziest finishers you 00:44:10.130 --> 00:44:12.949 will see she does this finisher on charlotte 00:44:12.949 --> 00:44:15.190 flair in this match and it's just awesome it's 00:44:15.190 --> 00:44:17.809 awesome it's a crazy crazy finisher i don't know 00:44:17.809 --> 00:44:19.570 how she doesn't land on her head half the time 00:44:19.570 --> 00:44:22.650 but it's it's pretty Pretty great. And then finally, 00:44:22.750 --> 00:44:25.190 what have I been saying about Raquel Rodriguez? 00:44:25.630 --> 00:44:28.650 You got to make her look good. She never wins. 00:44:28.769 --> 00:44:30.969 Well, thank God they listened because I'm sure 00:44:30.969 --> 00:44:33.289 they follow the 3Ts podcast. She got in a ton 00:44:33.289 --> 00:44:35.519 of power moves during this. During this match 00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:38.800 she seemed like a dominant heel. And they actually 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.159 won the match. So the ending was a little weird. 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:44.019 It seemed to come real quick. I'm not sure what 00:44:44.019 --> 00:44:46.219 that was about. But I think the right team won. 00:44:46.380 --> 00:44:49.059 I think her and Roxy are going to have some good 00:44:49.059 --> 00:44:51.059 stuff. And then obviously you bring Liv Morgan 00:44:51.059 --> 00:44:53.639 back into the mix. And it's good stuff. And from 00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:56.139 there you have my absolute surprise of the night. 00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:59.340 Tiffany Stratton versus Trish Stratus. This was 00:44:59.340 --> 00:45:02.900 a wow. I was shocked at how good this match was. 00:45:03.630 --> 00:45:06.889 trish stratus she far exceeded my expectations 00:45:06.889 --> 00:45:11.130 she obviously hasn't been a full -time participant 00:45:11.130 --> 00:45:12.869 in quite some time. So if you want to compare 00:45:12.869 --> 00:45:16.489 her to the Goldberg comeback, she crushed it. 00:45:16.530 --> 00:45:19.610 She crushed it. This match was fast -paced, great 00:45:19.610 --> 00:45:23.190 action, great moves, good stuff, lots, lots going 00:45:23.190 --> 00:45:25.349 on. And it seemed to me like Trish is working 00:45:25.349 --> 00:45:27.849 better now than she was 20 years ago. This was 00:45:27.849 --> 00:45:29.989 an awesome match. Awesome match. And then you 00:45:29.989 --> 00:45:32.630 see little clips and little pieces of Tiffany 00:45:32.630 --> 00:45:36.000 Stratton. being a heel and i think this is all 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.099 gonna lead to her being uh a bad guy because 00:45:39.099 --> 00:45:41.519 i think i think that's better for her character 00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:43.739 people are cheering for her now but i think she's 00:45:43.739 --> 00:45:46.840 gonna be a much better heel but yeah trish great 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.760 freaking match surprise of the night it was awesome 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:53.760 Then we had Naomi versus Jade with Bianca Belair 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:57.360 as the special guest referee. This was a no holds 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.079 barred match. This was a match on the card I 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.440 was actually most excited for. Honestly, it was 00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:05.639 just, it was all right. Pissed me off though. 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:08.739 They had to do the Slim Jim table shot, the table 00:46:08.739 --> 00:46:11.599 spot. And I'm like, here we go again with the 00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:14.139 freaking Slim Jim table. What are we doing? Also, 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:18.300 also side note, listen, I don't know how everyone 00:46:18.300 --> 00:46:21.349 else feels about this, Maybelline is the main 00:46:21.349 --> 00:46:24.829 sponsor of Women's Evolution. How do we feel 00:46:24.829 --> 00:46:27.849 about that? I mean, look, I get it, but is this 00:46:27.849 --> 00:46:30.329 a little too much right on the nose? I mean, 00:46:30.369 --> 00:46:32.889 is there a chance that Maybelline's going to 00:46:32.889 --> 00:46:36.989 sponsor Raw or SmackDown or Clash in Paris or 00:46:36.989 --> 00:46:40.809 SummerSlam or Survivor Series? Or is it strictly 00:46:40.809 --> 00:46:44.829 because this is your all -female show that Maybelline 00:46:44.829 --> 00:46:46.869 now is jumping in and they're in the middle of 00:46:46.869 --> 00:46:49.650 the mat? You all know how I feel about the sponsorship 00:46:49.650 --> 00:46:53.730 nonsense. It is infuriating. And the fact that 00:46:53.730 --> 00:46:56.369 I can watch AEW and not see any of that crap 00:46:56.369 --> 00:46:58.869 in the ring and now I'm watching... They did 00:46:58.869 --> 00:47:00.929 it with Saturday Night's Main Event with the 00:47:00.929 --> 00:47:04.230 new Naked Gun movie is prominently displayed 00:47:04.230 --> 00:47:07.530 all over the ring. And then Sunday night we see... 00:47:08.219 --> 00:47:11.300 Evolution sponsored by Maybelline. And we have... 00:47:11.550 --> 00:47:13.869 Riyadh season on the mat. And I'm like, what 00:47:13.869 --> 00:47:16.750 the hell are we doing? But I don't know how you 00:47:16.750 --> 00:47:18.809 all feel about that. I just felt like, really? 00:47:19.110 --> 00:47:20.969 We're going to have Maybelline be the sponsor? 00:47:21.210 --> 00:47:23.269 I don't know. Maybe I need a female perspective 00:47:23.269 --> 00:47:24.969 on that. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel, 00:47:25.030 --> 00:47:27.130 but I thought it was freaking stupid. Anyway, 00:47:27.309 --> 00:47:29.349 this match was okay. And the finish was kind 00:47:29.349 --> 00:47:32.210 of telegraphed for about five minutes. She hit 00:47:32.210 --> 00:47:34.730 the jaded off the top rope through the table. 00:47:34.969 --> 00:47:37.269 The one spot I did like, at some point, Jade 00:47:37.269 --> 00:47:41.010 grabs the cameraman's camera. and uses it to 00:47:41.010 --> 00:47:43.030 hit Naomi and then kind of chucks it over the 00:47:43.030 --> 00:47:45.269 top of the ring, over the ropes. I thought that 00:47:45.269 --> 00:47:47.829 was a cool spot. But yeah, I was a little underwhelmed. 00:47:47.849 --> 00:47:50.269 I thought that this was going to be better. And 00:47:50.269 --> 00:47:52.869 again, goes back to the point I made a little 00:47:52.869 --> 00:47:55.730 while ago where it's like, I don't know. I don't 00:47:55.730 --> 00:47:57.690 know what's going on with Jade. I don't know. 00:47:57.750 --> 00:48:00.409 I'm hoping they could figure it out because I 00:48:00.409 --> 00:48:03.309 want her to be good. Then we have the 20 women 00:48:03.309 --> 00:48:05.530 battle royal. The winner gets a title shot at 00:48:05.530 --> 00:48:08.949 Clash in Paris. Again, it's like the... gauntlet 00:48:08.949 --> 00:48:11.610 match with the men at all in, you know, because 00:48:11.610 --> 00:48:13.789 of the stipulation, there's literally only three 00:48:13.789 --> 00:48:17.150 to four wrestlers who could win this. So, and 00:48:17.150 --> 00:48:19.289 the problem with the battle Royal match is there's 00:48:19.289 --> 00:48:21.829 20 people in the ring and it takes two thirds 00:48:21.829 --> 00:48:24.650 of the match to get most of these scrubs out 00:48:24.650 --> 00:48:27.110 of there. So the last five minutes were really 00:48:27.110 --> 00:48:30.030 good. You're left with Chelsea Green, Nia Jax, 00:48:30.030 --> 00:48:32.309 Lash Legend, who shout out to her. She looked 00:48:32.309 --> 00:48:36.150 great in this match. You had Nikki Bella and 00:48:36.150 --> 00:48:39.369 Stephanie Vakir. So pretty good, pretty good 00:48:39.369 --> 00:48:42.190 final five. And then it comes down to Lash versus 00:48:42.190 --> 00:48:45.349 Stephanie Vakir. And she manages to hit the devil's 00:48:45.349 --> 00:48:47.769 kiss on the ring apron. It was pretty, pretty 00:48:47.769 --> 00:48:51.730 crazy. The crowd's going nuts. look stephanie 00:48:51.730 --> 00:48:54.949 is a freaking star in the making they are putting 00:48:54.949 --> 00:48:57.030 a rocket ship on her and shooting her straight 00:48:57.030 --> 00:49:00.849 to the moon she is great she's great so she does 00:49:00.849 --> 00:49:03.730 the devil's kiss lash falls to the ground and 00:49:03.730 --> 00:49:06.329 vakir is your winner she's gonna go on to clash 00:49:06.329 --> 00:49:08.969 at paris clash in paris whatever the hell it's 00:49:08.969 --> 00:49:11.690 called and we shall see who she challenges but 00:49:11.690 --> 00:49:14.030 pretty good uh ending to the match the first 00:49:14.670 --> 00:49:17.170 Like I said, two -thirds of it, it's fine. It's 00:49:17.170 --> 00:49:19.449 whatever. There is one spot where Natalya does 00:49:19.449 --> 00:49:21.630 the worm, and I hope we never have to see that 00:49:21.630 --> 00:49:24.309 again. That was terrible, but hopefully that's 00:49:24.309 --> 00:49:26.389 a one -off because I don't need to see that again. 00:49:26.530 --> 00:49:28.730 And then finally, your main event, Io Sky versus 00:49:28.730 --> 00:49:30.869 Rhea Ripley for the Women's World Championship. 00:49:31.389 --> 00:49:33.889 I don't know. Two words. This is just awesome. 00:49:34.110 --> 00:49:36.650 Just awesome. These two could fight literally 00:49:36.650 --> 00:49:39.449 every night. They are fan -freaking -tastic. 00:49:39.530 --> 00:49:42.349 I think these two, their styles, the way they 00:49:42.349 --> 00:49:44.289 wrestle each other, they bring out the absolute 00:49:44.289 --> 00:49:46.030 best in each other, and they complement each 00:49:46.030 --> 00:49:48.789 other so well, which is crazy because Rhea is 00:49:48.789 --> 00:49:52.449 a foot taller, if not more, and their styles 00:49:52.449 --> 00:49:55.610 are just so vastly different, but they duke it 00:49:55.610 --> 00:49:58.690 out for 25 minutes or so, and it's awesome, great. 00:49:59.210 --> 00:50:02.130 wrestling so many great spots i cannot recommend 00:50:02.130 --> 00:50:05.690 this match enough it was fantastic and so at 00:50:05.690 --> 00:50:08.510 some point the ref goes down they decide to take 00:50:08.510 --> 00:50:10.670 the match outside the ring they're wrestling 00:50:10.670 --> 00:50:12.809 all around the arena there's a spot where eo 00:50:12.809 --> 00:50:14.949 jumps off some sound or some stage equipment 00:50:14.949 --> 00:50:18.809 and Does like a splash on Rhea. It's a really 00:50:18.809 --> 00:50:20.929 cool spot. They work back into the ring. They're 00:50:20.929 --> 00:50:23.730 fighting in the corner. Io hits a moonsault. 00:50:23.789 --> 00:50:26.409 You think the match is over. Rhea kicks out. 00:50:26.489 --> 00:50:29.030 They're both down. And then you hear Naomi's 00:50:29.030 --> 00:50:32.309 music. She comes down with a busted nose, it 00:50:32.309 --> 00:50:34.789 looks like. She's carrying the caution taped 00:50:34.789 --> 00:50:38.110 wrapped briefcase. And she cashes in right then 00:50:38.110 --> 00:50:41.550 and there. She smashes Io with the briefcase. 00:50:41.710 --> 00:50:44.150 Then she throws Rhea out of the ring. She hits 00:50:44.150 --> 00:50:47.170 the split -legged moonsault on Io. and one, two, 00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:50.730 three, you have a new women's world champion, 00:50:50.949 --> 00:50:54.469 Naomi. It was awesome. I was watching this with 00:50:54.469 --> 00:50:56.989 such a smile on my face because a lot of people 00:50:56.989 --> 00:50:58.809 were complaining that the match shouldn't have 00:50:58.809 --> 00:51:01.769 ended like this, but it was perfect. It was perfect. 00:51:01.829 --> 00:51:05.250 I was so happy to see her win. The match was 00:51:05.250 --> 00:51:07.630 awesome, and this was great because everyone's 00:51:07.630 --> 00:51:09.889 thinking that Naomi's going to cash in on Tiffany 00:51:09.889 --> 00:51:12.750 Stratton at SummerSlam or whatever the case may 00:51:12.750 --> 00:51:17.250 be, cash in against Jade after she fights Stratton, 00:51:17.309 --> 00:51:19.909 something like that. This was perfect. It gets 00:51:19.909 --> 00:51:23.389 them separated, and Naomi now is on Monday Night 00:51:23.389 --> 00:51:27.210 Raw, and she has a whole new group of women that 00:51:27.210 --> 00:51:28.949 she can go up against. I think it's brilliant. 00:51:29.090 --> 00:51:31.619 It's brilliant. That match was awesome. And it 00:51:31.619 --> 00:51:34.260 was such a great ending to an awesome, awesome 00:51:34.260 --> 00:51:36.960 show. So my top five matches of the weekend. 00:51:37.139 --> 00:51:39.460 There's a tie at the top. Tie at the top. It's 00:51:39.460 --> 00:51:43.239 between the Io Skyria match and Tony Storm versus 00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:45.800 Mercedes. The women kicked so much ass. It was 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:48.579 awesome. They destroyed it. So my hat's off to 00:51:48.579 --> 00:51:51.139 all the ladies. Y 'all crushed it. Coming in 00:51:51.139 --> 00:51:53.460 at third, the Young Bucks versus Swerve and Ospreay. 00:51:53.500 --> 00:51:55.960 That match was great. And then right after that, 00:51:56.039 --> 00:51:58.139 it's the triple threat match to kick off Evolution. 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.500 Your Lyra versus the man versus Bayley. Awesome, 00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:04.000 awesome match. And then my fifth match of the 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.380 weekend. Like I said, this match wasn't for everybody, 00:52:06.539 --> 00:52:08.900 but because there was so much at stake, because 00:52:08.900 --> 00:52:12.619 there was a... schmaz of kind of chaos and craziness 00:52:12.619 --> 00:52:14.320 and it was something you don't see every day, 00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:17.019 I'm going to go with Paige versus Mox with Hangman 00:52:17.019 --> 00:52:21.320 being your new AEW champion. Great weekend of 00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:23.119 wrestling. I know this podcast has gone long, 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:25.300 but I felt like I needed to talk about it all. 00:52:25.380 --> 00:52:28.280 And here we are. I'm recording this on Monday 00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.619 and we're going to get ready to roll right into 00:52:31.619 --> 00:52:34.079 Monday Night Rollins without Rollins and see 00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:37.670 where we go from here. So yeah. This train doesn't 00:52:37.670 --> 00:52:39.750 stop. It was a great, great weekend of wrestling. 00:52:39.889 --> 00:52:41.510 Like I said, there was something for everybody. 00:52:41.670 --> 00:52:44.670 And hopefully you all found something that you 00:52:44.670 --> 00:52:46.789 liked and enjoyed. But that's going to wrap up 00:52:46.789 --> 00:52:50.150 this episode of the 3Ts podcast. If you have 00:52:50.150 --> 00:52:53.030 enjoyed this episode or any episode of this podcast, 00:52:53.230 --> 00:52:54.769 please do me a favor. Share it with someone you 00:52:54.769 --> 00:52:57.030 know, whether they are a Bills Mafia member, 00:52:57.150 --> 00:52:59.610 a card collector, or someone who just loves the 00:52:59.610 --> 00:53:01.670 freaking squared circle and is a huge wrestling 00:53:01.670 --> 00:53:03.250 market. Doesn't matter. I'm trying to grow this 00:53:03.250 --> 00:53:05.389 one episode at a time. 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