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AAA Rey de Reyes Predictions, WWE Theories & Konnan’s Wrestling Legacy · My Third Place Pod

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  Top five wrestlers. Of all time.
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  Top five or top? 5.
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  Never get tired of watching. Roman.
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  Oh my. Ria.
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  Ria. I'd say my newest one is Javon
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  Evans. Williams.
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  Williams. Yeah.
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  And let's see. And, you know, it's kind of a
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  tie between, like, LA Knight and Randy Orton.
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  OK, My top six. That's good.
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  I'm gonna go with CM Punk, obviously, Ria.
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  OK. John Cena OK, that's three so
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  ruka lately. OK, I gotta watch her more
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  because what I've seen, you know, I'm impressed by her.
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  So yeah, can't wait. For her to like show up on the
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  main roster. Oh yeah.
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  Who else? Trick Williams.
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  OK. Yeah, like we should have done
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  male and female. It would have been fine, but
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  still. But yeah, those are those.
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  My favorite. All right, we're good.
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  You ready to start? That.
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  Yeah. Yeah, and.
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  What you think of Monday row? I haven't finished it.
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  But you didn't hear that you did did watch the.
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  So I I got through like the first hour because I kept having
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  to pause it and then we were trying to watch it last night
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  and it just kept messing up. So I'm like, so I have to.
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  You're not allowed to watch with.
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  Them No, it's not well, I have it on my phone OK, so if I miss
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  something when we watch when I watch it with my sisters, then I
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  can you'll see what I missed. But it's like, I, I got tired of
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  waiting, you know? But I, you know, I heard what
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  happened with CM Punk and the Usos because you played it.
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  Yeah, but I'm like, I don't know.
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  And then another tick tocker I follow.
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  She played a little bit of it and I'm like always.
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  Because of course she's like, oh, you know, he went in on the
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  Usos and I'm like, whatever, wow.
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  She's like, I'm not eating no more.
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  I'm like Philly, wow, forget you.
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  But so now I want to, of course I want to watch it, you know, in
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  completion. But I saw something else about
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  it that the judgment day was beaten up.
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  And so I'm like, oh, he's out So but the what I.
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  Think the whole curse is working?
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  Dan 1000 is so dumb. Gosh, I'm like, you know what?
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  When when he showed up, I was like, really, really.
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  That's what we waited for, you know?
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  I'm like, I don't know. I'm like so.
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  Knew it was going to be some kind of the stuff on there in
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  there. I'm like, is this all he's going
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  to do? You know, because even though I
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  knew who he was, I do not think I've ever seen him wrestle.
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  Come to think of it, that I watched a EW, I never saw him
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  wrestle. No, all I saw him do was
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  backstage stuff. You.
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  Never saw that. Be an idiot.
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  So yeah. And then whoever he teams up
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  with as the housing name on the in the front of it, I'm drinking
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  water. Too.
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  Drinking my water. You drink your water.
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  My goodness, here we go. So when they were trying to hook
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  set him up with mids on Fridays, like it would have been mids
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  housing. His housing, yeah, I mean.
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  Please don't do that. Please don't do that here too.
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  I'm like, you know, well, I mean, that's what Miss does, so,
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  you know, but I don't think Miss wants to, you know, be his
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  partner. So there can only be one locker
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  room leader and that puts their name on everything.
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  Before the show started, what's her face?
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  AJ put out a tweet. Yeah.
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  And I'm so bummed that it was here and I couldn't go because
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  the tickets were too expensive. Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, AJ puts out a tweet because of the girls that we're
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  fighting, and she's like, yeah, do old Simpsons meme.
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  I'm in danger. Mm hmm.
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  And, you know, I, I wonder why they're not doing like the
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  number one contender for WrestleMania, You know what I
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  mean? I mean, I know she said she
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  doesn't want to wait till WrestleMania, but that could be
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  another, you know, another fight on the card.
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  You know, that way the women's IC title is, you know, being
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  defended there, you know, and I think they probably if they were
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  going to do that, they should have did like a bracket, I
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  think, you know, a tournament. But to do it, you know, she I
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  mean, hey, if she wants to defend it next week, you know,
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  good for her. You know, that's that's a you
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  know, she wants to be a fighting champion, then yeah, go ahead
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  and let her defend it on there. But I think the number one
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  contender should have had, you know, their WrestleMania moment.
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  So I would I think that it should have been a #1 contenders
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  for WrestleMania and then that way.
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  But she did say she wanted to be a fighting champion and she
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  wanted to defend it every chance she could.
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  So I guess it's, you know, for me it's good either way.
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  But hopefully she will have of my a fight at WrestleMania
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  because that would be better because that's when you want to
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  have, you know, all the belts to be there, you know, anyway all.
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  Right, ready to start the show? Yes.
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  All right, there's a certain sound wrestling fans never
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  forget. Not just the ring bell, but the
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  roar of a crowd with a masked legend steps through the
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  curtain. The flash of color from a
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  jeweler's mask under arena lights.
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  The rhythm of a crowd chanting, clapping, stomping, like the
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  whole building is part of that match.
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  If you grew up watching wrestling the 90s or early
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  2000s, you remember the first time you saw lucha libre and
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  realized this was a whole different universe.
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  The speed, the aerial moves, the pageantry of the mask, the sense
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  of that every match was part sport, part folklore.
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  Welcome back to my third place. Not home, not work, but that
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  familiar in between where nostalgia, storytelling, and
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  fandom all sit down together like old friends catching up.
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  This is Episode 282, and stepping back in the ring with
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  me tonight is Menace, pulling up a chair ringside as we dive head
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  first into one of lucha libre's most celebrated traditions.
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  Because this weekend, all eyes turn to Rey de Reyes, the King
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  of Kings Tournament, one of the Kerner's torn events of Lucha
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  Libre AAA worldwide. The 2026 edition takes place
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  March 14th at the Auditorio GNP Seguidos in Puebla, marking the
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  29th Rey de Reyes tournament since that event began in 1997.
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  And this year carries even more history with it.
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  For the first time ever heard, the event is happening under the
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  umbrella of WWE following their decision of AAA, creating a
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  fascinating new chapter in the relationship between American
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  wrestling and the deep traditions of Mexican.
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  And if you've never watched Rey de Reyes before, think of it
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  like the lucha libre version of a royal battle for prestige,
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  where high Flyers, technical masters and mass warriors all
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  fight through a tournament to earn the crown.
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  Tonight, Menace and I are breaking down our predictions
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  for the 2020 sixth Rey de Reyes tournament, looking at the
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  competitors, the potential surprises, and the moments that
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  could define the years road to King of Kings.
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  But before we get to the matches, we also have to talk
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  about a name that carries enormous weight in wrestling
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  history. Conan, a legend who helped
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  bridge cultures between lucha livre and American wrestling,
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  recently underwent surgery that resulted in the amputation of
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  his leg. For long time fans, Conan isn't
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  just a wrestler, he's a pioneer from his time, influencing the
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  growth of lucha libre in the 90s to help him bring in that style
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  to wider audiences through companies around the world.
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  His impact on the industry is undeniable, so tonight we'll
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  also talk about his legacy, his contributions to the culture of
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  wrestling, and the support the wrestling community has been
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  showing him during his difficult chapter.
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  Because wrestling history isn't just about matches, it's about
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  the people who have shaped the ring we have watched today.
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  So what are you grew up watching lucha libre on late night TV,
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  discovering masked Wrestlers Group does study Cruiserweed
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  classics, or you're just now diving to the rich traditions of
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  Mexican wrestling? You're in the right place.
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  Grab a seat ringside, adjust the mask and get ready to call the
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  action with us. This is episode 282 of them
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  Three P podcast and tonight we're heading to the world of
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  the Radar. He is.
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  How was your weekend there? That's OK That's something, you
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  know, personal happen that you know it.
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  I don't want to talk about right now.
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  Yeah, it's not, you know, has No, it doesn't need to be on
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  this episode. Yeah.
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  But Oh no, it's OK. That's.
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  Good. We sorry, we did my night.
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  Roth and Ballard, what happened there?
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  I don't I don't know, but it didn't look good.
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  Did you see? What Did you see that?
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  Part no, I saw somebody had it like on their social media and I
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  was oh, I was on I was scrolling on TikTok and it showed what was
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  happening and I'm like, Oh no, but I don't know what led up to
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  it. So you know it's that way.
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  It's always that way. You.
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  Know what? Happened.
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  I mean, because of what was happening, I know what happened,
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  but I wanted to see what like led up to it, right?
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  But but you could talk about it. Basically, it was like the
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  curse. Yeah.
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  The, the, the Denhauser curse on Dominic, basically because, you
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  know, there's nothing that led up to it.
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  Just like, OK, I'm frustrated because, you know, you're
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  talking all this stuff. He lost his belt and he's
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  blaming it on Finn. So fans are, you know what?
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  You're a spoiled kid. Just like you know you're a
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  spoiled kid. And then he's like, you're not
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  my dad. So he turns around and does the
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  pale kick Finn does. And then you saw what they all
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  did. So I couldn't.
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  Was JD there too? Yeah.
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  So JD was beating him up too, huh?
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  Yeah, he dove that betrayed. He betrayed him.
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  And I'm like. Because all I mean, I couldn't
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  see like everybody that was there because you saw because I
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  scrolled real quick. But I was like, but I think
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  we've kind of been noticing that he's Finn has been like
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  separating himself. So because that happened, the
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  original judgement days done, you know, he was the last one.
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  So. But you know, I still want, like
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  I said, I still want to see what happened.
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  Yeah. You know, so we were trying to
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  watch it yesterday because my sister's like, I got a spoiler,
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  so we need to watch it right now.
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  OK. So, you know, we started
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  watching it and it, it just kept like buffering.
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  And I'm like, of course, because we want to watch it right now,
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  but I've got through the, the first hour at work and I'm like,
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  she doesn't stop calling me. I'm kidding, but pausing it,
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  pausing it. And I'm like, I can't, I can't
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  do this. So I'll probably try to watch it
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  tomorrow or I might watch it tonight.
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  We'll see. But.
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  Who wasn't there was Roxanne Perez.
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  Well, because she's out. She's had surgery.
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  On a mask that she has on her back.
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  Yeah, on her neck, on the back. And that was like shoulder,
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  yeah. Yeah.
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  So like she's been dealing with that.
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  So like, yeah, all right. There's a lot of people that are
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  out because of surgery or because of injury, so it's been
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  rough. Yeah.
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  That's all I saw, and then Soul and Zara.
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  Zarya. Zarya.
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  There you go, have broken up. Sure.
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  Oh here, here we go, Souls. Come to the main roster.
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  I saw that. So should Zarya at least, you
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  know, like or get a chance for Zarya to go alone at it?
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  Yeah. NXT see how that goes because
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  like she when she came in it was all nothing but tagging like all
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  right now let's see what she can do alone.
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  OK. So like, I, I can't wait for
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  that. All right?
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  That's all we got on that, right?
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  Yeah. We're 17.
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  We got this. OK, It's going to.
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  Be real quick about Conan. They said that you know, he's yo
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  got one leg amputated and he might have the second one.
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  Oh. No, so he might be getting both
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  legs amputated. Sounds like shakes.
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  That's horrible. That sucks.
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  So the picture for the episodes that I post on Instagram of the
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  episode for this one, it's going to look like it's going to look
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  good. It has the sword of the radius
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  and it's AAA, the radius and the sword right right along the the
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  the background. So it's going to be fun.
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  All right. The winner of the Radius
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  tournament is given a large ornament sword to symbolize the
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  victory, but it's normally not guaranteed any other rewards for
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  winning the tournament, although some years becoming the radius
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  has earned the winner up for a match for the AAA Mega
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  Championship. From 99 through 2009, AAA also
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  held an annual Reina de Arenas Queen of Queens tournament, but
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  later it turned into an actual championship that could be
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  defended at any point during the year, abandoning the annual
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  tournament concept. Oh, so it's like a one time like
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  a championship belt? That's the Rena Arenas.
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  You mean like Queen of the Ring? Yeah, no, it's not Queen of the
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  Ring. The Queen of Wings tournament is
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  like the championship belt. Just keep it.
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  You keep it OK it anytime in the year.
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  OK. Not like the king of the ring in
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  Saudi where like you get a big ass belt and that's it.
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  Give it to the guy next year. Yeah, what?
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  Yeah, like anyways, so the show is on for four, for three weeks,
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  for three weeks. So we're going to get what's it
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  say about that During Get It Done is on December 20, 2025,
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  AAA announced that 33 is will take place on March 14th, 2020
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  sixth. And for the that goes up for the
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  on the March 7th episode of the AAA announced that Razor is
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  would air as three-week event on the weekly Saturday to tell the
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  Eva triple ATV show from March 14th to March 28th.
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  It's going to be live there, but it's we're going to get it like
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  3 weeks of it. So it's just like any NXT jam
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  premium live event, which is annoying.
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  Yeah, like just air the whole thing or put on, put on the draw
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  on Peacock. But now they're like, no, we're
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  going to give you 3 weeks of it. So it's just me staring at the
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  same crowd for the next three weeks.
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  It is. It was like it's so annoying.
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  So for one, we have our LA Parka was the original a Grande
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  Americano versus a Grande Americano versus Santos Escobar
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  for the four way tournament final to determine #1 contender
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  for AAA Mega Championship. So the original El Grande
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  Americano is a heel here, and the new Americano is a face.
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  OK. So the heel, the one with the
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  black mask, that's Chad Gable. The face is Ludwig Kaiser.
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  He's going to have. A gold mask.
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  OK. And.
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  So he's not wearing his red, white and blue one.
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  No, he is. He is.
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  That's like, so it's going to be darker.
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  OK. So here in on raw OK and
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  Americano Faith ground Americano, Luby Americano.
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  Isn't all black, black and gold? Black and gold.
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  OK. He's a heel, Chad Americano is.
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  It's a face and he's going in the Gold 1.
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  Yeah. So like, you know, the ultimate
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  over there, which is funny because is is Grande the
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  American of the original Grande Americano on this book, the our
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  guy from the Gulf of America. Yeah.
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  Is the face or the heel over there and then whatever?
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  Anyway, All right, so here we go.
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  On January 24th episode of the Kelly V AAA Penta announced the
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  format of the twenty 26th grade of the A tournament.
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  It would consist of fatal four way qualifying matches.
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  The winner of these matches would compete in the fatal four
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  way tournament final for an opportunity to challenge for the
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  AAA Mega championship. Pento present the signatures
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  forward to the winner of the tournament.
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  The tournament began on the January 31st episode where La
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  Parka defeated Jack Cartwheel, Aerostar and Apollo Cruz.
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  Apollo Cruz still around? I didn't even know that.
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  It was like a while back. And on, well, I thought so too,
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  but he's been on. So he was down at NXT and then
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  lately he's been at Smackdown. OK, so and I think he was more
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  on Smackdown when like during the Olympics when you guys
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  couldn't watch it if you didn't have cable.
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  So he did with the MFT him and three, I couldn't remember what
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  else he was with, but he did like a they were in a eight man
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  tag. So it was I think it was LA
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  night, Apollo cruise, who else by the way?
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  So it was solos MFT versus these three guys or four guys.
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  And Apollo Cruz was there. So he's been, yeah, but he's
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  been, you know, backstage is pretty much where he's been,
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  which is unfortunate because he's a good wrestler.
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  So they need to do something with him, you know?
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  But who knows? Love that they alternate and
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  they use these guys. Cheers like Ethan, Paige and
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  Chelsea. Yeah.
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  For the in their gender tagging. Or you know, Omaz.
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  Like I haven't seen Ammaz in a while but he's over there and
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  thrown away. So when what was it world when
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  they had that big like battle royal?
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  Yeah. Omaz was there, so I think
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  they've just been using him in AAA 'cause.
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  He has that He's he's a big part of out there, actually, Yeah.
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  On the following episode, the original Edgar and Dominicano
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  attacked Edgar and Amicano backstage.
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  Let's just do Chadamicano. The following episode,
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  Chadamicano attacked Ludwig and. McConnell.
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  Back story and handcuffed him to take his spot in that nice
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  qualifying match. He went on to defeat Altorgan
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  Junior, Dragon Lee, and Ray Phoenix on the February 20th
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  episode. Pfizer.
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  The original Chad for being a fake, citing the use of AI to
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  appear to be able to speak Spanish.
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  Wow. But you know what?
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  It's so funny. Chad Americano doesn't speak
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  Spanish at all. Well, only knows you know a few
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  words while Ludwig Americano is like blah blah blah blah blah
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  you. Know he has a girlfriend over
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  there. Oh, I know, I'm so.
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  Torn 'cause he's no longer with my Tiffy, but.
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  Then I saw. Tiff Instagram and like, she's
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  doing good for herself. She has a man.
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  Yeah, which breaks my heart 'cause you know, anyway,
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  Finfidela Escarada confronted the original Chad Americano, but
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  Kaiser claimed, leading to Escarada getting assaulted and
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  unable to participate in Nice qualifier.
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  Escarada asked Kaiser to replace him, which accepted.
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  He went out to defeat Ethan Page Omaz and Elika Dr. Wagner Junior
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  to earn the third spot in the Raiders tournament final.
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  On the March 7th episode, Santo Liscovar defeated at beach
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  Montegro Junior, Mr. Iguana and Cycle Clown turned the final
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  spot another eight of the US tournament final.
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  There's also hold on and it says here Pimpinelis Carlotta was
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  originally slated to participate in the tournament in on the
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  Friday 28236 episode of Lucha Libre 3.
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  Early that night, Chad assaulted as Carlotta after he confronted
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  accused Americano of being a fake.
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  He later confirmed not made clear and able to participate in
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  the tournament as requested by Scarlata.
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  Kaiser was his replacement. I don't know why I said this
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  again. I just saw the world and why
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  they had that square. OK, it's all good.
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  So they. Do anything.
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  And I'm like, wait. Oh yeah, Pimpinela Scarlata is a
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  face. OK.
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  Kaiser's a face here. I keep forgetting that Kaiser's
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  face here. Like, all right, cool.
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  So Kaiser's the face Americano in AAA, but when he's fighting
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  in WWE he's a heel? Yeah.
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  OK And then American Original is the opposite.
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  Yeah, when he's in WWE, he's a face and then we although.
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  He got cursed on Monday, right? Yeah.
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  Grande Americano Housing, we're not doing that.
• 26:52
  I say they do a match where the both of them, you know, fight
• 27:00
  and the real and whoever loses gets demasked.
• 27:04
  So we can lose this whole El Grande Americano or original El
• 27:11
  Grande Americano. It's.
• 27:15
  Ridiculous. Kaiser speaks Spanish fluently
• 27:18
  and he says, and they get away with it.
• 27:23
  Yeah. It's a way no mom and Will, just
• 27:27
  like this motherfucker can roll his arm better than me.
• 27:31
  And he's British, like German. He's German, What the hell?
• 27:35
  Yeah, he's sure. What he says Chinga tomatoes.
• 27:42
  No, Netflix. What are you guys doing?
• 27:47
  Oh, my God. All right, so the park.
• 27:50
  I was original versus fake versus Santos Escobar.
• 27:57
  Who? Who?
• 27:58
  I'm going with Chad. No, no, You know what?
• 28:00
  Chad and Kaiser are just gonna. That's a WrestleMania match,
• 28:04
  right? OK.
• 28:05
  Building up, it's going to be built up to it.
• 28:07
  Yeah. If they WrestleMania, what the
• 28:09
  hell are you doing? I want to see Santos.
• 28:15
  Santos feels like he's the first one getting pinned.
• 28:18
  Santos here feels like is the one that's getting the pinned.
• 28:20
  By like, OK. Original and fake.
• 28:25
  Original and fake are just going to like, go out to the outside
• 28:28
  or get beaten up by somebody else.
• 28:31
  So do we know if this is a gauntlet or is it just?
• 28:39
  No, it's just a four way. OK.
• 28:42
  So anything can happen. So the first one who gets the
• 28:45
  pin is the number one contender. Yeah.
• 28:48
  OK. So the parka wins.
• 28:49
  I'm going to say La Parka because I really want to see
• 28:52
  that match with Dom Dom versus La Parka.
• 28:56
  OK. You know.
• 28:58
  I was thinking Southos. I want to see Santos.
• 29:01
  Win Santos. That's what I think.
• 29:03
  I'll win I. Was like, we're just not picking
• 29:07
  the Americanos, no. You know what, Because honestly,
• 29:13
  and I've always thought this, and I think I've also said it
• 29:17
  too, if it's triple AI, think the AAA guys need to win.
• 29:24
  Yeah, you know, because they this is, you know, this is AAA.
• 29:31
  You know, all these other WWE superstars are coming I think
• 29:36
  just to kind of mix it up. But I really, I don't know.
• 29:41
  I just think they should win. And if that's where Santos is
• 29:47
  going to be used, then I say he he wins and or AAA.
• 29:55
  AAA. Yeah.
• 30:01
  For that Week 1, we also have flamer versus to be determined
• 30:06
  and open challenge AAA, the green, the green, the green, the
• 30:09
  championship. I want to say the great arenas
• 30:12
  King of Queens. That's that's a TV show.
• 30:17
  Is this Reyna de Reynas? I know, but I want to say the
• 30:20
  great arenas, like, no, OK, the king, Yeah, Reyna, Darias,
• 30:33
  whatever. It's the same thing.
• 30:35
  Open challenge, AAA in the Queen's Championship.
• 30:38
  Like I said, she can spend any time.
• 30:40
  So yeah, I don't know who Flamer is.
• 30:43
  I got to look her up. I don't think I've seen her.
• 30:47
  Yeah, Flamer, triple-A la Baja wrestling.
• 31:01
  OK Lady Flamer. She's a Mexican Lucidos
• 31:03
  Mascarada. She's assigned with WD and is
• 31:05
  proudly known for her work for the Clash with Jet Libre.
• 31:08
  She's a freelancer working for The Crash for the Crash with Jet
• 31:11
  Libre as well as the Mexican Independent circuit.
• 31:17
  They have her unmasked as well as her.
• 31:20
  No, she doesn't have that mask. She has an official Instagram
• 31:26
  page she updated three days ago. Not bad.
• 31:33
  OK, I've never seen her. I got to I got to watch these
• 31:38
  people wrestle, you know, on YouTube.
• 31:41
  So obviously, like we're going to watch it and.
• 31:44
  Yeah, we're. Going to take note.
• 31:51
  OK. And then Lady Flamer and then
• 31:57
  doesn't say anything about that one.
• 31:59
  It's just all right, who's obviously there's going to be
• 32:03
  AWE person coming out to do the open challenge.
• 32:06
  Who's it going to be? So I'm going to say natty,
• 32:14
  Natty. I just, they've been there, you
• 32:16
  know, they've been using her a lot.
• 32:19
  So I say natty. Natty coming up.
• 32:23
  Yeah. Beating girls up.
• 32:27
  Will she win? Will she take the old AAA in the
• 32:32
  Spain championship like I like it imagine to her with that belt
• 32:39
  in the on raw just. Yeah.
• 32:43
  That is great. Now she can take that
• 32:46
  championship, the Queen of Queens and and go out there and
• 32:51
  be like y'all are there, the women's world champion, You're
• 32:56
  this, you're that. You're the IC women's champion.
• 32:58
  I'm the Queen of Queens. That's right, that.
• 33:01
  'D be great. So yeah, I haven't seen flamer
• 33:06
  lady flamer, so we'll go with with natty if it's natty.
• 33:10
  So I say Natty and I think she'll win.
• 33:14
  Don't too hard. Oh my God, we're going to do
• 33:21
  that one at the very end. Week 2 we have Pagano and Cycle
• 33:25
  Clown versus the War Raiders Eric and Ivar for the AAA World
• 33:29
  Tacking Championship. On the February 14th episode of
• 33:31
  Julie Ver, triple-A War Raiders Eric and Ivar defeated Los
• 33:34
  Americanos Agaio Americano and Bravo Americano.
• 33:40
  Who did we say that was? It's Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate.
• 33:45
  Oh, OK, so just attacking like they've attacked.
• 33:49
  Yeah, I didn't know it. Yeah.
• 33:52
  Like how come Chad doesn't have his the brothers?
• 33:58
  I don't know. Brutus and the other guy, I was
• 34:01
  like, I forgot. The yeah I wanted.
• 34:03
  To have. Brutus.
• 34:05
  I don't remember the other one. Brutus, Brutus I under, I get
• 34:11
  it, because he's fucking huge. I was like, that'd be great to
• 34:14
  have them just walk out with those masks and like, no,
• 34:17
  where's the original? Yeah.
• 34:22
  All right, so on the February the February 14th episode on
• 34:26
  Valentine's Day of the Julia AAA War Raiders defeated Los
• 34:30
  Americanos and Money Machine Gatra de Otto and Gordmio de
• 34:33
  Plata in a three-way tag team match during a shot at the AAA
• 34:36
  World Tag Team Championship. A match for the title of
• 34:39
  independent champions Forgotten on the Cycle Clown and the War
• 34:42
  Raiders of the Raiders was made official on the very 21 episode.
• 34:52
  Psycho clown against the War Raiders, man.
• 34:55
  You're feeding them to the War Raiders.
• 34:59
  Well, I mean, they're I mean, they're they're pretty good, so
• 35:02
  why not? So I think that one, I said the
• 35:15
  War Raiders. I know I just said that I think
• 35:18
  AAA should win, but I I think the War Raiders will will win.
• 35:24
  Give them a belt, make them feel like they're, you know, I mean,
• 35:30
  they're good, you know, they they aren't getting used that
• 35:33
  much in WWE, so why not AAA? Yeah.
• 35:38
  Wow. OK.
• 35:44
  I know I went back on my word, but but still, I think, hey,
• 35:51
  they've been chance for a while. Give the War Raiders, you know,
• 35:56
  gold. OK, we.
• 36:00
  Went way back. Yeah, let's go win war Raiders,
• 36:05
  because I never I I've seen only poker Island cycle clown win
• 36:08
  once and it's like iguana iguana housing.
• 36:14
  Oh my God. No, no, no, no.
• 36:21
  Well, I mean, if that's where they want to put him.
• 36:25
  He's going to show up in trouble.
• 36:26
  I'm like I hello, I put a curse on you.
• 36:31
  Oh, can I have this? You are cursed.
• 36:34
  Really. Oh, let me have this.
• 36:45
  Week 3 the Loretto Kid versus Dragon League was TJP versus
• 36:48
  Cart J, Jack Cartwheel, Jake Jack, Oh my God, Jack Cartwheel
• 36:52
  AAA cruiserweight championship. They have a cruiserweight
• 36:54
  championship. Dragon Lee and TJP are the only
• 36:58
  two people that I know here. OK, let's say I don't know this
• 37:02
  TJP. He was in the cruiserweight
• 37:07
  classics WNXT. OK, he's.
• 37:12
  One of the prudent ways on NXT. OK, so that's what I remember by
• 37:16
  him. OK.
• 37:18
  Because I know they said he's also in T, he was in TNA, so.
• 37:23
  That that's yeah, him. So it's right.
• 37:27
  Can you say that name? I'm alive.
• 37:31
  I'm the liver. Suicidal.
• 37:36
  Oh. Can't say it though.
• 37:38
  OK, no, I I know what you're saying, but.
• 37:43
  Dive like a dive, you know, like.
• 37:45
  No, no, I got it, Yeah. All right, hey, lie.
• 37:52
  I'm going to say you're going to lean.
• 37:53
  Oh, no, no, you know what, Loretto kids that that's so
• 37:59
  yeah, that's fine. Before we move on to the main
• 38:03
  event or because I know that's going to be the main event for
• 38:07
  some reason, I got a a notification earlier today about
• 38:13
  Burgessa way. For some reason I got a
• 38:19
  notification today about Mignon Burgessa hamburger.
• 38:22
  OK, OK, why am I getting this? Like I don't, I don't even
• 38:27
  follow them. Yeah.
• 38:29
  A release from the AAA following incident with fan independent
• 38:32
  show OH Fightful Song Sean Ross Sapp He merely confirmed that
• 38:39
  Nino Bugessa has been let go from to to E AAA contract.
• 38:43
  It was first reported by Body slam.net that Nino Bugessa has
• 38:46
  been let go from contract following an incident with a fan
• 38:49
  of the independent show. In the video footage and Bugessa
• 38:52
  was on the outside of the ring and the wrestler kicked him
• 38:55
  towards the fans and Bugessa fell into their laps and while
• 38:58
  sitting on them he delivered multiple elbows to the face of
• 39:00
  one of the fans. Yeah, thanks.
• 39:03
  Body Slam reports that I'm guess it was informed and released via
• 39:06
  Zoom call. How?
• 39:10
  Yeah, you're no longer with us, but neither Dolby nor AAA has
• 39:13
  publicly addressed the situation.
• 39:15
  The report was corroborated by Lucha blog on X who wrote I can
• 39:18
  confirm Body slam.net's report. A AAA fire hamburger kid other
• 39:25
  the Trish were really arrested were told he was gone on Friday.
• 39:30
  A three-year old has been working with AAA since 2012.
• 39:34
  WE acquired a company 25. You can't be doing that anymore.
• 39:38
  Basically doing that anymore basically like it was fine back
• 39:42
  then like up until now. Yeah.
• 39:45
  Hey remember what happened with CM Punk and that one fan Yeah.
• 39:49
  That's not going to fly anymore around here.
• 39:53
  Casey, say hi to Eli. Hi, Eli, there you.
• 40:01
  Go Oh, Eli, you're on the podcast now, all right.
• 40:07
  Main event for Week 1. He says hi.
• 40:16
  Dominic Mysterio versus Eho de Vicino with Dorian Roldan and
• 40:20
  Omas no DQ for the AAA Mega Championship and Worlds Collide
• 40:26
  Las Vegas on September 12th, 2025.
• 40:29
  Dominique Mysterio won the AAA Mega Championship by the droning
• 40:31
  and Lee Kolevicingo Vikingo attempted to earn another shot
• 40:34
  at the title by competing the triple third match against
• 40:36
  Dragon League in El Grande Americano Fake Americano on AAA
• 40:41
  Alianza's alliances on September 27th.
• 40:45
  He failed to win the match as Lee came out victorious at
• 40:48
  Heroes at Immortal Heroes on October 20th.
• 40:52
  I didn't know that's how you spelled Immortalis.
• 40:56
  I am Immortal, Immortal Heroes. On October 20th, Bikino and
• 41:00
  Americano had a confrontation that led to a brawl.
• 41:04
  Later that night, Mysterio defeated Lee to retain the
• 41:06
  title. After match, Bikino and Lee
• 41:08
  attacked Mysterio, but their attack stopped and Fake
• 41:11
  Americano came out to help Mysterio.
• 41:13
  After Bikino and Lee left a ring, Mysterio set up A tag team
• 41:16
  match between the two pairs on AAA Alliances.
• 41:20
  On November 22, Mysterio Americano defeated Bikino and
• 41:23
  Lee on the journey to the 1st 2026 episode of Which I Leave A
• 41:28
  AAA. Bikini will defeated Americano
• 41:29
  and became the next challenger for the AAA Mega Championship.
• 41:32
  Mysterio revealed that he will defend his title against Bikini
• 41:34
  with the mini man Fadri Rias. On the February 7th episode,
• 41:38
  Bikini will proposed to have Mysterio's hair also be on the
• 41:41
  line. What?
• 41:43
  Yeah. Bikini proposed to have
• 41:46
  Mysterio's hair to also line their upcoming title match.
• 41:50
  He stated he was. He's answering their contract
• 41:52
  signing for two weeks later. At their contract signing on the
• 41:56
  February 21st episode, Mysterio stated that if Kingo loses, he
• 41:58
  could never challenge Mysterio for title, but Kingo added on to
• 42:01
  the stipulations by disregarding his previous proposal.
• 42:05
  Oh, OK, yeah. What is?
• 42:09
  Yeah, that's what I heard, but it was a hair versus title kind
• 42:14
  of thing, so. I.
• 42:16
  Damn, but the only one that would be losing their hair would
• 42:19
  be Dominic, so. All right, matched up with us.
• 42:24
  All right, Bikino had it done this definition, but it's
• 42:26
  regarding his previous proposal and say that their match will be
• 42:29
  a no DQ match and Mysterio loses.
• 42:31
  He must leave AAA forever. Oh my goodness, too.
• 42:36
  All right. And this what happened to John
• 42:42
  Morrison because he's balled down.
• 42:47
  Oh yeah. Like he was on the Chris Van
• 42:50
  Billy show. Chris Van Billy CBV show.
• 42:53
  I know who you're talking about, yeah.
• 42:55
  He was on the Crispy Emilier show and like he he became out
• 42:59
  bald. I'm like dude, what happened
• 43:01
  there? No way.
• 43:03
  Isn't is he in TNA? Is that where he's at or?
• 43:07
  He was in AAA. He's.
• 43:09
  Not Oh, was he OK? He was.
• 43:11
  That was you. He's been all over the place.
• 43:12
  That's true. Yeah.
• 43:17
  This this tells you right here that beginning with winning.
• 43:22
  Yeah. The curse still stays.
• 43:27
  Actors have is how does the curse get away?
• 43:30
  By being nice to that house and getting him to uncurse him.
• 43:38
  Yeah. Can you uncurse me please?
• 43:40
  Can we do an uncursing storyline?
• 43:44
  Because I would love that. If you're going to do something,
• 43:46
  it's like, OK, I uncurse you and there you're done.
• 43:52
  So I don't think anybody's going to think much of it.
• 43:56
  Mysterious going to lose. Obviously the king of wins.
• 43:59
  The belt stays, He still gets food.
• 44:02
  He's the biggest heel in there right now.
• 44:07
  That's what happened when you fuck with Alberto.
• 44:14
  So I'm thinking Dominic versus Finn Balor at WrestleMania.
• 44:24
  Yeah, that price seems like it's that's what's going to happen
• 44:31
  because, you know, and of course Judgment Day is going to be
• 44:35
  right there for for Dominic. Yeah, but Dominic feels good.
• 44:41
  Is the curse still on? Oh yeah.
• 44:43
  And then that's when he's all like, oh, can you curse me now?
• 44:46
  Yeah. Wynnhausen, Wynnhausen.
• 44:50
  No Finn housing, Finn housing, no Finn just needs to be on his
• 44:57
  own. We need a housing team.
• 45:01
  So let's see. All right, so those those are
• 45:06
  the matches that are coming up for Week 1.
• 45:08
  Let's do it again. Week 1.
• 45:10
  La Parka was original Grand Dominicano versus the fake Grand
• 45:13
  Dominicano versus Santos Escobar for the four way King of Kings
• 45:17
  tournament finals to determine #1 contender for Tripoli Mega
• 45:20
  Championship Forka. Wins Santos.
• 45:23
  You see Santos la parka? Yeah.
• 45:27
  Flamer lady Flamer versus natty, if we think natty's going to
• 45:31
  come out and open challenge for the beans when we say natty's
• 45:36
  going to win. And finally, for that week,
• 45:41
  Dominic Mysterio was the heel of the Kingo for the Noddy Cuba
• 45:44
  Tripoli Mega Championship. If Dominic wins, Bikino can't
• 45:48
  compete for the title anymore. Kingo Wins has to leave AAA
• 45:51
  forever and we are choosing Bikino.
• 46:01
  We two put on on Psycho Clown versus the War Raiders.
• 46:04
  Eric and Ivar for the AAA World Tacky Championship, we said.
• 46:09
  Eric. I say Eric, I say War Raiders.
• 46:11
  War Raiders Yeah. Week 3 Loretto Kid versus Dragon
• 46:16
  Levers TJP versus 3 Jack Hartwell AAA Cruiserwe
• 46:18
  Championship. I say Dragon Lee.
• 46:22
  Yeah, Dragon Lee or Loretto Kid. I don't know who these people
• 46:24
  are, but hey, you know, all right, go back before we move
• 46:35
  on. We got to talk about someone who
• 46:37
  doesn't always get the credit you deserve.
• 46:38
  When people discuss wrestling history talking about a man who
• 46:41
  helped connect Mexican, I'm talking about a man who helped
• 46:45
  connect Mexican lucha libre, American wrestling, and modern
• 46:48
  Latino wrestling culture all in one career.
• 46:51
  That man is Conan, and there's a reason why I'm wearing the red
• 46:55
  and black Antovio shirt, right For respect.
• 47:01
  And right now, the wrestling world has been thinking about
• 47:03
  him a lot because of some serious health issues and
• 47:05
  surgery updates. But before we get to that, let's
• 47:07
  talk about why Conan matters historically.
• 47:10
  OK. Conan, born Kyle's father, grew
• 47:14
  up in Southern California but made his resume in Mexico during
• 47:17
  the late 1980s. Traditional lucha lieber was
• 47:20
  very different from American wrestling.
• 47:23
  Most lucha lores were masked, silent and mysterious.
• 47:27
  Conan was none of that. He brought hip hop attitude,
• 47:30
  American style promos and swagga to Mexican wrestling.
• 47:34
  By the early 90s he's won the most popular baby faces in the
• 47:38
  country and when Lucha Libre AAA worldwide launched in 92, Conan
• 47:42
  became their first megadraw. He helped revolutionize Mexican
• 47:46
  wrestling by adding American style storytelling, factions,
• 47:50
  dramatic robberies, stadium scale events, and at one point
• 47:54
  AAA shows were drawing 10s of thousands of fans, something
• 47:57
  almost unheard of for wrestling in Mexico at the time.
• 48:01
  In the mid 90s Conan jumps to World Championship Wrestling but
• 48:04
  acknowledge and it's where his influence explodes.
• 48:07
  Conan helped bring a whole generation which autism to the
• 48:10
  dust value. That's how the famous
• 48:12
  cruiserweight division was born. We're talking about introducing
• 48:16
  American audiences to names like Array in the studio.
• 48:19
  Psychosis who went through those high flying matches changed how
• 48:24
  American wrestling looked modern wrestling today.
• 48:26
  The fast-paced the era moves owed a lot to that cruiserweight
• 48:29
  revolution. What do you remember about that?
• 48:34
  You know, I just, I don't remember psychosis, but I didn't
• 48:41
  really watch that much WCW because I mean what we did, but
• 48:50
  it's. Really mostly into EO stuff.
• 48:53
  Yeah, but I do remember Conan always being with Rey Mysterio
• 48:59
  and you know, they were, they were a good tag team.
• 49:02
  You know, they were really good, but it's just I want to hear
• 49:08
  more about him. I love when you do lore on
• 49:12
  Rattler. So I'm here, right?
• 49:17
  What were the names I forgot Rey Mysterio and Conan the.
• 49:23
  I like The Dirty dogs, yeah. With around there with Tori
• 49:27
  Wilson and the filthy animals. OK, the.
• 49:34
  Filthy animals. Yeah, it was a filthy animals.
• 49:43
  It was Conan, Rey Mysterio, Billy Kidman who went through
• 49:46
  Guerrero Disco Inferno for some reason.
• 49:48
  Eddie Guerrero, Tigris and Tori Wilson.
• 49:56
  Yeah. OK.
• 49:57
  Oh yeah, I remember that NWL Wolfpack.
• 50:02
  Most fans remember calling it from his time with the New World
• 50:04
  Order, specifically the Wolfpack version.
• 50:06
  Red and black gear swagger and that signature catch phrase,
• 50:10
  Adriva La Rosa. We're all bowdy, bowdy rowdy,
• 50:16
  rowdy. Something like that.
• 50:17
  I. I don't.
• 50:19
  Walking to the room. But I remember two things.
• 50:22
  Oh, you didn't know? And Hola le Yeah, he all
• 50:28
  performed a back in the Filthy Animals and held Dojo
• 50:30
  Championship along the way. But his biggest contribution
• 50:32
  during this time wasn't just his matches, it was helping Doug's
• 50:35
  daily build a cruiserweight roster that fans still talk
• 50:38
  about today. After injury slowed down his
• 50:42
  angry career, Kona shift into another role manager, Booker and
• 50:45
  mentor in Impact Wrestling. He created one of the most
• 50:48
  influential factions of 2000s Latin American Exchange or LAX.
• 50:54
  The OG Stag group helped elevate towns like Homicide, Hernandez,
• 50:59
  Santana, and Ortiz. Later on, Conan also stayed
• 51:03
  deeply involved with AAA behind the scenes and launched a
• 51:05
  popular wrestling podcast, Keeping It Handed.
• 51:08
  Keeping It Handed where he shares insider stories from the
• 51:12
  decades in the business. Fun wrestling trivia for the
• 51:15
  podcast. Conan is also the godfather of
• 51:18
  Dominic Mysterio. Now, unfortunately, Conan has
• 51:23
  been dealing with some serious health issues for many years.
• 51:25
  Over the last two decades, he has battled kidney failure,
• 51:28
  multiple hip surgeries, complications from COVID, heart
• 51:31
  and circulation problems. Recently, those complications
• 51:35
  led to a major surgery. One of his legs had to be empty
• 51:38
  due to severe medical issues connected to those long term
• 51:40
  conditions. The surgery reportedly took
• 51:43
  place in San Diego and is currently recovering while
• 51:45
  doctors continue monitoring his health closely.
• 51:48
  The rest of the community, from WE to from WE to AW AAA has been
• 51:53
  sending support because lastly, his stars owe part of his career
• 51:57
  to Conan's mentorship. From a wrestling historian's
• 52:01
  point of view, Conan's impact is massive.
• 52:04
  He helped bridge Mexican and American wrestling cultures,
• 52:08
  launched WWE Cruiserweight Revolution, mentor future stars
• 52:11
  like Rey Mysterio, build factions that represented Latino
• 52:15
  wrestlers on national TV, and shape storytelling in modern
• 52:18
  lucha libre. Without Conan, the wrestling
• 52:21
  world might look very different today.
• 52:25
  So what? Do you remember him from the
• 52:26
  Wolfpack, from AAA stadium shows, or from LAX, Running Wild
• 52:32
  and Impact, or even Luchandra? She was there.
• 52:38
  Conan's fingerprints are all over modern wrestling, and right
• 52:41
  now the entire wrestling community is hoping the
• 52:43
  godfather of lucha influence makes a strong recovery.
• 52:46
  Because legends like that, they don't just belong to one
• 52:48
  company, they belong to the history of the business.
• 52:55
  I really hope DEP gets a hold of him after that.
• 52:59
  Yeah. Like our brother died for some
• 53:02
  deep, deep bang. It's like back in the day.
• 53:07
  Yeah. So yeah.
• 53:10
  Alright, so that's it right there.
• 53:12
  What you think of it? US.
• 53:17
  I hope he, you know, does well and hopefully doesn't have that
• 53:21
  second amputation. Oh man, the second.
• 53:24
  I'll see. Yeah, I hope so.
• 53:30
  You. You ready to head out?
• 53:32
  We good? All right.
• 53:34
  And just like that, the arena lights start to dim, the ring
• 53:37
  crew begins breaking things down, and the echoes of the
• 53:39
  crowd slowly fade out to the night.
• 53:41
  Another resting conversation, but huge thanks to Menace for
• 53:46
  pulling up and helping breakdown everything surrounding Rey de
• 53:50
  Reyes. Say it.
• 53:51
  Say it. Rey de Reyes, our Rey de Reyes.
• 54:03
  The predictions of history and the excitement surrounding one
• 54:06
  of the most important annual event.
• 54:08
  And if you're planning on watching, here's your reminder.
• 54:12
  The 2020 sixth, the Rey de Reyes, kicks off March 14th from
• 54:15
  Auditorio GNP Segulos and Puebla, Mexico, and instead of
• 54:19
  being a one night event, is unfolding over three weeks as
• 54:22
  part of weekly Lucha Libre AAA broadcast.
• 54:26
  There is one night for us, it's three weeks.
• 54:31
  Just do one night. The tournament episode will air
• 54:34
  every Saturday from March 14th to March 28th.
• 54:38
  So this isn't just one night of action, it's a three-week ride
• 54:42
  watching the tournament unfold until a new King of Kings is
• 54:45
  crowned. That gives us plenty of time to
• 54:47
  watch the matches, react to the prize, and see which of our
• 54:49
  predictions actually survived the chaos of which zebra.
• 54:53
  Also, it's on YouTube. I don't think I've made that
• 54:57
  clear. It's on YouTube, you know, like.
• 55:01
  I it on the WWE YouTube because I know that's where they've
• 55:05
  shown it before. It's on the YouTube.
• 55:08
  It's going to be on the AAA YouTube broadcast on YouTube,
• 55:13
  and hopefully if you have Fox, is it on Fox?
• 55:17
  I don't know. You know, they I've looked and I
• 55:20
  mean, I think it is because I hear Rey Mysterio is like
• 55:27
  translating. Yeah, he is.
• 55:31
  It's not like, OK, so I'm guessing it's on American Fox,
• 55:35
  but I know they said I guess it's on Fox in Mexico too.
• 55:40
  He'd been trampling his son too, like, oh, he said this, this
• 55:43
  and. This yeah, I know, but this
• 55:46
  sounds bad at. This point, Watch his mouth.
• 55:49
  He said this. Yeah.
• 55:53
  And while all that is happening, the clock is also ticking toward
• 55:56
  the biggest stage in wrestling. You know what that means?
• 56:01
  We are. Officially on.
• 56:03
  The road to WrestleMania, only a few weeks left into the grandest
• 56:08
  stage of the mall. And long time listeners already
• 56:10
  know how we do around here once WrestleMania season hits.
• 56:14
  Oh, yeah. Those two weeks leading up to
• 56:16
  the show. Yeah, we go all out.
• 56:19
  Predictions, breakdown, nostalgia, storylines, probably
• 56:24
  a wild hot takes that's aged terribly by the next episode,
• 56:28
  but still, that's part of the fun.
• 56:33
  I have one about the Usos. I already told you that.
• 56:36
  But like, let me tell them that. Hold on before we go.
• 56:42
  I got, I got. I got to put this out.
• 56:45
  When the Usos came out to confront Punk, they said we need
• 56:51
  you to apologize. He didn't say we want you to
• 56:56
  apologize, we need you to apologize.
• 56:58
  We need you to fucking apologize right now or else.
• 57:04
  CM Punk. It's assumed that Roman Reigns
• 57:07
  sent the Usos out. Like, Oh yeah, make him
• 57:10
  apologize. No, Roman Reigns didn't send
• 57:12
  them out. You can see Alpha and Stika were
• 57:19
  the patriarch of the Usos family.
• 57:22
  They've since been passed away and gone.
• 57:25
  The next one in line is Kishi Rikishi, 52, the father of the
• 57:32
  Usos. So, and when that happened,
• 57:37
  'cause it happened in Japan also, that's where the whole
• 57:40
  Samoan dynasty, what was it called, the Samoan dynasty
• 57:45
  stable came about. OK.
• 57:47
  'Cause who was it? The other guys from the MFT.
• 57:57
  Uh huh. Oh, their dad.
• 58:00
  Yeah, we're. How come?
• 58:03
  OK. Like some stuff over there.
• 58:04
  And then Rikisha came out like if you can't, no, this is the
• 58:08
  Samoan dynasty and a lot of history.
• 58:12
  So you know, he he has to do business.
• 58:16
  Rikishi's law has to do business and stuff.
• 58:19
  And the next one is. The final boss.
• 58:24
  The final boss, so you know, so I'm saying, you know, we are.
• 58:30
  We're all doing, we're all going to say, we're all going to say
• 58:32
  he's doing it for the rock. I did it for the Rock.
• 58:45
  So rikishi sends out invoice. Go make him apologize or else.
• 58:50
  We heard that or prior when it happened in Roman, when Punk
• 58:55
  told Roman that the next day we saw videos of Zilla Zilla Fatu
• 59:06
  saying it's like watching it and like him and his crew.
• 59:10
  Like there's someone's also and they're like, oh, and then still
• 59:14
  it's like it's on site. Better watch it.
• 59:19
  He's like you better watch it, punk.
• 59:20
  Next time I see you, we're. No longer friends.
• 59:23
  No, no, I don't like, I don't like, no longer like you punk.
• 59:29
  He's like a laughing over there. So he says that and then here we
• 59:34
  get like a whole Samoan family meeting from Rikishi, the boss.
• 59:42
  It's like what we should what do you think we should do?
• 59:45
  Go make him apologize. Make him apologize for what he
• 59:49
  said. Because remember back at
• 59:51
  WrestleMania 40, it's like what you say about my father.
• 59:57
  You gotta apologize and then slap Cody.
• 1:00:00
  Yep. And what did Cody say?
• 1:00:02
  This is project, yeah. What?
• 1:00:05
  Cody, this is Bush. Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  I love it when you bring back full circle everything that we
• 1:00:13
  said back in the day. Yeah, long term storytelling.
• 1:00:17
  Absolute cinema. Absolute cinema.
• 1:00:22
  So where was I? Rikishi tells Usos.
• 1:00:29
  You know, next down level down the line, like we're making a
• 1:00:32
  box. Like, alright, so we Usos come
• 1:00:35
  out department, you have to say sorry, say sorry.
• 1:00:39
  Like, alright, I apologize. I apologize, I apologize that,
• 1:00:43
  you know, he fucking did this to you guys.
• 1:00:46
  And it's like, oh boy, all right, here we go.
• 1:00:50
  Here we go. We're going to get a bunch of
• 1:00:52
  them coming in. And not only that, maybe the
• 1:00:55
  girls, Tamina, maybe. I had Jacks already was like,
• 1:01:01
  you know, she after I saw Zilla's be like response, I saw
• 1:01:08
  something on Instagram she or was it threads, one of them two
• 1:01:13
  same company, but they you know, she was like, oh, wait, wait
• 1:01:18
  till I see him and I'm like, oh, he's coming after him so.
• 1:01:25
  Oh, we're going to get a lot. I'm coming out, Jacob's going to
• 1:01:30
  come out, going to talk some smack.
• 1:01:32
  I love it, I love it. The whole every like, you don't
• 1:01:35
  disrespect, but then CM Punk said it's like too like, you
• 1:01:38
  disrespected everything. Cody Rose, Dad.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah. You know, you guys don't say
• 1:01:42
  anything to fucking Roman. Yeah.
• 1:01:46
  Apologize, I was like alright, fine, alright.
• 1:01:50
  So that was my whole theory, my old spiel of, you know, and this
• 1:02:00
  was like, oh shit, and this was our you still there?
• 1:02:05
  I'm still there. Yeah, there.
• 1:02:07
  OK. And this was like our our
• 1:02:10
  version of not going home yet. Yeah, our long outro after show,
• 1:02:18
  Yeah. Still standing.
• 1:02:21
  So yeah. So that was it.
• 1:02:24
  I mean, it's funny. It's theorizing.
• 1:02:27
  It's not real. If it is, hey, hope it happens.
• 1:02:31
  Hope we get like some form of, you know, war between Samoans
• 1:02:36
  and punk and punk has to come out with his friends.
• 1:02:39
  Yeah, You know, this is, I wonder if they're going to put
• 1:02:43
  the sun on real next, next year, next season.
• 1:02:50
  Because if this is, I mean, to hear him say that about his
• 1:02:56
  father, it was kind of, I was like, oh, wow.
• 1:02:59
  So, and I know what I think, I think it was you that said this
• 1:03:02
  has to been something that was, you know, agreed upon, you know,
• 1:03:07
  to, to start something. If it was, you know, good on
• 1:03:12
  them. If it wasn't, that's jacked up.
• 1:03:15
  I honestly think it's jacked up, you know, but then again, they,
• 1:03:20
  you know, they said that, you know, they said things about
• 1:03:22
  Dusty, you know, to. So it's honestly, I'm like,
• 1:03:29
  unless it was agreed upon, you know, don't disrespect, you
• 1:03:34
  know, these great wrestlers because they set, you know, have
• 1:03:40
  some respect for them. They did a lot.
• 1:03:43
  You know, they're pioneers in wrestling.
• 1:03:46
  It's not cool weather and I don't think it's cool even if
• 1:03:50
  it's agreed upon, you know, that can be a super sensitive
• 1:03:55
  subject, you know, especially because those wrestlers back
• 1:03:59
  then, they, you know, maybe they weren't in their kids lives, you
• 1:04:04
  know, like the wrestlers are now.
• 1:04:06
  You know, everybody, I mean, you, you see it and they talked
• 1:04:11
  about it. You know, my dad was gone, you
• 1:04:14
  know, 300 days out of the year, you know, and a lot of the
• 1:04:18
  wrestlers too are like, you know, I miss birthdays,
• 1:04:20
  anniversaries, graduations. So it's like, you know, it's,
• 1:04:27
  it's a tough business to to be to be a family man, you know,
• 1:04:33
  whether it's now or back then. So, and a lot of these
• 1:04:40
  wrestlers, you know, from back then, you know, weren't family
• 1:04:45
  men in the fact that they weren't there.
• 1:04:48
  And I I you know, it's just, you see how many are like divorced,
• 1:04:55
  you know, or like Roman's parents, they had been separated
• 1:05:02
  for years and like just recently, like two or three
• 1:05:07
  years ago, just got a divorce, you know.
• 1:05:10
  So I'm like, that's crazy to me, you know.
• 1:05:14
  But they all said that when he said he was going to be there,
• 1:05:19
  he was there. But, you know, that was far a
• 1:05:23
  few in between. So it's hard, but I, I, I still
• 1:05:28
  think, you know, that could be a very touchy subject.
• 1:05:34
  For sure it is like not having a yeah or or even a mom.
• 1:05:40
  Like even the mom could like even Becky's all like I want to
• 1:05:43
  be there for my kid. Right.
• 1:05:47
  Like. Having somebody in the business
• 1:05:49
  so they they can have their daughter, you know, on the road
• 1:05:53
  with them because right now she's little.
• 1:05:57
  Yeah. And so as but she is getting to
• 1:06:00
  be close to school. Well, actually she is in school.
• 1:06:03
  So it's like one of them has to, you know, be there.
• 1:06:09
  Yeah, I know. Spoiling the storylines.
• 1:06:12
  So injured. He is now.
• 1:06:16
  Oh yeah, like the teacher. Hey, how's your dad?
• 1:06:21
  Is he really injured? What's your name?
• 1:06:28
  You're not talking about K Faith.
• 1:06:30
  Yeah, What that mean? He comes and he's like, yeah,
• 1:06:35
  I'm hurt. It's for real this time.
• 1:06:37
  Yeah, Miss Jones, this is for real.
• 1:06:44
  I really am in a sling for my shoulder.
• 1:06:49
  I had surgery. Here's my scar, you know.
• 1:06:54
  All right, before we really go, take a breath with me.
• 1:07:01
  We felt like a main event victory or a steel cage match
• 1:07:03
  that went a few rounds too long. You made it through and you had
• 1:07:08
  a piece. You had a piece.
• 1:07:10
  You had a place to sit for a while.
• 1:07:12
  This is my third place. Not home, not work, but the
• 1:07:15
  space for the stories and nostalgia and the conversations.
• 1:07:17
  Always have a seat waiting. Take care of each other, take
• 1:07:21
  care of yourself and we'll see you next time at ringside.
• 1:07:29
  Menace. Bye.
• 1:07:31
  No, no, we're not leaving yet, Menace.
• 1:07:36
  We're doing, we're going to be doing WrestleMania stuff.
• 1:07:40
  It's like obviously you've like if you've been here long for a
• 1:07:43
  long time. WrestleMania stuff is usually
• 1:07:47
  around like 4 hours of just us talking about the week of
• 1:07:52
  WrestleMania. We've done the Slammy, so we're
• 1:07:59
  doing Smackdown. Hall of Fame.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, WrestleMania week, though it starts on Monday.
• 1:08:09
  Yes. Tuesday for NXT and then the
• 1:08:15
  entire week is WrestleMania World, which like I'm already
• 1:08:20
  looking at stuff and how much the tickets are inexpensive.
• 1:08:25
  It's in Vegas again, and then we have Friday Night Smackdown Hall
• 1:08:33
  of Fame Saturday is. Night 1.
• 1:08:40
  Night one, Night one at XT doing their thing.
• 1:08:45
  Oh, are they, are they doing like they did before?
• 1:08:49
  Like at 11 AM? They're doing their PLA.
• 1:08:52
  Yeah, stand deliver. OK.
• 1:08:55
  So it's on Peacock. Still watching on Peacock?
• 1:08:59
  Oh, but did you see that the first hour on Saturday is going
• 1:09:05
  to be on ESPN 2? It's.
• 1:09:07
  For free. I love that.
• 1:09:09
  And then on ESPN on Sunday the 1st hour I.
• 1:09:15
  Didn't bring you back the first hour on TV Guide channel?
• 1:09:19
  Yeah, really. 30 minutes. I used to love that.
• 1:09:24
  It's like it was free for all and it was like you saw one
• 1:09:30
  match and then every the card rundown and everything.
• 1:09:33
  I was like, I don't want to watch it.
• 1:09:34
  Yeah, totally fine. So yeah, that obviously that
• 1:09:40
  entire week is going to be nothing but independent people
• 1:09:43
  of independent wrestlers going to like this whole situation
• 1:09:48
  where they have WrestleMania week, Saturday night 1 stand,
• 1:09:53
  the Liber, NXT night one, and then we have the after show.
• 1:10:00
  And then usually it's us live talking about it and you know,
• 1:10:09
  our reactions to it. Next day is the Slammys Sunday
• 1:10:15
  Slammys. Possibly another PLE in there
• 1:10:21
  with NXT. No, I don't think so.
• 1:10:24
  I think NXT is only one day. I don't think they've branched
• 1:10:28
  into the two day SO. Recap at World for whatever
• 1:10:35
  happened, whatever we didn't see Night 2 after show.
• 1:10:41
  I was talking about it the next day, Monday, Raw after
• 1:10:45
  WrestleMania, where Chris Jericho Sobruca will show up.
• 1:10:51
  Oh, by the way, by the way, we got to talk about this.
• 1:10:56
  OK, What did Punk tell Roman? That he put him on a list.
• 1:11:01
  Yes. And then this week on Monday, he
• 1:11:07
  told Usos that he put him on the learning tree.
• 1:11:13
  OK. And I'm like, you're bringing it
• 1:11:17
  Chris Jericho, you're just sprinkling in some keywords.
• 1:11:21
  Yeah. Because they did it with Cody
• 1:11:24
  Rhodes. OK.
• 1:11:26
  Said I'll be I'll be your nightmare.
• 1:11:29
  Yeah. They did it with Punk when they
• 1:11:32
  said like, you know something. Oh, it's going to be in Chicago.
• 1:11:36
  Oh, they did it. With punk, with Chicago, and do
• 1:11:39
  it like, you know where, like the sprinkling words of that
• 1:11:45
  person and he's like, you don't realize it until later.
• 1:11:49
  It's like it's been right under our noses the entire time.
• 1:11:53
  Yeah. It he's gonna, if he says
• 1:11:55
  something else like Ayatollah, I doubt it or whatever.
• 1:12:02
  What else do you have? Lion.
• 1:12:03
  A lot. I have the heart of a lion.
• 1:12:06
  Yeah. If he says Lionheart, I swear as
• 1:12:09
  he's coming. Yeah, he's.
• 1:12:12
  Like he like were like, you know, Winter Soldier when Bucky
• 1:12:16
  gets activated by certain words. Right.
• 1:12:19
  List learning tree uh huh. Or it was like here comes
• 1:12:27
  Jericho. Like did I just get activated
• 1:12:29
  with the yeah, oh, that'd be great.
• 1:12:34
  So there's that. I want to say that that's it.
• 1:12:36
  OK, we're good. We're good.
• 1:12:38
  And then Monday we have Monday night rocks to WrestleMania.
• 1:12:41
  Tuesday we have an XT WrestleMania again.
• 1:12:44
  Wednesday or Thursday. I think it's us recap the higher
• 1:12:50
  for our show because I go back and watch the show again and,
• 1:12:56
  you know, go through the piss beats and pieces, missing pieces
• 1:12:59
  of, you know, Easter eggs and stuff.
• 1:13:01
  That's what. We do around here, we do that
• 1:13:03
  stuff like I like doing that stuff.
• 1:13:05
  I brought, we brought you stuff about who, who was the orchestra
• 1:13:11
  that brought out Roman Reigns back at WrestleMania 40,
• 1:13:16
  WrestleMania 41. Like that's, that's big deal.
• 1:13:21
  Like we do, we love doing that. And then I tell them like on on
• 1:13:24
  Instagram too, when I find them, like you're, we talk about you
• 1:13:28
  guys on the podcast. You should listen to them.
• 1:13:32
  It was fun, fun doing that. So yeah, that's our fucking work
• 1:13:37
  schedule. I don't know how it's going to
• 1:13:39
  work for next year. Like.
• 1:13:43
  We'll get to that when we get to that you.
• 1:13:47
  Get to that. OK.
• 1:13:47
  I don't know how it could work for next year.
• 1:13:49
  When are the people, the independent people, are they
• 1:13:52
  going to stay in the States and do WrestleMania week still or
• 1:13:58
  are they? Going to you know, I.
• 1:14:00
  Green shirt guy going to be there, That's all I want.
• 1:14:05
  I don't know, I don't know. I like, it's crazy just to even
• 1:14:11
  think about that, right, that, you know, they're taking
• 1:14:15
  WrestleMania overseas and which means it's going to be 5:00 AM
• 1:14:24
  Saturday and Sunday for me, you know, and 7:00 AM for you.
• 1:14:30
  So it's like how did? You do it last time at King of
• 1:14:35
  the Ring. Wasn't it like 10:00 PM?
• 1:14:40
  Started at 10:00 PM and it went all the way to 2 PM?
• 1:14:42
  2:00 AM. Oh yeah, there.
• 1:14:45
  So it was so I think it was 11 then my time and one your time.
• 1:14:53
  Yeah. So you got afternoon.
• 1:14:55
  I had morning so but I mean that was crazy.
• 1:15:01
  I don't know. Was that king in the ring that.
• 1:15:04
  Was king. Yeah, that was King.
• 1:15:05
  OK. Or the.
• 1:15:08
  The grandest? Yeah.
• 1:15:12
  The the route, the Riyadh. No, The rest Yeah.
• 1:15:17
  Riyadh. Yeah, Riyadh.
• 1:15:19
  Yeah, that one. OK, so what's the at?
• 1:15:23
  WrestleMania. Yeah.
• 1:15:25
  People complained that there weren't people in the seats.
• 1:15:28
  Yeah. Like, I don't know.
• 1:15:30
  Like that was royal. That was Royal Rumble.
• 1:15:33
  The greatest Royal Rumble. No, yeah.
• 1:15:36
  Regular Royal Rumble. OK.
• 1:15:37
  Yeah. Royal Rumble.
• 1:15:37
  Yeah. So, yeah, people are complaining
• 1:15:40
  that there weren't people. That was when our time.
• 1:15:42
  It's like when it was afternoon or Yeah.
• 1:15:44
  Yeah. So hopefully it's much better
• 1:15:47
  than that. All right, We're good.
• 1:15:53
  OK. All right.
• 1:15:56
  Say goodbye to everybody. And bye everybody.
• 1:16:00
  Hope you guys have a great night.
• 1:16:01
  Thank you for stopping in. Thank you for hanging out with
• 1:16:03
  us. We're almost on the front porch.
• 1:16:06
  We've been doing this on the front porch.
• 1:16:09
  Yeah. Thank you for hanging out on the
• 1:16:10
  front porch with me. Yeah.
• 1:16:14
  I got some more. We got some more ideas of other
• 1:16:16
  outputs that we are gonna do. OK.
• 1:16:20
  Yeah. So, yeah.
• 1:16:21
  So have a great night. We'll see you guys later.
• 1:16:25
  Have fun. Bye.
• 1:16:27
  Bye.