Latest / Podcast Championship Wrestling / Episode 75 Interview with Ron!
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- 1:12Speaker 7: Whoa back, Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, chilling fole ages.
- 1:34Speaker 7: Welcome back to another episode of PCW podcast Championship Wrestling.
- 1:38Speaker 7: I am your host, Wayne also known as Semi Dried Chicken,
- 1:41Speaker 7: and man, I got a special episode for you today.
- 1:44Speaker 7: We're doing interviews. Why because sometimes I'm able to just
- 1:48Speaker 7: fucking squeeze an interview in there in between these little
- 1:52Speaker 7: uh the predictions of the podcast, uh, you know, for
- 1:55Speaker 7: for the pay per views coming up, the predictions the
- 1:57Speaker 7: post shows, you know, uh, whatever where else we get
- 2:00Speaker 7: fit in between, So I have to book interviews and
- 2:04Speaker 7: this is when I can squeeze one in and uh,
- 2:07Speaker 7: you know what I'm just gonna I'm just gonna play
- 2:10Speaker 7: him in. It's a dear friend of mine. Uh, finally
- 2:13Speaker 7: able to get him on the show. His name is
- 2:16Speaker 7: Ron de Benedetto, and here we go.
- 2:23Speaker 6: I think I.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Know I'm sexy. I've got the look that rap. Wow,
- 2:31Speaker 4: I've got the moon. I said, ship, I'm down.
- 2:38Speaker 8: That fine, just.
- 2:40Speaker 7: A sexy word.
- 2:44Speaker 3: I'm not.
- 2:48Speaker 7: I'm just se.
- 2:52Speaker 6: I'm not.
- 2:56Speaker 7: Ron. Welcome to the show.
- 2:59Speaker 1: What he man.
- 3:00Speaker 8: It is so awesome to be here, mister drug chicken.
- 3:03Speaker 8: Thank you so much for having me.
- 3:05Speaker 7: Dude. We I was just surprised, like, after like almost
- 3:09Speaker 7: eighty episodes, I'm finally getting you on the show. Like, dude,
- 3:14Speaker 7: Like if let's cut to the chase, everybody like Ron
- 3:18Speaker 7: is like a core Peak member, you know, because without
- 3:23Speaker 7: Ron I would never have been deep into the wrestling
- 3:28Speaker 7: hole that I am. Uh, this is the guy who
- 3:32Speaker 7: you know we're talking. You know, high school days got
- 3:34Speaker 7: me into pro wrestling, and uh, you know, if it
- 3:37Speaker 7: was a few dude, I would never have watched Monday
- 3:39Speaker 7: Night Raw, those late late nights, you know, back in
- 3:43Speaker 7: the day when we used to record him on VHS.
- 3:46Speaker 1: And then swap him from house to house like old.
- 3:48Speaker 7: School, right, yeah, yeah, and clearly clearly given with the
- 3:54Speaker 7: entrance theme, and I didn't even have to call you.
- 3:57Speaker 7: I didn't have to message you and like with normal
- 4:00Speaker 7: people and like, hey, what kind of music do you want?
- 4:03Speaker 7: You know, like every week when Doyle is on the show,
- 4:05Speaker 7: he changes his theme music, you know, but you I
- 4:09Speaker 7: I'm just like, you're just one of those guys. I
- 4:13Speaker 7: know your theme music. We don't need to change it
- 4:15Speaker 7: for the next thirty years. It's good.
- 4:18Speaker 8: Don't die hard and don't know it sounds like there's
- 4:21Speaker 8: Doyle character like he may need to you can't find
- 4:24Speaker 8: something to stick with him.
- 4:25Speaker 1: That sounds like a problem.
- 4:27Speaker 7: I I love it Doyle. Every episode Doyle has a
- 4:30Speaker 7: new theme song, and you know what, Ie, they're not
- 4:34Speaker 7: here yet. I know this is a little weird, and
- 4:37Speaker 7: I totally forgot to bring that up. I'm like, jumping
- 4:40Speaker 7: into the show. People are probably like, where the fuck
- 4:42Speaker 7: are your co hosts? Like where is the introduction of
- 4:46Speaker 7: Doyle and dre Well, yeah, my co hosts are coming.
- 4:49Speaker 7: They're on their way. You know, they got they got life.
- 4:52Speaker 7: You know, they're eating, they're getting prepped. We're kind of
- 4:54Speaker 7: kicked off the show a little early because you know,
- 4:56Speaker 7: I wanted to touch base with Ron because considering our
- 4:59Speaker 7: friendship has going back so long, and clearly I'll play
- 5:05Speaker 7: the button for you, you fucking Mark. I mean, you
- 5:10Speaker 7: got admit your your fucking mark. For Shawn Michaels. I mean,
- 5:13Speaker 7: you're Seawn Michael's guy, through and through right to the core.
- 5:16Speaker 8: I mean, you know, it all started with Sean because
- 5:21Speaker 8: way back in fifth grade, I was Northeast Elementary School. No,
- 5:27Speaker 8: I was actually at thirteenth in Union and a buddy
- 5:30Speaker 8: of mine he just came in and he just handed
- 5:31Speaker 8: me a poster. It was at old School from the
- 5:35Speaker 8: WWF magazine with the Undertaker on the one side. You remember,
- 5:39Speaker 8: it was on my wall and Sean was on the
- 5:41Speaker 8: other and he said, hey, I you'd like this guy.
- 5:43Speaker 1: I'm like, well what is this?
- 5:44Speaker 8: And next thing, you know, I'm watching Raw And it
- 5:48Speaker 8: was just it was an addiction since day one.
- 5:52Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny you brought that up. I
- 5:54Speaker 1: didn't know. I forgot that. I actually introduced you to.
- 5:58Speaker 7: The wrestling, to the wrestling biz business.
- 6:02Speaker 8: Yeah, that's pretty cool. You know, back and forth. I
- 6:05Speaker 8: think we've made each other black out once or twice.
- 6:08Speaker 8: I remember one time you pett agreed me in your
- 6:10Speaker 8: bedroom and I couldn't hear anything for like four seconds.
- 6:15Speaker 1: I thought I thought I may have been dead.
- 6:17Speaker 7: We always took it too far when it when it
- 6:20Speaker 7: came to like hit each other with steel chairs or shovels,
- 6:23Speaker 7: we've we always just took it too far. Uh, I mean,
- 6:26Speaker 7: come on, you need to do.
- 6:27Speaker 8: Is find smaller guys in the neighborhood to pick on
- 6:30Speaker 8: so we could just do good about ourselves instead of
- 6:32Speaker 8: being in pain all the time.
- 6:33Speaker 7: That was true because uh, you know, I you know,
- 6:37Speaker 7: like I I do recall when I was a little
- 6:42Speaker 7: really young getting into this, you know, early wrestling, like
- 6:46Speaker 7: back when Hulk Cogan was the Golden era. You know,
- 6:48Speaker 7: we're talking like before Attitude era. I see, like, yeah,
- 6:52Speaker 7: fragments of it, like I've seen it, and then it
- 6:55Speaker 7: went away for a while. And then yeah, when when
- 6:58Speaker 7: you and me started hanging out, we were talking like
- 7:00Speaker 7: tail end of the Attitude era, the ruthless aggression era,
- 7:05Speaker 7: the ruthless aggression. Yeah, and dude, that it literally was
- 7:11Speaker 7: our whole childhood like like uh, like, okay, for example,
- 7:16Speaker 7: we've seen John Cena from day one start his career,
- 7:20Speaker 7: you and me through and through, and now we're we're
- 7:24Speaker 7: at his retirement. Dude, like you and me are witnessing
- 7:28Speaker 7: John Cena's retirement in motion. Uh you know an it
- 7:35Speaker 7: is And I remember like always like I wasn't a
- 7:40Speaker 7: huge Sena fan. I at least I thought I wasn't
- 7:43Speaker 7: because I was just like fucking super Sam Man. He
- 7:45Speaker 7: just went in every fucking match. But then I'll go
- 7:48Speaker 7: to my room now and I'll look at my shirts.
- 7:51Speaker 7: I have more John Sena shirts than anything else.
- 7:55Speaker 1: See that's nuts. And at the time, you were just
- 7:57Speaker 1: aggravated that he was taking screen time away from Edge
- 8:00Speaker 1: and Triple H Exactly.
- 8:01Speaker 7: It's like when you know your favorite No, you're right, dude,
- 8:05Speaker 7: it's like when your screen time from your favorite wrestlers
- 8:07Speaker 7: being taken away. You you kinda throw some shade at
- 8:12Speaker 7: the guy, but it's like, here's the thing, is like
- 8:14Speaker 7: he can't hate Johnsina. It's like fuck you, and then
- 8:18Speaker 7: he like does. Then you get like a charity added
- 8:20Speaker 7: for him, and it's like, ah, fuck this nice guy.
- 8:25Speaker 1: He's a real life superhero.
- 8:26Speaker 6: You know.
- 8:27Speaker 8: I grew up and I hated Austin for years until
- 8:30Speaker 8: I smartened up and then realized. I mean, I don't
- 8:32Speaker 8: think I really appreciated Austin until after he was done.
- 8:36Speaker 7: Yeah, are you talking like the the from the business aspect,
- 8:40Speaker 7: like how how he did business when he took his
- 8:42Speaker 7: ball and went home in their mid two thousands, are
- 8:45Speaker 7: we talking about maybe.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Yeah, that that did happen.
- 8:48Speaker 8: I think he was also hurt the same time, and
- 8:50Speaker 8: he said, ah, fuck this, you know, but I mean
- 8:53Speaker 8: I know that the whole lesnar thing with with trying
- 8:56Speaker 8: to you know, put him over with him just coming in.
- 8:59Speaker 8: But but no, I mean, you know, I was so irritated.
- 9:02Speaker 8: I mean I appreciated the.
- 9:04Speaker 1: McMahon Austin rivalry.
- 9:07Speaker 8: I mean it's it's saved the business, you know that
- 9:09Speaker 8: and Kevin Nash and Hall on the other channel. It
- 9:12Speaker 8: saved the business, I think. And that that I mean
- 9:16Speaker 8: that that started with with Brett and Austin. I mean,
- 9:20Speaker 8: talk about a fabulous, fabulous rivalry, right, I mean wow.
- 9:27Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's just it's just also what blows
- 9:30Speaker 7: my mind. We we go back obviously, you being a
- 9:34Speaker 7: huge Seawn Michaels fan. I was always a huge Triple
- 9:37Speaker 7: H fan. And who would freaking know that these two
- 9:41Speaker 7: guys the fucking truck on past my house? I refuse
- 9:45Speaker 7: to edit that out, But anyway, like who knew that
- 9:50Speaker 7: that these two guys like would be running the company,
- 9:54Speaker 7: like running NXT, running w W as a whole, like
- 9:58Speaker 7: I mean, go back, yeah right, go back and to
- 10:02Speaker 7: your younger self, you know, tell tell us like tell
- 10:05Speaker 7: each other, like tell our younger selves that like, yo,
- 10:07Speaker 7: one day d X is going to rule WW Like dude, yeah, okay,
- 10:12Speaker 7: Like no, you know how this very pain d X
- 10:14Speaker 7: on the side that ship stuck for.
- 10:16Speaker 8: Life did They just could never get it off, so
- 10:19Speaker 8: they thought, I guess we better run with this.
- 10:22Speaker 7: Dude. It's like every time like more news drops of
- 10:27Speaker 7: like bigger accomplishments being done in the business by them too.
- 10:31Speaker 7: It's just it was like, you know, when HBK guy
- 10:33Speaker 7: announced for like n XT taking over that I mean
- 10:37Speaker 7: that I was just like, oh my god, like it's happening.
- 10:40Speaker 7: And then, you know, by unfortunate events, Triple Ah got
- 10:45Speaker 7: kind of rocketed straight to the top of the company.
- 10:49Speaker 7: You know, because when you're following law, shitting on people,
- 10:52Speaker 7: no no fun attended, you go right to the top. Right.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Well, everybody needs a hobby.
- 10:58Speaker 8: I mean everyone always complained that the guy never had
- 11:00Speaker 8: a hobby and he was addicted to work.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Who would have thought he had his thing.
- 11:04Speaker 7: Dude. Now that I go back and I think of
- 11:07Speaker 7: some of the segments that Vince would do involving like
- 11:11Speaker 7: shit falling from the sky, how many segments did we
- 11:15Speaker 7: have a shit? Now? It makes me think, oh my god,
- 11:18Speaker 7: Like Vince was probably, oh it switched brilliant, It's wonderful,
- 11:24Speaker 7: you know what I mean, Like if I love that
- 11:26Speaker 7: fucking segment, and it's just like.
- 11:29Speaker 1: He's a genius because guess what, we're still talking about
- 11:31Speaker 1: it today.
- 11:32Speaker 7: I know, I know it as much shit as people
- 11:35Speaker 7: give Vince. Like, man, I was like, yeah, but that
- 11:38Speaker 7: guy created some fucking memories, some fucking goofy, weird fucking memories.
- 11:44Speaker 7: He is like a meme, a walking meme, you know.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Uh huh, Well, he's larger than life.
- 11:50Speaker 8: And anybody just like everybody jumping on the hate Hogan
- 11:54Speaker 8: bandwagon for whatever reasons they are. It's people that just
- 11:57Speaker 8: don't see a big picture or don't care to, are
- 12:00Speaker 8: just totally ignorant and just want to jump on the
- 12:03Speaker 8: hate bandwagon to have a bunch of people on their side.
- 12:06Speaker 1: It's absolutely ridiculous. I get some of the stuff that
- 12:11Speaker 1: maybe some of this stuff that Vince did was a
- 12:12Speaker 1: little immoral man.
- 12:13Speaker 8: Hogan has a bunch of that stuff too, I mean,
- 12:17Speaker 8: but but you still can't take away what they meant
- 12:21Speaker 8: and what an impact they had on the business. So
- 12:23Speaker 8: you're wrestling fan or not, because guess what, it may
- 12:25Speaker 8: not be around if it wasn't for them too.
- 12:28Speaker 7: Yeah, that is so true. That's so true, Like it
- 12:31Speaker 7: wouldn't be I know, I want to touch base with
- 12:37Speaker 7: So you and me have gone to wrestling events. We
- 12:40Speaker 7: have a local arena now, the Santander Arena. We've gone
- 12:45Speaker 7: to plenty of like you know, house shows. Uh. And
- 12:49Speaker 7: then what's great is we live like right an our
- 12:55Speaker 7: way from like Philly. Oh yeah, we live an hour
- 12:57Speaker 7: away from like the Arena in Allentown, an hour away
- 13:01Speaker 7: from the Giant Center in Hershey. So we're kind of
- 13:04Speaker 7: like an hour away from like three different arenas and
- 13:06Speaker 7: then ten minutes away from the arena, the smaller one.
- 13:11Speaker 7: It is. It's it's so cool, and you know, I
- 13:16Speaker 7: never would have thought like we would have been able
- 13:18Speaker 7: to go to as many shows as we did. Uh,
- 13:22Speaker 7: you know, to the point where like I got access
- 13:25Speaker 7: backstage as a working stage hand. I got to see
- 13:29Speaker 7: some cool shit, and then you know, you and me
- 13:33Speaker 7: got to finally go to of course, of course there's
- 13:37Speaker 7: the Royal Rumble that we went to in two thousand
- 13:40Speaker 7: and four. We can't talk about that one a lot, right,
- 13:45Speaker 7: Why why can't we talk about that?
- 13:48Speaker 1: That's a wild subject.
- 13:49Speaker 8: I guess that's a little bit worse than anything that
- 13:51Speaker 8: Hogan McMahon ever done, even probably combined.
- 13:54Speaker 1: No, not probably, but talk about talent.
- 13:58Speaker 7: Yeah, that was that was my forgot him. I mean
- 14:02Speaker 7: why it was.
- 14:03Speaker 1: It was amazing. He was as amazing as he was
- 14:07Speaker 1: a scumbag turned out.
- 14:11Speaker 8: Yeah, but yeah, man, that that that Royal Rumble, that
- 14:15Speaker 8: was our first collective pay per view.
- 14:17Speaker 1: That was what six right.
- 14:19Speaker 7: No, no, oh four oh four oh four. I don't
- 14:23Speaker 7: I don't forget it. It's just because that, you know,
- 14:26Speaker 7: that Royal Rumble winner is synonymous with like when we
- 14:29Speaker 7: went I just will never forget it, like, and you know,
- 14:32Speaker 7: I can kind of like I didn't forget the Rumble
- 14:36Speaker 7: because like that's when we got the first hints of
- 14:40Speaker 7: brock Lesner in Goldberg, which, by the way, at the time,
- 14:43Speaker 7: at the time, I was fucking psyched, you know, like,
- 14:47Speaker 7: you know, oh, I don't know what am I like
- 14:50Speaker 7: seventeen sixteen, maybe we're like sixteen seventeen and like, oh,
- 14:54Speaker 7: you know, this is back when brock Lesner was peak,
- 14:58Speaker 7: you know, coming into the company and like he was
- 15:00Speaker 7: on SmackDown. They kept him and Goldberg separated until the
- 15:04Speaker 7: Royal Rumble and we finally see the paths crossing and
- 15:08Speaker 7: I was excited for this build up and then we
- 15:10Speaker 7: got to wrestle Mania and it was fucking.
- 15:12Speaker 1: Ship another six minute match. Dude.
- 15:16Speaker 7: They even like added Stone called Steve Auston as the
- 15:18Speaker 7: you know, the the enforcer, the referee, and like you
- 15:20Speaker 7: couldn't even you couldn't even add some because you know,
- 15:24Speaker 7: it was it wasn't it the story. It was just
- 15:26Speaker 7: that there's two guys who were on their way out
- 15:29Speaker 7: of the company already, and we we as fans before
- 15:34Speaker 7: this is before like social media, we knew like these
- 15:37Speaker 7: this is like you know, the dirt sheets. We knew
- 15:40Speaker 7: that these guys were leaving, and we were just fuck you, dude,
- 15:43Speaker 7: You're we felt like you were abandoning us.
- 15:45Speaker 8: You built up a huge character. Is everybody wanted Austin Goldberg?
- 15:51Speaker 7: I know, yep, everybody wanted fans fantasy matches, fantasy matches.
- 16:00Speaker 7: I think we never got Goldberg. You know, Austin Sting
- 16:05Speaker 7: and Taker Taker. Yeah, that's that's the classic. Everybody goes
- 16:10Speaker 7: back to right and like the class of course.
- 16:13Speaker 8: Man, did you see that cool stuff that they did
- 16:16Speaker 8: with Sting for his final match in a wor We
- 16:18Speaker 8: love to say that word on this podcast.
- 16:20Speaker 7: Yeah you can see w Yeah, you know what, it's funny.
- 16:24Speaker 7: I'm We're open to covering all wrestling, all pro wrestling,
- 16:27Speaker 7: even midget wrestling, So.
- 16:29Speaker 8: If you have I just saw Midge. Everyone has to
- 16:33Speaker 8: love Ray, but I just saw a really cool socart.
- 16:38Speaker 8: To get off topic, I just saw really cool dynamite
- 16:42Speaker 8: right here in our hometown here. At the same time,
- 16:44Speaker 8: it was awesome. The place was packed, by the way,
- 16:47Speaker 8: Oh really, people like yeah, yeah, it was to the rafters.
- 16:51Speaker 1: It was.
- 16:51Speaker 8: It was pretty cool. But that may be because I
- 16:53Speaker 8: was there. I don't know, maybe they found out and
- 16:55Speaker 8: they wanted to see me.
- 16:56Speaker 7: Was was everybody just sitting on the on the opposite hardcam?
- 17:01Speaker 8: No, no, no, but it was pretty cool. It was
- 17:08Speaker 8: pretty cool. But man, that rumble with it being the
- 17:11Speaker 8: first one, unless you want to move on from that,
- 17:15Speaker 8: I meant matches.
- 17:17Speaker 7: Yeah, we saw we went to the Rumble. Do I
- 17:20Speaker 7: even remember, like even you and me went to indie
- 17:25Speaker 7: wrestling in like near the baseball arenas, the the fight
- 17:29Speaker 7: in Phils Arena. Do you recall that?
- 17:31Speaker 8: Oh yeah, of course it was in that Fire Company
- 17:34Speaker 8: where when they jump off the top rope they hit
- 17:36Speaker 8: their heads on the on the drop.
- 17:39Speaker 7: Yes, yes, okay, so.
- 17:41Speaker 1: That that's beneficial association.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:44Speaker 7: So like some you know, for people who don't know
- 17:46Speaker 7: there is there is a lower lower tier pro wrestling.
- 17:51Speaker 7: It gets it gets pretty low, it gets pretty low.
- 17:54Speaker 7: How low uh as low as that fucking drop ceiling was?
- 17:57Speaker 1: So yes, someone called it a w I'm just kidding.
- 18:01Speaker 7: Oh my god. Yeah yeah. And then like what I'm
- 18:05Speaker 7: saying is, over the years we've gone then we started
- 18:09Speaker 7: going to like smackdowns, and we started going to rawls
- 18:11Speaker 7: and and then more pay per views, and then somehow
- 18:18Speaker 7: like we found our way. We didn't sit together, we didn't,
- 18:22Speaker 7: but we were there. We found our way to WrestleMania forty.
- 18:28Speaker 6: Now.
- 18:29Speaker 7: It was dude like, honestly, like I always said it
- 18:33Speaker 7: from day one, I was like, dude, like, if they
- 18:35Speaker 7: would ever come to Pennsylvania like close enough to make
- 18:38Speaker 7: the dream worth it, like.
- 18:41Speaker 1: I'd go and I got.
- 18:43Speaker 7: I have to be there, like no matter what, like
- 18:46Speaker 7: whatever it took financially, whatever it took to take off
- 18:49Speaker 7: of work, I don't care who I was dating. I
- 18:51Speaker 7: don't give a fuck. Like I'm fucking gone, like I'm
- 18:54Speaker 7: there to be part of fucking history, literally, part of
- 18:59Speaker 7: like the big WrestleMania in history, like.
- 19:02Speaker 8: They did call up the biggest WrestleMania ever. But of
- 19:04Speaker 8: course now now.
- 19:05Speaker 1: That next year happens to be the biggest wrestle Mania
- 19:08Speaker 1: ever too. It's like that match that Edge had, it
- 19:11Speaker 1: was remember that Edge and Orton the greatest wrestling match
- 19:15Speaker 1: all the time, that that immediately turned me off. I still,
- 19:18Speaker 1: I mean, I enjoyed watching it.
- 19:19Speaker 8: But I'm like, come on now, just like understands greatest wrestlers,
- 19:25Speaker 8: any crime Wharton's involved, it's going to be fabulous. But
- 19:28Speaker 8: nothing against Edge. But I mean I usually say that
- 19:32Speaker 8: every night I have sex, this.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Is going to great, be the greatest sex ever.
- 19:38Speaker 8: Sometimes they believe it.
- 19:45Speaker 7: But dude, like we got it wasn't just you, uh
- 19:48Speaker 7: well you you took your daughter with right to WrestleMania.
- 19:52Speaker 1: I did it, yes, you know, I I ended up
- 19:57Speaker 1: only doing Night one.
- 19:58Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, and tell me about.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Your because oh man, the reason I only did Night
- 20:03Speaker 1: one is because I didn't have any more extra money
- 20:06Speaker 1: for night too.
- 20:07Speaker 8: It was it was in the fourth row. It was
- 20:10Speaker 8: quite an experience. My kid loved lost her mind. It
- 20:15Speaker 8: was fabulous. And I picked night one because I mean
- 20:20Speaker 8: not to say that it was predictable, but you know,
- 20:23Speaker 8: Cody didn't go over the last year. You know, people
- 20:26Speaker 8: would have rioted if they wouldn't have had him win
- 20:28Speaker 8: the next night, So I kind of knew it was.
- 20:30Speaker 8: It was gonna happen the following night, and I really
- 20:33Speaker 8: wanted to see the Rock Enrollment and Rollins and Rhodes
- 20:37Speaker 8: in that ring together. And it's definitely a moment that
- 20:41Speaker 8: I'll never forget. You know how the Rock always points
- 20:43Speaker 8: to his arms and shows off those goosebumps, Well, well
- 20:46Speaker 8: we had him too.
- 20:47Speaker 7: You know, Yeah, I mean, dude, and being so close,
- 20:50Speaker 7: like just just feeling the fucking electricity, just being so close.
- 20:53Speaker 7: There's seventy it was it like seventy two thousand people
- 20:56Speaker 7: that were there.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't warm.
- 21:00Speaker 8: I mean we were warm, but everyone was talking about
- 21:02Speaker 8: how cold it was.
- 21:04Speaker 1: But because we got above the ring.
- 21:07Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw that you guys had the heaters. I
- 21:10Speaker 7: was underneath like the Titan tround all the way to
- 21:12Speaker 7: the other end of the arena. But I was smart.
- 21:15Speaker 7: I was fucking smart. I wore nice boots I were,
- 21:17Speaker 7: I was layered up, and I brought a blanket. I
- 21:21Speaker 7: was smart because the rest of the guys, because the
- 21:24Speaker 7: rest of the gang didn't have Some of them had blanks.
- 21:27Speaker 7: Some of them did. But like the next night, it
- 21:29Speaker 7: wasn't so bad. I didn't need a blanket the next night.
- 21:32Speaker 7: I was also able to smuggle in more alcohol than
- 21:35Speaker 7: too that night that I know, dude, they got me
- 21:39Speaker 7: the first time when I went in. No, yeah, yeah,
- 21:42Speaker 7: they forgot They got me the first time because my my,
- 21:46Speaker 7: my dumb ass wore steel toes and set off the
- 21:49Speaker 7: alarm and then they were like, what's all this? What's
- 21:52Speaker 7: all this? How? And night one I refused to dump it.
- 21:58Speaker 7: I was like, I will drink this light here because
- 22:01Speaker 7: I had the tall Boy cans. So I drank like,
- 22:04Speaker 7: you know the equivalent of like a six pack, like
- 22:05Speaker 7: right there, just fucking chugged it. And I did it
- 22:08Speaker 7: the night oh you know, going into Monday night, raw
- 22:11Speaker 7: like me and Dave Foster, like another listener of the show,
- 22:14Speaker 7: just chugged and chugged beer before we went into the
- 22:16Speaker 7: raw with theirmania. Which it's funny. I can pinpoint exactly
- 22:21Speaker 7: where that wrestle media week and where I lost my voice.
- 22:25Speaker 7: It was when the Undertaker came out. That's when my
- 22:28Speaker 7: voice fucking crackled and it was gone.
- 22:31Speaker 1: It was gone when.
- 22:34Speaker 7: Yeah, well you think Night two, you know, I especially
- 22:39Speaker 7: as a fan, just screaming all night and sing it.
- 22:43Speaker 7: You know, that's another thing. Like twenty years ago, we
- 22:46Speaker 7: didn't the entrance music, the entrance uh and and fan
- 22:51Speaker 7: involvement was not as big as it is today. I mean, fuck, dude,
- 22:55Speaker 7: we got people yeating all over the place like we
- 22:57Speaker 7: have a literally a masturbation. Joe is now like the
- 23:01Speaker 7: peak wrestling, and you know what, it makes sense when
- 23:06Speaker 7: you see who's in charge of the company, Triple H.
- 23:09Speaker 1: I mean, of course got a promotion to.
- 23:16Speaker 8: I missed what it was, but Michael's got a promotion
- 23:19Speaker 8: as well, so I'm sure it'll get even dirtier.
- 23:22Speaker 7: Dude, do you recall when I know I'm going off
- 23:25Speaker 7: a little bit, but when they had to buy the
- 23:27Speaker 7: rights to the word eat off that one guy that
- 23:31Speaker 7: was MLW.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah yeah.
- 23:33Speaker 8: MLW sued them for the yeats and then I guess
- 23:36Speaker 8: I guess they settled or something.
- 23:38Speaker 1: I'm not Yeah, they're still using it.
- 23:40Speaker 7: But like think about like I don't know how much
- 23:42Speaker 7: they settled for, like whatever it was, like now it's
- 23:44Speaker 7: probably not enough. After all the fucking j usum where
- 23:48Speaker 7: straight to the Yeah, oh my gosh, yep uh yeah,
- 23:54Speaker 7: so we got we finally got to WrestleMania. Dream like
- 23:57Speaker 7: for me, bucket list signed off like I literally did
- 24:01Speaker 7: all three, both nights and then the raw after Mania.
- 24:04Speaker 7: I couldn't like, I couldn't have had it any better.
- 24:08Speaker 7: And it's so funny because you can spend so much
- 24:14Speaker 7: money at WrestleMania. It's ridiculous. And I'm not talking guys.
- 24:18Speaker 7: I'm not talking like just the seats. I'm talking like
- 24:21Speaker 7: the convention center. I'm talking autographs, you.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Know, WWE World, Yeah.
- 24:27Speaker 7: The ww experience or whatever. Yeah, there's that, and like
- 24:33Speaker 7: just the merch and and oh my god, I have
- 24:36Speaker 7: a cup, a fucking plastic cup that cost me fifteen
- 24:39Speaker 7: dollars but I love that fucking cup. Then, and I
- 24:43Speaker 7: hope and I have it until the day I die.
- 24:45Speaker 7: That's one of the things I got from WrestleMania because
- 24:48Speaker 7: I was like, I don't know, it's just I gotten
- 24:52Speaker 7: to the point where like, I'm very wise about the
- 24:54Speaker 7: wrestling merch I get now, especially with the prices on shit,
- 24:57Speaker 7: like they're so expensive. They were ridiculous. For the T shirt.
- 25:02Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I was not buying spending the amount of
- 25:05Speaker 7: money they wanted for Philly three sixteen. I was like,
- 25:07Speaker 7: I will wait.
- 25:09Speaker 1: It would have been cool.
- 25:10Speaker 8: Can can I jump in with with with a really
- 25:12Speaker 8: cool moment that you may not even know that I
- 25:14Speaker 8: was there?
- 25:16Speaker 1: I ended up going to Triple X raw.
- 25:21Speaker 7: Oh oh yeah.
- 25:23Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so you know I have I have that moment.
- 25:26Speaker 8: I took my daughter and we went and I saw
- 25:30Speaker 8: that moment that Bray had with Undertaker in the middle
- 25:33Speaker 8: of the ring, which was pretty freaking awesome.
- 25:36Speaker 7: Oh wait, I was there too, No, yeah, I was.
- 25:43Speaker 7: I had to think about it. I was like, wait
- 25:44Speaker 7: a second, that's when Ella Knight was out, right, Ellen
- 25:47Speaker 7: Knight was out?
- 25:48Speaker 6: Oh oh.
- 25:48Speaker 1: They were really starting to push him. And they were
- 25:51Speaker 1: also doing the lead up to Taker and AJ at WrestleMania.
- 25:55Speaker 7: I think maybe and this also back when Sammy's a
- 26:00Speaker 7: was on trial and the bloodline. Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
- 26:05Speaker 7: I can't believe that. Yeah, I was there, what the fuck? Renion? Yeah?
- 26:11Speaker 7: And then you know what, I think that's the one.
- 26:14Speaker 7: I went with my ex and I went with Dave
- 26:16Speaker 7: Foster and Dave like I didn't. Dave always does this.
- 26:20Speaker 7: He's notorious for this. I know you're listening, David, some
- 26:22Speaker 7: bitch listen because bitch fucking Dave last minute, right, he
- 26:29Speaker 7: will always last minute. Yo, you want to go to
- 26:32Speaker 7: Monday Night Raw? Yes, because it's like he's like, yo,
- 26:38Speaker 7: pay for your ticket. I'm like all right, but like,
- 26:40Speaker 7: here's the thing is, like I start work at five
- 26:43Speaker 7: in the morning Monday Night Raw. These motherfuckers keep extending
- 26:47Speaker 7: it to the three hour mark. No, go back to
- 26:50Speaker 7: the two hours, you know, why not just because I
- 26:53Speaker 7: want to watch less fucking wrestling. But when Raw comes here,
- 26:57Speaker 7: I want to go and get the fuck back to
- 26:59Speaker 7: my house for midnight, you know, like exactly, I want
- 27:04Speaker 7: to leave Philly and drive one hour from Philly to
- 27:07Speaker 7: my house and be in bed by midnight. But no, like, yeah,
- 27:13Speaker 7: you had to fuck it up and extend it three hours.
- 27:15Speaker 7: And now, well thankfully.
- 27:18Speaker 8: Rawl is w c w's fault, right, Well, yeah, they
- 27:23Speaker 8: turned nitro into three hours, and then of course they
- 27:26Speaker 8: had to react to that.
- 27:28Speaker 1: I think I'm right.
- 27:30Speaker 7: I'm not sure because like do we For the longest time,
- 27:33Speaker 7: rall was always a two hours that two hour mark,
- 27:37Speaker 7: and like now smackdowns three hours like now and now
- 27:42Speaker 7: we also excuse me, ah, yes, we also have this
- 27:46Speaker 7: thing called l f G Let's Legends something future something
- 27:56Speaker 7: like that. Basically, it's a new Tough Enough. People are
- 28:00Speaker 7: rolling their eyes. Oh, it's just like tough Enough exactly.
- 28:04Speaker 7: It's just rebranding it.
- 28:05Speaker 1: I told him I was busy. I couldn't participate.
- 28:09Speaker 7: I just sometimes I just go back to like some
- 28:11Speaker 7: old Tough Enough videos and there's Triple A's talking to
- 28:14Speaker 7: the guys and he's just like, what are your balls
- 28:16Speaker 7: is hanging out?
- 28:17Speaker 6: Oh?
- 28:18Speaker 1: Yes, and he threw it in just so smooth.
- 28:25Speaker 7: Yeah, when you're in the ring, you know, you and
- 28:27Speaker 7: your opponent, Hey, when your balls is hanging out?
- 28:31Speaker 1: I think I saw man go over and play with
- 28:33Speaker 1: them a little bit.
- 28:34Speaker 7: Fucking man, dude, I don't know why this guy Maven
- 28:37Speaker 7: is in my YouTube feed all the time, Like you, what.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Do you think of that podcast, it's pretty interesting.
- 28:43Speaker 7: I listened to bits and pieces of it, Like he's
- 28:45Speaker 7: literally he reminds me of that fucking magician from the
- 28:49Speaker 7: nineties who just gave away all the fucking secrets. You know,
- 28:52Speaker 7: he wore that mask and he just showed you all
- 28:54Speaker 7: the magic. I'm like, dude, like I don't want to know,
- 28:57Speaker 7: right he is. He's kind of like telling you every
- 29:00Speaker 7: like he's literally killing k Fabe. I understand to get
- 29:04Speaker 7: over I know, and I waited, like I understand k
- 29:07Speaker 7: Fabe is dead, right, Like characters don't act like them,
- 29:10Speaker 7: like you know, the Undertaker doesn't go out and act
- 29:13Speaker 7: like the Undertaker every day where he's at he's you know,
- 29:15Speaker 7: it's like yeah, yeah some people. Some people it's it's
- 29:22Speaker 7: fucking great when your character, your gimmick is you like,
- 29:26Speaker 7: you are your own gimmick and you can just be
- 29:28Speaker 7: your fuck yeah right, you can just be yourself wherever
- 29:30Speaker 7: you go. He just turned seventy eight, By the way.
- 29:34Speaker 1: You believe he's ye.
- 29:35Speaker 8: I was just gonna say, can you believe his body
- 29:37Speaker 8: is still functioning after all of that and all that
- 29:40Speaker 8: dick wagon.
- 29:41Speaker 7: And all that fucking divorces and man, just who fucking
- 29:48Speaker 7: Rick Flayer? Man, I can't believe that motherfucker's still going.
- 29:52Speaker 7: He's unstopping.
- 29:54Speaker 1: You know, how about Dustin Man? Have you I don't know.
- 29:57Speaker 8: I know you don't watch a lot of AW, but
- 29:59Speaker 8: he's still performing at a pretty great level. Really, Yes,
- 30:04Speaker 8: it's on Wrestling Organization now.
- 30:07Speaker 7: Yeah, I like, here's the thing with AW. I am aware,
- 30:12Speaker 7: I can see it.
- 30:14Speaker 1: I don't.
- 30:15Speaker 7: I don't know if I really I'll flip the channels,
- 30:18Speaker 7: but every time I do. Man, it's just when AW
- 30:21Speaker 7: first started. I was definitely watching Head to Head. I
- 30:24Speaker 7: was watching on two TVs. I was watching a W
- 30:26Speaker 7: and n XT and I don't know, man, it's just.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Oh, talk about NXT. I gotta cut you off. Did
- 30:34Speaker 1: you see that there was a nip slip last night
- 30:37Speaker 1: on NXT?
- 30:38Speaker 7: Yes? Yes, very good.
- 30:40Speaker 8: Yes, the Juggernaut she I think it was her right breast,
- 30:45Speaker 8: just saying it happened.
- 30:46Speaker 7: Yes, very wimsical. Yes.
- 30:48Speaker 1: I may have taken a picture. I can send it
- 30:50Speaker 1: to you.
- 30:52Speaker 7: Just makes remember on VHS, dude, I paused it.
- 30:57Speaker 1: I paused right here VH at his first match.
- 31:02Speaker 7: I'm curious, do you have any VHS tape still of
- 31:05Speaker 7: money have all of them.
- 31:08Speaker 8: I kept every single one. There may be some pornography
- 31:11Speaker 8: that may have been recorded over some of them, so
- 31:14Speaker 8: I can't watch them with my kid. But but yeah,
- 31:17Speaker 8: there's a lot, two cases of.
- 31:20Speaker 7: Them somehow every month that's gonna end up in some
- 31:25Speaker 7: sort of like collectors. Somebody's watch them, and then there's
- 31:28Speaker 7: just gonna be that one.
- 31:31Speaker 8: Yep, at one moment. It was usually scrambled. Probably back
- 31:36Speaker 8: in the day too, it was probably that.
- 31:39Speaker 7: But you like, I never seen somebody with so many
- 31:42Speaker 7: VHS tapes, like just you had so many like under
- 31:45Speaker 7: your bed, in your closet, like fucking all over place, dude.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there's there's a lot of great And you know.
- 31:53Speaker 7: What's funny is you never taped SmackDown. You only taped.
- 31:56Speaker 8: All Yeah, because I knew that that if Michaels was
- 32:00Speaker 8: coming back, it would have been on wrong the main show.
- 32:02Speaker 7: Yeah. And you know what also back then, that's when
- 32:07Speaker 7: SmackDown and then we would get the spoilers a few
- 32:10Speaker 7: days early. And yeah, it was like I think SmackDown
- 32:14Speaker 7: was on like a Thursday then, And yeah, fucking SmackDown's
- 32:17Speaker 7: been a whore. It's been all over the place. It's
- 32:20Speaker 7: been on like Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays and Slut's
- 32:25Speaker 7: been just all.
- 32:27Speaker 8: But speaking of SmackDown, are you going to bring this
- 32:29Speaker 8: into the show later on?
- 32:31Speaker 1: Because I've been dying to talk about it.
- 32:33Speaker 7: What some news man?
- 32:37Speaker 1: Rock is back? I mean, I mean I want your soul?
- 32:42Speaker 7: Wait, hold on a second, hold on, wait a second,
- 32:44Speaker 7: Wait a minute, hold on, no way, somebody else.
- 33:04Speaker 3: Okay, I'm luck did like it's on me now.
- 33:13Speaker 2: I don't get them all. I wanna get them all.
- 33:20Speaker 7: Oh god, oh god, oh Dre welcome back.
- 33:29Speaker 6: Yeah, better late than never, but always on time. Made event.
- 33:33Speaker 6: Dre Uso has now joined your podcast.
- 33:37Speaker 1: What's up us?
- 33:39Speaker 6: It was good with you so much, Dre.
- 33:43Speaker 7: This is this is Ron, childhood friend of mine.
- 33:47Speaker 6: Was good with you.
- 33:47Speaker 3: Ron.
- 33:48Speaker 6: How you been mate? Oh man?
- 33:50Speaker 1: Been doing good?
- 33:51Speaker 8: As we were just talking about that that that last SmackDown.
- 33:54Speaker 8: I'm still i still got electricity running through my veins
- 33:57Speaker 8: from the great one.
- 33:58Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
- 33:59Speaker 8: The head of the table, the final board, the final Boss.
- 34:05Speaker 7: The nicknames. This guy, the Rock just keeps coming with
- 34:08Speaker 7: the nicknames. I never thought he could have a better
- 34:11Speaker 7: one than the People's Champion. You know, like, but then
- 34:15Speaker 7: then the rock just fucking finds one the final boss, like, dude,
- 34:18Speaker 7: no way, awesome.
- 34:21Speaker 6: Yeah, he totally stole that from the nerd culture.
- 34:25Speaker 7: You fucking take it, man.
- 34:28Speaker 8: It looks like tall whenever he enters. Man, you can't,
- 34:33Speaker 8: you can't deny it. You know, it's crazy. Oh, absolutely,
- 34:37Speaker 8: we were.
- 34:38Speaker 7: We talked about, you know, some some wrestling from back
- 34:42Speaker 7: in the day. We talked about how we got involved
- 34:44Speaker 7: in wrestling, or how he got involved in wrestling. We
- 34:46Speaker 7: talked about the build up to him going to WrestleMania.
- 34:49Speaker 7: Dre was at WrestleMania. We were all at WrestleMania. Uh,
- 34:54Speaker 7: and then we found out we were both at the
- 34:56Speaker 7: same was it the Raw one thousandth episode? Yes, we
- 35:00Speaker 7: just found out we were at the same fucking show.
- 35:02Speaker 7: We're not sitting anywhere near each other. Actually, you know what,
- 35:05Speaker 7: I remember you sending me pictures because I think you
- 35:10Speaker 7: were sending me like pictures that you were sitting like
- 35:12Speaker 7: a lot closer because Dave and me got our tickets
- 35:15Speaker 7: like last minute like that. I think I was sitting
- 35:18Speaker 7: like my back was at the back of the arena,
- 35:22Speaker 7: like bloody nose section, like last minute.
- 35:27Speaker 6: But It's funny how that happens. How you'll find people
- 35:30Speaker 6: at wrestling shows that you don't expect to be there.
- 35:32Speaker 6: Like I remember when last time Raw was in town
- 35:35Speaker 6: here in Norfolk, and I went to the show. You know,
- 35:41Speaker 6: my homegirl had hooked me up with the tickets, and
- 35:46Speaker 6: I remember walking up to the Scope arena and then
- 35:49Speaker 6: I just hear somebody yelling on him yo dray like
- 35:53Speaker 6: and I turned around and it's my homeboy, Jose, one
- 35:56Speaker 6: of my co workers that I used to work with,
- 35:58Speaker 6: and he's walking up, I think with his brother or something.
- 36:01Speaker 6: I'm like, the funck y'all doing here? Raw, I didn't
- 36:04Speaker 6: even know y'all was into wrestling like that.
- 36:07Speaker 7: Oh guys, Oh no, we got running. It's a running
- 36:12Speaker 7: hold on here we go right.
- 36:20Speaker 6: Well, my stunning is dance in the neighborhood.
- 36:25Speaker 7: Now everybody's doing it because it feels so good.
- 36:29Speaker 4: Oh you need does a part nothing that know how
- 36:32Speaker 4: to move and the rest three he's he's.
- 36:36Speaker 7: Just stick the groove and just stunded. Is hard to stop.
- 36:40Speaker 7: He just go part you know what he g A
- 36:44Speaker 7: B g ag g.
- 36:52Speaker 3: Dyle.
- 36:53Speaker 9: Oh it's me, It's it's the d O L E
- 36:56Speaker 9: late as usual.
- 36:58Speaker 10: You know, I have my fucking hand in my mouth
- 37:00Speaker 10: because I'm fucking laughing so hard at this fucking music
- 37:03Speaker 10: that you picked. So good, baby, I know, but like
- 37:07Speaker 10: every time you fucking send me music, it's always like
- 37:10Speaker 10: far from the left field.
- 37:12Speaker 7: I'm like, what is he sending me today?
- 37:15Speaker 9: You know, I got to keep it, keep it interesting.
- 37:17Speaker 1: You know how you're doing?
- 37:19Speaker 6: Hey, how are you? It was that junkyard dog we're saying,
- 37:22Speaker 6: grab them cakes.
- 37:24Speaker 9: Grab them cakes.
- 37:26Speaker 6: I've not heard that so obscure and yet so relevant
- 37:30Speaker 6: and simultaneously so inappropriate in twenty twenty five.
- 37:35Speaker 1: I like to cover all the bases, you know what
- 37:37Speaker 1: I'm saying.
- 37:39Speaker 7: I mean, well, I mean, dre we, I'm surprised you
- 37:42Speaker 7: didn't you choose your you know, for Black History monthy
- 37:45Speaker 7: black and black black, black black.
- 37:49Speaker 6: You know what. It didn't even cross my mind. It
- 37:53Speaker 6: did not even cross my mind. I didn't even think
- 37:56Speaker 6: about the fact that, yeah, this is the only episode
- 37:59Speaker 6: we've recorded this month, isn't it? But did we know?
- 38:04Speaker 7: Yeah it might be.
- 38:06Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't remember for a rumble, episode was in
- 38:07Speaker 6: January not but yeah, it totally did not even cross
- 38:10Speaker 6: my mind.
- 38:10Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the.
- 38:11Speaker 11: Rumble episode was February because I think I used Cocobe
- 38:14Speaker 11: Wears music for that.
- 38:16Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yes, sorry, that's right, that's right. You did well.
- 38:19Speaker 7: Next time remember this episode. I'll make sure you're black
- 38:23Speaker 7: black black, and the black black black, black black.
- 38:27Speaker 1: It's a lot of black.
- 38:28Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, you know it's it's in there. It's in
- 38:31Speaker 7: the SoundBite somewhere. I mean now now, now I kind
- 38:36Speaker 7: of want to pull it up. Uh wait, where is it?
- 38:40Speaker 1: You don't want to pull it out?
- 38:42Speaker 7: No?
- 38:42Speaker 9: Wait, podcast?
- 38:45Speaker 1: No cameras wrong, thank god.
- 38:51Speaker 7: Because yeah, we don't do cameras over here? Is it
- 38:55Speaker 7: this one?
- 38:55Speaker 3: So I h.
- 38:58Speaker 1: From the Jericho Cruise, Yeah, to tell.
- 39:01Speaker 7: Us about what is what is it called the Rock
- 39:05Speaker 7: and Wrestle Ling Rager.
- 39:08Speaker 9: Yes?
- 39:08Speaker 1: It was my third year in a row.
- 39:10Speaker 8: Yeah, and this time it went to the Dominican Republic.
- 39:13Speaker 8: But really the location is not important where the ship goes.
- 39:17Speaker 1: It's what happens on this ship.
- 39:19Speaker 8: It is honestly one of the coolest experiences that I've
- 39:22Speaker 8: experienced my entire life.
- 39:23Speaker 1: Again, I paid the money to do it three times
- 39:25Speaker 1: in a row. You know that this year. You know,
- 39:27Speaker 1: obviously Chris was there. It's his cruise.
- 39:29Speaker 8: There was Will Offspray, Tony Storm, Bobby Lashley, MVP. I'm
- 39:34Speaker 8: not sure of your aid anyone's aw knowledge, but I
- 39:38Speaker 8: mean Mark Briscoe was there. Ricochet that was awesome, Big Bill,
- 39:43Speaker 8: and of course the real one was there. Everyone saw
- 39:46Speaker 8: that that bite on YouTube that was going around that
- 39:50Speaker 8: was full of energy. You know, we had the Danny Garcia,
- 39:53Speaker 8: Brian Cage, Lance Archer, Al snow is there, Jay Lethal.
- 39:59Speaker 8: He was doing his and if you have any ring
- 40:02Speaker 8: of honor experience, he was doing his Michief black macheese.
- 40:05Speaker 1: Moo character, which is just.
- 40:08Speaker 8: So real, just so there's so much respect in that
- 40:14Speaker 8: when when when he does that, it's it's it's amazing.
- 40:16Speaker 7: You know.
- 40:17Speaker 8: Last year I met Well he was the a W
- 40:20Speaker 8: champion swerve Strickland that was larger than like Scott Steiner.
- 40:26Speaker 8: I had a drink with Scott Steiner at a bar
- 40:28Speaker 8: in the Dominican Republic, which was let me tell you,
- 40:31Speaker 8: why are.
- 40:32Speaker 11: You guys just walking around the whole time or like
- 40:34Speaker 11: are they kind of separate?
- 40:37Speaker 1: Not separate at all? So over the three years, I
- 40:40Speaker 1: have a lot of different stories.
- 40:42Speaker 9: You know.
- 40:42Speaker 8: One of my best interactions was with Johnny TV, Johnny Nitro,
- 40:48Speaker 8: Johnny Moore, John Morrison of eminem Just.
- 40:55Speaker 1: Such a really cool dude, you know.
- 40:57Speaker 8: Nick Nemeth, also known as Dolph Ziggler was on was
- 41:00Speaker 8: on the ship this year. Just a really great guy.
- 41:04Speaker 8: Just I mean, we're drinking together, there's karaoke together. I
- 41:06Speaker 8: saw Will Ospray and Bobby Lashley do karaoke like you know,
- 41:12Speaker 8: you can't even I can't. MVP is a beast. He
- 41:15Speaker 8: doesn't show up on on screen, but that dude is
- 41:18Speaker 8: built like a brick ship house. But yeah, I mean
- 41:22Speaker 8: it's it's it's it's absolutely encompensated. It's incompensating. It's you're
- 41:27Speaker 8: just around them all the time. Every seat is good.
- 41:30Speaker 8: There's wrestling three times a day for about two hours
- 41:32Speaker 8: at a time, and they tell a story from beginning
- 41:35Speaker 8: to end. Who's the guy that was doing all that
- 41:39Speaker 8: indie stuff. He used to be the Woo Woo guy.
- 41:44Speaker 8: But yes, oh my god, what a cool dude. Zach Ryder, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 41:54Speaker 8: and just a human being man, a regular regular Joe.
- 41:59Speaker 8: I had a freaking thirty minute conversation just shooting the
- 42:02Speaker 8: ship at.
- 42:02Speaker 1: A bar with him, and it was it was awes.
- 42:08Speaker 7: Yes, I'm a lucky guy States champion Ship.
- 42:16Speaker 1: I bet, I bet she's his champion.
- 42:20Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm sorry. So you mentioned that Ricochet was there.
- 42:26Speaker 6: I think he did not bring Samantha with him. Oh
- 42:29Speaker 6: she was there, bro Oh she was.
- 42:32Speaker 8: She was there, and every angle of her is just
- 42:35Speaker 8: fucking spectacular. And you know what, she is such a
- 42:38Speaker 8: fucking everyday person. I I had talked to her, and
- 42:43Speaker 8: most of them actually come up to you and just
- 42:45Speaker 8: start conversations. I don't know what they're getting paid to
- 42:47Speaker 8: do this, but it was insane, but yeah, it was.
- 42:52Speaker 1: It was cool.
- 42:53Speaker 8: Ricochet was against I think hit him and Osprey. They
- 42:57Speaker 8: were in a tag team match together against each other
- 43:00Speaker 8: against each other. I don't remember, but it was fabulous.
- 43:02Speaker 8: Like last year, the Big Show was there and he
- 43:04Speaker 8: was he was awesome. The Dudley Boys were there last year.
- 43:07Speaker 8: They were breaking tables. But I don't want to take
- 43:09Speaker 8: up too much of the airspace.
- 43:11Speaker 6: It was cool. You're the guests. We don't want to
- 43:13Speaker 6: want to hear about the cruise. We ain't got shit
- 43:15Speaker 6: to talk about.
- 43:16Speaker 3: Man.
- 43:17Speaker 1: I'll send you guys a bunch of pictures. I mean,
- 43:19Speaker 1: my phone got stolen this time, But I got tons
- 43:21Speaker 1: of stuff from the last few years.
- 43:23Speaker 6: Tell you right now, you're selling me on this, motherfucker.
- 43:26Speaker 6: I'm sitting there like next year, this might be dar It's.
- 43:31Speaker 8: Gonna sail in in the fall this year, so I
- 43:35Speaker 8: may not be able to go because of work, but
- 43:37Speaker 8: it's it's sales usually in the beginning of February. It
- 43:40Speaker 8: is the coolest wrestling fan experience. And now that and
- 43:44Speaker 8: it's mostly aw wrestling, but with so many people jumping
- 43:48Speaker 8: back and forth constantly, you never know who you're gonna see.
- 43:52Speaker 8: Oh yes, are any of you guys familiar with Downstate?
- 43:59Speaker 1: They do? You know?
- 44:00Speaker 8: They do Cody Rhoades music. They They've done the mizz
- 44:03Speaker 8: They've done Doff Ziggler's music. They did some stuff for
- 44:07Speaker 8: Bray Wyatt. They were there performing and it it was
- 44:10Speaker 8: it was incredible.
- 44:13Speaker 7: There's this for me. There's just something about going on
- 44:17Speaker 7: a cruise. I'm just not I'm not for man, I'm
- 44:21Speaker 7: not I'm not an ocean guy. And I see, I
- 44:25Speaker 7: see you trying to tap me with wrestling. Now you're
- 44:27Speaker 7: trying to get wrestling and put it on a fucking
- 44:29Speaker 7: boat and trying to get me to go out to
- 44:30Speaker 7: sea there.
- 44:31Speaker 1: If you want to be wasted in the middle of
- 44:33Speaker 1: the ocean, bro while there's wrestling going on in the
- 44:35Speaker 1: ship and there's nothing else interfering, You're you're you know,
- 44:40Speaker 1: if you don't pay for the Internet package, you feel
- 44:42Speaker 1: like you're actually experiencing life again.
- 44:44Speaker 8: It's it's quite special. And let me tell you Jericho
- 44:48Speaker 8: being such a huge star that he is, like he's
- 44:52Speaker 8: just he's just meandering around, you know, taking pictures. Now,
- 44:56Speaker 8: when I took my daughter You're one, I got a
- 44:58Speaker 8: lot more attention because I mean they were just all
- 45:02Speaker 8: over her, you know, just just I mean the guns
- 45:05Speaker 8: you guys familiar with the guns over in a w.
- 45:08Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 45:11Speaker 8: They They were so so kind to her, and they
- 45:14Speaker 8: ran karaoke that was insane.
- 45:19Speaker 6: He sounds like a bless I mean also probably expensive
- 45:22Speaker 6: as ship.
- 45:22Speaker 1: But well it's it's it's about two grand.
- 45:25Speaker 8: It can get to be about three once you you
- 45:27Speaker 8: know Taylor and you know the bar package and stuff
- 45:31Speaker 8: like that. You know, Elijah was there, better known as
- 45:41Speaker 8: That was awesome seeing him because I mean, why would
- 45:44Speaker 8: they fire that guy?
- 45:46Speaker 1: I just don't get it.
- 45:47Speaker 7: Oh, there's a lot of people I wonder why they
- 45:50Speaker 7: let go. And then there's people I wonder why they
- 45:52Speaker 7: have it let go, Like there's this people who I'm like,
- 45:57Speaker 7: how are you still collecting a fucking paycheck from this company?
- 46:01Speaker 7: You know, there's people that they just dropped the fucking
- 46:04Speaker 7: ball with and it's just like wasted. You know, we
- 46:08Speaker 7: sit here all day and talk about it.
- 46:10Speaker 9: We're on the Royal Rumbo one day and release three
- 46:12Speaker 9: days later.
- 46:14Speaker 6: I'm sitting over here wondering is Electa Lopez going to
- 46:17Speaker 6: be on that cruise in the fall.
- 46:19Speaker 8: Yeah, they'll start, they'll start announcing in about maybe five months.
- 46:26Speaker 8: They they'll they'll announce some of the people that will.
- 46:28Speaker 1: Still be there.
- 46:29Speaker 8: But usually you can always count on whoever is in
- 46:34Speaker 8: the stable with Jericho at the time is going to
- 46:38Speaker 8: always be on the cruise. So the j s A,
- 46:41Speaker 8: which was Matt Maynard and all those guys with what's
- 46:46Speaker 8: her name she's dating, Jungle Boy and a Jay, they
- 46:50Speaker 8: were all on while that was happening. That that was
- 46:53Speaker 8: just so much fun.
- 46:55Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
- 46:57Speaker 7: Damn. Well, yeah, well we talked about before you you
- 47:03Speaker 7: guys got on, we talked about like what Ron's favorite
- 47:06Speaker 7: wrestler was, Big Uh Sean Michaels Mark, Uh, it's yeah,
- 47:12Speaker 7: Isai soo? But like now Ron, like in in this
- 47:17Speaker 7: modern wrestling, you know who is like your like top
- 47:22Speaker 7: like I almost say like a handful of WW guys
- 47:25Speaker 7: right now in the company.
- 47:27Speaker 6: W W E.
- 47:28Speaker 8: I mean I gotta go with Cody because I I
- 47:30Speaker 8: mean I watched him prove himself and put the work
- 47:33Speaker 8: in an a W ring event himself and Ring of
- 47:35Speaker 8: Honor go to New Japan before that, I mean someone
- 47:38Speaker 8: that bets on himself like that. I mean that was
- 47:40Speaker 8: his decision to leave the company before and now I
- 47:43Speaker 8: mean look at him. He he's larger than life. I mean,
- 47:48Speaker 8: so Cody, you know, always gonna be love Randy just
- 47:52Speaker 8: because he's one of the greatest. I mean, I'm more
- 47:58Speaker 8: of an a W guy. I'm you, although I watch
- 48:00Speaker 8: all the pay per views, I'm always gonna watch Raw,
- 48:02Speaker 8: I watch SmackDown.
- 48:04Speaker 1: But like Kenny Omega.
- 48:06Speaker 8: Is is ridiculous, Kyle Fletcher, all these young talents, I'm
- 48:10Speaker 8: trying to I try to focus on some of the
- 48:12Speaker 8: young guys because they're just so full of piss and vinegar.
- 48:15Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna be the future.
- 48:17Speaker 8: And MJF like these are all rock stars. I can't
- 48:20Speaker 8: think of a lot of a lot of up and
- 48:22Speaker 8: comers that really. I mean, you've got that what's his
- 48:24Speaker 8: name in n x T, the black guy who was
- 48:27Speaker 8: just built like a brick ship house.
- 48:28Speaker 1: He's got what was that? No? No, he was really
- 48:34Speaker 1: hot last year Williams. Yeah, yeah, he's really good. Did
- 48:39Speaker 1: you guys see the NXT the main event? The main event?
- 48:44Speaker 1: It was Starks? Whoever starts partner.
- 48:46Speaker 6: Was this week? This week? Yeah? Well Ricky Saints as
- 48:51Speaker 6: he goes by now along with Javon Edmund.
- 48:56Speaker 1: That kid moves differently that you don't.
- 48:59Speaker 6: Jump out the fucking building that had what he hadn't
- 49:05Speaker 6: imagine with Orton right, Yes, yes, I watched that. Uh
- 49:11Speaker 6: he's going for his what was it?
- 49:13Speaker 7: Uh?
- 49:13Speaker 6: Some of he was going his finisher. I think that
- 49:15Speaker 6: was being countered into a uh r kao And he
- 49:18Speaker 6: kind of botched it a little bit, and afterwards he
- 49:20Speaker 6: was just like super apologetic to Randy Orton on camera
- 49:24Speaker 6: about it, and Randy was like, it's okay, it's okay,
- 49:26Speaker 6: it's okay. That little moment kind of went viral a
- 49:29Speaker 6: little bit.
- 49:30Speaker 1: Imagine the nerves.
- 49:32Speaker 6: Yeah, he's got he's got definitely the ability if he
- 49:36Speaker 6: can avoid injury and uh and you know, improved, continue
- 49:42Speaker 6: to improve. He definitely has star potential. He could be
- 49:46Speaker 6: the next great high flyer because, like I said, that
- 49:48Speaker 6: dude can jump out the fucking building.
- 49:51Speaker 8: And he moves like a cartoon character, you know, not
- 49:54Speaker 8: different from Ricochet, because you know, there's certain talents that
- 49:58Speaker 8: are just above you know, the ones that as far
- 50:02Speaker 8: as like when you want to talk about like a
- 50:03Speaker 8: mount Rushmore or something that they don't even belong on
- 50:06Speaker 8: the mountain because their float above the mountain in my opinion.
- 50:12Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean he moves so.
- 50:15Speaker 8: To him, he's himself, like he moves different than everybody else,
- 50:19Speaker 8: kind of like like the rock in the you know,
- 50:21Speaker 8: when the rock punched, he looked different.
- 50:22Speaker 1: When the rock ran, he looked different. When the rock
- 50:24Speaker 1: would do a move, it looked different.
- 50:26Speaker 8: From everybody else. Like you stop in your head turns like,
- 50:30Speaker 8: oh shit. I don't know if I answered that question.
- 50:35Speaker 8: Great for you, though, I mean you ask me who
- 50:37Speaker 8: my favorite, I mean, i'd have to say Cody and
- 50:39Speaker 8: O see him punk. There's a lot of haters out
- 50:42Speaker 8: there and I was never on the punk train, but
- 50:44Speaker 8: I think he brings a lot, you know, to it.
- 50:50Speaker 8: But I'm not tuning into Sea Punk. I'm tuning into
- 50:52Speaker 8: see you know Cody or Kevin Owens. I mean talk
- 50:55Speaker 8: about underrated, yeah, but but maybe not under I mean
- 51:00Speaker 8: who did they pick to wrestle Austin at WrestleMania, Kevin Owens?
- 51:04Speaker 1: Like that means something. Yep, They're gonna trust this dude
- 51:09Speaker 1: to fucking throw Austin around. You can't hurt Austin. That
- 51:12Speaker 1: be like hurting Cody or you know, shit, or hurt
- 51:15Speaker 1: In l a.
- 51:16Speaker 8: Knighter like he's as much as he's great, and they
- 51:19Speaker 8: don't really put him in that number one spot.
- 51:20Speaker 1: But Kao's a dude.
- 51:22Speaker 11: I think you could drop him into any era and
- 51:25Speaker 11: he would work just as well as he does in
- 51:28Speaker 11: this one. And I don't think you can say that
- 51:29Speaker 11: about everybody. But you could throw him in the eighties,
- 51:32Speaker 11: you could throw him in Attitude era, you can throw
- 51:35Speaker 11: him in the PG era and he I think he
- 51:38Speaker 11: would work just as well no matter where he stuck him,
- 51:41Speaker 11: stick him in the seventies, stick him in JIP rocket promotions.
- 51:44Speaker 11: I don't think it matters, you know, I just think
- 51:47Speaker 11: he has that kind of wherever he is, he makes
- 51:50Speaker 11: that he rises up and he makes the place better.
- 51:54Speaker 1: Absolutely agree.
- 51:57Speaker 7: Yeah, what about women in wrestlers? Like what what female
- 51:59Speaker 7: wrestler are you like fond of?
- 52:02Speaker 6: Oh Man?
- 52:03Speaker 8: I mean there there's just so much talent and NXT
- 52:06Speaker 8: to kind of even really you know, pinpoint and I
- 52:09Speaker 8: also watch less NXT than anything else, although it is
- 52:13Speaker 8: pretty damn entertaining. You know, I'm I'm not really shined
- 52:19Speaker 8: on by any any of the younger ones. I mean,
- 52:21Speaker 8: I think Becky Becky is a talent that I think
- 52:26Speaker 8: was before.
- 52:26Speaker 1: She left, she was getting Austin pops. I mean that
- 52:31Speaker 1: that that was that was huge and for for a
- 52:33Speaker 1: female to get that reaction.
- 52:36Speaker 8: I was watching, I was paying attention. You know, she
- 52:39Speaker 8: was doing her skits with Bailey on on the ramp.
- 52:42Speaker 8: She had her own like you know, segment show I'll say,
- 52:45Speaker 8: like Piper's Pit. Of course, I think about the Heartbreak Hotel,
- 52:48Speaker 8: but come on, Piper's Pit shit you get you know,
- 52:51Speaker 8: you've had a lot. Ko had his own and Jericho
- 52:54Speaker 8: had his highlight reel.
- 52:54Speaker 1: I mean that ship is due.
- 52:56Speaker 7: We used to do it bracket. One day of all
- 52:58Speaker 7: the show was you know, we put miss TV up
- 53:02Speaker 7: there you put. Yeah, there's just so many, and there's
- 53:05Speaker 7: do a bracket of what we think was the best.
- 53:07Speaker 1: You know, that's that's a great idea. You know, Christian
- 53:10Speaker 1: I think had one for a short time. Oh yeah,
- 53:15Speaker 1: the pier is Yeah, the Peep.
- 53:17Speaker 7: Show rated our superstar. Yeah, he had his edge, had
- 53:21Speaker 7: his I'm gonna write this down. We gotta do a bracket.
- 53:23Speaker 7: I'm gonna write this down. I'm gonna have to come
- 53:25Speaker 7: together with a bracket because we've been discussing we should
- 53:28Speaker 7: start doing some brackets.
- 53:31Speaker 1: We can talk about the barber shop and what happened there.
- 53:33Speaker 12: Yeah, and yeah, we're talking about why, uh these are
- 53:39Speaker 12: the best and uh yeah, dwindled down to which one
- 53:42Speaker 12: was probably the best.
- 53:45Speaker 1: Talking about Piper's Pit.
- 53:46Speaker 8: Have any of you guys ever got a chance to
- 53:48Speaker 8: see a show in Madison Square Garden?
- 53:51Speaker 7: No, I have not.
- 53:53Speaker 9: I've never been.
- 53:54Speaker 11: I I go to Manhattan a couple of times a year,
- 53:57Speaker 11: and I always go into Penn stations.
- 53:59Speaker 9: I always I'm right at Madison Square Garden.
- 54:01Speaker 11: And every time I go man I gotta go see
- 54:03Speaker 11: something here, anything, hockey game, whatever, I don't care something,
- 54:07Speaker 11: and I never do.
- 54:08Speaker 9: I never have.
- 54:10Speaker 11: But It's definitely on my bucket list. I always want
- 54:13Speaker 11: to go to that holiday show every year that they have.
- 54:15Speaker 9: They said, it's fun.
- 54:17Speaker 1: That's a house show, right, yeah.
- 54:19Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I wish that they would get back
- 54:23Speaker 8: to and I think they did it a little bit
- 54:25Speaker 8: last year or maybe the year before when they had
- 54:27Speaker 8: to start competing, because when aw was really hot, they
- 54:31Speaker 8: would have some things happen at some of these house
- 54:33Speaker 8: shows that would blend into the main storylines, and.
- 54:38Speaker 1: I thought that was really cool. There's a real genuineness
- 54:42Speaker 1: about that.
- 54:42Speaker 9: You know, barely do house shows anymore period.
- 54:46Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 54:46Speaker 6: Well they cut back right, yeah, yeah, because they wanted
- 54:49Speaker 6: to be so much more of a premium experience now,
- 54:52Speaker 6: so it's just an overall number of shows period have
- 54:55Speaker 6: been dialed back.
- 54:57Speaker 7: Yeah. That's why I don't think we've gotten any ron
- 55:00Speaker 7: to the arena near our house, because they you know,
- 55:02Speaker 7: Santana is known for just house shows.
- 55:05Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, but they've been to Philly plenty of
- 55:08Speaker 6: times and oh yeah, just like my area too. They
- 55:11Speaker 6: have not been back since that raw I attended, which
- 55:15Speaker 6: was September of twenty twenty three. I ain't been back
- 55:18Speaker 6: here since.
- 55:19Speaker 7: Damn.
- 55:21Speaker 9: Yeah, that seems like it was like last week.
- 55:23Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, a Sember twenty twenty three, because it was
- 55:27Speaker 6: the only reason why it really is the most noteworthy
- 55:30Speaker 6: thing that happened that night was the return. That's what
- 55:35Speaker 6: the night that nia Jack's returned. Oh yeah, I do.
- 55:40Speaker 6: They're in the main event, which I think was Rea
- 55:42Speaker 6: Ripley forgot who the hell she was wrestling against Ria
- 55:47Speaker 6: versus somebody, and then nia Jack's returned and took them
- 55:51Speaker 6: both out.
- 55:53Speaker 8: She's larger than life. You're talking about female superstars. Man
- 55:57Speaker 8: talk about built in a lab to do this job.
- 56:03Speaker 8: But you know you can't. You can't disregard live. I mean,
- 56:09Speaker 8: holy moly, smoking hot. She really stepped it up with
- 56:13Speaker 8: her last few rivalries, you know what I mean.
- 56:16Speaker 1: She was a champ.
- 56:17Speaker 9: Oh she's leaves and bounds.
- 56:19Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Like twenty twenty four was her. It's kind
- 56:23Speaker 6: of hard to say, but that was her. You could
- 56:25Speaker 6: almost call it her coming out party, but that she
- 56:28Speaker 6: really elevated herself to the next level.
- 56:32Speaker 1: She would have done great in e c W back
- 56:34Speaker 1: in the day.
- 56:35Speaker 8: Huh, just with raw connection to the audience and being
- 56:39Speaker 8: super hot doesn't hurt either.
- 56:42Speaker 7: Oh, definitely, that's true.
- 56:44Speaker 6: M Yeah. But the touchback on what you said about
- 56:48Speaker 6: like NXT and some of them down there, they definitely
- 56:54Speaker 6: have some people to keep an eye on in NXT,
- 56:58Speaker 6: Like outside of the obvious big name you know, Stephanie
- 57:02Speaker 6: Baker and Julia who obviously were big names, they grabbed
- 57:05Speaker 6: from the Indies for that star power, they got some talent.
- 57:09Speaker 9: That's from other countries.
- 57:12Speaker 6: Was that Is.
- 57:13Speaker 9: It not really the Indies other countries?
- 57:16Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Andy's other yeah that as well, But they
- 57:19Speaker 6: got some some homegrown talent in there. That's definitely people
- 57:24Speaker 6: to keep an eye on. Outside of you know, Roxane Perez,
- 57:27Speaker 6: who's probably the main roster bound I would say Jada
- 57:32Speaker 6: Parker is still somebody that I'll tell people to keep
- 57:34Speaker 6: an eye on. I know her ring work is still
- 57:38Speaker 6: she doesn't she's not bad in the ring by any
- 57:40Speaker 6: means whatsoever, but she's still working on that. But I
- 57:42Speaker 6: would say arguably she's probably the best one in NXT
- 57:47Speaker 6: on the mic. She's arguably the best woman in NXT
- 57:52Speaker 6: on the mic, better than because I've never seen her
- 57:56Speaker 6: deliver a bad promo. She can get on that mic
- 57:59Speaker 6: and just apputly cook. She's not stumbling over words like
- 58:03Speaker 6: that she you know, isn't unsure of herself, like she
- 58:07Speaker 6: knows her characters, she knows how who she is, and
- 58:10Speaker 6: she can get on that mic and she can go
- 58:13Speaker 6: and connect right exactly and go and connect with people
- 58:17Speaker 6: like she can cut a promo like is nobody's business.
- 58:21Speaker 1: You've seen people get these push and then all of
- 58:23Speaker 1: a sudden they're out there and you know they're getting pushed,
- 58:27Speaker 1: they got the rockets strapped at their back and they're
- 58:29Speaker 1: just and they're they're just fumbling, you know, or trying
- 58:32Speaker 1: their best, but just fumbling, like like Jace j C Jane,
- 58:36Speaker 1: Like she got a push like a year and a
- 58:38Speaker 1: half ago and she's out there freaking spouting off and
- 58:41Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, it's just not smooth. But I
- 58:44Speaker 1: mean again, they're learning right right.
- 58:47Speaker 11: Yeah, who might not be the best wrestler, but you
- 58:49Speaker 11: know what, either as the rock but it's gonna be
- 58:53Speaker 11: a huge fucking star. I think it's the last legend.
- 58:56Speaker 11: I guess huge.
- 58:59Speaker 6: Mm hmm. You can tell she's got the looks.
- 59:03Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean you and you don't have to be
- 59:04Speaker 11: will Ospray to be to get.
- 59:06Speaker 6: Over the in w W anyway. Sure, Nope, If you
- 59:11Speaker 6: can perform in that ring, and you can tell a
- 59:13Speaker 6: good story, and you know, are reasonably competent on the mic,
- 59:19Speaker 6: and you can connect with the audience. That's pretty much
- 59:22Speaker 6: all you need. You gotta connect and and in this
- 59:27Speaker 6: day and age, you don't really have to be the best.
- 59:30Speaker 6: You just have to find some way to connect with
- 59:31Speaker 6: the audience. It doesn't always have to be on the mic.
- 59:34Speaker 6: We've seen people connecting the audience just purely off of
- 59:37Speaker 6: their end ring work and their enthusiasm. Prime example is
- 59:40Speaker 6: the EO Sky. There's multiple there's multiple paths to the top,
- 59:50Speaker 6: and not just in the w w E, just at
- 59:53Speaker 6: wrestling today period. That's part of what makes it. There's
- 59:57Speaker 6: probably one of the best errors we've had.
- 1:00:02Speaker 8: And now they're they've they've been flooded with all the
- 1:00:04Speaker 8: n x T with the TNA town too.
- 1:00:07Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
- 1:00:08Speaker 7: Yeah, you know a NXT yesterday the Hardy Boys were on.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: They were there, Yeah, and that was pretty cool. They
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: announced that it's gonna be them and then the NXC
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: Tag Champions for the Hardy's Belts.
- 1:00:25Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:00:26Speaker 8: I don't know if that's gonna be at and I
- 1:00:27Speaker 8: think that's gonna be at a TNA pay per view.
- 1:00:30Speaker 6: No, it's gonna be at Roadblock, and like that's the thing.
- 1:00:32Speaker 6: Like right now, we've been kind of lamenting how you know,
- 1:00:37Speaker 6: SmackDown has been kind of sucking a little bit or
- 1:00:40Speaker 6: a little mid since they went to three hours, and
- 1:00:42Speaker 6: Raw has kind of been up and down since going
- 1:00:45Speaker 6: to Netflix. Meanwhile, NXT has been cooking. I don't know
- 1:00:50Speaker 6: if it's just because of WrestleMania season and they're trying
- 1:00:53Speaker 6: to do that, or the uh TNA partnership that they
- 1:00:56Speaker 6: have now, or some combination of it all. X he
- 1:01:00Speaker 6: is fucking cooking right now. I'm not saying every show
- 1:01:03Speaker 6: is knocking it, you know, completely out the parks start
- 1:01:05Speaker 6: to finish, but they are giving you a reason to
- 1:01:09Speaker 6: tune in week after week.
- 1:01:12Speaker 9: That road is on TV.
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: Right, that's not a right.
- 1:01:15Speaker 6: That's TV Roadblock. That is on TV like old Clash
- 1:01:18Speaker 6: of the Champions back in the day, like a PL
- 1:01:21Speaker 6: caliber event, just on regular TV. We're getting freaking Obafemi
- 1:01:25Speaker 6: versus Moose. We're getting Praxium the boys.
- 1:01:30Speaker 7: Huh.
- 1:01:30Speaker 9: That's like the Hardy match.
- 1:01:33Speaker 11: The Champion Champion is just for the Hardys titles, but
- 1:01:35Speaker 11: that Moose is for the both titles, right.
- 1:01:39Speaker 6: No, Obam versus Moose is for the NXT Championship. The
- 1:01:44Speaker 6: Hardy Boys versus Phraxium is for the TNA Tag Team Championship.
- 1:01:48Speaker 9: I thought I thought Moose. I thought that was for
- 1:01:52Speaker 9: both titles.
- 1:01:53Speaker 6: No, that one's not the one that is titled for
- 1:01:55Speaker 6: title that they announced this past Tuesday seven.
- 1:01:59Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:02:00Speaker 6: Yeah, Julian and Stephanie Vacker care, Maybe I'm just title
- 1:02:04Speaker 6: for a time like that caliper just on regular TV.
- 1:02:09Speaker 8: And I think Sports has the title match too for
- 1:02:11Speaker 8: the North Atlantic or the North American Championship or something
- 1:02:14Speaker 8: like that against the Guido.
- 1:02:16Speaker 6: Right, maybe maybe I just remember those three because like
- 1:02:23Speaker 6: those are pl caliber matches that they're just giving away
- 1:02:27Speaker 6: on the c W.
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let me.
- 1:02:29Speaker 7: Say roadblock, right alright, let me see roadblock, roadblock. We
- 1:02:34Speaker 7: have oba NXC Championship, the Hardy Boys versus Axiom Tag
- 1:02:44Speaker 7: Team TNA uh winner takes the women's winner takes All
- 1:02:50Speaker 7: match for NXT Women's Championship and North American Women's Championship.
- 1:02:56Speaker 7: So yeah, there's only three cars on there or three
- 1:02:58Speaker 7: on the cars so far.
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: Interesting they were promoting something.
- 1:03:02Speaker 8: Maybe they were just promoting for the next normal n XT.
- 1:03:06Speaker 8: But you guys see that Roxanne Perez pulled out what's
- 1:03:09Speaker 8: her name's nipple at last, Jordan.
- 1:03:12Speaker 7: Grace breaking news, breaking news.
- 1:03:15Speaker 6: You heard it here. I didn't. We didn't catch it
- 1:03:21Speaker 6: on the broadcast. I just Jordan Grace stole on her.
- 1:03:26Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if that match gets announced pretty soon,
- 1:03:29Speaker 6: either for Roadblock or for Stand and Deliver, and probably
- 1:03:35Speaker 6: be you know, Jordan Gray is getting her first major
- 1:03:39Speaker 6: win on n x T before Roxanne it goes off
- 1:03:42Speaker 6: to the main roster.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: Are there any type of rivalrries that you guys hold
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: near and deer.
- 1:03:50Speaker 8: Like if you were to pick three to talk about
- 1:03:53Speaker 8: and talking about rivalries of all time?
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: Unless you guys did this in a previous show.
- 1:04:00Speaker 7: On Man, You and Me. It's it goes back to
- 1:04:03Speaker 7: Triple A's and Sean Michael's. Dude, you know they were
- 1:04:06Speaker 7: they were always friends, and then there's that rivalry. They
- 1:04:09Speaker 7: hated each other for the longest time, Like anytime you
- 1:04:12Speaker 7: put those two in any kind of crossing paths, you know,
- 1:04:16Speaker 7: the few just ignited again. They just hated each other,
- 1:04:19Speaker 7: and then they got back together and formed d X
- 1:04:23Speaker 7: and then they took over the fucking company.
- 1:04:31Speaker 6: Huh.
- 1:04:32Speaker 7: That's just like one of the close.
- 1:04:36Speaker 6: But I mean third.
- 1:04:39Speaker 7: I also liked the rivalry, you know, of Sena and
- 1:04:46Speaker 7: Randy Yorton coming up together, like how you know close
- 1:04:51Speaker 7: they were together their careers and they even had a
- 1:04:55Speaker 7: you know, they did a title for title that's when
- 1:04:57Speaker 7: where Orton beat Johnsena won both the world, you know,
- 1:05:01Speaker 7: kind of like solidify. I guess who's the better champion.
- 1:05:06Speaker 7: But meanwhile, you guys still.
- 1:05:10Speaker 6: Thinking, well, obviously I got two I can think of
- 1:05:14Speaker 6: real quick. One would be Stinging Rick Flair, just because
- 1:05:18Speaker 6: their rivalry pretty much ran the length of wc W.
- 1:05:23Speaker 6: One of the first matches I remember watching on video
- 1:05:27Speaker 6: that somebody had was from the very first clash of
- 1:05:30Speaker 6: the Champions, the sixty minute iron Man match that Stinging
- 1:05:34Speaker 6: Rick Flair had that went the distance, and that's the
- 1:05:37Speaker 6: match that pretty much made Sting a star.
- 1:05:40Speaker 8: And there so he definitely gave him the rub Sting.
- 1:05:43Speaker 8: You know, he's even mentioned how thankfully he was.
- 1:05:46Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Rick Flair gave him the rub because, like
- 1:05:48Speaker 6: I said, Rick Flair obviously at the time, you know, champion,
- 1:05:52Speaker 6: top guy in the company, and he sees this, he's
- 1:05:56Speaker 6: looking for somebody to you know, have this iron Man
- 1:05:59Speaker 6: match with. And there's this young upstart Sting who's you know,
- 1:06:03Speaker 6: popular with the fans, but you know, hadn't really made
- 1:06:07Speaker 6: that jump to the next level. And Flair chose him
- 1:06:10Speaker 6: to have this match with and Sting rose to the occasion,
- 1:06:13Speaker 6: had a great match with Flair and after that freaking
- 1:06:16Speaker 6: strapped the rocket to the Sting he was. He was
- 1:06:18Speaker 6: off to the races from there. So, yeah, that that
- 1:06:22Speaker 6: matches and you know, you go back and watch it today,
- 1:06:25Speaker 6: you know, maybe might not measure up to today's matches
- 1:06:27Speaker 6: before what it was back then, it was a phenomenal
- 1:06:30Speaker 6: match and it showed that this kid could go the distance.
- 1:06:33Speaker 6: He wasn't just some you know flash in the pan
- 1:06:36Speaker 6: and you know, here for the now guy who couldn't
- 1:06:38Speaker 6: really actually cut it in the ring. He went, He
- 1:06:41Speaker 6: went in an hour with Rick Flair. Back when you
- 1:06:45Speaker 6: know iron Man matches meant something.
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: Absolutely. They made him the face for years until it
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: was no more.
- 1:06:52Speaker 6: You know, Yeah, like I said, there was, he was.
- 1:06:55Speaker 6: He was a star, done deal, and they took that
- 1:06:58Speaker 6: all the way to the very last up of Nitro.
- 1:07:03Speaker 6: You know, their rivalry was off and on staying the
- 1:07:05Speaker 6: first time he became world champion. Who did defeat for it?
- 1:07:08Speaker 6: He beat Rick Flair at the Great America at the
- 1:07:10Speaker 6: nineteen ninety Great American Bash in Baltimore. Be Rick Flair
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: for it. So I said, their rivalry has been off
- 1:07:17Speaker 6: and on pretty much. Is the story of w c
- 1:07:20Speaker 6: W is stinging Ric Flair and their rivalry. That's one
- 1:07:24Speaker 6: that's that's probably one of my favorite rivalries of all time.
- 1:07:28Speaker 6: The other one, I would say is probably the Rock
- 1:07:31Speaker 6: and Stone.
- 1:07:32Speaker 7: Cold, like the classic go to right, I mean yeah.
- 1:07:38Speaker 6: But I mean it's also the rivalry of the add
- 1:07:42Speaker 6: of probably the top rivalry of wrestlings, one of its
- 1:07:46Speaker 6: most popular eras you know, that Attitude era, those Monday
- 1:07:50Speaker 6: Night wars and this that and the third. Oh yeah.
- 1:07:53Speaker 6: If any type of rivalry that you can look at
- 1:07:56Speaker 6: and say there's two types of people, and you can
- 1:08:00Speaker 6: definitively draw a line and everybody's gonna be on one
- 1:08:04Speaker 6: side or the other. The Rock and Stone Cold is that,
- 1:08:08Speaker 6: like the Right, Like, You're not gonna find anybody who
- 1:08:12Speaker 6: hates both of them, but everybody's gonna have one that
- 1:08:15Speaker 6: they like more than the other. Somebody's gonna be like yeah,
- 1:08:17Speaker 6: I was a rock guy or I'm a stone cold guy.
- 1:08:20Speaker 6: Not saying that if you're a rock guy you hate
- 1:08:21Speaker 6: a stone cold you just like the rock a little
- 1:08:24Speaker 6: bit more, or you like stone Cold a little bit more.
- 1:08:27Speaker 6: There are a few rivalries like that that are just
- 1:08:29Speaker 6: that clear line in the sand type of rivalry.
- 1:08:32Speaker 7: I just think about that Rock stone Cold promo video
- 1:08:35Speaker 7: package for WrestleMania seventeen. It's probably my favorite.
- 1:08:41Speaker 6: Video, one of the all time great video packages.
- 1:08:46Speaker 9: Of the best WrestleMania is ever.
- 1:08:48Speaker 6: Also, yep, I would.
- 1:08:50Speaker 7: I sometimes I go back just to watch classic video
- 1:08:53Speaker 7: packages because they don't do them like that anymore, you know.
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: Like, oh no, there's in a belt up in the river.
- 1:09:00Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that was.
- 1:09:04Speaker 6: That was in the early time of the rivalry. That
- 1:09:07Speaker 6: was when I was going into WrestleMania fifteen, I think,
- 1:09:11Speaker 6: Or was that even for the w W title? Was
- 1:09:13Speaker 6: that for was that the Intercontinental title? The title? Yeah,
- 1:09:18Speaker 6: it might have been when they were fuged over the
- 1:09:19Speaker 6: ice title.
- 1:09:20Speaker 11: I think two instances where a title was thrown in
- 1:09:23Speaker 11: a think and just also had a instance for a
- 1:09:26Speaker 11: title thrown over.
- 1:09:29Speaker 6: It was either that or yeah because open because rock, Yeah,
- 1:09:34Speaker 6: it had to be the icy title because Stone Cold
- 1:09:36Speaker 6: was champion at the time and the Rock and the
- 1:09:42Speaker 6: Rockets stolen his title. Stone Cold came to get it Rock,
- 1:09:45Speaker 6: you know, just to knocked him over the edge, took
- 1:09:49Speaker 6: him in the river and said take a piece of
- 1:09:50Speaker 6: ship title with you in there.
- 1:09:55Speaker 7: Yeah, I do recall that. Shually, there was another time
- 1:09:58Speaker 7: where I think the Rock when Rock and Seen we're
- 1:10:00Speaker 7: having the rivalry, that that Rock was just chucking like
- 1:10:03Speaker 7: Johnson and Merch over the bridge. I was just like,
- 1:10:07Speaker 7: what is up with like segments where we're just chucking
- 1:10:09Speaker 7: ship off bridges. I don't know.
- 1:10:11Speaker 8: I mean, everything comes from at the time, came from
- 1:10:14Speaker 8: Vince's head. So maybe people should start like dredging up
- 1:10:17Speaker 8: the bottoms of rivers where McMahon spent a lot of
- 1:10:19Speaker 8: time and.
- 1:10:20Speaker 6: Whereas they never did find that belt that rocked through
- 1:10:22Speaker 6: in the river.
- 1:10:25Speaker 7: God, oh my god, you hear that. People, you still
- 1:10:29Speaker 7: go get it. It's like a treasure.
- 1:10:33Speaker 6: Damn sure would be. You imagined you happen to fish
- 1:10:35Speaker 6: that thing up one day. Imagine what what w W
- 1:10:39Speaker 6: would pay you for that belt?
- 1:10:41Speaker 7: That is fucking true.
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: It look like shit.
- 1:10:44Speaker 9: But yeah, thirty years in the bottom of Theever.
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: You know, one of my favorites was I kind of
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: briefly mentioned it.
- 1:10:55Speaker 8: Much earlier today when we were chatting, just me and
- 1:10:59Speaker 8: mister dry Chick, and we were I was talking about
- 1:11:02Speaker 8: that Brett Austin feud because you know, so Brett comes
- 1:11:07Speaker 8: off the Iron Man match, he goes away, they say
- 1:11:10Speaker 8: he messed up his leg or something. I think maybe
- 1:11:13Speaker 8: that had been later. He comes back and then he
- 1:11:16Speaker 8: puts you know he did, he put Austin over even
- 1:11:18Speaker 8: though he lost, he won the match Brett. I mean
- 1:11:22Speaker 8: the edginess that Brett showed during.
- 1:11:26Speaker 9: That which thirteen.
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's why my favorite match is Ever me too.
- 1:11:34Speaker 8: It was just epic and it was it showed a
- 1:11:37Speaker 8: I'm not a massive Brett fan, but it showed an
- 1:11:41Speaker 8: evolution that eventually led up to that Survivor Series match,
- 1:11:47Speaker 8: you know, which really forced him into that that heel that.
- 1:11:51Speaker 8: There's some promos back and forth with him and Austin
- 1:11:55Speaker 8: which then led into him and Sean when they took
- 1:11:57Speaker 8: that other direction where Brett is vicious, and to me,
- 1:12:03Speaker 8: that was the most entertaining Brett ever. You know, ever,
- 1:12:06Speaker 8: I want to say, ever was you know, he's bland
- 1:12:09Speaker 8: Brett most of the time. Not to take anything away
- 1:12:11Speaker 8: from his n ring, but I mean he really let loose,
- 1:12:15Speaker 8: and I mean it was epic to me.
- 1:12:18Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it had been pretty much a white bread
- 1:12:21Speaker 6: baby face most of the time before that, and even
- 1:12:25Speaker 6: going into that match with Austin, people forget Brett was
- 1:12:29Speaker 6: the baby face and Stone Cold was the heel. But
- 1:12:32Speaker 6: because of what happened in the match, things kind of
- 1:12:35Speaker 6: flipped and Stone Cold became the baby face and Brett
- 1:12:38Speaker 6: wound up being the heel. And from there he just
- 1:12:41Speaker 6: ran with it and yeah, like you said, took his
- 1:12:45Speaker 6: character in the direction that had never been before.
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I hate to cut you off. I think
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: I have to go grab my daughter from softball training.
- 1:12:56Speaker 8: How long are you guys going to be on because
- 1:12:58Speaker 8: I could just mute my mic and then come back.
- 1:13:00Speaker 8: I should be back in about twenty twenty five minutes
- 1:13:03Speaker 8: or so, if you guys are still gonna be wrapping, Yeah.
- 1:13:05Speaker 6: You want to hop out hop back in?
- 1:13:07Speaker 7: Yeah, but we'll wrap this episode up though. Ron. Is
- 1:13:10Speaker 7: there anything you want to plug, like social media, like
- 1:13:13Speaker 7: any of your social medias that people want to get
- 1:13:15Speaker 7: a hold of you. Do you have anything business up
- 1:13:18Speaker 7: whise you want to promote like whatever Man promoted here,
- 1:13:21Speaker 7: You fucking.
- 1:13:21Speaker 8: Sure, absolutely well. I run a catering company. It's called
- 1:13:24Speaker 8: Devour Catering and Event Design. We do everything from weddings,
- 1:13:29Speaker 8: the gallows, the backyard barbecues. We don't even need running
- 1:13:33Speaker 8: water to throw an event. We can bring our own.
- 1:13:35Speaker 8: We can also bring generators. There's nothing we can't do.
- 1:13:38Speaker 8: We are preferred caters at the Reading Public Museum. We
- 1:13:42Speaker 8: are also at the new event site, which is connected
- 1:13:47Speaker 8: to the Reading Philly Stadium. It's now called the Fighting Phills,
- 1:13:50Speaker 8: but there's a five hundred person venue there that we're.
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: Also involved in.
- 1:13:56Speaker 8: But as far as that, I can't really elaborate much
- 1:13:59Speaker 8: more because I don't want my kids standing outside Burk's Catholic.
- 1:14:02Speaker 8: I'm waiting for me to get there, but I can
- 1:14:03Speaker 8: sure as hell plug more if I get on later.
- 1:14:06Speaker 7: All right, man, thanks for having thanks for being on
- 1:14:09Speaker 7: and we appreciate what helped to catch you in the
- 1:14:11Speaker 7: next episode.
- 1:14:13Speaker 8: Thank you for having me, and I'd be more than
- 1:14:15Speaker 8: welcome to be on board for for more stuff in
- 1:14:17Speaker 8: the future. Guys, I'm gonna cut out right now and
- 1:14:19Speaker 8: hopefully I can jump on.
- 1:14:20Speaker 6: Later, all right later, buddy, nice me and you guys, Yeah,
- 1:14:29Speaker 6: you are the walls dumbest. Sign up a bit.
- 1:14:35Speaker 13: The fact that day in and day out for almost
- 1:14:38Speaker 13: six years I improved everybody in the world, that I
- 1:14:42Speaker 13: am the best on this microphone in that break and
- 1:14:45Speaker 13: given a commentary, nobody can touch me.
- 1:14:48Speaker 5: You are not plenty.
- 1:14:54Speaker 4: It's because it's stream perfect and we what stuff your name.
- 1:15:03Speaker 3: Talk about? Your sons talk about John three.
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: Sixteen Mobstead three sixteen.
- 1:15:09Speaker 3: Says, I just whipped your ask. Well, let me tell you.
- 1:15:13Speaker 6: Fucking brother, who my.
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: New day.
- 1:15:25Speaker 5: Queen raised to the top more year my true madness.
- 1:15:29Speaker 3: Ye, welcome to the top and Owen show lately he
- 1:15:35Speaker 3: just hasn't been Harry Ucy.
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: Because I'm no mad.
- 1:15:43Speaker 6: And I'm oh so.
- 1:15:52Speaker 3: Those rotten bastards.
- 1:15:59Speaker 7: Bye bye, bitch,