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Was WWE Backlash better than WrestleMania 39? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #691 – 5/11/23 · Real. Guy. Pods.

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It's still welcome, everybody. Welcome to this week's NESI in the So Real
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Dust Show, episode number six hundred ninety one, eleven twenty three. This
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your w backlashing week cap and review edition of ass Us two weeks. I
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am one after Shelfer. I am going to every single week to I oh
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so oly, Doctor Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey. Everybody wants to know from
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last week, how are you doing after Sammy threw a bullet your head?
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My friend? So? Uh, concussion number four crap? I don't,
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I don't. I don't really know if it was an actual concussion, but
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you know, the uh, you know, the old school football symptoms are
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there, like the bell was wrong. I saw tweedy birds flapping around.
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Vince McMahon's mustache haunted my dreams that night, So I don't really know if
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there's a concussion or a wrestling concussion or just uh, just all the stress
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from being a toddler parents and doing a podcast for almost gosh started almost a
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decade and a half. Now, it feels like just kind of rolled into
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one thing. But luckily I was already bald, so I didn't lose any
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hair from it. So no shaving going into it and uh. Sammy later
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put out a written apology on his Twitter feed say sorry he was How old
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is Sammy again? Pour? Okay, okay um, And just so everybody's
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aware, out of all the six hundred ninety one episodes we've recorded SRTU,
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you've been on probably, geez, maybe five hundred ninety six hundred episodes at
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this point, somewhere around those. And in the history of the show,
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you've been and hit, beat up, slapped, bull thrown at you twice
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by Sammy. A slap it was a couple of months ago, a bull
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throw last week. I was going through the records because you know me,
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I'd like to keep track of all of our records. I don't recall anyone
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else hitting you during a recording. Can you Can you confirm or deny not
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during a recording. I have been hit pre and post okay recordings, but
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that's also why I have an X wife. Fair never been allegedly allegedly.
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Uh. We had the one police altercation yes or moments, one of my
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favorite sound bites of all time, and I recorded in unsavory locations where I
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feared for my life at times as well that's that's been a while, right,
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thank god? Yes, Okay, I mean it's been I mean it
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says I mean basic since I'd stopped traveling for the most part, like the
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last few years, you know, being more of a regional podcaster, some
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not on the road as much. But yeah, there were some times that
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we I recorded. We recorded like the middle of the night, and I'd
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be like in the middle of a shopping center at a really bad area of
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town, with like the back door to the business open and just going,
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yeah, if there's any weird noise, I don't think. I think we
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did a show once and then I was inside of the store. I ended,
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We ended the podcast in thirty five minutes later, I nearly peed myself
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because two police officers came walking in the back door of the store because they
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were just curious as to why the lights were on, and I didn't see
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them walk in, and Auxteria was turned around and saw dark clothes and hinting
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guns and nearly peed myself over. Yeah. I don't think you've ever told
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that story. That's the first time hearing on it. Um. Yeah,
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that was that was quite and it was, like I said, it was
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just one of those weird thing so there's like life happens and like, oh
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yeah, it kind of goes into the background, Like I hadn't thought about
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that in ten years probably, And we've recorded this podcast nearly at every hour,
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like midnight, one am. There was a period of time we were
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doing it like at four and five am, like legitimately, like I was
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coming off of work and you were getting up four work and we were doing
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that run there from like four to five am. Like we've I think we've
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probably recorded this podcast nearly every hour in a twenty four hour time period.
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Yeah, I don't think we've ever done like nine am, like like first
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thing in the morning, but from about noon until about four am, like
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we've hit almost every I think pretty much every time slot in there at some
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point. Yeah, there's been times where it's been like one am, two
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am, and I have no idea what we're talking about and what we're even
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saying. And I think you probably would feel the same way, Like it's
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the closest thing to do in a podcast drunk, would be like doing it
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at the two am, which we've done in the past. Yeah, So
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the leaderboard still Sammy has the lead two oh in beating up Doctor Trey durn
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the recording of the podcast. So I guess congratulations to him, small big.
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I think when he gets old enough, when he gets ready for his
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first job and it says like special skills, it will say elder abuse.
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Okay, and there's recordings now, Yeah, caregiver is out of the mix
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for his first job. But I'm pretty sure you know McDonald's still in the
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mix. Okay, good, good, good, Yeah, more on that.
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We'll keep an eye on it here in the coming years of Sammy's LinkedIn
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profile. Let's get into a Doctor Trey. Doctor Trey W Backlash this past
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Saturday from Colosso del Puerto Rico and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Two nights
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SmackDown and Backlash on Saturday night. Let's get to the first match on the
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card here, Bianco bell Air defeats Eo Sky to retain the dew Raw Women's
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Championship. You and I both had Bianco bell Air as the victor. What
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a match, breakout main roster performance for Eo Sky back and forth was so
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good. I loved, loved, loved this match, barely costing Eo the
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match when the field interference could be leading towards the Damn Control split soon and
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I think that this is a match that should be in contention and in discussion
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for a Match of the Year candidate. The crowd, the match itself,
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loved this match. Doctor try Bianca Belair defeating EO Sky. Yeah, and
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so a couple of my notes on this one. This was you know,
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we read those reports about this was the first true triple H pay per view
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since taking over coming Wrenst. For me, there were already some plans in
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place. This was kind of the first true pay per view, and then
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this match kind of showcase it because EO is one of his projects in NXT.
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She gets the bump kind of out of nowhere to become the number one
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contender and has a tremendous match in showcase what makes EO great. I don't
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know about you, but like listening to the crowd, it wasn't ECW One
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Night Stand and Sena van Dam but it kind of it was in that vein.
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It was almost like the old Bret Hart in Canada type matches when he
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was a heel, because I mean that was almost John Cena getting booed out
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of the building for Bianco Bellair type moment and she handled it very well.
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But yeah, it was a fantastic match. I just will you matchical that
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year? Kid? Do you put this above Riha and Charlotte at WrestleMania though,
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So, I'm having a tough time with that. It's funny that you
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say that, and maybe this will lead it to more discussion later on regards
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to backlash. But people are comparing this to like a wrestle Mania type card
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up and down show, up and down matches up and down. I don't
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know, to be honest with you as it stands right now, Like Riah,
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Ripley, Charlotte, gun Through, Shamis, Drew McIntyre, Bianco,
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Bellair, EO Sky are some of my favorite matches this year? Those the
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ones that I've earmarked, And I don't know out of those three right now,
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which one I would say is my match to the year right now?
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And I know this is like a total radio like teaser for the last show
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of the year, But like legitimately Doctor Trey, I don't know of those
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three matches because right I mean all three of those matches were phenomenal. I
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mean they were so much fun to watch, great storytelling, great crowd,
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great back and forth. Loved every second of those matches. I don't think
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you could go wrong with picking either one. But right now I'm having a
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tough time with at least those three matches. Yeah, I think all three
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of those matches are great matches. I think I might. It's weird.
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I don't know about you, but I have Charlotte and Bianca in my mind
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like position in the same role, where like they have great matches with whoever
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they're working with. I just don't know if I truly love them where I
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think with in both those cases, it was like star making performances, you
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know, one for Rhea, one for EO. And maybe that's why I
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just think the physicality of rein Charlotte might give it the nods. Same with
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you know, Gunther, Shamus and Drew. But yeah, to kick off
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this show and that crowd and once again, the crowd really helped because I
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mean from the start of that I mean from the start of that match,
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that crowd was on fire and they kept their energy all the way through the
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show. So having a great crowd also helps, you know, bump up
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some really great matches as well. You said a lot of things there,
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the first being like Bianca Belair and Charlotte being the match you know, the
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people that helped make people. Um, I would argue that heading into WrestleMania
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this year, I mean Riha was already a made talent, right, Like
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she was already a women's champion, had already won a championship at WrestleMania,
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defended a championship at WrestleMania like she was there, and the Charlotte match like
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put her in that upper tier echelon with with very few women wrestlers in all
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professional wrestling. The Bianca Eo match, like anybody who watched NXC during the
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Black and Gold era when Eo Sky was there knew what she was capable of
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doing and where she should be. But for the most part, for since
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she came up on the main roster and at Summer Slam twenty twenty two,
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she's been regulated to behind the scenes type character with a supporting character with Bailey
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and a tag team, and you've forgot how good she was as a main
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roster star, and that was like, okay, so he she's we don't
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understand why she's in this match, right, I mean, she she's breaking
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out a little bits leading to a storyline, it's it's it's interesting. Then
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you watched the match and you're like, oh, okay, she's for anybody
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who did not know EO Sky and nxc oh, she's got something and this
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is someone that can be a women's champion in three to six months, which
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if you asked me that three months ago, three days ago, three weeks
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ago, I wouldn't think she would be a women's champion in twenty twenty three
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by the way that she was being booked and handled on the main roster.
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So I think it's different there the crowds. I think this is going to
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be a theme throughout, but I mean, let's get out of the way
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now, doctor Trey. This crowd on Friday night on Saturday Night was amazing.
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One of the best crowds I have seen during a wrestling show in sometime.
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These places that don't get w w WEE live shows all that much are
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knocking it out of the park. This shows you how like spoiled wrestling fans
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are. Because yeah, there's the normal territories in the US that do really
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well. New York, Boston, LA does well at times as Chicago,
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but we all know. But I mean, look at Friday and Saturday,
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amazing crowd. Monday's Raw one of the worst crowds I've ever seen that.
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And coming off of Friday and Saturday and watching what I watched on Raw,
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it was like, are these people awake? Jacksonville, Like you're supposed to
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be the home of aw Like, I get it, it's a show,
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but man, they stunk. They were terrible. It was bad. But
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, I read a report that WWE talents want backlash
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in San Juan every year. I could not agree more. I mean,
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wow, this is like we saw it with San Juan over the weekend.
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We saw it back at Clash at the Castle in the UK back in September.
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I fully expect we'll see the same thing at all in in August for
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a WUS debut in the UK. Like these places that normally don't get WWE
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shows are just completely like beating w US fans right now. Wow, what
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a great crowd that was. Yeah, And I love what people ask when
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people talk about like, well, I don't know why w t B is
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trying to go into other markets, It's like because the crowds are rabid.
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I mean, I mean, I don't even I'm waiting to see what the
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reports are on the actual merch sales from backlash, because he was like,
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I mean the crush, I mean, seventeen to eighteen thousand people, not
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a huge crowd by WW typical pay per view standards, because you know Summer
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Slams with fifty sixty eighty thousand people, you know, the big events.
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But for seventeen thousand people's that, rabbid And I don't know why you like.
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For me, one of the little idiosyncrasy things I enjoyed the most was
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the crowd counting in Spanish. Yeah, yeah, like the near falls,
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oh you know, or the corner punches, like little stuff like that.
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I'm like, this is fantastic, and they even I don't. And even
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the entry ramp. The way the interest was set up, it had a
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very old school kind of ECW vibe, like it didn't have the big like
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the way it was positioned, the smoke and the lighting, it just looked
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a little bit throwback. And then you still had kind of the long interest
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way like you have at the bigger shows. Like it was just a really
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cool setup vibe. And yeah, if they go back to Puerto Rico,
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every I like like, I loved it that. It was just it was
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just great And I just hope they don't like oversat treate A Market and go,
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hey, so like once a year, we'll do it. I mean,
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anytime you do it, anytime you wait eighteen years or fifteen years or
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twelve years to get to a blaze, the crowd's gonna be hot. Uh,
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just don't blow up a barket, I guess yeah, no, hey,
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I think I think San Juan earned the right to be like a regular
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like show. I mean, that was one of the best SmackDown vibes I've
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had a long time watching the show. I mean, I mean, it
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just felt like it was a two night premium live event type show SmackDown and
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obviously backlash. I loved it. Great job, Thank you, San Juan.
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Um Talking about star making matches, Seth Freaking Rollins defeats Omas, we
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both had Seth Freakin Rollins win this match. Omas in this match really showcase
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that he's becoming a good quote big man wrestler. It's the best match I've
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seen out him in his wrestling career. The top Rope Stop was a really
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cool, finish, solid match for little to no build up and meaning that
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led to led to it happening in the first place. Reports are out there
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that the W officials felt the same way. What a great performance by Omas.
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I mean, his gear looked very Kevin Nash esque. I don't know
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if he's been watching Kevin Nash esque matches. There were some Kevin Nash type
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spots in there. I think he did a snake eyes. Um. Great
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match, Great match by Omas, doctor try. I really enjoyed it.
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Seth freak and Rollins getting the victory. He actually did the undertaker spot with
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the snake eyes into the boot and that's that's true. Yeah. Wow,
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that's a great point. So um and I got that vibe as well.
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And you know, a triple agent charge. Oh dear lord, never mind,
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my assault is back in the room now. UM. So if you
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hear me crying, you know why UM tapped the mike. If you need
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assistance or anybody, call the cops. Don't forgret me like that kid anyway.
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So, you know, a triple being charged, I mean, maybe
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he is watching Kevin Nash because maybe he's getting one on one you know,
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advice from a guy like Kevin Nash taker. You know, it would be
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there to help him out. But he worked that match like there's been times
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in the past when he's thrown like the shoulder tackles or the clotheslines, and
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he seems very timid, like he's afraid of hurting the person he's wrestling.
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He didn't have that in saying it was very very much deliberate, meticulous and
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looked impactful. Um. And then the way he sold like that top row
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stop, he sold it on his head like he really front bumped for it
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and and it looked killer And I love the way and the fact that he
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kicked out of a couple of curb stomps to lead to that stop was fantastic
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as well because it just showed how much it takes him. Now, there's
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a much better performance for for this match than it was at wrestle Mania.
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Yeah, I mean this is a much better Did did you just get kidnapped?
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We lost you there for a second. No, He's just like literally
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like he wanted to say hi to you. Oh hey, Sammy, what's
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up? Man? You say hi? Yeah? Say hi? Sr tu
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Okay, all right, let's go find like I'm gonna put you on mute
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so you talk about the show Jeff, I'm gonna take him back to his
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ball. Okay, Yeah, I didn't know what was going on there.
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We had lost Doctor Trey for a second. He was he was like rolling
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with Omas and then I didn't know if he got kidnapped again. You know
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what just happened, folks. So um, but yeah, great breakout performance
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for Omas. Really enjoyed seeing him become a bigger and better big man wrestler.
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And I was kind of on the fence about him because we've seen this
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happen for whether it be great Collie, Um. You know, these big
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men don't really pan out and and Omas looks like he he will and can,
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and that's pretty exciting because he had a really good match with Seth freaking
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Rollins and nobody will. We'll have credit to Seth, but Omas was just
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an equal dance parts partner as well and did his job in the ring.
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Would love to see those two go out again. It was a great match.
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Next match here is Austin Theory defeating Bobby Lashly and Bronze Reading a trouble
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threat match to retain the debitu United States Championship. I had Bobby Lashly,
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Doctor Trede, Austin Theory. The match was a little too short for my
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liking, but still good. The finish is really good for a quote chicken
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shit heel finish for Austin Theories character, though doctor Trey Austin Theory retains.
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Yeah, you know, it was a solid match. I'm with you.
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I wish it had a little bit more, a little bit of meat on
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the bone, so I speaking, especially when you got a guy like Bronson
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read that you're still trying to build up. I mean, Lash is already
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kind of established against Theory at this point is also well established. I Kin
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always bronze and had a little bit more dominance during the match. But there
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was some really cool like transition moments. I know, there was the excud,
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the spot where Brown three hit the splash after a Theory hit a move
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like some of these was really cool. But you know, after you're going
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from bianc AEO and how good Seth and O Moss was. I was kind
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of hoping this would have a little bit more, but the finish worked really
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well for the Theory character moving forward, and uh, you know, to
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see what they do on SmackDown is Friday with two of these guys being in
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the title tournament to kind of see who's going to come out and challenge,
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you know, for the world championship. Here at a couple or nine a
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champion. That's true. I tweeted this out on Wednesday, but let me
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say this again, speaking of that title tournament. On Friday nights, SmackDown,
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Edge Versus AJ Styles Versus Ray Mysterio in a triple threat match is taking
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place on SmackDown. Like I threw it out there, I was like,
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this is one of the most promoted, like the biggest, one of the
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biggest promoted matches of all time. So I don't know when we'll talk about
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it again, but I mean again, Edge Versus AJ Styles Versus Ray Mysterio
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is taking place on SmackDown for free television. Yeah, I mean it's what
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two Hall of aimers and a guy that should be I mean, if we're
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if we're inducting Curb performers in the Hall of Fames, AJ's on that list
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as well. So and we've seen AJ and Edge before, we've seen Edge
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and Ray. We really have never got a good AJ Ray matchup. So
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really looking forward to seeing how that one goes, because on paper, it
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should it should be fantastic. It's just that it's also on free TV SID
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I hope they don't like do like a ten minute match and then they'll finish
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hey and make a commercial free for the first three minutes. So that's my
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thoughts. Getting back to Backlash, re Ripley defeats Selena Vega to retain the
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debt we SmackDown One's Championship. We both had regain the victory. I was
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so genuinely happy for the highly emotional Selena Vega getting the opportunity to perform in
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Puerto Rico. I did like the offense line was able to get in before
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Rea took over and finish her off that pop that like just overall love that
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she was getting was so wild. I mean, I've never felt so good
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for a wrestler like that, and so like you could just feel it through
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the television stream Like that was so cool for Zelina Vega, even in a
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loss, came out as a bigger superstar than she was going into it.
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Re Ripley gets the victory and retains Doctor Trey. Yeah. I thought it
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was a really good performance for Zelina because on paper, this should have been,
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you know, a five minute squash match. Because we've seen these two
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square from the past and that's what's been and for Zelina to get that reaction
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and the genuine emotion, I mean, it was really goosebump type moment just
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watching it through TV. And you know, we talked about this show a
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lot that emotion is transferable, not just through a crowd, but through a
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television. We know when somebody's happy, we can tell when somebody's really feeling
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it. We can tell when somebody's genuinely moved and touched by an audience reaction.
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We saw that at back, like with Zelina, I saw some people
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say that Zelina should have won the match, and I'm like, yep,
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those are why not everybody can be a booker, because like you said,
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she came out of the match like a bigger star than what she was going
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into it. And you're also not going to short change a rereally title run
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one month in, so I thought the way that was put together was the
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best for both ladies to be out of that match. Next matches, Bad
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Bunny defeated Damien Precine San Juan Street Fight. We both had Bad Bunny gain
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the victory. Enjoyable and a very entertaining match, the spots and chances Bad
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Bunny will take his a major musical act is pretty insane. He almost forget
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it times that he's an actual not an actual wrestler. Loved the cameo spots
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with Savio Vega and Carlito. Those were really well done and fun. With
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the match goo like twenty thirty minutes and it was just a fun and entertaining
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match. Props a Bad Bunny. I had no idea who he was when
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he got into involved with wrestling. I think he sang the Booker t song
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at Survivor Series twenty twenty, and then that led to him doing some suffer
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wrestling Aney thirty seven. I know the name, no clue about his music.
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Still, I went and sit there and say that, yeah, I've
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been downloading his music afterwards, but ton of respect for the guy. What
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a fun, entertaining match as Bad Bunny defeats Damien Priest, I think the
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crowd was singing his song more than they sang Seth Rollins true like. And
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I had never heard that song, and I had read that he was going
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to debut a new song for Backlash, and I'm like, all right,
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I like the beat it's got some sing along parts. All right, even
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though I don't understand I don't speak Spanish, the the is it was catchy
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and I'm good with it. Um. By the way, I did call
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the Carlito spot last week, did you I forgot about that? That's awesome.
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Yeah, um so I just figured, hey, if their important,
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I said, subway for the Cologne family, whether it's primo epico, you
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did say that. I do remember that now, yep, props, props.
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Yeah, but um no, it was. It was a great match
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and really really fun and and I'm like with you, I didn't know who
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Bad Bunny was. All I had seen him was like, who's this guy
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doing these Corona commercials with snoogog And all of a sudden, now he's on
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WTV and I'm like, all right, this this can't be a great But
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I mean, just like Logan Paul, I'm not shocked at anything thing he
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does now, like he's shown that he can be in the spotlight and perform
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up to the level it needs to be performed at. So I saw some
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people on Twitter telling me like, oh, I hate how Damian Priest takes
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kendo shots because he was like wincing before it got there and I'm like,
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yeah, you've never been hit the kendo stick. Like, if you have,
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you know how bad it hurts. So yeah, you're especially if somebody
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who quote unquote is maybe not fully trained. Uh it's swinging the kendo stick.
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Yeah, it's gonna hurts and you're gonna feel them for days. But
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yeah, like the whole match was great, the ending was great. Like
24:33
I really that was one of those like those matches where like it's up there
24:37
with for gimmick matches of recent memory for some celebrities, it's up there with
24:41
the Johnny Knox will Sami. He's a match from WrestleMania thirty eight. Yeah,
24:47
that's a good comparison there. So yeah, that was really really good.
24:52
Yeah, very entertaining, very entertaining STUFFI bad Bunny defeated Damien Priest cinemost
24:56
instances. I don't like to see a guy who's a world championship content ender
25:00
take an owl to an outsider, which I don't love that fact, but
25:04
it makes sense even given the dynamic of the match in the street fight.
25:10
But again, similar to Omas's performance with Seth Rollins, reports came out the
25:14
next day that is now looking at Damian Priest as a main eleven, main
25:18
event level talent and I could not disagree more. I mean, what a
25:22
performance from from Damian Priest to make him look good. Next match, here's
25:26
the Bloodline defeeding Matt Riddle, Kevin Owens, the Sammy Zane and a six
25:29
man tag team match. I had Riddle, Owens and Zane dot Trey the
25:32
Bloodline. Great six man tag match, lots of great in ring action for
25:34
the storyline development, The Jay Uso solo Skoo stuff was great and I can't
25:40
wait to see where the story goes with The Romans return on Friday Night SmackDown
25:44
tomorrow night, so that should be a lot of fun. Bloodline gets the
25:47
victory Doctor Trey. This was another solid match. Yeah, it was really
25:52
solid. The solo Jay sounds pretty good. I like that Riddles the fall
25:56
guys, so it doesn't hurt Sammy and Kevin. Although I always feel bad
26:00
for Riddle of times because like, all right, could he win a match
26:03
against anybody in the Bloodline at any point on a big stage, because we
26:07
see him lose the Roman. Now this one is like all right, I
26:11
get it, but you know, the fans love Matt Riddle I'm still pretty
26:15
positive about him, but you know, it is what it is. But
26:18
for a six man tag, it was a really really good match, and
26:23
this also gave us some really good ebbs and flows because you needed that dip.
26:26
You couldn't go from Bad Buddy Damian Priest right into the main events,
26:29
so you needed that drop down moment to kind of get the crowd reamped back
26:33
up for the actual main event, although they kept saying Bad Bunny and Damian
26:38
Priests is the main event, even though it was next to next to last.
26:41
Yeah, it was a double main event, which you know, these
26:44
matches in the middle, right, they usually have a tough act to follow,
26:47
especially after a really fun match with Bad Bunny and Damian Priests. But
26:51
I mean, great point by you. I think this is one of those
26:52
very few instances where it did not feel like the show missed a step,
26:56
Like there was like that dead time, which is pretty cool. Rarely do
27:00
you see that, I mean, And honestly, anytime you put Samy's Sammy's
27:04
I kind of thought, as much as I love seeing him and Kevin together,
27:07
I kind of thought Sammy zane popularity might dip a little bit. But
27:11
once again, since that music again, that crowd was super behind him,
27:15
and then also the fact that he came out last on his team shows you
27:18
where wid still views him in their becking order. Yeah. No, great,
27:22
great overall. I mean it's it's weird because now the storyline is perpetually
27:27
over with Kevin and Sammy and Matt Riddle because they're all on different brands.
27:30
But maybe we saw the next chapter of it during this match with Solo and
27:36
jay Usso, which as the match went on, Doctrey, I don't know
27:38
if you feel this way, but I'm like, man, jay Usso could
27:42
be this year's Sammy Zane, like a guy that fans want to see turn
27:47
on the bloodline and could be I can't you know, three or four years
27:52
ago you would never think this, but could be a main event level star
27:56
as a singles wrestler. I mean main event jay Usso, right, he
27:59
had that wild run in the late part of twenty twenty, feuding with Roman
28:03
and being in the main event match after being nowhere to be found for like
28:07
four or five months after Jimmy got hurt at I think it was at Wresselmany
28:11
thirty six in the performance center of the pandemic one. I mean, like
28:17
maybe that's the next layer here. I was watching the match and I'm like,
28:19
man, Jay Usso could be a really huge baby face, which is
28:22
just wild to think for a guy who was or is a tag team star.
28:26
Yeah, I think when you get wet. We talked about a little
28:30
bit a couple weeks ago where for twin brothers, Jay seems to have I
28:37
don't want to say the it factor out of the two, but like Jimmy's
28:41
good on the mic, but Jay can tell a story on the mike.
28:45
There's more layers to Jay right now. Yeah. And then the fact that
28:48
you saw it in the match where like, you know, he's calling out
28:51
so like I'm your big brother. You know, whose side are you on?
28:55
Who are you with? Yeah? I'm him? Yeah? Yeah,
28:56
this could be really good story side because literally could do a whole thing where
29:00
Jay loses everything, has to pick up the baby face to regain himself,
29:04
Like he could lose his family, his brothers, you know, the whole
29:07
nine yards. And then they're Sammy there to boost him back up, you
29:11
know, reinstore his you know, Juana ve So to speak, and then
29:17
Jay then goes after Roman and Solo and everybody else, and it could be
29:19
except for Solo. Eventually he's taking the crown from Roman as the leader of
29:25
the Bloodline, and you know Jay not wanting to fall in line behind his
29:27
little brother, where Jimmy's fine with it. So, I mean, there's
29:30
a lot of different layers you can go with this for storytelling, it that's
29:33
the route they choose to take. Yeah, And if that's the route they
29:37
take, the stuff that we saw during the match and the Sammy Kevin Riddle
29:41
chapters over, if you thought that the storyline was going to be biting a
29:45
lull could not be maybe as entertaining as the Sammy's Ain stuff. I think
29:49
what we saw during Backlash as me really optimistic and excited to see where things
29:55
go from here and even more excited for Friday SmackDown with Roman rains where earning
30:00
and continuing from whatever we saw at Backlash furthering on Friday night. So it
30:06
does not seem like the Bloodline storyline, we'll take a step back at all,
30:11
which is great for us rossing fans. And then finally the main event
30:15
here, Cody Rhodes defeats brock Lesner. I had Cody doctor trade Brock Lesner
30:18
good match, standard Brock Lesner match. The bustet open spot for Brock was
30:22
a pretty sick gash, but of course it want to be a big Cody
30:26
Rhodes match without some blood, and according to reports, Brock out the okay,
30:30
which he's like one of the only talents that we could get away with
30:34
that because we don't see blood in w matches for like the last five plus
30:37
years. I did like the pin as it helped get Cody the big win
30:41
over there after the ressumating defeat defeat at the hands of Roman Rains, and
30:45
it also protected Brock as well with a Kumara pin by Cody. Cody needed
30:51
this win and continuous establishing himself as a top level WE talent. And now
30:56
it looks like we'll be getting the rematch of nine A Champions in a couple
30:59
of weeks and Arabia good matched out to Trey Cody defeats Brock. Yeah,
31:03
really good match. Actually probably would have Brock's better matches in a great a
31:07
while. So, I mean, I don't know about you, but I
31:10
kept checking my watch. I was like, wait, we're ten minutes in
31:12
and the match is still going. I was kind of amazing. Then you
31:17
know the blood spot. Instantly I thought about the fact that we talked about
31:19
like in Puerto Rico, like the WWC back then, like the Carlos Cologne
31:23
era, Like those are some bloody battles, and it's like maybe the kind
31:27
of figure like, hey, we're not I mean, we're on American soil,
31:30
but it's not really American soil. And you know, the poort riding
31:34
crowd is very bloodthirsty, so I mean, this is the home I mean,
31:37
Puerto Ricos, the home of abdul To, Butcher, Bruiser, Brody,
31:41
Carlos Cologne. So if you don't have blood, I mean, that
31:44
crowd may riot at some point. But it was it was an interesting finish
31:48
because it wasn't that long ago that we were kind of complaining about the Lashly
31:53
Lesner finish where Lashly had the hurt lock locked in on Brock and bra rolled
32:00
them up with that, and we didn't like that finish. But Cody rolling
32:04
up Rock while he's in the Camura is cool. So like, but I
32:07
guess it's a physical it's a physical standpoint, like Cody's so much smaller than
32:13
Brock. It makes sense where with Brock, and lastly it was kind of
32:15
a weaker finish. So it's just an interesting dynamic that Brock wins by rolling
32:21
up somebody while in a submission, but then loses while he has a submission
32:24
on somebody else and they roll him up. So just an interesting choice of
32:28
finishes for brock Leser. Concerning the last ego last five months of the brock
32:32
Leser run this time around in WWE, so there's actually been some explanation about
32:37
that. What was that elimination chamber match with Bobby Lashly, So the reports
32:42
aren't there that he they had that weird finish with Bobby Lashly and Brock because
32:46
that was supposed to be the beginning of the Seeds being planted that Brock was
32:49
actually a heel and it was similar to Win Brock when it get in the
32:52
ring with Omas and like retreated, which was strange on an episode of Monday
32:55
Night Rawn mid March. I still think that's bad because at that point Brock
33:00
was a huge baby face and I didn't see any seeds beforehand where I'm like,
33:06
hm, I wonder if he's a heel. I just thought it was
33:08
like a weird thing to do with the baby Face, So yeah, being
33:13
at that, I just recently heard some explanation about that, which is like
33:15
the official word why we did what they did over the last couple of months
33:20
with Brock. But Cody gets the victory. We're gonna get the rematch in
33:22
a couple of weeks at Night of Champions and we'll see where there's feud goes
33:27
from here. But a much need to win for Cody Rhodes. At WWE
33:31
Backlash paper view prediction record, I went five and two, Doctor Trey went
33:35
six and one. I'm thirty six and fifteen on the year. Duct Tray
33:37
is thirty three and eighteen event ratings Match of the night. I gave Backlash
33:43
a four point two out of five and Bianco bell Air and Eo Sky is
33:46
my match of the night Doctor Trey, what say you? I also and
33:51
this is we don't talk about this before the show. I literally was like,
33:53
oh, four point two, so I have a four point two as
33:58
well. Just be contrarian. I'll go with a Bad Bunny and Damien Preece
34:02
because it was probably the most fun match to watch on this show. Like
34:07
Bianca and Eo is probably a match of the year Canadian, but just like
34:10
that WrestleMania one. Like that that Bad Bunny Damian Priest match I remember for
34:15
a while isn't because low expectations for Bad Bunny, but guy killed it and
34:19
they had a great match. I'm very surprised by that, mine, Gio,
34:23
I really am. I mean, that's a very enjoyable match. I'm
34:27
surprised you chose it those match of the Night I gotta be honest, but
34:30
yeah, I mean, that's that's a fun one. You can't go wrong
34:34
with this card. I feel like a couple of these matches were Match of
34:37
the Year candidates. I definitely felt like Bianca eo Is isn't that match of
34:42
the year candidacy, But Bad Bunny and Damian Priest was very highly entertaining as
34:45
well. Something we'll talk about by the end of the year. Yeah,
34:47
I think the Bailey, I think Bailey ruined the match, not ruined it,
34:51
but I think Bailey would finish as the Bailey getting, which I think
34:53
is great for storytelling. But I agree, I think just for me,
34:58
just like, look, we we come back in December, we're talking about
35:01
match with your kids. The Bad Bundy Damien Preeson one won't be in my
35:05
top five or tend to choose from, but just from I like comedy and
35:09
I like nostalgia. In that moment, I got Savio Vega, Carlito,
35:13
Bad Bunny, Raymondsteria and Judgment Day like that was just really fun and in
35:20
the moment I got that as a match of the night. But then when
35:22
you look at the totality, yeah, Bianca and Io will be up there
35:27
for Match of the year. That's trude. Something that's being debated post Backlash
35:31
was whether or not Backlash was a better show than WrestleMania. So by our
35:37
rating standards, I gave WrestleMania Saturday four point eight out of five, Sunday
35:40
at four point four. You gave Saturday four point seven. You gave WrestleMania
35:45
Sunday at four point two. We both gave Backlash at four point two.
35:49
So Sunday was higher ranked for me, but it was even with your Sunday.
35:55
Backlash was your rating ratings aside? Do you feel like Backlash should be
36:04
in the same discussion as as as entertaining as Rustlemania was a couple of weeks
36:10
ago. Overall, I would say a notch below. But if you segment
36:17
WrestleMania and you do WrestleMania Saturday WrestleMania Sunday as separate entities. I think Backlash
36:25
might beat WrestleMania Sunday. Like if cars is entertainment, crowd, everything else
36:31
involved. There's really no booking finishes that were just like, oh my god,
36:36
that was awful. You know, there's arguments to be said that that
36:42
happened at WrestleMania Sunday, so I could say that Backlash if I was ranking
36:46
them, you know, I would go WrestleMania Saturday, Backlash, WrestleMania Sunday.
36:52
Yeah, I don't know. I still think I would go Saturday,
36:55
WrestleMania Sunday Backlash. Right now, Backlash will definitely be one of my favorite
37:00
shows. It's actually pretty funny because I even look at the ratings here and
37:06
this is just you know how it is. Right after the show, I
37:07
have Royal Rumble a point higher than Backlash was, and I feel like Backlash
37:13
at the end of the year will be a more memorable show for me than
37:15
Royal Rumble was. I think there are more moments that will stand out from
37:22
Backlash, and even then, like it depends on what they do with EO
37:28
Sky coming out of this do they do something with Selena coming out of this?
37:31
Are these are these literal breakout moments or were they just feel good moments?
37:37
You know? And I think that's how it looks. I mean,
37:39
if I mean Selena's entrance is a feel good moment, you know, the
37:43
match was solid. But if Selena goes back to just being a manager and
37:46
is not in the SmackDown Women's title picture doesn't mean anything. If EO and
37:52
Damage Control don't break up and EO doesn't become a standalone star, does this
37:57
mean anything? And you know the Rock, you know Cody Bloody War match
38:01
will still be a fun match, and you know we'll still remember bad Bunny
38:06
Damien pre Street five was remember that. But well, any of the other
38:09
things stand out more than what happened at Rumble. So that's I think that's
38:13
where it just kind has to see how it plays out over the next few
38:15
months. Just looking here at the year so far twenty twenty three w events,
38:20
not counting an NXT Royal rumbell I gave it a four point three Doctors
38:22
Tray at four point two Elimination Chamber. We both gave a four point two
38:27
rustle Mania Saturday for me four point eight, Doctor Trey four point seven,
38:30
Rustlemania Sunday four point four for me, four point two for Doctor Trey,
38:34
and likely we've said w backlash four point two through on both from both of
38:38
us. There has not We've not rated a show below four point two for
38:43
the w QUOTE main roster, and so far this year Doctor Trey for PLS,
38:46
apparently all I do is pick four point two about to four point two.
38:51
So yeah, he loves four point two, which is weird because three
38:54
is actually my favorite number. I haven't think the four point three yet.
38:57
So stay tuned Night of Champions and stay tuned. Once again, though,
39:01
this is the consistency that we used to give from NXC Black and Gold when
39:07
putting shows together. We're not getting outside of wrestlemaning, we're not getting thirteen
39:12
matches shoved together. We're getting six seven matches tops. And that was kind
39:17
of the NX tam mold were less matches but more time. And I feel
39:22
like that's kind of translating better to the audience where it's like, hey,
39:27
we're not doing crazy finishes, we're not doing short squash matches, we're not
39:30
doing it's we're giving these guys time to build a story during the match,
39:35
so then the finish actually does kind of make sense. Yeah, it's a
39:39
great, great run for Triple H and w Right now so far in two
39:44
thou twenty three. Lots of pressure now for Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia,
39:49
switching gears but keeping with WWE. Dout tree. There's reports out there
39:52
that w former w champion Drew mcadar's contract will be expiring sometime this year.
39:59
I've also heard some things that maybe early next year. According to Dave melts
40:04
or The Wrestling Observer, McIntyre believes there's a good chance he won't be resigning
40:07
with w wins contract expires, he could be on his way out of the
40:14
company, which to me would be a massive mistake. He has been off
40:19
w programming since WrestleMania. He was pulled from a SmackDown show due to a
40:23
health issue. He is expected back to return in a few weeks. He
40:28
was just recently drafted. I think in like the third round for Night two
40:31
for Monday Night Raw. I don't think there's any way that w W should
40:36
let Drew McIntyre leave, and I don't think that there's a company that can
40:40
really capitalize on how good Drew McIntyre is. Like WWE thoughts on this Doctor
40:46
Trey. Could we be seeing a former WWE World Champion and pandemic MVP leaving
40:52
World Wrestling Entertainment soon? Yeah? I kid, I mean unless Endeavor just
40:59
says no. I mean that's literally the only way. I mean, if
41:01
you're looking at actual from what he brings the company, what he's done for
41:06
the company. I mean, hell, it was Triple H that brought him
41:09
back to NXT. Like, I just don't see them going, Hey,
41:14
here's a six foot six, good looking Scottish guy that can either be a
41:20
baby faced warrior or a heel psychopath and be believable in either role, and
41:25
we're just gonna let him wah Like. It just doesn't make sense to me.
41:29
And even for Drew, like he's been an Impact, he's seen what
41:34
goes on an could he make more money to AW and maybe would he be
41:39
happier there? No, I think you get bored at some point. He's
41:43
not gonna make more money an Impact. He's not gonna make more money traveling.
41:47
It just doesn't make sense on either side for them to break up unless
41:52
it's a mandate from the Dark Overlord that is in Denver. Yeah, and
41:58
that's one of the big things about this story is folks don't know how Endeavor
42:00
is gonna be handling contracts, and it's possible that Drew mcutar is one of
42:05
the big names. I saw Becky Lynch out there as well, as her
42:08
contract may be expiring in twenty twenty four as well. There were a lot
42:12
of five year deals that were signed in twenty nineteen when AW was launching.
42:16
Drew and Becky may be one of them, maybe a few more. But
42:20
it's shaping like twenty twenty four's free agent class for professional wrestling is gonna be
42:23
pretty massive, and you got to expect that one big name from AW at
42:28
least come to WWE, and one big name from w will at least go
42:30
to AW. So could it be Drew mckutar. I don't know, but
42:35
I don't think w should let this guy leave. You have a new championship
42:38
now, the World Everyweight Championship, and he's a guy that went discussing this
42:42
championship. We immediately said, as someone who is a top title contender,
42:45
give me gunther Drew mcutar feuding for that title on Raw, and you've got
42:51
mussy television going forward. So interresting times here for one of the pandemic MVPs
42:57
and professional wrestling Drew Mcutar as he may be on his way out of the
43:01
company, we'll see, we'll see what the current contract here. Switching over
43:07
to AW to wrap up this week's edition the show Doctor Trey, the AW
43:10
Double or Nothing main event is set. It'll be a four pillars four way
43:15
match for the AW World Championship. MJF will defend against Sammy Gavara, Jungle
43:21
Boy, and Darby Allen. We've talked about this when the feud started being
43:24
built. I think in early March that it was really well done and still
43:29
maintains that way. From a storyline perspective, I would still say that this
43:32
storyline has been really good and enjoyable to watch on television. The big drawback
43:37
still is, and I hate to say this, but it's the size of
43:43
these guys right Like MJF. It looks like a world champion. I'm fans
43:49
of all four of these guys, but Darby, Sammy Jungle Boy don't come
43:53
off as guys that you would think could be your world champion. That doesn't
44:00
mean they're not creating wrestlers. It's just the image and things that we've talked
44:04
about as well, which I think is more important than me. The looks
44:07
is the way that they've been booked heading into this match and feud has been
44:14
not the greatest from a creative standpoint, which it just makes you wonder,
44:19
like is AW sacrificing the best possible main event for double or nothing? Or
44:25
are they just looking for a match to make a statement with with having the
44:30
four pillars right? These are the four pillars on the mail side of AW
44:35
that Tony Kahn has said are the foundation of the company. They are the
44:39
four pillars, Like, is he just doing this to be like a Stubbard
44:44
vincerc Man move, which I'm sure he would eight to hear and say,
44:46
I'm gonna give I'm gonna have this match happened. And whether the fans want
44:51
to see it or not, I mean, do the fans want to even
44:52
see this? Like to me, I gotta be honest, I don't.
45:00
Sammy and Derby have been booked as guys that could contend for the World Championship.
45:04
Jungle Boy is not just gonna be honest here I don't want to see
45:09
this match as a fan. That doesn't mean Creative has been good for it.
45:13
That doesn't mean that I don't think the match will be good at double
45:15
or nothing. But I just feel like AW is trying to make a statement
45:19
in sacrificing their main event rather than giving the fans what is the best possible
45:23
main of an outcome. Yeah, so let's compare the most To me,
45:30
I guess maybe the most famous four way match in my history, which was
45:36
was a stone called Rock Big Show and who is the full resuming two thousand?
45:42
Those are pillars of that era, right, I mean those are all
45:46
bankable stars. This match feels like a mid If you took the world title
45:52
off MJF and just said where would you slot this on an AW card,
45:57
I'd have it like upper middle card. Like it just doesn't feel like a
46:02
world title match to me. And a lot of it is like who is
46:06
Darby Allen really beat? Like, I mean he's never beaten Moxley, He's
46:12
never beaten Jericho. They're beating Hangman as they're being Kenny right, Like,
46:15
none of those guys have really beaten any of those guys, as you know,
46:20
Sammy's got I think Sammy's got to win over j that it just never
46:28
felt like none of these guys have been established outside of MJF as a main
46:34
event star, and yet this is gonna be the main event's arguably the biggest
46:38
show that you've done. So it's it just seems like to me, I
46:44
guess if he took the world title out of the picture, this would be
46:47
a damn good upper mid card match. But it just they haven't built these
46:52
guys up enough in my eyes, to be, you know, a reason
46:57
to buy the pay per view, Like are you going to spend would you
47:00
spend fifty bucks sixty bucks to see this match if it was this match on
47:05
its own, because that's how you have to build paperviews, have to build
47:07
paberview's like UFC stuff, so that it just doesn't seem to fit for me.
47:15
So you know, the big story from last week two was that aw
47:21
had sold like sixty thousand tickets for aw all in and Wemley Stadium in the
47:24
UK, which is great, like that we should be all championing that,
47:28
Like that's what we want to see where we want to see AWB successful.
47:32
We want to see another company really content with w WE. We want to
47:37
see them going to a new market and break attendance records. We want to
47:40
see that happen. And then there's like this. It was a really small
47:45
story, but it's concerning in regards to AW double or nothing in Las Vegas
47:49
in a couple of weeks. As of right now, sixty one percent of
47:52
tickets have been sold, and that number may have gone up at this point,
47:55
but it's it's been sold, and it they only sold it was something
48:00
like strange where it was maybe like two hundred tickets in like the last month.
48:05
Like I'm not even kidding when I say that, it was like between
48:07
two hundred and five hundred tickets that were sold in the last month. Like
48:10
that's not great. If I wanted to spend my money to go to Las
48:15
Vegas for the show, I wouldn't be happy with the main event. If
48:17
I'm someone that wants to sit on Memorial Day weekend and watch this show,
48:22
this main event isn't doing it for me. It's just like so strange from
48:27
contrast here, like AW should be selling out the United States in seconds if
48:32
they're doing what they're doing in the UK right now. In my opinion,
48:37
but double or nothing sixty one, Like that's not great. And I just
48:40
feel like AW made a very selfish decision by giving us this match and now
48:45
as a statement match rather than the best possible outcome. And you said it
48:50
best, right, like Sammy Darby, they've been booked well, but they
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haven't been booked where it's like these are guys that could be world champion material,
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like they should have gotten some victories over Moxley or Jericho Samoa, Joe
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Wardlow whoever at this point to help get them over. Jungle Boy has been
49:10
in a feud for what's felt like the last year with Christian Cage, who
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is a part time retired wrestler who didn't wrestle for like eight years and Lucasaurus,
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who infrequently is on my television, and that feud was not great at
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all. Yeah, I just I don't like the decision making it from AW.
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I know this is like something you commonly see on social media right now,
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people piling on. I saw stuff about obviously their size and what have
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you. But I mean some of the fans, without the stupid language that
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they're using, are not wrong in the sense that like this is not a
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main event level match for one of their biggest shows the year, Double or
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Nothing. We've always argued that, Doctor Trey. We've always debated it,
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like what is their WrestleMania. I've always felt like double or Nothing because that
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was a show that launched AW in a way. You could also make a
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case for all out Out as well. But yeah, I mean, I
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don't know. It just it seems like I don't want to see it,
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and I just feel like Tony conn is just trying to make a statement that
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doesn't need to be made now, like maybe do it, maybe set yourself
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up from a year from now to make this statement and give everyone the booking
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now to do that. Maybe Tony's doing that because he feel likes m jaff
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won't be coming back. I don't know, but yeah, strange moved by
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AW creative that this is the decision they made for double or Nothing to me
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an event, Doctor Try. Yeah, it's it's odd, and yeah it's
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funny because I remember when we were saying these exact things six months ago,
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nine months ago, we were getting roasted online for saying these things, and
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now maybe we were just ahead of the curve. Yeah, But like there
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are times I've said that AW feels like a super indie show, Like if
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you go to your super indie shows, you see a lot of these guys
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that are Sammy Gavara, Darby Allen jungle Boy size, And you can if
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you listen to this show and you go back four years ago, five years
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ago, when I was talking about well Osprey, he was under sized and
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for and I said for him to be taken seriously, he'd have to get
51:14
put on some more size. And what has happened. Ospreys put on more
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size and now he's the guy that you can see being, you know,
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IWGB champion and does there is an image to it, even going back to
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when see him punk, remember the whole physic Man's story where you know he
51:30
didn't want to see see him punkin street clothes because he looked like the guy
51:35
that everybody could beat up in a bar. There is some truth to that
51:38
that your world champion needs to be a little bit larger than life. If
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they don't have to be huge, but either charisma standpoints or size wise,
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they have to stand out. And MJF obviously charisma wise stands out, But
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does any one of these other three guys stand out? If you take away
51:55
Darby's face paint, they just look like every other guy you would see walking
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through a ball that was actually open and not closed down because I don't know
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if they even have those things anymore. Yeah, it's it's a trainer move
52:06
MJF. And also we should point that MGF has put out in size and
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he wasn't someone that it was under size. Um, I really I like
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all four of these guys. I don't know if you're watching A Wall Access
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Doctor Trey, but for like the last year, Sammy Cavara from behind the
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scenes and even before that too, was not getting a lot of great stories
52:23
about him. Um I've watched a Wall Access and it's like a complete one
52:28
eighty, Like I think he I know this show is being built around like
52:30
Adam Cole's return in a way, but I feel like Samy Cavara has been
52:34
a breakout start. Like really respect that guy and everything that he's gone through
52:37
to become a wrestler at this point. Darby Allen, I'm a fan of,
52:42
like enjoy his work and stuff like that, but again, the booking's
52:45
not there. He looks like somebody that could be working at like could check
52:47
me out at Target for all I know, but I don't know. It's
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just I think you said it best. It's like, this is an indie
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show. It's it's it's an indie main event, and I just think that
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timing is really off for AW to be making this type of statement. They
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may never be the visual size that we may want to see in our champion,
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and some folks would argue that they don't care about the size overall,
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but even okay, we can debate that, But I think the biggest thing
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that I think all wrestling fans can agree upon is the creative for at least
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these three contenders, Sammy, Darby and Jungle Boy, does not make sense
53:25
to being a world Championship match at double or nothing. Like. They don't
53:30
have those big match resume wins, they don't have those big match resume feuds.
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I just think it's really poor creative by w and it's just more of
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a statement than it is a fact of why these four folks should be in
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the main event. At least the three challengers should be in the main event
53:47
challenging MJF for the AW World Championship. So kind of a controversial thing,
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