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Episode 39 Angel Reese Turning it Up in ATL, UFC Review, Boxing Matchmaking and Money in the Bank · Los Pickups Podcast

• Los Pickups Main: Hey everybody, thank you so much for tuning back into your weekly dose of the generisms, tism, tiggle biddies, and everything in betweenies. Coming to y'all from the live wait, coming to you live from the Pacific Northwest. as usual, my man in the Niners jersey. AZ. My man right here with the Raiders hat. Barbie Floyd. And I'm Ernesto, thank you so much for tuning in once again. Lots of good stuff to go over today. switching it up a little bit, we kinda been hyper focused on the NFL season and everything that's going on and with our respective teams and all the good stuff all together that that's been that's that's been happening. we wanna kinda check in with everything else because well, there is life outside of football. So we w got a couple things that we wanna talk about, give our hot takes, maybe even some more in depth opinions if you know what I mean, and kinda kinda go from there. Lots of stuff to going on. Funny enough, some of these topics are involving football players, but It's stuff off the field, technically on the field, but with off the field implications, if you know what I mean, and then if that makes sense. So, let's get right into it. this is week seven of the NFL season. Josh Jacobs. All right. dude is officially off the commissioners list for now. Technically still under investigation. For those of y'all who don't know, Allegedly, this dude is got some d has some domestic violence type shit going on. nothing has been definitive quite yet. but it doesn't look good because Homeboy actually did sue to not release any video footage of the altercation with his partner, who he actually funny enough, they had broken up and now they're back together. that's what you do when you're innocent. 'Cause that's what you do when you're innocent. So you don't want anything to come to light or it might implicate your overall image. Josh Jacobs, just like Deshaun Watson, different situations in a sense, one's kind of predatory, one's D V. Kareem Hunt I would say or Ray Rice. Kareem Hunt, Ray Ray Rice. unfortunately, but this is just the latest. what are your guys' thoughts on Josh Jacobs coming back? Close to home for Riley. X Raider. X Raider. X Raider Raider legend Josh Jacobs. Another Alabama product. products, going into the assault records and going to jail. I mean I I really think he should be on the list for longer. If not for the whole season. I don't think we should be rewarding players in coming back to the NFL and getting paid. for something that's completely awful and humanizing to other people. absolutely. It it's it it obviously should not be reflective of what, you know, someone of high character should portray. I mentioned Deshaun Watson earlier because I mean we've seen that the dude is having suc some success with his team right now. when h he was going through all his shit, his stuff was like the whole coming on to Masseuses and happy ending type type shit with his with his staff. he was never f criminally charged, because down in Texas when he was still with the Texans, this is what the Houston Texans rather, that's when it all took place. judges found that there wasn't enough to indict him or move forward with the case so charges were dropped. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that the dude was i innocent, but he didn't face any disciplinary actions from from the court. He did face an eleven game suspension that year, and then of course he missed more time because of separate injuries. But either way, at the time and even reflecting on it now, I don't know if eleven games is enough of a suspension. Fast forward to today you got Josh Jacobs, he missed what the first s seven weeks, six weeks of the NFL season. He's allowed to play today, he might be going back and even then I still don't think that's gonna be enough. just because it's not so much I tread lightly because I don't wanna make this sound the way it's gonna come off. I don't wanna make an example of him. Yeah. But I do want to start setting a standard. Yeah. It's like, bro, you you you play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. Yeah. So at the very least I'm thinking, yeah, you sh y you should lose a complete season. Was Ray Rice completely banned from the NFL or was he just never picked up? I don't think he was ever picked up again after that. Kareem Hunt was on the s it was in the same boat as Ray Rice, but for whatever reason people the Browns picked Kareem Hunt up. Right. So they have history with that. and then he went back to the Chiefs dispute. You able to confirm that. So ba just for you guys th who don't know or or I'm not familiar with the Ray Rice situation, this happened back in twenty fourteen. Yeah. At the time there was a similar domestic violence situation with his then fiancee who is actually now his wife. video. there was a video situation that took place in Atlantic City. It's pretty damning evidence where a dude he d he's wailing on her. Yeah. like it it doesn't look good. No. But again, they're still together at the time Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, s suspended him for two games in July, and then that was considered a very light punishment, which obviously drew a lot of controversy and backlash because of it. Yeah. And then then the release of the footage in September of that year. that's what and then led to his overall termination and suspension. and there was some other stuff that came up where like the NFL were trying to basically cover it up. Like shit like that. it got he it was just ugly. The whole thing looked ugly, not just from Ray Rice's standpoint, but from the league itself. even the aftermath, he wasn't suspended or banned from the league anymore. He was free to get picked up by anybody, he just never did. Yeah. So which which I think ultimately led to his retirement. Yeah, and I think that's what all the league owners and managers or coaches felt too during that time were like we're not gonna pick this guy up, I think we should punish him. Maybe that's the reason why he didn't get picked up was because of the other like team owners, CEOs, managers were just kind of not picking them up. But I've heard rumors about Josh Jacobs being worse than Ray Rice's assaults. Yeah, I those are rumors, so we don't know which w until we see the footage. Which wh which w would explain why he doesn't want that shit coming to light. Yeah, and that and that That to me is like, well, if you're innocent you would give that footage out to people, right? If it wasn't that bad, why don't you give up that footage? He's he said he made the excuse saying it's gonna give a lot of other personal information out. Not only just the assault by itself, but he said he has other things going on on those cameras where it's personal to him and his life. But that kinda seems kinda weird. I mean that's the angle that you're going to take to try to not have the footage come out. I think so lo so like an amazing privacy type shit. Yeah. Yeah, but like you're looking for any angle at this point for that not to come out, right? And it's just it's an unfortunate situation. Josh Jacobs is another great talent, probably I mean, un unfortunately sports is ridden with these D V cases, domestic violence cases and in the NFL especially, but I think this might be the most high profile ones high profile situation since l like Ray Rice. Domestic violence. In recent memory. Yeah. really talented, was you know, getting things going, like the the Packers offense is different with him, you know. I do think that the he's not convicted yet, right? No, yeah. So it's hard to say the MSA is just ongoing. So I mean it's hard to like what are you gonna do on paper, right? you're gonna be suspending somebody for the season for something that's an ongoing investigation. I'm sure once he's convicted, there'd be another suspension. Yeah. But like I feel like the NFL's hands are tied. Not that I'm advocating for the NFL. The NFL again, try to cover up the Ray Rice situation allegedly. Everybody knows how fucked up the the NFL is. as a as an as a run organization. But this is one of those situations where I'm gonna go back to it where, you know, he was failed somewhere down the line. Right? It's I CTE coaches, somebody made this feel like it was okay for him to do this, to get physical with somebody, to put hands on somebody. And you shouldn't be putting your hands on anybody, regardless of woman, right? Regardless if they're a woman I meant to say. Like it's it's a it's a somewhere that that was okay, right? No definitely. And and I'm not I I I really hope people don't take it this way or or like because I I may sound off sound or come off as like sexist, but I I think it is a thing where yes, no one should ever put hands on another person, period. It is worse when a man puts hands on a woman. Yeah, much less way more physical. Much less somebody who's been in the NFL for ten years. Who is strong as fuck, big as fuck. Violence is basically their second nature because of the nature of the game that he participates. Yeah. So i it that's just another layer which again amplifies the whole thing. Not to and then you throw in the fact that he's famous and he's making all this fucking money. Which in f in the grand scheme of things, that's probably why Okay. a lot of these dudes get off light or get s get, you know, nothing but a slap on the wrist because, well, you make this much money and in turn you make us a lot of money, so we're gonna help you out kinda thing. Yeah. I it's unfortunately like it's a very toxic relationship, you know, where it's like it is a all about the money at this point. He's a big name. He draws well, he was drawing people to buy tickets and shit, right? Yeah. I mean I just don't I'm just glad the Raiders don't have to deal with this shit. So that's all I'm happy about. I it sucks that that it's him that had to do it. but I'm just glad the Raiders don't have that much drama going on right now too, on top of what's going on. For sure. I mean no and you you mentioned to it another another you know asterisk or check mark for the fact that dude came out of Alabama. Yeah. Right? And the list just keeps growing as far as former athletes that went through that program who went up wind up in the news because of this type of shit. Yeah. If you would you think would you agree to the NFL having some sort of like you're suspended for a year and you have to take counseling for the next year? I feel like that would be a better idea. I might I might somebody gets AA and shit. I might get crucified for this. but I equ I kind of equate it to like the the right to own firearms. You wanna be able to go ahead like and pass pass background, pass the psyche eval. in this case it's different because it's not initially just to purchase a firearm and what we What we're talking about specifically is okay, you already did the thing, you fucked up. In order for you to get back on our good graces, now you have to go through the background check, the psyche valve, the counseling, like you said, the the the AA get your chips or whatever to make sure you're doing you're in your program to make sure that you're re fully rehabilitated and then you get your second chance. It's just hard to believe th ideal ideally that would be a good plan. It's just hard to believe that that didn't get corrupted, you know. a hundred percent. U y you yeah, somebody somebody speeds up the process, somebody signs off, good my man's good to go. Mhm. Slap on the button and get Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunate situation, another blemish in the NFL, more fucking controversy for them to worry about, Yeah. I I I I hope that they start making plans to tryna get that the NFL P the NFL Players Association or somebody starts trying to make progress towards helping helping heal. Yeah. Whatever that part, whatever that is in somebody. Mm-hmm. You know? No, it's it's tough. Add it to the list and I really hope the right kind of, you know, outcome comes to light and dude, I don't know, man. It's it's tough. I ever every time we we talk about these these these these specific situations it's just kinda like fuck, there is no right Hold on. There I feel like there is a right answer. There's no easy path to get to there. You know what I mean? Like like you just said. Yeah. 'Cause And you don't you don't wanna give up on somebody. Mhm. You know, like there is a deeper rooted issue. Yeah. This is like Where in real life somebody commits like a small crime, they get fined, they can't pay that fine, their car gets towed, now they don't have a car, now they're carless, now they can't get to work, now that they can't go to work, then they're not paying their bills, and they're not paying the bills, everything goes into elections and then they fucking lose the money and they're homeless. It's a spiral. It's like there needs to be programs in place, right? And so for the NFL it's like, Okay, fine This dude's a scumbag. He's the worst of the worst. He's a piece of shit human. Let's say this, right? He gets convicted. He goes to jail. He comes out. He can't work anymore. And he still has whatever he has in him that nobody's helping him out with. And now he's mad because that moment took everything away from him. Yep. So he's gonna be bitter. He's not gonna be making the money that he used to be. Now he thought he was gonna have his life set up. Everybody thinks he's a piece of shit. It's like what do you do with your life at that point? You got this label over your head for the rest of your life. Yeah. And it's like you gotta there needs to be some s some sort of especially with the fucking money that the NFL's making out of these people, if we're not gonna acknowledge the CTE that these players are retiring with, at least give them a fucking chance to be able to come back into society. Yeah. That's my rant. No, that's tough, man. That's good. That's tough. Well I I'm I'm this isn't the the first time we brought this up. No. Won't be the last time we talk about something like this, unfortunately. No. Yeah. And maybe hope hopefully we'll we get some better better ri results. Or or something will come to us in our sleep and we can figure it out. That being said, I don't think we mentioned that We have been here for two or three hours in the studio. I guess the first hour and a half. No, you don't have to. You don't you need you need to No, it's funny. It's funny. It's funny guys. I never press record. And so we lost about an hour and a half of us talking about MLB and stuff. So look for that next week. Okay, I'm not Are you okay? We're I'm ready to move on now. Fair enough. What's next on the document? Some more football. culture football. this is this is This is culture. For the culture, I will say, because we talked about a little bit on one of our previous episodes where it was a game between the Niners and the Seahawks. Mike Evans is popping off against these dudes and one of the defenders is that's going at him happens to be Trayvon Diggs. Mm-hmm. Trayvon Diggs, serviceable defensive player, defensive back. Previously all pro. Previously all pro. Defensive back with the Dallas Cowboys. So very he's got the accolades because he led a league in interceptions. Yep. And got close to breaking the record? two, three years ago? Yeah. Something like that. And he was a demon. Yeah, and the the reason we're s bringing this up is because at one one point in the game, Mike Evans is getting chirped at by Diggs. Evans doesn't realize who it is. And he literally well allegedly, says he doesn't know who it is, grabs him by his pads, turns him the fuck around to see who what his last name is. He's like, he's you and then he starts chirping right back. Making a my a viral meme video basically from that interaction. Fast forward to today, old boy gets released from the Seahawks roster. Now the Seahawk fans are trying to save face because he's signed to their practice squad, I guess. You have to release him to sign him. Yeah. And so they're like, This is just like a this is a normal move. I don't know why portion. Well, homeboy isn't good enough to be on your actor active fifty three. So point stands. Who the fuck are you? And you guys had a and you guys had to replace him with a guard. That was the transactional change. Yeah. So like it was with Sir Bradford starting position with position. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was with an offensive player for a defensive player. It's not a good look, guys. Not a good look. No. Hilarious fucking meme gave me It certified Mike Evans as a forty niner officially for me, when you get when you get people who spent like a thousand years on one team and you get them for a few years, it's hard for for you to see them fully as like as a as whatever your team is. Yeah. But that he earned his stripes for me on that. Yeah. Shout out Mike Evans. Shout out Mike Evans. Shout out Trey Diggs. Shout out Trey Diggs, hopefully cute kid. Hopefully he gets back on the squad, no problem. Yeah, and we won't even be re talking about this anymore. Justin Herbert. Okay. Dude allegedly not allegedly, it's on fucking camera, walk walking out of a grocery store, some kind of store, with multiple twenty-four packs of Miller Lake. Yeah. Yeah, two two twenty four packs of Miller Light in his car. Plus plus plus I guess there were some flowers too for his missus. But Madison Beard. She has no Haley Stanfield though. Madison Beer. Had some beer with Or Taylor Swift, you know what I'm saying? No, don't do that. That's not the same. That's not the same. But Is this Justin Herbert's are we still season? Are we starting to see the beginning of the end? I think it's the meaning of his end for the hi for his season with the Chargers. You think You think they'll get rid of Herbert before they get rid of Harbaugh? Yeah. I th I think so. Maybe they're spent. Two. Two. Second season as head coach. Second season. And they didn't make it to the playoffs last season either. also with Herbert. Now can we br blame Herbert. Can we Can we blame Herbert? Yeah. Somewhat. Who else would we I just think he doesn't have any one to throw to. Alcohol? Yeah. You could blame it on the a a alcohol dude. Yeah. Yeah. but you could also blame it on Mass and Beer if you want to. No, dude. Herbert's been ass for some time now. Herbert, okay, somebody explain who chokes. No, somebody one of the big heads explained it really well where At this point in their careers, who would you rather have? Brock Purdy or Justin Herbert? Brock Purdy. Brock Purdy. Okay. Now that being said, when they were getting drafted, who would you prefer? Justin Herbert or Brock Purdy? Brock Purdy. Justin Herbert. No, that's not true. That's cap. I I didn't even know who the motherfucker was. Well Justin Herbert was coming out of Oregon. Right? And big school. Brock Purdy was coming out of Arizona. So also a big school. Arizona Not known for football though. They're more they're more known for basketball. Iowa, excuse me. Iowa. He came from Iowa. fuck memory. He grew up in Arizona. so the argument is Brock Purdy has been going to Harvard while Justin Herbert has been going to Western Washington University. So when they both graduate with the degrees, who the fuck are you choosing? The kid with the Harvard degree or the kid with the Western Washington degree. Right? I they're not smart at Western Washington? It doesn't have the same prestige as Harvard. Isn't education just education? No. Mm-hmm. Who said? By whose by whose standard? My standard. Fuck that standard. The Ivy League standard? Ivy League standard. The pay to play standard. my bad. Right? And then you pay for that nice degree with a nice My Bad. I played Division Two, bro. I'm sorry, okay? We didn't even have a football team, Doc. I'm not even a I'm not talking about you, this is working towards you. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I'm just saying, at this point, Brock Purdy has been developed to be a better quarterback and Justin Herbert has not been developed the same way. Fair. Right? Fair. Mm-hmm. So because of that, I don't know if you can fix all that. It's like how many years? Five? Yeah. Why is the stadium filled up? people show up late? when we we're we're watching the Kings play the Memphis Grizzlies right now as as where's we're recording all this. when we got back from break, it had just finished from halftime. So people were getting concessions and shit. it doesn't look so empty now. Yeah. previously I was I was trying to I forgot to tell you that Sacramento is actually a a really big basketball town. Okay. I was trying to I was follow up on that. Honestly that's all they have is basketball. So yeah, I don't know if Justin Herbert can be revived. Mm, I think a trade would work for him. I don't know who would Pick him up maybe Miami. Put possibly. The only reason I say that and I I and I I mostly agree with you is because we're kinda seeing the resurgence with J J J McCarthy. It's a small sample size with big blue. It's it's a game and a quarter, right? but if it if it sustains, i it c it could be just the the remedy that this guy needs. You could I mean you look at the Jared Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford trade as well. Jared Goff had been to a Super Bowl. Well now has Matthew Stafford, but he won the thing. Yeah. No, but Matthew Stafford ha was top of the league. And I Yeah, but he never won a Super Bowl. No, but Justin Herbert was never top of the league. I wouldn't say that's a good example because I I think I I think that's more as probably as equal of a trade as you're probably gonna get. with a minor caveat here or there. Okay. but if it was like who who has got traded recently? JJ. We won't really know what that looks like and un at least for till the end of the season. Yeah. Yeah. So Okay. Okay. What is a quarterback that failed at their first team and got traded and did better? Other than Matt Stafford. I w I wanna say Drew B's but he didn't fail with the Chargers. The Chargers just fucked up. Yeah. Chargers failed him. Just like the Chargers are failing Herbert. so just tra so trade trade it to the Saints. He traded to the Saints. No I I think Shuck is a good Q B for the Saints, but That's a tough one. That's a tough one. That is. Maybe trade Minnesota. Minnesota might be a good one. Minnesota. Or they're fine for now. Eagles. The Eagles are not gonna be having Jalen Hurts any time soon. I don't think. Because he's gonna be on blood thinners. So Jalen's down for the year, potentially even more. Yeah. But for sure the year. For now. Blood cloth's scary, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, then I guess he could go to the Eagles, but dude, the dude can't that dude can't hack it in LA. What do you think he's gonna he's gonna hack it in L. But he doesn't have anyone to throw to either. No no but the thing is no, but now you're talk you're going from a different system 'cause now you've got Siriani in Philadelphia, which is not a better coach than Harbaugh in my opinion. How much did you bet on Kenneth Walker? Just five bucks. I mean just to kind of clean this up and move on, I think Justin Herbert should find a new franchise. That's not a bad idea. It's not out of the screen. I think it's I think it's I think he should stay with the Chargers till the end of the season to make you look good and then move on from him. They just clean house. They just might clean house around him. Yeah. Which maybe he just fell out of love. Maybe he's felt he fell out of love with the Chargers and fell in love with Madison Beer. Yeah, maybe Madison Beer's the mistress. Damn. He's a whore. Next segment. Movie right along. Another quarterback another quarterback situation. I like how to get this episode about not talking about football and we're fucking talking about football. That's what I say last episode that may or may not exist. Kirk O'Baines, are we heading for towards the same cliff? I don't think so. I I think we can get more out of him. After today you guys are now three and four. Yeah. But that also happened with I Rich Gannon. So when he took us to the Super Bowl. So I don't know if that's that that's a that's that's a reach I know that's a comparison that's a weird comparison. That's what you look like right now. I'm not looking like Michael Jordan. He he he's on the way. OBJ had to go back. And that cash didn't even count. And the cash didn't even count. But I give him credit. That was good. I I hear you. Yeah. Yeah, too bad it didn't work. No I don't think it's a Kirko issue though. I don't think it's a Kirko issue either. I think it's an all around team. And or we're just not following through with our Playmaking. he doesn't he doesn't have anyone to throw to really, either. Other than Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer, those and Trey Tucker's been doing well. I'll give Trey Tucker credit too because he's been pulling all of his weight on the receiving core. Yeah. But we haven't even established our run game. Like our offensive line, our first three games, was pushing the line forward and creating run spaces for Genty and Washington, our rookie. And so I think that Not establish not establishing the run, kinda hurts. But I don't think it's a Kirko chains issue entirely. But I could see fur I could see Mendoza actually starting maybe later the season if it keeps the way it keeps going and losing. So s so b before we get to that point then, what would be what would you like to see happen? I would like us to still use Kirk Cousins but make smart decisions on offense or like at least certain plays in the playbook to help Kirk Cousins not get hit so many times 'cause I feel like he's getting hit every single h time he drops back in the bucket. Okay. Which I thought we fixed, but apparently not. Maybe move around the offense or see who's gonna be going to protect our quarterback. Okay. but I would like to see us still use Kirk Cousins in a way. I don't know. What do you guys think? What would you think? I don't know man. I think it's just a matter of the defense is kinda kinda fucking you up a little bit. The defense is slacking a little bit. because honestly, I mean t today, what's another example of it. The the Buffalo game. Mm-hmm. You made it a game offensively at the end. So so like it it w i it it's not like it's not that you guys got smacked. Yeah. You just fell behind early and then you had to play catch up the whole way. Yeah. I think I don't know. We created three turnovers this game. I think had you guys, you know, been on top of it and maybe maybe denied a score or two early on in the game, we we're having a different conversation altogether. You guys are probably four and three instead of three and four. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I I I would like to l kinda ride it out a little bit longer for you guys just just to see how it plays out. Obviously if the if the wheels do completely fall off. the final score today was what, thirty five to twenty one? Yeah. that second quarter when you gave up three tutties. Yeah. That's what it was. I mean we don't have to we don't have to talk about the game 'cause that's not we're we're talking about. We're talking about Kirko. Yeah, but still but if it keeps going the way it's going, like Kirko Needs to get benched or be the coach. And and at some point you want to start giving your number one overall pick some reps. Fernando. Fernando. Yeah. It was something Is that the only line on the That's the only one that matters. That is the only one that matters. That's the only one that's saying. There's another one after that, but that's okay. Anyway. Well, why don't you sing then? I I don't feel very good. You can't point fingers for us not singing the whole thing then. Last football topic I want to get into so we can actually start talking about other shit other than the I want to talk about NBA too. Yes, I do. So My man Caleb Williams busts out a new a new set of cleats in this the third Thursday night matchup against the Patriots. Yeah. Not s related to the game, but the cleats themselves were a center of controversy because my man's got fined like eleven thousand in some chains because they were not brand approved cleats by the league. Dr. Show's cleats. These these cleats are basically designed to help protect your knees, is what they are. Well, and protect ACL tears. Yes. they're low top. So I don't know how Right, right. So that being said, I mean dude's just looking out for his well being and he still gets fined. Thankfully the brand of the of the cleat stepped up and covered the fine for him. Good on them 'cause that's actually great marketing and branding for themselves. But the fact that there was even a fine to begin with, some backward shit. He said he'd continue covering the fine too. As long as he keeps running What do you guys think about the principle of the whole thing anyways? What do I think about the NFL finding somebody for trying to stay them healthy when the NFL says that they try to keep their players healthy? Yep. And they find them eleven thousand dollars a week. That's the one. Because they want to stay healthy, but the NFL likes to keep people healthy. Exactly. But then yeah. I think the NFL's like the American government. Please expand. When you don't want to give them money, they get mad at you. Or do as they ask, or do what their laws or what their policies say. Yeah. They get mad at you. Or they fine you. I think it's bullshit technically. I did hear players do wear those. It's just that you need to tape out the logo. Which everyone knows how much Caleb Williams loves his outfits. So he was not gonna do that. Okay. Anything else? The branding question for you guys at home wondering it's the brand is called Caddyx. And then just you guys understand what we're talking about, the whole you know, the technology side of the the the cleansing of their design, what they actually do is that they're called smart studs. that that technology is specifically designed to flex and rotate to reduce rotational torque on knees and angles, which helps lower the risk of non-contact injuries. Which if you guys have been paying attention, there's a lot of non contact injuries that's been happening all happening all across the league regardless. Anyways, we're talking from And he just had it. And he himself just had the fucking non contact injury four weeks ago. So the fact that that they wanna nick this in the bud or penalize this guy just for that reason is beyond me. Well, which the owner of those cleats said he will pay that fine for Caleb, which is pretty dope. For sure. We covered that. Yeah. And you said I know. I know. I'm just saying that it's good. To reassure it. That's fucking dope. we we we just had it in the major example. No. Can we talk about Caleb Williams cleats here? Did you hear what happened to his cleats? Funny enough funny enough, they're gonna pay his fine. They paid his and moving forward they're gonna cover his his his fines too, should it Fuck you guys. that that was perfect. Thank you for that. God damn it. That being said, yeah, fucking dude, get your shit together, NFL man. Come on now. We can do better than that. next topic. I just wanna give a quick shout out. To my girl Angel Reese. From the depths of my heart, and I'm looking at you, Chicago Sky franchise, you fucking idiots. They set you free, Angel, and you are flourishing and becoming the great basketball player that you are and bringing the results to the great city of Atlanta. And you could very well be leading this franchise to a WNBA championship. Their series is currently tied two to two between the Atlanta Dream and the Golden State Valkyries, but Home Girl is popping off, having a series a hell of a series, and I just want to say there's a good chance this girl's gonna win a championship before Caitlin Clark does. Surprise, surprise, because she also won a national championship before Caitlin Clark did as well. Damn. From all the con from all the controversies, the talking heads on the internet, giving Angel Flack for how she conducts herself, her what and her playstyle altogether, it is there's no No div what's the word I'm looking for? There's no refuting the fact that she is an elite player. She is not just a rebounder. Her game has flourished in the Atlanta system. and there's no discrediting her at this point. She's coming off a defensive player of the year award. She made all NBA all WNBA second team as well. And I meant I meant like I I'm I g into that previously. I think she's gonna lead this team to a championship. All the all the haters, all the doubters, all the shit talkers and all those fucking keyboard warriors are pretty fucking quiet right now. And I'm loving it. Huh? Me included. My man's included. So, anything you guys wanna talk about or add to that? No, that's a pretty great accomplishment. I mean, to even win something or have a chance to win something before the highest prospect in the NBA or in the WNBA history in Cla in Caitlin Clark and to achieve it before her is pretty great. And shuts everyone up. For sure. Shuts some haters up, dude. And basketball's a team sport, but with that being said I would like to applaud Angel Reese because she has gotten it as bad as any athlete can get it. On social media, on criticism, on judgesm. Cynicism. Yep. Everything that could be thrown at an athlete and a woman was thrown at her. A hundred percent. So the fact that she's able to put herself in this position and not crack and rise above it all, shout out Angel. Absolutely. Putting the world on notice and I'm here for it. I'm loving it. And from Chicago. she's not from Chicago. Well, like sorry, repping Chicago. Like it's for Chicago. No. No. It's for Atlanta. It's for Atlanta. The Chicago the Chicago Sky in the Chicago team. She was. She was drafted by Chicago. That's why I s I preface with the Chicago guys saying they're idiots. It's almost as it's almost like you miss what I said, like the way Riley miss what I said. So neither of you motherfuckers is paying attention to what we're doing. Sorry. The Seahawks game ended and I was responding to text messages. So, congrats Angel. Go get that ship and then yeah what the fuck is in the air today, bro? We'll circle back to it. It's fine. Shout out Angel Risto. Hell yeah. here buddy, here's let's let's have you focus for a little bit a little bit more. Talk us talk to us about some combat sports. Okay. What's going on in the world of combat sports? Yeah, UFC just had a pretty big card in Abu Dhabi. Still don't like that they fight in Abu Dhabi because it's in horrible times. Right. and then also I am worried about the ethics of how they're getting money to be in Abu Dhabi. Yeah. Well that being said, it was UFC card three hundred and thirty-three headlined by Alexander Volkonovsky. he is a legend in the UFC in his own right. He's the bald guy that's fought at Featherweight, is champion currently at Featherweight, tried to move up to lightweight to fight Islam Machashev a couple of times, lost both times, but he was ballsy enough to t to try to make that jump because the weight classes are a lot bigger in the UFC than they are for boxing. he was fighting Mozar Evlo Evlov, Evloev. E V L O E V Evloev. Sure. he's 20 and so this was his first loss against Alexander Volkonovsky. This dude is pretty chiseled if you look at him. Okay. my phone's being really slow right now. But he's a young buck coming up. Okay. Alexander Volkonovsky was starting to get written off. He won the featherweight title back, I think, two or three fights ago. People were saying he should have won the belt and then ridden off on his high horse. Off to the sunset. But here he is. is again stifling this young buck who has a lot of hype behind him. Lotta hype. And he's a wrestling guy. Wrestling guy. Stopped him in his own game. And was ultimately overwhelming. He overwhelmed him in two rounds. He hit him with the ground impound, got him on the floor after some defense, and he was trying to Mobsar. Hey that he Actually kinda yeah. And Mozart didn't want to get back up, put his put his put his hands up to his head and just kinda took it until the ref called it off in the second round. Yeah. Yeah. And this is kind of more Mozart territory, right? Yeah. Alexander Volkonovsky is the one that travelled to Abu Dhabi fighting on a different fucking time zone and shit. So shout out to Alexander Volkanovsky. Alexander the Great Volkanovsky. He's making a name for himself. Ever I mean, he's not making a name for himself. He's already been a legend. This is just cementing his legacy as one of the greats in UFC history. Mm. Another big one was Peter Jan versus Marab. Dis D Dvalishbili. We call him Marab though. So this was the th third fight between them. First one was a really long time ago. when they were both kind of up and coming and Marab won, I believe. And then the second fight was Peter Jan beating Marab for the belt. I don't know if you recall I think it was Riley's birthday Eagles Nest. I was watching the UFC play. Yes. that's Peter Jan beating Marab. Got fucked up, right? E yeah. He got stifled. He got stopped. That and his game plan was not working. I was hyped up during that because I bet money on him. But also Peter Jan executed the game plan perfectly at that point, yeah. Marab does a really good job. Marab job. Marab job. he has crazy stamina. People just cannot keep up with his pace and he's pressing you and he's pressing you and he's taking you down. He's doing takedown, takedown, and he's wrestling you. He gasses you out to the point where you're in the fourth or fifth round and you just can't keep up with him anymore. Yeah. Peter Jan stifled all takedown attempts, stopped them, stuffed them, did not let him advance on anything like that, and he controlled the pace of the fight. So I was really excited because in the UFC sometimes you get boneheads who just throw punches and strikes at each other. But Peter Jan displayed great fight IQ, came in with a game plan, stayed disciplined, executed the game plan, and then ended up taking the belt decisively off Marab. And it was the same shit this time. round went all five rounds. He won by decision. So Peter Jan has been great. He lost the belt to This guy named Algermaine Sterling. back in the COVID days. Peter Jan was champion. And Algermaine Sterling was up and coming. Algermaine Sterling had both his hands on the floor and Mara Peter Jan threw a knee and you can't knee a downed opponent. So the knee Grays is his Algermaine Sterling's head. They didn't really make crazy contact. Technically that's a disqualification though. Algermaine played it a little bit, got Peter Jan disqualified, won the belt that way. Then he had a title run until Shawn O'Malley beat him and then Shawn O'Malley and Peter Young fought and Shawn O'Malley was able to keep the belt. So it kinda felt like Peter Young was just never gonna get back to that back to that mountain top. And he was able to do it and beat Marab decisively for the second time. So shout out Peter Young. That was a good one. Lots of lots of history there. God damn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good on you for remembering that shit. Yes sir. But you can't remember when I told you that Aja Reese played for the Chicago Sky and they got trade for the What the two guys' names again? Marab. And Shane Jameson. Alright. So that proves my point. Shut the fuck up. It goes both ways. Look here, asshole. It goes both ways. Did you hear record? Yes. Wait. I did. Alright. What is going on tonight? That's still great QBR if you're fucking I don't know what we're talking about, dude. I fucking went to get fucking QBR rating. Bro, I'm sorry, you you got my annoying ass laugh on that one. Holy shit. That's a good field goal percentage, dude. Yeah, it is. It is. Better than fucking what that dude that got smacks? I thought it was on the Chiefs today. that dude too. those were homes. Those were the two headlines for that card. there wasn't really anything much going on but prior my phone's just being really slow right now. in boxing, not much is going on. Right now, the big hype well, there's a couple fights ha being lined up. Ryan Garcia is coming back out. Ryan Garcia was talking about a possible tuna fight against Pitbull Cruz at the end of the year. Not not That's not a tuna fight. That's a fight fight. That's a fight fight and I'm worried for Ryan Garcia if that actually happens. Pitbull Cruz is an aggressor. He's not been knocked out from what I recall. And he's hard to put down. He's typical Mexican f well, I wouldn't say typical Mexican fighter. He has the Mexican style of boxing, but he is so one dimensional it pisses me off because people say it's like the Mexican style. Yeah. But there's a little bit more to Mexican style than just being a dumbass who walks and steps forward and takes punches in your arms. so not the best representation of Mexican style boxing to me, Pitbull Cruz. And he can put people on their ass. he wobbled Javante Davis, Pitbull Cruz, and he knocked he fucked up Roly Romero. So and Ryan Garcia has been put on his ass a few times already. So he's not gonna he's he's vulnerable in that sense. It's not it's not gonna be the the cakewalk he thinks he is. No. I applaud him though, because he's the only motherfucker trying to line up good fights out of all these boxers. You're looking at Tank Davis, you're looking at at Shakur Stevenson, you're looking at Devin Haney. none of these dudes have fought in each other. I've been hearing their names for three years. I I I saw somewhere that appear allegedly Rat Ryan is ducking Haney. I don't think that's true, is it? Not true. No. If he's ducking Haney it's because Haney wants a fucking hydration clause probably. Or because I forgot what it was. Haney wanted some bullshit. All of them are wanting bullshits. Shakur Stevenson is coming up in weight class. He's saying he could outbox anybody. He's on record saying weight class doesn't even really matter if you're that good. Blah blah blah. Okay. But he doesn't want to fight Devin Haney if Devin Haney And he doesn't want to do a weight a dehydration clause. Matter of fact, he said he'll fight Devin Haney at one forty and then he'll go up to one forty seven to fight one guy, and then the other guy, No, you gotta drop down to one thirty-six if you wanna fight. So he is not making any fucking sense because he's literally picking his fights. And so my thing is everybody wants to be money Mayweather without being pretty boy Floyd. Right. Everybody wants to be what money what Mayweather ended up being without putting in the fucking work, and it's very irritating the fact that these dudes are all in their prime and nobody's fought. We should have had trilogies between these guys. I remember I remember back in the day growing up and w and with my dad watching fights, g God rest him, I feel like every two months, shit, every three months, there was a big time fight. Mm-hmm. It was like clockwork. Yeah. I don't see that shit. No, I think And I'm talking about the the the the big names back in the day for from from Chavez to Pacquiao to este the other dude, my gosh. Marquez. Manuel Marquez, thank you. Oscar de la olla, Sugar Sh Sugar Sh Sugar Ray, esteem. Sugar Shane Mosley. Sugar Ray was a older. Sugarshane Mosley, right? Yes. Yes, yes, thank you. Evander, Holyfield, Mike. I feel like yeah, everything was pretty sequential. It was frequent. boxing's a thing. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. right now people are too coddled. And I think that's where Mayweather really fucked things up. 'Cause now it's records, record, record, record, right? and there are pros and cons. Pros for coddling your career is you get Floyd Mayweather where you call the shots, you go fifty and nobody can tell you shit. Cons, you get somebody like Fernando Vargas, who got thrown to the wolves way too early. Yeah. Was a promising fighter, but remember that got too much damage done way too early, couldn't really become the fighter that he probably could have. so there's pros and cons to taking care of your career that way. people like Canelo for the longest time, did go through and Ryan Garcia, you get twenty fights of fighting fucking part timers, pretty much. And you build up that record and then you start building up the great fights. Canelo ended up having the trilogy with Triple G. You the careers like that. Anyways, and even Canelo, at least he's fighting like once or twice a year. For sure. You know, but it's like you know he's at least gonna fight once a year. Yeah. Right. You don't know that with any of these other cats. Like an when they do, you they're fighting some random bum. Yeah. I.e. Canelo. I don't know who the fuck he's fighting next this month actually. Next weekend. Canelo's fighting next weekend. Yeah, I saw that. I don't know who he's fighting. and and that's the one of the problems with boxing is that there are three belts for every five pound differences. There are three belts at one thirty, there are three belts at one thirty five, there are three belts at one thirty seven, there are three belts at one forty, there are three belts at one it dilutes the whole thing. So when somebody's a unified featherweight champion, it's like, yeah, he's unified, undisputed at one thirty. But this other cat's at one thirty five. And there are three champions at that weight class, 'cause they're not unified. So that's what gets people disinterested in boxing. That's exhausting. It's diluted. Right. and so you could have fucking bums as champion well, I mean As much of a bum as a boxing champion can be. Right, right. He heard he earned that shit, but as far as like the big name goes, it's not there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is why UFC's nice because it's every ten pounds you get a champion. And that's the champion of that. And then there's no free none of none of this free building. anyways, my point being, Ryan Garcia was probably gonna have to tune up with Pitbull Cruz. I don't think that's gonna happen anymore because now new talks are saying that he's finalizing with Delphi Multiple. Lopez in February to unify the belts which would be crazy because they they are two big names. Delfimo Lopez lost to Shakur Stevenson, unfortunately, but then got the belt off of the last guy the last guy he fought. Gave belt belt to ass, right? no, Delfimo Lopez is kinda like a technician. He didn't really give belt to ass, but he won it little by little. Bit by bit. I forgot who he last fought. Anyway, Stealthimo has a belt. Ryan Garcia has a belt. There's one more guy in that weight class who has a belt. So the plan was Ryan was gonna fight him because Telfimo wanted to take some time off. Mm-hmm. And spend time with his kids and enjoy being a champion and whatnot. So then Ryan sor sorry to stop you. Yeah. Right, right, right. Thank you. Yeah. Beat Roley, which was surprising 'cause Roly was w wasn't able to generate anything on offense and he is a power hitter when he wants to be. So Thelfimo did dismantle Rowley in that sense, has the belt. The plan was Ryan Garcia go fight the third champion who I can't remember his name in that weight class, have two belts unify it with Delfimo Lopez next year, and then at the end of next year fight Devin Haney in a rematch undisputed for all the belts on the line. Which is storytelling. on some bloodline shit. Yeah. Ye years of storytelling. two years ago. So you acknowledge that the story I acknowledge that it's cool that a story went long for five years, but after ten years it gets tiring. I had to I had to get that I know, I I saw it in your eyes. I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you. I didn't press record on the first hour and a half so I'll give it to you. So Telfi Molopis Ryan Garcia in February and one that I'm really excited for, I've heard I've mentioned this guy's name before, Inoue from Japan. Coming up in weight class to fight Jesse Ben Rodriguez, who is at like one Yeah. Fight of the decade type shit in March. Do all in Japan. You keep saying their weights, bro, it kinda blows my mind. And n Naoya in a way is coming up. That's crazy. He was like champion at like one fifteen. That's insane, man. So that goes to their detriment though. Because everyone loves to see bigger guys fight, you know. Like it kinda starts with the Ryan Garcia weight, like one forties and stuff. But these younger dudes, like these fights are just as crazy. But it's like fucking Naruto versus Sasuke because 'cause they're small, they can just take a bunch of fucking hits. but as you're watching them pffting. There's speed, but yeah, there you they you don't really get like one punch knockouts, right? also goes to their detriment because it means more concussions and more headshots and more more b more literal blows to the head. Right, exactly. But now Naoya in a way mi is making a name for himself. He's coming up in weight and I think he can really do some damage to Jesse Bam Bam. Or that he is. Who's also another big name. He's been a big name. The fight kinda seemed like a dream fight because they were a little bit away in weight class and there was talks of Bam Bam not wanting a figure out not wanting to sign the contract real fast. There's a timing in weight class. I think BAM has to go down a little bit and in a way's coming up. So dehydrating to meet each other. Right. Dehydrating is hard on a fighter. So Noya's trying to take advantage of quickening it so that he can't really get used to fighting at that weight class, which He's not the first person to do that. He won't be the last person to do that. Thank you to Mayweather for fucking starting that shit. but it should be a really great fight if they're able to write line that shit up in March. So really excited and I'll let you guys know when that happens. Unfortunately, it will be in Japan, so it's probably like a two in the morning fight. I don't know if I wanna. We'll we'll s we'll we'll we'll play it by air when that comes. We'll cross that bridge when he gets there. I'm I I'm actually quite interested. I have been making it more of a point to get more familiar with with these names myself. Me too. on other sports. So it's it's one of those things that then it's cool because some of these names that you're throwing out I actually do recognize. And the the Skelisvili and Minasvili names, those are a little tougher for me to register. Yeah, what's the Russians got got infused into the UFC's gone by Which is kind of fun. 'Cause it's easier for me th to memorize the European names in basketball, but w me associating with other sports then it gets kinda I think when you have to remember how to pronounce it it gets hard. you look at Khabib Numagamedov, Khamzat Shimayev, you like Islam Mahashev, you're not gonna know that shit. the Lakers sign Mamut Mamutskilizvili who who who played played for the Toronto Raptors last year. Is it Russian? No, he I think he's either Lithuanian or Croatian. I can't believe he got a fucking nickname. Mamut. Do you think Gilgich would have a harder time being marketed if his name was crazier? Well, I call him the Don, dude. Look at look at the look at Yeah, yeah, hi his name is Sandro Mamushkeleshvili. That's nice. Good on you. You got it. You got it too. my apologies, Sandro. He's Geor he's American in Georgian. Yeah. Yeah, from from the Republic of Georgia. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But no, that's crazy. No, keeping more tabs on that. I'd love to see it. let's pivot a little bit into the WWE. money Money in the Bank just happened. some good stuff, some good storylines going on all all around, I think. I was getting it out way real fast get it out the way real fast. shout out to Roman in LA. I think they put on a better match than I was anticipating. Minimal botches for LA. Minimal botches for LA. There was You know, he gets a lot of shit online, bro. The but the power bomb, that's the one that kind of stood out. I don't know if you saw it. It would look like I it kinda looked like Roman sandbagged in a little bit. No, I think they both kinda fucked up. B because b b because if you look at it at from a specific angle, It's the LA Knight, you you gotta stay low the whole fucking time. He got up too soon. And then when he's try s he when he tried to stand up, Roman was still swinging up. I see. so he didn't give him a chance to actually get his legs propped on his shoulders and then so he can guide him. Yeah. Obviously they powered through it, they recoordinate and figure it out, and then he eventually put him to the table. But at a at a glance, I can see why someone would hate on Roman or someone would hate on LA. but whose real name is Sean, by the way? either way, I think the the overall critique that comes along with these guys, I think a a lot I mean, with any sport really, it's stupid. It i it's like first of all, you guys realize it's scripted. Second of all, this is choreographed. Yeah. and then third, bro, the I wanna see you pick up a two hundred and sixty pound ma man over your shoulders and then drive him through the table. You know So You know what I mean? I I understand. I'll give you this. This has been a good year for Roman. It's been a great year for Roman. the match against LA, match against Benta. Mm-hmm. What are his other ones this year so far? He's had a great match with with CM Punk with CM Punk with Seth. the first match with Fatu. The second match with Fatu wasn't as great. But with Penta and and now with LA. Is there another one with Penta? I thought I saw something. So Benta actually won money in the bank, is Senor Dinero in the Banco. Dope. Dope ass briefcase, bro. W when he brought that shit out and he and the pyrotechnics came out of the box, bro, that was fucking dope. Yeah. I love when they had their swag to it. Hell yeah. Do you do you understand how money in the bank works? Not not really, no. I would like to know a little bit more fixed. No, for sure. No, that that's the that's why I'm asking. I I don't want to just just spew stuff just for the hell of But I can't remember is is there a turn there's a tournament you gotta fight to have a chance at Money in the Bank. Correct. So all the weeks leading up to Money in the Bank itself, you have a series of matches of three three wrestlers going at each other one v one v one. The winner of that gets you a spot in Money in the Bank. The money in the the bank Bank it event itself is a six person match. Men and women. And the pre and so it's so it's like one v one. Yeah, so one V one times six. Yeah. Right? Yeah. you get that to the money in the bank match itself, it's a ladder match, and the whole purpose is or point is you got the briefcase hanging above the ring. Right. And you set up the the ladder, mm-hmm and whoever walks away actually unclutches the briefcase, wins the match. So it's not about pinfall or submission. Is it almost like a cage match then? Mm-hmm. There is a become a cage match? There is no cage match. There is no cage match. Okay. No I thought it I thought you get locked up in a cage and then you fight. That's a separate kind of money. There's been variations over the years, maybe like one off situations, but for the most part this pay-per-view money the bank specifically is open ring. Yeah. With the briefcase up in the air. Gotcha. Okay. So and usually what that looks like Is like whoever Mr. or Mrs. Money in the bank will take advantage of the the current champion. They can go after either one. So there's two main champions. There's the WWE SmackDown champion, the undisputed champion, and there's the raw WWE heavyweight champion for the men's. for the women, same deal. The WE champion and then the women's world champion. whoever wins money in the bank, man or woman, can go after either belt. And you never know when it's gonna happen. But when I say take advantage of it, so a lot of the times when it happens is that the champ, the current champ, has just finished the match defending his title, his or her title, and they won, but they're already exhausted and beat the fuck up. At that very moment, Mr. and Mrs. Money in the Bank can be like, hey, I want to cash in right now, take advantage of the fact that they're weak and and already already tired. Mollywap them and snatch the belt off of him in that moment. Okay. So that's how that whole scenario works out. And it's had s and because of that, it has led to some of the most iconic like moments in wrestling hist or in WWE history. This last one, it was kind of a copycat move in a s in a sense because it's done before. last year, Seth Rollins was Mr. Money in the Bank. He got hurt, allegedly, so where he couldn't compete anymore, but he kept money in the bank, right? fast forward to SummerSlam, CM Punk had just won the World Heavyweight Championship. He ha he held the belt for a matter of two minutes. Seth Rollins busts out in a full-on a leg cast, crutches, and he's got the money in the bank or whatever, he's re and you can see a CM Punk be like, my fuck, what now? kind of thing. As he make as Seth Rollins makes his appearance, he chucks his crutches, removes the fucking cast, he's ready to go. I want the belt. He charges down. Takes advantage of CM Punk, Molly Watson takes the s snatches the belt off right then and there. And it was just pretty cinematic. Fucking fucking cinema. Yeah, pretty much every time. And for me, I love it so much because I love Seth Rollins' intro music, because it's so fucking iconic. Yeah, a and and it's it's a heavy metal joint, it's like brrr brrrr. But and then the whole crowd knows it and they're all singing along because the chorus is Got heavy metal going in the background. Yeah. Fucking cinema, bro. It was beautiful. Hence, I'm hoping for another cinematic situation like that. Even if it even if it does come at the expense of my man Roman Reigns, but because of because of his status, it's just gonna super launch who who if if Penta actually does it. Yeah. He's already established himself as a big name already. It's gonna d juist his overall popularity and status in the WWE universe even even further. I think fuck, I hope they don't make him go for Sami Zayn's belt, bro. But everyone is thinking the same thing. It's probably that's probably gonna happen. It's gonna go f not for Roman's belt, but the other belt that's Alan Raw. The heavyweight championship belt. And and and the reason it's it's kind of like meant is because of who is currently holding the belt. which I have voiced my opinion about Sammy Zayn. Not never was impressed by the guy. I applaud his heart. Yep. And his gusto and his pumps. But Jesus Christ guy. Can there was no it just feels like you're you know, I've said it once or twice before, so I'm not gonna say it again, but like I feel handout. I don't think we're gonna see it again. So and personally, the sooner we can get the belt off of him, the better. It's like fucking giving the belt to ke Kevin Owens at this point. And bro, I don't wanna see Kevin Owens as a fucking champ, dude. What are we doing guys? He he and he's got a badass intro song too, and it pisses me off because they wasted that shit on his ass. But but Like why do we keep going from Sami Zayn to fucking Kevin Owens? Like, why don't you give that shit to like Randy Orton, bro? Give it to Randy. Like what the fuck? Like For sure. You know? I completely taken like the Shawn Michaels thing where like He's taking he's doing impactful matches, but not like championship matches. Yep. Well dude, let me see you hold that shit one more time. Bro, g get get number fifteen. Let's do it. But he looks pretty badass from Penta's pic pictures. Hell yeah. No, Penta's a favor a favorite of ours. And and obviously there's a lot of bias on our end because well he's you know, for f for for for the culture. I think they Benta has what it takes to be bigger than Rey Mysterio. I believe so. He is working off of what Rey has established. Yes. But I think he just has more that it factor than Ray did on the mic presence wise. Yeah. That they would allow him to go farther. And I think that's the main thing. Ray it's not that Ray couldn't, it's that they wouldn't allow him because they didn't think he had that. And not just that, I think Benta has a a a c a capacity to actually tap into the Mexican and Latin American content and aspect of the whole thing because he is one of them. And I hate myself for saying the way it saying it the way I just did. But it's just the reality of it. Raised raised Chicano. He's a Mexican American, just like you and me. If it's somebody directly coming from the motherland, they're gonna look at you a little bit better. And it sucks because it's I I I know and I and I fully resonate with the saying O mexicano nace donde de la sua chingada gana. translated to a a Mexican is born wherever the fuck he wants. But until it's until it's until it's in America. Yeah. Dude, what if they make him go for the triple A bell? That that that'd be some bullshit, bro. my god. That'd be some bullshit for real for real. Not not to take anything away from the belt, but bro, th that's that's not what he's saying. You're marginalizing him. Exactly. You're putting you're putting him into a fucking box. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So So we'll see what ends up coming out. I haven't been hearing any rumors about what they might what the plans are. Nah. Other than I don't think anything's gonna happen at war games. Yeah, I I I think that's gonna play out on as its own. whether Roman has a belt during that 'cause it War Games is in November, I think. So what's leading up to war games? so well we still got Crown Jewel in like no actually I think War Games is either at the end of November or at the beginning of December. And we got Crown Jewel in like a week. nice. Cro Crown Jewel's when they're in Saudi Arabia? Unfortunately. Why is it unfortunate? Because of the political climate that is going on in Saudi Arabia at the moment. And not to mention it's actually fucking dangerous to send superstars over there right now. And also they have to limit the divas. And they have to limit the divas, which is a whole nother conversation because according to their government, women have to abide by their laws, which I understand doesn't necessarily mean I agree with, but it's just the nature of the beast. Speaking of women, miss money in the bank. I was a little disappointed with this one. 'cause I think they had a full on golden opportunity and they kinda fucked it up. Yeah, I don't think you're the only one who thinks that. So and and I'm not taking anything away from Tiffy Time. I love Tiffy Time. She's awesome. I I think she's gonna she she's gonna Yeah, she's gonna be she's gonna be a big name for a long time. But with the way that the storylines have been playing out right now in the WWE universe, Roxanne was right there. Yeah. Roxanne was right there. Live Morgan. So actually when someone says Roxanne, I always think of the song. Roxanne. Absolutely, me too. She's all that handsome. And excuse me. I have to go to the phone. so Roxanne and Liv Morgan, or Roxanne Perez and Liv Morgan Art Morgan are part of the the Facts in the Judgment Day. Liv Morgan just got the women's belt for herself. And it's always been s has has been speculated for a while that Roxanne at some point is gonna turn on Liv because she might be Daddy Dom's new flavor of the week. You know what I'm saying? Shout out Daddy Dom Shout out Ray Dom Mysterio. And and that was a a beautiful match. I think you told me to watch it. Yeah, it was a bad beauti it was a badass match. My bad. but anyways, all this to say is due to the story, it's like cool, if you give Roxanne money in the bank and now she's money in the bank with the judgment day Liv is gonna be like, When are you gonna take the belt off of me kind of thing? Yeah. And s cause a whole nother drama. Or they could have played deep deep into that and been like, No, Liv, I wanted to make sure nobody would like fuck with your belt. Yep. And then but Liv's gonna get paranoid and then maybe Liv would turn on Roxanne and be like, No, I know you want my belt, which would make Roxanne tur See that's that's what I'm saying, bro. That that's that's what it is. That's psychological. We had the golden opportunity and we fucked it up. But I do like the little alliance that that Tiffy has with Chelsea Green right now. so so so that's so so that that that's been that's been pretty fun to see too. And yo, shout out Chelsea Green, bro. to me she is probably like Chelsea Green and E.O. Sky to me are probably the like actually best From a rest the pure wrestling standpoint, Chelsea Green and EOS guy. It do it doesn't get any better than that. Eosky is so good. I love her, bro. She is like like, I don't know. If her English was any better, like they would definitely crown her and keep her crown. I'm saying not me. WWE's known to not fully allow people non fluent English speakers. Thank you. Thank you. They marginalize folks a lot. You know, so it's just a it's a known thing. That's why that's why it's important that Benthad lo he knows enough English to be able to hold promos and shit. Yeah. You know? So and that's crucial to to being able to make those campaigns. For sure. It's it's part of the part of the complete package. But no, lots of good stuff leading up as it stands right now. Is it gonna be like at five in the morning though? I don't know yet. I I have to look at it. but as of right now, what it how it stands is that the what's on the card for sure that I saw is gonna be Randy vs. Cody. Last Man Standing. 'cause they 'cause they got they got they got a a big old beef going on right now. Which I'm a little disab underwhelmed by. Me too. On Cody's end. Yes. Yeah. I I I feel like if you if you're really gonna like dig into this like American. or or bad guy persona persona. If you're not if you're not gonna be I don't like he's completely healed yet though. That's what I'm saying. I need you to commit to that. Well I don't know if that's what the goal is. And that's the and that's part of what's gonna make you snap. That's part of the problem to me from the cr from a creative standpoint is you you guys realize people are kinda tired of this good goody two shoes American dream nightmare person. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to his pops. but if if we're gonna get rid of this Cody fatigue, we gotta get something new. And to me it is go full on heel, snap, beat the shit out of Randy or do whatever the fuck you gotta do and let's go. Do you think Cody doesn't wanna do that to his career? Could be. Cause Cody should like homelander. A hundred percent. That's a that's a great angle. Like that's play the great competition. Like play the part. That's a great angle. I love the people and then like the camera rolls for a little bit too a little bit too long. I saw this on Twitter. Camera rolls a little bit too long and like he starts like bitching out somebody 'cause they fucked up his coffee or something. And then it's like, that was weird. And there's just little moments like that. Yeah. A hundred percent. We're like, now we are. And and I think you you're you might be onto something because w we saw how shit played out for John Cena. and how it wasn't well received when he when he turned heel big on on his retirement run. So I think they're c they're trying to avoid that same mistake. Yeah, I was a little underwhelmed by his heel turn too. I don't know what it was. It didn't make sense. Especially because you have espe Huh? When you go when you go bad guy. like purposefully bad guy. So there's like babyface, which is like you're the one everyone Yeah. You're the baby fist. Yeah, you can do no wrong, you're a great guy and then You turn heal so you go bad. You betray somebody. And then now you're like against everybody. Yeah. So Which it plays to audiences too extremes. They love to root for Rocky and they love to boo for the Seahawks. so we'll see how b how it plays out. So I and then so it's gonna be Roman versus Sammy unless Sammy loses his belt before. which is still possible. and then as of right now we have Live versus Chelsea, for the crown jewel. and what crown jewel is you have champion versus champion. To to win the crown jewel. Gotcha. But not for the belts. But not for the belts. Exactly. But lots of good stuff. We'll see how it plays out. And yeah, man, I I'm I'm actually pretty pretty happy with how things are right now. Obviously I'd like I'd like to see a couple different things play out differently, but overall I'm pretty pretty good with it. I'm gonna that was the last topic, right? Yeah. I'm gonna close it with this. I've been trying to simmer on why I don't Roman Reigns. I think to me, the most articulate way I can put it is that I don't feel I feel like there is a clear gap between Roman Reigns and everybody else on the roster. And it doesn't feel like anybody else is really being brought up on that level. Like they gave LA Knight the opportunity to headline, he shows he can headline. But then it's like but he's he's still here and Roman is up here. Nobody's like here or even like here. You know? Maybe Obafemi one day. They'll make them so like they're equal. But I just feel like the WWE at one point was always like equal. Like Randy Orton and John Cena were like equal. But then you had like Undertaker that was on that level too. Mm. But there wasn't just one motherfucker. Yeah. I mean, maybe John Cena during Super Cena. Yeah. But like even then he was always still beatable, kinda. Yeah. You know? And I mean that's my main thing is that I don't feel like anybody truly gets elevated in these interactions and situations with Rum. I can kinda see it. I don't think LA is is as great as people are making him out to be. And and I'm not shitting on LA 'cause I'm a fan. The only person who I feel like they're letting fuck with Roman Reigns' level and Aura or whatever is like Seth. he's the only guy. That's ca has come close. Yeah. Yeah. A and Cody tried, but I don't but he I don't think he popped off the way people want the the creative want him to pop off. And that's fine. But they let Cody try for three years before he was at finally given it. it took years to even try to get there. It's like okay he failed, fine, great, but at least it happened. But can we try to make it a little bit not so long? Yeah. Do I have to wait three years for Benta to actually take the belt off Roman? I don't know. I i it and it and it's it's hard to say and I I'm trying to be as as unbiased as I can when I say this. but I I don't really see anyone else on that level. It it not not not so much not so much for a lack of trying, 'cause I think they're trying. Do they give up quickly? I'll give you that. they they they they don't give, like you said, enough enough time to actually let somebody marinate and resonate with with with the fan base. Yeah. but no one really has like has really kind of gotten up to that level. And like every time s anytime this dude shows up, it's become a thing where it's like either you have the the the the people that are like myself who are big fans, I'm tuning in, I want to see. this guy fucking dominate, but you're also getting that same number of people, if not more, hate watching. It's it it it it's it's bruh, it it it it it's a thing. R right now, I didn't want to want watch the fucking Seahawks because I want to see them win. I want to see their asses lose. You know what I'm saying? I wouldn't go that far. You piece of shit. You're right, they are equal. They are equal. This motherfucker. No, if anything, since he's the forty niners man, he th he's more like a fo the forty niners of football people. That's the problem that we lost today. Sorry, let's get it. But but no but yeah, I I completely I see what you're saying. And and I and I feel like it's more like it's more also a f Roman fatigue, i is what it's also said in. It could be. I just don't think that there's like a lack of aura for some people. I think Oba Femi has aura. I think LA Knight has aura. So it's like let them go aura. He's the only one I think that like that can get on his level, in my opinion. Oba. Oba, yeah. Yeah. Dude. But when they do it, they should make them go back and forth. Mhm. Oba gets close. Real close. Yeah. Dangerously close. And it makes Roman look human. Yeah. Yeah. But Roman wins wins because he's a veteran or whatever. But I think i and and then the other thing that we haven't really talked about is that I think they are going in that direction. They're setting it up. I think it's gonna be a WrestleMania thing. 'Cause the whole Paul Heyman thing? Yeah. What Paul Heyman? Paul Heyman you can explain it. He's closer to your guy. Paul Heyman doesn't mean I I'm a fan. They call him the wise man. So so Paul Heyman has been shout out to Paul Heyman for this reason and this only this reason alone. He's he's been a mainstay hallmark of the WWE for as long as I can remember. He's got this shtick of being like this big time manager, the guy who elevates superstars to the next level to get them to to make the f be the face of the franchise. Okay? with Roman Reigns, he was known as as the the as the wise man. With Seth Rollins, he was known as the Oracle with the Vision. With Brock Lesnar, I forgot what he what they called him with him, but but he w he was basically Brock Lesnar as representation back when Brock Lesnar was at the h the peak of his popularity. Yeah, true. and there's a h whole like un un unspoken, not really unspoken thing that's like, you're a Paul Heyman guy, you're a th that's you're a Paul Heyman guy as as in like I'm he you get with him, y you you' you you're gonna pop off. Yeah. so now the story part of the storyline that's or one of the many storylines that's going on right now is that Paul Heyman has has basically tried to weasel his way in with Oba Femi. Most recently, Oba Femi basically rebuked him. He's like, Nah, I'm not a Paul Heyman guy. I'm an Oba Femi guy. And dropped the mic and left his ass with his with his jaw on the floor and just left him in the ring. This guy, also is really good on the mic. But he's not like a wrestler. he's not he's doesn't got the build. He straight up looks like a fucking greasy ass used car salesman. Which is part of his shtick, but he also helps some of those wrestlers who look cool but aren't really good on the mic. Yeah. Am I wrong? A hundred percent. So he can help them get there because it's like, You look cool, just let me do the talking because I'm way better at doing the mic shit. And he is really great at it. And he's been doing it for years. He's really good. So then he helps I don't know if he has direct like helps them to v develop. Yeah. But to a certain point, I mean Brock can talk on the mic now without him. Yeah. Roman now can without him. Yeah, a and that's another part of r like Roman fatigue. When he was coming up, like at before at the height of his popularity, his his biggest knock was like, this guy ain't shit on the mic. he's he's bland, he's not very creative, no Nothing. Right? Right. dude, suffer and succotash. I'll always remember I'll I'll always remember that shit. That shit was fucking corny as hell. But he looked Roman looked cool. Yeah. But then eventually he got really good on the mic. Now he now he basically tears your ass down. Yeah. Right? And which it which is part of the part of the whole thing. But making good promos so people can tune into the match. Right? So that's that's why rants are always really good. Yeah. think about it. But so yeah, that's basically what the whole thing is and overall because like even Roman himself, you know, ha has like kind of like dropped little Easter eggs here and there. It's like, bro, like I'm not I'm not gonna be doing this forever. Like I I gotta get out of the game at some point. Yeah. so as like a v like a passing of the torch kind of thing. the the talk is that Oba Femi would theoretically take that torch off of Roman. Gotcha. Yeah. And then the biggest event in WWE period is WrestleMania. Mm-hmm. So Yeah. That's your WWE intake for the day for the week. I'll have to watch it with you guys then. Yeah yeah. Well we've been meaning to try to watch pay per views. Yeah. I I would love to watch Crown Zoom you guys. That because it is in Saudi Arabia, the time difference might be a little fucked. Yeah. but if they do war games at a decent time, I would love to watch war games with guys. I've never watched war games. Well war games is fun man. I like it. I've only seen clips, but I mean if you guys want to watch a football match This motherfucker football match. Football. Football football. Football. Starts here at eleven. Well we'll we'll get we'll get you in there. We'll we'll get you c cut at the speed or get your sister to hook it up. Yeah. Maybe we should wait for a day where it's like football ele at eleven. Football. Football at eleven that goes into a W W pay per view that goes into like a you know Okay. 'Cause that's what happened that one day that we had the UFC and then we had Yeah, we we had four different sports that day. And it was beautiful, wasn't it? I loved it. Yeah. One of my favorite days. One the stars aligned. Yes, sir. I s funny enough, wait, what the classic goal was today? Who won? the or it was Real Madrid. Real Madrid. Yeah. Yeah. Chris posted a Mbappe thing. Mbappe clip. Yeah. Yeah, Mbappe scored both goals and then it was really funny. Lam Lamin Yama choked on his He had an open net, it was just him and the goalkeeper. One v one. Just fucking shinks it. Damn. Is it funny because you don't like him in your maw? Exactly. Yep. It's pretty funny. Yeah. He doesn't like that he's gonna be the next Messi. No, he's not gonna be the next Messi. He's gonna be no nowhere near. Nowhere near. That's good. He doesn't even have the Yeah. He's one on one the L already. Yep. How long did it Messi to win a minute? a while. Hey, close this up. And on that note, thank you so much for tuning in before Riley kills us last. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. As always. It is a blast. Please keep come keep me my god, keep me coming. Keep me coming. Please, please, please come like keep keeping shit. Please come back and tune in on next episode for more please come. For shut the fuck up. For more doses. Shit. 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