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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's still.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's to this in the
- 0:19Speaker 2: storial the show episode number seven and sixty for September fifth,
- 0:23Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
- 0:25Speaker 3: This is your wa Bash in Berlin.
- 0:27Speaker 2: And Nixya Mercy Recap and review and aw all Out Preview.
- 0:31Speaker 3: And Predictions edition of vets are Tea You. I am
- 0:36Speaker 3: one half the show.
- 0:37Speaker 2: I am Jeff Peck, joined every single week with my
- 0:40Speaker 2: one only, doctor Trey Franklin.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Doctor Trey, I am joining you on the injured list soon,
- 0:45Speaker 3: my friend.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Yeah, your year where I was at about three and
- 0:49Speaker 1: a half months ago. You're you're gonna be down for
- 0:52Speaker 1: a little bit. I was down for a little bit,
- 0:54Speaker 1: so uh yeah, this is kind of a you're just
- 0:57Speaker 1: following my my betrayal High Blade just a while ago.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Yeah, So personal note for everybody, I'm getting surgery on
- 1:06Speaker 2: the day that this episode drops. We are actually recording
- 1:09Speaker 2: a day before, so anything that happens on aw Dynamite
- 1:12Speaker 2: we are unfortunately missing in regards to the preview predictions
- 1:15Speaker 2: for aw all Out.
- 1:16Speaker 3: I'm getting jaw surgery.
- 1:18Speaker 2: So this maybe the last podcast at least for the
- 1:22Speaker 2: next maybe couple of weeks where.
- 1:24Speaker 3: I sound normal per se.
- 1:27Speaker 2: I've been told I should be able to talk normally
- 1:30Speaker 2: by you know, once the surgery is is behind me.
- 1:35Speaker 3: But who knows.
- 1:37Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine I'm gonna have surgery on
- 1:39Speaker 2: my jaw, doctor Trey that I sound normal, but I
- 1:42Speaker 2: guess it's possible.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I'm kind of excited about this because
- 1:47Speaker 1: we might come back next week and do you sound
- 1:49Speaker 1: like a Stern Show whack packer, Like you might sound
- 1:52Speaker 1: like real Juice or Eric the actor rest in Peace.
- 1:55Speaker 1: So I'm kind of excited to see how this turns
- 1:57Speaker 1: out because for years I have always said that Jeff
- 2:00Speaker 1: sounds like the professional radio host and I sound like
- 2:04Speaker 1: just the random person they pulled off the street. So
- 2:07Speaker 1: maybe next week I'll sound a little more professional just
- 2:10Speaker 1: by proxy of youth sounding like Beetlejuice.
- 2:13Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows. I mean, it could all be for not.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Like I said, this is like SRTU goes old, because
- 2:19Speaker 2: you've got doctor Trey who's recovering from his foot surgery.
- 2:23Speaker 2: I'm gonna be recovering from a jaw surgery, and they're
- 2:27Speaker 2: just gonna wheel us both out for next week's podcast
- 2:30Speaker 2: to talk about all out so it's an action pack weekend.
- 2:34Speaker 2: It's the NFL starting. That's the one good thing about
- 2:38Speaker 2: getting surgery is I have, like an legit excuse doctor
- 2:41Speaker 2: Trey to sit down and watch the Friday night game
- 2:45Speaker 2: between Mi Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles on Pecock.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Saturday is all out, and I guess I'll have to
- 2:53Speaker 2: watch everything from rampage and collision leading into it on
- 2:58Speaker 2: their Friday night block.
- 2:59Speaker 3: That smart move there.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Let's let's have a Friday night block of programming against
- 3:04Speaker 2: the NFL on a primetime game. Then Saturday night all out.
- 3:08Speaker 2: Sunday is NFL Week one the rest of it, and
- 3:12Speaker 2: I guess, I guess, I guess I did the right move.
- 3:15Speaker 2: I think the only other time that like this may
- 3:17Speaker 2: have been a really good move for me to get
- 3:19Speaker 2: surgery and just recover would have been maybe March Madness WrestleMania.
- 3:24Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm trying to think like March
- 3:29Speaker 1: Madness because of a last thing, you know, basically the
- 3:32Speaker 1: four day the first the opening round of March Madness.
- 3:34Speaker 1: You have the four the games on four days straight
- 3:37Speaker 1: leading in and the sweet six teams. Good WrestleMania weekend.
- 3:42Speaker 1: If when they do all the shows at once, and
- 3:44Speaker 1: if you can live stream some of the indies shows
- 3:46Speaker 1: that are down there, that's a good time. The other
- 3:48Speaker 1: other time is basically what I did at one point,
- 3:50Speaker 1: which was when my daughter was born. I was sick,
- 3:54Speaker 1: so we got home. I couldn't really do anything, so
- 3:58Speaker 1: the mother in law was there helping out. So maybe
- 4:01Speaker 1: when the baby was born, Jeff, you could have timed
- 4:03Speaker 1: it out and then like, oh man, if you're gonna
- 4:05Speaker 1: be in the hospital a giving birth, I can just
- 4:06Speaker 1: go ahead and have my jaw surgery and that way
- 4:08Speaker 1: we're both just down together at the same time.
- 4:12Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this has been something I've been looking for.
- 4:14Speaker 3: I mean I've been.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Dealing with this for like four years now. Typical insurance
- 4:18Speaker 2: shout out the United States. I started this process about
- 4:22Speaker 2: a year ago. And if you actually go back to
- 4:25Speaker 2: some of the late twenty twenty three episodes, I had
- 4:28Speaker 2: talked about like there's gonna be a period of time
- 4:30Speaker 2: where I'm gonna be out because I figured I would
- 4:32Speaker 2: be getting it soon. Having a baby definitely delayed that.
- 4:36Speaker 2: So I'm super stoked for hopefully the recovery moving forward.
- 4:40Speaker 2: I think you could probably agree to that as well,
- 4:43Speaker 2: doctor Trey, being that you know, you were dealing with
- 4:46Speaker 2: foot issues for a while and it's it's like, this
- 4:48Speaker 2: is how long it's taking for me to get this
- 4:52Speaker 2: care and get back up on my literal feet. But yeah,
- 4:55Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I guess I'm pumped for it.
- 4:58Speaker 3: So I don't know.
- 4:59Speaker 2: It's the first time I've ever had a really long
- 5:00Speaker 2: surgery in my life. So there's the last time I
- 5:03Speaker 2: had surgery was like ten minutes, legitimately ten minutes to
- 5:07Speaker 2: remove a tumor off my finger. This is gonna be
- 5:09Speaker 2: about two and a half hour surgery.
- 5:11Speaker 3: So I'm I'm like fifty to fifty.
- 5:14Speaker 2: I keep telling everyone I'm nervous, but I'm also like
- 5:17Speaker 2: relieved at this is the road recovery.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Now.
- 5:21Speaker 1: There's also this weird thing like I don't know if
- 5:22Speaker 1: you've got this where you're just like like a major surgery,
- 5:26Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I just want to do it. So
- 5:28Speaker 1: it's off my bucket list. It's not even like a
- 5:30Speaker 1: good bucket list, just the I've had surgery bucket lists.
- 5:33Speaker 1: Like when I had my my wrist surgeries four years ago,
- 5:38Speaker 1: it was just I had never had surgery before, so
- 5:40Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, cool, yeah, just crossed this one off.
- 5:43Speaker 1: So when I went in for the foot surgery, the
- 5:46Speaker 1: pressure was off. I was just like, let's just get
- 5:47Speaker 1: in there, get a fix, and get out. But uh,
- 5:50Speaker 1: there's that weird also like hey, you gotta look at
- 5:52Speaker 1: your wife and go, hey, if something goes wrong, let's
- 5:55Speaker 1: make sure everything's lined up. Just you have that weird
- 5:59Speaker 1: nerves that you know, the antisthesiologists might be drunk when
- 6:03Speaker 1: he walks in and you get overdough. Like there's these
- 6:05Speaker 1: little weird one off scenarios that play through your head.
- 6:07Speaker 1: But outside of that, you're just like that first big surgery,
- 6:10Speaker 1: you're just like cool, Like you're nervous, but you're excited.
- 6:14Speaker 1: But it's also like I just want to have it
- 6:16Speaker 1: marked off the list because it's also like an official
- 6:19Speaker 1: sign that you're getting old.
- 6:20Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that is. That is the official sign of it.
- 6:23Speaker 2: So yeah, never had anything major. It's funny you bring
- 6:28Speaker 2: up to think about like having the discussion with the wife,
- 6:30Speaker 2: because I planned on doing that because you know, why not, like, hey, listen,
- 6:34Speaker 2: this is where all the this is where my life
- 6:36Speaker 2: is kept. God forbid something happens. I can't imagine. But
- 6:40Speaker 2: if this is my last episode of SRTU, Doctor Trey,
- 6:43Speaker 2: will we'll take it from here. Will be he and
- 6:45Speaker 2: young Sammy Franklin taking a ball and right with srt
- 6:49Speaker 2: moving forward. Just the opening of the show will be
- 6:53Speaker 2: just kind of like what fifteen minutes riffing on Bluie.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Yeah, or Sammy's just smacking me in the head with
- 6:58Speaker 1: foreign objects.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Yeah, that has happened here on the show once or twice.
- 7:01Speaker 2: One of my favorite sound bites. Any any advice, Doctor Trey,
- 7:05Speaker 2: that you have for me, since you're you're like a
- 7:07Speaker 2: veteran of it because being out for two and a
- 7:09Speaker 2: half hours. My wife has had surgeries and she's like,
- 7:13Speaker 2: you're you're not going to feel a thing. It's it's
- 7:15Speaker 2: gonna be totally fine. It's like they put you under
- 7:17Speaker 2: and then the next time you wake up, it's like, Wow,
- 7:19Speaker 2: everything's done. Any advice or were Yeah? Words of wisdom,
- 7:24Speaker 2: I guess.
- 7:25Speaker 1: So my trick on the last one. So like when
- 7:27Speaker 1: I did when I had the hand surgeries, I was
- 7:31Speaker 1: like so nervous, I couldn't sleep, and you know, you
- 7:34Speaker 1: get the anesthesia, then you're out. You don't you really
- 7:36Speaker 1: don't remember anything, like I literally remember I had a
- 7:39Speaker 1: colonoscopy once and literally woke up in a wheelchair talking
- 7:43Speaker 1: to my dad like wait, how did I get here?
- 7:45Speaker 1: And how did I get dressed? You know. So now
- 7:49Speaker 1: the night before surgery, because I tell you not to eat,
- 7:52Speaker 1: I basically just stay up all night. So that way,
- 7:55Speaker 1: when it's time to get into the bed, I just
- 7:58Speaker 1: I'm already half asleep. You don't have to really give
- 8:00Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a sleepers thing anyway, So just enjoy
- 8:04Speaker 1: the rest because it's it's the one really good sleep
- 8:11Speaker 1: a new dad will have in quite a while. As
- 8:13Speaker 1: we answered, that is a good way to put it.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Yes, it's a forcible sleep that I've been long needing
- 8:20Speaker 2: for about two.
- 8:21Speaker 3: And a half three months. So we'll see.
- 8:24Speaker 2: We'll see where I'm at on next week's show. The
- 8:26Speaker 2: streak will continue one way or another, whether it's just
- 8:29Speaker 2: me saying welcome to SRTU and doctor Trey Riffin for
- 8:32Speaker 2: sixty minutes on Profession Wrestling, or I believe I'll be
- 8:35Speaker 2: talking so well, maybe it's just doctor you know, doctor
- 8:40Speaker 2: Trey Franklin getting hit with a bowl in the head
- 8:42Speaker 2: from Young Sammy, Let's get into it. WWE Bash in
- 8:47Speaker 2: Berlin recap review is this past Saturday from the UBA.
- 8:51Speaker 2: I presume that's how they pronounce in Germany UBA Arena
- 8:54Speaker 2: in Berlin, Germany. First match here on the card with
- 8:57Speaker 2: Cody Roads, if Heed and Kevin Owens to retain the
- 8:59Speaker 2: end of b wach champion chip. We both had Cody
- 9:01Speaker 2: Roads in this one. I loved the old school focus
- 9:04Speaker 2: on an injured knee for Cody Rhodes and if Kevin
- 9:06Speaker 2: Owen still had that Calder instinct to capitalize on the
- 9:08Speaker 2: injured knee in this match. My only gripe was Rose
- 9:12Speaker 2: used his knees when Owens went for the swanton prior
- 9:14Speaker 2: to hitting Crossroads for the pin without selling that he
- 9:17Speaker 2: used the injured knee as much as I would have liked.
- 9:20Speaker 2: Other than that, this was a good psychological match. But
- 9:22Speaker 2: I still find the Cody Roads book and be pretty
- 9:24Speaker 2: Fanella still and maybe Solicico awaiting the wings helps amp
- 9:27Speaker 2: Roads up a little more again, Doctor Trey, your thoughts
- 9:30Speaker 2: on this one? Is Cody Rhodes defeats Kevin Owens?
- 9:32Speaker 1: Yeah? I was completely with you, Like I was literally
- 9:35Speaker 1: like he was selling the knee that played the knee
- 9:37Speaker 1: angle up they did. You know, Owens kicked the knee
- 9:39Speaker 1: at one point on the outside and they would have
- 9:41Speaker 1: felt bad about it, couldn't go for the kill. But
- 9:43Speaker 1: then Cody puts his knees up on the swanton and
- 9:45Speaker 1: I was like, well, that doesn't make a whole lot
- 9:47Speaker 1: of sense because the knee should be injured. He should
- 9:49Speaker 1: have struggled mightily to get over to Owens. I know
- 9:53Speaker 1: you pick Owens up if your knees basically out, how
- 9:55Speaker 1: do you even pick the guy up to hit Crossroads?
- 9:57Speaker 1: So that was my only gripe outside that very good
- 10:00Speaker 1: technical sound match made a lot of sense. Saw the
- 10:03Speaker 1: emotion in there, even postmatch, the little like Cody tried
- 10:09Speaker 1: to raise Kevin's hand and Kevin would let him do it.
- 10:12Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get some fallout this week on SmackDown
- 10:15Speaker 1: to kind of play off of that, the inner turmoil
- 10:17Speaker 1: of Kevin Oways going forward. But just a good sound match.
- 10:21Speaker 1: But yeah, Cody's book has been a little bit little
- 10:23Speaker 1: because the one thing they haven't done SmackDown is build
- 10:26Speaker 1: up any other credible heels other than New bloodline. And
- 10:30Speaker 1: if they're gonna be tied up with the Roman for
- 10:31Speaker 1: a while. You need somebody else. Maybe it's returning shins
- 10:35Speaker 1: K or something. Who knows. We haven't seen Shinsk or
- 10:37Speaker 1: aj styles in a while.
- 10:39Speaker 2: The next match year is Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill
- 10:41Speaker 2: defeending Alba Fire and eland On to win the WWE
- 10:44Speaker 2: Women's Tag Team Championship. We both had Bianca and Jade
- 10:46Speaker 2: winning this one. The title reign for Fire and Dawn
- 10:49Speaker 2: wasn't great, and I wish wwwe did more with them
- 10:52Speaker 2: while they had the titles. They did look strong in
- 10:54Speaker 2: this match, but never felt like they had a legit
- 10:56Speaker 2: chance beating bel Air and Cargill. I know they kept
- 10:59Speaker 2: trying to sell car He'll, causing the distraction that caused
- 11:01Speaker 2: Dawn and Fire to mishitting their finisher, but it looked
- 11:04Speaker 2: like Cargill missed a spot to pull bell Air out
- 11:07Speaker 2: from the pennitemp at the end, which has plagued her
- 11:09Speaker 2: during her wrestling career thus far. There is a rematch
- 11:12Speaker 2: on this come upcoming edition of Monday Night Raw after
- 11:15Speaker 2: Alba Fire and eilid On defeated Damage Control to become
- 11:18Speaker 2: the number one contenders again, which is weird because I
- 11:20Speaker 2: thought it was rematch clauses, But I digress there, Doctor Trey,
- 11:24Speaker 2: your thoughts on this one? Is bel Air and Jade
- 11:26Speaker 2: are back his tag champs?
- 11:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think WWE knows about their rematch clauses anymore,
- 11:31Speaker 1: because I remember it was probably about four or five
- 11:33Speaker 1: years ago they said they weren't doing the automatic rematch clauses,
- 11:36Speaker 1: but then they do it sometimes but then other times
- 11:39Speaker 1: they don't, so I don't even think they know what
- 11:41Speaker 1: their rule is. I thought the match. I thought Jay
- 11:45Speaker 1: did really well in this match, considered where she's been
- 11:47Speaker 1: at up until the Botcho breakup on the Pennitemp, I
- 11:51Speaker 1: thought her timing was much better. I thought Fire and
- 11:54Speaker 1: down when they hit that gory baumb flat liner combo,
- 11:57Speaker 1: that's been their finisher, and that was the one time
- 12:00Speaker 1: I thought they might get the win in the match.
- 12:02Speaker 1: But outside that, you're right, like, I just felt like
- 12:04Speaker 1: it was gonna be Beyonca and Jade, But you know,
- 12:08Speaker 1: I like Fire and Dawn. I think they could be
- 12:11Speaker 1: a really really solid women's tag team once the Beyonca
- 12:15Speaker 1: Jade split happens. Because I thought that match with Damage
- 12:17Speaker 1: Control on Money Night was really good as well, so
- 12:20Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of optimistic about the women's tag division
- 12:24Speaker 1: once they split Beyonca and Jade.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
- 12:27Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's definitely a lot of opportunity there.
- 12:31Speaker 2: You've got Zoe Stark, Sonya Deville, Shanya, Shannon Basler, You've
- 12:37Speaker 2: got Damage Control, You've got Fire in Dawn. You can
- 12:41Speaker 2: do some pairings on the SmackDown side that could be interesting.
- 12:45Speaker 3: It's just strange.
- 12:47Speaker 2: How they're booking bell Air and Jade right now. It's like,
- 12:50Speaker 2: why did you drop the title in Scotland other than
- 12:53Speaker 2: to give a hometown pop to Fire and Dawn, And
- 12:56Speaker 2: then this entire time that they held the titles, it
- 12:59Speaker 2: just felt like kind of they won the titles very fluky,
- 13:03Speaker 2: rather than actually defeating bell Air and Jade, which would
- 13:07Speaker 2: have been a really cool moment.
- 13:10Speaker 3: Yeah. I like Firo and Down.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I just would have liked to see in a little
- 13:13Speaker 2: bit more during their title run and the bell Air
- 13:16Speaker 2: Cargills storyline. I love the long term of this. I
- 13:19Speaker 2: think this obviously plays itself out to WrestleMania season for
- 13:22Speaker 2: WRESTMANI forty one, but I want to see some sort
- 13:26Speaker 2: of tension soon.
- 13:28Speaker 3: Right now, it's it's very very friendly, and maybe.
- 13:31Speaker 2: We start to see that come the next four to
- 13:33Speaker 2: eight weeks rumble time, it'll.
- 13:37Speaker 3: Like the next time they drop the titles or something.
- 13:40Speaker 1: Yeah, which apparently the women's titles are only defended, like
- 13:43Speaker 1: we only do title changes in Europe because it was France,
- 13:47Speaker 1: Germany and Scotland the last three times the bell's changed hands.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Tag Team wrestling on WW right now and wrestling as
- 13:54Speaker 2: a whole in general, has been a big ripe of mind.
- 13:56Speaker 2: So once we get past all these pls and pay
- 13:58Speaker 2: per views going on right now, maybe we'll talk about
- 14:00Speaker 2: that a little bit. Because in both WE and AW
- 14:03Speaker 2: they're not great. I think the only place that they're
- 14:05Speaker 2: shining right now is an NXT in all honesty, which
- 14:08Speaker 2: is not strange, but you would have liked to see
- 14:12Speaker 2: in a little bit more because NXC has been known
- 14:14Speaker 2: in the past have a really strong tag team division.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Next match here Ceampunk defeating Drew McIntyre and a strap match.
- 14:19Speaker 2: We both had cmpunk in this one. I love the
- 14:21Speaker 2: back and forth in this match. The in ring storytelling
- 14:24Speaker 2: was really well done, and after bashing the usage of
- 14:26Speaker 2: their friendship bracelet in the SummerSlam match, I thought the
- 14:29Speaker 2: bracelet was well implemented in the strap match. I sincerely
- 14:32Speaker 2: hope this is what I wrote on Saturday. I sincerely
- 14:35Speaker 2: hope that is the end of the Friendship Bracelet to
- 14:37Speaker 2: presumably end this feud at Bad Blood since they both
- 14:39Speaker 2: are tied at one apiece. We now know that the
- 14:41Speaker 2: Friendship bracelet has been destroyed on Raw, with bits and
- 14:45Speaker 2: pieces of it being slammed in CM Punk's mouse where
- 14:47Speaker 2: I guess he was actually choking on it. The strap
- 14:50Speaker 2: match concept is so good when you get a good
- 14:52Speaker 2: few that can help execute it like this. One really
- 14:55Speaker 2: really enjoyed this match. Doctor Trey is Ceampunk defeats Drew McIntyre.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Ye, we enjoyed the match. I thought was well done.
- 15:01Speaker 1: I thought we kid. It was violent when it needed
- 15:04Speaker 1: to be violent. It had storytelling when it needed to
- 15:06Speaker 1: tell more of the story. The GTS is at the
- 15:10Speaker 1: end of the match, because you know, when you know,
- 15:11Speaker 1: you go back to Summer Slam. When Punk thought Drew
- 15:14Speaker 1: was out and got destrated by rons when it cost
- 15:17Speaker 1: him the match, he made sure Drew wasn't getting up.
- 15:20Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like about it is maybe
- 15:23Speaker 1: the light system, like with the green light in the
- 15:25Speaker 1: red light. I don't know if I liked that. The
- 15:28Speaker 1: old school ones didn't really have that, but there was
- 15:31Speaker 1: a throwback in that match. I don't know everybody caught it,
- 15:33Speaker 1: but it was basically when McIntyre was hitting the corners,
- 15:36Speaker 1: Punk was falling behind. That was a throwback to I
- 15:38Speaker 1: think the Eddie jbl Strap match because Eddie did the
- 15:41Speaker 1: same thing. But overall just very solid. I just I
- 15:44Speaker 1: don't know if I like the light system for I
- 15:47Speaker 1: think it's just a little bit too much.
- 15:49Speaker 2: I think it's good for the crowd at home in
- 15:51Speaker 2: the renixcuse me and the ones at home to kind
- 15:53Speaker 2: of follow along, I must admit. I mean, if anything,
- 15:55Speaker 2: there was like a delay in it, which the announcers
- 15:58Speaker 2: kept pointing out.
- 16:00Speaker 1: We said, I love what was like, the line should
- 16:02Speaker 1: be reset. They're not recent. Why are they not reset?
- 16:04Speaker 1: It's like, give a second, Michael, the guys just a
- 16:06Speaker 1: little bit behind you. I mean, there's the layers on.
- 16:08Speaker 3: The remote control is not working.
- 16:10Speaker 2: So next match, here is Damian Priest and Reea Ripley
- 16:13Speaker 2: defeating Dirty Domasterio and Live Morgan in a mixed tag
- 16:15Speaker 2: team match. We both had the Terror Twins. I had
- 16:18Speaker 2: the Terror Twins, Doctor Trede, Dirty Dom and Live Morgan.
- 16:21Speaker 2: This was a really fun mixed tag team match. The
- 16:23Speaker 2: interference was really well executed in the match, where it
- 16:25Speaker 2: felt like Ripley and Priests were going to lose. Live's
- 16:28Speaker 2: offense against Ree continues to put her on Ripley's Ripley's level,
- 16:31Speaker 2: which will be really good when they have a one
- 16:32Speaker 2: on one rematch. They are definitely building a Ripley hitting
- 16:35Speaker 2: the Riptid eventually on dom in the future. As the
- 16:37Speaker 2: crowd was really into Ripley's offense against Domina in this match,
- 16:41Speaker 2: it was not nice to see the baby Faces get
- 16:43Speaker 2: some revenge. Heading to the next few weeks where I
- 16:46Speaker 2: assume the feud will can continue with Ripley and Live
- 16:50Speaker 2: and Priests and Baler possibly having matches bad Blood. I
- 16:54Speaker 2: think the Hell in a Cell, which has been rumored
- 16:56Speaker 2: for Bad Blood because I think it's a twenty fifth
- 16:58Speaker 2: anniversary of the first Helen Some between Taker and Shawn
- 17:01Speaker 2: Michael's of Bad Blood October ninety seven where Cane debuted.
- 17:05Speaker 2: I think Punk and mcintyrell have one of those matches
- 17:09Speaker 2: if they go with like a female match. I think
- 17:12Speaker 2: Ripley and Live would be a really good match to
- 17:15Speaker 2: put in Hell in the Cell as well. Nonetheless, really
- 17:18Speaker 2: good mixed tag team match not to try.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one of the few mixed tag matches
- 17:23Speaker 1: I really enjoyed, and I think it's because, like the
- 17:26Speaker 1: women were getting involved when the men were doing stuff,
- 17:29Speaker 1: you know. I like when that happened because I really
- 17:32Speaker 1: and I saw a little bit of on NXT when
- 17:36Speaker 1: the women just kind of backed down from a guy
- 17:39Speaker 1: and just play scared him back away, Like it's like, no,
- 17:42Speaker 1: that's your person you care about. You should be doing
- 17:45Speaker 1: something to help them, even if you're putting yourself in
- 17:48Speaker 1: Harmon's way. I think Live and Rhea did a great job.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Plus it helps that Ria and dom are basically the
- 17:53Speaker 1: same size. But overall it's a really fun mixed match.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I still think that I would have had Dominic Live
- 18:00Speaker 1: get over just for them to increase the anticipation of
- 18:04Speaker 1: the baby face is getting revenge because it kind of
- 18:06Speaker 1: felt like fore gone, like Live and Dommer running from
- 18:10Speaker 1: Ria and Damien. But I understand why they did it,
- 18:14Speaker 1: because it's a foreign crowd. You want the you want
- 18:16Speaker 1: the home, you want the good guys at least get
- 18:18Speaker 1: one good victory on their belts at a bl.
- 18:22Speaker 2: The Ripley Pops lately they I mentioned on last week's
- 18:25Speaker 2: podcast that they are stone cold asque folks.
- 18:27Speaker 3: That is some exciting stuff.
- 18:29Speaker 2: The minute in her music drop she may be the
- 18:31Speaker 2: most over professional wrestler in the game right now, which
- 18:35Speaker 2: is really really cool and very well earned and deserved.
- 18:38Speaker 2: The main event here is gun Through defeating Randy Orton
- 18:41Speaker 2: and retained the World Heavyweight Championship. We both had gun
- 18:43Speaker 2: Through in this one. It was a fundamentally sound match.
- 18:45Speaker 2: It was a little too long for my liking, but
- 18:47Speaker 2: it was still a good match that you can appreciate.
- 18:49Speaker 2: I liked Orton zoning and on injuring Gunther's hand during
- 18:52Speaker 2: the match, the Limit's ability to utilize as chops. There
- 18:54Speaker 2: was a match that establishes Gunther's ascension as a main
- 18:57Speaker 2: event level player in WI and as a strong world
- 18:59Speaker 2: ofweight up being after defeating Randy Orton in a championship defense,
- 19:03Speaker 2: Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one? Has got Through
- 19:05Speaker 2: retains against Randy Orton?
- 19:06Speaker 1: Yeah, this was the old school Randy Orton matches where
- 19:09Speaker 1: it's very technical, very proficient, very sound. In the meeting,
- 19:13Speaker 1: maybe a little slow, but then you have a really
- 19:15Speaker 1: great finish at the end. So, uh, this was, like
- 19:19Speaker 1: I said, prototable Randy Orton match. This is stuff like
- 19:21Speaker 1: back when he was wrestling seth rawlins at Wrestle Mainey,
- 19:24Speaker 1: those type of matches when everybody was on Randy about
- 19:26Speaker 1: being you know, chin lock and headlock Randy Orton. But
- 19:30Speaker 1: it's matched for these two guys because you guys are
- 19:32Speaker 1: just great interim technicians. The only thing I didn't like
- 19:37Speaker 1: is I did once again, it's one of the things
- 19:38Speaker 1: where like I look at Randy Orton, I'm like, damn,
- 19:40Speaker 1: I didn't realize how big he had gotten because he
- 19:43Speaker 1: looked bigger than Gunther, and Randy might be approaching at
- 19:46Speaker 1: thre hundred pound mark. He's just massive right now. But
- 19:48Speaker 1: outside of that, it was a little bit of passing
- 19:51Speaker 1: the torch in a sense too. So just a really fun,
- 19:54Speaker 1: solid match and a good victory for Gunther for his
- 19:57Speaker 1: first title defense.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Pay per view predict record I went five and oh
- 20:01Speaker 2: Doctor Trey went four and one. Coming out of this one,
- 20:03Speaker 2: I said at one O two and twenty eight doctor
- 20:05Speaker 2: Trey's ninety three and thirty seven match of the night
- 20:08Speaker 2: and event rating.
- 20:09Speaker 3: I gave Bash and Berlin.
- 20:10Speaker 2: A solid four point zero and my match of the
- 20:12Speaker 2: night was Ceampunk and Drew McIntire Doctor Trey.
- 20:15Speaker 3: What say you?
- 20:16Speaker 1: Yeah? I was load than you. I was at a
- 20:17Speaker 1: three point seven. Uh. I had McIntyre and Punk as well.
- 20:20Speaker 1: I just thought it was a very solid pl E,
- 20:22Speaker 1: but really not a memorable pl Like, nothing really stood
- 20:26Speaker 1: out to me other than to Strap Match, and that
- 20:28Speaker 1: was just for the contrast of it being strap Match
- 20:32Speaker 1: versus anything else on the show.
- 20:34Speaker 3: So there you go.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Bash in Berlin recap review. Feel free to share your
- 20:38Speaker 2: thoughts over at Facebook dot com, slashest realda show run
- 20:41Speaker 2: X at SRTU podcast. All right, Doctor Trey, let's get
- 20:45Speaker 2: into NXT No Mercy recap review. Its came to us
- 20:48Speaker 2: this past Sunday from the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.
- 20:51Speaker 2: The first match was Nathan Fraser and Axiom defeating Chase
- 20:54Speaker 2: You to win the NXC Tag Team Championship. I Nathan
- 20:56Speaker 2: Fraser and Axiom, Doctor Trey and Chase You, I said
- 21:00Speaker 2: earlier on in the show, and XT may have the
- 21:01Speaker 2: best tag team matches in all off. We again, this
- 21:04Speaker 2: is a really good match with the great post match
- 21:06Speaker 2: segment with Bridge Holland turning on chase you. Fraser and
- 21:09Speaker 2: Axiom maybe WWE's best tag team in twenty twenty four,
- 21:13Speaker 2: Doctor Trey, what say you?
- 21:15Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I mean really, we kind of mentioned that
- 21:17Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back when we were talking about
- 21:19Speaker 1: the midway point of the year show, like Nathan Fraser
- 21:22Speaker 1: and Axiom might be tag team of the year almost
- 21:26Speaker 1: by default because they've been together and they've actually been
- 21:29Speaker 1: active and in feature matches. But yeah, this was a
- 21:32Speaker 1: this was a fun match, great storytelling for the post match.
- 21:37Speaker 1: I am kind of surprised that they pulled the trigger
- 21:39Speaker 1: on the Ridge Holland heel turn and not splitting up
- 21:42Speaker 1: Nathan Fraser and Axiom first, because that's been teased for
- 21:46Speaker 1: way longer. But yeah, I mean those guys. You can
- 21:49Speaker 1: put Fraser in Axium in the ring of that. Anybody
- 21:51Speaker 1: is great, And with what happened on Tuesday night, I'm
- 21:54Speaker 1: excited to see Fraser and Axiom against the Rascals.
- 21:58Speaker 2: Speaking of the Rascals, next match is Zachary Wentz defeating
- 22:01Speaker 2: wes Lee. We both had wes Lee in this one.
- 22:04Speaker 2: This is where the WETNA partnership is paying off for TNAS,
- 22:07Speaker 2: W helped make their newly crowned Ex Division champion look
- 22:10Speaker 2: like an absolute star on a larger stage than he
- 22:13Speaker 2: would have been showcased on in TNA. This match was
- 22:16Speaker 2: emotional and it was a ton of fun to watch.
- 22:18Speaker 2: This is a must see NXC match from twenty twenty
- 22:21Speaker 2: twenty four. So far off the charts, chemistry between Wentz
- 22:25Speaker 2: and Lee Doctor Trey. This may be my favorite NXC
- 22:28Speaker 2: match this year.
- 22:29Speaker 1: Yeah, it's It's one of these things that we've talked
- 22:31Speaker 1: about in this show many times. When you have two
- 22:33Speaker 1: guys who are legitimate best friends in the ring, it's
- 22:37Speaker 1: hard to mess up chemistry. It's like when you and
- 22:39Speaker 1: I talk about Kevin andins his Samy's saying, or guy
- 22:42Speaker 1: like people that you just know or the you know
- 22:45Speaker 1: people that they just know each other so well that
- 22:47Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want and know the other
- 22:48Speaker 1: person is there to take care of you. I mean,
- 22:51Speaker 1: these guys have been friends like and best friends for
- 22:53Speaker 1: like over a decade. So like, I wasn't surprised at
- 22:57Speaker 1: how well the match was. I was surprised with the
- 22:59Speaker 1: fish because yeah, it's a TNA guy getting a win
- 23:02Speaker 1: over a WWE guy, so a little surprised there, but
- 23:06Speaker 1: once again he's kind of not a TENA guy because
- 23:09Speaker 1: he was an NXC guy also. But yeah, just a
- 23:12Speaker 1: phenomenal match and this was the best match of the
- 23:15Speaker 1: weekend I saw.
- 23:17Speaker 2: I totally agree this was the best match from w
- 23:19Speaker 2: WE the entire weekend. Musty match if nobody, if you
- 23:23Speaker 2: have not seen this match so far, please go out
- 23:25Speaker 2: of your way and check it out.
- 23:26Speaker 3: It was phenomenal.
- 23:27Speaker 2: Next match, here is Klonie Jordan defeating Wendy Cheeter retain
- 23:30Speaker 2: the NXC Women's North American Championship. Eyed Wendy Chew, Dot
- 23:33Speaker 2: Tree Coloney Jordan. Klonnie Jordan has an incredible innovative offense
- 23:37Speaker 2: has been really putting together as an inn ring performer
- 23:39Speaker 2: as of late. If she continues to grow into a
- 23:42Speaker 2: good inn ring star, she could be a big time
- 23:43Speaker 2: player in the WE women's division the next three to
- 23:45Speaker 2: five years. As for the match itself, I thought it
- 23:48Speaker 2: was a little bit of a letdown and a little clunky,
- 23:50Speaker 2: as it felt like Chew and Jordan did not mesh well.
- 23:53Speaker 2: While the innovative offense is there and really fun to watch. Again,
- 23:57Speaker 2: you could see that Colonne Jordan and someone who has
- 23:59Speaker 2: just started over the last couple of years. But she's
- 24:02Speaker 2: pretty phenomenal for someone who's living wrestling for the last
- 24:04Speaker 2: couple of years. Not sure your thoughts, as Klonnie Jordan retains.
- 24:07Speaker 1: Yeah, watching this match, I had I had Sasha Banks
- 24:10Speaker 1: early NXT flashbacks, Like like toy, she just reminds me
- 24:13Speaker 1: a lot of Sasha, and you know, she's a little
- 24:16Speaker 1: bigger than Sasha, but the offense is different than what
- 24:19Speaker 1: everybody else is doing, which was what kind of brought
- 24:22Speaker 1: Sasha out, uh back in those days. It just it's
- 24:26Speaker 1: eerily remindiscent of that to me. But yeah, she's she's
- 24:29Speaker 1: going to be a star at some point in this company,
- 24:33Speaker 1: but she's still a little green. When did you I
- 24:36Speaker 1: like the character, but she's never impressed me in the ring.
- 24:39Speaker 1: So yeah, the match, This was the perfect match to
- 24:42Speaker 1: have follow Lee and Wentz in the sense of it
- 24:47Speaker 1: allowed you to bring your energy back down to head
- 24:49Speaker 1: towards the finality of the show. So it was kind
- 24:51Speaker 1: of a breather match, uh, in between this and what
- 24:55Speaker 1: we got later on. So just an okay match, But
- 24:58Speaker 1: I'm more amazed that, like they have Rosemary playing like
- 25:02Speaker 1: the second fiddle to Wendy Jukes. To me, Rosemary is
- 25:04Speaker 1: a better wrestler, performer, and character overall.
- 25:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that was interesting the header back on Tuesday's NXT edition.
- 25:11Speaker 2: I'm very happy to see her an INDWW ring, but yeah,
- 25:14Speaker 2: fans who have been voluntna, I mean, Rosemary has been
- 25:17Speaker 2: a stalwarth for that division for years now, almost like
- 25:20Speaker 2: ten years. I feel like next match is Opa Femi
- 25:23Speaker 2: defeating Tony D'Angelo to retain the NX North American Championship.
- 25:26Speaker 3: We both had Obafemi.
- 25:28Speaker 2: This match started really slow and then really started to
- 25:30Speaker 2: pick up throughout. This match got better as time went
- 25:32Speaker 2: on and was an enjoyable one. I feel like NX
- 25:35Speaker 2: is booking themselves into a corner with Opa because it
- 25:37Speaker 2: feels like you should be elevated to the NX Championship
- 25:39Speaker 2: title picture, but he's booked so dominant that I don't
- 25:42Speaker 2: know how they get the North American Championship off of
- 25:44Speaker 2: him without taking a loss other than a multiman match.
- 25:48Speaker 3: This was a good one. The follow up on Tuesday.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Where like you could tell that Tony D'Angelo may be
- 25:53Speaker 2: dealing with confidence issues that may have been more significant
- 25:57Speaker 2: than the match itself. This has been a really good
- 26:00Speaker 2: couple of days for the storyline between Obafema and Tony D'Angelo.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Doctor Trey, your thoughts on this one.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed the match because you most big guy,
- 26:08Speaker 1: big guy matches. CARDA start off slow, but then they
- 26:11Speaker 1: started getting really hard hitting towards the middle in the end,
- 26:14Speaker 1: So this was right up my alley for these kind
- 26:16Speaker 1: of matches. The storyline stuff is really well done because
- 26:20Speaker 1: you know, you got Tony D losing the Heritage Cup
- 26:23Speaker 1: now not winning the North American title, so that could
- 26:25Speaker 1: play into it. But it's funny to me, like we
- 26:28Speaker 1: talked about Tony D. Tony D is on my favorite
- 26:30Speaker 1: people are watching NXT, and two years ago I couldn't
- 26:33Speaker 1: stand watching him in XT, so Tony D has really
- 26:36Speaker 1: really grown on me over these last two years. So
- 26:39Speaker 1: just good work for both these guys with that match
- 26:42Speaker 1: at No Mercy.
- 26:43Speaker 2: Next match here is Roxanne Perez defeating Jada Parker to
- 26:46Speaker 2: retain the NXC Women's Championship. We both had Roxanne Perez
- 26:49Speaker 2: in this one. I'm a big believer in the ceiling
- 26:51Speaker 2: that Jada Parker will have on the NXC brand. She
- 26:54Speaker 2: has the confidence in herself and her character to.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Be a big star in Tobyo Wee.
- 26:58Speaker 2: As she continues to grow as an end ring performa
- 27:00Speaker 2: matches against people like Roxane Perez, she will continue to
- 27:02Speaker 2: get better as time goes on. This match was very
- 27:04Speaker 2: good and the crowd was really into it. The NXC
- 27:07Speaker 2: Women's Division enters into a next chapter as Julia makes
- 27:10Speaker 2: her long awaited rumored debut in NXC and has her
- 27:13Speaker 2: eyes set on Roxan Perez moving forward, which is pretty exciting.
- 27:16Speaker 2: They close out NXC television this past Tuesday saying you
- 27:19Speaker 2: me CW. So it looks like those two will be
- 27:22Speaker 2: battling out. I expect a Julia Chelsea Green match to
- 27:25Speaker 2: be taking place soon as well.
- 27:26Speaker 3: Heading into that one.
- 27:29Speaker 2: All that aside the Julia rox and Press stuff, I
- 27:32Speaker 2: don't want to lose sight that I really think Jada
- 27:34Speaker 2: Parker is going to be a big star in we
- 27:37Speaker 2: at some point. I really enjoy her character development, her
- 27:40Speaker 2: in ring work, her character, her confidence.
- 27:42Speaker 3: It is phenomenal. This was a fun one.
- 27:44Speaker 2: Doctor Trey's rox and Prez retains the NXC Women's Championship.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminded me a lot of the Roxanne Lolo
- 27:49Speaker 1: vice match from a couple of months ago, whereas, like,
- 27:52Speaker 1: is Jada ready to leave the division? Probably not yet,
- 27:56Speaker 1: but she's getting close. So this is the way to
- 27:59Speaker 1: kind of make her look like, hey, she's really close
- 28:01Speaker 1: to being on a Roxannes level, but Roxanne is still
- 28:05Speaker 1: the benchmark for the women's division. So good showing for Jada.
- 28:09Speaker 1: Strong match for Roxanne again, because I mean, rox San's
- 28:13Speaker 1: a lot like Alexa Bliss back in the day, where
- 28:15Speaker 1: Alex is so much smaller than everybody else, you kind
- 28:17Speaker 1: of have to up the intensity at times, and I
- 28:20Speaker 1: think she does a good job of that. That Juliet
- 28:22Speaker 1: payoff is great. I love that the fact of the
- 28:24Speaker 1: crowd was like into it as well, because she didn't
- 28:28Speaker 1: have to really be intered. There's no vignettes for Julie.
- 28:30Speaker 1: There haven't been any real promotion for her coming. It
- 28:34Speaker 1: was here she is, and the crowds like, oh, we
- 28:36Speaker 1: know who she is, We're excited. Like, I love that
- 28:38Speaker 1: payoff for it, so, uh, just just good work all around,
- 28:41Speaker 1: like solid, you know, but you know, solid solid Women's
- 28:45Speaker 1: title match.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Basically next match, here's Ethan Page defeeding Joe Hendrid Retain
- 28:49Speaker 2: the NXC champion.
- 28:50Speaker 3: You both had Ethan Page in this one.
- 28:52Speaker 2: I've always enjoyed Ethan Page's work, but he's really coming
- 28:55Speaker 2: into his own on NXC and a short amount of time,
- 28:57Speaker 2: as he is that throwback old school heel that we
- 29:00Speaker 2: tend to not see often in wrestling nowadays. Instead of
- 29:02Speaker 2: being this cool heel who gets cheered, he comes off
- 29:05Speaker 2: as an egotistical prick that the fans really can't stand,
- 29:07Speaker 2: and that is making for an improved NXC Championship title picture.
- 29:11Speaker 3: I don't want to lose sight.
- 29:12Speaker 2: That a TNA wrestler was in the main event ur
- 29:15Speaker 2: an a title match on a wple and Joe Hendry
- 29:18Speaker 2: was the right guy to serve in that role. I
- 29:20Speaker 2: have totally understood why there was an underground swell popularity
- 29:22Speaker 2: for Henry is the extremely likable wrestler to get behind,
- 29:25Speaker 2: who I hope we get to see more of an NXT.
- 29:28Speaker 2: This was another example of how the w partnership has
- 29:30Speaker 2: really benefited TNA just as much as NXC has benefited
- 29:34Speaker 2: from it, Doctor Trey, your thoughts as Ethan Page retains.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked it because it's like it's Ethan Page
- 29:40Speaker 1: getting a title victory over somebody who's not curlyller the rosters.
- 29:43Speaker 1: You don't hurt anybody it's on the roster. But he's
- 29:47Speaker 1: getting a win overname in a really cool crossover match.
- 29:51Speaker 1: So Joe Henry super over makes the crowd hate Ethan
- 29:54Speaker 1: Page even more. Ethan Page is like if the Miz
- 29:58Speaker 1: and Bobby Rude had a baby, Like he's just lands
- 30:01Speaker 1: like right in the middle of those two guys where
- 30:03Speaker 1: he's he's a cool enough guy that you want to like,
- 30:07Speaker 1: but he's just enough of a dick that makes you
- 30:09Speaker 1: hate him. And he's you can see the confidence in him,
- 30:12Speaker 1: Like the diff between him now and him in tb
- 30:17Speaker 1: aw Is Night and Day, Like this is what we
- 30:19Speaker 1: were seeing Ethan Page and TNA when he was just
- 30:22Speaker 1: super confident, super arrogant. The ring work was, you know,
- 30:24Speaker 1: really good. It's just that throwback. He'll, I mean, Ethan Page.
- 30:28Speaker 1: He may never be a WWE World Champion, but Ethan
- 30:32Speaker 1: Page is a strong guy to have as a US Champion,
- 30:34Speaker 1: Renter Connell champion down the line. He's just that kind
- 30:37Speaker 1: of person at the crowdsman to hate and love the
- 30:38Speaker 1: Bill Baby faces off of Yeah, I've.
- 30:40Speaker 2: Really, really enjoyed his work on NXC television. Always been
- 30:43Speaker 2: a fan of Ethan Page. But it's like really coming
- 30:45Speaker 2: through the screen ass of late. It's it's like this
- 30:48Speaker 2: throwback eighty seal that I'm really digging. Uh paper view
- 30:51Speaker 2: prediction record from No Mercy. We both went four and
- 30:53Speaker 2: two coming out of this. I'm one oh six and
- 30:55Speaker 2: thirty Doctor Trade ninety seven and thirty nine a match
- 30:58Speaker 2: of the night in event rating, he gave No Mercy
- 31:00Speaker 2: a three point eight out of five. My match to
- 31:03Speaker 2: night No shock here Zachary Wentz and Wes Lee Doctor Treysau.
- 31:07Speaker 1: I was a little bit lower. I was three point
- 31:09Speaker 1: six and it was Winston Lee for me as well.
- 31:11Speaker 2: So there you go our No Mercy recap and review.
- 31:14Speaker 2: Three point eight, three point six Wentz and Wesley both
- 31:18Speaker 2: match of the night. And now we want to continue
- 31:22Speaker 2: with some w stories here because Doctor Trey, there is
- 31:26Speaker 2: a major business model change with World Wrestling Entertainment that
- 31:30Speaker 2: I never thought we would see. And it's part influence
- 31:34Speaker 2: from AW, part influence from the changes over with the
- 31:37Speaker 2: TKO UFC merger, and that is w's change to curbing
- 31:43Speaker 2: their house show schedule coming up here, and this comes
- 31:48Speaker 2: to us from both Wrestling Inc. And Sean Ross app
- 31:50Speaker 2: at Fightful Select. WWE is looking to make a big
- 31:54Speaker 2: change when it comes to their live events, which is
- 31:55Speaker 2: hosting almost no shows in the United States until after Christmas.
- 32:01Speaker 2: They have a show coming up on September twenty eighth
- 32:03Speaker 2: in Columbus, Georgia, and then in Hutsville, Alabama, Doctor Trey's
- 32:07Speaker 2: Backyard on September twenty ninth. They have a UK tour
- 32:09Speaker 2: in October November, and that's it for live events until
- 32:12Speaker 2: after Christmas. This is a change of pace. W stars
- 32:16Speaker 2: are going to be able to be home during the
- 32:18Speaker 2: week when they're not on television, home on the weekends.
- 32:21Speaker 2: And this is a huge story to me because I
- 32:25Speaker 2: did not think we would ever see the day where
- 32:27Speaker 2: we would be limiting their house show schedule, But here
- 32:32Speaker 2: we are, Doctor Trey.
- 32:33Speaker 3: I love the move. What is the influence behind this?
- 32:37Speaker 2: Is this aw influence so that they can attract more
- 32:41Speaker 2: wrestlers to give them.
- 32:42Speaker 3: Some time off?
- 32:42Speaker 2: Is this tko UFC endeavor merger influence?
- 32:47Speaker 1: Here?
- 32:47Speaker 2: Is this Triple H's influence. What's your thoughts here on
- 32:51Speaker 2: the house show schedule? Do you like the move and
- 32:53Speaker 2: where does it all stem from.
- 32:55Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of all three. I know
- 32:58Speaker 1: that's not really a great answer, but I think part
- 33:02Speaker 1: of it is, you know, hey, AAW's got a very
- 33:05Speaker 1: limited road schedule. You know, some of these towns also
- 33:09Speaker 1: aren't doing great financially in the South. There's not a
- 33:12Speaker 1: lot of disposable income to head out to a house show,
- 33:15Speaker 1: So are you really making a profit. But if you're
- 33:19Speaker 1: a free agent wrestler and you're like, oh, I can
- 33:21Speaker 1: work six days a month in AW or I got
- 33:24Speaker 1: to work twenty four in WWE for the same amount
- 33:27Speaker 1: of money you take the six days, it just makes
- 33:29Speaker 1: more sense. So hey, limiting that let's wear and tear,
- 33:33Speaker 1: you know on those guys. I think part of it
- 33:36Speaker 1: is also the TKO because they also look at as
- 33:38Speaker 1: we're a television if you look at the Plee as
- 33:42Speaker 1: a movie, We're like, we're in that kind of business.
- 33:45Speaker 1: So hey, if we can maximize our profits off these shows,
- 33:49Speaker 1: then we don't need the house show so much. UFC
- 33:52Speaker 1: doesn't really do a house show scheduling tour. I mean,
- 33:55Speaker 1: if they do, I've never heard of it. So does WWE.
- 33:59Speaker 1: You really need do it if they're doing more TV
- 34:01Speaker 1: and p Elisa, and a part of it is also
- 34:04Speaker 1: the Triple H bar. As a former full time on
- 34:07Speaker 1: the road wrestler, he knows what's like to be on
- 34:10Speaker 1: the holiday season where you're gone and you don't get
- 34:12Speaker 1: to see your family through Thanksgiving and Christmas. I mean
- 34:15Speaker 1: that was I remember back when Matt Hardy was in
- 34:18Speaker 1: WW and Revey Hardy made a big deal about them
- 34:20Speaker 1: finally having a Christmas off for the first time in
- 34:23Speaker 1: forever because they never had one before. So I think
- 34:26Speaker 1: it's a combination of all those things just kind of
- 34:28Speaker 1: coming together where it's like, Hey, if our most important
- 34:32Speaker 1: product is the talent on our roster, we need to
- 34:35Speaker 1: keep them as healthy and happy as possible. Hey, let's
- 34:38Speaker 1: give them a break through the holidays, and then hey
- 34:42Speaker 1: start fresh in twenty twenty five, And it'll be interesting
- 34:44Speaker 1: with the road schedule is coming out of January and
- 34:47Speaker 1: February and see if it goes back to the way
- 34:49Speaker 1: it's been or if this is the model they hold
- 34:52Speaker 1: on to going forward into twenty twenty five.
- 34:55Speaker 3: What do you hope they do.
- 34:58Speaker 1: A little bit of both? Like I want the guys
- 35:01Speaker 1: like really, like do you need to run five? How
- 35:03Speaker 1: like was it like typically is what they do two
- 35:05Speaker 1: TVs in three house shows a week.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Yeah, they would run like it was more starting with
- 35:11Speaker 2: the SmackDown loops. So they would start Friday with SmackDown,
- 35:13Speaker 2: Saturday Sunday live events, and then Monday television for RAW.
- 35:17Speaker 2: I think that's what they were basically doing. I don't
- 35:19Speaker 2: think they were doing Thursday or Tuesday live events anymore.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and really i'd like, I mean, it's
- 35:26Speaker 1: hard to bounce it out with one with one live
- 35:28Speaker 1: I mean, you have two different touring companies, but really like,
- 35:31Speaker 1: let them do TV. Let them do like one house
- 35:33Speaker 1: show for the week or maybe two at the most,
- 35:35Speaker 1: and then I like a three day work week and
- 35:38Speaker 1: then a four day off, cause two of those days
- 35:41Speaker 1: are going to be traveling enough, so at least gives
- 35:42Speaker 1: you a five day work week and two days of rest.
- 35:46Speaker 1: So that to me would kind of be like that way,
- 35:48Speaker 1: you're still getting your house shows into your smaller towns
- 35:51Speaker 1: that don't get pl s and stuff like that, like
- 35:54Speaker 1: a Huntsville, you know, like even Birmingham doesn't get that
- 35:58Speaker 1: many raws or spent like one a year might come
- 36:01Speaker 1: to Birmingham, but the house shows allow those small towns,
- 36:06Speaker 1: those little smaller areas that shows don't go to to
- 36:08Speaker 1: still see them. But you know, do one TV, two
- 36:11Speaker 1: house shows, and then four days off, two for travel
- 36:14Speaker 1: and two for actual rest. I think that'd be a
- 36:17Speaker 1: kind of a happy media.
- 36:18Speaker 2: As a fan wrestling fan, I'm more inclined to want
- 36:22Speaker 2: to go see a live television or pl raw or
- 36:25Speaker 2: SmackDown rather than a house show, unless it was like
- 36:29Speaker 2: in this, like very intimate venue that I live near
- 36:31Speaker 2: or something like that. But the likelihood that I go
- 36:33Speaker 2: to a live event is few and far between nowadays.
- 36:37Speaker 3: I've never really a house show guy.
- 36:38Speaker 2: I've only been theoretically one, and that ended up airing
- 36:42Speaker 2: on the WE network when they were live from MSG
- 36:44Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. And I went for that one because
- 36:46Speaker 2: I wanted to see Lesner live, and that was one
- 36:49Speaker 2: of those cases I wanted to go to MSG on
- 36:51Speaker 2: Saturday and I wanted to see Lesner, and I went
- 36:53Speaker 2: to the show and then.
- 36:54Speaker 3: They ended up airing on the network. I love the move.
- 36:57Speaker 2: I think it's the right thing to do physically and
- 36:59Speaker 2: me to leave. For the performers, I think that they
- 37:02Speaker 2: absolutely need a break. They should be able to see
- 37:04Speaker 2: their kids grow up. If they have families, they should
- 37:06Speaker 2: be able to live normal lives.
- 37:09Speaker 3: And I love this move.
- 37:10Speaker 2: I think this is great and it will be very
- 37:13Speaker 2: intriguing to see what the type of business model will
- 37:17Speaker 2: be in twenty twenty five. Is this the norm or
- 37:20Speaker 2: is this just something that they tend to do maybe
- 37:23Speaker 2: once a year to give everyone a breakhead into their
- 37:25Speaker 2: busy season because once the holidays come, they're heading into
- 37:29Speaker 2: Russelining forty one season and it's going to be NonStop
- 37:33Speaker 2: from televisions and pls. And do they really need to
- 37:36Speaker 2: add house shows in there to help their business.
- 37:38Speaker 3: Line, you know, on their revenue even more.
- 37:42Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think it's more important to
- 37:44Speaker 2: keep these guys and girls healthy. And this is a
- 37:47Speaker 2: move I never thought i'd see happen, and it's awesome.
- 37:50Speaker 2: I think it's great for the performers. I'm really really
- 37:53Speaker 2: happy for him. It reminds me of like twenty twenty
- 37:55Speaker 2: when it was a pandemic and I was like, this
- 37:56Speaker 2: is they can actually see their kids grow and they
- 37:58Speaker 2: can hang out with their families due to a pandemic.
- 38:01Speaker 2: That was like the one good thing that came out
- 38:04Speaker 2: of a COVID nineteen pandemic for performers is they just
- 38:07Speaker 2: had a show up for television and that was it.
- 38:09Speaker 3: So we'll see if this business model continues going forward.
- 38:11Speaker 2: I hope so as a wrestling fan, because I think
- 38:14Speaker 2: all the performers deserve it due to all the miles
- 38:16Speaker 2: of travel that they put on and wear and tear
- 38:18Speaker 2: in their bodies throughout the year. And I think this
- 38:20Speaker 2: is going to pay off in the long run for WWE,
- 38:23Speaker 2: and it'll be more attractive for wrestlers to sun with
- 38:26Speaker 2: w NOW over their competitors such as AW. Speaking of AW,
- 38:32Speaker 2: Doctor Trey, we have AW all out previewing predictions this
- 38:35Speaker 2: Saturday from the Now Arena in Chicago, Illinois. As you
- 38:38Speaker 2: and I record this show, we only have six matches announced.
- 38:41Speaker 2: I'm sure there will be four to five more that
- 38:44Speaker 2: AW will be announcing here in the coming days. Let's
- 38:47Speaker 2: look at the first match here, as Willow night Andale
- 38:48Speaker 2: will be taken on christ at Lander in a Chicago
- 38:50Speaker 2: street fight for the CMLL World Women's Championship. I feel
- 38:56Speaker 2: like Night Andes like dominated this feud so far, so
- 39:00Speaker 2: I'm going to go with Chris Statlander to become the
- 39:02Speaker 2: new CMMO World Women's Champion and win the Chicago Street Fight.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always tough because Willow pick the stipulations. It's
- 39:10Speaker 1: her title, but it's not an AEW title. Does CMLL
- 39:15Speaker 1: authorize them to make the switch. I'm kind of agreeing
- 39:18Speaker 1: with you. Like when there's a street fight, that means
- 39:20Speaker 1: other people can get involved, which is a stoke we
- 39:22Speaker 1: Hathaway getting involved in helping stat Lander get the win.
- 39:25Speaker 1: So I'm taking stat Lander to win too, even though
- 39:28Speaker 1: it kind of defies the logic because of all the
- 39:31Speaker 1: things I just mentioned.
- 39:33Speaker 2: Next match here is MJF taking on Daniel Garcia Doctor Trey.
- 39:36Speaker 3: Who do you like in this one?
- 39:38Speaker 2: Uh?
- 39:38Speaker 1: Once again kind of tricky because you want Garcia to
- 39:41Speaker 1: stay hot, but you just had MJF lose to Osbreak.
- 39:43Speaker 1: Can you have MJF lose back to back matches? I
- 39:46Speaker 1: don't think so I'm taking MJF to win by hook
- 39:49Speaker 1: er by Cruk. Yeah.
- 39:50Speaker 3: I have the same thought process as you.
- 39:52Speaker 2: I really want to pick Daniel Garcia, but there is
- 39:54Speaker 2: obviously some contract stuff going up, and more importantly the
- 39:57Speaker 2: point that you made Doctor Trey. I can't see MGF
- 40:00Speaker 2: losing back to back pay per view matches. Next match here,
- 40:03Speaker 2: and I guess this is going to be the main event.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Swerve Strickland we be taken on Hangman Adam Page in
- 40:07Speaker 2: a steel cage match.
- 40:08Speaker 3: I am really looking forward to this one.
- 40:10Speaker 2: They have really honed in that Swerve Strickland has defeated
- 40:13Speaker 2: Hangman Adam Page every single time. Therefore, I'm going to
- 40:16Speaker 2: take the Hangman to win this one over Swerve Doctor Trey.
- 40:19Speaker 1: Yeah, but once again, this is tricky because you just
- 40:21Speaker 1: had Swerve lose to Brian Danielson. Can you have Swerve
- 40:25Speaker 1: loose two in a row, but can you have Hangman
- 40:29Speaker 1: lose three in a row to Swerve? So I'm kind
- 40:31Speaker 1: of with you. I'm kind of taking Hangman here just
- 40:34Speaker 1: so we can get one on the board. Uh. But
- 40:37Speaker 1: it's to me this is a flip of the coin
- 40:39Speaker 1: of how they book this.
- 40:40Speaker 2: Next match is Mercedes Monette defending the AWTBS Championship her
- 40:45Speaker 2: car Oshita Dot Trey.
- 40:46Speaker 3: Who do you like in this one?
- 40:48Speaker 1: Mercedes Monet because she makes like three million dollars a year.
- 40:51Speaker 2: Yeah, and that also has to go with like the
- 40:53Speaker 2: way that Shida has been booked for like the last
- 40:55Speaker 2: two years. It's It's very like red hot and then cold,
- 40:58Speaker 2: red hot and then cold on TVs for a while
- 41:01Speaker 2: than not, So I'm gonna go with Mercedes Monet as well.
- 41:04Speaker 2: Next match is Will Ospray defend the AW International Champion
- 41:07Speaker 2: against Pac.
- 41:08Speaker 3: I'm gonna take Will Ospray in this one. I think
- 41:10Speaker 3: this is leading.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Towards Ricochet versus Osprey for Wressell Gem in October. They
- 41:14Speaker 2: were teasing that on Dynamite last week. So I'm gonna
- 41:17Speaker 2: take Will Osprey to get the victor over Pak and
- 41:18Speaker 2: what's gonna be a very very fun match.
- 41:21Speaker 1: I'd love to see Pawk, Ospray, and Ricochet in a
- 41:24Speaker 1: three way, just because their names kind of all rhyme
- 41:26Speaker 1: together too. They kind of fit. But yeah, like I mean,
- 41:29Speaker 1: you put the three three of the best high flyers
- 41:31Speaker 1: of our generation the ring of onans on, that'll be great.
- 41:33Speaker 1: But yeah, this to me is leading to Ricochet and Ospray.
- 41:36Speaker 1: So and Pac just got a belt, so we don't
- 41:39Speaker 1: need POC two belts. POC one belt is fine, So
- 41:42Speaker 1: I'll take Osprey to get the win and retain the title.
- 41:44Speaker 2: Next match here is Brian Danielson defending the AW World
- 41:47Speaker 2: Champion against TNT champion Jack Perry, Doctor Trey.
- 41:50Speaker 3: Who do you like in this one?
- 41:52Speaker 1: I hate AW for booking this match because I don't
- 41:55Speaker 1: know how you how you pull this match off without
- 41:58Speaker 1: it pissing somebody so because you just had Jack Perry
- 42:02Speaker 1: defeat Darby in a casket match, but now you're putting
- 42:06Speaker 1: against Brian Answer who just won the belt. I'm taking
- 42:08Speaker 1: Danielson just because it makes the most sense to me,
- 42:10Speaker 1: but it is really confusing to put these two in
- 42:14Speaker 1: the ring at a PLA when you just had them
- 42:16Speaker 1: both get kind of career defining victories.
- 42:18Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Brian Danielson as well, and I do
- 42:20Speaker 2: feel like this is a big fu to anybody who
- 42:22Speaker 2: has been against AW creatively, like myself. When it comes
- 42:27Speaker 2: to Jack Perry. Putt him in the main event or
- 42:29Speaker 2: one of the main event matches title match World title
- 42:31Speaker 2: match in Chicago where he has obvious heat already with
- 42:35Speaker 2: fans who are cmpunk fans. But I think AW fans
- 42:38Speaker 2: at this point probably don't give a crap anymore and
- 42:41Speaker 2: probably put that behind him. But expect seem punk chants
- 42:43Speaker 2: during this match. Yeah, I mean, Jack Perry has been
- 42:48Speaker 2: booked extremely well. I still have not bought into the
- 42:51Speaker 2: Jack Perry character. I look forward to Brian Danielson defeating
- 42:55Speaker 2: him and retain the AW World Championship on Saturday night,
- 42:58Speaker 2: and then is AW all Out. We will recap and
- 43:00Speaker 2: review it on next week's show, and we'll obviously have
- 43:04Speaker 2: more matches that we'll probably discuss because it is an
- 43:07Speaker 2: AW pay per view and they are not going into
- 43:09Speaker 2: it with six matches only for a four hour show,
- 43:12Speaker 2: so that will all be recapped on September twelfth, and
- 43:16Speaker 2: then finally, Doctor Trey. There was the John Moxley angle
- 43:21Speaker 2: on Dynamite that played out last week where he came
- 43:24Speaker 2: out said it wasn't your company anymore. Marina Shaffer helped
- 43:29Speaker 2: him out in a backstage vignette take out some security guards,
- 43:32Speaker 2: and the Twitter account or x account of Wrestle Votes
- 43:35Speaker 2: at Wrestle Votes tweeted out something and whenever Wrestle Votes
- 43:39Speaker 2: tweet something out, I listen. I had no idea where
- 43:42Speaker 2: this angle was going. We briefly discussed it on last
- 43:44Speaker 2: week's edition in the show. Seemed to be intrigued with
- 43:47Speaker 2: where Moxley was going, and I saw this tweet, I'm like, boy,
- 43:51Speaker 2: this is really interesting. So rest of Votes tweeted out
- 43:54Speaker 2: a photo of John Moxley as Dean Ambrose and he
- 43:58Speaker 2: is holding the innercount in the World Championship and he
- 44:00Speaker 2: has his hand on the face of his former boss
- 44:03Speaker 2: and SmackDown General general Manager Shane McMahon, and Russell Vokes tweeted, could.
- 44:10Speaker 3: It be question mark? Question mark? Hashtag AW Dynamite Doctor Trey?
- 44:16Speaker 3: Is this the answer?
- 44:18Speaker 2: So where this angle is going? Is this Moxley stuff
- 44:21Speaker 2: leading to Shane McMahon appearing in AW?
- 44:24Speaker 1: It's very possible, like when when I still it's one
- 44:29Speaker 1: of those things where I'll see when, I'll believe it
- 44:31Speaker 1: when I see it. But it is very like that
- 44:35Speaker 1: comment and everything else is like okay, because you also
- 44:38Speaker 1: remember like not only is he made the comment to
- 44:41Speaker 1: Tony Shavanni, who's not only the announcer, but he's also
- 44:45Speaker 1: the head of talent relations or cohead of talent relations
- 44:49Speaker 1: with Christopher Daniels. It's it's just very very easy. And
- 44:53Speaker 1: then British Affair former NXT wrestler like, could this be
- 44:59Speaker 1: the invasion angle you always wanted? I mean, is this
- 45:03Speaker 1: where we're going? It's really kind of interesting to see
- 45:06Speaker 1: where this goes. Because you know, last week we said
- 45:09Speaker 1: is Mox in the BCC? Is he out of the BCC?
- 45:11Speaker 1: There was really no talk about it is pocket a Philly,
- 45:15Speaker 1: Like we did not understand how this whole thing is
- 45:17Speaker 1: gonna play out because there was no breakup with the BCC.
- 45:21Speaker 1: Mox just took time off, you know, to heal and
- 45:24Speaker 1: do his Japanese stuff. So it's kind of like, it's
- 45:27Speaker 1: just interesting that they're just kind of started this thing
- 45:29Speaker 1: fresh out of nowhere with no context. But hey, these
- 45:33Speaker 1: kind of storylines are what we kind of dig because
- 45:35Speaker 1: we want to see where stuff like this goes.
- 45:37Speaker 2: Yeah, when Wressell votes tweets, I listen and either he
- 45:43Speaker 2: knows something or she knows something we don't know, or
- 45:46Speaker 2: he or she knows something then or is just pontificating
- 45:50Speaker 2: like could this be what this is leading towards? I
- 45:53Speaker 2: tend to think that Wreussell votes know something we don't know,
- 45:57Speaker 2: and that is pretty damn excited if it is Seae McMahon.
- 46:01Speaker 2: So there is an episode of Dynamite airing tonight as
- 46:05Speaker 2: Doctor Trey and I are recording this podcast this week,
- 46:07Speaker 2: doing it a day early. So yours truly doesn't have
- 46:10Speaker 2: to do it under anesthesia on Thursday night and have
- 46:13Speaker 2: no idea what the hell's going on the world professional
- 46:14Speaker 2: wrestling with the hell that would make a fun podcast.
- 46:18Speaker 2: But nonetheless, we'll see if there's some more tea leaves
- 46:20Speaker 2: that are pointing to the money. Here comes the money
- 46:23Speaker 2: in all Eat Wrestling, and then my brain will be
- 46:26Speaker 2: officially broken, Doctor Trey. If Sea McMann and Jack Perry
- 46:28Speaker 2: are on the same wrestling roster, yeah.
- 46:32Speaker 1: That's uh yeah, I don't I don't know how you
- 46:34Speaker 1: would handle that. But then again, I have Mercedes Bonney
- 46:37Speaker 1: and Jack Perry and then potentially Seane McMahon on the
- 46:40Speaker 1: same run. So there you go.
- 46:42Speaker 2: There is everything from this week of the world of
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