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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome due the battle Ground Podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is a podcast all about professional wrestling. Join Battle and

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Speaker 1: Eli as a breakdown what's going on in the world

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Speaker 1: of professional wrestling with special guests, including some of your

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Speaker 1: favorite wrestling superstars. You never know who's gonna stop by

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Speaker 1: now making their.

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Speaker 2: Way to the microphone. Get up for the.

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Speaker 1: Greatest podcast team in the world, Battle and Eli.

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Speaker 3: All right, so welcome to a bonus feature episode of

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Speaker 3: I Am your host Battle along with my awesome co

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Speaker 3: host Eli.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 3: So we had to do this. We talked about a

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Speaker 3: lot of stuff yesterday on the podcast, so I will

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Speaker 3: go ahead and just tell you guys, we did record

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Speaker 3: this morning's podcast yesterday before Helen to Cell and then

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Speaker 3: after last night's Helena, Cell, me and Eli were going

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Speaker 3: back and forth and we're like, we have to do

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Speaker 3: an episode just to kind of clear the air and

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Speaker 3: voice our concerns about how horrible last night's pay per

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Speaker 3: view ended.

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Speaker 2: Right Unfortunately, I mean, overall, it wasn't a terrible pay

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Speaker 2: per view. It wasn't great by any means. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. I'm still almost twenty four

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Speaker 2: hours later, I'm still speechless. I just don't I don't

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Speaker 3: And I think that's the way a lot of people

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Speaker 3: wasn't too terribly bad. We kind of figured that Charlotte

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Speaker 3: was gonna win the title because they're, like we've talked

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Speaker 3: about before, and like you've mentioned, you're trying to give

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Speaker 3: Charlotte these like quick title reigns so she can kind

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Speaker 3: then you know, what was it, Bronze Strowman. He didn't

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Speaker 3: Stroman came out and he was like in a mystery

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Speaker 3: partner with the war Viking Team Raider or whatever they are,

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Speaker 3: and that was stupid. All in all, it wasn't that

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Speaker 3: great of a pay per view. Nothing really stood out

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Speaker 3: you know, scrolling through you know, social media last night,

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Speaker 3: like people were hissed, Like a lot of people like

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Speaker 3: I was okay with the match being in red because

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Speaker 3: I get the whole being in hell kind of thing,

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Speaker 3: but you know, if somebody's paying in the sitting in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I text you when it happened, and

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Speaker 2: I would definitely not be happy if I was there,

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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, and of course, you know, the match was

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Speaker 3: the match itself. I kind of came in halfway through

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Speaker 3: my house playing Madden because I just really did not

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Speaker 3: care about Hell in a Cell if that tells you anything.

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Speaker 3: But you know, the match was pretty good. There was

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Speaker 3: there was some strong parts in the match, and then

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Speaker 3: And you know, it seems like kind of in this

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Speaker 3: because like in the match, Seth like hit him with

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Speaker 3: just seemed like because Bray was so over with the crowd,

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Speaker 3: it made me think to myself that in this match,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it reminded me of kind of what

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Speaker 2: few do you know, Charlotte will be the good guy

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Speaker 2: and Becky'd be the bad guy. But I mean the

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Speaker 2: of the biggest turnarounds in ww history. And I think

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Speaker 2: the same thing with Bray. Why it is, he's never

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Speaker 2: So you know, with the Fiend taken over this summer

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Speaker 2: every single week and YadA, YadA, YadA, So it's adding

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Speaker 2: But you know, regardless of how they justify it, this

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Speaker 2: They've ruined bron Strowman, and I have a gut feeling

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Speaker 3: So yeah, and watching the match that was, you know,

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Speaker 3: slaughtering Seth and I think what was it? There was

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but it was like curbs dump and

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Speaker 3: all this other stuff. And then it was weird because

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Speaker 3: I think it was, like I said, I kind of

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Speaker 3: the internet were saying that Michael Cole kept reiterating about

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Speaker 3: no disqualification and blah blah blah, and like Seth snapped

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Speaker 3: and right there at the end. He had him under

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Speaker 3: and then they rang the bell and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: let's go back to helen a Cell where Undertaker threw

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Speaker 3: Mick Foley off the top of the cage. No bell

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Speaker 3: getting thrown through the top of the cage. No bell

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Speaker 3: ring there. And they still finished the match. And it's like,

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Speaker 3: You end it with bray hitting you know, a mandible

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Speaker 3: claw seth is like spitting out blood. And WW did

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Speaker 3: not care one bit and they did not try to

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Speaker 3: drown out the booze the bullshit chance or the aew

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Speaker 2: And after it went off there people were posting videos there.

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Speaker 2: The crowd was chanting refund, which is like the probably

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Speaker 2: the worst thing. You don't want that if they're chanting

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Speaker 2: sampunk or aw whatever, that's fine. They're just you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, they're over it. They don't

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Speaker 2: want to give you money. You know, it's a whole

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Speaker 2: different thing. So there's just so many, so many questions.

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Speaker 2: You know, why would you book? Why would you lebra Wyatt?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Sell all this offense if he's not going to win

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Speaker 2: the title? You know, that's usually a sign that you

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Speaker 2: know he's gonna win or something. You know, what do

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Speaker 2: you do with the Fiend now? You know? So so

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Speaker 2: five seconds after the thing's over, he's back up with

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Speaker 2: full force, full you know, like it's so stupid, like

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Speaker 2: and then you know, I read somebody who were like, oh,

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Speaker 2: well the Fiend doesn't need a belt, you know, he doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Then make it a non title match, Like why would

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Speaker 2: you even hint at him getting the belt? Especially because everyone,

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Speaker 2: you know, the kind of the general consensus is, you know,

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Speaker 2: Seth's kind of started to wear out his welcome and

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Speaker 2: you know, I think he's think people are just ready

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Speaker 2: and it's almost like the WAWE. It's like shocked that

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Speaker 2: have fucked bray Wyatt since the beginning, Like if he

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Speaker 2: was booked on a pay per review, you knew he

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Speaker 2: was going to lose. I mean, I mean his track

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Speaker 3: And this could have been the time to rectify that.

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Speaker 3: And you have a new start with a new character

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Speaker 3: and you still drop the ball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're and they're trying to and they're trying to,

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Speaker 3: You know, he for him to be on the stretcher

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Speaker 3: there was nothing exciting to go home about. Now. Granted,

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Speaker 3: tonight's rawl and we're you know, less than half an

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Speaker 3: if something could happen tonight, but you know, just ending

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Speaker 3: You literally leave everybody that watched Helena South with a

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Speaker 3: Who cares whatever?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they'll edit it out for

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Speaker 2: the network, but it was, Yeah, it was very noticeable

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Speaker 2: don't know what the You know, they they did this

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Speaker 2: and you know, we are our attention slipped and we're

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Speaker 2: giving this show back to the fans and you're the

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Speaker 2: boss and blah blah blah, and you know we talked

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Speaker 2: to when we had Kevin nash In. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: Horrible and it's not a good thing now, especially when

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Speaker 3: you have so much competition.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's just you build him up to be,

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Speaker 2: you know, practically into Druckt the ball and then you

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Speaker 3: So I want to see how ratings are gonna tonight.

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Speaker 3: And of course i'll watch for all just to see

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll have to You'll have to keep me posted

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Speaker 3: on Friday. Let us know what you think about Hell

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Speaker 3: of U. Sale. You can hit us up on Twitter

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Speaker 2: Sadly, we gave you your thoughts, so so until next time,

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