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Speaker 2: having their first showcase. It's in Mudi Chin. I can
Speaker 2: never say it right. I want to call it Matuchin.
Speaker 2: It's Matouchin. Sometimes I'll say the tucin mootouching. I have
Speaker 2: said it right maybe twice in my life. But it's
Speaker 2: in South New Jersey and they're having their first championship
Speaker 2: match with the men and the women. Happy to announce
Speaker 2: here on the show that the men's championship match is
Speaker 2: the Indie God Matt Cardona versus The King of the
Speaker 2: Indies Cult Cabana, and the women's championship matches are Lady
Speaker 2: eller Ring and Lady Delander, who you guys both saw
Speaker 2: on NXT. Both women are amazing, They're going to be
Speaker 2: awesome matches. That's September ninth. The Premiere streaming network is
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Speaker 2: Slammer Versary and watch Bully Ray whip some ass this weekend.
Speaker 2: Wo what Jeff talk to me, dude? You want to
Speaker 2: watch Bully Ray kick some ass formerly known as Bubba Ray.
Speaker 3: I love Bubba Ray. I love the dun super underrated,
Speaker 3: always have.
Speaker 2: I don't wrestling fans don't underrate them, but people who
Speaker 2: don't understand wrestling wouldn't get them and they'd be underappreciated.
Speaker 1: I feel like.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like wrestling fans freaking love the Dudley Boys.
Speaker 3: Hey, so, Matt Cordona and Colt Cabana, let's talk about
Speaker 3: these dudes ones called the King of the indies and
Speaker 3: ones called the indie God, and they're gonna, I guess
Speaker 3: they're gonna try to figure that out with their match.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. King not as good as God. Right,
Speaker 3: God beats King.
Speaker 1: No, unless you're an atheist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, col Cobana doesn't believe, you know.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, yeah, Okay, you're a god, bro, Yeah
Speaker 1: that could be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's all too, he's all King of the Castle.
Speaker 3: Oh big whoop, you think you're a god.
Speaker 1: They have a they have a cool story.
Speaker 2: Like cold Cabana really innovated independent wrestling in the form
Speaker 2: of merchandise. He was one of the first to like
Speaker 2: pave a path and show how successful you could still
Speaker 2: be by while doing merch on the indie tours, and
Speaker 2: a lot of ler sort of followed that model and suit,
Speaker 2: and so that's why a lot of people call him
Speaker 2: King of the Indies. And then Cardona comes in. He
Speaker 2: leaves WWE, he goes to I think it was GCW
Speaker 2: and does that crazy death match against Nick Gage where
Speaker 2: he's just bleeding everywhere in his friggin moms in the audience.
Speaker 2: And because he bled the way he did and his
Speaker 2: willingness to everybody like in the hardcore world just fell
Speaker 2: in love with him and started giving him all this love,
Speaker 2: and then he just started collecting belts and all these
Speaker 2: indie promotions, and then he started doing the merch thing
Speaker 2: that Colt does. So then he's like, basically, yeah, you
Speaker 2: created it, but I evolved it. Now I'm the indie god.
Speaker 2: And Cold Cobana's like, what fuck you? You better not
Speaker 2: forget my name, and he's like, your name's already been forgotten,
Speaker 2: your son of it. And now they can beef it
Speaker 2: out and we can see who truly is the champion,
Speaker 2: and they'll get the first ever Premier Championship Network Championship belt.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I can get like a replica and show it
Speaker 1: off to you. I like that.
Speaker 3: Those guys are both great guys too. I've met both
Speaker 3: of them and they're nice guys.
Speaker 1: I have too, man.
Speaker 2: You know, I worked at WWE sadly during his Scottie
Speaker 2: Goldman phase, which was not good. I didn't have to
Speaker 2: write for it, but they asked me to help like
Speaker 2: fix it a few times, and it was very difficult
Speaker 2: to give him what he deserved within the parameters that
Speaker 2: were unmovable as far as Vince was concerned and it
Speaker 2: was really hard to get him over based on what
Speaker 2: they were going to allow him to do. And he
Speaker 2: knew it. He still went after it and went out there.
Speaker 2: Christa Joseph DJ knew it, but he still committed everything
Speaker 2: he could. And I knew it and I tried my best,
Speaker 2: but we just couldn't get that. We couldn't get that
Speaker 2: gimmick through. Man, we just couldn't get it to work.
Speaker 3: I don't I might be misremembering your opinion on this subject,
Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure you're not crazy about death matches, right,
Speaker 3: because you just referenced the.
Speaker 2: The blood is so like, I like fake blood, okay,
Speaker 2: I like horror movies where all the blood is used
Speaker 2: up and the next horror movie is like, all right
Speaker 2: with go get some blood, and like, I'm sorry it
Speaker 2: was all used up on that movie, Freddy like, but
Speaker 2: when it's.
Speaker 1: Real blood, I'm like, oh God, I know that guy.
Speaker 2: Jesus, it's just hard, man, it's really hard for me
Speaker 2: to watch. I'm soft man, I'm sawft.
Speaker 3: No you're not, but I was right, And remember that
Speaker 3: you're not crazy about the death matches. Guys like me
Speaker 3: grew up in the early nineties late eighties kind of
Speaker 3: like was when we were like learning things and finding
Speaker 3: our own interests like ECW. The success of ECW was
Speaker 3: it was just so gritty and extreme. We just talked
Speaker 3: about the Dudley Boys, which no one gives any credit
Speaker 3: to Spike Dudley as one of the Dudley Boys who
Speaker 3: took the best bumps into The crazy.
Speaker 1: Guy was like Gumby Man. He just body would fold
Speaker 1: and bend. Oh, he's fine.
Speaker 3: He's not even like stiff now, like he doesn't have
Speaker 3: any like long term injuries or anything. The guys, you know, whatever,
Speaker 3: what I was gonna say about this, what's keeping for
Speaker 3: ae W and WWF for that matter, for not having
Speaker 3: also like a deathmatch built, and there's like, you know,
Speaker 3: there's like one death match per pay per view, or
Speaker 3: there's like, you know, like why don't put a storyline
Speaker 3: like that, put a belt on Nick Cage.
Speaker 2: AW did a storyline with Chris Jericho and Nick Age
Speaker 2: where he came in and they actually fought and had
Speaker 2: basically a deathmatch. So they've done it. But WWE East
Speaker 2: publicly traded man. They will never really ever have a
Speaker 2: deathmatch ever. It's not even up for debate. I guarantee
Speaker 2: you it wouldn't even be up for debate if you
Speaker 2: brought it up as a as a writer in the
Speaker 2: creative room. They wouldn't even let you bring it to Vince.
Speaker 2: Like it's just it wouldn't. They're too scared of that
Speaker 2: with stockholders. You can blame them for it, or you
Speaker 2: can understand that that's just the way it is for
Speaker 2: it to be as successful as it's become.
Speaker 1: These wrestlers can get.
Speaker 3: Hurt anyways, right, These wrestlers think every everything they're doing
Speaker 3: is they're letting the son of Vince jump.
Speaker 1: Off forty foot ladders, And.
Speaker 3: It's like, I can't imagine, because a death match is
Speaker 3: just the same kind of danger, except you've added like.
Speaker 1: There's so much blood, dude, There's like there's so much blood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thumb oh, thumbed, stuff like that they've done.
Speaker 2: WW has done thumb tacks a couple of times in
Speaker 2: the in the modern era, but well not modern era,
Speaker 2: but in the last like ten years, I feel like
Speaker 2: I've seen a thumb tack match or that could have
Speaker 2: been aw it's all blurring together, but yeah, they're way
Speaker 2: against that that super gory kind of blood and not
Speaker 2: for the reasons I am. I'm not even against it,
Speaker 2: it's just really hard for me to watch. Like, however,
Speaker 2: you want to wrestle wrestler.
Speaker 3: Something might want to think about if anyone out there
Speaker 3: might be starting some sort of wrestling federation.
Speaker 2: Just something look for for my own based on like
Speaker 2: the style it is. They'll definitely be a death match
Speaker 2: that I know. I've said that it wouldn't be, but
Speaker 2: just the style of that, it's going to be there.
Speaker 1: There will be. It'll just be hard.
Speaker 2: But I know how much people love those. And you're
Speaker 2: you're seeing the literal sacrifice of an artist you like
Speaker 2: right in front of you, just for you.
Speaker 1: And that means a lot.
Speaker 2: And there's not even when there's there's no TV cameras,
Speaker 2: and these men and women are still willing to do
Speaker 2: that for you for an experience that sixty people will see,
Speaker 2: a thousand people will see, two thousand people will see,
Speaker 2: five hundred people will see.
Speaker 1: But this they're still willing to bleed, sweat, cry all
Speaker 1: on that canvas they call a ring.
Speaker 2: And that's why I love I'd just love professional wrestlers
Speaker 2: and stand up comics so much. I think those are
Speaker 2: the two hardest art forms because you're getting an immediate
Speaker 2: response and they let you know right away whether they're
Speaker 2: connecting with you and there's been trust established or whether
Speaker 2: they just simply do not And it is brutal and
Speaker 2: cold and really hard to succeed through that. You know,
Speaker 2: hecklers are like what you know what I mean? It's
Speaker 2: like the wrestler, can you deal with the what? And
Speaker 2: the comic can either deal with the heckler or they
Speaker 2: cannot and you can lose a show real quick. So
Speaker 2: I just I love this. There's so much for what
Speaker 2: they deal with. Yeah, you can speak on it better
Speaker 2: than me.
Speaker 1: No speaking on that.
Speaker 3: I was like, we didn't get a chance to talk
Speaker 3: about it last episode. That's why we appreciate you guys
Speaker 3: coming to these Thursday bonus stuff carrying cross you feel like.
Speaker 1: That is that happening with him?
Speaker 3: You feel like they're not connecting with him, or what
Speaker 3: is going on with your boy?
Speaker 2: I don't think Creative has a story for him that
Speaker 2: can get past Vince.
Speaker 1: I think is what's happened?
Speaker 3: So Vince is burying him or like you think.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Vince or Creative, but I
Speaker 2: know he can work. I know he can connect with fans.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows that because everyone's seen that in NXT. It
Speaker 2: worked at a high level. So yeah, I don't, I
Speaker 2: don't know to say that. I'm I'm stoked for him. No,
Speaker 2: I always they had something better for him. It's been
Speaker 2: even when they had a story for him, it wasn't
Speaker 2: one that you could tell. You could tell it wasn't one.
Speaker 2: They were incredibly behind based on where it was placed
Speaker 2: in the show. So you know, I hope like Shinsek
Speaker 2: came in. I hope or shinsk. Sorry for the extra
Speaker 2: syllable there. When they don't have a story for you,
Speaker 2: it's tough. You're you're just there for a quick win
Speaker 2: or a quick loss, and that's unfortunate. But that's the
Speaker 2: business man, and I wish it wasn't that way, and
Speaker 2: i'd like to I'd like to think, Hey, everyone deserves
Speaker 2: a story. They're there, they've earned it, got it. But
Speaker 2: it's not that simple, man. It's hard to get ideas
Speaker 2: through from the room that they're conceptualized in to television
Speaker 2: that week. It's very very difficult. There's there's your boss,
Speaker 2: who's the head of creative or not head of creative,
Speaker 2: but head of your writer's room that has to sign
Speaker 2: off on it and say, yeah, this will be a
Speaker 2: part of the episode we bring to TV. Then when
Speaker 2: you get to TV, there's producers former wrestlers that help
Speaker 2: build the matches and help tell the stories as well,
Speaker 2: and they may have opinions on it. And then there's
Speaker 2: the the table side I call the table side where
Speaker 2: like the director, the co director, the head writer, and
Speaker 2: Vince sid and then they have their say.
Speaker 1: And to get through all that unscathed, it's borderline impossible.
Speaker 2: I did it with the Jeff Hardy thing, and that
Speaker 2: was the only story ever that got through because for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, they just got behind Jeff and this idea
Speaker 2: behind him, so they left us alone. But otherwise, man,
Speaker 2: it was like pulling teeth, dude. It was so hard
Speaker 2: to get someone to believe in an idea when they
Speaker 2: don't get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I really like kring Cross. I know you
Speaker 3: love kring Cross, so we're hoping that he gets more
Speaker 3: than you think. Thirty second match with AJ Styles where
Speaker 3: he has to lose, so hopefully.
Speaker 1: By the way, what are they doing with AJ Styles?
Speaker 1: He just wrestled Seth Rollins for the freaking Heavyweight Championship
Speaker 1: and then no story.
Speaker 3: Same with La Knight took on hit row buying himself
Speaker 3: couldn't be more over the second he came out, the
Speaker 3: second they heard his music the site, the crowd was
Speaker 3: just loving it. And like he did the thing where
Speaker 3: he he licks his index finger and goes hell a
Speaker 3: Night points for each syllable. Dude, He's coming up with
Speaker 3: great things. I also like his move set, like I
Speaker 3: don't know what they're called. I don't know what these
Speaker 3: moves are called, but it's kind of like a it
Speaker 3: looks like a stone Colt stunner, but he lays down
Speaker 3: with you as he kind of pulls.
Speaker 1: You face plants you. Such a cool thing.
Speaker 3: Anyways, big La Knight fan, I'm I don't know why
Speaker 3: they're not giving him more stuff. He's super over and
Speaker 3: I don't know why they're not Why why Caring Cross
Speaker 3: isn't just over in general with everybody.
Speaker 2: But whatever, Well, Jeff, we didn't get to a single
Speaker 2: thing that we planned on talking about.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of what I do want to say
Speaker 1: that podcast.
Speaker 2: I want to say Collision maybe quickly becoming my favorite
Speaker 2: television show for wrestling. I love the opening. I didn't
Speaker 2: think I was gonna like it. They've stayed consistent with it.
Speaker 2: I love the way they talk to camera and then
Speaker 2: start the show now and we got to see him
Speaker 2: punk Samoa Joe and that match was awesome, long away
Speaker 2: and took a whooping and he was bleeding for real
Speaker 2: out of his mouth too. He took a whooping and
Speaker 2: his promo was dead money.
Speaker 1: Punks money.
Speaker 2: I liked it outside of the ring, like where the
Speaker 2: people are. Oh, you didn't dig get into it. We'll
Speaker 2: get into it in our next episode.
Speaker 1: He is. I like that promo.
Speaker 3: I like him and whatever, but like God, he's not
Speaker 3: as good on the mic as he thinks he is.
Speaker 3: He thinks he's real.
Speaker 1: I mean like, I'll give you that.
Speaker 2: I'll give you that, Like he thinks he's the best
Speaker 2: that's ever spoken in a mic and lets you know that.
Speaker 2: But I still like the promo. I just liked the
Speaker 2: style of it. He never stepped in the ring until
Speaker 2: he wrestled.
Speaker 3: The only name I want to hear tonight is Owen Hurt.
Speaker 1: What the hell you talking about Canada?
Speaker 3: Pandering your little I thought you weren't the pan or you're.
Speaker 1: The punk guy. You're not punk. I only want to
Speaker 1: hear owen Hart's.
Speaker 2: Name, but it is though owen Hart tournaments some latitude,
Speaker 2: but they never even gave some latitude.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I love you, Thank you for listening. Everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll see you all next week. We're out peace.
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