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Speaker 1: And now your mate event introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy.

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Speaker 1: Jeff died hand for Ready Prince Soonior.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to a brand new episode of

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Speaker 2: Wrestling with Freddie. Jeff Die is traveling, so you're stuck

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Speaker 2: with your good friend uncle fred Ward. Here is your

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Speaker 2: news of the week. WWE just announced that they have

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Speaker 2: signed a multi year partnership with Twitch to become WWE's

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Speaker 2: second screen experience. Way to go, WWE probably could have

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Speaker 2: done that five years ago. Also, Jimmy Usso finally stepped

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Speaker 2: up to his cousin Roman Reigns. The bloodline storyline heats

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Speaker 2: up once again, and will we ever see Jimmy become

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Speaker 2: a transitional champion the kick heard round the world. Also

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Speaker 2: in WWE, the new Undisputed Universal Championship was unveiled. Not

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Speaker 2: too much different about it, but there is gold behind

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Speaker 2: the logo. Congratulations And finally, are you excited for ae

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Speaker 2: W Collision and the return of c I'm punk let

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Speaker 2: us know on our socials. Here comes Wrestling with Freddy.

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Speaker 2: Oh I forgot to say good evening and good night. Well,

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Speaker 2: if that's what happens when Jeff isn't here, and I'm rusty. Everybody,

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Speaker 2: I'm rusty, and I apologize. You know what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna start the show with a little business and

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Speaker 2: introduce a new segment that we're going to bring to

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Speaker 2: you guys every Thursday, so you're gonna get extra content

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Speaker 2: on Thursdays. We're new Side Quest Actions, Jeff's Hot Tag Action. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: let's talk WWE, all right, you guys, Monday and Ira.

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Speaker 2: By the way, we're about to have wrestling seven days

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Speaker 2: a week, six days a week, seven if you count

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Speaker 2: pay per views. That's kind of crazy, y'all. People said

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Speaker 2: wrestling was dead. I don't know. I remember on this

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Speaker 2: show saying it was a ranessance, a rebirth of wrestling.

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Speaker 2: So in your face of champions, we have a new

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Speaker 2: World's Heavyweight Champion. I always say World's Heavyweight Champion instead

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Speaker 2: of World Heavyweight Champion. But I feel like mine's right,

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Speaker 2: or at least also right. Is it wrong? I don't

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Speaker 2: know anyway. The World Heavyweight Champion seth rawlins enters the

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Speaker 2: arena and the belt growing on me. It looks cool,

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Speaker 2: at least it looks good on him. The coloring he

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Speaker 2: you know, we love Seth rawlins over here. He has

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Speaker 2: tried to make us not love him with specific wardrobe

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Speaker 2: and hair choices over the months, but a if for

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Speaker 2: not my good man, I still think you're one of

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Speaker 2: the best damn wrestlers in the business, and I was

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Speaker 2: glad to see this belt on him. Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: AJ Styles came out. Before we get to that, Let's

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Speaker 2: let's lay down what happened. Seth comes out, the crowd

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Speaker 2: loves him. The crowd's gonna love Seth for the next

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Speaker 2: ten years and he won't be able to do any wrong.

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Speaker 2: AJ Styles, the man he wrestled for this title in

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, comes out, and even though he's gonna be

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Speaker 2: is he here to punch Seth in the face. He

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Speaker 2: can't seem to beat Seth when the titles on the

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Speaker 2: line for any title, so there could be some beef there.

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Speaker 2: And instead he comes out and he says, yo, I

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Speaker 2: respect you. You're the man, you're the champ, and you

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Speaker 2: beat me, and Seth says, well you earned He says

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Speaker 2: you earned that title, and Seth looks at him and says,

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Speaker 2: well you earn this, you son of a bitch. He

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Speaker 2: it's a nice it's a nice moment between the two men,

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Speaker 2: and I think the right guy is wearing the is

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Speaker 2: wearing the belt. And then here comes the judgment day

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Speaker 2: Finn Balor, Damian Priest, Dominic Mysterio and Rhea Ripley, who

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Speaker 2: is just the friggin most awesome one in that whole group.

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Speaker 2: different opinions on it. Some love it and some not

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Speaker 2: If it is the working man's title and it is

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Speaker 2: to believe with the Open Challenge, a lot of people

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Speaker 2: I think it can work if you give it a chance,

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Speaker 2: and it's okay. If every single title shot doesn't have

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Speaker 2: necessarily mean it's weaker or worse. It's just your perspective

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Speaker 2: know the companies behind them post KFA right, But back

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Speaker 2: then it represented the best technical worker. That's why mister

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Speaker 2: Perfect had it, and it didn't diminish mister Perfect. Most

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Speaker 2: it's an honorable title, and because I think Seth Rollins

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Speaker 2: then don't worry about how how many times a month

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Speaker 2: to say the Cody Rhodes promo was really really really good,

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Speaker 2: you can't wrestle every single week and have it mean something, right,

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Speaker 2: Like when you're wrestling the top top top dudes, they're

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Speaker 2: all the social media celebration at Scotten. I mean it's

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Speaker 2: Lessener is afraid of Cody Roads. I still see that,

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Speaker 2: like all over my Instagram feed from you know, thirty

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Speaker 2: of stuff, just let me know. Even if you don't

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Speaker 2: watch wrestling, you can just type in like Cody Roads

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Speaker 2: promo on brock Lesner on YouTube and it'll just show

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Speaker 2: because it was well executed acting. He wasn't cutting these

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Speaker 2: He didn't have the confidence yet, and his talent hadn't

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Speaker 2: been refined into the skill that it is now. Skill

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Speaker 2: then through discipline, practice and hard work, it becomes a skill.

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Speaker 2: And his has really been molded into his skill ever

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Speaker 2: since he'd started cutting those promos in aew he learned

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Speaker 2: a lot about himself after he left WW For those

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Speaker 2: of you who don't know Cody's story, and you just

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Speaker 2: like the sound of my goofy boys. For some reason,

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Speaker 2: his story's amazing. His father was like my father the

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Speaker 2: through all that, and his contracts up in aw and

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Speaker 2: though he's already had quite a few since his return,

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Speaker 2: especially that Detroit show. Worthy of Respect, mister Cody Rhoades,

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Speaker 2: the American Nightmare, We love you, brother a E Dubs

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Speaker 2: June seventeenth is going to be the very first episode

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Speaker 2: if this is going to work. I hope it does.

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Speaker 2: CM Punk is the star of the show, so it

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Speaker 2: I hope everyone's heads are in the right place. I

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Speaker 2: and that we don't implode so that we can have

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Speaker 2: do it now, they're gonna kill it. And damn, man,

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Speaker 2: It just makes wrestling cool. It just makes it cool.

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Speaker 2: They were pumping him booze and they were like, you

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