Speaker 1: Now your made event introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 1: Jeff dyed and forready price tuonor.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Wrestling with Freddy. Our co host,
Speaker 2: mister Jeffdi has been screwed over by the airlines once
Speaker 2: again and will not be joining, So you are stuck
Speaker 2: with Uncle Federico. And here comes the news. WWE Backlash
Speaker 2: has come and gone and San Juan Puerto Rico was
Speaker 2: on fire for the pay per view. Will Puerto Rico
Speaker 2: become part of the TV tour moving forward? Well, unless
Speaker 2: they get another one point five probably not. WWE downs
Speaker 2: Backlash twenty twenty three as highest grossing and most viewed
Speaker 2: Backlash event in company history. Ae W has now confirmed
Speaker 2: that All in two has sold sixty thousand tickets with
Speaker 2: a seven point seven million dollar value, all without even
Speaker 2: booking a single match, although we can guess a couple
Speaker 2: of levelm Finally, the WWE has announced that there will
Speaker 2: be a tournament to crown a new World Heavyweight Champion
Speaker 2: and the finals will take place at Night of Champions
Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia on May twenty seventh. Because they paid
Speaker 2: a lot more than the one point five Puerto Rico did,
Speaker 2: and that is the news. Good evening and good luck.
Speaker 2: All right, you guys, welcome to the show. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Big Biff. He's awesome as always, and let's begin with
Speaker 2: a little backlash recap. First things first, this pay per
Speaker 2: view was friggin' awesome. The crowd in Puerto Rico was
Speaker 2: so hot. I don't want to be a prisoner of
Speaker 2: the moment and be like, man, that was the best
Speaker 2: ww crowd ever. Because I still feel like Canada and
Speaker 2: England are the most hype places because they never well
Speaker 2: they don't never get it, but they don't get it
Speaker 2: enough right, they don't get the wrestling up there enough.
Speaker 2: But Puerto Rico had a similar vibe and the difference
Speaker 2: was the passion's equal, right, but you just felt like
Speaker 2: they care about wrestling in a similar fashion of the
Speaker 2: Canadians because they both kind of they don't take credit
Speaker 2: for it. Puerto Rico doesn't take credit for it, but
Speaker 2: the wrestling there is unique different. Corey Graves talked about
Speaker 2: the home of hardcore in his History lesson of the Week.
Speaker 2: I love Corey Graves by the way. I think he
Speaker 2: just does an excellent job. From the first day he
Speaker 2: started all the way till now, I've always loved him.
Speaker 2: And he got call the Titus sliding under the ring
Speaker 2: at the forty Man Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia and
Speaker 2: lost his shit, so that that endeared him to my heart,
Speaker 2: my cold black heart. But the crowd here was insane,
Speaker 2: the love that they gave these wrestlers, the love that
Speaker 2: they gave their own. When Zelina Vega came in, it
Speaker 2: was just it blew me away. The Carlito spot, the
Speaker 2: Vega spot, like all this. They just showed so much love.
Speaker 2: It was great to see Mexicans and Puerto Ricans treating
Speaker 2: each other as equals and understanding that we're all in
Speaker 2: this together. Remember, it's just it's this other culture that
Speaker 2: has separated us, and we've accepted that. So I feel
Speaker 2: like every generation, every new generation, cares a little bit
Speaker 2: less about that stuff so long as you're cool, right,
Speaker 2: And that's what this felt like. It was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: we're all Latinos, this is awesome, let's rock and roll.
Speaker 2: When I was coming up, y'all talk mad shit about
Speaker 2: each other and that needs to stop. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: you still do it in fun and jes but the
Speaker 2: best of needs to stop. And I thought this was
Speaker 2: a beautiful sort of congregation of Latinos to express their
Speaker 2: love for something that everyone there you know, probably still
Speaker 2: things is real. So I loved every minute of this show.
Speaker 2: I thought it was fantastic. But we're going to start
Speaker 2: with the world Women's World Champion over four hundred days,
Speaker 2: she is now the one, the only Bianca bell Air,
Speaker 2: the champ versus EO Sky from Damage Control. And let
Speaker 2: me tell you right now, they burnt the house down
Speaker 2: in the very first match these two women, and the
Speaker 2: crowd is not equally responsible, but they played a huge
Speaker 2: part in this match right away. And I don't know why,
Speaker 2: I don't know for certain, but right away, the love
Speaker 2: that they gave EO Sky proves what we've been saying
Speaker 2: for a while. Like heels and babyfaces, the fans pick
Speaker 2: who they like based on skill, mike skill, ring skill,
Speaker 2: ability to stay in the moment, all that stuff your
Speaker 2: social media game is it tight? Is a weak? All
Speaker 2: that stuff They decide if you're if you're a heel
Speaker 2: to them or a he or a babyface to them,
Speaker 2: hero or a villain. And they embraced Eo at a
Speaker 2: level that I haven't seen since she's been in I
Speaker 2: thought I was Io's biggest fan. I'm I'm not even close.
Speaker 2: I've spoken about her a million times on this podcast.
Speaker 2: I love Eo Sky Io Surey from NXT and this
Speaker 2: crowd was so hyped for her. You would have thought
Speaker 2: she had been given a six month storyline of her
Speaker 2: climbing the mountain to earn this championship and had to
Speaker 2: go through hell and back and she finally got the
Speaker 2: match and here comes the bad guy, Bioncabella Air. Now
Speaker 2: I won't say this, I'm not gonna say they were
Speaker 2: more booze than cheers, but they decided who they were
Speaker 2: rooting for, and it was Eo Sky Biancabella Air got
Speaker 2: some got some cheers because you got to respect what
Speaker 2: she's doing in the ring, because her work in there
Speaker 2: is getting better and better. I think her mic work
Speaker 2: kind of peaked, but that doesn't mean that's as good
Speaker 2: as it's going to get. It just means she hasn't
Speaker 2: been challenged with the right kind of promo or the
Speaker 2: right story to take her to the next level. She's
Speaker 2: most certainly an artist, though, and artists evolved, so long
Speaker 2: as we are brought a new challenge, and I think
Speaker 2: that's what she needs. But in the ring, her work's
Speaker 2: super clean. Although I didn't think I would love the
Speaker 2: match as much as I did, this was from Jump Street.
Speaker 2: These girls owned the crowd. The crowd felt like they
Speaker 2: were a part of the match. EO let them know
Speaker 2: that their love was appreciated. But she didn't do it
Speaker 2: in like a ah shucks kind of way. She did
Speaker 2: it like, yeah, that's right, I'm badass and you know it.
Speaker 2: So she maintained her heeled dignity. The crowd just wasn't
Speaker 2: having it. They loved her and this girl. For those
Speaker 2: of you who haven't watched wrestling, if you have the
Speaker 2: Peacock app go on the replay right now. By the way,
Speaker 2: this is my match of the week. My match of
Speaker 2: the week Eo Sky versus the Champion Bianca bell Air.
Speaker 2: Go on Peacock. It's the very first match of the
Speaker 2: pay per view. You won't have to search or waste
Speaker 2: any time or get frustrated trying to find it. It's
Speaker 2: the very first match. Both women are phenomenal athletes. The
Speaker 2: gymnastics that EO does, the aerial stuff that she does
Speaker 2: is second to none there but for all you fellas
Speaker 2: out there. They're both dropped dead gorgeous. For all you
Speaker 2: mothers out there, They're not Barbie Doll. I have to
Speaker 2: be perfect kind of figures. Like Bianca bell Air is
Speaker 2: a friggin' athlete, y'all. She's not skinny. She's not fat,
Speaker 2: but she's not skinny. She's jacked. She lifts, you could
Speaker 2: tell she dead lifts, squats, the leg press, the leg extension,
Speaker 2: the hamstring curl whatever. I don't do all these exercises,
Speaker 2: so I'm kind of guessing. The calf raise, the calf
Speaker 2: raise machine. She does all this stuff. She's super buff,
Speaker 2: not like crazy buff, but you could tell she was
Speaker 2: a college athlete. And then you got EO Sky, who's
Speaker 2: also in great shape but doesn't have near the chiseled
Speaker 2: physique that Bianca bel Air has. But she as the
Speaker 2: smaller wrestler. The story she tells, in order to do damage,
Speaker 2: she has to put herself and Horm's way and do
Speaker 2: a lot of aerial stuff. You guys, if your longtime
Speaker 2: listeners have heard me talk about Jeff Hardy and the
Speaker 2: philosophy of how a Jeff Hardy match plays in a
Speaker 2: win and a loss, is very similar he's going to
Speaker 2: take a beating and he's going to do some crazy
Speaker 2: stuff to give you one too, but it's gonna hurt
Speaker 2: him as well. And EO is in that exact same category,
Speaker 2: but her aerial work is and she does a lot
Speaker 2: of it. She does this blind back layout, which is
Speaker 2: basically a back flip where you keep your legs super straight,
Speaker 2: and she's just trusting that her opponent's there and ready,
Speaker 2: and it's so sick. She did it in this match,
Speaker 2: and when she landed you can hear the impact. So
Speaker 2: when people say it's fake, I go, yeah, I feel you.
Speaker 2: It's choreographed. But they're taking like huge shots. I've seen
Speaker 2: so many wrestlers with legit black eyes and broken noses
Speaker 2: and busted teeth and real blood not from a razor
Speaker 2: but from getting punched in the face, So that shit
Speaker 2: is real. It's just the finishes that are choreographed and
Speaker 2: the reason why they fight is fake. But there's nothing
Speaker 2: vague about black eyes there. She landed so great on this,
Speaker 2: It sounded great, it looked great. They gave the girls
Speaker 2: a lot of time. EO injurers Bianco Bellair's shoulder at
Speaker 2: one point, and they spent the rest of the match,
Speaker 2: kind of using that as the story point in the match,
Speaker 2: so you can kind of understand some of the psychology
Speaker 2: there for new listeners and new fans. Every minute of it,
Speaker 2: the crowd was going crazy. They would do their cheers
Speaker 2: and booze on the back and forth shots and you
Speaker 2: could tell it was very pro yo. But this was
Speaker 2: a beautiful match. I would encourage everybody to go and
Speaker 2: watch it. You could just tell both women had an
Speaker 2: absolute blast doing it. Bianca might have been a little surprised,
Speaker 2: but it could have been fake surprise and she could
Speaker 2: have been enjoying the moment just as much. But great match.
Speaker 2: Was my match of the week. Seth Rollins versus Omas,
Speaker 2: this would have been Jeff Dye's match of the week.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you he loves Omas. He loves the giant,
Speaker 2: huge guys. If you're six nine, sixth now, he wouldn't
Speaker 2: even give that six ' ten or over. He's going
Speaker 2: to have big time love for you. He loves the
Speaker 2: big guys. And you know that your boy loves Seth.
Speaker 2: Freaking I'll dress how I want. I don't care what
Speaker 2: Freddy says Rollins, but guess what Seth In Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2: You came correct, sir. You dressed like a professional wrestler
Speaker 2: and not like someone that I would see at a
Speaker 2: comic convention. He came out in sweet wrestling pants. They
Speaker 2: were like, I don't even know. It's like silver and black.
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell what the design was, but they looked
Speaker 2: super cool. And then he has this like leather black
Speaker 2: leather jacket with some like black fur on it. So
Speaker 2: he still got it a little bit of like the
Speaker 2: what is it the style? The new style out there,
Speaker 2: but he kept it contained, he kept it composed because
Speaker 2: he was dealing with the Nigeria nightmare. I did not
Speaker 2: think I was going to like this match. I was
Speaker 2: almost dreading Jeff saying how much he loved it, because
Speaker 2: he'll love it no matter what because his guy's in
Speaker 2: the match. They have now done it twice in a
Speaker 2: row with Omas. He has lost and still looked good
Speaker 2: while losing. The first time was with Brock Lesner at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: I didn't think I would enjoy that match, but they
Speaker 2: told a pretty quick, decent story and then income Seth
Speaker 2: Rollins and the crowds cheer in the crowd got Seth
Speaker 2: zass whip by the way they sang for so long,
Speaker 2: Omas got tired of it and just blasted on Seth
Speaker 2: Rollins before the match even started, while his eyes are
Speaker 2: closed and he's just soaking up the love. And then
Speaker 2: he's down on the ground looking up like, what the
Speaker 2: hell you son of a bitch? Match hasn't even started yet,
Speaker 2: and the rest are you good? I would have said no,
Speaker 2: Seth Rawlins says, I'm good, takes off his cool jacket
Speaker 2: that fit and looked like it was made for a man,
Speaker 2: and started the damn match and he takes an absolute
Speaker 2: whooping for I don't even know five minutes before he
Speaker 2: even does a little bit of damage. Seth Rollins, of
Speaker 2: course is going to carry the match. He's one of
Speaker 2: the best wrestlers in the world. But he made omass
Speaker 2: look so good. He made an iron claw look good.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen an iron claw look good in over
Speaker 2: twenty five years. I wasn't a big fan of the
Speaker 2: of the Great Collie iron claw. No matter what the
Speaker 2: guys did to sell, it just never looked or the
Speaker 2: vice grip they called it for Great Collie, it never
Speaker 2: looked as legit. Right. He would use two hands, that's
Speaker 2: why they called it a vice grip and not an
Speaker 2: iron claw, but this iron claw Man Seth made it
Speaker 2: look great, O Musk credit to him too, Man. He
Speaker 2: made it look good. It looked legit. It looked like
Speaker 2: the old school Nintendo's regular first Nintendo Entertainment System Pro wrestling.
Speaker 2: There was a guy but he had an iron claw
Speaker 2: move and you could do it like thirty times in
Speaker 2: a to your homies and then they'd just be on
Speaker 2: the mat forever and they just like just hurry up
Speaker 2: and pin me. You'd be like, nah, buddy, we're gonna
Speaker 2: count how long you're down for. Hey, guys will get
Speaker 2: so hot. You could do another guy luchador named Starman,
Speaker 2: and he would do this backflip kick and you could
Speaker 2: just it was down in a and you could do
Speaker 2: it so fast. You just hit a fool like three
Speaker 2: hundred times with it. He'd be down for like three
Speaker 2: minutes straight and you just don't pin him. It was beautiful, Ah,
Speaker 2: the old days, the eighties. This match was awesome. Seth
Speaker 2: Rollins did a curb stomp or they just call it
Speaker 2: the stomp. Did the stomp. He did two and Omas
Speaker 2: kicked out what he did a frog splash Omoss kicked
Speaker 2: out at one what deal with it? It took a
Speaker 2: full on stomp from I'm guessing I think it was
Speaker 2: the top turn buckle and he finally gets the win.
Speaker 2: Seth Rollins with the victory. Another loss for Omas, but
Speaker 2: I will say this, he looked good. They made him
Speaker 2: look good twice in a row and he lost. A
Speaker 2: lot of people are gonna say, well, if you need
Speaker 2: him to be legit a legit threat that, you know
Speaker 2: he's got to. He's got to win some of these matches. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I don't think he's got to beat Brock friggin
Speaker 2: Lesnar or Seth Friggan Rollins. You know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 2: he took a couple losses. Now he could take a
Speaker 2: step back and start beating some some mid card dudes
Speaker 2: and then he makes his next run when he's more
Speaker 2: ready and more prepared for the top dogs. It's okay
Speaker 2: to'll lose to the top dogs. You guys are being
Speaker 2: kind of crazy about this. Don't forget who the top
Speaker 2: dogs are. Moving on? Uh. The United States Championship was
Speaker 2: a triple threat match with Austin Theory as the champ,
Speaker 2: Bobby Lashley and Bronson Reid certainly wasn't my favorite match
Speaker 2: of the night, But I will say this, Bobby Lashley's
Speaker 2: entrance is so it's so ridiculous. I don't mean that
Speaker 2: in a bad way, Like he's he looks like a
Speaker 2: Greek god and they tined the lights on him, and
Speaker 2: he's like standing on a spin podium, so he looks
Speaker 2: like a statue in the Vatican or some or some
Speaker 2: shit like. It's just he looks exactly the same as
Speaker 2: he did when he debuted in the WWE twenty years ago?
Speaker 2: Was it twenty years ago? Is that how I'm getting old, y'all.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to start getting that hymns. The hairline
Speaker 2: starting to go getting old, y'all. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: hems it up. I have to get on the testosterone
Speaker 2: replacement and be fifty years old, just fready. Bobby Lashley
Speaker 2: is an absolute monster that I will never look like,
Speaker 2: and I will always wish that I did, even if
Speaker 2: it was just I'm sure my joints couldn't handle it.
Speaker 2: But if I could be buff just once, man, it
Speaker 2: would be so nice. This match wasn't my favorite. I
Speaker 2: don't like Bobby getting thrown out of the ring. But
Speaker 2: I also don't want to see Bobby with his shoulders
Speaker 2: on the mat taking the one two three, So I
Speaker 2: guess they did it perfectly and I'm just bitching for
Speaker 2: no reason. But it wasn't my favorite match. We're not
Speaker 2: going to spend a lot of time talking about it.
Speaker 2: Here we go, y'all, the SmackDown Women's Championship. The champion
Speaker 2: Ria Ripley, having defeated Charlotte Flair, the Great, the great,
Speaker 2: greatest female champion of all time, Charlotte Flair. I think
Speaker 2: she already has the most title reigns of all women,
Speaker 2: and soon we'll pass her father. Well, she was defeated
Speaker 2: by the Australian Ria Ripley, who you know, mister Jeff
Speaker 2: Dye and I love we love you, Ria Ripley. We
Speaker 2: think you're awesome. But on this day I had to
Speaker 2: root for Zelina Vega, where my cousins will call me
Speaker 2: a disgrace to the race, because there felt like that
Speaker 2: this was being of Puerto Rican descent, This was super
Speaker 2: special to see someone who's far more Puerto Rican than
Speaker 2: I am. Just a Puerto Rican. But as my loving
Speaker 2: cousins used to say as well, but she is a
Speaker 2: Puerto Rican girl, and to wrestle in front of an
Speaker 2: arena of seventeen thousand Puerto Ricans who all love you,
Speaker 2: and you come out and your wardrobe is basically the
Speaker 2: Puerto Rican flag. You could see it right away. She
Speaker 2: couldn't hold it together, like her eyes welled up with
Speaker 2: tears like seanpainn and dead man walking right before they
Speaker 2: kill him. And he wouldn't give you the tear because
Speaker 2: he's such a sick actor. He like sucked it back
Speaker 2: in somehow. But you saw the whole eye well up.
Speaker 2: That was Zelena Vega in this moment, and she was
Speaker 2: a dead man wagga because you had to face Soria
Speaker 2: Ripley in the freaking ring, and Rihea's not losing to anyone.
Speaker 2: Bianca will lose before before Rio Ripley does, for sure.
Speaker 2: So Zelena comes in the crowd is just so hot,
Speaker 2: so hot. It was also awesome seeing Ria Ripley with
Speaker 2: an I'm your Mommy shirt in Puerto Rico. By the way,
Speaker 2: that was just irony at its greatest. This was not
Speaker 2: a long match. I think it was about ten to
Speaker 2: twelve minutes. She got a couple good moves in there,
Speaker 2: She got the six one nine with her knees instead
Speaker 2: of with the feet, so that was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: She did a nice eddie shimmy and then jumping knees
Speaker 2: into Rhea's chest and then smashed her down on the ground.
Speaker 2: But this was Ria's night. Ria is the champ for
Speaker 2: a reason. She is the total package. She has another
Speaker 2: girl who's not another Barbie doll. All you mother's out
Speaker 2: there and for you girl, dad's out there. She's a
Speaker 2: good role model for young strong women. She's a bigger girl.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying she's fat, she's thick, she's in good shape.
Speaker 2: This was Ria's night, not a back and forth match,
Speaker 2: probably an eighty twenty match eighty Ria twenties Selena. But
Speaker 2: it was the end of this match that was the
Speaker 2: beautiful part. And she slams Alena down boom what two three,
Speaker 2: and she got She got out of the ring so
Speaker 2: quickly because she knew what this moment was going to be,
Speaker 2: So kudos to the real life real Ripley, I don't
Speaker 2: know your real name. She got out of her and
Speaker 2: really fast and allowed Selena Vega to have this moment
Speaker 2: with the crowd that could have lasted the rest of
Speaker 2: the show. Selena eventually got out of there after I
Speaker 2: thought it was almost too quick. I thought she could
Speaker 2: have had another sixty seconds because the crowd wasn't getting
Speaker 2: quieter and this, and then she finally broke down that
Speaker 2: she couldn't. She's not look Champagne is Champagne for a reason.
Speaker 2: Selena Vega is not quite at the Champagne level. And
Speaker 2: this time she couldn't suck the tear back in. The
Speaker 2: tear flowed and we love you, Zelena. You deserve that
Speaker 2: moment you did. Everybody so proud. And it's weird to
Speaker 2: say I'm proud of people that I'm not related to,
Speaker 2: but I just felt a great deal of pride in
Speaker 2: that last moment, even though she lost, like the love
Speaker 2: that the crowd gave her it was. It was really
Speaker 2: powerful and just a really nice moment in wrestling. Wasn't
Speaker 2: the best match of the night, but it didn't matter
Speaker 2: because the moment was the biggest moment of the night,
Speaker 2: well second biggest, because the next match was a San
Speaker 2: Juan street fight with Damian Priest professional wrestler. Right, that's
Speaker 2: what he does. He fights versus Music, Sensation, Bad Bunny
Speaker 2: or Tonight anyway, he was a good Bunny because he
Speaker 2: was a good guy and Damian Priest was the bad guy.
Speaker 2: This was a really good match. I don't know how
Speaker 2: these celebs are doing it. They must be committed and
Speaker 2: or incredibly just athletically gifted as well and just picked
Speaker 2: a different a different career path to go down. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I've heard a lot of people going who's
Speaker 2: better Logan or Bad Bunny. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: want to be a prisoner of the moment and say
Speaker 2: bad Bunny because Logan Paul's moves look really really clean.
Speaker 2: Logan also did the job and lost to Seth Rollins,
Speaker 2: whereas Bad Bunny won, but the way he won was beautiful.
Speaker 2: Was like every Puerto Rican but me came out to
Speaker 2: help him. This match and the story they told was
Speaker 2: definitely superior to the WrestleMania match between Logan and Seth
Speaker 2: with the KSI interference, definitely a superior story. The match
Speaker 2: itself was way better, way better, and the amount of
Speaker 2: cameos they had from the LWO and Ray to Vega
Speaker 2: took my man Carlito, who I used to write for
Speaker 2: back in the day. I wrote him and his brother
Speaker 2: named his brother Primo, because they were gonna give him
Speaker 2: some stupid name, and I wrote their first storyline to
Speaker 2: the Championship. I was the first thing that I didn't book.
Speaker 2: I didn't book it, but I pitched it, got it.
Speaker 2: Michael Freebert ps Hayes booked it, and I wrote it
Speaker 2: according to his booking. But he came out and got
Speaker 2: like a stone cold Steve Austin pop because that's his people. Man.
Speaker 2: His father is like wow, his father's kind of like
Speaker 2: my father in regards that we both are legacy kids
Speaker 2: and had to follow in tremendous footsteps. His father was
Speaker 2: the biggest wrestling promoter in Puerto Rico and wrestled I
Speaker 2: think for Vince's dad and Vince at one point, but
Speaker 2: he was huge. Carlos Cologne was his name. For those
Speaker 2: who don't know, you can google the history on it.
Speaker 2: You'll learn more about it than I know. But Carlito
Speaker 2: is his son and had to walk in that shadow.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say we bonded over that, but there was
Speaker 2: a no because we weren't like bros. But there was
Speaker 2: like a nod to one another because we both kind
Speaker 2: of had similar weight on our shoulders back when back
Speaker 2: when I worked there, But he came in. He had
Speaker 2: two or three great moments in there, all three opportunities
Speaker 2: opportunities he had, he killed him. The crowd was so
Speaker 2: hyped and it helped lead Bad Bunny to the victory.
Speaker 2: I don't want to like celebrities in wrestling, and I
Speaker 2: think it's David Arquette's fault. I've since forgiven David as
Speaker 2: I hope y'all forgive him too. I think he's contributed
Speaker 2: enough goodwill now and I think if we're all honest
Speaker 2: with ourselves and we were pitched becoming the world champion
Speaker 2: in the moment, it would be damn hard to say no.
Speaker 2: So I think he deserves forgiveness and a lot of latitude.
Speaker 2: And since then he has done a lot of good
Speaker 2: stuff for wrestling. I like David a lot. I'm just
Speaker 2: kind of half playing with him here. Man. This match
Speaker 2: was good. It was almost my match of the week.
Speaker 2: It was almost my match of the week. A professional
Speaker 2: wrestling match with a musician, a Grammy winning musician, Freddie
Speaker 2: all Right, sorry, damn, a Grammy winning musician, and he
Speaker 2: was in a professional wrestling match. And it wasn't like
Speaker 2: a comedy match. Like Andy Kaufman or the Jackass guys.
Speaker 2: It was legit and he won, and it was believable
Speaker 2: the way he won. Damian Priest hurts his knee halfway
Speaker 2: through the match. Bad Bunny takes advantage of it. That's
Speaker 2: what hampers the match. Then he has to deal with
Speaker 2: you know five, I have six other dudes that are
Speaker 2: all there to help him. Granted he had two of
Speaker 2: his own Damien Prisett, two of his own guys come
Speaker 2: and try to help him at one point, but still
Speaker 2: they made it to where Damien didn't look like shit
Speaker 2: and Bad Bunny got to shine. You can't have you
Speaker 2: can't have Zelina lose and Bad Bunny lose in the
Speaker 2: same night. That would just why would you go to
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico. They paid you one point five million. I
Speaker 2: should have thought about this before I said they were
Speaker 2: going to lose last week on the show. You can't
Speaker 2: get one point five million dollars from a place and
Speaker 2: then have all their guys lose. That leads us to
Speaker 2: the main main event brock Listener versus Cody Rhodes, and
Speaker 2: I am relieved and glad to say that my friend's
Speaker 2: prediction of the Hard Time storyline with Cody Rhodes was incorrect.
Speaker 2: Thank god, he got to look good, he got to
Speaker 2: look strong. He didn't get to win with his finisher,
Speaker 2: which protects Brock. It was bloody, which was good. I
Speaker 2: was good. And I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 2: if Cody knows he did this, but he did the
Speaker 2: Santino Morella walk when he was at Did anybody see this?
Speaker 2: Did anybody else see this? I think he was just
Speaker 2: like pumping himself up and so he was pumping his
Speaker 2: arms up and down like a like chew train. He
Speaker 2: was out, they were outside of the ring and he's
Speaker 2: walking over to the stairs and full on send. It
Speaker 2: looked like Santino Morella. And there's no way he was
Speaker 2: doing it as a tribute to Santino Morella. He just
Speaker 2: did it. I was really glad to see Cody win.
Speaker 2: I was really glad to see Cody look strong. I
Speaker 2: love the new brock Lessener who doesn't have to win
Speaker 2: all the time. It doesn't hurt Brock to lose. It
Speaker 2: really doesn't hurt Brocklessener to lose. Everybody knows who the
Speaker 2: hell he is and what the hell he could do
Speaker 2: to anybody. He wants at any time, so I think
Speaker 2: it only helps people out. It makes Cody look fantastic.
Speaker 2: It helps prepare Cody for not the next chapter, because
Speaker 2: I think he's not. I don't believe he's done with
Speaker 2: Brock yet. They might do three matches like he did
Speaker 2: with seth Rawlins. But it just prepares him and makes
Speaker 2: him an even more credible opponent for Roman when I
Speaker 2: think he eventually does chase that title down and get
Speaker 2: to bring that home for his family, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: This pay per view is amazing. All the wrestlers got love.
Speaker 2: The show was fantastic. I don't know when we'll see
Speaker 2: them there again. Tourism boards are are are tricky. When
Speaker 2: I worked for the WWE, they weren't big on trying
Speaker 2: to go to Puerto Rico period. I think they've gone
Speaker 2: once as far as television goes since I since I
Speaker 2: left the company, which was an oh nine, I don't remember,
Speaker 2: maybe twenty ten, I don't know. So it's gonna be
Speaker 2: tricky because you're not Puerto Rico is not the richest
Speaker 2: territory on the planet. You know. They just suffered a
Speaker 2: try tremendous natural catastrophe. It's not a wealthy place. The
Speaker 2: Tourism Board paid one point five for this show. The
Speaker 2: Saudi's paid upwards and above forty million for the shows
Speaker 2: that they that they received there. It's a publicly traded company.
Speaker 2: They're going to more than likely go where the money
Speaker 2: is and you can't bring I don't believe it any
Speaker 2: tourism board would bring the same showback every year. I
Speaker 2: think they would try to diversify that and bring in
Speaker 2: music sometimes you know, art shows that kind of you know,
Speaker 2: especially in Puerto Rico. So I don't know if they
Speaker 2: would spend that much money because that could be their
Speaker 2: whole budget, you know what I mean. And the wwe
Speaker 2: did them right, spoke about how beautiful it is there
Speaker 2: and how wonderful the people are shout out to Corey
Speaker 2: Graves again showed the people mad love and yeah, I
Speaker 2: just I don't know. If I would love for it
Speaker 2: to be a yearly thing. It would be cool if
Speaker 2: Backlash had a home and that home was Puerto Rico,
Speaker 2: but that's I don't think that's feasible in the modern
Speaker 2: business world. And if you ask me why, I tell
Speaker 2: you I don't know. I just don't think it's feasible.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to chase the money and when
Speaker 2: people see these events do well meaning other countries tourism boards,
Speaker 2: then they're going to offer more than one point five million,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you might see, you know, backlash.
Speaker 2: And I don't know Tim Buck too, because they gave
Speaker 2: him four million dollars and beat everybody else's offer. So
Speaker 2: so yeah, I hope they go back. I thought the
Speaker 2: crowd definitely showed that they can sell out and that
Speaker 2: they can show up, and they showed out when the
Speaker 2: matches started, so hopefully that that counts for something. Don't
Speaker 2: know how much it is when they go haha, already
Speaker 2: got your money, but you never know. I wish them
Speaker 2: the best. There's no hot tag for you guys this
Speaker 2: week because Jeff's not here. I just have cold tags
Speaker 2: and I don't know where he's performing next weekend, but
Speaker 2: if you go to jeffd Comedy you can check it
Speaker 2: out and see his schedule there. As for me, I
Speaker 2: got nothing belove for you babies. I'll talk to everybody soon.
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