WEBVTT - WWE Backlash 2023: How Did Bad Bunny Do? 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:08.880 Now your made event introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.320 Jeff dyed and forready price tuonor. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.640 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Wrestling with Freddy. Our co host, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:26.040 mister Jeffdi has been screwed over by the airlines once 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.639 again and will not be joining, So you are stuck 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.199 with Uncle Federico. And here comes the news. WWE Backlash 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.920 has come and gone and San Juan Puerto Rico was 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.560 on fire for the pay per view. Will Puerto Rico 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.600 become part of the TV tour moving forward? Well, unless 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.720 they get another one point five probably not. WWE downs 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.120 Backlash twenty twenty three as highest grossing and most viewed 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:55.480 Backlash event in company history. Ae W has now confirmed 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.400 that All in two has sold sixty thousand tickets with 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.680 a seven point seven million dollar value, all without even 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.680 booking a single match, although we can guess a couple 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.840 of levelm Finally, the WWE has announced that there will 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.360 be a tournament to crown a new World Heavyweight Champion 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.920 and the finals will take place at Night of Champions 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:18.319 in Saudi Arabia on May twenty seventh. Because they paid 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.800 a lot more than the one point five Puerto Rico did, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.720 and that is the news. Good evening and good luck. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.800 All right, you guys, welcome to the show. Thanks to 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:34.160 Big Biff. He's awesome as always, and let's begin with 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.320 a little backlash recap. First things first, this pay per 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:44.480 view was friggin' awesome. The crowd in Puerto Rico was 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.560 so hot. I don't want to be a prisoner of 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.919 the moment and be like, man, that was the best 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.920 ww crowd ever. Because I still feel like Canada and 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.800 England are the most hype places because they never well 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.840 they don't never get it, but they don't get it 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.080 enough right, they don't get the wrestling up there enough. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.480 But Puerto Rico had a similar vibe and the difference 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.840 was the passion's equal, right, but you just felt like 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.600 they care about wrestling in a similar fashion of the 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.239 Canadians because they both kind of they don't take credit 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.920 for it. Puerto Rico doesn't take credit for it, but 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.680 the wrestling there is unique different. Corey Graves talked about 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.760 the home of hardcore in his History lesson of the Week. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.240 I love Corey Graves by the way. I think he 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.400 just does an excellent job. From the first day he 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.680 started all the way till now, I've always loved him. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.000 And he got call the Titus sliding under the ring 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.120 at the forty Man Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia and 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.320 lost his shit, so that that endeared him to my heart, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:52.960 my cold black heart. But the crowd here was insane, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.360 the love that they gave these wrestlers, the love that 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:00.120 they gave their own. When Zelina Vega came in, it 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.560 was just it blew me away. The Carlito spot, the 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.120 Vega spot, like all this. They just showed so much love. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:12.240 It was great to see Mexicans and Puerto Ricans treating 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.440 each other as equals and understanding that we're all in 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.760 this together. Remember, it's just it's this other culture that 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.840 has separated us, and we've accepted that. So I feel 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:27.240 like every generation, every new generation, cares a little bit 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.040 less about that stuff so long as you're cool, right, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.120 And that's what this felt like. It was like, Yo, 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.560 we're all Latinos, this is awesome, let's rock and roll. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.000 When I was coming up, y'all talk mad shit about 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.520 each other and that needs to stop. And I'm sure 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.520 you still do it in fun and jes but the 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.720 best of needs to stop. And I thought this was 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.960 a beautiful sort of congregation of Latinos to express their 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.800 love for something that everyone there you know, probably still 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:02.200 things is real. So I loved every minute of this show. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.640 I thought it was fantastic. But we're going to start 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.920 with the world Women's World Champion over four hundred days, 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.280 she is now the one, the only Bianca bell Air, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:17.880 the champ versus EO Sky from Damage Control. And let 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.360 me tell you right now, they burnt the house down 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.200 in the very first match these two women, and the 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:32.360 crowd is not equally responsible, but they played a huge 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.640 part in this match right away. And I don't know why, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.320 I don't know for certain, but right away, the love 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.320 that they gave EO Sky proves what we've been saying 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.360 for a while. Like heels and babyfaces, the fans pick 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.760 who they like based on skill, mike skill, ring skill, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.240 ability to stay in the moment, all that stuff your 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.880 social media game is it tight? Is a weak? All 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.360 that stuff They decide if you're if you're a heel 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.800 to them or a he or a babyface to them, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:05.200 hero or a villain. And they embraced Eo at a 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.479 level that I haven't seen since she's been in I 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.080 thought I was Io's biggest fan. I'm I'm not even close. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.839 I've spoken about her a million times on this podcast. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.080 I love Eo Sky Io Surey from NXT and this 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.559 crowd was so hyped for her. You would have thought 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.400 she had been given a six month storyline of her 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.200 climbing the mountain to earn this championship and had to 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.480 go through hell and back and she finally got the 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.360 match and here comes the bad guy, Bioncabella Air. Now 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.720 I won't say this, I'm not gonna say they were 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.040 more booze than cheers, but they decided who they were 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.120 rooting for, and it was Eo Sky Biancabella Air got 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.919 some got some cheers because you got to respect what 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.640 she's doing in the ring, because her work in there 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.560 is getting better and better. I think her mic work 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.040 kind of peaked, but that doesn't mean that's as good 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.839 as it's going to get. It just means she hasn't 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.560 been challenged with the right kind of promo or the 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.240 right story to take her to the next level. She's 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.360 most certainly an artist, though, and artists evolved, so long 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.800 as we are brought a new challenge, and I think 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.040 that's what she needs. But in the ring, her work's 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.440 super clean. Although I didn't think I would love the 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.040 match as much as I did, this was from Jump Street. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.000 These girls owned the crowd. The crowd felt like they 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.960 were a part of the match. EO let them know 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.320 that their love was appreciated. But she didn't do it 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.920 in like a ah shucks kind of way. She did 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.640 it like, yeah, that's right, I'm badass and you know it. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.039 So she maintained her heeled dignity. The crowd just wasn't 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.039 having it. They loved her and this girl. For those 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.479 of you who haven't watched wrestling, if you have the 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.400 Peacock app go on the replay right now. By the way, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.040 this is my match of the week. My match of 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.960 the week Eo Sky versus the Champion Bianca bell Air. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.200 Go on Peacock. It's the very first match of the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.479 pay per view. You won't have to search or waste 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.080 any time or get frustrated trying to find it. It's 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:05.359 the very first match. Both women are phenomenal athletes. The 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.920 gymnastics that EO does, the aerial stuff that she does 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.080 is second to none there but for all you fellas 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.440 out there. They're both dropped dead gorgeous. For all you 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.320 mothers out there, They're not Barbie Doll. I have to 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.000 be perfect kind of figures. Like Bianca bell Air is 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:25.080 a friggin' athlete, y'all. She's not skinny. She's not fat, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.360 but she's not skinny. She's jacked. She lifts, you could 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.440 tell she dead lifts, squats, the leg press, the leg extension, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.960 the hamstring curl whatever. I don't do all these exercises, 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.880 so I'm kind of guessing. The calf raise, the calf 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.119 raise machine. She does all this stuff. She's super buff, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.440 not like crazy buff, but you could tell she was 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.160 a college athlete. And then you got EO Sky, who's 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.880 also in great shape but doesn't have near the chiseled 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.440 physique that Bianca bel Air has. But she as the 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.960 smaller wrestler. The story she tells, in order to do damage, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.880 she has to put herself and Horm's way and do 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.240 a lot of aerial stuff. You guys, if your longtime 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.960 listeners have heard me talk about Jeff Hardy and the 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.480 philosophy of how a Jeff Hardy match plays in a 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.440 win and a loss, is very similar he's going to 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.600 take a beating and he's going to do some crazy 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.200 stuff to give you one too, but it's gonna hurt 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.640 him as well. And EO is in that exact same category, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.720 but her aerial work is and she does a lot 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:26.480 of it. She does this blind back layout, which is 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.560 basically a back flip where you keep your legs super straight, 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.840 and she's just trusting that her opponent's there and ready, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:39.080 and it's so sick. She did it in this match, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.000 and when she landed you can hear the impact. So 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.720 when people say it's fake, I go, yeah, I feel you. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.520 It's choreographed. But they're taking like huge shots. I've seen 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.000 so many wrestlers with legit black eyes and broken noses 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.360 and busted teeth and real blood not from a razor 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.560 but from getting punched in the face, So that shit 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.160 is real. It's just the finishes that are choreographed and 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:13.320 the reason why they fight is fake. But there's nothing 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:19.600 vague about black eyes there. She landed so great on this, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.280 It sounded great, it looked great. They gave the girls 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.200 a lot of time. EO injurers Bianco Bellair's shoulder at 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.000 one point, and they spent the rest of the match, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.760 kind of using that as the story point in the match, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.400 so you can kind of understand some of the psychology 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.640 there for new listeners and new fans. Every minute of it, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.280 the crowd was going crazy. They would do their cheers 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.800 and booze on the back and forth shots and you 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.920 could tell it was very pro yo. But this was 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.520 a beautiful match. I would encourage everybody to go and 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.480 watch it. You could just tell both women had an 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.600 absolute blast doing it. Bianca might have been a little surprised, 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.520 but it could have been fake surprise and she could 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.040 have been enjoying the moment just as much. But great match. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.679 Was my match of the week. Seth Rollins versus Omas, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.440 this would have been Jeff Dye's match of the week. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.280 I guarantee you he loves Omas. He loves the giant, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.240 huge guys. If you're six nine, sixth now, he wouldn't 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.960 even give that six ' ten or over. He's going 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.680 to have big time love for you. He loves the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.520 big guys. And you know that your boy loves Seth. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.200 Freaking I'll dress how I want. I don't care what 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:29.240 Freddy says Rollins, but guess what Seth In Puerto Rico. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.679 You came correct, sir. You dressed like a professional wrestler 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.160 and not like someone that I would see at a 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.360 comic convention. He came out in sweet wrestling pants. They 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.600 were like, I don't even know. It's like silver and black. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.400 I couldn't tell what the design was, but they looked 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.760 super cool. And then he has this like leather black 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.920 leather jacket with some like black fur on it. So 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.199 he still got it a little bit of like the 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.440 what is it the style? The new style out there, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.440 but he kept it contained, he kept it composed because 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.520 he was dealing with the Nigeria nightmare. I did not 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.680 think I was going to like this match. I was 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.880 almost dreading Jeff saying how much he loved it, because 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.240 he'll love it no matter what because his guy's in 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.000 the match. They have now done it twice in a 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.720 row with Omas. He has lost and still looked good 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:21.920 while losing. The first time was with Brock Lesner at WrestleMania. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.600 I didn't think I would enjoy that match, but they 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.319 told a pretty quick, decent story and then income Seth 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.080 Rollins and the crowds cheer in the crowd got Seth 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.880 zass whip by the way they sang for so long, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.200 Omas got tired of it and just blasted on Seth 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.199 Rollins before the match even started, while his eyes are 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.520 closed and he's just soaking up the love. And then 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.480 he's down on the ground looking up like, what the 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.319 hell you son of a bitch? Match hasn't even started yet, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.600 and the rest are you good? I would have said no, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.720 Seth Rawlins says, I'm good, takes off his cool jacket 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.319 that fit and looked like it was made for a man, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.840 and started the damn match and he takes an absolute 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.319 whooping for I don't even know five minutes before he 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.640 even does a little bit of damage. Seth Rollins, of 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.560 course is going to carry the match. He's one of 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.800 the best wrestlers in the world. But he made omass 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.120 look so good. He made an iron claw look good. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.920 I haven't seen an iron claw look good in over 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.040 twenty five years. I wasn't a big fan of the 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.760 of the Great Collie iron claw. No matter what the 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.360 guys did to sell, it just never looked or the 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.560 vice grip they called it for Great Collie, it never 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.120 looked as legit. Right. He would use two hands, that's 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.600 why they called it a vice grip and not an 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.400 iron claw, but this iron claw Man Seth made it 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.640 look great, O Musk credit to him too, Man. He 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.880 made it look good. It looked legit. It looked like 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.520 the old school Nintendo's regular first Nintendo Entertainment System Pro wrestling. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.960 There was a guy but he had an iron claw 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.800 move and you could do it like thirty times in 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.320 a to your homies and then they'd just be on 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.400 the mat forever and they just like just hurry up 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.040 and pin me. You'd be like, nah, buddy, we're gonna 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.199 count how long you're down for. Hey, guys will get 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.840 so hot. You could do another guy luchador named Starman, 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.880 and he would do this backflip kick and you could 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.040 just it was down in a and you could do 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.079 it so fast. You just hit a fool like three 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.880 hundred times with it. He'd be down for like three 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.240 minutes straight and you just don't pin him. It was beautiful, Ah, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.920 the old days, the eighties. This match was awesome. Seth 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.960 Rollins did a curb stomp or they just call it 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.000 the stomp. Did the stomp. He did two and Omas 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.480 kicked out what he did a frog splash Omoss kicked 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.240 out at one what deal with it? It took a 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.599 full on stomp from I'm guessing I think it was 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.600 the top turn buckle and he finally gets the win. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.880 Seth Rollins with the victory. Another loss for Omas, but 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.480 I will say this, he looked good. They made him 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.120 look good twice in a row and he lost. A 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.760 lot of people are gonna say, well, if you need 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.760 him to be legit a legit threat that, you know 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.240 he's got to. He's got to win some of these matches. Yeah, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.440 but I don't think he's got to beat Brock friggin 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.920 Lesnar or Seth Friggan Rollins. You know what I'm saying. Like, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.560 he took a couple losses. Now he could take a 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.040 step back and start beating some some mid card dudes 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.480 and then he makes his next run when he's more 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.040 ready and more prepared for the top dogs. It's okay 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.760 to'll lose to the top dogs. You guys are being 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.320 kind of crazy about this. Don't forget who the top 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:34.560 dogs are. Moving on? Uh. The United States Championship was 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.040 a triple threat match with Austin Theory as the champ, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.840 Bobby Lashley and Bronson Reid certainly wasn't my favorite match 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.280 of the night, But I will say this, Bobby Lashley's 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.800 entrance is so it's so ridiculous. I don't mean that 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.760 in a bad way, Like he's he looks like a 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.240 Greek god and they tined the lights on him, and 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.280 he's like standing on a spin podium, so he looks 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.800 like a statue in the Vatican or some or some 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:09.440 shit like. It's just he looks exactly the same as 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.560 he did when he debuted in the WWE twenty years ago? 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.720 Was it twenty years ago? Is that how I'm getting old, y'all. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.600 I'm gonna have to start getting that hymns. The hairline 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.080 starting to go getting old, y'all. I'm gonna have to 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.160 hems it up. I have to get on the testosterone 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:36.200 replacement and be fifty years old, just fready. Bobby Lashley 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.680 is an absolute monster that I will never look like, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.280 and I will always wish that I did, even if 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.600 it was just I'm sure my joints couldn't handle it. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.720 But if I could be buff just once, man, it 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:58.840 would be so nice. This match wasn't my favorite. I 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.600 don't like Bobby getting thrown out of the ring. But 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.880 I also don't want to see Bobby with his shoulders 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.600 on the mat taking the one two three, So I 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.160 guess they did it perfectly and I'm just bitching for 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.640 no reason. But it wasn't my favorite match. We're not 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.200 going to spend a lot of time talking about it. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:17.800 Here we go, y'all, the SmackDown Women's Championship. The champion 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.120 Ria Ripley, having defeated Charlotte Flair, the Great, the great, 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.000 greatest female champion of all time, Charlotte Flair. I think 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.680 she already has the most title reigns of all women, 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.600 and soon we'll pass her father. Well, she was defeated 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.840 by the Australian Ria Ripley, who you know, mister Jeff 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.920 Dye and I love we love you, Ria Ripley. We 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:42.440 think you're awesome. But on this day I had to 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.480 root for Zelina Vega, where my cousins will call me 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.320 a disgrace to the race, because there felt like that 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:54.560 this was being of Puerto Rican descent, This was super 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.200 special to see someone who's far more Puerto Rican than 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.920 I am. Just a Puerto Rican. But as my loving 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.560 cousins used to say as well, but she is a 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:12.280 Puerto Rican girl, and to wrestle in front of an 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.560 arena of seventeen thousand Puerto Ricans who all love you, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.320 and you come out and your wardrobe is basically the 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.639 Puerto Rican flag. You could see it right away. She 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.600 couldn't hold it together, like her eyes welled up with 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.639 tears like seanpainn and dead man walking right before they 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.680 kill him. And he wouldn't give you the tear because 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.960 he's such a sick actor. He like sucked it back 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.480 in somehow. But you saw the whole eye well up. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.960 That was Zelena Vega in this moment, and she was 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.399 a dead man wagga because you had to face Soria 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:49.040 Ripley in the freaking ring, and Rihea's not losing to anyone. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.200 Bianca will lose before before Rio Ripley does, for sure. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.679 So Zelena comes in the crowd is just so hot, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.800 so hot. It was also awesome seeing Ria Ripley with 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.400 an I'm your Mommy shirt in Puerto Rico. By the way, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.040 that was just irony at its greatest. This was not 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:07.919 a long match. I think it was about ten to 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.080 twelve minutes. She got a couple good moves in there, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.240 She got the six one nine with her knees instead 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.120 of with the feet, so that was kind of cool. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.480 She did a nice eddie shimmy and then jumping knees 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.399 into Rhea's chest and then smashed her down on the ground. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.720 But this was Ria's night. Ria is the champ for 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.480 a reason. She is the total package. She has another 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.200 girl who's not another Barbie doll. All you mother's out 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.399 there and for you girl, dad's out there. She's a 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.119 good role model for young strong women. She's a bigger girl. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.640 I'm not saying she's fat, she's thick, she's in good shape. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.639 This was Ria's night, not a back and forth match, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.359 probably an eighty twenty match eighty Ria twenties Selena. But 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.080 it was the end of this match that was the 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:55.280 beautiful part. And she slams Alena down boom what two three, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.760 and she got She got out of the ring so 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.879 quickly because she knew what this moment was going to be, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.320 So kudos to the real life real Ripley, I don't 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:04.840 know your real name. She got out of her and 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.919 really fast and allowed Selena Vega to have this moment 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.399 with the crowd that could have lasted the rest of 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.919 the show. Selena eventually got out of there after I 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:17.640 thought it was almost too quick. I thought she could 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.560 have had another sixty seconds because the crowd wasn't getting 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.080 quieter and this, and then she finally broke down that 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.520 she couldn't. She's not look Champagne is Champagne for a reason. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.280 Selena Vega is not quite at the Champagne level. And 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.320 this time she couldn't suck the tear back in. The 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.840 tear flowed and we love you, Zelena. You deserve that 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.679 moment you did. Everybody so proud. And it's weird to 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.520 say I'm proud of people that I'm not related to, 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.639 but I just felt a great deal of pride in 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.920 that last moment, even though she lost, like the love 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.840 that the crowd gave her it was. It was really 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.480 powerful and just a really nice moment in wrestling. Wasn't 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.240 the best match of the night, but it didn't matter 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.040 because the moment was the biggest moment of the night, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:07.080 well second biggest, because the next match was a San 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:12.800 Juan street fight with Damian Priest professional wrestler. Right, that's 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:19.360 what he does. He fights versus Music, Sensation, Bad Bunny 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.399 or Tonight anyway, he was a good Bunny because he 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.600 was a good guy and Damian Priest was the bad guy. 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.840 This was a really good match. I don't know how 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.480 these celebs are doing it. They must be committed and 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.760 or incredibly just athletically gifted as well and just picked 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:41.159 a different a different career path to go down. I 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:42.879 don't know. I've heard a lot of people going who's 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.360 better Logan or Bad Bunny. I don't know. I don't 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.840 want to be a prisoner of the moment and say 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:54.439 bad Bunny because Logan Paul's moves look really really clean. 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:59.359 Logan also did the job and lost to Seth Rollins, 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.440 whereas Bad Bunny won, but the way he won was beautiful. 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.879 Was like every Puerto Rican but me came out to 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:09.679 help him. This match and the story they told was 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:14.600 definitely superior to the WrestleMania match between Logan and Seth 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:20.119 with the KSI interference, definitely a superior story. The match 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.919 itself was way better, way better, and the amount of 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:28.960 cameos they had from the LWO and Ray to Vega 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.439 took my man Carlito, who I used to write for 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.879 back in the day. I wrote him and his brother 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.320 named his brother Primo, because they were gonna give him 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:42.040 some stupid name, and I wrote their first storyline to 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.440 the Championship. I was the first thing that I didn't book. 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.880 I didn't book it, but I pitched it, got it. 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:54.760 Michael Freebert ps Hayes booked it, and I wrote it 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.600 according to his booking. But he came out and got 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.240 like a stone cold Steve Austin pop because that's his people. Man. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.320 His father is like wow, his father's kind of like 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.440 my father in regards that we both are legacy kids 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.520 and had to follow in tremendous footsteps. His father was 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.560 the biggest wrestling promoter in Puerto Rico and wrestled I 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.760 think for Vince's dad and Vince at one point, but 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.600 he was huge. Carlos Cologne was his name. For those 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.040 who don't know, you can google the history on it. 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.960 You'll learn more about it than I know. But Carlito 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.840 is his son and had to walk in that shadow. 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.840 I wouldn't say we bonded over that, but there was 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.679 a no because we weren't like bros. But there was 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.840 like a nod to one another because we both kind 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.000 of had similar weight on our shoulders back when back 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.400 when I worked there, But he came in. He had 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.440