Speaker 1: And now your main events. Introducing the hosts Wrestling with
Speaker 1: pretty Jeff Dott handing a pretty Prince June. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's episode two, season two of Wrestling Friends
Speaker 1: and My host Today, Ladies and Gentlemen coming to us
Speaker 1: live from Summer Slam. On the scene, reporter Mr Jeff
Speaker 1: d Jeff, I hear it's amazing out there. What's the
Speaker 1: situation in Nashville. It was a great trip. Thanks for
Speaker 1: sending me out here. Freddy was very beautiful to watch
Speaker 1: the Summer Slam live and in person here in Nashville.
Speaker 1: We had a forty eight thousand people in attendance. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you believe in fake numbers, if you believe in
Speaker 1: real numbers, a lot less. But it's wrestling. We get
Speaker 1: to fudge the numbers. That's how it works. You know
Speaker 1: that that giant was eight foot tall, you know, nine
Speaker 1: million pounds. I got to watch it on lep a
Speaker 1: Cock that's French. I loved the show. I thought it
Speaker 1: was great. I by the way, let's let's just get
Speaker 1: right into it. Let's start with with Becky and Bianca
Speaker 1: real quick. I'll say what I thought of it, But
Speaker 1: you got to actually be there, so I just want
Speaker 1: to know, like what that energy was like. But I
Speaker 1: loved this match. I thought Becky put Bianca over beautifully
Speaker 1: the match they should have had. She somehow pulled off
Speaker 1: the crazy Becky even more effectively than Seth pulled off
Speaker 1: crazy Seth when they were both kind of going insane
Speaker 1: and their storylines at the same time, and maintained her
Speaker 1: evil wickedness. And then the match was over and here
Speaker 1: comes Bailey with EO SHIAI or Scott the Sky that
Speaker 1: they changed it. Yeah, she's gonna and and Dakota Kai.
Speaker 1: They came out with Bailey and Bailey wasn't having it.
Speaker 1: The crowd seemed like they were hyped for her. And
Speaker 1: then she's like, nah, if you shut up, and she
Speaker 1: went right in the ring, which gave Becky this I
Speaker 1: don't think she's gonna turn face. I think she'll maintain
Speaker 1: like her her stone cold, badass heel kind of mentality.
Speaker 1: But she goes and gets Bianca's back, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a nice story. I I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I didn't like the crazy character she's been playing,
Speaker 1: but I felt I feel like it's gone on a
Speaker 1: little too long like most w W stories do, which
Speaker 1: is like Jericho changed his gimmick like every month because
Speaker 1: he didn't want those guys to like dead everything he does.
Speaker 1: So I hope this is kind of the evolution of
Speaker 1: her into the next phase and crazy Becky uh takes
Speaker 1: a break for a while and she's kind of like
Speaker 1: found herself character wise. Again, what a way to open
Speaker 1: the show too. I love that they started the show
Speaker 1: and we're like, now everybody else has to match that,
Speaker 1: and I think that was egotistical competition healthy ego is
Speaker 1: It really sets a bar high and a lot look,
Speaker 1: not every story they told to get their work, but
Speaker 1: this one did, and the majority of that weight is
Speaker 1: on Becky. For sure. She's the more capable actor, she
Speaker 1: has more experience in the ring, she's the she's the veteran,
Speaker 1: and she's probably the most over female wrestling wrestler in
Speaker 1: the business. I don't even know if you can argue
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I don't know if I feel like
Speaker 1: even in Japan they probably got big love for you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, even though Oska is probably their
Speaker 1: number one or whoever it is. But it's mostly on her,
Speaker 1: and I thought she did this beautifully, And like I
Speaker 1: said before, I hope it's the end of the story,
Speaker 1: not in a bad way. I just don't want them
Speaker 1: to beat it, beat it, beat it until you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, here's crazy Becky, and that can happen
Speaker 1: at that company. But maybe not anymore. I'm not without Vincy,
Speaker 1: I think, because here's what, here's the tithing I noticed
Speaker 1: in the Thursday No Arc match. Like I said, no,
Speaker 1: but sure Becky and Bianca go out. They have a
Speaker 1: great match. It was exciting, it was all overs in
Speaker 1: the ring, is out of the ring. You got to
Speaker 1: see a lot of good stuff. Is pretty cool. Then
Speaker 1: the respectful finish with the handshake, which I liked. That
Speaker 1: also might seem like there's kind of an end of
Speaker 1: a storyline there. And then when Bailey's when when that
Speaker 1: music hits and that stable comes out. Also that says
Speaker 1: Vince is gone, because my buddy that was with me
Speaker 1: said that they've pitched that stable to Vince before and
Speaker 1: he rejected it. Yeah, months ago, sorter with the scoop. See,
Speaker 1: I got in there. I'm doing my job. You get
Speaker 1: you put me to work, I'm gonna work hard. So
Speaker 1: I guess they've pitched that stable to Vince before multiple
Speaker 1: times and as long as months ago, and Vince kept
Speaker 1: saying no, no, no. So what a way to start
Speaker 1: summerslant you just get like the most over wrestler and
Speaker 1: the most over female wrestler for sure, a great match,
Speaker 1: the finish that I think most people wanted, and then
Speaker 1: also you get like a big surprise return. That's that's
Speaker 1: pretty fun, great, great open. You just reminded me some
Speaker 1: Can I tell you the coolest Eo Shari story ever?
Speaker 1: Of course? All right, so there was an episode of
Speaker 1: an XT and I don't think it was a TV show.
Speaker 1: I think it was just a house show because this
Speaker 1: was like recorded on someone's phone and eosharizing a tag
Speaker 1: match and she's waiting for the hot tag to go in,
Speaker 1: and some racist prick in the crowd like just some
Speaker 1: a hole douche bag and so no business here, and
Speaker 1: you hear him yell go back to China, and she
Speaker 1: throws a look over her shoulder and she goes, I'm
Speaker 1: Japanese bitch, and then takes the tag and just and
Speaker 1: the whole crowd just swarms this guy verbally and just
Speaker 1: owns him and clowns and like, oh, they're all over
Speaker 1: this poor bastard. He's like, I'm a racist piece of ship.
Speaker 1: Got on, it's such a beautiful, so good at racism.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even know the difference between all the Asian
Speaker 1: country is. Let's talk storytelling real quick. In the ring
Speaker 1: and out of the ring with Baron Corbin and Pat
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee. Celebrity matches are the hardest ones to pull
Speaker 1: off unless you're the miss. The miss can make everyone
Speaker 1: look at me and shout out to Logan Paul. Let's
Speaker 1: get into that next. But my gosh, Logan was great.
Speaker 1: But this was a story where I felt, and we
Speaker 1: said this on the podcast, that Baron had to win
Speaker 1: or happy Corbin had to win. Of course, not not
Speaker 1: the Baron. He had to win. I didn't see how
Speaker 1: they could do it, and based off the story leading up,
Speaker 1: I felt like that was the way to go. There
Speaker 1: was a point in the story building up to this
Speaker 1: where Corbin kicks McAfee dead in the balls and what
Speaker 1: they did in the finish for this match in order
Speaker 1: to get a guy who's not a wrestler and not
Speaker 1: a good fighter, and everyone knows Corbin is a good
Speaker 1: wrestler and actually a legit. He's a legit black belt
Speaker 1: in jiu jitsu, like he's one tournaments. He know, he
Speaker 1: knows what time it is. Dude, He's no joke. So
Speaker 1: the only way to beat him would be for there
Speaker 1: to that have to be some sort of tomfoolery, some
Speaker 1: sort of evil evilness to go through. But the baby
Speaker 1: face can't do that, but he can get revenge. And
Speaker 1: so when the referee got hurt, a love and referees
Speaker 1: get hurt and the wrestlers have to turn their attention
Speaker 1: to the referee and he turns his back. McAfee gets
Speaker 1: revenge and gets a sweetball shot in there helps him
Speaker 1: get the finish one to three. And I was actually like, yo,
Speaker 1: this was the one match I was gonna hate, and
Speaker 1: I totally bought the finish. Back in the old days
Speaker 1: when Josh Wolf and I were on Friends in the Wolf,
Speaker 1: everyone hated Logan Paul. This guy was going to suicide
Speaker 1: forests and making fun of people for one to kill
Speaker 1: themselves and then their life because they were in too
Speaker 1: much pain. Everyone hated this guy. And he was a kid,
Speaker 1: and kids do dumb stuff, and and I did dumb
Speaker 1: stuff when I was a kid. But when you're streaming
Speaker 1: it all. All your mistakes are the biggest mistakes of
Speaker 1: your life. And I've watched this kid over the years
Speaker 1: grow up, not just as we all do in in age,
Speaker 1: but he's become more mature. And I've seen him do
Speaker 1: some interviews which I'm sure we're to change the narrative
Speaker 1: on him, but he seems to be walking to talk
Speaker 1: a lot more than than just talking it. And then
Speaker 1: he said he was gonna do w W E and
Speaker 1: everyone grown whether they growned, it was an inside green
Speaker 1: like yeah, okay, good luck. Inside they're like, here we go,
Speaker 1: another celebrity map. That's how I felt. I was not.
Speaker 1: I have was in no way of rooting for Logan
Speaker 1: Paul in no way shape or for him. I'm fully
Speaker 1: for miss all day long. I didn't. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know, I get why you're doing it,
Speaker 1: but come on, man, let wrestlers wrestle. I never and
Speaker 1: had a match you. I never even pitched myself in
Speaker 1: a match because I don't feel we should. And then
Speaker 1: here comes this totally committed, good looking pretty jack and
Speaker 1: he's full on one throwing caution to the wind. That
Speaker 1: one jump he did outside the ring. I mean, he
Speaker 1: lands so stiff frog flash, I would have been in
Speaker 1: a hospital for three months if I would have landed
Speaker 1: like that, as hard as everyone's ever been on Logan
Speaker 1: Pole and rightfully so. He deserves so much respect for
Speaker 1: the amount he committed. And I know he put in
Speaker 1: the time and energy because I know, miss I've known
Speaker 1: him over a decade, He's been a guest on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I saw him at Lexi's wedding like I know him.
Speaker 1: He sent videos to my kids and talk about me
Speaker 1: their father like I know. I know it. So I
Speaker 1: know Logan put in the time that earned you the
Speaker 1: respect of other professional wrestlers. I'm sure there'll always be
Speaker 1: some that don't want guys like that in there, but
Speaker 1: shout out to Logan Paul Man. I have so much
Speaker 1: love for you. You brought everything, you left everything, and
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I hope the next story they do
Speaker 1: for you is is wonderful. I loved this match. I
Speaker 1: thought it was super good. When I said I wasn't
Speaker 1: rooting for Logan Paul, I meant at WrestleMania like I
Speaker 1: was like, gotta have this. But he impressed me so
Speaker 1: much at WrestleMania that I was like, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: this is guy's doing the work. He's he's got a
Speaker 1: good size, good body, good character. I liked the costume.
Speaker 1: I love the uh He's just got a great look,
Speaker 1: you know. And he saved Bruce Lee Black and Yellow.
Speaker 1: I was still not sold on Miss. Every time I
Speaker 1: see them, Miss, I go, it's the real world guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, how long is the Miss have to be
Speaker 1: in wrestling before I stopped talking about the real world.
Speaker 1: The ms is a tricky thing. So there's two guys,
Speaker 1: one in stand up comedy and one in professional wrestling
Speaker 1: that have a very similar story, and that's the Miss
Speaker 1: and the oh Van and Josh told me about Theo's
Speaker 1: entrance into comedy and how most people just hated him
Speaker 1: because he was a guy from the real world, road
Speaker 1: rules and an outsider coming into their world, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people treated him like crap. And he stayed
Speaker 1: true to his game and really worked at it and
Speaker 1: stayed hard and good and generous to people, and then
Speaker 1: he did well. And Josh always spoke well of that
Speaker 1: journey in that climb, and I remember him telling me
Speaker 1: that and being like, yo, that's like step for step.
Speaker 1: What happened to miss like people hated him in that
Speaker 1: locker room, didn't feel he deserved to be in there,
Speaker 1: to be in one of the most beloved dudes in
Speaker 1: the company. I I'm telling you to this day, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's the best, but he's one of my
Speaker 1: all time favorites, just on his willingness to make anyone
Speaker 1: and everyone look great and his ability to do so.
Speaker 1: He's not just willing his ability to make you. Like
Speaker 1: if I had a match with miss If, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: think because he would let me win, and you wouldn't
Speaker 1: think that I'd spend the next three months in traction,
Speaker 1: even though I clearly would, but it wouldn't be from
Speaker 1: anything he did to me, because he's just I love him, dude.
Speaker 1: I know he's not for everybody, but I love him
Speaker 1: and his work ethic is second to no. I feel
Speaker 1: like um when when he speaks, I don't believe anything.
Speaker 1: I don't believe anything that comes. It's like, but he's
Speaker 1: supposed to do that, You're supposed to think. That's why
Speaker 1: I think it's so he's supposed to come off like
Speaker 1: a Hollywood fraud, fake scumbag that you just want to
Speaker 1: slap because everybody's doing the rustion of a wrestler is
Speaker 1: what it feels like, you know, it's like that. I
Speaker 1: remember when he was on Real World. He was running
Speaker 1: around the house acting like he was the Rock and
Speaker 1: he's like that, I know, but that's what I still
Speaker 1: see when he's running around the ring, like, look, look,
Speaker 1: who wants to be a wrestler. Every show we do
Speaker 1: from now on, I'm gonna just hit you with like
Speaker 1: your first joke that you ever told on stage that
Speaker 1: just just reminds you of it every single week. Well
Speaker 1: I didn't put on teach damn. Well, I'll find someone
Speaker 1: who recorded it. Don't make fun of people that don't
Speaker 1: need to be made fun of. Just keep that in
Speaker 1: front of your head, bro, and you're gonna be all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's I'm I'm a fan. I'm a Logan Paul Bandwagon
Speaker 1: fan for sure. And I like that he put the
Speaker 1: frog splash in there, bringing the frog splashback. It's always
Speaker 1: been one of my favorite moves. I love the frog splash.
Speaker 1: That's a smooth transition. Here comes another smooth transition to
Speaker 1: my favorite frog splash in the game right now, which
Speaker 1: is montez Ford, and that gets us to our tag
Speaker 1: match for last week. I was a bit confused as
Speaker 1: to why Jeff Jarrett was going to be the referee.
Speaker 1: Of course, at that moment I forgot that it was
Speaker 1: in Nashville, um, and so now it makes a whole
Speaker 1: lot of sense. He was also in two things for
Speaker 1: two different wrestling things on the same weekend. Confused a
Speaker 1: lot of people. It did, It did, but he's he's
Speaker 1: a legend and free to go wherever he was. I
Speaker 1: still didn't think it was necessary to hap him as
Speaker 1: the ref But this, to me was the most interesting match,
Speaker 1: not going in although I was hyped to see it,
Speaker 1: but coming out because I thought they overplayed their hand
Speaker 1: a bit. You know when you're playing poker or any
Speaker 1: kind of card game where you where you're having to
Speaker 1: like hide your cards and the other person you just
Speaker 1: know has you beat and they're overplaying it and you're like, dude,
Speaker 1: you're not getting it any more money out of me, man,
Speaker 1: I fold you should have played that slow. They had
Speaker 1: Montez react negatively to what he felt were slow counts
Speaker 1: and show frustration so many times the way I a
Speaker 1: patented w w E heel shows frustration and not the
Speaker 1: baby face frustration, which he showed every other time in
Speaker 1: his whole WW career. I didn't want them to do this.
Speaker 1: I love tag team wrestling. Angelo's for sure not gonna
Speaker 1: turn hell, and I'm sure he'll be the victim of
Speaker 1: Montez is turn. I don't know why you wouldn't keep
Speaker 1: Tedes a baby face because he's the He's just such
Speaker 1: a baby face to me. But they're doing this and
Speaker 1: they're committed all the way, and you're not talking me
Speaker 1: off this. I don't think you could see it in
Speaker 1: the arena because you're getting to see the whole match,
Speaker 1: But on on TV it's a close up of Montez
Speaker 1: like pist interesting yelling at the reff. That was not
Speaker 1: how a baby face loses and expresses frustration. How the
Speaker 1: match played, it was very very good, and the energy
Speaker 1: for that was like jack the whole time, which I
Speaker 1: think the US are just good at doing that. All
Speaker 1: this just the energy and the whole place just coming out.
Speaker 1: They got a huge hype like it was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was very awesome. Why does wrestling do this? Why
Speaker 1: does wrestling break up good tag teams? And when we
Speaker 1: were young tag teams, A tag team forever and a
Speaker 1: heel was a hell forever. Now they go baby face hell,
Speaker 1: baby face hell. Oh she switched back to a bad guy.
Speaker 1: Oh two weeks later, Oh no, she's actually a good guy,
Speaker 1: and now she's teaming up with someone she hated last month.
Speaker 1: They're always it's always a heel turn, face turn, and
Speaker 1: then breaking up good tag team tag teams. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Well, part of that is your
Speaker 1: generation's fault for loving the Attitude era so much, And
Speaker 1: that's why everybody switches back and forth every three months,
Speaker 1: because you tell every story in the universe in a
Speaker 1: three week time rame, so they so quick. So I
Speaker 1: blame you and everyone in their thirties. Otherwise, Vince's said this,
Speaker 1: I don't know publicly, but he certainly said it to
Speaker 1: every writer and producer in the room when we every
Speaker 1: time we fought for tag team, it's four men for
Speaker 1: one match, and that's not cost effective. Every match he's
Speaker 1: paying two men or two women to wrestle for one match.
Speaker 1: Now it's he's doubling his cost and he's still only
Speaker 1: getting one match. So it's never been a cost effective
Speaker 1: thing for him to legitimately invest in a tag team division,
Speaker 1: and if you look back, he sort of never has
Speaker 1: outside of like six months here and then three years
Speaker 1: no one cares, and then six months here and then
Speaker 1: three years no one cares, and they always break up
Speaker 1: the tag team to kind of end the tag team division,
Speaker 1: and then just two guys have it and a bunch
Speaker 1: of random guys team up once in a while to
Speaker 1: wrestle him until another tag team comes up, and then
Speaker 1: they build them and then those two go and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, yeah, there's a tag team division, and
Speaker 1: then they win the new title and the other team
Speaker 1: breaks up and one goes face and goes he and
Speaker 1: the division's gone again. But it seems like a good
Speaker 1: way to use your your locker room, because isn't a
Speaker 1: ton of wrestlers that are just sitting around and going
Speaker 1: when am I gonna get my thing? When am I
Speaker 1: gonna get that? Was? That was the smart argument that
Speaker 1: a lot of the writers made, which was, well, you're
Speaker 1: not opposed to doing random you know, eight man tags,
Speaker 1: why can't we just build a tech And he's like, well,
Speaker 1: that's when we don't have story, and the writers like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're we're giving stories. It's just so so you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that problem because here's twelve
Speaker 1: just for these two guys alone, and then this guy
Speaker 1: over here he wrote seven just for pri bow in
Speaker 1: Carlito like so, but it just never was a philosophy
Speaker 1: that that we could get through. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if that will ever change. But I know with the
Speaker 1: amount of tag teams they have right now, between Street Profits,
Speaker 1: New Day and the USO's just those three, you have
Speaker 1: matches that people will watch and be compelled to watch
Speaker 1: all the time. And you can help build the less
Speaker 1: established ones if you really want to try with Otis
Speaker 1: and Gable and you want to try and and you know,
Speaker 1: give them some television time to say you feel they're
Speaker 1: worthy of it. You have three different teams to build
Speaker 1: them on. But four men, one match, even though he's
Speaker 1: willing to do eight man tags every single week on Rock,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't mind it, Like I'm just I
Speaker 1: think again, going back to my childhood, like like I
Speaker 1: love a tag team. I love Ay, I love two
Speaker 1: dudes that dressed to like to do moves together, Foundation,
Speaker 1: the Four Horsemen, the Hardies, Edge, Oh wait, we gotta
Speaker 1: talk Edge. I loved the pop when he came out
Speaker 1: to the old school Edge Fire entrance like oh, so
Speaker 1: I just if gang Grell would have been like dropping
Speaker 1: from the ceiling, like oh, it would have been amazing.
Speaker 1: But I love that and that was the biggest pop
Speaker 1: of that whole segment. Unfortunately the match didn't get that
Speaker 1: much love. But they really did have to tell this
Speaker 1: story on the fly, and it it is. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. You can tell great stories father Son's stories.
Speaker 1: They're not able to right now. But I think a
Speaker 1: big part of that was due to injury. Um if
Speaker 1: it's not, then that's just on them. But I love
Speaker 1: seeing Edge come back. I love seeing him as a face.
Speaker 1: I want to see him destroy that faction that he
Speaker 1: built because I don't like that faction at all. I
Speaker 1: don't think it works. Yeah, I just I don't think
Speaker 1: it works. I don't think you can have uh devit
Speaker 1: Is or Finn balor as as the voice of that group.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Damian Priest is a dent there,
Speaker 1: although he's pretty dope on the mic man He's speaking
Speaker 1: Spanish and English and just flowing in and out of it,
Speaker 1: so I like him. I just don't know. Once they
Speaker 1: had to take the leader edge away. They should have
Speaker 1: just got disbanded the group and had them all turn
Speaker 1: on each other and figure something else up. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the Bobby lash Let's talk Austin. Yeah, God, Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashley is even from the distance I was sitting, that
Speaker 1: guy is a freak. Twe year old is in love
Speaker 1: with him. My twelve year old daughter is in love
Speaker 1: with them. She has a crush on him. She thinks
Speaker 1: he's the most gorgeous guy in the world. She just
Speaker 1: stares at the screen the way I stared at Tina
Speaker 1: Turner when I was her age when she received screen.
Speaker 1: She loves and she's open about it. She's like, that's
Speaker 1: my man right there, like she does not. She loves
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashly, so I in turn love Bobby Lashly. He
Speaker 1: is that big Who did you think was gonna win
Speaker 1: this match? When when it started? I thought Bobby Lashly
Speaker 1: would win because Austin can afford to take that loss
Speaker 1: if he tries to cash in later that night. Who
Speaker 1: did you think was gonna win? That's what I thought
Speaker 1: would happen. And I was like, well, if Vince was
Speaker 1: still running things, I think Theory wins this match, And
Speaker 1: like that's his big whatever, and then we don't see
Speaker 1: him use the money in the bank for a little while.
Speaker 1: It felt like theory just got buried. That's what it
Speaker 1: felt like to me. Don't you think that's okay considering
Speaker 1: the story they're trying to tell with him? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think anything's okay. I just it just felt
Speaker 1: like I was like, oh, this is interesting because now
Speaker 1: I'm so paralun I'm looking at everything through a lens
Speaker 1: of Vince isn't here anymore. I wonder if this is
Speaker 1: part of why, you know, so that's why. So that's
Speaker 1: why I'm saying that. I hear you and Roman had
Speaker 1: a great promo where he said your Daddy's not here anymore,
Speaker 1: which is all the crowd started, gun who's your daddy?
Speaker 1: And on Q improvably goes, I'm your daddy and he
Speaker 1: just says it. So I think there could be something
Speaker 1: to that. However, I think the character of Austin theory
Speaker 1: getting humbled again and again and again can lead to
Speaker 1: a more malicious and a better heel version of Austin
Speaker 1: Theory when he eventually does cash in. I think they
Speaker 1: did a similar thing with miss the first time he
Speaker 1: was gonna cash in where he got I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: Historians out there who memorized every episode can help me
Speaker 1: out with this, but uh, I feel like he was
Speaker 1: one of those guys who was just getting smashed on,
Speaker 1: smashed on, smashed on, and then when he cashed in,
Speaker 1: it was a much more like I'll pay you back,
Speaker 1: and here it is kind of kind of finished, and
Speaker 1: it made him seem more credible. Theories getting better on
Speaker 1: the mic every single week, and it's cool to watch,
Speaker 1: but it's also really scary because it's like bringing a
Speaker 1: double a baseball player up when you know it's too
Speaker 1: early and you're worried if they do poorly, they're gonna
Speaker 1: go down forever and never have a chance to make it.
Speaker 1: So if Hunter hates him, then that could easily be
Speaker 1: the more likely scenario. But I don't think Hunter hates
Speaker 1: anybody there. I think he wants the company to get
Speaker 1: over and theory can be good for business. His matches
Speaker 1: are good, he looks great. He just hasn't sunk into
Speaker 1: this character all the way yet. And in w W
Speaker 1: E you learn on the job, which is so psycho,
Speaker 1: but it's the norm, that's their normal in our lives.
Speaker 1: You don't get the chance to. In television. Sometimes when
Speaker 1: there's like a president of a network, he'll have all
Speaker 1: of his shows right, and then when he gets me too,
Speaker 1: or he gets uh, or he gets fired or for whatever,
Speaker 1: and the new group comes in, the new group doesn't
Speaker 1: have the same interest in investing in the shows that
Speaker 1: we're already there, because those are those guys that guy shows.
Speaker 1: They want to remember what happened at CBS's it happened
Speaker 1: to me at NBC. You know, the president leaves and
Speaker 1: they all right, all your shows are canceled. We're doing
Speaker 1: news shows. Um, So I wonder if there's a part
Speaker 1: of that that you that you just go, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep the company, We're gonna keep the guys.
Speaker 1: Wouna keep the thing, but we're gonna do it our way.
Speaker 1: And it seems very much that's what's happening. And also
Speaker 1: like there's this weight lifted off of like, oh, all
Speaker 1: that all that fear that Vince brings into a room
Speaker 1: has also been relieved. There's like I can confirm that
Speaker 1: I've heard that from a ton of people already. Michael
Speaker 1: Cole seemed completely different, and then when he was asked
Speaker 1: about it. He's like, uh, yeah, a lot's changed. Really,
Speaker 1: it's been seven days, dude, what do you mean a
Speaker 1: lot has changed? Like a lot. Like I had a
Speaker 1: match that had a speaking segment with it within it.
Speaker 1: So it was the only reason I was in Guerrilla
Speaker 1: sitting next to Vince during a match, because otherwise it
Speaker 1: just be producers, the writers have no business being in there.
Speaker 1: And so I'm sitting there waiting for this break to
Speaker 1: happen where Batista comes out and interrupts the match, and
Speaker 1: for the six minutes of wrestling before Batista enters, Vince
Speaker 1: didn't stop talking in Cole's ear and Cole's calling the match,
Speaker 1: and the whole time, Vince is like, don't forget to
Speaker 1: you gotta distract, you gotta distand and He's just like
Speaker 1: the whole time, and I'm like gotta distract, Like how distract?
Speaker 1: This is insane? And Cole was just going with it
Speaker 1: every step. Six minutes of just NonStop direction in his ear,
Speaker 1: non stop, and I'm just on headset, like what is
Speaker 1: going on? Right? But Cole pulled it off, So I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's probably more relieved than anyone may have. Photo
Speaker 1: of Nicole Kidman when she divorced Tom Cruise, and they
Speaker 1: had a picture of her coming out of the courthouse
Speaker 1: with her hands thrown up in the air, and she
Speaker 1: was like, Yeah, that's exactly what's happening, bro. That's how
Speaker 1: a lot of those wrestlers are feeling, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta imagine they're going on, because even if you love Vince,
Speaker 1: there's an element of like fear and respect, and he
Speaker 1: really makes it clear who's in charge. You know. I
Speaker 1: had big love for Vince, but it was I had
Speaker 1: nightmare days when I worked there. Yeah, like even like
Speaker 1: it's like if you have like a dad, it's just
Speaker 1: like a very powerful dad. It's like you love him,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's at and when you know he's wrong,
Speaker 1: it's just like, oh my gosh, dude, when please all right?
Speaker 1: This was the bat match. This was fifty Beans, formerly
Speaker 1: president recently recently deceased a couple of weeks ago. Us
Speaker 1: Grant on the table. But you had an interesting cover
Speaker 1: and I'd like for you to share it with the
Speaker 1: Life's what happened. This is exactly what happened. I literally
Speaker 1: put on Twitter. I got a man Freddie. We gotta
Speaker 1: bet um, who do you think is gonna in Roman
Speaker 1: I got I got Broad Class, he's got Roman Rains.
Speaker 1: And I picked Brock because Brock's cool. You know, I
Speaker 1: like Brock with it. And he's gonna be in Nashville
Speaker 1: where the new his new cowboy look is gonna put
Speaker 1: put people pulled out. I don't know. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't read the sheets, I don't do this stuff. So
Speaker 1: I was just like, I've picked who I wanted to win,
Speaker 1: not who I thought would win. I put it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Everybody just starts dunking on me. Oh god, you idiot.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Roman Rains everyone. And so I did
Speaker 1: like a little pole. It was like nineties seven percent,
Speaker 1: where like Roman Rain is gonna win. You know, that
Speaker 1: goes my money exactly. So it's like, all right, dang it.
Speaker 1: So then we get I'm thinking, you know, you're talking
Speaker 1: trash to me about it. Everybody and everybody in the
Speaker 1: internet is talking trash me about I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely gonna win the bet, dang it. And so
Speaker 1: then because those people probably look at spoilers. I'm sure
Speaker 1: some of the people that voided voted look at the spoilers.
Speaker 1: So I get to the wrestling because Summersay and um
Speaker 1: my buddies are you. They don't know much about wrestling,
Speaker 1: so they're like, oh, it's gonna be awesome. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I bet you fifty bucks brock Lessner gets
Speaker 1: beat up, loses, and they were like brock Lessner because
Speaker 1: you know, they don't know a lot, They're gone, that guy,
Speaker 1: the big guy go Yeah, they go, I'll bet I'll
Speaker 1: bet that. I said, perfect. So I'm using it Chris's
Speaker 1: money to pay you. That's what I'm doing. A smart guy.
Speaker 1: I should have been him. You should have you'd have
Speaker 1: made money. Yeah, But it felt so dirty doing that
Speaker 1: to my friend that I was like, I just take theft. No,
Speaker 1: that's a nice play, bro respect um. So this made event.
Speaker 1: The old part in me wanted to hate it, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was wild. I thought it was awesome.
Speaker 1: He had Brock gets this grin on his face, which
Speaker 1: is this like I don't give a ship grin and
Speaker 1: laugh and sometimes it works and sometimes you're like right,
Speaker 1: like when him and take Her had that match and
Speaker 1: take Her couldn't and he's like, I didn't like it
Speaker 1: when he got on that first of all, ladies and
Speaker 1: gentlemen who didn't see it. The man drove in on
Speaker 1: a giant like John Dear tracked huge tractor. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was like milk truck status for Curt Angle and
Speaker 1: he he cruises in and he's got this shit eating
Speaker 1: grin and he's he's chuckling and they get into the
Speaker 1: match and it's a last man standing. There's no rules.
Speaker 1: You're you get the ten count, which in w w
Speaker 1: E is like thirty eight seconds long, so everybody always
Speaker 1: stands up and they're going back and forth and the
Speaker 1: evil usso's who are cousins of Roman reigns actually in
Speaker 1: real life all part of that like Samoan family for
Speaker 1: you outsiders. Uh, they come in there, the tag champs
Speaker 1: and they're beating up on Brock with Brocks beating up
Speaker 1: on everybody. Actually he's beating up Roman. He's beating them
Speaker 1: up there trying. Everybody's trying to beat up Rock. Everybody's
Speaker 1: trying to cheat. Austin theories saying what's up and brock
Speaker 1: Lessler's killing everybody. This dude, you tell it, you were there.
Speaker 1: It had to be. That was what. When the tractor
Speaker 1: came out, we're all thinking, what are they gonna do
Speaker 1: with this because it's a really unforgiving automobile. You know,
Speaker 1: you can rig a trash compactor to look like it's
Speaker 1: crushing bron Stroman or whatever, you know, but you like
Speaker 1: what the tractor, It's like, well, what are they gonna
Speaker 1: do with it? Like, like, how are you gonna So
Speaker 1: at one point the bet, he puts the bucket above
Speaker 1: the above above the ring and he jumps off of
Speaker 1: it to attack Roman, which was sick and at the start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very very cool way to do that. Also, like when
Speaker 1: I think of Brock, I know that he's jumped off
Speaker 1: the top ropes a few times and stuff, but I
Speaker 1: don't really think of him as like this athletic high
Speaker 1: flyer kind of guy. And I made us all go
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like I forgot that he's capable of doing
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So that was cool. But then
Speaker 1: they did one spot that they botched, but I get
Speaker 1: how on page April would have looked great. They put
Speaker 1: Roman in the bucket, he raised it up and then
Speaker 1: dumped him out in the ring, but it didn't really
Speaker 1: work because you know, it wasn't even as high as
Speaker 1: the ladder would be like in the ladder match, so
Speaker 1: it just kind of like when he dumped him out,
Speaker 1: it just kind of looked like like it didn't even
Speaker 1: hurt or anything. So that was the one bad part
Speaker 1: of the tractor. But then towards the end of the match,
Speaker 1: he literally lifts up the ring with the bucket, and
Speaker 1: which I also thought would be a thing Vince wouldn't allow,
Speaker 1: Like that makes me feel like he's done crazy ring stuff.
Speaker 1: But you might be right, but he's done crazy ring stuff.
Speaker 1: It looked so reckless the way he just got under
Speaker 1: there and then like lifted. It looked insane. The it
Speaker 1: literally seemed like he's like, we're gonna just see what happened,
Speaker 1: screw it. And then you could see all the announcers
Speaker 1: on the side of their holding their headphones and going
Speaker 1: like because you know, the kind of the rings moving
Speaker 1: towards him a few feet when Brocks trying to get
Speaker 1: under it, and so, and then it's also kind of
Speaker 1: like as it's tipping, it's tipping towards the end ouncers.
Speaker 1: So you kind of felt this like element of like, oh,
Speaker 1: this could go like really bad. You know, like usually
Speaker 1: when you watch a pro wrestling thing, you think these
Speaker 1: wrestlers are risking their bodies and their tendons and their
Speaker 1: ankles and wrists, and they can break bones and concussions
Speaker 1: bleed all over the joint. That could happen at any
Speaker 1: time in any wrestling match. But we're never in danger,
Speaker 1: you know, like well, like when like when when the
Speaker 1: chiders going, you think at all those fans, they might
Speaker 1: be really screwed here. This is a kind of a
Speaker 1: hairy situation. Um, But it was pretty cool. We lifted
Speaker 1: all up and I actually like I love the big finish.
Speaker 1: I love that they bare. It was very comic book esque,
Speaker 1: had a bunch of crap on him. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: get up. How do you beat four? But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I know some people were concerned with Brock losing a
Speaker 1: million times two or three times to two Roman, they
Speaker 1: protected Brock so well in this. He beat up everybody
Speaker 1: for twenty eight minutes and then it took every It
Speaker 1: was like watching Thor's last stand, right like he may die,
Speaker 1: but because he fought everyone, Earth lives and it felt
Speaker 1: like this awesome moment and just kind of showed how
Speaker 1: strong and what a beast he is. I want to
Speaker 1: touch on one thing you said at the beginning because
Speaker 1: it was an old school lesson that arn Anderson taught
Speaker 1: me that I've never forgotten him. When people say it,
Speaker 1: I always remember how true it is. He said, anything
Speaker 1: you bring to the ring with you as a wrestler
Speaker 1: is a promise to the crowd, and if you don't
Speaker 1: use it, your bullshit. So he's like, if you bring
Speaker 1: a sword out there and you don't use it, why
Speaker 1: the hell did you bring it? If you bring your
Speaker 1: your python out there and you don't use it, what
Speaker 1: was the point? And he said, it makes you look weak.
Speaker 1: So when you see that tractor driving out, your first
Speaker 1: question is it demand? A subliminal demand that a promise
Speaker 1: is being made? And it must be. It's like, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do with this? And if you don't
Speaker 1: use it, why why did you bring it out? So
Speaker 1: this leads us to our new segment, Favorite or Worst
Speaker 1: of the Week. And I paid a lot of money
Speaker 1: for that sound bite. That wasn't me. I was a
Speaker 1: professional singer. I just pushed that button and it just plays.
Speaker 1: But it sounded nice, didn't Well, he's a professional singer.
Speaker 1: Money well spent sounds Favorite match of the week. It
Speaker 1: is easy for me. It opened the show, and I
Speaker 1: felt like at least three people got over, and that
Speaker 1: was Becky and Bianca at the Summer Slam. As the
Speaker 1: great Bret Hart would say, I love the way Becky
Speaker 1: got her over. I thought Becky got herself over. I
Speaker 1: thought they all got Bailey over. The other two women
Speaker 1: you could argue got a great roboff that as well.
Speaker 1: And to see five women in the ring and know
Speaker 1: that there's some story there and an opportunity to to
Speaker 1: to move forward with that kind of stuff got me excited.
Speaker 1: So that big match also because they can get more
Speaker 1: time at the paper. He's than I'm they're going to TV.
Speaker 1: That's my match of the week or my favorite of
Speaker 1: the week. Do you have a favorite or a or
Speaker 1: a worst match of the week. I'll keep it. I'll
Speaker 1: keep it real simple because I gushed about it earlier,
Speaker 1: and I think it's all about misdirection. It's about like
Speaker 1: whatever I'm it's whatever it surprises me. It's like if
Speaker 1: if two guys are really good and they fight really well,
Speaker 1: I go, arrest are really well. I go, wow, man,
Speaker 1: that's that was great. But that's what I expected. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I'm harder on him for some reason.
Speaker 1: But it's when I get surprised and Logan Paul did
Speaker 1: it again two times in a row. Surprised me. I
Speaker 1: wanted to hate and I loved. I loved everything he did.
Speaker 1: I love the look. I love the match. So I
Speaker 1: give it a Logan Paul. That's that's the that's the
Speaker 1: match of the week for me. I got one honorable mention.
Speaker 1: It's an A E dubs shout out to Will Hobbs
Speaker 1: and Ricky Starks. I hope they give these gentlemen a
Speaker 1: good story. I love to see a baby face Ricky
Speaker 1: Starks good looking dude to can wrestle money on the mic.
Speaker 1: Will Hobbs looks like a mean, mean son of a
Speaker 1: bitch and it can be a big opportunity for both
Speaker 1: of them. So that's my honorable mention. Shout out to
Speaker 1: you two gentlemen. You know what wasn't the match of
Speaker 1: the week, Rick Flair and Jeff Jarrett. It's tough, man,
Speaker 1: the fans were gone, you still got it. I want
Speaker 1: to be no, you don't, oh Man Flair. It's hard
Speaker 1: to watch people you loved as a kid when they're
Speaker 1: not at their best right, like I remember seeing like
Speaker 1: that the ESPN equivalent would be. Like, nobody liked watching
Speaker 1: Joe Namath play for the Los Angeles Rams. It was
Speaker 1: embarrassing and he wasn't the same and a friend of
Speaker 1: the Federation and the show. Seth Green was there in
Speaker 1: the flesh. He was sending me pictures all night long.
Speaker 1: Was he criticizing it or was he? He did have
Speaker 1: a good time, Seth Green. Seth Green does not have
Speaker 1: a critical bone in his body for any artist out there.
Speaker 1: He will only say kind things about everyone. Well, and
Speaker 1: he was twenty two. He was different and he learned
Speaker 1: his lesson and as a grown man he is he
Speaker 1: is not. He's not that dude. So he was just
Speaker 1: all love for everybody. Shout out to Rick Flair, apologies,
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, I don't want to watch people
Speaker 1: I love it and at anything less than their best.
Speaker 1: I'd rather, you know, I'd rather My final Flare match was,
Speaker 1: and I got to be there was when Shawn Michaels
Speaker 1: retired him, and it was a beautiful story they told
Speaker 1: in there. I'm sorry, I love you. That was so great.
Speaker 1: So I did not go see that. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Jeff Jared Man going every he could he could work
Speaker 1: wherever he pleases. Jeff, Jared's got had a big weekend wherever.
Speaker 1: He'll be in Japan tomorrow, a e W on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: a t NA appearance on Thursday, as TENNA still on Thursdays.
Speaker 1: I don't watch. I don't know. That's a Progress show
Speaker 1: next Friday. And he wants All Wrestling, every paper view
Speaker 1: to be in Nashville. That's what he wants. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a Lucha Vavum in Nashville. He's on his
Speaker 1: way to that night. Mr Jeff d you are by
Speaker 1: far the best on site location wrestling journalists that this
Speaker 1: company has ever known. Week one maybe one, and I'm
Speaker 1: happy to I'm happy to keep doing it for you.
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to be there. You know. She'll get to
Speaker 1: go to all of them, and I'll raise my kids
Speaker 1: just gonna go to every match. It's a sweet deal.
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