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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the battle Ground Podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is a podcast all about professional wrestling, joined Battle and

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Speaker 1: Eli as a breakdown what's going on in the world

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Speaker 1: of professional wrestling with special guests including some of your

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Speaker 1: favorite wrestling superstars. You never know who's gonna stop by

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Speaker 1: now making their way to the microphone. Give it up

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Speaker 1: for the greatest podcast team.

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Speaker 2: In the world, Battle and Eli turn around every now

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Speaker 2: and then.

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Speaker 3: This is this is a great time because, uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're finally back together.

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Speaker 2: Oh podcast today. I know it's been it's been organized chaos. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I want to go ahead and just do this right

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Speaker 2: off the all, right, off the bat. I want to

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Speaker 2: give a shout out to KB and Lena. You know,

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Speaker 2: two months ago, excuse me, work got super crazy for

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Speaker 2: me and my my anxiety flared up and I just

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Speaker 2: couldn't deal and I kind of retreated, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I told Battle and KB and Lena It's like, look,

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Speaker 2: I can't deal with this right now. I gotta you know,

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Speaker 2: and uh they them too specifically, have have you know,

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Speaker 2: picked up the slack and and what they're doing with

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Speaker 2: the their women's uh Creator series and the round tables

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Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff has been excellent. That's

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Speaker 2: exactly what Battle and I wanted with the show. We

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Speaker 2: wanted more of a female voice, and you know, it's

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Speaker 2: more authentic coming from females obviously, so we we didn't

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Speaker 2: want to do that. Obviously.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we could talk about women's wrestling, but it's

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Speaker 3: way much better coming from a female perspective than just

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Speaker 3: two dudes talking about women's wrestling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's thousands of podcasts out there

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Speaker 2: with two dudes or multiple dudes given their opinions. So

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Speaker 2: we wanted we wanted it from from the real deal.

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Speaker 2: And obviously, you know, women performers mean more to women

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Speaker 2: generally speaking than than if, you know, me just talking

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Speaker 2: about Charlotte or whatever. Also, Battle, thank you for picking

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Speaker 2: up the slack. You know, you've been doing all the

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Speaker 2: social media posts and booking all the guests, and you know,

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Speaker 2: good news is, I do feel a lot better, and

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Speaker 2: so I hope maybe getting back on a regular schedule

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Speaker 2: with the show and stuff will really kind of help

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Speaker 2: my mental health. So but anyways, just to kudos to

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Speaker 2: the to the rest of the team for that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're glad that we're we're we're now kind

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Speaker 3: of and in the normal stage, and I mean, you've

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Speaker 3: had conversations off topic from the show, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we're all glad.

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Speaker 2: That, you know, things are getting back better for you.

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Speaker 3: And now that things are kind of you know, we're

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Speaker 3: we're slowing down and we're kind of hitting that that level.

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Speaker 2: Yah. I think everybody's starting to kind of get comfortable

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Speaker 2: with the new normal. And most people, you know, are

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Speaker 2: when they're going out wearing masks and six feet and

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Speaker 2: all that. A lot of people aren't, which is unfortunate,

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Speaker 2: but you know, I think I think it's where, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the yeah, which by the way, Pro Wrestling Teas has

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Speaker 2: some awesome face draw and we don't we're not endorsed

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Speaker 2: by them or anything. We're just fans. So yeah, they

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Speaker 2: have some really really awesome wrestling mask. I was leaning.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at the sampunk one for sure, but

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Speaker 2: they had about one is pretty one is really good. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I think there's somebody created one for

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Speaker 3: Bray Wyatt that's just the bottom of the Fiend mask

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that, and I couldn't tell if that

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Speaker 3: You know, you look at this right now, with like

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Speaker 3: everybody having to wear face mask, like people in the

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Speaker 3: like horror industry should make tons of money off of

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Speaker 3: doing this. Like, yeah, I've seen the Shining. Uh did

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Speaker 2: I saw that? Yeah, yeah, I think I saw that post.

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Speaker 2: a Hannibal Lecter one, Like haven't I seen one yet?

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Speaker 2: That's a perfect half mask. I've seen somebody did. Well.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of cool things, a lot

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Speaker 2: They're just generic black ones that you can put a

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Speaker 2: them now, Casify, tons of you know, tons of companies

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Speaker 2: out of the scrub material. So man, that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: And you know, a lot of people are adapting to

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Speaker 2: And or to make this and make that and you know,

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Speaker 3: Well how about buy one of you know with me

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Speaker 3: It's just you know, it's adapting with the time and

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Speaker 2: I agree. Yeah, it's been an adjustment for everyone. So yeah, I'm.

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Speaker 2: But they've done an amazing job. Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 2: I really haven't watched much WWE. I'm trying to think

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Speaker 2: So I personally have not been invested in their product

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Speaker 2: the AW stuff that I've seen, I've really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, you and I've kind of watched,

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Speaker 3: Because I mean, WWE was you know, the mold of

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Speaker 3: And it's just very awkward, you know with WWE and

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Speaker 2: Don't see the crowds on the side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which was a good thing for them because I

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Speaker 3: mean it's very awkward watching an empty arena. So then

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Speaker 3: aw comes in. It's like, you know what, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: already testing them for COVID, So it's not like it's

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Speaker 3: And it's been great because you've got like MJF and

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Speaker 2: You've got big Swoll like talking shit to.

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Speaker 3: You know, Nyla Rowse, and you know, it's getting some

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's been really cool to see that. I

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Speaker 2: And if WWE did that, they're like, Okay, y'all go

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Speaker 3: You know, it'll be interesting to see, you know, when

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Speaker 2: Let's go. Yeah. The other thing I guess we can

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean that's a huge get for impact

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Speaker 3: you know what, here's a microphone. Just go out there

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Speaker 2: Just go have fun. And it was like because I

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, man, they're gonna they're going to

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Speaker 2: Thank god.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it costing his career and it's saving

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Speaker 3: You know there was reports of like, you know, Kyrie

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't know. I mean, I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's yeah, it's it's it could Like

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Speaker 2: So that's a good thing. Yeah. Do we want to

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Speaker 3: And as most people know, Jeff Hardy has been battling

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Speaker 3: addictions his career and he just you know, got sober.

433
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 3: And then they come to this and it's like, you

434
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 3: know what, Jeff, we're going to do a storyline where

435
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 3: you're getting you know, I say, this is framed that

436
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 3: you know, you're gonna get drunk and you're gonna hit

437
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 3: a wrestler and we're gonna find you inebriated. Yeah, it

438
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 3: doesn't work out very well when you go with real

439
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 3: life stories.

440
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 2: Well, and we talked about this when we interviewed the

441
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 2: Road War Animal and you know, they did the same

442
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 2: thing twenty years ago. Hawk and what happened like three

443
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 2: years later he was dead, you know, and I don't.

444
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, a lot of people obviously,

445
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 2: the Attitude era was incredible and you know, reached new

446
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,919
Speaker 2: heights and you had some of the biggest stars that

447
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 2: I've ever been in the ring and blah blah blah.

448
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: But I mean it hasn't aged well. I mean there

449
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 2: was a lot of bad crap that went on during

450
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 2: the Attitude era. And it's like every so often Vince

451
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 2: tries to dip his toes back in there, you know, like,

452
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 2: let's do this again. It's like, bro, he just got arrested.

453
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,679
Speaker 2: He got arrested like twice last year for d he

454
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 2: was off TV. Like, I mean, this is like real

455
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 2: stuff right now, you know, like mugshot everywhere. TMZ picked

456
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 2: it up. Yeah, And I mean like and you know,

457
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 2: obviously Matt Hardy's like, I just want to clarify I'm

458
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 2: happy with AW Like, well, yeah, no shit, you missed.

459
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: You dodged a bullet there. So then Matt's wife was like,

460
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: I'm throwing away my TV. Yeah. I mean, it's just

461
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 2: I just think it's it's just stupid. I mean, I

462
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 2: think there are some things that you can incorporate that's real,

463
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 2: Like you know, uh, Brock being in UFC and him

464
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 2: coming over and still wearing those trunks and having the

465
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 2: sponsors on there. Okay, that's harmless, that's fine, that makes

466
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 2: perfect sense. But to go after it like that would

467
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 2: be like going after a woman who had a miscarriage

468
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 2: and then turning it into a huh oh, I guess

469
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 2: you lost, baby, I guess you're not a real woman.

470
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 2: Like just something just tone death, tone, death and inappropriate,

471
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 2: and I don't know it's.

472
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 3: Well and like you said, I mean, Vince loves to

473
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 3: go to that that well, like you know they've done

474
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 3: this before with Jeff Hardy, because I went back and

475
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 3: watched and like Samoa Joe when he was doing that storyline,

476
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 3: like he brought in real life stuff and to Jeff

477
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 3: Hardy's like, oh you want another drink, Jeff.

478
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.

479
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 3: And then kind of like you go a little further

480
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 3: and you do the Chris Jericho and see Him punk

481
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 3: storyline where Jericho, you know, poured all that alcohol over

482
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: sea and punk and made him you know, talk about

483
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,719
Speaker 3: him being straight edge and all this stuff. And then

484
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 3: you go further back, like you said, when we talk

485
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 3: to Animal, where they try to do that thing with

486
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 3: Hawk like, I mean, you it's rough, Like you don't

487
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 3: want to bring in real life stuff into the story

488
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 3: because we already know that Jeff has battled addictions. I mean,

489
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 3: we've all seen the him and Sting match, Like, you know,

490
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 3: we all know.

491
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Speaker 2: That Jeff has battled that.

492
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Speaker 3: But we all know that Jeff has come back gotten sober,

493
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: and you know, being big fans of Jeff, like kudos

494
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 3: to him for getting clean.

495
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: But you know, at.

496
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Speaker 3: What point does Jeff say, you know what, I don't

497
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 3: really feel comfortable with, you know, you saying that I'm

498
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 3: you know, I fell off and I you know, I relapsed.

499
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, unfortunately everyone has a short rope

500
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 2: with vents. So if they if Vince comes to you

501
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: and like, hey, here's the story we're doing, and you're

502
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 2: like eh, then that's it. Like you're you're you're watching,

503
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 2: You're you're going to be a main event. I'm talking

504
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: about the WWE show, WW main event or WW Superstars.

505
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dark matchic to day morning. You're You're done,

506
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 2: Like you're not. I mean, and I think you know

507
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 2: they added six months to his contract, which is why

508
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 2: Matt was able to leave now because of all the

509
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 2: time that he was off and everything. But I don't know.

510
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: Somebody on Twitter made a comment about this, and the

511
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 2: more I think about it, the more it makes sense

512
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: and also pisces me off. So if you happen to

513
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Speaker 2: have posted this, and you happen to listen to our show,

514
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 2: and you happen to be listening to this episode, I

515
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 2: don't remember who it was that posted this, so I'm

516
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: not taking credit for it. I just don't remember, but

517
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 2: it was spot on. Some congrats to that. But so

518
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 2: go back to the New SmackDown and we have the

519
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: very first show on Fox, and they want to pull

520
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 2: out all the stops Brock versus KOFE for the title.

521
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: Brock comes out, squashes Kofee in ten seconds. That's it.

522
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 2: Then Caine Velasquez comes out, Oh gosh, here we go.

523
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 2: And then they have that really really crappy match at

524
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 2: that pay per view. I think that was Saudi Raby

525
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 2: right tapped him out. Yeah, And then fast forward to

526
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 2: April and they released Kane. So long story short, they

527
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 2: didn't have to do that to KOFY. That whole thing

528
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: made no sense whatsoever. It was a complete waste of time.

529
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: And if that doesn't kind of give you the Vince

530
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 2: McMahon book in a nutshell, I don't know what it is.

531
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Speaker 2: I mean, one of the most you know, not only

532
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 2: from a heartwarming standpoint, but also I mean even just

533
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 2: you know, in reflection to what's going on now with

534
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 2: all the protests and stuff around the country. I mean,

535
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: Kovie was the story of twenty nineteen, and to have

536
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: him get squashed by your part timer to set up

537
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 2: a story that ends up with one match and that's it,

538
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 2: that's really fucking stupid. So so when you know, I

539
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 2: wasn't watching SmackDown, obviously, I don't even have Fox on

540
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 2: my TV line up, so there's no way I can.

541
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 2: But you're texting me about it, and I hopped on

542
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: Twitter and stuff, and I was just like, why am

543
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 2: I not surprised they're doing this again? You know? Yeah?

544
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: And like you said about the whole KOFE thing, like

545
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: it was a big ordeal, like so much big ordeal

546
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 3: with you know, with the recent passing of Shad, there's

547
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 3: been videos circulating around of him and MVP sitting there

548
00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: watching KOFE win the championship and crying and being all

549
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 3: emotional because you know, you don't see WWE giving you know,

550
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: minorities the big title not very often.

551
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: You don't see that very often if they are.

552
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 3: I mean, look at Apolo Cruise, It's been what six

553
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 3: eleven years whatever and he just now got a title.

554
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, I just think they underestimate how much

555
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: the stuff means to people, you know, and you know,

556
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: like you know, the stuff goes beyond choreographed moves, you

557
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 2: know what I mean. And so yeah, I don't know. Anyways,

558
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: another stupid idea from WW.

559
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah and absolutely nuts, but we can kind of transition

560
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 3: to AW because this can kind of be the final

561
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 3: topic on today's show.

562
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 2: So AW just had double or nothing pay per view.

563
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: I watched it. I've never bought a pay per view.

564
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 2: I bought it, which was.

565
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 3: Weird because being a WW networkholder, it was like kind

566
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 3: of justify paying like fifty bucks for this, and I

567
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: was like, you know, let me just do it, just.

568
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: You know, see what it is.

569
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: And I gotta say, like, the pay per view was amazing,

570
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 3: of course, you know, the Casino Royal.

571
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,959
Speaker 2: Absolutely great. That I was sitting there and it was like,

572
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 2: you know, me.

573
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: And you had been going back and forth trying to

574
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 3: figure out, Okay, what's what's gonna happen? Like, here's this

575
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 3: ninth surprise entrance and there's so many people gone, So

576
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 3: it was like, is it gonna be russof Is it

577
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 3: gonna be the recently free agent Ricky Starks, Is it

578
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 3: gonna be Zach Ryder?

579
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 2: Is it? You know?

580
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 3: There are so many people that popped up, and so

581
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 3: you know, we're sitting there and of course there's also

582
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 3: a Brian Cage thing, and then all of a sudden,

583
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 3: it's like the Path of Age blah blah blah, and

584
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 3: Taz comes walking.

585
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: And I was like, what the hell is this?

586
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 3: Like, you know, and then here comes Brian Cage and

587
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, perfect pairing.

588
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: For these two. Yeah, well it's it's funny because Cage

589
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: is actually pretty decent on the mic. So I don't

590
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: know why they stuck Taz with him, because I've actually

591
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: enjoyed Taz when he does the commentating.

592
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, and maybe, like we had that conversation,

593
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 3: maybe he's gonna do commentating when he's not with Brian Cage.

594
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 3: But maybe he's kind of like, you know, a Paul

595
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: Hayman and he just antagonizes everything, and it's like Brian

596
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 3: Cage could kill him, blah blah blah, but still throwing

597
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 3: his commentary.

598
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,959
Speaker 2: Well, and it could have been that could have been

599
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: Tazz's idea too, like, hey, you know, let me be

600
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: a mouthpiece for somebody, let me be a manager, you know,

601
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: I kind of I want to be more involved than

602
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 2: just commentating. And so maybe maybe that was the compromise.

603
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 2: They're like, Okay, well how about we put you with Cage.

604
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: He'll be here double or nothing. So we don't really know,

605
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: but I will say that specific match. So and I

606
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: don't mean this disrespectfully. I'm just I'm just saying it

607
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: at face value. So none of the contestants like really

608
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: struck me as like a world champion. And I'm not

609
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: being you know, I love pretty much everyone on that list.

610
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: Orange Castid, Joey Janella, Lucasaurs Scorpio, Sky, Frankie Kazarian, Kep

611
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: Saving Darby, Allen Cocobana. They're all awesome, you know. Colts

612
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 2: former n w A World Everyway Champion, Uh Scorpio, Scott,

613
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: Frankie Kaserian, the first aw World Tag Team champions. We

614
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: got to see those belts are gorgeous orange casty, maybe

615
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: the most over guy in the company. Not world champion

616
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 2: materially yet, yeah, not quite there. He's had what two matches,

617
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: three matches, Janella, I don't know if they're going to

618
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 2: put that kind of confidence him. You know, it was

619
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: cool that he stepped in at the last minute for

620
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 2: that spot, but you know, I could definitely see him

621
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: being the TNT champ. But like I don't know about

622
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: the world Lucasaurus probably was the closest one I could

623
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 2: see them putting the belt on. You know, maybe Darby Allen,

624
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 2: but again I think he looks more of like a

625
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 2: TNT champion to me.

626
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would, I mean, looking at that match at

627
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 3: face value, Like you said, if Brian Cage wasn't in there,

628
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 3: I would have picked either Darby or Lucasor Yeah, I

629
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 3: would have much rather seen Darby and Dean Ambrose again.

630
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 3: But you know, oh yeah, John Moxley, Sorry breaking breaking

631
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 3: the fourth wall over here, but.

632
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, you and I both were like, we think

633
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: whoever the mystery person is is probably gonna win. So

634
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: obviously when you have Brian Cage come out, who was

635
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 2: incredible on luc Underground, he was incredible on Impact was

636
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 2: he was the world champion when we saw him, I

637
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: think what name then he he'd already beaten Johnny Impact

638
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: or something.

639
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, he wasn't the champion. Johnny Impact

640
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 3: was a champion because.

641
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 2: He lost, that's right. He lost at Johnny Mundo Impact

642
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 2: Wrestling whatever.

643
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 3: He had his cast mates from Survivor in there and they,

644
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 3: you know, interfered and cost Brian Cage's match.

645
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: But then later down the road Brian Kate Turently got

646
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 2: the title. Yeah, because I think the next night at

647
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 2: the TV taping, I think that's when Killer Cross came out. Yes,

648
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: that's right. Yeah, so he wasn't the champ, but he

649
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 2: won it not long after and then he dropped it

650
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: to Sammy So but that'll be a big get for them. Man.

651
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: He's a big dude, powerful, but he can move. He'll

652
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 2: surprise you with his speed, you know, with some of

653
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: the stuff he can do. Again, you know, not the

654
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: not the best tark in the world, but I mean

655
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 2: he can he can work the sticks. So, like, I

656
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 2: think it'll be cool that he has tas just because

657
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 2: has is a legend i'vebviously, but uh but yeah, now.

658
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 3: Finally we can finally see the match that has been

659
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 3: surfacing on the internet of just photos of Brian Cage

660
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 3: and Kenney Omega squaring off.

661
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's cool too that it's just like

662
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 2: this is not a WWE guy. You know, it's like

663
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: they are getting the best of the best, and if

664
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: that involves you know, impact or NWA or Ring of

665
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 2: Honor whatever, like, you know, the doors open for all

666
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 2: these guys. It's not just a it's not a path

667
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: for just ww guys, which you know, they're definitely trying

668
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 2: not to get that perception, but there are a ton

669
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 2: of former WWE guys on the roster right now, so.

670
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 3: Right and uh, I mean they're doing all the right

671
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 3: moves and you know, just kind of fast forward through.

672
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: Nyla Rose dropped the title. That was surprising. I thought

673
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 2: so too, But I really like you. I do like

674
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 2: Shidah too. She was one of my favorites kind of

675
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 2: like right out of the gate. But I don't know,

676
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: to me, I almost would have booked Nyla as like

677
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 2: a brock, like put the belt on her for four

678
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 2: hundred days whatever and then you know, a year from now,

679
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 2: finally have that payoff. And then you know, you kind

680
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: of build to this, you know whatever. So I just

681
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just thought that the thing that's

682
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 2: been kind of weird is just like, you know, as

683
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 2: soon as we haven't seen a lot of like rematches

684
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 2: and so like when when ReHO lost the belt to

685
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: Nyla Rose, that was it. I don't even remember last

686
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: time I saw her, to be honest with you, I.

687
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 3: Think she did like an aw dark but I think

688
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: she I think she flew back overseas.

689
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: Okay, well that would explain it, but I mean we

690
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 2: didn't get any kind of follow up with that. And

691
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: then now that Nyla dropped it, I mean, what is

692
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: she gone? And then you know, same thing when Jericho

693
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: dropped to Moxley. There really hasn't been a one on

694
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 2: one rematch. And you know, when uh who was Omegan

695
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 2: Hangman won the tag titles, they they haven't got a rematch.

696
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: So it's been kind of weird. I don't know if

697
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 2: it's just maybe we're preconditioned to w automatical rematch. Yeah,

698
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: you know, they'll do uh. I know there's one year

699
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 2: where Sena and Orton was the main event, like seven

700
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 2: pay per views out of twelve or something, you know,

701
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: like they just capped on cap on a cup on

702
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 2: and so maybe maybe this is like by design. Maybe

703
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 2: they're like, you know, with the rankings and stuff, or

704
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: like we lost her at the bottom of the list now,

705
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 2: and maybe that's what they're doing or something.

706
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 3: But I think Cody did say something about that in

707
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 3: the in an interview.

708
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 2: It's like the reason why they have the ranking system

709
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: is like, you know, you get.

710
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 3: A title shot, you lose that title shot, you're back

711
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 3: at the bottom, and the next person's up.

712
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, but.

713
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 3: It's like you look at it, it's like, Okay, who's

714
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 3: the person that Max is going to drop to because

715
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 3: he didn't, you know, didn't drop it to Jericho.

716
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 2: Or he wanted from Jericho but he didn't. Who did

717
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 2: he fight Jeff Cobb, Hagar he fought? Has he already?

718
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: Did he fight Lance Archer? I don't think no, that

719
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 2: was enough that. Yeah. I thought that Moxley.

720
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 3: I thought that Moxley did put the title up against

721
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 3: Jericho again, but he beat Jericho.

722
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: I thought it was at the last pay per view.

723
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: Maybe it was, I don't know, and.

724
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 3: Then you know, and then he didn't drop it to

725
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 3: Brodie Lee and.

726
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 2: Which they did a good job with that. They they

727
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: both looked very good in that match, and then having

728
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 2: him get put to sleep, he loses without tapping out,

729
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 2: So I thought that was a good right, you know,

730
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 2: I thought it was a little quick to give Brodie

731
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 2: Lee the title, but I also thought it was a

732
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: little quick for him to a big match like that, so.

733
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 3: Right, and it's you also, you know, flip the coin

734
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 3: the other side, it's like too soon for him to

735
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: win the title.

736
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know, that's weird. And then there

737
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 2: was one other one I wanted to at least mention,

738
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 2: the Stadium Stampede match. Well that's yeah, that's the big one.

739
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: But MJF and Jungle Boy was solid. The TNT title

740
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,439
Speaker 2: Cody versus Land Charger for the TANT Championship arguably still

741
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 2: the worst belt on well behind the twenty four to seven.

742
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: What makes it?

743
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 3: What makes it kind of like, I'm not I'm not

744
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 3: taking anything away from aw but what kind of drops

745
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 3: him down and just a little bit of credibility, not

746
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 3: a lot, but just a little bit. Once you get

747
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 3: on there, you show the belt. And then I think

748
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 3: Tony Shivani came on and said, well, the belt's not finished,

749
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 3: and I was like, do you really want to show

750
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 3: the product? I get that it's the match and you

751
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 3: want to show the product.

752
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 2: But they could have just they could have waited until

753
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 2: a Dynamite and said, okay, the presentation of the new

754
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 2: TNTV anything like that. I don't know. Really the only

755
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: thing I have an issue with, and it's not even

756
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: like you know, obviously enough to like stop watching or anything,

757
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 2: but the aw names I just I don't like. I

758
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 2: don't like the name Dynamite. I don't like the name

759
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 2: double or nothing. I don't like the name all in

760
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 2: all out, I don't like that stuff. I don't like

761
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 2: the tn T belt name. You know, the next event

762
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 2: is fighter Fest fighter Fest, I I don't know.

763
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 3: I get that from being fire Festival, but now everybody's

764
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 3: kind of forgotten about fire Festival.

765
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know. I don't like. I don't.

766
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: I don't like some of their terms or their buzzwords

767
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 2: or how they label things. So I don't. I don't

768
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: like the TNT belt, which you pointed out. It could

769
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 2: be one of those things where you know, maybe that's

770
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: what con did to swing the deal, Like well, you

771
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 2: know what if you if we get a deal in place,

772
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: the mid card will be named the T and T title.

773
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 3: Right, And they just linked that new TV deal, So

774
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 3: that could have been I could have been part of

775
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 3: bargaining chips.

776
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we hate it, but you know it could

777
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 2: have been what got them two or three more years

778
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: on the air or whatever. So I've been.

779
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 3: Seeing mock ups of like there's going to be some

780
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 3: gold added to it, and this, that and the other,

781
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 3: and yeah, you.

782
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 2: Know, I think we're a little bit more critical because

783
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: we like belts, like we're actively belt collectors, and so

784
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: when there's rumblings of a new belt, we're like yes.

785
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 2: And so like when NWA brought back to TV title,

786
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: I know personally, I was on cloud nine. I was like,

787
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 2: holy shit, this is one of my favorite belts of

788
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 2: all time. They're bringing it back. I love it, and

789
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: they kept it looking just like it was. Yeah, I

790
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 2: would have heardferred the red leather instead of the black.

791
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 2: That's fine. You know, we'll go with the Toty version

792
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 2: instead of the arn't Anderson version. No big deal. But

793
00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 2: you know when we hear we're finally getting this mid

794
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 2: car Haard belt, which the Bucks and Cody didn't really

795
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 2: want to talk about when we talked to them, I

796
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: think back in November, but you know, we knew it

797
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: was coming. There had to be something else for people

798
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 2: to fight for, so we were really excited. They Debbie,

799
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 2: the tag belts are awesome, the women's belt awesome, the

800
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 2: world title is awesome. I mean, we were really excited.

801
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 2: And it just I think you mentioned it was one

802
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 2: of it almost looked like one of those like laser

803
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: engraved things you can get from like a trophy company

804
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 2: or now you know.

805
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: Just it's no pun intended to the red Belt, but

806
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: it's the redheaded step child belt. Yeah, so maybe you know,

807
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 3: the belt maker came out and was like, hey, look, dude,

808
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 3: to COVID nineteen, I haven't been able to outsource this

809
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 3: and this and this, and I completely get that. So

810
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 3: maybe there's more to this belt and that's just like

811
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 3: a placeholder belt. But until we see Tony Shavani or

812
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 3: Cody or j R. Say here's the fully produced belt,

813
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 3: it's kind of got an asterisk next to it in

814
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 3: my book.

815
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, well obviously, well we'll judge it

816
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 2: when it's fully revealed, you know. But as of now

817
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 2: very underwhelming.

818
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, and the first the first challenger for it

819
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 3: is a jungle boy on Wednesday night.

820
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that's right. I remember. I remember saying

821
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 2: that now.

822
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 3: But the cool thing though about this belt and Cody

823
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 3: actually sent out a thing that I guess somebody asked him,

824
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 3: you know, can anybody challenge for the belt regardless of

825
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 3: whatever promotion they're in, And Cody just responded yes, So

826
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 3: you know that's going to be you know, is this

827
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 3: going to be their step in the water of partnering

828
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 3: up with New Japan or partnering up with Ring of Honor,

829
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 3: or this.

830
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 2: That and the other. Because I mean in an interview,

831
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 2: Marty did.

832
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 3: Say that he would be open to working with a

833
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 3: W and vice versa.

834
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.

835
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, So do we see that like the nw A

836
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 3: title where it can be defended anywhere.

837
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd rather it be the world title. It

838
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 2: just it it sounds weird to you know, go into

839
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 2: town to defend a mid cart, you know what I mean.

840
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 2: Like it's just I don't know, like the perception and

841
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: then going back to the you know, twenties and thirties

842
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 2: and forties with when like the NBA first started and

843
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 2: territories and that kind of stuff. I mean, you would

844
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 2: take the world heavyweight title to a town, improve and

845
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: fight somebody improved that you were the best in the world.

846
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: So if you take the TNT title, where do you

847
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 2: do improving? You're the second best in the world.

848
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 3: Right So, because I mean, that was the big drawl,

849
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 3: Like when you would have you know, a Flair or

850
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 3: you know, a steamboat or whatever.

851
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 2: Se roads Harley raised.

852
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be the main draw to get them.

853
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 3: And you know, of course the NBA territories, that would

854
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 3: be the main draw.

855
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: It's like Rick Flair defending.

856
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 3: The the NWA World Heavyweight title tonight and it would

857
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 3: be you know, steamboat or whatever. But it was the

858
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 3: draw that in you know, po Dunk, Kentucky, that's the draw. No,

859
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 3: no offense to anybody in Kentucky. I'm just throwing that

860
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 3: out there as an example. Yeah, there are neighbors to

861
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 3: the north, so yes, but it's it's it's you know,

862
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 3: it'll be interesting to see how they handle it. I

863
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 3: was really surprised that Cody did take the belt, especially

864
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 3: with him, you know, being the head guy and all

865
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 3: this other stuff. But you know, at least Cody having

866
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 3: the belt will make it mean something like when he

867
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 3: had the Ring of Honor title, you know, he made

868
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 3: it mean something and then the ring and all that

869
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 3: other stuff. So he's gonna make it mean something and

870
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 3: it's going to be his way of putting over you know,

871
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 3: other people, like making Jungle Boy look good, and I

872
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 3: mean that's the thing you step in the ring of Cody.

873
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 3: Cody's gonna make pretty much anybody look good. Yeah, so

874
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 3: that's the good thing with Cody. But so yeah, So

875
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 3: the TNT Championship we might see the updated version Wednesday night,

876
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 3: who knows. But the one match that we will talk

877
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 3: about last, and we'll talk about it now before we

878
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 3: close out the show. But stadium Stampede match, Like they

879
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 3: went in and not trying to you know, take away

880
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 3: from one of their pay per view names, but they

881
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 3: went all out on the pay per view no pun

882
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 3: intended for this match. I mean they announced a stadium

883
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 3: stampede matching, Like, what the hell is the stadium stampede

884
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 3: match going to?

885
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 2: Because I think that's what you even said when I

886
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 2: texted to you, You're like, what is this? Yeah, I

887
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: think my exact words is, what the hell is the

888
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 2: stadium stampeder and.

889
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 3: Like I kept seeing leaked photos and it was really cool.

890
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 3: The fact that they put the ring in the middle

891
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 3: on the fifty yard line of the Jacksonville Jaguars Stadium.

892
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 3: The teams came out literally like an NFL football team, which,

893
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 3: by the way, I need to find out if pro

894
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 3: wrestling teams is gonna start selling Inner Circle football jerseys

895
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 3: because I would totally buy one.

896
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did a lot of really good stuff with

897
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 2: this match. You know, I thought Hangman on the Horse

898
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 2: was incredible. That was amazing. You know, I think the yeah,

899
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 2: I mean, even the entrances, you know, was cool. I

900
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 2: love the way that they tied in the football stuff.

901
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 2: So they had some of the you know, padded pants

902
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 2: and uh you know some of the you know there

903
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 2: it is either I think it was Matt Jackson, but

904
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 2: he was throwing the football as at Jericho and penalty

905
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 2: flags and you had all that stuff. I thought the

906
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 2: the Matt Hardy thing was amazing. Yes, the change in

907
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: the getting in the was he in it was a pool, right,

908
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 2: It was like a.

909
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 3: So the Jaguars stadium has a swimming pool, which, by

910
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 3: the way, I don't I'm not going to be volunteering

911
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 3: to jump into a swimming pool at a football stadium.

912
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 2: Let's just be honest.

913
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 3: But anyways, uh, I guess that was like the Lake

914
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 3: of Reincarnation or whatever. But Santana and Ortis, which they're

915
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 3: hilarious on themselves because I think one of them is like,

916
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 3: I'm not getting in there.

917
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: I can't swim.

918
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 3: But they start drowning Matt and they show him underwater

919
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: and he goes like to the old Matt Hardy does

920
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 3: the Hardy Boys thing, and every time they pull up,

921
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 3: it's a different version of Matt Hardy, which was phenomenal,

922
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 3: Like they brought back Matt facts, but they were matter

923
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 3: of facts.

924
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought they brought back kind of a kind

925
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 2: of what they did with Jericho's entrance where they did

926
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 2: all the different informations.

927
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was great because I mean Matt Hardy,

928
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: you got different versions of Matt Hardy.

929
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: That was amazing. And it's like it's like that right there,

930
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 2: like that made everyone pop and lose their mind. And

931
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 2: I bet you that's something that he pitched Evince and no, no, no,

932
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: and it's like right, why like he he he is

933
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 2: the He's the guy that could do it. I think

934
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 2: the only other person really that could might be the Undertaker,

935
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,479
Speaker 2: who just because he's had so many different variations, you know, right.

936
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was really good. I thought the Hagar

937
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 2: and Page at the bar was cool. The roadhouse kind

938
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 2: of scene, Yeah, that was really cool. You're pouring up

939
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 2: a glass of milk for Omega who doesn't drink. Yeah. Yeah.

940
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 2: The who was it that hit the Okay? So I

941
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 2: guess Matt actually was the one that did the northern

942
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 2: light suplexes. And then it was Nick who was throwing

943
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 2: the footballs at Jericho. I had those backwards.

944
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 3: You got which one of them? One of them did

945
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 3: the moon salt off the goalpost?

946
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 2: Oh? That was I just had it hang out. I

947
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: want to say it was Nick. Matt climbed a letter

948
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 2: to the crossbar of a goal post and hit a

949
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 2: moon salt.

950
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 3: Yep.

951
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 2: Poor Samy Gavarro though, man, that he just stays getting

952
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean he I mean, kudos to him.

953
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 2: I mean it's getting him on here.

954
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 3: And we watched him wrestle at the the what was

955
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 3: the lucha thing at the fair?

956
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 2: Was it? Oh er Luca? Yes, I saw him.

957
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 3: Wrestle MVP there and I was like, who's this kid?

958
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 3: And that was supposed to be kind of like going

959
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 3: into it. I think that was supposed to be their

960
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 3: big drawl, that was going to be the main guy.

961
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean Sam mcgavara is he's going to

962
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 3: be a champion one day. You can already just go

963
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 3: ahead and quote me for this, but I mean him

964
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 3: just taking the brunt of the beating and then him

965
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 3: taking the pan, especially that that final move off the

966
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 3: ramp where players come in.

967
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 2: I'm assuming was that the win winning angel Yes Omega, Yeah.

968
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 3: I mean that dude takes of beating but he yeah,

969
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 3: he's yeah that The whole match was great and I

970
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 3: loved every minute of it and it you know, I've

971
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 3: talked to several other wrestling fans and they're like, you know,

972
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 3: watching that match, like I literally forgot about like the

973
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 3: COVID and this and this and this. He's like, for

974
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 3: however long that match lasted, I enjoyed it. And that

975
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 3: was like I couldn't stop smiling and laughing and cheering,

976
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 3: and I mean it was a great thing.

977
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think I think them ANDWW both

978
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 2: really kind of nailed it with these quote unquote cinematic

979
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 2: or thematic matches, you know, with the Undertaker and aj

980
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 2: Styles and then Bray White and Cina both really really good,

981
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 2: and you know, it could just be this this is

982
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 2: a result of them not doing stuff live, you know,

983
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: it could be which I don't know if if Devil

984
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 2: or Nothing was truly live or pre taped. I don't

985
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 2: really know, but I know WrestleMania was pre taped, so, like,

986
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 2: you know, you can have these awesome kind of events

987
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 2: and matches if you know, if it's pre taped or whatever.

988
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 2: So but but yeah, I thought that was really you know,

989
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: I really don't know what else they could have done

990
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 2: in that situation. You know, I think they pretty much

991
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 2: nailed it across the board. And uh, I guess the

992
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 2: last thing to mention about aw is there was a

993
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 2: an expected debut that happened this past Wednesday.

994
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about that for a little bit FTR. Yeah,

995
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 3: and the great thing about it was, but that was

996
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 3: the same exact day that Scott Hall showed up at

997
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 3: WCW on TNT.

998
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was I don't want to say poetic, but yeah,

999
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 2: that was we'll say chef's kiss. That was a chef's kiss.

1000
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 3: It was. It was fantastic because I was like, because

1001
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 3: me and you had been talking and you know, in

1002
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,760
Speaker 3: the group chat with the girl, I was like, Okay,

1003
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 3: when are we seeing FTR show up? It's like, okay,

1004
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 3: they've already been featured in being the Elite, you know,

1005
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 3: are they going to show up at double or nothing?

1006
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 3: And I think me and you had kind of had

1007
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 3: the conversation that one of them was going to be

1008
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 3: in the mascot costume, and then I was like, okay,

1009
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 3: when is this happening?

1010
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 2: Like it's bound to happen.

1011
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 3: And then I didn't put two and two together about

1012
00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 3: the Scott Hall coming to WCW until after, like they

1013
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 3: appeared and everything, and then I realized, okay, that was

1014
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 3: the day because I remember I posted about Scott Hall

1015
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 3: joining WCW that day, and then I want to say

1016
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 3: it was Dash that posted right before their arrival. He

1017
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,959
Speaker 3: was like, hey, yo, tweeted that out and I didn't

1018
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 3: think anything of it when I saw it. And then

1019
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 3: they pull up in that badass truck jump out and

1020
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, we're finally getting it FTR in

1021
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 3: the box and then they like turn face and beat

1022
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 3: up Butcher in the Blade, which I haven't seen them

1023
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 3: in forever.

1024
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everyone kind of assumed they were just

1025
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 2: going to go just jump out and go right towards

1026
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 2: the box. I wouldn't be surprised if they're building up

1027
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 2: to it, you know, so like it may not you know,

1028
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:48,479
Speaker 2: it's not like they're going to fight Wednesday or something,

1029
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 2: but it's like, you know, their big pay per view

1030
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 2: and whatever November or something. I don't know, but you know,

1031
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: I think we were, you know, curious where they were

1032
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 2: gonna end up. I think we were kind of optimistic

1033
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 2: that they might go in WA, just because that's they're

1034
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 2: kind of old school mentality, and that is there's nothing

1035
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 2: more old school than NWA. But I don't think NBA's

1036
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 2: tag team division is really where it needs to be

1037
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 2: right now to get a tag team of the caliber

1038
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 2: of FTR obviously, so I think we both kind of

1039
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 2: assumed they were going to AW. I think I can't

1040
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 2: remember if you said it or I said it, but

1041
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: I mean, with with them being on being the elite, like,

1042
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 2: they're not going to do that if you're not involved

1043
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 2: in their business, like they're not gonna you know, go

1044
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 2: up to Roman reigns and put him on the show

1045
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 2: because they know that that's gonna well, shit is Roman

1046
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 2: Reigns leaving and going like why is he on this program?

1047
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 2: You know, like there would be no reason to do that. So,

1048
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 2: you know, they've had a relationship behind the scenes for

1049
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 2: years now and they've talked to each other on Twitter

1050
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. So I think it was kind

1051
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 2: of a four one conclusion that that's what they were

1052
00:54:56,120 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 2: going to end up. And you know, you can you

1053
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 2: can say what you want to say. You know, they're

1054
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 2: run in WWE was not great, but they're running NXT

1055
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 2: was phenomenal. I mean at that point, I would put

1056
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,919
Speaker 2: them tied for the Young Bucks as the best tag

1057
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 2: team on the planet at that at that time, I

1058
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 2: mean they were there, There's stuff they were doing with

1059
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 2: American Alpha when they're in NXT was top notch. I

1060
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: mean it put it put it. It put tag team

1061
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 2: wrestling back on the map for WWE because they're historically

1062
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 2: not known for being very tag team friendly, which is

1063
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 2: funny because they always have a ton of tag team matches.

1064
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 2: But anyways, so yeah, so I mean pretty excited. I

1065
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 2: thought that was a good kind of a scent you know,

1066
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 2: the first Dynamite after the pay per view kind of

1067
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 2: have a big surprise, you know. I think everyone was

1068
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 2: kind of like coming down from the the rush of

1069
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: the pay per view and then to have a surprise

1070
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 2: like that was was pretty cool. So so yeah, I

1071
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 2: mean tons of I mean obviously tons of awesome tag

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Speaker 2: team matches you can get out of aw and they're

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Speaker 2: you know, they're still a year into their existence. I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's they've got plenty of time to get more tag

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Speaker 2: teams on board and you know, even strengthen it even

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Speaker 2: more than they are now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, just you know, especially with a lot

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Speaker 3: of free agents out there, and of course there is

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Speaker 3: uh one soon to be possibly free agent.

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Speaker 2: The contract is about up.

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Speaker 3: That is Adam Cole, which we will discuss on next

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Speaker 3: week's episode of how Britt Baker thinks that Adam Cole

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Speaker 3: will be wrestling with the Bucks and the Elite one

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Speaker 3: day soon And how ironic does she say that in

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Speaker 3: his contracts almost.

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00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 2: Up plot thinkins plots dun dump.

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Speaker 3: But you have to come back next week for us

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Speaker 3: to talk about that boom. So uh yeah, so we

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Speaker 3: do appreciate you guys being back with us.

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Speaker 2: We're back. We're back to wrestling. We're gonna have some guests.

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Speaker 3: The girls are going to have their roundtables on Thursday nights,

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Speaker 3: which you can watch on Twitch. Me and Eli might

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00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 3: do some twitch stuff. We're still trying to work out

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00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 3: the kinks to that kind of stuff. We're not as

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00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 3: we're not as tech savvy as lenaan KB with doing

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Speaker 3: the live video twitching.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have the looks and the brains, yes, and

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00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 2: we just we just have the voices. That's all we've got.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, so make sure you follow along Twitter, where

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00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 3: Battleground IHR, Instagram, It's Battleground Podcast. I believe we're going

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Speaker 3: to do a contest this week. I'm still getting the

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Speaker 3: things finalized. We're gonna team up with a local business

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Speaker 3: here in town. They're called Popping Off Toys. They sell Funkos.

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Speaker 3: So we're thinking about doing like a wrestling Funko giveaway

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00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 3: in honor of our awesome new Funko shirts. You can

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00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 3: buy at Territory Wrestling Tease. Me and Eli are now Funkos.

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Speaker 3: You could buy us in the box or outside the

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00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 3: box on a T shirt.

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Speaker 2: One is my version. I don't I don't take my

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Speaker 2: stuff out. Well, I take some stuff out of the box,

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Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff I keep in the box,

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Speaker 2: and then there's the version where you take it out

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Speaker 2: of the box. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So there is the the US as collectors versions or

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Speaker 3: as I like to now figure out how Last night

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00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 3: there's the Liam version, which I found out that my

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00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 3: three year old went into I guess the quote unquote

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00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 3: man cave and ripped open several funk Co boxes. One

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00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 3: of them was the Goldberg, So I don't really care.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well he was just playning.

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Speaker 3: So I and I chalk it up as it's a

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00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 3: three year old and he sees him as toys. He

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Speaker 3: doesn't sees them as dad's collectibles. So but yeah, so

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Speaker 3: that's that's all in a nutshell.

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Speaker 2: So that's it.

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Speaker 3: We're back though, we're here, and uh, we're gonna be

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Speaker 3: talking wrestling or what lack of wrestling.

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Speaker 2: We're probably just gonna talk about aw more than likely. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So enjoy your week. Is there anything else you'd like

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Speaker 2: to say to everybody? Man? I don't think so. I

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Speaker 2: think everything on my list we checked off, So I

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Speaker 2: think for good. Is it time to say happy trails?

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Speaker 2: A rividrty I've miss saying happy trails. No, I mean

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Speaker 2: it kind of fits you now, so happy trails, everybody.

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Speaker 4: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 4: Make sure you give it five stars and a nice review.

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Speaker 2: To stay up to date with the

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