Speaker 1: Now you're made events.
Speaker 2: Introducing the hosts are Wrestling Within for Ready, Jeff Died,
Speaker 2: hand of Fready, Prince Tune. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to
Speaker 2: Thursday's bonus edition of Wrestling with Friends with Me, your
Speaker 2: host Freddy and my awesome co host mister Jeff Die.
Speaker 2: How are you, sir? Happy Thursday, Happy bonus content day.
Speaker 3: To you feeling good?
Speaker 4: You know, you feel like you have to do these
Speaker 4: bonus contents when there's this much wrestling. They're adding shows,
Speaker 4: we're adding belts. There's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 4: wrestling to cover. We're gonna have to start doing this
Speaker 4: five days a week.
Speaker 1: There's an extra two hours per week.
Speaker 2: That means we need to give you, guys, at least
Speaker 2: an extra fifteen minutes. There's wrestling six days a week now,
Speaker 2: so crazy, that's so crazy. We're gonna be an eight
Speaker 2: day a week podcast. You understand, We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 2: outperform everybody getting right into it. Today's episode is all
Speaker 2: about the debut of ae W Collision and at the
Speaker 2: end of the show, stay tuned because we're gonna get
Speaker 2: jeff Dies hot tag of the Wei, a lot of
Speaker 2: hot tags in aw this week too, and the six
Speaker 2: Man a lot of hot tags coming in. They gave
Speaker 2: those guys time to work. But we're going to start
Speaker 2: with the way the show started, the way everyone wanted
Speaker 2: the show to start, and the way they gave it
Speaker 2: to us the way we wanted it. Mister CM punk
Speaker 2: the Cult of Personality out to the ring, shaved head,
Speaker 2: The facial hair was longer than the hair on the head.
Speaker 2: He came out very kind of old school straight edge style,
Speaker 2: like not original because original he had long hair, but
Speaker 2: very like Salt Lake City Punk rock, right like that
Speaker 2: movie SLC came from back in the day. So he
Speaker 2: comes out with boots over his shoulder or in one
Speaker 2: hand and something in a red velvet bag in the other.
Speaker 2: We assume as the a W championship, but it could
Speaker 2: have been a snake. You never know, the hope and
Speaker 2: stealing gimmicks. So he comes to the ring and the
Speaker 2: crowd goes crazy. It's Chicago, it's his hometown. He's never
Speaker 2: performed in this particular arena though he's done Chicago often,
Speaker 2: and the crowd loves him, and he's back and he's
Speaker 2: letting everybody know he is who he is and he's
Speaker 2: not going to change, and I wanted to love this promo.
Speaker 2: I think Sampunk is one of the best to ever
Speaker 2: speak into a microphone, and best being a very short list,
Speaker 2: like four dudes. But I guess if you didn't see
Speaker 2: the ESPN interview, then it's a great promo. But if
Speaker 2: you did see the ESPN interview, he kept asking me
Speaker 2: to call out the lie and there were at least
Speaker 2: three of them, so I.
Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the ESPN interview was out of
Speaker 2: character and this is in character, but it seemed like
Speaker 2: he was. He floats the lines, so it's harder to tell, right,
Speaker 2: But I don't want to just like talk smack or
Speaker 2: anything like that. It was just weird to me because
Speaker 2: he says in the interview they asked him about the
Speaker 2: Young Bucks, and he says, no, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: use that in any like storyline stuff I haven't been
Speaker 2: asked to do. I don't think that'd be the right
Speaker 2: thing to do. I'm paraphrasing here. I don't have the
Speaker 2: story in front of me. And then one of the
Speaker 2: first things he did was call out the Young Bucks
Speaker 2: and call him counterfeit bugs.
Speaker 1: He's the one true, Bill No, and then he says,
Speaker 1: you know, find the lie.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I mean, if you were in character
Speaker 2: that I just found the first one. The second one
Speaker 2: was unapologetic Phil, and he said, I don't apologize to anybody.
Speaker 1: I am who I am.
Speaker 2: In the interview, he says he apologized to Tony Kahan.
Speaker 2: He was very apologetic. He felt bad for what happened
Speaker 2: in the scrub, and I believe he also said he
Speaker 2: would have apologized to the Bucks, but it was still
Speaker 2: under investigation so they were advised not to talk. So
Speaker 2: that was And then tell me where the lie is.
Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, that's us too, my guy. And then
Speaker 2: the third thing that was weird to me was when
Speaker 2: he said, and by the way he structured the promo beautifully,
Speaker 2: like the promo kicks ass. I'm just answering his question.
Speaker 2: He challenged us to find the lies. So I'm finding
Speaker 2: the lies again. If it was out of character, then
Speaker 2: it was out of character. If the interview itself was
Speaker 2: out of character. But again, he seems to be a
Speaker 2: guy that walks the walk and talks the talk. Right,
Speaker 2: he went to the UFC to actually fight dudes, like,
Speaker 2: so he walks the walk.
Speaker 1: But the final thing was the business. This business is.
Speaker 2: For adults and it's the professional wrestling business, and I
Speaker 2: agree one hundred percent. But to go out there and
Speaker 2: essentially hijack the World Championship storyline away from Adam Cole,
Speaker 2: who just came back from concussion and is in the
Speaker 2: middle of a storyline with MJF seemed to me like
Speaker 2: going into business for yourself and not going along with
Speaker 2: the storyline, which is specifically what he's so against. So
Speaker 2: it was a strange promo to me because I had
Speaker 2: just seen the ESPN interview like two days prior on
Speaker 2: YouTube TV or something like that. So the promo to me,
Speaker 2: as as awesome as it was and as kick assid
Speaker 2: as it was, like, it was a great promo, but
Speaker 2: having just seen that, and he's like, Yo, where's the line,
Speaker 2: I'm like, dog, that's a big ass lie right there,
Speaker 2: Like you just apologized and said you did so. To me,
Speaker 2: the promo was a little was a little off and
Speaker 2: not at his best. But again, I guess if you
Speaker 2: didn't see that, then it's then it's a top shelf
Speaker 2: sampung promo. Those were my thoughts, What were yours, mister
Speaker 2: die you're looking at me with a smirk on your face.
Speaker 3: Well, no, because I agree with you. There were lies.
Speaker 4: And also, like I thought it was a trash promo.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm just maybe I'm just drunk with the love
Speaker 4: of mjf's promos, or maybe we've been spoiled with with
Speaker 4: with good mic workover in aew But I didn't think
Speaker 4: this was cute. I didn't think I think like he's
Speaker 4: talking about popularity contests, and if it was about popularity,
Speaker 4: I'd have.
Speaker 3: Been gone long.
Speaker 4: Bro, you're only in wrestling still because of a popularity contest.
Speaker 4: The only reason they keep bringing you back to these
Speaker 4: things is because the fans love you and they just
Speaker 4: won't stop loving you. You're allowed to eat muffins and
Speaker 4: talk trash about the back room. You're allowed to fist
Speaker 4: fight guys. You're allowed to go on Twitter and trash dudes.
Speaker 4: You're allowed to literally break every rule because you're the
Speaker 4: most popular. And also tell me where I said to lie,
Speaker 4: Like that was gonna be some catchphrase, like that was
Speaker 4: gonna be a shirt that was made or something. Maybe
Speaker 4: it will be yeah, but it didn't like really work,
Speaker 4: Like you said, like, there are lies in that. Also
Speaker 4: all of those things that he says are debatable, no
Speaker 4: way to know if any of that crap is true,
Speaker 4: And so he tries to come off as like this
Speaker 4: confident guy who doesn't care, but he really comes off
Speaker 4: as a bitter guy who cares a lot. And I
Speaker 4: just didn't appreciate it. Just didn't come off very likable.
Speaker 4: Him off so chippy and weird, and like he thought
Speaker 4: he was so brilliant. He dropped the mic like he
Speaker 4: really let the place have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't worthy of a mic drive. It was
Speaker 2: a good promo, but it definitely that I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, cool.
Speaker 3: It's just it's like almost like he doesn't know who
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 2: And it's okay to care. It's okay to care. People
Speaker 2: always say that it's all right. It's it's how you
Speaker 2: respond to people caring. That can be an issue or
Speaker 2: a blessing and a gift. It's the way you respond
Speaker 2: to it. My godfather used to say, you were in
Speaker 2: control of two things, Freddy, your actions and your reactions
Speaker 2: to the actions of others, and nothing else. Nothing else,
Speaker 2: those are the only things. We're in control of. What
Speaker 2: I do and how I react to what you do,
Speaker 2: and if people lack control in one of those things.
Speaker 2: It's a tough, lonely, sometimes angry and bitter life man.
Speaker 4: Well, and also it's so easy, and this was going
Speaker 4: to be controversial. Let's see you do that promo in Tampa, Florida, Punk,
Speaker 4: Let's see do that promo in Dallas, Texas. You were
Speaker 4: only over because this is Chicago, and they're gonna like.
Speaker 2: Literally, I don't know, you think that the young Bucks
Speaker 2: fans would be in the other states and they would
Speaker 2: they would go against it.
Speaker 4: That's not it's just that this promo works so well
Speaker 4: because he's in his hometown.
Speaker 3: He could have he could have said like, I.
Speaker 4: Love muffins and I'm sorry to everybody, and they'd be like,
Speaker 4: we love you, Punky. Like he could just say anything
Speaker 4: he wants in that town. He even referenced it that
Speaker 4: he sold out every venue that has a roof in Chicago,
Speaker 4: and he never would have believed it if you'd have
Speaker 4: told a young punk that. So it's like, I just
Speaker 4: think like he was playing into the crowd knowing he
Speaker 4: could say whatever he wants, and he gave a pretty
Speaker 4: average to mid level promo. I thought the whole thing
Speaker 4: was strange. He brings his shoes out to lead us
Speaker 4: to believe that he might be leaving it all in
Speaker 4: the ring, you know, but then he then.
Speaker 3: He's a second and the twist of being.
Speaker 4: Like till someone can fill these boots. It's like I
Speaker 4: can name twenty guys that are filling your boots, just fine, pal.
Speaker 3: So it didn't come on.
Speaker 1: That's a fair point too.
Speaker 3: There's no, it wasn't. He gave me no reason to
Speaker 3: root for him, if I'm.
Speaker 2: Honest, maybe not as much as selling out, because I
Speaker 2: will give him credit for that, Like people do want
Speaker 2: to see him. So those boots are harder to fill.
Speaker 2: But MJF can fill some damn boots, Oh for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean that dude can fill a boot, So I don't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say there's nobody that can. So yeah, the
Speaker 2: promo was weird to me, man, it just was weird.
Speaker 2: Maybe if I hadn't seen the other stuff, I would
Speaker 2: feel different, but I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk some.
Speaker 2: Wrestling though, because there were some cool ass wrestling and
Speaker 2: some really cool return.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole thing.
Speaker 4: By the way, they didn't it feel like they knew
Speaker 4: this needed to be good, and they played this whole thing.
Speaker 3: Like a pay per view or like a like an event.
Speaker 1: I thought it was really smart.
Speaker 2: Man, I'd loved Let me start by saying this, because
Speaker 2: we might not have time to do every match. I
Speaker 2: thought they did a great job the whole show. All
Speaker 2: the matches are not all my favorites, but I thought
Speaker 2: they did a great job. It was the return of Miro,
Speaker 2: who we all know is Russev whatever his real name is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know who you are, buddy.
Speaker 2: I actually met him at a convention one time in
Speaker 2: Texas and he was like the sweetest, nicest giant grizzly
Speaker 2: bear in the world. But he wrestled and beat the
Speaker 2: living hell out of Tony Nice, who used to be
Speaker 2: in an XT and is the super Jack guy as well,
Speaker 2: not as Jack's buddy, but still pretty freaking Jack. And
Speaker 2: he wanted to come out and cancel the show because
Speaker 2: he felt everybody should work out the way the body
Speaker 2: Donnad's like to work out back in the day, and
Speaker 2: Miro wasn't having it, dude. He came out and busted
Speaker 2: this dude's ass. The crowd loves Miro, and they loved
Speaker 2: him so much Jeff. When the match was over, he
Speaker 2: wouldn't get out the ring. He was He celebrated for
Speaker 2: about half as long as this match last.
Speaker 4: Did you keep did you keep thinking like they're going
Speaker 4: to handle a microphone, They're gonna Handhlem a microphone, know.
Speaker 2: Something like, Nah, I'm not getting out, and who's gonna
Speaker 2: get him out? He's freaking three hundred pounds not fat.
Speaker 2: He'll kill me.
Speaker 3: Every day is rusive day.
Speaker 1: So that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I talked about my match of the week Buddy Matthews
Speaker 2: versus Andrade Elidolo.
Speaker 1: We loved it. That was on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: But a match that we didn't talk about yet was
Speaker 2: Wardlow Yes versus Lucasaurus big Man. This match was better
Speaker 2: than I thought it would be, and the end of
Speaker 2: it I thought was freaking awesome. Do you want to
Speaker 2: start on this one? And then this is tricky for
Speaker 2: me because you like meat miss Yes.
Speaker 4: This is definitely a Jeff Die slash Vince McMahon type
Speaker 4: style of match. Two giants colliding. And here's the thing, Lucasaurus.
Speaker 4: I've been a huge fan of Lucha Saurus since he
Speaker 4: since I've become aware of him because he's huge, and
Speaker 4: he looks cool, and he's got like a gimmick that
Speaker 4: you're like, what, you're a dinosaur.
Speaker 3: I don't understand, but it works. For some reason.
Speaker 4: You fear him like a dinosaurs coming to the ring,
Speaker 4: which is pretty cool. But I have heard that he
Speaker 4: is a rumpy and mean guy and he works stiff
Speaker 4: and he hurts a lot of guys. I'm his reputation
Speaker 4: is terrible, so that makes me can't hurt Wardlow. Well,
Speaker 4: that's the thing, So I'm I'm always got that in
Speaker 4: the back of my head, like I don't really want
Speaker 4: to root for this guy, but I do like the
Speaker 4: gimmick and I love Wardlow. Shout out to my guy.
Speaker 4: He's my friend, so obviously I'm rooting for my guy Wardlow.
Speaker 4: He's the champ too, so like I'm worth that. But
Speaker 4: they just couldn't help themselves. They're like, listen, if we're
Speaker 4: gonna have an event, and if we're gonna have a
Speaker 4: big news show and we're gonna book this, like almost
Speaker 4: like it's a pay per view, we gotta have a
Speaker 4: title change. And so I think that that's why they
Speaker 4: did it. That's what I'm guessing, because Wardlow just difficult point.
Speaker 4: Just defended the title against Jack Swagger, and it seemed
Speaker 4: like nobody could touch Wardlow. He's beat Swaggers at yeah,
Speaker 4: double Power bombs him like, that's Jake Hager now Jack Swagger.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, Jake Haeger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his real name is Jake hag He was a
Speaker 2: legit NC Double A Heavyweight champions.
Speaker 3: I'm stuck.
Speaker 4: Once they have their first name, I just going and
Speaker 4: not even their first name, just the first name I remember,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm still calling Dean Ambrose.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was a little disappointed with the titles, which
Speaker 4: even though I really liked the match. I thought Christian
Speaker 4: was hilarious in there.
Speaker 1: That was so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so perfect.
Speaker 2: He just jumps up on his shoulders and he's holding
Speaker 2: the chip and he's shaking it like yeah.
Speaker 4: The whole match was very, very fun, very cool. A
Speaker 4: lot of big moves which I really appreciated, like feats
Speaker 4: of strength. I like both these guys too. I'm just
Speaker 4: pissed off that Wardlow lost and I'm hoping what they're
Speaker 4: going to do. And I don't know enough about booking.
Speaker 4: This is more of your thing and like how storytelling goes.
Speaker 4: But I'm hoping that maybe because it's the T and
Speaker 4: T like the television thing, that maybe like it could
Speaker 4: be as soon as next week this belt changes hands
Speaker 4: and maybe even comes back.
Speaker 2: The titles changed hands more than any title inn aew
Speaker 2: so good, I think. Yeah, And they got Scorpio Sky
Speaker 2: coming back too, so he could get in the mix
Speaker 2: with Lucasaurus if they want to do something different with Wardlow.
Speaker 2: But yeah, dude, I look, I'm not a fan of
Speaker 2: these kind of matches, but I like both these guys
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Like Lucasaurus is six five six six, but he looks
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger than that, and I've never seen
Speaker 2: like a gigantic luchador.
Speaker 1: It doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: So that's why I've always got of like, oh right,
Speaker 2: this guy's cool. I love the cage match with him
Speaker 2: in Jungle Boy Jack Perry back in the day, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the match, But it's all about Christian for me.
Speaker 1: Man Jay Rezo, it was funny. He's awesome on the mic.
Speaker 1: I love when he talks shit.
Speaker 2: I love when he's a smart Alec babyface more than
Speaker 2: when he's an asshole heel, but he's a great asshole
Speaker 2: heel and that move at the end was so edging
Speaker 2: Christian like on the shoulders even though you didn't do
Speaker 2: shit and just celebrating like.
Speaker 3: Well he did interfere.
Speaker 2: He got him with the camera and the linz snapped
Speaker 2: off and rolled across the ring.
Speaker 4: It looked great, very Austin powers, you know who hit
Speaker 4: someone with a camera.
Speaker 2: And the last match I think we'll have time to
Speaker 2: talk about, mister Dye was the main event, CM Punk
Speaker 2: and FTR. That's DA's Hardwood and Cash Wheeler. You versus
Speaker 2: Samoa Joe who looked damn good and the Bullet Club
Speaker 2: Gold Jay White and Juice Robinson, who I fell in
Speaker 2: love with during this match, man like, there's something about
Speaker 2: this guy and I haven't I hadn't seen it yet,
Speaker 2: and I've watched a couple of his matches. I saw
Speaker 2: the Jericho one and and but his heel work is
Speaker 2: different than his baby face work. I guess, I guess
Speaker 2: that's obvious. I'm not trying to say that like I'm
Speaker 2: some analysts. Clearly it's different. But he sold when he
Speaker 2: was getting hit. When he was hitting you, he was
Speaker 2: talking trash loud it. He's got some pipes on him
Speaker 2: because you can hear him through the whole arena even
Speaker 2: when they're screaming. This guy was freaking awesome in the match,
Speaker 2: and the whole time, I'm knowing he's the one that's
Speaker 2: taking the pit like they're not. They got it. They
Speaker 2: have to protect Jay White. He can't take losses right now.
Speaker 2: That's why he beat Ricky Starks. Samojo ain't taking the
Speaker 2: fall in a triple threat match. Hell to the no,
Speaker 2: so just going in, I'm like, Jews, Robinson's taking the fall,
Speaker 2: but still, dude, the whole time, I'm like, let's go
Speaker 2: just Robinson. He was killing it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I really like this guy. Were your initial thoughts on
Speaker 2: the match, because I thought it was a fun match.
Speaker 2: They gave him three and a half hours to wrestle.
Speaker 3: I thought it was perfect.
Speaker 4: There was so many spots in this that were great
Speaker 4: the whole It was like a perfect ending to the night.
Speaker 4: It was a huge match. Also, you got to see
Speaker 4: punk and action, which has been it's been a minute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, this was This was a fun night for wrestling.
Speaker 2: The whole time, I'm just smiling. I'm like, cause it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter what the ratings are, they're going to be
Speaker 2: so many people that stream it and watch it later,
Speaker 2: and they'll wait a good three months before they look
Speaker 2: at any numbers. Over there at Warner Brothers T and
Speaker 2: T TBS, a good three months they wait before they
Speaker 2: look at numbers. So whatever number comes in isn't important.
Speaker 2: But it was just crazy to think about six days
Speaker 2: a week and sometimes seven with pay per views, that
Speaker 2: we're going to have professional wrestling. And you may not
Speaker 2: be a fan of all the brands, so for you
Speaker 2: it's still one or two nights. But for the hardcore
Speaker 2: and Jeff and I watch as much.
Speaker 1: As we can. This shit is so cool.
Speaker 2: You never know wwe might add more content when they
Speaker 2: go to Amazon, and that's where they're gonna freaking go, right, Jeff,
Speaker 2: I'm pressing the button.
Speaker 1: I'm right, it's that time.
Speaker 2: Is Jeff Ta's hot Tagle of the Week?
Speaker 4: Well, let me just beat the drum I've been beating
Speaker 4: for the last five million years. The things I like
Speaker 4: about wrestling that I feel like we're lacking. We have
Speaker 4: seventy five different wrestling shows per week, and what I
Speaker 4: think that we need a little bit more of is
Speaker 4: the thing that made all of our favorite wrestlers so memorable.
Speaker 4: What do we like about Undertaker? What do we like
Speaker 4: about Kine? What do we like about Sergeant Slaughter and
Speaker 4: gold Dust and Doink and Mankind and Papa Shango and
Speaker 4: the Road Wars? What do we like about the Viking
Speaker 4: Raiders or Lucasaurus. We love that it's a little ridiculous,
Speaker 4: bring back the gimmicks. Lucasaurus proves that this is a thing.
Speaker 4: I was just talking about him on this bonus episode,
Speaker 4: that you can go out there and be like a
Speaker 4: little insane and still have your own unique thing. I'm
Speaker 4: tired of wrestlers just having names. I don't like it's
Speaker 4: such a you're just a guy with a name. I
Speaker 4: might as well go watch UFC. What's your thing, dude?
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 4: And if we're gonna try and a track kids to
Speaker 4: watch this stuff. That's the stuff that works. Like Viking
Speaker 4: Raiders bring shields to the to the ring. They got
Speaker 4: a girl Voa who's literally they grabbing her head, going
Speaker 4: like like she's praying to gods or something like she
Speaker 4: knows something you don't.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 4: I like that the wrestlers go, oh God, I can't
Speaker 4: go out there, where's my shield? Have you seen my shield?
Speaker 4: I think I lost my shield. They gotta fly with
Speaker 4: that thing. They fly with a big stupid shield, because
Speaker 4: that's a gimmick.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see more of it. I don't want
Speaker 4: to totally get rid of these guys like an mjf
Speaker 4: or like Daniel Bryanson, like I like that you keep
Speaker 4: those guys with the names and stuff. But I'm saying
Speaker 4: a little bit more gimmick, couldn't hurt. Would love to
Speaker 4: see more of it.
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