1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: M h. What's up, everybody. Welcome back to another episode. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday to you all right here on Wrestling with 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: Freddy and you get story time with Uncle FP. And 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: today I'm dedicating the entire episode to one man, one 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: fine man, one fine American wrestling man who has the 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: worst name in the history of professional wrestling, now stumping 7 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: up for the mic of wrestling with Freddie Freddie Prince 8 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: Tune year, the amazing Dolf Ziggler. I was there when 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: they rebranded him from Nikki to Dolf, and we're gonna 10 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: get into all of that today and everything that he's accomplished. 11 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,639 Speaker 1: And I love the dude. So this is gonna be 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: an ode to the Zigs. So I'm gonna take you 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: back back, way back to the year two thousand and eight. 14 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: I was a young man with far less gray hair. 15 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: I had already been at w w E long enough 16 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: that I had I had earned a couple of stripes, 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: I had, I had made a couple of bones, so 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: to speak. And they were going to bring this guy 19 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: up from f c W, who they once knew as Nikki, 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: from the Spirit Squad. And the Spirit Squad was just 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: a group that took a whole bunch of bumps for 22 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: whoever the baby face was, and it would make the 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: baby face look great because they just beat up like 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: five guys and and he would take huge bumps like 25 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: he would sell crazy and still does to this day, 26 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: second to like Mr Perfect as far as his ability 27 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: to to sell in that style. Bran Gwertz was gonna 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: was sitting in front of the entire production meeting. This 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: is before a Monday night raw and so it's it's 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: go Worts, It's Kevin Dunn off on the side, Vincent 31 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: between them, and maybe Bruce Pritchard was there. I feel 32 00:01:58,160 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: like there were four people up front and the rest 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: of us are all in in the by the tables, 34 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: all sitting in a group waiting for the meeting to 35 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: be over because they were three or four hours long. 36 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: Right during during this time period, they talked about the 37 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: debut of this new character and they want to give 38 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: him a name. They haven't even come up with the 39 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: name yet. There's been no discussion. It's the night he's 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: gonna debut, and they're just throwing any old name, any 41 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: old whatever they put on their their list in those 42 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: moments are the names they're thrown out, so no thought, 43 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: zero zero thought has been put into this. This was 44 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: the same thing they did to Jake Hagar and I 45 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 1: think he was a character named Jack Swagger and they 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: were like, well, Jimmy Swagger, that sounded cool, call him 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: Jack Swagger. And I put my hand. I was like, 48 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: that name sucks and we shouldn't do that. And I 49 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: was not hurt, nor were my ideas appreciated or wanted. 50 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure they were worse. I don't remember what they were. 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: So Brian, who I love, he throws out the name. 52 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: I think he almost wanted to start with Dolf Diggler, 53 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: like Dirk Diggler, and it was Dolf Diggler, and my 54 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: head almost hit the table. The way he would snap 55 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: a pencil in frustration whenever Vince would make him rewrite 56 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: a show the day of a show, because that's always 57 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: a good idea to do that. That was my feeling. 58 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: I finally experienced the pain that Brian was experiencing, only 59 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: it was now because of him. And sometimes the company 60 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: would do this, they would rib themselves without even knowing 61 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: they're ribbing themselves, and it was always something to me 62 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: that that made him struggle with credibility at times, because 63 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: it was I'm sitting there and I'm hearing this name, 64 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: Dolf Diggler, and I remember saying this. I said, who's 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: gonna take that seriously? Who's gonna take that seriously? And 66 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: it wasn't. He wasn't gonna be a comedic style wrestler. 67 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: He was a serious athlete who could freaking move, and 68 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,839 Speaker 1: and he was gonna be billed as a as a heel. 69 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: So I'm confused. I say, Yo, we can't do that. 70 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: And I straight up say, we're basically rip ripping off 71 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: Boogie Nights with Dirk Diggler, which was a movie Vince 72 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: had never seen, and so he didn't even acknowledge that. 73 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: But they, okay, we won't do that. And so I 74 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: don't know if it was Brian, I don't know if 75 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: it was Vince. I don't know who the finals say was. 76 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: You'll have to accost them digitally to find out. But 77 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: someone says, well, what about Dolph Ziggler, And again, UM 78 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: like that, No, that name sucks. You can't, you cannot 79 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: do that. This name sucks. What are your ideas? I 80 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: don't know. I'm probably throwing anything out there, John freaking Wayne, 81 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: I mean anything, just don't Sean Wayne. How about Sean 82 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: Wayne if you're gonna do Dolf Diggler. So it was 83 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: not a long argument. I lost quickly. I guess my 84 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: punishment for fighting the good fight was I was assigned 85 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: the segment to direct the or produced. They call it 86 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: the first I'm we're ever gonna meet this wonderfully named 87 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: wrestler superstar Dolph Ziggler. So I get the segment and 88 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: Vince tells me what it's going to be, and he says, 89 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: he's just gonna introduce himself. I said, what do you 90 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: I'm laughing, I said, what do you What do you mean? 91 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: What what does he What do you mean? He's just 92 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: gonna introduce himself Every every week, he's just gonna come up. 93 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 1: He's gonna say, hey, Dolf Zickler. It's gonna shake his hand. 94 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: I go, what what are you talking about. We're not 95 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: gonna just do that. That's a really short segment. We 96 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: won't even get uh you know it's not that's not 97 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: worthy to get on television. He goes, honest, he'll always 98 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: be interrupting people in conversation, like all right, so human 99 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: to have a couple backstage talent, having a conversation. He's 100 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: gonna come up, interrupt them, introduce himself, and then walk away. 101 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: And I pitch it like that, which is a pitch 102 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: off his pitch, and he laughs as if this as 103 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: if my idea was good. It was not good. He goes, yeah, yeah, 104 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: that's that's right. So now I'm sitting here, this is 105 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 1: an unsavable segment as far as what I'm capable of doing. 106 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: There's nothing I can do to make the name work. 107 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: There's nothing I can do to make the character work 108 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: because I'm not giving any freedom with who this man is, 109 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: where he came from, what motivates him, all the things 110 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: that make you say, the stuff that's gonna make you 111 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: a healer of baby face, all the words that you're 112 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: going to use in a promo. Because I get the 113 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: promo of Hey, Dolph Ziegler, I go up to Nick 114 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: and I kind of lay it out there, and he's 115 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: all for it. Man, He's game. He's down for whatever 116 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: he's hyped to be on the main roster. He's glad 117 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: to be it of the the Niki gimmick from the 118 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: Spirit Squad. I'm sure he wasn't stoked on the name either. 119 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: We spent as little time speaking about it as possible, 120 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: because I knew I certainly wasn't comfortable with it, and 121 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: I didn't want to make him any less comfortable with it, 122 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: So I said, look, you know, we gotta just sort 123 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: of commit to this and and and and go all in. 124 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: And it's one line, so at least you don't have 125 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: to worry about forgetting anything right. And he's like, and 126 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: he's cool, man, he's game like. He started coming to 127 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: that to the acting workshops right after that, which we'll 128 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,119 Speaker 1: get into after this. So the first one we do, 129 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: they had a girl and she would come out and 130 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: she would sing so poorly that the crowd would start 131 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: booing and screaming, please, anyone just shut this woman up. 132 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: And then the baby face wrestler would come out and 133 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: slam her to the ground and shut her up, and 134 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: the crowd will go, yeah, hell, you saved her hair 135 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: drums right, very old school in real life. The girl 136 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: can actually sing like she's got pipes, so she has 137 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: to make herself sing crappy to to pull this gimmick 138 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: off week after week after week for as long as 139 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: she was there. And this gimmick worked for her for 140 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: for quite some time, so I have her speaking to 141 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: Jamie Noble. To know Jamie Noble for ten minutes is 142 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: to love this dude. He was a professional wrestler. He's 143 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: an agent now, meaning he helps. He helps choreograph the matches, 144 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: he helps place the story within the choreography so that 145 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: they're actually they're telling you a story while fighting. And 146 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: when I say that, I mean things like he's working 147 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 1: on the leg. He's he's hitting him with leg kicks 148 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: when the wrestlers down, he's stomping on the leg, and 149 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: he's his focus is there one because maybe the guy's 150 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: got a knee brace on or to his submission hold 151 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: is some sort of knee bar or figure four leg 152 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: lock or ankle hook. He'll hook something like that where 153 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: the knee is gonna give, so he's softening it up. 154 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: And that's the story that they're telling in the rings. 155 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: So that's what Jamie would do, and he would try 156 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 1: to sneakily implement little m M A things and successfully 157 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: did so when he was there. Even though Vince hated 158 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: that stuff. Jamie found like slick ways to get it 159 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: in and it always looked great when when Jamie was involved. 160 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: But at this point in time. He was a wrestler 161 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: who wasn't gonna get another run, but always gave you 162 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: a solid match and was like people respected him. All 163 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: the wrestlers respected him, and I could see that instantly, 164 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: so he could talk on the mic a bit. If 165 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: you knew him from the old days, he came off 166 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: as this like crazy tough, like little Man's complex firecracker 167 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: from West Virginia. And I had him talking to Jillian. 168 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: I think he was like maybe throwing some game at 169 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: her or something like that, and she was singing, and 170 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here comes Dolf. I have him 171 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: basically like in a two shot that's off on the side, 172 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: like from a Japanese horror film, basically so that we 173 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: can pan off a little bit camera left, which would 174 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: be what the actors would see as the right side, 175 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: and that's gonna reveal Dolf. And then I'm gonna let 176 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: Dolph's movement bring the camera back to Jamie and Jillian. Right. 177 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 1: I'm doing like everything I can to make this have 178 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: some like ounce of quality, Like what what can I do? 179 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: I can't write anything here anyway. Dolph leads back into 180 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: the two shot, which now becomes a three and it's 181 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: it's their cowboys, which means it's that they're at their waists. 182 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: And he just comes up and interrupts him. He says, hey, 183 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: Dolph Ziggler, shakes his hand and he walks away, and 184 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: and Noble just goes looks at him. I think he 185 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: says like, I know who you are or something like 186 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: I don't remember. I've been trying to delete this. And 187 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: he storms off and we get the segment approved. I 188 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: had to get up, I had to get I had 189 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: to get approval for a segment that had two lines. 190 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: I had to get approval for a segment that had 191 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: to frigging lines. It's not embarrassing, it is infuriating. So 192 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: it gets approved. And the like the backstage producer, the 193 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: one who's in charge of wrangling your crew and uh 194 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: and getting your tape to the truck. I'm not gonna 195 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: throw him under the bus and and put his name 196 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: out there, but I say, hey, you got it. You 197 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: got the segment. He goes, yeah, we got it. It 198 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: never gets to the truck. And I found out later 199 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: that it was on purpose. This guy was like trying 200 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: to sand bag me a lot. But it never gets 201 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: to the truck. The segment doesn't air, and I'm catching heat, 202 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: and I'm told by one of the guys that works 203 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: with this, one gentleman in particular, who tried to sand 204 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: bag me, he said, no, it's the it's the writer's 205 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: job to get the to get the tape to the truck. 206 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: I go, that's ridiculous. That is the last responsibility. That 207 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: is the writer's job. That has nothing to do with 208 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: the writer's job, and that's your job. What the hell? 209 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 1: And then they kind of blew it off and there 210 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: I go, well, it got lost, man, it just got lost, Like, 211 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's a completely different story. So what the hell? Man, 212 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: why am I getting lied to? I don't have time 213 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: to just screaming everybody that needs to get screamed at 214 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: because the show's over. Vince's yelling at me. I gotta 215 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: get into damn limo and fly to the next city 216 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: with him. So I don't even like get my chance 217 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: that the equal and opposite reaction. I only get the action, 218 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: and it's all on me. It's like throwing a rubber 219 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: ball into a wall and has to take all that 220 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: energy from the wall that you know hurts the poor 221 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: little ball, and instead of getting to reverse that energy 222 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: as you just stuck in the wall, right, and the 223 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: wall is Vince's jet and it's not big enough to 224 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: get away from him. So I just have to hear 225 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: you know, what the hell you ruin? This ruined that. 226 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 1: I'm like, how did? How did I The one person 227 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: that can't possibly be the two people that can't possibly 228 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: be responsible for this getting ruined is Dolf and me, 229 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: Like what the hell are you talking about? So week 230 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: goes by, they miraculously fine the tape and oh oh 231 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: they found it the next week and now it's gonna 232 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: go in. So they tried to even get me to reshoot. 233 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: I was like, no, we have it, just air it, 234 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: and uh I was oh so mad. So they air 235 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: it and it's the first time you see Dolph and 236 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: he goes in and he does his Dolph zig look thing, 237 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: and I remember sitting there going he's dead before his 238 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: career even got started, Like that's that's crazy, like this, 239 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: you can't do business like this. So flash forward now 240 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: a couple of months. He's done the introduction thing over 241 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: and over and over again. He's had a few matches, 242 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 1: and the dude is good, real good. He starts coming 243 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: into like the acting workshop because he knew a lot 244 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: of the young cats that were in there. He was 245 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: he was within that that group, the Muses and all 246 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: those guys and Cardonas and all that. He used to 247 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: pull some pretty great pranks on Cardona. But uh so 248 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: he starts coming in there and he's doing scenes from 249 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: bad Boys to soap Dish, to Clue all the way 250 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: to Malice with Alec Baldwin and he does the speech, 251 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: the monologue, the promo that was famous in that movie 252 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: where Alec Baldwin is like, I am board certified in 253 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: fifty seven of fifty states. When you see that mother 254 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: praying to God? Who do you think she's praying to? 255 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: And then he ends it with you think I have you? 256 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: I don't remember the line exactly, was like you asked 257 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: me if I have a God complex? I am God? 258 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: And it's so overdramatic, but it's Alec Baldwin. So when 259 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: he commits to it, it works, right. Dahl says, I wanna, 260 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: I want to try that that monologue, and he freaking 261 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: kills it. He freaking kills it, So I don't know. 262 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: Ten years later, I'm way out of the company and 263 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: this fool pull that exact promo on Instagram in black 264 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: and white, and he's just, I mean, nails it. This 265 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: dude's had it in his hit Sorry for ratting you out, 266 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: but he's had it in his head for ten years, 267 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: just rolling it around. How many different ways can you 268 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: do it? In ten you I don't even know? And 269 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: he just killed You could see it on his Instagram 270 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: if you probably scroll way down and he just kills it. 271 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: And then I start watching the storyline they have for 272 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: him with him and miss where he's gonna straight leave 273 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: the business if MS can beat him, and the promos 274 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: he's putting out are high level, and I'm sitting there like, dude, 275 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: what this guy is killing it? And at this point 276 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: he's become one of the more respected wrestlers in the 277 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: in the world, Like wrestling magazines had him as like 278 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: a top ten dude at one point, most improved, hottest 279 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: wrestler coming up, Like all these magazines had love for him. 280 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there, you know, ten year is removed 281 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: from the company, and there's people out there screaming Dolf Ziggler. 282 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: There's people out there with Dolf Ziggler signs with DZ 283 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: signs with all these girls out there with hearts and 284 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: d Z, I love you, marry me, take me to 285 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: the prom, take me, take me some, take me anywhere. Dolf. 286 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: And he got so over with the worst name in 287 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: wrestling that the name became special and you just naturally 288 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: call the guy Dolf and it doesn't feel weird and 289 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't sound weird. I put him as a character 290 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: in my supermanga Baseball three baseball game, except I don't 291 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: do gimmick infringement, so his name is Zolfdiggler, not Dolf Ziggler, 292 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: because we don't rob people's creativity on my xbox. But anyway, 293 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm like, this man's work, and 294 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: let me tell you something. If you don't watch wrestling, 295 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: just YouTube Dolf ziggler greatest matches or Dolf Ziggler's best moments. 296 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: This dude's work is so clean, so clean, and he 297 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: comes off like a new school Mr Perfect right, which 298 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 1: I feel had to be a huge influence on it, 299 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: because he sells, meaning when he takes damage from his opponent, 300 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: he sells very much like I mean, almost identical to 301 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: Mr Perfect. Kurt Handick. Rest in peace for those who 302 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 1: don't know everybody listening knows. I know, you know, his 303 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,239 Speaker 1: promos caught up to his wrestling, But his wrestling was 304 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: so amazing, and I remember the moment. I remember the 305 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: exact moment when he was gonna become World heavyweight champion 306 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: because I was freaking in guerrilla when it happened. So 307 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 1: check this out. We get to it was a it 308 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: was a Friday Nights or SmackDown was on Thursdays then, 309 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: but we all recognized it as as Friday Night SmackDown 310 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: now and we shot it on Tuesdays. It wasn't a 311 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: live show, so it was the show no one cared about. 312 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: The the child that the parents neglect. The show was. 313 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: The scripts weren't even read till the day of the show. 314 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: And it's not because the scripts were late. They were. 315 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: They got in the same day as Ross. It just 316 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: no one cared about it. It was this secondary licensed 317 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: show that was like, well, we can just put it 318 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 1: on this network, we can put it on that network. 319 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: We can We'll never move Raw, but we can move 320 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 1: this show anywhere. Whoever is going to give us the 321 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: biggest check and they would just do one year licensing deals. 322 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: To to the best of my memory, I think that's 323 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: what they would do. Maybe it was two years. Yeah, 324 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: I think it was two years, and no one cared. 325 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: It sucked. It was one of the reasons why when 326 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: I think I said this in another episode when I 327 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: came back the second time, Stephanie told me she was 328 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: disappointed that I that I left the first time I left, 329 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: and that she was getting they were getting ready to 330 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: give me SmackDown to run the show. Whether this is 331 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 1: true or not, this is what This is what she said. 332 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 1: And I remember in my head thinking like I would 333 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: have quit even sooner, Like, no, who wants that job? 334 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: You don't care about that show. It's like a developmental 335 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,719 Speaker 1: place for for people to get over and then you 336 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: pluck him and put and put him on the live show. 337 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: So it was that's what we were going through. And 338 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 1: I had a lot more time to do my promo 339 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: class on Tuesdays than on Mondays because again they just 340 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: didn't care. So I got a lot more time with 341 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: the talent, and Ziggler would be in there all the time, 342 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, man, like he was doing two 343 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: person scenes, one person monologues. He was trying stuff that 344 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: other people wouldn't try, and he would grow man. He 345 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: was growing, but nobody would give him the big promo. 346 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: They gave him a mouthpiece. They gave him Vicki Guerreiro, 347 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: and Vicky is a staple and a foundational p for 348 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: a lot of Latino fans and fans in general because 349 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: of the connection with Eddie, who everybody loved. No matter 350 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: who you were, where you were, nobody ever goes minutti 351 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: Guero wasn't that good? Like that sentence has never been 352 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: uttered outside right now in pure jest. And if I 353 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: ever hear anyone say that, I will ridicule them into oblivion. 354 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: So she had a lot of credibility. Chavo then came 355 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 1: with that, and they were sort of the mouthpieces for 356 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: dolf in the in the early goings. Every once in 357 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: a while he would get to speak a little bit, 358 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: maybe on the road and the house shows. He was 359 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: getting more opportunities because there's no cameras there and that's 360 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: a good place to experiment. But to my knowledge and 361 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: while I was there, it just wasn't. He didn't get 362 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: that much to say. So He's gonna wrestle Edge and 363 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: I have the next segment after the match. It's like 364 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: an in ring thing with with Santina Morella, and I 365 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: think Coslaw, who is this big Russian dude who was 366 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: like a legit tough guy from Eastern year. I don't 367 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: know if he was Russian, but like Eastern Europe where 368 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: you would say things like hey man, hey Coslave, I 369 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: bet you broke a lot of arms over there people 370 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: owed money and he'd be like, no, come on, don't joke, 371 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: don't joke, and you'd be like, oh, oh, oh, shitt 372 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: he actually he's actually bussed arms, my man, bro Hey Coslve, 373 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: I love you man. Watch this Richard prior tape with me. 374 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: I loved Goslve. He was he was great, but he 375 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: lived in real life. So anyway, I had that bit 376 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 1: and it was like a comedy bit because Santino was 377 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: it it and he always killed. You didn't have to 378 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,679 Speaker 1: write for Santina. We did. But anything he wanted to 379 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: change unless Vince said no, he would just change and 380 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: crush it and it was always way better. I'm in 381 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: there waiting to go and they're doing the big finish 382 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: and they probably had a good eighteen minute match something 383 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: like that. Edge gets the wind and he comes backstage. 384 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: Ziggles is still selling in the ring, you know, from 385 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,120 Speaker 1: the from the spears. Oh god, I got spared. And 386 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: Edge comes back in and he looks at Vince and 387 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: Vince goes well and Edge goes, yeah, man, that kid 388 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: can work. He called him a kid. He goes, yeah, 389 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: that kid can work, and Vince goes he's good and 390 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: Edge goes, yeah, man, he's real good. And he walked 391 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: out and I was like, holy crap, dude, Like that 392 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: was that's a big that's a big, big deal for 393 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 1: a top guy a to just say, yeah, I'll wrestle 394 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: his dude on TV. Even though he's gonna get the win, 395 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 1: he's still gotta it's a let's see what you got. 396 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: So he's gotta let Dolf get some get some action 397 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: on him, right. So a lot of guys wouldn't do it, 398 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: but Edge and and like movies and stuff, he's credited 399 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,360 Speaker 1: as I think Adam Copeland. Um is this humongous Canadian 400 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: Viking dude. He's like six six, super handsome. He's got 401 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: the beard, the Viking beard, the Viking hair. He's not 402 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: like a big fat wrestler. He'd be like, I don't 403 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: know if Eric the Red was sexy, but if he 404 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: was that's edge, right, So he's not in a position 405 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: where he has to do this. He's just a good Canadian, 406 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: awesome dude. Gives this match, then puts him over with 407 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: the boss, goes backstage. Then I see Dolf and I 408 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: think Vicky was with him. They come back and Vince 409 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: gives him the thumbs up, which may not sound like much, 410 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: but if you could have seen the look on Dolf's face, 411 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: it was you knew that was the world. That was 412 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: like getting told a man you're gonna be the starting 413 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: first baseman on the Yankees like he had. He had 414 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: to know, he had to know, and Freebird probably smartened 415 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: him up. Michael Hayes, Uh, he was a former wrestler 416 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: and one of my bosses at w w E and 417 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 1: I love the man and he was always so brutally 418 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: honest with the talent and with me too. Man, But 419 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: I love that kind of stuff because he just he 420 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: had no filter. But he had to have smartened Dolf 421 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: up as well to say, hey, you're about to get 422 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: a run, which he did. He became the World heavyweight champion. 423 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: And he's not the biggest dude. He's a legit wrestler, though, 424 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: I mean, he went to college at Kent State and 425 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: he had the most wins in the college's history I 426 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: think until just recently, like in the last three years 427 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: where they had some phenomen dude that was like a 428 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: high level in the n C two A rest and 429 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: I don't remember the guy's name, but I feel like 430 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: Nick shouted him out, so he he was legit. But 431 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: I'm taller than Nick. He's way more swollen me. But 432 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: as far as like bigness, his frame isn't that big, right, 433 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: So they put the word the gold belt for those 434 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: who don't. They have two belts. They have the raw 435 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: one on Monday Night Raw that was like their big one, 436 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: and then they had the gold belt with the red 437 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: rubies that they were a little more. They gave a 438 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: little more latitude with as far as who who could 439 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: wear that belt, I don't know if I'm allowed to 440 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: say that, but we just did. It doesn't matter. So 441 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: he gets this title, and they gave him the title twice. 442 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: He was a two time world heavyweight champion. Check this out. 443 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: He won the Intercontinental Championship I think maybe five six 444 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: seven times. He won the United States Championship I think twice, 445 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: maybe even three times if you want to count FCW stuff. 446 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: He was a tag team champ there. But I'm just 447 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: talking about the two main shows, and then just recently 448 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: the n x T Champion, which is the w w 449 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,719 Speaker 1: e's Tuesday night show where they have a lot of 450 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: more of their developmental talent, but every once in a 451 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: while they'll bring a veteran guy or girl in to 452 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: help them work and to help give them some veteran 453 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: experience instead of just working with other young people who 454 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: are still learning and developing their craft, and they sort 455 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: of get more of that pedigree, sort of big time 456 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: TV experience, which is necessary from the name Dolf Ziggler, 457 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: which is just like, all right, you're about to run 458 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: the Hunter meter dash, alright, cool, let me smash you 459 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: in the knee with this Louisville slugger, real quick, whack 460 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: and go. So he's off to a slow start, right 461 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 1: because they hit him right in the knee and you 462 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: have to run or or you never get to run 463 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: track again. So everybody lanes one through seven or all 464 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: way ahead of him in the first core her and 465 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 1: here comes Dolf Ziggler. Limp it. He's not even limping, 466 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: he's hopping the first quarter it's we'll say it's the 467 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: four dred me. So the first hundred he's he's hopping, 468 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: he can't even put weight on it. Second hundred he 469 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 1: gets that limp like when your kids hurt but they 470 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: still want to play. Third one, he's gaining on him, 471 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 1: and in the fourth one, apparently he's the wolverine and 472 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: feels no pain and not only beats all of them, 473 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: but laps him and wins the World heavyweight championship two 474 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: times with albatross is around his neck. Only the people 475 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: who paid attention in high school literature will remember that reference, 476 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: but literally, an albatross an anchor of a lead weight 477 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: with a chain like bugs Bunny in the prison yard, 478 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: and he became a two time world champion. I have 479 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: so much respect for this dude for all his championships. 480 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: Oh and one random side note. You probably see it 481 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: on YouTube type in Dolph electrocutes Cardona Swerved. It was 482 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: the name of a show they did on their w 483 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 1: w E network when it first debuted from the Jackass producers, 484 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: and it's I'm gonna spoil it, but it's no spoiler 485 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: because it's hysterical. I've watched it a million times they 486 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: did the electric stool bit and Dolph is pretending to 487 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: host a WrestleMania bit the most electrifying moments in WrestleMania history. 488 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 1: Now you have wrestlers who call themselves the most electrifying 489 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: sports entertained. That was the rock. So it's a common phrase, 490 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: not one that you would be suspicious of. And so 491 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 1: as the host, Dolph has the clean seat, the one 492 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: that's not going to fry your buns, and all the 493 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: guests that he brings in that day to talk about 494 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 1: their their favorite electrifying w w E moments, they're on 495 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: the hot seat and they're all gonna get zapped. And 496 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: he has different people in there, and it's always funny, 497 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: and he's he's cracking up and his laugh is just 498 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: it makes you laugh no matter what. And then incomes 499 00:27:55,280 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: Mac Hardona, who was currently the independent wrestling Darling of Universe, 500 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: and he's the nicest guy in the world and he 501 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: fell for this, and I felt so bad that I 502 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: vowed to help him get revenge on your golf. He 503 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: sits Matt down and he talks about his most the 504 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: most electrifying moment of wrestling, his zapping, and he looks 505 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: at Dolph and he goes, what what and Dolph look, 506 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: he goes what what? He goes, did you And Dolph's 507 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: like what what are you okay? And he goes, yeah, man, 508 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 1: that's oh that was crazy. And Dolph goes, there's probably 509 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: someone in his ears saying try to do it again, 510 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: try to do it again. And Dolph goes, all right, 511 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 1: well are you okay? I wanna try this again? And yeah, okay, 512 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: and he puts his hand on the seat. Nothing happens. 513 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: He sits down. Okay from the top, Yeah, from the top. Okay. Welcome, 514 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: It's Dolph Szigler and we're talking about the most electrifying 515 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: moments in WrestleMania here with Matt Cardona. Matt, what do 516 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: you got for me? Well, bro, you know it's uh 517 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: probably one of the most god and Dolf is dying. 518 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: He's falling off the stool dying, and Matt's looking at 519 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: the stool and he's looking at Dolf and because he 520 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: got electrocuted, you know, the synapses in his brain are 521 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: on fire, and right this is the second time. So 522 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: we're you're in my heads go as the viewers like, dude, 523 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: how do you not know? Remember the man's been electrocuted twice. 524 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: He's in shock, he's suffered trauma. He sits down a 525 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: third time. I will not spoil the third shock for you. 526 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: I want you to witness it on YouTube or the 527 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: w w E network on Peacock. They don't pay me 528 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: to say that, or wherever you want to go view 529 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: that video, but please watch it. Hit me up. We're 530 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: also guys. We're gonna do an episode coming up that 531 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: uh is asked Freddie and we'll have a hashtag out there, 532 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: so follow me on social media. You'll see me blasted 533 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: out there, and I'm gonna try to do a whole 534 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: episode if we get enough good questions. So make sure 535 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: you got some sweet ones and hit me up. There 536 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: might be a time period that i've while I was 537 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: there that I've forgotten. You might remind me. A cool 538 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 1: story may come out. I will do my best remember 539 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: everyone's name. My p user is gonna help me out 540 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: with that. So so yeah, so get ready for that 541 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: episode coming up to I hope you guys like today's 542 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: episode catch up if you're just now getting with us, 543 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: I have tons with awesome guests. I have tons of 544 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: stories for my time there. I hope you guys had 545 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: a good time listening. 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