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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 buy

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Speaker 1: now making their way to the microphone.

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Speaker 2: Give it up for.

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Speaker 1: The greatest podcast team in the world, Battle and Eli.

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Speaker 2: What is up you guys? It is time for another

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Speaker 2: episode of your favorite wrestling podcast, Battleground. I am your

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Speaker 2: host Battle along with my dope tag team partner Eli. Hello,

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Speaker 2: and uh man. What a great time it is to

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Speaker 2: be a wrestling fan. I mean we talk about this

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Speaker 2: every single week, and last week just literally proved why

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Speaker 2: it is a great time for being a wrestling fan.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I got a little bit of wrestling fatigue

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Speaker 3: at the moment, but I mean it was It's kind

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Speaker 3: of one of those where, you know, some of the

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Speaker 3: biggest audiences in a very long time watch wrestling. And

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Speaker 3: I mean we're not even like really finished because NWA

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Speaker 3: has got their new show, Impacts moving to Tuesday. I

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Speaker 3: mean there's just there's still a lot of stuff going on,

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Speaker 3: so it's yeah, we'll see, we'll see how it goes.

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Speaker 3: You know, everyone's wish about I wish I had more

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Speaker 3: wrestling has come true. Now we have way more than

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Speaker 3: we know what to do with.

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Speaker 2: Right, And then of course a W announces that they're

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Speaker 2: gonna be on Tuesday nights as well, showing like the

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Speaker 2: dark matches that happened before and after, which I think

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Speaker 2: that is a great move on their part because you

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Speaker 2: don't really see dark matches. So if you're let's say

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Speaker 2: you're a fan of Marco, he wrestled Wednesday night, but

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Speaker 2: you didn't get to see it, right.

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Speaker 3: Best friends, Yeah, they had a pretty stacked dark matches

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Speaker 3: for that. I was pretty surprised, but yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 3: a really good idea.

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Speaker 2: It was a smart move on their part. And I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to pull it up on Instagram. I think it's

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Speaker 2: like Aw's after Dark Maybe is that what it is?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's either that or just dark.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember AW Dark. And so it's Tuesday. They're

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Speaker 2: going to feature matches you didn't see on a dynamite

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Speaker 2: And the best thing is it's hosted by Tony Shavani.

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Speaker 2: So that was itself was amazing to hear him and

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Speaker 2: Jim Ross go back and forth Wednesday Night commentating it

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Speaker 2: was like reliving a childhood dream.

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Speaker 3: And him calling him JF a prick was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Oh it was the I mean sitting there watching it now.

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Speaker 2: I will say this though, and if you haven't checked

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Speaker 2: it out, Matt Riddle was on the show this last

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Speaker 2: week on Friday, and we kind of jumped into the

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Speaker 2: Wednesday Night Wars and I started watching the Matt Riddle

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Speaker 2: match to start off a NXT for the Wednesday Night Wars,

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Speaker 2: and we kind of talked to you know, him going

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Speaker 2: back and forth and how it was an honor app

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Speaker 2: you know, be the first match because NXT knew that

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Speaker 2: they had to blow the roof off and they knew

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Speaker 2: like how it was back in the old days because

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Speaker 2: the day when it was Raw versus Nitro Nitro it

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Speaker 2: just to get that final umph.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It was always always sneaky and that was you know,

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Speaker 3: even now rall, you know, from time to time we'll

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Speaker 2: And you know, kudos to AEW for Wednesday night because

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Speaker 2: for replaying Dynamite again for people who didn't get the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I, you know, I want to say that

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I thought that was a really smart idea too.

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Speaker 3: And I haven't seen the ratings on that, but I'm

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Speaker 3: guess they don't count reruns, so but yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: I think they're I think they're doing everything right so far,

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Speaker 2: So far and something else that before we dive into

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Speaker 2: the whole I guess the meat of the episode. So

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Speaker 2: I'm scrolling through Hulu and I forgot how great of

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Speaker 2: a movie The Wrestler was, And Hulu has The Wrestler

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to I need to go back and

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Speaker 3: watch that. I saw that at the theaters and and

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Speaker 3: that one, it's yeah, really really good. I think they

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Speaker 3: could do a new like do a new version of it,

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Speaker 3: because now you know, you have you know, if you

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Speaker 3: were doing somebody you know, modeled after him. I mean

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Speaker 3: you look at the Rocke roll Express. But I mean,

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Speaker 3: like there's still you know, they've been on the They've

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Speaker 3: been on the Ring of Honor pay per view. There,

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Speaker 3: they were on the n W a special.

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Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, did the New Tag Team Champs?

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Speaker 3: I mean, well they're they're they're the new Tag Team,

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Speaker 3: the NWA Tach Team Champions. I think that's the ninth

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was either New Japan or something earlier this

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Speaker 3: New Japan. Yeah, So I mean like they're still going so,

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Speaker 3: like you know, I'm sure obviously there are wrestlers that

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Speaker 3: definitely an incredible movie if you've never seen it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Tatonka still wrestling. I don't know if somebody

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Speaker 2: would want to watch a movie on him, but I

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Speaker 2: always enjoyed watching him wrestle back in the cartoon days. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, So anyways, let's let's get into the actual show, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, I realized we never did this the beginning.

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Speaker 2: We are on social media Instagram you can find it's's

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Speaker 2: Battleground podcast. Twitter is Battleground IHR, and if you're on Facebook,

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Speaker 2: just search Battleground podcast and you'll see us. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's not hard to miss the logo, the wrestling ring,

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Speaker 2: the microphone. Anyways, but let's jump into it. The Wednesday

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Speaker 2: Night Wars. Their ratings are in and I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: Dynamite averaged about point six to eight ratings and adults

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Speaker 2: eighteen forty nine, which is the wheelhouse for wrestling fans now.

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Speaker 2: And this kind of wrestling. This this wrestling for our age,

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Speaker 2: because I mean, we're not kind of watching Monday Night

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Speaker 2: forty nine, they averaged one point four million viewers over

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Speaker 2: two hours compared to what NXT got, which was a

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Speaker 2: show NXT started off with a bang, and there's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you know, I I pretty much expected the

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's just a lot to look forward to.

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Speaker 3: So it was a big contrast to see AW, you know,

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And you know, after after watching the Riddle

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I thought it was pretty smooth, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I thought it was a cool I think,

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Speaker 3: Well, and it's I'm sure most people know by now,

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Speaker 3: You know. That wasn't just he didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: that I think it is.

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00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 3: He looks younger, but I mean still yees. So I mean, yeah,

431
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 3: he is an adult and he's been training, you know,

432
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 3: taking bumps and stuff. So that's that was That was

433
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 3: a controlled attack in case anybody was.

434
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 2: Wondering, Yeah, but you know, thinking back to it there,

435
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 2: that was about the only thing that really caught my

436
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 2: attention from Raw other than the end of or Well

437
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 2: setting up for the Crown Jewel. I really thought we

438
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 2: were about to see Hulk, Hogan and Rick Flair fight

439
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 2: each other, but then they just turned it into a

440
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 2: battle royal for the Crown Jewel, and I think, oh God,

441
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 2: thank goodness, like, yeah, we don't have to see that.

442
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 3: When you text me that, because I hadn't turned raw,

443
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 3: and yet I was like, Jesus Christ, you can't be serious.

444
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I know, I know Rick Flair

445
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 3: got cleared to take bumps earlier this year, and I

446
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 3: guess he did with Batista coming back and all that,

447
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 3: but he just turned seventy. Bro Like, we do not

448
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 3: need to see a seventy year old in wrestling match

449
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 3: in Hulk sixty seven, I think, I mean, like.

450
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 2: I mean, you thought Goldberg and Undertaker was a rough match,

451
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 2: Wait till you see that one in Saudi Arabia.

452
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. And then of course, you know, arguably, and

453
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 3: this is arguably because I mean we would have to

454
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 3: sit down and look at it. But you know, arguably

455
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 3: the worst angle they've done in twenty years got worse.

456
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 3: Bobby Lashley and Lena. Oh it was horrible, Like, I

457
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 3: mean that whole crap with Mike and Maria and then

458
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 3: Russeph being the real dad or whatever.

459
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 2: But the thing is is they stopped talking about it.

460
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it hasn't been mentioned, that's the funny thing.

461
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 3: And then you know they were actually like very close

462
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 3: to bringing in Maury Povich and he was going to

463
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 3: do the whole you know, you are the father, you're

464
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 3: not the whatever.

465
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 2: Oh god, you just think about that right now. Yeah,

466
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 2: that's a fox wet dream right there.

467
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean twenty nineteen, and they were about to

468
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 3: go down that road, you know, and somebody came to

469
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 3: their senses like, now let's not do that. And then

470
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 3: so then you have Bobby Lashy come out. Who you know,

471
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 3: there's varying opinions about him. Obviously he's got an incredible look.

472
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 3: You know, his skill set's not bad. He's not great

473
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 3: on the mic, but not everybody is. But you know,

474
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: he was like Drew McIntyre and that when he left,

475
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 3: he kind of reinvented himself. I mean, he was the

476
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 3: top guy an impact pretty much. I mean, he was

477
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 3: always the champ and one time he had I think

478
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 3: both belts. I think he had the world title, end

479
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 3: the X Division. I mean they they strapped the rocket

480
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 3: on him, you know. But yeah, so Bobby Lashley, you know,

481
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 3: I you know, I guess we we kind of had

482
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 3: more hopes for him coming back and that hasn't really

483
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 3: panned out. Same thing with Drew McIntyre. You see him,

484
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,959
Speaker 3: he's been around a lot, you know, you know, had

485
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 3: the Icy Belt and there's kind of a stable performing

486
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 3: with him and Drew McIntyre and I think Baron Corbin

487
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 3: and and then nothing happened with that. So anyways, so

488
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 3: then you know, have him come out and then Lena

489
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 3: come out and then like they're hardcore make it out.

490
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like awkward, you know, like opened down,

491
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: hung Yeah, like they went over bored and and you

492
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 2: can kind of see Rusf like his heartbreak a little bit.

493
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 2: Like I think he knew that that was coming, but

494
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 2: I don't think he knew. I mean the way it

495
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 2: looked was like they're like, hey, we're just gonna kiss

496
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 2: each other on stage. But you know, Bobby Lashley want

497
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 2: wants the full effect.

498
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 3: Well, and it's funny because you know, Bobby Lashley's married

499
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 3: Laya and Russof obviously married excuse me. So you know,

500
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 3: it's kind of one of those you almost think like, okay,

501
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 3: so are they punishing Rusoff Russof and Lena, like is

502
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 3: this some kind of like I'll show you, you know,

503
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 3: and like and then even at the SmackDown Blue Carpet,

504
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 3: Lena and Bobby Lashley were together. Yeah. I mean it's

505
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 3: this is a this is a nineteen ninety nine storyline,

506
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 3: you know, and it's so you know, and people or

507
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: you know, maybe not people, but you know, I think

508
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: there's people on the WWE that kind of laughed aw

509
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 3: when they're like, we're trying to give people an alternative,

510
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 3: and it's like why we've got all this content, Like

511
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 3: that's why that segment right there is why people are

512
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 3: looking for other products, because that is stupid. No one

513
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 3: wants to see that in twenty nineteen. Russof is incredible,

514
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 3: Lene is incredible, Mike and Maria incredible, Bobby Lashley is incredible.

515
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 3: I mean, you can do things with these guys without

516
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 3: something like that.

517
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 2: So yeah, and we were all hoping that when Bobby

518
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: Lashley came back, we would get him in Brock. I

519
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,120
Speaker 2: mean that was kind of the thing that we all

520
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 2: get rights is gonna happen.

521
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they both have successful MMA careers, they're

522
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 3: both like built like tanks, they're both world champs, former

523
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 3: world champs. Whatever. I mean. It sold itself. I mean,

524
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 3: I don't know.

525
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: But I mean it's crazy. And then fast forward to

526
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 2: let's talk about SmackDown for a little bit. You know,

527
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 2: to be completely honest, the way Fox treated SmackDown, they

528
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: treated this like it was the damn super Bowl, Like,

529
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I re showed the blue carpet, everybody's showing out,

530
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: and I was just like.

531
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 3: I liked the graphics in the show. It was like

532
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 3: they do on the NFL shows, you know, like the

533
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 3: floating like the floating JumboTron or whatever, you know, that

534
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 3: showed the stats from the wrestlers and stuff. That was

535
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 3: pretty cool.

536
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty cool and that, you know,

537
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 2: and that just goes to show what you know, they're

538
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 2: what they're doing is smart. And they then you see

539
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 2: that amazing set and I was like, holy crap, and Fox,

540
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 2: Fox is going balls to the wall with this. Like

541
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: like we were talking about the other day, like at

542
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: the radio station. I was listening on several of the

543
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 2: stations and they were running now it was it was

544
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: Fox seventeen and Nashville's commercials about the I guess the

545
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 2: news or whatever. But then it was like a donut.

546
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: So right after that air, it was literally a WWE

547
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 2: SmackDown commercial tagged in with the local stuff. And it

548
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 2: was like NonStop every commercial I would hear smack Down,

549
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 2: smacked Down, SmackDown. And it was cool because, like I

550
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: was scrolling through Twitter, which by the way, we're on

551
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: Twitter Battleground IHR, and like the local Fox people here

552
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 2: in Nashville, we're all posting up with the championship belt

553
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: in photos promoting SmackDown as well. And you know, and

554
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 2: I think, like I texted you, SmackDown being on Fox

555
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: is going to be good because people that just have

556
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: basic cable, rabbit ears, you know whatever, they can't get

557
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 2: the USA network. But everybody can get Fox seventeen in Nashville.

558
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 3: Right And I I'm not gonna discount that that is

559
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 3: that is something to consider. But you know, at this time,

560
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: in this day and age, most people have some kind

561
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: of access to TV. You know what I mean, right,

562
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 3: I mean, even if they do you know, YouTube TV

563
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 3: or Hulu TV or whatever, you know, sling box. I mean,

564
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 3: there's all kinds of stuff out there you can get,

565
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 3: you know, quote I'm doing, I'm doing your air quotes

566
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 3: here the quote unquote cable TV for starting at thirty

567
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: bucks a month, you know what I mean. So I

568
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 3: don't think that's as big of a factor as it

569
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 3: was twenty years ago, when you know, everybody had to

570
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 3: have cable TV and everybody had a cable box and YadA, YadA, YadA.

571
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 2: You know.

572
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 3: I think the biggest takeaway that I have for this

573
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 3: is that, you know, at one point, I think somebody

574
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 3: said SmackDown did over four million people, you know. I

575
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 3: think I think they said it was when the rock

576
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 3: was out with Becky, you know. I think that's when

577
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 3: it peaked, and it's and it's their viewership.

578
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at ratings right now, and for the

579
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: total from like eight to ten, what's three point nine million?

580
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: Excuse me? How to get a little sit there parched?

581
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 3: So that number Loan was like probably twice what I

582
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 3: was thinking, because it is it was a Friday night,

583
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 3: you know, that's notoriously a Bad Night for anything really. So,

584
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 3: but what people have to realize is like they're not

585
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 3: going to have this caliber of a show.

586
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: Every week, No, not at all.

587
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 3: You know, the Rock is never going to be on

588
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: the show again. Well he might, but I mean very seldomly.

589
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 3: Is he gonna be less just to promote Jamuji Yeah,

590
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: Fast and Furious twenty seven or Jumanji Part five whatever.

591
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 3: You know, we're most likely not going to have Brock

592
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 3: defending his title on that show again. You know, that's

593
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: probably never gonna happen.

594
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 2: Why he's the champ, which you'll talk about that in

595
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: just a little bit.

596
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. So, so your analogy for Super Bowl

597
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 3: was pretty much that was dead on. I mean, that

598
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 3: was their super Bowl. That that kicking it a kind

599
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: of kind of like NASCAR's biggest race is the very

600
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 3: first one, the Daytona five hundred. I mean that kind

601
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 3: of was their biggest match out of the or the

602
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: biggest show is you know, we got to swing for

603
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 3: the fences. And you know, I made a joke to you.

604
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: I was like, well, if I spend a billion bucks

605
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 3: getting those rights, I would roll out all the stops too,

606
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 3: you know. But so you know, Obviously, the set's incredible.

607
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 3: You know, we're about to have the draft, and you know,

608
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 3: obviously Fox once the players, USA once Day players, so

609
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: that's gonna be interesting. But you know, don't expect this

610
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: much glitz and glam on every single show. They just

611
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 3: did this to hit the home run out of the gate.

612
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's you know, I'm looking at I guess

613
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: Deadline did a report and it was saying, uh, SmackDown's

614
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 2: Fox debut was up from the shows twenty nineteen to

615
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: date averaged on USA, SmackDown drew more viewers than Raw

616
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: did and this was the most watched WWE telecast since

617
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 2: January of twenty eighteen, and that was RAW twenty five.

618
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 3: Oh that makes sense.

619
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, so, I mean they they treat like, like

620
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 2: we said, they treated this like the Super Bowl. They

621
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 2: rolled out the pre show thing where you could watch

622
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: the interviews, and they've put Michael Cole and Corey Graves, which,

623
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 2: which is what I want to know is what's weird.

624
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: And we've talked about this before, so Dodby a couple

625
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 2: weeks ago, they're like, here's our announced teams, and it

626
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 2: was like the three guys with or the two Guys

627
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: with Jerry Lawler for all the NXT is still the same,

628
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: and then it shows SmackDown. It was like Corey Graves,

629
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 2: Michael Cole and Renee and it showed them three as

630
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 2: the announcers. And then you tune in Friday Night and

631
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 2: it's Corey Graves and Michael Cole.

632
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah and see. And then the report that I had

633
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 3: that I sent you said that she wasn't so me

634
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 3: and you were just like h And I think we

635
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 3: even I think on one of our shows, I think

636
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 3: it was one of the ones where I was at

637
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 3: the studio, you actually said like, yeah, those three are

638
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 3: moving over, and I mean we just couldn't get a

639
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 3: clear answer. I mean, like, you know, you'd send me

640
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: a link that showed all three. I show you one

641
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 3: that said two, and I mean we just had no clarification.

642
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 3: So I think I even said something like, I mean,

643
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 3: I guess we'll find out when they air it. And

644
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 3: so it looks like for the time being, she's not

645
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 3: gonna do it, and she's gonna do the The Fox

646
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 3: Show with Booker t or whatever which on Tuesday nights,

647
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 3: Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Yeah, and then there's a rumor that

648
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 3: seem Punk has not only auditioned for it, but that

649
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 3: he's in the running to be the third host on

650
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 3: that as well.

651
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 2: So and I saw that report. And then there was

652
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: also the part of in the report, I think I

653
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: saw that that WWE doesn't have any say so in

654
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 2: this show. They're just using the talent. So that's why

655
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 2: I see him Punk is like, I'll do this show,

656
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 2: but I'm not employed by WWE. It's it's a Fox

657
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: employed show.

658
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, that that I think that was the biggest

659
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 3: thing is he's you know, that's kind of letting him

660
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 3: dip his toes back into the company without actually having

661
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 3: to deal with the company.

662
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, but I mean, SmackDown, that set was phenomenal

663
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 2: and I'm sitting there looking at it, and it's really

664
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 2: cool at the entrance where they have those pillars. So

665
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: that adds a little bit more ump factor. But the

666
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 2: whole time I was sitting there thinking, I was like, Okay,

667
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: Shane or Kevin Owens is going through one of those.

668
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 2: That was the first thing that popped in my head.

669
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was I think that was everybody's first thought.

670
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 2: I mean, but I mean the set was beautiful, and

671
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 2: I mean the whole night was great. Now, I was

672
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 2: at my oldest son's baseball practice, so I was kind

673
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 2: of having to watch things through Twitter, and I did

674
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: notice that a lot of people were extremely pissed and

675
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 2: they were actually channing ae W at SmackDown because they

676
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: had advertised that Stone Cold and Undertaker were going to

677
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: be there and they were nowhere in the building.

678
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I thought Sting was going to be there,

679
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 3: and I mean, they had a list of people that

680
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 3: was supposed to be there, and then I guess, I

681
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 3: guess Undertaker posted something on Instagram and somebody was like,

682
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 3: oh man, we wish to head you instead of that

683
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: crap ending with Kine And then he replied and said

684
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 3: I was told I wasn't needed, so he was at

685
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 3: the show, and so obviously something with Vince. He changed

686
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 3: his mind last minute. So so the scary thing is

687
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 3: is just that where they're at now, I don't know

688
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 3: how much time he's going to put towards XFL. Yeah,

689
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 3: you know that. The thought was is that Raw is

690
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 3: going to be kind of dragging, SmackDown's going to be

691
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 3: kind of dragging, NXT will be with Triple Ah, Okay, cool,

692
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 3: this is his perfect time to kind of focus more

693
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 3: of his attention on XFL. Well, no, this is the

694
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 3: biggest week they've had in twenty years, so no, he's

695
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 3: got all of his attention on this product again, so

696
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 3: that's disappointing. But anyways, it's a good obviously good week

697
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 3: for wrestling. There's a lot of lot of content to consume.

698
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: The thing because when aw was going going off the air,

699
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 2: they had a shot heard around the world. It was

700
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,959
Speaker 2: a big ordeal. John Moxley showed up and interrupted the match,

701
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 2: which I thought, Okay, maybe this is going to set

702
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 2: something up. Somebody's gonna come out and be, you know,

703
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 2: the third member with the Young Bucks.

704
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, and to interject on that, I mean, did they

705
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 3: announce that that was like a no disqualification? And I

706
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 3: just missed it.

707
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 4: Because there was none none of that, because that should

708
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 4: have ended the match, I mean, you know, and that's

709
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 4: what I was thinking was But then I looked at

710
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 4: my watch and I was like, well, there's like twenty

711
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 4: minutes still left, right, and somebody's.

712
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 3: Kind of starting to grade on people's nerves. And I

713
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 3: mentioned it at one of the one of the pay

714
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 3: per views, the one with the Bucks and Kenny against

715
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 3: the whoever the other three way the six Men tag and.

716
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 2: Uh the Luca brothers and what's his name?

717
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that one, and it was just a free

718
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 3: for all, like you know, there'd be four people in

719
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: the ring at one time, and then the legal man

720
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 3: wasn't the one actually in there, and then and there'd

721
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: be you know, three on one and then two on two,

722
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 3: and just the ref was just letting it happen. And

723
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 3: I was like, this is not a tag match. This

724
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 3: is just they're setting up spots. That's it. That's all

725
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 3: they're doing. And so much to my dismay, I actually

726
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: agreed with Jim Cornette for a split second, and that shocker. Yeah,

727
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 3: I mean that that was not actual, That was not

728
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 3: actually storytelling, That was not actually real traditional pro wrestling,

729
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 3: you know, And you know, until i'd heard one of

730
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 3: his rants and then really saw it and paid attention

731
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: to it, like, oh, well, he actually does have a

732
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 3: point there, and so same kind of thing is just

733
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 3: like that's like in you know, I'm using their quotes

734
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 3: in your traditional tag team rules and matches and stuff.

735
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a huge no no. Someone coming in

736
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 3: and interfering with the match and basically disposing of one

737
00:38:55,360 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 3: of the participants, that's a DQ, that's it match over. So,

738
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 3: you know, I think for as much as they're putting

739
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 3: emphasis on time limits and rankings and YadA, YadA, YadA,

740
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 3: you know, they're still having a lot of liberties with

741
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 3: basic pro wrestling, pro wrestling rules in etiquette, you know

742
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 3: what I mean. I think for most of their fan

743
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 3: base it's not going to be an issue. But if

744
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 3: they're really trying to be hardcore, traditional and hardcore, you know,

745
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 3: bringing back these tropes that have you know, some of

746
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: them have disappeared, they're also taking liberties with a lot

747
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 3: of basic fundamental parts of matches. So right, I don't know,

748
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 3: and I think one thing I started interrupt though, but yeah,

749
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 3: the big surprise was.

750
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the big surprise, you know, Aw, you sit there,

751
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 2: Moxley takes out Omegas, so you're thinking, Okay, who's going

752
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 2: to be the third person to come down? It never happened.

753
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 2: Then it was just three on two, and then all

754
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Cody comes out, and then Sammy Gamerica

755
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 2: comes out. It's just just free for all. But then

756
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 2: you hear the entire arena erupt and it's Jack Swagger

757
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 2: comes in and annihilates everybody, and a buddy of mine

758
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 2: had texted me and then I sent you the text

759
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 2: for him, and it was the funniest thing in the

760
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: world because once let me see I could find this

761
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: in my phone because I died laughing and I don't

762
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: have it anymore. But he talked about it's funny how

763
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,720
Speaker 2: Jack Swagger goes from wrestling in front of thirty people

764
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 2: and to fifteen thousand people.

765
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting because he's he's he's similar to Jericho,

766
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,479
Speaker 3: and the fact that him and Vince have a really

767
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 3: good relationship, and like, you know, after he left, you know,

768
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 3: he stayed in touch with Vince, and I think I

769
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 3: don't remember if it was Vince or if he was

770
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 3: eight or if it was just the WWE account. I

771
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 3: don't remember. But someone tweeted out like congratulations to him

772
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 3: after he won his first MMA fight and also kind

773
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 3: of digged at Sam Punk.

774
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 2: So.

775
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 3: You know, I think behind the scenes, I think that

776
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 3: was a bigger I think that was a bigger FU

777
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 3: to WW than people are realizing, just because most most

778
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 3: of the time they don't acknowledge people once they leave

779
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 3: the company. They don't care if it's you know, race

780
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 3: car driving or wrestling, an impact or whatever. I mean,

781
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: you know, once you leave the company there, you're kind

782
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 3: of dead to them. So the fact that they tweeted

783
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 3: that out, that's pretty big, you know what I mean.

784
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 3: So the fact that he is back in a major

785
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,479
Speaker 3: corporation and is now their biggest competitor, I think that's

786
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 3: that's a you know, I wonder if we're going to

787
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 3: hear news about this coming out in the next couple

788
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 3: of weeks. I think that's a bigger f you to

789
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 3: WWE than people are realizing. So but you know, when

790
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 3: we saw him in Nashville again, it was kind of

791
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 3: a small crowd. But I mean, he's still got it.

792
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 3: I mean, he's probably thirty three, thirty four. He's staying

793
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: in great shape obviously for doing the M and A stuff.

794
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 3: I think he's either two and oh or three and

795
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 3: oh now, so I mean he's I mean, he could

796
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 3: go with Brock right now if he wanted to. So,

797
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think it was the surprise people

798
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: were expecting, But I think it was more of a

799
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 3: political move and I think it was more of a

800
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: big middle finger to the WWE if anything else. So,

801
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 3: but I mean, I like, I like swagger, you know,

802
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 3: I never really liked the we the people stuff. But

803
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 3: if you go back and watch that they were channing that,

804
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 3: I mean he was like he was really over. So

805
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 3: I mean, like people still like him obviously, but uh,

806
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 3: you know, I always thought he was a good wrestler,

807
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: and I thought he you know, maybe didn't get developed

808
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 3: the right way or it didn't really get this the

809
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 3: shots he probably should have just for being a bigger

810
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 3: guy that can move and stuff. But uh, you know,

811
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 3: we'll see see what he does here.

812
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 2: So yeah, and so that was kind of the I

813
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 2: guess the shot heard around the world when it came

814
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 2: to wrestling. And then you know, Vince and the crew

815
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 2: are like, here, hold my beer. Watch this. So Friday

816
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: Nights mack Down goes all throughout Kofe versus Brock and

817
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,959
Speaker 2: we've called this on the show. Now if you haven't

818
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 2: seen it, this is on you because this is all

819
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 2: over the internet. But shocker spoiler alert, brock Lesner won

820
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 2: the title. The thing that really bothered me about the

821
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 2: match one eight seconds. In eight seconds. The thing that

822
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 2: bothered me about the match wise, they didn't even give

823
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: Kofe a fighting chance it was Kofe tried to come

824
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 2: run flying me, Brock caught him f five one two three.

825
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 2: That was at the end, Like they basically said, thanks

826
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 2: Kofe for all that you've done. We don't like you

827
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 2: having the belt anymore. We're gonna give it to Brock

828
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: and make you look weak.

829
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 3: Yep, and I sent you that the quote from Forbes.

830
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 3: Actually Forbes Magazine did a report on it. But why

831
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 3: is it that seth Rawlins, aj Styles, Daniel Bryant and

832
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 3: even developmental demotee ouch Finn Balor got to have epic

833
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 3: David Versus Goliath matches against brock Lesnar, whereas Kofe Kingston

834
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 3: was squashed faster than a Brad Shephard rumor if you

835
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 3: don't know who Brad Sheppard is, you should google it.

836
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 2: Yes, but I mean even when they did that special

837
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 2: WWE Network where they told people to stay up till

838
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 2: three o'clock in the morning to watch the Beast in

839
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: the East where they touted brock Lesnar go into what

840
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 2: was it Japan or whatever he faced Kofe and it

841
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 2: was at least a fifteen to twenty minute match. It

842
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 2: wasn't a squash.

843
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean, from a business standpoint,

844
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 3: purely economical. They're getting the biggest draw quote unquote, biggest

845
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 3: draw on SmackDown on the premiere, the biggest audience. They

846
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 3: got to do something. I get it. That makes sense.

847
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 3: You know, you haven't really seen.

848
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: Bra Uh.

849
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 3: You haven't seen Brock that dominant in a long time,

850
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 3: you know.

851
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 2: And it's not kind of brings in the UFC fans

852
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 2: that are because UFC's on Fox.

853
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously what we're about to get to plays

854
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 3: into that as well. But yes, and you know, I've

855
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 3: talked to you about it. You know, we've got to

856
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 3: remember Kofe was never supposed to be here, you know,

857
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 3: he mustapha Ali got injured, he got put in, and

858
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 3: then Kofe Mania just blew up, you know. And I

859
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 3: even thought, I didn't think they're gonna give the belt

860
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 3: to him at WrestleMania. I didn't, you know. I'm We've

861
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 3: talked about on the show. I'm kind of drawn more

862
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 3: to the heels than the good guys, you know. To me,

863
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 3: I think it's really easy to be a good guy.

864
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: I think to get you know, there's heel heat and

865
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 3: then there's go home heat, and you know, if you

866
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 3: get that heel heat where people, you know, they're giving

867
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 3: you a reaction, not like I don't I'm bored, I

868
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 3: want you to leave. You know, that's really tough. And

869
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 3: when Daniel Bryan moved over to the heel role, he

870
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 3: was doing some of the best stuff he's done in

871
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 3: his whole career. I mean, it was unbelievable. And I

872
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 3: just and obviously ww's track record with Africa African American champions,

873
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 3: so I would have bet pretty much any amount that

874
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 3: he was not gonna win. So you know, it ended

875
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 3: up being probably the best match of arguably of the

876
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 3: WrestleMania and also probably the best moment of the year.

877
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 3: And then he's been booked kind of inconsistent. I mean,

878
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 3: there's been some some highlights, but I mean I wouldn't

879
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 3: say he's been like, you know, the most dominantly booked

880
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 3: champ they've had in the last two or you know,

881
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 3: two or three years or anything. But I mean the

882
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 3: fact that he's had it this long, I was surprised. Again,

883
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 3: But no matter what, you know, I kind of I

884
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 3: kind of was not arguing, but I was kind of

885
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 3: staying in my opinion with somebody on Twitter I mean

886
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 3: they had so much time leftover, Like you'll never convince

887
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 3: me that that was a that was done because of time.

888
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 2: Constraints, you know, right.

889
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 3: I mean, there he's done, he's in the ring. Paul

890
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 3: Heyman comes up, gives him the belt, and then Raymonsterio

891
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 3: comes out, and then Kane do when we say it already.

892
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and say we'll talk about that.

893
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 3: So cain velaskaz is he was the mystery guy comes

894
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 3: out with the Raymisterio slowly walks to the ring, get in,

895
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 3: have the showdown. They have the little scuffle. Brock leaves,

896
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 3: goes all the way to the ramp, turns round, walks

897
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 3: back like he's coming to do something else, stops, goes back.

898
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 3: Then the show goes off, Like, bro you could have

899
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 3: given Kofe five minutes, like there's no reason that he

900
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 3: was squashed in eight seconds, Absolutely no reason at all.

901
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 3: So I don't know, man, I it's almost like it's

902
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 3: almost like they gave him the title, like we'll hold

903
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 3: this for a little bit. Once the Brock's ready, we're

904
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 3: gonna give him the belt, or once we're on you know,

905
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 3: once we go to Fox, he's getting the bat or something.

906
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 3: You know, it was like he was a placeholder, you know. Yeah,

907
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 3: and you know I told you this. I mean, I'm

908
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 3: surprised they didn't do this with Brock right after WrestleMania.

909
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 3: I'm surprised this wasn't the first thing on SmackDown. Like,

910
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 3: you know, he gets his WrestleMania moment, they have the're

911
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 3: all after Mania, and then they have SmackDown after Mania,

912
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 3: and then he's there and then Brock comes out, challenges him,

913
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 3: and boom, He's champion for two days. That's how that

914
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 3: normally would have played out. But they were holding this

915
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 3: for obviously this to go to SmackDown. So so again,

916
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 3: I think we're stuck with the reign that no one

917
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 3: asked for. And you know, one of their most popular

918
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:43,959
Speaker 3: champion champions of all time is no longer Chip and

919
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 3: uh now we're setting up a two former UFC ers

920
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 3: going against it in the wrestling ring.

921
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, when it happened, I was like, Okay,

922
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: KOFE got squashed. There was still what ten minutes or

923
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 2: so left, give or take.

924
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like somebody if somebody said the match

925
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 3: actually started with like nine minutes left. Yeah, And I

926
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 3: still was like, well, okay, cool. You still could have

927
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 3: given them five minutes and then had four minutes to

928
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 3: all that other crap, and and somebody chimed in, well,

929
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 3: they needed to do the champion celebration and then they

930
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 3: needed to do this, and then I was like, they

931
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 3: didn't need to do that.

932
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 2: No, you could have easily just walked off Paul Haman

933
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 2: you know hit you know, gives him the belt, blah

934
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 2: blah blah, and then that's when you know, the Ray

935
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 2: Masterios music hits, and I was like, oh god, this

936
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 2: is this is we we squashed kofe for a David

937
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 2: and goliathing like, you're literally gonna give Ray Mystereo time

938
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 2: to come out here and beat up brock Lesner and

939
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 2: set up a storyline that nobody wants to watch of

940
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 2: brock Lesner and Ray Mysterio. Like but then, and I

941
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 2: even tweeted about it when they they had the camera

942
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 2: set up and it was like, good lord, the camera

943
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 2: was so far away from the top of the ramp

944
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 2: you couldn't see anything. And I was like, I was like,

945
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 2: why is Ray Mysterio's son about to try to come

946
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 2: out and wrestle or fight brock Lesner Because It's like

947
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 2: all I saw was Ray Masterio in a sling and

948
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 2: you know, Kin was in a knee brace, and I

949
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 2: was like, I didn't realize it was Kane, and I

950
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 2: was like, wow, Dominic is about to take his shirt off,

951
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 2: like and he's taking his shirt off, and I was like, Okay,

952
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 2: this is going to be the most stupidest way to

953
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 2: end SmackDown. You hype it up being on Fox and

954
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 2: you have Ray Mysterio's son try to come beat up,

955
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 2: and then I saw the tattoos and I was like,

956
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 2: holy crap. Like the UFC fan in the back of

957
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 2: my mind was like this is great. Like the dude

958
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 2: that knocked out and put brock Lesner out of UFC

959
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 2: is now in WWE. And then when he came down,

960
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 2: you could see there's still some things with Kine that

961
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 2: he's got to work on with his hitting, because like

962
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 2: you saw that open handed fist hit, like it wasn't

963
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 2: you know, sellable of the way they were hitting, and

964
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: it could have just been the camera angle, but it

965
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 2: looked good. But then you come to find out you

966
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: look at reports and it's like WWE still hasn't signed

967
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 2: Kane to a deal, and I'm like what like they

968
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 2: would never let they would bring somebody in, but they

969
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: would never let them do what Caine did to Brock,

970
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 2: like prime example, Tyson Fury and Braun Showman. They're probably

971
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 2: setting that up for WrestleMania next year. The boxer, but

972
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 2: he hopped the railing, but he didn't touch Braun.

973
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 1: M h.

974
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 3: Yeah. I well, And for those that don't know Kane

975
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 3: Velaska has he's he's actually been wrestling on the indies

976
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 3: at least this year.

977
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 2: He's been with Triple A for the past couple of months, right, Yeah.

978
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: And for most people that I've seen, like on Twitter

979
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 3: and stuff, they said that he's far more advanced at

980
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 3: this stage than he probably should be. And you know,

981
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 3: and you know, you look at Matt Riddle, you look

982
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 3: at Ken Shamrock. You know, I think that's an easy

983
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 3: transition for them. You know, I think the biggest things,

984
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 3: like Matt Riddle said, is you're really selling and kind

985
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 3: of telling a story with the person you're competing with,

986
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 3: and it's not about trying to hurt them. It's trying

987
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 3: to paint the picture, so to speak. And so you know, obviously,

988
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 3: you know, I'm shocked that they brought him in this early.

989
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 3: You know, I think definitely it kind of paints itself,

990
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 3: you know, considering their history together. But you know, again,

991
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 3: they had to have a home run for this show,

992
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 3: so so I think for the average fan it might

993
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 3: have been a little like what what is I mean?

994
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 3: I know they were in UFC together, Like why is

995
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 3: he here? I mean he's actually been wrestling. He transitioned

996
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 3: over to that the least this year, maybe even last year.

997
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's gonna be as bad as

998
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 3: people are thinking. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if

999
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 3: it's a one off deal, if they're you know, they

1000
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 3: sign him for a small program with him and then

1001
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 3: they're they do the thing at the Crown Jewel and

1002
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 3: then that's it. Or if they see potential in him,

1003
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 3: then they'll put him on n X two or something.

1004
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 3: I don't know, but yeah, definitely not how I expected

1005
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 3: the end of the show to go at all.

1006
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 2: Just side note, I'm scrolling through Twitter and sky Sports.

1007
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:14,280
Speaker 2: WWE has posted this video about them talking to Goldberg

1008
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: asking if he knew who Matt Riddle was, and Matt

1009
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 2: was like, why you always lying? Bro? Question Mark? Sorry

1010
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 2: side note this little thing, but but yeah, it's it's

1011
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 2: it's bringing in and we've talked about this before, having

1012
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 2: Kane come in, it brings in those UFC fans because everybody,

1013
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 2: if you're not the average wrestling fan, but you're an

1014
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 2: average UFC fan, you're gonna know when you hear Brock

1015
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 2: Lesner and Kane Velaskaz, you're gonna think back, Oh, UFC,

1016
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 2: let's see what they do in WWE, even though we

1017
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 2: know it's pulling back the curt and breaking k fib

1018
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 2: right now, even though we know it's all scripted, it's fake,

1019
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 2: we know that there is a legit outcome, a pre

1020
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 2: plan outcome in WWE, not in UFC. You know, does

1021
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 2: Kane Velasquez win the title or is this going to

1022
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 2: be a long dragged out thing that we see it?

1023
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 2: And you know, WrestleMania and Tampa because it's near Florida

1024
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 2: and you know, just putting demographics out there, the Latino

1025
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 2: community is very strong in Florida. Do they do that

1026
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: there like they would have, you know, done Brock in

1027
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 2: the Middle East because he's you know, he's over there,

1028
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 2: Like do they let Caine win it at WrestleMania because

1029
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 2: of the demographic in the area.

1030
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 3: I mean, I would be floored if they gave him

1031
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 3: the belt, you know, for some reason, and you know

1032
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 3: I've made jokes about this, you know, for as much

1033
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 3: more money as they pay Brock and for as little

1034
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 3: as they rest he wrestles, I mean, they give him

1035
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 3: the belt by default, you know. So I'm sure it

1036
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,439
Speaker 3: was one of those things where Brock is like, yeah,

1037
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 3: I bring him in, I'll do a program with him.

1038
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 3: I'm going over like I'm not gonna lose to him twice,

1039
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 3: or or it'll be a thing like Goldberg where they

1040
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 3: he loses to him, you know, the pay review before WrestleMania,

1041
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 3: and then he does his rematch immediately and wins it

1042
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 3: back at WrestleMania or something like that. You know. I

1043
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 3: think if it's like the last thing is him winning it,

1044
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 3: then he'll do it. But yeah, i'd be I'd be

1045
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 3: very surprised. And you know, going back to the Bronze

1046
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 3: Stroman thing, I mean, they might as well do something

1047
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 3: with that. I mean, his character's pretty much dead at

1048
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 3: this point. I mean, I just you know, we talked

1049
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 3: about it on the previous episode, but I just there's

1050
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 3: nothing they can do with that character now, you know,

1051
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 3: I mean, so why not put him up against the

1052
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 3: world heavyweight champion in boxing? I mean, what else is

1053
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 3: they gonna do?

1054
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 2: Sometime down the line they eventually give Braun the heavyweight

1055
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 2: championship and then it's like the heavyweights battles the heavyweight

1056
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But I don't really see them paying

1057
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 2: Tyson Fury a boatload of money to come in and lose.

1058
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 3: But then again, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if

1059
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 3: they did that because they've already screwed up the character

1060
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 3: Ron Struman, so we're not have him lose to a

1061
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 3: non wrestler. I mean, it can't get any worse at

1062
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 3: this point.

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Speaker 2: No, unless he, you know, loses to the kid that

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Speaker 2: he won the tag team title with. But anyways, it

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Speaker 2: doesn't I don't know, it's it's it is fun. It

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Speaker 2: is a great time to be a wrestling fan. And

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Speaker 2: you know were I will tell you this if since

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Speaker 2: you've made it this far in the episode, we do

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Speaker 2: have recorded this on Sunday. Today is Sunday that we're recording.

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Speaker 2: So Helena sel Is tonight. Will we watch it? Probably

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Speaker 2: only the seth and match.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to. I want to see how they

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Speaker 3: ruin Bray Wyatt this time.

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Speaker 2: So we'll have to talk about that on the later episode,

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Speaker 2: just because we are recording today because it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: a crazy week for us this week with me being

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Speaker 2: on vacation and then you've got a couple, you've got

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Speaker 2: a trade show, and then you're going out of town

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Speaker 2: this weekend. So this week's episodes are We're gonna have

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Speaker 2: a fun one on Friday, I'll tell you that much.

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Speaker 3: This one's a little longer to kind of make up

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Speaker 3: for it.

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Speaker 2: So correct and Friday's episode is gonna be very interesting,

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Speaker 2: which we will tell you on Friday. But yeah, this

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Speaker 2: is gonna end today's show.

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Speaker 3: So do you wanna do you wanna go ahead and

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Speaker 3: mention the challenge just because it's a little bit Yeah,

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Speaker 3: go ahead and mention the challenge. So we're gonna do uh,

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Speaker 3: I'll probably go ahead and include Raw just to you know,

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Speaker 3: not make them feel left out. But so we're we're

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Speaker 3: gonna do basically the four wrestling programs that was aired

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Speaker 3: last week, so Raw, AW, Dynamite, NXT, and then SmackDown.

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Speaker 3: And so the weekly challenge is for you to pick

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Speaker 3: the winner, like which one did you watch or which

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00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 3: one do you think won the battle out of all those,

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Speaker 3: you know, all that kind of stuff. It's an important

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Speaker 3: week for wrestling. We've still got other stuff coming up

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Speaker 3: at the n w A show. I think de Wuts

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Speaker 3: this week, I'm not sure. I'll have to double check,

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Speaker 3: and then Impacts moving to Tuesday as well. We have

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Speaker 3: no idea what's going on with Ring of Honor. They're

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Speaker 3: in our thoughts and prayers at the best. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what's happening on the

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Speaker 3: but you know, just tons of stuff right now going

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Speaker 3: on for that, So we thought it'd be kind of

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Speaker 3: fun to do that instead of an actual like two

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Speaker 3: competitors against each other. So that'll be the challenge.

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Speaker 2: So there is your challenge for this week. And then Friday,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have a very fun episode which we will

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Speaker 2: explain on Friday's episode what it is. So you can

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Speaker 2: laugh at U, at us or well laugh at me

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Speaker 2: for Friday's episode. But anyways, that's gonna wrap up the

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Speaker 2: show today. You can find us. We're on Instagram, Battleground Podcast, Twitter,

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Speaker 2: We're Battleground IHR, and if you're on Facebook, just search

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Speaker 2: Battleground podcast and give us a like and a follow

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Speaker 2: and a nice little review. But yeah, that's it for

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Speaker 2: the day.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's it. I think we've talked about everything.

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Speaker 2: All right, So until next time, we see you guys

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Speaker 2: on Friday later.

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