WEBVTT - Kevin Owens Beat Down on Randy Orton, Justified? 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:06.240 No more unicorns, no more pancakes, no more bootios for 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.080 the crowd. For those of you who don't know what 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.360 bootios are, you think I'm very weird right now. But 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.800 it's a thing. But I disagree, and it's not because 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:16.880 I want to see them broken up. I disagree they're 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.600 going to break up. I think that all this has 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:22.800 been what a magician does, where he shows you something 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.160 shiny in the one hand, and in the other hand 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:35.120 is where the tricks actually happening. Now you're mad. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:42.080 Even introducing the hosts, Wrestling Win, Freddy Jeff Died and 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.199 for ready friends, tunor What's Up? 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.920 Everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Wrestling with 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.440 Freddy Jeff Die as an assignment in the Great State 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.040 of Texas. So you're stuck with me. I can't see 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.280 crap today, so I'm wearing my glasses. Everyone bear with me. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:03.240 Let's start the show, all right, you guys. The year 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.760 is wrapping up, and this is my final episode from 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.120 the United States. I am flying to Australia the evening 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.800 this episode comes out, and I think maybe the next day, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.399 and then I have to fly for like seventeen days. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.440 I think that's how long The trip is these days 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.240 and I'll land in Australia and I will continue to 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.200 podcast from there just for you guys, and I will 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.920 figure out how to watch all of the wrestling that 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.840 I need to watch so that I'm up to speed 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.520 and up to date. I hope all you guys are well. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:40.080 I will do an update of my promotion on the 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.600 Thursday show on sanctioned Thursday, so stay tuned for that 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.200 as well. Hopefully I give you guys some exciting news 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.200 and I can't tell you everything yet, but I can 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.840 give you a little more tasty taste and other than that, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.160 let's start the show Monday night raw. It was a 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.280 pre tape, but that's okay, guys, We're not going to 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.360 get mad at them. It was a little bit of 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.440 fallout from Crown Jewel. Liv Morgan came out and they're 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.440 focusing much more on the Ring of Crown Jewel than 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.200 the title, which you guys know, I'm not a fan of. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.000 But she had the ring, she was rocking it. She 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.000 bragged about hurt and Rhea Ripley. I can't believe he 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.120 is hurt again. Man. That's we barely got her back. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.040 We barely got her back. And going anyway, she gets 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.720 interrupted by Jade Cargill. For a second, I thought it 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.120 was just going to be Jade, and I was like, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.040 oh shit, is she coming out? And then later in 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.960 the show, Bianca's gonna be like, yo, girl, why didn't 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.480 you tell me you were going out to child What's 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.520 But no, they didn't do that. Bianca and Jade both 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.960 came out before she gets too beefy. Adam Pierce came 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.240 out and kind of you know, squashed everything, and then 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.440 he said, we're going to have a fatal four way 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.200 for the number one contender for liv Morgan's World Championship, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.840 not the crown drool thing. She gets to keep that. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.680 Nobody wants that anyway, So they have this match. And 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:57.160 here's here's my thing with Rhea Hurt. I believe the 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.720 plan is keep the belt on live for as long 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.440 as we She can act. She can wrestle, she can 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.440 do backstage segments, she can do in ring segments, she 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.320 can do cool entrances from the stairs where she was 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.480 you know, crying because Dom's saying I hate you and 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.440 all this stuff, like she can kind of do it 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.040 all right now. So I don't see the belt coming 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.560 off her, But Eo Sky wins this match because EO 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.920 can give us a great match. Everybody loves EO, But 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.200 I don't think EO is winning the championship again because 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.680 there was no story, no build up, no anything for 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.720 her to get there. It was just an awesome four 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.360 way that she gets to go in now and feature 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.600 what she can do with them. Her acrobatics are awesome 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.080 and they're organic. It's not just flips for the sake 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.360 of flips. It's very lucha libre style, where it's like, no, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.640 you tried to smash me on my head and I 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.840 just kept the momentum going and I landed on my 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.320 feet because I'm awesome. So I think their story got 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.520 screwed up and they're kind of winging it right now 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.160 and writing a new story while while EO and Live 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.560 have their little mini build up and then their match. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.400 So let's give them some time to find a new 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.560 story for lim Moving on, Why can't I see today 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.720 because you're old Freddy? Oh yeah, that's why. Let me 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.760 put these back on. We're gonna talk new day. I've 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.840 been saying for a while, they've got some beef. If 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.720 you're watching the show, you know they got some beef, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.159 a lot of miscommunication, and a lot of people think 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.080 this is going to be the potential end of the 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.320 New Day, which would be very sad. No more unicorns, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.200 no more pancakes, no more bootios for the crowd. For 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:31.800 those of you who don't know what bootios are, you 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.800 think I'm very weird right now. But it's a thing. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.040 But I disagree, and it's not because I want to 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.440 see them broken up. I disagree they're going to break up. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.600 I think that all this has been what a magician does, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.680 where he shows you something shiny in the one hand, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.680 and in the other hand is where the trick's actually happening. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.880 And all this drama and all this beefcake that Kofe 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:00.840 and Xavier are having is a distraction. And before they 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.880 actually break up or right after they break up, there's 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.480 going to be some glue that returns to the WWE 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:14.840 the largest what jar of glue in the world, and 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.680 that glue is named big Ee. And I think Big 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.640 Ee's coming back. And I think he's gonna Yeah, I 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.920 said it. I think he's coming back. I think he's 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.080 gonna save the New Day from themselves, whether it's post 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.599 breakup or right before the breakup, and he's going to 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.080 bring them back together. He's like the Sun and they're 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.360 the planets, and they're going to gravitate around him and 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.159 start circling faster and faster until you know, the Earth 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.560 explodes and we all die. But I don't think they're 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.520 going to break up, or, like I said, if they do, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.600 that's when Big Eel come in and be like, gentlemen, gentlemen, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.159 what are we doing. We're brothers. We started this together, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.040 We're gonna end it together, and they can go off 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.520 and get their stories. So that's what I think is 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.719 going to happen with the New Day, the Wyat six. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.679 Jeff really likes the Whitat six. I have not bought 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.839 into it it yet. I don't get it. I like 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.919 everyone involved. I like Bo Dallas, I like Eric Rowan, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.919 I like Nikki and Nikki Cross. I don't know the 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.960 other guy. I think they're from NXT, Joe Gasey and 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.840 Dexter Loomis. I know a little bit from the creepy 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.719 stuff with Miz and they're doing a story with the 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.600 mis right now. But it's very This is where suspension 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.200 of disbelief gets hard, and it might be because I'm 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:34.760 forty eight years old, but kidnapping is a felony. You can't, can't. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.400 I just don't. The moment he was in a chair 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.359 and tied up, I'm like, wait a minute, what I 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:48.560 will say this. The motivation is honest and genuine. The 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.640 motivation of wanting Miss's head on a spike, if you're 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:57.479 Bo Dallas, is honest and organic because of the sort 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.400 of promise that was made in twenty seventeen, I'm gonna 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.680 make you a star, Bo Dallas. I think that was 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.320 NXT when they when the Superstars had mentors maybe or no, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.120 I think that was already over by then. Yeah, that 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.480 was way over by then. But anyway, he's got beef 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.640 with him. Dexter Loomis for sure has beef with them, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.320 already stalked him and made my might may have kidnapped 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.640 him already. But yeah, this one is always going to 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.840 be tricky for me. And it's weird because I really 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.680 do like everyone involved. I like Bo Dallas. I want 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.160 to Bo leave like back in the day on the 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.600 Black and Gold NXT. But yeah, so I'm not. If 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.600 Jeff was here, he would talk about how much he 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.840 loves it. But I just I don't want to. I'm 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.200 not here to criticize it because I think they gave 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.040 it organic and honest motives, right like Bo has a 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.200 problem with him. I just don't quite always get the 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.240 story that they're trying to tell. But again, I'm old, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.760 So what are you gonna do? We had a fatal 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.480 four way between Priest Damian Priest that is Dominic mysterio. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.320 I don't call him dirty dom he's misunderstood victim in 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.320 all this Shamus, who you know, I love, and Seth 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.800 Rollins who wore big pointy spikey coat things. It's still 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.040 the best. They had a fight, they went to war. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.080 Bronson Reed came out and said, screw your war, screw 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.880 your fight, screw you. You beat me, I'm gonna kill everybody, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.520 and then he did. Damian Priest wins. And now we're 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:24.600 in a situation where I think it's similar to the EO. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:29.440 Sky Live Morgan situation unless they pressed pause on the 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.120 Damien Priest story. And that's the reason they're gonna They're 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.280 gonna give this another shot, which it doesn't feel like 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.920 that to me. It feels like they need someone who 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.760 looks like a legit contender to re establish Gunther or Gunther. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.480 I don't know what he likes to be called Gunther 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.000 or Gunther, to re establish after that loss at Crown Jewel, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.280 that he's the man. I don't. I've said I said 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.000 this before. I think in our in our prediction show, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.640 not prediction show, but you know, our our future of 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.000 twenty twenty five show. I don't see gnther losing unless 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.880 and I've used this example multiple times. The only way 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.520 I can see it working is if it goes back 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.840 and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Priestthood, the 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.800 priest good, and everybody else is like, yo, we want 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.360 our shot, and they're like, yo, screw you. Every once 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.360 while there's a triple threat, they get a triple threat, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.160 they get squashed, and then you know, Gunther a priest 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.640 WinCE again. But I think this is to make Gunther 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.240 look good. Both guys are going to look good, but 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.120 it's to make the champ re establish him as the 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.319 champ because now there's like, you know, this, this fracture 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.000 in his armor, and we need to seal that fracture 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.160 up and make him strong again. So I don't and again, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.280 without the story, it's hard for me to believe that 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:44.120 the other man can win. Moving on to Friday nights, Maxim, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.839 There's really only one story in wrestling that matters right now, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:52.319 you guys, and that's the Bloodline. And rather than sit 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.240 here and shower it with praise, which we'll give it 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.360 some flowers, I'm not criticizing at all. It's the best 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.839 storyline in wrestling, But everybody's talking that. I want to 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:06.760 talk about how it's so good it's making us almost 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.960 forget about the world champion Cody Rhodes. His story is 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.760 what now are they writing it? Is it going to 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.560 be Kevin Owens? Is Kevin and Randy are trying to 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.320 kill each other? We'll get into that. Are they building 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.080 up Kevin to give him a new run at the 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.040 title where he's not friends, where he won't show mercy 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.360 like he did in Germany? I believe it was. But 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:39.319 the Bloodline as is right now might be better than 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.040 it's ever been. I know you're going to argue that 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.600 Sammy's ain babyface turn is the greatest part of it, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.800 and you might be right, But the amount of people 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.840 getting over now and the amount of people being featured 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:58.480 now is so much greater than originally constructed that. I 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.559 don't see how you could pick the Sammy's Ain moment 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.000 because we have more Sammy. But now we have this 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:10.359 sort of renegade bloodline where Jacob Fatu is cutting backstage 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.440 promos now and looking like a stud while he's doing 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.959 it and letting Roman Reigns know Leo Solo, so Co 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.839 doesn't operate on your schedule, you operate on his schedule. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:26.440 And he came off super clean. Clean isn't good? I 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.320 know he looks gritty and mean, but the promo is clean. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.360 But he lets us know that Solo will be out 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.760 there later. Later that night, Solo comes out and he's 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:40.400 starting to expand his his toolbox as far as his 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.839 mic work goes, and Roman interrupts him and comes out 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.840 and starts talking, and Solo you see him trying new 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.080 stuff and experimenting with new stuff. He's getting he's laughing 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.960 in his face more, he's he's he's being more colorful 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.400 with his with his sentence construction. He's trying new things, 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.360 and all of a sudden he's as war games, which 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.200 this was weird, I thought, because Solo just beat Roman, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.440 so I thought Roman should have been the one that 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.160 challenged Solo at war Games, but instead it went the 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.360 other way around, where Solo's like, yo, I want more 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.480 of you. I didn't get enough the first time. So 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.040 that was the only thing that was a little weird 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.600 to me, But all the performances were super solid. So 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.319 they established we're gonna have war games and it's gonna 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.720 be five on five and you can't find four other guys, 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.120 and Roman's like, yo, can you not do math? There's 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.160 only four of you, And so I was like, yeah, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.439 I can do Mathew, asshole, and don't ever insult me 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.720 my math skills again. I got straight. A's our fifth 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.240 is Sammy's Ain, And Sammy's ain comes out and he 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.640 looks pissed and sad. I remember, all these characters have 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.120 different motivations, and Sammy basically said to Roman like, look, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.400 you got to apologize if you want me to work 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.040 with you. And Roman was like, apologize to you, bro, 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.199 you hit me in the back with a steel chair. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.560 He's like nah, dude to j and the whole and 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.600 Roman wouldn't do it because he's arrogant, And throughout the 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.839 show they show backstage segments where that arrogance is isolating 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.160 him more and more he lost Jimmy, and he loses Jay, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.560 then he loses or sorry, he lost Sammy. Then he 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.120 loses j Then he loses Jimmy, and he acts like 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.560 he doesn't care. And then when they leave, you can 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.640 see he's like, shit, do I care? I don't freaking know. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.440 He goes out there all alone by himself. They're beating 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.520 him down, and then the USOS come out when Sammy's 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.720 there and they're like, yo, forget you Sammy. They go out, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:33.360 they fight, they get beat down. Solo's about to kill Roman. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.040 He says, Sammy, no, you do it. You come in here, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.160 you do it, and Sammy goes in the ring. Then 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.160 he goes to dous halluva kick and it's one hell 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.079 of a kick. I said, dad, joke, I'm allowed to 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.480 do those. I'm a dad. And he kicks Solo instead 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.800 of Roman, and all of a sudden, they have this 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.960 great moment without dialogue after they clear the ring where 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.200 Jimmy's standing behind Sammy. Sorry, Jay is standing behind Sammy 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.040 and Jimmy's standing behind Roman and Jay puts his finger up, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.600 we're the ones they used to do that for those 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.559 of you whore just tuning into wrestling and then Jimmy 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.200 sees his brother and he's like, we are the Ones, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.880 and he puts his right hand up. They always do 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.760 it with their right hand. They're super smart, but it's 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:19.720 always synchronizing. Looks cool. And then Sammy and Roman get 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.640 kind of face to face and Sammy's like, you want 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.920 to do this again? You want this? I'm putting up 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.960 the one and the crowd goes crazy. They're all screaming 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.840 because they want this reunification of the original bloodline, and 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.560 Roman looks at him and he can see the crowd 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.920 wants it, and then Roman goes, you're goddamn right, we 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.280 are the ones, and they all put up the ones 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.800 and the crowd goes crazy because we got the original 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.480 bloodline back and the bloodline is going to take on 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.600 the new bloodline at walk Games. As Sir William Raegl 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.440 would say, So SmackDown is still the best wrestling show 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.160 on television and that's all you need to freaking know. Now, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:02.160 let's talk Randy Orton and Kevin Owen. This rivalry will 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:08.080 probably end with Kevin going over as the jerkface butthole 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.880 heel that he will certainly be, But I have a 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.040 different take on this as well. You guys, I know 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.280 a lot of you are upset with Kevin Owens right now, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.240 and I think he's a jerk. And you know that 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.080 Randy has a bad back, and you're just going to 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.400 hit him with a pile driver. That's a terrible thing 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.600 to do. But let me tell you something, you guys. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.360 I want to take you back over ten years ago. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.320 I think to an episode of Monday Night Raw in 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.640 Saint Louis, Missouri, back when they had this terrible idea 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.920 of having a special guest general managers with no experience 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.960 in general management, but because they were famous actors or musicians, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.800 they got to be it for a night, just for 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.120 one night, and they got to screw up the whole show. Well, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.440 yours truly was one of them. And I know what 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.640 you're saying, Freddy. You weren't just one of them. You 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.040 were the best of them. And I appreciate that's a 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.680 nice thing to say right now. I appreciate it a lot. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.600 But anyway, that's not the point. The point is Randy 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.480 Orton didn't want me there that night, and he let 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.280 me know, and I kind of gave him a little 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.520 attitude and I turned my back on him because I 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.760 was naive and foolish and didn't think he was his 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.440 dirty snake in the grass. And he grabbed me from behind. 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.360 He put his arm across my throat. He slid in 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.080 behind me and he broke my back with a modified backbreaker, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.400 and it hurt, and I grimaced. Not like the fat 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.360 guy from McDonald's. It hurt. It was a painful grin, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:41.680 a grimace, and I was dragged out. It took me 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.720 years to recover. And I texted Kevin Owens, all right, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.640 the next part of the story is not true. I 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.920 texted Kevin Owens and I said, look, man, I know 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.480 you're a good guy, but if you could just flip 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.120 it in Germany and then when you come back to 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.320 the States kind of maintain it, and then on a 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.280 Friday night, smack sound, just smash smash his neck. And 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.920 Kevin said, don't call it smack sound, show some freaking respect. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.760 I said, okay, I'm sorry, said, if you're on SmackDown, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.399 could you please hit him with the pile driver and 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.920 tell him that it's from Freddy. I'm sure you guys 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.800 saw you guys can all read lips. Now you guys 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.240 saw him say it and it was a beautiful moment 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.080 for me and my family. We all watched together by 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:28.119 the fire. We had cocoa and toasted marshmallows. Again, a 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.840 lot of this story is not true, not the marshmallow 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.960 part anyway. We don't have any of those. But Randy's 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.440 hurt and Kevin Owens is going to be a made 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.480 man and is going to be the top heel. Is 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.159 he going to be the top heel on SmackDown or 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:47.080 is that going to be solo Socoa? I guess it 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:59.000 depends who wins that Survivor series. Let's move on, people 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.639 to ae W. They have not had the type of 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.080 long term storytelling that WWE has had. The last time 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.119 they had some real long term storytelling I think was 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:16.720 probably Max and Adam before Adam got hurt. That said, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.240 they're trying to tell some stories now, and they brought 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.040 in a man who is a masterful storyteller, an MVP, 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.320 and two masterful wrestlers and Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.520 and MVP can speak for both of these men, although 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.440 he doesn't have to, but he is the perfect mouthpiece 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:38.639 in wrestling right now. He's clear, he delivers the message, 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.840 he can do it. Backstage, he can do it center 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.040 of the ring. You heard the crowd channing MVP. MVP. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.120 He tells Tony Shavani, don't be rude. That people are 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.760 talking right now, so he can improvise as well. And 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:56.440 they let Swerve Strickland know that they wanted to be friends. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.240 But he rejected that card, that business card. And when 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.320 you get a busy, this car from the Hurt Business, 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.359 you better respect it or you're going to be their enemy. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.919 Swerve Stricklands have none of it. He comes out and 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.159 you'd think he he'd have a lot to say, a 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.760 lot to say, but on this night he was a 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.639 man of few words and he just came out and 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.240 he straight up challenged him full gear, which is all 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.520 they wanted. Because it's three on one, it's MVP, it's Shelton, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.720 it's it's it's Bobby Lashley. There could be more people coming. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.560 Remember they were messing with Ricochet backstage. I don't think 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.760 Ricochet would be the one that would join the Hurt Business. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.400 That doesn't seem to fit. But his surprise tag team 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.040 partner Powerhouse Hobbs. Hello, you don't think he'd be a 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.840 perfect fit. You don't think he could turn on Ricochet 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.560 and then join the Hurt business and that was like, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.520 that was the angle that they were working. So there's 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.400 all kinds of room for big, badass dudes in this 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:57.200 in this new faction. And again, as long as they're 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.879 allowed to tell the stories that they're trying to t 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.720 and they allow these to be stretched out and build 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.240 this group up and not bring this group down, then 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.040 you can build up your long term storytelling ability. You 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.200 just have to have the right people. Don Kallis is 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.440 a good manager, and they featured him so much, and 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.720 the more they featured and the better he got. I know, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.280 I talk about managers a lot, but I think it's 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.520 a lost art form and I love when people utilize them. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.160 Now they have another manager and MVP, they have both 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.320 these guys that can help tell stories. Not every wrestler 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.400 is going to be Morland Friggin brand or I guess 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.080 people don't know who he is anymore. A Robert Downey junior, now, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:34.479 you know what I mean. Like, they're not all going 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.080 to be Denzel Washington. You know, sometimes they're gonna be 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.879 who they are and they need help telling that story. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.280 And that's what managers can do. So I love this 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.200 for everybody at AEW, anyone they're interacting with. I love 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.879 it for Swerve, love it for Bobby Lashley, and I'm 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.960 glad to see him managers getting used. A team that 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:57.080 does not need a manager is the newly branded Death Writers, 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:01.600 formerly known as the Blackpool Combat clubing blackpooled about them anymore. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.000 Regal's been gone forever, Daniel Brian's been exercised from the group, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.439 so they've renamed themselves organically the death Rids. It's a 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:12.960 great way to get more merch. They've been starting beef 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.639 with Orange Cassidy, the Squalls in One and Darby Allen, 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.920 who makes his debut each week from a different area 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.560 in the arena. This week he jumped off the entrance. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.080 It was pretty sick. Sometimes he's lowered in like a 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.600 like a worm on a hook, and other times he 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.080 just rushes in from the crowd. But one of these 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:34.720 guys has to be being built up to become the 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.320 next champion or are they or are these guys sacrificial 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.040 lambs that are going to establish Moxley as the man 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.680 and we're waiting for someone else to take that spot. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.560 This is one of the times where I don't have 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.639 a guess. I just don't. I'll make predictions when they 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:52.920