1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Now he's cost Drew everything. He's cost He's made Drew 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: quit the company, He's made Drew lose his mind, He's 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: made Drew crack under pressure. He's cost through the World 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Championship multiple times. This is going to be a deathmatch, 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: and I mean an actual death match, like Drew's gonna 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: want to kill Sam Punk. 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 2: And now you're made even introducing No Hosts a wrestling 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: win for Reddy Chef Die and for Ready Friz Tunior. 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to wrestling with Freddy No Friends. Today. 10 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: I'm flying solo, so you're stuck with me. I hope 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: everybody had a fantastic week and weekend of wrestling. When 12 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: we get the extra Saturday Sunday shows, those are always 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: good weekends. Money in the bank has come and went. 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: We'll speak about that and where those storylines are going 15 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: to go. Stay tuned for Unsanctioned Thursday. We'll talk about 16 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: John Cena retirement and get into my history for those 17 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: who don't know that I had with him when I 18 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 1: worked there, both good and bad. It was all good 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: on my side. He just didn't want me there. We 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: will well deep dive into it. It's going to start right. No, 21 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: all right, everybody, welcome back, Thanks for listening to our 22 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: awesome intro. Thank you to everyone who put that together. 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: It's the only awesome intro I've ever had. Twenty twenty 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: four's Money in the Bank was WWE's most successful arena 25 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:33,199 Speaker 1: event in Canada ever, not Canadia, but Canada. Wrestling keeps 26 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: breaking records after record after record in the last like 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: two three years, whether it's AEW or WWE. Everybody that 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, wrestling's dying that didn't listen to this 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: show where I said, no, this is a renaissance or 30 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: a renaissance which is a rebirth of wrestling. If you 31 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: listen to this show, you already knew. You already knew 32 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: that these records are going to be broken, because you 33 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: already knew wrestling was on the climb, just like they 34 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: had to climb these damn ladders in the most dangerous 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: freaking match. And yeah, you love those smooth transitions in 36 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: Money in the Bank. So we're going to talk about 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: both matches and we'll get into, of course, the main event, 38 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: which was the three on three the Bloodline with Solo 39 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: Socoa or Sequoia, as Jeff used to call him Cody Rhodes, 40 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Kevin Owens in Canada, and the near three hundred pound 41 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: Randy Orton. He's so freaking jack yet. Now, what should 42 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: we talk about first? What should we talk about first? Oh, 43 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: we can do some news. Highest grossing WWE arena event 44 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: in Canadian history. That's pretty awesome. What else? What else? 45 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: Revenue stream was largely thanks to the crowd. The ww 46 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: announced that forty over forty five thousand fans attended the 47 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: string of three shows in Toronto's Scotia Bank. I always 48 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: want to say Nova Scotia Bank, but it's just Scotia 49 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: Bank Arena. That was SmackDown Money in the Bank and 50 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: NXD heat Wave NXT gets a big bump from being 51 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: there with the others. So that's a sick number, but 52 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: they're getting in an extra bump because of the other shows. Also, 53 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: Sammy's Ainin did a comedy show. A lot of wrestlers 54 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,119 Speaker 1: have comedy shows. The Nammath brothers have comedy shows. Who 55 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: else has done him? Bruce Pritchard has done him in 56 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: the past, Sammy's done A lot of people have been 57 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: doing this. We got to do our old comedy show man. 58 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: I get some well all the good stand up comics 59 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: already go to those shows anyway, because they all have 60 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: professional wrestling, all right. The Men's Money in the Bank 61 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: ladder match Jay Uso, which was my pick. And before 62 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: we get into this, guys, I owe everyone an absolute apology. 63 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: If you were betting, you did not and you were 64 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: and you were listening to me, you did not have 65 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: a good week, and for that I apologize. However, before that, 66 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: I've delivered to y'all at least twice before. I think 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: we've only been doing this. This was the third one 68 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: where we were talking money. But usually I do much 69 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: better on these predictions. So I apologize to all of you. 70 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: We will do better. I will say this. We record 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: these on Mondays and Monday Night. After Monday Night Raw, 72 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: I texted on our wrestling text that Drew McIntyre was 73 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: going to win money in the ban because zacting was 74 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: so good you kind of gave it away. It was 75 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: better than normal, and I think he's good normally, but 76 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: it was there was so much truth in his face 77 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: that I was like, Oh, that dude is winning. I 78 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: wish I could change my pick right now, but we can't. 79 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: I picked Jay us It was Jay USO versus Carmelo 80 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: Hayes Andrade, Chad Gable, La Night and the winner Drew McIntyre. McIntyre. 81 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: This match was pretty good, but it was short. It 82 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: was really really quick, and I didn't feel like it 83 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: needed to be. But I guess they had other They 84 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: had other plans that needed more time. They knew the 85 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: story they were going to tell with Drew, which is 86 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: a very sort of painted into a corner story. We 87 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: all know it's the cmpunk story. So once he wins, 88 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: he already made this promise that he's going to cash 89 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: in that night, and he's going to walk away the 90 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: world heavyweight champion. And nothing is better than when a 91 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: wrestler makes a promise and is able to keep it. 92 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 1: It was something that we fought against when I worked 93 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: there back in the day because I was taught by 94 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: the old school guys. If a wrestler doesn't keep his promise, 95 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: then he's gonna if it's the baby face, then he's 96 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: gonna look like a punk and he can't get over. 97 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: And it's not that he can't get over. I think 98 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: that's a little extreme, but it makes it extremely difficult 99 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: to get over once you've sort of broken that promise, 100 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: and when I worked there, we fought for that philosophy, 101 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: and Vince would kind of break it whenever he break 102 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: that rule, whenever he felt like it. It didn't matter. 103 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: Heels could lie, but babyfaces couldn't. So and Drew is 104 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: a badass baby. He's not a heel, He's not a baby. 105 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 1: He's this new hybrid form. But he made a promise 106 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: and he made good on it. He freaking won the match, 107 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: and we get to seth Rawlins and Damien Priest that night. 108 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: Later that night and they have their main event, which 109 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: Damian Priest wins, and we won't get into match highlights 110 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: or anything like that. We're just going to talk story. 111 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: And I think the future of Damien his Finn. So 112 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: he keeps his promise, he cashes in. He's going to 113 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: become the world champion. And who's there? Everyone says at 114 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: the same time, we knew it, CM Punk, nobody picked 115 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: jos Open me. I get it. Sampunk comes out and 116 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: screws him over again, and there's nothing Drew can do 117 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: about it. And this has set up a story for 118 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: these two gentlemen that I think will happen at SummerSlam. 119 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: I mean it could happen that soon. They could stretch 120 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: it out for a long time if they wanted to. 121 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: But this is going to become one of the best 122 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: stories in wrestling. It's cool right now, but it's there's 123 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: not enough meat on the bone, right and now there's 124 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: nothing in the other wrestler's way. There's not an injury 125 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: right and I think they had to switch gears on 126 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: this story anyway, So credit to them for this. They 127 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: just had to make it cool until they could come 128 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: up with the story because Punk got injured. I think 129 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: his story was originally going to be with Seth Rollins, 130 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: but it's him and Drew, and now he's cost Drew everything. 131 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: He's made Drew quit the company. He's made Drew lose 132 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: his mind, He's made Drew crack under pressure. He's cost 133 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: through the World Championship multiple times. This is going to 134 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: be a death match, and I mean an actual death match, 135 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: like Drew's gonna want to kill Ciam Punk. I don't 136 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: think you have to let this story cook anymore. As 137 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: they say, as the young people say, I'm old, I'm 138 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: forty eight years old, I don't say cook let this 139 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: story develop. In the eighties, we would have said let 140 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: it marinate, Let it marinate. Sorry, I think this one's 141 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: ready to go. I cannot wait. We record these on Mondays, 142 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: so I can't wait for tonight. Y'all hear this Wednesday 143 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: or later when Drew McIntyre comes and cuts his promo. 144 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: If cmpunk cuts it, I know what he's gonna say, 145 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: and it'll be good all his bad promos. On a 146 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: scale of one to ten or a nine, like when 147 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: he phones it in, it's better than ninety nine percent 148 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: of the other promos out there. But I know what 149 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: he's gonna say. I just want to hear what Drew 150 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: MacIntyre has to say. I want to know if he's 151 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: gonna scream. There's a scenario where he could even break 152 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: down and cry. I think Drew is good enough to 153 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: do it if he wanted to. I don't think he should. 154 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's a scenario where he could. I 155 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen when this Monday, nyroy Er 156 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: is if Punk's going to be out there and Drew's 157 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: just going to come in with a wrecking ball and 158 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: kill everybody in the arena and just go ahead, collateral tamage. 159 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: It's your fault you pasted. I have no idea, but 160 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: I know I want to see what's going to happen. 161 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: I'm ready for this story to go somewhere. They've had 162 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: enough time to develop it and write it out and 163 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: figure out where it's going to end. All the talent's 164 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: healthy and ready to wrestle and kick ass. I think 165 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: I hope Punk's healthy at this point. He's doing little 166 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: bits here and there. The beatdown that he took was 167 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: behind a metal door, so maybe he's still rehabbing, but 168 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: he looks physically ready. You just I don't have X 169 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: ray vision. I'm not an actual superhero. I just know 170 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: I never played one on TV. Never Mind that doesn't 171 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: work anyway. Moving on, I'm ready for the story to start. 172 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna as as Sam Roberts would say, let 173 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: it cook. He's yeh. I want it to go now, 174 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 1: and I hope it starts immediately. I can't wait to 175 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: see where it goes. The match was cool, it just 176 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: felt too short. Hey, I got it wrong again with 177 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: the Intercontinental Championship, and I almost I almost after Jeff 178 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: made his case switched again, and I did not trust 179 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: my instincts on these picks at all. It was all 180 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, well, I worked for WWE, so 181 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: I think I can do it, and I outthought myself 182 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: on all these picks. I'm just going with my gut 183 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: instincts from now on, and that's a promise. So they 184 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: had their match. I don't this storyline can't be over. 185 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: But it's the first loss in a Monster's career, the 186 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: monster being broun Breaker. They I think did the right 187 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: thing in letting Sammy win. He should retain that for 188 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: a while. Braun can be super pissed and keep killing 189 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: people and making people pay for his loss. He's not 190 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: going to get humbled, no way, and eventually he can 191 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: be the IC champion. But but now yet, I don't 192 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: know where that story goes though, And it happened so quickly. 193 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: It was a match I was excited for, just to 194 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: see what was going to happen. But there's no meat 195 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 1: on there's no meat on that bonce. We're not going 196 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: to worry about that. And then we get to the 197 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 1: women's money in the Bank ladder match, which was EO Sky, 198 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: one of my favorites. She's so fricking cool and she 199 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: flips out of people's moves and looks at him and 200 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, fuck you what, Sorry for Curzy versus 201 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: friend of the show who we love, who we adore, 202 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: Chelsea Green versus Lyra about here, who's way bigger than 203 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: I thought, like, way taller and whiter than I thought 204 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: she was next to all those other girls Versus Tiffany Stratton, 205 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: who I believe. I believe that was my pick, wasn't it. 206 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: Versus Naomi versus Zoe Stark. I mean, I look, it 207 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: was a bad day. It was a bad day for 208 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 1: all of us degenerate gamblers, but we got one, and 209 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: that's the one that's going to keep us coming back. 210 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 1: It's like, I don't, well, I don't golf because I 211 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: think golf is stupid. But golfer say, it's that one 212 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: good shot that you hit that keeps you coming back. 213 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: I think the Robin Williams perspective on golf YouTube it 214 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: is the correct perspective on golf. And that's why I 215 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: don't play that stupid ass game. I watched wrestling on 216 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: Sundays instead, what or Saturdays? We got all the girls 217 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: in the match. The first five minutes were rough. A 218 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: lot of things got Chris Jericho says, there's no such 219 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: thing as a botch because it's live. You just kind 220 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: of go with it. But what people would call botches, 221 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: you know, mistakes that happened in the ring. I'm just 222 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: glad nobody got hurt once that girl, Lyra Valkyria was 223 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: hanging upside down on the ladder and got jacked up. 224 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: I EO Sky and then Zoe Starr came in Pao 225 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: hits her with the knee. From that moment forward, this 226 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: match was the match of the night, like it was 227 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: so much it was so much fun and Chelsea Green, 228 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, we're not doing we're not doing match highlights. 229 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: But she took a fall that any single stunt man 230 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: or stunt woman would be absolutely proud of and stand 231 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: up in a plod from the top of the ladder 232 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: outside of the ring through two tables, twisted her body 233 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: and fell perfectly, I mean perfectly. It looked like a 234 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: movie stunt and it was awesome to watch, especially after 235 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: you get to know somebody. We got to interview her 236 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: on the show. If you haven't seen that episode, it 237 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: was just last week. Yeah, it was just last week, 238 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: so you can check that one out. She's awesome. We 239 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: love her on the show, can't wait to have her back, 240 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: just to talk about that move alone. But it looked 241 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: friggin awesome. And it was Tiffany Stratton who kicked her 242 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: off the ladder ah later, can I Love You? And 243 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: She's dead? And that was our pick because she has 244 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: a rocket ship attached to her, and because they have 245 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: no storyline for Bailey, so the storyline had to be 246 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: we just and what Bailey wasn't even in a title match, 247 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: so they have no story for Bailey intentionally because they 248 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: had to get this match off so that they could 249 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: get the briefcase on Tiffany and the storyline can be 250 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: Tiffany and Bailey. And I think eventually they're gonna give 251 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: Tiffany a shot, even though it's super early. I think 252 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: that rocket ship is real. I think it's it's the 253 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: Space Shuttle, and it is it is going to the 254 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: moon and back, and if it works, that's awesome, and 255 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: if it doesn't, they'll just say, hey, she's young and 256 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: give her more time. But I think every once in 257 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: a while, you got to take a chance on young 258 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: people if you see something in them, and I think 259 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: that's what I think they see something special in her, 260 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: so that will be the Bailey Tiffany storyline. Finally, well 261 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 1: not finally. We can still talk about the World Heavyweight Championship, 262 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: Cody Roads, Randy Orton, and Kevin Oh versus the bloodline, 263 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: and the bloodline is Solo Socoa Tomatanga I think it was, 264 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,719 Speaker 1: and Jacob Fatu that I'll have cool last names. I 265 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 1: don't have a cool lass. My name is Freddy. Just 266 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: let that breathe. Don't edit that dead air out of 267 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: the show, Alex. Just just let that horrible name sit 268 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: there with everyone and realize the shit that I took 269 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: as a kid. The crap name Freddie. What's the betty? 270 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: That one sucks when you're like six years old, that 271 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: gets your mom called, well, Freddy punched a kid in 272 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: the face. Why someone said he sleeps with a Teddy 273 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: and his name is Freddy. It was like stupid shit 274 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: like that used to make me so mad. Plus being 275 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: a junior is brutal. Ask any or any sort of 276 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: legacy kid. Ask Cody Rhodes how hard it was growing 277 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: up being the sun at Dusty Rhodes. It's tough, all right, 278 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: I've got all my vulnerability out. Let's talk about the match. 279 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: The match was awesome, all right. Jacob Fatu is beat 280 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: up everybody. Tomatonga got his ass beat by everybody. These 281 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: are the match tilights. I'm from the first bell to 282 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: every time he gets tagged in. If he was in 283 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: the ring, it was the good guy's time to shine, 284 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: and this dude took a whoop in for like fifteen 285 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: of the thirty minutes that this match must have been. 286 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: It was so brutal. And then Jacoba too just come 287 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: beat shit out everybody and then tag in Solo, and 288 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: Solo just do a couple moves on a beat up 289 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: corpse and then if he got hit a couple of times, 290 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: he tag in his boy who would get beat down 291 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: and then helps sudden Ranijord to come in and kill everybody. 292 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: But it was a really good match. I'm not shitting 293 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: on it. It was just funny to see one guy 294 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: get beat up that much. Anyway, that's not why what 295 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: we're talking about. So what happens now, it doesn't even 296 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: matter who won. The story is what Solo Sikoa told us. 297 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: The story is going to be in his promo that 298 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: took place earlier. He wants the title, that's his motivation. 299 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: That's the story. The obstacle beyond the obvious one, which 300 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: is Cody Rhodes has it is Roman reigns because Paul Hayman, 301 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: if we all remember, said Roman said there was one rule, 302 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: and that's leave Cody till he gets back, till Roman returns, 303 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: and Solo's completely destroyed this rule. He's then justified the 304 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: destruction of the rule by saying Roman's not coming back 305 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: to even enforce this rule. So I'm gonna do whatever 306 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: the hell I want as the tribal chief, the leader, 307 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: the patriarch of this family. I shouldn't say patriarch, that's Christian, 308 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: but the head of this table, the head of the table, 309 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: that's what he's saying. He is. So his storyline revolves 310 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: around one thing, the World Championship. The World Championship puts 311 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: food in his family's mouth. Those are words that have 312 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: come out of his mouth when he wasn't drafted that high. 313 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: Are you trying to take food off my table? You're 314 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: trying to make it so I can't feed my family, Paul, 315 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: is that you're is that what you're doing to me? 316 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: He's constantly threatening poll with that kind of shit. This 317 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: stuff's important to him. He's ego driven like Roman Evil. 318 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: Roman was ego driven, right. This is an ego business, 319 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: and he's doing well on the mic. He gets better 320 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: every single week. His backstage stuff is gotten way better 321 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: than when that started. The story I'm telling you right 322 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: now is from a backstage promo that he told us 323 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: where he was dimly lit. He comes off legit. He 324 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: comes off tough as nails. Corey Graves calls him the 325 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: street champion. He comes off like a street champion, like 326 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: a kid who was beating your little brother's ass on 327 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 1: the streets and then you went to go defend your 328 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: little brother and he whooped you too. That's who Solo 329 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: Sokoa is and he wants the world championship. So what 330 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: does that mean for his story? Does that mean that 331 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: Roman reigns is gonna come back and be like exqueeze 332 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: me baking pottern. That's from Wayne's world. Young listeners have 333 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,199 Speaker 1: no idea. What I just said, sorry, excuse me, I 334 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: beg your pardon is what Roman's saying at US nineties 335 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: translation for you. Then we go to the races with them. 336 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,159 Speaker 1: I know there's rumblings online about what they're wanting to 337 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: do and bringing war games back and a new bloodline 338 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: and an old bloodline. I don't know anything about that. 339 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: I was informed of that. I don't have any scoops 340 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: or anything. But what happens before then? What if Roman 341 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: isn't coming back? Then? What do they do? How do 342 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: they keep Solo tough, scary and intimidating and not when 343 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 1: he loses destroy his credibility as the tribal chief and 344 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: the bloodline. Well, there's only one way, and they've only 345 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: done it once before in recent history, and that was 346 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: back in like the seven eighth nine John Cena Randy 347 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: Orton era, where the belt kept going back and forth 348 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: between them, and nobody else would have it except those 349 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: two dudes. I think Triple It's snuck in there a 350 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: couple times, but it was John Cena's belt. John Cena 351 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: was Captain America. He was Captain America. That's what he did. 352 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: That movie The Marine changed his whole gimmick from rapper 353 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: to all American men, not boy man, and he became 354 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: the one and he was never going to lose, and 355 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 1: he was never going to turn heel. I saw writers 356 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: try to pitch the heel, the eventual John Cena heel 357 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: turn and Vince would repeatedly say, there are children who 358 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: watch this show. They have to have a hero they 359 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: believe in. John Cena will never ever ever be a 360 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: heel again because little kids need to believe in him. 361 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: Little kids are what drive the business for the next 362 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: thirty years when they grow up and bring their kids 363 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: and they still love wrestling and they're still buying t 364 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: shirts and they're still buying toys and merchandise, merchandise, merchandise, merchandise. 365 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: Those things drive the stock up. All those things drive 366 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:48,959 Speaker 1: the stock up. You have to have a man they 367 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: can believe in. And if he's losing, you can't count 368 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: on him. And if he turns on you, or you 369 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: think he's going to turn on you, you can't believe 370 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: in him. Roman Reigns was never gonna lose. He was 371 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: never gonna lose. It kept him strong, It kept him 372 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: super strong. Cody is in a position where he should 373 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: never lose. It's the new style of John Cena, although 374 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: Cody brings it in a very old school manner with 375 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: the three piece suits. I think he's even worn a 376 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: pocket watch with his suits, like he's old school wrestling 377 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: in a new school era. He's very okay with the 378 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,439 Speaker 1: corporate world. He looks the corporate part. He's got the 379 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: square jaw, the hair's perfect every single show night. The 380 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 1: roots are always touched up, and the suits are always 381 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: crisp and clean. The guy looks the part of a 382 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: publicly traded company. Right, He's where Sena was coming out 383 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: in jean shorts right like now's now it's a suit, 384 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: it's a corporation. They're owned by the TKO Group. Cody 385 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: can't lose, right or can he? And the only way 386 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: in recent history the WWE and they repeat their own 387 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: history because that's where their best stories have come from. 388 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: It's not like the Bloodlines. The first awesome faction in 389 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: the history of the company is to go back. And 390 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: the most recent memory that I have of a belt 391 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 1: starting to go back and forth between two people was 392 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: Orton and Sena, which we'll get into more in the 393 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: unsanctioned Thursday episode where we talk about Sina who said 394 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: he was going to retire at money in the bank. 395 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: So we'll get into that on the Thursday show. So 396 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: stayed tuned. But if they did that, is Solo Socoa 397 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: the character ready and would the belt even look right 398 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: on him or is it still too new? Is still 399 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 1: is he still too fresh of a character? Not in 400 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: the ring? His work super clean and you can see 401 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: he uses psychology really well. I'm not talking about the man, 402 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the character. Is the character ready to 403 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: wear gold? Or would that break our suspension of disbelief? Right? 404 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: The thing that makes us cry in a movie even 405 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: though we know someone else wrote wrote the film. And 406 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: when your favorite character dies, he didn't die, They just 407 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: stopped writing that character, but for some reason, it's still 408 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: evokes an emotion from us. Or when the good guy 409 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: beats the bag gun, we go yeah, fuck yeah, get 410 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: his ass, like we forget for a second, there's that 411 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: suspension of disbelief. Wrestling can do that too, when it's 412 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: really really good. A lot of times it's us having 413 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: to widen that gap for them with our own imagination 414 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: and we go okay, okay. But every once in a 415 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: while they don't require us to do that and we 416 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: can get behind a story like they did with Sammy's 417 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 1: Ain and the Bloodline is the most recent example where Maxwell, 418 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: Jacob Friedman and cmpunk. That is what I see as 419 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: the future for Cody Rhodes. If that's unclear here's the 420 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: short version. I think Cody has a chance to lose 421 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: the title, but he'll get it back quickly. The way 422 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: Randy and John went back and forth with one Another's 423 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: the only way I see this story working without Roman 424 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: Reigns coming back sooner rather than later to stop all 425 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: of Solo's plans and say no, no, no, no no, 426 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: I'm the tribal chief. You are not the tribal chief. 427 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: Cody's going to have a different story and we're going 428 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: to focus on this bloodline story here, and there'll be 429 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: other challengers for Cody roads to face, and we can 430 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: get into those as they happen. Now. I think the 431 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: more likely is that Roman comes back and puts a 432 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: holt to Solo's plans, because that's a hot story. If 433 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: anybody is into wrestling storylines, that would become the hottest 434 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: storyline in wrestling. But if they do choose to go 435 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: to the other route, if Roman is making movies and 436 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: is going to be gone another six months, then that's 437 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: the scenario that Cody could lose. And for you to go, 438 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: how could he lose? I gave you the recent history 439 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: of a scenario where that did actually happen, all right, 440 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: you guys, we're coming to a close, so we'll talk 441 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: a little aew and I mentioned the Maxwell Jacob Friedman 442 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: promo on Collisionsion is still not up to par with Dynamite. 443 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: So I'm not saying, hey, you have to watch Collision, 444 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: but you should watch the promo. I'm sure you can 445 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: see it online. But the Dynamite is where all their 446 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: numbers go. So if you just want to watch the 447 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,719 Speaker 1: one Wednesday show, that's fine. But we did get a 448 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: storyline in aew finally, finally, it has been a long time. 449 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: And granted, their best storyteller is MJF. He was hurt, 450 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: he's back. I'm not even going to talk about his storyline. 451 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: That's not the story I'm talking about today. We're talking 452 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: about women's wrestling because Britt Baker is back in fucking wrestling, 453 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: and let everybody know in a promo the reason why 454 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: she's been gone is because she had a friggin mini stroke. 455 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: She looked one hundred percent, she looked great. She was 456 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: vulnerable on the microphone, which, even though it's not as 457 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: clean a promo as she usually cut, I was very 458 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: grateful for the stumbles in there because it felt very 459 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 1: real and honest and genuine, and she let everybody know 460 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: that she's back and it was a wonderful moment. And 461 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: who's she going to have beef with. She's going to 462 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: have beef with Mercedes Money, formerly known as Sasha Banks 463 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:18,479 Speaker 1: from WWE. So we finally have a story. And Mercedes Money, 464 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: who was a babyface when she debuted just a few 465 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: short months ago, weeks ago, months ago in Boston, her 466 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: hometown where they love her, and they still had given 467 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: her love all the way through the pay per view, 468 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: all the way up to through the forbidden door match 469 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: post Willow, but here's Britt Baker, and Britt Baker helped 470 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: build aw She helped build the women's division. She was 471 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: the title holder and was not going to lose that 472 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,919 Speaker 1: title for a very long time and didn't lose it 473 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: for a very long time. She has an awesome submission 474 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: because she's a dentist and she does a mandible claw 475 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: and I just think that's friggin genius and she's a 476 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: real tennis and Mercedes Money is going to interrupt her 477 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 1: speech with her own championship celebration because she felt some 478 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: of her shine was taken, so she's going to take 479 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: some shine now from Britt Baker. And these two women 480 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: went off on one another, and I'll say this round 481 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: one was britt Baker. Round one was not even close. 482 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: It was a ten eight round like, it was not close, 483 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: and Mercedes was throwing the jabs out there. She was 484 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: throwing the jabs, but britt Baker was like, nope, nope, nope, 485 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: and then boom hit her with encounters and it was awesome. 486 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: It made the entire crowd get behind and look, Mercedes 487 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: has to be there for that. She has to take 488 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: all that and if she's not willing to, then the 489 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: segment sucks. So it's kudos to her as well. But 490 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: the crowd got so behind Britt as they should. She's 491 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: the one who's making the comeback. She's the one who 492 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: who was on the shelf for I think nine frigging 493 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: months or maybe even longer. It was too damn long, 494 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: is what it was. So the crowd was hungry and 495 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: they're so grateful for her. Because the aw crowds are 496 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,919 Speaker 1: like are like like the most loyal dog ever, right, 497 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: So a lot of them won't even watch WWE. They're like, no, 498 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: only aew whereas I watch everything. But they're loyal to 499 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: their own and she is a homegrown, like founding mother 500 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: of the company. Like they love her, love her, love her. 501 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: So the crowd is one hundred percent behind her. At 502 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: this point. I'm not hearing a single cheer or anything 503 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: from Mercedes. And this is gonna be an awesome story 504 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: because Mercedes can talk a bit on the mic. She 505 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: doesn't have as good a promo as Brittany, but she's 506 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 1: cut promos that are as good as some of brit Brits. 507 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: If that makes sense, I think it does. So she's 508 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: gonna have something to say in a response, and if 509 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: she doesn't, then it's gonna be a physical response, and 510 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: she's gonna beat britt Baker's ass in the ring before 511 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: the matches even start, with like a steel chair or 512 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: kendo stick or whatever else she wants. But if they 513 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: give this some time, this one would say, give time, 514 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: let it marinate, give this one some time. Don't rush 515 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: this one rush Drew and Punk. We've waited long enough 516 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: for that if Punk's healthy, obviously, but this one, you 517 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: can kind of let them go back and forth. We 518 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: can get some interference, some things that stop matches, some 519 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: things that don't give us a conclusion that we're satisfied with, 520 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: so they have to wrestle again. It doesn't just have 521 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: to end and then boom we move on to the 522 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: next one. M JFF and CM punk got three matches. 523 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: I think out of that you can get three matches 524 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: out of these two and I really hope aw does 525 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: you guys we ask you for listener reviews and we 526 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: ask you to give us five stars. Well, Jeff does 527 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: I say give us the stars you think we're worthy of? 528 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: Jeff gets mad when you guys talk trash. So as 529 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: a way to say thanks, we try to read some 530 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: of them on the air. We're going to do another 531 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: one now. We got five stars. So this is from 532 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: Glamour's eight. Glamors whatever your real name is, Thank you 533 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: very much, Thank you Glamours eight. By the way, it's 534 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: my lucky num. And this is so nice. I don't 535 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: even want to read. It's too nice. I don't do 536 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: well with compliments. Excellent pod five stars. I only have 537 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 1: one question for Jeff and Freddy. Do you believe in 538 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: Joe Hendry? All right? Do you mean like believe in him? 539 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: Like does he actually exist? Or do I believe that 540 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: he's got a shot to make it in WWE. I'll 541 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: say this, they're working with TNA. They're working with TNA. 542 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: So if they believe, I got to see more than 543 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: just you know, popping up, so give me time. But 544 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: if it's do I actually believe in his existence? Like, 545 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: is he like God? Like wrestling God? He's not JBL baby, 546 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: There's only one wrestling God and it's John. We won't 547 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: do that anyway. Appreciate you guys. Stay tuned for Unsinction Thursdays. 548 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about John Cena and his announcement 549 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,239 Speaker 1: to retire from wrestling, and a bunch of other stuff too. 550 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. I'll see you tomorrow, Peerce. This 551 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: has been a production of Iheart'smichael Toura podcast Network. For 552 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 553 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.