Speaker 1: Now your native. It's introducing the hosts Wrestling Fretty, Jeff
Speaker 1: Died Soon, Welcome back, everybody. Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: Wrestling with Bretty, and we're gonna get right into it
Speaker 1: because a whole bunch of crazy crap happened over this weekend.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about both paper views w W E
Speaker 1: and a e W and then unfortunately we have to
Speaker 1: talk about the scrum and though, which is a when
Speaker 1: all the press asked their questions, and unfortunately this week,
Speaker 1: all the questions were more gossip driven in real life
Speaker 1: than storyline driven, which some people may think is good,
Speaker 1: but I think as horrible as always is my amazing
Speaker 1: co host, Jeff Died Toboddy, it was awesome getting to
Speaker 1: spend Saturday with you, same brother, had a good time
Speaker 1: and watch Clash at the Castle and it was just
Speaker 1: two bros. It was it was a good time to watch.
Speaker 1: I was love hanging out with you and I love
Speaker 1: watching wrestling. But it's it's unusual when it starts at
Speaker 1: ten am. You know, that's like, that's new for me
Speaker 1: to get up at nine and go alright, I gotta
Speaker 1: get ready for this wrestling pay per view. That was
Speaker 1: that was the only usual for Cardiff. Won't you switch
Speaker 1: your hours? Cardiff? You're bother. You're you're messing with our
Speaker 1: with our circadian rhythms. Couldn't you guys pray record it
Speaker 1: and then put it out later you know, when people
Speaker 1: are awake and don't post anything, so it gets spoiled
Speaker 1: a normal time. Um, shout out to everyone from Cardiff.
Speaker 1: Sorry that Jeff and I did the great Britain Cardiff thing.
Speaker 1: We know you guys are your own people. Jeff, would
Speaker 1: you like to hear a word in uh in Welsh?
Speaker 1: That uh that I'm not even joking about it. I
Speaker 1: actually speak one word of welf. Would you like to
Speaker 1: hear it? I would love to hear. Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: It's posh wobbly wobbly. Would you like to know what
Speaker 1: that means? Yeah, but I'm nervous because it sounds weird.
Speaker 1: That's how you say jellyfish and welch. Why would you
Speaker 1: ever need to learn jellyfish and welch? Well, I saw
Speaker 1: it on a TV show, so I just stuck in
Speaker 1: my head and I don't it was years ago, but
Speaker 1: it's true fish and you know, wobbly, wobbly is that
Speaker 1: if I'm learning the language, jellyfish is not even in
Speaker 1: the top three thousand words I'm gonna need to know.
Speaker 1: And you started with jellyfish for well, what if you
Speaker 1: get stung by one and you know you need someone
Speaker 1: to pee on you and they just think you're a
Speaker 1: creep because you're on you, but you can't tell them why.
Speaker 1: There you go. I guess you figured it out. It's
Speaker 1: still a pretty unlikely situation. Usually be where's the bathrooms?
Speaker 1: Do you know where the hotel is? Things like that,
Speaker 1: But my dad had a whole bit on that in
Speaker 1: the seventies. I thought this show opened really, really cool
Speaker 1: because it started with the ladies. We had three on
Speaker 1: three and Bailey was clearly the winner, even though there
Speaker 1: were shenanigans. But who cares about the match? This means
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be Bailey versus Bianca bell Air one
Speaker 1: on one. They're gonna build up to this and one
Speaker 1: percent Bailey is getting the title wrapped around her. She's
Speaker 1: too good on the mic right now, She's better on
Speaker 1: the mic than Bianca right now, right now, and the
Speaker 1: healed thing is working for that. Her minions EO and
Speaker 1: and Coda, they're both smaller than her. She has broad
Speaker 1: her shoulders, bigger hips, she's taller, she has more weight
Speaker 1: on her. They have they have positioned her so perfectly.
Speaker 1: I'm totally in love with Bailey right now and she's
Speaker 1: going straight to the top. What say you, sir? Did
Speaker 1: the right team win? Yeah, I'm I'm surprised that they
Speaker 1: let them win so fast. I mean they just came
Speaker 1: back in SummerSlam. But like, like you just said, I
Speaker 1: agree with all those things. But there's nobody hotter than
Speaker 1: Bailey right now as far as like she's just she's
Speaker 1: just over with everybody. And she she looks great in
Speaker 1: the ring, She's good on the mic. I say give
Speaker 1: it to her. It was a good match. It was
Speaker 1: actually a good match, and I'm very critical of the
Speaker 1: of of these types of matches, and I was great.
Speaker 1: I love this girl so much. Man. She came and
Speaker 1: did buy that pisodes of the A and E show
Speaker 1: that I host, Rivals Sundays on any and she was
Speaker 1: so cool. She has been a fan of wrestling since
Speaker 1: birth and a lot of the problem I think most
Speaker 1: people have with wrestling today is the recruiting process of it.
Speaker 1: Because the people they recruited that are a lot of
Speaker 1: them are stars today. Didn't even grow up watching wrestling.
Speaker 1: They didn't care, they don't know the history. It's just
Speaker 1: a job for them. And the fans want someone who
Speaker 1: they believe is as passionate as they are, even if
Speaker 1: they're wrong, and the and the person who didn't watch
Speaker 1: it as a kid is crazy passionate, they would prefer
Speaker 1: someone that's like them, and that's who Bailey is. She
Speaker 1: grew up on this, she loves it. I love this girl.
Speaker 1: We should have her as a guest. I think as
Speaker 1: a wrestling fan, you either want the rest are to
Speaker 1: be have have always been a wrestling fan like Bailey
Speaker 1: or a Jericho or the Young Bucks, or you want
Speaker 1: them to It's okay if you didn't watch wrestling grow up,
Speaker 1: just don't pretend you did. That's the worst. When ever,
Speaker 1: so I was a little I looked up to Page.
Speaker 1: You're like what you looked up to Page ever since
Speaker 1: you were little? I know you're young, but what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Like they'll like, they'll they'll act like
Speaker 1: they want you. Ever have people do that? Go oh
Speaker 1: you like wrestling? And you go yeah, and they go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: remember Ultimate Warrior? Like yes, I remember ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: they always do pretend like they've watched their whole life
Speaker 1: and they can only name like macho man. Randy Savage
Speaker 1: is like, all right, I don't. We don't need to
Speaker 1: have this conversation. It happens every time I have a
Speaker 1: guest on my podcast and they see those wrestling toys.
Speaker 1: They think I want to talk about wrestling with them,
Speaker 1: but they don't know a lot about wrestling. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: save it. I'll talk to Freddie about wrestling. You know,
Speaker 1: it's infinitely more than you know. Math teachers want to
Speaker 1: talk to guys like us about math. No, no, we
Speaker 1: don't know what we're talking about when it comes to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my god, my daughter has a pre algebra like pre
Speaker 1: quiz and they said that here's how you can help him.
Speaker 1: And I literally was like, I don't. I can't help
Speaker 1: my dog. I need it. I need something that helps
Speaker 1: me understand this. I'd go on YouTube all these stupid
Speaker 1: videos on how to do algebra. We had Shamous and Gunther, Ok, well,
Speaker 1: just because they repeated the Friday Night Smack dumb bit
Speaker 1: where they just stared at each other. But I just
Speaker 1: wanted to I just wanted to touch on it real
Speaker 1: quick because Shamus, who you and I both loved, he
Speaker 1: lost the match, but it was in Wales and there
Speaker 1: were a ton of Irish people there and they were
Speaker 1: giving him a ton of support. And I just want
Speaker 1: to give people a quick story and I've said a
Speaker 1: version of it like in season one, but just for
Speaker 1: any new listeners, why I love this guy so much
Speaker 1: and you'll love this story. When I worked at w
Speaker 1: w E, Vince ran promo class, which was basically acting class,
Speaker 1: only he wasn't the best teacher. He would say things like,
Speaker 1: you gotta give me a little razzle dazzle while you're
Speaker 1: up there, and a wrestler literally in that very same moment,
Speaker 1: tapped me on my shoulder and said, why does razzle
Speaker 1: dazzled me? So it was true. It was Trouble from
Speaker 1: Jump Street and one of the exercise exercises, one of
Speaker 1: the exercises that Vince wanted to do was he brought
Speaker 1: two wrestlers up and he would tell them each who
Speaker 1: were what they were, and then he would say, now
Speaker 1: make me want to watch you fight. And so it
Speaker 1: was Wade Barrett Shamus, who we all love. He's the
Speaker 1: whitest man in the world. You can see all his
Speaker 1: organs inside his body is sentin no one said. And
Speaker 1: they go out there and Vince looks them both dead
Speaker 1: in the eye and he's not joking around. It's not
Speaker 1: a rape, he says, it's not a joke. He says,
Speaker 1: you're a dog, and you're a dog. Now make me
Speaker 1: want to watch you fight. And it's dead quiet, and
Speaker 1: thirty seconds go by. And while those thirty seconds go by,
Speaker 1: we want to thank you guys for your support, and
Speaker 1: we also want to say thank you for the ratings
Speaker 1: and all the five star reviews that you guys have
Speaker 1: given us. We appreciate that forty five seconds have gone by.
Speaker 1: It feels like now a minute's gone by. And Shamus
Speaker 1: says the words out loud, I think I'm having an
Speaker 1: out to body experience. And the whole room, it's every wrestler,
Speaker 1: every every producer, the old school wrestlers that helped design
Speaker 1: the matches, and Vince, everyone, the camera. Everybody's in here
Speaker 1: and they're all laughing. And then it gets quiet again
Speaker 1: because no one can say anything. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, wait, Barrett, he had balls, man, but he
Speaker 1: didn't know what direction Vince wanted to go, And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you just here and Vince jumps up
Speaker 1: and he goes, not an actual dog, God damn it.
Speaker 1: And he just starts going off and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is the craziest acting class I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. The actors haven't said anything yet,
Speaker 1: only the teacher has. And so right after that, I
Speaker 1: went up to Vince. I said, dude, you gotta let
Speaker 1: me take over this promo class. This is not gonna work.
Speaker 1: I promise it's not gonna work. And before that he goes, hey,
Speaker 1: I want you to see what we're gonna do here,
Speaker 1: like she was excited for it, and it just died.
Speaker 1: It died a miserable death. But that's why I love
Speaker 1: Shamus so much. I can't imagine having to take a
Speaker 1: class where Vince is the teacher, Like he's the highest up,
Speaker 1: the last opinion, the guy that gets final say, the
Speaker 1: guy that ki boshes everything and green lights everything, and
Speaker 1: he's your teacher. That would be a nightmare. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a class where a class is the opportunity to fail.
Speaker 1: You can't fail in front of the guy that fires you.
Speaker 1: Sunding like a dog. We've got a gay. He's John.
Speaker 1: He won't work on this company ever. Again. You're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know he told me to be a dog.
Speaker 1: I was just because of your Vince, your call on
Speaker 1: the next match. Do you want to do Mysterio with
Speaker 1: Edge and the Judgment day? Do you want to do
Speaker 1: Rollins riddle? Do you want to do the Championship IT match?
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Let's talk about them all.
Speaker 1: I mean, Rawlins retal match was awesome. The only criticism
Speaker 1: I had was that Seth Rawlins came out dressed like
Speaker 1: Elton John for no reason at all. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think Seth Rollins. I don't think
Speaker 1: he knows who his character is. Who did he come
Speaker 1: dressed at it John? Exactly what? He came out A man.
Speaker 1: I'm walking through the ring just as fast as I can.
Speaker 1: It's just so confusing to me. I was like, I've
Speaker 1: never seen anyone I love commit harder to a gimmick
Speaker 1: I hate more than Seth Rawlins. He's even laugh and
Speaker 1: I hate the laugh, but he's great at it. I
Speaker 1: just love him mix so much. I think he's amazing.
Speaker 1: I love Seth I love his character. I love everything
Speaker 1: about him and the fact that he hasn't quit on
Speaker 1: this ridiculous gimmick. I'm not even I used to be
Speaker 1: mad at I'm not even mad anymore at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know that everyone hates it, and you
Speaker 1: leaned into it. More so now I kind of respected.
Speaker 1: Regardless of the fact that he came out like Ellen John,
Speaker 1: they stole a whole show. I thought they had the
Speaker 1: best match of the night. I loved every single second
Speaker 1: of it, and I feel like that pretty much with
Speaker 1: every match seth Rawlins has. Not every match Riddle has.
Speaker 1: Every match seth Rawlins has. He's like the w w
Speaker 1: E s Brian Danielson, although they used to have their
Speaker 1: own Brian Danielson. I like the entire match. I think
Speaker 1: that's the longest I've watched Matt Riddle wrestle. Really, I
Speaker 1: feel like I've might be the longest match they've ever
Speaker 1: given him. And you have someone like seth Rawlins who
Speaker 1: can legit goes sixty minutes. He has. We got to
Speaker 1: talk about mystereo and edge versus the Judgment day because
Speaker 1: you sent me a little video clip that is now
Speaker 1: all over the internet when this happens. So to set
Speaker 1: this up for everyone, there's a father son's storyline, raymis
Speaker 1: Stereo and his son Dominic and real father son and
Speaker 1: Ray is you know, died in the Woo Luchador. He's
Speaker 1: full of so much pride and honor and and and
Speaker 1: just respect and you know that he tries to pour
Speaker 1: that into his son and the judgment Day are the
Speaker 1: bad guys in this story. There are a group that
Speaker 1: Edge created. Edge as a veteran superstar, Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: good actor. Watch him on Vikings. He's done a bunch
Speaker 1: of other shows too, and he's great on the mic,
Speaker 1: really smart guy, good human being. And uh, they kick
Speaker 1: him out of the group because he's the old lion.
Speaker 1: And these young lions Damian Priest, Rea Ripley and Finn Balor,
Speaker 1: and we love all three of these. They take over.
Speaker 1: But it all felt forced because it was all due
Speaker 1: to an injury. That's why Edge had to stop being
Speaker 1: a bad guy and become a good guy. So Jeff
Speaker 1: and I think we both felt the same way. There
Speaker 1: was something a little stiff there that wasn't working well.
Speaker 1: They made it all work, and I saw it on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw the continuation of the story, and they're
Speaker 1: still making it work. They tell this story by they're
Speaker 1: beating up Dominic Mysterio, who's young, new to the business.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's sixteen years old, and they're crueled in.
Speaker 1: They just destroy and they got a woman beating him up,
Speaker 1: which is humiliating on on multiple levels now and everything
Speaker 1: about it is just Dominic, Dominic, Dominic. So they have
Speaker 1: this match and Edge supports his friend raymis Stereo, and
Speaker 1: Dominic comes out to show love for his father, although
Speaker 1: he's not wrestling that night, and they have a tag
Speaker 1: match against Damien Priest and Finn Balor, and the match
Speaker 1: goes back and forth, and eventually they both do their
Speaker 1: finisher moves together. Ray does the six one nine, which
Speaker 1: is an amazing acrobatic move where he swings his whole
Speaker 1: body in between two ropes, spins around and both feet
Speaker 1: boom hit the bag in the face and the bad
Speaker 1: guy falls backwards and turns around staggering and bam. It's
Speaker 1: called a spear and that's like a shoulder tackle in football.
Speaker 1: And the guy's down one, two, three, matches over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good guys. Dominic gets in the ring. Yeah, my dad,
Speaker 1: he looks at Edge, the guy who helped his dad.
Speaker 1: But it took Edge to help his dad because Dominic
Speaker 1: wasn't tough enough. And all of a sudden, you see
Speaker 1: this change in dominic face from love to hate and
Speaker 1: he kicks Edge. Jealousy is the right word, and he
Speaker 1: kicks Edge square in the balls and Edged like for me,
Speaker 1: it was a great acting moment because most people, just
Speaker 1: when you see it in movies, they drop their head
Speaker 1: and fall to the ground. He drops to his knees
Speaker 1: and looks up at Dominic like dude, what and then
Speaker 1: just drops And then we get the great moment where
Speaker 1: Dominic looks at his dad and it's like, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: His dad's trying to calm him down, dude, what are
Speaker 1: you doing. That's Edge. He's like a brother, and Dominic's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and then lam he
Speaker 1: just nails him with a clothes line up, just a
Speaker 1: forearm right across the throat. Jeff, tell the people why
Speaker 1: this is so relevant. It's uh a the same story
Speaker 1: in a way. It's the same finishing story of when
Speaker 1: when Eddie Guerrero turned on Ray Masterio and also someone
Speaker 1: tweeted me Batista also is that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's but it's like Raymisterio, if you're gonna turn on Raymisterio,
Speaker 1: you give him that clothes line and also a beautiful
Speaker 1: clothes line. It was like the clothes line from Hell
Speaker 1: that that LBJ used to use from And also the
Speaker 1: reason I liked that this happened. And this might sound
Speaker 1: a little harsh, but Dominique hasn't done anything remotely hard
Speaker 1: since he's been introduced for interesting. He just gets beat
Speaker 1: up by Ria Ripley, he uh, which makes him look
Speaker 1: so weak in my opinion, like she like beats him
Speaker 1: up backstage, pulls him out all bloody, she beats him
Speaker 1: up in front of the fans. Even in this match,
Speaker 1: she's slamming Dominique around. We're getting some sort of point
Speaker 1: of view or perspective from from dominic Is is exciting
Speaker 1: because if he didn't do something soon, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on TV anymore. A lot of nepotism
Speaker 1: going on keeping that guy around. I think you're dead
Speaker 1: on with with the way you broke that down. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw last night's Monday Night
Speaker 1: Raw but he came out all in black, black shirt,
Speaker 1: button to the collar, hair slicked back, and he was
Speaker 1: not having it. Man Like, he finally looked interesting and
Speaker 1: I think they got a chance to really get this right. Um,
Speaker 1: So everybody got over in this segment. I loved it,
Speaker 1: you and I love everyone in it, and we were
Speaker 1: relieved to finally see Dominic get an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: interesting and be compelling, because I honest, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was going to be did you?
Speaker 1: Uh you want to talk about the mask? Edge war
Speaker 1: out to the ring devil man? Come on, look, I
Speaker 1: have over a thousand let our masks, so I have
Speaker 1: something that are way crazier than that. I'll grab one
Speaker 1: and show you on on camera after the podcast. So
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it, dude, I actually loved it.
Speaker 1: Did you think it was corny? I said, I hated
Speaker 1: that mask, But you were like so excited when he
Speaker 1: came out. You were like, oh, so, oh do you
Speaker 1: think he wrestles in it? Do you think he wrestles
Speaker 1: in it? I was like, I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: got and he took it off. Pretty loved it, like
Speaker 1: I wanted him to give it to Dominic, and I
Speaker 1: like that you liked it, so anyway, it was this
Speaker 1: is actually a really nice story. Now that's shaping up.
Speaker 1: I think they saved this. I think they saved Judgment
Speaker 1: Day by doing this. I think Ria Ripley has really
Speaker 1: emerged as the leader of the group, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: She's getting better on the mic each week and looks
Speaker 1: crazy confident out there, like she looks as if she
Speaker 1: feels she can do no wrong. I'm sure that's not
Speaker 1: the case. She probably has insecurities like any human, but
Speaker 1: she is killing it right now. So shout out to
Speaker 1: that whole group. Man. I thought it was a strange
Speaker 1: thing to add Dominic to the Judgment Day. I thought
Speaker 1: that was unusual. Watch Monday in Ira if you haven't,
Speaker 1: because I thought it looked really cool. I thought he
Speaker 1: really fit in. Well, it was like they just were
Speaker 1: beating him up. They just beat him up. But think
Speaker 1: about this, Mancy, I grew up. I'm a little older
Speaker 1: than you. When I was coming up, guys got ranked
Speaker 1: into gangs, and the way you got ranked in was
Speaker 1: they all beat the ship out of you, and if
Speaker 1: you were still cool with them after that, then you
Speaker 1: were in the gang, which meant you were never getting
Speaker 1: beat up again. So that's what it felt to me
Speaker 1: when he came out on Monday night Raw. So that's
Speaker 1: maybe if I if I can, maybe I'm over selling it.
Speaker 1: But if I can sell it to you that way,
Speaker 1: I will. That makes sense, all right? Main event, Main event,
Speaker 1: Main event. The entire world was convinced that the young
Speaker 1: boy from from Scotland, Drew Galloway. It was wrestled since
Speaker 1: he was fourteen years old, you know, little Lee Jim
Speaker 1: in Edinburgh. I don't know if that's where it was.
Speaker 1: Um wrestled all over Europe, one titles everywhere. As a
Speaker 1: young man comes to the w W E and Vince
Speaker 1: when I was at the company, mind you, and Vince
Speaker 1: comes out and deems him the golden one and he's
Speaker 1: going to be the next guy. And then every single
Speaker 1: week of TV he would get the same note right
Speaker 1: before he would have to go on camera, and it
Speaker 1: was try not to have a Scottish accent, which is
Speaker 1: the most horrible note that you could ever give a
Speaker 1: human being in their life, especially right before they're going
Speaker 1: in on live or tape television or backstage segment. And
Speaker 1: it was the only thing in his head, and I
Speaker 1: would tell him two words after that all the time,
Speaker 1: say supreme confidence, through supreme confidence. Come on, man, don't
Speaker 1: listen to that nonsense. Supreme uh no MOC. And I
Speaker 1: said you could sound like, oh, I remember, I said,
Speaker 1: you don't think Braveheart made a bazillion dollars nobody freaking cares.
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, my boss cares. And I was like,
Speaker 1: and that's like a tough argument to make, So it
Speaker 1: was real tough on his kid. He eventually got let
Speaker 1: go and he had to kind of discover himself through
Speaker 1: other promotions like t n A. I think he went
Speaker 1: to Japan for a little bit, and then eventually he
Speaker 1: becomes this huge star in these companies. He's grown into
Speaker 1: his body. It's got a magnum p I hairy chest,
Speaker 1: sweet beard, sweet finishing move which are these? He got
Speaker 1: six six like to sixty and he's not all chest.
Speaker 1: The lots legs and that's what he uses for his
Speaker 1: finish shirts is like flying drop kick. It looks like
Speaker 1: a man and Lee Chun lee flying through this guy
Speaker 1: and the w W E brings him back. And for
Speaker 1: those of you who aren't familiar with him and not
Speaker 1: that familiar with wrestling when the pandemic hit. This was
Speaker 1: the man they gave the title to in a time
Speaker 1: when there were no fans. They prerecorded his match. He
Speaker 1: knew he was champion for a month before the rest
Speaker 1: of the world did, and he couldn't tell anyone. So
Speaker 1: of course he's gonna win the match in Cardiff, Wales
Speaker 1: where tons of Scotsman and Scott's women have all come
Speaker 1: to watch their guy go and the match starts. Mr Dye,
Speaker 1: there weren't as many chops, no, watch them made me happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Were you convinced of a drew of a Drew victory? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought for sure. And then they kept being like
Speaker 1: some close pins where I was like, I was actually
Speaker 1: getting like, oh, like like I'll be going if they
Speaker 1: do this to me again, you know. I was just
Speaker 1: like because I was like, there's an I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: going to be drew when ends. But but every time
Speaker 1: they'd be like a big move by Roman or like
Speaker 1: a pin or whatever, I would go there, there's a
Speaker 1: one percent chance here that they're gonna screw me. There's
Speaker 1: a one percent chance they're gonna do it to me again.
Speaker 1: Where they put Roman over and Roman walks out of it.
Speaker 1: I was like, there's just I don't there's signs to say.
Speaker 1: If Roman wins, we riot, you know, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: the same thing, same thing. I'm thinking the same thing,
Speaker 1: and uh I I thought there was no chance, no
Speaker 1: chance in hell. Well let's talk about why we were
Speaker 1: both wrong. They took a big risk and sacrificed a
Speaker 1: lot of the drewmack entire story, although that ended up
Speaker 1: happening anyway when they forgot to cut the feed, but
Speaker 1: they brought out a new cousin of Roman reigns since
Speaker 1: they did like that, and Paul Hayman couldn't be there.
Speaker 1: I have not seen him cut a promo, so I
Speaker 1: don't know if he can cut one. But it's a
Speaker 1: big risk to put on the guy. It could be
Speaker 1: a place for Drew to go, so he could hand
Speaker 1: you know, fight the reason that he got screwed, but
Speaker 1: then he would have to lose that story so that
Speaker 1: Sokola's character wins and becomes credible. But there was interference
Speaker 1: from this dude and Drew ends up losing the match,
Speaker 1: and then Tyson Oh and at one point Austin Thury
Speaker 1: tried to cash in and Tyson Fury knocked him out,
Speaker 1: but that's not important. The end of the match was
Speaker 1: weird because they forgot to say cut and then and
Speaker 1: I know this for a fact. I asked a couple
Speaker 1: of people and they left the feed running and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Drew McIntyre was feeling good that Tyson
Speaker 1: Fury came out to the ring and Jeff they sang
Speaker 1: Sweet Caroline after a loss. It was so weird. Was
Speaker 1: it felt like some weird house show the singing I
Speaker 1: could do. Basically they thought they were cut. Yeah. It
Speaker 1: was so corny and so stupid, and it made Fury
Speaker 1: end mc tyre look weird and unusual after a big
Speaker 1: loss like that. The match was so good. I loved
Speaker 1: every part of match. I actually liked. They kept saying
Speaker 1: that Usso's didn't make the didn't make the travel. A
Speaker 1: lot of my friends were texting me like, well, they
Speaker 1: let Roman win so that the Rock can come back
Speaker 1: and will be the Rock versus Roman. But in my opinion,
Speaker 1: you don't need you don't need that to be a
Speaker 1: championship match. I'm watching the Rock versus Roman anyway. You know,
Speaker 1: so you don't need Rock doesn't isn't gonna be champion again.
Speaker 1: That would just be weird. Just don't understand why they
Speaker 1: let Roman win that match. It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1: And I said, and I this is a promise that
Speaker 1: if wrestling does this to me with the Roman reigns
Speaker 1: finished two d three hundred more times, I'm gonna stop watching. Well,
Speaker 1: I can tell you a couple of things. You don't
Speaker 1: have to worry because it is now public knowledge that
Speaker 1: Roman has taken more of a not a part time contract,
Speaker 1: but not a champion contract. And you already know that
Speaker 1: killer crosses right there or sorry, carrying a cross, now
Speaker 1: carrying cross, the one that got away, Mr Dye, the
Speaker 1: one because he's not he's not carrying cross. He does
Speaker 1: not have Scarlett with him, Scarlett Bordeaux. They are not that,
Speaker 1: he does not have the evil macho man, Miss Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: He is not carrying cross. And that is my prediction.
Speaker 1: Not Kevin Owens, who I would love to see. But
Speaker 1: maybe they could split the belts between the two men.
Speaker 1: But I think Drew is gonna probably have to lose
Speaker 1: to Sekoa before he can go after another title. So
Speaker 1: get ready for the one that got away, Jeff, when
Speaker 1: they got away, the one that got away from you.
Speaker 1: Yea yeah, yeah, it's too bad. Let's talk about a
Speaker 1: a W. I did not go to the hundred and
Speaker 1: seven degree dodgr game. My daughter and wife and their
Speaker 1: friends went, and I ordered the paper peak. I don't
Speaker 1: like saying bad things. I will say this. I didn't
Speaker 1: enjoy a match until Keith Lee and and Swerve Strickland
Speaker 1: took on the acclaim got nervous and I match a
Speaker 1: few times. I did, Yeah, I did too. They. I
Speaker 1: thought they had a lot of really believable false finishes.
Speaker 1: One that double superplex off the top rope, which is
Speaker 1: what a superplex is. It looked like Keith Lee was
Speaker 1: gonna land on his head. I got so nervous about
Speaker 1: it that he's just such a big fella. For those
Speaker 1: of you who don't know, Keith Lee is the largest
Speaker 1: man I've ever seen, just like a big He's as wide,
Speaker 1: he's as wide as he is tall, and then they're
Speaker 1: just happened to be arms and legs in the head
Speaker 1: on top of like a giant dining room table. Is
Speaker 1: basically what he looks like, like the dining room table
Speaker 1: from Beauty and the Beast When it comes alive in
Speaker 1: the cartoon, but a big like, yeah, that's Keith Lee.
Speaker 1: So shout out to them for saving the first part
Speaker 1: of the show. And I'll give love to Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: and Brian Danielson because a lot of that led into
Speaker 1: this Daniel Garcia kid, who you and I have been
Speaker 1: talking about a little bit. Chris Jericho wins the match
Speaker 1: with some dirty, cheating Shenanigans, dirty dirty set of a bitch,
Speaker 1: and he goes backstage and he's talking to Daniel Garcia,
Speaker 1: who I'm starting to like, and he's saying, Yo, why
Speaker 1: weren't you out there? And He's like, I told you
Speaker 1: because too much I couldn't go out there, and I
Speaker 1: just watched you cheat. Man, That's not that ain't what
Speaker 1: it's all about. And Jericho is like, all right, let's
Speaker 1: it's okay, but you're you're wrestling Wheeler. You to on
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. I believe it is. So it'll be tonight
Speaker 1: when you guys hear this podcast for the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor Pure Championship and none of us are going to
Speaker 1: be there for you. You're gonna be there all alone.
Speaker 1: And he reacts to that, he says, yo, come on, man,
Speaker 1: like this is my foundation. He's like, yeah, well, now
Speaker 1: you're gonna know how it feels. Peace. And they've really
Speaker 1: put this kid on an island and they're giving him
Speaker 1: this is a legit story for him to take advantage
Speaker 1: of and be something. So we'll know at the end
Speaker 1: of this if he has what it takes, because they're
Speaker 1: not booking this bad. They're booking this well, at least him.
Speaker 1: So I was happy to see that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to focus on the good things. By the way,
Speaker 1: I think that Alistair Black is gone. Did that not
Speaker 1: look like a goodbye at the end of that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Malachi Black they call him, did that not look
Speaker 1: like goodbye? It looks like goodbye? And I say good Rittence,
Speaker 1: I've never been a fan. You're not a Malachi Black guy,
Speaker 1: not at all. What if he had the right what
Speaker 1: about what he was doing in n x T. Did
Speaker 1: you like that? Nope, didn't like And that's gonna take
Speaker 1: us to see him punk in the City of Chicago
Speaker 1: defeating John Moxley, which I think everyone knew was going
Speaker 1: to happen. And then there was a ladder match earlier
Speaker 1: in the night that I thought was a mess and
Speaker 1: oh you thought it was a mess? I didn't like you.
Speaker 1: Did you like it? Yeah? I thought was awesome. All right,
Speaker 1: tell to tell everyone the good parts that you like.
Speaker 1: I like that kind of stuff, as we've mentioned a
Speaker 1: hundred times on this podcast, any kinds and dumpster and
Speaker 1: I also like the Lucador flying all over the place,
Speaker 1: like a running down the ramp and like doing a
Speaker 1: Canadian and destroyer down the amazing. That was insane, Dude,
Speaker 1: that was cool, Like, how is no one like obsessed
Speaker 1: with this type of stuff. It was just a very
Speaker 1: very fun uh insane extreme kind of like brutal without
Speaker 1: a seeing blood kind of match. I loved it. I
Speaker 1: hate these matches. People get hurt, can't work, everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to outdo it, so it gets more dangerous every time
Speaker 1: when these matches gets done. I hate him so much.
Speaker 1: Not everybody's built like Kofi Kingston, and even he's starting
Speaker 1: to get hurt. Um. I didn't like the end of this.
Speaker 1: It looked weird to me. I think that's Bivens from
Speaker 1: n x T, the manager. They call him Stokely, and
Speaker 1: he grabs this ring that's gonna get a chance like
Speaker 1: a poker chip. That's gonna get a championship match against
Speaker 1: the winner of Moxley and Punk. And then this masked man,
Speaker 1: the Joker, comes down, walks into the ring, even does
Speaker 1: a powerful spin, not some wimpy pirouette, but a power spin.
Speaker 1: Is a powerful man, but we don't know who he is.
Speaker 1: He takes the chip from this manager and now we
Speaker 1: have to wait. He's about to take off his mask,
Speaker 1: but no, f you, I'm not taking off my mask.
Speaker 1: You have to wait. Well, we didn't have to wait
Speaker 1: long because after the match, the Joker comes out and
Speaker 1: it is m j F. The return of Maxwell Jacob Friedman,
Speaker 1: a man of taste style, the only man who's keeping
Speaker 1: Burbery in business. There is no better hell in the game.
Speaker 1: And he's not even thirty years old. He comes out
Speaker 1: now when But this is a question for you. Did
Speaker 1: you know? Did you or the fans know that the
Speaker 1: Joker was m JF. Most people online felt it was
Speaker 1: because his body type, and a handful of people hoped
Speaker 1: it was bretty Why because you guys always wanted to
Speaker 1: be bratty? Why? Yeah, I think that's that's everybody in
Speaker 1: the world. But so I was wondering if this is
Speaker 1: maybe like my wrestling ignorance that like everyone knows the
Speaker 1: it was MGF and I didn't. But when he did
Speaker 1: the power spin in the ring, it gave it away,
Speaker 1: and so I thought that was maybe another wrestler, thinking
Speaker 1: if I do that move, people will think it's m
Speaker 1: JF and I can swerve him. This should have been
Speaker 1: the return of m JF. He's going against CM Punk,
Speaker 1: which was the best storyline and wrestling in the last
Speaker 1: twenty frigging years, and because of a bunch of backstage bullshit,
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about guys that aren't even wrestling for the
Speaker 1: frigging championship. They're not talking about this storyline. M JF
Speaker 1: was a frigging afterthought, which is disgusting. If they're just
Speaker 1: making all this up to get people to we gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, have a big media conference thing like UFC
Speaker 1: and get people to talk about it, and all this
Speaker 1: backstage fighting and calling people clowns and children. If this
Speaker 1: is a work that's they screwed up. That's just bad.
Speaker 1: That's bad writing, because everyone should be talking about MJF.
Speaker 1: They should be talking about professional wrestlers, not goofy soap
Speaker 1: opera drama stuff. Backstage apparent see him Punk does not
Speaker 1: like a handful of people in the locker room, A
Speaker 1: large handful of people. And it seems like it's the
Speaker 1: young Bucks and Kenny Omega based off comments that he
Speaker 1: said talking about e vps executive vice presidents that should
Speaker 1: not be e vps because they behave like children. He
Speaker 1: said a lot of hardcore stuff. He sounds a lot
Speaker 1: like well, he sounds a lot like John Cino. When
Speaker 1: seam Punk was the one saying a lot of ship
Speaker 1: that people didn't like. It just kinda weird. However, if
Speaker 1: these men, he said it, if you have a problem
Speaker 1: with me, come confront me. He needs to do the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. I hope he is. Apparently there was
Speaker 1: some confrontation backstage, which is I think the only good
Speaker 1: part of this whole thing, because hopefully they can just
Speaker 1: have the fist beat each other's ass and then it's done.
Speaker 1: That's how men solve things. In the eighties and nineties,
Speaker 1: it just stopped one day. I don't know why. That's
Speaker 1: why we have these ongoing thirty year beefs now because
Speaker 1: nobody just gets craped. It's bad there, man, there's no leadership.
Speaker 1: He was saying stuff in front of his boss that
Speaker 1: was making Tony like cringe and and become the shrinking
Speaker 1: Violet and that's his boss. So there is no leadership backstage.
Speaker 1: Things have to be a mess back there. They have
Speaker 1: to find someone that everyone universally respects that can not
Speaker 1: have a wrestler's court, but at least, or maybe that's
Speaker 1: what they need, is a wrestler's court. I mean they
Speaker 1: have one of their e vps, which is Adam Page
Speaker 1: said he doesn't need advice, he doesn't take advice. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of actors that talk like that in
Speaker 1: their in their twenties. And I'm like, yo, man is
Speaker 1: Peter Falk, You're like, not gonna met it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do what what got me here? I'm like, all right, Doug,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there, man. I have
Speaker 1: a couple of friends who worked there would just say
Speaker 1: it sucks backstage. But uh, but they need leadership or
Speaker 1: someone from the outside that is in a position of
Speaker 1: power above the e vps that ain't having this, or
Speaker 1: at least can bring people together and say have it out,
Speaker 1: like hash it out right now. And even if that
Speaker 1: means you guys gotta throw some punches, throw some punches.
Speaker 1: I'll drive you to the doctor as soon as it's over. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there, but if they
Speaker 1: don't get their ship together, Triple H is gonna run
Speaker 1: away with the wrestling business, run away with it. I
Speaker 1: wonder if Tony Komb being so young as part of
Speaker 1: the problem, the fact that see him Punk could sit
Speaker 1: right next to his boss and just say insane things,
Speaker 1: calling guys empty headed, saying that all the people that
Speaker 1: are in a w or young, you know, young idiots
Speaker 1: who don't listen, and like, like you just you've already
Speaker 1: mentioned it. But he kept cringing, you know, like he
Speaker 1: would kept like looking and then he would even look
Speaker 1: over to like some of the reporters and kind of
Speaker 1: make like a face like I don't really know what
Speaker 1: what's gonna be. Like Punk got away with murder on
Speaker 1: that like just wildly inappropriate to like say about your coworkers,
Speaker 1: and even if he's right, even if he's dead, on
Speaker 1: to bury your boss like that is listen, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm working hard to start my own promotion and to
Speaker 1: pull this off in a way that's different than these
Speaker 1: other guys. I would never have a post thing scrumb
Speaker 1: because I don't care about that stuff. But if I
Speaker 1: did and one of my talent spoke like that and
Speaker 1: I was sitting right there, it wouldn't be in front
Speaker 1: of everybody. I wouldn't rip them apart in front of everyone,
Speaker 1: but I would stand up. I would say, the media
Speaker 1: scrum is over. Punk, You stay right there, or whoever
Speaker 1: it was, you sit right there. Everybody get out and
Speaker 1: in that room, he either isn't gonna or sheet either
Speaker 1: isn't gonna work there ever again, or they're gonna know
Speaker 1: who their boss is. It's one of the they're walking out,
Speaker 1: getting fired or playing ball like even if he's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was easy, and it stole all the all the
Speaker 1: limelight off the m JF c M punk storyline, which
Speaker 1: is what everybody should be talking about. The headline Monday
Speaker 1: morning should have been, oh my god, after the three
Speaker 1: matches they just gave us last year, what the hell
Speaker 1: is m JF and c mpunk gonna come up with now?
Speaker 1: And nobody asked that question, not one person, because everybody's like,
Speaker 1: who he hates him and he hates him, and man,
Speaker 1: none of that's, none of that is wrestling, None of
Speaker 1: it's wrestling, and it sucks for everybody on that roster.
Speaker 1: I want a e W to succeed. I want all
Speaker 1: these companies to succeed. That's more money for pro wrestlers.
Speaker 1: That's more opportunity for pro wrestlers. That's more opportunities for
Speaker 1: fans to find the next star. Who's going to be
Speaker 1: the next one? Oh, I saw their first match like
Speaker 1: that's a great feeling for wrestling fans. And when crap
Speaker 1: like this is going on, I've never seen it work
Speaker 1: for a company, So it makes me nervous. I know
Speaker 1: there's people out there saying, oh, this is exciting, Like
Speaker 1: that sucks. That's not what you want to be exciting.
Speaker 1: So I wish them the best. I hope for the best,
Speaker 1: and uh and that's all I got for you today, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Do you have any best or worst of the week.
Speaker 1: I think I just said my worst. I loved the
Speaker 1: when see him Pug and Moxie. That was great. A
Speaker 1: little too bloody for my taste at some points, but
Speaker 1: it was it was. It was so so good, and
Speaker 1: what an exciting finish to have. M jf is the
Speaker 1: when he plays the voicemail and and also he didn't
Speaker 1: interrupt the match at all. It was just it was
Speaker 1: afterwards while seeam Punk's in the ring with the belt.
Speaker 1: I thought it was all perfect if you just erase
Speaker 1: that terrible interview that reminds you that some of these
Speaker 1: guys can be very unlikable. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you
Speaker 1: all for listening. We appreciate you guys. We'll see all
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