Speaker 1: Now your made even introducing the hosts Wrestling with Fretty Jeff, Die,
Speaker 1: handing up, Aretty, Prince Jun. What's up everybody? Welcome back
Speaker 1: to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy, but
Speaker 1: now we call it Wrestling with Friends and with Me
Speaker 1: as always, it's my awesome co host wrestling. What what
Speaker 1: what you're like? It's not even an officia nado. You're
Speaker 1: just like all enthusiast Mr Jeff. How you doing, Mr Jeff?
Speaker 1: How are you feeling good? How are you doing? But
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Oh wait, I did it to myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's actually perfect Freddy Friends Jr. Right there to
Speaker 1: be so kind that he won't even do the catchphrase
Speaker 1: dunk on someone else. He doesn't. Yeah, I scored an
Speaker 1: own goal, Jeff. It was a great week of wrestling.
Speaker 1: It was a great weekend. Thank you to the wonderful
Speaker 1: of Seattle, your city. The war chest for your boys
Speaker 1: Federation just got a lot fatter ladies and gentlemen, So
Speaker 1: we thank you, Seattle, lovers of wrestling. Sorry to Defy Wrestling,
Speaker 1: which is an indie promotion up there. They actually had
Speaker 1: a freaking match while I was up there, and I
Speaker 1: was exhausted after the first day and at dinner with
Speaker 1: the lovely Rachel Lee Cook and I missed your guys show,
Speaker 1: but shout out to Defy Wrestling and all you indie
Speaker 1: promotions out there. We got love for y'all. We got
Speaker 1: love Jeff Monday and I Rob Baby. Should we start
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the week. Let's do it all right, man.
Speaker 1: I don't like dumping on stuff. But as far as
Speaker 1: the judgment day Mystereos storyline is going, I don't care.
Speaker 1: And I know they got hamstringed because they had to
Speaker 1: turn edge face when Randy Orton got hurt. So this
Speaker 1: is completely excusable. What's going on? I want to preface
Speaker 1: it by saying that. But outside of Rhea Ripley, who
Speaker 1: I love, no one is getting over. No one. The
Speaker 1: Damian Priest thing is is getting weird almost and I
Speaker 1: used to love him and now it's like, what do
Speaker 1: they call him the it's the Archer of Infamy, which
Speaker 1: is I don't know, man, It's just he's not getting
Speaker 1: over and I felt like it was most important to
Speaker 1: get him over. Rhea is just killing it because she's
Speaker 1: beating up dudes chicks. Damon's dragons whatever. She don't care.
Speaker 1: But other than fitness to be a giant, you know,
Speaker 1: she's a giant in the women's division. I just think
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's like you said, it's boring. And
Speaker 1: also like I'm hearing rumors and maybe maybe this is
Speaker 1: confirmed by this point, because I heard it a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago that Edge is gonna retire and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be done. So what happens to the his his group,
Speaker 1: it's it's all better not man, he's got more in him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what I've been That's what I've heard. Well,
Speaker 1: we're texting him after the show and we're gonna find out.
Speaker 1: I forgot you have his phone number. I have to
Speaker 1: go up through all these weird we're gonna group text.
Speaker 1: We're gonna group text that one because that's my heart.
Speaker 1: I know how I felt the first time retired dude.
Speaker 1: I actually wrote the story for Edge he ended up
Speaker 1: having to pull out of because he retired. We wrote
Speaker 1: this whole thing where and it was creepy because it
Speaker 1: was kind of actually what happened to him where Christian.
Speaker 1: He wanted to get the belt on Christian and Christian
Speaker 1: was going to turn on Edge and just for weeks
Speaker 1: smash him and like Christian even had like a was
Speaker 1: gonna be like when Dave Chappelle spoofed Sesame Street and
Speaker 1: did he was going to do something like that and
Speaker 1: they were going to spell the words spine and what
Speaker 1: each letters stood for and just like mock what he
Speaker 1: did to this fool's neck, and it was this whole thing.
Speaker 1: And then Edge actually ends up actually hurting his neck
Speaker 1: and he couldn't do the story, and so they just
Speaker 1: wrapped it around Alberto del Rio and uh, he ended
Speaker 1: up getting it for a day. But um, but anyway,
Speaker 1: he better not be retiring because I love Edge, but
Speaker 1: this story is just I don't know, man, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I love Ray Ray, and I just she
Speaker 1: was in better stories and I'm cool with him putting
Speaker 1: everyone on the roster over it's Ray. Nothing's gonna damage
Speaker 1: his legacy. But just again, they got hamstrung, so no
Speaker 1: no blame on anyone, but maybe just disband the group
Speaker 1: and start over with him. Well also, like you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have spent too much time on it, but
Speaker 1: like I like every wrestler in this I like every
Speaker 1: I like all those there's not a single restauran I
Speaker 1: don't like. It's just this story is boring to man,
Speaker 1: I know it doesn't. It's not gripping me, and it
Speaker 1: really doesn't grant me as the opening to Raw. That's
Speaker 1: the best way to point to point the finger at it.
Speaker 1: We both love every single wrestler in the story and
Speaker 1: we hate the story. It's just not doing much. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: move on. UM, I just gotta say, the biggest pop
Speaker 1: of the night came from the biggest slam of the night.
Speaker 1: Not everybody's gonna want to talk about women's tag team wrestling,
Speaker 1: but oscar I said it quickly. Are you up? Up? Down? Down?
Speaker 1: Words that got on my case? Three years ago and
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss took on Nikki a s h Nikki Ash
Speaker 1: a superhero and do Drop who we are going to
Speaker 1: call Piper the Viper because dow Drop is a dumb name, um,
Speaker 1: and Piper the Viper is how she would prefer to
Speaker 1: be known, so that's how we will refer to her.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what w W says. So this woman,
Speaker 1: Piper the Viper, is Scottish. I'm completely in love with her.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with her the first time. Triple
Speaker 1: H brought her over for the May Young Classic, and
Speaker 1: I literally was like, who is this? She's amazing. Why
Speaker 1: isn't she on the main roster they brought her up.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that they booked her well so far,
Speaker 1: but she did. And I'm gonna say it wrong, a
Speaker 1: Mitchi Noku driver. Did I say it right? You said
Speaker 1: it right? But she's calling it a piper Driver. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. I went bananas. I haven't thought about a
Speaker 1: Mitchi Nuku driver since the old Nintendo sixty four w
Speaker 1: CW versus I that's how long it's been. I forgot
Speaker 1: about the move. I was like, I meet you knew
Speaker 1: good driver. I mean I was, and I went to
Speaker 1: the internet and there's videos of of her doing it
Speaker 1: and it's labeled like the Piper Driver. But like, I
Speaker 1: was so excited. Pop hard Bro, Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: love that you went back to the video game for it.
Speaker 1: Was it w CW versus n W? Was that the one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was on that game, and like when you got
Speaker 1: a special up and you did that movie, so it
Speaker 1: looks so cool. The cool thing about video game wrestling
Speaker 1: moves is they almost looked better than the real wrestling
Speaker 1: moves because it's perfect every time. Nobody's trying to protect
Speaker 1: anybody if you're literally killing your friends. Yes, and that's
Speaker 1: why we love video games. MS and Champa versus Mustaf
Speaker 1: Ali and Cedric Alexander. Look, Cedric is not the best talker,
Speaker 1: and Ali has not been booked in the best way
Speaker 1: or hasn't been booked. I guess this is the better
Speaker 1: way to say it. So everybody kind of knew which
Speaker 1: way this match was gonna go. I won't care about
Speaker 1: MS and Champa until they don't like each other, until
Speaker 1: one of them feels the other one cost them a match,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they start to get tense,
Speaker 1: the way Miss was with Daniel Bryant back in the
Speaker 1: day UM on n x T when it was the
Speaker 1: Mentor Junior Wrestler program, here's your Badge. I hated that,
Speaker 1: but once it becomes that no one's better at it
Speaker 1: than Miss, that's why they gave Champa to Miss. That's
Speaker 1: when the Hunter's guys. He's even got the Hunter beard,
Speaker 1: so you know they want this guy to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to shine, and no one's in the company is
Speaker 1: better at getting cats over than the Miss. Do you
Speaker 1: agree this wasn't my This wasn't I agree with that.
Speaker 1: You've you've really been making me agree with that, like
Speaker 1: in a way you've shown me that light about how
Speaker 1: MSS does that. So I'm slowly coming to the miss side.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say this match though, is it isn't
Speaker 1: my match of the week, but it's definitely my underrated
Speaker 1: match of the week. Like most, Cedric Alexander are so good.
Speaker 1: They're just so good, and I wish that the Internet
Speaker 1: of the world of the wrestling universe gave as much
Speaker 1: love to these guys as I as as some other
Speaker 1: wrestlers who I have to see every hour. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love Champa. I don't know. It was It
Speaker 1: was a very very very good I liked the match
Speaker 1: a lot, underrated, underrated match. I know that the w
Speaker 1: w E has a television deal with India and that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And I know that India has stars people that compel
Speaker 1: you to watch them regardless of what you're doing. They
Speaker 1: worked with one on twenty four Google, Ashwarya Ray. She's
Speaker 1: the most beautiful woman on earth. There are huge in
Speaker 1: Dan dudes that are jack good looking cats that speak
Speaker 1: English and her actors. I've seen more Bollywood films than
Speaker 1: any of our listeners outside of you know, people to
Speaker 1: live in India. The people they've found since The Great
Speaker 1: Colleague A colleague was special. Everyone they've found since then.
Speaker 1: And gender doesn't Counties from Toronto has not worked, right,
Speaker 1: mirror does not work. So you have to invest there
Speaker 1: if you're gonna ever have a Western audience. Take that
Speaker 1: dude seriously. It's easy to take the Great Colleague seriously.
Speaker 1: He's a hundred feet tall. Yeah, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: worked with him, and I was scared of him, by
Speaker 1: the way. Super funny and super nice, even as jokes
Speaker 1: through a translator would always make me laugh. I like that.
Speaker 1: You call them special. But he's just big. He's just
Speaker 1: a huge mountain of man. Uh. This er guy. Also,
Speaker 1: this match just this might be just a little too harsh,
Speaker 1: but this, every sequence, every everything was like something from
Speaker 1: like ninet WWF like Saturday. It was like, so him
Speaker 1: going for the big grabs and he can't get the
Speaker 1: little guy, and then the little guy keeps evading the ring,
Speaker 1: and then he takes him outside and does bad guy
Speaker 1: stuff like it was just it was just not a
Speaker 1: very exciting match. Also, it's the first time I ever
Speaker 1: heard of bou Keller. I don't know that I didn't
Speaker 1: know Keller future champion bro Yeah, dude, Um, it just
Speaker 1: feels tired. The whole match feel bad. And also do
Speaker 1: you think that they just don't have somebody to go
Speaker 1: find like you just said, like the Collie there. He
Speaker 1: they have a school there. They just must not invest
Speaker 1: anything into it. That's weird because he like Ireland, like right,
Speaker 1: we have Finn Balor and we have Becky Lynch because
Speaker 1: of Fit Finley like like that, like he was the
Speaker 1: one who's knew like who was special over there and
Speaker 1: who could be it's the man, Jeff, you would love
Speaker 1: this guy, and you probably wouldn't because he's he's super mean, okay,
Speaker 1: and doesn't like the outside world of wrestling, right, didn't
Speaker 1: really he was one of the guys that didn't want
Speaker 1: me there. And then they gave me a segment where
Speaker 1: I had to like direct him, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, this guy hates me. Man, And so I
Speaker 1: went up to him and I said, uh, hey, Fit,
Speaker 1: how are you Freddy? He goes all nice doing you.
Speaker 1: I looked him in the eye, shook his hand. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you what to do, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stand next to the camera and if
Speaker 1: you have a question, I'm here for you. Otherwise, just
Speaker 1: do your thing and he goes, oh, thank you, thinking
Speaker 1: and he didn't ask for anything, did his thing, and
Speaker 1: the promo was what it was. Fit Finley was never
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, J B L. I'm a wrestling
Speaker 1: god like. He just wasn't gonna be that guy in
Speaker 1: the mic. So the segment was fine and went on
Speaker 1: and like the next week of TV, he was like,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to thank you for for you know,
Speaker 1: not making it about you, I think, is what he said.
Speaker 1: And I was like, hey, cool, cool man. And from
Speaker 1: that moment forward he was super cool to me. And
Speaker 1: I had to work with a lot of the diva's
Speaker 1: back then, that's what they called him, and he is
Speaker 1: in charge of it. And that dude fought for those
Speaker 1: women in production meetings more than anyone else in that company,
Speaker 1: more than Stephanie McMahon, more than me, more than anyone dude.
Speaker 1: Fit had those women's backs. Vince wouldn't let him do
Speaker 1: any moves, and Fit every week would get something else
Speaker 1: in something else in believe and give him a chance. Boss,
Speaker 1: come on Vince every single week. Dude, he's the man.
Speaker 1: I love Fit. Yea, we need a We need an
Speaker 1: Indian fit. Finlay is what we need. Do you want
Speaker 1: to talk Lashly styles? Outside of the fact that I
Speaker 1: thought we were getting spoiled and got an awesome freaking match,
Speaker 1: and I love both those guys. I would pay a
Speaker 1: pay per view to watch both those guys wrestle any
Speaker 1: any sunday. I I love him, and the Dexter Loomis
Speaker 1: thing is getting kind of kind of w c W
Speaker 1: cool man. I kind of like like, that's the only
Speaker 1: part of the match I was crazy about was the
Speaker 1: Dexter limits showing up and getting tacked by security, just
Speaker 1: because also it's kind of weird, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think this old that too big. By the way,
Speaker 1: miss sold that way too big on the camera. I
Speaker 1: was like, bro, you gotta bring that down to take
Speaker 1: it down and real, real theatrical just happened, Bobby Lashly.
Speaker 1: Anytime I see a big star lose, you don't you
Speaker 1: don't think he has enough credibility where he can take losses. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I just feels weird. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love Bobby Lashley, so like just I'm kind of
Speaker 1: I would have been I would have been City saying
Speaker 1: the exact same thing. If aj Styles wins, I would
Speaker 1: have been like, man, I can't believe they did that too.
Speaker 1: It just always feels so you don't feel maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you save a match like that for a pay per view?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying, like a big two big
Speaker 1: names colliding. I don't know. In my opinion, you know,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. Well I did say I felt like
Speaker 1: we were getting spoiled and I would pay for it.
Speaker 1: But you're probably maybe all right because it does. It's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: he lost on regular TV. I can that's so eighties, Jeff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I'm being inconsistent, but I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. It felt weird. Ziggler in theory, we
Speaker 1: all love Ziggler. He's the man. He gets everybody over,
Speaker 1: like we know he can. That's all I have to say.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows I got a man crush on them. I do.
Speaker 1: You got a few, yeah, But he's the He's my
Speaker 1: main squeeze. A man. Nobody sells better, nobody makes any
Speaker 1: ms kit can't even sell as good as Ziggler. Ziggler
Speaker 1: takes the best spear, Ziggler takes the best r ko.
Speaker 1: Ziggler takes the best superkick. Ziggler takes the best body slam.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember a body slam he's taken, but
Speaker 1: it's the best. Ziggler's elbows get higher and he doesn't
Speaker 1: even need the turn buckle. Ziggler's hair flies faster when
Speaker 1: he does take the superkick. His gum flies higher when
Speaker 1: he spits it out his feet. I love dol Ziggler.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do with theory? Can
Speaker 1: I pitch a weird theory about Austin theory? Let's do
Speaker 1: the I like, um, I like, what what would be
Speaker 1: an awesome but way to book? Something by Freddie Prince Jr.
Speaker 1: That's okay, I like to here's something that would be wild.
Speaker 1: Let's swap out the word awesome. Let's put in really
Speaker 1: bad but conspiracy wise. I'm gonna prove it true. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. I firmly believe that what
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon did to Carry and Cross was a way
Speaker 1: to rib triple H because he knew that was Hunter's guy,
Speaker 1: and that's why he did the whole sexy gladiator uh
Speaker 1: gimp thing to him, because they're my toys. I'll play
Speaker 1: with them how I want. And I know that Theory
Speaker 1: was Vince's guy, his next John Cena, and like Roman said,
Speaker 1: your daddy's not here anymore. And I think that was
Speaker 1: work shoot that he threw in there because people know that,
Speaker 1: and Roman wants to take advantage of the smart fans.
Speaker 1: Here's what I think. Hunter gets his revenge for his
Speaker 1: guy getting played by playing Vince's guy. So we're a
Speaker 1: clash at the castle and Drew his wrestling. Roman reigns
Speaker 1: and Drew wins and everyone's happy. There's are the booking
Speaker 1: is the worst book. Here's the worst part. Here's the part.
Speaker 1: Word you'll know, I'll never book. Theory cashes in on
Speaker 1: True McIntyre, the man who carried the belt during COVID
Speaker 1: and didn't get to hear a single person cheer for him.
Speaker 1: Only when he finally hears his own people cheer, he
Speaker 1: gets busted in the back of the head with the
Speaker 1: case and Theory cashes in and wins. Here's where it
Speaker 1: gets even worse. Oh you thought that was the worst
Speaker 1: part Cherry and Cross comes out. He beats the crap
Speaker 1: out of Austin Theory, who just won the championship, leaving
Speaker 1: Theory just dead in a pool of his own blood. Right,
Speaker 1: not dead, but beat up and unconscious. Monday Night Raw
Speaker 1: will also be in England, I'm assuming, and he comes
Speaker 1: out and they do they do Theory dirty the way
Speaker 1: they did Christian dirty back in the day when Randy
Speaker 1: Orton talked him into putting the title on the line
Speaker 1: the first night he had it. And he gets the
Speaker 1: title opportunity on Monday Night Raw, he beats down they
Speaker 1: almost like Becky Lynch Bianca bell Air Theory and he
Speaker 1: just puts like ten thousand four arms to the back
Speaker 1: of his neck, gets the wind, becomes the champion, and
Speaker 1: Theory has to go back to n x T. That's
Speaker 1: the That's that's the ship that keeps me up at night, Jeff,
Speaker 1: That's what keeps me up at night. I like this
Speaker 1: type of I mean, here's the thing that booking is
Speaker 1: so unpredictable. That's what we need. There's a reason it's
Speaker 1: unpredictable because none of it should happen. It should happen
Speaker 1: because that's what we need. To shake things up like that,
Speaker 1: That'd be amazing. Yo. Now, the only reason I thought
Speaker 1: of that was because last week we were under the
Speaker 1: impression that Drew was hurt, that there was an injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what I thought. But I'm seeing him.
Speaker 1: You know. It's back Claymore kick Roman, Claymore kicked Poor
Speaker 1: Sammy a kid, dude, Sammy's ain dude, He's Samoe it bro,
Speaker 1: He's He's I was so sad when he didn't win
Speaker 1: that match because I wanted him to. When he was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have the i C maybe in the in
Speaker 1: the family too, I was like, oh, that would be
Speaker 1: amazing if he got the i C title in the bloodline,
Speaker 1: and was like, he's pulling his weight. Yes, right now,
Speaker 1: he's taking boots, but I think they got plans for him.
Speaker 1: I love Sammy's Ain't. I got a man crush on
Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain't too. What do you think about that, Jeff, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm jealous, you know, because Sammy's Ane's terrible. Although I
Speaker 1: do like what he's doing right now. Funny, I just
Speaker 1: you know this guy guy, all this stuff, he's you know,
Speaker 1: I love him so much. I hated him, and he
Speaker 1: was the annoying Vince mcmanhel but every time he's not that.
Speaker 1: I love this conspiracy guy, the skub guy, just a
Speaker 1: bad idea after a bad idea. If you asked me,
Speaker 1: you know he would be into my conspiracy. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: you know he would. He would love that conspiracy. All right,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's move to the other side of the
Speaker 1: wrestling coin a e W And there's really only one
Speaker 1: story to talk about, and then I would like to
Speaker 1: make a potential apology and retraction. But the story is
Speaker 1: see im Punk's promo and talking mad smack on Hangman
Speaker 1: page and then him and Moxley having their beef. Let's
Speaker 1: just jump into it, dude. Yeah, total jerk move to
Speaker 1: say there's someone I want to call out to a
Speaker 1: rematch right here, and then he calls out a guy
Speaker 1: who might not even be in the building. Do you
Speaker 1: know what you have? A dick move that is to
Speaker 1: the fans that are there. Uh so freaking low. I
Speaker 1: was joking with our producer just before I started, like
Speaker 1: being like, could you imagine you're at like a raw
Speaker 1: and someone's like, here tonight, I want to call out
Speaker 1: the Undertaker And then everyone just cheers, and then there's
Speaker 1: no wondertake. It's just such a mean Daniel Tosh to
Speaker 1: do that. The Comedy Magic Club, he would literally if
Speaker 1: there was a guy behind, like going up after him
Speaker 1: that he wanted to mess me. Yeah, you will go,
Speaker 1: you go. The cool thing about this club is you
Speaker 1: never know who's gonna drop in. You never know who's
Speaker 1: gonna be at the Comedy Magic Club because everybody plays
Speaker 1: this club, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Sandler. The whole place
Speaker 1: goes crazy. And then Daniel Pop said behind the Curtenty goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's h and so the whole
Speaker 1: crosses like a shirt move. Yeah, And that's exactly kind
Speaker 1: of like what see him punked. Everyone's like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to see see him punk and Hangman tonight, and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, not really, he's just running his mouth.
Speaker 1: It's terrible. There's two Oh my god, I'm crying. There's
Speaker 1: two ways to look at it. It's work shoot and
Speaker 1: he's trying to turn heel or there's real stuff going
Speaker 1: on and it was receipt time. I happen to know that.
Speaker 1: It's more the ladder and I think he's just trying
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it and saying, Okay, I'll roll
Speaker 1: with it. But not everyone backstage loves see him Punk,
Speaker 1: and it's not just because of Cold Cabana. It's because
Speaker 1: of the way they feel he's behaved since he's got
Speaker 1: there behind the curtain. And it was actually something that
Speaker 1: hangman Age said in his promo when they were having
Speaker 1: their run to the title, and he said, I'm not
Speaker 1: just defending this title, I'm defending it for all those
Speaker 1: people back there, because a lot of people don't feel
Speaker 1: like Punk shows anyone respect really, at least not the
Speaker 1: type of respect that he Well, let's change the word,
Speaker 1: because respect is earned, the type of dignity that one
Speaker 1: would expect at work, and when you don't treat people
Speaker 1: as necessary parts of the pie. And I've seen this
Speaker 1: on a lot of studios people look at you a
Speaker 1: certain way, or on a lot of movies. I should
Speaker 1: have said, you know, I've known young actors that were like,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, it's just the sound guy. I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you want to be heard in the movie. It's
Speaker 1: pretty important, So it's just catering. Yeah, Well, you're a
Speaker 1: dickhead to catering. We noticed said it's like and the
Speaker 1: crew that wants to eat like it's really important to them.
Speaker 1: So you may not care because you're a ninety two
Speaker 1: pound actress, but the rest of us student, I go
Speaker 1: have your horriboro for lunch and off M. I've basically
Speaker 1: had those conversations before, so and that's what I've been
Speaker 1: told as kind of the stuff that's been going on.
Speaker 1: So hangman Paige, Hangman Paige said a lot of real
Speaker 1: stuff in that go ahead. Well, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: long before Colt Cabana and cmpunk had their falling out,
Speaker 1: like even when they were friends, c HM Punk has
Speaker 1: been a terrible guy in the locker room as far
Speaker 1: as like some some like them, and most he's he's
Speaker 1: a brat. He wasn't loved at w w E, and
Speaker 1: not all of it was his fault, But dude, I
Speaker 1: do remember this. Punk hated John Cena, not hated him,
Speaker 1: but just hated what he represented right, and that that's
Speaker 1: what the company was behind. And I remember one time
Speaker 1: Hunter saying the reason, as different as they are, the
Speaker 1: reason he hates John so much is because he knows
Speaker 1: if he was in that same spot, he'd act the
Speaker 1: exact same way and to here, and this is over
Speaker 1: a decade ago, and to hear the rumblings of a
Speaker 1: e W basically saying he's acting the way John Cena
Speaker 1: did back then, it's just like, I mean, damn near everything.
Speaker 1: I disagreed with Hunter on he was right. He just
Speaker 1: he just I mean, I don't know how explaining you.
Speaker 1: We were talking about dignity and we're talking about the caterine,
Speaker 1: we're talking about respect. It's like we want everyone that
Speaker 1: we like to be likable, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like we will go, oh, I like that guy, and
Speaker 1: then when you meet me, find out every goes, oh
Speaker 1: he's a jerk back here, or a lot of people
Speaker 1: have problems with him, or or even if you have
Speaker 1: a bad interaction with a with a person you'd like
Speaker 1: or think is famous or cool, it just taints the
Speaker 1: whole kind of thing, you know. Like I met Vader
Speaker 1: and Invader was just like a jerk and everyone and
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, that's how Vader is. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: that makes me not as big of a fan of
Speaker 1: Vader anymore, even though he's like a heel. And so
Speaker 1: I think the same thing is true with maybe that's
Speaker 1: why he did that I heard that's not really it
Speaker 1: uh No. But my point, My point is like when
Speaker 1: you find out what these guys are really like, it
Speaker 1: can affect the you're just your opinion of the wrestler.
Speaker 1: It's like Brett the hit Man Heart might be the
Speaker 1: only person that's like a bigger brat uh than uh
Speaker 1: than See Him Punk. They're just like impossible to please.
Speaker 1: It's never enough money, it's never enough book. It's just like,
Speaker 1: just get these guys out of here. Play with the
Speaker 1: guys that play nice, like Adam Cole and Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: and all the Ray Wyatt's. Those are the guys we
Speaker 1: like so tired of hearing about See Him Punk and
Speaker 1: these guys backstage who are just terrible to work. I
Speaker 1: love me some Kevin Owens after he crapped all over
Speaker 1: Hangman page and his Cowboys Ship to Champship promo, and
Speaker 1: he's always going to be good on the mic. He's
Speaker 1: not on the mic. Moxley comes out this same personal
Speaker 1: I mean, it's something that whoever wrote this, whoever wrote this,
Speaker 1: is a good writer. See Him Punk laid down and
Speaker 1: made snow angels during the eighteen minutes. Well it was
Speaker 1: longer than Edge coming out at Summers and these two
Speaker 1: win at it. Man, it was just uh a flurry
Speaker 1: of insults that I I think we're prediscussed. I'd hope.
Speaker 1: I mean it went from you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: be the heart and soul of this company, but I'll
Speaker 1: be the dollars and cents. And that's legit. I mean,
Speaker 1: punk can he if he's a heel, he can legit
Speaker 1: say that. He can legit say it anyway, but there's
Speaker 1: no baby face way to say that. So that's where
Speaker 1: I was like, Man, is this getting personal? Like because
Speaker 1: Moxley straight calling him out on needing money, not having
Speaker 1: heart to fight anymore, and we all know why, which
Speaker 1: takes us back to the m m A days where
Speaker 1: he kind of embarrassed himself trying to compete with professional
Speaker 1: fighters instead of going up through the amateurs, which is
Speaker 1: probably the better idea in hindsight. But they went after
Speaker 1: each other and then they fought, and you saw them
Speaker 1: protecting each other during the fight, which made me go, Okay,
Speaker 1: they had to have known this was going on, like
Speaker 1: they had to him. But I love these kind of stories.
Speaker 1: When I thought Becky Charlotte was real. I still think
Speaker 1: it was real. It was real. I can confirm. Oh
Speaker 1: there you go, boom confirmed. I wanted to watch that
Speaker 1: match so much more, and so I was okay with
Speaker 1: it as long as both fellas are okay with it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Adam Hangman Page and his body
Speaker 1: suits are feeling about it, But if I were him,
Speaker 1: I would be pissed. Pissed because he got hung out
Speaker 1: to dry in all this. Yeah, I mean literally, I
Speaker 1: I don't have it memorized, so I just brought it up.
Speaker 1: What he what you know in our production notes here.
Speaker 1: But some of this stuff is so good. John Moxley
Speaker 1: is the third best guy in his own group, and
Speaker 1: to me that sounds like a reoccurring theme in his career.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what a good zing and he goes
Speaker 1: he's the third best Eddie I've ever been in the
Speaker 1: ring with. He's the second best Kingston I've ever shared
Speaker 1: a locker, and not even the first John I've beaten
Speaker 1: in Chicago. I mean, like, dude, he's so good on
Speaker 1: the mike. That's whoever, how does this work here? Behind that?
Speaker 1: You know, all the behind the scenes, Someone writes this
Speaker 1: for these guys or do you think they No, Punk
Speaker 1: wrote all that. Punk wrote all that even when he
Speaker 1: worked even at w w WE uh Go Wirts worked
Speaker 1: with him on some stuff. Cosky, this guy ed Kosky
Speaker 1: was his guy, though, and so they wrote a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff together, but it was still Punk driving the ship.
Speaker 1: I feel like for a lot of those promos. So
Speaker 1: he's always had that gift of gab Let's stay on
Speaker 1: Alilite because I think I may have been wrong about
Speaker 1: someone we discussed last week. We talked a lot about
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia, who is grouped up with Chris Jericho and
Speaker 1: seemed like an underneath guy in that group. I wasn't
Speaker 1: hip to any of his work outside of it, and
Speaker 1: based off his look and how he'd been booked and
Speaker 1: presented so far, I hadn't seen anything impressive. I see
Speaker 1: him in a match with Brian Danielson and he looks great.
Speaker 1: But Brian Danielson has not had a bad match that
Speaker 1: I have seen with anyone ever. He could make me
Speaker 1: look great, so I can't give that to homeboy. And
Speaker 1: at the very end of the match, which he loses,
Speaker 1: which he had to lose, he shakes Brian's hand by
Speaker 1: the way the crowd is so into this match, their
Speaker 1: cheering the whole time for both guys. They're screaming, you're
Speaker 1: a wrestler, Clop, clo, You're all right there. They're putting
Speaker 1: this kid over while I'm watching this match and telling
Speaker 1: me how wrong I am. And then the match is
Speaker 1: over and the men shake hands and Chris Jericho he
Speaker 1: goes to of the ring and he sees Daniel Garcia
Speaker 1: like being nice to Brian Danielson, and he's like, yes
Speaker 1: or you Well, he actually goes to beat up Brian
Speaker 1: Danielson and because Daniel Garcia was being nice and he's
Speaker 1: beating the crap out of him, and Daniel Garcia goes
Speaker 1: to him, grabs his hand and spins him around, and
Speaker 1: it's like, Yo, knock that ship off, and Jericho's in
Speaker 1: his face and it's like a father and a son
Speaker 1: having that moment. I'm coming around on this big time.
Speaker 1: And not everyone that Jericho's tried to put over has
Speaker 1: gotten over, but damn if he hasn't tried to get
Speaker 1: everyone in this company over, We're gonna end with some SmackDown.
Speaker 1: All of the Rhonda stuff is weird to me, Jeff.
Speaker 1: All of it, And I don't know if it's she's
Speaker 1: not getting the material and she's not able to put
Speaker 1: what they're writing for her over, or if it's written strangely.
Speaker 1: Why why would you bring a bag of money and
Speaker 1: dump it out? Is that a hell move? She played
Speaker 1: at Hell, but in today's day and age, that's more
Speaker 1: of a baller move. Like, none of it makes sense
Speaker 1: to me. None of the arrests makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: There's no emotion in her face. Ever. The crowd is
Speaker 1: super hit and miss with it. Sometimes they're booing sometimes
Speaker 1: that they don't know what's going on. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't get it, man, I just don't get it. Her
Speaker 1: getting arrested. We've seen this before. We've we've seen we've
Speaker 1: done this before. It's so unoriginal, But I'll put her
Speaker 1: in the cop car. It's like, oh God, Like, I
Speaker 1: just I don't. I'm so over Rhonda Rousey. Probably about
Speaker 1: three or four minutes after Rhonda Rousey came to Progress. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, dude. I know she's a big star,
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't work anymore. And uh, and the
Speaker 1: hits just keep on coming with what I'm now calling
Speaker 1: the strangest booking of a world champion. Ever. Yeah and again,
Speaker 1: a dude, I don't know who's fault this, Okay, so
Speaker 1: hear me out on this. I've never seen someone have
Speaker 1: to play a week champion, someone who tapped out to
Speaker 1: get the belt but remains a baby face, has to
Speaker 1: protect her arm and it's almost not even playing injured.
Speaker 1: It's like scared and frail and weak. And the stuff
Speaker 1: with Shana made her look like a punk and she's
Speaker 1: the champion. And and again maybe it maybe it's her.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're saying, you know your your arms hurt, but
Speaker 1: don't look scared, you know, look defiant. That should be
Speaker 1: the note, you know, when Shane is like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: break your hand, she should be looking at her like,
Speaker 1: do just do it? Do it now. It's get it
Speaker 1: over with and then we'll see if you even get
Speaker 1: a match, you know what I mean, like something like
Speaker 1: some kind of hero, some kind of bravery, courage, something bro,
Speaker 1: because everything else has been we it's just weird. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a week baby face champion. I felt like
Speaker 1: the crowd when you look at the crowd watching the match,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of right, yeah, this is yeah,
Speaker 1: that says that thing happening out there, very black, very
Speaker 1: very underwhelming. Now SmackDown closed with a strong Roman Drew
Speaker 1: segment with Sammy taking that food that we mentioned. Um,
Speaker 1: we don't have to get too into it. I would
Speaker 1: rather get into my favorite of the week and he're yours,
Speaker 1: but my best of the week. That match was awesome.
Speaker 1: There's a backstage segment. I can't believe my favorite at
Speaker 1: leap the backstage segment with Carrie and Cross and it
Speaker 1: was unique. It was honest and truthful, like old school
Speaker 1: wrestling promos. He's calling out Drew McIntyre on the chosen one.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the theme behind this promo that he's
Speaker 1: putting over all the chosen ones of the ones I'm
Speaker 1: going after, Like Roman was a chosen one. Even when
Speaker 1: the fans didn't want him to be champion, he was
Speaker 1: gonna be champion. That was the same Withdrew. I remember
Speaker 1: the segment when Vince brought him in and shook his
Speaker 1: hand and he was clean shaven, and the only note
Speaker 1: he would get his lose the Scottish accent. I had
Speaker 1: to work with him back then. It was like, don't
Speaker 1: stop taking that note, like speak, just speak, you're fine,
Speaker 1: So crosses promos going in on I know what's going
Speaker 1: on in your head. You were the chosen one, and
Speaker 1: then he just cuts his throat and says, but you
Speaker 1: were fired because they were wrong. You were replaced by
Speaker 1: another chosen one. And he just goes in on these
Speaker 1: And it was beautifully written, completely unique from other stuff.
Speaker 1: And I know that Hunter is giving the wrestlers who
Speaker 1: he respects, a ton of latitude with as far as
Speaker 1: who writes their promos. If he likes the way they
Speaker 1: write their own stuff, he lets them. If he likes
Speaker 1: their ideas, he puts them through. And I know he
Speaker 1: respects Cross because that was his guy, and you saw
Speaker 1: what Vince did to him. So I think he's given
Speaker 1: across a ton of latitude. Remember I used I was
Speaker 1: talking across a lot, and a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: I put in my script were his ideas, his thoughts,
Speaker 1: his philosophies, because I respected those ideas, and I'm really
Speaker 1: seeing a ton of his personality come through. This has
Speaker 1: to be him and Scarlet, and I loved it. I
Speaker 1: love the way it was edited. I loved the lighting
Speaker 1: in it. So yeah, so that was my best of
Speaker 1: the week. What about you. The best of the week
Speaker 1: for me was my was a You're gonna be surprised
Speaker 1: why this was my favorite, but it'll make sen There's
Speaker 1: a fatal five way number one contenders match. Sammy's at Ricochet,
Speaker 1: uh because she was insane in this match. He's always insane.
Speaker 1: I can't I don't know why he's not more famous.
Speaker 1: Um Shamus, happy Corbin, And there was one more person
Speaker 1: I can't remember, Sammy. No I said, Sammy's a oh
Speaker 1: mat Cats. Yeah. Now, fatal five way number one Contenders match.
Speaker 1: The only reason it is really good and and Ricochet
Speaker 1: always is incredible. But the reason it's my breezes, my
Speaker 1: pick of the week and my favorite match the week
Speaker 1: is because Shamus one. And I feel like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: here for a Shamus like run, a big Shamus push.
Speaker 1: I love Shamus. I know he's a good guy. I
Speaker 1: also just think he's awesome and overlooked and under it,
Speaker 1: like just a journeyman in WW just completely doesn't get
Speaker 1: as much love as I think he should. And I
Speaker 1: think this is I think I was happy about that.
Speaker 1: That's my match of the week. I love that you
Speaker 1: picked this match. I'm always happy when Shamus wins. I'm
Speaker 1: always happy when he gets a push. My worst the week,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about it. Oh no, hit row
Speaker 1: interrupts the maximum LM. It was so. It was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a comedic spot, you know, it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be like and it was comedic for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: It was laughably terrible. This was unwatchable. They got you, guys.
Speaker 1: You have to check the acoustics, like if you're a
Speaker 1: sound check, if you're at the forum, knock yourself out.
Speaker 1: It'll make them sound great. The crowd once we want
Speaker 1: to like them. If you don't, you end up having
Speaker 1: it sound like that. And it was. It made him
Speaker 1: come off looking amateur, and they should never No star
Speaker 1: should ever come off looking like an amateur, unless the
Speaker 1: intent was to do so. First of all, shout out
Speaker 1: to mass we love Massa. I wish she wasn't Massa,
Speaker 1: but shout out. I always l A night was l
Speaker 1: A night. I don't understand why they're doing this. L
Speaker 1: A night fucking rules and this is nonsense. This is nonsense.
Speaker 1: And then the team that you're getting to shut these
Speaker 1: guys up and throw them out the baby faces. Your
Speaker 1: intent is now we're going to make them look bad
Speaker 1: as well, because this rap and these acoustics aren't gonna
Speaker 1: sound good and there's no post because don't work like that.
Speaker 1: You're dead on Bro. It's been one week and I'm
Speaker 1: already out on it. I was like one week I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, Ris new, this is cool, and then
Speaker 1: now I'm going up. I'm out. They could figure it out, man,
Speaker 1: it could turn into like, uh, they could turn it
Speaker 1: into more like a deaf poetry. I love hip hop culture.
Speaker 1: I want to see it represented in mainstream, but if
Speaker 1: it's not represented as clean as everything else on the show,
Speaker 1: then it makes it look whack and that that doesn't
Speaker 1: help push it forward. So I would love to see
Speaker 1: them find a way to make this work. I hope
Speaker 1: they never wrap in in an arena like that again, though,
Speaker 1: or they or they fix the music or something, because
Speaker 1: that was rough Sauce Bro having lip sync. You know,
Speaker 1: it is weird what us wrestling fans want to be
Speaker 1: real and what we want to be fake. It's always
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to go, well, no chair shots have
Speaker 1: to be real, but this doesn't have to be real.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's what, I don't know, what's happened. Oh hey,
Speaker 1: we have forgotten, and you're so nice and forgive that
Speaker 1: you have forgotten or didn't mention it. Tell the people
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be this weekend. Oh yeah, I would be.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice of you. I just got back from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: had a great time, and this weekend I am in St.
Speaker 1: Louis at Helium Comedy Club. So get tickets for that.
Speaker 1: Helium is a great comedy club. The last time I
Speaker 1: did St. Louis, it was during the lockdown when it
Speaker 1: wasn't you weren't supposed to be doing shows and stuff
Speaker 1: and so there was no one there. The mall wasn't
Speaker 1: even open that the comedy clubs in. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: to come back and have an awesome weekend. Yeah. Hit
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