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Speaker 1: Battle You.

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Speaker 2: Into Double Battle Crown.

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Speaker 3: Live from the Parts Unknown Studios. This is the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 4: Bottle Crowd, the Battle Cloud.

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Speaker 3: The Battle Your place for all things pro wrestling.

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Speaker 4: From the independent scene.

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Speaker 3: To w W E A, E W R O, H

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Speaker 3: M w A and Impact Wrestling, the hot topics, as

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Speaker 3: well as interviews with some of the biggest names in

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Speaker 3: the game.

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Speaker 4: The Game, the Battle Crowd, the Battle Round.

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Speaker 3: The Battleground Podcast starts now, carry your host, go to

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Speaker 3: the Battle Crowd, Battle and Eli, whoa.

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Speaker 4: Here we are episode number one of the Battleground Podcast,

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Speaker 4: and this episode is going to be a Summer Slam

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Speaker 4: n XT Takeover preview episode. Eli is with us, Eli,

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Speaker 4: what's up, dude?

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Speaker 2: Hello?

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Speaker 4: It sounds so amazing to hear that theme song, right.

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Speaker 2: Gets me hype, man, I just I want to listen

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Speaker 2: to it when I'm like riding my bike in the

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Speaker 2: neighborhood just battle.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, it's it's it's I got goosebumps just

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Speaker 4: listening to it. But uh yeah. So today's a big episode.

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Speaker 4: We're going to be previewing Summer Slam. We're going to

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Speaker 4: be previewing NXT Takeover, and we have a special guest

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Speaker 4: from Comic book dot Com. Connorcasey is on with us. Dude,

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Speaker 4: what's happening man?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Guys? Man?

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Speaker 1: How can you not get hype tideed intro?

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Speaker 4: Right, I sit here and like Eli said, it's it's

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Speaker 4: the hype thing, And if I could just get the

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Speaker 4: guy singing the song, I think we'll be okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: So let's let's kind of dive into uh, letting everybody

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Speaker 4: meet Connor. So tell us a little bit about what

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Speaker 4: you do over at comicbook dot com.

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Speaker 1: So we cover mainly WWE and AEW. You'll find us

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Speaker 1: doing live coverage of raw n XT Dynamite SmackDown every

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Speaker 1: pay per view. We're interviewing some of the biggest names

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Speaker 1: from both of the major companies. We're branching out into

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Speaker 1: companies like Ring of Honor an Impact. I recently just

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Speaker 1: talked to the Good Brothers talking about everything. This was

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Speaker 1: right after Slammiversary, but we're hoping to get more of

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Speaker 1: those and yeah, and you know, some of you may

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Speaker 1: be like me where you have to go to six

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Speaker 1: different websites to find out where all the different inside

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Speaker 1: scoops are coming from and what people are saying well,

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Speaker 1: we try to bring that all into one place, so

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Speaker 1: you only have to go to one website for.

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Speaker 4: It, Hice. And you know, everybody should check out comic

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Speaker 4: book dot com because you can find a story that

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Speaker 4: is on there that was you know, a past guest

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Speaker 4: on this show was featured on Comic book dot com, which,

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Speaker 4: by the way, thank you so much for putting that

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Speaker 4: up on the website for us.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, that was a good that was really fun interview.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was pretty awesome to talk to FTR.

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Speaker 4: And it's just crazy to hear, you know, about the

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Speaker 4: doctor leaving the button in his knee and then you know,

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Speaker 1: Here, here's my thing. Since we know that the knee

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Speaker 1: is fine, do we think the button story is legit?

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Speaker 4: That's a good question because he, I mean, he sold

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Speaker 1: It's a weirdly specific story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was with him, is it was? It was?

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Speaker 2: It was such an odd thing to say, you know,

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Speaker 2: like so yeah, I don't know, and I mean I've

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Speaker 2: heard of mishaps. You know, people will go back here

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Speaker 4: Was expecting it to be like, you know, he left

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody they had left like a a drill bit.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, you never know, but you know, and then

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Speaker 4: back and listen to the interview. FTR really wants a

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Speaker 4: they wanted for the NWA Tag Team titles. But that's

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Speaker 4: a different story for a different podcast. But like we

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Speaker 4: the upcoming Summer Slam and NXT Takeover. The NXT Takeover

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Speaker 4: ones that everybody's talking about. We're gonna talk about Adam

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Speaker 4: Cole versus Pat McAfee is the first one, and then

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Speaker 4: we're gonna talk about Carry and Cross versus Keith Lee.

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Speaker 4: So let's kind of jump into this. What is your

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Speaker 2: October November or something, and they're like, Okay, well, let's

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Speaker 2: let's throw him in this program with McAfee, who is

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Speaker 2: So I think I think it was just a kind

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah. So I'm hoping it's just a one

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Speaker 2: in there with Adam Cole, who's probably you know, one

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Speaker 4: So, right, what do you think, Connor?

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Speaker 1: I paused earlier because I'm trying to be nice about

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Speaker 4: I think, uh, hold on this one, man, just go

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Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think they must think the world

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Speaker 1: a bad match. Right, So he's absolutely he's absolutely the

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Speaker 1: an unlikable prick throughout this whole thing like he's at.

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Speaker 1: When I first heard, I was like, wait, are they're

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Speaker 1: then I watch, you know, his radio show, and I

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And it's it's crazy to see because it's like

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Speaker 4: You know, Lawrence Taylor got in there with Bam Bam

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Speaker 4: and there's a reason why they have him doing you know,

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Speaker 4: you have Adam Cole, which, like Eli said, is probably

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Speaker 4: one hell of a run as the NXT champion. Who

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Speaker 4: do we want to put you up against? Hey, let's

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Speaker 4: get you in a match with Pat McAfee who's never

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and has a foot of height on you. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I do look great no matter what.

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Speaker 4: As far as well, he doesn't really count as arresting.

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Speaker 2: I think I think that was by design because he

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny because like when all that happened,

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Speaker 2: it's just kind of like we've been discussing, I think

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Speaker 2: it seems like a strange pairing.

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Speaker 1: Now you guys might have noticed this, but it feels

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Speaker 1: of that. And I really hope it's a one time

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Speaker 1: thing because I don't need to see Pat McAfee in

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Speaker 4: No, not at all. It maybe as like a mouthpiece

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Speaker 4: I don't want to see Pat in a match. I

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Speaker 4: but I just don't know if Pat can be a

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Speaker 1: Exactly, And my concern is like they don't seem to know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like what they did with Brody Lee.

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Speaker 1: Well, they've done it before with guys like Kevin Owens,

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Speaker 1: He's facing Battler next week. Winter that gets in and

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Speaker 1: It's just you, man, I love that guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm in the camp with Battle.

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Speaker 2: Enough, right.

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Speaker 4: you name it. Everything was sitting right there at the

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Speaker 4: front because there was a box. I remember walking in

435
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Speaker 4: at Municipal Auditorium. There was a box and it was

436
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Speaker 4: full of wrestling belts that people had brought in, which

437
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 4: I still don't understand bringing a wrestling belt to a

438
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Speaker 4: wrestling event unless you're gonna like actually wrestle for it.

439
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 4: But that's just a funny joke. But I mean there

440
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 4: was like a Lutah underground belt there, and there was

441
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 4: a couple of the aw belts, and you know, they're

442
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Speaker 4: very strict on what you can bring in according to

443
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Speaker 4: signage and stuff. So that that's gonna be the interesting

444
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 4: thing is watching on these screens. But I think it's

445
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Speaker 4: gonna kind of be interesting to see now that they're

446
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Speaker 4: in a bigger arena, even though you know, we know

447
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Speaker 4: it's a bigger arena, but it's like, how I'm interested

448
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Speaker 4: to see how this is going to look.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm I just like the fact that we're

450
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Speaker 1: getting out of the Performance Center. Honestly, I think we

451
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 1: needed a desperately needed a change of scenery. I think

452
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Speaker 1: this the virtual fan thing works. It's it's not it's

453
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Speaker 1: not a perfect one to one replacement, but it's done

454
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Speaker 1: the job for other sports. So I I'm at least

455
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Speaker 1: excited to see what they can pull off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be a very interesting thing. And of

457
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 4: course I think I want to say what this week

458
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Speaker 4: I think is still taped.

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Speaker 1: I think everything after next raw will be in the amlay,

460
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Speaker 1: so the raw after.

461
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Speaker 4: SUMMERLA got it, so so that will be a very

462
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Speaker 4: interesting thing to see. So now we're kind of going

463
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Speaker 4: into the summer Slam lineup and the card. You've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

464
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Speaker 4: eight matches as of right now, And of course we're

465
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Speaker 4: recording this on Sunday, the podcast release on Monday, so

466
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Speaker 4: of course there'll be something that probably comes up on

467
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Speaker 4: Monday Night Rawl and you know, smack Down this week,

468
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Speaker 4: so they'll probably be more added, So we'll kind of

469
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Speaker 4: jump into the we'll just kind of go from top

470
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Speaker 4: to the bottom and looking at it. Signya de Villa

471
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Speaker 4: versus Mandy Rose and a hair versus hair match. So

472
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Speaker 4: what's what do you think about how everything's been playing

473
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Speaker 4: out between these two guys.

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Speaker 1: I think Mandy's definitely keeping her hair. That's that's my guess.

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Speaker 1: But I like that. I like this as a story

476
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Speaker 1: that's gone on for a while. It just feels like

477
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Speaker 1: we've been sitting around waiting for the actual match and

478
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Speaker 1: here it finally is.

479
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a you know, they kind of came

480
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Speaker 2: in hot, and you know, I kind of thought that

481
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 2: they were going to be some of the new faces

482
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Speaker 2: of the women's division and then they've kind of slid

483
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Speaker 2: a little bit and then they broke up and then

484
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Speaker 2: the otis stuff, and so yeah, it's been drawn out.

485
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Speaker 2: I agree. I don't I don't see Mandy cutting her hair, Sonya.

486
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Speaker 2: It just she's got a little bit more edge to her,

487
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Speaker 2: so I could see her, you know, maybe getting a

488
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Ruby riot, but kind of cut or

489
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, yeah, you know so. But I mean

490
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that they're still getting attention, and you know,

491
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 2: they haven't kind of been lost on the shuffle and stuff,

492
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Speaker 2: so you know, it should be pretty good. But they

493
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Speaker 2: they've both improved a lot since they got to the

494
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Speaker 2: main roster, so.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, Sonya us lose

496
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Speaker 4: this match. She gets her hair done and we see

497
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 4: her on Raw Underground. That could because I she has

498
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Speaker 4: the fighting mentality, and as much as we want all

499
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Speaker 4: to see Ronda and Shanea go at it, I think

500
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Speaker 4: that this will be kind of like a test for Shana,

501
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Speaker 4: especially with Sonya's MMA background a little bit. So we'll see,

502
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 4: you know, Sonya and shanea go at it, and then

503
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Speaker 4: maybe finally we'll see the fact that Ronda shows up.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to see Ronda on Raw Underground, but

505
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Speaker 4: I mean, Sonya would probably be a good fit in

506
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Speaker 4: Raw Underground with her and Shana.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be good.

508
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Speaker 4: So I agree with you guys, I don't I don't

509
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Speaker 4: see Mandy losing her hair, especially since she just cut it,

510
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 4: which really basically she just took the ex extensions out.

511
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Speaker 4: But you know, it is what it is. I'm still

512
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Speaker 4: figuring out this whole Otis thing. I completely forgot the

513
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Speaker 4: other night watching that he was the Money of the

514
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Speaker 4: Bank Champion.

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Speaker 1: I think they forgot that.

516
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was it was weird because you go

517
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 4: back and think about it, and it was like, Okay,

518
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 4: you threw Alistair and ray Masterio off the building, and

519
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 4: this is like back when Hogan threw Big Show off

520
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 4: the building, and all of a sudden he just shows

521
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 4: up the next nine. It's like okay, and then Otis

522
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 4: wins it and it's like, what do you do? And

523
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Speaker 4: of course, you know, he says he's going to use

524
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 4: it for the tag team titles, and of course his

525
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 4: partner's heard. So it's still weird and up in the air.

526
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Speaker 4: But yeah, so I thought that.

527
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Speaker 2: Was weird too though, just just having someone win it

528
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Speaker 2: and then like, yeah, I'm not gonna go for the

529
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Speaker 2: biggest prize in the company. Let me go for the

530
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Speaker 2: biggest tag prize. Like I don't know, I get it,

531
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Speaker 2: but like, why would you put a tag guy in there.

532
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Speaker 4: To comedy gold?

533
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was gonna say, like to me, and

534
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 2: I hate to say it this way, but like it

535
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 2: seems like they're doing all this stuff with him because

536
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: of his weight. It's not like Otis is the guy,

537
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: you know, they're like, oh, he's kind of like overweight

538
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 2: and kind of a he'll billy and let's put him

539
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 2: with one of the hottest girls on the roster. See

540
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Speaker 2: with that, you know, it just seems like they're kind

541
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 2: of like poking fun without actually saying, hey look at

542
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 2: this fat though, you know, and like that just kind

543
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 2: of rubs me the wrong way, because like they're a

544
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 2: good tag team, but I don't know, this this side

545
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 2: stuff that they've been doing with him and Mandy has

546
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. So I

547
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Speaker 2: don't not.

548
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: Forget that like when we had when there were fans,

549
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: they look they ate that stuff right up.

550
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well so yeah that's true.

551
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean the you get there and watch

552
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 4: it and the times that we saw him like they

553
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 4: were the fan favorite. I'm not saying they're like the

554
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 4: John Cena fan favorite or Roman Reigns FA favorite, but

555
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 4: they're they're up there. They're kind of, you know, the

556
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,479
Speaker 4: fan favorite up there with like New Day and whatnot.

557
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 4: But another match on the card, you've got Sasha Banks

558
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 4: versus OSCA for the Raw Women's Championship. And of course,

559
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 4: here's my thought process of all this. I have a

560
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 4: feeling and we can kind of tie this in together

561
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 4: because Oscar then turns around and faces Bailey for the

562
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 4: SmackDown Women's Championship. I have a feeling somehow they're going

563
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 4: to have Oscar win both belts.

564
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Speaker 2: I mean you would think so. I mean, it just

565
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,719
Speaker 2: wouldn't make like, why would you give take someone's spot

566
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Speaker 2: and give it to her when she already has you know,

567
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: I guess I guess the Sasha match was booked first,

568
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Speaker 2: and then something with Stephanie McMahon got her the Bailey

569
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Speaker 2: match or something, but or she wasn't or was it

570
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 2: a Battle Royale a Battle Royal. Yeah. I honestly, I'll

571
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Speaker 2: probably get through twenty twenty without watching an episode of Brawl.

572
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 2: I haven't watched anything whatsoever. But yeah, it's it's like,

573
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 2: you know, if you're gonna book it like that, that

574
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 2: is probably the most popular outcome, and if that doesn't happen,

575
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 2: it's just like, hey, you just took someone's spot, you know, Like,

576
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm glad that they're kind of putting the

577
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: focus back on Oscar. That was at that WrestleMania where

578
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 2: she lost to Charlotte for no reason. So yeah, I

579
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, it's been it's been fun seeing

580
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: the highlights of Sasha and Bailey this summer with both,

581
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 2: you know, both belts and the tag belts and everything.

582
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's been. It's been pretty fun. But

583
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 2: uh yeah, I don't know. This is to me, it

584
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: just seems like another head scratcher, like I would have

585
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 2: given someone else a shot at Bailey's title, you know, But.

586
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Speaker 1: Man, I'm normally I would say I Envia for being

587
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: able to miss Raw every week, but you you've missed

588
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: some pretty excellent matches involving Oscar, Bailey, and Sasha. So

589
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: if you get the chance, go check those, especially this

590
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,480
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591
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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. As for as for this and

592
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,240
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Speaker 1: I've tried to mentally book how they're going to turn

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595
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596
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Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna sit back and watch what happens.

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Speaker 4: Belt in the new United States Championship Belt, which that

647
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 4: thing is. You know, at first we were like kind

648
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 4: of like eh, but it grow on us and it's

649
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 4: an amazing looking belt. But I have a feeling though,

650
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 4: if Oscar wins both somehow they will unify that title

651
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 4: to where she goes back and forth between raw and SmackDown,

652
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 4: so that way it gives everybody, just like they do

653
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 4: with the tag team title belts. And I think, you know,

654
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 4: putting myself in the booking position, which I know if

655
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 4: you give me the pencil, this is probably not gonna happen.

656
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 4: But I have a feeling that, you know, Oscar will

657
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 4: beat Sasha because Bailey tries to help her out, and

658
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 4: then Sasha then tries to help Bailey out win the

659
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 4: Oscar match, and Oscar wins both, and then of course

660
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 4: this is where we see the demise of Bailey and

661
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 4: Sasha and the tag team titles get dropped.

662
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: Or only one drops them drops their singles title and

663
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: then get jealous at the other one.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and then we finally get the Sasha Versus Bailey

665
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 4: viewed for the ten thousandth time.

666
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could I could see that. I could see

667
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: like Bailey dropping and then blaming Sasha, like you know,

668
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 2: like say, say such, Sasha wins, but Bailey interfered, and

669
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 2: then Bailey loses and Sasha didn't interfere, and she's like,

670
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 2: why didn't you help me? I helped you, and that

671
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 2: you know, maybe that that could be the angle that

672
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: starts it. But yeah, it's I mean, I think it

673
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: was kind of a foregone conclusion. I think everyone assumed

674
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: Sasha and Bailey was going to be the main event

675
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: for SummerSlam. I mean I was hearing stuff about that

676
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: at like the Roller Rumble you know, so obviously COVID

677
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: had other plans, but you know, it's probably coming soon,

678
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 2: you know, maybe as soon as like the Roller Rumble

679
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: it maybe you know, the big big show for that.

680
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 2: They may push it back to WrestleMania though, so I

681
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 2: don't know, but yeah, they I think it's been on

682
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: everyone's mind for a while now.

683
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 4: So so another match that a lot of people are

684
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 4: kind of interested in seeing. And we actually kind of

685
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 4: talked to Vicky Guerrero and she praised Dominic for this,

686
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 4: but seth Rowins versus Dominic mysterio and I think Connor,

687
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 4: I think you've made a funny tweet about it that

688
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 4: WWE has not figured out how to spell his name

689
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 4: right right.

690
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: They really haven't, to the point where I reached out

691
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: to him on Twitter and I said, hey, how do

692
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: you spell it? And then someone commented maybe it's the

693
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: way he spells it on his Twitter account, and he

694
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: favored that tweet but didn't actually respond to me. So

695
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: then I turned around to that person and I said, well,

696
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: tell his company that because they don't know a C

697
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Speaker 1: is it a c K? Is it just a kay?

698
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: And lately they've actually stayed consistent with justic K. Yeah,

699
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, but stop changing it. It's driving

700
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Speaker 1: my headlines crazy.

701
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 4: And yeah, and then when you try to find it,

702
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 4: when you do the Google search, it's very weird. But uh,

703
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 4: you know, I was sitting here and I was telling

704
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 4: Euy this the other night. I was like, imagine, you know,

705
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 4: you're sitting there and you're one of these guys, uh,

706
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 4: trying to be a wrestler, and you're sitting there in

707
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 4: the performance center and you're one of the guys in

708
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 4: the outside watching and you sit here and watch Dominic

709
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 4: and no offense Dominic. I'm not hanging on him, but

710
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 4: you're watching Dominic sign a WWE contract and his first

711
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 4: match is a pay per view against seth rawlins Man.

712
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: This is it's it's a testament to Set, just like

713
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: it's a testament to Cole. They have all the confidence

714
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: in the world that he can carry this kind of

715
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: match with a guy that doesn't really have experience. I

716
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: the thing with Dominic that I don't understand is why

717
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: don't they just put him in NXT in the performance

718
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: center like everybody else, right? Why does he have to

719
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: get the rocket like this? Because it feels like it's

720
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: setting him up for failure more than anything.

721
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 4: And espectually, if he botches something or whatever, you know,

722
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 4: the internet Twitter trolls are going to just go ballistic

723
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 4: for sure.

724
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's I mean, I think it's too soon obviously.

725
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: I mean it's I don't know, like and and again

726
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 2: I haven't been watching. I'll catch some highlights on Twitter

727
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 2: and stuff, but I mean the storyline hasn't really I

728
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 2: don't know, like the whole Rawins and Ray mysterial eyeball

729
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 2: thing was kind of lame and I don't know, it's

730
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 2: just like another story that I just don't really care about,

731
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: you know. And and and then to put him in

732
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: here his very first match on one of their four

733
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: biggest pay per views is just I don't know, let's

734
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 2: roll on the dice, I guess.

735
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, credit to him every every time

736
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: he's been on TV so far, he's kind of nailed

737
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: it people with those kendosticks.

738
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, that beat down last week was no joke. I mean,

739
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 2: holy crap. I mean, you know, you kind of hear

740
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 2: all these stories about paying your dues and hazing and stuff,

741
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: and if that was what he had to do to

742
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: prove that he deserved to be in the match, then

743
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 2: by all means be in the match, because that was brutal.

744
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, I think maybe Seth broke

745
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 4: a little bit of k fob in there because he

746
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 4: was like, you want to pay your dues, here's you

747
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 4: paying your dues, and he was like just getting cracked

748
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 4: and like taking it from both sides, Like I if

749
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 4: I couldn't do that, You couldn't pay me any type

750
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 4: of money to take kindo shots like that.

751
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: Nah. No, see, I always saw the kindo sticks were like,

752
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 2: you know, like the I don't know, like rein like

753
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: separated and then taped up. So it really wasn't that bad.

754
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: But like, I don't know if it was just him

755
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 2: swinging so hard or they used like a different kind

756
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 2: they really you know, but yeah, I was not expecting

757
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 2: those pictures, you know, after the after all went up there,

758
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 2: So uh, yeah, I don't know what happened, but yeah,

759
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: he gave it to him, that's for sure.

760
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I think there's a very good chance

761
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: Y interferes here because the fact that they keep bringing

762
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: it up and what you might be hearing about his contract.

763
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: I think this is where he makes his miraculous return

764
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: with both eyes intact.

765
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: Oh man, I just I remember seeing online all the

766
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 4: stories about this match was supposed to be c g

767
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 4: I and all this other stuff, and then I was

768
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 4: so bummed because I was like, I was waiting for

769
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 4: an eyeball to just kind of dangle, like just hanging there.

770
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 4: But it was just the fake eyeball and you just

771
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 4: saw it through his fingers. That was it. I was

772
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 4: very disappointed with that.

773
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: It looked like a poke ball. It just you blink

774
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: and you miss it.

775
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 4: So at the end of the match, who who's picking

776
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 4: up the w Is it Seth or is a Dominic?

777
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be Dominic, because I mean

778
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: Seth is I mean, Seth's teflon. He can he can

779
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: lose anything. But if you just have Dominic lose, where

780
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: do you go with this? Like you've already had him,

781
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: you know Maime his father, Yeah.

782
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I my gut, says Seth, just because I completely agree.

783
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Seth can lose to Roman and

784
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: then the next week he's fighting Brock for the world time,

785
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he can bounce back very quickly.

786
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 2: But unless ray Masterio interferes, it just doesn't story wise

787
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 2: make a lot of sense for Ricky to beat him,

788
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: you know, like same thing with the Pat and Cole thing,

789
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 2: I guess, but I would be okay if Dominic somehow

790
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 2: got the win or you know, Ray interfered or whatever,

791
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 2: it definitely would put him on the map. But it

792
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 2: would just scare me that then they're gonna like when

793
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 2: you said put the put the rocket on him, like, Okay, cool,

794
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: he had a decent match with Seth, he won, Let's

795
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: let's throw him in against you know whoever? Now, you know, So,

796
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: I just think they need to make sure they're they're

797
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: taking their time with developing some of these people. I mean,

798
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: it's really awesome to have the son of Ram Stereo

799
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 2: in your company. I get that, but like you also

800
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: don't want him to like flame out before he's ready.

801
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 4: So it's like, you know, NXT gets the Rock's daughter

802
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 4: there at the performance center and she hasn't been on

803
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 4: TV or nothing, and they're not doing this kind with

804
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 4: her who her dad.

805
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: Is, right, And then the question becomes with I mean,

806
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: he's Ray Mystereo suns, so does he get a mask?

807
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, And the funny thing is is that I

808
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 2: guess this might have changed, but the last I checked

809
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: sometime last week, Ray Mysterio still doesn't have a deal

810
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 2: with WW and there's speculation that he might like once

811
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: this run is over with Dominic, he might hop to AEW.

812
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 2: So it'd be funny if like Dominic's and WWE and

813
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: Ray Bounce's toa AW.

814
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 4: It should be a very interesting thing, especially with as

815
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 4: much ties as you know Ray has with WW and AEW,

816
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 4: with everybody being there, so that should be a fun

817
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 4: thing to uh look forward to. And you know, of

818
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 4: course you will be able to find this news once

819
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 4: it happens at comic book dot com because Connor's gonna

820
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 4: write it and he'll be the first one to put

821
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 4: it out there.

822
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: Uh darn touton, So I gotta give a shout out

823
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 2: to comic book dot Com. They're based in Middle Tennessee,

824
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 2: so if you're like me, I was not aware of that.

825
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 2: I've seen, you know, stories or read their stuff for

826
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: years and I don't even know how it made the connection, Like,

827
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: oh crap. They're in my neck of the woods, so

828
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: always always awesome and have a cool company like that

829
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 2: here in town.

830
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 4: So we kind of move on to the next one.

831
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 4: And this is another match that should be an interesting one,

832
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 4: Apollo Cruise versus MVP for the United States Championship.

833
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 2: If I was watching this, this would be the probably

834
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 2: one of my main matches I would be interested in.

835
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: I've always liked Apollo Cruise. He was incredible on NXT.

836
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 2: I saw I think three times on the tours that

837
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 2: they did. He was in town and I saw him live,

838
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, just being able to do some

839
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 2: of the stuff he does is a big guy. He

840
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 2: just doesn't give a lot of credit. And MVP has

841
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: been phenomenal this summer on WWE, him and Bobby Lashley

842
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 2: and kind of hinting at like a new Nation of Domination,

843
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,959
Speaker 2: which I'm sure they won't use that name, but they've

844
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: been awesome. And I just saw MVP in February. He

845
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 2: fought Ricky Starks here in Clarkswell, outside of Clarkswell, he

846
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: still got it. It was awesome. So but yeah, I

847
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 2: kind of I hope Apollo wins, but I also kind

848
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: of see something happening where either he wins and then

849
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: joins MVP, or he loses and then joins MVP, like

850
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 2: something happens to where they finally kind of get together,

851
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 2: but I'd like to I'd like to see Cruise keep

852
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: the belt if possible.

853
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: So I'm just glad that they've given this any modicum

854
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: of a story, because my issue with Apollo has always

855
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: been it's just he come out, he smiles, he does

856
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: his flip, he waves to the crowd, he leaves. That

857
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: was never gonna be enough, and they knew that. But

858
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, this kind of he had

859
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: to rally back from an injury to win the title

860
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: in the first place. Porter comes in, He's honest and Eli,

861
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned he's probably in a year when just about

862
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: every surprise has been a bad one. Porter's been one

863
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: of the biggest pleasant surprises all year for the WWE.

864
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean if you'd have told me pre Corona

865
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 2: or even last year that, like, hey, next year, twenty twenty,

866
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: MVP is going to be one of the high points

867
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 2: of verall, I'd be like, what what do you you know?

868
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just been crazy.

869
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: And the stuff he's doing with the hurt business, Like

870
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: I didn't care for that first week or underground, but

871
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 1: the moment they showed up, like okay, no, this could

872
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: work if you guys are running it. They didn't follow

873
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: up with that this week, but maybe they can fix that.

874
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 4: They did the dancers off of Roll Underground though, yeah

875
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 4: they did. That was another thing for another story that

876
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 4: we'll talk about.

877
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: But that was that was cringe, man. That was just

878
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: that was them trying a little too hard.

879
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 4: I think I saw a tweet they were saying that

880
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 4: this is like Shane Shane McMahon's midlife after divorce crisis,

881
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 4: that he's just created this thing. But uh yeah, I mean,

882
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,439
Speaker 4: Apollo Cruise is good to finally see that they're acknowledging him.

883
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 4: And you know, it's like you guys said, come out, wave, smile,

884
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 4: flip in the match, and you know, I've we've had

885
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 4: Apollo Cruise and Titus O'Neill in studio and them two

886
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 4: together were great. But it's like, here's Apollo Cruse, who

887
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 4: is like the the the Vince guy. Like he's got

888
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 4: the build, he's got the charisma, he's got the fans,

889
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 4: the Mike skills, he's still you know, working on those.

890
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, pairing him with MVP, if

891
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,919
Speaker 4: you know, things go the way it goes, I think

892
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 4: that will be good and you could create this stable.

893
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 4: I I do you see Apollo winning this match, But

894
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 4: it depends on if you know Shelton Benjamin and Bobby

895
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 4: lastly are there at ringside, which really shocked me that

896
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 4: Shelton Benjamin's picking up the first win not too long ago,

897
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 4: was like the first win since the first iPhone came out.

898
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: On raw or whatever.

899
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: Yes, that sounds about right, but I mean you think

900
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: how long he was gone, and then when he's back,

901
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: he's in that tag team with Gable and that's about it.

902
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 4: Which I really think that Charlie has should have came back,

903
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 4: you know, and they they threw what I ran together.

904
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 4: That would have been a great thing, but that's a

905
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 4: completely different thing. But yeah, I want to see how

906
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 4: this is going to play out. Like I said, I

907
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 4: think Apollo does win this match, and somehow, you know,

908
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 4: eventually we'll see him join MVP's crew because it's it's

909
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 4: a good time for this to happen, and I would

910
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 4: like to kind of see them win all the gold

911
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 4: and have gold around their waist.

912
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think at some point it'd be cool. I

913
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 2: mean it's you know, probably a long shot, but I

914
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 2: think if you had the preliminary people that are there

915
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 2: right now, and then also brought in like the usas.

916
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 2: I mean that would that stable would be unstoppable.

917
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I still think Ricochet needs to be

918
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: involved in this somehow because that guy needs a mouthpiece

919
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: in the absolute worst way, and he's so good otherwise.

920
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh, I think paring him with Cedric

921
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: Alexander has been, you know, pretty good. It's I don't

922
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 2: want to say it's like desperation, but it's like, you know,

923
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 2: obviously Events has given up on Ricochet, which is mind

924
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: blowing to me. But uh, yeah, I mean I think,

925
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd put both of them in there. Ricochet

926
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 2: and Cedric Alexander are both incredible, but I think there's

927
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: a lot of possibilities with it, and I think with

928
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: as much kind of buzz they've gotten because of MVP,

929
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: Like you know, I think it may be like the

930
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 2: new cool faction in wrestling. You know, it's it's it's

931
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 2: shaping up to be pretty cool so far. Let's see.

932
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 4: Going on to the next matches, you got the Street

933
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 4: Profits versus Andrade and Angel Garza and uh we actually

934
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 4: got to see Angel Garza wrestle. What was that was it?

935
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 4: Maybe two years ago? I think he was at the

936
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 4: Fairgrounds and didn't put two and two together until recently

937
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 4: that that was the same person. But you know, I

938
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 4: this match has been great building up somehow I feel

939
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 4: that Bianca and Selena will get involved somehow in this match,

940
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 4: especially with everything that's been going on and Montes getting

941
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 4: poisoned or roofed or whatever you want to say. He

942
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 4: got happened. But yeah, this this should be probably one

943
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 4: of the top matches of the night, depending on how

944
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 4: it goes.

945
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 2: Man.

946
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: Credit to Bianca and Zelena for deciding to involve their

947
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 1: Twitch channels. And yes, because when when she jumped Zelena

948
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: on that channel, I laughed my ass off. That was funny.

949
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 4: That was that was great because I sitting there watching

950
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 4: and I was like, I wonder if this is like

951
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 4: legitimately at her house or if this is just like

952
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 4: backstage at the performance center. And kudos to Kayla for

953
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 4: not laughing and trying to keep it together during that video.

954
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's she's fantastic, underrated amongst the the interviewers.

955
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: But now I again, this is like the this is

956
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: like the cruise MVP thing. They're actually giving it a

957
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: bit of a story and lo and behold I care

958
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: a little bit more.

959
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, I think I think I can see Andrede

960
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 2: and Angel taking them. I don't know what it's been

961
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 2: about the street profits, but something just hasn't landed with

962
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: me with them. I mean, I I going back to

963
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 2: that the next T show I saw last year. I

964
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 2: mean they were you know, they were awesome live and

965
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 2: the crowd was into it. There's just something that's just like,

966
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, something that's not binding with me.

967
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: Well, with any they need the crowd. They they are

968
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: one of the acts that needs the crowd more than anything.

969
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: Because I saw them, yep, then I saw them on

970
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: one of their last NXT shows before they got shipped

971
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: off to Raw, and Yeah, the crowd absolutely loves interacting

972
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: with them.

973
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:34,399
Speaker 2: Yeah.

974
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: When you when they're just kind of jumping and skipping

975
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: on the on the entrance ramp with nothing else you know,

976
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: around them, it doesn't look good. It looks goofy.

977
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. And and there's several people like that, even like

978
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 2: Matt Hardy has talked about you know, his his his

979
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 2: you know, start of his run a W has been

980
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: kind of lackluster because the crowd is so such a

981
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 2: part of his elite you know, chance and all that.

982
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 2: But but you know, obviously I love Bianca, she knocks

983
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 2: for girl obviously, But I don't know Street Profits. I

984
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,919
Speaker 2: just haven't clicked with them, so I just I don't

985
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 2: have a lot of investment with them. So but I

986
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 2: don't know, I can kind of see this being the

987
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 2: you know, a big show like this. I can kind

988
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 2: of see them this being like the tides turning and

989
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 2: putting them on somebody else. But I definitely think we're

990
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 2: going to see some outside interference or at least them

991
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 2: fighting on the outside while the teams are in the

992
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: ring or whatever. So but yeah, I think I think

993
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 2: this could be a pretty solid TEG match.

994
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 4: The one thing I've been watching is like, how has

995
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 4: Montes not hit that big ass fan when he does

996
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 4: that frog splat? Yeah, I mean, that dude is that

997
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 4: is the biggest frog splash I've ever seen in all life.

998
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 4: And it's like I'm just waiting for him to either

999
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 4: hit the ceiling or that fan or something falling from

1000
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 4: the ceiling after he hits it, because I mean, that

1001
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 4: dude gets up there with that frog splash.

1002
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: That guy is something special. And someday we're going to

1003
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: see a singles run with him that I think is

1004
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: going to turn a lot of people's attention most definitely.

1005
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 4: And I think I and if I had the pencil,

1006
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 4: I would say, here's what you do if Andrade and

1007
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 4: Angel wins the title. You know, they kind of sit

1008
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 4: there and talk, and I don't think it's it might

1009
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 4: be too early to broke up Procer, but I think that,

1010
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 4: you know, Monteze's tag team partner. I think he says, hey, man,

1011
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 4: it was me that poisoned you. I'm tired of being

1012
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 4: you know, the guy, and I'm tired of you still

1013
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 4: in the limelight. And then they kind of run that way.

1014
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: Man, it feels way too early for that. That feels

1015
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: like when they broke up Enzo and Casts really quickly.

1016
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 4: Yes, and you know that's you know, I think that

1017
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 4: it could be potentially. I mean, Bruce Pritchard's now running

1018
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 4: the show, so you know, who knows what's going to happen.

1019
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 4: But uh, you know, I I have read some stuff

1020
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 4: online that that could be one way of doing it.

1021
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 4: But you know, it could, like you said, too early,

1022
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 4: Enzo and Cast. They should learn from their past mistakes,

1023
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 4: but we know that there's no learning from past mistakes

1024
00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 4: in WW sometimes. So moving on to the next one,

1025
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 4: Let's look at this broun Strum versus bray Wyatt, which

1026
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 4: is a very weird thing because I was watching SmackDown

1027
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 4: and it was like Bron was like, here's a new

1028
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 4: monster and he basically just cut his hair. That's like,

1029
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 4: what's the purpose of this. It's not a new monster.

1030
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 1: So I was digging all of what they were doing,

1031
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: from money in the bank to the swamp fight with

1032
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: all of its goofiness. I got what they were trying

1033
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 1: to get towards. I think they've lost the plot now

1034
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: by adding an Alexa Bliss and it kind of looking

1035
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: like a double turn because Bron is like, I'm evil

1036
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: now because I have no hair and I'm gonna throw

1037
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 1: tiny Alexa and it's like, wait, so is themed up?

1038
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: Am I rooting for him? I was rooting for him

1039
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: anyway because I wanted to get the title back because

1040
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: that Goldberg nonsense was nonsense. But I just they I

1041
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 1: feel like they've lost the plot with this.

1042
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's another example of just terrible booking.

1043
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 2: I mean, they they don't know what to do. I

1044
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,959
Speaker 2: mean he even goes back to you know when he

1045
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 2: lost to uh Seth at the Hell and the Cell

1046
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 2: and everyone they almost rioted, you know what I mean,

1047
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 2: and like with yeah, and you know, he's been one

1048
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 2: of the most well I mean, I think he's underrated

1049
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 2: just across his whole career. I mean they you know

1050
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 2: who was he first? Husky Husky has horrible name, but

1051
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 2: you know, he he just ant Like when I when

1052
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 2: I first got back into it, I was like, oh,

1053
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: this is cool. Like he's coming out with the lantern

1054
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 2: and it's kind of got the I don't know what

1055
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 2: the what kind of music you call that kind of

1056
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: swampy blues. He kind of I was like, this is

1057
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 2: really cool. And then he kind of had like a

1058
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 2: little bit of a supernatural vibe and and then you know,

1059
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 2: it pretty much got to a point where you're like, well,

1060
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 2: if bray White's on a paper view, he's going to lose. Like,

1061
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 2: I mean, he just that's what he did. He was

1062
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 2: just the one that lost. And you know, they finally

1063
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 2: gave him the belt and then they had him and

1064
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 2: Brandy had that crappy match and it was a nightmare.

1065
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: And then you know, when he went away and then

1066
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 2: started up with his fiend stuff, it was such an

1067
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 2: organic thing and it just built and built and built

1068
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 2: and built and built, and then like like normal, they've

1069
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 2: kind of watched it, you know, And even going back

1070
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 2: to the extreme rules thing, I mean, did we did

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00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 2: they decide who actually won? Because I thought Bray won it,

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00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 2: but then I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

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00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: Bray won because Fiend was the last thing you saw

1074
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 1: at the end of the show, and they I remember

1075
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: when the match, when the match ended, the Fox WWE

1076
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: Twitter account goes and your winner is Ray Wyatt and

1077
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 1: I look at him and go, how yeah, And.

1078
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 4: It's like the title match, because you know, before there

1079
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 4: was I think maybe it was the Fox Twitter account

1080
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 4: was like it's a it's a title match, and then

1081
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 4: on TV they're like, it's not a title match, and

1082
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 4: then it was just a place.

1083
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean they've done no favors for braun Stroman either.

1084
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we're you know, it was it really feels like,

1085
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, they they in case of emergency, we had

1086
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: to we had to put somebody else in the spot.

1087
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: Bronze here and you can tell a story between him

1088
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: and Bray, but I'll say this, I you know, Eli,

1089
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: you mentioned how just how far back the mishandling with

1090
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: Wyatt has been. I think Bray is going to go

1091
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: down as a cautionary tale for the people that do

1092
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: grab the you know, metaphorical brass ring, because that's what

1093
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: he's done. Yeah, but these characters we've seen on television

1094
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: are all his creation, you know, the backstories and the

1095
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: deeper meanings that you know, people are able to find

1096
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: with both, you know, both the cult leader and the fiend.

1097
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: The problem is is that he's not the one writing

1098
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: the show every week, so his creation goes into the

1099
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: hands of people who didn't create it, and they don't

1100
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: know what to do with it because no one understands

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00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: it better than he does.

1102
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's weird that they like go to the

1103
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 2: talent for what's your name, what's your name going to be,

1104
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 2: what's your you know, what's your outfit going to look like?

1105
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 2: What are your move sets? What's this? And you know,

1106
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 2: once they put all this time and energy into that,

1107
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 2: that's taken away and then the writers dictate all of it,

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00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 2: you know. So it's it's a very strange, I don't

1109
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 2: know what you call it. It's a very strange situation

1110
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 2: that they're put in to create something as a credible as.

1111
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: The Fiend, and then you know it kind of it's

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00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: it's why Whyatt has always been at his most interesting

1113
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: when he's just doing the promos. When he when he's

1114
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: when it's just promos and he's building up to something,

1115
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: it's great, but then the actual booking has to be

1116
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: brought in and then we're all left wondering, what the

1117
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: heck did I just watch?

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00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean hopefully this is kind of like

1119
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 2: the you know, the exclamation point one way or the other.

1120
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 2: Either you know, it's the double turn and Braun retains

1121
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 2: or it's a double turn and break it whatever. Like,

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00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 2: I just hope this is kind of the end of

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00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 2: this and then they kind of move on to a

1124
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 2: different program. But yeah, I don't know, it's.

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Speaker 1: Wins just to kind of hit a reset on all

1126
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Speaker 1: the pre Goldberg stuff. That's my guess.

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Speaker 4: You've got to But I will say that I do

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Speaker 4: like the fact that in certain matches you've gotten either

1129
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 4: Bray Wyatt or the Fiend, and it's you know, I

1130
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 4: don't they haven't really said what's going to show up,

1131
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 4: so you it's it's I like what they do with

1132
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 4: the split personalities where you can go in and you're

1133
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 4: not squashing the actual fiend, You're just squashing the good guy,

1134
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 4: mister Rogers bray Wyatt, Right, So that's the cool thing

1135
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 4: about that. But I agree with both of you guys.

1136
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 4: I think Bray walks home with this reset and then

1137
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,320
Speaker 4: starts up the whole, you know, redo the family again

1138
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 4: with sister Abigail, and maybe maybe this is the time

1139
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 4: that Bo Dallas can be a part of something with

1140
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 4: bray Waatt. Who knows. But we move on to probably

1141
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 4: what will be the main event of the night, Drew

1142
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 4: McIntire versus Randy Orton, and this has been going back

1143
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 4: and forth, phenomenal storytelling, some phenomenal promos for both of

1144
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 4: the guys. I do have this gut feeling that somehow

1145
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 4: Rick Flair is going to be involved in this match.

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00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: I think you're right, and I think that that theory

1147
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: that's been going around that you know, we never technically

1148
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: saw Randy punt Rick. I think that's where the Shenanigans

1149
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 1: come in because for some reason, there is supposedly a

1150
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: pay per view of the weekend after Summer slect.

1151
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 4: Camp, Yeah, which is very back to back and.

1152
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me at all if Shenanigans take place

1153
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: during the main event. So they pull this Tuesday in

1154
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: Texas and suddenly have another show where the world titles

1155
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:57,439
Speaker 1: on the line again.

1156
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can see that happening. I will say

1157
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: Randy Orton has been really good the last about a

1158
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 2: years ago. I really kind of hate they didn't do

1159
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 2: something with him and the revival. I think that would

1160
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 2: have been an incredible stable But it's just kind of

1161
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 2: a you know, for some of these guys that have

1162
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 2: been around for a long time, him and Sina and

1163
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 2: even Brock I guess, but I mean if they when

1164
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 2: they when they turn it on, I mean they they

1165
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 2: they're really good. And I think that's how Orton is.

1166
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 2: He's kind of a you know, to me, it's almost

1167
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 2: like a psych patient and his his his sanity's breaking,

1168
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 2: and so like, you know, he attacks his friend Edge

1169
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 2: and then he you know, attacking Rick Flair, and he's

1170
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 2: you know, he's like kind of losing grasps of reality,

1171
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 2: and you know, then he did that little TikTok thing

1172
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 2: with r k O on the Drew McIntyre thing and

1173
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 2: all that, and so I mean he's been really good

1174
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 2: the last at least a year or so.

1175
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: No, it's amazing how a year ago he was in

1176
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: a match for the same championship. We didn't care half

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00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: as much as we do now because he has just

1178
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: been so much more invested in the Edge storyline, bringing

1179
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: back the legend Killer. I mean, he out of nowhere

1180
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: has a match with freaking Christian on an episode of Raw,

1181
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, what the hell is twenty twenty.

1182
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: But it's amazing how he's at the point now where

1183
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: every time he's on screen, I'm like, I have to

1184
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: see what this guy does next. And we're talking about

1185
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: a guy that has been a scaple of WWE television

1186
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: for at least fifteen years.

1187
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 2: Yep, and Drew.

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00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: I gotta say this because I've heard some people knock this.

1189
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: Everything that guy has done with this world title reign,

1190
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: he's done right. He has put on good matches, he

1191
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: has shown charisma in his promos. He doesn't come off

1192
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: as cheesy, he comes off as legitimate. He's doing everything right.

1193
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: So when people look back at this air and say, oh,

1194
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: Drew just couldn't cut the musters World Champion, uh huh, No,

1195
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 1: He's this isn't his fault.

1196
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 2: No, I think the two reigns, I think McIntyre has

1197
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 2: done a better job than braun Strumman. And you know,

1198
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 2: not anybody's fault. I just objectively, I think Drew McIntyre

1199
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 2: has been a more I guess, legitimate champion or but

1200
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 2: I mean even even his match with Dolph at Extreme

1201
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 2: Rules was solid. I mean it, you know, it wasn't

1202
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 2: like match of the Year anything, but I mean it

1203
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 2: was still solid. You know. So I've really enjoyed you know, again,

1204
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 2: I'm not watching it or anything, but seeing highlights of stuff.

1205
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed Drew what he's done. And you know,

1206
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 2: I kind of hate it for him. He didn't get

1207
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 2: that big WrestleMania moment with the crowd and all that,

1208
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 2: but you know, it is what it is. I'm sure

1209
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 2: he's he's okay, sleeping on his stack of cash that

1210
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 2: he has now for sure for sure.

1211
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 4: But yeah, so that that kind of is looking at

1212
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 4: the entire lineup of SummerSlam, so it's gonna be a

1213
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 4: good thing. But here's what I want to know is

1214
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 4: when are we going to finally see retribution show up?

1215
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 4: I think if anytime it's summer clim right.

1216
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: My hope is not at all.

1217
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe the hacker thing.

1218
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 1: Stay the hell away from SummerSlam please this and Raw

1219
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: Underground both like I get their works in progress. They

1220
01:01:26,240 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 1: ain't working for me right now, Keep them the hell

1221
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: away from your second biggest show of the year.

1222
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 4: It's I and I just don't know because there's so

1223
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 4: many things going on because it's different people every week.

1224
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 4: Like the first time you saw them, everybody was like

1225
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 4: six six six seven whatever, and then the next week

1226
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 4: it's like, the guys are five eighths and Eli had

1227
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 4: sent me a thing of somebody I guess put on Twitter.

1228
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 4: You know, they should just call them the aces in

1229
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 4: five eights. But I mean, it's it's it's very weird.

1230
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 4: And of course, you know we always see online. You

1231
01:01:57,920 --> 01:01:59,880
Speaker 4: always say on the dirt Sheep, it's like, okay, who's

1232
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 4: the rumored people? Could it be Xavier Woods? Could it

1233
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 4: be this? And you know when Rall posts or once

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01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 4: wwe posted on Instagram the other day and I zoomed

1235
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 4: in on this because I always like to read comments

1236
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 4: on what people are just saying. On WWE's post, the

1237
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 4: one thing was like one of them is Carmela And

1238
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 4: if you zoom in you can see that it is Carmela,

1239
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 4: like the eyebrows, the you know, the facial structure through

1240
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 4: what you can see of it, and it's like Carmela

1241
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 4: because it's like where has she been all this time?

1242
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: Right? And I do know that it has been said

1243
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: that the people you're seeing in the ring with the

1244
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: masks are not necessarily going to be the actual members.

1245
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: So people that are playing detective trying to figure out, Okay,

1246
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: this looks like this person, this could be this person,

1247
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: none of that might matter.

1248
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's until if we see somebody just ripping the

1249
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 4: mask off in the ring and saying we're the people.

1250
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,439
Speaker 4: You know, No, I'm not trying to steal Jackswagger's thing,

1251
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 4: but anyway, and do they say who we are? I mean,

1252
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 4: there's just speculations. Of course. It's like everybody thinks Diga

1253
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 4: Kovac is part of the group because nobody's heard from

1254
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 4: him and he's been sending out cryptic tweets. But I'm

1255
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 4: just waiting for that guy to get in the ring, right.

1256
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 4: So but yeah, so that that wraps up the show.

1257
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 4: Connor Man, dude, thank you so much for coming on

1258
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 4: and reviewing and previewing SummerSlam and some of nx T

1259
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 4: with us man.

1260
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: It was an absolute pleasure, and you can find our

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01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: full coverage and all things SummerSlam over on comicbook dot

1262
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 1: COM's WWE page. We will be obviously covering the show

1263
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: live as it happens, but we will also be doing

1264
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: some stuff ahead of time. We'll hopefully have some interviews

1265
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 1: lined up and some lookbacks at previous SummerSlam events as well.

1266
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,439
Speaker 4: And one last thing, because I was going to ask

1267
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 4: you to plug that, where can people find you on

1268
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 4: social media?

1269
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: People can find me at Connorcasey Underscore c B. That's

1270
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: both on Twitter and Instagram. And also one last thing,

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01:03:58,640 --> 01:04:01,800
Speaker 1: check out the Comic Book Nation podcast because myself and

1272
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: Matt Aguilar will be previewing Summer Slam just like we

1273
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: did here over on that podcast. Those drop every Wednesdays

1274
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: and Fridays.

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Speaker 4: Awesome. Connor, once again, thank you so much for coming

1276
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 4: on the show today. We greatly do appreciate it and

1277
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 4: we're looking forward to seeing your coverage of SummerSlam. Atomic

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Speaker 4: book dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, guys, see you.

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