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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to battle Ground. This is a

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Speaker 1: podcast where battling friends talk all things wrestling and laugh

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Speaker 1: with comedians that are way funnier than him. And you

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Speaker 1: never know who's going to stop by. Here is your

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Speaker 1: host battle.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we're back for another episode. Eli's in

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Speaker 2: the building. We have a special guest. Jesse is on

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Speaker 2: the show. Let me let me take that back, righteous

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Speaker 2: Jesse is on this show at the sid day. How

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Speaker 2: do you do it? Man?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 3: I am still riding high from Mania week. Yeah. I

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Speaker 3: feel fantastic right now.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of crazy. I mean, you were up

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Speaker 2: there Mania, me and me and Eli kind of broke

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Speaker 2: down the show last week. Of everything that happened. What,

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Speaker 2: let's get your take. You were up there? How was

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Speaker 2: How crazy was it?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 3: I was up there specifically for Independent Wrestling Dot TV's

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Speaker 3: Family Reunion show to do the Southern Underground pro match.

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Speaker 3: That's the only quote unquote booking I had. But just

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Speaker 3: walking around Jersey City. I didn't even go into New York.

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Speaker 3: I didn't go to Wrestle Con or any of that.

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Speaker 3: I was strictly at the Collective where GCW Game Changer

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Speaker 3: Wrestling essentially hosted all these different shows, and every block

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Speaker 3: was just full of Airbnb's full of wrestling fans. So

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Speaker 3: I can't even imagine what wrestling or Wressell Cohn was

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Speaker 3: like where it's like the epicenter of the whole weekend basically, right,

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Speaker 3: I just I can't even imagine. Plus all it like

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Speaker 3: the Ring of Honor shows at Madison Square Garden, New Japan.

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Speaker 3: All that, I can't even imagine what the rest of

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Speaker 3: it was chaos.

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Speaker 2: That is ridiculous. The one thing I always like at

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Speaker 2: wrestling events is there's there's no shortage of people walking

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Speaker 2: to walk up to the guy and be like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: your belt, let's put on the line right now, defend

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Speaker 2: it right.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember who I saw tweet that, but I

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Speaker 3: about to be signed by AEW and they said that

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Speaker 3: if they see a wrestling fan with a title, they

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Speaker 3: have to defend it.

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Speaker 4: You have to.

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Speaker 2: I know, me and Eli go back and forth and

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Speaker 2: text messages because we're like in a few of those

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Speaker 2: around events with them is crazy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've I've gone to events with some, but like

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Speaker 4: the last time I went, I basically gave one to

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Speaker 4: all my friends. So They're all sitting there with belts,

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Speaker 2: Let's let's kind of go into a little backstory about

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Speaker 2: how everything happens. So I met Eli through Jesse, and

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Speaker 2: no longer around Rest in.

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Speaker 3: Peace, Alt.

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Speaker 2: So it kind of all comes full circle on everything.

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Speaker 2: So let's let's just kind of dive in. Let's let's

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Speaker 2: go with your first what got you into wrestling?

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Speaker 3: Man? I just remember my first memory of wrestling is

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Speaker 3: actually seeing Sting on TV. I don't know what he

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Speaker 3: It's like that was where I saw hardcore wrestling first.

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Speaker 3: That's where I was like, that's kind of what I

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Speaker 3: which is funny because Sting isn't even one of my

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Speaker 2: Respect what he's done. You took.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've got nothing against Sting, but I was

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Speaker 3: just like, Okay, I just remember seeing his face and uh,

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Speaker 3: here we are. I've been in and out of independent

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Speaker 2: It's crazy. What about you? Eli?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, me and Jesse we talked about this one day

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Speaker 4: when we were in VHS hunting. Oh yes, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm from West Tennessee, so of course Memphis wrestling is

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Speaker 2: But figuring out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and his name is Danny Davis. He actually was

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Speaker 4: And uh, he was in a tag team called the Nightmares,

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Speaker 4: I just can't believe he did that to Danny.

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Speaker 2: They were so good, like you know, as when she

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, just growing up seeing Jerry Lawler

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Speaker 4: about nineteen ninety. So it started there and then, like

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Speaker 4: Jesse said, it was just always on. And you know

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Speaker 3: So funny story about Danny Davis. He actually nightmar Danny

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Speaker 3: Davis actually trained a buddy of mine. That I made

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Speaker 3: through my I guess now defunct wrestling podcast Kyle Matthews.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, out of Georgia. Was that at Ohio? Uh don't.

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Speaker 3: I don't actually know where Danny Trent Kyle, but Kyle

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Speaker 3: and it was to honor Danny Davis. And that's just

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Speaker 2: I once again making everything full circle on this podcast.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say the first time I ever went, and

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Speaker 2: the night that China debuted. Oh wow, flung Terry around

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Speaker 3: That was so violent that I still remember it, and it's.

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Speaker 2: Crazy because it's just like you sit there back then,

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Speaker 2: you know, you see that now and it's like, holy shit,

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Speaker 2: And another full circle thing was Wizard War or no,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't. Yeah, it was Wizard World a couple of

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Speaker 2: wasn't the night that China was supposed to debut. They

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Speaker 2: And then the rest was history.

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Speaker 3: Maybe a bidding war for China, I'm guessing, and that's it.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, then it evolves and the knife

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Speaker 2: then once that attitude era hit, I was off, Like

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Speaker 4: I mean until until the late nineties, I was WCW

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Speaker 4: And yeah, and through till probably yeah, about ninety seven

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Speaker 4: both of them. I mean I had had WDF toys

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Speaker 2: So all right, so let's go there we go. So

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Speaker 2: let's let's talk Jesse some more. So let's let's go

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Speaker 2: to your wrestling career. Let's let's talk about this. How

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Speaker 2: did it start? And there is one match in particular

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Speaker 3: So, like probably ninety percent of wrestling fans in the

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Speaker 3: late nineties early two thousands, dabbled in backyard wrestling with

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Speaker 3: my best friend, Bright Eisen, and we probably met about

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Speaker 3: seventh grade and have just been glued to each other since.

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Speaker 3: We started backyard wrestling together. And then through some weird

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Speaker 3: at Tennessee. We would pass out flyers for our backyard

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Speaker 3: us passing out flyers, he got wind of what we

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Speaker 3: So they train us and throughout the training process, which

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Speaker 3: boxing ring. I don't know if you've ever been a

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Speaker 3: boxing ring. Oh yeah, they suck.

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Speaker 2: Oh there's no given those bad boys.

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Speaker 3: So every time we trained, we had to and this

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Speaker 3: was also like the dead of summer. Every time we trained,

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Speaker 3: and after training we had to take it down because

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Speaker 3: so every time it was set up, train, tear down,

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Speaker 3: I think I had my first match maybe two or

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Speaker 2: the dots with everything. Okay, walk us through the death match,

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Speaker 3: Through this, dude. I was willing to go all out

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Speaker 3: and he said, well, I'm your guy. I didn't know

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Speaker 3: So if there's anybody that I was going to do

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Speaker 3: texting leading up to the match, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: the match. If you're down for it, I really want

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Speaker 3: your idea? I said, I'll come out first, get everybody

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Speaker 3: gonna have these skiers in my back pocket, and while

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is making me cringe right now just hearing

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Speaker 3: Honestly, the final like tap of the skiers going into

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Speaker 2: That bad, he says, It's not that bad.

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Speaker 3: It was the initial like jabs when they weren't going

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Speaker 2: So he was like, hell, yeah, let's do that.

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Speaker 3: He's like, that's a really hot start, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: all right, we're in. That's about the only thing we

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I saw the photos and I was like,

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Speaker 3: So I don't know, man, Like when we were backyard

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Speaker 3: do it right. Tank made that come true. I just

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Speaker 3: remember I don't remember what he did to me, but

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Speaker 3: I remember like kind of feeding around to him and

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Speaker 3: I see him grab the watermelon and I was like, fuck,

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Speaker 3: And he just sets it down and I just like

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Speaker 2: You would never expect you to say that just then

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Speaker 3: Just I smell the watermelon and I was just like,

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Speaker 3: It's kind of all a blur. I just remember doing it,

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Speaker 3: getting really emotional. He gave me the uh, the barbier

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Speaker 3: I was just like, damn, all right, Well, I guess

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Speaker 3: it was just a bucket list thing. And I'm glad

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Speaker 3: because he's literally a Southern wrestling legend. He was one

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Speaker 3: side for years. He's just done just about everything you

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Speaker 3: And there was also an added like layer to it

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Speaker 3: I got to wrestle Tank. So there's just a lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's that's crazy stuff.

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Speaker 3: So I mean I actually bought a This is gonna

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Speaker 2: It, like like an electric hag or just a handsaw,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not ballsy enough to do the carvers and

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Speaker 3: stuff I've seen Like Dean Ambrose when he was in CZW,

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Speaker 3: good on that.

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Speaker 2: Right, And you know, you talk about these stories and

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Speaker 2: there's an interesting thing. So my mom works with Gypsy

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Speaker 2: Joe's daughter. That's crazy and like the stories that she

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Speaker 2: And she was talking about the one match that stands

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Speaker 2: I watched that on TV and she was telling me

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Speaker 2: kill each other. Yeah, Nujack tried to kill him, and

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Speaker 2: Watch back and you just hear that bat just danging

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Speaker 3: Up that row of chairs and just slammed it on

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Speaker 3: his head. First. I was like, I remember watching that.

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Speaker 3: The promotion actually put it out on their Saturday morning

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Speaker 3: close with him. They'd be like, Yeah, if you guys

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Speaker 3: fuck up enough, we're just gonna call Joe in and

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Speaker 2: And we were just like, yeah, and you know you

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Speaker 3: Toughest dude.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, So let's let's kind of now, let's focus

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Speaker 2: on what happened this past week, and we kind of

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Speaker 2: ran down the show, and we're pretty good on what

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Speaker 2: we called.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, there's a few little surprises, some little surprises.

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Speaker 2: I think the one big thing takeaway is not WrestleMania,

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Speaker 2: but it's who showed up at the g one show

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Speaker 2: oh and big casts. Okay, you had to take a

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Speaker 4: I mean, so everyone basically they can't tell if it's

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Speaker 4: real or not. I mean, if you look at it.

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Speaker 4: Security was not in a hurry to get that broken up. No,

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Speaker 4: Like they sat there and it just went on and

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Speaker 4: then when this stuff started circulating, like Ring of Honor

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Speaker 4: was like retweeting the tweets, right, So, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I think I think it was I think it was work.

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Speaker 4: I think I think they planned it well.

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Speaker 2: When I looked at it, and there's one Instagram account

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Speaker 2: that I follow, and it's it's a pretty funny thing.

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Speaker 2: It's the Botch Club on Instagram. Like it's funny to

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Speaker 2: watch that stuff. But it showed all these fan like

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Speaker 2: angles of everything that happened, and you could see them

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Speaker 2: throwing the punches and it's, you know, the wrestling punches,

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00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 2: and like you said, it took them forever to figure

436
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,000
Speaker 2: this out. Ring of Honor did make a nod about

437
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 2: it during the commentary, but it wasn't anything yeah, spectacular,

438
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,320
Speaker 2: But I think it's one of those things that it's

439
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 2: a work. They're trying to draw heat to them because

440
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 2: I mean, aw is snatching up everybody left and right.

441
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were actually on the car in the car

442
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 3: on the way back from Jersey City, and I don't

443
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 3: remember if I was driving or if I finally stopped driving. Oh,

444
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 3: I was driving, because I drove most of that. So

445
00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 3: I'm just seeing like little clips on Brett's phone as

446
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 3: he's like finding them, and I think it's Bully Ray.

447
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 3: There's like one shot where it looks like it just

448
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 3: connected to I think Enzo's face, and I was like this,

449
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 3: we're a few days removed. Now, I think we all

450
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 3: kind of are on the same page where we think

451
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 3: it's a work. But at the time, I was like this,

452
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 3: that might have been like a legit shot, and that's

453
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,159
Speaker 3: somebody that I wouldn't want to get punched in the

454
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 3: face by.

455
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Speaker 2: No.

456
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 4: I mean I think they they brought up the point

457
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 4: so like when it was happening live, they didn't air

458
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,439
Speaker 4: like the camera's panned off. But I mean, if you

459
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 4: go back and look at the what Enzo did its

460
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 4: Survivor series, I mean he was tackled in like nine seconds.

461
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, he didn't even get very far right.

462
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 3: I gotta say, I'm not the biggest fan of Enzo

463
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 3: and cast, but I think I think bringing them in

464
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 3: is like a very weird move. But I think it's

465
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 3: smart to do it the way they did it, because,

466
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 3: like Eli said, he did the whole Survivors series thing,

467
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,719
Speaker 3: so at that point you don't really know what it

468
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 3: is right out of the gate. You don't to work

469
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 3: or a shoot. I mean, it's publicity either way, that's

470
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:32,640
Speaker 3: what they're going for.

471
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 4: And with them with the you know, the track record

472
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 4: they've had, I mean, ring of honor could get them for.

473
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 2: Probably Like you sit there and you saw after cast

474
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 2: got let go, and you saw photos of him and

475
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,119
Speaker 2: you're just kind of like he was out of shape

476
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 2: and he was wrestling some indie stuff and it's it's

477
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 2: I think it's a ring of honor trying to still

478
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 2: stay relevant, get their name out there, because I mean,

479
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 2: if you look, every day I'm scrolling through an AW

480
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 2: has signed somebody new. And the fact that prime example

481
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 2: that they are on ww's radar, I mean Triple H

482
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 2: made it known in his speech of you know, buying

483
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,119
Speaker 2: the company so Vince can fire Billy again.

484
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 3: I can uh, I can say that that ae W

485
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 3: signing isn't gonna stop anytime soon. No, there's a there's

486
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 3: a handful of guys that are up in Jersey City

487
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 3: this week that I feel like we'll pop up very

488
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 3: soon for them specifically.

489
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think Double one nothing's gonna be

490
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 4: a big I don't think it's gonna I don't know

491
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 4: if it's gonna be as big as all In, just

492
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 4: because all In it was like the first, you know,

493
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 4: But I think it's it's more of establishing what AW

494
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 4: is gonna be. And I think we'll finally see I

495
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 4: don't know if we'll I don't know if they'll announce

496
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 4: the TV deal, but you know, they just signed j R.

497
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 4: I mean, it's freaking huge, and I think they'll they'll

498
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,239
Speaker 4: put in a few more big pieces, and I mean

499
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 4: there's still I mean, somebody posted maybe I don't know,

500
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 4: maybe even you, but like they don't even we don't

501
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 4: even know who Cody's fighting next month in Vegas, you know.

502
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 4: So there's still a lot of question marks. So I'm

503
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 4: hoping I'm not regretting this trip out there.

504
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 2: We'll find out and say next month. But yeah, so

505
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: it's you have that. And then I think we talked

506
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,479
Speaker 2: about with them signing Jim Ross, that was a big

507
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 2: ordeal to get that guy. Yeah, now it's like who

508
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 2: do you pair him up with? And I think we

509
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 2: talked about there's like rumors of Tony Shavanni coming back

510
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 2: and voicing it. Could they bring Mike today? Would that

511
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 2: be an interesting.

512
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 3: Is Shavanni under contract with MLW, I don't, or is

513
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 3: somebody else doing commentary for Oh, Jim Cornet's with MLW

514
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 3: now doing Yeah, I don't.

515
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 4: I don't know how iron clad that is. I'm sure

516
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 4: it would.

517
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 2: Be like an Impact deal. Yeah, you can just go

518
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 2: wherever you want as long as you're here to tape

519
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: three shows in one hour.

520
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 4: So give me a week and a month, we'll tape

521
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 4: forty shows and you can go do whatever you want

522
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 4: to do.

523
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 3: And there's also the option of post production commentary, you know,

524
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 3: which is what JR did with New Japan. So so all.

525
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 2: Right, so let's let's let's kind of focus on what

526
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 2: pretty much stole the show was NXT Takeover. In my opinion,

527
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 2: I mean, I think in a situation like this, you

528
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: should have NXT Takeover in the Hall of Fame on

529
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 2: Sunday nights and Mania on Saturday night because you lead

530
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 2: into Takeover and they blow the roop off every time,

531
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 2: so it's like, how are you gonna follow up? Let's

532
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: bring out the doctor Thuganomics to wrestle Mania. But that

533
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 2: was the greatest thing in the night.

534
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the first thing, I mean you mentioned

535
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 4: I mean it's just too long at this point. I mean,

536
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 4: having gone to the show last year and then sitting

537
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 4: through it this year is just too much. I mean

538
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 4: asking someone to invest seven and eight hours at a

539
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 4: time is just right.

540
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're they're expecting you to get there super

541
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 2: early for the pre shows. It's like UFC. You get

542
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 2: there at two o'clock in the afternoon and you're there

543
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 2: all day. So I think, yeah, time, having Dan come

544
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 2: and hanging out, don't forget that. But I don't know.

545
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 4: I mean they're they're kind of they're playing around with it.

546
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: I'm sucky. However, you get your podcast and podcasturday shamelessly

547
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: plug my own that you're listening to. You could download

548
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 2: this podcasts were on Saturday. iHeart I am on social

549
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 2: media if you want to follow me. It is Battle

550
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 2: on Air. By the way, next week a new episode

551
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 2: is going to drop more stuff happening on the podcast

552
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 2: the Post. I want to tell you what that was like.

553
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 2: Make sure you stay tuned up today Saturday and everything

554
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: that is BArch where we're at Battle on Air until

555
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 2: next time. I can always say two figures and elbow boom.

556
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 4: Speaking of fame, the Brett hard incident that was so stupid,

557
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 4: and that's.

558
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: What's what that was. What was scary is like you

559
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 2: know somebody had posted a meme how it all made

560
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 2: sense of like Brett Hart on The Simpsons and Homer

561
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 2: wearing that same hat and the guy attack. Apparently this

562
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: guy's like batshit crazy and he's like an amateur MMA fighter,

563
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 2: and he'd like they went through and he'd been tweeting

564
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: Triple h and like he had been saying, I'm gonna

565
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 2: do this and I'm gonna do this, and then he

566
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 2: finally shows up and does that, and then you get

567
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: the ko punch from Dash, but shout out to Dash.

568
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 4: The craziest thing, like, if you go back and look

569
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 4: on YouTube, the best person to handle that stuff was

570
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 4: Macho Man. If you go back and look, there's videos

571
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 4: people jump and from about ninety six to ninety eight,

572
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 4: WCW crowds were wild, yep. I mean they were like

573
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 4: New Japan crowds on crack. I mean, throwing garbage and

574
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 4: hopping the fence and tackling security. I mean, they didn't

575
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 4: give shit. But as soon as someone hit the ring

576
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 4: with Macho Man, that's it. He is throwing hands right

577
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 4: and even what was the Reugh's named pee pee Wee

578
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,479
Speaker 4: Reese pee Weee no pee herman peee reas I think

579
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 4: is who was?

580
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 2: I mean, he got a guy just choked him, just

581
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 2: laid on him and choked him out.

582
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 3: And that's pretty good at it too. Now stop him

583
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 3: in the face.

584
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you see those like the wcw DA's like

585
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 2: to throw a trash and people jump in and nash

586
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 2: or there's one just catch some dude.

587
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 4: I think he was in a sting mask, but he climbed,

588
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 4: he climbed a cage and came down. So he's in

589
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 4: the cage with him, and then you see Hogan and

590
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 4: Macho Man get out and come after him, and it's

591
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 4: just like nice knowing you I it's.

592
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 2: Like fair game. Won't you jump in that ring and

593
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: that off you get hit? That's the thing is like,

594
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 2: you don't know. I used to work with a girl

595
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: and her dad and this was in the eighties. Uh,

596
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 2: I guess WWF was here in Nashville and he he

597
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: jumped the barrier and went in the ring and tackled

598
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 2: Macho Man because I guess, like I guess when the

599
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 2: Mega Powers exploded. But you know, it's like, but that

600
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: dude with Brett Hard, I mean he he probably could

601
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 2: have hurt him, you know, and so you never know.

602
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 2: And it's the same thing with concerts, you know, like

603
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: when when.

604
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 4: People get on stage. I saw a video of Nirvana

605
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 4: from like ninety and I mean, like like krkabains, like

606
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 4: does this with his guitar on a guy's head because

607
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 4: I mean he doesn't know what they're gonna do, right, yeah.

608
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 2: And I mean Brett with his age, and you know,

609
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 2: that guy could have a gun. I mean, it's it's

610
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 2: scary to think stuff like that. But so yeah, So overall,

611
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: what was your thoughts on Takeover?

612
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 4: I mean, excellent as always. They're not a not a

613
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 4: ton of surprises, I guess.

614
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: But.

615
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 4: I guess I guess. I'd say Gargana and Cole was

616
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 4: probably the best match. I enjoyed the four way women's match.

617
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 4: The tag is that a three way tag match or

618
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 4: four is the war Raiders.

619
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 2: And there was just war Raiders and Alistair Black.

620
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 4: And yeahs that one and then Dreaming Riddle was solid, So.

621
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: Like that is the greatest gimmick right now.

622
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 3: It's one of the best dudes in the world.

623
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: And like, I'm ready to see him be called up already. Yeah,

624
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 2: Like I think I think it would be interesting to

625
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: have him and maybe you know, when Brock does his farewell,

626
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 2: if they do that work that angle, Yeah, but.

627
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 4: I mean that would be an incredible way to elevate somebody.

628
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, that is definitely a David versus Goliath.

629
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Speaker 3: I mean, I just I remember I don't remember if

630
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 3: it was in Saint Louis, Chattanooga or Cleveland, but I

631
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 3: was near Matt Riddle and he was always super friendly

632
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: to us because we saw him several different places and

633
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 3: he was just one of those guys that remembered you,

634
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: just super nice. And somebody asked him like, when are

635
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 3: you gonna go to WW and he's like, I don't know, man,

636
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 3: whenever you know, whenever I get the call and they're like,

637
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do, He's like, I'm gonna retire Brock.

638
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 3: So if he actually gets to do it, it's like

639
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 3: the most perfect call your shot scenario of all time, right, And.

640
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: The way they're booking him is is really good. I mean,

641
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 2: him and Dream that was like the perfect storyline for

642
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: those two. And it's interesting to see the character of

643
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 2: Dream the way it is like when you first saw

644
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: him in Tough Enough, he was like the biggest douche

645
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: you could ever meet, and then all of a sudden

646
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: flip him and come against Dream. And you know, I

647
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 2: always said, and I sent a tweet out about it,

648
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 2: that I would have liked to see a story of

649
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 2: Dream and gold Dust together. Yeah, of course I kind

650
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 2: of geeked out because you know, Dusty Rhodes like liked it.

651
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 2: But I mean, just think about that storyline of those two,

652
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 2: you know.

653
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 4: I just I think it's incredible that Dream kind of

654
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,479
Speaker 4: dresses like Hogan because Hogan said he'd never make it

655
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 4: or you know, never gonna make it WWE and it's

656
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 4: just kind of ye he's.

657
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 2: Doing this at all times, the hulk up and the

658
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: leg drop, and.

659
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 4: I mean it's that's the big f you.

660
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: I like them now they both work for the same company, right, insane?

661
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 2: So, so what were your thoughts on Takeover?

662
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 3: I actually didn't get to watch Takeover. I was either

663
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: at or on the way to Joe Janello's spring Break

664
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 3: three or two part one, No three part one. Yeah,

665
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 3: because I've two nights this year, so I actually haven't

666
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 3: seen Takeover yet. I've seen some of the some of

667
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 3: the results and everything, and like give some pictures and stuff.

668
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 3: But I'm super happy for Gargano. He's a good dude.

669
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: You know, I could see, you know, I see Daniel

670
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 2: Bryan and him the little guy. They're gonna push him

671
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: and he's gonna, you know, main event, and he's gonna

672
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 2: be the workhorse. Yeah when he gets called up. As

673
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 2: long as they don't screw him like Tyler Breeze, I mean,

674
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 2: we'll be fine.

675
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 3: But I have a giant tattoo for that dude.

676
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 2: So so let's let's kind of move on to the

677
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: big night WrestleMania. I'm sure everybody's seen it already, right,

678
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: So thoughts overall rating, I give it, you know, C plus.

679
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 4: I was I was hovering between C plus and B minus.

680
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 4: I went ahead and gave it a B minus just

681
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 4: because I mean it when they did the whole you know,

682
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 4: the mcmans came out and you know, you're the boss

683
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 4: now this company, we're giving you what you want, blah

684
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 4: blah blah. I mean they pretty much did. I mean,

685
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 4: short of I mean, I think for people that have

686
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 4: watched a long time, I think a lot of people

687
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 4: knew Kurt angle wasn't gonna win. But I think for

688
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 4: a lot of people that are just kind of casual viewers,

689
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 4: that pissed a lot of people up. Yeah, and then

690
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 4: I think the I think the Iconics, I'm I'm behind that.

691
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 4: I've liked them since n XT, so but I think,

692
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 4: like when we talked about it, I don't think we

693
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 4: had them on our radar. And you know, the Women's

694
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 4: or Battle Royal was kind of a throwaway, but you

695
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 4: know we didn't. We didn't have Carmela Peg for that either.

696
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody had Carmelo Peg to win that one.

697
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 3: When everybody thought Sarah Logan won, that was the coolest moment.

698
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 2: And that's what I thought, because I you know, I

699
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 2: kind of zoned in and out and I was like, Okay,

700
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 2: maybe this is the time that they're pushing Sarah Logan,

701
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 2: her husband, you know, got the tag titles in NXT.

702
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 2: This is her time. And then all of a sudden,

703
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: here comes Carmelo and I'm like, this is like some

704
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: James Elsworth stuff right now.

705
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 3: Like perfect move for Carmelo. But yeah, it was still

706
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 3: cool for Sarah Logan to get that moment on that stage.

707
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: And even though she didn't get to win, Right's still

708
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 3: really cool to know that that crowd was behind you.

709
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

710
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 2: So, and we called the Andre Royal. You know, it's

711
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,919
Speaker 2: I knew it was going to end with those two

712
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 2: somehow and Brown and you know, I think that that's

713
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 2: kind of a throwaway thing. Like we said, it's great

714
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 2: that they're you know, remembering Andre, but it's like you

715
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 2: don't get anything from this, right.

716
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 4: Yeah. The big thing I asked people is like, do

717
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 4: you know who won it last year? Like, like, do

718
00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 4: you know you wanted two years ago?

719
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: Like, it's just Big Show win it two years ago.

720
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 2: I think Big Show was the first one to win

721
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 2: it was.

722
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know last year it was Matt Hardy and

723
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 4: then the year before I think it was Baron Corbyn.

724
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 2: That sounds about right, Yeah, so and Mojo won it

725
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 2: one year with the help of Gronk.

726
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I think Big Show so but yeah,

727
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,919
Speaker 4: it's just I don't know, I don't know what they're

728
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 4: doing with bron Strumman, Like, I just I don't I

729
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 4: don't know. I mean last year he won the tag

730
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 4: titles with a ten year old. This year he's in

731
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 4: was that on the the pre show? Yeah, that was

732
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 4: pre show, and he's on the pre show and he

733
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 4: wins to throw a battle role. I mean, I don't know.

734
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 4: I'd heard the backstage that he was showing up late

735
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 4: to events or like he was leaving events earlier or something,

736
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 4: so he had the heat backstage, but like, I mean, still,

737
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 4: he's like one of your big, biggest dudes, you know, right?

738
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean you look at last night. We're

739
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: sitting there and I'm watching it, and you know, Anger

740
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 2: does his thing and I was like okay, and then

741
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: they bring Lars out for the Angle spot.

742
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 3: I was like, where do you go from here?

743
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 2: Like what is this to do? Like? Is he gonna

744
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: feud with Angle? Is he gonna few with Parents? Like

745
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 2: I was really thinking, you drop Lars in that main event,

746
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: and then that way he goes after both of them,

747
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 2: and then you've you know, one of the two is

748
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 2: gonna face Lars for that title? Not put the bar

749
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 2: out and make it a tag team match.

750
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was we We watched it last night. Actually,

751
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 3: my girlfriend like resubscribed to Sling so we could watch

752
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 3: the the raw Aftermania. Uh. And I love the Bar.

753
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 3: I love Cizarro. I've been a huge Cizarro fan for years. Uh,

754
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 3: he's one of the only wrestlers that can like make

755
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 3: me care about other wrestlers. So I've liked all his

756
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 3: tag teams, but it just felt really weird, like, I

757
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: don't they.

758
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 2: Bring him out. Here's a storyline that.

759
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 3: Tag team comes out on Raw. I mean the shake

760
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 3: Ups next week, but right.

761
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's you know, it's the Raw after

762
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 2: Mania is always the fun one to watch because you know,

763
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 2: you sit there and watch it last night and I'm like, Okay,

764
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 2: they gave Ryder and Hawkins their moment. They're about to

765
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: drop the titles again, but they let them keep it.

766
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 2: So it's like, what do you do with this angle now?

767
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 2: And there's really not very many tag teams in Raw

768
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: or SmackDown. That's like good to make you know whatever.

769
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 2: But like we talked last week, I think, you know,

770
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: you look at the USOS and there's really not very

771
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: many people to go against. But the one thing that

772
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: would be really good is if you put them against

773
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 2: Sanity and have that whole psycho penitentiary whatever. Man, but

774
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: then you have the Gobbledygoot come out of a box

775
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: last night too.

776
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was something I think that's Ray wide. That

777
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 3: was the general consensus at the house last night too,

778
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: was most likely bry Whitet. And I literally was like.

779
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: The gooker, Like you sit there and watch it and

780
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 2: it pops up and you're like, what is this? And like,

781
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 2: I know that Bray has been doing house shows here

782
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: and there, but it's you know, right now they're talking

783
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: about like legitimately making a Sister Abigail character, and WW

784
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 2: went in and bought all the rights because there was,

785
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 2: uh there was from drawing a blank on her name,

786
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 2: but there was a girl in the indies who she

787
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 2: went out to try to trademark all that Sister Abigail

788
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 2: stuff and they came in. I was like, no, no, no, no, no,

789
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: we own everything.

790
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,359
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't know. I think I think at

791
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 4: this point that that ship's kind of sailed, you know.

792
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 4: I mean they gave him the belt. Was that two

793
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 4: years ago, I guess, and he had it for like

794
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 4: three months and then dropped it, and then he had

795
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 4: that weird match for Andy Orton with the they projected

796
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 4: like the maggots on this, you know, just so dumb

797
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 4: and like, I don't know, I mean, I obviously I

798
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 4: think they still they still believe in him, but I

799
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 4: don't know. I think if they were gonna do like

800
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 4: an actual Sister Abigail thing, I mean I think they

801
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 4: probably should have done it already, so.

802
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 2: Right, or you know, maybe Nicky Cross is that sister Abagail.

803
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, of Nikki Cross.

804
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: She's so fine just watching her and like you could

805
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: tell that they're high on her, but they just don't

806
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 2: know what they're going to do with her yet, right,

807
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 2: And it's like last night is sitting there watching and

808
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: it's like for weeks Lacy Evans has walked to the

809
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: ring and walked back and I was like, God, please

810
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 2: don't let this be another Eva Marie. But you know,

811
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 2: for her to walk out and the first thing last

812
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 2: night is she just Cole Cox Becky Lynch, And I'm like,

813
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: that's calling your shot right there. So I mean they're

814
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: clearly high on her.

815
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it would be strange if they just

816
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 4: automatically put her in a world title fight, But I

817
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 4: don't know. I saw her when she was in when

818
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 4: the NXT was here, not too whenever it was, and

819
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 4: I thought she was awesome. So I think that's a

820
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 4: that's a that's a big bite on your first big feud.

821
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 4: But you know, maybe what WWE does weird things.

822
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 3: So swim at that point.

823
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, I mean it was kind of a

824
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 4: you know, there's a rumor that Ronda broke her hand,

825
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 4: and then I heard age.

826
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 2: I got heard he's got some kind of hip injuries

827
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 2: what I read earlier. And then the squash match of Mysterio. Yeah, Joe,

828
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 2: I would see if they knew Mysterio was hurt and

829
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 2: I was gonna be a squash match, I'd just move

830
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 2: that to the pre show and then moved something else. Yeah.

831
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 3: The card placement was very strange.

832
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 2: Uh.

833
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 3: I loved that they opened with Seth and Brock. I

834
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 3: mean that was nobody expected.

835
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: It, no, And I was sitting there thinking, I was like,

836
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 2: why is this happening now?

837
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 3: And I don't know, man, I love that, but kind

838
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 3: of as the night went on, I was just like

839
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 3: noticing card placement and I was like this is I

840
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 3: feel like if I were in charge, I would have

841
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,919
Speaker 3: put this here. Like I guess I just didn't want

842
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 3: to like completely load the back half of the card,

843
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 3: which I get, but also like those people are there

844
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 3: for so long and it's such a roller coaster of

845
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 3: just of a card. Really Yeah, I don't know. Man.

846
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 3: I loved Mania though, and.

847
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 2: It was great and I love it. It's everything was

848
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: good it, but it's just like some of the stuff,

849
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: like the theatrics was just kind of like eh, like

850
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 2: Batista's coming out in that. I like Triple H's Mad

851
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: Max thing. I was very unimpressed with Finn's entrance, Like

852
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 2: I was hoping that they would do more with the demon,

853
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: not just put him up on a pedestal and put smoke. Yeah,

854
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 2: like have like the yeah, just have him have him,

855
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,959
Speaker 2: you know, have like people dresses demons trying to grab

856
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: him at the bottom or something, or even you know,

857
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 2: put it on the ramp. But it was just kind

858
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,959
Speaker 2: of dropped down. There's in you know, hit the coudi

859
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: gral and go home.

860
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 3: God, what if you want to hit the cudigra off

861
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 3: that platform.

862
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say this. Bibbi lastly had on these

863
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 4: green contact that was pretty cool. It looked incredible like

864
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 4: that one changed. I was like, fuck, Like, I don't know.

865
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 2: At first, I thought maybe something was wrong with my TV.

866
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 2: I was like, no, he's got context in, but well,

867
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: what's what's happening? And then I did like the Miz

868
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 2: and Shane mc mann's match. Of course he had to

869
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:56,959
Speaker 2: have the big pop.

870
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I told you. I was like, here

871
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 4: here comes Shane's mandatory big spot, you know, and then

872
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 4: they climb up and I don't know, I'm just I'm

873
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 4: over Shane. I've I've never been like a huge fan.

874
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 4: I mean, I've always been kind of you know, once

875
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 4: the McMahon started fighting in the late nineties, that was like,

876
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 4: you'd never really seen that before, right, but like, you know,

877
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 4: bringing him back, you know, and having him have a

878
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 4: spot on WrestleMania every year, you know, I mean that's

879
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 4: somebody else that's taking someone's spot.

880
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: You know.

881
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 4: The myths could have done something else with you know. Initially,

882
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 4: what I heard back in the fall was Daniel Bryan

883
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 4: was turning heel and he was turning face and then

884
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 4: they were going to fight for the title a Mania, Like, well,

885
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 4: that would be awesome, and then that happened, but then

886
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 4: the match didn't happen.

887
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: So right.

888
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 3: It was. It was brought up to me at one point.

889
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 3: I don't and I don't remember who said it, but

890
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: the way they looked at it was you have literally

891
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 3: the biggest response ability in the world wrestling Shane McMahon,

892
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 3: because you're wrestling the boss's son, so they must have

893
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 3: a lot of trust in you.

894
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: Yea very high on you, which I think is pretty cool,

895
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 2: but also like it's got to be terrifying, right because

896
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 2: especially I mean he's in his what forties and Shane's

897
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 2: bat crazy.

898
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Shane may be close to fifty now.

899
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: And I mean you sit there and watch him, and

900
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 2: he's about ten minutes in and he's like brock Lesser,

901
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 2: He's just dripping sweat anything.

902
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 4: Yeah. He he wears like the undershirt and the jersey

903
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 4: thing and jeans and it's like bro wears something else.

904
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 4: If you're gonna get that high.

905
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 3: It goes one hundred miles an hour the whole time,

906
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 3: which I respect, but right, he's gassed, Like so he

907
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 3: looks gassed so quick, and it's just like, man, if

908
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 3: I were you, I don't know if I'd be able

909
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 3: to finish.

910
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 2: Right, And you know, he sit there and watched the match,

911
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:45,959
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, the Mizz's dad jumped

912
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: into the ring and I'm like, gave us the best

913
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 2: meta of our life. I was like, where's this going?

914
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 2: Like him putting the putting his hands out like he's

915
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 2: gonna punch him like old school, and I'm like, where

916
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 2: is this going? Like it would have been well, I mean,

917
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 2: you can't bring Maurice because I announced it how another baby,

918
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 2: but I mean, he just it was a good match,

919
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 2: and then you know, we all expected the Kofee match

920
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 2: to happen the way it was. I was expecting a

921
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,240
Speaker 2: new title to happen in that box, not new T shirts.

922
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: But yeah, uh so, yeah, I mean, all in all,

923
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: it was good.

924
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 4: I'm glad they went back to the regular title and

925
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 4: not the HEMP title. I mean, it was cool that

926
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 4: they did that for Danil Bryan's message and everything, but

927
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 4: like a thing was ugly.

928
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, so he had that and then you know,

929
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 2: it was a cool moment that Coofey got to celebrate

930
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 2: with his kids in the ring and all the other stuff.

931
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 2: But I really think that, you know, like we said

932
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 2: that tonight, we'll find out somebody in that New Day

933
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 2: is going to turn on him or something else is

934
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: gonna happen. And if I was to say something, it's

935
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 2: probably Exavier because he hasn't wrestled much and they haven't

936
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 2: really done much with him, and he's just the funny guy.

937
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 2: So they play that role as he's always been the

938
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 2: funny guy, the shadow unless you push big ee.

939
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love for a big ee push.

940
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've I mean I've been hearing about a big

941
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 4: E push since they came up from NXT.

942
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 3: I just remember being in Nashville to night he won

943
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 3: the Intercontinental title, like oh yeah at that ww show

944
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 3: here in Nashville and that place like I don't even

945
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 3: think he was a baby face at the time. I

946
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 3: think he was still kind of like in between, and

947
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 3: that place exploded when he won the Intercontental title.

948
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 2: And it's yeah, it's I would like to say a

949
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: big push for him, but it's like, you know, kind

950
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 2: of like we talked and well, I mean, we'll talk

951
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: with Mark Henry about this next week when he's in

952
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 2: the show. But it's like this goes to show that

953
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 2: WWE is changing. Like they put the belt around Dream,

954
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 2: now they're putting it around KOFE. And you know it's

955
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 2: I think like back in the nineties, I met Johnson

956
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: like literally opened up an interview and he's like, Vince

957
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 2: McMahon doesn't want to give us the title, make us

958
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 2: the guy.

959
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 3: So progression, you know it. I saw on Twitter where

960
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 3: some people were saying, maybe it's a little too late.

961
00:45:58,280 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 2: I don't.

962
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 3: I don't think it is a little too late. I

963
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 3: think you know, they're recognizing what people want because people

964
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 3: are being more vocal and it's it was just like

965
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 3: it was emotional seeing KOFE get the title. And then

966
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: I saw all my friends that were even still in Jersey, uh,

967
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 3: you know, independent wrestlers, fans, managers, whatever, Just like the

968
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 3: outpour of support for Kofe getting that title, like it

969
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 3: overshadowed anything that anybody had to say. It was incredible,

970
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 3: like just just for the entire wrestling community and just

971
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 3: Kofi Kingston to have that moment as a human being.

972
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 3: Couldn't trade it for the world, right.

973
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 2: And so we'll talk about this one last thing and

974
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 2: we'll wrap the show up. I think the highlight of

975
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 2: the nine and we can all probably agree on this

976
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 2: is the the Doctor of Thumbogonomics coming out, Like I

977
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 2: was not expecting that, like the Bay Brew thing, and

978
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 2: I was like, where are they going with this? And

979
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: then boom, the old scene of music hits. He comes

980
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 2: strolling out and I was like, Okay.

981
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 3: We We left Jersey at like ten am on Saturday.

982
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 3: We got home about two in the morning, and pretty

983
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: much the sole purpose of driving like that was so

984
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 3: we could watch Mania. And I don't regret the drive

985
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 3: at all. I don't regret leaving when we did. None

986
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 3: of us had a booking or anything on Saturday, so

987
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 3: we just were like, screw it, we'll drive back. We

988
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 3: don't really have a place to stay. I woke up

989
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 3: and I was legitimately excited for Mania. And this is

990
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 3: coming from somebody who before Family Reunion was kind of

991
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 3: jaded on wrestling, and then that whole collective WrestleMania Week

992
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 3: experience really brought me back. I loved Mania. When John

993
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 3: Cena came out as a doctor of Thugonomics, I literally

994
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 3: jumped up and was just like, Yo, what the fuck right?

995
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 3: I just like, man, like, of all the curveballs you

996
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 3: could throw, incredible.

997
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: Incredible, you know, and I thought that, you know, maybe

998
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 2: he's gonna come out during the angle thing, but that

999
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 2: and Elias the perfect Mama right there.

1000
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, everybody was hoping for undertake here,

1001
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 4: and of course he came out last night on Raw,

1002
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 4: but yeah, that's right around the time I quit watching.

1003
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 4: It was when he was was the doctor, so it

1004
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 4: was it was wild. I mean, yeah, I was. I

1005
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 4: was not expecting that at all.

1006
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 3: So it's kind of a risk too, because like the

1007
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 3: wrestling fan base evolved so much, and like I mean,

1008
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 3: you grab new fans probably every day. Some of them

1009
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 3: are never going to go back and watch, you know,

1010
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 3: old stuff. So who's gonna get it? But it's fucking

1011
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 3: John Ceno.

1012
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 2: Like yeah, and they're all gonna know. But the kids

1013
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 2: are gonna be like, why is John Cena dressed like that?

1014
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 3: Why is he rapping?

1015
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, just go back and watch the ww NEW where

1016
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 2: it go cost you ten dollars. But one last thing,

1017
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 2: and I want to wrap this up because I want

1018
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 2: to end this on the note that I really want

1019
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 2: to ask a question. So you had the pleasure of

1020
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: announcing a match, you jumped in the ring and all

1021
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you just hear everyone a rop for you.

1022
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 2: Walk me through this entire moment for you, So complete transparency.

1023
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 3: I messaged, I didn't know the full deal for the

1024
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 3: Family Reunion show. I didn't know if there was going

1025
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: to be one ring announcer. I didn't know that there

1026
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 3: were going to be three of us. So I just

1027
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: messaged and I was like, hey, you know, would it

1028
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 3: be possible for me to do our match? I feel

1029
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 3: like we picked the six best guys to represent Southern

1030
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 3: Underground Pro. I felt like to get the full experience,

1031
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 3: it would have just made sense for me to do it.

1032
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 3: And I was told, you know, there was interest in it,

1033
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 3: and I just left it to that if it happened,

1034
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 3: it happened. If not, still happy to be there, still

1035
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 3: happy to watch all my friends do something incredible. So

1036
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 3: then about a week later, I get a message, hey,

1037
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 3: do you still want to do this? Absolutely? So I

1038
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 3: get there and I asked, you know, like do you

1039
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 3: want me to introduce everybody in the ring like we

1040
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 3: normally do, or do you want me to do it

1041
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 3: over music? And they said music. We got to make

1042
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 3: this as quick as possible.

1043
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 2: Perfect.

1044
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 3: And then the guy that runs essentially like created independ

1045
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 3: Wrestling dot tv, he said, get in there, say your name,

1046
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 3: mentions up, just kind of promoted him for a second

1047
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 3: and then do introductions, so full transparency. Again. I was

1048
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 3: just a bundle of nerves. Fourteen hours from home. Very

1049
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 3: few people actually knew who I was, so I just

1050
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 3: kept hitting the bar. I was getting beer after beer,

1051
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 3: because that's the full sub experience, is me kind of

1052
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 3: drunk and just screaming like I'm essentially in a hardcore

1053
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 3: band still. So I slide on the stage to the

1054
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 3: dude and I was like, how do you feel about

1055
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 3: me dropping an F bomb or two? And he was like,

1056
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 3: do it?

1057
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 2: So stepstool.

1058
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 3: Sarah who does ren announcing for Black Label Pro, Saint

1059
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 3: Louis an Arcane a few other places. Rich Palladino, who

1060
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 3: worked for ECW. He does stuff for Beyond Chaotic in

1061
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 3: a couple other places. We're going over the match assignments

1062
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 3: and they were like, do you do you want another match?

1063
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 3: And I said, well, the only match that was discussed

1064
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 3: for me was the Southern Underground Pro. I'm not trying

1065
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,479
Speaker 3: to step on toes. If I get that one match,

1066
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 3: I'll be good. So we were semi main match eight

1067
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 3: I think seven or eight, and Sarah just looks at

1068
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 3: me and she was like, Hey, I'll introduce you, then

1069
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 3: you come up do your whole deal?

1070
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 2: Is it cool?

1071
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 3: And I just looked at her and I was like,

1072
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna do it like Balls of the Wall

1073
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 3: one thousand percent. I don't know anything else, so you

1074
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 3: know they're either gonna laugh or they're gonna get up

1075
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 3: and they're gonna appreciate it. And she was like, no,

1076
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 3: do it. So she introduces me and I get on

1077
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 3: the apron and I just hear Jesse Chance and I

1078
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 3: literally just said, this wasn't supposed to happen. This isn't

1079
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 3: supposed to happen. Like being where we were at the

1080
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 3: Collective for you know, GCW for Independent Wrestling TV with

1081
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 3: my best friend of probably near twenty years backyard wrestled together,

1082
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 3: trained together, was very emotional. I probably cried that entire match,

1083
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 3: and I'm not a crier, uh, but just seeing him

1084
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 3: and everybody else was something I never expected. Like from

1085
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 3: seventh grade till now, Brett and I were always told

1086
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,919
Speaker 3: like you'll never get there, you'll never do this, you'll

1087
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 3: never do that, and just being so hardheaded and like

1088
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 3: just stubborn punk kids, like we found ways to get

1089
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 3: like to scratch the itch. But then being at many

1090
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 3: a week and you can actually hear my voice crack

1091
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 3: because I was crying when I introduced Brett as the

1092
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 3: bone Storm Champion. It was the most surreal feeling I've

1093
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 3: ever felt, and then now we're what there's a Friday,

1094
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 3: Saturday Sunday whenay like five days removed, four or five

1095
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 3: days removed, and I'm still getting tweets about it. It's insane.

1096
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 3: Like there's a Twitter wrestling with unicorns. They do gifts

1097
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 3: and videos at live shows. I think they just got

1098
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 3: hired by Independent Wrestling tv U today. Like before I

1099
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 3: left the house, I saw a tweet from them that

1100
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 3: I gave them goosebumps, and then I talked to Jeremy

1101
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 3: from Sward Video and he said he had goose bumps,

1102
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 3: and I was just blown away that. I think there

1103
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 3: were about three hundred ish people there in that moment.

1104
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 3: They were all chanting for me, and I got lost

1105
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 3: and thought we were back at the basement east Man.

1106
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 3: Yeah and crazy to see six of my really good

1107
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 3: friends come out kill it. You know, there were a

1108
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 3: few people that told us we had the best representation

1109
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 3: of our product on that entire show, and that was

1110
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 3: the goal to give the closest thing we could to

1111
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 3: a full Southern underground pro experience in eight minutes.

1112
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 2: Man crazy And speaking of sup, let's talk about something

1113
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 2: that's coming up cool. Tell me about it.

1114
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 3: Hold your Ground Easter Sunday four to twenty one, Basement East. Uh,

1115
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 3: It's it's insane, man like. We've got bred Eisen defending

1116
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 3: the bone Storm title against James Drake, who's been on

1117
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 3: a tear with WWN and Evolve. We've got Osha Edwards

1118
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 3: versus Anthony Henry again. Anthony Henry's been on a tear

1119
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 3: through Evolve in WWN. Bretton O'Shea and their own rights

1120
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 3: have been you know, doing incredible stuff. Oh Shay has

1121
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 3: some sort of deal with Future of Honor, which is

1122
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: a branch of Ring of Honor. Brett's been opening, not

1123
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 3: even opening, just kicking down doors left and right for

1124
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 3: the past year, wrestling Nick Gage b boy, you know.

1125
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 3: And now he gets James Drake, Kevinkoh in a mystery opponent. Uh,

1126
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 3: it could literally be anyone commanded man Dan versus a

1127
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,479
Speaker 3: man that I feel is extremely underrated, and Matt Justice.

1128
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 3: He wrestled for WB for a while, did house shows

1129
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 3: and stuff. He's an incredible talent. Wrestles predominantly at AIW

1130
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 3: in Cleveland, Ohio. Ali Cat versus Logan Eastern LaRue. Logan

1131
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 3: actually wrestled in Nashville for Freedom Pro once or twice

1132
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 3: against Kevin Coo and people call Ali Cath the heart

1133
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 3: and soul of SUP, So that'll be really fun. Zach

1134
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 3: Cooper versus Logan Stunt. Logan of course, the brother of

1135
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 3: Marcos Stunt, who's had, you know, a roller coaster of

1136
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 3: a year between getting to show out on Joe Janelle's

1137
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 3: spring Break and uh all in and now Zach Cooper,

1138
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 3: who is con'll literally go anywhere. He's from Florida, he

1139
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 3: comes up to Nashville, he was recently in Washington State, like,

1140
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 3: he'll go anywhere. I'm leaving out some matches and I

1141
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 3: feel really bad. I just can't think of them off

1142
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 3: the top of my head. We I mean, there's just

1143
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 3: there's so much. Uh this is our two year anniversary show.

1144
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 3: It's gonna be huge. Oh man, Yeah, I mean when

1145
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 3: we first started, I remember talking to a buddy who,

1146
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 3: uh who worked for another wrestling company that was a

1147
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 3: little bit bigger, and he told me that indie wrestling

1148
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 3: would never work in Nashville, like super indie wrestling would

1149
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 3: never work in Nashville, So we would not we might

1150
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 3: not be reinventing the wheel or breaking down any barriers,

1151
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,720
Speaker 3: but with the help of Independent Wrestling TV and everybody

1152
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 3: that shows up to our shows, like we never thought

1153
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 3: we'd make it this far, you know, So if we

1154
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 3: can keep packing in about two hundred people into the

1155
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 3: Basement East, we'll keep doing this as long as we can,

1156
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 3: as long as everybody comes out and has us and

1157
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 3: supports us like it's for Nashville, man. You know, Nashville

1158
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 3: came up to New Jersey and showed out for us.

1159
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 3: So I think that really just ReLit the fire and

1160
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,280
Speaker 3: all of us to keep putting out the best stuff

1161
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 3: we can to keep everybody happy.

1162
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, dude, that's all in a nutshell. Righteous Jesse on.

1163
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 3: The show today, Man, I appreciate you having me, man, Dude,

1164
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 3: thanks for coming by anytime.

1165
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 2: Man, talk about an awesome show our buddy Jesse. Thanks

1166
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 2: for stopping by getting to talk to him about his

1167
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: career in wrestling. Really cool, even hearing about that death

1168
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 2: match that he had. Crazy just thinking about the skewers

1169
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 2: and it's just still he's giving me goosebumps and kind

1170
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 2: of making me queasy at the stomach right now thinking

1171
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 2: about it and then seeing the actual photos that he

1172
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 2: showed us. Man, such an amazing week of shows. Let's

1173
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,720
Speaker 2: see this Friday, the Carneies are stopping by the Sideshow

1174
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 2: Wrestling has got a show going down Saturday. The Carneies

1175
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 2: are gonna be in studio. They're gonna talk about that

1176
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 2: they are wrestling newly minted WWE Hall of Fame or

1177
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 2: Billy Gunn and then James Storm and then next week

1178
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 2: the World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry is gonna be in

1179
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 2: the studio. I've been sending out tweets trying to challenge

1180
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 2: into an arm wrestling and pretty much is calling him out,

1181
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 2: and well he answered the tweet, and well, now I've

1182
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 2: got to start working out because Mark Henry in studio

1183
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 2: on Monday. So the Carneie's in studio Friday and then

1184
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 2: Mark Henry Monday. So it's gonna be an interesting next

1185
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 2: couple of episodes. So, wherever you get your podcast, whether

1186
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,800
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1189
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Speaker 2: And well you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram.

1190
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Speaker 2: It's Battle on air until Friday. I'll talk to you

1191
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Speaker 2: guys later