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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: You'll plays.

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Speaker 1: And exclusive interviews with some of your favorite wrestlers.

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Speaker 2: Stop it.

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Speaker 3: On up, you guys.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in to iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It is Battle from Q ninety five Indies Classic Rocket.

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Speaker 3: Of course you've heard us talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Friday Night SmackDown is coming to Indianapolis, the final SmackDown

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Speaker 2: before the Royal Rumble, January thirty first at Gamebridge Fieldhouse.

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Speaker 2: Tickets are on sale right now. You can get him

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Speaker 2: at ticketmaster dot com and coming to us on the

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Speaker 2: show today, good friend of the show, give it up

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Speaker 2: for Bianca bel Air back on the show with us today.

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Speaker 3: Bianca, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I know we talked about the weather beforehand, but we're

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Speaker 2: gonna put the weather beside because right now we got

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Speaker 2: to talk about all things beyond co bell Air and WWE,

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Speaker 2: and let's let's kind of dive right into this.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about this before on the show.

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Speaker 2: Would Love and WWE your reality TV show with You

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Speaker 2: and Montes, which is on Hulu.

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Speaker 3: Go watch it.

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Speaker 2: You share your personal life with fans and how it's

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Speaker 2: impacted your relationship with Montes and your wrestling career. How

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Speaker 2: is that for you and Montes to pull the curtain

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Speaker 2: seeing what they see every week on WWE television.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was a little different for me.

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Speaker 4: You would think that we would be used to it

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Speaker 4: because we're so used to being in the ring every

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Speaker 4: single week on live TV, which that's a whole other

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Speaker 4: animal of itself of being on live TV. You would

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Speaker 4: think that we would be used to being in front

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Speaker 4: bit different.

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Speaker 1: Now you have.

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Speaker 4: Cameras in your home and just following you around, and

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Speaker 4: now they're you know, they're in It's like, I'm not

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Speaker 4: in the ring, what's going on right now? So it

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Speaker 4: was a little a bit adjustment for me. But we

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Speaker 4: were excited to do it. We were excited to show

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Speaker 4: and what it's like to be husband and wife and

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Speaker 1: It's crazy.

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Speaker 4: And we filmed it actually on the road to WrestleMania,

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Speaker 4: which is where we are now, which is January. Uh,

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Speaker 3: I will tell you that my wife.

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Speaker 2: and when she watched Total Divas, that's when she started saying, Okay,

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Speaker 4: Wrestling is dope, and I love when we can go

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Speaker 1: And we do everything.

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Speaker 4: I meet people sometimes before they would say you're a wrestler.

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Speaker 1: You don't like a wrestler. I'm like, what does that mean?

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Speaker 4: It was never a bad thing, but it's really cool

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Speaker 2: And you know, like you said, we're on the road

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Speaker 2: last year. You Ria Ripley the WW two K twenty

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Speaker 2: like that mean? Like, what does that milestone mean to you?

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Speaker 4: It's a huge milestone. I remember seeing Becky Lynch on

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Speaker 1: He's like, listen, I see it.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's representation. It's really just.

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Speaker 4: Showing you know how much this division has evolved and

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Speaker 2: Absolutely put that in, put that on the resume once

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Speaker 2: Of course, Friday Night SmackDown comes to Indianapolis for the

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Speaker 2: final smack Down before Royal Rumble January thirty. First game,

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Speaker 2: there is a lot of buzz around what recently took place.

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Speaker 3: As a champion.

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Speaker 2: Of course, you and Naomi have targets on your back.

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Speaker 2: We now have new number one contenders for those women

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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts about this team and how do

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Speaker 4: I will say last, Yakar are amazing. You know, they've

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Speaker 4: And they came and they were hanging with us, They

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Speaker 4: up against me my tag team partner, Naomi. But listen,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I know we all are excited about that match,

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Speaker 2: And you know, recently, with you know, SmackDown at WWE

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, I'm always like WWE, We've seen crossovers from

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Speaker 1: And that's what's exciting about the Royal Romoll.

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Speaker 4: So why not, you know, let both of the worlds collide,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely for sure.

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Speaker 2: And of course you see a lot of people gravitating

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Speaker 3: I mean, we saw.

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Speaker 1: I think it has a huge impact on the brand.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're mixing WWE and pop culture and you're

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Speaker 1: But it's always even from.

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Speaker 4: When I first started, I always wanted to bring, you know,

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Speaker 4: And it's crazy because you meet a lot of people,

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Speaker 4: it's a natural collaboration. But I feel like some people,

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Speaker 4: it's like, no, wrestling is cool, Wrestling's dope. Let's all

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Speaker 4: the more that we have people like Travis Scott and

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Speaker 4: wrestling is cool, Wrestling's dope, and we're all fans of it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and again Friday Night smack Down, the final SmackDown

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Speaker 3: January thirty, thirty, first game Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Field House tickets are on saleamaster dot com.

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Speaker 3: Grab them real quick.

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Speaker 2: And before we let you go, I got one more

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Speaker 2: question for you. You know, the cool thing that we've seen

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Speaker 3: I mean their main eventing Raw SmackDown, PL's.

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Speaker 2: you want to add those two titles obviously to your resume.

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Speaker 1: I see it affecting the women's division in such a

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Speaker 4: Right now. Our roster is the best it's ever been.

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Speaker 4: It's the most stacked it's ever been. And I've always said,

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Speaker 4: to get more opportunities. We don't need to do anything.

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Speaker 4: We just need more opportunities because every time we step

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Speaker 1: But I think that it's it's amazing.

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Speaker 4: And yes, like listen, I've been able to accomplish a

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Speaker 3: Out absolutely for sure. And then of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: Lot of speculations of free agents on the horizon that

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think a lot of people have been

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Speaker 3: Matchup could be interesting. We don't know what's.

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Speaker 2: Gonna happen, how Jade, how Jade is doing with recovery.

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Speaker 2: Things happening in twenty twenty five for WW and definitely

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Speaker 2: you got to make sure you're a part of it again.

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Speaker 2: January thirty, first the final SmackDown before the raw Rumbold

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Speaker 2: great to have you on the show, and we look

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing a great twenty twenty five for you

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Speaker 1: Thank you, super excited for this year