Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? Shots abouts that hit
Speaker 1: the fan? Welcome to Unsanctioned Thursdays. Are wrestling with Friday?
Speaker 2: What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 3: Welcome to Unsanctioned Thursdays. That's some sound effects that we
Speaker 3: like to add the money on. So hope you guys
Speaker 3: liked it to join us. Always by mister Jeff, Jeff,
Speaker 3: Where are you gonna be this weekend? Where can people
Speaker 3: see you and party with you?
Speaker 2: This weekend?
Speaker 4: I'm going to a town I've never been in in
Speaker 4: Illinois called Batavia, Batavia, Illinois. There's still some tickets available.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: When I did that Summer Catch movie, my character gets
Speaker 3: signed by John C mcginley's character to a minor league
Speaker 3: affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds called the Batavia Mukdog.
Speaker 2: Oh look at that? Is that a real team?
Speaker 3: I don't For the movie, I don't know they used
Speaker 3: real teams in the movie, like all the Chatham teams
Speaker 3: were real teams, or all the kip cod teams were
Speaker 3: the real teams. So I'm thinking the Batavia Muckdogs are
Speaker 3: a real team and you should try to get a
Speaker 3: Muckdog's hat while you're there.
Speaker 4: I would love that. Yeah, I'm wondering. I'm wondering if
Speaker 4: it's real, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: You could be a muckdog, bro, I could totally see
Speaker 3: you as a muckdog. Like. Speaking of muckdog's, there were
Speaker 3: a lot of them at AEW double or nothing. I
Speaker 3: don't know what a muckdog is.
Speaker 2: Probably there.
Speaker 3: But we had the owen Hart Foundation Tournament finals. Hang
Speaker 3: Man Adam Page, Jeff's favorite versus will Ospray, my favorite.
Speaker 3: I thought this was gonna be Ospray all day long,
Speaker 3: so did our producer Alex. Only one of us wanted
Speaker 3: to make you money this week, though only one of
Speaker 3: us was sensitive enough, kind enough and smart enough to
Speaker 3: pick the winner in this match and make you, guys
Speaker 3: all the cash. I took your money, and I apologize.
Speaker 3: I'm not giving it back, So I'm not that sorry,
Speaker 3: but I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: That you lost it.
Speaker 3: But Jeff one, because Hangman Adam Page one.
Speaker 4: The cowboy, Hangman Page.
Speaker 3: The last cowboy of course, loves the cowboy the hangman.
Speaker 3: All right, So we go to the women's final. Now
Speaker 3: this one was easy. It was Mercedes Monet versus Jamie Hayter.
Speaker 3: We all kind of thought Mercedes was gonna win this match,
Speaker 3: and uh we weren't wrong. I think you know, the
Speaker 3: big pay per view is Tony Storm versus Mercedes Money,
Speaker 3: not Tony Storm versus Jamie Hayter. Not yet. They just
Speaker 3: haven't booked and built Jamie up enough for that match
Speaker 3: to mean as much as as the Mercedes Money match.
Speaker 3: Let me say this, if they don't give these two
Speaker 3: women a story, then I don't know what the hell
Speaker 3: the plan was with Mercedes Monday because I haven't seen
Speaker 3: a story with her yet that I could wrap my
Speaker 3: head around and get behind and really dig. And I
Speaker 3: dig Sash or Mercedes Monday. I dig Sasha Banks. I
Speaker 3: dig them both. I think she can talk. I know
Speaker 3: she can wrestle. I know she can talk. I don't
Speaker 3: think it, I know it, and you just don't get
Speaker 3: to see it. You get her matches are super good,
Speaker 3: but you don't get a good reason why. And this
Speaker 3: is a tournament, so the reason why it's real simple, right,
Speaker 3: This is like old school WWE late nineties booking, Like
Speaker 3: let's just have a tournament and then we don't have
Speaker 3: to have a story. So it's hard for me to
Speaker 3: have faith that they're going to pull this off except
Speaker 3: Tony Storm, who has definitely been writing her own story
Speaker 3: and whoever's working with her, and I think they're doing
Speaker 3: a really good job. I believe in Tony Storm, so
Speaker 3: I'm gonna believe that they're gonna have a story that
Speaker 3: I care about, or I'll the very least I'll be
Speaker 3: entertained by. These two personalities are so on the opposite
Speaker 3: ends of the spectrum. One is based in reality and
Speaker 3: the other one is completely off the reservation. And I
Speaker 3: don't know how they're gonna make it work, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give them a chance to make it work.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go in with an open mind.
Speaker 3: It's it's tough because I don't think they've given a
Speaker 3: proper story to Money as of yet, but they have
Speaker 3: to Tony and if she can pull this off, then
Speaker 3: kudos and shout out to her. She deserves as much
Speaker 3: credit as as as anybody else. But I really hope
Speaker 3: they pull this off because this match could mean something.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be in Texas, It's gonna be you know,
Speaker 3: thousands and thousands and thousands of people in the arena
Speaker 3: watching their pay per views. Kick ass aw pay perviews
Speaker 3: are so freaking good. They're so much better than their
Speaker 3: weekly TV shows, And I really hope that people have
Speaker 3: a reason why when they do get to see these
Speaker 3: two women wrestle, because that match is going to be
Speaker 3: special and cool. And I wanted to mean something, but Jeff,
Speaker 3: Alex and myself all got it right.
Speaker 2: Uh what were you?
Speaker 3: What were your thoughts and what are your thoughts on
Speaker 3: her moving forward?
Speaker 4: I'm not too crazy about it, Like I said, I'm
Speaker 4: not a big Tony Storm crazy kind of storyline or
Speaker 4: not storyline, but whatever the that, whatever that type of
Speaker 4: character kind of thing is, I'm not crazy about it.
Speaker 4: I'm very curious how they'll seem to mix mix a
Speaker 4: down to earth, grounded in reality person with that. Which
Speaker 4: is probably my biggest criticism with those kind of things
Speaker 4: is like when someone is forced to be the straight
Speaker 4: person and put up with their gimmicky stuff, it really
Speaker 4: handcuffs them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's like I love an orange Cassidy, I love the
Speaker 4: shin kick kind of thing, but for a care for
Speaker 4: wrestlers who don't live in that world, they feel like, well, great, now,
Speaker 4: I just got to kind of put up with this,
Speaker 4: and so it takes me out of it a little bit,
Speaker 4: but I'm interested to see what they do with it,
Speaker 4: so I'll be all try and stay open minded about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's always a challenge. You know, if you're
Speaker 3: bray Wyatt, you're an exception to the rule, right, Like
Speaker 3: it would seem hard to find opponents for bray Wyatt
Speaker 3: back in the day to wrestle as the Fiend because
Speaker 3: he was this like supernatural type character and all the
Speaker 3: people he was wrestling were grounded in reality. But they
Speaker 3: made that work, so we know that it's possible for
Speaker 3: it to work. It just has to be executed correctly.
Speaker 3: And so that's my hope with this, is that they
Speaker 3: find a way to make this this sort of beyond
Speaker 3: reality character and this based in reality character work. And
Speaker 3: I don't I haven't spent too much time thinking about
Speaker 3: the booking of it, but I just I'm nervous that
Speaker 3: it's that people aren't going to care, that's all, and
Speaker 3: I really want them to Moving on, I agree the
Speaker 3: aw Continental Championship, we didn't get to do this one
Speaker 3: because it wasn't the match hadn't been made yet, but
Speaker 3: anyone could have guessed that Okada is going to beat
Speaker 3: Speedball Bailey, who I really like.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: His style is cool, his mullet's cool. He's really fast
Speaker 3: in there, man like. He's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 3: But this would have been an easy match. You guys
Speaker 3: made the bets on this. You guys won. Jeff would
Speaker 3: have picked Okada. I would have picked Okada, We all
Speaker 3: would have picked Okada, and you would have made more money.
Speaker 3: Now to a match we did pick the easiest match
Speaker 3: of the night, the aw World Tag Team Championship. Jeff,
Speaker 3: was there any doubt that these two men were going
Speaker 3: to kick the living shit out of Sammy Guevera and
Speaker 3: Dustin Rhodes? Did you doubt it for even a split second?
Speaker 3: Or did you know the score?
Speaker 2: I knew the score. You don't. You don't bet against
Speaker 2: the Hurt Syndicate.
Speaker 4: Those guys are freaks and the giant and they're cool
Speaker 4: and that's what I'm here for. And with MJF, come on,
Speaker 4: what are we doing, dude? That's like my dream stable.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there was no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 4: Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin we're gonna bring the Hurt.
Speaker 3: To quote Wesley Snipes and Passenger fifty seven. Always bet
Speaker 3: on black, Honey, you don't you don't bet against Bobby Last.
Speaker 3: He could legit kick that shit out of everybody on earth. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I let alone your favorite wrestler. He beat up your
Speaker 3: favorite wrestler, your dad, and your favorite uncle all at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 2: And he would make you watch. And you remember sit there.
Speaker 4: When Goldberg was trying to like like step to Matt Riddle,
Speaker 4: and it was just kind of like, dude, I don't
Speaker 4: know if you, I know you in the wrestling world.
Speaker 4: You're Goldberg, but like Matt Riddle would fold you like
Speaker 4: the old man that you are.
Speaker 3: He would choke him out in under sixty seconds. It
Speaker 3: wouldn't even take. It wouldn't even take. He look as
Speaker 3: someone who trains jiu jitsu, and he's better at jiu
Speaker 3: jitsu than I am. If we're on the ground, you're
Speaker 3: getting choked out and it's not taking long. If you
Speaker 3: don't train, if you don't train, If you train, then
Speaker 3: that's a different thing. Matt Riddle would smoke Bill Goldberg
Speaker 3: in a real yeah, And it was.
Speaker 4: Funny to watch Riddle try to be like respectful because
Speaker 4: he knows the hierarchy of like wrestling, but he also
Speaker 4: is like I could just kill this guy, like in
Speaker 4: a second. And I always think that was like brock Lessener,
Speaker 4: I think that with Bobby Lashley, but Bobby Lashley all
Speaker 4: the time, Like I'm just going, dude, this guy could
Speaker 4: have even when he kind of like goes a little
Speaker 4: overboard in the wrestling ring, like when he was grabbing
Speaker 4: MJ's face and pushing him against the turnbuckle, I was like,
Speaker 4: I wonder if MJ can feel that this guy could
Speaker 4: crush him. So those things always go through my head
Speaker 4: anytime I see Bobby Lashley in general, let alone in
Speaker 4: this match.
Speaker 2: Where I was like, dude, there's no doubt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's so wild to me that his body
Speaker 3: is better now than when he debuted in WW oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Like I don't understand how he has aged in reverse,
Speaker 3: like he's the real Benjamin Buttons, and I don't know
Speaker 3: anyone else that's ever done that except maybe Rachel Lee Cook,
Speaker 3: Like they're the only two people that don't age, or
Speaker 3: Rachel Lee Cook from She's all and because I look,
Speaker 3: I've fucking aged. I hang out with Rachel and I
Speaker 3: see how I see her and then I'm like, hold up,
Speaker 3: she looks exactly the same I must look the same too. No,
Speaker 3: I look in the mirror.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of great fantastic. Yeah, but aged.
Speaker 3: Aged at all. You've just aged really well. You look great.
Speaker 3: She still twenty two, and so does Bobby Lashley. If
Speaker 3: they ever had a kid, it would be the most beautiful,
Speaker 3: most jacked, most unaging kid in the history of a pair.
Speaker 3: I'll set them up, We'll make it happen. Oh no,
Speaker 3: he's married, Bobby's married. It doesn't matter anyway. Bobby kicked
Speaker 3: the ship out everybody. Sheldon kicked the ship out everybody.
Speaker 3: There was a little MJF faction out there, and we
Speaker 3: made you money. But you didn't even need our help.
Speaker 3: You guys knew. You guys knew because you watched Passenger
Speaker 3: fifty seven. You knew who to bet on. You were good.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to the Stretcher match. We didn't have
Speaker 3: this on our card because it hadn't been made yet.
Speaker 3: But this was the coolest match of the fuck. No, well,
Speaker 3: this was the coolest match of the night. Mark Briscoe's face.
Speaker 3: I'll quote our producer as he was watching it live
Speaker 3: and texted us Mark Briscoe's face exploded, and I I
Speaker 3: used to get squeamish by blood in wrestling matches because
Speaker 3: I want everyone to be okay, you know, I don't
Speaker 3: want them to really get hurt. Yeah, but man, I'm
Speaker 3: starting to like blood.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 3: AW has corrupted me. It's corrupted me. Man, It's like
Speaker 3: in my soul now. And I'm like, yeah, give me
Speaker 3: the blood, give me the blood. And they did. And Ricochet,
Speaker 3: who has never really got the right kind of push
Speaker 3: in WWE, and I didn't think he was going to
Speaker 3: get the right push in AEW. I didn't get the story.
Speaker 3: I'll be the first to a minute. I was way
Speaker 3: wrong on this. I didn't think what they were trying
Speaker 3: to do with Ricochet and AEW was going to work.
Speaker 3: I was like, man, they're kind of making him look
Speaker 3: weak and I don't like that. I want him to
Speaker 3: come in and debut and look strong. And he has
Speaker 3: embraced this character so much of being this chicken shit
Speaker 3: heel and this show off flashy moves like let me
Speaker 3: show you how much better I am than everyone else. Oh,
Speaker 3: he's tough, let me back off, let me get out
Speaker 3: of the ring. He's done this so well. I think
Speaker 3: this is the coolest Ricochet that I've ever seen, and
Speaker 3: I wasn't that familiar with like Prince Puma and all
Speaker 3: that stuff because he didn't get like the talking storylines
Speaker 3: and stuff like that in Luca Underground and he didn't
Speaker 3: get much to do at all except tournament stuff and
Speaker 3: cool matches in WWE. To see him actually get to
Speaker 3: do this and spread his wings is really refreshing. And
Speaker 3: I like what they're doing. And I didn't think I
Speaker 3: was I thought AW got it wrong, and they didn't.
Speaker 3: They got it right. I was wrong, and I really enjoyed.
Speaker 3: I like being wrong when I'm entertained. It feels good.
Speaker 3: And this match was really cool. He was trying to
Speaker 3: slam him into this ambulance and you just see this
Speaker 3: crutch come out, and I thought the match was over.
Speaker 3: It was a great false finish and then he comes
Speaker 3: out with the crutch beat his asid more. It was
Speaker 3: really cool. Anyway, I hope you guys can see the match.
Speaker 3: I think you can still watch him on Amazon on
Speaker 3: replays and stuff like that. Because the pay per views
Speaker 3: for a on YouTube, Oh it's on YouTube, of course.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the AW pay per views are so much
Speaker 3: better than what they're giving you on the Weekly TV
Speaker 3: on tn T and TBS sometimes that I really hope
Speaker 3: you guys don't don't give up on him, because the
Speaker 3: the matches are really cool and and the performers give
Speaker 3: you everything they got out there every time.
Speaker 4: I surprised you hesitated when you said that it was
Speaker 4: the coolest match. I think it was inarguably the coolest match.
Speaker 3: Well, I had to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything, but yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right, You're right.
Speaker 4: Raycochet is incredible. Shout out to Ricochet, who lives in Vegas.
Speaker 4: He's the best. I love him so much, and I
Speaker 4: think he's one of the greatest dressers. I wish he
Speaker 4: was doing the American Grande Americano.
Speaker 2: Gimme that would be so cool.
Speaker 4: And then shout out to my boy Johnny Lacuosto, who
Speaker 4: is a huge wrestling fan. He's a wrestling commentator and
Speaker 4: a great comedian. But he was the first to like
Speaker 4: turn me onto the Briscos. I wasn't on board. I
Speaker 4: thought they sucked. I didn't like their promos, I didn't
Speaker 4: like their look. I didn't like anything. And Johnny's like, no,
Speaker 4: these guys are the real deal, and he would always
Speaker 4: send me their stuff, and I'm only a Brisco's fan
Speaker 4: because of Johnny Lecuasto and they're.
Speaker 2: So he's well, there's only one brother now, but they're so, so,
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 4: And this match was amazing and I loved every second
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was easily the best match. Yeah, very fun.
Speaker 3: You're right to watch a lot of blood. That match
Speaker 3: was awesome and it was. It was match of the night.
Speaker 3: All right, more money that we made you come on
Speaker 3: here it comes FTR versus Daniel Garcia and Nigel McGinnis.
Speaker 2: I love Nigel McGuinness. I love to see him in
Speaker 2: the ring.
Speaker 3: But there was no way that FDR could lose this
Speaker 3: or it takes away all the momentum they have of
Speaker 3: being assholes, and it would have been a complete waste
Speaker 3: of story and a waste when they turned on edge
Speaker 3: like you just you're gonna waste that and have them
Speaker 3: lose this match. That's dumb. So there was no way
Speaker 3: that was happening. I think our fans are smart. They
Speaker 3: knew that too. Our listeners, you guys, aren't our fans,
Speaker 3: You are listeners fanatics. You're not crazy. You're smart because
Speaker 3: you knew FTR was gonna win, and they did, and
Speaker 3: we made you even more money. We only got one wrong,
Speaker 3: and Jeff, I think got none wrong. What'd you think, dude?
Speaker 2: I thought it was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I said, I don't think that this earlier
Speaker 4: I was talking about how I or maybe it was
Speaker 4: on Monday's episode that I was saying that I like
Speaker 4: when I'm surprised. So as good as this match was,
Speaker 4: I definitely wasn't surprised, but it's still good.
Speaker 3: We didn't have the next match, which was don Kallis
Speaker 3: Family versus Paragon, but the Right Team won. Don Kallas.
Speaker 3: It keeps Kyle O'Riley really really strong. That guy's really cool.
Speaker 3: They know they've got something with him, and they're protecting
Speaker 3: him pretty well without you know, giving him the super
Speaker 3: push like an unrealistic push. It's much more organic. It's
Speaker 3: going to develop, and that dude's going to be something,
Speaker 3: I think for sure.
Speaker 2: And it was cool.
Speaker 3: It's always good to see Adam Cole finally anarchy in
Speaker 3: the arena. Kenny Omega swerved Strickland, Willow Nightingale and the
Speaker 3: Ops defeated the Death Writers and the Young Bucks. I
Speaker 3: don't know if we picked this one. I would have
Speaker 3: said that Kenny Omega's team would have won. I'm not
Speaker 3: trying to just be right after the fact. I would
Speaker 3: have said they were gonna win. They were gonna win
Speaker 3: because the death writers tend to win the wars.
Speaker 2: They'll lose the battles.
Speaker 3: That way, he doesn't lose the title, but they can
Speaker 3: lose other other matches and fights in there, but cool matches.
Speaker 3: You guys, you gotta watch it. You don't have to
Speaker 3: watch aw TV. I get it. If it's not your thing,
Speaker 3: it's not your thing. But their pay per views are special,
Speaker 3: and I really encourage people to give them another chance.
Speaker 3: If you if you were on the fence about it,
Speaker 3: take it from me, they're good.
Speaker 2: Jeff. Final thoughts. I love Kenny Omega.
Speaker 4: I'm a big swerve guy, but I think that this match,
Speaker 4: from beginning to end was insane.
Speaker 2: It was so so fun to watch.
Speaker 4: I'm you like that you liked the I like the
Speaker 4: way I wear it that way because I was trying
Speaker 4: not to talk trash about some of the other people
Speaker 4: that were in that match, so I just said who
Speaker 4: I liked. But it was a really, really good match,
Speaker 4: and I was very excited and it made me go
Speaker 4: I was wrong about this. I think some of these
Speaker 4: guys are better than I was giving them credit for.
Speaker 4: But I loved the match. It was absolute and perfectly titled.
Speaker 3: It was They definitely like their names in AAW. They
Speaker 3: definitely try to reach out and touch you with them.
Speaker 3: AAW's double or nothing. It delivered. We had tournament finals,
Speaker 3: we had title defenses, we had chaos and mayhem. That's
Speaker 3: what we try to bring you. That's why Jeff and
Speaker 3: I wrestle at the end of each one of these episodes.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's a first blood match, just so you
Speaker 3: guys know every time, and it's still going because neither
Speaker 3: of us have bled yet because we don't fucking bleed.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: Three more week until my Punjabi prison is built at
Speaker 4: Freddy's new house so we can have our Punjabi prison match.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: I may not have a wrestling promotion, but I have
Speaker 3: a brand new house and I'm building a Punjabi prison.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, that's gonna be awesome. I'm a Jeff, I'm
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Speaker 3: Always give us that love, man, We appreciate it. And uh,
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Speaker 3: let us know and I'll try to get into it too.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much. Peach wear Out