Speaker 1: And now you're made event. Introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Dye, and Furredy Bride Junior. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 1: to a brand new episode of Wrestling with Friends. This
Speaker 1: is your host, Mike Michaelson and I'm sick as a dog,
Speaker 1: but working hurt because the people deserve wrestling podcast. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, here's your news of the week. We had
Speaker 1: an insane week in professional wrestling, a huge weekend with
Speaker 1: two pay per views, Payback and Aw's All Out. However,
Speaker 1: the biggest news of the week c m Punk, former
Speaker 1: Real Worlds Champion even though he was not was terminated
Speaker 1: by AEW this past weekend as well as his storyline.
Speaker 1: We will cover this and AW all Out on unsanctioned Thursdays.
Speaker 1: It's going to be one you don't want to miss.
Speaker 1: And now with Jeff Dye, here's Freddy Prinz Junior Wrestling
Speaker 1: with Friends.
Speaker 2: Dude, how are you feeling good? Glad you're back from Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. I'm glad I'm back too. How are
Speaker 1: you are you feeling good about life? Feel happy as hell? Jack?
Speaker 2: I will say this, Atlanta tried to kill us both.
Speaker 2: You know, I was in Atlanta for a whole month
Speaker 2: and try to try to kill me, and then you
Speaker 2: go to Atlanta for three days, it tries to kill you.
Speaker 2: It's like that place is a great place, but it's
Speaker 2: trying to hurt. All the restling with Freddy Crewe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're like Neil. You're dodging viruses like he
Speaker 1: dodges bullets. I'm out there just taking rounds to the
Speaker 1: freaking chest.
Speaker 2: I can kill it with all that booze I'm putting
Speaker 2: in my body. I think that's the scene.
Speaker 1: That's what I think I should do, is kill it
Speaker 1: with alcohol. I gotta start drinking again, all right, sir.
Speaker 1: This was a huge weekend. The main thing I want
Speaker 1: to talk about we're not going to talk about until Thursday,
Speaker 1: but we are going to talk about Payback today. And
Speaker 1: Payback was pretty damn good. I did not know if
Speaker 1: I was going to like it. I didn't know how
Speaker 1: much I cared about all the but Jeff, the women
Speaker 1: opened the show, and I'll be damned if they didn't
Speaker 1: steal it from everyone. I get why you have to
Speaker 1: do the steel cage first, because it takes a long
Speaker 1: time for it to go up and down, so you
Speaker 1: do it first or last. But I thought it took
Speaker 1: guts to open the show like that. They did, and
Speaker 1: Trish and Becky beat each other's asses for twenty five
Speaker 1: minutes straight. Trish was taking legit bumps to her forehead
Speaker 1: left and right off the cage. She had like a
Speaker 1: friggin heematoma. At one point during the match, gets the
Speaker 1: cage door open. Zoe Stark came in looking jacked as hell,
Speaker 1: even more jack than normal. Came in. She started whipping
Speaker 1: everybody's ass. Then she couldn't save Trish. Trish goes down
Speaker 1: from the top rope with a manhandle slam, which looked
Speaker 1: so frigging perfect. It looked so good, and you knew
Speaker 1: it was over because it was such a nice move.
Speaker 1: And then one, two, three and it's over her and
Speaker 1: Zoe Stark's pissed. She let her her men toor down.
Speaker 1: She's trying to comfort her. Tricia isn't trying to hear it,
Speaker 1: and then Trish just snaps and it's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: get out of here, get out, get out now, get out,
Speaker 1: and Zoe start and she pushes her, and Zoe Stark
Speaker 1: just says you know what, I'm Jack Sauce McGregor, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kick your ass right now, and just picked her
Speaker 1: up like she weighed nothing, flipped her over, knead her
Speaker 1: in the face, and left her in the center of
Speaker 1: the ring, and the crowd loved it. You had used
Speaker 1: to got it? Yeah it was a great man. Yeah
Speaker 1: they got the got the all that you still got it.
Speaker 2: Chance going Becky can prove that she's still the best
Speaker 2: female wrestler in wrestling. She was all jacked up, had
Speaker 2: a little something extra out there, is what.
Speaker 1: It felt like. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2: I think Trisha's I don't think she's going anywhere. What
Speaker 2: do you think I think that. I think she's gonna
Speaker 2: be in wrestling now. She's just gonna be part. She
Speaker 2: doesn't leave.
Speaker 1: I could see it if this was the end of
Speaker 1: the story and her trying to put Becky back in
Speaker 1: the light of a what's the right way to say,
Speaker 1: put Becky because Becky's already over. But put Becky in
Speaker 1: the type of match that reminds people why we love her,
Speaker 1: which she did, and try to get Zoe Stark over
Speaker 1: at the same time, which I think she did a
Speaker 1: decent job. Of I could see her walking away, but
Speaker 1: after that, I really hope she doesn't. I know she's
Speaker 1: pushing fifty right, like she's almost she's my age or something.
Speaker 1: She's late forties and she's wrestling like she's late twenties. Man,
Speaker 1: she doesn't have everything that she used to be able
Speaker 1: to do, Like she's not as fast, but neither as
Speaker 1: anybody once they start to get older. But she does
Speaker 1: great and she's tough as nails. The girl damn near
Speaker 1: broke her nose, got a hematoma on her head. She's
Speaker 1: covered in welts and bruises every single week. Never hear
Speaker 1: a peep out of her. In fact, she takes photos
Speaker 1: of it and shows them off. Like I just look,
Speaker 1: I was always a laita guy, but this last run
Speaker 1: that Trish had, she was right like she was and
Speaker 1: is the one. And I think you're right about Becky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just gonna say that match didn't look
Speaker 2: It sounds so rude, but like, it didn't look clunky.
Speaker 2: Everything looked not at all real. Also, I used to
Speaker 2: always comment on the hair extensions. This match was a
Speaker 2: real big hair extension match for sure, Like a lot
Speaker 2: a lot of hair out there. It felt very like
Speaker 2: old school rests.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Trish has the extensions like the
Speaker 1: others though that I think that's just Trisha's hair, and
Speaker 1: she's got great hair. Really, because I could, I could
Speaker 1: never see him if they're in. I never saw the
Speaker 1: separation like where they sew them in, because you can
Speaker 1: clip them in or sew them in, right. I know
Speaker 1: this because I'm married to an actor. A lot of hair.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of hair, but I think that's her.
Speaker 1: But Becky's you can see the separation because she has
Speaker 1: short hair and you can see when she wins her
Speaker 1: head back the cut where the longer hair is placed
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the head so that it goes down.
Speaker 1: And I had to wear a wig in Scooby, so
Speaker 1: I know about your wigs girls.
Speaker 2: And I worked with William Shanner, so I know a
Speaker 2: thing or two about wigs.
Speaker 1: Also, you don't say that, don't shit on the shat
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I love williams Shatner. Dude waves shatter
Speaker 1: play my dad at a TV show man. You can't
Speaker 1: tear of up like that.
Speaker 2: Just a little joke. And also I hope that he's listening.
Speaker 2: I hope that he's listening to the podcast and he goes, Hey, Jeffrey,
Speaker 2: don't talk to me.
Speaker 1: Did I've worked with two here's a side quiz two
Speaker 1: legendary actors that were also legendary for wearing wigs, and
Speaker 1: that was William Shatner and the late great Burt fucking Reynolds.
Speaker 1: And don't bleep that Alex because you can't say his
Speaker 1: name without Curson in the middle, because he was the
Speaker 1: man and that wig was money too. Shout out the
Speaker 1: bird room.
Speaker 2: Has Trisha always been doing the bulldog?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's been her move forever, that little like backwards
Speaker 1: bridge arcause she's been doing forever, the chick kick forever.
Speaker 1: All those are her moves. And she, dude, she looked
Speaker 1: so damn good. It would be a shame if this
Speaker 1: was the most they got out of her, because you
Speaker 1: could go to WrestleMania, give her and Becky a break
Speaker 1: and let her and Zoe beef it out for a while,
Speaker 1: and then you can get back to them as WrestleMania
Speaker 1: as the Royal Rumble approaches, and then take them to
Speaker 1: Mania together. But it's all up to her whether I
Speaker 1: guess if she wants to or not. You know what,
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, sky's the women. I mean she she
Speaker 1: doesn't look like she's aged at all. It's fascinating. She
Speaker 1: looks better than everyone. She looks better than she did
Speaker 1: back in the day. Dude, Like what it's Chris's crazy, man, No,
Speaker 1: she's the one. She's she's she may not be the
Speaker 1: best talker ever, but she's better on the mic now
Speaker 1: than she was when she was the most over chick
Speaker 1: on the planet. Like, she's she's much much better now. Well,
Speaker 1: let's keep it with the women, bro, Let's talk our
Speaker 1: champion Jeff Die and Freddy's champion, Rhea Ripley. She's big, y'all.
Speaker 1: She's beautiful, she's awesome, she sells like mug and she
Speaker 1: speared Kevin OANs through a damn barrier wall before her
Speaker 1: match because she's such a gangster. The finish of this
Speaker 1: match came a little abruptly, like it kind of and
Speaker 1: here's a quick knee kick, and here's the finish, and
Speaker 1: it kind of took me out of it. However, up
Speaker 1: to that point, the whooping that Raquel Rodriguez got to
Speaker 1: put out there was very rewarding considering the storyline that
Speaker 1: they gave them right like she wants revenge against Ria
Speaker 1: for hurting her friend liv Morgan and for attacking her
Speaker 1: repeatedly when they weren't even in a damn match. More
Speaker 1: than likely because the Ria Ripley character is scared of
Speaker 1: someone that's actually bigger and stronger than her, so that's
Speaker 1: why she was doing that. Like Austin Theory did de
Speaker 1: San Flos Esco bar a few weeks ago, she whipped
Speaker 1: her ass. I really like Rakeuel Rodriguez. She's not where
Speaker 1: she needs to be yet as far as Mike skills,
Speaker 1: but she's gotten way better on the mic than when
Speaker 1: she started. You could see her getting more confident, and
Speaker 1: she's bigger than Ria, and it's and this is just
Speaker 1: because I'm Puerto Rican, but it's so nice to see
Speaker 1: Latinos doing great things. And wrestling has always been really cool.
Speaker 1: Maybe not always, but in my lifetime has always been
Speaker 1: really cool with Latina, from Eddie Guerrero to Tito Santana
Speaker 1: to Raimi Sterdio Park now with with La Park Like
Speaker 1: it's such a it's such a part of the culture
Speaker 1: and I wish there was more representation, but I also
Speaker 1: understand I'm not one of those crazy idiots. I understand,
Speaker 1: there's more white people in America than anybody else, so
Speaker 1: that's why there's more white people on television. I'm not like,
Speaker 1: screw them, they should get off the air. But it
Speaker 1: was so nice to see her get that opportunity again.
Speaker 1: I wish the finish would have been a little a
Speaker 1: little slower, or Dom would to try a couple things
Speaker 1: before he just got slammed. But still, man, it was
Speaker 1: a good match. They protected her the best she could.
Speaker 1: She lost off of a distraction. If I'm explaining more
Speaker 1: that I normally do, and I was at dragon Con
Speaker 1: this weekend and a lot of females that have never
Speaker 1: watched wrestling let me know that they listened to this podcast,
Speaker 1: so that's why I'm trying to explain more. Guys. Oh nice,
Speaker 1: but this was a pretty good match, however, compared to
Speaker 1: the steel cage match, and maybe that's not fair. It
Speaker 1: just it couldn't It couldn't hold up to the same level.
Speaker 1: What did you think, dude?
Speaker 2: I thought it was weird that Dom was pretending like
Speaker 2: he's afraid of Roquel.
Speaker 1: Like for the finish.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a little weird, like he should
Speaker 2: have been arrogant in cocky and then she slams him.
Speaker 2: Instead of him coming in and being like don't, don't,
Speaker 2: he's like, why are you afraid of her? Like you
Speaker 2: should be the yeah, the fearless kind of bad guy.
Speaker 2: And then that makes this switch of Riquel slamming you
Speaker 2: so much better. But instead he was doing almost like
Speaker 2: I thought it was like a bait and switch, like
Speaker 2: Rick Flair thing, because he was really selling the fear
Speaker 2: of her or whatever. But he did like Riley, yeah,
Speaker 2: and it just didn't play it. But I do love
Speaker 2: both those gals are beasts, and both those gals are
Speaker 2: the future of pro wrestling for sure. So I liked
Speaker 2: the match. I thought it was good. I loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, we're gonna move to seth Rollins versus Shinseka,
Speaker 1: and this match they build they built up fairly well.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always hard when you're speaking another language.
Speaker 1: But Shinseki is the man, or shinsk You got to
Speaker 1: take that extra syllable out, Freddy, He's the man. He
Speaker 1: cut his promos. I know Japan's watching and loving it
Speaker 1: because over the last six months, between Osaka Eo and Shinske,
Speaker 1: they're speaking more Japanese than they ever have in the
Speaker 1: history of professional wrestling, which is really really hard listening
Speaker 1: to us. That's what that means. Hey, yeah, let's take
Speaker 1: some credit, bro, Let's take some credit. Oh, speaking of
Speaker 1: taking credit, we might steal some credit for Bigie on
Speaker 1: Thursday when we talk about All Out. That was glorious.
Speaker 1: That's the little tease. It's all you can get. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: So these guys, this was my match of the week.
Speaker 1: I know I said the girls stole the show, but
Speaker 1: this is still my match of the week. These the
Speaker 1: story that these guys told this was like old old
Speaker 1: school wrestling before the eighties got goof and everyone was
Speaker 1: characters like seventies wrestling where you pick a body part
Speaker 1: and you beat the living hell out of that body part.
Speaker 1: This was like old school Jerry the King Lawler territory match,
Speaker 1: where like in the news interview, he said, well, I
Speaker 1: know he's hurt his back and I'm going after it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to attack him, take him down and pray.
Speaker 1: And this is exactly what these two guys did. They
Speaker 1: fought for a five forever they did. They were the
Speaker 1: main event. I think they got thirty minutes. And the
Speaker 1: story that they're trying to tell was Seth and it
Speaker 1: went even further on Monday Night Raw with like, dude,
Speaker 1: you're running at a rate that no champion has ever
Speaker 1: run at before. Is a line that Adam Pierce said
Speaker 1: to him the day after the pay per view, and
Speaker 1: I thought, if that's the story, and it clearly is,
Speaker 1: then holy shit. They just saved this and made it
Speaker 1: special because otherwise the Seth Rolins thing could get old.
Speaker 1: I wrestle every week. I wrestle the championship every week,
Speaker 1: it becomes a US title and a secondary title. But
Speaker 1: if it's him and it's pride, and pride is like
Speaker 1: that last defense of a broken man, right, it's when
Speaker 1: he can't admit he's beaten. And there's that saying, if
Speaker 1: a thousand men tell you you're dead, lie down. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna And that's really cool. And that was the
Speaker 1: story they told in the ring too, And then when
Speaker 1: the match was over, it was a cool victory that
Speaker 1: protected Shinsk or Shinsk Sorry, God damn. I like saying
Speaker 1: people's name right, and I say everybody, every Japanese wrestler's
Speaker 1: name wrong. And I love Japan and I'm ashamed you're.
Speaker 2: The most like Japanese pro fan ever, it's funny to watch,
Speaker 2: like damn worse and I lived there.
Speaker 1: I'm like Asuka. Everybody's like, no, dip shit, it's Oskam
Speaker 1: like yeah, I know, didn't I say that? No you did?
Speaker 1: We know you're talking. Anyway, Shinsk came back and whipped
Speaker 1: his ass, not once but twice, and everything was to
Speaker 1: the back. I loved this match. I love it when
Speaker 1: everything looks real. I love it when kicks look real,
Speaker 1: when chops look like they hurt where you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm not a wrestler, because that shit would hurt,
Speaker 1: and that would the whole match. It felt like an
Speaker 1: AEW match without the without the pageantry, which was really
Speaker 1: different and fun.
Speaker 2: I hate the chant that they do for Seth Rowlins
Speaker 2: when he comes out, like I don't like.
Speaker 1: The the he's man.
Speaker 2: I mean like it's just two minutes of us watching
Speaker 2: him go like this, and the fans, you know, the
Speaker 2: fans they had like they're they're almost like, we have
Speaker 2: to do it. You know, he's waiting for us to
Speaker 2: do this thing. It doesn't feel like it's their idea.
Speaker 2: It feels like he's making them. I don't know, it
Speaker 2: just feels whatever. But The match was great. I loved
Speaker 2: the comic book thing that they did before, where they're
Speaker 2: like showing that the story of like he Gives Back
Speaker 2: can't hold it anymore, and I Am going to set
Speaker 2: you free tonight is the beginning of the end. Just
Speaker 2: that whole idea that they're using all that stuff is
Speaker 2: another great way to get around the fact that shin's
Speaker 2: K doesn't speak great English and sounds a little too Yeah,
Speaker 2: they found a really great way to do it. His
Speaker 2: and He's the entrance was sick, and the match was
Speaker 2: The match was really really good.
Speaker 1: I liked it.
Speaker 2: I felt like a little proud, like good, this is
Speaker 2: shins K is getting a little a little push that
Speaker 2: he deserves, and maybe it just made me.
Speaker 1: Feel happy about it. I really thought they were gonna
Speaker 1: let it slide and not give him anything to do,
Speaker 1: and instead they put him in such a nice storyline.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna talk about clothes. Sorry, shins K looked dope,
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something, seth Rawllins, once again,
Speaker 1: you failed to make me hate you. You can wear
Speaker 1: the biggest shoulder pads and the poofiest clothes in the world,
Speaker 1: and you can come out looking like the Stapoff marshmallow man,
Speaker 1: you can come out looking like some Greek mythology creature.
Speaker 1: I don't hate you. You can't get heat, bro. You
Speaker 1: wrestle too nice, you're too good on the mic, and
Speaker 1: you commit too well to everything you do. So suck it, bro.
Speaker 1: You could you could come out in a damn dress.
Speaker 1: Actually you have come out in a dress, and I
Speaker 1: still loved your ass, so has Ha. But the Seth
Speaker 1: Rollins wardrobe is always rough, man, I look forward to it.
Speaker 2: And those glasses anymore. And I mean those are stree
Speaker 2: off Lynches dashboard of her car like that, straight up,
Speaker 2: just like he's just wearing everyone's clothes that are like
Speaker 2: Elton John's clothes. He's wearing Becky's clothes, He's wearing double
Speaker 2: J Jeff Jarrett's clothes.
Speaker 1: The guy's wearing everybody's clothes. And then Monday Night, Raw
Speaker 1: he came out dressed like a g though. I like
Speaker 1: when he wears the black jacket with defer collar. I
Speaker 1: love when he wears that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you you know Trump would just like say
Speaker 2: anything all the time, like you'd never been surprised.
Speaker 1: Love him.
Speaker 2: Something that's seth rawings with clothes. He could wear anything,
Speaker 2: and it's just he's just he's going to wear anything,
Speaker 2: and nothing surprises you anymore.
Speaker 1: You go, yeah, yeah, he wore a dress. I believe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could come out dressed like an eighty skateboarder with
Speaker 1: the hat to the side and pink and blue yep
Speaker 1: and Van's on and I'd be like, Yes, Seth Browns
Speaker 1: has never looked more sick. It's so true. Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: and Sammy's ain for the WWE Tag Team Championships. This
Speaker 1: was Finn Balor and Damien Priest representing the Judgment Day
Speaker 1: after a storyline where Rio Ripley had to whoop everybody's
Speaker 1: ass back into shape and get them all on the
Speaker 1: same page, and they're going against the champs. If they
Speaker 1: won the Judgment Day, and if Reel won, then every
Speaker 1: member of the Judgment Day would have gold. This match
Speaker 1: was frigging crazy. Kevin Owns did a swanton off like
Speaker 1: the second level onto Dominic, who was on a table
Speaker 1: and almost missed it, almost missed the damn thing, like
Speaker 1: only the top of him hit and his feet landed hard.
Speaker 1: And he's just tough French Canadian dude. Who I guess
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter because I would have split into pieces
Speaker 1: like legos when they fall off a table. But this
Speaker 1: match was amazing. They did one thing that I thought
Speaker 1: was goofy where both guys got thrown over the railing
Speaker 1: and then they're like Damian Priest and Finn Balor who
Speaker 1: threw Kevin and Sammy over the railing, were like talking
Speaker 1: about their strategy and plan. Okay, we're going to get
Speaker 1: him back in the ring. We're to tag these guys.
Speaker 1: We're going to be champs. All right, yeah, ready, ready,
Speaker 1: let's go. And they came back and they gave the
Speaker 1: boys enough time that they changed into pitts for Benguins
Speaker 1: jerseys and they suddenly had hockey sticks and they can't
Speaker 1: beat everyone's eyes. That was a little gimmick dey for me,
Speaker 1: But the match was still amazing, and they still whooped
Speaker 1: each other's asses forever, and the judgment Day pulled off
Speaker 1: the victory thanks to j. D McDonough, a name we
Speaker 1: haven't said very much, who saved the day by pulling
Speaker 1: Sammy's ain off of Finn at one point in the match.
Speaker 1: And JD McDonough is a guy who's been friends with
Speaker 1: Finn balor but wants to be a part of the
Speaker 1: judgment day and Damian Priest hates him. So I think
Speaker 1: this might be the moment where they start to accept
Speaker 1: him a little bit and add another member to their teams. Interesting.
Speaker 2: I think i'd be weird to have another guy in
Speaker 2: the in the judgment day. Let's say it seems unnecessary,
Speaker 2: like why, what's the point?
Speaker 1: Well, I think the group is doing so well on
Speaker 1: its own, they probably see a chance for someone else
Speaker 1: to get over, because now they're thinking, all right, all
Speaker 1: four members are over, what can we do to get
Speaker 1: someone It's that's what that business is all about, getting
Speaker 1: rubs for someone else. A rub being like someone that
Speaker 1: people deem superior to you, acknowledging you, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden other people acknowledge you as well, like
Speaker 1: at your place of business or anything. That's what a
Speaker 1: rub is. And they try to do it all the time,
Speaker 1: which is why it hardly ever works. But uh, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll work this time, But I
Speaker 1: think that's what they're trying to do. Well.
Speaker 2: I don't see why it's necessary, but they got a
Speaker 2: lot of they got a lot of belts on them now,
Speaker 2: which is good and the money in the bank briefcase.
Speaker 2: I noticed a thing about this pay per view. They
Speaker 2: sent a million wrestlers on the announced table, but the
Speaker 2: announced table never once broke the entire the entire night,
Speaker 2: you see a guy gets slammed on the table and
Speaker 2: then it just nothing. Nothing happened, didn't collapse or anything.
Speaker 2: It was kind of confusing the first time you saw, you,
Speaker 2: oh that's different. But then it happened like four or
Speaker 2: five times, nobody broke the table. They broke other tables,
Speaker 2: like on the suntine like bomb outside of the area,
Speaker 2: but the actually announced table was staying strong this week.
Speaker 1: They gimmick those tables, but sometimes the gimmick doesn't work
Speaker 1: and the table stands strong. I wonder if that's what
Speaker 1: it was, or if they were just teasing us all
Speaker 1: night long with it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know what I always think about those those announced
Speaker 2: tables is like they always like push everything off of it,
Speaker 2: you know, and then they lay the wrestler down on it,
Speaker 2: and then they either slam through it or whatever.
Speaker 1: I would be so pissed off if I was.
Speaker 2: One of those announced guys and they just brush all
Speaker 2: my notes, you know, I've got my organized papers, and
Speaker 2: they just push it off. I'm like, hey, man, that's
Speaker 2: my work.
Speaker 1: You know. You can slam through the table all you want,
Speaker 1: but what are you doing? There's my notes.
Speaker 2: I just think about it every time I see I
Speaker 2: see one of those wrestlers heading that way, I'm like,
Speaker 2: these guys are jerks, these poor announced.
Speaker 1: By the way, this will sound weird, but Michael Cole's
Speaker 1: been killing it the last two weeks. It feels like
Speaker 1: no one's in his ear telling them what to say.
Speaker 1: He's just been kind of going off the cuff and
Speaker 1: saying why shit, and even made like an EAEW reference
Speaker 1: with Cody being a former executive vice president. When you
Speaker 1: give that guy latitude, he did really well with it.
Speaker 1: And we never have complimented Michael Cole, I don't think ever.
Speaker 1: We usually just call him out for having to say
Speaker 1: what Vince is barking in his ear because he has
Speaker 1: to do it. But he's been really good. Bagley and
Speaker 1: respect Michael Cole's notes, professional wrestlers, respect the notes.
Speaker 2: L A.
Speaker 1: Knight versus the miz. Everybody loves l A. Night. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: do the pose, do the post. The listeners can't see
Speaker 1: that I love him. So he looks posed, the fingers
Speaker 1: everything jacked, dude, he looks he's like he looked not
Speaker 1: bigger than Sena, but way more jack than Sena. Dude.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if it's made because he was just tan,
Speaker 2: Like he was like really tan, and that makes people
Speaker 2: look like stronger or something. But Dody, he came out
Speaker 2: and I was like, this dude did some pumping before
Speaker 2: this match.
Speaker 1: Er before this uh, this pay per view was pretty
Speaker 1: very very impressive. There was this young wrestler when I
Speaker 1: worked at WWE, and he was pumping up before his match,
Speaker 1: and the wrestler he was working with it was a
Speaker 1: gold dust. He said, don't blow yourself out, is what
Speaker 1: he told him, which means like, don't work out too
Speaker 1: hard or you won't have anything left in the ring.
Speaker 1: And the kid goes, yeah, no, no problem, no problem,
Speaker 1: and they went and had the match, and in the
Speaker 1: first thirty seconds the kid blew up and was totally
Speaker 1: out of cast and Justin had to carry him through
Speaker 1: the whole match. It was really funny. I was in
Speaker 1: Gorilla because it was my segment and Vince was just
Speaker 1: laughing his ass off. He's like, look at him. He
Speaker 1: can't even walk. It was the end of that kid's career.
Speaker 1: But oh god, he couldn't. He was so gassed. He
Speaker 1: was just like on one knee, just and Dustin's like
Speaker 1: laying down doing the face slap and ending the match
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. He had to lose two Dustin Rhodes.
Speaker 1: So it was funny anyway, La Night versus the Miz
Speaker 1: with John Cena as the special guest referee, and the
Speaker 1: Miz roasted this dude better than I have ever roasted him,
Speaker 1: although I don't try to roast John. He just didn't
Speaker 1: like me, and I thought thought it was funny because
Speaker 1: I knew he'd end up in Hollywood one day and
Speaker 1: even said that, and then he's like, Hollywood sucks, it's
Speaker 1: ruined and wrestling. You shouldn't even be here, mister Hollywood.
Speaker 1: And I'd be like, yeah, well you're a pretty good actor. Man.
Speaker 1: They might come knocking one day. Well I'd never go, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well he went, he he wants to just
Speaker 1: do movies like that's what he wanted, yo, dude. My
Speaker 1: man bounced, but the mis straight roasted him from the
Speaker 1: Teletubbies to everything in between and thanks to that roasting,
Speaker 1: got himself a special guest referee one that you can see,
Speaker 1: mister John Sina, and he called it down the middle.
Speaker 1: He was very fair, straight and honest, and La Knight
Speaker 1: whipped some ass. They both almost hit Sena a couple times,
Speaker 1: allowed themselves to protect him, which was good, and then
Speaker 1: mis tried to get the distraction victory but he couldn't
Speaker 1: pull it off. And you know, La Knight gets the
Speaker 1: victory with everybody's saying, well, ay night, Yeah, the greatest
Speaker 1: yeah ever, by the way, greatest yeah ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's like, got a little de question, what's
Speaker 2: your sye quest? Well not a really cyquist, but a
Speaker 2: little fun thing to look for. As I hosted a
Speaker 2: game show, you know, we did so many episodes. We
Speaker 2: did like eighty five episodes, so a lot of the
Speaker 2: times the show is called who the bleep is that?
Speaker 2: When it starts airing September eleventh, there's good. There's a
Speaker 2: few episodes where I would end with being like, on
Speaker 2: who the bleep is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I would do I know for a ton of
Speaker 2: the ending of the things, I was like, only wrestling
Speaker 2: fans will really know what I'm stealing here.
Speaker 1: But it's a little tip of the hat to l A. Knight. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love that dude. Probably going to be fifteen times Fox.
Speaker 1: So it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was a freaking awesome, fun little wrestling thing. I
Speaker 1: love La Night my many plus episodes making that shedder baby,
Speaker 1: getting that Geese. See people can't stop stand up comics.
Speaker 1: They don't have to worry about unions, they don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about guild strike in they're like, you know what, dude,
Speaker 1: game shows get to buy and we're better than actors
Speaker 1: at this shit.
Speaker 2: Got knocked him out with no problem at all and
Speaker 2: didn't think twice about it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. September eleventh on Fox. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: who Ela Knight's gonna go up against next. I don't
Speaker 1: know who they have planned. I don't think it can
Speaker 1: be Ray Ray, So I don't think he can go
Speaker 1: after the US title on Monday Night. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been on both shows, smack Down and Raw, so maybe
Speaker 1: he could go after Gunther. I don't know. Would you
Speaker 1: like would you be into Gunther versus l A Knight? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be fine with it.
Speaker 2: I like Gunther, but I'm just such a fan I'm
Speaker 2: just so I think Ella Knight's fit into that category
Speaker 2: where I just I've never said anything bad about Kevin
Speaker 2: Owens or Bray Wyatt, Like I think l A. Knight's
Speaker 2: finding his way into that category with me that Like,
Speaker 2: you could have him fight Marty Jeannetti present day and
Speaker 2: I'd be like, yep, I like, I like, like, i
Speaker 2: I'm down for whatever they do with La nine.
Speaker 1: I just love him so much.
Speaker 2: But I'd like Gunther because he's a big, giant David
Speaker 2: Goliath kind of match.
Speaker 1: Well, they're both big as hell, dude, Goonther's bigger than Night,
Speaker 1: but he's not whiter than La Knight. He's not wider
Speaker 1: than him. He's just a height. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going to be next for the big man. And
Speaker 1: then finally at the end, when he was walking out,
Speaker 1: him and Sena shook hands. His ego didn't want to
Speaker 1: let him shake the hand of John Cena, and the
Speaker 1: camera MIC's were really loud, so you could hear everything
Speaker 1: they were saying, which was a little weird because you
Speaker 1: could tell they hadn't practiced it. But he did. He
Speaker 1: got the handshake, he got the rub. As we said earlier,
Speaker 1: from John Cena and now everybody loves l a Night Year.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna close with Raimi Stereo versus Austin Theory.
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm closing with this isn't because it
Speaker 1: was the map of the of the match of the
Speaker 1: week or anything like that, but this has to lead somewhere.
Speaker 1: Santos was the one that got screwed, so this has
Speaker 1: to be leading to Santos versus Ray. If Ray's gonna
Speaker 1: beat Austin Theory, which he did in this match, the
Speaker 1: match was fine. I just I'm not sure what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do unless it's turned Santos Escobar heel and
Speaker 1: if that's the case, right on, he'll do a great
Speaker 1: job at it. Him and Ray will tear the house down.
Speaker 1: I just hope they get to it sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: I thought there was already an opportunity for that to go.
Speaker 1: But maybe they're trying to do these long, slow, drawn
Speaker 1: out stories, which is something we've complained they don't do.
Speaker 1: So maybe they're finally trying to do it, and I
Speaker 1: should stop bitcher, What did you think, sir.
Speaker 2: Go with me on this when shins K was like
Speaker 2: the hottest thing in WWE, I thought to myself, like,
Speaker 2: there's just nothing they can do no wrong with this guy, right,
Speaker 2: and then now look, shins k has kind of been
Speaker 2: like lost in the shuffle, and then the same thing
Speaker 2: happened with there was nobody more over than Sammy's ain.
Speaker 1: So it's nobody more over than Sammy.
Speaker 2: And now it's been a few months where now Samy's
Speaker 2: just like the plus one for this Kevin Owens. I'm
Speaker 2: constantly afraid that's what's gonna happen with l A Knight.
Speaker 2: So I'm just I'm hoping and supporting anything that Ella
Speaker 2: Knight's in just because I'm a afraid that that is
Speaker 2: maybe what might happen with him, and I don't want
Speaker 2: that to be true.
Speaker 1: We will ring the damn bell and get everyone's attention
Speaker 1: and let them know there's no ignoring the power of
Speaker 1: La Night. Yeah, Jay Lusso is back on Monday Nightraw.
Speaker 1: He was brought back by, as Michael Cole said, the
Speaker 1: former EVP Cody Rhodes. I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I think the reason Sammy's story is much less now
Speaker 1: is because the focal the focus went to Jay, and
Speaker 1: he's been nothing short of spectacular. In every single thing
Speaker 1: he's done with Roman to all the way, quitting the
Speaker 1: WWE Deuces uses, and then now coming back. Ladies and gentlemen,
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