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Speaker 1: And now you're made even introducing the hosts Wrestling with Freddy,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Dye, Handy Bresjunior ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to a

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Speaker 1: brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy. We don't have

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Speaker 1: mister Jeff Dye today. We miss him dearly. Maybe he'll

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Speaker 1: surprise us and jump in. You never know. Anyway, here's

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Speaker 1: the news. Ring of Honor World Champion Eddie Kingston defeated

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Speaker 1: Jay Letho by pinfall, Claudio Castagnoli defeated Buddy Matthews by submission,

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Speaker 1: and the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship MJF

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Speaker 1: and Samoa Joe defeated the Guns by submission. Does this

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Speaker 1: guarantee Samoa Joe a championship match against the reigning defending

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Speaker 1: for three hundred and sixty five days plus? Now, Maxwell

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Speaker 1: Jacob Friedman here is wrestling with Freddy. Ah, what's up everybody?

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Speaker 1: I have to pretty much hold my breath when I

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Speaker 1: the keyboard. Hi everyone, how are you? It was a

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Speaker 1: lovely pay per view weekend. AEW's full gear from the

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Speaker 1: Kia Forum here in Los Angeles. I was unable to go.

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Speaker 1: My daughter had a dance convention this weekend and was

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Speaker 1: competing and had her first solo and family's very, very

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Speaker 1: proud of her. And dancing is a lot like wrestling.

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Speaker 1: There's choreography, there's grace, there's balance, there's strength. Fortunately, they

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Speaker 1: don't let little kids do it well. They probably do

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Speaker 1: have a little kid wrestling promotion somewhere. But we had

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Speaker 1: a good weekend as a family, but I did miss

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Speaker 1: my wrestling. I got to watch the pay per view.

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Speaker 1: I am fully educated upon it. I almost threw up.

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Speaker 1: There was so much blood. I cheered when I saw

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Speaker 1: will ospray. And we're going to get into it all

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Speaker 1: right now. The show started with Adam Copeland, the Rated

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Speaker 1: R Superstar, Darby Allen and Sting and they were wrestling

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Speaker 1: Christian Cage, Lucasaurus and Nick Wayne. For those of you

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Speaker 1: who just listen to the show and don't really watch wrestling,

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Speaker 1: you just you just are like, Ah, this guy digs

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Speaker 1: you connect. Sting for me is what your childhood hero

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Speaker 1: love with him because he was handsome. Guys, for those

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Speaker 1: Sting is the one I'm talking about. That was my

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Speaker 1: the old guys got hurt. That's right, Adam Copeland, I

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Speaker 1: called you an old guy. What it was? The right

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Speaker 1: He's come into America. Osprey and it's not Wwe. He

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Speaker 1: money is their money. But I couldn't be happier. I

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Speaker 1: Excellent Mike work, excellent wrestler sells like nobody's business. Great

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Speaker 1: kind of guy that Vince McMahon would say, if you

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