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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Around. This is a pro

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Speaker 1: wrestling podcast with a hinge of pop culture joined Battle

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Speaker 1: in Eli as they'd break down the world of professional wrestling.

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Speaker 1: You never know who's gonna stop by.

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Speaker 2: Now making their way to the microphone, give it up

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Speaker 2: for the.

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Speaker 1: Greatest podcast tack team in the world, Battle and Ela.

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Speaker 2: So let's uh, let's let's just address the elephant in

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Speaker 2: the room. How freaking awesome was all out Saturday night?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Eli, you watched it overall thoughts pretty solid.

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Speaker 1: I think it kind of established the direction that they're

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Speaker 1: going to be heading into with TV. We obviously found

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Speaker 1: out who the new world champion is, we found out

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Speaker 1: who we'll be fighting for the women title, kind of

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Speaker 1: got a clearer picture of the tag teams with you know,

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Speaker 1: the first round bys and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So so heading into TV in the next six or

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Speaker 1: seven weeks whenever it is, I think this kind of

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Speaker 1: pointed everybody in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: So, you know, and I just realized that we never

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Speaker 2: really I guess introduced ourselves, so we just went straight

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Speaker 2: into the excitement. But this is what happens when you

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Speaker 2: get ahead of yourself. In add Kicks and so welcome

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Speaker 2: to the Battleground Podcast on Battle of course you just

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Speaker 2: heard eli uh. This is a weekly podcast where we

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Speaker 2: talk about wrestling, and today we're going to kind of,

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Speaker 2: you know, recap Aw's All Out pay per view. Plus

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have some special guests on at the end

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Speaker 2: of the show. We've got Jason and Alex Taylor, who

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Speaker 2: represents Pro Wrestling Entertainment. They got a big event coming

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Speaker 2: up later this month in Portland September twenty eighth at

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Speaker 2: to Portland High School. Dilo Brown's going to be there,

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Speaker 2: so we'll kind of talk about that later in the show,

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Speaker 2: but let's get into talking about Aw's All Out now.

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Speaker 2: From everything that I saw on Twitter, it looked phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: Of course, there is the CM punk stuff that we'll

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Speaker 2: I kind of like what Aw's doing where you know,

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Speaker 2: if you don't spend the what fifty bucks on the

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Speaker 2: pay per view, you can kind of watch the pre show. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I get that that's kind of the way of

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Speaker 2: which is why it's called the buy in. But I

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Speaker 2: mean it was a really good you know, first two

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Speaker 2: matches to kick off. I mean you had the Women's

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The only concern I have is that with the

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Speaker 1: buy in and then the show, it was a five

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Speaker 1: you know, everyone talked about it on Twitter, like not

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Speaker 1: It just didn't I don't know. I think we've talked

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Speaker 2: our Instagram It's Battleground podcast on Instagram. And it was

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That's the only kind of silver lining that I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, and speaking of Vince, it was

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Speaker 1: Then yeah, I mean that that makes me breathe a

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Speaker 2: Too, ah, got it. See. That's that's that's why Eli's

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Speaker 1: I guess it applies to both actually, but the first

432
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 1: like indie show I went to was a Southern Underground

433
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: pro in Nashville at the Basement East, and it was

434
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: two years ago. It was twenty seventeen. It was like

435
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: August of twenty seventeen, and the main event was Kurt

436
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 1: Stallion against Joe Janella. Kurt Stallen is another indie dude.

437
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: He's been doing stuff with like MLW recently and I

438
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: thank some JUCW stuff. So anyways, Joe Janella came out

439
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: and he sang a country song about Kurt Stallion's tiny dick,

440
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 1: and two years later people still mention it and talk

441
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: about and everything. And Marco was on that card. And

442
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: I saw Marco basically the week or like two weeks

443
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: before he went to Mania Weekend and did some indie

444
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: shows and got a huge buzz, and then you know,

445
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: it was like a three month period where he went

446
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 1: from wrestling at the Basement East for two hundred people

447
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: to where he was in all In in Chicago fighting

448
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: Bubbaret Dudley in the in the Battle Royal and Timmy

449
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: Dreamer was in there, and it's just wild to see

450
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: these these indie guys uh be prominently featured in what's

451
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the biggest wrestling companies in the world.

452
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: So so yeah, you know, we we like I SeeU.

453
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: We saw him at the Fairgrounds against the Rock and

454
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: Roll Express, and you know, a lot of the things

455
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: that I saw about this matches, a lot of people

456
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: are just like, you know, three months from now, they

457
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: just need to give loose Soaurus the belt. He needs

458
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: to beat Jericho and just be the champ. Like he's

459
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: just so awesome, and you know, he's he's one of

460
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: those like big dudes that can move, you know, so

461
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: he he can do some of the high flying stuff.

462
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: It's not like super prominent. He still will go for

463
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: a choke slam, so you know, he kind of has

464
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: a big guy move set and then he's got kind

465
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: of the luchador move set in some instances.

466
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 2: So but.

467
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cool that they're kind of showing a

468
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: different side of the business. And like you said that

469
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,479
Speaker 1: this team is Taylor made for the kids, you know.

470
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's definitely cool to see Marco. You know,

471
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: he officially announced he has signed with aw now, so

472
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: it's cool to see him. And yeah, CBS had this

473
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:27,120
Speaker 1: one to see. Plus, I'd probably maybe a B minus,

474
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit less. There was a couple

475
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: of little things that were you know, a little off,

476
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:37,479
Speaker 1: but you know, they did a good job of su

477
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: especially when they were fighting Jungle Boy and Stunt. They

478
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: have the size advantage, so they definitely played played that

479
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: part up for it. So but yeah, I think the

480
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 1: the overall thing is I think that that match really

481
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: put Lucasaurus on the map, I think he. I think

482
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: the buzz I'm seeing online is bigger now because of

483
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: the match last night.

484
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 2: You know, I think I was watching one of the

485
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 2: YouTube series about being the Elite, and uh, they it

486
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: was kind of funny because they did They had like

487
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,479
Speaker 2: I guess, Jungle Boy and Lucasaurus and they were walking

488
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: a dog and then up comes on the other side,

489
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 2: which was, you know, interesting to see. It was John

490
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: Morrison and his wife walking Marco Stunn is their dog,

491
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 2: and as we know, Morrison signed with Impact, so it's

492
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: it's I'm wanting to see if maybe later down the

493
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 2: road Impact and AW might merge. I mean, who knows

494
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 2: what that kind of thing.

495
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean I could see that or

496
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, or a ring of honor, especially with the

497
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: woes they've had recently. And you know, we were we

498
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: were just at their pay per view and it, you know,

499
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: wasn't the most attended thing in the in the world, right.

500
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 2: I think I think I saw something like four hundred

501
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: people were there.

502
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: As what somebody said, a't want I think that's the

503
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: official number. They're thrown out, so.

504
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, and it's it was cool to see,

505
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 2: you know, them all together, and it was kind of

506
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 2: a funny video. But I mean SEU picking up the wind,

507
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: but AW is very high on you know, Lutrasaurus, junk Boy,

508
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 2: Marcos Dunt. I mean, they just put out a T

509
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 2: shirt where it's like the Lion King. It's probably the

510
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 2: greatest T shirt in the world that you could see.

511
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: But I can. I like what Aw's doing. They're not

512
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 2: only catering to us the older crowd, but you know,

513
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 2: putting those three together as a stable will bring in

514
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 2: the younger demographic. And CBS Sports gave that a C plus.

515
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd probably go just to see. You know, it

516
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: was I don't know kind of what we were saying earlier,

517
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: like there I was there's something missing, There's I was

518
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: expecting just a little bit more, maybe just because all

519
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: the matches that SEUs had so far and AW have

520
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: been really solid and h Jungle Boy Lechersaurus getting you know,

521
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: some momentum going. So you know, I think, I think

522
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: all of these guys are going to be prominent fixtures

523
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: in this company for a while. So it's just cool

524
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: to see them kind of get started. But yeah, I'd

525
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: probably go see on that one. I mean it wasn't

526
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't spectacular or anything.

527
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we can move on to the next match,

528
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: which you know it was. It was supposed to be

529
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 2: Kenny Omega and John Moxley, but we all know Moxley

530
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: had a very bad case of MRSA. And I think

531
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: I read somewhere that with the surgery that he had

532
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: and everything, he's out for six weeks give or take,

533
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 2: which is just enough time to get back for the

534
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: first TV taping. So they got Pac, who if you

535
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: don't know who Pak is, it's novel from the old

536
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: AE days. But they got Pac to come in to

537
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 2: face Omega and me and you were kind of going

538
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 2: back and forth because you know Omega in AE W

539
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 2: is what one and one?

540
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: I think? Yeah, he lost he lost to Jericho and

541
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: then he won his the second match from I think

542
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: he fought that guy from Sema I forget his name. Yeah,

543
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: so he's won and one.

544
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 2: But and he lost that there? Did he win it?

545
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: Fight for the Fallen?

546
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: Fight for Falling? I think was the three the Six

547
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: Men tag. I think it was him and the Bucks

548
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: against was it Luca? Ye had Luca brothers and that

549
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: other guy that they got their tag team part, which

550
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought that was going to beat

551
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: Pak but he didn't. Uh. And it was funny because

552
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: like Jr. And the announcers were adding a K to it,

553
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: so they're calling him Pac And I was like, as

554
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: as as somebody so draw right, well, I was like

555
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: as somebody that you know, grew up in the nineties.

556
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: I owned Tupac CDs, Like I know how to pronounce

557
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: that word, so it's not Pack, it's Pac.

558
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: But anyways, kudos to Park for stepping up last minute, though,

559
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 2: I mean.

560
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it adds there's a lot of questions because

561
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: you know, so was Omega Moxley going to be the

562
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: second match on the card? You know, was that the

563
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: original plan before he got you know, his murca flared up,

564
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: or was it gonna be later? And they just suggest

565
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: like there's that thing? And then also did did the

566
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: match happen the same way? They just changed the guy?

567
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: So was was Omega gonna drop it to Moxley? You

568
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: know we've talked about you know, oh Omega. I wouldn't

569
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: be surprised if you know, the whole thing with Pac

570
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: as he was supposed to fight Hangman Page and he

571
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: was the I think it was the can Gate World Champion,

572
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: and he took that really seriously. So he's like, well,

573
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna come there and lose. I'm the world champion.

574
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, there's thousands of world champions, bro,

575
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: like you're not the only world champion.

576
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 2: But anyway, right, So but he stayed, he didn't break

577
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: k fib and that thing.

578
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: No, and I think he held that belt for like

579
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: two years or something like. It was like really serious,

580
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: you know. So so you know, I don't know if

581
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: it was a conversation like I'll come fight, but I'm

582
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: not jobbing my first match, and Omega is like, fuck it,

583
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: I'll take the win or I'll take the loss. I

584
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: don't care. So, you know, I can kind of see

585
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: Canny being that kind of dude, and you know, you

586
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: mentioned and you know where he's at in his career.

587
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: I don't think he really cares anymore. I think he

588
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: just wants to put on good matches. So so this

589
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: one was pretty solid. I'd probably give it an a minus.

590
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: I think this was one of the better matches of

591
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: the night. It's actually one of the few things I

592
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: did not call. I didn't think Pak was gonna win

593
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: just because heading into heading into the TV stuff, I

594
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: just thought maybe Kenny needed to win more. But you know,

595
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: obviously that uh that I think they were calling it

596
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: the brutalizer submission hold, Like that was freaking crazy. I

597
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: mean like Omega basically got almost all the way down

598
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: to the ground and then just toppled over and you

599
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: know he quote unquote passed out. So that looked gnarly.

600
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: But so yeah, I think that really shocked a lot

601
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: of people. I'm not sure a lot of people were

602
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: expecting that one and so early in the card. Yeah,

603
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: And I.

604
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: Mean Pac is a phenomenal athlete in himself, and you know,

605
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: like we we kind of talked before we started recording,

606
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 2: with Omega being you know, a higher up in the company,

607
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 2: I think he's okay with you know, putting people over

608
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: losing and he knows going in He's like, look, I

609
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: could win if I wanted to, but I want, you know,

610
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: to bring in the talent. I could you know, him

611
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: putting over it? Could it have been putting over Moxley

612
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 2: like we talked about. But Omega is a world class

613
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 2: athlete and he's going to make anybody look good and

614
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: he'll put somebody over just like Jericho would, which we'll

615
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 2: talk about that later in the show.

616
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was you know, pretty solid.

617
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 2: You know.

618
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: I think it was really cool to kind of see him.

619
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: It was cool to see Pop back on an American

620
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: broadcast after all the stuff I should say didn't happen

621
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: with him and hangman, you know, his his status was

622
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: kind of up in the air. So but I think

623
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: I think he's going to play a big part in

624
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: the company moving forward. And obviously I don't think he

625
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: was utilized correctly with with WWE. He's actually a prime

626
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: example of why Vince probably doesn't need to be involved

627
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: with n XT. I mean, he was I mean, he

628
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: was a legitimate threat and in NXT he was then

629
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 1: NXT Champion and you know, had some awesome matches and

630
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: then he gets called up and they try to turn

631
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: him into a superhero and he has a cape, and like,

632
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like why why change? You know,

633
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just one of your most popular

634
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: guys and it's you know, the rumor is is that

635
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: Vince doesn't watch NXT. He has no clue about any

636
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: of the performers and how over they are. So when

637
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: they get called up, he just thinks it's a new wrestler,

638
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: and he's like, cool, let's package him. Let's let's you know,

639
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: it's not like let's build off what they've already built.

640
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: Let's just, you know, we'll just create something new. So anyways,

641
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be really important for the roster.

642
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's it's gonna be awesome. In the course,

643
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 2: CBS gave that a B plus, So what what is yours? A?

644
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I gave it a little bit more,

645
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: a little bit more clout than the the B plus.

646
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: So and the next match is gonna that we're gonna

647
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: talk about. It's kind of funny because as I was

648
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 2: scrolling through Twitter because I was DJ and a wedding,

649
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 2: I scrolled through Twitter and it's like, I love this

650
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: cracker Barrel hardcore match because nobody's ever I mean, I

651
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: guess basically quote unquote the Cracker Barrel Clash, but Jimmy Havock,

652
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 2: Joe Janella, and Darby Allen in a three way dance

653
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 2: and it was more of a like I guess, a

654
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 2: hardcore match than just a regular match.

655
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's interesting because I know Janella has

656
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: talked about he wants to, you know, kind of move

657
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: away from the hardcore stuff and he didn't want that

658
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: to be the only thing he's known for. But he's

659
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: done it a lot so far in AW So I'm

660
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: kind of hoping that he turns the corner. He was

661
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: super over though all three of the guys really it

662
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: went kind of they went the crowd went crazy for him.

663
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: I'm not a big hardcore guy. I do appreciate it.

664
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: I do appreciate, you know. I mean going back to

665
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: the nineties watching some of the Cat Cactus Jack stuff

666
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: from Japan and you know, just some of the stuff

667
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: with like him and Terry Funk, and I mean, like,

668
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate it, but like I don't. It's not

669
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: my will house, you know, Uh, it's not my go to.

670
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: So so this one was kind of I don't know, Uh,

671
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: CBS gave it to B minus. I'd probably give it

672
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: just to be it was. I did not expect Jimmy

673
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: Havock to win. I don't I don't know who I

674
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: thought was gonna win, but I just I didn't think

675
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: he would. I was figuring Janella or Darby Allen. So

676
00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean it wasn't terrible. There was some

677
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: cool spots you know that definitely made people just you know,

678
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: pop and ooh and ah kind of a deal. But

679
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: again that's not my favorite kind of match, so I

680
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: wasn't super invested. Again, it's really cool to see Janella

681
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: and you know all three of those guys. Really just

682
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: see those on a national stage and you know, kind

683
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: of see how the crowd reacted and all that stuff.

684
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: There was two things that I kind of took away

685
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 2: from it. One was Darby Allen with the barrel doing

686
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 2: like he did to Cody and just jumping off and

687
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 2: the thing disintegrating onto the stairs. And then the other part,

688
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: and a lot of people are talking about it, is

689
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 2: when Havoc took the staple gun to Janelle's head and

690
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: then I guess did the flip and Janella just landed

691
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: in the chair upright, And I mean big pop for

692
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 2: that one.

693
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they like I mean, they started the match,

694
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: Darby and Joey Duck taped Jimmy Havoc to a chair

695
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: and then they put thumbtacks in his mouth and then

696
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: put duct tape over his mouth. So I've never seen

697
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: a matched you know, start like that, so that was

698
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: pretty wild. But uh, Darby also had a a skateboard

699
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: with tax on the bottom and he like did this

700
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: Alie off a top rope and the bottom of the

701
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: skateboard hit Janella and it was pretty cool. I mean,

702
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: there was definitely some creative stuff in there. But again,

703
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm just it's not my it's not my wheelhouse. I

704
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: don't I don't like when I go to matches. I

705
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: don't like look forward to the death matches. I'm kind

706
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: of like I want to be I want to be

707
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: standing by the exit so I can get out quickly

708
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: if something goes awrise.

709
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 2: I've watched clips of the match on online and through Twitter,

710
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 2: so I I think I would probably give that match

711
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: a B.

712
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it had a little bit more to

713
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: it than the B minors the CBS gave it, So yeah,

714
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: I probably do just to.

715
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, So let's say, let's move on to the

716
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:06,959
Speaker 2: next match, the Dark Order versus The Best Friends. Of course,

717
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 2: this is where I this is where we can talk

718
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: about Orange Cassidy showing up, not the other one.

719
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: So this one was kind of the snooze fest for me.

720
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: I I'm familiar with the best Friends from their work

721
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: on the Indies and Ring of Honor, and they've been

722
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,720
Speaker 1: at some of the aw shows I've been to the

723
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: they're all in and double or nothing, and I don't know,

724
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: the Dark Order is just I don't know, like the crowd.

725
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: The crowd was just not into this match at all

726
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: to me at least. And then and when I was

727
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: watching it with my the group I was with, I

728
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: mean we we really kind of zoned out too. So

729
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: you kind of started so you had you had Seu Lucasaurus,

730
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: Younger Boy Marco Stunt, and you had pot Kinney Omega,

731
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: and then you had the hardcore match we just talked about.

732
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: And then this comes in full earth and it's kind

733
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: of like the wind kind of falls out of the

734
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: sails a little bit. So I honestly really didn't pay

735
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: much attention to it until the end. That's when Orange

736
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: Castide came out. So he the lights go out and

737
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 1: you don't really know what's going on because the Dark

738
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: Order has done that before, where they you know, lights

739
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: go out and something happens. And then Orange Cassidy's in

740
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: the ring. He's sitting there with his hands in his pocket,

741
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: and then he does a suicide dive through the through

742
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: the through the ropes, and then he gets back in

743
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: and then the best friends kind of give him a

744
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: hug sandwich kind of a deal. CBS gave this a

745
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: C minus. I would probably maybe a D plus. You know,

746
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 1: it was definitely kind of boring. Orange Cassidy appearing would

747
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: would be an a. Everyone lost their ship when he

748
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: came out. So yeah, definitely these these two, this one

749
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: and the next match were definitely kind of filler for

750
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: me personally.

751
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's uh, let's not spend some time on

752
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 2: this one because we kind of pretty much at the highlight,

753
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the next match.

754
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, Riho versus kiro Shida. It was, you know, pretty

755
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,399
Speaker 1: pretty good. You know, they did a good job of

756
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: uh you know, Jr. Mentioned Riho was ninety eight pounds

757
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 1: like several times, and you know, they definitely played up

758
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: the difference in size and all that stuff. The big

759
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: thing is is these these girls were really big in Japan,

760
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: and I don't think the crowd really they're not. It's

761
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: familiar with them, so like it's just gonna take some

762
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: time to build them up. You know, I think I

763
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: thought the ending was a little little lame, like Riho

764
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: just kind of did a roll up real quick, so

765
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: it was like kind of anti climactic. So uh, but

766
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: it'll be Riho against Snyler Rose for the aw Women's Championship,

767
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: which I think that's either the first or the second

768
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: TV taping. I mean, it's gonna it's gonna be one

769
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: of the big things for the show, either first week

770
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: or second week. CBS gave it a C plus. I'd

771
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: probably give it a D. It wasn't bad. It was

772
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: just kind of, you know, kind of what Al Snow

773
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: talked to us about last week. There wasn't a lot

774
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: of like story involves. There wasn't that. It was kind

775
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: of hard to get invested in it.

776
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 2: But yeah, I agree with you on that one. And

777
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 2: there's not really much time to spend on it. I

778
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: know it's kind of setting up for the championship with

779
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 2: David versus Goliath kind of thing. With with as much

780
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 2: hype as Nihla's getting, I see her getting the belt,

781
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 2: like I said earlier, unless they just kind of shocked

782
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 2: the world and give it to Riho just to kind

783
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 2: of make her a name that people will know. But yeah,

784
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: so moving on, let's talk about the big probably one

785
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 2: of the matches that a lot of people were looking

786
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 2: forward to, the Cody versus Sean Spears match. And of

787
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 2: course there was an article that I had sent you

788
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 2: the other day where Cody took the first and last

789
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: unprotected chair shot in aw which kind of set this

790
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 2: much match up.

791
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, which that's smart. I mean that was you know,

792
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: it was as as smooth as it can go, and

793
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: there's still was an accident. You know, he still got

794
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: busted open, had the staples, So yeah, I mean, you know,

795
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: for the uninformed, I mean there's there's protected chair shots

796
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: and then there's unprotected chair shots, and so the ninety

797
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: nine percent of what you see are protected. They get

798
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: their hand up real quick or something happens, or the

799
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: guy with the chair is holding his hand on the

800
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: end of it, so when he hits him in the ribs,

801
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: it's that, you know, it's just their hand, it's not

802
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: the chair. Cody took an unprotected chair shot and the

803
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: back of the chair kind of went around its head

804
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: and it busted him open. He had get twelve staples.

805
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: So I don't think they need to be doing that,

806
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: so that I think that's the right decision I do.

807
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: It is cool that they're kind of doing like Shawn

808
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: Spears are calling him the chairman, like that's awesome, and

809
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: they've got a cool share it out for him. So

810
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: this one, so I called my guess was that Arn

811
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: Anderson was going to come out for this one because

812
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: they were sewn. Spears had totally Blanchard in his corner,

813
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: who was in the Four Horsemen, and he had a

814
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: feud with Dusty Rhoades. So I was just thinking it

815
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: would be awesome if Arn came out for Cody, and

816
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: that's what happened. So the funny thing is, as we

817
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: were making a joke that Shawn Spears has hit the

818
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: lottery three times this year, he got released from his contract.

819
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: So with aw and he's already kind of in the

820
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: main story. You know, he's he's in he's in this

821
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: thing with Cody, and I mean he's already in kind

822
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: of the upper upper card, you know, right off the

823
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: bat he married Peyton Royce and then he got a

824
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: he got a spinebuster from Arn Anderson last night, So yeah,

825
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: he's having a pretty good year.

826
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 2: And which, by the way, Arn Arn hit that Spinebuster phenomenally.

827
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 2: Like I keep watching the video that's on Instagram of

828
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 2: him hitting that, like he came in, no ring, rush, no,

829
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 2: nothing like. I think Arn could probably still have a

830
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: match or two left in him.

831
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, he he to me last night. He definitely looked

832
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: his age when I met him last year in Chicago.

833
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: What you just said is exactly what I thought. I mean,

834
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 1: he he was a little bit trimmer last year and

835
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: and I mean his arms were massive. I was like,

836
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: is he's gonna get in the ring, Like what the hell?

837
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 3: You know?

838
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,240
Speaker 1: Last night, you definitely could tell he was in his sixties.

839
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: You know, but once it once it was time that

840
00:46:55,239 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: spinebuster was was just amazing. And uh, I think the

841
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 1: one that he did at Stark at Starkade a couple

842
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 1: of years ago, the House Show when he hit dolfh

843
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: Ziggler with one, I think that one was a little

844
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: bit better, just because Dolph is an incredible seller. But

845
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean everyone, I mean people were texting me like,

846
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: holy shit, did you watch that because they know I'm

847
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: a big arn Anderson guy. And I was like, yeah,

848
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: like I'm basically crying over here. I'm watching so but.

849
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 2: So so let me ask you this, your reaction when

850
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 2: you see arn hit that ring, Like, what what did

851
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:32,919
Speaker 2: you do last night?

852
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: I basically just raised my hand up and was like,

853
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,919
Speaker 1: I fucking caught it. That's it. There we go. And

854
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was gonna there was gonna

855
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: be more to it. I didn't think he was just

856
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: gonna come out hit the Spinebuster and then leave, you know.

857
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,439
Speaker 1: I thought he'd stay around the stage or something, around

858
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: the ring or something. But but yeah, it was. It

859
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: was really awesome to see that. I hope it opens

860
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: up the door for him to be involved with aw

861
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I haven't got word yet that

862
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: he's resigned with the WWE since he left earlier this year.

863
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: And I mean, he would be just a massive contribution

864
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: to the company.

865
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think, I mean, if he showed up

866
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 2: last night, I wouldn't be surprised if he signs. And

867
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 2: you know, there's you know, some also some some sad

868
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: news that came out over the weekend. It was at

869
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 2: a Starcast event Dean Malinko. He was doing some Q

870
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 2: and A and he told everybody that he had been

871
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 2: diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. So I don't know how really suck. Yeah,

872
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 2: and so we wish the best for him. So I

873
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 2: don't know how that will play into his role with

874
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 2: a w IF depending on you know, how bad it

875
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:51,959
Speaker 2: gets for him. And so it's there, there's a lot

876
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: of people, like, you know, sending their condolences out to

877
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 2: him and everything, and.

878
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hope it's just in its early stages

879
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: and I mean he can and you know, Parkinson's is weird.

880
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: Some people can go a long time with the symptoms

881
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: and you know they can still kind of manage daily

882
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes it hits people and it's like

883
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: within a year, it's just it's it's done, you know.

884
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: So it's I think there's a there's some advancements with

885
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,760
Speaker 1: medicine that can kind of help with that. So we're

886
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: you know, definitely fingers crossed. I remember hoping a positive

887
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: outcome comes with that. But you know, going back to

888
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: our Anderson some point last week on the show, when

889
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: we had had our two special co hosts, uh and

890
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: we were talking about different things, we mentioned the Mount Rushmore. Uh,

891
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: you know, I think we could we could do that

892
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: on an episode like I've got I've got, like the

893
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore, which is I think is you know, the

894
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: most important wrestlers of all time whatever, you know, the

895
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: best wrestlers whatever. And then I have like my personal

896
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: which you know, I don't think that they you know,

897
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: change the industry or whatever, but I mean they're you know,

898
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: their top five for me and Arnt Anderson definitely would

899
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: be on my Mount Rushmore, I think. But but yeah,

900
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: so that that match, they gave it a B minus.

901
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: I'd probably just give it a be. I think, you know,

902
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: a year ago, Cody faught Nick Outis for the NBA

903
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: World Championship and won it, and it was one of

904
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: the best matches I've ever seen a lot of it

905
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: was mainly the emotional thing. The match itself was good,

906
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: but it wasn't spectacular. But factoring in all the you know,

907
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: the roads history with that belt and everything, that was

908
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: just awesome. And then him and Dustin fought at double

909
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: or nothing and that's a match of the Year contender,

910
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: and so this one was, you know, not quite to

911
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 1: those levels. You know, I think they did a good

912
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: job of pating, you know, building this up in the

913
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: short time that they had to build it up. But

914
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,439
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think it was like a five

915
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: star match or anything, but definitely Solids. I'd give it

916
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: a B I think for that one.

917
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: So we've got two more matches to break down and

918
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 2: then you know, our special guests will be on the

919
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 2: show the next one, the Lucher Brothers and the Young

920
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: Bucks for the Triple A Tag Team Championship and a

921
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 2: ladder match. So you knew that this was going to

922
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 2: be one of the I guess top matches of the night.

923
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 2: You knew there was gonna be a lot of spots,

924
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 2: especially if you include those four and a ladder. But

925
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 2: I think the thing that's that I kind of wanted

926
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 2: to see in this match is how Phoenix was going

927
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 2: to do with that injury that he suffered.

928
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's almost to the point where I

929
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: made a joke about So this is the third time

930
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: that we've seen them wrestle, I guess for aw they

931
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: have wrestled in Mexico on top of that, so this

932
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: I think they I think Jr. Said this is the

933
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: sixth time they fought this year. There was a spot

934
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: where they won Luca brother and one Buck was up

935
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: on the on the ladder and it looked like they

936
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: were going to grab the belts, and I made a

937
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: joke about what if they both got a belt at

938
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: the exact same time and they called it a draw

939
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: and they had to wrestle fourth time. So you know,

940
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: it's it's like, so the Luches when when we were

941
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: at the when we were at the Impact pay per

942
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: views earlier this year, Luch's in l A l a

943
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 1: X stole the show. I mean there, that's probably still

944
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: going to be one of my top five matches of

945
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: the year. And now that they're both involved, that's awesome,

946
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: which that foreshadows the end of this match. But anyways,

947
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm same thing. I'm not. I'm not a huge ladder

948
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: match guy.

949
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 3: You know.

950
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: I love the the TLC stuff with the Dudley's and

951
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: Edge and Christian and the Hardy Boys. Obviously everyone did,

952
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: but again they're not my they're not my favor they're

953
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 1: not my go to you know. I think you can

954
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: tell stories without all that stuff. So but I didn't

955
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: know this was actually for the AA the Triple A

956
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: tag team titles. I missed that in the announcement, So

957
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: when they showed the belts hanging, I thought it was

958
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: the new aw tag belts. I was like, what the

959
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: heck I thought they were doing this tournament. So I

960
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: spent like a quarter of the match confused. I had

961
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: no idea what was going on, but it was, you know,

962
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: these two these two teams could probably put on a

963
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: four star match in their sleep, you know. I mean,

964
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: like they're so good and they work so well together.

965
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: It's hard to you know, it's hard to find flaws

966
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean, there was a couple couple spots.

967
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: There was one spot I don't remember which Jackson was,

968
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: but he was on the on the ladder and one

969
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: of Lucier brothers tipped it over and it almost looked

970
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,919
Speaker 1: like at the last second he was supposed to jump

971
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: off to give him some extra leverage, and he didn't,

972
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: and he like barely cleared the ring, and I mean

973
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: he fell through the table like super hard. Like it

974
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: did not look planned like that, And so it was,

975
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, pretty solid. I once I knew it was

976
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: the triple A tag titles, I was like, well, the

977
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: Bucks aren't going to take those again, And that's what happened.

978
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: And and then at the end of the match, uh,

979
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: two masked men appeared in the ring and it was

980
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,839
Speaker 1: it was Lax they signed from Impact Like.

981
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 2: This, this video is, I'll play it. Let's see what

982
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 2: I crowded. Yeah, I mean just ballistic and it's and

983
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 2: it's good because you know it gives I'd like to

984
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 2: see what Lax can do against the Young Bucks. I mean,

985
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 2: like you said, we've already seen them go against the

986
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,439
Speaker 2: Lucre brothers in its hands down a phenomenal match, and

987
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 2: now Lax can be added to that mix and it

988
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 2: is going to be crazy.

989
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean them them against the Bucks, them

990
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: against the Luches again, them against sgu I mean best friends.

991
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: I mean them against Lutrosaurus and Jungle. I mean there's

992
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: a ton of good matches and uh ww and Impact

993
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: and AW were all trying to re sign or sign

994
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: or resign Lax. So the fact that they ended up

995
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:41,720
Speaker 1: here was just monumental. So I that was another prediction.

996
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 1: I said that they would show up somehow. I didn't.

997
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: I didn't really know how they were going to make

998
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: their presence known, but I kind of had a feeling

999
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: a total buddy last week, is like, if they've signed,

1000
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: they're going to show up somehow. And yeah, So CBS

1001
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: gave this an a minor, so I think this is

1002
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: the highest rated match of the night for them. I'd

1003
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: probably just give it an A. You know, again, I'm

1004
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: not a huge ladders and tables kind of sewer, so

1005
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: you know, it was definitely solid for me, but I

1006
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: gotta fall a little short from giving it an A plus.

1007
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 2: Right, So let's move on to the final match, and

1008
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 2: we'll spend a little bit of time on this one

1009
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 2: because we kind of we kind of knew that this

1010
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 2: was the way it was going to end. That way,

1011
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,800
Speaker 2: we can get our guests on the show, Chris Jericho

1012
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 2: Hangman page for the aw World Championship Hangman coming out

1013
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 2: on a horse, which is phenomenal. Of course, there was

1014
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 2: a lot of old town road memes going around for that.

1015
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 2: But and then, of course a big thing that they

1016
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:51,919
Speaker 2: also like to talk about was the first time ever

1017
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 2: a female referee was calling the main event in a

1018
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 2: pay per view, And that was the one thing I noticed,

1019
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 2: like going back watching highlights of the match, like at

1020
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 2: the very beginning of it, like JR. And all them

1021
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 2: at commentating was like heavily on the referee about how

1022
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 2: it's great to have her in there, and she did

1023
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 2: an amazing job and she didn't take crap like Jericho

1024
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 2: shoved her in the match, and I was like, she

1025
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 2: got a little earl Hebner in her and was like

1026
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 2: kind of feisty right back with him.

1027
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cool to It was cool to see

1028
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: her in there, and yeah, she definitely backed Jericho up,

1029
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: and you know that was that was cool to see

1030
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: her standard ground. This one was CBS gave it a

1031
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: be I'd probably I don't know, b minus maybe. I

1032
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: mean it was it was solid. I I think you

1033
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: and I both were pretty much under the assumption Jericho

1034
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: is going to get the belt. He is a legend

1035
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: in the industry. So having him as the world champ

1036
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: heading into the first TV you know, taping and everything

1037
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: definitely would have would will have a bigger impact than Hangman.

1038
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: Not to say Hangman's not gonna be a champ down

1039
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: the road. Everyone's super high on him, but you know,

1040
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: as far as going best for business, it was definitely Jericho.

1041
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: I thought it was cool Jericho got busted open, so

1042
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: he kind of had the Crimson mass thing going on.

1043
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm still not on board with his new finisher, the

1044
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: Judas effect. I mean, it's just a just like a

1045
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: back elbow, and I don't know, like, I think the

1046
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: Codebreaker is awesome and the Lion Tamer and you know,

1047
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: all the he's got all this stuff at his disposal,

1048
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: and then the back elbows. This new thing is just

1049
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: a little underwhelming. So so it was cool that that

1050
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: he won it clean and uh, you know, there's no interference,

1051
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: he didn't get a weapon involved whatever. And then you know,

1052
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: we were talking about he won it with ten minutes

1053
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: left on the pay per view, so we're like, okay,

1054
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: here comes Punk, Here we go, here we go. You know,

1055
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be one of those he

1056
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: gets the mic and like, see I tell Jim best

1057
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: in the world, and then culture personality hits and a

1058
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: building has reduced rubble. But so yeah, you know, all

1059
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 1: all around, I mean, it was a solid pay per view.

1060
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't think it was better

1061
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: than all in or double or nothing, but it was

1062
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: definitely solid. I'm hoping that they kind of addressed the

1063
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: length issues and you know, I hope every show that

1064
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: they do is not a five hour show moving forward.

1065
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: So it was good.

1066
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 2: I think the one thing that a lot of people

1067
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 2: are talking about was, like we kind of saw classic

1068
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 2: Jericho of him beating up Hangman outside the ring and

1069
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 2: ringing the bell and saying he was the champion kind

1070
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 2: of thing. But the thing I like about Jericho is

1071
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 2: it's like he's so good at what he does and

1072
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 2: he you know, whoever is the next person in line,

1073
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 2: he's going to put them over, and that's going to

1074
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 2: be the good thing about having him, Like you know,

1075
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 2: with Adam Page being kind of like one of the

1076
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 2: higher ups, executives kind of thing. That's that's what they

1077
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 2: look at, and it's like, do you really want to

1078
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 2: give him the belt first off? Or do you want

1079
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 2: to give it to somebody who knows what to do

1080
01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 2: with the belt, who's good the mic fills and can

1081
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 2: easily put someone like a Sean Spears over or you know,

1082
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 2: maybe a Lutrosaurus or you know, whoever else on that

1083
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 2: roster when they come in, because like you said, I

1084
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 2: mean Cody hasn't announced. There's only been forty percent of

1085
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 2: the roster, so we could find out who, you know,

1086
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 2: Jericho's opponent is at the first TV taping.

1087
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think they're not done signing people.

1088
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: I think heading into TV and they're doing that on

1089
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: a weekly basis and you know, start a tour cities

1090
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: and all that jazz. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised

1091
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: if there's a couple more big names that they get

1092
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: on board. So but yeah, I mean, I'm I'm okay

1093
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: with the decision. I I mean, I would have been

1094
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: fine if they gave it to Hangman, but I think

1095
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: Jericho is the better choice right now.

1096
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so that I guess that's it for now.

1097
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 2: That's our our review on AWS. So as a pay

1098
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 2: per view as a whole, your final grade would be a.

1099
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 1: Maybe a C plus.

1100
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 2: Okay, I would I'm kind of right there with you.

1101
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: Again, it was missing something. Yeah, I don't know, I

1102
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: don't know what it was. There was just something. And

1103
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: even a buddy of mine that we both went last year,

1104
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 1: I asked her how it was in person this year

1105
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: compared to last year, and she said last at all

1106
01:01:55,400 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 1: in it was just like one hundred times louder. So again,

1107
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, I don't know what it

1108
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: was missing. You know, there's something just there wasn't some

1109
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: kind of magical moment there, I guess, But again, pretty solid.

1110
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm kind of right there with you, watching

1111
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 2: clips and everything. I think like the biggest thing that

1112
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 2: everybody was talking about was Lax showing up and that

1113
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 2: was kind of the big pop of the night. But yeah,

1114
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 2: so that's the end of today's show, I guess for now.

1115
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 2: Later this week we will have a very special guest

1116
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,919
Speaker 2: in on the show on Friday. PCO will be here.

1117
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 2: He'll be calling in. And if you know PCO, he's

1118
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 2: part of Villain Enterprises. But if you don't know him

1119
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 2: through that, where can they remember him? From? Eli? My

1120
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 2: historian guy.

1121
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: So he got his I mean he actually is an

1122
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: old school guy. He's about fifty one. There was a

1123
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: WA wrestler in the nineties called the Mounteam and PCO

1124
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: joined and they put them together and they were the Quebecers.

1125
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: And then he did Stintson WW or WCW and WW.

1126
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: He kind of went back and forth, and then like

1127
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen he decided to wrestle again.

1128
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: And last year he fought at Joey Janella's Spring Break

1129
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and I was lucky enough to be

1130
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: there and he fought Walter who is now the nxt

1131
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 1: UK champion and he's probably twenty years younger than PCO

1132
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: and just as big as mean, and Walter is known

1133
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: for his massive chops, like the actual chop move. I mean,

1134
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: he has a humongous hand and a lot of momentum

1135
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: and he just swings that thing and just destroys people's

1136
01:03:56,320 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: chest and Pco's chest after the match was just brown

1137
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: and purple and it was just disgusting. But it was

1138
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: just unbelievable. I don't think anyone really foresaw it, could

1139
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: foresee this match being as good as it was, and

1140
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:18,959
Speaker 1: it put both of them on the map or back

1141
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: on the map, however you want to call it. And

1142
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: it was definitely a top five match for me last year.

1143
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just incredible. I mean he's PCO

1144
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: is still doing moon salts and ship off off the

1145
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: top rope, and I mean he's just a freak. He

1146
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: should not be performing at this level for someone that's

1147
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: almost fifty two. So it's cool that he's he's signed

1148
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 1: with a Ring of Honor right now and Villain Enterprises

1149
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:48,880
Speaker 1: are they're the six man tag champions right now, so yeah,

1150
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: should be should be a cool chat.

1151
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 2: So there is a PCOS so he'll be on Friday show,

1152
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,919
Speaker 2: we'll drop that around ten am. But on today's show,

1153
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 2: I've got, uh, you know, I got to sit down

1154
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 2: and talk with Jason, who is the promoter for Pro

1155
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 2: Wrestling Entertainment, and I've got to have their champion, Alex Taylor,

1156
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:08,000
Speaker 2: who came on the show. So we talked about Portland pounds.

1157
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 2: We're just going down Saturday, September twenty eighth in Portland,

1158
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 2: which we will put a link in the description where

1159
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 2: you can buy your ticket. Spot Les, let's jump into

1160
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 2: that interview. So me and Eli are gonna go ahead

1161
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 2: and say ourcupies now, So is there anything you want

1162
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:22,840
Speaker 2: to say to the fans?

1163
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: Goodbye?

1164
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 2: All right, here's our interview with the guys from Pro

1165
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 2: Wrestling Entertainment. This is kind of an exciting time for

1166
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 2: me because wrestling is legitimately in my backyard ten minutes

1167
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 2: away from my house in Portland. It is going down Portland.

1168
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 1: Pounce.

1169
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 2: I've got the champion right now, Alex Taylor's in the building. Also,

1170
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 2: I've got Jason, who is the promoter of Pro Wrestling Entertainment. Dude,

1171
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 2: it's such an honor to have you guys in here.

1172
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 3: Man, thanks for having us. We appreciate the opportunity coming

1173
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 3: by and spreading the word about the event going to

1174
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 3: be an exciting time.

1175
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:56,479
Speaker 2: Let's kind of talk about this. I mean, I'm looking

1176
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 2: at it right now and I have the card in

1177
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 2: my hand. Dlo Brown's gonna be there, just putting up

1178
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 2: the championship belt. You've got lt fuck, you've got the

1179
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 2: war Kings. I mean, let's talk about this. Alex, what's uh,

1180
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 2: let's can you give us who you're wrestling that night

1181
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 2: or is it still uder Rapt?

1182
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 4: Well I haven't. I haven't heard yet. So but whoever

1183
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 4: steps up, you know, I'm gonna put the strap on

1184
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 4: the line. We'll see what happens. I know what's gonna happen.

1185
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 2: But I mean I think we can all know what's

1186
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 2: gonna happen. If you put that strap on the line,

1187
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 2: You're you're gonna walk out with it, you know, at

1188
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 2: the end of.

1189
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 4: The night, right walking out the same way I came in.

1190
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 2: So how do you prepare for a match? If you

1191
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: don't know right now, you'll find out later. I mean,

1192
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 2: is there somebody in your mind that you're wanting to.

1193
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:40,320
Speaker 4: Wrestle anybody who steps up? Really, I have no preference good, bad, indifferent, big, small,

1194
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 4: shorts tall, I'll fight them all.

1195
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 2: So it is going down in Portland at the Portland

1196
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 2: High School Saturday, September twenty eighth. Seven o'clock is the belltime.

1197
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,560
Speaker 2: Doors are at six. Tickets started only ten dollars. Pro

1198
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 2: Wrestling eant dot com. Let's let's kind of talk about this.

1199
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 2: How did all this begin?

1200
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 3: Well, we do a yearly show every year in Portland,

1201
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 3: Christmas for Kids is what we call it, and we

1202
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 3: do it typically around the twenty fifth of December. And

1203
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 3: it started out as just a yearly charity event that

1204
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 3: we partnered with the City of Portland on and we

1205
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 3: started that probably about four years ago with those guys

1206
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 3: in the relationship continued to grow and build and we

1207
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 3: started doing another yearly fundraising show for him during their

1208
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 3: Strawberry Slam every year in May. So we've got that

1209
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 3: with them as well. And then the guys that we

1210
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 3: do business with, Chris Ladd and the gang in the media,

1211
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 3: newspaper and all of that in Portland, hit us up

1212
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 3: and they said, we want to do something for the

1213
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 3: high school. The football team Portland Pounds try to raise

1214
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 3: some funds for those guys, and they talked to the

1215
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 3: board and the relationship with the city and Chamber of

1216
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 3: Commerce was so good they said, let's bring wrestling back

1217
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 3: and do it again for these guys.

1218
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 2: Man, it's going to be exciting stuff right there.

1219
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, Delo Brown is going to be in town for it,

1220
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 3: so we're really excited about that. Delo has, to my knowledge,

1221
01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 3: hasn't made an appearance in or around nashe and probably

1222
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 3: ten years or better.

1223
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 2: It's probably what been since what TNA at the paragraph.

1224
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 3: Possibly Yeah, his stint with TNA when he was in

1225
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 3: the ring with him was would probably be the last

1226
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 3: time he was in action in this area. So I

1227
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 3: think we got a little bit of a thirst for

1228
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 3: that and Delo's Delo's an interesting character. I don't know

1229
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 3: if you've ever got the chance to see him perform live,

1230
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 3: but he's always a good time.

1231
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and it's it's gonna be a great time. Saturday,

1232
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 2: September twenty eight, Portland Pounds in Portland, Alex. Let's go

1233
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 2: back to where it all began. I want to know

1234
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 2: what got you into wrestling, Like, what wasn't what was

1235
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 2: the one match one wrestler? What set you in.

1236
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 4: I've been a wrestling fan as long as I can remember.

1237
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 4: But when I was in about fourth grade, I got

1238
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 4: a Shawn Michael's DVD and I watched Shawn Michaels Brett

1239
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:52,439
Speaker 4: Hart probably a thousand times. So that match is really

1240
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 4: what made me want to be a pro wrestler.

1241
01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 2: Watching that match. When you when you get out and wrestle,

1242
01:08:56,720 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 2: who is it that you kind of like, I guess,

1243
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 2: mimic in the ring, like if you were if somebody

1244
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 2: has never seen you wrestle before, who can you say

1245
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 2: of like your style so that way they can picture

1246
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:07,439
Speaker 2: it right now.

1247
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 4: I like to think of myself kind of like done

1248
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 4: and my kid. Okay, little old school style but rough, tough,

1249
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 4: I fly a little bit, but gotta keep it on

1250
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 4: the ground most of the time.

1251
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 2: I don't blame you. I'd probably keep it on the

1252
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 2: ground too. I'd be super scared to even get up there.

1253
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 2: I'd be like, no, no, no, I'm not gonna do that.

1254
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 2: Your dream match, Like, if you could have anybody, what's

1255
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 2: your dream match?

1256
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 4: Anybody, any anybody, any.

1257
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 2: Stipulation, any place, what is it? I'm gonna put you

1258
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 2: on the spot. This is gonna be the fun one.

1259
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 4: We're talking active right now.

1260
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 2: Talk about anybody. You can go back, you can go forward, last, present, future.

1261
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 2: Here dude, it's it's your dream match. We're like putting

1262
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,799
Speaker 2: this into the video game right now. Alex Taylor versus

1263
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 2: Jerry Lynn. Damn, that'd be a good one. Can we

1264
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 2: can we just kind of book this for the next

1265
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 2: I've got Jerry on speed Doll.

1266
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,200
Speaker 3: He's a pretty good friend of mine. I might make

1267
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,799
Speaker 3: a favor, see if you can come out of retirement

1268
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 3: for that.

1269
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 4: Would appreciate that.

1270
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 2: Let's have him run in on the twenty eighth. It's September. Oh, man,

1271
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 2: don't cost Alex the belt, but let's just kind of

1272
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 2: have something.

1273
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a heck of a challenge, especially unknown

1274
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 3: walking into that one, not knowing who.

1275
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 2: Is gonna be.

1276
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 4: There's a surprise here.

1277
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 2: It is right there. So it is going down September

1278
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 2: twenty eighth over there in Portland Portland Pounds. Man, it's

1279
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:24,560
Speaker 2: gonna be an awesome event. So what's something else it

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Speaker 2: can expect If they've never been to one of your

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Speaker 2: guys's events. I know it's kid friendly because I brought

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Speaker 2: my kids to it.

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Speaker 1: Well past the past.

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Speaker 3: The wrestling show you're going to get an incredible experience

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Speaker 3: interacting with the wrestlers. That's one thing that we pride

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Speaker 3: ourselves on as being, like you said, a fan friendly environment.

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Speaker 3: We're going to do a pre show meet and greet

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Speaker 3: before the show starts, so you'll get the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: come in, shake hands with the wrestlers, get photos, you know,

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Speaker 3: get your hands on some exclusive merchandise from wrestle Topia.

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Speaker 3: They'll be in the house for that. But that that's

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Speaker 3: that's one thing that we do, I think a lot

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Speaker 3: better than a lot of the local promotions is the

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Speaker 3: involvement with our fans and our show and the interaction

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Speaker 3: that they get to have with the superstars before and after.

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Speaker 2: And you know, that's the one thing that I like

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Speaker 2: because I've been to a couple of years stuff and

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Speaker 2: I went to the Strawberry Festival one and it's like,

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Speaker 2: you walk in and you don't have to worry about, Okay,

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Speaker 2: is this wrestler going to drop the F bomb? Am

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Speaker 2: I going to earmuff my eleven year old? And then

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Speaker 2: the fact that they could walk off and you know

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Speaker 2: that eleven year old can meet Alex and be like,

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Speaker 2: I want to be like him. And that's one of

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Speaker 2: the cool things that I like about the meet and

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Speaker 2: greet aspect before because you get to like legitimately sit

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Speaker 2: there and talk to the wrestler, you get to know them.

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Speaker 2: And then because when I was grown up, there was

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Speaker 2: no that stuff with wrestling. I mean you would meet

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Speaker 2: them in the back of alley, parking lot, whatever, and

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Speaker 2: it was a brief high autograph.

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Speaker 4: Go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the structure of the business has changed so much,

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Speaker 3: and we use the term that, you know, the curtain's

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Speaker 3: been pulled back and all of that with the Internet

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Speaker 3: and all, but the show has been come such more

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Speaker 3: than just a show. It's now an experience. And I

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Speaker 3: like to use the example WrestleMania. You know, back in

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Speaker 3: the day, it was, you know, a one off pay

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Speaker 3: per view on a Sunday. Now it's a week long event.

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Speaker 3: You know, you go into WrestleMania the Sunday before and

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Speaker 3: you got things going on on Monday and Tuesday and

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Speaker 3: Wednesday and Thursday all before you get to the show

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Speaker 3: on Sunday. So that's kind of what you know, we

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Speaker 3: look at our show, is it you're coming for a

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Speaker 3: wrestling show, but you're gonna get an experience. It's it's

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Speaker 3: well beyond that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean just kind of looking at pastors.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you've had amazing passions, like crazy. Steve's been

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Speaker 2: at them. I've seen, you know, or guitar shot somebody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've broken a few guitars in Portland. We've had

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Speaker 3: w W. Hall of Famer Jerry the King Lawler on

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Speaker 3: our shows. Psycho sid Vicious was at our Christmas show

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Speaker 3: last year. We are returning to Portland for the Christmas

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Speaker 3: for Kids again this year. Got a huge announcement coming

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Speaker 3: up on that. I'm sure we'll talk later later on

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Speaker 3: when the time's right for that one, but we're excited

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Speaker 3: about that as well. So we continue the tradition in Portland,

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Speaker 3: and we really like working with the folks of Sunder County.

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Speaker 3: It's it's been good for us.

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Speaker 2: And that was kind of what it's going to go

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Speaker 2: into my next question. What was the you know, the

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Speaker 2: next big thing after this one? And you just kind

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Speaker 2: of as.

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Speaker 3: I let the cat out of the bag. We are

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Speaker 3: coming back to Portland December the fifteenth or fourteenth, I

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Speaker 3: believe it's that Saturday for Christmas for Kids, And like

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Speaker 3: I said, we're going to make a blockbuster announcement on

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Speaker 3: Who's going to be headlining that event shortly after our

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Speaker 3: Portland Pounds.

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Speaker 2: That is going to be exciting, so you'd better get

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Speaker 2: your tickets right now. It is going down September twenty eighth,

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Speaker 2: Saturday in Portland. Tickets starting at ten dollars. Pro WRESTLINGEANT

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Speaker 2: by and hanging out with us today.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having us on us.

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