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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: and Eli as they break down the world of professional

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Speaker 1: wrestling and 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 grated podcast tag team in alone, Battle and Eli.

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go, guys, welcome to another episode

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Speaker 3: of the Battle Girl podcast. I am your host Battle

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Speaker 3: along with my tag team partner Eli.

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Speaker 4: Yo.

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Speaker 3: All right, it's it's been kind of a whirlwind the

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Speaker 3: past few days because Friday we dropped the new episode

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Speaker 3: with Cody Rhodes on it, and of course aw shared

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Speaker 3: the podcast episode, which was pretty cool to do that.

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Speaker 3: So we just want to give a shout out to

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Speaker 3: them for coming on the show and some great stuff

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Speaker 3: on that. Uh that interview. Should definitely go check that out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully that opens the door for you know, more

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Speaker 4: people from the roster. They do have the TV taping

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Speaker 4: coming up in about six or seven weeks from now,

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Speaker 4: so they will be back in our neck of the woods,

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Speaker 4: so hopefully we can find something else up with them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it should be fun. And then of course

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Speaker 3: later on this week if everything goes according to plan,

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Speaker 3: we'll have Dlo Brown on the show on Friday, And

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Speaker 3: this episode is just kind of I guess we talk

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Speaker 3: about what's going on in wrestling, and of course over

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Speaker 3: the weekend there was some big controversy. Some people are

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Speaker 3: calling it a shoot, some people are calling it real.

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Speaker 3: But let's just jump right into it. Dolph, Ziggler and Goldberg.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a couple of people send me the link,

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Speaker 4: you know, when it when it happened and went viral

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Speaker 4: and all that stuff. You know.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, the first thing is there was no arrest made,

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Speaker 5: you know, right, And.

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Speaker 4: So if they're in Vegas at a you know, high

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Speaker 4: end steakhouse or where they're at and something like that

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Speaker 4: happens in the middle of the restaurant, like, there's probably

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Speaker 4: gonna be the cops called, unless it's a work of

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Speaker 4: some sort. So I wouldn't Yeah, I wouldn't put too

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Speaker 4: much stock in it, you know, outside looking in.

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Speaker 3: No, the one thing that I that I took away

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Speaker 3: from the I guess the fight was there was one

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Speaker 3: guy that was sitting there and he was smiling the

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Speaker 3: entire time that it was going down. Yeah, that was

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Speaker 3: holding back Dolph Ziggler. So I was like, Okay, maybe

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Speaker 3: this is setting up for I don't what's the next

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Speaker 3: pay per views survivor series.

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Speaker 5: Helena Cell.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Helena Cel. But I don't think it's setting up

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Speaker 3: anything for that. And I don't think they're going to

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Speaker 3: set up a Dolph Sigler Goldberg for WrestleMania. But I

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Speaker 3: could be wrong. I mean, it's WWE we're talking about, so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I I don't.

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Speaker 5: Know, man.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of one of those where I

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Speaker 4: guess Goldberg is exception for being in his fifties, you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's obviously still an incredible shape, but his

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Speaker 4: whole thing. I mean, he's got five moves, so I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he can come hit those five moves very.

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Speaker 5: Effective, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Like, it's not like it's not like they're asking, you know,

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Speaker 4: freaking Brett Hart to come back, and he was, you know,

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Speaker 4: super advanced technical and had a thousand.

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Speaker 5: Moves or whatever, so I could see it.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, his his the reaction to his whatever

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Speaker 4: you want to call it, his second comeback when he

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Speaker 4: had an Undertaker match earlier this year, and now the

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Speaker 4: Dolph Ziggler squash and now this even has people kind

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Speaker 4: of has a negative taste in people's mouth.

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Speaker 5: So I don't know. I mean, Vince loves money, so

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Speaker 5: if he thinks he can make some money off of it,

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Speaker 5: I mean, he'll do whatever.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's not a match that I want to see. Let's

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Speaker 3: just be completely honest, because I mean we saw it

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Speaker 3: But we all know that Goldberg's not going to put

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Speaker 3: Dolph over unless he gets a good paycheck with a

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Speaker 3: lot of comments in it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean I think I

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Speaker 4: How that match went, I think that that that needs

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Speaker 4: to be it. You know, Dolph ran his mouth for

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Speaker 4: you know, Dolphin Goldberg Part two.

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Speaker 5: Like I mean, you know it was. It was kind

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Speaker 4: This huge earth shattering match. So hopefully it was just

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Speaker 4: a you know whatever. I don't know what the reason

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Speaker 4: a limited capacity and we're moving on to something else.

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Speaker 3: I would only hope so. But like you said, Vincella

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Speaker 3: money and if this draws a couple of commas in

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Speaker 3: moving right along to another couple of commas in the

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Speaker 3: bank account. The big shocking thing which we all knew

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Speaker 3: was gonna happen eventually, was SmackDown was going on. I

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Speaker 3: guess it was at the end of the night Kofe

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Speaker 3: and them had their match. Brocklesner's music hits and boom,

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Speaker 3: right there we get, for the very first night that

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Speaker 3: SmackDown is on Fox, we get a title match brock

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Speaker 3: Lesner Kovie Kingston.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that was That's been the rumor since

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Speaker 4: they announced the Fox deal, you know, I mean, the

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Speaker 4: rumor was he was even going to show up after

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Speaker 4: like just the very first.

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Speaker 5: Night, you know.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean we kind of saw this coming,

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Speaker 5: Is kind of par for the course, you know. But

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Speaker 4: You know, they have to drop the belt at some time.

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Speaker 4: So for whatever reason, they just always preferred like Brock

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Speaker 4: aren't up because of him, and the WW network subscribers aren't.

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Speaker 5: Like, he's not this huge bank, you know star that

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Speaker 5: I think Vince thinks he is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's obviously an attraction, but I mean he's

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Speaker 4: guess we'll just enjoy Cope Mania for a couple more

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Speaker 3: So and you know, the one the one thing that

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Speaker 3: I don't like about it is like I get and

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Speaker 3: so loved Brock, like we all know that. But I

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Speaker 3: think if I remember Kofi said something about, you know,

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Speaker 3: Brock lost his belt fair and square, not screwed, not cheated,

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Speaker 3: not nothing, and then he automatically comes back and gets

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Speaker 3: a title shot, which you look at, guys, that are

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Speaker 3: Brock's back. He automatically is gonna get the belt. So

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Speaker 3: now we're going to have Brock on for you know,

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Speaker 3: three or four times out of the month. Maybe that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's one thing that I kind of like

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Speaker 4: about aw how they're kind of putting more I guess

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Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. I mean, I mean, you're right,

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Speaker 4: I mean Brock, I mean.

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Speaker 5: He lost.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so he lost at Mania to seth Rawlins and

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Speaker 4: then he lost his I guess he when the cash

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Speaker 4: Anyways, he sets meeting twice this year for the belt.

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Speaker 4: You know, in most industries or most sporting you know whatever.

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Speaker 4: You know, that kind of track record. That doesn't mean

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Speaker 5: I mean that usually you put it, you know, you

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Speaker 4: Don't really see, like, even when Brock's not fighting for

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Speaker 4: even though it was like had nothing to do with

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Speaker 4: and it's not as much of a they definitely emphasized

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Speaker 4: I think aw's going to try to make it more

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Speaker 3: Everything, and that's what kind of Cody talked about. He's like,

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Speaker 3: talked about in interviews with ae W. It's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's not gonna be storyline. There's gonna be storylines, but

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Speaker 3: basing it off of when lost records time limit. It's

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean there's just you know, and when

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Speaker 4: But just you know, there's there's not any you know

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Speaker 4: it's not like who's the father of you know, Maria's

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Speaker 4: it's it's mainly competition, and you know, I'm hoping that's

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Speaker 4: kind of what AW kind of follows with that, So.

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Speaker 5: So we'll see, you know.

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Speaker 4: I Once they announced the Fox deal, they the rumor

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Speaker 4: was Brock was going to be the main you know,

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Speaker 4: pretty much the main star on SmackDown, which works for

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Speaker 3: So and I'm guessing that's why they're making him the

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Speaker 3: because since they are moving it to Friday nights and

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Speaker 3: I mean, Paul Hayman's gonna be pulling double duty. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Right, And like you said, you know, I would go

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Speaker 3: him about that, the thing with Omega and uh, you

437
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 3: know Chompa Jericho everyday. I mean, there's so much stuff

438
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 3: that we could talk to him about. So we're gonna

439
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 3: try to cram everything into that. But now it's it's

440
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 3: it's time, uh in the show where we uh do

441
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 3: our weekly challenge and uh do we still have a

442
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 3: sound effect for this or we just kinda.

443
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Speaker 4: I was looking for some earlier and I found a

444
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 4: couple of good ones, but.

445
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 5: They wanted like like.

446
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 4: Five and six and seven dollars a pop just for

447
00:23:58,480 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 4: like a little ten second thing, Like.

448
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 5: No way, dude.

449
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 4: So so I can't really find anything, so I'll keep

450
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 4: I'll keep digging.

451
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 3: Well, we'll get our voice people on it and see

452
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,719
Speaker 3: what we could find out. Maybe we can get there

453
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 3: it is, maybe we can get that, or maybe we

454
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 3: can get like an actual ring announcer to do the

455
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 3: announcing for the thing. But yeah, so let's uh, let's

456
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 3: announce the the the challenge and Eli, who do we

457
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: have up this week?

458
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 4: So we we tried to do you know, somebody from

459
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 4: an older generation and more of a modern wrestler. And

460
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 4: you know that's not a hard rule obviously. I mean

461
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 4: we can kind of blame the lines, but we we've

462
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 4: kind of held off on doing owen Hart, and you

463
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,919
Speaker 4: know for people that are you know, not not just

464
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 4: watching the topical stuff in the nineties. You know, if

465
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 4: you go back and look at some of the other

466
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 4: you know, kind of the outside the box.

467
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 5: Uf that owen Hart did.

468
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 4: And then of course, obviously knowing the family he came from,

469
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 4: I mean a lot of people say he was the

470
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 4: best heart wrestler. I mean they put him above Brett Hart.

471
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 4: So obviously huge tragedy what happened with with him and WWE,

472
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Speaker 4: but you.

473
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 5: Know, super underrated talent.

474
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Speaker 4: I mean he he was like bread in the sense

475
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 4: that he can make anybody look good, you know, so

476
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 4: we kind of took him who was you know, he

477
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 4: could be a high flower but then also very technical obviously, and.

478
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Speaker 5: Somebody that kind of echoes.

479
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Speaker 4: That is Zach Saber Junior, who is you know, New Japan.

480
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 4: I mean he's worked a ton of ton of indie

481
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Speaker 4: promotions around.

482
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 5: The world and.

483
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 4: He's he's a UK wrestler, and he's also very you know,

484
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,360
Speaker 4: he can do some high flying stuff, but he's more grounded,

485
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 4: more technical stuff, and.

486
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Speaker 5: I think he actually he's done some stuff with Ring

487
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Speaker 5: of Honor too.

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Speaker 4: But so those two guys I think would be a

489
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 4: good match up as far as similar styles, you know,

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Speaker 4: I think, I think, I think maybe it's hard to

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Speaker 4: I can't really put into word, like it's almost like

492
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 4: maybe Owen has a little bit more power, and then

493
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Speaker 4: Zach's saber Junior has maybe a little.

494
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Speaker 5: Bit more speed.

495
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 4: He's just kind of tall, lanky, so he's maybe got

496
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Speaker 4: the speed advantage. But then they both can do technical

497
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 4: and they both can do flying, so like you know,

498
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 4: it's pretty pretty evenly matched. So so yeah, that's this

499
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Speaker 4: week's challenge, is it?

500
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Speaker 3: And I could be wrong, but I was scrolling through

501
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Speaker 3: maybe it was Twitter that somebody had posted up an

502
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Speaker 3: old boxing match with Owen Hart and a boxer.

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Speaker 5: Hmm did that? I don't know, unless he was in

504
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 5: Unless Owen was in Brawl for all.

505
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Speaker 3: I think that could have been. Let me look this

506
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Speaker 3: up because it was weird because I was watching it.

507
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 3: It was on. It was Ray Ragau Regal, I don't know,

508
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 3: versus Owen Hart and he knocks out Owen Hart.

509
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 5: Hmmm.

510
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 3: It was in a boxing match and it was a

511
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 3: house show in Montreal in nineteen ninety six.

512
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 5: Mm, yeah, I haven't heard of that.

513
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 3: That's and I was, I was watching the video and

514
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 3: like he like, like Owen's knocked out.

515
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 4: Now.

516
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 3: Granted I don't know if he was pulling punches or not,

517
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 3: but I mean he, I mean, Owen laid there on

518
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 3: the floor knocked out. Uh. But this, Yeah, obviously this

519
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 3: is gonna be a good match this week. And you

520
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 3: could voice your opinion after you get done listening to

521
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 3: this this podcast today because we will put it up

522
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 3: on our Instagram, which you could find is It's Battleground

523
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 3: pot Cast. It is going to be a really good match.

524
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 3: And of course, like we said that, this is just

525
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 3: kind of throwing stuff out there. It's kind of like

526
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 3: a dream match for us, So Lanstorm if you're listening.

527
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 3: Once again, not a bit serious.

528
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 5: We don't never like the skeleton of Owen Hart to fight.

529
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never seen somebody get so serious about it.

530
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 3: And I'm like, dude, like it is, it's it's not real,

531
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 3: Like it's just.

532
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 5: Fits his mold. You know, he was never.

533
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 4: You know, uh, he was never funny or even like ironically,

534
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 4: he was always super serious, you know, so it was

535
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 4: always weird, like if you go back and look at

536
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 4: some of like the Smoky Mountain stuff like him and Jericho,

537
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 4: you know, it was it was strange that their team

538
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 4: just because their personalities are so different. But obviously a

539
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 4: lot of respect for Lancetorm also very a technical wrestler.

540
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 4: So out of the challenge, I probably give the slight

541
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 4: advantage to Owen just because of, uh, you know, being

542
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,719
Speaker 4: trained in the Dungeon by his dad and his brothers.

543
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 5: And you know, I mean that was.

544
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 4: You know, the Dungeon was notorious for making grown men cry,

545
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 4: and I mean it was like, uh, they taught you

546
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 4: the art of professional wrestling, but they also taught you

547
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 4: like how you could hurt somebody.

548
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.

549
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 4: So like, you know, he he could turn a sleeper

550
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 4: hole that turned it looked good on TV and just

551
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 4: move his arm and inch and boom you're unconscious, you know,

552
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So so you know, definitely nothing to

553
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 4: take away from Zach Saber Junior.

554
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 5: He's he's incredible, you know, modern performer.

555
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 4: But I think just the way that Owen was trained,

556
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 4: I think that probably would give him the advantage a

557
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 4: little bit, and.

558
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 5: You give him the slight advantage for the win.

559
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 3: Well, there it is, there is your winner. I like

560
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 3: you said, I'm pulling for Owen in this one. There's

561
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff that he would do in the match,

562
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 3: especially like you said, being trained in the dungeon. But

563
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 3: that does kind of I think one week in one week,

564
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 3: we should do one about movies. We'll kind of get

565
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 3: everybody's listening opinion on that one for a future reference

566
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 3: best wrestling movie. Maybe y'all could shoot some ideas to

567
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 3: us and we can come up with a challenge that way. Yeah,

568
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 3: as kind of distracted because I'm scrolling through Instagram and

569
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 3: there was like, uh, I guess Thunderlager took his mask

570
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 3: off and now yeah kischen Liger mm hmm.

571
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 4: Yeah. There's a lot of a lot of a lot

572
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 4: of big things happening with the New Japan show this weekend,

573
00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 4: So I don't want to spoil it for anybody.

574
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 7: But.

575
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 5: There's a new uh, there's a new major champion in

576
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 5: New Japan.

577
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, and it's not Moxley.

578
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 4: No, no, that is, but yeah, I mean it's just

579
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 4: you know, there's so much good stuff going on right now.

580
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 4: You know a lot of people still say New Japan

581
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 4: is probably the best wrestling promotion on the planet right now.

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00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 4: Obviously a lot of people graining ground. You know, Uh,

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00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 4: Major League Wrestlings Growing a W is about to hit

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00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 4: the scene. Uh NXT is probably better than you know,

585
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 4: Roliance mcdown combined. You know, GCW is still doing stuff, PWG.

586
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 4: I mean, there's just tons of good promotions right now

587
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 4: putting out good content, you know, but a lot of

588
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 4: people claim top to bottom that New Japan has has

589
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 4: never been even even with the bull you know, the

590
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 4: bulk of the most popular members of the Bully Club leaving,

591
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 4: they're still just firing on all cylinders.

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00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 6: So so yeah, it'd be uh, it'll be interesting to

593
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 6: go back and watch that card from a couple last

594
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 6: night or two nights ago, whatever it was.

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00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 3: It is certainly uh definitely a great time to be

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00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 3: a wrestling fan, no doubt about that. Also, don't forget

597
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 3: that it is going down this Saturday in Portland. It's

598
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 3: the Portland Pounce, which is why Dlo's coming in on

599
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 3: the show Friday, so we'll talk to him about the event.

600
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 3: That's going down on Saturday, which we'll put a link

601
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: in our description where you could still buy your tickets.

602
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 3: But I guess that's, uh, that's gonna wrap up this

603
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 3: kind of a short episode the day that it wasn't

604
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 3: really uh much in the wrestling world to talk about,

605
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 3: other than if we wanted to spoil the new Japan

606
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 3: stuff that's going on this weekend. But we don't want

607
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 3: to spoil that. We want you to spoil it for

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00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 3: yourself when you scroll through Twitter or Instagram. So it

609
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 3: was a yeah, concise, Yeah, we we kind of we're

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00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: trying to not just ram belong, which is what we're doing.

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00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 3: Bless you, it's what we're doing right now. We're just

612
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 3: kind of filling time. But I guess, uh that that

613
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 3: that's going to wrap up the show for this week, right, Yeah,

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00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 3: I think so. Yeah, we'll make it short, simple to

615
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: the point. Dlo brown in on Friday and uh do

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Speaker 3: us to favor leave us a five star review on

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and tell a friend.

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Speaker 3: Tell a friend, Yes, is there anything else that we

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Speaker 3: want to talk about before we jet out of.

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Speaker 4: Here, I think so.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well that's it. So that ends the show

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Speaker 3: and we'll see you Friday.

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