WeWatchWrestling Issue #606

Welcome friends and foes, heels and babyfaces to the We Watch Wrestling Podcast. I am your wonderful darling redheaded bearded host wrestling Matt McCarthy with me always professional wrestling encyclopedia. Mr. Vince Averill. Hi. We're back. We're fresh as daisies. Go that far. We're back from WrestleMania, baby. We are definitely back. My freshness is still being determined in real time.

I mean, there's still people who were there probably. Yeah. Because NXT is in Vegas, right? Right, yeah. Usually, one of my eyes open in the morning, I'm like... Let's go. My eyes up this morning. I was like, no, I was like, I don't want to do it. Yeah. I'll just try to get back on board here. You know, you're using the.

the h4n recorder right yeah am i having trouble let me uh let me um i'll redo it real quick just to do real quick i think you're on the wrong frequency because it it's your it pitches the voice up just a little bit all right hold on That's what I think. I'll vamp for a moment. I'll tell you this kids while I have you here.

I got the, um, I got the latest, I'm going to cover up my address for the people watching on the Patreon. I got the latest issue of pro wrestling illustrated in the mail. And, um, This is the one on the cover, the WWE era from ruthless aggression to Ron Netflix, because it's wild to think that they've been on, they've been WWE longer than they were WWF. There you go.

i don't know if you heard any of that i got the latest pwi i thought my subscription had lapsed because i didn't Yet last month's issue... And I went to Barnes & Noble and bought it. And as soon as this, the newest issue showed up, I realized, oh, I knew immediately somebody had stolen my PWI from the post office or who knows where, because it's got Mini Shirakawa on the cover. Yeah.

I was even saying this to Gladys because I was telling her the story. I was like, I mean, I felt like a creep just buying it at Barnes and Noble. She's like, nobody would think you're a creep for buying that. I'm like, I'm telling you how I felt. Yeah. Maybe someone would though. I mean, look, we got a pervert here, folks. Yes. And back from Mania. People are still there for NXT probably.

It's funny. I was realizing this is the first year in, you know, two years now we didn't go to NXT stand and deliver. Um, and then I was really trying to remember last year and I'm like looking at the card and stuff and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember Ilya Dragunov. I remember the main with Trick. I was like, I kind of remember Roxy and... Valkyria, but I was like, I really couldn't. I could, in my mind's eye, picture Stand and Deliver in LA, but not in Philly.

Yeah, Philly, we were like... um it was it was a real jam in situation yeah we were like just off the floor like tom petty said you're jamming me yeah um The guy who drove us. Was the dude who was playing all the wrestling themes. Okay, that I remember. That I remember. That was the best at full volume maxed out at like 66 volume. And then we walked over and froze our ass off in the baseball stadium for the like tailgate that I remember too.

But the show itself didn't stick with me. Well, what have you done for me lately? I mean, because I was watching this year's stand and deliver on the television set here in, you know. The arena? In Arena C. And I was trying to remember because I ordered a Stephanie of course shirt, uh, cause they didn't have it in my size at the superstore. Um, and. and i was trying to remember i was like have i ever aside from the rumble

It's like, have I ever even seen her? Well, we didn't go to the rumble this year, did we? Oh, she wrestled. She wrestled, um, at the pyramid in long beach. Uh, was it against Monet or was it? Did she wrestle Monet? And then that's when Monet got hurt? No, because she got hurt against.

she was hurt while she was wrestling willow because then she made the call to put willow over right yeah but i guess i know we i know we saw her uh there so i don't know that was the tournament right so maybe she wrestled the other half of that tournament or something Trying to remember, yeah. We definitely saw her in Long Beach at minimum. Because I was like... Because she's just got such a great look. It's the horns. I'm like, this is the coolest fucking thing. But I only ever see her...

I see highlights of them because I don't watch NXT on the reg. Yeah. So I only see highlights of matches on, you know, socials. We may have even seen her, uh, like at the Vermont. Cause she did, she was doing some shots for, for new Japan there. Right. Hmm. You know. You know. But anyway, Agent Johnny Russo, he tries to sneak past, but I clock him every single time.

That big, beautiful bald head. I always know it. I'd like to point out, um, and, uh, our good buddy Casey also caught this as he was watching this morning, but finally now, finally. John Cena is wearing the Travis Scott, uh, So what are these shoes? He just does these collabs with Nike that all sell out immediately. In fact, the ones that Cena was wearing last night have not even dropped yet. That car don't come out until next year. Where the fuck did you get it? but it just makes sense.

Well, yeah. That just makes sense to me. Travis Scott's going to spend 15-20 minutes walking down the ramp while Cody has to just lay there. in order to have Cena wearing those fucking trash ass fucking walking shoes? No. While the entrance music is playing and the referee is standing there going, this feels like... potentially someone's going to interfere, but I don't know. I just feel... What? Because obviously it was not Sunday.

And this is the positive attitude error. And I, and I didn't, I mean, obviously we were there. We had tremendous seats. Um, it was Easter. It was Easter. At least for one of those nights. And. I felt like the main event, Sina and Cody was like... watching it was, it was almost like an out-of-body experience because it was like the match was flat. The finish was flat. I think that they have, you know, and then Travis Scott coming out, it was one of those things where I'm like,

WWE definitely thinks he's a bigger deal to the wrestling fans than the wrestling fans think. I understand he's clearly a big deal. Period. But... It's not, um, it ain't like bringing in Mr. T or Mike Tyson, you know? Right. Well, I mean.

Or even Bad Bunny. At least not to us. I mean, I don't know how he's moving the needle for, obviously, like, the merch that they had for him was a big deal and all that, but beyond any of that... I think, and again, being there live for me is always a little bit of a trick because... Like there, there until I watch it back, there are just things that I, I am more, more happy with than, than I should be. And, and so I was like, ah, main event is, I thought I, I didn't, I thought it was good.

Yeah. I know that it probably wasn't, but I think, not even that it wasn't, but I think what the reality is, right, that Cody is not a top-tier wrestler as far as in the ring. And it's seen it isn't either. And together they did what they did and they have everything else going for them. So it doesn't have to necessarily be the actual. technical piece. But there's no way they were going to be able to, you know.

even do what the fucking women did in the opening match i don't think you know what i mean no and i think they've also they've conditioned us to you know because no like like what the false finishes Nobody is, it takes a long time into a match. before people get up for a false finish. And I don't think even necessarily with that match because the crowd was so hot. The energy was so high in that stadium.

for that match that that's why I feel like it was an out of body experience because like the reaction. the crowd was giving and how I felt. I was like, this match is not deserving of all of this, like bell to bell, what they're doing, like what you're saying, you know, it's like, they're not, it's not Zack Sabre Jr. versus Jonathan Gresham, but, but that's also where they put us.

It's not us going in going like, oh, Hogan and Typhoon. It's like they have also put this together. But I think the other thing to factor is... Like in that building, Cody was getting booed. and and cena was the person you were supposed to boo and people kind of were but also i think some people like myself just wanted to see him win it you know for the 17th time whatever so it that also factors in when you're not just like

come on. Yeah. EO sky or whatever, whoever you're like, what those other matches where there was like a definitive person that people wanted, you know, it was interesting because, you know, Because once they did start getting into the kicking out of their finishes and stuff, then you're ramping up. But they have conditions. Because as soon as that referee got bumped, it was like, okay, here we go.

They have conditioned the audience to... expect run-ins, especially when other people have been involved. And it did feel, I think the only thing that was, that flattened it was Travis Scott came out and then that was it. I think people were expecting the rock. We Casey didn't even want to leave right after the bell. He's like, no, the rock might come out. And I'm like,

I don't think so. And you can only imagine how many people in there thought, well, obviously the rock is coming out. Like the rock set this up, the rock, you know, like. Even though he never appeared again after he set it up.

you're just like it's it's wrestlemania and he was involved you know so so yeah for sure i'm i'm sure it it uh had to be a factor for a lot of people going like well when's rock when's rock coming you know yeah it felt unfinished it was like fish will do that sometimes trey will like play the end of a song and and i forget what

composer that he's he got the inspiration from but it's like he doesn't play that last song like excuse me he doesn't play that last note like it leaves it unfinished so you're still like you're still like leaning in and then all of a sudden it's like oh no it is over but like that was clearly not the artistic choice

WrestleMania. It was, oh, Rock's not coming. Rock hasn't been around since Chamber. Yeah. I thought the women's match that opened night two was... tremendous tremendous that gets a star i have my star list from the weekend it was it was helped by the fact That people were so into it. I didn't fully understand the how and the why of like why Bianca Belair was getting booed so significantly.

Well, I think you said it. You're like, I guess anybody that Rhea is fighting is going to get booed. Right, but she was getting it. You know what I mean? EO wasn't getting that. There was like a significant, like, it was like Cody. It was like the Cody thing where it's like, oh.

people people don't like this anymore or people like why are people mad at this person you know other than like which i appreciate it and i appreciate it seen as uh i almost said solo seen as uh promo on monday because he called it right out he's like man last year you people wanted cody to finish his story now you're booing him last night you know it's just like yeah yeah and i was like that was perfect perfectly done yeah um

And I'm trying to think other, like if I'm just thinking about the stuff that stood out, right? So that women's match on night two, the main event of night one. yeah um i when i was like reviewing my notes and everything because the the men's triple threat i gave that a star as well and i'm like Maybe I've come around on triple threats. Usually I bristle at it right away. I'm like, but then.

I'm looking and I was like, no, those were the two best matches at WrestleMania. The problem usually is like in these cases where it feels jammed together most significantly with Rhea Ripley, but even that the main event for the night one, it was just sort of like, okay.

And then my only other issue with triple threats is... i mean which also is helpful at times right because if if just because there's three people there's no rules then you can have hayman you can do that you can do the other things but yeah um Uh, and then what, what were some of the other like things that, that I thought, I thought Jacob and, and LA night over delivered. Um, and. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't like...

I was, I was happy, you know, again, I was there in person, right? Because I was happy with both nights. Yes. Because people look the, the problem, ultimately the problem is. Social media only feeds you negativity. So you're going to look online and be like, oh, people are fucking pissed about WrestleMania. And it's like, I haven't seen that either, but, but I get it. I don't see it either. I see the people reacting to.

well no i guess that's not true i mean one like a couple people that pop up on like my facebook feed that i'm like i'm not even sure how i'm friends with this person yeah um it's just like you know especially now like facebook does does the instagram thing of like Now there's just, I don't even follow this. I don't know. It's just suggested, you know.

it's like here's some negativity that might keep you engaged in our product oh sure let's get mad uh i mean i thought i thought jayuso and gunter was fine um I mean, it's kind of the problem with every Jey Uso match. It's like... The entrance is too big. And then you got to have a match. Now you got to have a match. I'm like, we already shot our wad, Jay. I wonder too, because, you know, I don't know that. Gunter's title run was super exciting. And then to have it taken by Jay, who obviously

You know, the people, they like, they want to shirts. They want to, they want to eat. But I just wondered, like, you know, he choked out McAfee. I just wonder what, what becomes of Gunter. I could see Gunter, uh, you know, very quickly, uh, ending up like, um, I mean, he probably won't, he won't become fucking, uh, otis or anything but i i know i see him spending a little time uh on the back burner now i don't see him going right into another money program but who knows

I mean, who knows? But speaking of which, did you see Corey Haves, Corey Graves tweeting during that segment? No. I think all he tweeted was just like, ha ha ha, something like that. I like seeing Michael Cole get upset. If somebody's going to get choked out, might as well be Pat.

He was so good when he came back too, and they're trying to walk him out, and he's looking around like he's like, I don't know who the fuck I am. What are all these people doing in my bedroom? He knows that move. That's a little bit of method I'm thinking. Well, they even, I don't know when it was during the announcing on raw. But it was like, Cole made some comments about McAfee's room. He's like, a lot of people coming and going. Man, I just saw a still photo of the roast.

Oh, and Heyman was Heyman was up and it was like, you know, fluffy Hinchcliffe, of course, McAfee. I'm not sure who else you couldn't totally see. But I was like, uh, if, if they end up sending me to the Gulag, they're probably going to fucking, you know, pry my eyeballs open, like, like clockwork, clockwork orange and make me watch this fucking thing. Cause there's nothing that sounds worse. Right. Heyman doing his roast. Jesus Christ. Let me explain comedy to you. Hey, um,

Oh, she fought. I'm sorry. I'm still trying to figure out where we've seen the Fakur. I don't know that I've been to a, have I been to a forbidden door? Uh, no. Yeah, she wrestled Monet. The first one. um it looks to be 2024 oh no that was last year so no yeah but that's where that's where monet got the strong women's title you're thinking monet monet yeah because that's when she came back from injury right around that time who fucking knows oh who even fucking knows

Monet, Monet, Monet. I mean, it is so funny that I'm like, you put the horns on her head and I'm like, oh, she's like, I'm like, it's like the glasses on Clark Kent. I'm like, where did Superman go? It's like Jesse Pop without his cowboy outfit. Where's that stud that was just here taking pictures with fans? Oh, what a dummy.

He puts on his... Well, but I mean, I don't know. I guess... yeah i don't know i see it both ways i also see it going like oh let me just go put my regular clothes on i'm gonna you know like not thinking like oh this is my superpower that's why he's a dummy no no no Um, let's go all the way back to Thursday. Oh yeah. Remember that? We fly in. Holy Thursday. And, uh, what'd they call that?

I think, I assume they call it Holy Thursday. I don't know. Well, you'd know better than me. You had that, you had that education. Well, that's just, you know, you figure, eh, that's a safe bet. It's probably Holy. He comes rolling in on Palm Sunday and he's like, why are you guys cheering me? You're going to be booing me by the end of this thing. Um, Defy. Okay. I need to listen to this because I was like, I'm like, I'm not going to remember this.

But I'm going to record it so I can hear it back. Okay, hold on. I'm going to play it into my ear. Play it in your ear. okay real quick battle in the valley we saw her at battle in the valley she fought viva van in uh last year 2024 I'm starting to think. Facial blindness? No, it's...

It is... No, no, no. I'm... starting to think viva van isn't very good at professional wrestling i feel like i've heard you say that before well that's not a new sentiment i feel like every time she she comes out i'm like oh viva van and then the match goes on i'm like um the the female ring announcer for defy i don't know who this person was We went to the 11 a.m. DeFi show. I think if we missed the first match, we caught an angle that was coming out of it.

This is the way she announced. You remember this? Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. Scheduled for one fall. Coming to the rig. Kenta. Okay. Yes. At the pyramid in 2023, Monet. Defeats Stephanie Bakur. So that was her first match in that pay-per-view. And then she got, I think she got hurt in the Willow match. So the decision was made to put Willow over and Willow won the women's strong title. It's so funny because I knew that I'd seen her, but then I was like...

It's so funny that it was just the horns throwing me off. I'm like, unless she wore the horns then, I don't remember. Yeah. You know, the, the only other strange thing, and I'm, I'm sure, uh, there's some folks who can tell us, but is that defy announcer woman? Is that, is she like a regular defy announcer? Because halfway through they just, they yanked her. Yeah.

but she was like going so hard on that uh it was so embarrassing yeah it was pretty rough coming up next why am i talking like this yeah i wanted to i wanted to run into her in the hallway and just like get her get her speaking voice because i was gonna what what if you're like Oh, Hey, great job out there. Thank you. And you're like, Oh, okay. I guess that's just how you should speak. I really appreciate that. I'm going to hit the slot machine.

I'm going to head over to the West gate. They have a Dracula slot machine. I liked the... Who are these guys? Susumu. Yokosuka. Were we still on the Defy show? Yeah. They were the tag team. One of the dudes was doing a stripper gimmick. That I enjoyed. I love a male stripper. What are you going to do? What are you going to do, Vince? Judge me? At some point during this show, Casey showed up, right? He met up with us during Defy, I believe. Yes, he came rolling in. We had already...

Uh, found our dear friend, Carlos rocker, Mike Avila, ex Avila. Everything was happening. Um, yeah, we ran into, uh, the knees. I mean, it was all going down. Yeah. I, uh, when we tried to check in. Vince, you've got to give all credit to Georgia Hardstar. She'd been telling you for years at Vegas. Well, not in Vegas. She generally has heard. Yeah. Like if you, if, if you, you know.

If you tip the person checking you into the hotel, sometimes they will... upgrade your room and and i had previously thought like oh yeah but what if what if they're just like what you know but but again if you're staying at the desk

whether or not anything's going to happen and someone's like oh here this is for you like it's not gonna i can't imagine something to be like what the fuck are you doing they'll just be like thank you and then not do anything or do it but anyway right so i finally i was like because the woman at the west gate was like oh do you want to like one of our rooms that's been like redone or however she said it i was like oh it sounds like they got some fucking trash rooms here right and uh

And I was like, how much is that? She's like, oh, it's like 30 more bucks a night. And I'm like, that's all right. And then, and maybe this is what helped because it wasn't like, it wasn't really a transaction that way. I was just like, okay. And then she like put my key down, started to do your room. And then I just like, I just gave her a 20. I was like, oh, this is for you. She's like, oh.

well, let me get you a better room. Yeah. So then she just like sorted all our rooms out. And we, I found out at least in one regard, cause there's a point where Koharski is like, oh vince how are you even able to stand up in the shower in this place and i'm like right it sounds like you must and i got a fucking better room they must know the old showers must have been uh like uh you know five foot six or something i don't know but

I mean, clearly they still have rooms that are untouched from when Elvis was playing at the Westgate. perhaps yeah and uh it's that like the other thing about vegas and to your point when you text me yesterday like It's there's just, you know, everything's more expensive. Everything is. uh there's just an intensity and and there is just an overarching smell you know because westgate like i didn't see a lot of people actively smoking but you just get the whatever residual.

Right. At one point I was up in my room changing at the end of the day. And as I'm pulling my t-shirt off, I was like, what the fuck is that? And I realized I stunk like cigarettes. I was like, I haven't had a shirt stink like cigarettes since. You know, they banned smoking in like New York City. Yeah. You know? Yeah, I didn't really pick up that so much, but there is just like a...

There's something to it. And yeah, the, the one, the only, the only big, my, my old factory is not great, but the guy, the guy sitting next to me, both nights of mania, he was stinky. Yeah. Which I haven't had, I haven't been able to pick that up on somebody in a while. So he must've really been. Been pretty funky, but, uh, I didn't even want to bring it up to you, but at one point you, you were gone. You would either gone to the, to the pisser or to the, to the refreshment stand.

He stood up and he full on. stuck his whole hand into the backside of his pants. Oh, no. And I'm like, what? I'm just sitting there. I'm just like, what are you doing? Yeah. I was watching him eat that popcorn at one point and I was like, good God, man.

Good God, man. It's just... It's self-care. It's self-care. Everybody deserves a shower. Everybody deserves a shower. No, yeah, everybody's nice. No, no, no. I'm only saying this to say... all day i will take whatever was going on with that dude because we had no there was no there was no around this no one was saying stupid shit no one was doing stupid shit like we were really in a fucking good spot you know yeah We were in a great fucking spot. Yeah. Um,

Kenta and Mance had a nice little match. It was great to see Clark Connors as well at Defy. Then we hit up the buffet again. It's like 140. They're like, the buffet closes at two. We're like, that's all the time we need. Yeah. But then it turns out she's like, well, they don't start breaking down the trays till two 30. It's just, she's like, they won't, they'll stop like refreshing or whatever. I'm like, all right, well, we're not here for a long time, baby.

Then we went over to the WrestleCon Super Show at 3pm, the March Mark Hitchcock Memorial Show. Bit of a letdown this year. As far as just the show itself. Well, again, it is, you know, that's the show where you expect, um, some greatest hits or a mix of everything or, you know. The match that always stands out in my mind is like Jerry the King Lawler versus Joey Ryan when he was, you know, Joey was at the height of his, you know.

indie run was doing the the women's wrestling thing you know was the the total creep and then lala just comes out and shoots him in the crotch with a fireball and it's like that that's the perfect WrestleCon super show match but then they would have like the Kingo you know or there's like And they did. They had some of that. Well, they had the Wagner family versus the base god and Ares with the eyeball in his hand.

somebody was on my case because I'm like because I do I'm perfectly open about it I find Lucha Libre to be it can grow quite tiresome I mean I've clearly, I'm running on empty now because the only time you see it maybe is at, um, um but it was overkill when it was you know pwg and it was just like really what i realized it's it's just seeing the same fucking guys over and over again i'm like it loses all of its meaning um But like, you know, Wagner Jr., um...

wagner jr jr and then also uh um galeno del mal is just you know 23 years old just a an absolute favorite of of of the podcast That was one of the only times we were sitting in our assigned seats at the Pearl. The Pearl is the theater at the Palms. I don't know what it is, if it's the armrests are just too close together, but like standing up in those seats.

was just murder for me and it wasn't even like you're sitting there and I'm squashed in the chair it was having to stand up and just pass it through my hips or something I don't know what it was And then we had Butterbean, of course, in the big Butterbean-Suzuki match. The WrestleCon Super Show was the only time that we had like... They weren't even dipshits. They were just talking too loud behind us. At one point, Casey referred to him as Francis from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

What was the show though? Cause there, that's the same guy. Yeah. When we weren't in our, these, this is when we weren't in our seats, he was kind of down to our left and he was like, well, we, halfway through the super show we were like let's just go back up and hang out with oh right with the avilas yeah um but like blood sport it was like there's no choice we have to be in our seats because this one no no no excuse me um uh the the yeah spring break was like we have no choice

But it's just, it's, you know, you're either going to get one of like three different obnoxious fans. The guy who thinks he's being funny, who's just the worst. But is also getting laughs. Right. Which only encourages the dipshittery. You're going to get the aggressive jerk off, or you're going to get the guy who talks really loud to make sure you know how much he knows about wrestling. And that's...

But it's like, ah, that guy always winds up saying something that you're like, ah, do you even watch this shit? Like, what do you, what was that? You know? But whatever. But once Butterbean came through to Kurt. Holy shit. Holy shit. It was like, I almost, because remember, I was sort of like, should we go? Right, because we figured the Zack Sabre tag was going to be the semi-main.

yeah but i can't remember what i was trying to do in between that and blood sport maybe just eat or something because i was like ashley we just like uh well we wanted to get over to wrestlecon uh because that was the only day bret hart was going to be there oh that's right that's right

And, uh, but it was like, ah, there's only two more match, whatever. And, and like the whole thing, the whole thing was like, let's, we got to see butter bean. I don't think anyone was like, this match is going to, because the other thing is that we've talked about is. you know, Suzuki, it's just, we've seen it too many times now, you know, that's it. The bloom is off the rose and it's been off for a little while. It's like Suzuki's just another indie guy now. Yeah. You know,

Uh, and so when Butterbean appeared, it was like, oh boy. And then when he was having trouble getting down the stairs to the ring, it was really, oh boy. Yeah. And then they tried to have a match. And then the bell rang. And then it was like, oh boy. And they were like, we're going to do rounds. They announced that they were going to do rounds and then a rest period in between the rounds. There was no break at the end of the first round. Immediately, because...

There was no announcement made at the end of that round. Yeah. There was nothing but confusion in the ring. Suzuki just kept working. You know, and then, and then when the bell rang again to start the second round, I think then Suzuki thought, okay, this is the rest period. I'm like, this is a fucking already. you know, it's that match was going to be a mess and they somehow made it even messier. Yeah. And you had Don Fry on the outside and, um, I don't know who else was out there.

Probably Tank Abbott was out there with him and we didn't realize it was him. There's no way. Just the way that Tank Abbott was moving. If it had been Tank Abbott, even if I didn't know it was him, I'd have been like, this guy looks like... Because he kind of looked like... eric eric the retard from uh howard stern is how tank abbott kind of looked to me He is completely transformed. He is a completely different person. I think...

He must have had... I know you said you get hit in the head, but he just looked like he must have gone through a disease of some kind. Who knows? That's how different he looked. Unrecognizable. Even after they announced it, it's just like, and then, and then seeing him a little, you know, a lot closer up at WrestleCon, it's just like, that ain't the same dude. I mean, if people think they switched out Ultimate Warriors, they switched out Tank Abbott. But definitely two MMA fighters were with...

Right. And then I assume whoever Butterbean's trainer, we were kind of expecting DDP to walk out with him. But after the match had ended, it was like, you know what? I bet you... dallas page was against this he was like he's like butterbeam don't don't do this did he does he done shit with butterbeam Butterbean was in the accountability crib. DDP got him out of the wheelchair apparently. Got him walking again.

So that was a, that was a fucking, uh, an utter mess. Um, completed. Somebody asked me if it got a star. I'm like, that thing, that match was a black hole. Yeah. Yeah. Machito and Mickie James attempted to have a sing-off, which was... Well, that was so funny because Mickie James was kind of straight up like... They kind of called me and I was like, I haven't fucking wrestled at all, but sure.

so here like essentially just going like so here's how how i'm gonna kind of do it right wrestle just a little bit then i'm gonna have a little because she's like you know i'm an entertainer so fuck it Uh, let's see. Nice to see Ninja Mac again. He looks like he's put on a few pounds. Ninja Mac and Jack Cartwheel. Well, Ninja Mac. I mean, he's, he was a Noah. I don't know if he still is, but whatever's going on with old Ninja man, like get some new gear.

I'm not saying change. You got to change a whole lot about it, but just like he, you just, yeah. Spend a little money on your, on your gimmick. Get a little, a little something. Um, I mean, that was crazy. Masqueria Dorada, he Huracanranaed Ninja Mac down the steps and then dove off the stage. Because the way that the Pearl was set up is that there was some people... Because they were wrestling in what would be the dance floor, what would be the orchestra. Sure.

And then the main stage where they're going to do a regular show, you know, if Jerry Seinfeld's performing there, that's where they entered from. And they walked down a long staircase. This was the staircase Butterbean was having trouble with. So Seinfeld's not playing that dump. Ninja Mac gets, oh, it's good enough for Elvis. Not good enough for sign.

Then we were at the Palms. Oh, you're right. We were at the Palms. It was good enough for Sammy Hagar, but it wasn't good enough for Seinfeld. That's right. Somewhere, Casey Corbin's ears just perked up in Toronto. He's like, oh, you talking about Sammy? I got to go to Cabo Wabo. I'm still going to get there. Hurricane Ron is him down the steps and then Ninja Mac is on the floor. So there is a good three rows of people between the ringside and the top of the stage.

And Dorada, my God, he ran and just dove. I've never seen this before. Diving over the rows of people. We've seen wrestlers dive into the crowd. Or into empty chairs. But to clear over the top of everyone like Evil Knievel or some shit. Yeah. And imagine how fast then he's coming at you on that dive. Oh, yeah. To have to try to fucking catch him. try not to take, uh, Matt Makowski versus Matt Riddle personally, but, uh, you want to, this was,

I haven't seen a crowd hijack a match like this since pre pandemic, you know, when, when, when everybody hated Roman reigns. Yeah. Um, The crowd could not get over the fact that both wrestlers were named Matt. And then it turned into, it was like, this was the time for... The guy in the crowd who thinks he's funny to shine. And it just snowballed into an avalanche of dueling Matt chants.

You know, cause at first it's like, okay, that's funny. Cause it's like, what Matt are we cheering for? What Matt are we booing? You know, like, let's go Matt. Matt sucks. It's like, okay. But it just wouldn't stop.

It just wouldn't stop. And, and, and you know what riddles in there where we're being forced to watch riddle to a nicer guy. It couldn't happen that the crowd hijacked the match, but I thought I hilarious. I saw a clip that was like, matt riddle like drunk at wrestlecon and this clip is riddle walking like kind of out the main doors and someone's like what's up And I was like... And Matt Riddle goes, I'm drunk. No, but I was like... I'm drunk at WrestleCon.

whatever riddle did say i was like i'm pretty sure that's matt riddle like i've right i've interacted with the dude from recita whatever i'm like I don't, I'm not, I think you might be a little mistaken. This, this is Matt Riddle. Fucking baseline Matt Riddle right here. Pretty sure this is somebody who's only seen Matt Riddle on TV and thinks it's an act.

So then we went over to the WrestleCon. This is at the Westgate where we were staying. What do you think of the Westgate as a connoisseur of Las Vegas casinos? I really liked it. I had been there before for a poker tournament. But as far as the casino itself, I don't know that I've ever had a roulette wheel be that nice to me that many times.

Um, and, uh, I like the fucking those like crazy line of crystal chandeliers and it was very manageable size. Sports book is big, very manageable. Yeah. Like Westgate. Like if you're going to do something like that, where you're kind of like at an outlier, you know, where like, cause West gates by itself sort of. Yeah. As far as casinos go.

I was into it. The room was fine. Even the upgraded room was kind of fine, but everything else is like the casino itself. Well, food options, lack of food options. Although the ones we did eat at were very good. The SIDS for breakfast was fucking outstanding. Excellent. And that taco place, both nice. Also excellent. Pizza was trash. Pizza was inedible. um we didn't go to benihana we didn't make it to the steakhouse or anything like that but but um yeah i i give i give the westgate a thumbs up

I love it. The zoom doesn't do the thumb up icon when he's actually doing it. Only when you're trying. Only when he holds the microphone. Oh, there we go. so immediately we get over to WrestleCon about 5.30pm um Which, looking back now, it went pretty late considering on, I think, Friday they said it closed at 2. Maybe we overheard somebody wrong. Maybe they were just talking about the pro photos. I don't know. No, that was weird. So that Thursday they, they did the.

you know, it was till six or whatever it was. Yeah. You know, they, they, they started like at four to whatever, but then the other, yeah, it was Friday to Saturday to and Sunday one or something like that. And I think they were just working off of. kind of wwe schedule going like well people are gonna smack down they'll be gone you know like who knows but Well, not just similar to...

Was it the WrestleCon in Philadelphia when we rolled down to see Sting? Let's go get that Sting autograph. Yeah, it's Dolph's like, he's gone, dude. He's gone, man. He's been gone for a while. Oh, shit. So Casey Corbin gets on the Bret Hart line, which was extensive. And Bret wasn't even signing shit yet. He was still doing the pro photos. Right. And I made my way over to Sergeant Slaughter to reclaim my Slaughter autograph.

That has gone the way of the Dodo and, um, pretty good. I grabbed the, um, I don't know what one I got before. I'd be curious to see if I picked a different one. Or if I wound up with the same one. But the slaughter autograph... Tell me I lost it already. It's in the other bag. Because I also grabbed this... I'm glad we didn't wind up waiting in line for...

Oh, I guess you did go see Kevin Nash, didn't you? On, um, Saturday I went and saw him, but he was, I caught him at a point where he was like, just being distracted by like. two to three other things so i didn't really get it because i even had a piston shirt on it was like the first day of the playoffs yeah pistons and he was just like what's up you know like there was i couldn't get nothing out of him because uh Apparently, Nash was not signing. Outside. But here's the thing. Item.

Our buddy Wyatt had gotten that belt signed by him. So maybe it was just this specific thing. I couldn't really see what the guy had in his hand. It looked like a... like a a pack of like you know like um action figure where it must have been like maybe nash and other people or whatever it was He wasn't signing that because he signed this belt. So, so maybe it wasn't like a hard, fast rule, but whatever it was, it was like, he's not signing that.

All right. Well, that's interesting because I grabbed the June 1995 issue of WWF magazine and it's got Diesel on the cover you know coming to his friend so I thought oh I'll get him to sign this and then just never wound up getting in the line we'll see him again We'll see him again. So the Slaughter one I got is, uh, he said this was his first promo photo that he ever did with GI Joe. Oh. And, um, he wrote at ease, Matt, Sergeant Slaughter.

I don't know what this says. Look out. Look out, Cobra. That's what he wrote. Look out, Cobra. Yo, Joe. Yeah. Don't be a maggot. And I asked him. what's your favorite movie as you know and and and this is what he said you ready gi joe the movie oh jesus i'm like you heal I came to find out later, Dan Barry had a table next to Sergeant Slaughter, went by to see our favorite officer. He was saying, he's like, oh man.

This fucking carny, the guy running slaughter's table. He's like, people keep walking by and going like, Hey, you better, you better hop on now. He's leaving about 20 minutes. Sarge is about to leave 20 minutes. He's like, he's been doing that for hours. You got to have a Barker for some of this stuff, you know, otherwise you end up sitting there like some of these guys, you can't help, but feel bad for some of these guys, you know, you're like came all the way and then like no one. Yeah.

I was afraid I wanted to, I wanted to stop by and see Ahmed, but I didn't want it to be intercepted by my least favorite, uh, autograph promoter. I know. Well, that was when I went, when Dory Funk Jr. finally showed up on Sunday. It's our second least favorite autograph vendor, the guy that stole our table for Bo Dallas. And I'm standing there and I'm looking at him and I'm like, motherfucker. And then I'm looking at the prices too. And I'm like.

This is so fucking overpriced. The combo for Dory. Yeah. Picture in the autograph. 150. Wow. And I'm like, wow. The fact that it was Dory Funk. that's it that's the only the fact that it's overpriced and it's this fucking you know brodus clay looking motherfucker with his hat on backwards Yeah. You couldn't even go behind the table for the picture. I go, can I go behind the table? He goes, right here. And I'm like.

You are so fucking lucky that this is Dory Funk Jr. Because I would have walked the fuck away from anybody else. Anybody else. Are you kidding me? You fucking piece of shit. Table stealing motherfucker. Eyeballing me. Did you run into anybody when you were walking out of the bathroom at WrestleCon? Oh, no, I wasn't walking out of the bathroom. I was in the line for... I was buying a Gatorade or something and there was a lady in front of me.

And when I got done, I turned away from the register and she was like, can you do me a favor? And I'm like, maybe. And she's like, can you just go in the men's room and yell for Marty Jannetty and tell him his wife is looking for him? And I was like, okay. So I walked in knowing there's no way I'm yelling Marty Jannetty in this bathroom, but I kind of just like kind of poked around.

Uh-huh. Didn't go too deep into the stall area. Cause I was like, I'm not like looking under the stalls and whatever, but. uh and so i kind of just did a loop and came back out and was going to tell her no marty but that marty had already found her and they were walking the other direction but I also, as I told you, I was kind of...

I was like the woman who was like, I'm Marty Gennetti's wife. I was like, you seem a little too put together in my mind. Right. Yeah. Like this, this doesn't totally like, uh, add up for me, but okay. We finally, we were like, well, we're going to go to Bloodsport. Bloodsport starts at 8. We're like, you know, we got to at least... Go put some autographs in the room. Maybe just relax for a moment.

And we're like, and Casey's still on the line for Bret Hart. We're like, Casey, you're going to meet your Canadian hero. We're going to go. Casey stayed. Stood on the line. Finally, when we met up with Casey later. or when Casey met up with us, which I assume was at Bloodsport. Yeah, he just came over a little bit late. He's like, Brett stayed. Brett signed every autograph, took every single picture. They were closing up shop. WrestleCon was closed, and Brett's like, I'm not going.

gonna meet every single one of these people and part of the problem too is casey was behind a few people behind a guy who had what did he say like 60 funko pops some yeah some crazy amount uh which seems fucked up

fucking piece of shit but the great thing was so Casey what he was having Brett sign was a photo that he actually that Casey actually took at a show in 97 in ottawa and it was a picture of brett about the like he was in the process of throwing stone cold into the barricade it looked like And so because of this, you know, He's like, uh, and he blew it up. He blew it up to about eight by 10. Yeah. Yeah. And so Brett's like, where's this from?

when and so then him and brett had a great interaction over that and then uh casey was able to get in there like uh you know i'm uh i'm gonna be at the uh at the yuck yucks in Calgary, uh, in May, whatever. And he's like, uh, Brett's like, I'm not doing anything that weekend. You know, I, I know for a fact I'm free that weekend. So, uh.

Hopefully, uh, Brett's going to get down there and check out Casey in a couple of weeks. I, he's like, and Casey was like, I, I know you're some, some intermediary. He's like, you don't have to give me your contact info, but I know somebody who does have yours. And then Brett probably sitting there thinking like, I feel like I'm the prettiest girl at the dance. Yeah. Right. So 8 PM, we went over to blood sport back at the Pearl at the palms. This was all part of the GCW collective.

This was outside of WrestleMania itself. I would say probably night two was better than night one of Mania. But this was... This was easily the best show of the weekend, you know, blood sport. Yes, I think so. Uh, I mean, I definitely enjoyed spring break, but I think blood sport was probably. From pound for pound, start to finish.

yeah because also we you know we historically have not uh we bounce around a lot we don't done we haven't done blood sport we did a little bit last year in philly but we've never like got in there and watched the whole show and this one just the card just looked really good and so yeah glad we did it because it was it was a great show because we wound up spending a lot of time at WrestleCon which is it's great because that's where you get the stories like

marty jennady's wife or just wandering around in there is is a good time it's such a good time or henry o godwin's uh the guy running his table was like hey hey do the videotapes thing on uh tiktok right can i get a picture with you yeah but um this was the first year we we got to shows before they started and we ended when they left right yep and and we didn't um we also didn't uh we started this last year but we really this year we were just like

I'm, I'm not going to the midnight show. I'm not even going to pretend to go over in the midnight show. I like, I was, I, you know, I mean, there was, there was definitely, at least I didn't look every day, but there was one day we had like 18,000 steps. You know, it's just like, I was just blown out from fucking being there, you know? So, so rather than just trying to, to do, uh,

quality over quantity or whatever you want to say, you know? I mean, I feel like, especially after this weekend, I feel like Remember on Cheers, like that whole season where Cliff Clavin had just gotten back from Florida and all he talked about was his trip to Florida that whole season? I feel like I kept bringing up my orthotics in my shoes where I'm like...

because I'm like texting Glenn. I'm like, my feet aren't tired. My back isn't aching. I'm like, i'm like i'm like i'm tired just from you know i'm like sure at the end of the day i'm like man you know i'm a little worn out but like i took off my shoes just rubbed them on the carpet good to go i'm like these things have changed my life yeah uh because you know like the the uh west side gun

show looked awesome yeah on paper but but also you know people were like oh it got over at like four in the morning or whatever i'm just like yeah we we treated ourselves a lot better and it and it you know equated to a better overall experience the whole weekend Bloodsport, 8pm. Every WWE person or anybody who'd been on TV got all the big pops. who's somebody i don't know what this note is i just wrote charlie And then the word homophobe.

Oh, because... oh right and they started the guy started yelling charlie like he was fucking charlie from the chocolate factory and then they started to get uncomfortable because it wasn't uh you know, suplexes and fucking top rope shit and so they were they started to feel like maybe their sexuality was being questioned because they were sitting there watching it so they had to yell yeah stuff and yeah the dummies in the crowd it was the height of that

That guy and his people being just fucking ridiculous. Because there was one dipshit at Bloodsport. Every single match at some point he would yell, she's weakened. Finish her. Yeah. And it's just like. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. I mean, there was another dipshit. Um, and they were, we had dueling dipshits. Thank God they were in front of us. Dueling dipshits. Thank God they were in front of us.

At one point, somebody gets pushed into the ring apron. He goes, it's the hardest part of the ring. And immediately, somebody in the row in front of us just goes, shut the fuck up. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, of course, like men in speedos rolling around. And the guy's like, oh, twist his dick. Or like, oh, they're rubbing into each other. I'm just like, have you never watched pro wrestling before? Like, you need to get past this, son.

Yeah, that fool's getting a job. Oh my God. Right, right. And he can't fucking deal with it. It was getting to the point where I never said it, but... Because it finally kind of died down. But there was a point where I was getting ready to yell, men are touching each other and I'm uncomfortable. Yeah, right. Some bitches. Shut the fuck up. Alright, so the first match of the weekend that I gave a star to is Natty Neidhart versus Mayu.

fucking phenomenal. This should be Natty's new gimmick. She should just be the... the the technical monster you know none of this cat lady bullshit none of this whole like just black outfit hair tight up tight just out there to fucking kick somebody's ass this was easily yeah easily the best natty match i'd ever seen well yeah and and then what happens right is

The post-match was so good. Whoever, I don't know the woman's name that attacked her. Well, first of all, it played so legit, it felt like a fan had attacked her. Right. It was such a great deal. I guess to build to her being in the Crockett cup. It was a woman wrestler from NWA. Point being, that will be the thing, I think, to watch. what that's like when it's now pro wrestling again instead of the blood sport thing and see does does she like kind of continue

Or does she just go back and do the pro wrestling thing? Because anyone doesn't know the way that they do blood spore this show is, I mean, do they only do it many a weekend or does it show up other times? No, they've done it other times in Japan. It's like a work shoot promotion. It's like UWFI. They take down the ring ropes. You can only win by submission or knockout. or ref stoppage, let's face it.

It's much more of a mat-based wrestling. They really do make it a hybrid. It feels like a work shoot where there's some legitimate wrestling taking place. And I love the gimmick they do up top, the opening of the show. They introduce all the performers, all the wrestlers. They come out into the ring and they all line up in order of the card. all the way up to the main event.

It's just the energy, the attitude, just the booking of it. It's just fantastic. Bringing all the competitors out at the beginning and introducing them and everything. The presentation is really cool. Now they did, they run down the, the, the rules, the blood sports specific rules up top. And one of the rules is. You cannot attack your opponent after the mat.

Meaning I would assume a reversal, a reversal one. And then, yeah. And Natty did attack by you after the match. And I was like, this is bullshit. Yeah. That decision should be reversed. Because nine out of ten matches... Everybody that was associated with WWE. you know, or a WWE, like, cause there were contracted WWE talent, like Karen cross was in a match. Sure. There's the WWE ID folks, you know, there's people for, you know, every, I think.

I think only one of them actually lost, but it was like, kind of like you had your two matches where it was WWE person versus a stardom person. And it seemed like that was the only logical. explanation i could see that it was like okay stardom gets one the e gets the other yeah um i'll be you'll be right back This was not the main event. The main event was Josh Barnett and Gabe Kidd, which was a lot of fun. And Gabe Kidd was, he was really the only one really playing up pro wrestler.

Everyone else was very much, much more of, you know, like, like Karrion Kross had a gi on that he took off at one point, but fighting Kratos, Mr. Kratos. Mr. Kratos, we got to change that water fountain. The water cooler. Got to get a new jug on there. But Jonathan Gresham versus Zack Sabre Jr. also gets a star. Just these two are custom built. lineup, you know, just...

Absolutely fabulous. And each match, 50-minute time limit. And they do it the way that I prefer, the way that they do it in Japan, where they keep updating you every five minutes, how much time has elapsed. I feel like that is a... It's such a useful tool for telling the story of pro wrestling because it's like... Think of how many WWE matches that they're like, oh, a time limit draw. It's just like, what the fuck? When's the last time they even did a time limit draw in WWE?

You know, unless it's an Ironman match, because it's like, what's the time? Oh, there's a time limit. What's the time limit? It's like. You're making it harder for yourself. You're making it harder for yourself when you start taking away rules. Because the rules in pro wrestling are what gives you those barriers that you can bump against and actually book something interesting. So Gresham and Sabre Jr., they went all 50 minutes. Then they added a five-minute, you know, sudden death, you know.

whatever they called it when they went into overtime. And God, what a great finish. I'm still working on, I had 155 pictures and videos that I was trying to post onto the Patreon. Oh yeah. And like my computer was just, or Patreon itself was just like, you can't do that. take it easy so it's gonna take me a minute to to to get everything up i kind of have to post them which will be easier to look at just posting it like i mean hey listen man google drive maybe just drop a drop a fucking

Oh, you know what? You're so right. I'll just do that. I'll send you my stuff. Great. So Gresham and Sabre, another star. Fabulous. Then we won a ping-pang-pong, or at least we thought that's where we were going.

yeah it's funny so i had been looking up like what what there was to eat around the palms uh and there uh there's the real right there and there's the hotel whose name i can never remember um oh the gold fortune or the gold golden the gold uh golden treasure no but anyway so i was like uh I was like, oh, this ping-pong-pong place looks good. And I was like, oh, in my mind, it was one of the ones that I had seen in the Rio. So we start this fucking journey.

Um, we'd hooked up with Ashley and Jerry at this point. Yep. And some friends of theirs, I think.

track was tagging along although he was headed to another show right was snyder there already no and then we so we we make our way over the rio like 10 minute walk or something only to find out that ping pong pong is actually in this other casino so at that point actually jerry's friends peaced out and track was oh that's right gone and so we finally and it was great once we got there but we just had to take a little detour uh real good yeah Um, I already told me when we were walking in.

uh the restaurant somebody at one of the tables like when i walked past they were behind me that they said the guy leaning the girl that guy's famous oh yeah yeah ping pong baby it was rocking and rolling place to be yeah i'd do it again i would eat there again oh i loved it And then we called it. We called it, dude. We had done all we could do.

Day two, Friday, we woke up. We got some coffee. Shane Douglas was waiting for coffee. And we're standing there going, like, the franchise doesn't wait for coffee. You wouldn't think so. You get your coffee first. You're like, Shane, I want you to have this. The franchise. And then we walked around WrestleCon a little bit. We walked past the security guard at the Westgate explaining to somebody how he knew wrestling was fake. Day one, we're walking by. Actually, we were driving in.

And I heard a mom really aggressively laying into her daughter like, it's all fake. The whole thing's at work. It's completely staged. I'm just like... jesus christ like wait a minute she may we don't know for sure she may have been talking about the trump assassination she might have been talking about the roulette table yeah you know uh yes it was uh and and so but straight away

There was a huge line going into WrestleCon. Oh, yeah, just to get in the room. But Maddie had remembered from the day before that there were these two other rooms on the side, and so we just walked straight over there where no one... was, was at, and we just, uh, poked around that they've had these side rooms with like about four people in each, um, including your Olympic hero. Kurt Angle. Yeah, we got right into Kurt Angle because he had no one yet. And you know...

This is, I mean, it is a testament, obviously. But like every time we go to one of these things and the Hardy boys are there. Their line is fucking out the yin yang and it stays that way. And it's, it's like, on one hand, I'm just going like, who hasn't got it yet? Who hasn't met him yet? Because that is the thing.

You walk into a room and it's like, all right, there's Arne, there's Valentine, there's Lawler. It's just like, yeah, it is. It's like trading baseball cards. It's need it, need it, got it, got it, got it, got it, need it, got it, got it, got it. But there's also like.

Casey and I were in an elevator with this they seemed like they were a family or something but this one guy he's like oh who's down there and we're like oh so and so so and so tyson was there whatever and then casey got off and i for some reason i go oh hardy's he goes both

I go, yeah. He goes, oh fuck. I'm going down. I'm going down. Like that was like his, he was like, oh shit. The Hardy boys are down here. Like I'm, I'm about to fucking get back down on this elevator. You know? So. i feel like i've always and still obviously to this day underestimated how big the Hardy boys are, how big Jeff Hardy is, you know? Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Because if it was just Matt, it's not going to be that line. If it's just Jeff...

It's probably still going to be that big line. Right. Why would it give the thumbs down? Like, why is it doing it now? I don't know, but it's so insane. Uh, and you know, I don't, I feel like we've had this conversation before, but as far as like people who have. Like not, not wasted fortunes, but, but like, like fuck themselves. Jeff Hardy has to be at the top of the list.

Because at that point, when we saw him at that Royal rumble in Detroit, like that's, that's around the time where it's like, that dude is massive and the switch is going to get flipped. But he fucks himself, you know, like he, what do you mean? I mean, like, you know, he. has the fucking feds raid his house because they think he's fucking distributing pills because he's getting so many delivered right you know like he is behaving in ways where they're like fuck like

the crowd is saying we need to fucking strap a rocket. But unfortunately, We can't trust this guy to strap the rocket. You know what I mean? So like he still ends up in the people's minds, this guy. and and his line will be long forever but as far as like the money he could have made or how much bigger he could have even become is not so because of him, because of himself, you know, in spite of himself, in spite of himself. Yeah. Uh, made our way over to the Sandman.

And it was one of those things where we're walking around and we're like, we ever get a picture with the Sandman? I don't think we have, you know, I think we're due. And he was, um, he was putting on a show at Russell con. He was, you know, glad hand and everybody chit chatting with everybody. I mean, there was there was one dude like a young kid like what like 15 17 you know um in a Seemingly authentic ECW jacket, like an old fashioned, like purple and black ECW jacket that salmon was.

over the moon about and like gave the guy uh like autographed a toy and gave it to him for free you know type of thing but the kid was also like just going like that match you had with and he was just like as if he had only you know it's like when we used to joke about

jack to pro wrestling you would just start him as if like what pro wrestling even was was like mid south or something you know i mean like not even being like there is this other wrestling that still exists that's on tv it's almost as if this kid was

that's all he knew ecw is what he was given and that's all he you know yeah but um yeah for a single photograph of the sandman i don't know if it's the tariffs or what but everyone everyone's price was up yeah everyone i feel like there was like a someone found out like oh

this guy's doing 40 40 80 okay then i'm doing 40 40 80 you know uh same man's favorite movie uh training day or gladiator to to sandman's credit uh he did spend a lot of time with us talking and we even talked about like who was gonna win senior cody and why and uh he had so much concealer on. It was borderline cough. Oh my. Like when you're up close to the Sandman, it's like, holy shit. He is caked. Yeah.

I was wearing a Michael Myers Halloween t-shirt. And he's like, he's like looking at my shirt. he's like i'm like what is it he's like i'm trying to figure out what's going on with this shirt who is this i kind of pull over my jacket i'm like it's from a little movie called halloween you ever seen it he goes i don't like horror movies i don't like horror movies then he leans in close to us he goes

I feel like horror movies are just for black people. They all start screaming in the theater. Let's get this picture, Sandman. Thank you. Our faces. Me and Vince just kind of side on each other, wide-eyed, like, holy shit. And then I... And then as he's saying that it's just hanging in the air, I go, well, that's, that's a take. Oh boy. Sam, man. And then he put the cane around our necks. And we got out of there. Yep. Uh,

Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross were upstairs signing things. Casey brought up a nice card, like a... Yeah. As if someone had like. put it onto a plaque, you know, like had sealed it onto a plaque. You'd almost expect to see this at one of those stores in the mall where it's a cover of a Thor comic, but it's on wood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was the card for some show in, I guess, Memphis. Yeah.

Uh, with, you know, Lawler and, and Kaufman and, um, Casey got Lawler to sign it, but not before Jim Ross was like, well, let me take a look at that. And he's just inspecting and like looking at all the names and stuff. beautiful thing those are the moments where you just like you know like brett being like where where where's this where's this picture taken how'd you get this you know uh Yeah. You, you can't like Sandman.

It's the same guy at the autograph table that you see walking through the arena with the beers. Yeah. Gabe Kidd, you couldn't find somebody more diametrically different. then the guy in the ring and the guy at the merch table he was so sweet so friendly so friendly so so you know gregarious and just yeah

And that was the stumper of all stumpers. He's like... oh god that's a tough one i mean like willow nightgale sit next to him she's kind of like looking like what's he gonna say um kip saban is at the next table kip stopped like took off his glasses and leaning forward he's just like It's a tough one, huh? He's like, as he's like trying to go, it's got this. And I think, and he's like, this is your favorite movie.

So this is your favorite movie. This is your absolute favorite movie. And he's like, it's the first movie Christian Bale did after Batman. And I just start naming every Christian Bale movie I can think of, like to the point where I almost said Newsies, where I'm like, I don't know what it could be.

and then finally it dawns on him he's like it's got uh casey affleck and uh you know somebody else too out of the furnace never heard of it no google it i'm looking at the poster and he's naming like big names that are in it And he's like, oh, yeah, it's good. It's a good time. It's a good time. I mean, it's not. It's upsetting and depressing, but it's a real good movie. Fuck. All right. Oh, did I say Kurt Angle? Kurt Angle's favorite movie? Rocky. Yeah. Makes sense.

So at this point it's, it's getting to be about 10 30 and we're like, Are we going to rush over to Tokyo Joshi for 11 or are we going to pivot and just take our time, go to stardom at noon? Yep. And that's what we did. The meat. is the name of the venue where this was at. And we'd already heard at this point. They are not selling merch at this venue and they are not selling any concessions, not even water. Yeah. And holy shit.

this was a tiny room that could have benefited from a few glasses of water. Sure. I mean, I was beside myself that they at least had a bathroom. Great show. Minashera Caro was there. Clark Carners. DHC were in a mixed tag. Uh, Connors at one point tosses the dude into the chairs right near us. And, uh, I go to give him the two suite. He's like, turn it around. Turn around. War dogs now. War dogs now. The hate group I guess is the ultimate heel group in stardom.

They attacked the president of stardom. And this guy is not... I mean, I don't know his story. He didn't seem like he was a worker. Just some guy in a suit. They beat the shit out of him. At one point, Vince goes, this feels like a police matter. sure sure seemed like it to me a lot of fun uh been a minute since probably well since last year since we were at a stardom show we saw one at the ecw arena

Went over to our favorite toy store. We got ourselves some chili dogs. Got ourselves some pizza. That pizza place is great. The Evil Knievel pizza. Evil pie. Evil pie. It's funny. That's Carlos's favorite. uh place in all of las vegas and uh when i went there last summer uh my pizza when i got it wasn't hot Oh, and so I had been talking about talking shit about evil pie ever since, but they made it right. They made it right.

7 p.m. Spring break. Yeah. Um... waiting for this huge pop i'm talking about like when uh because they they had uh violences forever versus uh pace and uh you know his his original partner um Radrick had been injured and so it's going to be a mystery partner and it's one of these things where I'm like It's just such hokey pro wrestling to have a tag team match just start and we're still waiting for the mystery partner.

Cause like violence is forever is already in the ring and then pace comes out and then the bell rings and it's just like, Oh, I guess. You know, I'm supposed to believe, oh, I guess he's decided to just fight them on his own. By himself, yeah. It's one thing if we do it as a gift, because it's also, it's like... well, who's this shitty partner that's just letting his guy get beat up for seven or eight minutes? It's just...

There's so much fractured logic along the way. Yep. And so then finally Jordan Oliver comes out, and I guess he's coming back from injury. There's so much pausing and waiting for this like huge pop that just never comes, you know, and, and, and the, and there's nothing worse. Then baby faces aggressively asking the crowd to cheer for them. You're right. Like.

you see it so much now in pro wrestling like them doing that like that gesture with their with their hands where they cup their fingers together and they're just kind of doing that come here come here come on like they're like come on come on come on cheer cheer cheer it's like fuck you Do something to make me cheer, you know, figure out anything to get me invested in you. I mean, that, that used to be that, that's like.

It's no longer sarcastic. Like Johnny Carson used to do that underneath the camera. like as a joke sure sure sure you know yeah no there's they're sincerely doing it like come on cheer for me what the fuck is wrong with you it's like this ain't on me dude right right totally um dr wagner jr was there megasus was there megan bain she popped up a couple of times during the weekend

hell of a fucking athlete my god yeah no i i don't know i don't know her background but it's like this this is someone who yeah that feels like they were a division one athlete no question right not to jim ross you Atticus Coger and Fuego I mean you want to talk about somebody who Fuego could not have been less endearing at every point. And they did such a great job showing the packages, recapping the feud.

uh before every match and i'm like i couldn't be less on this guy's side and then he loses his mask comes off like a dork. He's so upset about the loss that he starts taking off his boots. can't unlace his boots he can't get the boots off i'm like you are jobbing to your own footwear And then he leaves his boots in the ring and then puts out a tweet.

I'm going to be signing things at Russell Con with my mask on. Last time you were going to see me. It's like, no, you lost the mask. Atticus has your mask. Can't put it back on for a meet and greet. He gave it back to you? Is this a different mask? Get out of here, you fucking... Jobber. You gotta be joking me. You're brony. Mance, Warner, and Gabe Kidd. Arms and macaroni.

I mean, that one had to rank on the Moodle scale. The amount of blood that was like actively squirting out of Mance Warner. That was. Yeah. The old manster. He must've hit an artery. Jesus H Christ. The Senior Scramble. This was...

You had to be over 55, I believe? That's right. They had to be over 55. Well, I guess a bunch of people dropped out. Two people. Two people dropped out. Wildfire and... one other guy and that's why bestia 666 was in there and also robert gibson those were the two replacements apparently they wanted more money they got going and then uh Oh, the Warlord was supposed to be in the screen. Yeah, Warlord and Tommy Rich. Oh, Doug Gilbert, not Tommy Rich?

Tommy Rich, Doug Gilbert, and the Warlord. This is according to Fightful. Tommy Rich and Gilbert were pulled because they wanted double their money and Warlord was pulled because he went to the Hall of Fame instead. Also, we're walking through the hotel. at the west gate and walked past only heard a snippet of the conversation but kevin nash was talking to the powers of pain

And it sounded like barbarian was being very apologetic to Nash about something. Like it's, I was like, I was like, it feels like he's, he's, he's like, he's like, no, no, no. I was completely wrong. I'm really sorry about. And you hear Nash just going like, I don't give a shit, man. Fine with me. Sabu versus Joey Janela in the final match. The final Sabu match. Final Sabu match in a barbed wire, no ropes. deathmatch and this was If this does, I hope this is Sabu's last match because.

He does not have anything left to prove. He certainly does not need to do another one of these. Well, I think, I feel like it probably will be because he just, he hasn't been working. I think he knows that he just, or doesn't, whatever it is. But yeah, and so especially coming off of. the interview that we did with him on our patreon uh when sabu got to the ring and started just like yelling at the ref

And yelling at, uh, at MO, at anybody who was there. He was really upset that there were no ring steps. He seemed like he was pretty fucking, uh, he was praying it out or something. And so it was like, oh, he just seemed unwell. And he was in a suit. Agitated and upset wearing a white suit. um so we didn't know but but you know they whatever it was they got them they got them going yeah

They got him going. Joey was terrific. This was the best match that these two could have had together. It really worked out for what it was. It felt like at a couple of points... Because again, they replaced the ropes with barbed wire. And then outside of the ring, there were a couple of, you know, just flat pieces of wood with tufts of barbed wire on it. And then the other side of the ring was like. A spider web kind of. Yeah, like a little structure, almost just like.

filled with barbed wire. Yeah, just a hollow square, a hollow cube full of barbed wire as well. So I think the first thing was when Sabu went like kind of head first into that spider web and then had to like kind of battle himself out of it. Was that that or was it the first thing out? The first thing was it felt like Usually in these barbed wire matches, you tease it a couple of times where you go to Irish whip the guy into the barbed wire and they stop.

And that first one, it felt like Sabu was supposed to stop and he just couldn't. And he just went into the fucking barbed wire. Right. Which was nasty. And also in these matches, you don't usually have like the referee and just other people handling the barbed wire with their bare hands. But anyway. Right. And then again, it felt like Sabu was supposed to stop. before he got tossed into the spider web of barbed wire. And again, he just went straight into it head first.

He was having trouble getting it off himself. It was in his hair. I mean, it was horrifying. It was horrifying. But then they had a door kind of propped up on like the first or second rope. Right. And he... We went in to take the door and the whole thing just left the ring and he folded up on the back of his neck on the floor outside. Yeah. I mean, it was just one thing after. So those are the, it was like, holy fucking shit.

yeah and it was like when when that and when that happened when he went out like that on his yeah it was like okay is this what's happened is he dead is he could he be able to even right and i think that's when fonzie came down They started to sort of bring... Yeah. Fonzie came out, not Henry Winkler, Bill Alfonso, with the whistle. And then... Again, it felt like Sabu was like, fuck this, I'm going home. And Fonzie had to be like, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to finish this thing. Come on.

talking them down. And then Sandman came out. Then the lights went out and enter Sandman played in its entirety. As always, it gave Sabu a lot more time to think about leaving because Sandman was like... I'm going to take about 20 minutes on this, if you don't mind. They might have played the Metallica song twice. He walked the entire room and felt like pouring beer into people's mouths and shit.

finally gets down into the ring starts beating the shit out of you know whoever the heels are you know joey janela's down there you got all these other fucks barbed wire bumps i mean this thing was i gave it a star this was pure

hardcore spectacle it was spring break dude it was this was every because i mean like certain shows it's like okay you know the wrestlecon super show it's not exactly what we've come to expect The WrestleMania main event on night two, not exactly what we've come to expect. This is exactly what you want from Joey Janela's spring break. They delivered. They gave us Sabu versus Joey. Yeah. And they fucking over delivered. Yeah.

A site. Don't forget. There's no way Joey Janela's arm is okay. No, you know, no, he, he, he like. you don't just waltz into a medical supply place and get one of those like arm braces where it's just like you cannot move this arm this thing must stay stationary and heal unless you announced a match that you have to be. Um, Then we made our way over to our favorite spot in Las Vegas, Pops Cheese Steaks. Oh, yeah. That was fucking great.

Yeah. Nice little window there. You're sitting outside. It wasn't as blustery as our previous experience. And no recent fires. Nothing had happened. yeah and uh and also to our uh experience with sandman being so friendly and effusive and then uh uh the whatever the late show was i believe is when um Carlos Sandman sat down like in front of them and he said hello Mr. Sandman and Sandman said fuck you just he was off the clock yeah

Saturday morning, we get up, we go to Sid's breakfast. Dynamite, as always. Every time. Head over to WrestleCon. Um, I had been waiting for Tully Blanchard until he set up at a table with his daughter, Tessa. Like a floor below Arne Anderson and his son, Brock Anderson. These things, they got to work out all the politics when they place these people. No kidding. And Tess even said it. She goes.

We should have all been at the same table. I don't know what the fuck's going on. Got myself a... Because I was waiting for a Brain Busters picture. Sure enough, got that. Got myself a photograph with Tully Blanchard. Honestly, when we both did this, And we went from Tully to Arn. And when that had happened, I had wished that we started with Arn because Arn had like one or two photos I probably would have chose over what Tully was running.

Oh, of the Brain Busters? Yeah. I didn't notice. I mean, I did notice... arn anderson essentially signing his autograph in crayon yeah um bit of a scribble there bit of a scribble but whatever whatever i'm gonna complain that i got to meet a legend several times over former co-worker who wouldn't remember me if i punched him in the face um Went and saw my old friend Celeste Bonin, a.k.a. Caitlin from NXT Redemption. We saw the Hardys walking through, looking rough.

Yeah, Hardy's never answered the bell at 9 a.m. when WrestleCon opened. They would wait for their line to get pretty good before they fucking turned up. Uh, Casey went over to the, uh, acolyte protection agency, uh, seemingly not to get anything autographed, just to talk to Ron Simmons about CFL football.

yeah and i guess he just lucked out that ron's very nice and there was no line ron is very very nice jbl seemed completely confused as to why are we talking to this mark if he's not paying us right um Then Casey couldn't find his cell phone. Yes. Which is a typical occurrence with our old friend Corbini. And what did Ron Simmons say to him? Did you retrace your steps? Damn. Can you retrace your steps? Found it in his room. And then we rested up. Got our heads right.

Went over to WrestleMania 41. Without question, Punk Roman and Seth. Stole that show. Fantastic. Absolutely. That match gets a star.

also just the easiest has to be the easiest in and out of a mania like the bus like getting there and getting home was like nothing it was great and the guy was like as soon as this shows over 30 minutes later this bus is leaving so we're like all right and and he meant it what we were in that bus and it and it was filled up yeah they were like 15 minutes gone you know um

There was a safety woman giving Casey shit because his arm was in the aisle. He's like, I'm standing in front of my seat. Yeah. Like you need to get out of the aisle. Yeah. Look at my feet. My feet is on the other side of the line. I'm sorry that I'm a big guy. Just giving him all sorts of shit. Oh boy. Um, What else happened night one? Jacob.

Oh yeah, Jacob Fatu was fantastic. Great to see him win the title, the US title. Great to see that picture of him and Triple H afterwards. My God. Big time. My God, was that a riot. LA Knight. That's the other guy I'm worried about now. See what are they going to do with him? Yeah. New Day and the War Raiders. Honestly, that match was well wrestled. I enjoyed the tag team moves that they were all doing together. I enjoyed both those teams.

But a few minutes into that match, I was like, these guys, they have to be thanking their lucky stars that that didn't wind up on SmackDown. Yeah. There was no reason that was that man yet. Jade Cargo and Naomi. Not good. Jade's not good. Jade Cargo has been wrestling for how long now? Since 2020? No, she's been in WWE for two years. She's been wrestling since... 2021. Yeah. Not good. El Grande Americano and Ray Phoenix in his big WrestleMania debut or WWE debut, really. It's good.

Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair. I had high hopes for that match. I feel like Charlotte is just covered in ring rust and these two did not mesh. i felt like the story of the match was their extensions getting all mushed together i'm like that's that's the way that they're wrestling i'm like and tiffany got whacked in the head she had a giant contusion on her head she had like clearly like whacked a tooth out i mean Entrance was amazing. The Barbie dream house.

fucking unbelievable let's be straight up though i mean it's not as if tiffany is having uh matt classics uh if tiffany has somebody to work with she can have herself a good match but yeah those two it was oil and water from where i was sitting i mean but also it just seems like it it has been this whole time like the two of them there was there's no chemistry no and uh the crowd was was behaving in a way you know, that for some, that's the other thing I don't totally understand. I mean, I know.

I realize that Charlotte is sort of maybe being positioned in a way that they're like, no, not you anymore. It's a real fucking go away vibe on her. That's not going to help, you know? Absolute Xbox heat on Charlotte. I mean, she was being booed and not for effective heel work. Yeah. What else happened? That was night one. Then we got the fuck out of there. Had a couple drinks with Fonzie. That's right. We went to the Westgate bar.

Security guard at the hotel wanted to see my room key when we went to the elevators. He's like, do you have your room key? Yes, I do. He's like, may I see it? I pull it out. Then we walked past and I made a face at him. Oh, we didn't even. At some point, Friday night.

1,400 people checked into that hotel. Yeah, there was a volleyball thing and a cheerleading thing, and it became overrun. That front desk, it looked like... security at the airport i mean it was and it never let up i mean in the middle of the night People were lined up in like a snake looping around waiting to get checked in. It was madness. Yeah.

yeah but they even asked for my key like the next day they start like intermittently there would just be someone there but we were like all right something happened uh but we uh we had some some cocktails with the Then we went and got tacos. That's right. Um, and then maybe my only regret of the entire weekend was that I went to bed instead of hanging out, uh, with cause Casey fucking got a little rip snorted and I'm sorry I missed it.

Having himself some white Russians at one o'clock in the morning. And some tequila. He had some Tremana. He had to get some rock tequila in him. So day four, the final day. The final day. finally find dory funk jr shelled out way too much money but absolutely gorgeous eight by ten got a great picture of them both of us with our dukes up yeah well also curiosity killed the cat because Way overpaid to go to WWE World.

um oh yeah you know it was it was perfectly cool if it had been 20 bucks right uh 85 a person uh I don't feel like we got our fucking money's worth there, but, uh, I mean, maybe if we'd lined up for a picture with somebody or an autograph, most of those were also pre-orders you had to pay separately for there. Right. There weren't very many of the like included.

well there were but they were absolute jbrones like i looked at the list of people who were there sunday morning before mania and i'm like oh my god this is the d squad yeah Um, but you're right. Everything else that was like, you know, Mick Foley or, you know, whoever it all said sold out, sold out. Yeah. I. Tony Storm had a long line. She was there all weekend.

and i was like well i'm just gonna hop on the line now and you know vince is gonna do a couple laps casey's still dead asleep And, um, and thank goodness I did because it was about nine 15, probably a good half hour waiting in the line. And I overheard one of the women running the table that she was going to, Tony was going to be leaving her table to go do the pro photos at 10. I was like, okay, I hopped in this line at the right time.

Got the combo picture and an autograph. I picked out this photograph of her and Elvis in a car together. Appropriate. And, um, She had a couple of these. She had her and Elvis by the pool, her and Marilyn Monroe, a couple of her wrestling or posing in the ring, one of her dressed like the Statue of Liberty.

I finally get up there, and she is in character. She's... probably the only person at wrestle con who's not refusing to break cave babe and uh i go up i give her the we did we take the picture holding the awa women's title which is fantastic aw What did I say? AWA? AWA. That's the Minnesota. Oh, Vern? I give her the picture of her and Elvis. She goes, ah, the president. And I go, yeah, so what was he like? Oh, he's dynamite in the sack.

so then she says uh what do you want me to write and so i'm like well everybody else wrote to matt and i figured timeless tony storm would write to matthew so i say make it out to matthew and then she's like anything else And I'm standing there trying to think of what else to have a right. And I go, well, I'm also an actor. She goes, I'm not an actor. I'm a lesbian, not a thespian.

I go, you're a lesbian, not a thespian. And now she starts laughing as I repeat it back to her. She's like, that's right. And I'm like, okay. Okay, well, you make it out to a fellow lesbian. All my love, Tony Storm. We both start crying, like crying, laughing. Vince, I didn't know he was, I saw you sneaking.

I was taking some pictures. I wasn't close enough to know what was going on, but I just decided to document it. You saw commotion, though, because my face was beet red, and she, we're fucking crying laughing. As she's filling out the autograph, she just looks at me and she just goes, what the fuck are we doing? She gives it to me. She's like, I need to start doing this. Every guy that comes up here, I'm going to write to a fellow lesbian.

And I'm like, thank you so much. Have a great weekend. I mean, I was wiping, like people were looking at me. What's wrong with this guy? Yeah. I'm just like wiping tears off my face. My favorite interaction of the weekend. My God. Fucking A dude. We get back on the bus. We had to WrestleMania night two. Io Sky, Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, another star match. Just fantastic. Fantastic. Yeah.

Steve Austin came out, made an appearance. Did you see the footage? Because from our vantage point, we just saw him crash into the side gate. right i couldn't really tell what in the moment i couldn't tell exactly what had happened but he crashed into the barricade and uh i mean even nick khan went over to like check on this lady right Did you see the footage of her falling? I haven't seen any of that. So it seems like she's maybe going to try to get a payday.

the railing, which is not, you know, your typical metal bike rack. No, it's, it's, it is a, it's, it's an led screen, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And the thing. didn't budge. He drove an ATV in it and it didn't budge. There were other people standing there up against the gate. He crashes into it. They didn't move. You watch this footage. He crashes into the gate. She's standing there about a half a second later. Then she falls down. Oh, boy.

lands in her seat and she's furious and she starts yelling at steve austin what brother this is she's gonna be wearing a neck brace at the deposition well Fortunately, whatever. Fortunately, unfortunately. If Steve was already buzzed up, which he very well might have been, Uh, the cons are not going to allow him to, uh, have his blood drawn anytime soon. There ain't gonna be no proof of that.

Did you see the footage of him when he came out? He missed the ramp at first yet? No, I didn't. I haven't seen any of this. He missed the ramp. He had to back up the ATV and go back up. He's about to go over the fucking. Oh my God. Damn. I mean, I did think, wow, he's got a handle on this thing because he was going so fast around the ring. He was going so fast. Yeah. Anyway.

It was also the same day I'm looking at social media because after Cena broke Flair's record, according to WWE, broke his record. flair had put on his instagram It was bound to happen. It was long overdue. Congratulations. And then also had a picture from Charlotte and Tiffy's match and said, you stole the show. Best match of the night. And I'm like.

get the fuck out of here to which vince said well it's her dad what's he supposed today supposed to say and like how about something like i'm ashamed of you you're never going to amount to anything in this business you're born out of love and i still love him Drew McIntyre, Damian Priest. A lot of fun. The crowd loved Drew. Carrie King in a Carrie King shirt. Oh, yeah, yeah. Carrie King from Slayer played him out. Played out Damian Priest. That was pretty cool.

Great to see Drew get a win at Mania, even though he won last year, but he gets humiliated by Punk. This was his... And then gets his belt stolen by Damian Priest. So this was a nice full circle moment for Drew. Um, the four way God, did people love Dominic Mysterio? Holy shit. Uh, I would like to point out, uh, for just, just quickly for the, uh, the AW haters. Um,

I saw a thing that was like Penta has only won one of the like nine or 10 matches that he's had in WWE. So, you know, anyone who, uh, Yeah. I think it's always, you know, well, we'll see. Rusev came back last night. Oh my God. I don't, I don't think that's the way. And immediately what he's plugged into a feud with, uh, the, the, the mid card loss squad of, uh, American alpha. Okay.

I don't think Vince believes in Joe Hendry after the way that he reacted at Mania. I mean, whatever. I don't care about him. I'm not happy for him or unhappy for him. It just doesn't do anything for me. When they did the gimmick where... Randy helps him up, pats him on the back, and then gives him another stunner, and then fucking... he does the Joe Hendry thing and turns around into the Randy post. So good. But I don't, you know, my, the best thing, my favorite thing about Joe Hendry was.

yesterday when he was on busted open and they were trying to say like it was a squash or whatever and he's like no he's like i fucking Like the shit I got to do. And then after I got, after I lost Randy fucking does my thing. He turns and does my, like, he's like, there, there's nothing about that fucking match. That wasn't good for me. I would agree with that 100%. Totally.

i didn't give a going in i kind of didn't give a while it was happening you know i mean cue all the people in the comments that are always like like him or hate him logan paul's an unbelievable athlete i'm like I don't give a shit. That's the thing. It's like he, yeah, he.

he can do the moves or whatever, but I don't, I mean, of course it, and it, it all factors into the fact that I just don't like the guy, but, um, but it's like, yeah, no, of course he's, there's no like, There's no thought in my head at this point, like this is like a celebrity outsider.

You know, like he just, he is, he, he's a wrestler. And so I don't, I don't even think of it that way. Like, Oh wow. He's really overperforming. Even though if you take, if you step back and go like, okay, he has only been doing it for this long and whatever, whatever. But yeah. And, and, uh, I like AJ Styles, too, but there's just nothing about the match that I was feeling. No. Look, I don't like fucking CM Punk, but...

His match was fucking unbelievable, you know? Right. And he wasn't huffing and puffing like he has been in recent outings, you know? Yeah. But I mean, fuck. And it's like, I hear Logan Paul talk out of character and I'm like, fuck this guy. I hear punk talk out of character and I'm like, yeah, I agree with that. I'm like, you know, fuck Trump. I'm like, I agree with that. These, the wrestlers are underpaid. You know, I'm like, well, all, but just like.

bell to bell give a shit fucking logan paul he's got his drone he's got his buddies showing up that are on his youtube i guess that we're supposed to know who the fuck they are it's just like it's it's wild how wwe The way that they overcorrect sometimes in like... Oh no. Like when.

Ricky Steamboat was going to be in the match at Mania against... who was at jericho you know this was this was a little bit before my time but i heard all the stories and like when people were pitching that to vince vince was like who the fuck is ricky steamboat Right. Meaning not Vince doesn't remember who he is. Vince's feeling was nobody remembers Rick Steamboat. It's like, what are you talking about? Right.

whereas now it's like oh we and look that said if jack was in the room i mean jack doesn't know the paul brothers but like when um who's the who's the guy that was in the rumbo like uh 10, 10, 10 bike speed or whatever his name was, you know? Oh, let's speak. I think his name was just speed. Maybe whatever it was. I mean, And we're like, I don't know who the fuck this guy is. Jack was like, oh my God. Right. I was like, okay, it's not for me. I get it. I'm 45. It's not for me.

But whatever. That all said, I'm going to have to give it a whatever. Women's tag, this was good. Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, Lyra Valkyria, and the returning Becky Lynch. Who they already fit back. I listened to some of the, uh, observer audio. Um, Alvarez, he's done this before, especially at the stadium shows where he said nobody got a bigger pop than Dominic Mysterio when he won. Your section, it was the loudest.

right because he said there were people in my comments saying no pecky lynch got a bigger reaction and i'm like I would say from where we were sitting, Becky Lynch got, it was Becky Lynch and Stone Cold got the biggest fucking reaction, you know? Right.

I mean, yeah, she definitely got a great reaction. That was fucking loud. But again, I'm not going to say that was... the experience of everyone in the stadium because chants anymore in the stadium because everyone is so far away everyone's sectioned off like you you're like what are they chanting over there yeah it's also that's the thing more than the pops i feel like historically with alvarez he'll be like this chant

was going crazy. It's like, yeah, where you were, you know, like, right. Um, yeah. And then the big, big main event with, uh, Cena and Cody, which What do you think was the worst main event in WrestleMania history? I mean, is it... Like Bam Bam and Lawrence Taylor? No, hell no. I mean, I don't think that. I'm just curious what would be. I mean, even like Roman and Brock in New Orleans, when they took out beach balls and were doing the wave.

When I went back to the Airbnb, I watched the match on mute. I'm like, this is a fucking great match. Yeah. Let's see here. I mean, it might be... And this is, again... Not because of the match. But when they tried to put on Triple H and Jericho... for the belt after Hogan and rock in Toronto. It was like, no, we just watched the main event. I don't know why they're doing this weird belt match afterwards. you know it's hard to look at these things you know because it's like

Maybe Hogan and Slaughter. I mean, maybe Hogan and Bundy, you know? I mean, because it's... It was iconic at the time when I was six or seven years old and Bundy getting the color and that didn't happen in those days in WWF. You talk to Meltzer, he'd probably say Hogan and Andre, which is ludicrous because that matches exactly what it was and what it needed to be. It wasn't Sunday. No. That's the only thing I know for sure. It wasn't fucking Sunday, whether I have watched it back or not.

I'm not that deluded. Hogan and Sid, maybe. Maybe Brett and Yoko, and then it turns into Yoko versus Hogan. You know, but I mean, if you on here, uh on this list i'm looking at they're they're considering the night one because because uh you know the main event right Undertaker and AJ Styles in a fucking Boneyard match like come on but if we're just keeping it to night twos right but at the same time the Boneyard match

was the best of those cinematic matches that they were doing during COVID you know I mean aside from you know those stadium stampedes that were like these epic that was almost like sketch comedy you know but yeah so I mean I don't know it's it's also it's such a It's such a fucking snarky, like this was the worst ever. It's like, yeah, shut up. I mean, did I like the way that Roman Reigns versus Edge versus Daniel Bryan ended in 2021? No, but... Oh, it's the worst match ever. The worst.

Worst match ever. I mean, Ronda Rousey versus Charlotte versus Becky Lynch was a great fucking match. I was... I turned into a potato chip at that point. We're in fucking New York. It's about to start raining. I've been there for 17 hours. Yup. Whatever. Yup.

Who's your favorite wrestler? My favorite wrestler. I think I'm, I got to go with EO sky. EO sky. I was, I thought they were going to turn her into an afterthought here. She ends up winning. The match was fucking great. I, it was a situation where I. Uh, I bought her t-shirt, even though I, I, I don't think I'll wear it. Right. You know, it's like one of those where I'm like, oh, I just want to, I just want to fucking.

give a vote of confidence however i can right that this is like a fucking a star in that company What about you, Matty? You got a favorite wrestler this week? It's got to be Timeless Tony Storm. I was high off of that interaction for the rest of the day. I was surfing on joy. It was just, it was the, maybe the best interaction I've ever had with a wrestler, you know? Oh yeah. That's fucking dope.

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yeah right that was an actual raw after mania yeah like every single every every segment was an angle yeah or a turn or a return or a you know debut i mean yeah god i loved it It was good. Brad Evans. Oh, Brad Evans. You know what I like about you, Brad? You're Evan. All right, everyone. Thank you very much. And we'll see you real soon. Bye.