WeWatchWrestling Issue #639

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Salutations. Well, hello there. Welcome, friends and foes, heels and babyfaces, to the place that's in your face. And it's always a nice time. The We Watch Wrestling Podcast. I am your wonderful darling, red-headed, bearded host, Wrestling Matt McCarthy. With me always, professional wrestling encyclopedia, Mr. Vince Averill. Is this the hooded man? Is this the man who's under the hood? This is some black scorpion shit. What's she going to do, Matty?

I mean, this is Triple H's big idea. I don't want to be negative right out of the gate. I think it's Koski. It's got the fingerprints of Ed Koski all over it. Ed Kosky's dream has always been to revive the black scorpion gimmick. I don't know. I don't know why. It's just such a. I don't know. I mean, it's. Does it excite you? No, no, I don't care. I don't care. Like, like have a guy come out in a hood.

and then he pulls the hood off this whole like now we've seen him over and over yeah it's a little like that's that's that's what it becomes the black scorpion that's what it becomes like vince mcmahon being like oh you're gonna take him for a ride it's like oh you haven't quite made up your mind who it is or yeah you want to oh we worked you that's like

That's like Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff shit where it's like, oh, you thought it was going to be this, but I swerved you. It's just like, I don't know. Whether that's it or not, it just... yeah the repeated uh appearances with a hooded sweatshirt and a thing over your face it just uh yeah you're like all right well

Uh, it doesn't make you go like, I got to tune in next week and find out who's, who's under the fucking, uh, any, whoever it is, man, woman, child. Otherwise it better not get involved in Sina's last match on Saturday. That needs to be a good clean one. I want a nice clean finish. Can you see the cables behind me? Oh, fuck. Is it finally happening to me? You know, what's weird is it's happening in a different way.

like yeah see that little thumb in the corner there i don't know every every time you log into fucking zoom it's like here's 10 new things and right and have ai uh wipe your ass for you while you're here I know that little button with the AI companion. I'm like, what? I don't even want to press it just to see maybe what it is. It's got fucking Gwyneth Paltrow all over it.

is what's going to happen. As soon as you agree, the third host will appear. At least she was... Could take instruction. That's right. She took instruction. Interested in the business. Before we logged in, somebody, I was on TikTok and they were like, because I don't know if you saw this, Coca-Cola did an AI Christmas commercial. Oh, I've heard about it. Yeah. Well, apparently McDonald's has one now too.

and i'm gonna listen man i think soon it'll be like not even worth mentioning because it'll all be that well that's just shit it's like oh so that's just the end of sag commercials yeah that's just it yeah it's it's not as if uh the amount of union uh commercials have been going up right and now it's just uh plug in the robot but uh

Point being. Yeah, I mean, the masked man thing, I mean, it honestly, it feels like when he came out again to beat up whoever, I don't know if it was L.A. Night or whoever. Leave L.A. alone, man. Yeah, the match of the century on Friday. That was a great match. Buddy, when he jobbed to Logan Paul, that's when I turned off raw. I was like, okay, I've seen enough. Well, Logan, he's in the top tier. He's in the top team. He's with Heyman. As soon as you're with Heyman.

oh paul hayman likes him i don't know why i like the guy top of the fucking top of the food chain good good good just it's like when um somebody has cancer and they inject it with tuberculosis. It's like, just let, just let these awful things eat each other. Oh, it's my creation. I'll destroy it. Yeah. Um, honestly, this is the last thing I want to say about the mass band.

Because once he came out for like a third time, whatever it was, I was like, oh, they either have no idea. I was like, oh, they're going to draw this thing out.

until Seth Rollins is healed and it turns out it really was Seth Rollins the whole time yeah I could see that too but you know me I hope it's this guy ricky saints come on ricky saints he couldn't know fucking he couldn't have beat over the other night because he don't want to go fucking job to his buddy cody roads not time yet it's not time yet what are these cards uh they're some fucking

set of wwe cards the cactus jack set uh not that cactus jack the cactus jack the oh like the the the singer or the yeah travis scott

But, you know, so Saturday's main event, of course, Cena's last match, as I had mentioned. His dad doesn't like it. His dad does not want him facing Gunter. He don't think that's the guy. He don't think that's a good enough match for his son.

he went on record now john also said my dad says a lot of fucked up shit um look i might be the mask guy i put on a hood you need the other piece though um you know but and then what scene is he's he's curated the rest of the saturday's main event because he didn't want it to be a tribute show so he's like uh given some given the nxt guys a little time to shine the the the wrestlers the uh

Does this, does that, do you smell a rat? Does this, like, I'm like, this whole, like, it feels like when they put new and improved on something and it's like, oh, oh, wow. Like, I'm like. It feels like it's just a fucking like a sea show, but trying to put it in the package of, but John Cena handpicked these, you know what I mean? Well...

I mean, I think, to me, it's not like Saturday Night's Main Event has been an A-show in a long, long time. 30 years. But... I think it's more that, again, it's the thing with these... I didn't watch the big interview last night, but all the other interviews that he's doing, I just like... he like cena cannot he can't really come off as genuine and so like this is just another piece of that where it's like

you know oh they were going to do a scene a tribute show he's like no no i need to we need to give a shot to the guys who are guys and ladies who are working so hard you know it's like right right Although I don't see that now. I thought he definitely had said there's going to be some exhibitions with people, but now the card as it stands right now is just him and Gunter, Bailey and Saul Rucka, which I guess that's an example.

Cody and Obafemi I guess that's I thought it was going to be even more like and then Styles and Dragon Lee versus Javon Evans and Leo Slater so it's basically just what was the one they used to do when Ron Smackdown would finally have matches with each other sure bragging rights so i guess yes they're just giving some nxt people a chance to wrestle against main roster people uh but but yes it's like it's fucking sarah's main event it's also a one match show

For certain. Do we predict a ceremony afterwards? Is there a... Are they hoisting him up on Triple H's shoulders? Triple H's... No, but I could see them... I could see that because he's going to lose and I could see them maybe running him out one more time.

Like, obviously not for a match, but just for what you're talking about, which is like, I don't know, maybe. I don't know. I almost feel like, because my mind keeps going to the Ric Flair retirement when... you know triple h threw him a surprise birthday party in the ring basically right and then i just think cena's i think as ungenuine as he seems uh speaking

uh to the media whatever i think he is kind of set and so i think that's that's what he's trying not to do i think he's i think what he would like to do is lay down and then roll out of the ring and then we just get the shot of gunter

Celebrating and in the background is Trump dead asleep. If he attends, he'll just be zonked. Oh, it's too late at night for Donnie. Flanked by... you know all the others uh what's um i just saw uh who's who's the hinch cliff i just saw that he was like he he turned down a uh an offer to work in creative i'm like awesome this is great um but yes so i don't know i mean uh i can also see that you know they're gonna want uh triple h nbc whatever they're probably gonna want to fucking

Release some confetti and blow off a couple of fucking fireworks. Right, because that is my thinking that John, don't worry, John, we're not going to do nothing. And then as soon as he leaves his room, he's like, we're going to do something. We're going to suppress. prize his ass what the fuck is he gonna do i just declared him the greatest of all time that's what we do you're thinking of duane duane the golden globe nominee now that right there

Okay. Man, fucking raw feels like a raw. Raw feels like a raw. Ruff feels untethered at times. And I don't mean the product in the ring. It's just like the constant, you know, it's the social mediafication. of the show, this creep from ESPN, overproducing everything. It just feels like it's... We have completely adopted the way that Japanese television has been presented for the last...

30 or 40 years with the with the text everywhere and the you know the crowded screen but like raw in particular it was just like it was just this constant plastic it's been this way for a while but it's just this constant plastic feeling like inauthentic thing of like just you know the way that

you know uh the uh braun and braun are sitting in like those like barker loungers or whatever in the locker room and then like do you remember this braun and braun You know, Bronson Reed and Ron Breaker are sitting in like... those like it's like it felt like they weren't in like folding chairs it felt like they were in the kind of like living room chairs my parents used to sit in at night and read and then like what do you call those like yeah and tuck it no

But anyway, yeah, I know what you're talking about. And just like Logan Paul being like, Paul, can I talk to you for a minute? And it's like... Cut to a second. Yeah, you're just standing right next to the guys. Yeah.

I can suspend my disbelief when I'm watching wrestling, but the fact that just because those guys aren't on camera anymore doesn't mean they're out of earshot. I mean, that ship has sailed with... oh it's sale especially but yes you know i mean just it's like hey man this is what it is and we don't give a fuck you know like aew feels so much more grounded and focused you know it's not this constant like trying to I feel like WWE still has this like that Vince McMahon

uh curse of and that kevin dunn curse of we don't do wrestling this isn't wrestling like trying to do a wrestling show that's not wrestling you know what i mean and i don't mean the actual work in the ring i mean the presentation like oh god that's so wrestling we're we're cutting edge you know right yeah i mean it triple h he just said like we we're not worried about what did he say

yeah we're not I'm paraphrasing but he basically said I'm worried about the stories I'm worried about the like yeah we're not WWE isn't about doing great matches it's about but here's the thing if you were really worried about the stories the stories would inherently provide you with the great matches because they have the athletes. Right. So it's like, once you have the great story, then that should.

No, 100%. If the story's great, it makes the match more meaningful, which makes everything that happens in the match great. Like, Stephanie Vicares out there, you know, doing her interview. and and nikki bella's music hits and i'm like i i have to go i have to fucking you know and then she just gets waffled by the next girl and i'm like what do we

What is the point of anything? But then when I watch Dynamite, it's so much simpler and calmer where it's just... the don cows family there's all these guys in it they're all causing problems you know the fucking the hangman has his little interaction with the um what's the cult called the um

Dark Order? Yeah, the Dark Order. You know, who I even, I forgot, completely forgot they had jobs. Like Johnny Hungy comes out, I'm like, oh yeah, remember this guy? You know? Sat next to him on a plane one time. you had plenty of leg room huh yeah yeah it doesn't matter but uh you were you were spread out what does matter is i think because

If, if for no other reason, then it's how it has been. I just don't worry when it's like, Oh, uh, Takeshi and Okada are having some back and forth whatever it's like I'm sort of going like alright well this I just now need to wait and see what becomes of this whereas like when Nikki Bella comes out and then Giswawa is like it's it feels like, okay, you know, we're trying to get a match next week or probably more likely just keep that pot.

on that burner for now i don't know what i'm making yet but uh it'll be april 18th and 19th and then we'll figure out who actually gets in the recipe but for now yes just make sure that it doesn't spoil while i'm trying to cook you know like that's what it

feels like over there and it makes it feels frantic like raw feels frantic when i'm like you know it like it cuts like that pre-tape of it took me so long to even like i'm like looking like the way it was shot i'm like who the fuck am i looking at where it's maxine and natty like training that went on so fucking long hold on dude hold on so yesterday i mean they used a little bit of this on raw but before i saw raw i had seen this clip on

wwe on instagram and it was bailey giving coffee to lyra um what was that drinking the wrong but like the the version that was on the internet went on for so long and so much of it was like them like you're getting the audio of them but they're not, they're acting like they're supposed to not be talking. And it was just absurd. I'm like, why did they post this? It looks, it looks insane. That's on their Instagram. It was yesterday where she like hands it to her and then enjoy like, ha.

And then there's like, whatever Bailey's last thing she said to her, like, that's how we do it. Or what, you know, some shit, you know? I mean, I watched that and I was like, is there liquor in that cup?

like she well also there was nothing in the cups that's the other thing i fucking hate when people drink on camera and there's nothing in there and it's clear like there was nothing in the cups but whatever it was it's like yeah is bailey just getting drunk i know I had a similar feeling when Don Callis had the bag of money that belonged to the Young Bucks, and then the Young Bucks come out, and then they're holding up the gym bag, and I'm like...

tell me they threw in a couple of phone books or something it's just like because like holding up an empty bag i'm like this is weird yeah yeah gotta have a little weight if it's that much money you know because like say what you will about michael richards and for sure You could say plenty about that fucking lunatic. But that episode of Seinfeld, when they're in the parking garage, and he has an air conditioner in a box, he's like, because at first they put in sandbags, and he's like, this...

can I just be carrying an actual air conditioner? Yeah. And I'm like, some people might think that's crazy or like he's taking it too far. Like, oh, this method acting. But I'm like, no, that...

That makes all the sense in the world to me because I'm like, it makes my job easier to act like I'm carrying a fucking AC unit if I am carrying an AC unit. But it also pulls the viewer... at least exactly when like you're going like oh yes there's nothing there like it's you know right because now i'm like now now i start getting into the feeling of like what do you think of me that i'm just like oh look at this empty box whereas like

And that is at the heart of the way that WWE presents their backstages. It's unnatural, like it's an empty box. Them sitting in these fucking chairs, it's like... No, just have them in, like, have it in the actual locker room then. If this is what you want to do, you're shooting it in the backstage anyway. Everybody's got to be quiet. Have them sitting in the fucking, like, every fucking post game.

I ever saw when I was a kid, they're sitting in their fucking locker with their shit behind them. They got the fucking microphone in their face. Like, it's not hard. Yeah. They overcomplicate it to the point of, like, it's already... the most inauthentic thing you could be presenting me it is professional wrestling you know because there's no you know there's no realm of reality where you are looking at like

some athletes that you know are connected and then one walks into the fucking coach or whatever's like hey can i talk to you for a second and then the camera just follows them over and then they have a private conversation but i mean obviously i realize it's wrestling but again it's just like It's just so absurd. The episode of Raw Vault we'll get to is like a star.

Classic episode for a lot of reasons. But the one thing that struck me so fucking hard, square in the face, was how authentic and real the presentation of it felt. Because they weren't demeaning the audience by, like, look, obviously, we'll get into it later, but it's like, I know no one is going to be murdered. while I'm watching a wrestling show. Yeah. But there's a way to present it that allows me as a viewer to feel like I am watching something that is happening.

or at least you're acting in a way that makes sense you know yeah yeah um but beyond that i think it is that thing of like right now um and i guess the wwe can kind of tend to do this where it's like the royal they're kind of just waiting for the royal rumble so you're stuck with them just kind of being like yeah we got to put something on

until, until the rumble, at least we got this John Cena match thing and, uh, you know, whatever. And, and then later they'll be like, try to try to connect the dots and be like, look at, we were, you know, we were been working on this for this whole time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I mean, it is one of those things where you're just like, you, you can only reheat a fucking.

leftovers so many times before i'm like this is just gross now like like with the the the war raiders package that they put together i'm just like what are we doing like War Raiders that's another one where like when AJ and them were like we want to wrestle War Raiders I was like Where have they been? Scandinavia? Somewhere in the wrestling world, a vacuum seal was ripped open and the Dark Order and the War Raiders emerged from it like, oh, we're back.

you know it's like yeah something like michael hayes was standing in front of the fridge for long enough and he's like oh man back here we got got war raiders remember we had some war raiders back here right right right Right. No, somebody was in catering and was just like, what is this, raw milk? Hey, wait, that gives me an idea. What about the War Raiders? But it was. It was one of those things where I'm like...

It just, there's something about this that really befuddles the rock where I'm just like, does Triple H, I'm like, I guess Triple H fucking loves the War Raiders because they are, and they're good. They're good, but they have been just... WWE can't fix them. WWE can't put on a new coat of paint. This is a team that needs to leave the territory.

Well, and it's also just like, you know, they just don't have much of anything going on tag team wise in that company. And look no further on both of the points. tag teams and also just, uh, lack of direction. You know, last we saw Jey Uso wandering around, muttering to himself gone insane from failure. And now he's just. back in a tag team trying to just he's just kissing babies doing his entrance and best case scenario for Jimmy because now Jimmy gets that song back you gotta hope and then

Everybody wins. Dude, I'm fucking done with the Usos. I can't fucking stand the Jey Uso entrance. I'm fucking done. You're going to be eating soon enough. You'll be eating, Mark Eaton. I'll be. I will be. Mark Yeaton. I am going to be on the concourse looking at triple X t-shirts. Hitting it. Boom. Hitting it. Come on. I'll be hitting a fucking slot machine in the hallway. That's enough. Why are you so mad at Jay? He tries. It's just the perfect example of...

All sizzle, no steak. You know? It's just... I can't... Like, The Undertaker had a fucking cool entrance. But then the match would start. And then I'd be into the fucking match. The character made the entrance cool. The character made the match cool. What's Jay's character? Right. He's a guy with glasses? That's not a character. He is the perennial underdog who continues to fail. Right. He's main event Jey Uso with a win-loss record of the fucking, you know.

Who plays the fucking Globetrotters? Oh, the Washington Generals. The Washington Generals. Yeah. When they were heating him up... like a long time ago like i was like i was like okay this is fucking cool because i they're fucking great it's it never has anything to do with their athleticism you know it any wrestler it's i mean maybe maxine dupree it's just like i'm like

The idea that I'm supposed to fucking buy Maxine as a fucking, you know, MMA badass. I'm just like, what in the fuck? She studied under Chad Gable now. You know that. Buddy. Master Gable. I don't care if you were stuttering over under the Brian Kendrick, okay? Yeah, well, you're just going to have to wait for season two of Unreal.

Because Unreal Season 1 is when they covered the initial rise of Jey Uso when they were more worried about his conditioning when Triple H talked to him about putting the rocket on him. And they should have been worried about some other elements, but... But maybe in season two, we'll find out the next part of the story of Jey Uso backstage. Couldn't care less. Come on.

You don't want to see your old friends, man. You got to watch Unreal. We need to do a recap of Unreal on Netflix. I mean, maybe. If we did like a commentary thing. Finally. if we could do a commentary thing where we hit pause so that like i can like just pay it all out yeah so i can like get up and like pace the room and be like this could be the exorcism you've been needing throw some water on my face holy water

Right, right. I'm like, can we hit pause? I need to talk to my clergyman real quick. But you got to admit that that Gunter LA night match was a good. Oh, it was fantastic. It was absolutely fantastic. Yes. Just the kind of fucking semi-final you'd like to see. It's the kind of thing that they... It's so typical of WWE, what they do to me. I got so excited for LA Night.

I'm like, he's not going to win, but the match was fucking great. I'm like, okay, what about some follow-up? And then, you know, he'd kill you. Destroy you. I did like Gunter.

coming out cutting his promo and then that was it i'm like no interruptions like i i like a nice clean promo sometimes man just fucking just somebody come like it's it's could you imagine should have been seen as dad though if they were gonna have oh my god if he you stink i can't believe it's in five days it's in four days it's in like it's in three days by the time you hear this

There's no time for a build. We need John Cena's dad to get chopped at least once. If Sam Brown can take a chop from the Hollywood hunk, Mr. Cena can take one from Gunter. Ooh.

knock his wig right off his head probably though is the problem i don't know when that pod is coming out but uh me me i was on sam brown uh what is it called sam brown university yeah so much fucking fun just talking about wrestling and stuff i told a lot of fun stories about writing at wwe and whatnot but when does that come out i don't know because it's funny because like

Hot Young Briley, he was like, you know, he's trying to promote TNA on AMC. He's like, I don't know when this podcast comes out. And Sam's kind of like, I don't know either. Damn. It's weird that there is no build to this match. It is like beyond it being, you know, like... I get what John Cena's dad is saying. That it's... I mean, it's a cold match, you know? Well, but hold on. Here's the other thing. It's fine for him to have an issue with it being Gunter.

gutter whatever right but he he was like it he wanted it to be kurt angle so it's like all right dude well you don't have any ideas oh i didn't hear that part you're just upset that you know that's insane yeah could you you know what would have been the funniest thing in the world As if Cena's last match was with Shinsuke Nakamura. That would have been fucking great. That would have been a real fuck you. That would have been a real hot one right there.

We're talking hot ones. Where you eat the chicken wings and all that? The chicken wings, dude? Do you know that other show, Chicken Shop Date? Yes. There's a clip where Sabrina Carpenter was on that. And she's like, wait, aren't these wings supposed to be getting hotter the whole time? Bad intel. Her people need to let her know what's really going on. I mean, can we get Sabrina Carpenter a payday?

What are you looking for? Order the stream? Woo! Now! I'm loving the Continental Classic, dude. I'm looking for... What? O.R.U. yes no i'm just curious dude fucking uh cesaro and uh and dean ambrose in the in the main event on box box been doing a lot of jobs lately But Mox without the belt, man, when, when he came out and I'm like, fuck man, Mox, it's like, he's such a great example in my mind of somebody.

He's a main event star, and he's better without a belt. Like a Roddy Piper. Somebody on one of my videos was like, does it bother you that Roddy Piper never got the heavyweight championship? I'm like, I didn't even bother responding because I'm just like, the fuck are you talking about?

piper didn't need the fucking bed that that would have that that's the worst thing that could have happened to roddy piper you know like piper is the guy he's the fucking fly in the ointment yeah that's john moxley that's why it was so interesting when at the beginning of this you know thing where he's putting plastic bags on motherfuckers heads and you know murdering tony shivani it's like he's like the aew you know is over

you know you don't you don't own this company anymore it's like oh fuck yes he's here to to ruin shit and then it's like ah now he won the belt he put it in a briefcase i'm like this this is not it's it's it's it's it's it's the joker it's the scene in batman when the joker's like i'm like a dog chasing a car if i caught it i wouldn't even know what to do with it it's like like moxley can't catch the car he can't catch the belt because we've seen it he caught it

Now I'm like, so now what? As long as he doesn't, I mean, belt or no belt, just don't talk about how you're going to ruin it and it's never going to be the same because that just doesn't work either. No, it needs to be. He is there to cause problems, to cause chaos, which is Cesaro. No, not for Cesaro. But he likes to lay down lately, and it's good for Mox to do a couple of few jobs all bloodied up. I mean, it's funny because I don't know if you remember that Mr. Kennedy shoot interview.

where um portions i mean i only remember portions too i mean the portions i remember are him talking about like oh i'm in the ring with john cena he gets hurt suddenly it's my fault you know like that type of shit um like talking about working with the undertaker where he's like all right what you're doing is different uh i like it but there's a lot of people here who won't like it you know that type of thing yeah but kennedy said um

When he first started training, he loved taking bumps. He's like, oh, I love taking bumps. Love doing bumps, man. Jumping off the top. All the trainers were like, all right, but you got a bump card. You only got so many punches on your bump card. I know you like it now. And I was thinking about that, and I was like, Jon Moxley clearly still loves cutting his forehead open.

Bleeding in front of everybody. The fact that his head isn't super scarred up probably bothers him every day when he's in the mirror shaving or whatever. He's like, man, why doesn't my forehead look kind of normal still? What the fuck? God damn it. He watches the stream and Matt Fremont shows up with that butthole on his forehead and he's like, God damn it! Fremont with that fucking... No way. He's got a fucking volcano full of blood on his forehead. Fremont's bad for business.

Is that what you think? We did go to GCW, didn't we? But what about the Kingston Samoa Joe? Did you see that promo by chance? Of course I saw that. Of course I fucking caught that. That was fucking money. God damn money. I loved it. I loved Samoa Joe being like... You described it perfectly where he's just acting like... a fucking like a like a tv pro wrestler heel like even even when he drops the line he's like normally i would be wearing a suit but yeah it's just like oh fucking beautiful

And Eddie's face, man. Watch it like that. This is the strength of a great character. When you can watch a character, this is true in all.

media tv shows movies stand up like jack benny used to get laughs broadway you know all all the benny used to get laughs saying nothing and when you can get a laugh when the audience is watching your character think you have a strong fucking character and watching Eddie Kingston listen to Samoa Joe was beautiful because you're just like oh But it was so great because for Samoa Joe to talk that way, which seemed a little out of character, but it was like right in line with kind of what...

eddie's point was and also just allowed eddie to like have this response of like what the fuck are you talking about you know and it does feel like they have done such a great job and i feel like and it's all Joe because Joe used to do this as much as he could in WWE where I don't really remember I don't remember any Samoa Joe in TNA And I'm trying to think about him in Ring of Honor. But what I'm saying is Joe is really great. He's great at presenting the character who is the mind fucker.

the manipulator. He's getting in your head and fucking with you. And he did it one time when he was being a... tied up as a ring announcer in wwe where they were they were talking him and michael cole were talking about something yeah uh and he and somebody mentioned something about aj styles

And Joe said something, and I'm going to get this wrong, but Joe said something to the effect about like, well, you know, I think he's looking forward to going home and spending time with his family. And then he just kind of looked in the camera like that.

yeah so good so there's still that like that it feels like oh well of course he's gonna be saying this type of shit to a guy like Eddie Kingston because he knows he's gonna fucking he's getting under his skin yeah but just and also just like one of the um both i mean two guys who who couldn't feel more legit yeah in who they are yeah and samoa joe suffers no fools and is afraid of no one yeah you know it's fucking wonderful uh so hopefully uh that accounts for an hour and a half of

dynamite and then they're able to throw on whatever else they were planning. It's crazy. What's her name posted on her stories? Mina Shirakawa. She's in that tag match. yeah uh for winter is coming and it was like last year it was her and um uh i've already forgotten her fucking name fucking uh barbie monroe what's her fucking name in nxt now uh blake monroe Yeah. What the fuck was her name? Mariah May. Jesus Christ. Absence makes the heart grow.

forgetful yes thank you yes there's so much fucking right this was i forget what match it was i think it was the It might have been the opening match. It might have been Io and Kairi, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But I was just like, okay, this is a placeholder. We're just, you know. There's no forward momentum at this time, you know? Yeah. But I'm not going to complain about getting to watch those two wrestle, you know? Sure. But it was one of those moments where I was like...

God damn, there's so much content. It was just, it was something about, it's like, man, I'm like, I'm like, Kairi Sane and Io Sky is a fucking, just a placeholder match. Well, it's also just that when that's... the first match on raw or whatever you're like yeah well this is there's no way this is going to even i hesitate to use the word allowed but like you know what i mean it's like this is not going to be

We're not getting their best. We're not getting their best. This is the spaghetti I make. This is not the spaghetti from Rayo's or whatever. Are you hungry? Are you about to forget your manners? Third or fourth food analogy you've made today. Really? I'm out of my mind. No, I had my grape nut flakes and my banana. I'm ready to be here. I'm all in. I just need to take a piss here before too long.

Because you know how I get. Oh, man. You start to see it in my eyes, and then I have to be like, vamp, and I run off. That's the problem with having a bathroom so close. well it's also it's like it's like right when you're getting your key in the door you're like god damn it this is like my fucking third one of these today too you know i'm putting it down oh he's the water king folks

Yeah, you don't hear that much about that fucking numbskull anymore, that other guy who tried to claim it. I'm not talking about Tom either. Well, I am talking about Tom, but not Sibley.

Anywho, I better do that now. So, uh, maybe, you know, talk about your shirt or something. I'll be right back. Oh yeah. This is the, uh, this is great that they did this. We went to GCW on Saturday. at the Ukraine Culture Center here in beautiful, sunny Los Angeles, California. In the back of this shirt, I wish I could, if I was sitting on just a stool, I could spin around. But I can't turn around. Can't do it. I'd have to stand up and squat. It's got the dates and main events.

of every time they've been in that room and i'm like this is fucking perfect dude this is the perfect shirt it feels um it's the kind of shirt where you're like Man, it feels like they care. It really feels like that butter dip son of a bitch, Brett Lauderdale, cares about me. I'll tell you a funny story. When I went up to the merch table to buy the shirt, It was during Priscilla Kelly's match, a.k.a. Gigi Dolan, for you NXT heads. And her and, what's the girl's name? Vampyra?

Vipras, something like that. I don't know. They were getting ready. They were teasing a glass spot. They had a pane of glass in the ring. Everybody had their phones out. Everybody's locked in on it. And I'm like, this is me. This is how big I am. I'm like.

oh, everybody's focused on something huge. This is when I run to buy my merch. And it's not like there's a line at GCW to buy merch, but I'm just like, nobody's going to be in my way. So I ran over the merch table. The guy who runs the merch... uh table is standing up on a chair waiting for the spot to happen i'm like can i get one of these shirts and he's like he's got to climb down i was saying when i bought this shirt it was right when priscilla kelly

they were about to do that glass spot and so i ran over to the merch table and the guy was standing on a chair to watch the the glass spot i'm like can i get one of these the ukraine shirts and he's just like Like, he gives me a look like, are you fucking serious? Like, I want to fucking watch this spot. And I'm like, and in my mind, I'm like, this is a fucking tease, you mark. They're not going to do it. And sure enough, they didn't do it.

I got the shirt. I got all the way back up to where we were. I showed it to a couple people, and then the glass spot happened. You know why? Because I fucking pay attention, all right? Well, but beyond that, it's like, hey, Lauderdale, this guy doesn't want to make any money over here.

Hey, Brett, this guy's giving me shit. I'm trying to give him 30 bucks. I mean, great shirt. Could they have put... uh saturday night on there though just uh i know and at every show except the one we were at come on very very odd choice Unless they've been selling it since that other show, which they probably have, but who knows? I mean, we only found out because of the dawn of SoCal Pro Wrestling. The Hot Tub Man. That's the only reason I know about that shirt. He came in.

Revealed it to us. Dashaun came rolling by, and he's like, check out this shirt. I was like, fuck, I need one. Yeah, man. And guess what? I got one. It really got a little emotional for me when I saw him and my brother dap it up. Oh, really? No, but I was just like, this is interesting. Worlds are colliding, Jerry. I mean, that's the ultimate. Worlds are colliding. Russell and Dashaun. Forget it, brother. They got lots to talk about.

Oh man, I didn't even realize you could see this. So as winter is coming, is that two dynamites or is it dynamite collision? dynamite do we know how long winter is coming uh lass you know uh this is one of these things where the the amount of information actually hinders the amount that you could actually know oh my god i'm sharing this just just i went into instagram to search sharing within the zoom

No, I'm sharing it on my Instagram stories. This might be my favorite moment, and it's one of them. Okay. In Looney Tunes history, when Donald Duck is Duck Twasey. and he walks in the room and like he rattles off all of his arch villains that are in the room okay like he's just like hammerhead pussycat puss neon noodle you know that type of

Do you know the one I mean? I feel like I can picture what he looks like, but I don't know if I can picture anything else about it. You know what I mean? Well, you'll see it in my stories very soon. Okay, all elite wrestling. Wow, goddamn. This is what I'm talking about when I talk about goddamn. Well, this doesn't exactly say it. Okay, okay, okay. Yes, it is Wednesday and it is Saturday. Winter's Coming is both shows.

Okay. But not two dynamites. No, I don't think it's like when they do two shows back to back on a Wednesday. No. Okay. This is tremendous because this is what I wanted. This is what I wanted. I went into AEW. I just wanted a list of everything that they're doing. And then when you scroll, you can get the actual details on each individual show. Ask and you shall receive. I mean...

Because my first thought was, if we still lived in a world where there was a premium on physical media. In a world. And AEW printed a magazine.

right i would have it on my desk i would pull it out and i would flip there would be an ad for winter is coming and it would it would say right at the bottom it's this date this time this city you know that is that so difficult i realize it's more of a 0.5 thing but have you seen one battle after another yet i still have not no okay all right moving on i gotta watch it moving on

I got to watch it, Vince. That's been made clear. Mark Briscoe, he has a match on Winter is Coming. Am I wrong? Does he? Yeah, who did he... Him and... I just saw that there. See, all right. Well, let's see. Let's see if I continue into AEW if they give me a full lineup. of winter's coming could be cool i see joe and eddie see it's a lot of clips they're they you know like everybody does this where it's just like

These are the clips. This is what happened this week. Isn't this exciting? Don't you want to watch the next one? But there needs to be just one post with like every match. Yeah. All right, I see Swerve and Josh Alexander. That's hot. We got Swerve and Hangman versus Hobbs and Shibata. We've got... See, now we're getting further and further away. Yeah, whatever it is, they're not advertising it. Oh, no. Puffy, are you all right? Uh-oh. What's going on?

I just heard Puffy meow like a very sad meow outside. Oh, Mark Briscoe versus Daniel Garcia. That's right. That's right. You know what I'm talking about. Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. Oh. So then that's going to be at like 1.30 in the afternoon. Oh, shit. All right. Hey, man, that works for me. Yeah. Oh, shit. Just pull up and go right into the fucking Sanders main event.

bro glennis i said i'm busy well i am i'll be in milwaukee but at least i'll be able to watch it bitch you're so happy for your boy milwaukee this time of year you don't have an appropriate jacket you're fucking telling me i gotta go buy some fucking thermal underwear that's what i'm about to do Because the club's not even in Milwaukee. It's in Brookfield. Milwaukee by name alone. Milwaukee, which is Algonquin for the good land.

Maybe some friends of the show will roll by, man. We got people up that way. Hey, I can take all the help I can get. Holy shit. Holy shit. It's going to snow on Saturday. Oh boy. Well, maybe that doesn't mean snow. I think that means frost. A wintry mix. Yeah, because it's... It's just the picture of the snowflake, whereas today and tomorrow, it has a picture of a cloud with the snowflakes coming out of it. Well, that's confusing.

There's something about this that really befuddles the rock. Mixed messages. I'm flying in on Friday. Okay. All right. Friday. Oh. Cloudy. A high of 25. Saturday. A snowflake symbol, a high of 14. Sunday, you ready, Vince? A high of three. Wow. And that's the day you leave? No, no, I'm working Sunday. We leave on Monday. Okay. Cause they're definitely going to be fucking de-icing the plane. Fuck man. There was one time when I was in New York.

I got so fucked by this flight. We had left the gate, and then we needed to de-ice. And then by the time we de-iced, somebody else took our spot. So now we're back in line. Then we had to de-ice again. That happened three fucking times. De-ice, lose the spot. Wade de-ice, loses spot. Fucking brutal. Well, hey, man, give my regards to Milwaukee. Come on, Matty. You're out there doing big thanks.

Give my regards to Wisconsin. I wonder where my testicles went. It's like in planes, trains, and automobiles when he's like, what do you think the temperature is? One. It's cold out there, Matty. But you'll be all right. You'll be all right. The warmth of the club. No, I'm not going to be all right. It's going to be the warmth of laughter. The popcorn machine. I'm already.

I'm already running through like, all right, I'm going to have this t-shirt with this sweater. Then I'm going to have that jacket over that sweater. Then I'm going to have this coat over that jacket. I think I'll maybe, I'm not going to be okay. How many hats are we thinking? Two minimum. I'm thinking two. I am so soft. I have. soft yeah i am i am s-a-w-f-t soft i am done because two years ago when we went we went to rhode island for uh like three weeks for the holidays

At one point we were out there walking the dog and, uh, I'm like, I can't fucking do this. I can't. I'm like, I'm like, this is my privileges.

yeah i'm like i've lost all my east coast privileges i am brother shit is gone dude yeah i don't even like i was i'm just like sitting around the house and it's like 60 degrees and i'm like i don't have any warm fuzzy socks like i can't fucking i can't handle i can't handle three it's funny how quickly the body changes in regards to those things the body changes because i just like uh i am also

I have lost all of my resistance to wintertime. Because I remember when your old man drove us to the airport after those shows in Ipsy and the Royal Rumble. Yeah. He had a digital thermometer above his windshield. Yeah. And granted, it's still dark out and we're driving, but it kept going like negative 16. I'm like, we can't exist. We can't exist. How is a plane going to fly? Right. I'm like, we're going to be carrying these chairs back to fucking New York. Jeez Louise, dude.

uh no thank you what a different day and age remember what your old man was like you got you go to the bank you get change for people buying tickets at the door you know the other thing that i uh uh struggle with like if i was flying to milwaukee like yeah like the appropriate jacket i'd be like i don't even know how i'm supposed to transport this thing right because he i i could wear it but i'm gonna have to have it

open the whole time in the plane you're in some fucking giant jacket or it's like occupying your entire suitcase like because then that has to become the thing underneath your chair I'm just thinking about people listening to us talk about how to transport a jacket. Don't get hot. Hi, haters. Don't get hot. I changed the format of...

I'm re-sorting it out for Instagram. Okay. But I changed the format of the way I'm doing my videos on TikTok just because if you do things... that the tiktok police like better yeah you know it it helps you it helps your income right and it's like hey we all need all the help what are we doing here what are we doing doing this for my fucking

like oh i'm doing this for the fucking for the praise so i always just it would just be me in the center and then cut to you know the video now i'm doing it where it's like the video and me exist in the same frame it's like filled the frame and it's if if a hundred people in the comments said that they liked if there's a hundred comments 97 said oh this is great i love this yeah but these three motherfuckers are like i'm afraid i don't like this i'm just like

Oh, no. Come on, guys. Haters going to hate. All right. Shall we take a trip to the Raw vault? I thought you'd never ask. Are you asking? I'm telling. Taking a trip over to Netflix to the Raw Vault. All right, we're in the vault. On Netflix!

This is raw April 27th, 1997. What a time to be alive. This episode gets a star because of its historical significance.

We got a recap of Undertaker burning Paul Bearer. And then the show starts. Stone Cold Steve Austin's music hits. And I believe. You damn right. This is going to be like the. first of three times we hear this music um also this is um we are now in the era of obviously we've already been in the era of the the the fake what i thought was Slipknot music. The thorn in your eye. But the two shows back to back that are one show. Raw's War and The Warzone. Always fun.

So Stone Cold's music hits. We are in Binghamton, New York. Great WWF town. Jerry Lawler and... Jim Ross are on the ones and twos. Vince McMahon will join them shortly, but he is in the ring. Holding his unit. Getting ready to interview Steve Austin. In the days when him and Jim Ross wore the Ross War.

like denim jacket thing like the black denim with the red yep very awkward uh this is a great clip most of the highlights of this show appear on the first Steve Austin videocassette, because Stone Cold said so, getting towards the end of the cassette.

uh we're not talking about the pay-per-view we're not talking about the title shot we're talking about brett the hitman heart stone cold runs down what happens last night at in your house it is also i love this um that was the other interesting thing about

the way raw was last night um because in watching all these old videotapes um it's it's a reminder for me how much television has changed but also just how much the way we consume television has changed and then you can see the different places where they've either played catch up or they're still presenting it the old way like meaning shows having opening credits you know and an opening theme song and a long opening theme song yeah it dawned on me

and maybe people always knew this but it's like the reason that that song was going on for so long is because people were flipping channels looking to see what's on and also you don't start the episode right away Yeah. You, you do a little bullshit up top and then you get into the plot because again, people are still looking and you're, you're trying to draw on those viewers that are still looking. Trying to find your TV guide. Right.

Appointment television, it's a different thing. What was your favorite show when you were flipping channels? Like back in the day? usually something on uh channel 50 or channel 20 which would be like like reruns yeah like reruns or uh some kind of um you know monster movie or science fiction oh hell yeah track you know like just that's that's where that shit existed you know so part of me like watching raw last night i was like man the way that they draw this out with like

gunther walk into the ring i'm like they still have to use the appointment television model yeah because of it's a live television but again i'm like how many people are just anymore flipping channels looking for something and then they're like oh wrestling's on it's like like we've heard it how many times we heard it wrestling fans are creatures of habit

right they know what day and what time their show is on you know what channel it's on yeah and now in the the but like now you're on netflix it's like no one's flipping channels i understand but then on the other hand it's like well they're in the the live arena so are they waiting for people to get out of the concourse to go to their seats i mean it's it's an interesting thing it's like there is a shift that is going to happen at some point but like

you know gunther having a long entrance and walking around the ring and i'm like this is a vince mcmahon thing of like oh draw it out you know yeah that's the the the weird situation for me uh at this point is usually around a sporting event where i'm like where is this fucking thing and it's like it's on prime

or it's on peacock or something you're like what is it what is this tuesday doing on you know like that's that's when i get lost and like where the fuck is this thing it's a great point um Well, back in 1997, one of the other things I found hilarious was Vince's, this would happen a lot. It still happens to this day where Vince or Tony Schiavone or whomever.

I don't see them do it to Renee too much, but the interviewer is holding the mic, and it's not high enough for the talent. So they wind up holding the person's hand to hold the mic higher. Right. So the bulk of this interview is Stone Cold holding Vince's hand, like cupping his hand and the microphone like it's a wine glass. Yeah. You got one minute.

So they put up a timer, one minute for Bret Hart to accept the challenge. Stone Cold wants a street fight right then and there. Bret shows up on the Tron. He trashes America. And it seems like maybe we'll get that. that match later tonight or maybe we won't it's it's it's left ambiguous we got to keep oh you got to stay tuned in to see if it's going to happen

This is tremendous. We get our first graphic of Vader held hostage, day nine. Oh, yeah. Thing of beauty. Big Van Vader is in Kuwait in prison. I mean, was he in prison or was he just sitting in his hotel room? I don't know that he was held in a jail. I think he was just being held. He wasn't allowed to leave. Yeah. right i mean they did a bit later with jerry lawler who like it like it like it needs to be said but what a fantastic artist jerry lawler is i mean really such a great cartoonist yeah

He has a picture of Vader in Kuwait surrounded by camels and shoveling camel shit. Even in 97, he was still drawing pictures for the wrestling show. Good lord. My favorite was he took the Big Van Vader action figure in its package, and he drew prison bars with the little lock and stuff. I'm like, this is... Even just those lines, they're so straight. He did an amazing job. They were so worried about Leon. Oh, we can turn this into an angle. So we get the Sultan.

AKA Rikishi in there with, uh, his manager, the original news. That's right. He is in there fighting, uh, Ahmed Johnson, the king of, please pull your. trunks out of your ass, Ahmed Johnson. Don't do this in front of Ahmed. He's got a hungry butt. That's right. Stone Cold is in the back. He finds the Bret Hart locker room. Well, first of all, he's wandering around. There's a lot of New York Rangers stuff painted everywhere.

And then he finds the Hart family locker room, and he's trying to break the door down with a steel chair, which is hilarious. Inside the locker room, there are some officials, including Pat Patterson. At one point, Patterson has his hand on the metal handle of the door. When Steve kicks the door, he's like, ah! And I'm like, that hurt.

That genuinely hurt. That sucked. Bret Hart says one of my favorite lines, tell him to get in the ring. I'll give him what he wants. I'll give him what he deserves. But again, classic Bret Hart. His hair is soaking wet. and it's and he but he's wearing a t-shirt and now there's like a water stain on the shirt from his fucking soaking wet hair it's so weird yeah yeah yeah We get a further Vader update. We actually see the footage. It's kind of wild that they have the footage.

Like that, that, that, that, that, that this was such a big deal in Kuwait yet the show gave the footage to WWF to have, you know, that is interesting. Yeah. That I found odd. Right. But it's a great clip. If you've never seen this, you need to find it. Undertaker and Vader are on a morning talk show promoting the big fight that's happening in Kuwait. And the interviewer, who apparently was kind of a, you know, joked around a lot. He starts making jokes about wrestling being fake.

vader then flips the table over grabs the guy by his necktie and starts screaming does this feel fake i'll fucking kick your ass right after i'm done kicking his ass and it's like taker didn't even oh He didn't even blink. He just, like, sat there. He just sits there, and he's just like, oh, Leon, oh, no. I'm not involved. Like, this is the same move.

taker makes when he's at the strip club and he spots you know batista or whoever who's not they're not supposed to be at the strip club and he's just like don't don't don't sell it don't sell it don't say goodbye don't sell it Did you see that clip of, I think he was on Bill Simmons where Cena was talking about how he never drank and then Undertaker took him out drinking? Oh, yeah. I love that clip. so like uh when you never drank and then cena took you out drinking yeah no you're half right um

Ken Shamrock is at the announce table. He says he doesn't like bullies. This is so painfully scripted. Ken Shamrock's thing is that he doesn't like bullies. And also, he can't keep a straight face. There are moments where you're like, I keep waiting for the botchamania, like shamrock corpsing, send for the man, you know? Right. Very smirky. And then he challenges Mike Tyson, I guess, to a fight.

mentions the rape charge like straight up he's like oh he think he had a hard time in jail when after his rape charge he's like he's gonna do hard time with me i'm like god damn that's a that's a That's a fucking heavy word to be just throwing on on a wrestling show, Ken. 97, dog. I guess so. Stone Cold Music Hits. This is now the second time we've heard it.

This is a classic moment. He does the single Khmer thing with the finger. That I feel like was a t-shirt at one point that they altered to make it into the middle finger. Yes, yes. So Bret Hart comes down. They're going to have their street fight immediately. And this is great. Bret won't get in the ring, but is selling it in a way.

that makes all the psychological sense in the world. It's like, why would he crawl in the ring if Stone Cold is just going to fucking hit him? Yeah. He's going to waffle him with a chair. Yeah. Bulldog and Owen. Sneak attack Stone Cold. They put the boots to him. HBK shows up with the chair. Saves Steve Austin. Then chases off Davey Boy and Hart. And we actually get a little bit of Bret Hart versus Steve Austin in a street fight. At one point, Bret attempts to pilmanize Austin's ankle.

Just the chaos keeps chaos-ing. Then carries over into the war zone. Then we get, while there's still... At this point, they're fighting in the back, and now Stone Cold's been detained, and not by the cops, but just like Gorilla Monsoon is like, you need to go outside and cool off. And an ambulance comes for Bret Hart.

So while all this commotion is happening backstage, and this is really why this episode gets a star, in my opinion, because of the historical significance of... they would they would every once in a while vince would get this bug up his ass where he's like we need a through line we need a thread that's what he would always call it we need a thread throughout the whole show which is like one story that we're following the whole show

And they do such an effective job with this of maintaining the realism. And it's like now it's so rote that it's like they do it. too much where you're just like oh they're still fighting in the back oh he's in an ambulance you know this it was so new and so fresh and so real it's right up there with when the nwo attacks the the whole roster and they like you know javelin ray mysterio into the side of the truck right and then they go to commercial and they come back and it's still like

dead bodies everywhere and arn anderson is like where's where are they you know um but in the ring this is the tale of two different companies It is Tiger Ali Singh versus Sal Sincere. Now, this is like... Yikes. You can say what you want about... Yes. WWE has their main roster and the scrubs, but like the mid carters today do not feel like.

the fucking like like a fucking salvador sincere and tiger ali like these guys do not feel like they are anywhere close to being in the same league as bret hart and steve austin you know right right right I mean, this is when the Attitude Era and the new generation are like... The Attitude Era dog still hasn't shaken off all of the new generation fleas yet. Those two guys in particular are just like, God damn, this is fucking Palookaville. Right. Yep.

um also i made note of this during the match you can see a vendor in the aisle selling the program to the people in the seats which really fucking chapped my ass Eventually, Bret Hart is loaded into the ambulance. And sure enough, tip the bid a little bit, there is a cameraman in the passenger seat of the ambulance. Come on, guys. And then we reveal Steve Austin is in the driver's seat.

i've seen this clip so many times and watching it the whole thing play out it is so bizarre the ambulance driver who should be driving is just standing outside the ambulance leaning in the window as though

He doesn't even look like him and Steve Austin are talking. He looks like he's taking his order at Sonic. He's leaning on one elbow and no expression. It doesn't look like he's... arguing with steve doesn't look like he wants to get back in the ambulance he's just standing there dead faced and steve austin is screaming at him don't you say nothing to anybody

And then he goes in the back and he beats up Brett in the back of the ambulance. Classic fucking moment. You know, world-changing moment. Eventually, they get Stone Cold out of there. Eventually, the ambulance leaves. But if you watch this clip... While they're fighting in the back and then they spill out onto the floor and Bulldog and Owen come back and there's all this chaos. The ambulance driver is still leaning.

On the ambulance with his head in the window like he's a fucking mannequin, like he's fucking AI or some shit. I mean, it's insane. Bizarre. Speaking of bizarre. road dog still doing the double j gimmick singing uh my baby tonight to the ring again it's just like god we're so it's like it's like when you hear like a trump supporter talking about like what they want from the government it's like god you you're so close

It's like, I think you're talking about socialized medicine. I really feel like you're so close to getting it. Road Dogg is out there singing. Honky Tonk Man comes out with Rockabilly. So always interesting to see Jesse James and Billy Gunn wrestle each other before. right just right on the cusp of becoming the new age outlaws it's incredible just his like uh billy's fucking second or third yeah incarnation again another guy that you're like

If you were watching it in real time, you're like, yeah, this guy's got the look. He's got charisma. What are we doing wrong? How do we get this guy over? What do we do? I guess half his interests include ass. Yeah. Well, what are you into, Bill? Well, I'm a bit of an ass man. Hold on. Stop. Stop right there.

Steve Austin and Heartbreak Kid argue backstage along with Gorilla Monsoon. Again, I know Gorilla was around at this time, but it does feel strange seeing Stone Cold Steve Austin and Gorilla Monsoon.

It's just like... Gorilla don't look great either. No, Gorilla's on his way out. We got a Mankind promo in the boiler room talking about Paul Bearer's melted face, Uncle Paul.

We hear Undertaker's music. Actually, while Mankind is talking, you hear Undertaker's music and he sells it a little bit. We get Triple H coming down with China again. Still the Blue Blood gimmick, but like just... just barely about to to drop it all like he still does the little like yeah you know curtsy thing but just just about to fucking change everything

Now, at this point, this is the goofiest thing on the show. Mankind comes out with a blowtorch, and it's a legit blowtorch. And it's like, God damn, guys, this is a dumb idea. What are we doing? But they sell it like he's got a real blowtorch. And sure enough, he does. And Vince McMahon jumps up from the table. This was incredible. I never remember seeing something like this before or after.

Vince McMahon himself jumps up from the table and grabs the referee and ends the match himself. Wow. Triple H powders out, Undertaker's down. mankind gets in the ring and they're all just like fucking stop stop stop stop stop with the blowtorch but that that was incredible like vince jumps up and ends like this match is over we're done yeah damn um Dustin and Terry are in the crowd out of their gimmicks. It's not Goldust and Marlena. It's Dustin Runnels and Terry Runnels.

Once they get the mankind thing sorted out, those two jump the barricade and they attack Triple H and China. And somebody in the crowd manages to throw an entire... double XL Coca-Cola on all four of them. It's insane. Stone Cold's music hits for a third time. goes in with the Vince McMahon interview. He even says to Vince, you're trying to jump on the Stone Cold bandwagon. As though his music hitting three times wasn't enough of an indicator that, oh, we got money in the sky. We need...

People are flipping back and forth between us and Nitro. If they hear Stone Cold's music, we're good. Owen and Bulldog attack Steve. Vince McMahon tries to break it up. It's incredible. Even in this show, there's a change happening with Vince, the way that he's presenting himself. He's trying to break up this fight with the wrestlers. I believe Owen shoves Vince down. Yes. Which is incredible. HBK comes back to the rescue again with the chair. At this point, it's comedy. It's like...

It's like the Benny Hill music you play every time. HBK comes running out the chair to fucking save everything. It's like a glitch in a video game. Brian Pillman comes out in his classic I Don't Call 911 t-shirt. He's beating up Stone Cold, and sure enough, fucking... the heartbreak kid comes running out again with the fucking shit it's insane it's it's like anyway that's that's your raw vault for the week on netflix on netflix

Vincent, who is your favorite wrestler? Well, man, you know, I'm an old broken record over here, but I got to go with my man Eddie Kingston coming into this big, big match. Definitely. He's ready to go, Matty. I don't know if you even have a favorite wrestler this week or what, but. I do. I do have a favorite. How long did you stay at GCW? Did you stay for the whole thing or? No. So when it came down to the main event was left.

And there was one other match that I'm forgetting. Drew Parker and Cyclope. Okay. And...

But outside waiting for a car, I hear something else going on. I'm like, oh, and then Carlos told me they had an entire death match. Uh, before those two matches had like they just threw in um because that tag team with the clowns was also not listed anywhere that i saw like not that i saw so yeah uh but i left before that shit happened well uh it's it's funny you say that because my favorite wrestlers this week are the brothers of funstruction yabo the clown and rufo

the clown oh you gotta be joking me dude that was refreshing you know i mean like look like you know the i've been to so few wrestling shows this year And it's literally like every fucking wrestling event somehow lines up with a gig I'm doing with Pete. From every pay-per-view to Saturday night's main event. Somehow I manage every WrestleMania weekend to not have to... like cancel work yeah um but so like the lucha match which we used to be so spoiled in los angeles with indie shows constantly

And like I've, you know, I guess infamously said before, I started finding Lucha Libre a little tiresome. I'm like, it's just, it's a lot of the same. Right. That. Let me see. Six Man was, of course, unbelievable. Gringo Loco. Jackie Boy. Cartwheel. Vendigore. Ray Horace, Spiderfly, Brilliente. Fucking amazing. But there was something so... There was nothing else on the fucking show.

like the fucking the clowns you know yeah um and i just thank god for that like i i want it to be i want a wrestling show to be 31 flavors you know i want i want there to be a fucking bloodbath a technical match a fucking humor match uh you know a a high flying thing a fucking you know All of it. It's when, for me anyway, there's so much content and there's so much wrestling that you don't have to just do one thing anymore as a company, as a show.

I almost feel like you can't. It's a hindrance. You can't be doing one type of wrestling for the hour or 90 minutes or fucking three hours. I mean, my God. Anyway.

so i love that the the spot where i don't know if you saw this like he had somebody had one of the the clowns in like a wrist lock and then all of a sudden like his glove popped off and it turned into like you know like that the long scarves or like a long sleeve like that never ended yeah i'm like that's fucking brilliant that's perfect yeah i wish they would have kept their

uh wigs on a little longer yes i think if they had the clown wigs up because once the clown wigs come off and you're like oh these are just two fucking yeah these are just two dudes yeah yeah but um Right on, man. Well, I'm happy for you. I'm happy for you. Thank you. Any shout outs or are we just putting it to bed?

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