WeWatchWrestling Issue #650

Be watch, Wesley. Salutations, well hello there. Welcome friends and foes, heels and baby faces to the place that's in your face. And it's never a disgrace to be here on the We Watch Wrestling Podcast. Well, hello there. I'm your wonderful darling, redheaded, bearded host, Beyond the Matt McCarthy, with me always professional wrestling encyclopedia, Mr. Fitz Avril. Hey, what's up? How are we doing?

I'm still I still haven't done my Ravault homework. I'm still standing. What happened, dude? Do you hate Ravolt? I love Ravolt. I just I forget to do it and then especially if I travel, I forget to do it. Spread too thin. I'll do it. Are you spread too thin? Yes. Okay. All right. I wanted to hear you say it. Yes. Very. Yeah. But what wasn't spread too thin was your sun block this weekend in Miami, because you don't look like you got a tan at all.

Oh little color. Little, yeah. The first day I was ca this fucking hotel. Uh-oh. There there was no shop. Oh yeah. Somewhere antiquated. Gotta have a little little something. Uh how about a little something? Monster energy packing a nut. I went to a couple of state sales and then I was like, you know what, I can't I can't be out during the day like this and then uh you know, a little color but I went to I didn't love it, but I went to Walmart.

Fucking trying to find anything in that cavernous. Did you get some of that Patty LaBelle nanor puddin they sell there? Might be the best thing they got. I forgot you told me about that. It's it's uh doubly interesting'cause I was watching a videotape of a Star Trek marathon from nineteen ninety two. Okay. And they had McDonalds was doing ads with Patty Labelle for a double patty. A play on words, if you will.

with insane hair, like half of it's all sticking straight up. Yeah. And and then she's talking to and then there's another patty in the mirror talking to her. It's like, man, this is this this uh this commercial something else. Man, we got a wonderful ticket update.

Lot of tickets being sold for the uh Wednesday, April eighth. Oh yeah. Screening of Beyond the Mat, the All-time classic documentary. Barry Blostin, director, will be there. We're gonna fucking chat with him after. It's gonna be awesome. So if you're thinking about it and you haven't, you might want to. 'Cause uh I was pleasantly surprised when I asked how many tickets were sold. We're looking good. Yeah. I feel good. Um it's on its way to selling out, so you gotta get in.

Um very exciting about that. Very exciting. Feel good about that. Yeah, man. So, you know, in the in the in the world of professional wrestling Which is right where we are, you know. You know, Vince, um the road. We're on yeah. You know who else was on the road was um Vince McMahon driving a hundred and fifteen miles an hour on the Merrick Parkway. It's so funny that like uh Is it that someone requested it? Like why why w why is that coming out now? Because that shit happened like months ago.

I think it even happened in twenty twenty four, honestly. Oh really? Yeah. I knew I knew it was a while ago. Yeah. My brain said months, but it could have been years. Um'cause then what's funny is most people that are sending it to me I assume they assume it just th th they they they think it just happened, you know.

But you know, God, I'm a fucking fool. It's funny, uh Carloco sent me a uh it was basically like a um A little best of reel of uh Vince McMahon just harshing interviewers, you know, so like Bob Costas and like uh who you know, the little people he's just like bullying Did it have the one I I always like the one um after Owen Hart died, he had a press conference. Mm-hmm. Yep. Was was that in there? Sorry. I don't like your tone, lady. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.

Good stuff. Oh man, what a fucking asshole. I mean for real. I wanna um I wanna talk about uh how he came to the decision to put that fucking shock of white hair in the front. It's so insane. Yeah. That's the other thing too, is like I was like, Man, I thought we knew about that for a minute.'Cause I because like the people calling him like the reverse polywalnuts, I'm like, man, that's a couple of months ago. Yeah.

Everybody's just getting it it it's just so funny'cause like Vince is is still a piece of that You know, the attitude era. Yeah. People who stopped watching or assumed that wrestl once they stopped watching wrestling, wrestling stopped altogether. Right. Like nothing Yeah, nothing happened. Uh

Uh uh Anis seems to think that we're gonna get a McMahon match in Saudi. That he's gonna he's gonna come back and Vince? Yeah. Obviously he's not being serious, but We almost got a shade match until Shade's Quads decided To tap out. Um I was trying to find something that I saw earlier. So it's a fool's errand. That was one of the greatest moments in WrestleMania history. And then Snoop Dogg has to save the day.

Yeah. Yo, let me get in here. Oh, that it was the um that WWE uh creative ish or whatever it's called, creative humor. Uh huh. Said uh Just be thankful we didn't have Gunther call ice on Dragon Lee despite the amount of times Michael Hayes pitched it. Yeah. And uh you know if if um if all's to be believed. Uh, now that you got Jay Uso in the chamber this weekend because uh Bronson tore his fucking bicep during that match last night.

He was supposed to win it. Uh that poor fucker. Bronson, dude. Yeah. Highly injury prone. Yeah. And it's it's weird, like. The bicep thing, you know That to me is injury prone. Jumping off the top of the cage and fucking your ankles up or whatever eat the the like that's a little less like That doesn't feel injury prone so much as like decision uh poor decisions. Is that'cause I was thinking about um'cause the the observer awards came out, so I was thinking about Edge.

He's still he's still out from jumping off that cage, right? Oh no, he came back from that. He came back from that? Yeah, he came back and then I think it was a wasn't it after that that um He had the feud he like finished his feud with Christian and that and they tagged. Um, that's the last we saw them, I think, because they both have been off TV. Um subsequently and I think that I think he's like filming his whatever show he's on.

Oh. Um and then I don't know, I guess they're just holding off Christian until maybe his uh Nick Wayne gets healthy or Edge is ready to come back or it's just one of those things where in AEW sometimes you get you get some time off. I'm still enjoying it. Yeah, he came back and had a run after the after his Okay, good. I I couldn't remember. I was worried he was Hey man, you're speaking to the choir over here, Doc. Oh. I know.

You just laid it out. Synapses were just waiting. Well, you know until we until we get a call, we get a a message from somebody. No, actually this this is what happened. No, no, no, not this time, Dan Snyder. Oh right. F T R beat up Beth Phoenix. That whole thing. Ooh, those guys. And now they're beating up Papa Buck. Yeah. Oh man, that was an angle. As much as I will not uh I would like to hear just the like

Little blip of when Jim Cornette discusses uh Stokely throwing that powder because it was so bad. It was like delayed and then it kind of just got to him. But he's got bad lungs. Doesn't doesn't pop a buck wear glasses. Anyway, it was uh but everything worked out. The the fists started flying and the and their mom got fucking shoved down. Yeah. And then that's the that's their brother, right? Who got the spike Malachi. His name is Malachi? Apparently.

Hey, stay with me. Stay with me. Where are you going? Stay with me. You know, just a lot of biblical names. Wow. So uh and he, you know, he He's got a little pronouns, pal. Malachi's got a little working past, so he was take the pile driver. Good. I every time Vince like Vince he couldn't follow. Like he would always be like, oh pronouns, pal. Yeah. But what he meant was proper noun.

Yeah.'Cause he's like he's a god. Pro it's like because you keep saying he or she too much. Right. And now he doesn't know who you're talking about. Yeah, because he's thinking about shitting on a lady or whatever. And he says, wait a minute, where we're I'm sorry, what?

Ah he's thinking about getting to his granddaughter's party, so he's doing one hundred and fifteen on a fucking two lane in Connecticut. Like the lamest ex Oh, I'm headed to my granddaughter's birthday party. The guy's like, Did you see my lights on? He's like, Yeah, I thought it was normal. Like like that's how I usually drive, like with the cops chasing me or what what do you mean normal? What does normal mean? Yeah.

Uh I'm sure everybody who's listening to this knows, but we're talking about some uh Body cam footage being released from whenever Vince McMahon got pulled over after he was doing a hundred fifteen and and clipped the back end of another person's car and then the Jersey barrier pulled him over. Drove right into that woman. Mm-hmm. Like

Can you he he he could have killed somebody? Oh yeah. Well and and here's the thing. That that was just a fucking random Tuesday. You know, like it's right. You know, like let's like the number of stories about his driving just from like

that we've I've seen it shoot interviews or whatever, you know, you've seen it, whatever. Like it's it's you know, it the two things we know is like he drives like a maniac. Yeah. And he likes to rip farts and and lock the windows if you're in the car with him. I first hand. Saw him fly by us on I-95 on the way from the goddamn uh Metro North Station to Titan Towers. Brian Brian Gordz called at first. He's like, Oh Vince is coming.

What um what did you see the video of the People who broke into the old Titan Tower? Oh my god. What's up with that? That's so they just left all that shit there? Yeah, like the whole thing is was very strange to me. Like

They I thought like I thought the story was they sold it or they like it just seems weird. So I started to go like, is it real? Like it has to be real, I guess. It also reminded me of that I I know we just talked about that movie The Gentleman, but it reminds me of a part of that movie. People break into a place and are making a video. What's the gentleman? Uh it's a Guy Richie movie from a few years ago with McConaughey. Um about um

It's like about a kind of a like a a drug kingpin in in the UK. Anyway. Colin Farrell's in it. It's fucking great. Did you see that that interview or like that round table, whatever that McConaughey was on with like Timothy Talam Talame. But it was like he looked But it all I saw was the portions of where he's talking about AI because McGonag's heavily invested in an AI company. So of course he's like, it's inevitable. Yeah. Yeah.

He looks fucking cracked out. I you know, I only saw a little clip of that and I I was like, did he just come from the gym or something? He seems a little like he was like a little shiny and dude, his skin looked fucking Yellow and his eyes looked red. I'm like, what? Oh, are you are you talking about like the hobgoblin or something, dude? Bro, are you mixed up with all this Spider-Man shit you're reading, dude? And he was wearing an orange hood. Did you see this interview?

Maybe he's maybe he's getting ready to play Hobgoblin. The man, you know, he goes deep. For these roles. Um I mean the thing I'll never understand is they They cast Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin and it's like I remember reading that being like, Oh, this is perfect. He looks like that Green Goblin mask. Yeah. And then they have'em wearing a fucking helmet metal suit. I'm like, What is going on? Why is everything?

Put'em in a helmet. Helmet Lang. Um Yeah, I don't understand. I mean, it first of all, that that video of those kids in the old Titan Tower, it really made me sad to see Like like I knew WWE doesn't give a shit. But like God that bummed me out. Especially like they like they went through the like they were in the writer's room. They're in like The gym, the fucking I mean, it was just like man, just fucking it it it's it like the lack of Any sentimentality or just I don't know.

I guess that's just what happens. Like it it felt like the place was abandoned. Like mid booking meeting. Yeah. They were just like, All right, we're gone. Yeah. It's um well, you know. Of course I shouldn't be surprised. Right. I shouldn't be surprised at all. Most of not most, but at one point, most of the wrestling DVDs I have. came from the writer's room. Like pretty much every L J N wrestling figure I have.

Came from the writer's room because we moved from the fourth floor to I guess the second floor because the first floor would have been the the gym or something, right? I don't even remember. But I remember we were on the top floor. We were on the fourth floor when I started there. And when that move happened, they were like, take you take whatever you want, because it's just it's getting trashed.

And I'm like all right. So there's just a bunch of L J ins so'cause when people were pitching stuff, they'd be like, So This guy's this guy'll come in or what? Man, I don't know. This is also like pre uh the network. And and they really weren't posting stuff on YouTube like they are now. God bless the Raw Vault. Um uh not the Raw Vault, the WWE Vault. The Vault. Ugh. Whatever vault you got, pal.

But yeah, there was just a collection of like every L J N. And so it was kinda whoever like the senior writers were, like they plucked, you know, Piper Uh Kirsch Kirschanbaum got Corporal Kirschner. You know. I think Nick the Dick grabbed mean Jean. I mean whatever it was. It was just whatever was left. Yeah. I just grabbed all everything that was left. Yeah, man. And your bag was super heavy that night. Yeah.

Super crazy. Man, when Brock Lesnar was standing in that ring last night, I was just going, Not LA Knight, not LA Knight. Do not play LA Knight's music. Do not have LA Knight come out right now. LA Knight's music will not hit right now. Do not come out. And then nobody did. So I'm s I'm not off the hook yet. So maybe he's wrestling after, you know, retiring the Sandman, the invisible man makes his way to Vegas to the big, big arena.

And puts Brock Lesnar down. Think about like the rub you'll get from getting destroyed by Brock at Mania. This is this is the grandest stage of'em all night. You should be happy for this. Why aren't you fucking thanking me? You know what's gonna be great for me is um Because the amount of'cause we're gonna be in a half full arena. And they might have a fire sale, dude. You don't know. They th a hundred percent they will. Well, I mean, the thing is twenty five percent didn't move the needle.

Mm mm. That's what that's what we know so far. This twenty five percent still wasn't enough for people to be like, okay. But also this like card that supposedly is being reworked is not a card that anybody knows. It's not like anyone has a fucking like there's one match, right? So far. I mean No, two matches. Live pick. Live decide. So yeah. I loved that angle. When she spun around and the way Stephanie Vicare sold that.

Punch. Yeah. She looked like she was knocked the fuck out. That was beautiful. Yeah. You know, I think also it's um like the level of Uh Greed and delusion is like so feverish over there because I'm getting I'm I'm getting triggered because this reminds me of back in the day the lions were fucking horrible. They played in the Silverdome, which was like

You know, I don't even well, Mania, they said it was ninety seven thousand, whatever. It's a fucking big ass arena, right? Pretty sure it's a big place. So there's a point where they're like, We're not playing it on TV. Unless the game's sold out. You can't you can't. Well that's what they're doing now. Yeah, so that's what I mean. I'm having tri I'm being triggered because now WWE's going like

No watch parties anywhere near So like Vegas, right? Like I there were people I think fucking Van Vliet was having one himself down there at the fucking um circa. Like there's just Well, the they just announced that for Elimination Chamber in Chicago, didn't they? So it's just crazy that they're going now they're going like, Well, no one wants our nine hundred dollar tickets to get in. So well fuck'em. They can't they can't get together and watch it at a bar or something. Um

They gotta either buy the pay per view or they gotta buy our ticket and that'll that'll make'em buy the ticket. I'm like, Okay, good. This is a great idea. This is this has worked. If you if you look back through sports history, right when when when sports tried to do this shit. It did not uh result in tickets purchased. It resulted in anger. You know? Like there's no other there there's no other result that's ever come from not allowing people to uh

gather and watch, you know. Now thankfully the uh the Dave Meltzer watch parties, I don't think they fall under this purview because uh that's just in a suite at a hotel and They're probably just uh you know throwing on their own ESPN plus. You know what I mean? You better hope so. Better hope nobody finds out about that. You better hope so. They're gonna have a fucking Hunter with his connections to the White House, they're gonna have a fucking ice raid on Meltzer's fucking watch party.

Did you hear did you hear Alvarez was down in Mexico like Like he was in Ensenada. Like he left on well, you heard like the cartel like attack. If you're not thinking it was a PSYOP, yes. I mean, you know these countries they get going and then you destabilize the economy, you get'em right back where you want'em at. Just saying. Whatever's going on down there is going on, though. I'm not saying it ain't going on. Uh-huh. But uh thankfully Brian got home.

He's got two daughters, you know. He kept going, I barely made it out. It's like I was just getting my hair finished in the tent. They had just applied the seashells to the tip.

Um I Couldn't so so I'm excited because The arena's gonna be half full. Everybody that is there is going to be so excited to see uh Piss Pants Brock Lesnar's match. That's when I'm gonna be able to go to the concourse and get myself a couple of cheeseburgers, some five star nachos. Oh maybe buy cheap. Yeah. You know, m maybe take a nice walk. Probably plenty of merch to be available. Oh man. Yeah, get a program, get get some merch.

No, all those goofs that like line up in the um No, no, this is wrestling, dude. They're gonna what they'll do instead is even though it's still like forty thousand people or whatever, they'll uh they'll have two concessions, one on each side open. They'll have one merch table and one outside or something. Like waiting to get inside that little room. We didn't bring anyb we didn't we didn't call anybody to work. There's there's no there's no point.

Oh, uh we figure oh it's a wrestling show. There's just the guy to take the caps from you when you get a bottle of something so you don't throw that. Right then uh No, it's wrestling. So we we have one guy cooking cheeseburgers. And um we have uh fifty thousand small and medium shirts. Yes. Have at it, Haas. And they're all this top quality direct to garment fanatics stuff. So enjoy.

Just don't wash it too much. But that but by the smell of this crowded shouldn't be a problem. Shouldn't be a problem. God damn. No man, fucking Lesnar, man. Couldn't give a shit less. Oh stop. It's the elimination chamber this weekend. I'm excited about the elimination chamber, but uh great match with somebody. Maybe they'll they'll feed him Javon Evans or something. Oh God. Someone who needs a rub. You know, just being in there with Brock.

It's an honor. Yeah. I feel like they the only reason they brought Undertaker out last night was to be able to play a kid rock song. Just to be like, we think he's cool still. We're we're with you, kid. Let's just uh let's let's roll that fucking

Put Undertaker on his motorcycle and he looks like such an idiot. I mean, it doesn't help that he is a fucking idiot, but Him standing out there with his fucking hat over his bandanas, little glasses and he's the fucking he's the leader of the free world. So he comes out to let AJ know because they had a fucking match that they fucking did a four camera shoot on. So that's their you know, th that's why it should be him.

You know,'cause they worked together that one time in a fucking field with Jeremy Borash. And so, you know, it it shouldn't be anybody else. It's gotta be the fucking, you know, the locker room leader then now and forever. Fuck you. Now it's clear, right? The gloves are here. The uh the vest is here. So you are not we're going to the hall of fame. Don't do this, Alan. Don't do this.

I'm like sitting there watching it, trying to follow the goofy logic of like, first of all, there's nothing There's nothing I enjoy less than um When it's like somebody's being surprised with an honor that they know that they're getting. You know?'Cause it a a and I I I'm sure that they tried they thought that like oh we got a K fame AJ. Yeah. But it's just clear with his wife. Just clear with his wife. Make sure they're they're that he's available. But it's like

You know, it's it's my birthday. Like I'm supposed to just be standing here not expecting a cake, and then I gotta fucking sell the cake. Right. And he's like standing there with that goofy fucking He's like, What are you talking about? Are we working a match? What? What? Uh oh what? He's like, Why else would it be you? I figured it would be Gallows and Anderson or something.

Yeah, I figured it'd be somebody that I had even a passing relationship with instead of that one night we met in a graveyard. You, me and Pritchard up till three AM because it had to be a shoot night shoot. But a but a hell of a meme we got out of that thing. Oh my God. One of the all-time memes. It truly is. One of the all time great memes.

Uh but then I'm trying to follow his logic of like Yeah, I started taking off my gloves, but then I didn't take off my gloves because I wanted to be home to take off my gloves. Yeah. Now I'm taking off the gloves. I can't wait to see that on a on undeclared when they're in the room going like so why'cause then he went on Stephanie and said, Never say never. So now we gotta figure out why didn't he take the fucking gloves off?

Well well, all right. I'm just thinking here, maybe uh Atlanta, right? That's kinda where you're supposed to be from. Whatever. Let's uh do we uh you know. You know, just talking out loud here, maybe it sparks a better idea. What if w what if w when we're in Atlanta, we have Tager come out, say you're gonna go into the Hall of Fame, we really paint him in a corner where he can't show up in New Japan the next week. He's got no options.

Wouldn't it be incredible if AJ was like the greatest worker of all time and it was like he's going through all this like Magoo Straightening his hair, laughing, like, oh wow, what an honor. Taking off my gloves. Thank you, Mark. Thank you, Paul. Thank you, Vince. I know I'm not supposed to say this, but thank you, Vince. And then the next week he shows up and he's leading Bullet Club and he goes, Fuck them.

I retired from that. I didn't retire from wrestling. Yeah. I retired from the bullshit. That would be fucking hilarious, dude. He g ne next spring break he he finally has his retirement match. Oh my god, him and Samoa Joe. Fuck. Oh that's just good stuff. Samoa, Joey, Janella. Now, you know, it wasn't that long ago I was all excited.

Kenny Omega looking good, feeling good. You're like, he's back, he's gonna be on the show every week. He he likes to come and go. So uh well it's like this other thing too of like he's he's booked for some video game. Thing or so yeah, so he couldn't he couldn't work revolution uh but I suppose that doesn't mean you had to get the fucking shit kicked out of you and and be off TV, but maybe it's just uh I just don't understand how AEW doesn't have like first refusal on that guy.

Right. Yeah. You're not going like, oh well, that's you know, if he's at some video game convention in fucking Japan, it's gonna be great for our business, you know? Right. I did like I'm like, first of all, how do you not know what the pay per view schedule is? Right. First of all. Secondly, how is it like, oh, I'm I'm under contract, I gotta go hang out with, you know, the street fighters, you know? It's I'm just like, what in the fuck? I don't know, man. But again

Roster's so jacked up with with talent. Maybe they're like, eh, whatever, can you go go play your video games? We'll see you when we see you. I mean, Jesus Christ, I'm watching Dynamite. Every segment somebody comes out. My favorite wrestler of the week changed with each match. Like I'm like, Oh, there's no question and then show keeps going. I'm like, Oh, god damn, this fucking guy.

You know? I like I got Glennis walking in the room, I keep rewinding it. I'm like I'm like, look at this, look at the like I'm like showing her like Mortos, like doing that that spin out the fucking Jesus Christ. Everything that guy does. Mr. Monet. Good lord. Is he with Sasha Banks? He's a lawyer. Yeah, he's a lawyer. He's got Sasha Banks. Everything's going right for the Mortos these days. He got he got that shot because someone else didn't get there because of weather.

He's a lawyer? Yeah, he just like just recently finished fucking law school. What? Passed the bar or whatever. I don't know. But he uh yeah. The bull? Yeah, man. You you thought caveman lawyer was fucking ridiculous. Your honor. I'm just a base god. Yeah, right. Wow. I had no idea. Oh, that's tremendous. I looked it up though. As far as Brock Lesnar goes. 'Cause I was like I was like, How old is this guy? And how old is this guy compared to, you know, when we were living through WCW years?

WCW. Dude, he's he's the age Hulk Hogan was when WCW closed. That's great. I couldn't fucking believe my eyes. Yeah, but I mean, there ain't a ton of fucking youth on that.

Right? Huh? Well I mean, across the board over there you can uh you can look at some fucking aged folks. That's I mean, and that's just it. I'm like, how did they let themselves get to that point?'Cause even like 'Cause that's the thing, even like their young talent or younger talent, it's like th they're not th Dominic is the only like Young guy that is getting Any sort of a uh

And and he's certain he's certainly not like uh like Dominic should be pushing for the fucking heavyweight belt. Like he should be fucking like a heel champion sooner rather than later. Yeah, the main event scene over there is uh is is is on the the older side for sure. It's crazy. Um Even my beloved LA Knight is up there in years. Uh but I mean you look at fucking like how old is Rollins? Let's see. How old do you think Seth Rollins is? Seth Rollins, let's see. Is he f forty one?

God. You think he's already forty? Is he already in his forties? Well, I'm just trying to think about like Yeah. How old was he in fucking 06? You know? Right. Maybe not. Maybe it's not. I'll say I'll say forty-five. Okay. All right. Seth Rollins. 39. Damn, lucky him. Look at us. Uh losie and Ocean. They got plenty of youth over there then. Um Well, it's like i I mean, all you need to do is look at the number of years where their mania was focused around whoever they could bring back.

No kidding. And that like that tells you a lot of what you need to know about, you know, them concerning themselves with getting like Well, I think that's the obvious the obvious problem is because the last two years Uh it has suffered, benefited, and then suffered. from bringing back the old guys.'Cause like when Dwayne w let's n let's never forget. Cody won the rumble and then the next night was like, I'm just gonna hand this off to Dwayne Johnson real quick.

Thankfully, they had enough sense to be like, oh, people really fucking hate this. Um Yeah, there's there's something in the metrics that we usually ignore, but this one we can't. Yeah. Oh shit. We need to do something about this. But then Dwayne is still heavily involved. Yeah. And then still heavily involved next year and then the fact that he wasn't there w while Cody is now gonna lose to a different old guy. Yeah. I mean it's crazy.

Yeah, yeah, but we're making we're making so much money though. Look at how many tickets we sold from Mania already. Yeah, I mean what we we've we we've already made so much money from Mania, we could just give away the rest of these tickets and it wouldn't even matter. Start paper in the town and then the announcement is what? Oh, for God's sakes, right. There's got to be something after that's like. How old do you think Cody is? Cody right. R He's got to be forty, right?

Um Yes. I think he's forty two. Well, out of curiosity, I I clicked on Brandy. Brandy's forty two. Cody is forty. He likes older women. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Jerry Sags is his uncle? How is Jerry Sags his uncle? Uh he'd either have to be his mom or his dad's brother. Well, I know that much. Son of a bitch. Um Sags's sister in law, Michelle, was married to Dusty Rhodes. Okay.

And what about Uncle Fred? Fred Ottman. Yes, Fred Ottman is Uncle Honorary Uncle. Uncle That guy looked that looked like Uncle Fred. Uh, Fred's married. It doesn't say. This really doesn't help Wikipedia. This is your Uncle Fred, you know, because just because he is buddy or something, but he actually was married in or something. I don't know. It says brother-in-law of Dusty Rhodes. Father. Magnum TA is his godfather. So that's that's an honorary thing. That's an honorary thing.

Okay. So does that mean Tully Blanchard was supposed to be his godfather and then Magnum had to step in? I don't know. I will say, I don't know, at this point, um, there's something

The MJF Hangman at Revolution. Yes. I don't know what there's just something that's not as I'm not as jazzed, and I can't put my finger on what's what the dealio is there. Um Not not unjazzed, just not as jazzed. I wonder if it's Well We just came off of such a hot It was almost i I mean, let's face it, it was a T V feud of Brody King and MJF. that it seems hard pressed for them to feel bigger than that. And then

They usually do such a I think it was also'cause Max won the belt so kinda unceremoniously. It was just a little bit of a fluke, it felt like. feels like just a slight rehash maybe as well. Slight rehash, plus there's nothing there's nothing personal about it. I liked the promo, but they often do such like personal shit over there. Um that it does just feel like

I mean is it is it is it is this hangman's just uh did he win something or is this his obligatory rematch? I don't even remember. No he did. It was just um was it even a Grand slam. He won a match to get the shot. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's It's there. They got they got some time to make us excited, I suppose. I mean, there's a couple week we're a couple weeks out there, but

Yeah, no. Couple weeks out there, bud. Okay, bud? I wouldn't I wouldn't freak out something like that. But no, I mean s you know, suppose like something like Again, like Liv Morgan and Stephanie Vacare. Like Liv's Liv wins the rumble, but now I'm like, Oh man, this is gonna like this is almost overnight.

Like i that sit down promo segment where the two of'em are going at it and then everybody in Chile was upset because they had Stephanie say that there's no pro wrestling in Chile. It doesn't exist there. It doesn't exist in Chile. Um it's like when uh, you know, like a a World War Two pilot, you know, ends up in some village and they they think it's a god'cause they've never, you know like

But no, that was hot and then the the the the shot hurled around the world. I was like, oh man, this is fucking heated up. I also loved on the um when they posted it on social media somehow the the very first comment was Jade Cargill going, She knew better. I'm like Uh w initially that's very funny. And then after a few seconds I was like, Yeah, she knew she'd have a better p match. Oh. Ain't no doubt about it. In fact I was just gonna look here.

Um I mean at Mania we were supposed to go twenty and at a house show it was hard to get six. Uh let's see who which one of these uh Four ladies are gonna have to eat that. Tiffany Stratton, Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Keanu James, Raquel Rodriguez. Who I mean, you would think that it would be. I mean Rhea's your your odds on choice to one, win the belt, but also sure be able to handle um Right. But, you know, that doesn't mean that they won't uh

go with someone else that uh I don't uh Kiana James to me seems way out of you know, there's no way she's winning and going to WrestleMania. That just doesn't there's no Nothing. Probably not. No fire of that smoke or whatever. Um but everyone else seems eh Asuka probably not either. So I would think At this point, Alexa, Raquel, Tiffany, Rhea all seem like I would be shocked.

Becky's not in that match, at least unless they're adding somebody on Friday. How many people go in there? I f I can't remember how many people are in the chamber. Uh six, right? You got four pods and two start. Yeah, then we got it. Then then she's not in there. Oh, Becky Lynch is fighting AJ. Right. Right. Right right. I'm also interested I guess it's gonna be Cody, right? That's gonna end up with um Drew. Drew? Sure. Yeah. But it's also weird to me like so

Feels like a fucking raw. Jacob was right at what are you talking about? The elimination chamber? You know, no. I mean Cody and Drew at Mania. Oh ah Drew McIntyre, that's a main event anywhere in the world right there. Dude, I love Drew. Love Drew. But They've they they shit on him. They don't he's a guy that they think that they can reheat at any time. Yeah. And it's like, no, you fucking ice him out most of the year. He's a fucking he he is A reliable guy.

Fucking entertaining as fuck. But like having him squash Sami Zayn doesn't suddenly, you know heal all wounds. It's like you got I I will never understand the mentality of having Punk and fucking Roman out there And it like having an uh w w like a a major piece of their fucking feud being like, why would I fucking shitting on fucking the other champ, the other brand, the other belt? It's like You're these fucking goofs at WWE, man. Um, but I will say that I think, especially now that

Fatou just disappeared after that little thing. I think he's gonna probably Oh do it. In fucking Cody and then it'll be, you know, the Cody'll um Mm make a phone call or whatever and they'll it'll be a three-way. Um yeah. Man, it feels like we haven't heard a peep from Dwayne Johnson since uh I mean i he didn't even come on the show to promote his fucking uh Oscar base.

Yeah, that's those are two different things, man. That you don't you don't go to fucking McDonald's to talk about uh your five star restaurant, bruh. You don't come down you don't come down to Monday Night Raw and start talking about Oscars. Can't do it. Can't do it. I mean He trying to get that stink off. He's trying to try to get the stink off, trying to get the weight off or whatever his next role is.

Did you did you wind up watching that? Which one? The Smashing Machine. Nah. Nah. I mean I'm not like I I just I'm just not interested, but Is it good? No. Oh, I didn't see it, but I've heard it's got awful. Yeah, I don't know. But um I think the only person I know that saw it was Anne's, and he was like, he was like, You don't even understand how bad it is. Ha ha ha ha

Yeah. So I'm I'm not surprised that he didn't that feels like he can come on and promote Jumanji and tequila. But he's not coming on to try to get a Golden Globe or an Oscar or any of that shit that's like, you know Once the pinky's extended, it's hard to fold it back. Amen. Amen. Amen. I don't think there's any there's no Oscar voters in the uh AEW has. There might be.

Might be. There might be. There's guys, there's doctors and lawyers in the crowd. Come on. Meanwhile, Paul Walterhouser, you know he got a table of wrestle cons, so. I mean we we've got it. He we you can take a picture with him and his Golden Globe. Glad he finally got that back. No kidding.

What about Mox and Takeshta? That's one that I I also hyped for, but it'll probably be good. It's no tone no time limit. So, you know, they're gonna Well, I l uh I I'm excited because it does have um I feel I just feel. They've done such a remarkable job with for months between the two factions. Yeah. That I'm that I'm into it and I'm down. I'm I'm big time down. Um I tell you, man, v uh Dynamite w they were in Sacramento? Yeah.

I was I was truly confused'cause I was like, wait, I c I c it it reminded me so much of the building where we go see New Japan in San Jose. Yeah. That I was like, how is this not the same building? Uh yeah. I mean I feel like there's those kind of I mean it also Yeah, to me it kinda looked like a few places. I feel like it was uh like maybe a style at some point or something. Yeah, must have been. I mean

Oh, I also forgot they I love they're doing the um they're doing the Cody step. If if Hangman loses he can have a challenge for the world title again. That's right. So it does feel like feels like a Cody step. God, what a dumb step. Yeah. That's one of those things though when And it was like there was a time like when W when AEW started Where it was like the perception was, oh, Cody's the booker. Right. You know? That's what it felt like.

And it's like'cause there was even like that w there was like one clip it wasn't even on that uh that that reality show that they tried doing for a second. It was just some backstage, you know, Stuff. Like it wasn't on the show. It must have just been on YouTube or something, but it was like Cody being like, Had to write a format for a TV show. Never done that before. The elite being the elite? I guess that's what it must have been, right? Yeah. Probably. And uh but like Cody with this like

You know, I don't I don't want everybody to think, Oh, I'm the booker, I'm gonna put the belt on myself So then it's like come up with this insane step. Yeah, it's like after you after you smash the fucking throne. Um, you're worried that you're gonna be thought of, you know, and it's like It it was a it was a bad move, dude. Bad move. Cause then it was like and then the rest of his time there it was like it was like Cody was on an island.

Where just there was the AEW show and then there was a different show that Cody was also on. He would come out because it's like well what I don't I don't want anybody to think I'm putting the belt on myself or I'm giving myself special treatment. But also I'm the only person who's gonna enter through a separate entrance in the middle. No one else, yeah. No nobody else gave a shit, you know? No. And that but that said When I he'll probably never leave WWE, but never say never. But

And it does feel like maybe people might be getting sick of him at WWE already. It's it is hilarious. Well, there have been some moments where the reaction was not and so then you get this discussion of like, uh, you know, uh maybe he'll run, whatever. Yeah. That again. That whole thing again. I don't wanna. But if he does leave and go back to AEW That's you immediately have you're out'cause it's like, Yeah, that stip was when I was here last time. Yeah. Now I'm back. This th I don't this is

That contract ended. All those steps are null and void. Yeah. This is a different yeah you know it's funny uh Maybe maybe that's what's missing from the Hangman uh page feud. Usually usually MJF's like, You must wrestle whoever I tell you For three weeks. True, yeah. To then, you know. Yeah. You you must go to House of Glory. Managed to not piss off the ring announcer. Oh no, MJF went to House of Glory, boy. That's where he was at. And did you see that clip?

I saw the clip of his entrance. Uh the clip I'm talking about is a clip where Andrade is taking a selfie with a woman of the crowd and that fucking Charles Mason dude just comes fucking barreling in and destroys the poor lady. Like like throwing a kick on an Android and just fucking kills a woman. What? What? Yeah. Bit of a bummer, dude. What? Bummer, dude. Yeah.

Oh shit. No, I didn't see that. But you might you also might want to uh check the um The rules and regulations on that fish ticket, because I think House of Glory announced a show in Vegas on Thursday. Oh no, you're gonna miss the hog show. I don't I it's so crazy that a company is would still be an I mean, stardem. They said they were doing a show and then they haven't said another word about it.

Are they just gonna fucking wait till the middle of March and be like, oh, we're gonna be over here on I mean,'cause the the I was about to say is that the thing with Japanese companies, but it's like, no, they just they don't announce a card. Like at least announce a show. But yeah, are they gonna be at that fucking, you know, art gallery with you know No, because remember last year Stardom had a show too and it was like off by itself. Like it was not

Isn't that where we went? We didn't no, we went we went over and saw that was Tokyo Joshi, wasn't it? Or was it No, no, that was starter because Tecla beat up the the the head of The company. Wasn't it? Then maybe yes, you're right. Maybe Did they do two shows?'Cause I feel like there was one that was competing with something we were gonna do but it was also like off by itself, and then they also did a show over there.

Well, I mean, that was Unless I'm mixing my ears up, who fucking knows? Possibly. That was maybe the second worst I mean it it's hard to quantify, but like that might have been the second worst venue I've seen wrestling in just from a um comfort standing around standpoint. Like th the worst was the early morning guy Steel show. Oh yeah. Because it was just it was after a long day. It was probably show number seven. Yeah. And it was like here. We don't do that anymore. And uh it was probably like

eleven or twelve at night. Yeah. And it was hard concrete, no s no seats, and it was just like uh but like the that but that stardom show and like the art gallery, it's like Th they don't even have water. Like I'm like, man, this this is like it's just it's just this hot windowless room. Yeah. No, I feel like you c I feel like when you

Like they they kept being like can't st like they were you know Right. They were like this area needs to be clear for like fire safety or whatever. And it's just like God damn it, this fucking sucks. Yeah. And then Tecla just of a maniac just destroys the the president of the company. Yeah. No no cops. I do have that great video of uh Clark Connors being like, Turn around. Turn around. We're the War Dogs now. War Dogs now. He was so patient with me. Yeah. Well, why not? We gave him a fucking

Game of K is a rolling rock. Yeah. Um I'm all yours, dude. I just I just can't believe Prince Nana would would uh you know participate in a, you know, attempted murder like that on TV. Yeah, he gets he gets he gets whipped up and stuff. There we go. What is it? What is it?

AJ Styles feels WWE WrestleMania has lost some of its prestige over the years. Oh boy. Never say next year. WrestleMania. I'm sorry to say, used to be the most prestigious PLE or pay-per-view, whatever you want to call it, but to me, it's kind of lost its luster a little bit.

But as far as the Royal Rumble, well that's special to me, because that's where I made my debut. So to be able to end it where I started, that's poetic. So he just he he's doing the Drew McIntyre thing. He's shitting on mania to make it sound like uh what he did was cool. Come on. Hey uh AJ, why don't you retire at Mania? Well, it's just it ain't prestigious as uh as the rumble is, you know. I mean Prestige worldwide. Worldwide. Can I tell you what threw me off was um boats and hose?

They opened Dynamite with um like those cold interviews, like Saturday Night's Maid Event style. Yep. Which I love. It it do it every week, you know? That's how you should open the show. And they went through uh I believe the first person I saw was Willow Nightingale. I don't know who uh if they opened it with somebody else, but They started going through'cause they were having right? There was one person before her, but I can't think of who it was. But anyway, yeah. Maybe Moxley, I don't know.

'Cause it was it was someone, then Harley sp spoke first, and then Willow. Um Oh was it Mina? Mina. Uh Mina Shirakawa. Yes. Well that's how you open your show. That's what threw me off because it was Mina Shirokawa, then it was Willow Nightingale, then it was Megan Bain, and then I'm like, okay, Marina Shafir's gonna be next because If if you you've got four women in a match, you've heard from three, the next one is gonna be

Entrant number four. But then the next person it was was Swerve Strickland. And for half a second it it completely jarred me'cause I was you know you ever like take a drink of something and you expect it to be, you know, like water and then it's, you know, vinegar or something? Sure. So I'm like, whoa. So like I'm looking and my brain is telling me that's Marina Shafir, but my eyes are telling me, No, that's Swarve Strickland. And so I'm like, this makes no sense. Uh oh.

Come on. Quality control. Hey man, quality over quantity control. And then you heard from Kenny. So I was just like, Man, uh are they still n no faith in Marina's promo ability? What if she had the hat back? Well, she's just she's the problem, man. She doesn't she doesn't she's a woman of few words. She is the problem, isn't she?

Uh man, I don't even know. I'll talk about Kevin Knight and the Beast Mortos, because I'm just like I couldn't like Neither of the I had to m make the decision that neither of those two gentlemen would be my favorite wrestler of the week. But it was like Everything I could watch those two wrestle every fucking show. Yeah. I mean First of all, just that uh at one point like Knight does this standing drop kick. Yep. Like I'm I'm I'm like this is like

At least on Wednesday, I was like, that might have been better than Okada. I was just like, This was a fucking drop kick, dude. You're tweaking, dude. God damn. Also, I was watching an episode of uh Star Trek where This description won't help. They're on a planet with uh uh people who live on the panel a little more primitive. There's a lot of Star Trek talk on this episode. Are we watching the Star Trek Vault and you didn't tell me?

Imagine if each week we just review an episode of Star Trek because every episode of Star Trek, as much as they talk about like, you know, understanding and fellowship and Th somebody gets their ass kicked every week on Star Trek. The original series every fucking week. Maybe maybe there I'm sure that there must be episodes of like Next Gen or some of the other spinoffs where there's no violence, but like every episode of OG, there's a fucking fist fight.

And at one point Kirk the I believe the episode was called uh a private little war, something like that. Where it's it's it's it's the most It's so funny they kept talking about how like this this episode really parallels the Vietnam War. I'm like, yeah, no shit. They they are shoving it down your throat. Like it's like it's Roman Reigns in two thousand seven. But Did I even get that date right? No. Two thousand seven's way too soon. In twenty fourteen. Yeah, you go.

And at one point, this is the reason I bring it up. Captain Captain Kirk straight up does a drop kick, like off his feet. Both legs like sideways. Yes. Not even like a like a monkey barrel kick or something. Like straight side drop kick on a dude. Couldn't believe it. I'm like, what is happening in this episode? Uh I also thought it was pretty funny on collision when

FTR is gonna have a match with the rascals. Mm-hmm. And um Uh, you know, of c as I've said before, Myron Reed, odd man out in that team who when he came out on the dynamite we were at, I was like, Myron's fucking getting pinned.

In this they're like he's like what but they're like, No, no, we got a better record as a tag team or something, you know, like Myron's just fucking like they just dispense with him, you know? No, no, no. We'll we'll do it. We'll do it. You hang you just hang out, just hang out. Come on, man. Man, no respect. Oh respect. No respect for the big dog. Yeah, pretty much. Um That's kind of what happened.

That's that's that's that's what happened. Bro, I am feeling like that's what happened. Why is Viva Van back on TV again? Jesus Christ. You think she's got some naked pictures of Tory Khan or something? Jesus Christ, something. I mean fucking there no are uh are there no women wrestlers in California like Viva Van alwa like every time they're here like just run on Viva Van have her flop around for a few seconds. Yeah. Um, I like that team though. I like that Jamie Hayter and uh Alec Windza.

The Brolin Birds. It really did feel like I mean, it's it it is like Jamie Hayter's like, God damn, like that is that's some classic professional wrestling. You are on top. You get hurt, you come back and it's just like I mean, yeah, somebody else has your spot. A couple of other people are ahead of you in line. It's just all right, we'll we'll put you in a tag or something. Uh did you just describe Eddie Kingston or what what are you talking about?

It's like Eddie came back and it was like, Just relax. Like he needs a minute to get Right. Oh, we're gonna put him with Ortiz. Okay. Oh, we're gonna give him a new name and and move'em to a town and give him a new job and So no one can find him? Yeah. It's all right. It's alright. Skip him some time. He's alright. Yeah, he'll be back in the mix. He's gonna be back.

There is something though about in particular this past um dynamite really solidified it for me. I'm like, this it feels like The best version of Um Wrestling in the 80s, like sp specifically WWF TV in the 80s, because it's like for one, it's a smaller building. And for better or worse, wrestling works better in a smaller building. It's it's it's like comedy. It's uh like the you can have your big shows with a huge crowd, but It's at its best when it it's a little bit more

Intimate where there is more of a connection with the crowd. It's like it's like music. It you know, it's like you can have your hundred thousand seat stadium, but it's like The stones are gonna be better in a smaller room, like fish or the dead, they'll be better in the forum than in you know Sofi. So fi. It's just one of those things where the art you can connect better with it. So they have that going for it.

And it did remind me of like God, this almost feels like those very early eighties T V tapings where everything's in Allentown. You know, there's there's an intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to be in the same building each time. But also we should talk about the the Ring of Honor T V tapings that they're gonna be doing. But but there was something also the the consistency, especially this year, you know, these past, you know, uh six, eight weeks, however long the year's been so far.

of this is who's on the show every week or at least represented somewhere. on the two shows of just like it it it open because I I I just realized because WWE is so much more compartmentalized. Where it's like, here's who's working with who, and th those are the only people that like each segment on a WWE show for years has always been like now that punk is is is in a feud with um

Roman, right? The only interaction unless unless he not a good example because Roman's not ever there. But yes, exactly. But like l live in live in Stephanie, right? Is like th if if Stephanie's around, there's gonna be some sort of live involvement or representation, you know, and vice versa. Um and the matches they have will feel like they're just there for to get us Yeah. It's it's it's either to build to this pay per view match or it's just to to eat up time. Right.

And and more times than not, especially the last few years. WWE, it's just eating up time, you know? Whereas with AEW, there is a An openness in the roster where it's like we can have these different interactions and it doesn't feel It's it's the type of thing where like Vince or like Triple H would always be like, it's a fucking cold match. Whereas it's like with dynamite, they've done such a good job of making everything wins and losses, and not everything is just getting fucked.

Just just to fill time. Where it's like I see oh Mark Davis is gonna be wrestling John Moxley. I'm like, I'm fucking excited, you know? Yeah. Oh sorry, go ahead. No, because I'm because on the one hand, uh because there also uh there is something to the vastness of the Don Callis family because it's like, okay, we are still having our Death Rider Callus representation.

But it's like it's wider open or like you w with with the tag match of, you know, Orange Cassidy and Ishii versus the War Dogs. I'm like, okay, this is it doesn't feel as random as it might on paper. It's just like, oh fuck. I'm in. I'm into this. There can also be a a a wrestler can have an A, B, and C story going. Yeah. You know, where it's like obviously this is the this is a story they're telling right now, but this is gonna come come up later.

Kind of thing, you know? Yeah, I feel like and and ironically the only person that they were doing that with Just and and and unintentionally in WWE was Drew McIntyre because it was like Drew was just like I just fucking hate everybody, but these three guys in like especially. You know? Yeah. It's too bad. Amen. Buck up, dude. It's all right. I'm just...

I just can't believe Phil can't sell out a fucking building in Chicago. I thought he was the fucking saint of that place. With his old lady, come on, the king and queen of Chicago. With his old lady, the king and queen of Chicago? The sausage kings and queens of Chicago? Bummer dude. Sorry about your bad damn luck. They won't be watching it over at the beat kitchen or anywhere else. Oh my god. Ain't allowed.

No. Can't do it. Won't do it. Can't do it, won't do it. Can't stop, won't stop. Doop doop. Red Robin. Crazy as hell, McCarthy. You know what? Man, you're a fucking goof. And you crazy as hell, dog. Man, you're out of your fucking mind. Doot doot doop. Oh, so yeah, yeah, yeah. So where are they doing these Ring of Honor TV taping? Oh yeah. I think it's like a TV studio in um Jacksonville, I want to say, because that's the title that the cons own. Right. Um uh let's see here.

Tony Can. I also see uh Marl Ronallo making a comeback for the uh I guess they're doing like a Ring of Honor Global Wars thing again. Um Yeah, but it's like it's it's not with New Japan, it's like with Maple Leaf Pro, the one that I think Scott Damore started. Maro Ronaldo with Rickbani and Don Callas. Now that's a fucking that's a three piece right there. D didn't Ronaldo have problems because someone was mean to him in WWE? Don Call is gonna be really mean. Ha ha ha.

Interesting to see what that lineup will look like. Given that the global war's brand historically pretty big. Pretty big brand. Not too bad. Not too bad. I just got word from Tony. He says everybody be nice tomorrow. Uh well that's great. If you don't know kids, it's it's but it's studio wrestling, much like um Did do they still do the Billy Corgan NWA in in Atlanta? I don't think they do it in Atlanta, but there there definitely is still an NWA show, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. That was that first

And second season of that show, power. Power, thank you. Those DVDs existed. I'm sure you could still get your hands on them somewhere. I don't know if they're I'm sure they're out of print, but Fuck. Was that a fun watch? Was that a fun hang? Um the question mark, R. I. P. Just just tremendous. And and and like again, when you do have, it's like to my earlier point, when you do have that intimate setting, you know, where it is like it's it's it it

Uh WWE has this inferiority complex where they have to be like, Well, we're bigger than we're bigger than the Pope. Look how many people we drew. Bigger than the Pope, bigger than the stones, bigger than the Olympics. Where it's like I wrestling works when it's Dusty Roads saying, put your hand up to the to the screen. My hand is touching your hand through the screen.

You know? Where it's it's it's it's like professional wrestling is the ultimate parasocial relationship where it's like, no, no, no, that's my guy. He speaks for me. He's fighting for what I believe in. He's he's setting right the injustices that I see in the world. He's like I can't stand this other guy. I can't stand what he's been saying, what he's been doing. The things that he the things he's saying about me and my town and my beliefs. I need my guy to come in.

And set him straight and set it right. You know? And it's it's also why like the the it's I understand Brody King had the abolis ice shirt, but like There is something to people chanting fuck ice at a wrestling show because it's like this is this is and and it and it's and it's hard because it's like This is like a real life, real like life and death. Problem that people see in their lives, but it's like if I can at least have a voice.

That's a place where I can do it in professional wrestling. You know, this is this is a place where What the voice of the voiceless, Phil Brooks. When I see something wrong in the world, this is at least a place where I can guarantee I lay my money down and I am gonna at least get justice. Yeah. Hopefully. I don't know man. Does Phil Brooks still wanna defend trans kids or is he not allowed to do that anymore?

You know what? He's had to turn it a lot of things he's had to turn around on. He had a bad morning and he was cranky and he said a few things he didn't mean. Um Yes. And yeah. NWA power. Looks like uh Looks like they just had an episode not too long ago. Okay. Well, I'm excited to like I'm more interested in this version of Ring of Honor than

th than I've been in in Ring of Honor since since the pandemic. I think that the lockdown, the no the no crowd shows, Ring of Honor handled it the best out of anyone. Yeah. See this I'm looking at their show right now. This to me, yeah. It's not

into the fire. Maybe this is whatever. But it's like the way that center stage felt like TV rest. I guess this does. I guess it does. This feels more like um it was shot in a place like um the Vermont where it's like a couple of rows and there's a lot of like black draping and it just it feels a little less. But maybe that's just, you know, my historical programming of like this is a studio show. This is Well,'cause like those that original run of raw in the Manhattan Center, it's like

You could say that was a studio wrestling show, but it it sounds closer to what you're describing with the Vermont than like Memphis. Yeah. Well, but to me that actually that feels more like A and I think it's more about the uh the balcony giving it like the decoration of being in a place as opposed to

if they, you know, did it and it is just like there's just black curtains all the all the way around and you know what I mean? Like Yeah. So the Manhattan Center, uh the the Grand Ballroom, which is where that was at, um, with uh Yeah,'cause what's what's the downstairs it's called the um Hammerstein? Hammerstein, right. Uh, I don't know. It's all visual. It's all visual, but it's all visuals. But it's also the sound. Like there's there's such a crispness crispness to the studio wrestling sound.

'Cause you are you're in a soundtrack. Lower roof, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ain't no doubt about it. Ain't no doubt about it, bro. All right, dude. Uh-huh. Who's your favorite wrestler? Mark Davis. Oh my god, me too. What? You're fucking with me. I'm not I'm not, dude. Is this an AJ Styles thing? This is not I'm not fucking with you. I'm this is what I was saying. When when

Every when when Dynamite opened, yeah, and I'm like Mark Davis comes down, I'm like, you know what? I fucking love this guy. I like I'm so happy he's been getting so much T V time. It's like you know, Fletcher a has the rocket strapped to him. They try to put him in that other tag. That guy immediately gets hurt, right? Yeah.

Jake something. But it doesn't mean Mark has to go away. Nope. And then he's in there and it's everything fucking works. It's so crisp. And literally each subsequent match and segment I'm like, this guy's great. This girl's great. I'm like I still gotta go Beth Mark. I gotta go back with Mark. Davis. Yeah, man. Right? He's doing big thanks. I'm fucking loving it, dude.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Oh man. I I love it when a plan comes together. We're on the same page, big homie. The same hangman Adam page, big dog. Never again will he challenge for the title. We'll see. We shall see. So it's not like them to You know? Change the belt so often. So it will be interesting what what their plan is. How's it gonna go down? That's why we watch. That's why we watch these things. I know it has.

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