WeWatchWrestling Issue #652

Well, hello. That you need. It's the We Watch Wrestling podcast. We're on the road to revolution. Yeah, we are. I'm your wonderful darling, redheaded, bearded host. Uh Beyond the map, McCarthy. A bit subdued this morning, I happen to notice. I was trying to think uh I I was trying to think of one to do. Mmm Uh with me always professional wrestling encyclopedia, Mr. Vince Avril. Hey man. What the fuck you think this is? Hey man. The badass Billy Gunn. The road dog Jesse James. Come on.

They're back, baby. Dude, maybe they're maybe they'll be at revolution. They'll do some kind of tag team thing. I mean, get get them at WrestleCon. Well, oddly enough, I was looking at it and um they're selling tickets for uh Road Dogs Meet and Greet at WWE World still.

So and then I c whoever I did I bring that up to you? Someone said they thought he was maybe still under a legends deal. Even though he looks like a big thing. That's gotta be a pain in the ass. I also, you know, maybe maybe they'll just uh they love that subject to change business, you know. Maybe it'll maybe it'll just be fucking uh

Downtown Bruno or something instead. He doesn't have a job anymore, does he? Bruno? Yeah. I don't I haven't heard his name. I don't think so. Maybe he's maybe he's still getting Chinese food for McMahon. Sun Sun Bruno. Yeah. I could go for some egg fuyang, egg white fuyang. I'm curious now because it's like really That fucking place when Mark Yaton got canned, that was like beyond

Well, that I mean that's been a w been a bit. That that's long enough ago. Well that was a long time ago. Where it was like he walked in front of McMahon and McMahon was like, wait a minute.

The fuck's are you doing here? If I knew what you did I would fucking fire your ass. Um I w I will say, you know, uh there's there's a a a ton of markers uh to the fact that, you know, that place is different now and TKO owns it and everything, but like The fact that the lady who became the head writer of Raw or whatever just like made the pu made a public announcement about it. I'm like that that shit like

That's feel feels like a like in in previous in a bygone era it was a like a punishable offense if you were like I'm straw and and a VP of whatever, whatever. Like nah. But This is the TKO timeline. This is Wikipedia is so

Strange. Oh, the internet. The internet, I mean, you know, uh after Cody got his won his belt back from Drew on Friday, yeah, you know, all you could see at first was How it was the most dislikes on a fucking a video for ever, ever. And then very quickly it was like it's been discovered that over a hundred thousand bots were purchased. for all the dislikes. You so it's just like it's i everything is Everything is very, very, very, very, very subjective on the internet. You're like, okay.

This this video got a bunch of dislikes. Does it really matter in the room? Maybe it does. The room meaning the the arena. Right. And and and if it does, whatever. And then if you know, and if in fact someone bought all these bots to it but I mean it certainly made sense to go like yeah they keep kind of pulling the rug out from under Drew but also Cody is their fucking guy And and I honestly am fucking I'm I'm much happier if it's it's Drew and Fatu.

And let let Randy and fucking um Cody have the WWE match, dude. That's like that that don't bother me at all, man. I mean, other than if you're like, oh man, Drew deserves better, whatever, okay. But That's that's how the world fucking spins. Um, but as far as like match match wise, I'm like, that's cool with me, dude. If we if we get those two singles rather than some fucking amalgamation.

Oh man, rather than the four of'em all at once. Yeah, or even three of'em. Yeah. Nah, fuck that. Um much more interested in Drew and Fatou than anything else. The Oh. I didn't do my raw homework. Trick Willie. Just so you know. Oh, okay. Just so you know. But yeah, Cody and Randy, that's um that's as WWE as it gets. It's very bland. I mean it's it it makes sense. It makes all the sense in the world.

Yeah. But it's and and it probably will be a fine, you know, just just fine passable match. Yeah. But it is it's one of those things where you're like, eh. It's almost like when uh when like a WrestleMania um card is like leaked. Either like before the yeah event or like years afterwards and you're like, Oh my god Well, it's also like uh to me it it almost is like a it's it's a little it's it's a little fucking it's a comfort'cause I'm just like, yeah, that

That's right. Those two. That's right. You know? Like Sure. Because We don't go to WrestleMania Because it's gonna be a you know, fucking five star top to bottom wrestling card. You know what I mean? That's just not what it is. It's a it's a different it's a different thing. So if a match like that, I'm like, yeah, man, that's what that is for sure. That smells right. Um, and then did did you see that th there was some original plan for Cody and Drew to be in a hell in a cell? At Mania?

That's crazy. But again, like it sure sounds like there's uh been a lot of plans. Oh yeah. And there probably still are. Nothing but plans. Because plans plans change. As much as um you know, forward facing it's all about how, you know, the internet is is bullshit and doesn't matter.

You know, if there's if there was any smoke to the fucking fire of the the YouTube against Cody's, you know, who knows what could still happen, you know? I mean anything can happen. Everything could happen, pal. I also, man, this like

this uh especially going into Revolution where it's just like fuck of course it's I mean they just they just put on really good wrestling shows but yeah like We're in the we are in the s Mania season where there's just gonna be more raw main events that are talking than our rest of the. You know?

It's like Sam Punk can't wrestle for another two weeks, so in the meantime, but we need him there, so we're just gonna have him w he'll he'll main event Raw talking to Roman, then he'll main event Raw talking to Romans. uh cousins then you know like it's just where we're at now. I know it is, and it's like um God, it They can't I mean after he broke his face at Elimination Chamber. It's like we gotta just put CM Punk in, you know, airplane peanuts, just just

Get get that Faberger Faberger egg to fucking mania. I'm sure all the metrics remain. But the other thing is like it's Netflix, man. Like Put you know, put the new fucking whatever at the end of the sh like you know what I mean? Like it doesn't seem as important. Maybe it is, you know, to go like, well, w how about we just finish the show with a fucking with a match, but maybe it doesn't matter. Yeah, I don't know. I we it's it's so unsettling to me that we live in this w world of like

Like a like a like a the show's on Netflix, but it's like uh but the ratings, like w what are the ratings? How do the ratings work? Yeah,'cause it's like I haven't paid as close attention, I guess, but I'm like, is there like are they worrying about a crossover? No, right? They're not worried about like going in going from eight to nine o'clock that there's something and again, this week, you know

The the ads are still on my replay, but at least I can fast forward them. But it it feels like it's every fucking like every five minutes. There's like a three to seven minute block of commercials and it tells you it's like one of six uh five minutes. You know what I mean? And I'm just like well, God bless Bri mode'cause I'm you know PREMOUD! Ha ha ha. Ja, ja, ja, ja...

Punk uh apologizing to the Usos, it felt like um felt like we were back in Saudi Arabia and he's like, What's your name? Muhammad? Muhammad, I apologize to you. Yeah. When is Zilla Fat two gonna Jump the railing and just beat up punk. Ooh, just like uh like Bruiser Brody at Mania One you talking about or you talking about like uh uh on the payroll? No, like Bruiser Brody. Oh.

Like Shane Douglas you know how like every three years Shane Douglas tries to like you know uh hijack Raw and like jump over the railing? Yeah. Well That would be It would be pretty funny. He's like he, you know he continues to make the threat. So hopefully Zilla, you know,'cause he he doesn't he doesn't make a lot of great decisions, it doesn't seem like, so No, and chief among them grabbing my Coca Cola and just chugging it and then leaving the ice all over the floor. Mm.

Well, I think it was soda water'cause he thought I think he thought it was a vod sod and it was all sod. It was all sod. Um what is that?

And uh of speaking of the Fa Two family, Journey Fa Two is part of this big card on Saturday night out in Baldwin Park, man. You got the butcher. You got Shane Hastings. What's this? Uh TJP is in the building. TJP, Jesus Christ. Out at the old um out at the old bar wrestling venue there in Baldwin Park. Uh oh It's an American Legion post. Yeah, what is that? I can never remember Rival. That's what it's called. Rival Pro. Rival Pro. Let's take a look.

I mean, listen, especially with eight hours of wrestling on Sunday, I'm probably not heading out there, even though I l I would love to support the butcher. Um, you got uh oh, your man fucking Um your man's front and center on this thing, bad the bad dude. Badutito. Badu Tito. Our man um Royce Isaac.

The afternoon Journey Fot 2. I mean they got they got some heads. This this could be cool. You keep saying and you keep saying the butcher. Who's that? You know, the butcher of Buffalo, dude. Butcher in the Blade. Fucking Oh. Andy Williams. Journey Fa 2 versus Royce Isaac. Bad Dude Tito versus the Butcher. Karna versus Milo, not familiar. Milo? He went to college. Oh, G Sharp. We know G sharp.

Milo. Kid Destino versus Slice Boogie. How about old Slice Boogie in the building? Yeah, man. Oh yeah, wait. Who's Slice Boogie? Um. I know that name. You're gonna have to be more specific. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I don't know how what else to tell ya. Shane Haste and uh Alpha Zoe. Yeah, man. I mean if Baldwin Park was a little bit closer, maybe, but

Wishing everyone well out there at Ri it's not bad. It's really not that bad. Just to just to put a put a end in this, uh what I found hilarious on Wikipedia is it just says as of two thousand eleven

Lauer, his real name is Bruno Lauer, was working with the WWE in backstage roles at television and pay per view events in an interview with Jim Corderas. Lower describes his role as concierge, taking care of details such as food, rental cars, and the like. He was a gopher. Amen. And he knew where all the good Chinese food was.

Hey job's a job, man. Fuck it, job's a job. But concierge. In the business dude? In the business? Well listen. Does that mean at some point he was the guy just running and getting like drugs? You know. There's a lot of the listen, man, there's a lot of uh A lot of bullshit on people's resumes. I don't think concierge is the worst uh offense in the description. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying it's you you're you're beefing up your resume at that point. Oh, I was a concierge. It's like no.

Uh, you know, d have I put a needle in in one or two people's asses? Maybe. Maybe, but you don't know that.

What uh what was the guy's name again with the sweatpants? I just wanted to look him up. Do I get tipped? Absolutely not. Slice Boogie. Slice Boogie. Slice Boogie Wrestler. Slice Boogie in the building. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Maybe you and Jackie Boy take a ride out to old Baldwin Park, huh?

Well, I'll be in Royal Oak, Michigan. That's right. Fuck. Royal Oak, dude. Home of the body bag. I can't believe it, man. Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle. If you're in the Metro Detroit area or beyond. Head out this weekend and see Maddie opening up for Pete Holmes all weekend at Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle up at Institution. Starting on uh Thursday. Uh Midwest Institution. Who's any I you don't know who the opener is? Who I wonder wonder who they got on the old I probably don't know anybody back.

Oh well we don't uh You have an MC though, right? No. It's just me and Pete. No. Oh wow. Damn, Mark. I go up, I do the twenty. No, that's that's That's the way we like it. We've and and it's like There are there are clubs that are like Oh, we we we have an M C or we have like um Yeah local guy just to do and it's like Yeah, they want someone doing the birthdays, they want somebody announcing the fucking uh tequila specials and uh

It's uh the the that's what the d that's what the DJ is for, you know, that's what the sound guy is for. But it it is it it really um times that we've anytime we've showed it up at a club And there is just some comic sitting in the the green room waiting. Mm-hmm. Uh it really It really kills the vibe. I sure hope Ridley didn't book Jesse Pop this weekend to open. Sure hope not. He's sitting in the green room, you're gonna be bummed. Man. Takes up all the space on the couch.

It's gonna smell like Siggy's in there, even though he ain't smoking. Uh well that's fun. And you uh you'll be back on Sunday in plenty of time for the revolution show. I'll be back Sunday morning. Maybe maybe even the zero hour. Who knows? What time are you getting down there? Oh, I can't think about that yet, but plenty early. You know, we got plenty of friends coming in for this one. It's gonna be a it's gonna be a a celebration.

Lucky times. I'll probably be over at the Lucky Strike. That's where I like to go before crypto. Oh, you love Lucky Strike, man. You love rolling balls. Eaton. Never bold there. Never bold there. Oh man. Every time I'm like, Vince, I I gotta drag it. You're like, I rented I rented the lane for the whole hour. What do you mean we gotta go? Like I've got I've got Vince by the lapels.

And I'm just dragging him out. He's screaming I've got five more frames. I wish he wouldn't fuck up all my tuxedos too. Where are my mozzarella sticks? It's my cheat day! God, that reminds me, I haven't been taking my statin. I fucking What? What are you doing? It was like I I you know, it's like you know, I have it in a bag. And then I just like like w w when I travel. Oh.

Yeah. And then like I set it down and I'm like, oh fuck, I gotta take that. Oh dude, I'm I am I am every every day of fifty plus years old, bro. When I when I travel I got the little fucking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday little fucking pilgrimage. Well I I well I'm taking this is what made me think of it because I take these this is a um this is the anti inflammatory that I'm taking for like my tailbone. Mm. What happened to your tailbone?

It's it's been bothering me for months. Oh, the airplane yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. And and God bless Jamie Kowarski, he he got me this inflatable uh doodad that like, you know what? It's That's a good guy. He's a real good guy. But uh the problem's bigger than I mean a known drug user, but but you know, you can't hold everything against everybody. What? Koho? Koho? I'll leave it at that. Elicit. Elicit.

Oh. Brody versus swerve. Does that move the needle at all for you on Sunday, or is that a popcorn match? Um, that man, that that moves the needle. That buries the needle, dude. It really it's like, thank fucking God Um What's his fucking fucking what's his name? Alistair Black left that company. It's so great.'Cause it uh i I just love that it's like Brody didn't lose his spot. He only benefited from it.

Being in that group was great, but it was like, okay, let's get him out of the group. Yeah. I love it, man. He's still hurt. Huh? Buddy. Oh yeah, Buddy. Still hurt. I knew that it's so funny. I'm like, I know that there's a third guy, but I can't even think of who it is. Tecla Statlander, that's probably your merch match, if I'm not mistaken. Get the fuck out of here.

I've I've I fist bumped she she I fist bumped her foot, man. Disgusting. I'm in. Disgusting display. Look at those furry knuckles. I look like a hobbit. No, no, no, no. Uh hold on, I gotta take this sweater off. Oh. Sorry, I gotta take this. Which means I gotta take my headphones out. Hang on. Sorry, I gotta take this. Stop it. Oh, McCarthy can't hear a word. I'm saying, what? Oh, full tits, full tits on the video this week. Shut up! Now I gotta mark the YouTube explicit. Shut up.

There was uh when I vividly remember one time. So in in elementary school, there was just like The classroom just had a coat room attached to it. You know, you walked through a door and you were sort of in the coat room, and then you were in the classroom. There was no door, you know, like Yeah. A little free. Uh, thank fuck. No one, no one saw this.

But I'm like in I'm I'm in it's it's a snow situation, so I'm like taking all my shit off. I'm taking off my snow pants. I start to take off my pants, just absent mindedly. And I didn't get too far. But my God, dude, you know what things could be completely different. Cause w shit like that at that point in history can change your whole fucking trajectory, dude. I may have been the guy that took my pants off. I'd fucking be in a gutter right now.

What grade was this? I'm gonna say probably th thir second or third grade. But I mean, you know, I saw kids and I'm sure you did too, dude. There was just a like one day you came to school and you were fine and then it somehow something happened, something was decided, and and now you were a fucking target. Or you had something on you and you were fucking dunzo. Let me tell you something. I went to college. Uh and you know how it is when you when you're in college? There's always

Um maybe somebody you knew from high school is also at that school. You meet new people. They know people from their high schools at the school. Maybe there's like one high school where it's like, oh man, a lot of those guys. Went to this school. Yeah. Common situation. The guy across the hall from us, uh, what the fuck was his name? I think his name was Sean. He um He seemed okay. Okay. But um I it happened uh what you're talking about happened to him in in college.

Oh wow, that's pretty late. And then but also happened to him in high school. So it is it's like, you know, the this this guy had a bad run, but maybe self inflicted. When we were in college, like we all lived next to each other, so of course we're all buddies. This was up in the Bronx. We went to the Bronx Zoo. No. The botanical gardens. We weren't even in the zoo. We were just at the botanical gardens. Stoners. Stoners. Big time. And uh they've got they're like hauling in uh manure.

You know, for the plants. This guy we're leaving and we're all like you you can smell the manure. And the first person to say anything was this dude Sean. He just goes Oh, you smell that manure. It's making me hungry. And we're all like, what the fuck? So that was that was it for him. Sorry, bud. We're gonna have to do that. And I'm telling this stor telling this story to somebody who, as it turns out, he went to high school with this dude. And I'm like

And I'm like, oh, that uh uh I'm um this guy, Sean. And he's like, what guy? Like Sean, he lives across the hall. He's like Wait, that guy's name is Sean? I'm like, you went to high school with him. He's like, he's like, I'm not fucking around. I thought that guy's name was Ralph. Mm.'Cause he threw up one time in school. No. No, not even that bad. Mm mm. The first like one of the first days of freshman year.

A d and and and crazy enough, another guy who also went to that high school and went to our college. It's a it's a small world. Ah, Fordham University. He's getting on the bus. Says to the future. And what is it? Listen to this. I'm listening. You don't know why they called him Ralph. Oh oh I thought he it was just me. He didn't throw up, man. They were on the bus freshman year.

Guy gets on the bus and he sees the dude Sean and he's just like, Hey man, so what's your name, dude? And he kind of like mumbled something. He's like, What? Ralph Sphinx? And then from that day for like four years, people thought his name was Ralph Sphinx. Damn. Like the fucking pyramids and Giza Sphinx?

How you spelling that? Now do you think Big Boom AJ deserves a a match on the main card Sunday?'Cause they sure have one Slotted for him and I feel like the whole Costco guy thing is on the decline. TikTok's different now. A lot of stuff is not being Operated the same way over there. I feel like the Costco guys are. I mean, Risler's a star, but he's not ready to work. Big boom on the main cart. What do you think?

Is that what they're doing? Well listen, if you're if Wikipedia is to be believed, which is the Bible of the internet Match nine here on the AEW Revolution uh card for Sunday says Big Boom AJ versus TBA. Why? I mean, th th that is my question exactly. Why? Because big boom, you know. That's a zero hour guy. And uh I don't think he's even that anymore. I don't think anybody is uh buying a chicken bake.

Because Big Boom is on the show, I don't think anybody is being redirected to shop AW dot com. There's no reason. I mean, this thing was dead in the water when it started. Yeah. Who who put their hands on uh his kid there? I can't remember. Somebody somebody fucking

Somebody was was it was it Trent? Was it that long ago that it was Trent? Somebody somebody put hands on his kid in their other go rounds, but I mean my mind s go thinks it's FTR, but that's just because they're the perennial heels Well, they got problems with Papa Buck right now, but I also wonder because I I watch these shows. I'm like where w when did this get figured in? And I don't have any recollection of there is just He said this on Instagram.

Oh, okay. So that's why I'm not following his Instagram. No. On Instagram Big Boom was asked when his next wrestling match will be. He replied, I'll be back in the ring next Sunday, March fifteenth, AEW Revolution. With a T shirt gun, hopefully. Getting the crowd fired up. I mean, does this mean I mean it's it's it's QT Marshall, right? That's his perennial uh opponent. I mean it's either him or Jerry Stumbaugh,'cause I know Jerry's making the run. So

That's right. Jerry's making the drive. Jer if it if it ends up being Jerry, Jerry better go over and strong. 'Cause next record store stronger than Costco at this point. Come on. The the next record store at Santa Rosa, California, gets five big booms. Yeah. I mean if if Jerry were to put a little fucking concession window out front

It's it's it's lights out. Costco probably goes out of business. Oh please. Starts selling a nice cheap pizza, inexpensive hot dog, whatever he's got to do over there. Did you know that Big Boom is undefeated in AEW? No, but um of course. I mean, you know, how how else are we gonna continue to uh promote his brand and allow him to promote AEW as as well as he does? It really is strange. Um God. Yeah.

Tony Storm and Marina Shafir, no one's allowed at ringside. What's gonna happen? That's gonna be great. I know you don't dig him, but I think Andrade and Banditos could be fucking pretty sweet too. Don Call is poking around. Um I'm sure it'll be great. Uh Andrade is um great. I mean he it's it's it's it's uh I'm just sick of'em. I'm just sick of of being

It it feels like I'm constantly being told how good Andrade is, and then I watch like I like I I watch the matches. I I'm just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean what Who's saying that? It's just the the level of his push, the uh the you know Yeah. I feel like the reaction is very You know, the um Oh well him and Gargano and him and uh Johnny Gargano has the worst gimmick in all of wrestling right now. Uh but like him and Gargano, him and um

Who fucking ever? I'm just like Come on. I just I just find him um just fine. It's just it's it's It's an Elilo thing. Well, I mean it's just it's it's one of these things where I'm like Everybody's really good. You know? So what that means is now being really good isn't enough.

Was everybody involved in Flair's last match? No. So that puts you a little bit higher. Just a little bit higher. Good God. Yeah, a little bit higher. I think I saw that Ricky Morton was offered another like There was some something where Ricky Morton was like, I love Rick and whatever, but like I do not want to be in like uh there was something where like maybe they were tr was trying to get one more going.

And uh and old Ricky Mo well you can ask him because Flair will be at WrestleCon. You'll you'll get over there. You'll ask him a couple Wait. Are people saying that they they were trying to do another Flair retirement match? Well that's I mean that's essentially what Ricky Morton. Ricky Morton wrote like I love Rick and whatever, but Rick needs to chill the fuck out. I'm I would not be involved in a match with Ric Flair. So that's that's what it sounded like.

Where did he post this? On Instagram? Uh Yeah, you know, I'm walking through life. I'm like fucking kung fu, dude. I see this shit, next thing you know, you go. Yeah, but you can't just say these things. Well it's true. If I say it it's true. That's how things work here in uh twenty twenty six. You can't just say these things. Hold on, I'm dialing it up right now. No, I'm dialing it up because you just say things. And then go, oh well, the babyface, Rick Morton.

It would be so funny to just call him Rick. What? February twenty sixth. Tweby sixteenth, twenty six. As cool and exciting as it sounds, I'm going to have to pass on the idea of one more match versus Rick Flair. Rick already had his last match, and it was an honor to be part of that show. Some moments don't need a sequel, they need to be respected, remembered, and celebrated forever.

And if we were to do it, I would be on it would be on my terms. It would be either in a GCW ring or an NWA ring. Thank you, Rick. Go take a piss if you need to. Ricky. I mean that is um that's kind of wild uh to just What's a flare on blast like that? Just so everybody knows, Rick asked me to do another final match with him, and I said no. Maybe, maybe, like, maybe if Flair's having a bad day, let's say, even though he would never admit it. No. Oh, God, no. Maybe he's like.

you know, looking to looking to s step off the mortal plane. Uh-huh. He's like, what but what better way he's like, if I wrestle one more time, I'm definitely dying. Like I the fact that I didn't die last time is pretty miraculous. He's like

I can just fucking you know, and then he gets a couple fucking double sea breezes going, whatever, and he's like, Oh no, I'm Ric Flair, fuck, I don't need that shit But didn't he what what was the story? Didn't he like have a heart attack in the middle of that match or something? I don't know. I don't know. Some there was there was like a a medical emergency that happened during the match that was basically ignored.

And then they just kept working. Yeah. Well, that's how they used to do it, man. You know? Last real world's champ. I mean I could see I could very easily see Flair, you know,'cause of course Joy Janella. Huh? Joy Janella spring break. Yeah. Flair's gonna give Samman his final match. No no San Man's got a Sam Man's got a partner or got a h has a uh opponent. Opponent.

I could see flair when he gets down in the dumps, which is obviously every day. Sure. That he starts you know, you you know, some people um They they they throw out certain things to get attention, maybe it's a cry for help. I bet you Flair starts texting people saying, Let's have one more match. And not intending to have the match just to either get the validation from them, like, oh man, I would love to fucking work with you dude. Sure.

Completely not expecting Rick Morton to go on line and be like Honored that Ric Flair would ask me to give him one last match. That he would text me from Bahama Bills and fucking That's right. Just heard from Rick. He's at Margaritaville. And I said no. Do you think Ric Flair sheds a tear every single day? Do you think he weeps every day? Uh definitely. He's yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'cause he he's

He can't handle being awake. He can't he can't handle consciousness, you know. Yeah. He has so much unprocessed trauma. to confront any of it. I mean the it's it's it's it's it's a miracle. It's a miracle he he can even put pants on. But you fe but she doesn't. But your Fifi the Maid dresses him. Speaking of trauma. Wait, before you move on to trauma. January seventh.

The day after your favorite day of the year? This is what was happening in Bristol, Tennessee, okay Oh yeah, dude. Is that a snakeskin t shirt? What is that? Is he holding a baby goat? That is this is one hundred percent a snakeskin pattern shirt. Uh-huh. And a and a baby goat, or is that some kind of dog? He's got like a it's like a puppy. It's like a puppy chihuahua. Look at his look at his little cutie. That's Ricky Morton, dude. That's rock and roll.

What a i i this is oh he named the dog Effie. Oh boy. And then Effie replies, What an honor. What a cute baby. At least they didn't name it Hoot. Oh my God. Who wrote this? This is hilarious.

Um speaking of trauma speaking of trauma. Um uh oh yes. Uh Takesh the Moxley, no time limit. So that thing's gonna have to go at least an hour and a half, yeah? When you say no time limit, you're basically saying it can't be a twelve minute match. This is gonna have to go. They're gonna go the distance. Do they Moxley's crazy enough To wanna do a um Jim Doug and Harley Race slammy awards and just fight throughout the entire show. Every so often they they check back in.

Yeah. Does crypto know how long this show is going to be? Are they going to keep the concessions open? They don't got a McDonald's there anymore, Maddie. You remember that, right? No McDonald's anymore. Oh, you think I don't know? You think I don't know that McDonald's is gone? Yeah. It's a dark day in the annals of professional wrestling. I saw I saw a little teaser for a fucking

uh Moxley and Renee uh interview where they were like walking it looked like they were kind of just going for a walk. It was shades of remember they were like in that in like his truck for that one show? No. There was like where she was kind of just like sort of interviewing him, but they were just like

I if like the it it looked like they were just like taking a drive around the neighborhood while they did the shot this thing. I think if you s if you you if I saw it I might remember it. But it is that's my favorite um like They don't acknowledge it. But everybody knows that they're married. Right. And it and it makes no sense that that guy on TV would be married to this, you know, seemingly quite lovely and smart r like ring reporter. Yeah. Like on on the side on the side of normal. Right.

But then it's like she can't help it and she probably plays it up for the camera. Like when she is at ringside and they're walking through, she always kinda like Side eyes and it's just like, oof. Yeah. Till fucking Marina puts her in a d rear naked choke.

I can I tell you how much I love that and and if they have done physicality with Renee, I don't remember it. That they just leave her be that she is sh like it's like it's like me and Gene Okrum. It's like there's no need to rough up it's it's it's It meant something when what's his name roughed up Lance Russell, you know, in nineteen eighty one. But since then it's so it's like who ca leave the f like

Yeah. It's again, it's like when you blur the lines, then then there are no lines. Then the then the show becomes, you know, less less watchable. Like there needs to be structure to it. There needs to be Like every promo can't be interrupted.

Then you better watch some fuck you better start watching some vault then.'Cause'cause basically y what you're describing is is uh modern pro wrestling. I mean But I'm not, but I'm not because it is because uh like f for instance, when when Cody won Um was it against Drew? Or was it against um No, it was when Punk fought uh uh Prince Devin. Fucking Balor at the pay per view, right? Like he just hit him with one GTS and then it was over. And then the crowd was like, oh.

Because they've conditioned the crowd because when you when when every when everybody kicks out of everything, then when you when you try and walk that back. You can't, you know. Sure. Could could could someone uh just one time win two straight falls in a two out of three falls match, you know? No doubt. Could just one time somebody else replace the turnbuckle pad and not have to be the referee?

It was a gre Give me a break with that. It was a great day when I can I couldn't even put a f put my finger on what match it was, but it was like Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart did the Iron Man match match and it went to the time limit draw. They went the full sixty second, uh sixty minutes. And it was a great match and Bret Hart retained. Then they v like they completely undo everything by having Gorilla Monsoon just be like, No, we're gonna go sudden death and it's like

Well that that's not the rule. That's not the match. Granted it was a flat it'd be a flat finish. Right. to do it that way, but like you you're breaking your own rule. Then it felt like every Iron Man match after that was it's always gonna come down to to the last minute, you know? Or it's like it's gonna be zero zero till the end. And it's like okay, well that that's not an Iron Man match. That's just a really long match. And then at some point they just started doing them.

where they there is a score. You know? Like it it's playing much more like a basketball game where it's like, all right, this guy's in the leads, the game's almost over, oh, they're making a comeback, you know, that type of thing is much more, I think, more interesting than just

Doing the same thing over and over again. Yeah. I do like I do like sort of watching and um like wondering on some of the other mania you know mania matches like last night I'm like, oh are they gonna do Balor versus Dom? That's cool. Well, but also JD was involved, so is it gonna be a tag?

And going oh Oba Femi versus fucking uh Lesnar. I know that's a popcorn match for you, but that's that's a lot of beef getting slammed around. Uh I like Obama, you know. Yeah, Oba. Good old Oba Femi. Twenty seven years old. He's a kid. It'd be nice if he, you know I I would be in the room if somebody could beat Brock Lesnar. That would that would just be nice. What about Trick Willie? Well don't you do a Trick Willie or or maybe, you know, the other thing that's weird is you got LA Knight.

mixed up here, but But I don't think they're gonna do a singles match with him and um Austin Theory and it sure seems like um Logan is is gonna be programmed for Seth since uh Um the tsunami man is is hurt again. Uh but then the Usos are just kind of floating around. They were involved in that. They're not going to be involved in the punk thing, but uh yeah, I'm just uh like I c I don't see them doing like LA Knight and the Usos versus Uh yeah.

Right, but but the problem is th the the numbers don't add up because there's only two people in the vision now and and their main problem is Seth Rollins, except that LA Knight has been sort of swimming around this. Chum the whole time, you know? Uh well you gotta do something with the other bloodline that

You know, has vanished from T V. Yeah, that's that's called the fucking Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Battle Royal. Well, but what I'm saying is this there's two guys you can just plug into this match. Yeah. Well, but for the for the vision? Right.

Hmm, I don't know. Um something gonna happen two nights of mania. Bet your sweet ace. I just hope on Sunday that, you know, the fact that this is a let me remind myself. Last chance Texas death man. I just hope that, you know, it's not like hangman's putting razor blades between Max's teeth and slamming his mouth shut or fucking, you know, putting fucking bamboo under his fingernail. You know, because this the there's a

There's a history here of Looking back and correct me if I'm wrong, and I know that you're you're gonna remember immediately. No gas can, please. That's your gimmick on this show. It felt like it was always looking back now, it was Swerve was the one who was incorporating gross shit. Mm. You know, your cinder blocks, your hypodermic needles, your Yeah.

But push to the edge, I'm trying to think what I feel like I'm I'm trying to remember now in Texas, like actual Texas, if Hangman certainly, you know, was happy to utilize some things to beat John Moxley that were pretty gross, but I don't remember if it's because, you know, he wouldn't have except Moxley introduced them. Um didn't he hang him? He fucking I mean he will hang a guy for sure. Um I'm much better. Like wondering

What they're up to on their off time than remembering specific things that they actually go ahead and just hope there's no gas can and we'll go from there, you know. I could see

I mean look, all uh all I know is I don't go to wrestling shows anymore where somebody like takes their thumb and sticks it in their opponent's butt.

So I'm just a happy guy. You know, that that was that was my limit with pro wrestling. Okay, thumb in the bum. So Carino, you're not a big Carino guy. No. That was late that was late in his career that he So I don't know if he he took a tour and and learned of that from someone, uh but he he he implemented that late implemented that late in the career.

It also feels like Ciampa was doing that for a minute, unless I'm misremembering. Somebody was doing it in P W G and then it felt like it all came to a head where You know, one guy did it and then the next guy did it to that guy until the chain, yeah, chain of command there. Yeah, and I'm like and then I'm sitting there just being like, Well, I I gotta like I gotta wake up in the morning and defend this. Psycho killer's back.

The psycho killer is back, man. Now the Ciampa went heel. Hasn't Mark Briscoe been through enough? He's got to get his head caved in by Tommaso Ciampa. Hmm. Yeah, he's kinda in that role.

Speaking of Gargano just uh in a depression plank, uh and how we how we uh uh ultimately pay that off other than, you know, Candace divorcing him or something. Uh Live on T V. Sammy Zane is still moving around the area talking to people backstage about being upset. It's so Waiting for Kevin Owens to come back so he can have his fucking

forty eighths feud with him maybe? Is that what is he a holding pattern till Owens is ready to go? If I'm Sami Zayn, I am dying for Kevin Owens to come back, so I have at least something to do. Yeah. Besides walking around being frustrated. He's so frustrated, Vince. Maybe he joins the fucking vision. Yeah. Turn him heel. You gotta do something with him. It's not like who cares? Who cares? Turn him heel. Now that we heard that um We heard that. This is like one of those like clips from like

What's it called? Unscripted or unrefined or Undeclared. Undeclared. Uh whatever it is. The fucking Where the'cause where they got like'cause like Road Dog quit, right? The roadie? The roadie quit. There was some fracture. We don't know. We don't know. But then it's like, you know, i so then it's the so then it starts trending the clip of them in the writer's room and you're just like it hurts my heart.

It hurts my heart to see and so it's just this is this is what this is what's got thrown thrown around the writer's room, whether the the the the cameras are on or not. It's just like I don't know, have Sammy fucking turn heel. Have Sammy's join the fucking vision. Who gives a shit? Half the fucking vision is hurt. Yeah. There is no vision. At this point, it's just it's just Paul Heyman managing a mid card tag team.

Well, I just I also like trying to picture the the um the the pitch, you know, of like, well, once Sammy loses here again, then why don't we just have him like he'll just be wandering around Frustrated. Right. You know? And and and it there's no follow it's not like when road dogs pressed. Well, then who would they work with?

They're like, Okay, yeah, let's have him walk around depressed until or uh frustrated or whatever. But I didn't That is the no,'cause that is the that's the hilarious part of like When what what winds up on TV, I like almost every fucking week, it would be like, can you imagine if we walked in and pitched this to Vince?

Like what what actually wound up on TV. It's like, can you imagine if that was the pitch? Like what you just said. It's like, all right, we're gonna have Sammy lose. Like get no offense at all. And then for weeks he's just wandering around backstage frustrated. And it's like, All right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like like like if I had pitched like everything that's happened with Cody since

Mania 40. You know, I'm like, here's my two-year arc for our top guy. It's going to include a loss to John Cena. Some weird promo segments with the rock. Him getting blindsided by Travis Scott, but then he gets his belt back. On a SmackDown at the end of February. You know, just Yeah. Uh I did see that the vision. Chelsea Green was like Michael Hayes apologized, she said. Apol'cause there was the on unreal whatever he was like. You know, not everyone's a top.

And Chelsea is not. Chelsea is the person who's there to make the top whatever, you know? Right. Michael A's had his fingers crossed, dude. He's like, if that shit went on TV He's like... He's like, I don't you know, come on. And the other thing, you know, I watch these like uh or I listen rather to these little cornet clips on YouTube'cause it's all I can handle, but um You know, he was talking about the road dog thing, he's like

He's like, fuck, man, back in the day, people would be like fuck you and and go home all the time. He's like sure. It just doesn't happen like that anymore. He's like, but back in the day, you know. Guys would be on the fucking writing team or something or whatever and they'd just be like, you know what? Fuck you and they would just go home. Not just him. Not just Cornette. Right, not just Cornette. Man, fuck this. This business has gone to hell, man. Christmas is going out.

Well, Taker's got the book down to triple A. I mean, who would ever seen that coming? That is insane. Ha ha. Hm. He's like he's like fucking Rick Dalton on that episode of Lancer, you know, he's like Would you like to come and join me at my booking table where I book my shows? Oh my god. Bring the bottle with you. Is it gonna bother you if I sit here and read?

It's gonna bother you if I sit here and read Charlie Kirk's book out loud. I'm just gonna sit here reading the Bible. Just a second. In English. In English the way it was written by God. Gonna bother you if I just sit here and read my Trump Bible. Oh fucking mean mark down in Mexico. Oh man, you know it's just uh it's a story about uh um Dusty Buns.

If you can't entertain yourself, man, what are you gonna do? You know what I'm saying? If you ain't having a good time, nobody's having a good time. I that that clip that resurfaced on my Instagram of Total D total total divas, right? Wasn't that the name of the show? With Moxley in the hat. Dude, they're outside having brunch.

And two drunk drunkards with their faces blurred. So either they didn't get their permission to to sign the form, or it was a work, or it was just uh, you know, Ed Koske and Michael Kirschenbaum. But they these two guys grabbed Renee's hat. I never wat you n did you ever watch that show? Never did. I'd never seen this before. And I and I'm sure at the time somebody must have been like, Oh, you gotta get a load of Dean Ambrose. First of all

Her keep her calling him Dean the whole time was so bizarre. So insane. Yeah. Like she Dean! Dean Dean Dean Dean Dean. But the way that he he jumps up. Two drunk guys are walking by, they just grab Renee's hat and they keep walking. They're you know, they're on the outside patio area of some some restaurant.

And Moxley d did they just grab your hat? He leaps up, jumps through some bushes over a fence, and sp like sprints in a way that I've never seen him run before in my life. Like all out Fast as you can sprint. Down the fucking street. Then meanwhile, it's revealed it's like they're having dinner with like her parents. Right. Right. Like they're having brunch, like her dad is there. Which is what what what provides the greatest moment of the video. Because

When he goes down there and she's like, eh, like trying to stop him and he's like, You're gonna fucking apologize, whatever, all that shit. Yeah. And then and then they walk away finally and she's like, So what? We're supposed to sit back down, my family thinks you're a manic, we're just gonna sit down and be like, So what do you wanna do later? And he's like, That's what I'm gonna do and walks into the restaurant. Oh my god.

But it's nothing short of a miracle that he didn't grab his fork and gig his forehead before he jumped through the bushes to chase after them. It still may not be as unhinged as the the obvious, you know, fucking bullshit. Uh, that was when there's a a portion of that show, I think, when Danielson and and Bree are like staying in Cena's house or his back house or something for the purpose of the show.

And Cena's like laying it down for like maybe loronitis or whatever he's like. And after dinner, then the gentleman will retire to this area to smoke cigars and the women will he's like he's like laying out some fucking like you know uh uh Victorian era like fucking bullshit. Yeah. Um, and also a lot of times people will send me the clip of When Cena walks in the kitchen and and Nikki's like making food and he's uh

He's like, oh, you said I could. He's like, I thought you were gonna pick a restaurant. She's like, no, we're gonna. And he's like slowly just like wiping stuff off like behind her. He's like freaking out. He's like he's he's either like the the the most fucking like tight assed O C D or he's really fucking doing the best work of his life. It could be both. It could very well could be both. Yeah.

She's like ta da Yeah. He's like Oh we're gonna start with some fucking He's like oh my god This kitchen is not to be touched Yeah, he's like and he's like she spilled water and she It's not gonna stain. No, but the water could seep down underneath and then this whole thing warps. That's what I'm gonna do. I thought you were gonna pick a restaurant or we could go eat. Now I gotta eat whatever this is. Right.

You wanted to go to sushi. Here's sushi And he's like it's like Schwarzenegger at the beginning of Commando. He's just gotta like bite into this sandwich with like peanut butter and cereal and bologna. Oh, it's very, very good.

Uh well how many times did you get the clip of um The pizza guy sent to you this week. Oh my God. That one that might have been a that might have broke a record, man. I was getting that and I just kept repo responding to everyone who sent it to me. Disgraceful. It might have set a new record. Yeah. But also just like the the the the the breadth

of people that were sending it to me. I was like you know, like my my sister in law sent it to me. I'm like, oh you know, I was like, oh, I wasn't a you know always it's always it's always a miracle. You think it raised his indie rate? You think he's getting a couple more bucks this weekend because of the I hope so. I hope oh. I really, really hope so. You know. It may be long cluster fuck? Does he get a call? Sure.

I don't even know his name. What's his name? The pizza guy? I don't fucking know. I mean if you want me to remember your name you gotta have something like Steven Flow and come out to Even Flow. Now that guy he's got something. Steven Flow Stephen Flo Steven Stephen Flo It made me nostalgic for the days when people would send me like the um Uh, the obsidian in Chikara when they would like hypnotize everyone and then the entire locker room would come out and start dancing. Yeah.

Ossyrian Portal. The Ossyrian Portal. That's it. Thank you. I remember leaving the Warsaw in Brooklyn and the dude who wore the mask with like the cobra. Uh-huh. Um yeah, I'm not gonna be able to remember it. But I just remember they were like Uh not greeting people. I don't know because you have a greeter when you come in. I don't know what you call it when you're leaving though.

A fareweller. But they were at the door. Right. And I just remember walking him, every person that walked by him, he just goes, Thank you for supporting per thank you for thank you for supporting independent wrestling Ophidian the Cobra. Right. But what I need to find out is because I feel like that ended with someone.

What's what's unbelievable, I feel like I've mentioned this before, is I'd say I'd say once a month. Maybe every six weeks. Mm-hmm. Um some random social media account will post about this woman Marion Stoke. Okay. PBS made a documentary about her in twenty nineteen. This woman in the late seventies bought all these V CRs and just started taping television. Um and and for the purposes of we need to preserve this because they're gonna try to change history. Yep. You know.

Um and had the means was what like married a gentleman who was well off, but then also she was very smart. And was like invested in Apple when it was, you know Still in the garage. So ex extraordinarily wealthy woman. Ahead of her time. But like legitimately, like had you know, every network being recorded at all at all hours. You know? And so now the the they are working through like digitizing this footage.

But Jesus Christ, do you think I get that fucking message every every every few days? Yeah. And it it's like it's hard because whoever's sending to you, you know, they don't They mean well. They don't they're not so you can't like 'Cause sometimes uh and you know, you gotta you gotta reply. Otherwise people are like, you know, I feel like I have to I have to reply in some fashion. I mean, what do you do? Just uh y you know, you just like it and move on.

Or you say disgraceful. Disgraceful. Or on the occasion I end up in a text thread with my mother in law, I always write unsubscribe. That's my uh that's what I do in that. Steven Flo in the Joey Janella Clusterfuck Maybe him and the pizza guy?

The pizza guy. Can uh Microman come back and do another cluster? I was explaining to somebody last night how upset I am that I'm missing Micromania. Don't be. What? Don't dude we we went pff please. We went to that last summer on the poker trip. And It was Wholly offensive. And I think there was

There was one guy who was just short. He was not a little person. There was one guy who was an amputee. So there might have only been like two or three little people on the show, an amputee and a short guy. It was it was it was terrible and th there were elements of it that I I I shan't I shan't be involved in the support of Micromania. Really? I never heard about this.

We went on the poker trip'cause it's like at the nerd bar. They do it like all the time at the nerd. It's like a regular thing there. Now maybe Mania Week they they bring a few more fucking no notable stars in, but Oh, I didn't know it was at the nerd. I didn't even look at that. I don't go to the nerd. Well, I mean I got no problem going to the nerd. You know, I like to ride the mechanical cock um when I'm in town, but

Yeah, I don't I don't go to the nerd. I I like to go and see if my record is still still up there on on the the board for the mechanical cock. Now I'm curious because I didn't even see that they're doing Micromania. multiple times during the week at the nerd. Which it always is. It's just I had no idea they were like the resident Oh, it's it's in this little back room. There's like a little a room you've never seen.

The r the room where we were talking about doing the podcast in? No. This is a separate Like so if if you recall at all, you walk in the nerd, here's the bar. I I remember every detail of the down here is where our show was gonna be. Right. Over here is where Max Castor's show was, here's the bowling alley. Yeah. If you go down this side of the bar, there's there's all that like

memorabilia and toys and shit. Right. Here's the bathroom. There's a little hallway that goes down here and and doors, proper fucking doors, into a separate an entire separate room where we could have done a show. So now I'm looking at now I'm looking at the Just what the fuck is uh Cause now I'm looking at the the nerd bar. And um What the hell is SHP wrestling? Bro. 'Cause all they're doing is Micromania and then SHP wrestling.

Uh yeah, I don't know, bro. I don't know what SHP stands for, but it's anybody anybody announced? Well, Jimmy Lloyd, Murdoch. Let's see. Which murder? The one um Not not Trevor, right? That one. Trevor Murdoch or John Wayne Murdoch? I think that's John Wayne Murdoch, isn't it? Ooh. There there's a John Wayne Murdoch and there's a Trevor Murdoch. Trevor Murdoch's the guy who used to be in the WWE and was in NWA. Right, not him. Okay. This is where you can see.

Tanaka versus Sean Henderson. Doctor Redacted versus Toby Klein. What? Yeah, I'm a busy. Fucking fuck it this is like this is the kind of show this is the kind of show where it's just the the promo photo is both guys showered in blood. Well, there's also women's oil wrestling. I mean, there's no holds be uh being barred this year, uh, for Las Vegas Mania. I don't understand why they don't have um more photos on this,'cause it says they have Gresham, which I assume is Jonathan Gresham.

Shotze, Jack Evans So you know, it sounds like an indie show. We're not going, but I'm just saying how many. Shotzi versus Connor Claxton, again a man whose promo photo is him just covered in blood. Well, uh the only the only show I see Jonathan Coachman announced for is Jugalo Championship Wrestling Strangle Mania. Fucking God help us all. Which is gonna feature Vampiros retirement match. What? Yep.

You'll be you'll be uh you should be out out of the sphere by then. You'll make it to that. That's a midnight show. Llama to boot to boot. Juggalo Championship Wrestling by far has announced the most talent so far. Really? It's like a paragraph. Vince Russo, Vin Lich, Shaggy Tutope, Rob Van Dam, Kenta. Nick Nemeth, James Storm, Doc Gallows, Carl Anderson, Charlie Haas, Matt Riddle, Congo Kong, The Beastman, Mr Happy, Nila Rose, Two Tough Tony, Big Al, Mickey Knuckles, Facade.

Rufo the clown, Yabo the Clown, Mecha Wolf, Jasmine St. Clair, EC3, Jeeves, Willie Mac, Katie Forbes, Mac Cross, Abel Booker, Jackson Crowley, Ninja Mac, Donnie Mo, PCO, Steven Flow. Whoa, cocaine. Stephen Flow CL-K-A-N-E Hollyhood, Haley J, Mr. Anderson, Jonathan Coachman, Ricky Morton, Robert Gibson, Carrie Morton, Caleb Conley, George South, Big Vito, The Ring Rat. I mean, no one has announced that much talent. Not even Mania. Not even WrestleMania. Let me tell you something, dude. I went to

I wonder if I favorited this. No. No. If it's in my liked, I'll never find it. Oh, I hope I find it. Oh, I hope I get it!

God damn it. I don't think I fucking I meant to favorite it. This dude was on um TikTok or Instagram. And he's just on um Wikipedia. I don't remember which God damn it. I meant to follow his account. He was on a historical figure. I don't know who it was if it was like oh oh oh oh oh I just found it. He's i this guy um Z Tank ninety-nine. Z Tank. Right. Well, I he's just he's just trying to Figure out how many clicks he can get from one Wikipedia page to another. Okay.

And he's starting with Harriet Tubman and he's trying to see how quickly he can get to uh Ken Anderson. Oh wow. Brewer. It only took him four clicks. What? What? What's going through four degrees of Harriet Tubman and you get fucking Ken Anderson? You know, he clicks on New York'cause he's like, okay, WWE is based in New York, you know. And uh so it he clicks on uh Auburn, uh New York, right?

And then he's scrolling through Aw Auburn, New York. And this the the look on his face matched the look on my face because when it when you go to the list of notable people from Auburn, New York, Mark Jindrak So that very quickly led him to he's like, Okay, I I he was US champion. I think maybe we can Damn. Couldn't believe I mean I was I'm in tears now, but I was in tears then looking at it. The Lord's Work. The Lord's Work. I gotta later. That's what we call that. Concierge to the stars.

Is that everything that's happening this weekend? What do you mean this weekend? I just meant the uh the card for Revolution. Oh yeah. Mm-hmm. That's pretty much it. Well let me tell you what I think is gonna happen, okay? Uh-huh. I think um Now how come how come I'm sure they've addressed this. How come Max still has that ring? Oh, uh they they they addressed it. It was like

You know, it it it's like if you win uh the Stanley Cup or something, you know You always get to have you have a copy of it, I guess, or whatever. Maybe maybe that's not a good example. the you know, a a World Series trophy. Whatever it is, like he he has the ring because he won the ring. You don't it says like the ring doesn't change hands, the you know, it's like the

Okay, here's the next question. I believe. I believe. Well and that makes total sense. Here's here's my problem. Shouldn't he have more than one? Oh, because he's won it more than once. Right. Yeah. Yes. Somebody get RJ City or Brian Danielson or one of these. Jeff Jarrett or whoever the fuck on the phone, okay? And tell them that I said J E Double F. And and and kind of think of it actually.

It it it sounds familiar that there ha there has been a time where he goes to grab the ring and then the referee sees it'cause it's always Bryce. R Rick Knox he he he's never seen any illegal activity in a match in his life. Cleanest sport in the world. Bryce will see it and grab the ring. And then I believe Max then pulled out a different ring. Okay. Yeah, okay. If they haven't done that, then they should, but I feel like they have.

I think hangman hangman's gotta win because he can't you can't do this. The hanger? You can't do this uh I'll never challenge for the belt again bullshit. You know that is a tough one. That's a tough one. F T R retains. Moxley retained. Well I could see I could see Takeshida. Yeah. Well, I could see FTR keeping the belt but then but still getting embarrassed somehow. Like they don't get the belts but the Bucks get their their pride back. They get their heat back. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. They, you know, uh humiliate Stokely somehow. Pop a buck, you know, teabags'em on national television. Or Malachi. Or whatever whatever their brother's name is. I think it's Malachi, right? It sounds like I mean it's uh Matthew, Nicholas, Malachi. You've gone too far. Damn. I think Takasha r wins that belt.

It's so strange that that belt is on the line when it's again, it it should almost be treated like the Like the ring, where it's like, no, I I want a grueling tournament for this and now I could just lose it to somebody? I don't know. It's like the Andre the Giant trophy. You know how everybody who's won that prestigious battle royal has has a copy of the trophy in their house?

I mean it does make me think of there w was one of those probably like on A and E or like one one of the one of those wrestling documentaries. Where they're interviewing Hogan and whatever house he's in, or whatever room he's in in his house. in the background are like two or three wrestling belts under glass. You know? But they're but they're old looking and kind of flimsy looking, almost like a almost like like a PWG belt smack there behind them. Right. Um anyway.

Uh Brody I really hope but Brody wins. Oh yeah, that's gonna be a good I hope Tekla retains and I hope we see two straight falls. That would be nice. There you go. There you go. Start to reprogram the audience, Maddie. About possible. I think the Don Callis family retrains the trios. I think Big Boom does not wrestle on the main show. And uh Um Marina could use a win. Okay. That's what I think. And and don't uh come Sunday

Don't be texting me saying, Oh, your predictions. I'm not even going to remember what I said later this afternoon. But it's being recorded.

I'm gonna bring it up full volume at the show with no heads. Why are you why are you the way that you are? Yeah. Vincent, who's your favorite wrestler? I'm gonna have to say. Ah, nobody really stuck out this week, man. Really? Not even the pizza guy? I mean not in a good way. Um I'm trying to think if What what if there was any moment where I was like Cool. Like I fucking sat up. You know, I'm like, I watched all this fucking shit.

And uh When Punk came out, you on on Monday you weren't like, All right, he's gonna talk again some more. No, and the Usos were so angry. Oh my God. Jake actually was so angry. I couldn't be let like the Usos are like negative interest for me at this point. I can't stand Jay's entrance. I'm just like I'm so fucking done with all of it.

And then all those fucking we didn't even talk about that gaggle of masked men on fucking Raw. I'm just like, what are we And they're like doing a little mosh pit and then so that so the their fucking leader can escape? I'm just like, oh, so Like uh Triple H oh they don't like it? Who fucking give uh give it more of it? That's fucking heat. That's good heat. This is um this is gonna seem

out of left field, but I think I'm gonna have to say Bailey. Because I was happy she won that gauntlet. I feel like Ba Bailey is sort of this person who's kinda They are They are over less than their push and they like, you know what I mean? It's not like of that especially of that time period, she seems fresher to me. Um, I'm gonna go with Bailey. And you, Matt? Uh the inspiration.

Uh oh, you gotta be joking me. Inspiration. They they are so fucking funny. We can't you can't do the brawling birds and the inspiration every single week because it's like the inspiration can't get any offense. What about babes of wrath? Babes of Wrath, they can get offense. They they they can get it. I fucking because and and and now I'm gonna talk about a different team. I fucking love the brawling birds. The brawling birds

It reminds me of like the excitement. I like it's been a minute since I really felt. The excitement of Just a mean re like it like it rem it th just like a mean, exciting act in in in wrestling. It really does remind me of like An Eddie Kingston, a Steve Austin, a Cactus Jack, you know, like a like a like a new thing where I'm just like, oh I fucking like I I will watch every single thing. But a big piece of that was the inspiration was the perfect. The perfect.

team for the the birds to debut against. Yeah. Because it was just like ever all four of them. are fucking brilliant at what they do. Yeah. You know? And I don't think at any point the inspiration would like you know, require a a public apology from Michael P. S. Hayes for him being like

You you're not here to win. You're here to look make the other team look good. Right, right, right. You're very, very entertaining, but you you're not here to no one's here to watch your match, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Ah, but fuck, they are so fucking funny. I I I'm I'm gonna have to commit their new names to memory, but I know Jesse and I don't know. Well you'll get there. You'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Inspiration. Vincent, where can kids where can the kids find you online?

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