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awesome co host, Jeff Buddy. We want to thank you guys so much for the support. Please continue to give us reviews. Those five star reviews are awesome. Makes my boss is very happy. I want to start to show with something sad, but it ends funny, all right, I promise it ends funny. Buddy of mine from childhood took his own life last week, and it just numbed me, like I was just I didn't feel good or bad or anything right for a good couple of days, and uh,

it really really messed me up. And then this morning, and I've been talking, you know about how I wish and dudes, you're by the way, you're not burdening your friends. Man like, oh no, he's got enough on his back. No dog that that space on my back is reserved for you. Whether you have problems or not. That space is reserved for you, and no one else gets to have that space. Just in case you're feeling screwed up and you gotta say something. So just know that you're

never a burden to your homies. They they guys don't freaking talk enough. But I promise you, man, You're real friends have space. They may say, some real ship that sucks to hear sometimes, but there is room. You are not a burden. Call your friends and you can reach the suicide and Crisis lifeline simply by dialing nine eight domestically here in the United States. That said, I had

this huge sort of release of emotion this morning. I decided to go surf and so uh, I tossed the surfboard on the top of the old school for not old school is just a beat or like two thousand eleven four runner um it's black. So if you see me out there, say what. And I drove down to the to the beach just to catch a couple of ways. I just surf on a long board. Now I can't surf on the on those six footers. I break my

ankles and my neck. Uh. So I have a big old nine footer and I go out there and I'm surfing and having a good time, and I'm I'm walking back and there's a guy with his surfboard laying against my car and he's like long hair, wet suits halfway down and he's like probably I don't know, twenty seven. He looks young. And I go, hey, bro, that's my car. And he turns around and he goes, dude, I think I know what my car looks like. Man, And I

started laughing because his voice is so awesome. He sounds like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, right, And so I go, my man, I promise you that's my car. He goes, dude, it's my car. And I go, try to open your door. And he goes to open the door and nothing happens, right, And I pull out my key while he's doing that, and I unlock it and I go, now try it and he opens the door and he still kind of comes at me like what did you Like he's gonna

accuse me of like stealing his keys. But as he does it, he looks like twenty ft down and there is an identical two thousand eleven beat or unwashed for runner that looks exactly like mine. And he turns back to me and he goes and he's super excited. He has this huge smile. He goes, Bro, we have the exact same car. And I dropped dead on the ground. I was either gonna puke or laugh, and my mind chose laughter. And uh, it was an amazing morning. So I feel very motivated and excited to be here today

to you, Jeff, my good friends man, I'm good. I love that story because he wasn't like embarrassed or he wasn't like, oh my bad man. He was like, whoa same car? Bro? It was so like old school Keanu Reeves, like what. I just loved him. So, by the way, his name is Eric. He's super cool and I just followed him on Instagram so we can go surfing again. Nice dude, just shout out to Eric. You don't know how much of my Johnny I didn't tell you. I'm going to call you Johnny Utah in my context of

the trade numbers. You don't know what you did for me. This morning. But you really took like a huge weight off my shoulders. So may the May Poseidon love you, Eric Slash, Johnny Utah. Wrestling numbers are in and wrestling is good. I was just telling our producer that wrestling might be the best it's been since the Monday Night Wars. This has been so exciting to have two great companies

and you don't know what's gonna happen. There's also back room gossip, but there's you know, everyone's jumping ships, some people coming every I think it's very exciting times for wrestling him. I think it's getting pretty darn close to that. I don't know if it's there yet. Let's move on to Monday Night Raw and my newest most favorite mask wearing superhero Edge. I love the mask I still made. I wish you would have come out with another mask on and that's his new gimmick. But he did not.

He came out handsome as ever and hot and angry, and he wanted revenge. He wanted accountability, he wanted answers, and instead of getting him from Dom, he gets ready to come out and raise like, dude, please hold on, dope, Pita hell out of my son, you're six six, bro, you look like a Viking. He's twelve. Please don't hurt him. Yeah he is. He is the chest of a kindergarten bro. I'm sitting there. I'm like, they're making dom Main interesting without forcing him to talk and put it on himself.

So dom comes out with Ria and I saw another one of those like memes out there where they do the match imagery, and it was very Eddy and China the way Ria was with Dominic, and there was kind of like but reverse roles because Ri is just this force of nature. Man. I really think they just booked her beautifully and she's really stepping up, and it builds two I love Damien Priest. It builds eventually to a match that they have, but screw the match. I just

love the way they're working to make Dominic interesting. So I love what they've done with it. I went from completely criticizing Dominic to now going okay, okay, all right each week and then they're kudos to Triple H and the Gang of b for that. I'm very, very I'm into it. Would you love to see a Dominic versus Ray Mystereo match like that classic Dad versus Son kind

of it's gonna happen. It has to happen. It has to and I think that's why they're protecting his voice so he can watch all these people that are good talkers on the mic and learn from them and get more comfortable and confident because it's clearly working, like the crowd's feeling it so and when you have confidence, it's much easier to learn, and you learn much more quickly.

So all these little things, man, they have kept him silent, which is so smart and so beautiful, because even if he does have talent, we wouldn't know because he hasn't had the confidence to show it yet. He's just young and inexperienced, and he shy. You know. They gotta pull something out to see if it's there. And I really just I was so wrong on this. I think our first episode, I said they should just blow this up and get rid of get rid of it, because without edge,

it's gonna suck. And I'm super dumb and they're super smart, and I I can't wait to see if they can make this work. Even if they fail, they still have done a great job building this up. At a certain point, it's on the talent, and I think that triple h and whoever else is on the creative team right now are putting him in a position where if he can't succeed in that then it's just not It's not meant to be at that level. I don't think you're dumb at all. I think that it wasn't interesting and now

they're making it interesting. That's all. I think that that's all it was. And it wasn't interesting when you said it wasn't, and now it's getting interesting and we're commenting on it. That's all. I don't want to talk long about this, but there was one really funny part the return of bron Stroman. Oh god, you do you know? That's my dream come true. The fact that he's back. It makes me so happy. So he came in and

destroyed the entire tag team division. Um, which will take now quite a few weeks for people to take it seriously again. That's okay, um, but welcome back Braun. I got love for the big man. He's super. I love how fast he runs around the ring. It looks like a bowl from the Bugs Bunny card, it's awesome. The one that like Bugs slaps him in the cheeks and then Bugs takes one of the ass and goes flying out. That's what he looks like to me when he runs.

He kind of botched one of those he did. He tripped and fell and then got back up and went after it again. But he got back up. He didn't tied us on Neil himself and going through the ring one most used games. So anyway, the only part of this segment we're talking about other than Braun's back is Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston. It's like the winner of the match, whoever it was, becomes the number one contender. It was like a gimmick horseshit match that was gonna suck.

They knew it was gonna suck because they knew Braun was gonna come and kill everybody. And it ends up being KOFY and Xavier in the ring together against one another, and so they square up like they're gonna fight, and the Xavier just lays down and KOFE dives for the one to three. But before it gets to three, everyone's like, oh ship, they'll jump in the ring and ripped copiap. That made me pop loud. I love that they didn't even break the road dog rule because they waited and

circled around. Oh, and uh, we're gonna go to it a little early today still of the week. Yeah, Austin theory came out. I stopped counting the amount of times he sold his hurt jaw from Tyson Fury at twenty two. That's when I stopped counting. Yeah, I saw at least another twenty cells. It's it's got the real live Morgan feeling like my arm, my arm. It's like, we get it your jawn. This is my conspiracy theory. Right here?

Are they ribbing him? Do you think Hunterson? Because this was Vince's guy, And I still vow that Vince ribbed carrying cross and gave him the Gladiator gimmick because Triple H his favorite movie is Gladiator, and that was Triple H is guy. And everyone can see how much that's Triple HS guy if they watched Friday Night SmackDown. I think this is Vince's guy, and Hunters now gonna just like whack on this guy. I honestly think he sold

it like forty times throughout the show Man. It was crazy, like, I know Tyson Furies the man, but but bro threes enough A rib is like, I'm not trying to screw you over. I'm just trying to go gotta you know what I mean. It's just a rib at a high level. It's like a you know, billionaires play ribs at a higher level. Tip of the hat, Dude, I sold or I didn't sell it, but had this actor he booked

a movie in like Bulgaria or some ship. And we didn't always get along, and I would pull branks on him and zup with his house on the market, but his home who his home answering machine. This is back in the day's cell phones were like big and he got back home, I got a phone call and he's cussing me out. Of course, he goes, they didn't even work as good as you think because my answer machine ran out of tape so people couldn't even and he had co waiting, and I'll I hear him going, god damn.

He just slap the phone because he knew it was another call. So yeah, sell your friends houses, guys, that's a good that's a good prank to pull. So anyway, KO theory, Kevin Owen's comes out and he is breaking the fourth wall. He's doing everything except Eddie Murphy like looking into the camera like what's that not? He comes out, challenges everything Theory says and then hit something this like two weeks in a row where he's like that, we're

not gonna waste time. In a few seconds, a referee is gonna here he comes now, and we're just gonna fight. And I think he's probably the only guy right now they can pull that off because he has that credibility of that kind of attitude for so many years. But they had a match to steal a phrase from from Shamus, they had a banger. Uh. They fought for what felt was like forty five minutes. It's like eighteen commercial breaks, and Theory can freaking work man. But they're making Kevin

Owens out to be a killer of all killers. I would love to see carry and Cross with one title, Kevin Owen's with the other title, and let's see who's good enough to out talk and outwork one of those guys. I think both those those gentlemen could have wonderful championship stories. What say you? I love Kevin Owens. I'm still not sold on Austin Theory. I think he I think he could, you know, I think he's a star, But I don't think he's a superstar and I don't think he's like

an A list guy. Um, he's learning, he's learning. Yeah, and I think that we're just not there yet. And Kevin Owens, Kevin Owens is the man. Dude like Kevin Owens, Bronstrom and those are my guys. He did some episodes of ww Rivals and if it was a rivalry, he didn't like. He's straight up ship on it. I love that on the show. No one's had the balls to

do that. Everyone else's company line, company line. And he said at the top of the show to the producer, goes, hey, if I thought that this sucked, can I say that? And the producer kind of like ghosted up and got scared. And I love Kevin Oens. I was like, dude, say it. Yeah, he goes, He goes okay, and uh, the producer looked at me, Ben Houser, he's the man, and I go, bro, if it's too much, just edited out, like it's all good.

He's not gonna just totally dump on it. But when it was things that he felt strongly about, he gave his honest no ww E corporate line. But he was just like, yo, I thought this rivalry between Stone Cold, Steve Austin and Bret Hart. Spoiler, we're doing that one

that should have started here. It should have this guy should have won here, Like he straight up challenged the booking of it, and I'm like, this is great and j B l who is uber knowledgeable, but the company man started defending the position of the booking and it was so cool watching the level because there was respect between the two men. But they had a respectful debate back and forth. First time that's happened on an episode, and we got him for five episodes and he and

that's how he was everyone. He should have been on it from Jump Street. That's my best of the week. Most people that know about wrestling and know about you know that you, uh, you worked for w t B

and four events and you were in those rooms. If new listeners didn't know that Freddie worked at w w E and worked right by the sides of all these guys, I imagine those conversations happened when they are writing storylines, right, like when you're sitting there, like someone say we should do this, and someone else to say we should do this? Or is it not like that? Usually it's like six

people all saying we should do something different. Okay, Yeah, so that that's kind of a cool inside peak of like, yeah, I would have done it this way, and someone else going, well, here's why events did it, and here's why we said it this way. Here's why. So that's pretty like inside baseball.

Pretty cool. It was awesome to get to be in there while they were not arguing, but and it wasn't heated, but they both believed in their opinions strongly, and to be like hearing it and knowing that some of that might even be edited out, I was just like, wow, man, like, that's this is I didn't say ship for like five minutes straight. I just let him go back and forth. Yeah,

I just let let it rip. We get to the featured match of the evening, and if you're not into wrestling, but you listen to the podcast anyway, you will enjoy this. H It was a steel cage match. They they were throwing promos to it all night. You love all kinds of gimmicks, You must love a cage match. Love a cage match, always have. Guess who I was rooting for, Freddie,

You know me pretty well. Guess who I was rooting for I know who you should have been rooting for, which was the Myths, But you were rooting for the same person my daughter was rooting for, which is Bobby Lashly Almighty. A lot of times in these matches, the bad guys will attack the good guy before it starts because there's no rules, and then they throw them in the cage and then they get the advantage and beat

them up. Now, the only way to win this is to pin your opponent one to three, but that's bowring. The other way is to open the door to the cage because your opponents so beat down that you have time to walk out and exit and escape the cage. Escape running away not a very you know, manly thing to do, but many a he'll have one this way, and a couple of baby faces too. And the third way, and really the only way, the most superior and coolest way,

the way Eric the Surfer would do the ring. The ring exit is to climb to the top of the cage, over the top and climb down to the other side, landing on your two feet. Boom. You're the winner. The losers laid out in the middle of the ring, or even better, halfway up looking at you and defeat and despair like ah, I could have had him, And then they just let go because the adrenaline is gone, and they just collapse in the middle of the ring while

you have victory. MS is gonna win the match. He climbs to the top of the cage slowly sally, Oh, everything hurts in my body. There's just two more feet. I'm at the top. It's Bobby's still down. He's hurt.

I can finally get over. And then from out of the bottom of the ring like on a like a mechanic sliding out from under a car, Dexter Loomis slides out and is just creepily staring into the eyes of a now horrified miss, and it's way goofy, and it's and maybe and I'm not saying it in a good or bad way because I'm still trying to decide how I feel. So anyway, MS falls, Bobby wins. Dexter Loomis goes into the ring and he puts the miss in

a choke hold and puts him to sleep. And while he's putting him to sleep, he's patting his he's stroking his hair the way a cat lady strokes her cat, and it might be my worst of the week, but it was almost my best of the week at the exact same time. Did you watch this match? What did you think? Yeah? I loved it. Uh. I like any time I can get that finish that I was that I'm hoping for as far as like, I'm so easy

to please. If the guy that comes out and going, I hope he crushes him, and he did, so I was. I was excited. Plus, like you said, still cage. You can't go wrong. Even when it was old school, even when it was like the blue remember the old blue, Love the Blue. I missed so much easier to climb to. You know, obviously you're not going to climb chain Link, but you could do more moves off of the blue cage. I like the color of it. I like everything. They

can't do as many moves. And depending on what show it's on. When it's like chain Link, like it's tough to be able to do any like the high flying stuff or jump back or any of the kind of any of those things. Some of those crazy fools still do it on it's not as clean. We're gonna move on to dynamite. If you listen. Last week, everybody hates everybody, and now everyone is suspended, apparently very confusing, the tag Teams, Champs, the Trios Champs, Kenny omega Um, one of the producers,

a CM punk who's injured for eight months anyway. I think he might have known that, and that's why he went off in that press groom because he's like, I'm out of here anyway, I got eight months recoveries, so I'm cutting throats. I don't know, but everyone's fired. Thank god, m JF is back to save the company. If he's able to hold any kind of number for his segments, you're gonna see guys that are suspended right now get straight fired because he's gonna go yo. I don't need

this drama. I got this kid, and he came out. They loved him, and when he left they were laughing and booing him. His button on his shirt even got stuck when he got angry trying to get it off, and I wouldn't even put it past him if that was a work and it wasn't even really stuck, like he just is. He's that freaking smart. And I bet he saw it happen in an old wrestling video because he's a tape head big time, and I bet he was like, that's hysterical, I'm gonna steal that and use it.

I bet it wasn't even on accident. He's just that frigging good. And we're not gonna get into much. But there is no world champion. There's a tournament and Brian Danielson is in this tournament, and I think Brian Danielson is gonna win this tournament, and I think that gives us m JF versus Brian Danielson, which will be a story that every single wrestling fan in the world wants to watch, will watch, and will be rewarded because Brian

Danielson ain't about all that backstage bs. Brian Danielson's about wrestling, and m JF is not about all that backstage drama. MJFS about stories and reasons why we are going to wrestle. And if you put the two of those dudes in a ring together, you could run their story for the

next two years. And when all those other people come back from their suspensions and they see this story started happening and there's no backstage drama, that's when a general manager who is Tony Cohn, although he should assign someone. That's when a general manager or a boss can say, look at our numbers, look what we're doing, and you're not here. So you get one chance to play ball and do business. And if that's not good enough, I'm rich enough. Here's the rest of your contract. Boom, take

a walk piece. And I know you love him too. You're a hell too. Even though you're a nice guy here, you're a healer. I I literally, when it comes to a w there's nobody better than MJF. And also, I know it's not a match. I know it's not a match, but this was my best of the week. I've watched it three times. It's so so clean, so smart. He comes out, he hugs Taz and flips off the other

two guys. He does the whole like um buffalo thing, and then he apologizes for the things he said last time and all this years done and just completely flips it. One of my favorite things in stand up comedy is in the old school guys. None of the new guys do it. I try to do it, but in the old school, like, uh, what's Sam Kennison? You know these

guys they would they would they'll do Uh. An opinion about a subject right, they'll go like, they'll do like they'll be like a pro anti smoking Let's say it's a joke about smoking cigarettes, They'll do like ten anti smoking cigarette jokes, and then a few seconds later go, I'm lying, and then just completely do like ten positive smoking jokes. And he also like, I think, I don't know, maybe just John Moxley is also that good. But John Moxley,

he legit looked upset. He looked piste off for sure, and also him Jeff referencing w W E referencing Cody Rhodes uh talking about the win, his contracts up and about how he only wants to win the championship for a bidding War of two thousand twenty four. It's like it was just so smart, so clean, so well done. Loved the shirt that I just I think everything he does is brilliant and I'm so happy he's back. I love the Moses line. I cannot talk enough about this guy.

It just sounds like I'm blowing smoke and and I guess I am, but there's smoke signals to the rest of the world. Would just say, yo, even if you don't like wrestling, watch this guy. It's like watching a stand up comic that has their following right, so it's their crowd that knows the jokes, knows the energy, and he has them eating out of the palm of his hand. It's wild and he's so I think he's like crazy young and this is rare generational talent and it makes

for just good TV because he's genuinely funny. Yeah, he's to watch him just crap on people in a great way. The wait Piper used to the thing about MJFF is like I've always heard people say, like I'll be like, oh, I hate them, miss and they're like, then he's doing his job because he made you hate him. And I always have said there's two types of like hating a wrestler. You you want to change the channel, you just don't

want to watch him? Is not good. If I don't like the rest of so much that I want to change the channel, that's not him doing his job. I'm changing the channel. But this is a guy who I hate because he's being a perfect heal. He's so good even when their fans going to m JF m JF and he goes, he goes, shut up, shut up. I only get so much time Jesus Christ like he becomes kind of irritable and annoying, where you like, we were rooting for you, jerk like it's the perfect he's the

perfect healing. So we talked last week about young Daniel Garcia and now he's been growing on you and how I didn't like this story and then I was like, I'm gonna give it a chance. Well, now I really liked this story. Chris Jericho made him go out there and face Wheeler. You to the pure ring of honor champion by himself with no help from the Jericho Appreciation Society. It was like a They're saying, you know, I don't have your back, you disrespected the family, and go do

it yourself. At the end of it, they got right back into that story and Brian Danielson comes out and poor Wheeler, you did just as like he lost the match, he lost his title. He's in the quarter and Brian Brian dance and pays him no mind, bro, and he puts the title Wheeler's title around Ryan's waist and then shakes his hand and raises his arm as you are the champion, and and Wheeler doesn't get any love because

before Brian can pay any mind to him. Chris Jericho, the dad who sent young Ryan Garcia out there to fight by himself, comes out, but he comes out too late because Brian's already congratulated and told him this, told him that. And the look on Jericho's face. I know, not everybody loves Jericho. I think when he gets someone over, he really really really gets him over. And the look on his face, without a single line of dialogue, was just beautiful. That's how they went off the air. Well.

It was also great to see or hear Jericho on the mic at the broadcast. He was so fun. He kind of does like this heightened Jericho character when he's on when he's on the broadcast, and it's fun to just I'm getting flashbacks to when he did that move to me, like he like he had like and that's

a terrible impression, but it was just so um. I like, I think everything Jericho does his gold So I'm I'm tight tight chest Jericho is when he's always here and he's like and he makes it all about him, right Jericho, And then baby faced Jericho has got more air in the chest. That's gonna take us to Friday. The end of the week Friday Night SmackDown, and Jeff, there's only one wrestler of any true importance on Friday's episode of Friday Night SmackDown, and that man is Sammy Zane, the

realist member of the Bloodline. He's even starting to look simoan, this man he is. They featured him so wonderfully throughout this two hour episode. He and I'm not I'm not trying to be funny anymore. He was the glue that held the entire episode together. From that, from his I'm going back into character now, from his noble deeds in the ring and saving saving Solo, the brand new member of the Bloodline, saving him from what would have been

a debilitating chair shot and taking it himself. Two. Then what's this motivational speaker backstage helping keep the peace even though there's aggressive usso's. I say aggressive usos because I always forget which one's mad at it. But he's keeping the piece there and even in the match, is distracting, saving, assisting in every way possible, until, of course, my man carrying cross came in front the back choked out. Uh, my man drew, which is a disqualification. That's illegal carrying cross.

She can't do that, and it was weird that it was black and white. I think they're gonna stay committed to it, but I wish they wouldn't let me hear from your lips how much this man has earned your respect in the last few weeks. Give it to him, Jeff. I do like that he's in the bloodline, I think, but it makes me laugh every time. It's very very funny. Doesn't look right, but it's always hilarious, and he's doing such a good job with it. He did take the bullet,

as they said on the broadcast, which was awesome. And I love that the bloodline is even growing. Makes me very happy. It's very cool to see. So I loved it. Love Sammy's a and I'm on board. You're seeing it in the Beard though the Samoan part in Sammy's a much more now, right, I don't know, he doesn't think so, ladies and gentlemen, for debut in a brand new segment coming up right now. You don't even have to wait,

and it's called The Federation Speaks. We encouraged you to call in, leave us a voicemail and if they were good, then we would put him on the air. Well we gotta couple. We're gonna see how it goes, and if you guys step it up, maybe next time we'll get even more In what say Federation? Hey, Freddy and Jeff Mike here with a thought about cm punk and immedia scrum.

If it's not a poorly booked work shoot and is indeed real, does the possibility not exist that Mr straight Edge was a little high in his own googlash of brain chemicals from the crowd in his hometown and a little extra amped. And I don't know, I think maybe I got something there. Thanks guys, great podcast. What do you think? That's quite quite an allegation. He was wondering if maybe he was a little too hyped up on his own, on his own philosophies, so to speak, and

a little egotistical, and that's why he went off. What say you? Here's what I think about the whole scrum. And for people that don't know see him, I guess most people probably know. But c mpunk just started uh airing the dirty laundry of the locker room instead of sticking to store line and sticking to what's going on in a w wrestling that we see on camera. I used to my My first opinion was, like, what a jerk Seampunk is. Being such a baby and airing all

this stuff is inappropriate. Also, let the locker room be the locker room, and let the wrestling be the wrestling. And if you're gonna merge those, make sure it's storyline. It's not just a thing. It screws everything up, was my initial opinion. I like that someone named it the gripe bomb, too, which is hilarious. I kind of now I'm sighting a little bit more in the middle, leaning towards CM punk, of like someone had to break up the clickiness of the young Bucks and Hangman all these

guys back there. According to a lot of people, it's very high school ish, very clicky with the e v p s and stuff, and so if anyone was gonna make the complaint, it would have to be someone as high up as CM punk. I don't know much about the locker room or how these things work, but I think that sum Punk might have might be the hero the locker room wanted. I have a slightly different take on it. I mean, here's how I equate it. My wife and I both have external businesses that we run

beyond like acting and things like that. And I know her partners and her found a very difficult time working with the younger generation. With millennials, right, they just didn't understand the way their brains worked. And I remember everything was like, you know, they don't they have it, They want everything too easy, they don't want they want less hours and more money, and da da da da da.

And I still, for whatever reason, had a very clear image in my head of the older generation bitching about my generation when I was younger. And so my philosophy has always been like this is just how it's always been right. And if you listen to what Cmpun said in the beginning, he said, I can't wait to work with this next generation, this young talent out here, and get of them the spotlight they need. Now he went

in there, I think with that intention in mind. But when you see how different that other generation thinks, and what kind of stories they want to tell in the ring, and how different it is than what you want to do, and when your body won't allow you to tell the stories that they told when you were in your prime, and you start getting hurt all the time trying to prove a philosophy, it's hard for that younger generation to buy into your philosophy even more. They're like, he's talking

about us working and gonna get hurt. He's hurt every match he's in. I also just quit real quick. Thing. I don't know necessarily that that see him punk doesn't connect with this younger generation. I think that he just doesn't like clicky stuff because you know, you see shampunk doing stuff with Dan Housing, and he you know, that's a very new kind of thing. A guy like a Dan Housing or an Orange Cassidy, these kind of things are not classic wrestling things that he I think it.

I think it started well. I just think it wore on him to the point where he's like, yo, I'm I'm hurt anyway. I know I'm hurt. I know it's bad. I got hurt in this match which he did. It's now confirmed me at that triceps injury that he has eight months of surgery. And I think he just said sometimes I get old and cranky two on forty six, and sometimes you just say fuck it all right. Hit us with the next one man, Great question, Mike. I already loved this segment. Hey guys, Richie here, always enjoy

listening to your takes every Wednesday. My favorite part of Monday Night Row is the presentation of Bobby Lashly. I think he's been silently positioned as the cornerstone of that brand, elevating the United States Championship with great matches, including them one this past Monday with the Mizen, that steel cage match, and they're just building and building and building him as this force. I think he has the possibility of being a challenger to Roman Reins and that on disputed Championship

picture and the few. What do you guys think? Sorry, I had to go EASTI morales. You can't be named Ritchie and not here that all the time. Sorry, Ritchie. So listen. If they are kind of doing a sneak push on Bobby Lashly, I wouldn't be mad at it. I will say this if you're it's not a conspiracy theory, but if your theory is true, he's certainly positioned in a way where they could do that because I don't see him losing that title anytime soon. I believe he

does give it a lot more credibility. The younger generation likes him. He's my twelve almost thirteen year old daughter's favorite wrestler, so I get it. I love him too. If he does get a push, you'll know it because they'll put him back with M v P. I don't know if they are secretly pushing Bobby. I'd be happy if they did. I really love Bobby Lashly. This is gonna be a silly thing to say, but I feel like if you make Bobby Lashly the champ again, right,

he's just missing some sort of it. I know that. I think that that because we don't how to label something, we call it like an it factor. There is something about Bobby Lashley that just isn't it. And I feel like if you make him the chance, people are gonna be upset, and there'll be a small amount of people like me and Freddie's daughter that like it. Because I just love Bobby lash I love the way he looks, I love how you know, he just seems capable of anything.

I would love to see a Stroman Lashly kind of back and forth, because they're both big boys, you know, like that kind of they'll cancel each other out so you can do other things with the other. With all the titles and Belta steffor, I don't know if I don't know if I like him as the champ, but I love him. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Jeffrey, Are you gonna be anywhere this weekend? Tell the people

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