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the guy and it sounds perfect. Yeah we met him last week. Okay, here we go. Here's the wrestling News of the week with Walter Dear friend, ladies and gentlemen. Buddy Matthews exits a e W and may return to w w E with Alice Stuff Black. A e W Grand Slam at Ashara Stadium has become the first million dollar gate. Contrary to whatever c Him Funk thinks, John Moxley becomes the three time A You World Champion And if you laugh, I promise I will laugh every time.

So Ria, formerly known as Page from w w E, makes a return and the wrestling world goes crazy. Chris Jericho wins his eighth championship and his illustrious career. The QR code on w W E t S is the return of Bray Wyatt, causing Freddie Prince Jr. To say, fuck, I actually say that Sam Mayzane has become an honorary US and Survivor series is transitioning to a war Games event. However, without William Regal saying war Games, it just won't feel

the same. Ladies and gentlemen, here comes wrestling with Friday, good evening, and good luck. How are you, sir? I'm feeling good, dude. What a week of wrestling? Huh? Holy crap, it felt like a month of wrestling, dude. It was unreal. I would like to start the show, however, with a story that I think will make you laugh. Uh. Season one, I did a ton of side quests, and this story is worthy of a side quest. All right, are you ready for a funny story? Absolutely? Always. On season one

of this show, we had the wonderful m JF. Maxwell Jacob Friedman on the show as a guest, and he shipped all over me. When the show was over, he and I became buds and he came out to Los Angeles a couple of times, and We've had some private dinners and I've talked to him about some of my ideas and he's psychotically helpful and his creativity is just next freaking level. And it's also just a different generation.

We have such a I think it's a twenty year age difference, and hanging out with young people always makes me feel, you know, inspired and hungry to to chase my dreams the way I did in my twenties, the way this son of a gun is doing it. Every week and Friday night we went out to dinner. We always go to a sushi place, right because it's great

sushi and Los Angeles. And I'm not gonna tell anyone where we go because the last time I told someone, it was Wilmer Valda Rama in the nineties and the restaurant that I mentioned suddenly became a papar razzi cesspool, and my wife and I had stopped going there for like five years till it wasn't cool anymore. But I'll tell you off the air. So anyway, Um, we go to this sushi place and uh, it's really really young spot man. I gotta bring you there. And there's these

two I'm gonna call them ladies. Okay, okay, they were very drunk. They were sitting next to us. And if you've seen Maxwell lately, he's in good shape, okay, like really good shape. His arms are freaking huge and mine are not. And we're sitting next to these two drunk chicks and they're in love with him and probably partially in love with me, but I mean really in love with him. But they did they didn't recognize him as a wrestler, did they like they knew who it was.

They were just drunk, divorced and looking for a young guy to have sex with. And they She's like, oh my god, your arms, dad, Oh they're so but the whole time, right and he's like, oh, oh thanks, yeah, thanks doing his thing. We're just trying to eat a meal and have rinking conversation and maybe forty five minutes before they leave. Every five minutes they're just interrupting our conversation. Oh what are you doing later? And he legit just

looks over. He goes nothing with you. They both go, well, one was more obnoxious than the other, the bolder one of the two, or the drunk or one of the two goes, well, it's not like I was trying to hit on you, and Mexico goes or Mexicos, yea, all right, And so we keep eating our dinner and before we go, the drunker one goes, well, the least you guys could do is buy us dinner, and mexices I could buy everyone in this restaurant dinner, and I think I will.

I just won't be buying yours. And they were like, they go, oh my god paid their check and she was like, I was only joking. And I'm dying dude, because he's sow in character for this. And then they leave and he looks over to the other table and he's like, I'm sorry, they were just annoying us, and the other table was like, no, they weren't annoying us too, and he goes, but I'm not buying your dinner, like you know, totally, But I had a great dinner with Max.

He's such a a talented, talented dude. We can get into to to what he did last week, because they certainly cut enough times to him during the Moxley Ryan Datison match. Every big, every move they would cut up to him holding his pokeship and him doing like a little clap for him, although he was very conscious of them shooting to him too because he had like a look for he was very focused on the match. He never gave them the same reaction twice. I was like,

how many reactions to this kind? Let's transfer over to w W week like we do every week. We start with Monday Night Raw and seth Rawlins opened the show dressed like a professional wrestler, first time in a while. I was very pleasantly surprised. I was so nervous he was gonna come out in like a pink boa feather boa around his neck and some classes that his wife

let him borrow and maybe some pumps. I had no idea what to expect, and it was nice to see a regular seth Rollins come out, which I thought would make you happy. But even cooler, they did this like drum entrance, like the old school orchestras. Remember, like the guys they have a huge drum in front of them and they have those like padded drumsticks and it's like boom, boom boom. And at first I was like, this is gonna be cheesy, but then they just cut to this

Greek god named Bobby Lashly. It's my daughter's favorite wrestler. I mentioned this before. My son thinks he has a secret identity as a businessman. They're starting the shows at Monday Night Raw. It feels like so differently than when Vince was there, and it's almost like action right away. Like everything just feels faster lately, and wrestling in a good way. It doesn't feel rushed, it just feels faster.

I'm excited for tonight. Jeff, how do you feel about the opening the show, first match or whatever you want to talk? It was cool, like you said, it feels like an event. It feels like like something like I don't know how they book shows and how things work when you go to it live. They do like a lot of like off TV matches to kind of get you like warmed up. But it's still yeah, but it still feels like, Oh, let's get our snacks, We've still

got some time, let's grab a beer. Let's you know, like you kind of have this kind of like, oh, we're ramping up whereas lately, and maybe I don't know, it's just the way it feels. I feel like I'm I'm going oh oh, it's starting. It's starting, you know, like it just feels like there's a the event is begun and they're starting exactly. Here's another side quest. Back in the eighties when uh, what was that show called Twin Peaks? There was no DVR, there was no anything.

If you spoke, if you spoke, we would all watch it. As for you were thrown out of the room because it was like, oh, show starting, everybody, chill out, chill out, chill out. And I think they found something special here. And granted you're not gonna be able to do it forever, but letting seth Rollins open the show almost every week, regardless of his wardrobe is awesome. He has so much focused energy and whether you love him or hate him, it's correct. He's just his promos are Look, the guy

can act. I know we trash on his wardrobe a lot, but that's okay. People trash on my wardrobe. I know I dressed like shit, it's okay. I don't get my feelings hurt. I'm sure he's not. But he's so good on the mic. It's almost like he has to open the show every single week. And this thing he has with Riddle, which I thought was gonna be dead. They're really making me want to watch, and it's getting so violent that the only pay per view that could possibly

end this rivalry is extreme Rules. Bailey came in in her hometown of San Jose and got booed in her hometown. That is no easy feat. That is no easy feat. They let Dakota Kai talk a little bit. She did well. They let Eo talk a little bit, and then she went into the Japanese. I'm letting that slide, but I know Eo speaks English, and I wish they would let her speak more. But it was better than the way they got Osca going, because Osca's Japanese is like crazy.

I love Oscar. I just wished she says everything's slow to Oscar. Will um, She'll like, she'll, She'll go like, it's very like, yeah, it's metrical and slow, too theatrical for my taste. I wish they would allow her to bring it down a But y'all know I love Oscar. My wife ever leaves me, I'm learning Japanese and Oscar I'll probably you know, open a chicken farm and you know we got planets, baby, we got But let's get to the real deal Kevin Owens and Austin Theory last

week it was promo school for the entire world. I thought that promo was one of the best Kevin Owens, if not the best promo Kevin Owens is ever delivered, and the match to follow up didn't not disappoint for me. Man, this was so I've almost felt like it was like an indie show with two w w E guys that were like, Hey, we're gonna do you a favor and we're gonna sell out this seat place and tear the roof off because we've been doing this forever and you

guys get to enjoy it. The Gargano interference was predictable based on Austin Theory interfering in his match, but it does take us to Austin Theory and Johnny Gargano, which I think is the correct match, and we had spoken about that three episodes ago. We're just ahead of the times, brother, and it allows Ko to move on to someone bigger because he doesn't he's helped Austin with this. This wasn't Austin helping out Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens is the bigger

star of the two. He's better on the mic. He's better in the ring, he has more experience. I'm not trash in Austin theory. I think Austin theory is wonderful and it gets better every week. You can literally watch his watch him grow. And if anybody out there is mad at me for what I said, look at my early movies you know what I mean, Like you can see my growth. I didn't start out strong. I had instincts that were correct, but no technique. And I think

Austin is really starting to learn technique as well. And when you work with somebody much much better than you, like Kevin Owens, you learned. When I got the chance to work with Brian Freakin Denna, he and he called me out on all my bullshit acting bad habits. So I was like, oh, yeah, that's uh pretty much why You're way better than so, is it? Man? Crush time? I believe it is. But this dude is he's no offense. Max. I love you, thanks for going out to dinner with me.

But Kevin Owens is my favorite wrestler working today. Man. I just think he's He's on a whole different he's in a whole different stratosphere and he had let me. Let me put a caveat to that. M JF doesn't have to wrestle every week because he's in a special place, but Kevin does. And so that's why I'm putting Kevin above of of Max right now, That's right. You heard it here first, Ko number one, m JF number two. Everyone else is after that. All right. I rushed through

Monday Night Raw. Please forgive me because the show of the week happened on Wednesday Night Dynamite at Arthur ash Stadium, a million dollar gate. This felt like a pay per view that we were getting for free. This was my single favorite episode of a e W Dynamite since I started watching a e W. I thought this show was the pace. At first, I was nervous because the Jericho Cloudio match for the Ring of Honor Championship felt fast

to me. But then I realized as I watched the rest of the show, they were establishing the pulse of the show that you were going to watch the rest of the night. And I didn't take my eyes off the screen. I didn't walk away to get drinks. I didn't walk away to get food. The kids were invested.

I this was my single favorite wrestling show of the week and the best a e W Wrestling that they have put out there amidst all this chaos and all this drama and all this nonsense with CM punk and and and Kenny Omega and the Elite or whatever they're called,

all this nonsense that never needed to happen. Never, all of this could have been avoided if if there would have just been a face to face conversation without it being at a podium saying you've got something to say, come say it like that's that's not the way you handle things. But we've been into that. We are you and I already went into that. But this show was awesome. We can talk to Erico and Cloudio if you want.

But only one person stole the show on Wednesday night, and that was the return of Sarriah Bevis, formerly known as the w W e's Page Ladies and gentlemen. If you don't know who this woman is, she has lived a life with more experiences than all of us combine. She has been wrestling since she was thirteen or fourteen years old. Her family life was insane. It was basically growing up in a carnival. She has dealt with crazy stuff, both good and bad. Some her choices, some were not

her choice. But for her to go through all of the things she has gone through and walk out on that stage, she looked phenomenal. She looked in great shape. She looked excited, happy, not burnt out, not like, well it's your ass. It was just she's living in the moment, and no one knew, not even the slurs in the ring knew that she was making her debut. All those reactions, you I know this for a fact. Britt Baker's face was covered in blood. She took a bad bump at

one point, her nose was bleeding. She looks like she was like numb in her face too, Like she like she couldn't, like she had some nova game. She likes blood. It's crazy, like when she bleeds, she rubs it on her face, rubs it across her stomach. It's like war paint. For dude. It's so hardcore to me. And she doesn't seem like a hardcore wrestler with her gimmick being the dentist and all this. But I guess dentists aren't afraid of blood because they make us bleed. They make my

gums bleed. But for those of you who don't know about this girl. And like I said, man, she's made some some choices in her life that you will not agree with, and she's made some choices in her life that you'll really respect. But at the end of the day, all those choices, the good and the bad ones, have brought her to this moment and it was so awesome to see her get that kind of response from sold out Arthur Ash Stadium. Dude, how did did you get hyped when you saw her come out? How did you

feel about it? Well? I didn't see it live, but I did notice you and you and Alex, our producer, were texting about it. So I'm saying, I'm coming out of wherever I'm coming out of, going what did I miss? What did I miss? What did I miss? And so then I go to the computer and I look at it and I'm gonna admit it, and then you guys can eat me up in the comments here. But like, I didn't know that was her name, so I had

to have her. I had to have her come out of the of the gorilla or like I'll come out on the ramp and the entrance area before I knew who everyone was cheering about and I guess my other wrestling friends were like, well, that's like, that's her name on her Twitter, that's her name on her all this, And I was like, yeah, but I don't follow up wrestlers on Twitter and all this stuff like yeah, so so.

But I was very jacked up about it. And I've I've always thought Page was great and her lifestyle, like you referenced her home lifestyle being like a carnival. That's perfect to make a wrestler. That makes perfect wrestlers when you're home life that just does insane. It doesn't make for a good banker, doesn't make doesn't make for a good lifeguard at the beach, not for good, not for a good husband, But it makes for a great wrestler

or a comic. Yeah. I was super excited when she came back, and um, it's good to know that those expressions were real, because it was great the way they all cat got out of the ring like they were afraid of her and uh. And I just love that she kept shouting like this is all mine now, which I thought was awesome, not even the one match, and she goes, I'm it's mine, I'm taking all of it. She's all I think she was living off that the adrenaline of everyone cheering and popping for like that. Um,

it was cool, man, I was. I was excited, but like I said, it just took me ten seconds longer than everyone else that was there stepping quickly outside of that action. There, Tony kahn Um, who runs books and pays for and does everything, he is the man at a E W took a shot on the Crown Jewel. It turns out you and I are the only ones to think it's a silly pay per view. But I felt like he caught a lot of heat for it and we didn't based on the way both parties described it.

So this is for Tony. Tony shipped all over it and said it's just some bs and the only Crown Jewel is it Arthur Ashley, he's basically selling, selling, selling his stuff. Tony, you ain't got to do that. You don't have to dump on the Crown Jewel. Everyone on earth knows its horseshit. Everyone on Earth knows it's just to pay day for w W E. So you just got to kind of throw the line away some in your inner Robert Downey Jr. You know, like Robert Downey Jr.

Just kind of swallows lines. They'll have a speech like, look, Thanos has coming, He's here to kill all of us, and you know it should be super intense, but they'll always be that one line was like and if we die, we die, and he just kind of like throws it away. That's how I feel Tony should deal with w w EE. He gets very chippy. He takes Yeah, he takes things very personally, and he gets in his feelings and he talks about feeling attacked and things like, is Tony you

are the man? You have a million first million dollar gate Arthur ash Stadium, huge frigging show. I know you lost a couple of wrestlers, but they were wrestlers that you weren't doing anything with anyway, you're the man. Don't trip on what w w E is doing right now. Don't take it personally. Well, it's personal, man. They're coming after my business, you're going after their business. To this is you guys are competing in the same marketplace. It's

like two action movies opening on the same weekend. You don't need to be insecure by these guys. You're a young company, you're growing exponentially, you're growing quickly, and you're starting to put on shows that people are respecting on both sides of the fence. Take confidence in that, take confidence in the accomplishments, and stop worrying about what they're doing. No one respects the Crown Jewel, no one. I love professional wrestling, I love the WW the Crown Jewel. Make

the matches make me laugh. I'm laughing at the TV. I don't even really watch. I don't think I've watched it since Bray lost to poor fucking Brave. They're gonna get They're gonna get him, Jeff. They're gonna get him, and I'm not. And I'm just so uh. Tony Cohn should treat w w E the way he treats see him Punk, When see him Punk is sitting right next to him and dunking on him, you know, just well

we'll see him. Punk was disrespecting, you know how he kept acting like he wasn't there or he wasn't saying that. Just treat w B like that. Just blow it off. Just just act like I'm not even gonna give him, you know, yeah, man, Like, just just believe in the the power players you have at your company, because they believe in you. M JF believes in Tony Khan even when he doesn't agree with him, he believes in respects him. Tony. Lets Max do what he needs to do to get over.

They have a good business relationship, like you need to treat rust in that. You have some foundational pieces that people love. People love Brian Danielson, people love cloud E. Oh I can't ever say his last name, so I don't want to say it incorrectly, but they love him. They still have love for Chris Jericho. He's in his fifties and he just won his eighth World champion or different world championship, and they still love him. You have guys and girls there that the crowd is popping hard for.

Take confidence in that and stop worrying about a crap pay per view that nobody has ever cared about except when Titus slid under the ring accidentally. Yeah, that's that's the biggest thing that's ever happened to that. It's the only thing people talk about with a smile on their face when they discussed the Crown drool. Every other comment on Crown drool, like Twitter, social media is hate victual. Just oh they ruined bright, They ruined the Fiend, They

ruined this, They ruin that. Yeah, they did, So you win. So Friday Night's backdown, Jeff. You know what time it is, right, you know what time it is. It's time Sammy Sane and the Sammy Saning Show. He was state, this performer in the world fears this. Listen. He should be so happy that you put him over every week. So listen to me. It's not putting them over. I'm spitting facts. There's Moreland Brando, there's Betty Davis, and there's Sammy Zane.

And that's not even in the right order. That's not even the right order. Say this is outrageous. Don't get mad of me. Okay. So the show opens and this is my favorite of the week. No it's not, it's my second favorite. The show opens, I just keep rewinding, and here comes the Bloodline. The bloodline is headed by the w w E champion, Roman Reigns. It was like the most handsome dude in wrestling right now. It's got perfect teeth, perfect beard, perfect skin, perfect hair. He's just

too damn perfect. So I'm something in me very soon is gonna start hating him. And he comes out with the Usso brothers, Jimmy and j Jimmy likes Sammy j hates Sammy and the newly recruited Solo Skoa, who I like a lot like him, a lot man. He fits in perfect and Paul Hayman and they come out and they start speaking and Paul Hayman does his spiel which is always money. I'm not saying spieling a derogatory term.

Paul Hayman's perfect on the mic as always. They're talking about family, bloodline, how the elders sent Solo Socoa to assist Roman reigns while the others weren't allowed in Cardiff and all this history. And then Sammy wants to speak and he wants to acknowledge his tribal chief and Roman isn't having it, and he says, why are you even wearing that bloodline shirt? You're not a part of my family. What are you doing? Did I even say you could

wear that? Roman ain't having it. He goes take that shirt off and Sammy's like, what, wait, what take that shirt off now? And Sammy doesn't want to because that's what he's identifying with. He had this like connection right even though it was the one of these things is not like the other connection and he looked so sad and heartbroken, and then Roman just says Jay, and Jay rips the shirt off his chest, like Andre ripped the shirt off of Hogan's chest. And now Sammy's sitting there exposed.

He's the only one that's not dressed now, and he's like basically naked and vulnerable. Doughey, i'd and afraid. He's afraid, Jeff, and I'm afraid for I'm afraid for it. They're gonna turn out and they're gonna turn him out right now and like and just you know, group up and beat the crap out of him. And then Roman Reigns throws him a T shirt. He says, put that on, and Sammy looks at it and his eyes light up, like like a little boy at Christmas who got the red Rider.

B be good. And he turns it to camera so everyone can see it, and it just reads it doesn't say because shirts don't speak. It reads honorary ooze. And he puts the shirt on and he rushes into the arms of his of his tribal chief and acknowledges him and he hugs Roman Reigns, and Roman's face is like, oh my god, what is this guy doing? And then finally he kind of gives him some love back, and Sammy is back in with the bloodline and the bloodline is stronger than ever. I love this. I thought it

was so great. He's the lead of the show. No one will believe me when I say this, but Sammy Zane is the lead of the Friday Nights. Matt he is. He's the carry Grant of this move. He's the Clark Gable of this movie. Dare I say he's the nineties Freddie Prince Jr. Of that movie? What what? He's the bark Gun of this No, he's not. No, he is not the Bartup Gun. He's uh, he's the Billy Gun. If he's anything of that too. Billy made it further. Don't they don't put bart gun on my guys, Sammy,

I don't do that. You know. He was the champion of Braun for All, so I had to make him the I had to make him the top, you know, champion of don't don't say champion and Brall for All and won at all. You know. I want to get into our best worst of the week, um My best of the Week. It's almost too many, and hear me out because it's gonna sound like I'm doing some silly Sammy's a stuff. But I'm not the Maximum Male Model Agency now one of them they call Massa. He used

to be known as Mace. His real name is Dia and I played Dungeons and Dragons with him and he's the man. Dude talking about m j f s biceps. Nah, dude, hero's arms are way bigger. This dude is jack. He can act, he can talk. I don't know how good his wrestling is because he always loses because he's in this Maximum Male Model But they lost again, as they do. L A Night is pissed at the loss, but it was more than that. He was as pissed as we are at the entire gimmick. Takes off his jacket, Dude,

so Buffy couldn't even get his jacket off. It took him a minute to get that jacket off. Bro, he's jacked like an n x T. He's d's out. I love that though, that he was just too buff to get it off. Slams his jacket on the ground, and to me, this signifies the very beginning of l A Night being done and gone with this horrible, god awful borderline Top ten worst ideas that w W he's done in the last decade, and he can finally become the l a night that he was at n XT honorable mention.

Braun looks great. I know they're kind of working the same stuff with them these lasts whop like, but I still the big power bomb on on Otis was awesome. Otis weighs like eight thousand pounds. Yeah, I mean there's a reason they're doing it. Like. It's definitely like, hey, look at this feat of strength, which makes sense because Braun is a bodybuilder. It's a big feet of strength. Guy, my worst I don't know, probably just everything Sammy's aim did.

You're such a I'm just kidding. Jeff, Are you gonna be anywhere this weekend? Tell the people where are gonna be this weekend? I will be in Houston, Texas. Um, I'll be at the Comedy Cellar all Wednesday all Thursday at New York City, and then I'll be in Houston on Friday and Saturday. Just go to Jeff dot com you can find all those tickets. Also, guys, getting ready to start my YouTube channel like full time again. I would love it if you want to catch up on

some of the stuff. There's nerdy up there, but there's also some cool stuff as well, where I talked about

kind of how film inspires film. There's a lot of YouTube videos out there done by people with no experience in the film industry whatsoever, talking about film and things like this, and I watched a couple of them because my friends said, you'll get a laugh, and there was so much misinformation and just uneducated information going out there as far as like all this movie inspired Da Da Da Da, And I'm like that movie was made by john Ford basically and was inspired you know, multiple times

after that. And so there is some like other stuff in there that's not just like board games and crap like that. So if you're into films and things like that, I think you will like those GEG Talks. That's the

name of that segment. And I'm getting ready to, uh to go full time with it again, where we're gonna be doing things like I did for Up, Up, Down Down when I was there d M on their season three of Rollout, Jeff Any final departing words for the People Don't Trash Sammy Zane, I was just gonna say I love Sammy Zane and uh, I was only making him the worst of the week to tease you. I

don't really believe he's the worst of the week. We love Sammy Zane, we love the brawl for all, we love each other, we love friendship, and we love we love wrestling with Freddy. I'm just gonna say yes, thank you guys for listening. We'll see you all next week. Follow us on our show caps, follow us on Instagram, Wrestling with Freddie Twitter as w w Freddie Pod. Follow us on all the socials so you can submit your questions for the Federation. This has been a production of

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