Vince McMahon is Back as Jeff Predicted!

having w w e's money in the bank there. And finally and clear, the largest news of the day, of the week, of the month of the decade, Vincent Kennedy McMahon has come back to w w E as majority owner to peruse a possible sale of the business. According to The Wall Street Journal, this has been your wrestling news update. Good evening and at night there it is. Good night. You hit it perfect. I got it right just for you, because it's a new year, New year,

New Freddie, and my resolution is get it right. I love it. I love it. Hey, it's good to see you, buddy. I hope everyone had a good New Year's even New Year's Day. In Christmas. We did. We win. Uh, we could talk a little New Year's before we get into men slamming men and women slamming women and intergender matches

that I don't like. I went to Hawaii for the holidays, Land of the Rock, that's right, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, you got you got to feel like what it's like to be in the bloodline by zip line, that's right, that's right. I stayed with the Samoan family. They took me in and I got some sick tattoos the old way or they just think they hammer a little like needle into my arm. They did my whole arm, wrist to shoulder. We ate POI. I don't know if you've

ever had boy, it's it's pretty good. But once you have it more than one way, you pretty much had it. We had it a lot. Did you get the Samoan tattooed? Does it say I'm in the bloodline? Respect to Sammy Zane? What is your tattoo say? They wrote it in Samoan, so hopefully they told me the truth. But it reads young warrior, So they thought I was young. They thought I was young. Well compared to the earth, you're young. Yeah, I didn't, you know, compared to King Kama, compared to

the volcanoes of Earth, you know, I didn't. I didn't do anything. We stayed in a super nice hotel, uh, spoiled ourselves, rotten ate like eight like Royalty. We have two friends that live out there already, and so we went to visit them as well. I had Christmas with them and UH and New Year's with them, so it was great. How was your holiday, sir? Holidays weren't that great because Southwest canceled the flights, so I didn't get

to go anywhere, stuck at home by myself. But New Year's was great because I got to go to Cleveland. So I don't mean to laugh. It was terrible, I said at the I said, at the airport in Burbank from like ten am to UH to midnight, just for them to cancel the flight. And I was like, all right, I guess I'm gonna go home out. So that happened. But New Year's New Year's was awesome. I had a bunch of shows in Cleveland and we we uh, we had we had really fun time in Cleveland was awesome.

Cleveland rocks man, Yeah, it was fun. Jeff you made a prediction in like our second or third episode, and everyone thought I was joking, And everyone thought you were joking. And it was the biggest news in wrestling, not your opinion, but the news itself, which was Vince McMahon was forced out. And Jeff, tell the people what you said. I said the h that he's coming back. There's just no chance that he can stay not in wrestling. And not only did it happen, it's happened pretty fast. Well, he did

not take that much time off. And I said he was gonna come back in the Royal Rumble, which I'm still hoping for. That no chance, and he just starts running on. He wins. If he's like the third the number comes out, hits, the ring blows out both the squads again, it still goes over. Um, yeah, you called this. I honestly thought he might just stay away and say, let me just live the rest of my life. But other people have said it before. He's gonna die and Gorilla and he's and the show is gonna go on,

and uh, that may be what happens. Some people are a little afraid he's gonna come back to creative. Um. Other people are saying that's not gonna happen. He's just there for the sale. What do you think, Brosky, I don't you know Vince McMahon personally. Do you think he's capable of not getting his little fingers on the Creative? I I can't see a world where he where he doesn't. Neither can I? Yeah, it's just zero chance that like and also like, how how does chance? How piste off?

Must everyone be that he's back, like like in the locker room and all that, like it's all back. I'm sure he has his crew that they can take care of themselves, and he trusts them with their own creative for the most part. So I'm sure there's a small handful of people that are, you know, welcome him, welcoming

him back with open arms. But I would say the vast majority of talent there's probably freaked out at worst and nervous at best, right because if he does come back to Creative, that means storylines are going to die that day. And pretty much everyone I think who has been rehired since they were released under under Hunter's uh current reign right now, as as as the boss, I think those people are probably going through it. The most.

I'm sure they're going through a ton of emotions. He hated me before let me go, He's gonna hate me now he's gonna let me you know what I mean. People who had storylines are probably nervous. They're gonna go away from People came back just because, h yeah they did. They feel like I feel like, well, I came back because Triple ages in charge. And now it's been two months and and or however long it's been. Uh, it

better have been a little bit longer. If if it was only two months, it feels like just two months. I mean, we were just talking about it. We're just going out. Can you believe Vice is gone? This is crazy, like as longer than two months. But it's just it's humorous that that's how short it's been. Yeah, man, I I don't know why I'm surprised, but I really am surprised. I won't be surprised if he goes back and starts running Creative and we're not. We're not a rumor podcast.

That's just not what we do here. You know. We just tell our opinions and celebrate wrestling of all kinds. We're not good at it, but there's a. There's a rumor that our producers has sent over via text, but Nick con allegedly has a deal with Vince McMahon to sell w w E. I would say, I mean, that's pretty much the story of the Wall Street Journal was insinuating. So I don't I don't. I don't know if that stays in the world of rumors. I mean they're somewhat reputable.

I guess I don't know all the other fake stories and real stories because I don't read it well. When the article says alleged in the headline, I've got to say category. I mean, I feel like he only comes back for one of two reasons, to either sell it or to take over and run it. And I don't think he can feasibly take over and run it, So I think it has to be he's coming in, he's gonna sell the company, and wherever the pieces fall, the pieces fall. But it's gonna it's gonna end with him.

Can Triple h afford to buy wrestling? What if he buys wrestling? No, no way, Man, It's gonna sell for at least in my billion, at least two billion dollars. I hope Elon Musk buys it, and he makes all the wrestlers you know, electric. You know, I don't know what Ellen does really, I don't know. Maybe he'll make them all. He's gonna make it. He's gonna make an make them digital. I don't. I don't know how there is solar powered. Yeah, it'll be an f t I don't.

I don't know smart stuff. Listen if elon mus but the wrestlers are powered by the wind. It'll be cool, you know, it'll be a better version. I'm sure. Let's talk some real wrestling, more fantasy promotor bookie someone and I raw opened and the Bloodline came out like in uh raw Is War back in the day and just thrashed everything and took over. Where are you bastards? There's nothing you can do about it? We run this le suck it and they're doing their you know, tough guy thing,

and all hell's broken loose. Kevin Owen's good. Kevin Owens comes out and he's there to to talk to everybody and and and but mainly Sammy because that's who his problems with him. You can see that he cares about him and Sammy and and the Bloodline are like f you Kevin Owens, and he's like, wellf me, no, f you, and then he's gonna go and fight. And then Adam Pierce comes down and he's like, nobody's hafing anybody, and he's trying to keep it cool. And security comes in,

but security has got nothing for Solo Sakoa. He just handles all of the security and the rest of the bloodline doesn't even have to do anything. By the way, you have to all these arenas. You need to employ more credible security staffs, ones that formulate strategy. Let's all

go in at the same time. I think if we might, if we go in one at a time, he's going to have a major advantage, Like you have to have one dude on the team that thinks like that if you're gonna be a security company for one of these arenas, because these guys did not have that individual and they got taxed. And so Kevin Owens is like, well, security can't protect the people in this arena from the madness,

then I'm going to protect him. So if you again, and it doesn't matter that Adam doesn't want anybody f and anybody he goes in, he fights, he's getting beat down. Then all the wrestlers come out. They're like, yeah, security can't do nothing. We're all coming out now. You know, the wrestlers all came in the ring at the same time. They didn't do that one at a time. Royal Rumble Security entrance bs. They got in and they started whipping. Asked, now the Bloodlines trying to run away and get away.

Adam Pierce, who tried to throw them out of the arena earlier, now he doesn't want to matter. He says, no, no, no, no, You're not going anywhere. You wanted to f everybody. Well, now everybody's gonna f you, and I'm setting up a bunch of f and matches tonight. And that's right. And so that set up the show for Monday and Arrow. It was a chaotic segment, but they brought it in

nice and it felt it felt okay to me. I thought I was gonna hate it because when like they did it with the Nexus back in the day, it's uh. And when they did it with the Shield, I guess it was No, that was cool with the shield. I'm just crapping on it, um. But yeah, this I thought was pretty cool. And I dug the segment. Man, how do you feel about all that f and around. Well,

I will say the security thing one one thing. It must feel weird to be a real security guard at one of these stadiums, because you know, you're looking at him going, hey, aren't you gonna help, Like it seems like there's a melee here like this good and he's like no, no, no, no, we're just real security. We just kind of watch you guys. So there's like that must be a weird separation of fake security and real security trying to make sense of everything. Ums like eyeballing

each other from across. It feels real. I don't know if it's fake enough. Um, I could be real. I could I could get in there. I do think that. Um, whenever they do these kind of like takeover things, it's always confusing from my brain because it's like I don't really see Raw and SmackDown as two separate shows. I just see him as like w W you know. To me, it's just this is just the Monday show and this one.

So when they're like we're coming for you, Smacked and I'm like, this feels like civil war or so it feels like strange, like friendly fire is happening. We used to say that in the production meeting all the time, like every young I wasn't I was young ish then, but like all the young rides in the production meeting two vents, like in front of they go nobody, we

don't look at it like it's all wrestling. We don't like I'd be like, yeah, second that, and all the old guys would be like it's like like it's not, it's it's each one's a brand on two weeks old, and you have to fight for your brand, whether it's really or blue. And I'm like, nobody does that except you. Also, they're like we shuffle up raw and SmackDown so often. We shuffle up those wrestlers so often. Yeah, they're attacking guys that they used to be like tag partners with

just a couple of years ago. Like they're like you know now they're all of a sudden enemies for some reason. Yeah, your team ran, I'll punch you right in the face and it would be like a um. They'll be like we're coming and we're coming to destroy this thing, and they're like it's just like when um W c W was invaded by w W with the with the wolf Pack and Huld Coogan. It's like it's totally different because

this is the same stock, the same brand, the same whatever. Anyways, it's like it's like if Scott Hall invaded Kevin Nash. That's exactly what it was like. You know, its like it went no together. Did they have a fight we didn't know about because I haven't confused. Like, but that being said, because they do this kind of thing so often, like over the last like twenty years, I do like it. It It feels classic, it feels cool. The fact that they just opened the show and is already chaos happening

is kind of cool. Um So I did like I did like the opening was fun and I'm like, um also, am I crazy? But I've never seen or I am not very familiar with Adam Pierce. How long has he been in that position? He's been in the gym position for a while. He uhould be a wrestler. Um but then like like me, got older, um man, he's good on the mic man. He had like one little flub that he corrected. How many how many times has he

been on camera on camera? Bunch dude for over an over a I was I couldn't make it about him. They kept saying his name, and then when they cut to him, like, oh, I know him, but like they kept when they were saying his name, was like, who the hell Adam Pierce. I was thinking it was another wrestler. He plays it pretty normal and subtle, not real character. He's like one of the few guys that's like not a wrestler who on the mic comes off like they're

just doing their normal thing. I actually I like him out there, and I think he does a good job. Yeah, one little club. I thought he saved it and made sure that the line was clear. He even repeated it. I was like, that's a good save. Respect. So yeah, I like Adam. He's doing a good job with that. I think he'll be there a long time. We had

a championship match between Bianca and Alexa. I told my daughter before the match, Alexa will lose, and she'll lose because she'll turn to the dark side and become crazy. And Charlotte goes, what that that's stupid, and then that's trusted the lesson and trusting dad. But I I'll let's skip that match. I want to go right to a match that I think you actually loved, which was a lie versus solo, and I think it was like a Memphis music instrument street fight match, and these guys beat

each other and beat each other up with guitars. He smashed him and oh, let's see that drum set right there. Blah blah blah, by home, smash your face and that f and drum set. You want to see that piano right there. I'm gonna do this, the spinning samoan drop bah blah blah. I'm smash you right on that f and piano. They hit each other with us, so you see this symbol bam right on your f and head. And they went back and forth with every instrument. So this truck driver get name hard. He gets in the

ring calling big hard. That's what That's what me and the boys call it. And uh, he grabs a guitar like the hockey talk man before him, and he spams smashes that guitar right on solo. Soko is back and so just knows. So it's like f your chair shot. He saw little musician, bitch, here's some art, go back to school. Yeah, it just stares at him. And this dude isn't out of He's not in shape enough to

get down quickly and get out of the ring. He has to like slowly not stumble and fall to get out of the ring, and he didn't want to look like a punk, so he's trying to like laugh it up. But then like you can see Solo like looking at him, like, dude, if you don't get out of this ring, is gonna get real. And then he's like, okay, I'm gonna just collapse and rolled out of the ring. What And then he ends the match by choke slamming him on or

someone spiking him onto the stupid piano. Ye, he choked slammed him out of the ring onto a piano that seemed like a real piano to It wasn't like a fake piano. They did right. It wasn't even gimmick. Just the legs were so he gets and then the legs fall out and then he just hits super hard. I don't know who came up with this match, but I imagine it was one of these underpaid, underappreciated writers for w B, Like, Hey, guitar centers having a sale, let's

just go buy all these instruments. That's what I didn't get about that country guy coming in the ring. The spot made no sense that he comes in, No one cheers, Everyone's going, who's that? And then he hits him with the guitar and nobody cared. Even the restlers go, why why did you hit me with this? Nobody didn't. He just looks at him and the guy's like, you know, just this one guy hitting another guy with a guitar. I'm like, Joe, who is this guy? Looks like my

male man? Bro, Like, who the hell is going on? He didn't sell it or anything. I was amazing. Still no security over the wall, Still no security. There's still no security there for this going on. Really teaching these guys you can just get in there and break a break an instrument over a wrestler if you'd like. Bro, I hated this match so much that I loved it. It's actually my best of the week for being so freaking horrible. I there were so we're actually cool. Like

when he smashed him in the drums. That was stupid, but it made me laugh, but like the symbols great. When he tried to jump off the top rope Elias with the broken guitar and he's gonna like hit him with the just the neck of it. Is it called the neck, I don't know. Instruments, no neck of the guitar, the goose, whatever it is. He he swings it down and then wock. It's a thumb right to his throat and he just done those. But so there are parts that I dug. But this was what's that guy got

in the ring? I'm like, what? Who? Who is this guy? Like? He looks like a substitute Jim Teacher? What is going on right now? So we don't need to get into the matches too much on this. And I know we've side quested and and talked a lot of smack, but the main event was well, no, let's here. There's one match that we should talk about, Austin Theory versus Seth Rawlins,

which should be my best of the week. Uh, Sadly it is not because something awful is and uh, these guys, I don't know, man, I just feel like Seth Rollins is like Brian Danielson, right, it doesn't matter who he wrestles of the time, he makes them look amazing and he makes himself look amazing. At the same time. They set this match up a little with him in a backstage segment and that energy that he has that. Yeah, that works better in the middle of a ring with

people all around you than it does backstage. So I wasn't even that hyped to see the match, Like, oh man, that's they should have let him out. So I know they're trying to keep time short, give people time for matches, but just either have him piste off that he doesn't have the belt right now, or just lose that and let theory try to get over backstage. Right So then they get out there and the match starts and it felt like they wrestled for thirty minutes. Bro like it

was crazy. It was crazy, and I loved it. I loved the false finishes, I love the back and fourth of it. I loved every single thing about this match. It's like I said, it should be my match or my best of the week, but the Music City Disaster is my is my favorite of this week. Let's go to a E W Dynamite Sir Ricky freaking starts versus Chris Jericho. Dude, Seattle, your homestead. I'm just gonna say this, I'm gonna let you take over because it's your hometown.

This crowd was so freaking height and so good and so strong all night long. I love this match. The crowd was a big part of it because the guy started working off of them, and my guy, Ricky Starks gotta win. He took a beating afterwards, but he gotta win. Tell me about the match, and just tell me about Seattle a little bit, dude, because this crowd was awesome.

I don't understand how Seattle gets the reputation of being the the loudest audience or the loudest I don't know how a group of people could have such a reputation, but it is a Seattle thing. They used to say, like the Kingdom was the loudest stadium in baseball, and then they said that's probably because it's in a dome and so all the all the sound is trapped in there. But it turns out it isn't. It turns out it's

just loud Pacific Northwest people. Because we built the it was Seahawks Stadium, then it was lumen Field, quest Field, this, this, this. The stadiums had a millionaires, but it's for the Seahawks and it's open air, and we're known as the loudest crowd. I think we have the record for the loudest decibels all this different stuff. Also, they called the twelfth Man because we're so loud that we affect the football games.

And in um One of the longest booings in wrestling history was in Seattle because Elias came out and made a bunch of Seattle Super Sonics jokes about us losing the basketball team, and the crowd crowd bowed Alias so long that it was like a record. There was a they couldn't it was so loud and I'm not and Alias really milked and he was smiling like he loved it, and it it was if you look it up on YouTube, must have been eating it up. I can't wait to watch.

It's pretty sweet. And it's also like so hometown pride, Like I'm like, yes, just blew the heck out of this guy. But they were in it all night last. They bowed um m JF a lot like like he got like they really give him the business. So they were a huge part of this match as well. I love this match. I love Chris Jericho. I'm learning to love Ricky Starks. I'm I'm a new Ricky Starks guy because of this podcast and You and You and Big Album. Basically convincing me to him too. Yeah, he just got

hip to him this year. But what I'm confused about is not confused. I'm surprised about is that he beat Jericho. The match was good, the match was fun and the and like you said, it was very hype. He pinned him clean. He pinned Jericho and that dude that came out with the chair leader with the burn up face. He let that kid get a win on get a win over on him like two or three weeks ago. Man, Jericho is down to let you shine if he believes

in you. He just can't. He can't get everyone at once, right, So he tries to get the like the mid card guys over by joining the Jericho Appreciation Society. And then the guys that he goes against are the guys he thinks could be a top guy or have potential to be a top guy. Let's see what he's got, let's build him up, and I'm willing to lose. So when you see him do it to someone who's coming in on their first match, like a R No, not it wasn't a r It was action and Ratti or something

like that. And then you see him do it to someone like Ricky who's in his thirties. He looks like he's in his twenties, but Ricky's older in his thirties, and you're just like, dude, you'll put anyone over so long as you believe in it. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. If you believe in him, you're like, hey, let's give this guy shot, Let's see what happens. And he does it all the time. I don't think it gets talked about enough. And it's a business of selfishness.

So it sounds corny to say it's a selfless thing for him to do, Like it's almost cringe e in the wrestling world, but it's that's what it is. Man Like, at this age in his career, he should be doing that, but I don't think a lot of people would. And that's why I believe it's commendable. Yeah, he's awesome. I'm a big, big fan of the way he treats wrestling, in the way he respects wrestling, in the way he

like handles himself and his career. He's he's he's awesome. Also, I'll be on his boat cruise week the week in February. I'm gonna be at the Jericho Jericho Cruise. If you guys are listening to this podcast and you're gonna be on that cruise, come say what's up to me. I'll be doing comedy two nights on that boat and then hanging with all you guys. Um hanging with you all guys when I'm not doing stand up I'm on the boat.

Are you going to get in the ring? I hope so if they let me, if they give me any any if he even like suggested for a second, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. I know Jericho. What I text Jericho, tell him T say, my boy, Jeff Die is gonna be on that you should come to the cruise with us. I can't go on freaking cruise or be trapped on a boat. Hell to know you want

to find out my worst phobia? No, hell no. If I don't know everybody on the boat, I'm not getting on the boat because then I'm what if I don't like someone and then I'm stuck with them and there's no way out we have to fight. I would get in so many pins. It is interesting in the ring end. To be stuck on on the boat is fascinating because it's like you're like, it's like it'd be like living with your fans for a week, like just together. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I'm look. I

love my family. I would die for my children. I would lie in court under oath as a god fearing man. I would break that oath. I would lie and tell him no, my my wife was with me. She did not kill that person. I have no issue doing it. But dude, I need alone time, like and that's and that means the majority of the day is leave Freddy the f alone. If you need something, I'm there for you. But if you're just gonna text me, like, hey, the middle of the burrito was hot, but the outsides were cold.

What do you think that. It's like, I'm gonna jump out of window on the first text, on the first text. And Sarah learned that early back in the day when we had these things called rims, and they were like text pagers that you could send messages to each other in the nineties, but you could send like full novels. So every girl who got it, that's all their main got were the novels where it's like the guy once were like, yeah, okay, seven thirty sushi. It's like it's

all one word answers. And then my wife would send one and I wrote her one time I said, I didn't read any of this, and any others that are this long, I will not read either. And I sent it and it lets you know when they were read, and so it would pop up and it's you know, it's got the check. Next I think it's a check or had the letter R and nothing. For like two hours, she was she was dealing with your dealing with it. She's going on, this is the guy was like, oh shit,

did I just mess this up? Do I hate him? Do I love him? At least he was honest. But that was kind of a dick move, like she had to go through all those emotions and it took her two hours before she wrote back, I hear you, and that was it. I was like, there you go. You set a boundary. You set a boundary. That's that. That's good. Anyways, Yeah, you would have been together one years, man, not like with the cruise. Um, but I'm gonna love the cruise. You will. And you do well with with people, you

do well with strangers. You have to go on the road and talk to strangers. I don't think you like Darby Allen versus Samoa Joe, so if you don't want to talk about it, we won't because I don't. You're not a Samoa joke guy, and I don't think you even like those matches that much. But there were gimmicks and a whole bunch of ladders, So if you want to, I enjoyed it, and I'm happy to discuss. Otherwise, I'm just not I don't know if I have much to contribute to it. But you can talk to the people

about it. They might want to hear you talk about I just don't have much to contribute. I thought it was awesome. I thought the story was great because Darby is a Seattle guy, and he won that title in his hometown. Usually in w w E, that's a guaranteed loss on your on your record, not that they use records in w w E. But Darby has gone through

a strange evolution. When he first broke in, he was this question mark, right, he was this He was like the Riddler, but not like the corny Riddler, like a sexy riddler, right, Like a guy who's terrorizing Gotham has good reasons, but doesn't look like any of the people that have ever played the Riddler. He looks like, you know, it's a sexy dude, right, And then from there it got to just vanilla ice cream man, where there was just nothing there for him. They gave him sting fast.

It's fascinating that it works. I didn't think it would work. It works much better now than when they started, because he started doing this like is he this tortured soul or is he a skateboarder cruising down the street like goth style but still cool. He's got a good life. He's skating. How bad can it be? And it didn't

quite match. And then he slowly, very slowly started to let like the tortured haunted part go, like the was the vampire Twilight, like the emo guy, Like he's letting that go, and he's being a bit more himself, Like I follow a w on Instagram and I'll see a lot of the promos they cut to like get you hyped for the matches, And he's speaking much more naturally now. He seems more confident while doing that. Um, and I was I'm starting to feel him more. I've I haven't

always been complimentary about him. His his wrestling is amazing. I think he should take three months off a year um in a row to let his freaking body heal. But I was never like, oh my god, dude, I'm a dad, like to see those falls. Man, It's just like, oh, like my son will get on the trampoline. I'm like, be careful, son to turn into a helicopter. But yeah, so I'm starting to like him more. And I just

thought it was a nice story. And if this is the direction they're going to continue to go and he continues to grow, then I think he really can be one of those pillars of the company that I used to think he could be. And then I was like, nah, that's wrong about that. It's all on m JF shoulders pretty much. And now I'm starting to see, like why Kenny Omega is important, why Darby is important. I'm not a hangman page guy, but I get why he's important.

So yeah, man, I thought it was a nice match with a nice story, and Joe did the right job, and I thought all was right with the world. Yeah, and I I like Darby Allen one thing you can that maybe not everyone knows. He's brutal, on the outside of his body. But he's like a super super like clean eating, doesn't drink, doesn't do d He's like sober, straight edge guy. So I just I love him. I think he's great, and I thought it was awesome that

they even gave him the confetti in Seattle confetti. That's pretty cool. I really liked it, man, and I haven't been I like that. I'm coming back around to him. I like him. I just if I was his promoter or his boss, I would tell him, you know, once a year, a big guys coming in and we're not gonna know if you're dead or alive, and you're gonna take three months off, You're gonna go to a beach.

I'm gonna rench you a house, go enjoy it. Take your girl, take a good guy, take three girls, like whatever you whatever you need to do to chill out. I'm sending a massage therapist out there, like did you're ask well? And when you come back, you kill everybody. You're a better owner than Vince. That's the nicest thing I've ever heard. I want the guy to wrestle for twenty years. Man. That everybody's built like Jeff Hardy and has like pipe cleaners for body parts, like you know

what I mean. The rest of us are human being. That spine tattoo that Darby Ellen has is so cool, like it looks so sick. I bet would never do it. I bet Brock Westners he's that and goes I should have on that. I shouldn't have got this wienery looking sword on my chest. That's a that was a bad idea. Darby's lines are cleaner. Man. Here's another side quest. I'm going to Vancouver, Canada to meet with this tattoo artist that I've wanted to work on my one tattoo. This

is a real tattoo story, not the stupid smone. I've wanted to fix something on it and kind of complete the whole thing. And we lost touch after Scooby Doo too, because that was the one there, and he reached out on social media. He's like a famous tattoo artist. I love his work and I'm gonna flapp to Vancouver for no reason other than finish the tattoo a couple of months. Bro Wait, where is your tattoos on my left shoulder

down to my a little bit of my elbow. I was born in the Year of the dragon, So it's a dragon, and I was born on the eighth, so it's in the shape of an eight. Nice I didn't know, sort of like an abstract got a badass, like a secret badass? Well, you know, everyone had one in the motorcycle gang. I used to ride there you go sing, you're a little late. We used to We used to run drugs over the border back of the nineties. Man, we're hardcore. Yea, they're not. They're I've never even done those.

They didn't make you prioritize the tattoo for They were like, yeah, just whenever you can get around to it, even when you're not in the gang. Twenty years later, you'll be fine, you know, And just get it eventually, promise, And it's whatever tattoo you want, it doesn't have to match ours. Ready to do your thing. So Friday Night SmackDown, there's not a ton to talk about. The opening segment was

pretty sweet. Roman reigns for the first time, lost his ship, and Sammy Zane, who is the heart and the heart and soul of not just the Bloodline, but of all professional wrestling, is there just trying to be his emotional support dog, which is what which is what he is to everyone, to all of us. Really, I take him on planes with me all the time. He came with me to Hawaii, sat for free, everything's good and right

with the world. And Roman it starts and to feel some pressure he might be losing his title soon, and he gets piste and he gives him the side I right like the you son, I'm gonna kill you, and he says, do you want to beat me? And sam he doesn't have a mic, he can't even defend himself verbally, but you see the lips go on, I don't I don't want to. I don't want to beat you. Do you want to beat me? No? No, no no, no, I don't want to be It's not what you want. Why

are you trying to be? Like? And he just goes in on him. He doesn't drop any f because he's a pro. Right. He goes in on him and we see major tension for the first time, which is pretty

freaking cool. And then you see this kind of lead into Kevin Owens coming out and saying he whoa, whoa Wait, yeah, man, you're not mad at You're not mad at Sammy, who gets mad at their emotional support dog son of a bitch, That's what he says to him, and he says, you're mad at me, and Romans is right, like, yeah, that's right, I'm mad at you. And he's like, yeah, I know

you're mad at me. And he goes, if you're so mad, why don't you give me a match at the Royal Rumble and Roman Reigns is like fine, he's had it. He just hates this guy. He legit says like, I just want to be done with you. I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear you. Maybe there's some shoot stuff in there because he got palmed in the ear by Kevin Owens at War Games, so maybe there's like some real stuff in there. Trying to

make it extra spicy. It's like I'm doing you can have your match, And even Paul Hayman's like, oh hard my tramp Chief. These are these are the expressions they're emoting. They didn't all get this sweet dialogue that I'm cutting right, And Kevin Owens gets what he wants and he leaves, which leads us to the end of the show, and uh, Sammy's been trying to talk to the Chief man and the Chief's not not having it all show two hours. He finally brings him in and Sammy's trying to apologize.

He doesn't even know what to apologize for, but he knows, he knows he's upset his chief, and so he's just trying to make it right. And he finishes and Roman says, I own accept your apology, and sam he's like, oh show ship man, I just I don't even know what I did wrong yet. What's going on again? This is there? These are his emotions and then Roman Ran says stop. Roman says, I owe you an apology. And this was a very sweet soap opera moment. And then he switched.

But he switches it on him. You think he's being nice. He's like, I'm feeling this pressure. I shouldn't be going in on you, but I'm gonna give you a chance to redeem yourself and make it up to me, even though I owe you an apology. You're gonna wrestle Kevin Owen's next week before the Royal Rumble, and like they said in Karate Kid, I want him out of commission. And the kids like, but since I can beat this guy, and he just looks at him. He goes, I don't

want him beaten out of commission. That's what Paul Hayman says to him. He was summoning his his inner Chrease. John Chrease was that character's name from Karate Kid some some mom and uh. And that's set up what's hopefully gonna be a huge Friday Night SmackDown this week. Sammy Zane in the main event against Kevin Freaking Owens. I didn't say freaking, that's not gimmick infringement. And the two best friends are going to fight. What to the death,

we don't know, but definitely to the pain. I hope to the death. That'd be more interesting to watch. They're best friends, no kidding. And a bunch of other stuff happened on the show too, but but it wasn't to me. It wasn't a great Friday Night SmackDown, but we got time to talk one match if there was something that you like that tickled your wrestling fancy. Ricochet looked amazing as always, but he also made Top Dollar look terrible.

Top Dollar looks so sluggish, and and it was it was interesting to watch, um, but that was my worst of the week. That's all I was bringing it up. I will say this. Yes, it's also Ricochet's job to make his opponent look great too. However, Top Dollars, the same guy who tried to go over the top rope clipped it and flipped pus his own nast like he's not the best worker. So maybe that's as good as Ricochet can make Top Dollar look because Top Dollars not at the level that he needs to be in yet.

But yes, very average dollar, it was not very able to look clean. That's only that I'm bringing it up because Ricochet looks great when he jumps off that top rope, like it is amazing how high he gets, Like Ricochet is just finished. It looked like he got higher than normal. And maybe it's because the guy he's landed on was so much bigger than he was, But it looked like he went twenty feet in the air and landed perfect like he always did. Also, Charlotte Flair doesn't look like

herself anymore. She she looks I will barely recognize her. Maybe you haven't seen her in along. It has been a while, it's been eight months. Um, we didn't even talk about that. We're both on vacation when it happened. Uh, And some people are mad that Charlotte is champ again. Why do you really want that title around Ronda roused

these ways? Or when Raquel Rodriguez comes in, do you want her to get it off someone that's legit, that the company respects, so that it means more, or she's just gonna win it off a part timer like no, put it on Charlotte and then let Charlotte and Raquel go to WrestleMania and it'll be an awesome match, and Raquel can be the good guy by that point because everyone will start booing Charlotte the only cheer about a month, and then they all turned to booze on her every

single title run um and then everybody's happy and and then and everybody wins. You don't want Ronda still with the title, I promise. So I like the Charlotte's champ and I like Charlotte. I think Charlotte is she's the whole girl. She's like the whole code of women's wrestling. And in my she done, she's awesome, and she's a beast, and uh, I'm happy she's champing and she got that figure eight. Sonya Deville took it like a champ to

sold that pain. I don't know if you notice this, but you know, she's supposed to be babyface right like Charlotte right now, and she's snatched the belt from the female referee like the way the way like a heel would famously, you know, like she she snatched the belt like give me that, and then you can see her realized, like, oh, yeah, shouldn't it that. She goes, oh, sorry, sorry, she apologized to now I know, yeah, she goes she put on this super like fake smile and went thank you. And

I was like, why that was weird? I missed. I must have not been looking at the moment she snatched the belt and missed that. So that's why she did. And I have a theory that that's the Vince McMahon that's ingrained in her. Like it's like this like, oh, I'm gonna get heat backstage for for doing that. Vince is gonna go, you're not our heel. You don't snatch the belt from the referee, and so like I think that was her trying to overcorrect like, oh, well, thank you.

I'm so you know, she like she realized, oh, I'm gonna get in trouble for this. I was wondering why that was so big because that's not normally her m O. I was like, that was weird, But alright, moving on, were you going to be this weekend? This weekend, I'm in Des Moines, Iowa at the Funny Bone Friday and Saturday. Very exciting. Have you played there before? I played their bunch and Iowa was great. It's cold, but it's it's the Iowa people are awesome. I love the people of Iowa.

Is that the right term? Did you play there? Or is that that's the right term? Yeah, did you play there? You know what you stand up or royalty? You're in the comedy family. Well, Mr Jeff, that was wrestling this week. We have a whole another week to discuss next week. And you're the best. Love you, buddy, Thank you very much, and thank all you guys for listening to the friend duration. Follow us on Instagram, Wrestling with Freddie Twitter is w w Freddie Pod. Follow us on all the socials so

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