What’s Next for Edge and The Judgement Day in Peril

against Seamus or did he? And California got hit by a hurricane and earthquake, But Wrestling with Freddy is still here, giving you our audience our weekly love for wrestling. Stay safe, everyone, Let's start the damn show. All right, everybody, how are you? It rained a lot here, but let me tell you

this right now. Granted, there were a couple places that got hammered pretty good by rain, but in La where I live, it was just rain and a little bit of wind for about forty five minutes, and the news made it sound like it was back in nineteen thirty one. One hundred people died. Yeah, they were looking like, oo, what is that out there? And got caught in that bullshit they weren't just chilling in the valley. It was nothing in La in the in Palm Desert, Palm Springs.

They get like I said, they got hammered pretty good. I got a buddy that lives out there. But here it was nothing. Me and my wife just chilled out and watched a movie here at the crib, watched Happy Death Day. Suckers anyway, wrestling time, money and iraw. We got a lot to discuss. They're focusing on a new character, on potential potential member of the Judgment Day, mister j D. McDonough, and we're going to get to him in a second.

The show started with Damian Priest, Dirty Dominic, Mystereo and the champ, the one and only Rhea Ripley, but no Finn Balor, and they discussed this. You know, Finn, Finn should be out there. He's a part of the Judgment Day, but he's been having beef lately, a bunch of beef with Damian Priest. They got that priest beef and that didn't suck right. Sorry, he does not have he does not have the priest beef. I did not. I did not. I mean that sound the way it did. But they got.

You know, they got a problem with one another. But it's not beef. It's just an is they've got. They've taken issue with one another. Outcomes the friend of Finn balor a friend of Finn a fuff, mister J D McDonough himself. There's an old Hollywood adage and back in the day, tons of Hollywood stars have this. I want everyone to google this. When you hear me say it, what's the best way to phrase it for a Google search? Stars that have big heads? No, stars that have large heads.

I think that's the best way to do it. So back in the day there was this old adage that on camera, men with larger heads projected better visibly physically on screen. So that was a trait that was actively searched for and looked for. And if you look in a lot of stuff. The best example for my generation, even though he was older than me, I was this dude. I did a movie with him called Tajillian on her thirty seventh birthday. And his name's Peter Gallagher. Peter Gallagher,

they would say, has a movie star head. But if we were in like sixth grade, we'd go many head. It is just big as hell. And it wouldn't have been this compliment. But that's something that it was like necessary back in the day and probably is still looked forward to some degree. Right, I'm sure someone will old school executive somewhere will say, oh, he's got a big hit. Mean, that's why I only made it so far. My skull

wasn't large enough. Although I got this like weird lump, like this unicorn horn that grows from the front, that they always had the powder and shine down. That's right, y'all, I'm a unicorn, deal with it. But anyway, JD McDonough has the movie star head. Look at that. I'm telling you, it's the movie star. It's perfectly shaped, it's perfectly large, he's got a perfect head of hair. Good looking kid.

And he comes out and he says, sorry to interrupt, and Damian Briest is looking at him like, what the what the hell are you doing out here? Get your punk ass and your big old head and get the hell out of here. And JD McDonough's like, yo, man, no disrespect. He's got an Irish berg. No disrespect there.

I don't mean to upset to anyone. And he just explains why Finn's not there, but they've introduced this character and then eventually everybody else comes out and we're going to get a fight between sammy's ay and JD McDonough. But the key here is the McDonough character, right, And we see him later come up again and try to apologize and Damian Priest is like, dude, if you'll get away from me right now, beat your little ass. Finn Balor comes up and it's like, yo, chill out, man,

we all know you're six foot four whatever. Just cool, cool your jets, and it's all calm. But the theory out to here that I'm hearing, it's not I didn't come up with this theory. It's just the one that's out there in the streets, in these streets, is that JD McDonough's gonna become a member of the Judgment Day and turn on his confidant, Finn Balor. He'll no longer

be a friend of Finn. He'll no longer be a fof. No, he will be a fof He'll be a foe of Finn and turn on his brother, not brother, but you know what I'm saying, And that'll bring him into the fold of the Judgment Day. And Lee Finn on the outs and then they can do something different with Finn and hopefully they have a cool plan for him, because everybody loves Finn Balor. Good looking dude, super shredded, I mean, like Bruce Lee, more shredded than shit. Bruce Lee wishes

he was as shredded as Finn Balor. He's gotten so much better on the mic, especially over the last say two years, the entire rest of his time, pretty much ever since they brought him back from NXT's, his skills on the mic have really really improved. Do you think? Do you think I'm crazy? No? You don't you agree? We also had Becky versus Trish, not the best match. I don't know how much time they had, but it

felt a little it felt a little rush. But it did end with a cool promise, the promise of a steel cage match, which hopefully these two women can tear the cage down, tear the house down, burn the house down, whatever the saying is. And I love Trish, I love lead him more. I gotta say I love lead him more. But you gotta love Trish Stratus in there still kicking ass. I love the broken nose gimmick and then finally she just said, f it. It's like this mask because 'red

having me nuts. We're just going to fight. But yeah, so steel cage match coming up. That'll be awesome or it should be. It better be. And in the main event we had Cody versus Finn Balor, and they have I'm not going to say they've struggled to keep Cody busy and away from the World Championship, because I think they've done it really well. They've always kept him busy. The judgment day was super smart. The brock Lessner thing

was even smarter. I thought they storied that out the right way, and Brock put him over big time at the end, which was pretty cool to see. It's cool to see Brock doing that here at the end of his career because he could easily be like, nah, man, I'm not brocklest kiss my ass, and what could you do. It's not like you're gonna whoop him. You're not going to put someone in the ring that can actually beat

brock Lesner, so you just got to take it. So it's cool to see him do the doc business like that, especially on Cody, because this history could get stale real quick. You can't just end the bloodline story and let Cody be the focal point again. You got to save that now. Although I really wanted Cody to win last WrestleMania, and now it looks like they're clearly saving that for this coming WrestleMania, which means uh Roman will have that belt

for quite some time, suckers. So yeah, So it was Cody versus Finn, and both these dudes are top of their game. Both guys are in their physical prime. They're in their wrestling prime as far as like mentally and their ability to tell a story, their ability to listen to the crowd but also dictate to the crowd what the pace of the match is going to be. There's a lot of listening and answering going on when you have when you have wrestlers at that at that level,

this was a great match. Even if you're you're not a fan of wrestling, I recommend you checking it out. Just record it on your on your DVR whatever. I watch it on YouTube three hours after it airs because I'm on the West Coast and I just ask it to record it. I'm pretty sure you have like a bazillion and hours of space on YouTube TV both guys are just top top shelf, and even if you're just looking to see a couple of good looking dudes, that

they're both super good looking dudes. So they go, ladies. Moving on to aew Dynamite, the show started with the single poof Firework Master, the squosen one freshly squeezed Orange Cassidy. I will say it again, I did not get it for a very long time, and then one day I watched him just take an absolute beating and then somehow managed to turn it around and everything clicked. And I love him, dude. He I freaking love Orange Cassidy. I think his opening is awesome, the unfinished kind of art work.

Here's one little firework, one little bit of pyro for you, poof. That's it. And he's just kind of out there like, yeah, here I am. Let's wrestle. I don't really care about all this fancy stuff. My son and I do his little soft little kicks to the ship. We do that back and forth to each other. So I really like what Orange Cassidy's been bringing to the table. It's been good.

My kids like watching him wrestle too. He wrestled Wheeler Dah Wheeler from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dah from the Blackpool Combat Club, Wheeler Judah, and we all know that Cassidy was going to win this match, but both dudes A w just no,

that's not true, because Goonther and them do too. But wrestling right now, within this year has been in the mainstream, has been very much let's beat the shit out of each other on both sides, women and mince patches, especially at AEW and a handful of the wrestlers at WWE, the ones that are tough enough, like Gunther and Shams deal with it. Everybody else who's not tough enough talking to you, Xavier Woods, not just kidding, but aaw, they

all are this it's gonna be. Every match has twenty seven chops and that's only the first time they do their chop sequence. Then they had forty seven on the second, and then they cut it down on the third sequence to nineteen. There's a lot of chops, is what I'm trying to say. But I love them. It's what wrestling is right now, and it's cool to see what can be best described and I think only described as a

physical sacrifice to entertain someone. They are legit getting hit super friggin hard right to their chest and if there's no meat on that chest ouch. So some of these young wrestlers that aw brings up, I don't know how they're taking these chops because they got bird cages for chests. And not that I'm Lex Luger or anything like that, but damn I'm not trying to take those chops. These dudes beat the hell out of each other, and at the end of the match, Orange Cassidy wins, Thank you

very much. No pyro necessary, no celebration afterwards necessary because look after Blackpool Combat Club, they assault him and all of a sudden, the best Friends have to rush in to defend him, and the Lutra Brothers suddenly hit the scene to save the best Friends, and then Eddie Kingston returns. We love Eddie Kingston, former guest of the show, friend of the Show, awesome on the microphone. He's been gone for a while, man, I think he's been in Japan wrestling.

I don't watch every wrestling show in the world, but he came into the fold cleared shopper and I guess they're just going to beat the living crap out of each other. I'll watch them do that because John Moxley and Eddie Kingston are going to just punch each other in the face and just say, yeah, man, give the people what they want. Just a bunch of me as hard as you can. Yeah, say it's same to you, all right? Cool? These dudes are both crazy. They do not care if they get hurt so long as they're

they agree to it. Right. John Moxley bleeds every single night, and Eddie Kingston is built like a California redwood tree that is not going to care if you punch you. Maybe he does, and after the match they fight again, but I know that's what they're gonna do. So if you want to see two dudes actually squab out, that's what's gonna happen. Squab out. What is it? Nineteen ninety two? All right, we had a little Chris Jericho letting us know whether or not he was going to join Don

Kallas's familia. He takes that Chris Jericho pause, and the answer is it's long, right, it's Chris Jericho. He does the Jericho pause. It's longer than William Shantner's where he'd be like, there's something on the wing, some thing. No, Jericho's is longer but he says yes to the surprise

of Don Kallas. Don Kallas had a painting out there that was covered and we've already established he's been trying to to not bribe, but impress upon Chris his desire to represent him and bring him into the fold through artwork. This isn't the best storyline that Chris has been it. I'm trying to sell it better than it is, but it's all right. He's trying to get every single professional wrestler in the world over and it doesn't always work. Callus is a manager in this case, and Chris goes, well,

what's under the curtain? And Don Kallis is like, I don't worry about what's under the curtain. He's like, no, what's undo the curt what's in the box? And he really wants to know and Callus is like, no, no, no, no. I honestly I thought you were going to say no. And he's like, well, wait a minute, what he thought then? Now I really want to know what's under there and he's like, nah, you don't want to. Danny uncovers it and it's Don Kallas holding the severed head like the Medusa.

The Medusa head has severed, only in this case it's the head of Chris Jericho, and Chris Jericho's like, what the hell? And then everybody comes in and beats the shit out of Chris Jericho to Keshia and then will Ospray the Ozzie who everybody loves U n JPW and they just whipped his ass. So that was the end of that segment. And then we get to Adam Cole, Baybey and MJF, the world champion they're gonna go against.

They're really trying to put over a lot of the Ring of Honor stuff before the show, like early in the show, and there's a tag team that they have that represents their championship called Ozzie Open, and to get them over, they handled them. Their two top baby faces right now even though they're going against each other in Adam Cole and MJF. And Adam Cole a week or two before said hey man, let's let's go for let's go for broke before we wrestle, let's have a tag team.

And I've said already, I think Adam Cole is going to turn on MJI in the middle of this match and let MJF get beat up and then go after that world title in a very hulish type of way. Of course, I say that now to be MJF. That leaves Adam Cole haangen and I'll be dead wrong, but that's just what I think. But they are taking on Aussie Open and in order to study them, this is one of their comedy bits, and every single one of

these have been absolute gold. Max takes them to the Albach Steakhouse to study their Australian opponents for zero hour, and he's very worried about the wrestling because of AUSSI Open. Because it looks it looks pretty good. They go in there and they get the awesome blossom. They get inspired

by Australian culture they watch. They watch Australian movies with crocodile Dundee and then Max wants to adopt an animal form like kung fu and do the kangaroo style and kangaroo kick these assholes, and Adam's like, no, that's the worst idea ever. But the best idea is double close, Linine. It closes on another port bastard for no reason whatsoever, which is awesome. And then they take a break and from being super bros, and they start talking about their match,

and it was a pretty darn good promo. Adam Cole talks about how he's been the top dude in every company and this journey's not complete until he's the top dude here, and Max takes it back and gives him a history lesson of his own life and talks about his first all in and the things he had to do and scratch and claw his way just to get into that show. And now he's going to headline that same show in Wembley in front of eighty six plus thousand people, and what a big deal of the match

is going to be. I'm super excited to see this. There's an interruption in some drama and Adam Cole plays like he's going to superkick Max. But none of that's important. The match and the story they tell and the tag match is going to be the most important thing in this But it's been a fun story. It's cool that it's coming to a conclusion. It has not gone on

too long. There was a really cool what I thought was just going to be a break with that tag team tournament, the blind tag tournament, and they really turned it into a a fun eighties Buddy cop story like forty eight Hours or Beverly Hills Cop things like that. Anyway, Yeah, I'm really excited to watch the match. I got to figure out how to watch the pay per view because I don't have direct TV anymore, so I got to figure that out. I know there's websites I can go on,

like Bleacher Report and things like that. I just got to figure it out. Bredda Night SmackDown Grayson Waller effect Grayson Waller, the outstanding Australian from NXT who has his own version of Miss TV. Again, Miss TV is the superior product in this case despite the corny set. Grayson himself is really good at this back and forth and the interview stuff. In a similar manner. Tomms is more polished,

but you can't blame Grayson for that. He's been doing it much much longer, and he's got Santos Escobar and Rey Misterio the new United States Champion. Austin Theory comes out and interrupts this segment after Grayson tries to start drama between the LWO and the only way this can go is there's two ways. Either it's respect respect and Santos becomes the champ, or Santos goes evil and becomes the champ, but I think Santos has to win the belt.

There's no reason for Ray to be the US champion except to give it to someone, and I ninety nine percent sure that Santos. The cool story here was when Austin Theory interrupts and he was looking great. He had the baby Harry chest going on where it's like, not magnum p I Harry, but it's like twenty two year old Harry, right, and he's looking smooth, and he was good on the mic. He was good on the mic

on Friday. And then out comes out and Pierce to be like, nah, dude, you're not getting another shot after what you did, and before he can finish the real interruption with everybody saying, eh, hey night, Yeah, and here he comes, everybody's new favorite, the darling of wrestling. L A Night so much better than Max Dupree survived that terrible, terrible gimmick, got the old one back. Isn't Eli Drake, but we love l A Night and he cuts a sweet ass promo that was old school as hell on

Austin Theory. Austin Theory chirp back did a great job chirpping back. L A Knight says, Doug, let me just challenge you right now, and the winner is the number one content four the United States Championship. Austin Theory's like hell no, and that appears is like, oh well, yes,

let's get it on right now. Boom the mis comes out because, as we all know, the Mizz and La Night a couple of weeks ago on Monday Night Raw had a problem with one another where Miss said you're not on my level and La Knight established that he is on the misses level and then introduced himself a second time. The miss came out on commentary and to heckle and be eight La Knight and let us know that La Knight once again is just a flash in

the pan and a bum soon to be bum. During the match, he tries to interfere, gets beat down for his trouble. That's what you get, Miss punked punk ass. But in the melee, Austin Theory rolls him up and looked like he grabs some trunks and we had another referee failure failure if I'm wrong, sorry for being so belligerent, and Austin Theory gets the win over La Night. And then Edge twenty fifth anniversary versus Seamus, and he promoed this match by telling a story of when he retired.

Seamus does these workout videos called the Celtic Warrior Workouts on YouTube. They're actually really quiet. Followed Seamus on Instagram for years. I really liked the guy and I love the way he works. I love how hard he works, and he's just to know him is to really love him. He's just a good human being, solid citizen. And he did one of his workouts with Edge and at the time, Edge was doing a lot of mountain biking. He's out there in the country where you can do that without

worry about cars running you over. And on the bike ride, Edge just takes a gnarly, just gnarly fall, just has to bail out, and he's a pro wrestler, so he just rolls all smooth and gets up, has some road rash and he's like, oh, well, hell, if I can

do that, I could probably still wrestle. And that was the impetus that sort of brought him back to the ring to see if he could continue to do this, and of course he could, and he's had some great matches, good great matches since then Edge is the freaking man and they have their final match which goes back and forth, and the way he presents himself now is like this old grizzled Viking who is still the king, but all these young urale, strong, testosterone fueled, younger Vikings are there

trying to kill him so they can be king, and he's sitting there like my man from the Viking show, who wants to be king? They keep climbing. A great story with Vinn ballor great story with in the ring story with vin ballor in the ring story with Damian Priest, and his victories would be so desperate at the end, you know, just like one arm over and you know you get the win and just be looking off camera just like, oh I barely got it, Oh man, I

barely got it. Meanwhile, it goes backstage and they're probably like, thank you so much for that match, and he's like, yo, bro, you were so great, and that the kind of match he had here, it was two warriors that you know, he's he's conquered everything, so he doesn't fight for land or gold or women anymore. He fights for glory, and so does Seamus. And they had a great, sort of like Warrior against warrior. When you add that extra syllable to warrior, it sounds cooler warrior. And it was just

a really fun match to watch. I love these guys were they were absolutely awesome. This was my match of the week. I know he's not done. He can't be done. That was the end of his contract. And he's an older dude, and at forty seven years old, I think he's just a year older than me. I know what it feels like to get out of bed, and I don't take bumps for a living. I don't take those beatdowns. But he's not done. There's no way he's just done

with that contract. But there's there's gonna be more matches. There's probably gonna be Let's let's play here three more over the next three years, one a year. Come on, man, I'll take that any day of the week. And who knows who his opponents will be. But I will say this, I've heard some talk of like, oh, he could go to AEW and do like a final thing with Christian. I can't in a million years see that happening. Edge is wwe born and friggin bred. I can't see him

wrestling anywhere else. Ever, I just can't. I can't, can you. There's no right, there's no way he is. And I died in the wool WWE, and I mean that in a good way, Like he's one of the best things that WWE has ever brought to television, and for him to go somewhere else would just feel so friggin weird. It would feel so it'd be like when Joe Namath played quarterback one year for the La Rams. It was just like, wait, what your name is Broadway Joe, not

drive Joe. It sounds stupid. Yeah, I just don't. I couldn't see him there, and I like aw, I like both. I've always said that I'm a fan of professional wrestling, So yeah, I think he only I think he can only go there. I think he can only go there. Check out Jeff d Comedy and Jeff Die on all social media to find out where he's performing in a city near you. He's in Atlanta as well and performing almost every night while he's shooting his game show out

there that he booked, and we're happy. So go out there, congratulate him on his job, and hear one of the funniest comics in stand up today, working hard for you out there. I'm Freddie Prinz Junior. This is Wrestling with Freddy. This has been a production of Iheart'smichael Toura podcast Network. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. MHM