June 5, 2024 • 30 mins
Jeff is on assignment this week, so i decided we talk all about contract negotiations, and storylines in the world of wrestling. I give you my thoughts on who stays and who goes, specifically on Becky Lynch's situation and how crazy it is that she is a free agent in the world of wrestling.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I think Lynch has ten years of stories, so it's
strange that she's a free agent. It's very strange. I'll
say this, Tony Kahn is going to make a huge
offerer or whatever he offered Mercedes money, it's gonna be
double that.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now, your main event introducing the hosts are Wrestling Win Freddy,
Jeff Died, and Fready Prince tunor.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Welcome back, everybody. It's a brand new episode of Wrestling
with Freddy. I'm alone today. Mister Jeff dies on assignment
and I already miss him. You're gonna miss funny jokes
because I'm not gonna say anything funny this entire damn episode,
So welcome back. I hope everyone had a RESTful weekend.
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I went and saw Furiosa with the family, My son
Doug it, the rest the rest of us. You know,
there were decent parts, but we didn't love it the
way he did. Can't give it the love that we
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because the movie didn't do as well as as I
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so check out Fall Guy. Anyway. I hope you all
had a wonderful weekend, whatever you did, and we thank
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you for supporting this show. Now I'm going to talk
about everything that's going on in wrestling today because again
there's not going to be any jokes and we have
a lot to get to. So oh also, stay tuned
onun Sanctioned Thursday. We are going to get to the
predictions that we made for King of the Ring and
Double or Nothing, all that good stuff. We didn't do
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it last week because I was out of town. I
was in Las Vegas where Double or Nothing was but
I couldn't go, and we gave you the Matt Cardona episode.
We love Matt, always respect to Matt, and get healthy soon.
My brother he did our Unsanctioned Thursday as well, so
we thank you for doing both episodes, and we thank
you guys for tuning in. Now let's start the damn show.
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Contract negotiations is is what's in the wrestling news. We
finally have some actual wrestling news instead of just storylines.
A Dove's is celebrating their fifth year anniversary and with that,
there's a lot of contracts they have that are ending.
Everybody saw the World Stronk's man Mark Henry step Away
He didn't body slam anyone on the way out, but
left the company Ethan Page, who we showed a little
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love to a few months ago. All ego Ethan Page
I think was his name, and he debuted an NXT
and he looked great. Think they can do good things
with him over there, so that was good. Jeff Hardy's
contract is said to expire. I don't know if AW
is going to give him any love. Will Ospray's been
trying to recruit Ricochet on X or Twitter or whatever
you guys call it on social media. They sending him
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tons of love. This is what football players do to
not get busted by saying, oh, you're interfering with a
contract negotiation. They go, no, I'm just sending love. That's
what Will Osprey's doing, and that's pretty awesome. It makes
it feel very real. I think it actually is in
this case. Also, MJF came back and no surprise to
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anyone on this podcast, has re signed with a Dubs
and has no intention of going anywhere. I think he
really enjoys building a company as opposed to being a
cog in the wheel, which isn't an insult to WWE,
but WWE is bigger than any wrestler they have, and
I don't think AW is. Yeah. Also, Chad Gable, his
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contract is coming up and they just gave him a
storyline which makes me think they plan on resigning him.
And they're saying, look, look, we can give you storylines.
Look you just have to be able to pull them
off and execute. So he's getting an opportunity, so hopefully
that motivates him to stay there. I think WW is
the right place for him. I don't know how he would.
I like his character and I don't think that character
would work in AEW and I think it works really
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well in WWE. Also the big one, Becky Lynch, the
last Kicker. This is crazy to me that her contract
is up and she's a free agent. I'll say this,
she's not She's not going anywhere. But well, I said
this about Edge too, or Adam Copeland. I was like, Oh,
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he's a WW guy for life, He's not going anywhere,
and he bounced. But I just can't. She's so much
younger than Copeland was. Sorry, old man. I think she
has so many years left where I think Adam Copeland
knows he has a couple of years that he wants
to get in there and then he'll be done for
good a couple more. You know, great stories. I think
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Lynch has ten years of stories. So it's strange that
she's a free agent. It's very strange. I'll say this,
Tony Kahn is going to make a huge offer to her.
Whatever he offered Mercedes money, it's going to be double that.
I wouldn't be able to get her on mine, man.
I mean, I'll tell you what. I'd give her fifty
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percent of my show. I'd be a fifty to fifty
partner with her if she came and did my promotion.
If you're out there listening, girl, call me. But yeah, man,
I just can't see her going anywhere. But wwe I
think she's she made herself there. They helped make her.
She kind of built her own opportunities as opposed to
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opportunities like she was made when her nose got busted
up and she handled it like the man, She handled
it like a stud, and the crowd fell in love
with her in that moment, and she blew up after that,
like you never saw her cut a promo as good
as she did after that nosebreak, as you did before,
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like it just something clicked and she was just ready
for the moment when it came. That's what other people
call that luck. My godfather, the Bob Wall said, luck
is being prepared for opportunities, and she was prepared and
just took over women's wrestling. Basically, it was crazy and
it happened so fast like a rocket ship. And every
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time she gets hurt, which isn't often, when she comes back,
it's like nothing slowed down. The rocket ship is still
in full effect. So at that level, I mean, some
people have walked away, right like Jim Brown back in
the old football days for our older listeners just walked away.
Barry Sanders just walked away. They for sure had years left.
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But I just can't I can't see her doing it.
I think she wants to be see, you know, like
be a mom and be a wife and see what
that feels like and be there for the early moments
in her child's life. And then you know, once you
have confidence in that, and you know, okay, my baby
isn't going to just die if I walk out of
the room. At least for most artists, you start hungering
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to do your art again because that's what you were
put on Earth. To do right is follow your purpose,
and she has a clear purpose, and it's in the
entertainment industry and it's as a professional wrestler. So I
think that it'll come calling. I think that voice will
come calling, and I think she'll listen to it because
it's her voice. It's not someone else saying I think
I get back in the ring. Sure, she seems to
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follow her own voice. I didn't read her book, but
I've read excerpts from it that have been posted online,
and she definitely knows who she is and isn't someone
who has dreams. She has plans. That's why she's ready
for opportunities when they come. So we love you, Becky Lynch.
And I wasn't even really joking when I said, you know,
hit me up. But I know you're going back to WW.
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You're gonna kick ass there. Anyway. I get told from
time to time that I don't talk enough WWE, and
we're not going to start today. No, I'm just kidding.
We're going to talk WWE, and we're gonna talk Gunther
and I want to talk about the opening segment because
when he came out, I was so First of all,
I'm not a fan of the crown. I was so
glad that he was just carrying it and not wearing it.
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I think it's just maybe it's because I'm so anti monarchy,
like I don't respect the royal family, Like you didn't
earn any of that that was given. I don't respect that.
So I don't bow down to any crown to no man.
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Gunther's the man, and Ludwig's super cool with it. Man
Like he's a great he's not a valet, he's a wrestler.
But the way he introduces him, and he's so arrogant,
and he's got this asshole look on his face. Not
that you look like an asshole, it's this air of
like he looks down his nose at people instead of
like up through the furrowed brow. Those are the kind
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of protagonists we like. The antagonists always look down their nose.
That's like old cinema stuff. So he comes out and
he's talking and doing his thing on the mic, and
Priest comes out like a frigging bullet. I mean, it
wasn't an interruption. He came out and the music hit
and you would have thought that JD McDonough and Finn
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Balor were rocking the guitars live and Damian Priest was
coming out to start screaming. Look, I mean, he just
I've never seen someone walk that fast without running, if
that makes sense. He moved with purpose and stormed right
into the ring, and then the promo didn't quite match
the walk at first because he was he was very
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dismissive of Gunther, and I thought Priest would have been,
or at least the Priest's character would have been more
in his face about it, not taking offense, not defensive,
but but just more in his face, like what are
you gonna do? What now? Talk? You know what I
mean something like that. But instead, and this stays in
true to his character. So maybe I'm I'm off on this.
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He's been a little more smooth and cool with his dialogue,
like it's not a scripted for him. It feels like
it's just more his voice. And so this came out
in that regard or in that in that way. And
then the segment gets introduced by everyone's favorite wrestler who's
on social media and actually talks to people, Drew McIntyre,
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and he storms out and the crowd is hot for
Drew McIntyre because they're hot for cmpunk as well, and
they just want to scream it at him because they
think it bugs him, and he just plays. He plays
with him now when they when they do it, he
just plays with him and he comes out and now
it's a three way. And these promos are always tricky
at this point, right because you don't know who the
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focus is on, and it can't be on all three
people at once because you're not going to have a
problem with three people at the same time because that's confusing,
and so it loses some steam. But he Drew's good
enough on the mic that he's able to, you know,
carry this promo on and then it all goes to
hell as it's gonna as it's always, as it always does,
and the story is going to continue, and basically the
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story is this, Damian Priest is fighting Drew McIntyre at
Clash of the Castle in Scotland. I'm telling you this
right now, Damian Priest is winning that match. You can
put that on the prediction sheet. One. They're not just
gonna one shot him and then done. He's got to
have at least one win for it to feel like
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a more legitimate championship. When Gnther wrestles him, and Gunther
will beat Damian Priest. That's my second prediction. Also to WW,
here is such dix about this. They love making you
lose in your hometown. They love it more than a
little kid loves a birthday or a trip to Disneyland.
If they can find a way to make you lose
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in your hometown, your ass is losing. I used to
see it with ceampunk all the time. Man, it just
be like here it comes like everybody. I didn't because
I didn't work with punk, but you'd see this really
cool story written for punk and it just all get
killed because then oh it goes to Chicago. Well let's
delay the story because it can't lose and then look
like shit like it just this philosophy of having to
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lose in your hometown just debted so many stories in
WW when I worked there. But Drew is gonna lose
in his hometown and he's gonna be pissed and that's
gonna be sort of his narrative, right is That's what
people can play with them in promos. It gives you something,
it gives him motivation. I had it during COVID and
then I had it for three seconds, and then I
had it for another three seconds, and you know, people
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are saying, I can't hold on to it. I can't.
I'm never going to be a real champion. Gives his
character a lot of motivation, so I actually think it's cool.
Not everybody has to win and be dominant, right. So
that's the first story. The second story, and this is
the one that I think is almost more interesting because
I don't know if everyone can pull it off. I
want them to. I want all wrestlers to succeed, but
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can they find a story? And is goonth ready for
that story for him to take the title off of
Damien Priest, because that seems to be the direction that
this is going in. And I predict Gunther will take
it at SummerSlam off of Damien Priest. That's twice I've
said it, so you know it's true. I just don't
know what the story's going to be outside of I'm
the best wrestler and I'm going to prove it, which
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is fine because you know the matches are going to
be money, so that's fine. I just wrestling grows when
the stories can exist outside of wrestling, right when podcasters
like me are talking about it or when people are
pulling clips and putting it on social media, because can
you believe what wrestler X just said to wrestler Why, yeah,
and then he slapped the taste out of his mouth.
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That's what helps wrestling grow. So I always want good
stories attached to it, just so you guys know why.
But yeah, So anyway, I'm curious as to that. I
really like Gunthrough, I like Damian Priest too, and I
like drmacintyre, but somebody has to win and be champ,
and I think they're going to give it to Guntherro.
I think he's ready. I hope he's ready. His wrestling
is so awesome and fun to watch, and if you
don't watch aw his style is very sort of AEWI ish,
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not the choreography itself, but as far as the hard
hitting or the stiffness, or at least it looks like
it's real stiffy. He might hit like a feather, but
it looks like he can take it and it looks
like he can dish it out. And that's a lot
of what they do over there at AEW And I
try to celebrate all wrestling here now, staying in the WWE.
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The other main story is on the women's side is
Live Morgan and her revenge tour, which I don't think
we have to say every time she has a promo.
I don't think she has to remind us it's a
revenge tour. I think like every other episode or once
every three is enough, and then allow her to some
more creative dialogue so because she can act a bit,
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to let her try and you know, get this character
over even more. You don't have to say the same thing.
You don't have to say your catchphrase every single week
unless it's like at the end of a promo, right
hers aren't. It's always like, you know, somewhere flowing in there.
I know it's revenge and she's playing it really well.
So let her be more colorful as far as like
how she's going to take piece by piece, you know,
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everything from Ria. Let her remind us of why it's
a revenge tour or how she's going to do it,
not just the words, but anyway. More importantly, she had
a match against the man Becky Lynch in what could
be her final match with the company what in a
steel cage for the Women's World Championship, and they go
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out there and they wrestle, and if you're following this story,
Dominic Mysterio and her have had some dealings in the
in the darkness, we'll say nothing, nothing, no sexy time. Anyway,
he goes out there and we don't know really who
he's trying to help. Is he trying to help Becky
and and screw over Live because Live did what she
did to Rhea? Is he helping is he helping Live out?
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We don't know, but it seems like he's wanting to
help out Becky. JD and Finn come out there to
try and stop him, and here comes Bronze Strouman. Bron Strouman,
if you don't know who he is, is the largest
human being in the world, and he runs really fast
and for a professional wrestling and he's chasing this guy
JD McDonough who's got this really big head and when
he runs, man, it's it's really funny. But yeah, so
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he's chasing him down and he's gonna kill him. He's
mad at him, and he smashes into dom and the
cage smashes into Becky and oh my head and she
falls down and lives like, yo, what all right? This
opportunity boom and she retains the championship and she's walking
out and she's looking at Dominic Mysterio like what did
you do? And he's looking at her like I don't
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know what I did, and she's like all right, and
there's this awkward moment and then it cuts to black
and you're like, Okay, that's kind of awkward. Well, what
you found out after is that after the cameras went off,
she smooched him. She planted a big old smooch. And
what happens is the camera guy basically lets them know
when the camera's off, and he goes, okay, now we're dark,
and then she goes and does the smooks. That's why
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the timing was so perfect and beautiful because the crew
there is no freaking joke and they know what they're doing.
And I think I even know the cameraman who probably
did it, and that guy was that good when I
worked there, and that was fifteen twenty years ago. Probably anyway,
everybody was talking about on social media again, something outside
of the ring that brings other eyeballs to it, like, oh,
what's going on? Even if they just think lives hot
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or they just think Dom's hot and they go, you
know what I mean, Like, there's no secret why women
went to go see Magic Mike. They weren't like, I
wonder if this would be as good as Dances with
Wolves script wise, Oh, they would to see sexy dudes.
So as long as you get him in there, it
doesn't matter why you got him in you just got him.
And that's why these types of moments, and they've been
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much more prevalent since Vince left, have really I think
helped the brand and will help continue the brand to crow.
But anyway, I got a ton of people excited about that.
Now we can hopefully get into a promo where she
does start talking about how she's going to take away
everything riahead piece by piece. Maybe she's gonna be the
reason that Damian Priest loses his title because she gets
in between the judgment day and screws them all up
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and gets in their heads and now they're all screwy
and they make him lose his title and ha ha,
all of a sudden, you know, Schoonther gets to win
at Summer Sin. I don't know, but those are the
two main stories that are going on. Now we're going
to move to SmackDown, and I'm not going to spend
as much time on this because I think everybody knew
what was happening, and the main story was aj Styles retirement.
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Now maybe you thought it was legit it, but every
one of my friends that watches wrestling, and myself included,
was like, nah, man, you don't get that shredded and
that Jack to retire, Like, that's just not That's not
gonna happen. Man. I know I know that I would.
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I'm not working out to quit acting. I'm back in
the gym because I'm going back to the movies. So
to me right away, I'm like, man, Ella Knight's like, hey,
the rumors are true. I just want to say respect. Yeah,
and I'm like, nah, dude, nah, I like La Knight
would say, I went na nah And I didn't believe it,
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but if you did. He came out and he sees
Cody Rhodes Mark Henry did this years ago. My producer said,
never trust a wrestler in a pastel suit, which made me,
which made me laugh when I was going through the
show's notes. But he goes out there with the with
the good brothers. I knew Luke Gallows as Festus when
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I worked there that they came in as Festus and
and something they called themselves Biscuits or their theme music
when Biscuits engraving. I was there when he changed to
Luke Gallows and became part of the Straight Edge Society.
My buddy wrote that that whole group, that faction. So anyway,
they go out there with him, and now I'm like, yo,
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he's got a backup, like he likes going. It's going down.
And then Cody comes out and he's such a good guy. Right,
he's he's Captain America. I know John Cena was Captain America.
He's more like Cody's more like the guy from All
Might from my hero Academia, the Japanese anime. You can
watch it dubbed if you want, but subtitles cooler. But
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that's who he is. He even comes out in the
jacket that looks just like the wardrobe from All Might.
So I think Cody's an anime fan, but that's who
he is, so always a good guy, always has the
smile on his face, the good man. He comes out
there and he just gets duped and suckered. And AJ
wasn't going to retire and he's not going to the
back of the damn line. Nick Altis, you could suck
it too. He beats his shit out of Cody Rhoads.
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The Good Brothers are just standing the other end. They're like, Noah, Security,
y'all they doing shit. You guys are just gonna stand there.
We're gonna beat your ass too, and they just obey,
like nobody. There's like four on two, but they're like, nah, man,
that's one fool. Gallows is huge. So anyway, nobody messed
with him, and Cody got his ass whipped. And so
now Cody's finally gonna have a story a guy who's
not gonna wait in line, who's on a clock because
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he's older, flirting with retirement, even though in jest, you know,
the man's been thinking about it, and he's gonna have
one more good goddamn run, and he's not gonna let
Cody Rhodes, the son of Dusty Rhads And You're never
gonna be as good as your daddy. And I'm better
than your daddy ever was because I'm aj Styles. So
I'm gonna beat your ass and take your title, and
then I'm gonna retire Champ. So you won't even get
a chance to take the title back. For me, you
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have to fight in some stupid tournament in order to
pull it off. That's what aj styles story should be,
could be, maybe will be. And it gives us a
reason to give a damn about Cody again. For so far,
he's just been wrestling dudes and the matches have been awesome,
but the reason why has and being great, and this
is an opportunity for them to finally kind of have
a great story for not great, but at least good
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story for Cody to go in there with. We can
talk bloodline if you guys want. I'll say this, it's
smart that they're moving slowly with Solo Soka. I don't
think he can handle a full on Roman Reign style
promo yet, and I think they know that, and so
I think they're handling him well. Him and Paul Hayman
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have a really good rapport with one another, really good chemistry.
I think Paul Hayman could probably have good chemistry with
a brick wall and somehow get the brick wall over.
But I like what Solo is doing. But it's good
they're moving slow. I don't think there's anything wrong with
the bloodline storyline right now. I think it's good to
meet these new characters, even if they're characters that are
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going to get killed off. Think of some of your
favorite TV shows. As soon as you think a guy's
a series regular, sometimes they get whacked. Just watch an
episode of twenty four. Happen all the time. Na Anyway, Yeah,
so I think think they're doing good with that, but
we're gonna move on to aw We finally got to
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see Mercedes Money the CEO your CEO, my CEO, defend
her title against sky Blue, although not a story match,
it was just here, you attack me, so we're gonna fight.
It was nice to see her get through a match
look healthy and healthy, not get hurt. Okay, now maybe
we can get something that needs something in the very
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near future. I don't know if they're going to do
that with her, because they're not doing that with Swerve Strickland.
They're making him wrestle every week, which I don't think
lessens the title, but it's it just feels like there's
no story planned until after we get through Forbidden Door,
which which is fine, but I don't know if he
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had to wrestle every week, if that was gonna be
the case. He's the champ, you know what I mean,
Like he can go out there and talk. His promo's
not a ten, but it's at least a seven, and
he can get the crowd behind him and nan Os
money out there no matter what. So I don't know
if he had to wrestle every single week, I don't
know if he has to wrestle Roderick Strong. He's gonna
tonight when you guys listen to this on Wednesday night,
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of course he's gonna win. We know he's gonna win.
They're not gonna go in there and have Roderick Strong,
the world champ who just lost to Will Osprey, the
international champion. That doesn't make sense. So we know that
Swarp's gonna win. So I'm not I'm not sure man's.
It's frustrating because if you listen to this show, you
know we're both all three of us are big fans,
and our producer included are all big fans of Swerve Strickland.
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So we want everything every week, give us everything everywhere.
I want a great story, a great match, and a
great opponent that can't happen, but it can happen more
than it has so far. We could have got a
little something in there. It's okay that we didn't. You
got some OA Joe busy with hook now and trying
to develop that character and give him some storyline, and
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I appreciate that, so it's okay. Now. The bad news
Adam Copeland broke his goddamn leg. He jumped off a cage.
We're going to actually have him and Christian on the
podcast in the near future, I believe, and I'm going
to question his judgment completely. I'll be honest with you.
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I texted him before the match and when I found
out it was a barbed wire steel cage, and said,
you couldn't book yourself in a pillow fight. Nobody's ever
gotten hurt in a pillow fight. I could have jinxed it.
But I will say this, if he would have done
the pillow fight or the swimming pool match that I
tried to book, I don't know anybody that got hurt
in a swimming pool wrestling match ever, then he would
still be the champ today. Unfortunately, he jumped off a
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cage and landed on something hard and his leg broke,
and he is out of commission and cannot be the
champ and they worked it into a story and I
liked the story they told the Elite came out they
were victorious. Boo, but yeah, because that means they have
a story plan and it's with Kenney omegot so that's cool.
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They came out and they they said basically what I said,
Adam Copeland has broken his leg and he cannot be
the TNT Champion. We are stripping him of the title
because that's within our responsibilities as executive vice presidents of
ae W. But don't worry. We have a plan. We're
going to give the belt. The crowd's so pissed. We're
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good and they should be. We're going to give the belt.
And while I'm watching this, or before I even saw
the segment, I texted some of my wrestling friends and
was like, man, they should just make me the TNT champion.
Well they did, just not me. They gave it to
another famous person's son, Luke Perry's so Jack Perry, and
just handed him the belt. And Jack Perry, if you
don't know, his character, is a scumbag piece of shit
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right now and he hates everybody. He hates his boss.
He feels like a scapegoat. That's what they're calling him
as his like catchphrase nick name, and screw everybody. I'm rich,
i'm young, I'm athletic, I'm the man, and you can
kiss my ass if you don't agree with all those things.
That's who his character is right now. And so they
give this piece of shit the belt and the crowd's
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booing like crazy. All of a sudden, another executive comes
out and man, they just fired I think it was Christopher.
Christopher Daniels comes out, almost said Chris Angel, he's a magician.
Christopher Daniels comes out, and they had just fired this guy,
but Tony re hired him, and he explained, tried to
explain that that's not going to happen, and there's going
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to be a tournament in order to decide who the
TNT champion is going to be in Jack, you're more
than welcome to be in that tournament, but good luck,
you son of a bitch. And then he FTR came
out and they had his back, and everybody's pissed off.
But now we know that there's a tournament that's going
to go down for the TNT championship. Now I still
think Jack Perry wins the tournament. I think he would
be an awesome asshole in type champion that and then
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they could have more gold in the Elite, which makes
them look more powerful. You can help build a baby
face trying to take Jack Perry down and get that
title while Edge is hurt or sorry, while Adam Copeland's hurt.
Although I think when Adam comes back he'll move on
to a different story completely than from that one. But yeah,
I think they've got a lot of directions they can go.
And Jack Perry's looked good since he came back, better
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on the mic, better in his backstage segments. The Elite
seemed to be really good at helping other people get over.
In segments when it's just the two of them, I
think they're trying to get one another over so much
that sometimes he can lose the heartbeat. But when there's
other people there, they do a good job of like
talking them up but then giving them an opportunity to
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speak and letting them get an opportunity to get themselves over.
I've noticed that over the last few episodes. So yeah,
so that was aew. We know that Mjf's back, not
sure what they're gonna do with him. I mean, Adam
Cole is unfinished business unless a kick to the nuts
sealed the deal, but I don't think so. I think
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he wants to get more payback on that son of
a bitch. You could see him. I mean, no matter what,
it's gonna be Adam Cole or one of the titles.
I think those are the only things that make sense
for MJF is get his gold back and I don't
see him going with Swerve yet, although that would be sick.
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Or get him with Ospray and make that title friggin
mean something. I don't think those two dudes have ever wrestled.
That would be sick. But I think Adam Cole has
to be first. I don't think any other titles are
at the level that MJF said, not that the International is.
But he can make that mean something big time, and
he could have a great story for him and Swerve too.
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But other than that, Adam Cole for him, that's my guess.
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I think Lynch has ten years of stories, so it's
strange that she's a free agent. It's very strange. I'll
say this, Tony Kahn is going to make a huge
offerer or whatever he offered Mercedes money, it's gonna be
double that.
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Contract negotiations is is what's in the wrestling news. We
finally have some actual wrestling news instead of just storylines.
A Dove's is celebrating their fifth year anniversary and with that,
there's a lot of contracts they have that are ending.
Everybody saw the World Stronk's man Mark Henry step Away
He didn't body slam anyone on the way out, but
left the company Ethan Page, who we showed a little
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love to a few months ago. All ego Ethan Page
I think was his name, and he debuted an NXT
and he looked great. Think they can do good things
with him over there, so that was good. Jeff Hardy's
contract is said to expire. I don't know if AW
is going to give him any love. Will Ospray's been
trying to recruit Ricochet on X or Twitter or whatever
you guys call it on social media. They sending him
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tons of love. This is what football players do to
not get busted by saying, oh, you're interfering with a
contract negotiation. They go, no, I'm just sending love. That's
what Will Osprey's doing, and that's pretty awesome. It makes
it feel very real. I think it actually is in
this case. Also, MJF came back and no surprise to
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anyone on this podcast, has re signed with a Dubs
and has no intention of going anywhere. I think he
really enjoys building a company as opposed to being a
cog in the wheel, which isn't an insult to WWE,
but WWE is bigger than any wrestler they have, and
I don't think AW is. Yeah. Also, Chad Gable, his
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contract is coming up and they just gave him a
storyline which makes me think they plan on resigning him.
And they're saying, look, look, we can give you storylines.
Look you just have to be able to pull them
off and execute. So he's getting an opportunity, so hopefully
that motivates him to stay there. I think WW is
the right place for him. I don't know how he would.
I like his character and I don't think that character
would work in AEW and I think it works really
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well in WWE. Also the big one, Becky Lynch, the
last Kicker. This is crazy to me that her contract
is up and she's a free agent. I'll say this,
she's not She's not going anywhere. But well, I said
this about Edge too, or Adam Copeland. I was like, Oh,
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he's a WW guy for life, He's not going anywhere,
and he bounced. But I just can't. She's so much
younger than Copeland was. Sorry, old man. I think she
has so many years left where I think Adam Copeland
knows he has a couple of years that he wants
to get in there and then he'll be done for
good a couple more. You know, great stories. I think
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Lynch has ten years of stories. So it's strange that
she's a free agent. It's very strange. I'll say this,
Tony Kahn is going to make a huge offer to her.
Whatever he offered Mercedes money, it's going to be double that.
I wouldn't be able to get her on mine, man.
I mean, I'll tell you what. I'd give her fifty
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percent of my show. I'd be a fifty to fifty
partner with her if she came and did my promotion.
If you're out there listening, girl, call me. But yeah, man,
I just can't see her going anywhere. But wwe I
think she's she made herself there. They helped make her.
She kind of built her own opportunities as opposed to
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opportunities like she was made when her nose got busted
up and she handled it like the man, She handled
it like a stud, and the crowd fell in love
with her in that moment, and she blew up after that,
like you never saw her cut a promo as good
as she did after that nosebreak, as you did before,
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like it just something clicked and she was just ready
for the moment when it came. That's what other people
call that luck. My godfather, the Bob Wall said, luck
is being prepared for opportunities, and she was prepared and
just took over women's wrestling. Basically, it was crazy and
it happened so fast like a rocket ship. And every
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time she gets hurt, which isn't often, when she comes back,
it's like nothing slowed down. The rocket ship is still
in full effect. So at that level, I mean, some
people have walked away, right like Jim Brown back in
the old football days for our older listeners just walked away.
Barry Sanders just walked away. They for sure had years left.
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But I just can't I can't see her doing it.
I think she wants to be see, you know, like
be a mom and be a wife and see what
that feels like and be there for the early moments
in her child's life. And then you know, once you
have confidence in that, and you know, okay, my baby
isn't going to just die if I walk out of
the room. At least for most artists, you start hungering
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to do your art again because that's what you were
put on Earth. To do right is follow your purpose,
and she has a clear purpose, and it's in the
entertainment industry and it's as a professional wrestler. So I
think that it'll come calling. I think that voice will
come calling, and I think she'll listen to it because
it's her voice. It's not someone else saying I think
I get back in the ring. Sure, she seems to
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follow her own voice. I didn't read her book, but
I've read excerpts from it that have been posted online,
and she definitely knows who she is and isn't someone
who has dreams. She has plans. That's why she's ready
for opportunities when they come. So we love you, Becky Lynch.
And I wasn't even really joking when I said, you know,
hit me up. But I know you're going back to WW.
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You're gonna kick ass there. Anyway. I get told from
time to time that I don't talk enough WWE, and
we're not going to start today. No, I'm just kidding.
We're going to talk WWE, and we're gonna talk Gunther
and I want to talk about the opening segment because
when he came out, I was so First of all,
I'm not a fan of the crown. I was so
glad that he was just carrying it and not wearing it.
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I think it's just maybe it's because I'm so anti monarchy,
like I don't respect the royal family, Like you didn't
earn any of that that was given. I don't respect that.
So I don't bow down to any crown to no man.
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Gunther's the man, and Ludwig's super cool with it. Man
Like he's a great he's not a valet, he's a wrestler.
But the way he introduces him, and he's so arrogant,
and he's got this asshole look on his face. Not
that you look like an asshole, it's this air of
like he looks down his nose at people instead of
like up through the furrowed brow. Those are the kind
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of protagonists we like. The antagonists always look down their nose.
That's like old cinema stuff. So he comes out and
he's talking and doing his thing on the mic, and
Priest comes out like a frigging bullet. I mean, it
wasn't an interruption. He came out and the music hit
and you would have thought that JD McDonough and Finn
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Balor were rocking the guitars live and Damian Priest was
coming out to start screaming. Look, I mean, he just
I've never seen someone walk that fast without running, if
that makes sense. He moved with purpose and stormed right
into the ring, and then the promo didn't quite match
the walk at first because he was he was very
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dismissive of Gunther, and I thought Priest would have been,
or at least the Priest's character would have been more
in his face about it, not taking offense, not defensive,
but but just more in his face, like what are
you gonna do? What now? Talk? You know what I
mean something like that. But instead, and this stays in
true to his character. So maybe I'm I'm off on this.
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He's been a little more smooth and cool with his dialogue,
like it's not a scripted for him. It feels like
it's just more his voice. And so this came out
in that regard or in that in that way. And
then the segment gets introduced by everyone's favorite wrestler who's
on social media and actually talks to people, Drew McIntyre,
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and he storms out and the crowd is hot for
Drew McIntyre because they're hot for cmpunk as well, and
they just want to scream it at him because they
think it bugs him, and he just plays. He plays
with him now when they when they do it, he
just plays with him and he comes out and now
it's a three way. And these promos are always tricky
at this point, right because you don't know who the
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focus is on, and it can't be on all three
people at once because you're not going to have a
problem with three people at the same time because that's confusing,
and so it loses some steam. But he Drew's good
enough on the mic that he's able to, you know,
carry this promo on and then it all goes to
hell as it's gonna as it's always, as it always does,
and the story is going to continue, and basically the
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story is this, Damian Priest is fighting Drew McIntyre at
Clash of the Castle in Scotland. I'm telling you this
right now, Damian Priest is winning that match. You can
put that on the prediction sheet. One. They're not just
gonna one shot him and then done. He's got to
have at least one win for it to feel like
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a more legitimate championship. When Gnther wrestles him, and Gunther
will beat Damian Priest. That's my second prediction. Also to WW,
here is such dix about this. They love making you
lose in your hometown. They love it more than a
little kid loves a birthday or a trip to Disneyland.
If they can find a way to make you lose
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in your hometown, your ass is losing. I used to
see it with ceampunk all the time. Man, it just
be like here it comes like everybody. I didn't because
I didn't work with punk, but you'd see this really
cool story written for punk and it just all get
killed because then oh it goes to Chicago. Well let's
delay the story because it can't lose and then look
like shit like it just this philosophy of having to
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lose in your hometown just debted so many stories in
WW when I worked there. But Drew is gonna lose
in his hometown and he's gonna be pissed and that's
gonna be sort of his narrative, right is That's what
people can play with them in promos. It gives you something,
it gives him motivation. I had it during COVID and
then I had it for three seconds, and then I
had it for another three seconds, and you know, people
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are saying, I can't hold on to it. I can't.
I'm never going to be a real champion. Gives his
character a lot of motivation, so I actually think it's cool.
Not everybody has to win and be dominant, right. So
that's the first story. The second story, and this is
the one that I think is almost more interesting because
I don't know if everyone can pull it off. I
want them to. I want all wrestlers to succeed, but
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can they find a story? And is goonth ready for
that story for him to take the title off of
Damien Priest, because that seems to be the direction that
this is going in. And I predict Gunther will take
it at SummerSlam off of Damien Priest. That's twice I've
said it, so you know it's true. I just don't
know what the story's going to be outside of I'm
the best wrestler and I'm going to prove it, which
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is fine because you know the matches are going to
be money, so that's fine. I just wrestling grows when
the stories can exist outside of wrestling, right when podcasters
like me are talking about it or when people are
pulling clips and putting it on social media, because can
you believe what wrestler X just said to wrestler Why, yeah,
and then he slapped the taste out of his mouth.
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That's what helps wrestling grow. So I always want good
stories attached to it, just so you guys know why.
But yeah, So anyway, I'm curious as to that. I
really like Gunthrough, I like Damian Priest too, and I
like drmacintyre, but somebody has to win and be champ,
and I think they're going to give it to Guntherro.
I think he's ready. I hope he's ready. His wrestling
is so awesome and fun to watch, and if you
don't watch aw his style is very sort of AEWI ish,
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not the choreography itself, but as far as the hard
hitting or the stiffness, or at least it looks like
it's real stiffy. He might hit like a feather, but
it looks like he can take it and it looks
like he can dish it out. And that's a lot
of what they do over there at AEW And I
try to celebrate all wrestling here now, staying in the WWE.
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The other main story is on the women's side is
Live Morgan and her revenge tour, which I don't think
we have to say every time she has a promo.
I don't think she has to remind us it's a
revenge tour. I think like every other episode or once
every three is enough, and then allow her to some
more creative dialogue so because she can act a bit,
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to let her try and you know, get this character
over even more. You don't have to say the same thing.
You don't have to say your catchphrase every single week
unless it's like at the end of a promo, right
hers aren't. It's always like, you know, somewhere flowing in there.
I know it's revenge and she's playing it really well.
So let her be more colorful as far as like
how she's going to take piece by piece, you know,
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everything from Ria. Let her remind us of why it's
a revenge tour or how she's going to do it,
not just the words, but anyway. More importantly, she had
a match against the man Becky Lynch in what could
be her final match with the company what in a
steel cage for the Women's World Championship, and they go
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out there and they wrestle, and if you're following this story,
Dominic Mysterio and her have had some dealings in the
in the darkness, we'll say nothing, nothing, no sexy time. Anyway,
he goes out there and we don't know really who
he's trying to help. Is he trying to help Becky
and and screw over Live because Live did what she
did to Rhea? Is he helping is he helping Live out?
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We don't know, but it seems like he's wanting to
help out Becky. JD and Finn come out there to
try and stop him, and here comes Bronze Strouman. Bron Strouman,
if you don't know who he is, is the largest
human being in the world, and he runs really fast
and for a professional wrestling and he's chasing this guy
JD McDonough who's got this really big head and when
he runs, man, it's it's really funny. But yeah, so
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he's chasing him down and he's gonna kill him. He's
mad at him, and he smashes into dom and the
cage smashes into Becky and oh my head and she
falls down and lives like, yo, what all right? This
opportunity boom and she retains the championship and she's walking
out and she's looking at Dominic Mysterio like what did
you do? And he's looking at her like I don't
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know what I did, and she's like all right, and
there's this awkward moment and then it cuts to black
and you're like, Okay, that's kind of awkward. Well, what
you found out after is that after the cameras went off,
she smooched him. She planted a big old smooch. And
what happens is the camera guy basically lets them know
when the camera's off, and he goes, okay, now we're dark,
and then she goes and does the smooks. That's why
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the timing was so perfect and beautiful because the crew
there is no freaking joke and they know what they're doing.
And I think I even know the cameraman who probably
did it, and that guy was that good when I
worked there, and that was fifteen twenty years ago. Probably anyway,
everybody was talking about on social media again, something outside
of the ring that brings other eyeballs to it, like, oh,
what's going on? Even if they just think lives hot
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or they just think Dom's hot and they go, you
know what I mean, Like, there's no secret why women
went to go see Magic Mike. They weren't like, I
wonder if this would be as good as Dances with
Wolves script wise, Oh, they would to see sexy dudes.
So as long as you get him in there, it
doesn't matter why you got him in you just got him.
And that's why these types of moments, and they've been
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much more prevalent since Vince left, have really I think
helped the brand and will help continue the brand to crow.
But anyway, I got a ton of people excited about that.
Now we can hopefully get into a promo where she
does start talking about how she's going to take away
everything riahead piece by piece. Maybe she's gonna be the
reason that Damian Priest loses his title because she gets
in between the judgment day and screws them all up
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and gets in their heads and now they're all screwy
and they make him lose his title and ha ha,
all of a sudden, you know, Schoonther gets to win
at Summer Sin. I don't know, but those are the
two main stories that are going on. Now we're going
to move to SmackDown, and I'm not going to spend
as much time on this because I think everybody knew
what was happening, and the main story was aj Styles retirement.
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Now maybe you thought it was legit it, but every
one of my friends that watches wrestling, and myself included,
was like, nah, man, you don't get that shredded and
that Jack to retire, Like, that's just not That's not
gonna happen. Man. I know I know that I would.
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I'm not working out to quit acting. I'm back in
the gym because I'm going back to the movies. So
to me right away, I'm like, man, Ella Knight's like, hey,
the rumors are true. I just want to say respect. Yeah,
and I'm like, nah, dude, nah, I like La Knight
would say, I went na nah And I didn't believe it,
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but if you did. He came out and he sees
Cody Rhodes Mark Henry did this years ago. My producer said,
never trust a wrestler in a pastel suit, which made me,
which made me laugh when I was going through the
show's notes. But he goes out there with the with
the good brothers. I knew Luke Gallows as Festus when
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I worked there that they came in as Festus and
and something they called themselves Biscuits or their theme music
when Biscuits engraving. I was there when he changed to
Luke Gallows and became part of the Straight Edge Society.
My buddy wrote that that whole group, that faction. So anyway,
they go out there with him, and now I'm like, yo,
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he's got a backup, like he likes going. It's going down.
And then Cody comes out and he's such a good guy. Right,
he's he's Captain America. I know John Cena was Captain America.
He's more like Cody's more like the guy from All
Might from my hero Academia, the Japanese anime. You can
watch it dubbed if you want, but subtitles cooler. But
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that's who he is. He even comes out in the
jacket that looks just like the wardrobe from All Might.
So I think Cody's an anime fan, but that's who
he is, so always a good guy, always has the
smile on his face, the good man. He comes out
there and he just gets duped and suckered. And AJ
wasn't going to retire and he's not going to the
back of the damn line. Nick Altis, you could suck
it too. He beats his shit out of Cody Rhoads.
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The Good Brothers are just standing the other end. They're like, Noah, Security,
y'all they doing shit. You guys are just gonna stand there.
We're gonna beat your ass too, and they just obey,
like nobody. There's like four on two, but they're like, nah, man,
that's one fool. Gallows is huge. So anyway, nobody messed
with him, and Cody got his ass whipped. And so
now Cody's finally gonna have a story a guy who's
not gonna wait in line, who's on a clock because
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he's older, flirting with retirement, even though in jest, you know,
the man's been thinking about it, and he's gonna have
one more good goddamn run, and he's not gonna let
Cody Rhodes, the son of Dusty Rhads And You're never
gonna be as good as your daddy. And I'm better
than your daddy ever was because I'm aj Styles. So
I'm gonna beat your ass and take your title, and
then I'm gonna retire Champ. So you won't even get
a chance to take the title back. For me, you
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have to fight in some stupid tournament in order to
pull it off. That's what aj styles story should be,
could be, maybe will be. And it gives us a
reason to give a damn about Cody again. For so far,
he's just been wrestling dudes and the matches have been awesome,
but the reason why has and being great, and this
is an opportunity for them to finally kind of have
a great story for not great, but at least good
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story for Cody to go in there with. We can
talk bloodline if you guys want. I'll say this, it's
smart that they're moving slowly with Solo Soka. I don't
think he can handle a full on Roman Reign style
promo yet, and I think they know that, and so
I think they're handling him well. Him and Paul Hayman
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have a really good rapport with one another, really good chemistry.
I think Paul Hayman could probably have good chemistry with
a brick wall and somehow get the brick wall over.
But I like what Solo is doing. But it's good
they're moving slow. I don't think there's anything wrong with
the bloodline storyline right now. I think it's good to
meet these new characters, even if they're characters that are
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going to get killed off. Think of some of your
favorite TV shows. As soon as you think a guy's
a series regular, sometimes they get whacked. Just watch an
episode of twenty four. Happen all the time. Na Anyway, Yeah,
so I think think they're doing good with that, but
we're gonna move on to aw We finally got to
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see Mercedes Money the CEO your CEO, my CEO, defend
her title against sky Blue, although not a story match,
it was just here, you attack me, so we're gonna fight.
It was nice to see her get through a match
look healthy and healthy, not get hurt. Okay, now maybe
we can get something that needs something in the very
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near future. I don't know if they're going to do
that with her, because they're not doing that with Swerve Strickland.
They're making him wrestle every week, which I don't think
lessens the title, but it's it just feels like there's
no story planned until after we get through Forbidden Door,
which which is fine, but I don't know if he
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had to wrestle every week, if that was gonna be
the case. He's the champ, you know what I mean,
Like he can go out there and talk. His promo's
not a ten, but it's at least a seven, and
he can get the crowd behind him and nan Os
money out there no matter what. So I don't know
if he had to wrestle every single week, I don't
know if he has to wrestle Roderick Strong. He's gonna
tonight when you guys listen to this on Wednesday night,
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of course he's gonna win. We know he's gonna win.
They're not gonna go in there and have Roderick Strong,
the world champ who just lost to Will Osprey, the
international champion. That doesn't make sense. So we know that
Swarp's gonna win. So I'm not I'm not sure man's.
It's frustrating because if you listen to this show, you
know we're both all three of us are big fans,
and our producer included are all big fans of Swerve Strickland.
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So we want everything every week, give us everything everywhere.
I want a great story, a great match, and a
great opponent that can't happen, but it can happen more
than it has so far. We could have got a
little something in there. It's okay that we didn't. You
got some OA Joe busy with hook now and trying
to develop that character and give him some storyline, and
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I appreciate that, so it's okay. Now. The bad news
Adam Copeland broke his goddamn leg. He jumped off a cage.
We're going to actually have him and Christian on the
podcast in the near future, I believe, and I'm going
to question his judgment completely. I'll be honest with you.
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I texted him before the match and when I found
out it was a barbed wire steel cage, and said,
you couldn't book yourself in a pillow fight. Nobody's ever
gotten hurt in a pillow fight. I could have jinxed it.
But I will say this, if he would have done
the pillow fight or the swimming pool match that I
tried to book, I don't know anybody that got hurt
in a swimming pool wrestling match ever, then he would
still be the champ today. Unfortunately, he jumped off a
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cage and landed on something hard and his leg broke,
and he is out of commission and cannot be the
champ and they worked it into a story and I
liked the story they told the Elite came out they
were victorious. Boo, but yeah, because that means they have
a story plan and it's with Kenney omegot so that's cool.
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They came out and they they said basically what I said,
Adam Copeland has broken his leg and he cannot be
the TNT Champion. We are stripping him of the title
because that's within our responsibilities as executive vice presidents of
ae W. But don't worry. We have a plan. We're
going to give the belt. The crowd's so pissed. We're
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good and they should be. We're going to give the belt.
And while I'm watching this, or before I even saw
the segment, I texted some of my wrestling friends and
was like, man, they should just make me the TNT champion.
Well they did, just not me. They gave it to
another famous person's son, Luke Perry's so Jack Perry, and
just handed him the belt. And Jack Perry, if you
don't know, his character, is a scumbag piece of shit
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right now and he hates everybody. He hates his boss.
He feels like a scapegoat. That's what they're calling him
as his like catchphrase nick name, and screw everybody. I'm rich,
i'm young, I'm athletic, I'm the man, and you can
kiss my ass if you don't agree with all those things.
That's who his character is right now. And so they
give this piece of shit the belt and the crowd's
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booing like crazy. All of a sudden, another executive comes
out and man, they just fired I think it was Christopher.
Christopher Daniels comes out, almost said Chris Angel, he's a magician.
Christopher Daniels comes out, and they had just fired this guy,
but Tony re hired him, and he explained, tried to
explain that that's not going to happen, and there's going
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to be a tournament in order to decide who the
TNT champion is going to be in Jack, you're more
than welcome to be in that tournament, but good luck,
you son of a bitch. And then he FTR came
out and they had his back, and everybody's pissed off.
But now we know that there's a tournament that's going
to go down for the TNT championship. Now I still
think Jack Perry wins the tournament. I think he would
be an awesome asshole in type champion that and then
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they could have more gold in the Elite, which makes
them look more powerful. You can help build a baby
face trying to take Jack Perry down and get that
title while Edge is hurt or sorry, while Adam Copeland's hurt.
Although I think when Adam comes back he'll move on
to a different story completely than from that one. But yeah,
I think they've got a lot of directions they can go.
And Jack Perry's looked good since he came back, better
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on the mic, better in his backstage segments. The Elite
seemed to be really good at helping other people get over.
In segments when it's just the two of them, I
think they're trying to get one another over so much
that sometimes he can lose the heartbeat. But when there's
other people there, they do a good job of like
talking them up but then giving them an opportunity to
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speak and letting them get an opportunity to get themselves over.
I've noticed that over the last few episodes. So yeah,
so that was aew. We know that Mjf's back, not
sure what they're gonna do with him. I mean, Adam
Cole is unfinished business unless a kick to the nuts
sealed the deal, but I don't think so. I think
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he wants to get more payback on that son of
a bitch. You could see him. I mean, no matter what,
it's gonna be Adam Cole or one of the titles.
I think those are the only things that make sense
for MJF is get his gold back and I don't
see him going with Swerve yet, although that would be sick.
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Or get him with Ospray and make that title friggin
mean something. I don't think those two dudes have ever wrestled.
That would be sick. But I think Adam Cole has
to be first. I don't think any other titles are
at the level that MJF said, not that the International is.
But he can make that mean something big time, and
he could have a great story for him and Swerve too.
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But other than that, Adam Cole for him, that's my guess.
What about you, Jeff? Oh, that's ready, he's not here.
We appreciate you guys, Thank you. We have no listener
reviews this week, but how I do ask every week
whether it's well Jeff only wants the good stuff. But
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even if it's criticism, I take it. I heard you
guys and saying, hey more WWE. Well you got it today, Baby,
you got it. Todate WWE for life, although I say
that about AW two and I'm starting to like other wrestling. Sorry,
but yeah, thank you for tuning in. Leave us reviews.
Those are always awesome. Our bosses like to see that,
and I might even read it on the air in
a sick accent. Well not a good one, but a
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sick one for sure. Tune in Thursday or whenever you
like to listen to Unsanctioned Thursdays. We're going to get
into all our predictions and it's time for Freddy to
talk some trash. Baby, you know what I'm saying. Thanks
for listening, you guys. I'll see you next week. Pheos.
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