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this is Memphis Mark coming to you from Mullet Manner. And wow,
what a chaotic we've got going on. We have standing deliver we had tonight's
NXT. I did not do a a specific standing deliver review because we had
such great shows already out there on WrestleMania. Uh. And I wanted everybody
to just freaking to enjoy all the great uh you know, commentary and views
that we had. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna condense mine, you
know, old guy condenses and uh and and look, man, we will
start off with a you know, with a little a standing deliver h And
I'm just gonna go over it real quickly because everybody you know has seen it
and and or has gone back and looked at it now. But these are
just some of my notes on standing delivery, you know, Ava telling the
refs be cool, man, be cool. We need a winner. You
know, we're so lucky to be living in that era of Ava the general
manager with all the knowledge ain't. And so yeah, they come out and
they've got the pre match is freaking good on standing delivery. You got Sewn
Spears and Joe Gacy, you had Ridge Holland get involved, you know,
so hey, angles, angles, angles, You got Metaphor, you know,
doing their little mocking of everyone. So hey, we'll see where that
might possibly lead. And in the metaphor being in Dallas, gear in Philadelphia,
love it, freaking love it. You want heat, there you go.
And then the the North American title match between Die Jack, Josh Briggs
and Oba Finney the champ uber uber uh and man good match uh and I
really uh we could go into a lot of breakdowns and all this, but
this isn't. You can go back and watch this. This is you know,
it's pretty good. Then you know, uh, you know Briggs is
coming on his own, did Jack? Did Jack's growing on me a little
bit? Just a little U? And then Uba uh Oba says, I'm
no freaking omas. Uh. Yeah, Oba is pretty freaking U. He's
in the ring working pretty good, so uh yeah, uh, and then
Noah's gonna win it though. Uh, but I love the way Oba comes
in jamming to his music. Everybody's trying to look cool and so he's so
freaking big and so intimidating. He can kind of just chill and just walk
on out to the ring and kind of just say, just kind of go
I would I mean, you know, of course I'm not as large as
him, so yeah, he can do whatever the hell he wants that.
Yeah, it wasn't a bad match, you know, the finish, it's
okay, It's okay, go back and watch. They had a six person
ladies tag with Iszie Dane, Keanna James, and j C Jane against Valen
Henry and Keanna Jordan and THEA Hale In In the end, THEA taps j
C. That's pretty good. I'm learning more and more though, you know,
you know, Ken and James is just badass. Jac Is uh is
really growing on me. Is he starting to show me? Uh? And
Miss Jordans really uh kind of just impressing me her entering ability each week to
week. You know, Valain's a solid uh and the you know, yeah,
she's good. They they've done Ultimate Warrior gigs, you know. Okay,
uh, but the ends up tacking uh is he and went in that
uh and then that six uh person tagged there and then after that is when
we get the debut from our our GM or the person with all her knowledge
and all the nose in the ground knowing what's going on. AVA is introducing
a new North American Women's Belt. Okay, so kind of cool like that.
Uh, And then you got Roxanne and Lyra Vikira for the women's belt
after that, Okay, well we saw Roxanne on the main roster this week,
which poor Indy pointy. They made her make her look good, but
it is what it is. But yes, Roxanne gets a win there.
I'm not so sure how I like this Roxanne. I'm not so convinced on
Lyra as I loved her before all of this and now I'm kind of thinking
she's coming off kind of you know, I'm not sure. But the way
it comes out is they've been with the angle in the storyline, Tatum Pasley
has been involved and she gets involved in this one doesn't really cost her but
cost her. Yeah, you know, go back and check it out.
It's words going back and check it out to an extent, just you know,
keep that fast forward available for you guys. All right, let me
see the the the Tony D coming out to the Sopranos music really enjoyed.
You know, if you're gonna go if they're paying the money that they're paying
for trick Williams to my boys over here in Memphis three six, if they're
dropping that for what that trick, don't drop that money for Tony D finished
the story out? Did he say that? I did so? Yeah,
got Tony D and dropping off. You know, in the summer main event
for the World Belt, it's not the well main event, it's the it's
the event before the event. But anyway, these guys do a great it's
a three star match. And look, I haven't said this earlier, but
the you know, the Frasier Naxiom and the woof Dogs and everything. I
gotta put that as a three star. Uh. The with the did you
know everything else, with the Doe Jack and and and and all that match,
I got to put it at three stars. Uh. Let me see
the sixth Person Tag two stars uh, and the Rocks and Lyra two stars.
Uh. But Tony T and drugging off. It's a three star.
I mean it was. It was a good match. It was a good
match. Uh. You know Tony d gets offered. Uh you know the
Garden of Eden. There was a snake involved. He turned the snake down.
Hey. You know he shakes his hand afterwards and says, hey,
drugging off. You won this one with the big h bomb off the top
rope. Uh. But uh, in good match. And then you had
him had Mellow and yeah he had all those people. Crowd was fired up.
You know, it was a pretty good match. Mellow of course a
little better in ring, a little more seasoned and played the part of the
smaller guy trying to intimidate but eventually size training well, not training of their
both badass. It just these guys laid it out there. Trek though,
had the big knee, ends up getting the wind and in mates, the
crowd go crazy. Uh. It was sixteen thousand and five, four or
five if I remember right on the attendance. I mean it was. It
was successful. This whole weekend was successful. Now me taking some kids going
going to all the events, say you had kids that we didn't have to
take the naps and you could really they were really into it. You know,
preteened somewhere in that age. You're dropping seven grand for everything. But
my gosh, you know, I got to say, in the household I
grew up in that would that would be fathomed. But you know, the
people that can, it's great, and the people that want to strive to
do that, it's great, you know. So, I mean, but
here we are after this great, great weekend. Uh the biggest, they
said, the biggest, you know, so box office selling out Wells Fargo
Center, Philly, just tearing it up. What a freaking great weekend.
And then and then you got NXT popping in. You had you had Monday
Night Raw after you know, after Mania. So you know we had some
good little spots on on uh you know, on the after show or the
raw after Mania. Uh it was it was good too. So I mean,
look, I'm enjoying everything. And uh for n x T though,
the next big premium live event is this uh great name spring breaking. Okay,
whoever thought of this? Fire? Uh? But uh yeah, so
they start off the show tonight on four nine. That's n XT. That's
the NXT review now uh we uh yeah, they start off with of course
their recap of you know, standing delivery. And then of course, oh
we've got rock Sand coming out doing her own flowers. She planted them,
fertilized them, and produced them all in one time. But uh you got
Lyra coming out in a sling and talking her stuff, and then uh Tatum
actually showing up and she throws uh Lybra the ex champ there into the steps,
and then we got Natty challenging, and so it's it's utter chaos to
start it off, folks. But yeah, then we have our wise,
not our wise woman and not our wise man. Just I'm just gonna say
wise because it's all can you say scripted anymore? But yeah, then Ava
comes out, uh and I'm not it's not that I'm down on Ava.
It's just that uh okay, there's yeah, I'm down on Ava, all
right, okay, just uh yeah, you know hate. But if I
was, you know, the runner of h or the the head of the
whatever the rock is, and hey, uh you know, I'm not I'm
not to complaint, but Aby just come out there and I even forgot what
I was talking about. But here is what though, I noticed afterwards,
Right, they've got trick and then they've got the wolf do you know,
coming up in their own studio and they're doing an overhead shot down on so
Trick just rolls up right at the gates and just gets out his car.
It's like I'm here. It just walks away, and then of course you
have the wolf dogs walking through heading towards the gate. The way they're doing
the overhead shots, the the just the camera work is amazing. Everything is
spot on. Uh. And they can use the n XT forever for trying
new things. Uh. And these are new promos. The way they're doing
going to commercial, this is all new. So when you want to see
what's coming in the future on Raw and SmackDown, look no further than in
XT. Let's see where were we at? Where were we at? We
had the Lyra and we had the different style promos, and then we had
a promo with Nathan Fraser and Axiom and they were kind of told July shot
at the belts. So if you don't win the belts, we y'all split
up. So there you go. And then we have our weekly episode of
the soap opera known No, that's that was my dog, not a soap
opera. That was uh. It's if Chase U and Chase was doing their
promo when they're up there talking and they're trying to give some awards and thanking
people, and then uh j C. Jane shows up with her accomplice and
uh they laid the smack of down at uh. They they come in and
they put an angle, they put a plot, they put they set a
new projection of this feud. Apparently under red Chase vat on THEA to win,
but then she was getting whooped so bad he had to throw the towel
in and so that cost him the money. I Uh, I like all
that. That's all cool, But what I loved even better was Booker t
the announcer going sounds a little like Pete Rose. You know, I just
love it. Look, we won't get into a baseball discussion, but Pete
Rose is one of my favorite players. If you don't like that, a
lot of dot dot, I'll do you like you did that guy coming into
a home plate on the All Star Game. But yeah, and then after
that, we have is He Dane and Keanna James going against of Valan Henry
in Kleana Jordan and it's a good match. It's a good match. And
you know what, I always talk about the gymnasts that's trying to be a
wrestler or a wrestler that happened to be a gymnast. There's a difference.
Miss Jordan is change my opinion, change my opinion. She's getting the in.
Uh, she's getting her work in. She's getting her basic groundwork in.
So I don't mind seding the flips and the flops and all the fancy
cartwheels if it looks real in the match. Make it look real. If
you're gonna flip and flop, kick somebody upside the mother freaking head knocking my
dawn, do something, you know, make it look real. But hey,
uh, in this one, I gotta give Isy Dane credit. She
did an abdominal stretch, a simple move. But because Missus Jordan is so
flexible, she can you know, move and you know it just the way
they were, she was able to tork her body. It looked good.
Cam wise, I'm sure live it look good. It looked like man,
he got she got her all wrapped up. You know, it looked good.
So you know, uh, now is he and missus James Kenna James
do end up winning this match? But hey, things to come for a
lot of these superstars in this one. But and then we have this Javan
Evans. He does a little promo. He's he's kind of like so uh
so rook uh in the Ladies division, kind of like a beach bum,
you know, just chilly and just always saying dude or something like that.
I don't know, but uh, yeah, okay, a little promo.
Uh. And before his match, they do a quick little promo with the
No Quarter Catch Crew and it's Tony D's boys his you know you got you
know stacks, you know, and uh or whatever the guy's name. Hey,
you know the new guy, the new guy with the tucksied all shirt.
His name is Upcoming. They do, they know, pretty good little
promo. But then you're gonna have you know, uh, you know scripts,
the Vastress, the vat Trip Scripts coming out for the debut match of
Javon Evans. Now Javon Evans. Uh, I want to hand him a
ham sandwich and telling me he needs to eat a little bit more. But
he's nineteen. I found out he was nineteen, so got a lot of
growing to do. Uh and uh but man, h scripted, you know,
they come out and they've got like in football or uncertain sports, you
can and you can script your first ten plays or moves or whatever. And
that's the way this felt. But then you know, Ain, look Scripts
came home, show me a little something something you know, you know,
I can't say, but man, this von, this dude is a he's
a future star. As it said, please somebody give this man some food.
He sells good, he looked good. His moves are good as drop
kicks were on point, you know. And look, I know you're gonna
hate me on this one, but in the Memphis area, back in the
day, in the old territory of days, Jeff Jarrett used to have one
of the best drop kicks. And now this is pre hair Geil, but
yeah, you know, but yeah, he he really did in this kid
reminded me of that man. Really good sales, good, good match man.
Scripts. Hey I ain't you know, I say what I say about
him every week. But he's a gymnast wanting to be a wrestler. But
in this match, he portrayed a veteran whooping on on a younger you know
person in the nu to the field, and he pulled his he pulled everything
off, and I think mister Evans showed us a little something something, so
UH got to say I liked it. I liked it. Uh. You
got Booker T doing a setup, and the way he did this setup,
he goes right into Ridge Holland, and then it's into Gacy and then it's
into l w and then l w O gets their hands calling the door and
then you know it's just everything was cool. That was a great little promo.
But all these guys are making good money. Can you get Ridge Holland
a shirt without him being sweaty under their arms like that? Like having the
pits out like that? Can we get Ridge? I like Ridge, you
know, a big guy. They just got to know how to They got
to figure something out for this big man. But not with the big sweaty
pits. Come on next day, Come on, you're better than that.
Uh at alright? And uh, also, what's up there, puppy dog?
I'm sorry. I don't normally have a puppy dog in the studio,
but I have one today. And it's a great promo. You know,
now that they've got Cody the Cook, he cut her face, mister clean,
he's on doing promos for freaking the Olympics man for mister David Taylor,
which mister David Taylor is a bad man. You don't know who David Taylor
is in the Olympics if you don't watch anything other than our track team and
our wrestler, our heavyweight wrestler, mister David Taylor. But anyway, Cody,
I've been there doing the clean cut cookie cookie cutter spots. But yeah,
good, little good, a little way they did that. Then you're
gonna have Natty coming out with Roxande for a ladies title match, and look,
man, we can roll through this. Just Natty was one step ahead.
You know. Roxanne had her moments and had her little spots, but
Natty was rolling. Nanny told her that she has forgotten more wrestling than Roxyenne
whatever no, which is true with her bad ass husband up there man doing
training up in Canada. Man, that is a and Nanty's moves like say
what you want to her moves to not and Roxanne did really good selling her
snap suplexes her just her moves. Nanny was like snap, bam, boom
it. You know, they say what you want to. The beautiful Miss
Natty was whooping some butt, but of course Lolovie comes out, gets involved,
does a little something something, a little kick just track son Nixenn gets
the Pippy Rock. I mean okay, so rox Aint gets a win,
I ain't so yeah. Uh. From there, we get a wolf Dogs
promo, which, hey, you know, are they gonna bust up the
band? And then a great, a great spot with Damien Priest the New
World Heavy Wait Chuppy Yard he's on Uh he's right before the game for the
Yankees, and he's on the field and all the Yankees are coming up here
and Judge, all the guys are just coming up and going, we's all
and then getting a picture with the belt. So I really liked it,
Damien, you know, good little angle. I'm liking what they're doing with
that. So we'll see what happens in the future. Uh. And then
you've got a loll of ice and uh and Natty uh you know, and
he's got to catch up with her because Lola gonna talk that stuff. And
Natty walked up to her and then said, well so, and they they
had a disagreement. After that, you've got the New Quarter Catch Crew going
up against dony D and Luca Kusovno. Yeah, I'm just gonna see it
like that. Uh and uh, you know, no quarter, you know,
okay, they come out, you know, because you never know which
one of the group are you're going to compete. But it was born in
uh in Kemp and and Kemp is good and Born's good, but Kemp some
moves in there. I've really seen that. He's really really coming on pretty
strong. Uh. And this was an okay match, you know, it's
an okay match. I can't say anything bad, you know. Uh,
you know, the Stacks and Luca they get to win, you know,
but that means somebody's gotta get revenge. But after that you've got Oba Finny
rolling on down to the ring jamming, you know, kind of like I
would to walking in Memphis or something, you know, some three six or
something, you know, whatever I need to be, but to walk into
the ring like what Jamin doesn't mean? I mean, but yeah, it
was all good. I was dropping some knowledge and then it's scripted knowledge though
very scripted. But then the Viking Warrior comes out there without the crazy check,
you know, he just comes out there and he says, I'm big.
I like big guys fighting, and I want to fight another big guy.
So let's fight. So they throw down a little bit not so bad,
not so bad of a little spot, you know. They got to
work with Oba, you know, and get him going. But after that
we've got a little spot with metaphor and Mens is not happy, and died
Jack comes out there, and die Jack wants to know, Hey, I
loved your parodies. Guys, Hey, who planning that? And Jordan was
about to say her, but no M said it was him, so died
Jack said, I'll see you later. Then you've got Jada Parker from OTM
going against this Brindley Reese and she's out there with Blade and Andophie and let's
talk about the match, all right, Uh yeah, big hip check Jada
Parker. She wins, all right. And then after that, though,
you do have Nathan Frasier going with Axiom. Again it's the wolf Dog and
is this the end of the wolf Dogs? Are the bands? Is the
band gonna break up? Is there a Yoko oh No involved? And if
you don't know who that is, don't wear a Beatles T shirt a replica
Beetle T shirt if you don't know that, just it's just my little thing.
But hey, out of this match, we've got a few things going
on here. Let's see. Okay, well there ends up being a Yoko
ono and she breaks up the band sad to say, but yeah, we
got new champs. You know, if you know, they did it the
way you would have to do it if you were that much smaller than your
opponent, you would have to just run, fly fly, run, run
kick, you know, the use your weight mate, just and it was
okay, it was okay. So we got new champs. So I mean
Sprawn can go on to the main roster, you know, we can start
something up new with Baron and uh but I don't know, don't know.
The OP comes out and they come and jump you know, Christopher, you
know, mister Cross comes out and Karen Cross comes out with his lady and
uh, yeah, it's the final Testament shows up and they yeah, the
OP jumps on the champs and holds up the belnce and then Paul Lethering gets
in there, and I'm very proud to say that they've now got his heir
and his oxygen and his hardbeat right monitors where we can't sit please, I'm
old, I am old. I do not need to be in a ring.
I love Paul Ellering. I remember when Paul Aaring, Paul Ellering was
a wrestler before the Legion of Doom. Please just no more Paul Allering.
That's all I could do on that one. And then we got we got
Trick. Whoop that trick, Whoop that trick. You know, I almost
thought about calling Pat or you know, probably Pat mainly and saying, could
I use whoop that trick on there? But I know he's gonna tell me
it's out of his control. It's involved with lawyers. So but anyway,
Trick comes out there having a little potty, having a little enjoyment. But
he says, to really be at the top. He's got a sleigh,
the dragon dragging off. So he calls dragon off out there dragging off,
lays the smack of down on this uh candy but uh situation because he says
that, hey no, But then he goes, yes, but Trick,
you are too much of an opponent for me. He didn't say all this,
but I'm thinking in his mind this is the way he's going. You
are too big, you are too strong, you are too young. I
must defeat you and put you out of n XT so I can rule an
XT. So he says in his outward voice, it's a loser leave n
XT match. Mkay, well, Trick whooped it? Trick? He trick.
Hey, Trick says okay, and then you know, so they're about
ready to you know what from him shows up, comes in, does his
little I ain't done yet, lays them both out, and that's how we
end n XT, the first NXT since Wrestle made heading for Let me Spring
Breaking. Man. Guys, I really really hope you all enjoyed this weekend.
I really did. I had some bets, laid down with some friends
that have been watching as long as I have, and we all had the
scenarios for the Cody Rhodes Roman reigns match, and we all got our money
back because we did not see all the run ins. I think it was
cleverly written. I think everything about this triple h mister Paul needs all the
well he knows who needs the credit. But you know it was Hey,
look, I'm happy, you know what, I'm happy. So I enjoyed
it, guys. I really really hope you guys did too. And again,
guys, thank you for just listening to me run you know in our
mouth. I appreciate that and a few little personal things here. First of
all, congratulations to Matt. You know, I see that we're in the
top fourteen and fifteen in Canada and in the USA on a wrestling podcast.
So congratulations to Matt and to all the other podcasters there. And from there,
I will say I appreciate you guys taking a few minutes out of your
week to listen, and uh look, we'll just end it and say,
if you can help a rescue out, a pound out, do what you
can. If you can when you can, even if it's volunteer to go
walk some dogs, do what you can. And then of course when you
do get that animal spay and neoter. But other than that, guys,
it's been a long weekend from Memphis, Mark and I think I'm just going
to get in the boat with an an adult beverage and float them down the
way. So this is Memphis Mark coming to you, and I hope you
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