WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:18.719 Hello everybody, and welcome back to the w W podcast. Here with the 2 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:24.519 Wristemetric episode with myself, Rocketee and my partner, the gardener, Michael Gross. 3 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.519 What's shaking, Bacon? How you doing? Brother? You know what? 4 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.320 I thought I was gonna have a more elaborate intro, but I was 5 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.640 like, let me just do this real quick. I was very excited to 6 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:37.119 get back on It's I can't remember the last time it was just me and 7 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.200 you. It's always a combination of met you, somebody else or one of 8 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:47.359 us missing. So I'm just excited to just to get going. You know, 9 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:49.920 we really didn't have a plan for today. We just kind of called 10 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:51.960 me, Blake, you want to court an I and I'm like, yeah, 11 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.119 let's do it. We were free and just trying to come up what 12 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.640 we could talk about. I was maybe different of what everybody else is talking 13 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.240 about. But we're pretty much gonna give our two cents of you know, 14 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.120 some of the releases and maybe some returns and a couple of other things that 15 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.760 we have in our minds, and it's gonna kind of shoot from the hip 16 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:11.920 and see where it takes us. We were expecting to have some of our 17 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:18.159 wrestling Magic counterparts, and Scully and Maverick joined, but the boys across upon 18 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.840 could not stay up late enough with us. So it's just going to be 19 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.319 the Captain and Rocky Tea here with you guys tonight. You know, honestly, 20 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:30.079 it's been a long time since it's been just you and I and I 21 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.280 mean, we all have life, and people don't understand. Like I'm in 22 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.799 my later forties, you're no young young man yourself. I'm not going to 23 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.799 give away your age out of respect, but I do see the fact that, 24 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.519 like we do get really really busy, and it's great to have a 25 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:49.760 great team. But everybody, I mean, Mav you know, he's he's 26 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.079 in the military, you know, Mark who comes in and out of Russell 27 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.560 Magic. He's dealing with his own own things. He's very faithful of the 28 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:00.040 NXT report. Brian Michailpatrick, chef, Chef Patrick, he's a chef. 29 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.239 He's a little busy. I mean, everybody's had like a very very hard 30 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.199 winter the spring, so we we didn't have as much time as we we 31 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:15.120 like to. But today I think that us segueing into a little bit of 32 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.400 what's happening now, even though that's not really our cup of tea is kind 33 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:23.479 of important because it's an annual thing. And that's releases. That's right. 34 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:30.039 Ww's tradition, tradition of post wrestled Mania releases has carried it over into the 35 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:37.400 t KO group Holdin's era with Sanga Beer, Ginger, Mahal Zai, Lee, 36 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:45.319 uh Von Wagner, and the Dyron Quinny Right. I think, yeah, 37 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:52.599 yeah, like I sound like these have been released. These were you 38 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:57.199 know, gender former champion. The rest of them were endingst calls ups. 39 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:00.280 That's where they're you know, they're homegrowns. They were caught up in the 40 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.840 last draft last year. But the thing about this group of people was that 41 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.840 they did have a lot of potential, but they were never really given any 42 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:13.479 anything of substance, any traction, anything to do. So it's like wasted 43 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.520 talent. I really don't know much more to say. That was probably because 44 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:23.120 that's when Events was still in charge and by the time Trivalation was fully in 45 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.240 control and the creative at the time, you just honestly did not have anything 46 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.680 for them. And I know that these this group of russions had been with 47 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:32.800 the company for five or more years, so I think that was one of 48 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:38.759 the I guess that was one of the stipulations of who was gonna get released 49 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.879 as somebody who had had some tenure there at the company. Yeah, it's 50 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.360 strange how they have this five year rule, which I mean, there's certain 51 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:52.520 people I would have canned a long time ago because their time. I think 52 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.639 the Awesome Truth should have had their walking papers ten years ago. To be 53 00:03:54.639 --> 00:04:00.479 honest with you, and I know everybody's a really big fan of you know, 54 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:08.159 our Truth. He is the Mizru. Yeah, our Truth. He 55 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:10.520 is like a locker room leader kind of guy. He does have a lot 56 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:14.000 of potential. He has incredible athleticism. He's older than me, he's like 57 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.079 in his early fifties. I get it. His character, forget it. 58 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:23.240 While it's kind of tongue in cheek, it adds nothing to the value of 59 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.720 the product, let alone for he in a talent vacuum that destroys ratings like 60 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:32.399 the miz To be tagged up in winning over like talented people is just a 61 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:35.120 crime. Those guys should have got their walking papers. But let's talk about 62 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:39.319 people who did get their walking papers. First of all, this message goes 63 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.800 out to a good friend, a man who loves the show, a man 64 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.759 we all love Dijkuzmo Worm. We're sorry because there's no longer the the ver 65 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:54.560 the vier Mahan Report. So I had to say it in the most sullen 66 00:04:54.600 --> 00:05:00.000 way. But the fact is he's gone. Song is gone, General Halls. 67 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.959 He never should have been hired back to begin with. The guy really 68 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.759 didn't let alone given a world title push. I get the fact that you're 69 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.879 going into India, but there's people that have like talent and people that you 70 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:21.399 actually want to pay to see that you couldn't have ruined airtime and viewership and 71 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:27.959 just dumbing down and killing the product by putting a world title something that Cody 72 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:32.399 has fought so long for Ginger Mahaal already had. I want that to sink 73 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:38.279 into people. Well, I think I do understand where you're coming from, 74 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:45.360 but I think it was worth worth it for the partnership that WW now has 75 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:49.560 with the Prince of India, with that country, where we can hold our 76 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:57.639 Crown Jewel events, and the revenue that's coming in from just alone from from 77 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:04.800 you know, that country is enough to catapult what is now the Triple H 78 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:09.240 Era into the future. And it's gonna be I mean, I think it's 79 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.560 gonna be a cornerstone because now the Crown Jews is positioned, has even maybe 80 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.000 even more of a top tier p a leading a Survivor series or even a 81 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:20.000 summer slab just because of the size of the stadium that they put it in 82 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:24.560 and the amount of people that show up. And now they have Wrestle World 83 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:29.720 or maybe whatever what it's called experience. I mean, they have so much 84 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.160 rooted over there now. I mean it's hard to get away from it. 85 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.360 I think it's a disgusting thing to have a blood money contract with a blood 86 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:42.879 money company country. Excuse me. I think it's a disgusting thing to work 87 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.800 with them. So I'm not mister yo patriot everything else. But let's look 88 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:51.839 with it and see what it is. We're working with a disgusting place for 89 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.879 disgusting amounts of money, a place that when we first signed the contract to 90 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.399 bring over an idiot like gender, wanted us to bring over Yok Zuna. 91 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.839 That's some great people to work with. So let's get back into these releases. 92 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:14.560 The one that shocked me the most was von Wagner because they had so 93 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:18.079 much hype praise. He was put on the same tier as bron Breaker as 94 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:24.040 far as the next level and the next generation of performer. He wasn't bad. 95 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.680 He he still needed polishing. He definitely needed a little He needed a 96 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:34.160 good coach, somebody like an Arnie Anderson or somebody like a like Rotunda or 97 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:38.120 somebody like that, an old school to really get behind him and say, 98 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.160 Okay, this is what we got to do. This is how we tell 99 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.279 a story in a match. But he was the son of or he is 100 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:48.040 I don't want to say, was he hasn't passed son of Wayne Bloom of 101 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:55.959 yeah, yeah, he's the son of Wayne Bloom, who was who was 102 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:01.279 a former AWA World Tag Team Champion when he came to When Wayne Bloom came 103 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.720 to the WWF in the old days, he was part of the Beverly Brothers 104 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.839 because they have to change everybody and own their names. But the fact is, 105 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.800 first of all, the name is stupid von Wagner. What is that? 106 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.519 But that's not really what's going to stop you from getting over. It 107 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.639 was just the fact that they didn't use them. They called them up and 108 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.920 they didn't use them. They used them mostly a main event and like so 109 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.639 many b shows, and then took him off. How the house shows circuit, 110 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:33.080 well, of course he's going to get released. But that's that's the 111 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.639 whole thing with creative not knowing what to do for somebody. That's really really 112 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.320 sad. In the cases of the other releases, in the Shear was a 113 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:46.159 stop start, stop to start. I think the whole thing is people realize 114 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.159 that gender was kind of a talent vacuum and sucks the life out of a 115 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.720 room, and Veer and Songa are so gray or green, excuse me, 116 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.080 and they can't get anything done as far as having a really good match, 117 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.559 and it's like, Okay, it's been too long at this point, you 118 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.960 guys gotta go. You're big, you're ominous, But what are you really 119 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.080 doing? I don't know. I don't think they were really ever tested they 120 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.440 they were given. They were never given leaked matches to show off if they 121 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:18.279 could perform or put on a tack team plastic match. I just don't think 122 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.840 they were ever given enough time. And I don't know if that was you 123 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:26.600 know, still dude, because the fingertips of Vince or I mean, you 124 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.840 got a three hour show of raw. You can't give these guys ten twelve 125 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:35.200 minutes at least once every other every other week to showcase themselves. I just 126 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.919 there, they were never given the time. So that's just what it boils 127 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.720 down to for me. I can see that that that counterpoint debate. But 128 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.360 I think maybe that was because they're too green, and maybe they're like, 129 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.200 Okay, these guys just cannot do TV. Maybe they there's a good point 130 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.919 that they might have known something that we didn't know, So they might have 131 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.200 seen like too many house show matches or too many like Maine of That matches 132 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.240 and said Okay, these guys are really just not they're not producing, they're 133 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:11.320 too clumsy, they're missing spots, they're they're just not doing it. So 134 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.559 I kind of see it in that aspect because none of the matches really wowed 135 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.919 me. It was a lot of squash matches really fast. But if you 136 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:26.679 can't move past that, you know, thirty thirty second to a minute and 137 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:31.200 a half match, yeah, there's a point where you gotta say, okay, 138 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.600 you guys gotta go. So I'm not saying that there wasn't potential. 139 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:41.200 I'm just saying that in that case, I could see they're just they said, 140 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:46.039 Okay, five years and you still can't do something great? All right, 141 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.200 we you know better? Luck come visit us in the future. Well, 142 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.279 speaking of another NFC called up that never really did anything but be a 143 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:01.360 jobber, what are your thoughts on Camon Grimes being released? That one surprised 144 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:07.759 me because he just worked with broad Breaker and he is incredibly talented, and 145 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.440 he'll go back to his old name when he worked in TNA or Impact, 146 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:16.279 whatever you want to call it. He's a guy who wouldn't surprise me that 147 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.320 turns up in aw. It's another one of those deals where I just don't 148 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.440 think that creative knew how to use him, because he is actually talented and 149 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.360 he can have a match. But I think it's partly size and partly they 150 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.399 just didn't know what to do with him, and it becomes one of these 151 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.600 we don't know what to do, so we'll just thank you very much, 152 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.440 have a nice day. And that's kind of sad because he has a lot 153 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.600 of potential. I'm gonna give you some names that I'm shocked they didn't release 154 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:52.559 Okay to shoot big Ee because he spent he spent two years rehabbing and if 155 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:56.799 he gets back in a ring and he is incredibly limited, does anybody want 156 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:03.440 to see those matches? And I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just 157 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.360 telling you straight up that's really sad because his matches are going to be really, 158 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:13.919 really bad. Dexter Loomis, I'm a big fan of what he can 159 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.039 do if you let him do something, But when's the last time he did 160 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:24.840 anything? The Miss because he sucks so bad it's unreal. If you're listening 161 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:31.639 to this, please go away real quick. Would somebody who sucks so much 162 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.799 the Miss? Would? He be the only wrestler to have held all of 163 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:45.240 the last six tag team Championship designs. He's the first two time Grand Slam 164 00:12:45.320 --> 00:12:52.879 champion, and now he achieves this new record. He held the tag titles 165 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:58.080 from the record with his Aggression era with Big Show, he had double Champ 166 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.960 there, he held the Bronze tag team titles when he was with mis Dow, 167 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:09.360 he had the SmackDown tag team titles with John Morrison, the Raw titles 168 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:15.720 with Miz, and now he has with the new iteration of the World Tag 169 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:20.840 Team champions He's the only man to have held all six versions of these tag 170 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:26.799 titles over now with the last twenty two years. But yeah, but he 171 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.679 sucks. He does suck. He sucks really bad. I go with the 172 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.840 Tito Santana rule. If Tito Santana could perform in the ring way better than 173 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.600 you could, which they could. He has the most sloppy finisher and performs 174 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:46.039 it in the most sloppy way. He looks like Plato. He is terrible. 175 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.320 Logan Paul is the person they wanted when they signed the mis for all 176 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:56.559 these years period, do you want a reality person to come in. I 177 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:01.080 don't believe the myss could fight his way out of half that roster. I 178 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.840 don't believe he could beat anybody in a fistfight on that roster. I don't 179 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:13.399 believe he could beat up Domino, Dominic Mysterio. It's the truth. It's 180 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:20.960 the truth. So there's no believability in his credibility. Uh. He loaned 181 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.720 credence that anybody could do this, but really, anybody can't. He was 182 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:31.159 just giving it. He was given given. Did he earn stuff by by 183 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.879 working on the road and everything else? Yeah? But was he pushed way 184 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:41.039 before people who are way more talented. Let me ask you this, shinsk 185 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:48.519 Nakamura. Shinskate Nakamura has not won all those accolades, But if you put 186 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.840 those two in a shoot fight, Shinske who wrestled Brocken IWGP in New Japan 187 00:14:54.240 --> 00:15:00.000 and knocked out one of brock Lesnar's teeth. Who would hold all those accolades. 188 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.120 It's a guy with the worst catchphrase of all time, one of the 189 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.399 worst finishers of all time, and a sloppy sloppy in ring. But he 190 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:13.840 was on a reality show and he cuts the best scripted promos. I'm gonna 191 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.759 give that one to Shinska, So that's what I have to say. I 192 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.600 would have future endeavored that guy before ever. I would have hired him. 193 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.919 I hope he listens to this show so he can like retort to me. 194 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.360 It's at one four four captain on Twitter or ex whatever you want to call 195 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:37.120 it. But anyway, yeah, and Rocky Teaser zero seven if you want 196 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.960 to hang out MS okay, Hey, I'm from Cleveland. He's from Cleveland. 197 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:48.600 I mean I would have canned him way before. Dolph Zigler. Dolph 198 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:50.879 Zigler had to wash off the stench of being part of the Spirit Squad in 199 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.399 the early two thousands to become one of the greatest in ring bumpers and one 200 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.759 of the greatest in ring performers and could perform Miss that's key. You can 201 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.440 actual wrestle. You don't just cut your scripted promos because you're an actor. 202 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:10.039 So I digress, and then our truth really doesn't add anything. He's a 203 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:12.320 comedic part, and I get, oh, he's old and he's still athletic. 204 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:17.519 What does he really add two years of chasing a twenty four to seven 205 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.919 championship? Now there's nothing you've done for me. Now, if you're a 206 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.279 backstage coach, stay backstage and be a coach, because I heard you're good 207 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:29.799 at that. There's a time and a place for everything. Your place is 208 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.639 an on screen. You shouldn't be going over real talent. He's got the 209 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:41.000 most universal, most beloved catchphrase of all time that he's an idiot, whatever 210 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:48.559 the case may be, if that's what it takes. So I mean, 211 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.799 let's let's look look at some of the people on these rosters. You know, 212 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.960 I was surprised they didn't cut Dexter Loomis because they really don't know what 213 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.039 to do with him. Honestly, I was surprised that they didn't cut Carrying 214 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:03.039 a Cross again, and I love Cross, but he's Killer Cross as Carrion 215 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:07.079 Cross. He's a watered down version of who he was he worked. If 216 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:12.640 people go look at his debut and his matches and everything he did in TNA, 217 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:18.160 Slash Impact or MLW Major League Wrestling, and you're gonna be like, 218 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.720 how do they miss the boat on this guy? Because they don't know what 219 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:25.599 to do because they've changed and altered his character while trying to keep it the 220 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:32.640 same way. It's like taking Andre the Giant and instead of him going against 221 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:36.599 your biggest big man in every territory that he went to, you have him 222 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:41.279 wrestled the smallest guy and ask why the smallest guy can't slam him? And 223 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.240 people are gonna look at you and say, this is stupid. That's what 224 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.640 they've done with Carrion Cross. They've altered him too much as far as the 225 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.599 nature of who he is and what he can be. They're not letting him 226 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.640 reach his full potential. Now. Hopefully in the Tripleah regime, we'll see 227 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:03.119 within the next six months survives the next round of cuts. But it's pathetic 228 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.079 to me that they don't see what they had, see what he did in 229 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:11.640 other places. All you have to do is copy and paste and then turn 230 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:18.000 it up a few notches and you'd have a main eventor I do not disagree 231 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:25.599 with you, but speaking of what WW does have or what they're planning to 232 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.839 keep, I want to get your thoughts on some coming up contracts are going 233 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.359 to be expiring and then a couple of people that have already resigned. So 234 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:41.200 perfileful dot Com, bew In May fully reported that Entia's contract is coming up, 235 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:49.279 they should get resigned fifty to fifty. What do you think? I 236 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.319 think because of the work now, I mean, she's always done work in 237 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.240 NXT, but now I feel like she's everywhere, it's matter what branch's on, 238 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:02.799 and I feel that she doesn't get cut until they induct her, because 239 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.640 I mean, I guess they could cut her and then bring her back in 240 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:07.640 a year so when they're ready to induct it in the Hall of Fame. 241 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:14.519 But I think they do it while she's still tenure. So I'm gonna roll 242 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.920 with that one too. That's a good goal, all right. Also in 243 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.319 May, Drew McIntyre's contract is set to come up in about six weeks or 244 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.440 so. Definitely, I didn't yeah sign him. Yeah, they have too 245 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.599 much of a good storyline with punk going on, and he's already tested his 246 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.160 waters outside for what was he gone, like five or six years left the 247 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:38.000 little boy came back in hand. Yep, there's there's too much money on 248 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.279 him. There's at least one more title reign, and there's too much that 249 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.720 you can do with him. He has grown so much in so many years. 250 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.359 He's he's a company guy. They're not getting rid of him. Yeah, 251 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:55.319 speaking of a company couple, Becky Lynch and Seth through Olands contracts are 252 00:19:55.319 --> 00:20:00.759 set to expire in June of this year. Is there like Barion, No 253 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.920 doubt they get resigning there, they're going nowhere, they're going. What they'll 254 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.680 do is they'll they'll try to tease it and take like a few months off, 255 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:14.559 but they're resigning. If they haven't already, they're just negotiating. Well, 256 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.880 I thought they weren't taking a few wants off, but apparently with the 257 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:21.400 real injury, we got a new champion in Becky. She'll be carrying it 258 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.799 and we're gonna see where that goes. But we'll touch based on that towards 259 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:27.480 the end of years. So uh, this year, in twenty twenty four, 260 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:33.240 in the summer, the only contract that's coming up is for Ricochet. 261 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:38.359 I think he resigns. He definitely resigns. The word is that Tiko is 262 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:44.119 going to actually start helping pay the wrestlers a bit more than they were making 263 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:49.640 before, which they're already being really, really handsomely paid. So the big 264 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:56.279 thing now at this point is to keep Aw's clause off them so they don't 265 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.759 get signed for an even more ridiculous amount, to not be used and to 266 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:06.359 have their good name sullied, so to speak. So I Ricochet stays put. 267 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:10.519 He's had classics with will Osprey, but I think that he sees the 268 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:14.519 silver lining in the fact that WWE takes some more serious There is a chance 269 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:18.079 someday Ricochet could be a world champion. There's a chance, whereas Will Ospray 270 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:23.039 could be an AEW champion. Well, what will that really mean now? 271 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:27.319 I also want to say congratulations to Shane Swerve Strickland. I've been following him 272 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:33.839 for probably eight years and WWE didn't know what to do with him, and 273 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:41.119 he's holding the second most prestigious title in wrestling right now. So to him, 274 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.240 I say congratulations. I always knew he had it in him. I 275 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.799 don't think I would have taken the belt off Joe so soon, unless Joe 276 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.359 needs some time off. But the fact that Joe, that's another one. 277 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.319 We don't know what to do with Smoe. Joe, are you that dumb? 278 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.160 Yes you are. But the person who was in charge that and released 279 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:07.640 all these people ever since gone. Now, so there was also a resigning 280 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.079 of Finn Balor. That's right, couldn't better tweet it out most two years. 281 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.599 It's going to be back along with another multi year while Superstar extending. 282 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:22.599 It's gonna be Randy Orton, yes through the end. Yeah, through twenty 283 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.119 twenty four. We will at least have Kevin Owens through the end of the 284 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:30.599 year. I believe his contract comes up at the beginning of twenty twenty five. 285 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:37.000 In December of twenty twenty four, TKO will decide if they're going to 286 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.119 resign any or all members of the New Day Kochi, Kingston big E and 287 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:44.799 Xavier Woods. They're on contract to the end of the year of twenty twenty 288 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:48.400 four. La Knights has set to come up in January of twenty twenty five, 289 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.200 and then he's too hot to let go. And then okay, so 290 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.720 this next name one of the list may be the one where that and actually 291 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:03.359 happenste actually through twenty twenty five, so maybe a little bit longer, but 292 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.240 through twenty twenty five the myths, So that sounds like towards the end of 293 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:12.559 twenty twenty five, tire that turd also sticking with us through twenty twenty five 294 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:19.000 will be dragging Lee and apparently Carl Anderson, Luke Gallows, and Raymis Stereo 295 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:26.480 have contracts until late twenty twenty seven, while Dominic Postereo has a contract until 296 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:32.440 late twenty twenty eight. Bookert's Bookert's run as an announcer, it goes through 297 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:37.559 twenty twenty nine, and I guess undertakers on a legend deal that has him 298 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.680 signed on a fifteen year deal that he signed back in twenty nineteen, taking 299 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.839 him until twenty thirty four. Well, I see my stereo going on to 300 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:51.079 a legend steal after his runs out. His body isn't what it used to. 301 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:52.799 The guys as old as I am, he's not going to be doing 302 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:57.400 Planchez and hrkan ranas in his fifties. The guy needs a break. He's 303 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.880 done what he has to do. He is best suited to become the head 304 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:07.640 of talent scouting. I would put him an undertaker together to be talent scouts. 305 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:11.839 You have a big man scout and a small man's scout. Really, 306 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.640 yeah, it's it's I would actually have them work together. I would have 307 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.000 them going to shows together so they can compare notes and say, okay, 308 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:21.920 how can we work a match? But with this guy, what do you 309 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:25.359 think? Because that's that's the two best minds that you could put together. 310 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:32.279 As far as signing talent right at the TV show about it, yeah, 311 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:37.839 but I'm not. I went in eric for a couple of years after some 312 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.839 of these people have been signed, just so we're dialing. We're dialing back, 313 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.079 pulling the curtain back a little bit more. You know, when Tough 314 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.119 Enough first came out, Triple H said he hated it because it exposed the 315 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.759 business, and a lot of that also is because the curtain call and he 316 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:03.440 got punished so hard. So I agree with the fact that, well k 317 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:10.440 Fabe is supposedly dead. Some of these shows, some of these shows are 318 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:15.680 really really entertaining. But give us a couple of years. First, I 319 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.680 don't want to see we just signed so and so and this is how we 320 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:25.599 did it. Let me see three years after we signed them, when they're 321 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:29.039 just getting ready to leave that XT why you did it, what was the 322 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:33.839 psychology behind it? To me, that's better, to TV, that's better, 323 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:38.200 entertaining that it's just better. I hear you, I hear you. 324 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:45.079 So, moving on to club of contracts that are on the other side of 325 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:48.400 the spectrum, in AW two pop out of the screen to me that I 326 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:56.839 need your opinion on sure because so coming up for All Elite Wrestling two contracts 327 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:02.160 are expiring in September of twenty twenty four, as reported by five four dot 328 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:10.599 com, and that is Brian Brian Danielson and Dustin Rhodes. Uh, Brian 329 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:15.279 Danielson will never leave, Okay, He's he's intertwined with the backstage. He's 330 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:23.920 he's becoming basically their version of Triple H. And as far as uh Dustin 331 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:32.240 Rhodes, it's fifty to fifty. That's that's that's a very tough call because 332 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:38.079 I'm sure AW will offer him ridiculous money to help try to run things backstage, 333 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.680 but the fact is no one can run anything back there. I mean 334 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.039 you, you've been on the line with me with Justin Credible when he's talking 335 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:49.559 about talking to Jerry Lynn, one of his best friends who's a producer and 336 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:56.640 Jerry says, these kids don't want to listen to anything, so it's it's 337 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.000 one of those things where if he's just fed up with the childishness of everything, 338 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:07.319 I could see him becoming a backstage producer for WWE. But I think 339 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:11.519 Tony Kahan is going to try to also counter, like double the money because 340 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:15.519 of Cody, double the money to keep him as a producer. Honestly, 341 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:22.960 if I was Tony Kahan, what I would do is have Scott Norton and 342 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:27.000 Mark Henry and the Big show. Scott Norton doesn't work there, but I'd 343 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:33.480 hire him, and I would go to New Japan and hire Haku slash Mang, 344 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:42.519 and I would give them about twelve cases of beer every show. And 345 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:45.519 I would say, Okay, guys, what I say goes. If anybody 346 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:49.440 wants to change it, you take care of it. Even as old as 347 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:56.640 they are, I think you start getting some better booking right there. That 348 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:02.599 could be one head of a team there. I mean, it's a backstage 349 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:08.680 thing. Honestly, Dustin Rhodes is a great mind with his dad being Dusty, 350 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:14.279 if they could let Dustin actually take over some of the booking duties, 351 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:17.720 which I think he is more than capable of, and I think Tony Kahan 352 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:21.720 might throw that in his direction and throw more of that in Brian Danielson's direction. 353 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:27.079 Then if you can actually enforce it and stop letting all these idiots go 354 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:33.960 rogue, AW might have a chance and start giving you a more viable product. 355 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.599 Now, one more contract I wanted to talk about. It's Finn Ballers 356 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:44.759 and why Finn Balors is so important. Finn Balor's contract to WWE is very 357 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:51.920 important because you wouldn't have AW if you didn't have the Bullet Club. The 358 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:56.400 Bullet Club then had their sub sect, the Elite, which that's how they 359 00:28:56.400 --> 00:28:57.480 got the name, but they all had to be part of the Bullet Club 360 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.079 first. The Bullet Club was the brainchild and the idea of one Prince Debit, 361 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:10.440 but everybody else knows him as So you have a top tier guy and 362 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:18.079 the first universal WWE champion walking through your door, and a guy who wants 363 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.000 to do more serious wrestling, but he's also going to be surrounded by some 364 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.440 of his friends. You have so many storylines that you could write. Don't 365 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.599 tell me that they weren't salivating and rubbing their hands together thinking wow, if 366 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:36.960 we got the old prince back. We've got Adam Cole. We've got Kenny 367 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:40.079 Omega, he's very healthy again. We've got the bucks, We've got this, 368 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:45.359 we got that. So many different avenues, so many different avenues that 369 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:51.160 you can drive that big old Cadillac now. So that's why he was offered 370 00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:55.759 ridiculous money. But that means he's also probably going to finally get his individual 371 00:29:55.799 --> 00:30:07.440 push. So hopefully and hopefullyam Yeah, the first two Danielson and Rhodes to 372 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.200 either one of them, they have to come back to be inducted in the 373 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.119 fame, in the fame right as Daniel Brian and as God does see see 374 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.599 that happening. I could see that happening. But they should do it under 375 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.039 their real names at this point. It's kind of silly to change their names. 376 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.480 You know. T and A worked with w W a long time ago 377 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:33.799 to induct people who were, you know, in like contracted, like Rick 378 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:38.400 Flair was contracted TNA and stuff like that. So I could see them saying, 379 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:42.039 Okay, it's Brian Danielson, or you know, they say it's Daniel 380 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:45.839 Brian. He'll break the character and be like I'm Brian Danielson. You know, 381 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:52.039 like this year they grew. They grew a little bit of courage by 382 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.039 saying, okay, it's the US Express, Barry Wyndham and Mike Rotunda. 383 00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:02.160 Well, I remember Mike Rotunda as a kid wrestling both at NWA and WWF, 384 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.279 and all of a sudden he comes back and they call him irs. 385 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.359 This guy's a former World Tag Team champion and you're changing his name and changing 386 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:14.079 his identity. It's like when Iron Chic became Colonel Mustafa. For a while, 387 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:17.200 you just some things you just don't do. So when you go into 388 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:18.720 the Hall of Fame, they might try to say it like that, but 389 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.640 it's gonna be like, okay, we'll just call each other whatever. Another 390 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.599 case in point with that was when Lita went into the Hall of Fame. 391 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:33.240 Cain was still active, but she was referring to him as Glenn. You 392 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:36.039 know, his real name, Glenn Jacobs. I couldn't do this without Glenn 393 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:40.319 and stuff like that. So yeah, I could see I could see Brian 394 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:45.960 Danielson going in as Brian Danilson or Danielbrien but acknowledging his real name. And 395 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:48.720 same thing with Dustin Rhodes. They're not gonna put him in. They might 396 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:53.240 say gold Dust, but he'll be like, I'm Dustin Rhodes. You can't 397 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.079 deny who I am. My brother's here, you know my name. I 398 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.279 wrestled here before under my real name. So yeah, yeah, they'll they'll 399 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.440 go in, but they might do it, you know, contractually obligated to 400 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:13.799 a different company. Well that'll be the day. That'll be interesting. Anything 401 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.519 can happen, especially in their w everybody comes back. Everybody's gotta be inducted, 402 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.319 just have to come back. I don't think anybody really ever stays the 403 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:29.319 way, except for the ones that are or the few that are blacklisted for 404 00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.920 life, and you know, you know who who they are. He is. 405 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:37.799 So yeah, but so the only the only the list of a contract 406 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.799 that's coming up through the end of twenty twenty five. That's at least I 407 00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:46.240 can see on this list of contracts that are coming up is another inductee, 408 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.240 and that that's christ Jericho. So eventually he has come back for a Legends 409 00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:54.400 contract. He has no business in the ring, come back, do some 410 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:58.839 promo, self submerge, collect the check, be inducted, grabory ring, 411 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.400 and then be on your way. Yeah. I could see that, and 412 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.000 uh, you know, I think he's once once he gets out of the 413 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.839 train wreck that AW has become that he really thought was going to be so 414 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.680 much better than it is, and that like, I'm not really trying to 415 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:21.920 back on them, it's just the fact that it seems to be you know, 416 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:28.720 the old adage of you know, put put somebody who has a d 417 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.400 D in a circular room and tell them to p in the corner. Like 418 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:37.000 that's what a AW has become. It's just they can't figure it out, 419 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:43.400 and it's it's all Tony Kahn's fault. But yes, Jericho, Jericho definitely 420 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:46.400 will come back get his ring, and it wouldn't surprise me if he signed 421 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:52.119 on to be a backstage consultant and a coach and you know, just try 422 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:57.440 to you know, elongate the career that has made him famous. So yeah, 423 00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.920 I I could see that happening. So, you know, career wise 424 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:06.079 and contract wise, it's it's gonna be a very interesting off season, as 425 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:10.880 I like to call it. But is there anybody that your surprise has not 426 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:22.480 been canned or future endeavored. Let's see, well, basically all of Alpha 427 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:30.440 Academy except for Chad Gable another an. They're a nice little comedy, feel 428 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:35.800 good act but and their jobbers and you got the little you know dancing with 429 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.199 you know, just it's kind of it's not as over as it was. 430 00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:44.360 It's fun. It's a fun spot. But if we're trying to move into 431 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:47.599 the future again, where it's going to be for like all wrestling and part 432 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.039 entertainment, not just all entertainment and with a little bit of wrestling with wrestling 433 00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:57.519 dominating. Did you see the promo that Chad did on Friday when he was 434 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:01.960 dismissing the Alpha Academy in this play, Oh, oh my god, I 435 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:07.920 cannot believe, like we are definitely in PG fourteen era and this I love 436 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:12.119 it so much. But honestly, that was probably the group that I thought 437 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:16.719 was actually all of them except for Chad was gonna be can and we still 438 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:21.000 have more to come, so it's actually not too late. But maybe for 439 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.079 them, since he's gonna it seems like he's gonna, they're gonna follow him 440 00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:27.920 and they're gonna go ahead and take his orders, then I don't think they're 441 00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:35.440 gonna be uh given their writing papers just yet. But I still think Otis. 442 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:39.239 I still think Otis looks like Francis from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Mm 443 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.760 hmm, I guess I could see that. You cannot see it once you 444 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:47.000 see it. Yeah, yeah, keep keep going with your the people that 445 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:53.960 you're surprised, we're not, like, well, it's not too late. 446 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:59.440 But I figured we already kind of hit the wall, hit the city with 447 00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.559 the WO stuff with you know, santo'ssco Bar and his group. So I 448 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:07.320 figured maybe part of LWO would have been let go. I figured Colito pretty 449 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.559 much came and did what he needed to do, got over in Puerto Rico 450 00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:14.800 last year, you know, been raiside to kick. I've kind of figured 451 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:16.719 they have already done all they can do with him, so I'm surprised that 452 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:22.679 he's not on that list yet. He may be the same thing with Joaquin 453 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.519 Phoenix and what's the other one Attack Corner another I can't remember see came his 454 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:34.000 name, but those guys there. Selina has kind of been just not really 455 00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.199 significant. Even when she was Queen of the Ring, she didn't do anything 456 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:43.239 significant with that. I figured she's been foundering for years. She's been again, 457 00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:45.239 she was given a title match because they were in Puerto Rico last year 458 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:52.599 with the pay per view, so she's the most talented person, that their 459 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:57.639 most talented female that they never push. Yeah, you do. Hear that 460 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.119 a lot, and it's true. And the fact that she's a bargaining chip 461 00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:10.320 to get her husband back. Who's her husband, Alistair Black, that's her 462 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:16.079 husband. Yes, Oh way, that's one lucky son of a gun. 463 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:22.079 Wow. Yes, just like I also believe that. I mean, we 464 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:28.440 all love Rhea. But the fact that they broke the fourth wall by showing 465 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:31.440 her like at the live event, the last one that you were on the 466 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:42.599 show with matt about when they showed her in the audience with buddy Buddy, 467 00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.639 Buddy Murphy, Buddy Matthews, whatever you want to call him. And of 468 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:51.119 course that idiot Pat McFee. I'd fire that that idiot really fast because he 469 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:58.519 acts like such a fourteen year old. They show he and her together and 470 00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:02.880 he's just start saying, who's that with her? Who is that? Yeah? 471 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:08.760 I mean there's definitely a lot more foreshadowing going on, which I like 472 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:13.719 because we to speculate on things that could actually happen. It's not just things 473 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:17.400 we see one time and then it's never followed up on. So definitely see 474 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:22.199 that. But I think Alistair Black is competic. He's on those lists, 475 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:27.000 real quick. Hold on he is. He resigned in twenty twenty two for 476 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.559 five years, so he's there until twenty twenty seven. And aw, buddy 477 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.599 Matthews is not on this list. Let me check it over again real quick. 478 00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:38.840 But I also remember Androde was Andrede was signed for a while but he 479 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:45.519 got out, so and a lot of those guys came up together with each 480 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.159 other at NXT and wrestled each other on an international scope, in an international 481 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:54.159 scene. That's why Hunter first signed them for NXT. So what I'm seeing 482 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:59.880 is where there's a will, there's a way. All I have to do 483 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:06.280 fight selling backstage right and getting let go and make Tony con fear for his 484 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:14.199 life when he's like fifty feet away and not even touched. So Backlashes coming 485 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:19.880 up in two weeks, right, two weeks? Yeah, So our main 486 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.039 event at this one is going to be Cody Roase versus AJ Styles. Get 487 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:27.599 very excited for this One's going to be a very good ticketic goal with partially 488 00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:30.360 high flying match. I don't think it's going to be too overdone. They're 489 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:36.400 going to be done just right. But speaking of backlash, on this day, 490 00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:42.360 in history. We actually would be tomorrow, April twenty fifth, this 491 00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.159 day in history. In nineteen ninety nine, at the very first WWF Backlash 492 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:51.800 pay per view from Providence, Rhode Island, Stokom Steve Austin retained the WA 493 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:58.199 Championship against the Rock and Expo in a wrestlemated rematch. At the conclusion of 494 00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:02.039 the match, Austin reunited. It was reunited with his coveted smoking skull belts 495 00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:07.199 by Amestic Van so I understaying history. That's what took place at the very 496 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:13.800 firsts Backlash, and in two weeks we make history at Backlash Friends with Cody 497 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.920 and AJ as the main event. What do you think about that? I 498 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:20.000 mean, it's gonna be a fun show, to be honest with you, 499 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:24.280 I AJ versus Cody. I think it'll be for the first time as far 500 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:30.519 as I know right it is it. Yeah, I think that this is 501 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:36.199 going to be a match where AJ is going to use his knees for him 502 00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:40.039 about four or five years ago. We're gonna see a couple of moves from 503 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:44.559 AJ we haven't seen in years ago. I think Cody's going to pull out 504 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:49.880 all the stops that he was using in his epic matches against Nick Oldest people 505 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:54.639 from about five years ago. If people have never seen Nick Oldis versus Cody 506 00:40:54.719 --> 00:41:00.599 the two series n WA title switch, that was Cody's best matches ever. 507 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:05.559 They were there was a story, and there was a match and it was 508 00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:14.039 amazing. So with that being said, I if we see the Cody that 509 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.960 was Cody versus all this and we see the AJ from five six years ago, 510 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.199 it just a little bit healthier, a little bit more springing this step. 511 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.960 We're gonna see something really awesome. We're gonna see and I don't want 512 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.440 to hear this is awesome. I want to hear wow. You know, 513 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.039 I don't want to hear the Holy s Chance. I don't want to hear 514 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:35.000 the you still have it. I don't I don't want to that overplayed stuff. 515 00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:39.840 I just want people to just applaud and scream because I think we're gonna 516 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:43.079 get a good story. And that's the thing. Both of them are so 517 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:50.880 old school. They're gonna tell a story, right Well, that's something to 518 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.239 look forward to. What else is some things look forward to? Is us 519 00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:59.800 more in the future. So listeners, we're gonna go in and say good 520 00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:05.440 night right now, But we are going to do our very best to continue 521 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.559 to try to push out these episodes so you can have additional things to listen 522 00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:15.079 throughout the match. We know that Mad and Michael Ritter and Memphis Mark and 523 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:19.559 everybody's holding it down, you know, all week every week for y'all with 524 00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.519 the Raw SmackDown, NXT reviews and after DeMarco with the After Dark, and 525 00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:25.599 you know, we like to throw in our two cents from time to time. 526 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:29.519 You know, me, me and the Gardener are very very very busy, 527 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:34.559 very very busy sexy man out here in the world, and you know 528 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:39.679 it's hard. It's hard to just to find the time for us, for 529 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:45.000 us to sit down together. So luckily I got my woman in check and 530 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.239 all the women are in check, so you know that's the way to be. 531 00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.559 I want to I want to end this this this episode with a song. 532 00:42:55.440 --> 00:42:59.480 Okay, what you got for us? It's a song by a band 533 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:05.320 called Rick. It's called I Apologize. I've yeah, no, no, 534 00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:08.719 no, this is industrial. This is this man was one of Trent Reznor's 535 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:14.079 best friends. He's a Clevelander from way back when I've suggested the song maybe 536 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.760 once before. But it goes out to a certain special somebody who's accepted my 537 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:24.000 apologies. And so I want to end with the song I apologize. And 538 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:29.280 I also want to end this, end this with another song. It's song. 539 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:32.760 It's a song called King for a Day and it's by Faith No More. 540 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:37.039 So you have two songs. That's your homework. And also I want 541 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.119 I want to shout out DJ Kuzmo because I know we're not going to have 542 00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:45.559 a Vera Mahan report anymore. So I just we want to console you and 543 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:50.320 do a show with you. We could talk. We still have we still 544 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.880 have the music show for him. We do. We have a we have 545 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:57.639 a great show lined up that we've been waiting for you. But you were 546 00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:02.360 waiting on Vir Mahan and this he let you down. But we won't there 547 00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:07.760 it's ready. I'll have to add some stuff to it. But yeah, 548 00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:13.320 you do you have a song that you'd like to give people? Huh, 549 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:16.360 let me see what song? You know what. I haven't really been listening 550 00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:20.239 to music much, you know what. I've been following the rabbit holes of 551 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:29.079 What's that Karen's getting arrested by cops on YouTube entitled So I started watching this 552 00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:32.519 guy's the First Amendment auditor. He goes from city to city testing the limits 553 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.039 of the constitution and police stations and you know, around city hall and things 554 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:39.519 like that. And then I just kind of watched all his stuff and then 555 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:50.039 fell into cops getting arrested by cops, which turned into the Craziest Cop traffic 556 00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:54.559 Stops, which turned into entitled Karens Getting arrested by cops. It's very entertaining 557 00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.719 what I like to do now towards the end of it, or actually at 558 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:02.639 work, I have some downtime during my lunchtime just to give my mind off 559 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:07.960 by everything else, because my mind is you know, the family, my 560 00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:13.159 mom, kid, me and the boys, and and then wrestling and school 561 00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.000 and it's like I need something to turn the brain off. So that's what 562 00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:20.480 it is. So if you need a good you know, laugh and you 563 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.320 make it always makes me feel better about myself knowing that there's crazy people out 564 00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:28.880 there, because there's also men that are considering karts too, so it's it's 565 00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:34.559 it's very entertaining for me. But no chads. The chat is that what 566 00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:38.159 they call them, Chad, Chad, Chad and Caaren because a Chad is 567 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.599 usually a guy and like a pastel Polo comes in, tries to order everything 568 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.840 to like being a guy who works in the restaurant night club industry, tries 569 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:51.119 to order everything in front of his friends cheaps really or tips really cheap, 570 00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.840 and it's just like the biggest jackass in the world and treaty really bad. 571 00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:59.840 That's a chat and then well we'll just laugh, like anybody industry is. 572 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.159 Have you met Chad and his friend Chad and Chad and don't forget Big Chad 573 00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.440 and little Chad. And we've got Chad in the corner who's already drunk. 574 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:12.719 You know. Now that's that's really good. Now. Also, as far 575 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.079 as Wrestling Magic goes, we're not dead, guys. We just a lot 576 00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:21.159 of life has taken taking precedent now. As you know, Maverick is working 577 00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:27.280 on an episode that's almost polished with my brother and it's on the Dynamite Kid, 578 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:30.559 which is going to be a lot of fun and uh so that's going 579 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.239 to be under the Wrestle Magic banner. And then we also have some more 580 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:38.119 things going out as far as the territories with Memphis, Mark, Michael Patrick 581 00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:44.480 and I have been talking about doing a spotlight on a hidden gem in wrestling, 582 00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:50.079 which is Little People. So yes, that's something that nobody covers, 583 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.400 and that's going to be a timeless classic, and I know that Michael Patrick 584 00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:57.760 has really putting a lot of work into it. I believe we're going to 585 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:02.239 contact the micro Wrestling Federation, which actually exists. Yes, they have them 586 00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.480 here in Houston. Actually, me and my coworkers were planning to go to 587 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.760 a show soon, and I was also thinking, if you were up for 588 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:15.480 rock, maybe you and I do something we've never done, just for the 589 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:21.159 sake of Russell Magic. How about the future you and I cover a TNA 590 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:25.239 pay per view? Ooh, what was the first one I ever bought? 591 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:30.880 It might have been Bound for Glory two thousand and seven, But yes, 592 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.159 I love that idea. And this is what we do. We go in 593 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.280 blind just to see. Like, we go in blind, like we don't 594 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:44.760 know anything. We can maybe I have a sling package which has access so 595 00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:46.119 I can see a little bit of TNA. You don't have that benefit, 596 00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:51.760 so and you don't really necessarily need that benefit, So I say we do 597 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:54.159 something blind. We're like, okay, let's see what's happening here. We 598 00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:58.320 both watch the pay per view and then we say, okay, this is 599 00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.840 where TNA is going because a lot of people say it's a hot place to 600 00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:06.400 be and now that what's his name, Mustafa Ali's there, Dolph Zigler's there, 601 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:15.159 but there's a lot of WW like Heat Slater's there, and some people, 602 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:21.719 Yeah, there's some people I never would have signed. It's just yeah, 603 00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:23.559 I think going in blind on a pay per view and saying, Okay, 604 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:31.119 this is what the wrestling was, this is what the storyline was purported, 605 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:37.079 this is how we felt about the match, and not being like a 606 00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:39.880 complete downer on it. I just think if you were somebody seeing it for 607 00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:44.480 the first time, let's see how TNA is doing now in a new day 608 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:46.440 and age. What do you think? I love it? I love it. 609 00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:51.039 So all right, folks, We're gonna put a lot of work into 610 00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:53.320 a lot of stuff and you're gonna get a lot more wrestle magic coming up, 611 00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:57.480 a lot of irons in the fire. We're just we have lives, 612 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.599 guys. We're just like you watch us who love the content that we put 613 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.320 out. We also love to provide for our families. We also love to 614 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:08.000 be there for our girlfriends. We also love to make sure that children go 615 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:12.280 to school and have food on the table and do whatever they need to do 616 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.599 in life. And that's what we need to do and we need to keep 617 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:19.320 doing for our families. And Matt is a saint for the way he sacrifices 618 00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.360 his life for this and the point of Russell Magic was to help him and 619 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:28.760 buffer him. We got caught up in our own stuff, but we're bad. 620 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:36.119 Hey, we have done our part and we are just actually just going 621 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.400 over our year milestone anyways, So yes we are and we're doing what we 622 00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:45.119 we're gonna do. You know, an episode we did two three, you 623 00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:46.639 know, a couple of months here and there, but that's the point, 624 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:52.239 is to fill those extra gaps during the month and talk outside the box. 625 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:55.199 Well true, and a lot of people don't get our after dark stuff that 626 00:49:55.280 --> 00:50:00.960 we do with Justin because he can't stop swearing. But yeah, just look 627 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.800 forward to look forward towards the future, folks, because we're here for you 628 00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:08.800 as much as you're here to listen. Okay, alrighty, we're gonna call 629 00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:13.960 it at night and we are out and we'll talk to everybody on the next 630 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:21.440 one. All right, bye, Thanks for listening to the WWE podcast. 631 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:25.800 Don't forget to subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss a show, 632 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:31.079 or head to WWE podcast dot com and for all of these shows add 633 00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:37.400 free head over to Patreon dot com slash WWE podcast. Until then, we'll 634 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:39.280 see you next time.