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Hey, what's going on guys and 40 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:14.680 welcome back to WWW Retro on the WWW podcast on this Friday, August eighteenth. 41 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.439 As we creep closer and closer towards the end of summer, as it 42 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:23.039 is just absolutely insane how fast summer goes about these days, and especially if 43 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:28.199 you're up here in Canada or the northeastern United States, you blink and three 44 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.360 or four months later it is over and you're getting ready for fall. But 45 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:38.159 in the wrestling world, we usually get accustomed to a lull around this time. 46 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.599 Matt and I have spoken about it that you have the annual lull l 47 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:46.919 after WrestleMania and then usually an annual lull laughter SummerSlam, and this time around 48 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.599 we are getting ready for Payback and then fast Lane before the next big pay 49 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:55.960 per view in Survivor Series. But the period and the pay per views that 50 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.800 takes place between Lean, Summer Slim and Survivor Series has been kind of shifting 51 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:08.120 for the last several years. Payback has seemed to be a consistent theme as 52 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:14.240 they brought back Backlash. Payback was originally done in late April or early May 53 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:19.240 as the payback for WrestleMania, but with Backlash moving back into the rotation, 54 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:25.680 they've moved Payback following SummerSlam. But then you've also kind of had a rotating 55 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:30.439 cast of pay per views to follow Payback. You know, for a while, 56 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.519 we had Helen a Cell in October that was kind of like a hallmark 57 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:40.360 of early October. For quite some time. Last year we saw Extreme Rules 58 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:45.040 take that place, the return of Bray Wyatt. We've had Crown Jewel at 59 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.120 times in late October, early November. Way back in the day, we 60 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:54.399 had the pay per views Taboo Tuesday or No Mercy in the month of October. 61 00:04:55.319 --> 00:05:00.160 So this has always kind of been a period where WWE has shifted the 62 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.759 pay per views that they would have, but one pay per view that was 63 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:13.920 always the one to follow SummerSlam in my early recollection of watching wrestling was unforgiven, 64 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:19.000 and unforgiven was the September pay per view. It was always the pay 65 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:25.959 per view that would follow SummerSlam, and when the brands play came into effect, 66 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:29.560 it was almost always I think it was always I don't even think it 67 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:36.360 was ever belonging to SmackDown at a point, a raw exclusive show, so 68 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:41.480 unforgiven obviously on the B level side of pay per views, I don't think 69 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:46.000 that they've had a Unforgiven for at least fifteen years now, like it's been 70 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:49.480 quite a while, because then you even had a Night of Champions take the 71 00:05:49.560 --> 00:06:00.160 place of Unforgiven as well. That kind of slid into the spot of the 72 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.040 September show, And this was a pay per view that, even though it 73 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.439 was a B level pay per view, unforgiven that is, we had some 74 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:12.759 pretty significant matches and title changes go on here. In two thousand and one, 75 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.600 you had The Rock successfully defend the WCW Championship against Booker T and Shay 76 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:21.839 mcmahn in a handicap match. At that very same pay per view, you 77 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:29.279 had Curd Angled defeat Stone Cold Steve Auston for the WWF Championship. In two 78 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:34.279 thousand and three, you had Goldberg dethrone Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. 79 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:39.920 In two thousand and four, you had Triple H defeat Randy Orton for 80 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:46.519 the World Heavyweight Championship just one month after Orton had won his first ever world 81 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.079 title. In two thousand and three, you had Sha McMahon and Kane go 82 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:57.639 to war and won the more memorable and often not talked about last man Standing 83 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.160 matches. And they're very, very historic, right at least as far as 84 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:08.720 I'm concerned. So we get into the year two thousand and six and two 85 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.639 thousand and six, near the end of the unforgiven era in WWE, and 86 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:20.639 the landscape is much different from the past unforgivens. You have the WWE Championship 87 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:26.439 as now the prominent title on Monday Night Raw. You have Triple H and 88 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:33.279 Shawn Michaels reuniting as Degeneration X. You have the Man's side by side with 89 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:39.639 the Big Show locked horns with Degeneration X like coming to a head at this 90 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:46.079 pay per view. You have Tris Stratus arguably the best women's wrestler of all 91 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.800 time to this point in time, and No. Six on her way out. 92 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:55.759 All being held in front of the Toronto crowd at what was then known 93 00:07:55.839 --> 00:08:01.439 as the Air Canada Center and the WWE Championship on the line, with Edge 94 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:07.839 defending it in his hometown against John Cena in a TLC match, the match 95 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:13.680 that Edge himself made famous. So there were a lot of underlying storylines kind 96 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:22.560 of barreling towards ahead at this point in time in WWE, and to really 97 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:28.759 think about how significant this pay per view felt as a non A level pay 98 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.240 per view, as a B level pay per view, a pay per view 99 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:35.919 that doesn't even exist anymore, kind of tells you all you need to know 100 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:43.759 about the significance of this particular unforgiven and not just unforgiven in OH six, 101 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:50.360 but kind of the history of it and how you know this point in time, 102 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.000 usually following SummerSlam, we were accustomed to a pay per view that had 103 00:08:54.120 --> 00:09:00.159 so much lineage to it, and two thousand and six in Toronto was one 104 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:05.559 of the better ones. So we get the party started in a match for 105 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.480 the Intercontinental Championship with Johnny Nitro defending it against Jeff Hardy in a match that 106 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:20.159 when seventeen minutes and thirty six seconds with Johnny Nitro successfully retaining the Intercontinental Championship, 107 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:22.799 And it was crazy just to think that, you know, Johnny Nitro 108 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.000 breaking away from eminem along with Molina, who I believe was his real life 109 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:33.360 girlfriend at the time, becomes kind of a staple in that mid card scene 110 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.320 in on Monday Night Raw and one on one in a feud with Jeff Hardy, 111 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.279 just an absolutely great feud to kick off the show, a great match 112 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.960 and a really fun match for the mid Card Championship. Then Kane versus Oomaga 113 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.159 when seven minutes and three seconds that ended in a double count out. Cananomaga 114 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.519 kind of had a feud that started at the summer spilled out into the fall 115 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:03.840 kind Monserver versus Monster Umaga had been on the scene for I believe four months 116 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:09.200 at this point in time. He debuted after Wrestling at twenty two in April 117 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.320 of two thousand and six, so they were trying to push Umaga as a 118 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.679 big monster heel, and obviously Kane was kind of like the elder statesman of 119 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:24.519 monster heels in WWE, so he kind of was the benchmark for Umaga to 120 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:31.320 face off against. Then the Spirit Squad of Kenny and Mikey defending the World 121 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:37.519 Tag Team Championships against the Highlanders Robbie McAllister and Roy McAllister In eight mints and 122 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:43.879 fifty nine seconds, they successfully retained the championships. The Highlanders didn't last long. 123 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.960 Obviously they were they were from Scotland. They were kind of like the 124 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:56.159 predecessors to the Viking Raiders in a lot of ways, Like, obviously the 125 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:01.840 Viking Raiders more of a Scandinavians end, at least the characters are supposed to 126 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:07.759 be maybe Norwegian, but the Highlanders always kind of struck me as the I 127 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:13.159 don't know, like the toned down version, the less serious version of the 128 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.279 Viking Raiders. They didn't last long. I was gonna say they didn't have 129 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.039 as much success as the Viking Raiders, but I mean, I don't think 130 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.320 the Viking Raiders have had that much success in their own rights. They were 131 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.279 kind of like what would happen if the Viking Raiders Andrew McIntyre meshed together. 132 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:33.440 That was basically the Highlanders, but they never really did much of significance, 133 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.639 and the Spirit Squad, I'm sure not. 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The Spirit Squad 143 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.320 kind of became like the henchman to the McMahon family. So they get back 144 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:31.120 on the on their winning ways. Then we get to the three on two 145 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:39.320 handicap Hell in a Cell match that went twenty five minutes and five seconds of 146 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.759 Degeneration X, Shawn Michaels and Triple H versus the Big Show, the then 147 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:50.679 ECW World Champion mister McMahon and Shame McMahon, And I gotta tell you, 148 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.639 as far as hell and the Cell matches go, this is one that isn't 149 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:01.960 talked about a lot, but man, was it gory? Was it bloody? 150 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.159 It made a lot of sense. It was kind of slow at times, 151 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:13.039 but I remember the match started with them each Shawn Michaels and Triple H 152 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.039 simultaneously kicking a big show in the balls and takes him out of action. 153 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:22.600 They actually did it twice. But you know the Shay McMahon has always put 154 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.559 his like his body on the line. There was a really graphic scene where 155 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:33.000 Shawn Michaels gave him the elbow drop from the top rope with the ladder wrapped 156 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:41.000 around his neck and he was coughing up blood. And the ending to this 157 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:48.039 match in particular was one that was not only humorous but pretty graphic at the 158 00:13:48.120 --> 00:14:01.159 same time. The carnage were the cancel teach, how this helped him myself 159 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:09.720 over here tonight? How do you how this thing gonna end? 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And to this day, I'm not exactly sure how 182 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:48.119 they pulled off the sludgehammer spot, Like if you go back and watch it, 183 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.079 like I guess, he kind of hits the shaft of it across the 184 00:17:52.359 --> 00:18:00.880 back of the neck upper shoulder area, but it snaps like it completely snaps 185 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:06.319 off, And obviously they had to design the piece of wood in a way 186 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:11.200 that would break on impact like that. But it was a very grueling match, 187 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:15.400 and in a lot of ways, this was kind of like the final 188 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:22.759 time we would see Vince McMahon in a program of this magnitude from a physical 189 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:30.039 standpoint. Obviously that following WrestleMania he would feud with Donald Trump, but like 190 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.240 I guess, well, I guess the following year he would feud with Bobby 191 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.079 Lashley as well, and then they would have Brett Hard and then he would 192 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.599 team with Triple H and Shane to go up against Legacy. So I guess 193 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.680 this wasn't the final time we saw Vince mcman in a physical capacity, but 194 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:51.920 it felt like this was one of the more one of the last significant programs 195 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.920 that we would see Vince mcmah and, and you know, I guess two 196 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.640 thousand and six, he's what seventy nine, now seventy eight, So my 197 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.599 math isn't very good, as I always say, but that's seventeen years ago. 198 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:10.160 Wow, seventeen years ago. It's nuts to absolutely say. So he 199 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:11.559 was in his early sixties. We'll put it like that. He was in 200 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.839 his early sixties. 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They know what the ill ball you got 267 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:26.799 together trod of all my time time to time Christ Nagery lead up can't. 268 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:32.079 Can't we do it? Chick, get you do it to get what we 269 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:37.519 do it. We just don't believe that didn't work. I get either. 270 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.200 Here boy here, that's notched up with the w W W, the s 271 00:25:42.039 --> 00:26:00.279 O W and I put the play was masing know around who Hrish up you 272 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:45.359 bitty trying to get so on our way out. Tris Stratus wins the Women's 273 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:49.640 Championship against Lada, making her submit to the Sharpshooter, which Jerry Lawler eloquently 274 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:55.640 says the most Canadian submission move or something along those lines. A very Canadian 275 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:59.440 move, obviously with the history of Brett Hard and all that. But one 276 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.119 thing I just to comment on watching that clip back, and I don't mean 277 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:07.119 to, you know, dump on this match, but it is crazy how 278 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.160 far women's wrestling has come. Like Leda and Trish in their time were two 279 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.759 of the best, two of the best of all time period, trailblazers in 280 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.400 a lot of ways, but like when you watch the quality of the match 281 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:26.119 from seventeen years ago as opposed to Bianca Belair, Charlotte Flair, Ria Rip, 282 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.440 like Bailey Becky Lynch, the wrestlers of today, Sasha Banks when she 283 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:37.640 was in WWE. It is it's absolutely insane how how far women's wrestling has 284 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:45.319 come and how athletically just impressive the women are nowadays, and how you could 285 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.119 come away from a match from a pay per view oftentimes now saying like, 286 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.119 man, the women absolutely blew that out of the water and was the match 287 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.480 of the night. And not to say that Trish and Leda were bad. 288 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.319 They would put on admirable matches and we're two of the best at this point 289 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:03.000 in time. But a match that goes eleven and a half minutes and Trish 290 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:08.640 goes out on top as the WWE Women's Champion and Alito would step away from 291 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:15.279 wrestling to just a few short months later, then a bit of a come 292 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.400 down match in a lot of ways, we have Randy Orton defeat Carlito in 293 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:25.759 eight minutes and forty one seconds. Very forgettable period in Randy Orton's career two 294 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.599 thousand and six. I mean he really did not have a lot going on. 295 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:34.319 I mean, like you have Degeneration X and a Helen a Cell, 296 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.680 you have John c and versus Edge for the for the w w E Championship 297 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:45.359 main eventing the show, it was just a weird time for Randy Orton. 298 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.440 I read something actually last week that he was being punished because of his dad 299 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:55.480 because his dad had a match with the Undertaker in Helen a Cell, but 300 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:02.640 he was tested positive for hepatitis A or heptis or something and didn't tell anyone, 301 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:06.759 and Randy Orn was getting punished at the same time along with being just 302 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:11.759 a bad locker room guy. So crazy to see Randy Orn just somewhat in 303 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.359 a throwaway match against Carlaito in eight minutes and forty one seconds. Then we 304 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:22.119 get to the main event match, John Cena challenging Edge for the WWE Championship 305 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.680 in a TLC match, and had John Cena lost, he would have went 306 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:33.440 to SmackDown. So John Cena had been kind of in chase mode for this 307 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:38.960 WWE Championship since early June when he lost the title to Rob van dem at 308 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:45.359 One Night Stand. Edge was the man who costed John Cena the championship showing 309 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:49.200 up and I have a leather jacket and a motorcycle helmet. Then Rob van 310 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:53.279 Deem gets busted in real life for possession and I believe a dui and he 311 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:59.000 drops the title two Edge, I believe it would have vengeance, or it 312 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:02.279 might have been on Monday Night, but it was in late June. Vandam 313 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:06.119 held the ww Championship for less than a month, so Edge had been the 314 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:11.519 WWE Champion his second WWE championship in that calendar year. Obviously, Edge had 315 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:18.720 cashed in on John Cena New Year's Revolution in early January and subsequently dropped it 316 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:23.920 that same month at the Royal Rumble to John Cena. So Edge now on 317 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:29.519 his second run as ww E champion in OH six and him and John Cena 318 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:37.000 a very historic feud that culminates here at unforgiven in OH six in Edgees hometown 319 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:44.079 in his match, and an opportunity to send John Cena back to a brand 320 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.400 where he started and a brand that he had not been a part of for 321 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:52.839 about fourteen months or fifteen months actually, since being drafted to Monday and Night 322 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:57.079 Run early June of two thousand and five. So the cards seemingly stacked against 323 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:02.839 John Cena. Edge on a very solid run in his second stint as w 324 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.599 w E Champion, and it begged the question that in a match that went 325 00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:11.680 over twenty five minutes, how John Cena would ultimately come out the other side 326 00:31:12.519 --> 00:32:00.799 it's not it's John Singer. What is it that past one namel pitch tim 327 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:09.680 A thegree that's just checked down, im I don't they We're gonna see you 328 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:19.519 were leaved up involvement with former woman's kid bitch back in the far headcape back 329 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:27.000 in the equation to the beach champion, whom in his side of the wires 330 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:32.000 goverbos got time to time the latter the danger standing in the red dangerous for 331 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.160 sixteen foot water. This is stepped the fine career ending. Both men retackle 332 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:43.880 the the hell look at it, there's nothing. Oh my god, te 333 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:57.440 do this time? You just getting out here? No longer takes from a 334 00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:35.880 sixteen fu later. I'm same, John, Yes, John, Yeah. 335 00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:40.720 So John Cena ends the match by not owing not only f ewing and yes 336 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:45.319 fewing, not attitude adjusting at the time, but f ewing Alita, but 337 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:50.319 then also doing the same to edge off the top of a twenty foot ladder 338 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:54.039 through two tables. And John Cena, I don't think he gets enough credit 339 00:33:54.160 --> 00:34:00.640 for his facial reactions like we've often like recently we've been praising row and Reigns 340 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:04.160 for that quality. But John Cina, the way that he could kind of 341 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:10.559 tell a story with his face. I thought that he never got his true 342 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:14.679 a recognition for that, and when the match ended, it was almost like 343 00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:20.480 he just he couldn't believe where he had to take himself, what level he 344 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:23.719 had to go to defeat Edge. And I also think that in a losing 345 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:30.719 effort, this was almost the kind of match that solidified Edge as a main 346 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:36.840 event or and positioned him that in let's say a year's time, he would 347 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:40.199 be a consistent world champion, because it was I believe in the summer of 348 00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:45.519 two thousand and seven, after taking the briefcase away from mister Kennedy, that 349 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:49.920 he would go over to SmackDown, cash in on the Undertaker, and become 350 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:54.360 the World Heavyweight Champion, a championship that he held more than once until he 351 00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:01.159 eventually retired in two eleven. I believe it was so, and he would 352 00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:06.000 kind of become the face of SmackDown in a lot of ways, main eventing 353 00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:09.599 Wrestling at twenty four with the Undertaker, triple threat match with the Big Show 354 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:16.280 and John CeNAT Wrestling at twenty five defending the World Championship against Chris Jericho or 355 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:22.400 I believe he was challenging Jericho for the World Championship from Wrestling at twenty four 356 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.239 all the way until twenty seven, Edge was in every single match for the 357 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:32.320 World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania. So and I really do think that this match 358 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:37.159 was what put him over as a consistent main event ornbelievable because yes, he 359 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.320 lost, but it was to the guy who would be the face of the 360 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.199 company for the following seven or eight years and had been the face of the 361 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:51.199 company for well over a year at this point, but also showing what he 362 00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:54.840 would be able to endure in a match that he made famous along with others 363 00:35:55.280 --> 00:36:00.159 and in his home city. So I mean, for a B level pay 364 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:02.639 per view, Unforgiven two thousand and six was one hell of one and I 365 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.280 would highly suggest you guys to go check it out. But anyways, that's 366 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:09.679 all I got for you today. I hope you enjoyed this coverage of Unforgiven 367 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.239 two thousand and six. As always, you can get me on Twitter at 368 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:15.519 eight to Mark at twenty five. You can get Matt on Twitter at Wrestling 369 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.079 Underscore Audio, or you can email him each and every week for the WWE 370 00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:23.800 podcast Mailbag. Won't be doing a current state of WWE this coming week as 371 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:29.000 Matt is on vacation, so I will be talking to you guys next week. 372 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:31.599 Alright, it's time to give a huge shout out to the sponsor of 373 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:37.960 today's episode, Happy Hippo dot Com. So if you guys haven't checked this 374 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.320 out, you gotta go to Happy Hippo dot com because they have some of 375 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:46.639 the highest quality cradam products that I've ever come across. 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