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Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, welcome to a new episode of The Hearty
Speaker 3: Wrestling Podcast with your girl, Stephanie Hardy. Of course, if
Speaker 3: this isn't your first time listening to the show, thank
Speaker 3: you so much for continuing on this wrestling journey with me.
Speaker 3: And of course, if this is your first time listening
Speaker 3: to the show, welcome and thank you for joining and
Speaker 3: catching the vibes. Of course, this is your favorite, chill,
Speaker 3: positive and passionate wrestling show, and you know we're growing
Speaker 3: and we're doing amazing things. So thank you for joining
Speaker 3: me live if you are on here live on this
Speaker 3: Saturday night, And of course if you're listening to this later,
Speaker 3: thank you for listening to it later as you're working,
Speaker 3: as you're doing things, you know, getting your days started,
Speaker 3: or even just moving about in life. Just thank you
Speaker 3: so much for making room for me, well, making room
Speaker 3: in your life for me to be there, and you know,
Speaker 3: give you everything that's going on in my wrestling world
Speaker 3: from my perspective. So I'm just so happy to be
Speaker 3: able to do this show, and I just want to
Speaker 3: be grateful for that and just start off with that.
Speaker 3: Today is a somber day in the wrestling community as
Speaker 3: we commemorate the one year University of the passing of
Speaker 3: Bray Wyatt. He was such a creative force and it
Speaker 3: does not feel like it's been a year since he's
Speaker 3: been gone, but it and it also just doesn't feel fair.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, we still remember and hold
Speaker 3: all the memories close that we have of him, and
Speaker 3: keep his family lifted, his fiance Jojo, his children, and
Speaker 3: his entire family lifted as we try to navigate life
Speaker 3: without this amazing figure in wrestling, you know, in our lives.
Speaker 3: But of course the memory of him still lives as
Speaker 3: we see the evolution of the Wyatt six taking place,
Speaker 3: and it's just a really amazing salve to such a
Speaker 3: big blow. But I did want to just come on
Speaker 3: here and say something and just say that I always
Speaker 3: loved bray Waite and I always wanted the world for him,
Speaker 3: and it still just doesn't feel right that he's gone.
Speaker 3: But in the meantime, he'll always be remembered and loved
Speaker 3: by loved in this space and in the wrestling community
Speaker 3: as a whole. So I just wanted to at least
Speaker 3: start the show with that. But of course, if you
Speaker 3: are in the comments, you know, light up the chat
Speaker 3: and talk about anything that or speak out on whatever
Speaker 3: it is that you want to hear about when it
Speaker 3: comes to wrestling, and just you know, as the subjects
Speaker 3: keep coming up, you just continue to make your voices
Speaker 3: heard and you might wind up, you know, on the screen.
Speaker 3: So yeah, thank you all for watching on Facebook, on YouTube,
Speaker 3: on Twitter, on all the things. Thank you guys so
Speaker 3: so much for watching. So of course we have got
Speaker 3: to start off with sorry, technical difficulties with news and
Speaker 3: gossip ish and there's a lot happening in the world
Speaker 3: of professional wrestling. It's been a pretty chill week when
Speaker 3: it comes to the news in wrestling, but at the
Speaker 3: same time, lots of substantial things did take place and happen,
Speaker 3: so of course we got to get into all of
Speaker 3: the things. So Ricochet, or at least maybe the man
Speaker 3: formally known as Ricochet, maybe we'll still call him that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, has been reported as signing a multi
Speaker 3: year deal with ae W, and it was reported by
Speaker 3: Fightful Select that this seems to be, you know, a
Speaker 3: really legit thing. So he will be going forth with
Speaker 3: his the rest of his wrestling career at ae W,
Speaker 3: and it was very much highly speculated that he would
Speaker 3: be moving forward with this move due to the fact
Speaker 3: that this that the level of wrestling in AW is
Speaker 3: something that he is more used to as opposed to
Speaker 3: being in WA not really making it to the very
Speaker 3: top like he wanted to. So yeah, he is definitely
Speaker 3: expected to join ae W and he quietly signed a
Speaker 3: deal with the promotion and with the help of an agent,
Speaker 3: it is absolutely official. So with some with AW having
Speaker 3: so many actually not even so many events, with them
Speaker 3: having all in happening tomorrow and then having all out
Speaker 3: happen another like in another week, there's so much you know,
Speaker 3: speculation as to where he could possibly pop up, because
Speaker 3: as I will get into in this show, they will
Speaker 3: AW will be having a casino gauntlet match which has
Speaker 3: a number of participants in it, but they have not
Speaker 3: announced any other people who could be in it, and
Speaker 3: it could be a surprise type of thing, so Ricochet
Speaker 3: could pop up. You just never know. But we do
Speaker 3: send happy thoughts and happy trails to Ricochet as he
Speaker 3: starts this new chapter in his career. We're gonna miss
Speaker 3: him on the WW side of things, but it's gonna
Speaker 3: be cool to see what type of matches he participates
Speaker 3: in INNAW because of course he has that viral moment,
Speaker 3: that viral match with will Ospray, and they could run
Speaker 3: that back, and then there's a level of new talent
Speaker 3: that's there that he could fight with as well. So
Speaker 3: big ups to Ricochet for making this move for himself.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see what could happen with him there.
Speaker 3: Also in News and Gossip BSh, which really isn't news
Speaker 3: per se, but it's important for me, is the fact
Speaker 3: that this week I was able to talk to Joe
Speaker 3: Hendry on the phone on Busted Open Radio with Dave
Speaker 3: Legreca and Tommy Dreamer. Now what's so funny about this
Speaker 3: is is that this morning, well not this morning, but
Speaker 3: a few mornings ago, I was just ambling around on
Speaker 3: Twitter on my phone, I wasn't driving, and I saw
Speaker 3: the number four Busted Open Radio on a serious XEM
Speaker 3: and it said, you know you can call in and
Speaker 3: talk to Joe. And I was just like, hmm, let
Speaker 3: me see if I can call in and just get in,
Speaker 3: because of course, when you call in on the radio,
Speaker 3: it's not entirely guaranteed that you're gonna get in. But
Speaker 3: of course I called in and then the phone starts
Speaker 3: ringing and I'm like, oh my god, I'm about to
Speaker 3: talk to Joe Hendry. And the person answered the phone first.
Speaker 3: The person who was over the phone to answered the
Speaker 3: phone first. I told him my name, and then of
Speaker 3: course I finally got in and was able to listen
Speaker 3: in a little bit before I was able to talk
Speaker 3: to Joe Hendry, and Dave Logreca, who's like an OG
Speaker 3: in wrestling media, you know, asked me, why do you
Speaker 3: believe in Joe Hendry? And I said, because his theme
Speaker 3: song just elictened so much joy. And I talked about
Speaker 3: how I found him on TikTok and how, you know,
Speaker 3: I kind of just watched, you know, more of TNA
Speaker 3: to see what he's about, especially with the NXTNA thing
Speaker 3: going on, and I'm just really excited, you know, whenever
Speaker 3: his song comes on, because it has the crowd participation
Speaker 3: component of it with everybody waving their hands and singing along,
Speaker 3: and that's it's just my type of thing. So I
Speaker 3: was able to say that to him, and he sounded
Speaker 3: really excited about that. So I'm really happy to have
Speaker 3: gotten to talk to Joe Hendry, even if it was
Speaker 3: only for a few minutes. And maybe one day in
Speaker 3: the future I'll get to interview him, but at least
Speaker 3: I was able to talk to him over the phone
Speaker 3: on a Wednesday morning, the Wednesday after he won his
Speaker 3: opportunity to face ethan page for the NXT title at
Speaker 3: NX No Mercy. So that was just really cool and
Speaker 3: I just wanted to share that little bit of a tippit,
Speaker 3: even though I know it's not particularly on the news
Speaker 3: and gossipish side of things, I just wanted to talk
Speaker 3: about that because that was just really cool. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm really excited about that. Also in news and gossip ish,
Speaker 3: we have the report that aj Mendez's autobiography Crazy Is
Speaker 3: My Superpower is being developed into either a TV show
Speaker 3: or documentary for A and E. So for those who
Speaker 3: might need a little reminder and a refresher course, aj
Speaker 3: Mendez was a WWE d A Slash superstar who held
Speaker 3: the record for being one of the longest reigning Davis
Speaker 3: Champions and she was known as aj Lee back ind
Speaker 3: of the Day, and she went on to retire from
Speaker 3: WWE and she got married to CM Punk, so there,
Speaker 3: of course are a thing and they're an amazing couple,
Speaker 3: and CM Punk has alluded to her multiple times since
Speaker 3: he's returned to WWE, and a lot of people have
Speaker 3: been wondering whether or not she could come back if she,
Speaker 3: you know, wants to, but a lot of people don't
Speaker 3: realize that she really has like another career as a
Speaker 3: writer and as a producer of different things and comic
Speaker 3: books and such. And now it's being speculated that her tea,
Speaker 3: that her autobiography, Crazy at My Superpower, is going to
Speaker 3: be a TV show. So it was announced in twenty
Speaker 3: seventeen that you know, there was a show announcement. But
Speaker 3: then in an interview on the Comic on the Comic
Speaker 3: On regarding her comics status, she mentioned that the series
Speaker 3: was still in development, but that it was going to
Speaker 3: be airing on A and E whenever it eventually makes
Speaker 3: it to television, and she talked about how writing the
Speaker 3: book was always going to be a challenge because she's
Speaker 3: very guarded about her personal life, and how opening up
Speaker 3: was important even if it ended up being able to
Speaker 3: help someone, and she said, quote, it was an interesting
Speaker 3: struggle at first because I am the most private person
Speaker 3: in the world. I share nothing. I'm a brick wall.
Speaker 3: When you do have a lot, when you do have
Speaker 3: a lot of people listen to you, the things you
Speaker 3: say matter. There is value in that and you have
Speaker 3: to be considerate. I was willing to share this life
Speaker 3: lesson I learned embracing my mental health struggles. That's a
Speaker 3: piece of me I'm willing to share with the world
Speaker 3: if it can help other people. My book is very
Speaker 3: much about growing up in poverty, growing up homeless, and
Speaker 3: not understanding the mental illness that was getting in my
Speaker 3: body and within my family. So in this book, she
Speaker 3: was very open about her struggles with bipolar disorder and
Speaker 3: how she went on to find out that that's something
Speaker 3: that in a sense runs in her family. And she
Speaker 3: talked about all the ways in which she was able
Speaker 3: to combat that and overcome it so that she could
Speaker 3: be able to pursue her wrestling career and you know,
Speaker 3: just reached a level of success that she has. And
Speaker 3: it is such an amazing book. I read it when
Speaker 3: it first came out years ago, so I definitely recommend
Speaker 3: it if you haven't read it already. But yeah, like,
Speaker 3: it's a really good book, and I can't wait to
Speaker 3: see how, you know, it would come to life on
Speaker 3: television because there's a story there that definitely needs to
Speaker 3: be told and it needs to be uplifted. And then
Speaker 3: there's a level of storytelling within that that I'm not
Speaker 3: sure could just be kept like in say a one
Speaker 3: hour or even a one hour movie or something like that. Like,
Speaker 3: if it's in a series, it could easy, it could
Speaker 3: be easily digestible, and there's so much content that could
Speaker 3: be made from it. So I'm really excited about the
Speaker 3: fact that this could be a TV show. So big
Speaker 3: up to aj Mendez slash aj Lee and I can't
Speaker 3: wait to see how Crazy is My Superpower comes to
Speaker 3: be as a television series. Moving on to other parts
Speaker 3: of news and gossip ish, we found out this week
Speaker 3: the Triple H the c Wow, the CCO of WWE
Speaker 3: watches Twitter slash x It's really funny. Mike Johnson, a
Speaker 3: PW insider, wrote that he's been told that there are
Speaker 3: times where he's scrolling through Twitter from the gorilla position
Speaker 3: at the broadcast of Raw and SmackDown and NXC and
Speaker 3: paying very close attention to what the audience is doing
Speaker 3: and reacting to as the show is going on the air.
Speaker 3: And of course a lot of people you know said
Speaker 3: that this is a very smart move for him, and
Speaker 3: that even though he may have his creative plans in place,
Speaker 3: he's willing to gather reactions and opinions from fans across
Speaker 3: social media in an attempt to find out instantly what
Speaker 3: works and what does not. And I really do appreciate this,
Speaker 3: even though it low ki scares me a bit because
Speaker 3: there are times where I have live tweeted as well
Speaker 3: over the past few years and figured out, you know,
Speaker 3: what type of power that you know holds when you
Speaker 3: are a fan that's willing to speak out about the
Speaker 3: things and react to the things as you're watching it
Speaker 3: as you're live tweeting. So the idea that Triple H
Speaker 3: might be scrolling through on us and seeing things that
Speaker 3: we're saying is just really insane to think about. But
Speaker 3: it also lets you know that he really is, you know,
Speaker 3: keeping his finger on the pulse of what's relevant and
Speaker 3: what's going on and what's current. And I actually appreciate that.
Speaker 3: I actually like that in a leader where creatively he's seeing,
Speaker 3: you know, the things that people are saying about things
Speaker 3: and finding ways to sort of incorporate that. And we're
Speaker 3: seeing that more as WW continues to evolve as a product.
Speaker 3: So I'm really excited to know that Triple H is
Speaker 3: somewhere looking at us, you know, and wonder and seeing
Speaker 3: what we're saying in the ether and probably putting it
Speaker 3: into the show. But this was very fascinating and also
Speaker 3: kind of scary in a sense to you know, know about.
Speaker 3: But hey, big ups the Triple H for keeping his
Speaker 3: finger on the pulse of what's relevant. Also a news
Speaker 3: and gossip ish, we have Kenny Omega and an update
Speaker 3: on his injury. It was said by Dave Meltzer, who
Speaker 3: we do have to take with a grain of salt,
Speaker 3: that he is still in recovery from a number of
Speaker 3: surgeries that he had been having and dealing with, but
Speaker 3: that he could be returning to aw television soon. So hopefully,
Speaker 3: you know, Kenny Omega is healing up and that he
Speaker 3: can perform on a level of which you know that
Speaker 3: we that he can perform on, but then that we're
Speaker 3: also entertained from. I hope that he's, you know, doing
Speaker 3: all right. He has been missing from television for a
Speaker 3: minute now, and I'm hoping that maybe somehow this weekend
Speaker 3: or even within the next week, we can see him return.
Speaker 3: But if not, as long as he's taking his time
Speaker 3: to heal up, that's really all that truly matters, Because,
Speaker 3: of course, these wrestlers are human beings, and we have
Speaker 3: to remember that they deserve time to rest and get
Speaker 3: themselves situated before they could come on television and apart.
Speaker 3: Me wonders if he did return to AW, would he
Speaker 3: be a part of the elite as they continue to
Speaker 3: wreak havoc as being in charge of AW or would
Speaker 3: he buckegainst the system? No pun intended. Who knows, but
Speaker 3: as long as he, you know, is healthy, that's all
Speaker 3: that matters. So big ups to Kenny Omega. Also in
Speaker 3: News and Gossip Fish, we have former TNA president Scott
Speaker 3: the Moore speaking out a little bit more on what
Speaker 3: happened with his departure from TNA. He had an interview
Speaker 3: with Chris van Vliet on his show Insight. Shout out
Speaker 3: to him because I've actually met him a few times.
Speaker 3: He was really nice, he mentioned in the interview, and
Speaker 3: he was quoted as saying we saw things differently as
Speaker 3: far as how we wanted to proceed. So I think
Speaker 3: partially they just wanted their guys in charge. And I mean,
Speaker 3: I had a good seven years with those guys. But
Speaker 3: I'm not an anthem guy. I don't sit in that
Speaker 3: Toronto office. I have my thoughts and you could say
Speaker 3: it's my ego. I just don't think it was the
Speaker 3: right move, and I don't begrudge them. They're doing their thing.
Speaker 3: They're still going and they're going to run that company.
Speaker 3: I always say that everything is bigger than one person,
Speaker 3: even me. If I'm gone tomorrow, things will still go on.
Speaker 3: And he also spoke about the return of TNA Wrestling
Speaker 3: as a brand, because of course, for a few years
Speaker 3: it was called Impact Wrestling, but now it's TNA again,
Speaker 3: and he seemed like he was extremely excited to return
Speaker 3: to its roots on television because you know, I just
Speaker 3: remember that promo he cut where he said, if you
Speaker 3: have something you love, you don't let it die. You
Speaker 3: just you know, you might have to stay away from
Speaker 3: it a little bit, but eventually you have to come back.
Speaker 3: And he seemed very thrilled that Impact went back to
Speaker 3: being called TNA. It was just really cool for me,
Speaker 3: and that was a really amazing moment in wrestling, and
Speaker 3: it did kind of shock me because Scott de Moore
Speaker 3: seemed like he was very passionate about the TNA brand
Speaker 3: and restoring it, you know, to a level of its
Speaker 3: former glory, but sadly things didn't work out that way.
Speaker 3: And he was like, oh, but I am happy to
Speaker 3: hear that he is still rooting for the success of TNA,
Speaker 3: even if it doesn't involve him, because a lot of people,
Speaker 3: you know, could have been petty about that situation and said, oh, well,
Speaker 3: it'll be nothing without me, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But that's just not how life works. And I'm glad
Speaker 3: that he is looking at it from afar and still
Speaker 3: wishing it the very best. So big ups of Scott
Speaker 3: the Moore. He is a respected member of the wrestling
Speaker 3: community and I'm hoping, of course that down the line
Speaker 3: we will see him in wrestling again. I do believe
Speaker 3: he is, you know, running another promotion, so you know,
Speaker 3: he's doing fine, and I just can't wait to see
Speaker 3: more of what he does in wrestling as a whole. Now,
Speaker 3: something fascinating that has been happening in wrestling is that
Speaker 3: a lot of wrestling fans have been speculating about the
Speaker 3: status of the absolute Ricky Starks in aaw because he
Speaker 3: has not been on aw TV in a number of
Speaker 3: months and a lot of people were wondering, is he injured,
Speaker 3: is there another project going on, or is he sitting
Speaker 3: out his contract until he is ready to leave? Well,
Speaker 3: on the media call for all in aw President CEO,
Speaker 3: you know, creator Booker, all the things. Tony Kahan mentioned
Speaker 3: that and confirmed that Tony is still under contract with AAW. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's official, the CEO said it. So it's still very
Speaker 3: much true Ricky is still with AAW. Now, of course,
Speaker 3: there were a number of fans who were okay with
Speaker 3: this news. There were a number of fans who weren't
Speaker 3: okay with this news because they're kind of waiting for
Speaker 3: him to leave at this point, because they believe that
Speaker 3: his worth and his talents are being wasted because he's
Speaker 3: not on television right now. They feel like he could
Speaker 3: be active somewhere else. He would be better utilized in
Speaker 3: WWE or even in TNA or anywhere else at this point.
Speaker 3: But you really, it's hard to know. It's hard to
Speaker 3: you know, put together because at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: you know, this is Ricky's decision and he has to
Speaker 3: live with it. But I will say this, the first
Speaker 3: time I saw Ricky Starks wrestle and I heard him speak,
Speaker 3: I was just enthralled and I wanted the world for him,
Speaker 3: especially when he was in that world title picture with MJF.
Speaker 3: I wanted him to win so bad that winter is coming.
Speaker 3: But he did it. But he really had an amazing showing.
Speaker 3: So hopefully at some point, you know, as he stays
Speaker 3: in T not in T and A, I'm sorry, as
Speaker 3: he stays in AW, hopefully he'll be able to blaze
Speaker 3: another trail as he continues to succeed, and maybe, you know,
Speaker 3: he'll work his way back up to the top pretty soon.
Speaker 3: But if not, you know, it is his decision. So yeah,
Speaker 3: just wishing good vibes to Ricky Starks and all things
Speaker 3: and that hopefully maybe one day he'll play another multiversal gimbit,
Speaker 3: but that's another story for another day. Love to Ricky
Speaker 3: Starks always. Also in pretty disturbing and sad TNA news,
Speaker 3: former TNA champion Rich Swan was arrested on Juni eighth
Speaker 3: with an inn all Toamont Springs, Florida, in charge with
Speaker 3: disorderly public intoxication causing a disturbance and a miss, which
Speaker 3: is a misdemeanor fence and it's being reported that he
Speaker 3: is entering a substance abuse rehab program, which was told
Speaker 3: by Post Wrestling on Wednesday, and the company first learned
Speaker 3: of his arrest when we contacted when they contacted them
Speaker 3: on Monday for comment. And this made me sad to
Speaker 3: see because the first time I saw rich Swan was
Speaker 3: when he was in the cruiserweight division in WWE that
Speaker 3: they recently had that of course, is no longer a thing,
Speaker 3: and he was always the guy that was dancing around
Speaker 3: with the theme song and says can you handle it?
Speaker 3: Can you handle this? Can you handle this? And I
Speaker 3: thought he was cool. And then I met him after
Speaker 3: a SmackDown show here in Birmingham and he was so
Speaker 3: sweet and he actually signed my Raw Women's title and
Speaker 3: he was just really nice and I just really loved
Speaker 3: him in the ring. So of course things didn't work
Speaker 3: out with WWE. He left, and then he wound up
Speaker 3: signing with TNA and then he became a champion and
Speaker 3: that was really cool and I was happy about that.
Speaker 3: But he has had his struggles before and this seems
Speaker 3: to be, you know, another bump in the road with that.
Speaker 3: So hopefully at some point he will be you know,
Speaker 3: off the struggle bus and able to you know, get
Speaker 3: back to what really and truly, what truly matters is
Speaker 3: number one his health and number two his career. So
Speaker 3: big ups to Riches, well, not big upsir rich One.
Speaker 3: I hope that you continue to heal and get better
Speaker 3: from all of your crazy circumstances, and then you'll be
Speaker 3: back on television where you belong because you're super talented
Speaker 3: and you deserve all the good things. So yeah, we
Speaker 3: have Malcolm in the chat saying, rumor has it that
Speaker 3: AW is following WWE's footsteps for streaming services. Plus I'm
Speaker 3: hearing that they are dropping your price some Max can
Speaker 3: go and battle at Peacock, you know, thank you for that.
Speaker 3: I would actually love it if AW became a part
Speaker 3: of a streaming service because something that I thought was
Speaker 3: interesting about them is the fact that they have this
Speaker 3: you know, connection with Warner b but yet their stuff
Speaker 3: is not on HBO Max. And as a Max subscriber,
Speaker 3: I would really love being able to watch their pay
Speaker 3: per views on Max and already have that, you know,
Speaker 3: in my package, but somehow they don't do that. They're
Speaker 3: doing the traditional pay per view route. So if they
Speaker 3: are going into streaming, and that would definitely be helpful
Speaker 3: for people like me who prefer the whole streaming subscription
Speaker 3: thing as opposed to you know, the big pay per
Speaker 3: view thing where you have to pay a lot of
Speaker 3: money for that. So if that's true, then that's great.
Speaker 3: So thank you for that. Tibit Malcolm, thank you very
Speaker 3: much for your support and love. And also in news
Speaker 3: and gossip ish something hilarious but not really hilarious. I
Speaker 3: will say something that was really poignant that happened in
Speaker 3: wrestling this week was John Cena having an interview on
Speaker 3: Club Shasha with Shannon Sharp. Now, for those who may
Speaker 3: not know who Shannon Sharp is, he used to be
Speaker 3: an NFL football player. I believe he's a Hall of
Speaker 3: Famer point and he played football with his brother and
Speaker 3: now he's more of a sports commentator and a sports
Speaker 3: host that you can find on First Take. He used
Speaker 3: to be on Fox Sports with Skip Bayless and a
Speaker 3: lot of people don't like him. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: Shannon has his own audience and he has his own
Speaker 3: other show called Nightcap. So he had an interview with
Speaker 3: John Cena and it was very, very deep. I definitely
Speaker 3: recommend that you listen to it or watch it or whatever.
Speaker 3: And Shannon Sharpe asked him, who do you consider to
Speaker 3: be the greatest of all time when it comes to
Speaker 3: wrestling As a whole and you know, he named off
Speaker 3: Rick Flair, he named off a number of other people,
Speaker 3: and John Cena gave a really good answer that surprised
Speaker 3: a lot of people. He said that Roman Reigns is
Speaker 3: the greatest of all time. He basically said that in
Speaker 3: twenty twelve, the stock was traded at eleven dollars when
Speaker 3: it comes to WWE, but now w W and tk
Speaker 3: Ostock is now at one hundred and seventeen dollars and
Speaker 3: that's on Roman Rains's shoulders and there isn't a better
Speaker 3: indication of that. And that's really interesting because before you
Speaker 3: could argue that John Cena really did hold down the
Speaker 3: brand for a long period of time before he went
Speaker 3: into part time status. And there was a struggle with
Speaker 3: Roman Reigns at that time because they were trying so
Speaker 3: hard to make him into the next space instead of
Speaker 3: him naturally getting there, that fans was rejecting him. Fans
Speaker 3: were rejecting him left and right, and the fact that
Speaker 3: they kept putting him in main event circumstances, especially when
Speaker 3: it comes to WrestleMania, and them trusting him with so
Speaker 3: many titles and stuff like, it was clear that they
Speaker 3: were seeing something that the fans at the time just
Speaker 3: weren't singing it first. And the fact that he survived
Speaker 3: so much, like with his leukemia diagnosis and so many
Speaker 3: other things, to still be on top and still entertain
Speaker 3: us even when we weren't as grateful for it, and
Speaker 3: then went on to reinvent himself as the tribal chief
Speaker 3: now has just really been an insane ride. But you
Speaker 3: do have to give him credit where credit is due.
Speaker 3: Everything that was put in front of him, he was
Speaker 3: able to do well. And you could argue about it
Speaker 3: until the cows come home. I'm not gonna argue about
Speaker 3: it right now and right here, but John Cena's opinion
Speaker 3: does really hold a lot of weight here, and I'm
Speaker 3: more than sure that Roman might appreciate it. And we're
Speaker 3: definitely sending healing vibes to Roman Reigns, not only because
Speaker 3: he got beat up by his cousin, but because you know,
Speaker 3: in real life his family is dealing with another loss.
Speaker 3: So yeah, in John Sena's eyes, Roman Reigns is the
Speaker 3: greatest of all time, and you could argue whether or
Speaker 3: not it's valid, but at the same time, the numbers
Speaker 3: don't lie, So I think this is a cool co
Speaker 3: sign from a guy who is preparing to wrap up
Speaker 3: his career next year. So I think this was a
Speaker 3: really special little co sign here. And that is all
Speaker 3: for news and gossip ish and now we're gonna move
Speaker 3: to a special segment which is of course us well
Speaker 3: actually yeah, which is of course us giving our predictions
Speaker 3: for aw all In, which takes place tomorrow at Wimbley.
Speaker 3: It's really insane how this event has grown. Okay, Malcolm
Speaker 3: is asking, do you see John having one more title
Speaker 3: run before retiring. I'm not sure. I'm not entirely sure.
Speaker 3: But moving on into predictions for All In, like, this
Speaker 3: event has definitely grown as grown. And then of course
Speaker 3: last year they're first All In in London took place
Speaker 3: and it broke a lot of records in terms of attendance,
Speaker 3: even though you could argue about that as well, but
Speaker 3: at the same time it was still a huge deal
Speaker 3: for wrestling fans over there who at the time wasn't
Speaker 3: getting a lot of wrestling events that on that level
Speaker 3: and on that size, and now they are and it's
Speaker 3: just really great to see aaw being at the center
Speaker 3: of that. So of course this is their second All
Speaker 3: In in London and we're gonna give our predictions here,
Speaker 3: HWP predictions. So we're starting with the women, even though
Speaker 3: this is a mixed tag match. We have a zero
Speaker 3: hour match with Willow Nightingale, the CML Women's Champion and
Speaker 3: tomohiro E c E versus Chris Statlander and Stokely hath
Speaker 3: the Way. Now this is interesting considering Willow has been
Speaker 3: in a beef for Chris Statlander and Stokely had the
Speaker 3: Way over the past couple of months. Because of course,
Speaker 3: Willow lost her TBS titled to Mercedes Manet and after
Speaker 3: it happened, you know, she was feeling all kinds of sad,
Speaker 3: But then Chris Statlander stabbed her in the back and
Speaker 3: started attacking her after the match was over, and Stokely started,
Speaker 3: you know, just railroading her and disparaging her and talking
Speaker 3: trash about her. And Chris has also been running through
Speaker 3: competition and beating them left and right, and so Willo
Speaker 3: wants to get her pound of flesh and her revenge back.
Speaker 3: So as this is going on, we have this tag
Speaker 3: team match. And what's so funny is there is a
Speaker 3: stipulation in this tag team match that if either team wins,
Speaker 3: they get to choose the stipulation for Willow and Chris
Speaker 3: stat Lander's match at All Out, which has taking place
Speaker 3: in two weeks. So my prediction is that I see
Speaker 3: Chris and Stokely winning this match. And that's not because
Speaker 3: I don't believe in my girl Willow, because I have
Speaker 3: said multiple times on the show, I love Willow to death.
Speaker 3: I love her, love her, love her. But I feel
Speaker 3: because Stokely Hathaway doesn't really wrestle, I feel like they're
Speaker 3: gonna use some underhanded taxis to possibly win this match.
Speaker 3: They're gonna play dirty and it's gonna be really irritating,
Speaker 3: and then they're gonna choose the stipulation thinking it's gonna
Speaker 3: be you know, bad for Willow. But then once all
Speaker 3: out comes around, Willow is going to outdo Chris stat
Speaker 3: lerner wind up, you know, getting her pound of flesh
Speaker 3: and her revenge for their friendship ending the way that
Speaker 3: it did. So I'm predicting Chris and Stokely will win
Speaker 3: this match, but you know, Willow will ultimately come out
Speaker 3: the victor in a few weeks. So that's my prediction
Speaker 3: for that one. Now, moving on, we have this very
Speaker 3: high profile match in terms of the AW Women's division.
Speaker 3: You have the TBS and New Japan Strong Women's Champion
Speaker 3: Mercedes One day my goat going up against you could
Speaker 3: say one of the no, not even one of the
Speaker 3: possibly basically the face of AW in terms of historical record,
Speaker 3: Doctor Britt Baker D m D. Now, this is a
Speaker 3: dream match that I have been sort of cooking in
Speaker 3: my mind because of course, with mercedesman name being a
Speaker 3: free agent but then wrestling in New Japan and then
Speaker 3: stardom and not really knowing where she was gonna go
Speaker 3: last year, a part of me was just like, bro,
Speaker 3: what if she went to AW and then she fought
Speaker 3: Doctor Britt. That would be insane, right, So she signs
Speaker 3: with AAW. She's been having multiple matches with aw's best
Speaker 3: in their women's roster, defending her title left and right,
Speaker 3: and she's also preparing to defend New Japan's Strong women's
Speaker 3: title at Capital Collision as well against Mama Watanabe. And
Speaker 3: you know she's just doing her thing. But then Doctor
Speaker 3: Brit comes along and she wants to challenge Mercedes because
Speaker 3: Mercedes has been saying she's the new face of AAW's
Speaker 3: women's division, and of course Doctor Britt being the first
Speaker 3: woman to ever sign to aaw doesn't take too kindly
Speaker 3: to that. And so you know, you have a clash
Speaker 3: of the titans, and this is amazing for women's wrestling history,
Speaker 3: let me just say that. And it's also insane when
Speaker 3: you think about how last year Mercedes was in the
Speaker 3: audience for All In. Like she said in her newsletter
Speaker 3: called Maname Magazine, if you aren't subscribed to it, I
Speaker 3: definitely recommend it. It's a good bread every week. She
Speaker 3: said that Tony Kahan invited her to All In, and
Speaker 3: she came and had a good time, you know, just
Speaker 3: on some I love wrestling type of stuff, and she
Speaker 3: really enjoyed it. And now she's performing in it. And
Speaker 3: it's really cool how this is happening. So this is
Speaker 3: really hard to predict because both women are amazing in
Speaker 3: their own way. And even though it's really hard because
Speaker 3: it's just Mercedes is my goat, and I know that
Speaker 3: doctor Britt is definitely going to give her a run
Speaker 3: for her money and she might almost take the title
Speaker 3: from her. But then you also have the X factor
Speaker 3: of Mercedes having her muscle. Camille, the former longtime NWA
Speaker 3: Women's World champion by her side, and she could possibly cheat,
Speaker 3: you know, and stuff like that. And then of course,
Speaker 3: for all we know, we could have another group of
Speaker 3: women on Mercedes' side with the Monet Corporation, and you
Speaker 3: know that could you know, play a factor into things.
Speaker 3: But ultimately, I think I'm going to predict that Mercedes
Speaker 3: Manette is going to retain the TBS title. I believe
Speaker 3: she's had it for a while now, It's been maybe
Speaker 3: two or three months now, and I just don't want
Speaker 3: to see her give it up. At this point. I
Speaker 3: enjoy the esthetic of watching her have two belts and
Speaker 3: becoming a belt collector of sorts like she was in
Speaker 3: WW with the Golden Role Models with Bailey. I really
Speaker 3: like it. So I am gonna predict a Mercedes is
Speaker 3: gonna retain and we're gonna get a good match. But
Speaker 3: I feel like we're gonna get some shenanigans as well.
Speaker 3: So this is gonna be cool. I'm really here for it.
Speaker 3: But then you also have Doctor Britt who's also had
Speaker 3: people on her side as well, like Rebel or like
Speaker 3: Jamie Hayter, So you just never know what could happen here.
Speaker 3: Lots of shenanigans. Could take place, but I'm predicting that
Speaker 3: Mercedes is ultimately going to retain the title and it's
Speaker 3: gonna be cool. But for the sake of women's wrestling history,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be fantastic, and I'm happy that this
Speaker 3: is finally happening. And then of course you have the
Speaker 3: big one, the other big one, really aw and their
Speaker 3: Women's World Championship being defended by timeless Tony Storm and
Speaker 3: the glamour Mariah May. Now, of course, Mariah May has
Speaker 3: stabbed Tony Storm in the back and attacked her after
Speaker 3: winning the Women's owen Hart Cup tournament, and Tony Storm
Speaker 3: didn't take to this at all because, of course she
Speaker 3: was kind of ignoring her at first, but then Mariah
Speaker 3: was sort of begging to be in her orbit as
Speaker 3: her protege, and Tony finally embraced her and made her
Speaker 3: a part of things with Luther and stuff. And a
Speaker 3: part of me was wondering, like, is Mariah Bay gonna
Speaker 3: do her the same way Mickey James dietri Stratez back
Speaker 3: in the day, But for months it just didn't happen
Speaker 3: until it happened, and I was like, yo, this is crazy.
Speaker 3: So with this happening in this match taking place. I
Speaker 3: feel like it's gonna be really intense because when Mariah
Speaker 3: was bragging about it in her first promo after she
Speaker 3: attacked Tony, Tony got back at her finally and yelled
Speaker 3: her and said, are you prepare to die? Because I am?
Speaker 3: And that let me know everything I needed to know.
Speaker 3: That let me know everything I needed to know. So
Speaker 3: I feel like Mariah is an amazing wrestler. Her resume
Speaker 3: definitely speaks for itself when it comes to being the
Speaker 3: foreign Ace and just being a force in that type
Speaker 3: of wrestling as a whole, and then transitioning over to AW.
Speaker 3: But then you have Tony who essentially did the same thing,
Speaker 3: you know, and tried to make go of it in
Speaker 3: WWE and things turned out to be cool at first
Speaker 3: but then didn't work out immediately. But you know, now
Speaker 3: she's here in AW doing her thing, And honestly, this
Speaker 3: could go either way because Mariah May as a villain
Speaker 3: is very enthralling, but Tony has just had a stranglehold
Speaker 3: on that title, so it's really hard to tell, but
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to predict that Tony Storm is
Speaker 3: going to retain and she's going to get the upper
Speaker 3: hand over Mariah May as the teacher surpassing this student,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it's just gonna be really cool. I just
Speaker 3: really think Tony is just going to be very vicious
Speaker 3: towards her and it's just going to be a very
Speaker 3: entertaining bout for sure. So I'm really happy that this
Speaker 3: all in has three matches on it, if you count
Speaker 3: the zero hour, three women's matches on it, and it's
Speaker 3: just going to be really amazing. So big up to
Speaker 3: all these women for all of the work they've been
Speaker 3: doing for women's wrestling as a whole. So yeah, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be cool. So move to the men's matches. We
Speaker 3: have MJF versus will Osprey for the AAW American Championship.
Speaker 3: Now this is a lot different than what a lot
Speaker 3: of people were speculating was gonna happen with will Ospray
Speaker 3: once he signed to AW, they thought for sure he
Speaker 3: was going to be shot up to the world title
Speaker 3: picture with Swerve and he could possibly win in his
Speaker 3: home country. But of course that's not where we are.
Speaker 3: And now we're here and will Ospray had won the
Speaker 3: international title, but then he lost it to MJF and
Speaker 3: they've been having a beef going on ever since. But
Speaker 3: MJF took the international title and renamed it the American title,
Speaker 3: and it's just so weird and it just feels it
Speaker 3: just has really negative vibes to it for me. So
Speaker 3: because of that, I'm just hoping that will Ospray retains
Speaker 3: in his home country and turns it back into the
Speaker 3: international title, because I am definitely here for babyfaces getting
Speaker 3: their moment in their home countries, especially like London, in
Speaker 3: places like London that has a very passionate wrestling fan base,
Speaker 3: and Will Ospray is definitely a part of that fold.
Speaker 3: Hoping and predicting that will Osprey win, will win his
Speaker 3: title back and turn it back international the way that
Speaker 3: it deserves to be, because this flip flopping is just
Speaker 3: a little bit too much for me. It's too much.
Speaker 3: Just turn it back to what it was supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Win it back. Will please win it back for the
Speaker 3: win it back for me? Please? Will please? Bro? So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's my prediction for that. And then we have Jack
Speaker 3: Perry versus Darby Allen or in this case Darby all In.
Speaker 3: Y'all see what I did there. I'm corny for the
Speaker 3: championship in a coffin match. This graphic doesn't really you know,
Speaker 3: say that, but it has been announced as a coffin match.
Speaker 3: This is the wheelhouse for Darby Allen as he loves,
Speaker 3: you know, his signature coffin drop, and he also likes
Speaker 3: to destroy himself and matches like this, and actually so
Speaker 3: this so does Jack Perry. And I think this is
Speaker 3: interesting how he's holding a title in this pay per
Speaker 3: view where just last year he was attached to a
Speaker 3: very infamous incident which we won't be discussing at this
Speaker 3: pay per view or whatever, and now he's back and
Speaker 3: he's a heel and he's a champion, So it's just
Speaker 3: interesting what could happen in a whole year. And Jack
Speaker 3: Perry definitely has been working hard and he deserves to
Speaker 3: hold this title. And what's so funny is he's even
Speaker 3: making the title his own because he designed his own
Speaker 3: TNT championship because he's good at a trade. We are
Speaker 3: bigging up trades this year, So yeah, this is really interesting.
Speaker 3: Darby Allen is a multi time TNT champion and I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure he wouldn't mind having that title back, but
Speaker 3: simply because I feel like Jack Perry is really finding
Speaker 3: his own with the championship, and he hasn't held it
Speaker 3: for long. I think I'm just gonna predict that Jack
Speaker 3: Perry is going to win the match and at Darby Allen,
Speaker 3: yeah we'll be in a coffin, but somehow he'll find
Speaker 3: a way to do like an Undertaker and rise and
Speaker 3: all out. So yeah, Jack Perry, he's my prediction to
Speaker 3: win the match. He will retain his TNT Championship. But
Speaker 3: I feel like this is gonna be a very extreme match.
Speaker 3: But this is also not the only extreme match that's
Speaker 3: gonna take place on this card, so this is gonna
Speaker 3: be fun. But Jack Perry is definitely gonna win. And
Speaker 3: then of course we have the Casino Gauntlet match, which
Speaker 3: I mentioned prior in News and gossip Ish for a
Speaker 3: guaranteed world title opportunity. The people that have been announced
Speaker 3: as participants in this match is Orange Cassidy, Mark Brisco,
Speaker 3: who is the Ring of Honor World Champion, Kyle O'Reilly, Hangman,
Speaker 3: Adam Page, and Evil Uno. And because we don't know
Speaker 3: everyone who's going to be participating in this match, this
Speaker 3: leaves room for those amazing surprises that we love as
Speaker 3: wrestling fans, and this is where I feel that Ricochet
Speaker 3: might be making his debut, and if so, it would
Speaker 3: be amazing. If he did, it would be really crazy.
Speaker 3: If he won the whole thing and then got a
Speaker 3: world title shot, that would be really sick, because him
Speaker 3: versus swerve Her or him versus Brian Danielson would be amazing,
Speaker 3: a feast for the eyes in terms of wrestling. But
Speaker 3: of course you just have to wait and see what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen. But that's my prediction. I really feel that Ricochet,
Speaker 3: since he has signed with him, will make his debut
Speaker 3: in this match, and of course if he doesn't, then
Speaker 3: chalk it up to just me being wrong and just
Speaker 3: putting stuff out there in the universe. But you know,
Speaker 3: you just never know, so I'm just putting that out there,
Speaker 3: so hey, it's cool, It's fine. Then, of course, we
Speaker 3: have the FTW Championship match between the Learning Tree, Chris
Speaker 3: Jericho and Hook, and there is another extra stipulation with
Speaker 3: this match where if Hook loses, he can no longer
Speaker 3: challenge for the FTW Championship as long as Chris Jericho
Speaker 3: holds it, and of course, if he wins it, he'll
Speaker 3: just win it, and you know, everybody'll be happy. Hook
Speaker 3: has definitely done his thing with the FTW title, which
Speaker 3: was created and curated by his father Task, but it
Speaker 3: seems that that's really the only title he's been able
Speaker 3: to hold. I think, if I'm not mistaken, please correct
Speaker 3: me in the chat if I'm wrong. And I know
Speaker 3: that that title is essentially sort of like his birthright
Speaker 3: and his baby, so a part of me would like
Speaker 3: to see him move towards something else because he really
Speaker 3: is a good wrestler. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 3: I would love to see him win this title back
Speaker 3: because Chris Jericho just does not seem like the right
Speaker 3: person to be holding this type of title. I just
Speaker 3: don't think this title was made for someone of Chris
Speaker 3: Jericho's ilk as a wrestler. So I'm predicting that Hook,
Speaker 3: you know, will win the title back, even though there
Speaker 3: is a deep part of me that would like to
Speaker 3: see him challenge, you know, for other titles as well.
Speaker 3: And that's no shade or anything, but you know, that's
Speaker 3: just how I feel creatively. But you know, I'm predicting
Speaker 3: that Hook will win it back simply just to give
Speaker 3: Chris Jericho a foil and just make him cry and
Speaker 3: you know all that other stuff. But then of course
Speaker 3: they're also shenanigans that could take place because he has
Speaker 3: his students that could you know, interfere on his behalf.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Brian Keith because I just love that
Speaker 3: he's on a big show like that. So big up
Speaker 3: to the Bounty Hunter, even though I know that's not
Speaker 3: his name. I know he's the bad Apple, but to me,
Speaker 3: he'll always be the bounty Hunter Bounty Keith. So yeah.
Speaker 3: Then we have the AW World Tag Team Championship Match.
Speaker 3: It's a triple threat between FTR, the Young Bucks and
Speaker 3: also the Runners of a W the President's ce Brows.
Speaker 3: I guess you could say Matt and Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, Why am I blank on
Speaker 3: his name? I know they're not Matt and Jove. I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 3: I am really blanking on his name right now. And
Speaker 3: The Acclaimed. This is interesting because a lot of people
Speaker 3: feel like The Acclaimed has seemed to have lost a
Speaker 3: level of their luster since they've sort of you know,
Speaker 3: lost the trio's titles at one point, and they're just
Speaker 3: not you know, clicking as much as they used to,
Speaker 3: and they feel like the raps that are coming from
Speaker 3: Old Dude just aren't hitting the same and they're just
Speaker 3: bordering more so on inappropriate and a lot of people
Speaker 3: are calling for Anthony Bowen's to be set free from
Speaker 3: Max Caster, and it's just really insane how it's happening.
Speaker 3: But you know, that's just how people are feeling in
Speaker 3: the restling streets. So I don't know this is, but
Speaker 3: I do know that this has the makings of being
Speaker 3: another tag team classic. When it comes to these three
Speaker 3: tag teams, they're really good. Of course, the FTR at
Speaker 3: this point is basically Tag Team Royalty. I never get
Speaker 3: bored in a match that they're in. I just never do,
Speaker 3: because they're just they've always been amazing, even when they
Speaker 3: were the Revival in an XT like, they never they
Speaker 3: just never bore you at all. And then you have
Speaker 3: the Young Bucks who are just trying to, you know,
Speaker 3: be all evil and powerful now. So I'm predicting that
Speaker 3: maybe FTR could win this match simply because they could
Speaker 3: out wrestle everyone here. But you also have the Acclaimed,
Speaker 3: who seem to be very hungry to get back to
Speaker 3: their former glory. So I'm not going to count them
Speaker 3: out either. But I'm definitely predicting that FTR could win
Speaker 3: this tag team title match and then just send the
Speaker 3: Young Bucks in a tailspin and just make them go wild.
Speaker 3: But you just never know. Also in the ringside Club,
Speaker 3: someone else also mentioned the idea of the Acclaim possibly
Speaker 3: turning heel on Billy Gunn and that would be very
Speaker 3: painful because I mean, why would you turn heel on
Speaker 3: Daddy ass like that? Like that would suck. Or they
Speaker 3: mentioned the fact that maybe Max Caster could turn on
Speaker 3: Anthony and that would suck too, because that would just
Speaker 3: be very painful. But you just never know with shows
Speaker 3: like this because it's so big and there's so many
Speaker 3: stories that could be told here, so you just never know.
Speaker 3: But I'm predicting FTR as the winners of this match.
Speaker 3: And then of course we have the World Trios Championship Match.
Speaker 3: This is I believe a four way London ladder match
Speaker 3: between the Patriarchy, the Bang Bang Gang, House of Black
Speaker 3: and POC and Black Combat Club. This is crazy. This
Speaker 3: is another extreme match that is taking place on this card,
Speaker 3: and just for the sake of time, I'm just going
Speaker 3: to predict that the House of Black is going to
Speaker 3: win because they're my favorite trios team out of everyone
Speaker 3: in this whole group. I know the Patriarchy have been
Speaker 3: going on a reign of terror lately, but I would
Speaker 3: just really love it if House of Black were to
Speaker 3: be able to win because I just want to see
Speaker 3: Buddy and Malachi and Brody win things like I just
Speaker 3: want to see them win things. They're just dark and
Speaker 3: creepy and I just want the House to win at
Speaker 3: some point at this point, So yeah, I want them
Speaker 3: to be the Trios Champions. But either way, this match
Speaker 3: is going to be wild because their letters involved, and
Speaker 3: this match is just going to be the textbook definition
Speaker 3: of let the bodies hit the floor. So yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what this is going to be, and I'm excited about it,
Speaker 3: but I'm predicting Howse of Black will win. And finally,
Speaker 3: we have the career versus title match between Brian Danielson
Speaker 3: and Swerve Strickland for the AW World Championship. Now, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna say that though Swerve and I have had well,
Speaker 3: like I know him, I don't know him, but when
Speaker 3: it comes to different ways of seeing things in terms
Speaker 3: of blackness, I have had my disagreements with some of
Speaker 3: the things the Swerve has done. But something that I
Speaker 3: will never take away from the man is the fact
Speaker 3: that he has worked himself. He has worked himself ragged
Speaker 3: to prove that he could be a top guy in
Speaker 3: a company. Because I remember the first time I saw
Speaker 3: him in two o five Live and NXT, I always
Speaker 3: felt that he was incredibly talented, and I just wanted
Speaker 3: the world for him because I just saw all the talent,
Speaker 3: all of the ooze that he had. I just I
Speaker 3: just wanted the very best for him from a wrestling
Speaker 3: fan standpoint. And then him and hit row that was
Speaker 3: a whole thing. But then just watching him rise in
Speaker 3: AAW and make something big of himself has been astounding
Speaker 3: to watch. And I will give him all the credit
Speaker 3: in the world for all of the history that he
Speaker 3: has made for Black wrestling as a whole. And I'm just,
Speaker 3: you know, proud of the fact that he is the
Speaker 3: first Black AW World Champion, and hopefully there will be
Speaker 3: many more after him, you know, once all this is,
Speaker 3: once his reign is over, I hope that there are
Speaker 3: more Black AW World Champions after him, because he has
Speaker 3: set the president for it and he has done it
Speaker 3: and that's just really great for him. And you have
Speaker 3: Brian Danielson who has this storied career that has just
Speaker 3: been at the very top and then it sort of
Speaker 3: had a middle ground where it ended or where we
Speaker 3: thought it ended, and then his health was back and
Speaker 3: forth and he was finally able to come back, and
Speaker 3: then he did his things in AW well in WWE,
Speaker 3: and they came over to AW to have a different
Speaker 3: levels of matches that he used to have, And that's
Speaker 3: something that I do appreciate as well. And I just
Speaker 3: appreciate his presence in wrestling as a whole because I
Speaker 3: just feel like he's made it better. He really has
Speaker 3: made wrestling better for a lot of people coming after him.
Speaker 3: So from a history standpoint, this is going to be
Speaker 3: a very emotional match for sure, And you could argue
Speaker 3: that Brian Danielson really has not had a really huge,
Speaker 3: big fat moment that matches up to the one that
Speaker 3: he had at WrestleMania thirty at Yesslemania, So it would
Speaker 3: be really cool if he did win, And I feel
Speaker 3: like it would take nothing away from Swerve at this point.
Speaker 3: Even though a lot of people are saying it will,
Speaker 3: I don't think it will at all, So huh, I
Speaker 3: think of predicting that maybe Brian will win this match
Speaker 3: and he will have his big moment, and that maybe
Speaker 3: he will still retire and he'll have the distinction of
Speaker 3: retiring as champion because no one in a w has
Speaker 3: ever done that before. It has been done in wrestling before,
Speaker 3: because I remember Trius Stratus did it, but of course
Speaker 3: she came back, but whatever she did, retire as champion,
Speaker 3: and I'm not entirely sure if it's been done before
Speaker 3: in other spaces, but that's just the one that is
Speaker 3: in my mind in terms of recent history. So it
Speaker 3: would be cool if that would happen for Brian Danielson,
Speaker 3: for him to win the title and then retire as champion,
Speaker 3: so he can just go home and live a blessed
Speaker 3: and prosperous life, you know, and not be a full
Speaker 3: time person, a full time wrestler. So that would be
Speaker 3: really cool. And I just feel that it won't take
Speaker 3: anything from Swerve because he has worked very hard to
Speaker 3: get to this point. So yeah, Brian Danielson is my prediction.
Speaker 3: And of course this is all taking place tomorrow on
Speaker 3: pay per view and it's going to be in Wembley
Speaker 3: in London, which means for us over here in the US,
Speaker 3: it'll be earlier in the day and not really late
Speaker 3: at night, so it's gonna be cool. So yeah, aw,
Speaker 3: those are all of my predictions for all in and
Speaker 3: now we're going to move into what I liked in
Speaker 3: wrestling this week. So this past weekend was the one
Speaker 3: hundred and first episode of Wild Superheroes, and one of
Speaker 3: their matches that definitely stood out to me from a
Speaker 3: technical standpoint was Princess Ozzy versus Genesis the Battle of
Speaker 3: the Australian Women, and this was their second match against
Speaker 3: each other, and now Princess Ozzy is two to zero
Speaker 3: against Genesis and I did talk more about it on
Speaker 3: Stephan Kat Talk Wow this week, so please go back
Speaker 3: to our YouTube channels and watch the episode if you
Speaker 3: missed it. But this match was really amazing and I
Speaker 3: just wanted to discuss it and give it its flowers
Speaker 3: on HWP because it was just really amazing from a
Speaker 3: technical standpoint, and Princess Ozzie just had a lot of
Speaker 3: fire in this match and Genesi has had a lot
Speaker 3: of mouth, but either way, it was still a great
Speaker 3: bout and I definitely recommend you go and watch it
Speaker 3: because it's really good. Wow is continuing to have really
Speaker 3: good matches, and of course they have started taping for
Speaker 3: season three, so eventually that's gonna get started airing, so
Speaker 3: I'm just really excited about that. But yeah, go back
Speaker 3: and watch Genesis versus Princess Ozzie because it was really good.
Speaker 3: Now moving into what I liked on Monday Night Raw
Speaker 3: this week, I loved the performance of Maxine Dupree against
Speaker 3: Ivy Nile. For the short bit of time that they
Speaker 3: did wrestle. Maxine came in hot and of course Ivy
Speaker 3: now has stabbed her in the back. They were best friends,
Speaker 3: but Ivy now has joined up with the Creed Brothers
Speaker 3: and Chad Gable in American Maid, and Maxine to pre
Speaker 3: cut a scathing promo on her phone and posted it
Speaker 3: to social media and just wanted to get her look back.
Speaker 3: So as she got her lick back, you know, she
Speaker 3: came in hot with a drop kick to Ivan out
Speaker 3: as she was making her entrance, the bell didn't even
Speaker 3: ring yet, she was just going ham and then she
Speaker 3: hit the suplex outside of the ring. That was fantastic,
Speaker 3: But of course, before the match even got underway, towards
Speaker 3: its midpoint. I mean, I gets attacked by Nikki Crust
Speaker 3: and the Wyatt Six, and of course American Maid tried
Speaker 3: to come out there and help, but of course there
Speaker 3: was no help against these menacing crazy people, and they
Speaker 3: came out there and destroyed American Maid again. So this
Speaker 3: of course led into the announcement that Chad Gable will
Speaker 3: be fighting Uncle Howdie Slash Boa Dallas this coming Monday,
Speaker 3: and I'm really excited about that, And of course the
Speaker 3: timing of it is just really crazy given what today is,
Speaker 3: but I'm just really excited to see this match take place.
Speaker 3: I just really love this feud because, as you can
Speaker 3: see with the posts and with so many things that
Speaker 3: the Wyat six has been talking about in their promos,
Speaker 3: they are targeting Chad Gable because he's just abusing the
Speaker 3: idea of family when they take family very seriously. And
Speaker 3: I just love it. I just love everything about the
Speaker 3: Wyat six and everything that they stand for. Except the
Speaker 3: one thing that the one nitpick that I had about
Speaker 3: this segment was that Ivy Nile and Nikki Cross had
Speaker 3: a little bit of a fight going on, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't that much dedicated to them as women before the
Speaker 3: men jumped in. And that's something that I find a
Speaker 3: little bit irritating because even with Niki Cross's segment, when
Speaker 3: they had all of the different promos from all the
Speaker 3: members of the WYAT six, Nicki didn't speak that much,
Speaker 3: if not at all, and as the only female member
Speaker 3: of the Wyaed six, I wanted to hear more from
Speaker 3: her and her motivations of joining up with the family,
Speaker 3: and it just doesn't seem like they're feeding into that
Speaker 3: a whole lot. Or maybe she is just meant to
Speaker 3: be the crazy person just attacking people. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but either way, I would have liked to see more
Speaker 3: of what her mindset is. Because we've heard verbally from
Speaker 3: the other male members, I want to hear more from
Speaker 3: Nicki as the only female. But other than that, I
Speaker 3: loved everything about the segment. It was great, it was cool.
Speaker 3: I loved it. Another thing I loved in terms of
Speaker 3: the women. On Monday NIGHTRA was the triple threat match
Speaker 3: for the women's tag team titles, with ailid On and
Speaker 3: Alba Fire going up against Toxic Not Toxic. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I am so sorry. I'm getting all these names mixed
Speaker 3: up in my head forgive me y'all against Damage Control
Speaker 3: and the Pure Fusion Collective, and this match was really good.
Speaker 3: It was relatively smooth. You saw a lot of what
Speaker 3: all of these tag teams had to offer. But the
Speaker 3: thing that I liked the most about the match was
Speaker 3: how it ended, and that was with the Unholy Union
Speaker 3: retaining their titles in a very slick way, like they
Speaker 3: out maneuvered the other tag teams because they were hitting
Speaker 3: all of their moves and such, but because they tagged
Speaker 3: each other and the tag teams didn't notice it, but
Speaker 3: of course Aja Smith, the referee noticed it. It was
Speaker 3: just like, okay, you didn't see what was going on
Speaker 3: and their strategy, and they wound up retaining that way.
Speaker 3: And I appreciated that, and also I appreciated the aesthetic
Speaker 3: of seeing this triple threat women's tag team hatch take place.
Speaker 3: And then you had Aja's the referee, and then you
Speaker 3: had Samantha Irvin, you know, announcing it. That was really cool.
Speaker 3: I just really love it when all the women are
Speaker 3: collectively together that way, it just it flows perfectly on
Speaker 3: the eyes. I love it. So I love the match.
Speaker 3: I love the way it ended. And then once it ended,
Speaker 3: that was when I realized that the writing was on
Speaker 3: the wall and that the Unholy Union are gonna have
Speaker 3: to face Bianca and Jade. Yes, so I was really
Speaker 3: cool with that and I love this match, so it
Speaker 3: was great, and yeah they retained, so that was cool.
Speaker 3: Now I gotta discuss the Judgment Day of it all,
Speaker 3: and of course you see in this picture the Judgment Day,
Speaker 3: or at least the Judgment Day three point zero attacked
Speaker 3: Riha and Damien because Damien had a schedule match against Dominic.
Speaker 3: But Rhea told him, like, I really feel like this
Speaker 3: might be a trap. But then he said, look, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna go out there anyone and fight them, and
Speaker 3: she believed in him or whatnot. So he came out
Speaker 3: there and before the match even got started, he gets
Speaker 3: attacked by everybody in Judgment Day three point zero and
Speaker 3: then Rhea comes out there to try to even the
Speaker 3: odds and attack live, but the numbers game got ahead
Speaker 3: of them, and this was how Judgment Day was standing.
Speaker 3: But before all of this, and after you could say real,
Speaker 3: Ripley cut a promo on liv Morgan and called her
Speaker 3: and basically said that you became the one thing that
Speaker 3: you hate the most a Discount Real Ripley, and I
Speaker 3: wanted to die when she said that, and I was
Speaker 3: just like, so lived and became a Discount Real Ripley,
Speaker 3: a bargain Town Real Ripley, a Dollar General Real Ripley,
Speaker 3: a family dollar Real Ripley, essentially a ninety nine cents
Speaker 3: store in La Real Ripley. And she's not wrong because, yeah,
Speaker 3: although liv said that I was going to take everything
Speaker 3: you love in this revenge to her, essentially, she's been
Speaker 3: doing all the bidding for the judgment day and helping
Speaker 3: Dominic win his matches and everything the same way riare
Speaker 3: used to. And it's just girl, it's giving, single white
Speaker 3: female like it's giving. I want your life and everything
Speaker 3: in it. And she didn't lie, not once. Now after
Speaker 3: the attack, Live cut a promo on her and said
Speaker 3: that at Bash and Berlin in their mixed tag that
Speaker 3: she was gonna make Ria her bitch. And something that
Speaker 3: was gross was the fact that Dominic said, Ooh, I
Speaker 3: like it when you talk dirty, and I'm just like, ugh,
Speaker 3: can y'all just stop. If it's one thing that I
Speaker 3: can't stand about Dominic and Live as a couple, it's
Speaker 3: just how delusional they are they are absolutely delulu and
Speaker 3: thinking that they're the most powerful couple in WWE. And
Speaker 3: I'm just like, y'all just got together. You ain't been
Speaker 3: together five minutes, and y'all are already calling y'allselves the
Speaker 3: most dominant couple. I guess, just forget Randy and Randy
Speaker 3: and Elizabeth, just forget China and Eddie, just forget everybody else,
Speaker 3: forget Tripleation, Stiffney, y'all are the most dominant couple. And
Speaker 3: even forget Mantes and Bianca, y'all are the most dominant couple.
Speaker 3: Baby bye. And then the thing that it just irritates
Speaker 3: me the most is that every time you see Live,
Speaker 3: it's like it's almost like to the point where you
Speaker 3: barely see her with the women's title anymore. It's like
Speaker 3: you see her hanging on dominant like a dead animal
Speaker 3: all the time. And it's just like, girls, stand up,
Speaker 3: please stand up. You are weak in the knees. Stand up.
Speaker 3: It's just so irritating for me. And they're just so gross.
Speaker 3: It's just they just make me want to throw up
Speaker 3: every time them, and it's just they're just the worst.
Speaker 3: I hate it. I hate it. I just hate it,
Speaker 3: and I love love, but I hate this, so yeah,
Speaker 3: that was crazy. Now, when it comes to the man,
Speaker 3: I definitely recommend that you go and watch the Raw
Speaker 3: match between Seamus and Pete Dunne. This was a very
Speaker 3: hard hitting European UK strong style type of match, and
Speaker 3: if you don't watch it for anything else, just watch
Speaker 3: it for the visual of watching Shamus rip his wrist
Speaker 3: out of a turnbuckle in order to knock the heck
Speaker 3: out of Pete dunn That was fire and I really
Speaker 3: appreciated that. Like Shamus did that for us. He did
Speaker 3: that for himself, but he did that for us, and
Speaker 3: I just appreciated it. That match was fantastic. I loved it.
Speaker 3: So go and watch that match. And then of course
Speaker 3: we have this hilarious moment with CM punk coming out
Speaker 3: to cut a promo and to ask for a strap
Speaker 3: match at Bash in Berlin with Drew McIntyre. Now last
Speaker 3: week on Raw or depending on when you listen to it,
Speaker 3: two weeks ago on Raw, he attacked Drew McIntyre and
Speaker 3: beat him with a belt the same way some of
Speaker 3: our parents used to do. And Drew McIntyre posting on
Speaker 3: social media all of the welts that he had from
Speaker 3: getting hit with Cmpunk's belt. So Ciampunk comes out here
Speaker 3: cuts a promo this past Monday with the strap around
Speaker 3: his neck, after talking about how fun of a time
Speaker 3: he had a fanatics vests and stuff and all the
Speaker 3: bracelets that he had and stuff, and of course tying
Speaker 3: it in with the bracelet that Drew McIntyre has, and
Speaker 3: talked about how he wants to tie Drew McIntyre to
Speaker 3: him so he can beat him up with a strap
Speaker 3: and a strap and it's very old school because of
Speaker 3: course in a strap match, not only are you beating
Speaker 3: your opponent to a bloody of pulp and wrestling them down,
Speaker 3: you have to go around and touch every turn buckle
Speaker 3: in order to you know, win the match as well.
Speaker 3: It's a very old school concept and Teampunk is a
Speaker 3: wrestling scholar, so he definitely knew that. And I'm glad
Speaker 3: that he said that for the people who might not
Speaker 3: necessarily know that because strap matches don't happen that often.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he went on to say I want a
Speaker 3: strap match because I want to whip this bitch, and
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh, I like this. I like
Speaker 3: hearing him, you know, talk like that, Like I like
Speaker 3: he's very sincere about when he wants to destroy someone,
Speaker 3: and I just really loved it. And then when it
Speaker 3: came to all of the friendship bracelets that he wound
Speaker 3: up getting at Fanatics fast, he said, yeah, it might
Speaker 3: be a Taylor Swift thing, but face it, I'm Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift for men, and I laughed so hard. You know,
Speaker 3: it's really funny because in certain wrestling circles, people really
Speaker 3: do think that he's the He's the problem, just like
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift's song anti Hero, it's me, Hi the problem,
Speaker 3: It's me and it just fits. And someone online made
Speaker 3: this picture where it's seeing Punk the Aeros tour, and
Speaker 3: you could argue that him being back in WW is
Speaker 3: low key on some era stuff because when he came back,
Speaker 3: you know, you saw all of his old logos on
Speaker 3: the screen and stuff like that, and then he has
Speaker 3: the newer stuff out too, and they're selling his older merchandise.
Speaker 3: So at this rate, he's essentially on his own errors tours.
Speaker 3: So seeing Punk is essentially the Taylor Swift for men,
Speaker 3: and he's not wrong, and it made me really cackle
Speaker 3: really loud. So, yeah, this was just really funny, and
Speaker 3: I just really feel and in my mind, which is
Speaker 3: like the title of this episode. If Ceing Punk is
Speaker 3: the Taylor Swift for men, then Roman Range is Beyonce
Speaker 3: for men. So this is where we're at. It's just
Speaker 3: really funny where we're at. So I'm happy that we're
Speaker 3: getting this strap match at Bash and Berlin. No, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be lit. Now. Another part of Raw that was very,
Speaker 3: very heartfelt but also heartbreaking is of course the tension
Speaker 3: that's going on in the New Day between Kofee Kings
Speaker 3: and an Xavier Woods and them adopting Obdously Jones into
Speaker 3: the fold now. Of course, Kofe said that he ran
Speaker 3: into Odyssey when he was training at the Performance Center,
Speaker 3: you know, getting back in shape after his injury, and
Speaker 3: Exavier was like, okay, you know, why are you doing this?
Speaker 3: He didn't necessarily like it, Like his body language literally
Speaker 3: said I don't like this, and he pulled Kofee to
Speaker 3: the side, having you know, and asked him like, bro, like,
Speaker 3: even though you know you were you felt like you
Speaker 3: were doing a good thing. I wish you had talked
Speaker 3: to me first, because I don't like the idea of
Speaker 3: us possibly replacing Big E, Like I just don't want
Speaker 3: to do that, and Kofe told him and reassured him
Speaker 3: and said, look, we're not replacing big E. It's just that,
Speaker 3: you know, Honesty was just looking for a place of
Speaker 3: belonging since he, you know, is just finding his way
Speaker 3: in w W. And then he said, you remember how
Speaker 3: it was when we were in WW trying to find
Speaker 3: our place, you know, and you know, people were trying
Speaker 3: to take us under our wing because a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't remember when Xavier came up to the main roster,
Speaker 3: he was an attag team with our truth. A lot
Speaker 3: of people don't remember that. And then when Kofe came up,
Speaker 3: he kind of came up by himself. But still, you know,
Speaker 3: he found his way that way, so and he probably
Speaker 3: wished he had somebody take him under his wings. So
Speaker 3: I guess he calls himself banging forward now in a
Speaker 3: full circle moment. But Xavier was like, okay, well, let
Speaker 3: me just fix myself, you know in the way that
Speaker 3: I'm you know, looking at it. And of course they
Speaker 3: went on to their tag team match against the Final Testament,
Speaker 3: who they've been beefing with the past couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: and Kofe was fighting in the match, and when he
Speaker 3: was struggling to reach for the corner, he decided to
Speaker 3: tag in Odyssey except for Xavier, and look at Xavier's face.
Speaker 3: He did not like it. And if it's one thing
Speaker 3: us virgos do, if we don't tell you how we
Speaker 3: feel immediately, you don't see it on our face. And
Speaker 3: that's exactly what he did. They zoomed in on his
Speaker 3: face and everything. The cameraman are so petty, but they
Speaker 3: really zoomed in on his face like he did not
Speaker 3: like the fact that Kofe did not tag him in,
Speaker 3: and it was just so sad. And they went on
Speaker 3: to win the match because Odyssey is a very powerful
Speaker 3: man and he was a big difference maker in that match,
Speaker 3: but Xavier was not happy about it. And this is
Speaker 3: breaking my heart because I am such such a big
Speaker 3: New Day fan and I have championed them on this
Speaker 3: show multiple times and talked about them on other shows
Speaker 3: and just loving everything that they've done as a whole
Speaker 3: for Black wrestling and just for wrestling as a whole,
Speaker 3: and how I feel that in my mind they're the
Speaker 3: greatest faction of all time. Now, of course, people can
Speaker 3: argue about it all they want to but in my mind,
Speaker 3: when it comes to impact as a whole and just
Speaker 3: what they offer, they're just the greatest faction of all time.
Speaker 3: And to see them sort of struggle for relevancy without
Speaker 3: Biggie because he got injured years ago, and then not
Speaker 3: be on top, you know, in terms of Tag Team
Speaker 3: Gold on the main roster, because they did win Tag
Speaker 3: Team Gold on NXT, but then they came to the
Speaker 3: main roster and they haven't really won Tag Team Gold
Speaker 3: in a while. And then to see them be this
Speaker 3: at odds has just been so hurtful, and I don't
Speaker 3: want to see them break up. Whether it's Xavier doing
Speaker 3: the turn or whether it's Kofe doing the possible turn.
Speaker 3: Either way, I don't want to see it happen because
Speaker 3: they offer so much joy and happiness and I just
Speaker 3: love everything about them, So watching them end when it's
Speaker 3: been so long ten years, it's just, oh my god,
Speaker 3: it's just gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt so bad, and
Speaker 3: I'm not ready for it. And I was almost afraid
Speaker 3: that it was gonna happen this Monday or this past Monday.
Speaker 3: But they're stretching it and there's the possibility that it
Speaker 3: could happen the first week of September, which would break
Speaker 3: my heart because me and Xavier's birthday is September the fourth,
Speaker 3: and I don't want that to be the vibes for
Speaker 3: my birthday week.
Speaker 2: But oh my god, no, So yeah, this hurts. It
Speaker 2: hurts so bad, but this is where we're at. Fix
Speaker 2: it Jesus.
Speaker 3: So yeah, moving on into what else I liked and
Speaker 3: wrestling this week, it was I definitely loved seeing Team
Speaker 3: WWE for the men and the women on Celebrity Family
Speaker 3: Feud with Steve Harvey. This came on before, well not before,
Speaker 3: just came on during NXT, which Loki irritated me, but
Speaker 3: at the same time, I was still happy because I
Speaker 3: wanted to see how they were going to perform on
Speaker 3: the show and wound up only being thirty minutes. So
Speaker 3: this was amazing and very entertaining. And Team Women one
Speaker 3: and for those who don't know, Bianca Bianca Bela, Zelena Vega,
Speaker 3: Jade Cargill, Meechen and Sonya Deville were on the teams
Speaker 3: for the women and the team for the men were
Speaker 3: montes Ford and Angelo Dawkins, Austin Theory, Bobby Lashley. Before
Speaker 3: of course he left Wfbe and La Night, so they
Speaker 3: put up a really good fight, but then the women
Speaker 3: wound up winning and Bianca even gave pretty hilarious answers
Speaker 3: if you did not see it online. And then another
Speaker 3: funny moment happened where we saw Zelena Vega standing up
Speaker 3: on a stool because she is short. She is a
Speaker 3: short queen and though she had on platform boots, she
Speaker 3: still had to stand on a stool for the microphone.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I love my sweet Zelena. She's so amazing,
Speaker 3: and you know, she did great on the show, as
Speaker 3: did everyone. But I was really happy that the women
Speaker 3: got the win, and of course all of their earnings
Speaker 3: went to Connor's cure, so that's really great. And this
Speaker 3: was a very enjoyable thirty minutes of celebrity family feud.
Speaker 3: So if you did not watch it when it aired,
Speaker 3: you can go and watch it on Hulu because I
Speaker 3: was on an ABC, so please watch it, Please watch it.
Speaker 3: It was fun. Now after this part went off, I
Speaker 3: was able to watch NXT and the part that we
Speaker 3: came in on was Lolavis versus Wendy ch This match
Speaker 3: was relatively good. Something that I am loving seeing is
Speaker 3: the evolution of Wendy Chu's sleepy character. She's basically a
Speaker 3: sleep paralysis demon and it's just really amazing to see
Speaker 3: her doing this and seeing her fight against someone like Lolavice,
Speaker 3: who you know, has had a pretty stellar year for
Speaker 3: the mill'st part. I believe yeah, Wendy ch wound up
Speaker 3: winning this match because she used her pillow which was
Speaker 3: loaded with Kolonie Jordan's NXT Women's North American title that
Speaker 3: she had taken, and she smacked her across the head
Speaker 3: with it, and she wound up winning. But then there
Speaker 3: was the distraction that happened from Klanie Jordan coming in
Speaker 3: and confronting Wendy Chew for stealing her title, and then
Speaker 3: Lola wound up giving a back a spinning backfist to
Speaker 3: Kilani which knocked her out temporarily, and then Wendy Chu
Speaker 3: wound up, you know, taking advantage, and then of course
Speaker 3: Kilanie beat up on Wendy and got her title back
Speaker 3: and stood tall. So this gives us a notion, well,
Speaker 3: the indication that Kilanie and Wendy will be fighting for
Speaker 3: the Women's North American title at No Mercy in two weeks,
Speaker 3: So this is gonna be interesting. I know, on the
Speaker 3: Ringside Club if you haven't watched that episode over there,
Speaker 3: one of the hosts was kind of saying that they
Speaker 3: feel like Kilani is a placeholder, But honestly, I disagree
Speaker 3: with that because Klannie for her to be the first
Speaker 3: ever champion, that has a big distinction to it, and
Speaker 3: I don't think she's a placeholder for anyone because when
Speaker 3: you're the first ever champion, you have to, you know,
Speaker 3: go into it with the notion that you're going to
Speaker 3: make this title yours while also you know, making it
Speaker 3: more and exposing it more, you know, in terms of
Speaker 3: how you're gonna fight for And she's been doing an
Speaker 3: excellent job and considering you know, she had had different
Speaker 3: moments where she made it almost to the top of
Speaker 3: things like with the Deadline match, like with the like
Speaker 3: with the Iron Survivor Match and the Women's Breakout Tournament,
Speaker 3: and she didn't win. It made sense for her to
Speaker 3: win the North American titles. So yeah, she isn't a placeholder.
Speaker 3: She's a really great first ever champion. So yeah, let's
Speaker 3: not stop. Let's stop playing on Colonie Jordan's top. Okay,
Speaker 3: Like this is Klonie Van dam and she is her
Speaker 3: for a reason, so yeah, her growth is amazing. Then
Speaker 3: we had the debut of a new three woman faction
Speaker 3: called Fatal Influence, which of course is centered on Fallon Henley,
Speaker 3: j C. Jane formerly of Tousic Attraction, and Jay You
Speaker 3: and Jasminick's who is more so of a newcomer. And this,
Speaker 3: of course, this faction I kind of saw coming because
Speaker 3: they've sort of been, you know, fighting for each other
Speaker 3: and taking up for each other when it comes to
Speaker 3: certain causes. They feel like a lot of the women
Speaker 3: who are coming in who are a little bit newer
Speaker 3: than they are are sort of coming in and having
Speaker 3: too much dip on their chips, so they want to
Speaker 3: you know, humble them. But what's so funny is Jasminick
Speaker 3: sort of falls under that category, but she subscribes to
Speaker 3: their way of thinking, hence why she's joined them. And
Speaker 3: a lot of people online were saying that this is
Speaker 3: kind of like Toxic Attraction two point zero, But I
Speaker 3: don't think this is what that is at all, because
Speaker 3: Toxic Attraction was sort of based off of their wrestling ability, yes,
Speaker 3: but also their badness mixed in with their sensual sex appeal.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like sex appeal is a part of
Speaker 3: Fatal Influence at all. It's something completely different. And the
Speaker 3: fact that jac Jane has built herself up to this
Speaker 3: point to become more of an NXT veteran and having
Speaker 3: her own faction in his way is pretty astounding in
Speaker 3: and of itself. Now, a part of me hopes that
Speaker 3: Gigi Dolan can come back and have the same luck
Speaker 3: once she heals up from her injury. But yeah, Fatal
Speaker 3: Influence is its own thing, and I think we should
Speaker 3: judge it as its own thing and not call it
Speaker 3: tossic attraction because it's not. It's literally not. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I like the the promo that they cut. The only
Speaker 3: downside I would find to this is the fact that
Speaker 3: Fallen kept saying, you know, when she turned here that
Speaker 3: Fallon comes first. So how are you gonna come first
Speaker 3: if you're in a group with other people the same
Speaker 3: way that you once were with Briggs and Jensen. But
Speaker 3: I guess we just got to see how it works.
Speaker 3: So yeah. Another thing that I loved with the Women
Speaker 3: Me's Division and NX is Jada Parker becoming the number
Speaker 3: one contender to face off against roxand Perez for the
Speaker 3: NXT Women's Championship. Jada Parker is somebody who is gradually
Speaker 3: evolving more with her in ring game, and she definitely
Speaker 3: has her persona on lock, Like, her attitude is absolutely there.
Speaker 3: She definitely believes in herself, and you also just can't
Speaker 3: stop looking at her because she's such a beautiful woman,
Speaker 3: and you know, and a lot of people of course,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people love her because of the
Speaker 3: beauty part, but you also have to look at her
Speaker 3: n ringwork too, and it's definitely getting better and evolving.
Speaker 3: And because she has had so much of a blazing
Speaker 3: trail so far, it makes sense that she is the
Speaker 3: number one contender for the title and to face off
Speaker 3: against someone like Roxanne Perez, who is a veteran in wrestling,
Speaker 3: for someone as young as she is, like, it's just
Speaker 3: astounding to see, you know, these young women just holding
Speaker 3: down the fort when it comes to, you know, their
Speaker 3: evolutions in women's wrestling. So I'm excited about the match.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about Jada Parker's trajectory. The only thing that
Speaker 3: sort of makes me sad and upsets me about this though,
Speaker 3: is the fact that when it comes to Roxyanne A
Speaker 3: lot of people have been speculating that since the signings
Speaker 3: of Julia and Stephanie Vakuor have become public, they're speculating
Speaker 3: highly that Julia and Stephanie could be the top two
Speaker 3: contenders for the NXT women's title once they do make
Speaker 3: their debuts. And I feel like that essentially would be
Speaker 3: unfair to the girls like Jada Parker and like soul Ruka,
Speaker 3: and like so many others who have not had a
Speaker 3: chance at the NXC women's title, who came up through
Speaker 3: the NXC system, you know, and looking to cut their
Speaker 3: teeth for that type of title. I don't feel like
Speaker 3: that's fair to them. So if we get to Know Mercy,
Speaker 3: and I'm more than sure I'll be doing a prediction
Speaker 3: show for NXC No Mercy. If we get to No
Speaker 3: Mercy and Jada does win, I would prefer to see
Speaker 3: Rock Sane feud against either Julia or Stephanie in non
Speaker 3: title work before she's called up to the main roster.
Speaker 3: That's just my preference. I would just prefer if these
Speaker 3: two women are gonna come up, that you don't have
Speaker 3: them when you know, qualify for a title immediately, when
Speaker 3: you have so many other women young women that who
Speaker 3: have not had a chance. So that's just sort of
Speaker 3: my two cents on that, but you know, that's just
Speaker 3: how I feel about it. But big ups to Jada
Speaker 3: Parker for becoming a contender for it. Now, when it
Speaker 3: comes to nx's men, something that I liked from a
Speaker 3: very womanly perspective was the match between Ashanti the Adonnas
Speaker 3: and Dion Lennox. And it had been a minute since
Speaker 3: we had seen Dion Lennox on NX television proper. I
Speaker 3: know he had been doing his thing on NX Level Up,
Speaker 3: which comes on on Fridays. But one of the things
Speaker 3: that people have been talking about on social media with
Speaker 3: Dion is the fact that along with his glasses and everything,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people were calling him Clark Kent
Speaker 3: or whatever. He fine, He's fine. He definitely fits my
Speaker 3: type of bit and Ashanti Theodonnas is of course jealous
Speaker 3: of him because he seems to be a very cool,
Speaker 3: introverted bookworm who tends to get get women's attention without
Speaker 3: trying so hard, whereas Ashante the Adonnas tries super hard
Speaker 3: to get the ladies to get his attention, and that's
Speaker 3: really what the where the match came from, and of
Speaker 3: course Ashanti the Adot wound up winning, but a lot
Speaker 3: of girls and some of the girls in the audience
Speaker 3: were checking out Dion Lennox because he has that body
Speaker 3: like he is buff, and he has that look, and
Speaker 3: he has that sort of sweet attitude that a lot
Speaker 3: of girls, you know, and gays are probably looking for.
Speaker 3: You know, we like a good looking god with sweet
Speaker 3: attitude who doesn't, you know, objectify women and try to
Speaker 3: make it seem like, oh well, I'm something to conquer
Speaker 3: or something like that, like Ashati the Adonis is basically
Speaker 3: like he's the guy who knows he's hot and feels
Speaker 3: like other women should just he just tries to act
Speaker 3: like he's God's gift to women and that's not cute.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he wound up winning, but Dion Lennox is
Speaker 3: the one who really has it together, so it's cool. Also,
Speaker 3: this is a Javon Evans stand account and I just
Speaker 3: want to say that even though he didn't have a
Speaker 3: match this week, he had a promo backstage where he
Speaker 3: was watching over the Heritage Cup. And let me just say,
Speaker 3: every time Javon Evan speaks, he reminds me so much
Speaker 3: of my sister, because he's twenty years old and he's
Speaker 3: just so young, and just hearing him speak just reminds
Speaker 3: me that there are so many people, so many young
Speaker 3: people underneath you that are coming with their own lingo
Speaker 3: and their own personalities, and I just love seeing that
Speaker 3: highlighted on television in Javon Evans, and he's just so
Speaker 3: talented and I just want the world for him. So
Speaker 3: I just wanted to say that even though he did
Speaker 3: not have a match this week. So yeah, love to
Speaker 3: Javon Evans. And then of course when it comes to
Speaker 3: Joe Hendry, he was able to qualify as number one
Speaker 3: contender for Ethan Pages, which I hate saying NXT Championship
Speaker 3: because he was in a triple threat against Wesley and
Speaker 3: Pete Dunn and he wound up coming out on top,
Speaker 3: even though Evil Ethan Page kept trying oh I skipped ahead,
Speaker 3: kept trying to keep the referees from counting one, two,
Speaker 3: three for him. As it turns out, when Pete Done
Speaker 3: tried to take advantage trick, Williams gave him the trick
Speaker 3: shot knee knocked him out, and then the other referee
Speaker 3: who got pulled away counted the one, two, three, four
Speaker 3: Joe Hendry before Ethan was able to interrupt it, and
Speaker 3: now TNA's Joe Hendry is a number one contender. This
Speaker 3: is amazing. And I'm not just saying that because I
Speaker 3: talked to him on the phone this week. I'm saying
Speaker 3: it because you know, if you know his journey, it's
Speaker 3: just really amazing to see someone like him, you know, me,
Speaker 3: have this viral success and then have success on two
Speaker 3: different brands, and then to have him on this worldwide brand,
Speaker 3: you know, and qualify to face off against Ethan Page.
Speaker 3: It's just amazing. It's just really great. And I hope
Speaker 3: he does beat Ethan Page because it would just be
Speaker 3: really cool to see because I don't want just the
Speaker 3: NX TNA partnership to just be the NXT people beating
Speaker 3: the TNA people. That's just not what I want. Because
Speaker 3: when Rock Sane beat Jordan Grace for the NXC women's
Speaker 3: title at Battleground, that made me sad because you had
Speaker 3: so many dignitaries from TNA and the audience, and the
Speaker 3: idea that Jordan lost the way she did with the
Speaker 3: Shenanigans and stuff just upset me. So I don't want
Speaker 3: it to be a constant record of TNA people losing
Speaker 3: to NXT people, because it's making it seem like the
Speaker 3: partnership is one sided, like it's only making one side
Speaker 3: look strong while making the other side look weak. I
Speaker 3: don't want that. So if Joe Hendry were to pull
Speaker 3: an upset and win this title, I would be very
Speaker 3: excited about that, but my excitement would also be twofold
Speaker 3: because it would be taking the title away from someone
Speaker 3: who just fell into winning the title off of Trick Williams.
Speaker 3: And I feel like ultimately Trick william should still be
Speaker 3: NXC champion right now in my opinion, because based off
Speaker 3: of the logic that I had in talking about the
Speaker 3: Julia and Stephanie of a core argument, you could argue
Speaker 3: the same thing about Ethan Page, Like he just signed
Speaker 3: with NX after leaving a W and yeah, his going
Speaker 3: aw wasn't as the top guy and he probably wanted
Speaker 3: something different for himself and I appreciate that, But don't
Speaker 3: dethrone the people in NX who've been working their way
Speaker 3: up just because you want a shock value thing. Like
Speaker 3: I just don't feel like that's fair to all of
Speaker 3: those people who work, you know, in the PC all
Speaker 3: that time to win the title and then you know,
Speaker 3: put a stamp on it, only for them to lose
Speaker 3: to someone who just got there and is just looking
Speaker 3: for an opportunity to be a top person somewhere else.
Speaker 3: That's just not fair. I feel like Trick Williams should
Speaker 3: definitely still be NX champion because he worked his way up.
Speaker 3: He beat carmel O Hayes twice in two high profile matches.
Speaker 3: He beat Ilia Dragon off for the title. I feel like, creatively,
Speaker 3: there was so much more that you could have done
Speaker 3: to solidify Trick Williams as a champion. And yes, you
Speaker 3: could argue that he could have won, that he could
Speaker 3: win the title back at any point, but taking it
Speaker 3: off of him just did not work for me. I
Speaker 3: did not like it. I didn't. It made me sad.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but I am hoping for Joe Hendry to
Speaker 3: do his very best in his match. I will be
Speaker 3: doing predictions for No Mercy coming up, so be on
Speaker 3: the lookout for that. And that's all I liked in NXT.
Speaker 3: So now we're gonna move to the SmackDown side of
Speaker 3: things because I tried to move too fast. And let
Speaker 3: me just say these three women never ceased to amaze
Speaker 3: me and never cease to make me proud to be
Speaker 3: a black female wrestling fan. To watch these three their
Speaker 3: powers again after months because they hadn't wrestled in a
Speaker 3: match together since WrestleMania, and to see them fight Blair
Speaker 3: Davenport in the Unholy Union and come out victorious on
Speaker 3: SmackDown when for weeks we did not see a lot
Speaker 3: of black victories up until now meant the world to me.
Speaker 3: And to see them dressed in their gear which was
Speaker 3: paying tribute to Team USA, and then to wear it
Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. Of all places too, It just
Speaker 3: meant the world to me. And for them to pay
Speaker 3: tribute to, you know, the Goat, Simone Biles and Team
Speaker 3: USA as a whole, it was just so beautiful. And
Speaker 3: watching Naomi, you know, get the finishing move and penning
Speaker 3: Blair Davenport was just so amazing. So just this visual
Speaker 3: and seeing these women together just heals my soul in
Speaker 3: a lot of places. And this came during a week
Speaker 3: where we saw, you know, not to get political, but
Speaker 3: where we saw a black and Asian woman take the
Speaker 3: nomination for the Democratic Party for President of the United States.
Speaker 3: It just means so much for representation, and this is
Speaker 3: something that I hope continues to happen and just continues
Speaker 3: to flourish when it comes to WWE. I just love it.
Speaker 3: I just loved every inch of it. And I want
Speaker 3: this picture and every other picture that they took together
Speaker 3: at WrestleMania on my wall somewhere if I get in
Speaker 3: office or something like. I just feel like pictures of
Speaker 3: them should low key be on the level of pictures
Speaker 3: of Obama and pictures of Martin Luther King and just
Speaker 3: so many black iconic figures, because they just do it
Speaker 3: for me every time. I'm so proud of Biancle Blair,
Speaker 3: Naomi and Jade Cargill and hopefully Jade and beyond Uncle
Speaker 3: can win the tag titles at Bash and Berlin because
Speaker 3: they've definitely earned their opportunity. And yeah, I just I
Speaker 3: just love these women. I love, love love these women.
Speaker 3: I'm just so grateful to be alive during this point
Speaker 3: of history where we have these women succeeding in wrestling,
Speaker 3: succeeding in w w E, but then also just black
Speaker 3: women as a whole, succeeding in wrestling as a whole
Speaker 3: in a w and everywhere else. So it's beautiful. So
Speaker 3: moving on before I get even more emotional. Yeah, their
Speaker 3: gear paid tribute to Simone Bile. Shout out to mellow
Speaker 3: Is Money on social media for putting the collage together.
Speaker 3: That was cool, so thank you for that. And also
Speaker 3: speaking of other black women, Black and Asian women at
Speaker 3: that Nietzschen had her own segment where she was talking
Speaker 3: about struggles that she based as a wrestler, and then
Speaker 3: she got on social media and posted a note where
Speaker 3: she shared a bit of her personal story where people
Speaker 3: sort of underestimated her in her abilities and her wanting
Speaker 3: to be excuse me wanting to be a wrestler, and
Speaker 3: telling her that she should just be a doctor or
Speaker 3: a lawyer, and telling her that she didn't have the
Speaker 3: right look or that she wasn't good enough to be
Speaker 3: a wrestler. But how she proved all of her daughters wrong.
Speaker 3: Seeing her get this type of segment was really amazing.
Speaker 3: And of course she got this segment because she got
Speaker 3: a title match against Naya Jacks in a street fight
Speaker 3: on SmackDown next Friday in Berlin. So this is an
Speaker 3: amazing opportunity for her. This isn't her first women's championship match,
Speaker 3: because she did have one it gets Eo Sky last
Speaker 3: year and that was really good. But this street fight
Speaker 3: is going to be pretty intense. I'm excited about it,
Speaker 3: and I'm glad that Mitschin has that opportunity, So big
Speaker 3: ups to her and big ups for Representation for that
Speaker 3: as well. And of course you have Naya here listening
Speaker 3: to Chelsea Green and Piper Nivin talk about her behind
Speaker 3: her back and her Queen's court with miss Money in
Speaker 3: the bank Tiffany Stratton and how they feel like Tiffany
Speaker 3: is just gonna stab her in the back eventually, so
Speaker 3: she didn't like that. But either way, the women are
Speaker 3: popping off on the Blue brand, and I'm happy about
Speaker 3: it now with the men on SmackDown, Carmelo Hayes was
Speaker 3: in the barbershop bragging about finally beating Andrade. And as
Speaker 3: happy as I was that Carmelo beat finally got one
Speaker 3: over on Androde because I need him to win matches more,
Speaker 3: Androde invaded the barbershop and told him, like, the way
Speaker 3: you disrespected me last week was terrible. So because you
Speaker 3: disrespected me that way, we're going to have another match.
Speaker 3: So next week, maybe next week or maybe in two
Speaker 3: weeks we don't know, we will be getting Carmelo versus
Speaker 3: Andrade four, and I'm happy about that. Something that people
Speaker 3: have been talking about and that I've even discussed in
Speaker 3: other places on social media is Carmelo Hayes's trajectory since
Speaker 3: he's been brought up on the main roster. He was
Speaker 3: the number one pick for the men on SmackDown because
Speaker 3: of course Roman was picked, but then he wasn't really
Speaker 3: in the draft in that way. I feel like for
Speaker 3: somebody like him who made a big shot and challenged
Speaker 3: Cody Rose, he just seems to be losing a whole lot.
Speaker 3: And you have someone like him who came up at
Speaker 3: the same time in NXY as bron Breaker, and I
Speaker 3: think this is something that could be seen in terms
Speaker 3: of storytelling purposes, even though they're on two separate brands.
Speaker 3: Bron Breaker seemed to have the rocket strap to him
Speaker 3: really quick quickly on NXT because he was a two
Speaker 3: time NX champion before Carmelo ultimately had his chance as
Speaker 3: NXC champion, and you could argue that they were always
Speaker 3: neck and neck with each other, but it really seems like,
Speaker 3: you know, there's a whole lot of emphasis being placed
Speaker 3: on Braun and then there's emphasis being placed on Carmelo
Speaker 3: but not in the same way, and that worries me
Speaker 3: a little bit. But then at the same time, since
Speaker 3: they're giving him all this time on television, I'm not
Speaker 3: as worried. But at the same time, I'm really rooting
Speaker 3: for Carmelo Hayes to get his things because he is
Speaker 3: so so talented. I've talked about it numerous times on
Speaker 3: this show. I've interviewed him before. Like y'all seen all
Speaker 3: of my Carmelo content, and if you haven't, please go
Speaker 3: back and listen to it and watch it because it's great.
Speaker 3: But I just want Carmelo to have his shining moment
Speaker 3: as the future of SmackDown or as the future of
Speaker 3: WW like the other call ups have been, you know,
Speaker 3: or some of the other call ups have been, you know,
Speaker 3: getting to shine on And he's been getting his shine
Speaker 3: on too, just in a different way. But I just
Speaker 3: want more from him. I want more victories. I want
Speaker 3: him to qualify for more things, like I want him
Speaker 3: to challenge La Night for the United States Championship. I
Speaker 3: want John Cena to face him during his farewell tour
Speaker 3: because they're two different generations of wrestlers from Massachusetts. I
Speaker 3: want the world for Carmelo Hayes, Okay, and I might
Speaker 3: sound like his agent right now or something, but I
Speaker 3: just want the world for Carmelo Hayes because he is him. Okay,
Speaker 3: he believes in himself. I don't care what it takes.
Speaker 3: Give Carmelo everything, give him everything. But of course him
Speaker 3: being in a fourth match with Andreide isn't the worst
Speaker 3: thing in the world either, because they have had stellar matches,
Speaker 3: and I would argue that their third one was definitely
Speaker 3: like in the top tier of the series of matches.
Speaker 3: But after this, give Carmelo his things, That's all I
Speaker 3: have to say. Yeah. Then we had Cody Rhodes, the
Speaker 3: ww champion, throw mad shade at Grayson Waller on though
Speaker 3: Grayson Waller effect, but it was warranted because Grayson was
Speaker 3: interrupting him and his whole entrance stick that the fans loved.
Speaker 3: How you going to not have the American Nightmare do
Speaker 3: all of his os and his you know, fireworks and
Speaker 3: stuff in the nation's capital. Just a hater, Just a hater.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing. Cody Rose gathered him and told
Speaker 3: him that while he was trying to call out his
Speaker 3: friend Kevin Owens for being a friend, for being a
Speaker 3: person who stabs his friends in the back. He called
Speaker 3: him out and gathered Grayson and said, aren't you you
Speaker 3: know using awesome theory because every time you get in
Speaker 3: a sticky situation, you make your friend take the bullet
Speaker 3: for you, and he tried to like divert from it
Speaker 3: or whatever, but it's valid, Okay, like Austin theory deserves better.
Speaker 3: But I just loved how Cody really gathered him together
Speaker 3: like that, so that was fun. But then I also
Speaker 3: loved the new setup for the Grayson Waller effect. He
Speaker 3: has his own carpet now, he has his own desk
Speaker 3: and stuff. He had his own desk before, but it's
Speaker 3: like an upgraded version. So it was just really cool
Speaker 3: to see that. But I am waiting for the day
Speaker 3: that Austin Fury stands up for himself and turns face.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's really cool. No, I'm gonna need better
Speaker 3: for the Street profits though, because for them to have
Speaker 3: lost the tag team title magic against the Bloodline. I
Speaker 3: understand you're trying to make the Bloodline like the way
Speaker 3: that they used to be or whatever, but it's not giving,
Speaker 3: and I wanted the Street Profits to win so bad
Speaker 3: but the fact that they haven't haven't basically been not
Speaker 3: back down the line just upsets me. It's so upsetting.
Speaker 3: I just I want the world for Montes and Angelo,
Speaker 3: and it just seems like they've been getting a little
Speaker 3: bit of a short end of the stick since Bobby left,
Speaker 3: and I just this is really the first time they
Speaker 3: have been in contention for the tag titles in a minute,
Speaker 3: and for them to have lost the way that they
Speaker 3: did with the cheating and all that just broke my heart.
Speaker 3: So we're praying for better for the Straight Profits at
Speaker 3: this point. But there is still that part of me
Speaker 3: that remembers what Montes said in Love and WWE where
Speaker 3: he said that his dream was to be WW champion,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, look, if y'all don't pull the
Speaker 3: trigger on him now, then I guess y'all just ain't
Speaker 3: gonna do it. So I don't know. I'm just sad
Speaker 3: about it. But yeah, they got jumped by them after
Speaker 3: and dy came out and helped them, but then they
Speaker 3: got jumped afterward. And maybe this means that DIY will
Speaker 3: challenge for the tag titles again, But either way, I
Speaker 3: don't want them to get it again after losing it
Speaker 3: for so long. Like I really want the Street Profits
Speaker 3: to possibly like be on some gangster stuff and challenge
Speaker 3: the Bloodline again. But at the same time, I just
Speaker 3: don't know anymore. I don't know anymore. But yeah, that's
Speaker 3: all of what I enjoyed in wrestling this week. So
Speaker 3: thank you guys so much. For Oh, David, Hey, he
Speaker 3: actually is gone from WWE. His contract went up and
Speaker 3: he didn't renew it, so he is gone from WWE.
Speaker 3: He is a free agent, So thank you for that question, David.
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