Speaker 1: It's Thursday, and that means I have a co host
Speaker 1: joining me this week. It's Ashley Man who comes on
Speaker 1: the show and we talk about all of our summersline predictions.
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Speaker 1: This is the WWE Podcast on this Thursday, August eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, one of my favorite shows of the week
Speaker 1: and where I on a co host and we discuss
Speaker 1: some of the big ticket items that happened during the week,
Speaker 1: and if it's a pay per view week, of course,
Speaker 1: we give our thoughts and predictions for the show, and
Speaker 1: this week Ashley Mann joins me and we go over
Speaker 1: our Summer Slam predictions. Quite a few interesting thoughts that
Speaker 1: she had on who may actually be behind the Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns mystery attacker, and it may not be somebody anybody's
Speaker 1: thinking about right now. Very interesting theory that happens towards
Speaker 1: the end of the show, so you'll have to stay
Speaker 1: tuned for that. It's very interesting and very logical as well.
Speaker 1: She gives us her thoughts on everything, I mean, from
Speaker 1: the Goldberg saga, him returning, seth Rollins getting beat down.
Speaker 1: And I said this with her at the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the show, and it was a common theme throughout
Speaker 1: the conversation I had. Is this show, Summer Slam seems
Speaker 1: to be too predictable. Too many matches look too easy
Speaker 1: to pick. And what happens when that happens? What does
Speaker 1: WWE do? What does Vince McMahon do? In response, Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon throws a curveball when everybody else expects a fastball.
Speaker 1: And I really believe that there are some matches on here,
Speaker 1: and trust me, Ashley and I give some bold predictions
Speaker 1: on matches that everybody is thinking they have to win.
Speaker 1: He or she has to win this match, and we
Speaker 1: give some reasons why that may not be the case.
Speaker 1: There's some good logic here, and I got a credit
Speaker 1: Ashley for bringing up some good points and so that's
Speaker 1: that's going to be coming in just a minute. But
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Speaker 1: just did, and she's doing a podcast yourself. It's called
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Speaker 2: I think you could do both.
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Speaker 1: worries there. Okay, well, guys, enough of this. Let's just
Speaker 1: get to the conversation. Let's get to Summer Slam, which
Speaker 1: I think is going to be a very interesting show
Speaker 1: and one that we'll be talking about, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: So without further ado, here's Ashley and myself talking about
Speaker 1: Summer Slam. Twenty nineteen. All right, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: WWE Podcast on our co host edition, which is Thursday,
Speaker 1: and this time around it is Ashley Man who's back
Speaker 1: and excited to talk to you on a Summer Slam week.
Speaker 1: It's already Summer Slam, and I've mentioned this before. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's coming about three weeks earlier this year.
Speaker 1: It seems super early, but it is one of the
Speaker 1: biggest pay per views of the year, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to talk about Summer Slam, our predictions and of course
Speaker 1: some of the big ticket items that happened during the week.
Speaker 1: So Ashley, welcome back to the show, and it's great
Speaker 1: to have you back on a big Summer Slam week.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's so great to be back. Thanks for having me, Matt.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to talk about SummerSlam with you. I
Speaker 4: feel like it's gonna be a loaded show. A lot
Speaker 4: has happened since the last time we talked, so yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just gonna be good to catch up and talk.
Speaker 5: Wrestling, definitely.
Speaker 1: And speaking of talking wrestling, I know that you have
Speaker 1: another show that you're just starting.
Speaker 2: In the infancy stages and.
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Speaker 2: Can find it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, thank you.
Speaker 4: It's called Wrestle Rewind like you said right now, but
Speaker 4: it is on Facebook, but the next day you can
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Speaker 4: like I said on the podcast, but it's called Russell Rewind.
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Speaker 4: We just kind of like it's like go over kind
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Speaker 1: On it, absolutely and I will for sure be checking
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Speaker 1: than what we do here obviously, with you doing video
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Speaker 1: real time with your listeners, which is a pretty cool deal.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: For sure, it's definitely fun just seeing how people react
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Speaker 4: we're all friends, so it's literally just talking wrestling with
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Speaker 4: or something like that. But yeah, like I said, we're
Speaker 4: looking to be more interactive in the future, like with
Speaker 4: a mail bag and all that stuff, but for right now,
Speaker 4: the comments section is kind of where it's at. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it's funny. You should definitely check it out.
Speaker 5: Awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, we will keep you keep my listeners abreast of
Speaker 1: exactly where you're at with it, and as you add
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Speaker 1: and really spread your awareness and on different platforms as
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Speaker 2: My listeners abroad.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for letting our listeners know
Speaker 1: you guys should check it out. I have no doubt
Speaker 1: that it is going to be a very successful and
Speaker 1: well done show, trust me. So let's get into the
Speaker 1: topic of the week, and that is Summer Slam, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot to get to what We're going to
Speaker 1: run down the card with both of our predictions. But
Speaker 1: before we do that, I just want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about and get your opinions on because my listeners
Speaker 1: have already heard mine. What are your thoughts on some
Speaker 1: of the big items this week? And I guess I'll
Speaker 1: start with Roman reign mystery attacker that apparently is Rowan
Speaker 1: but could also be Daniel Brian. I mean you, what
Speaker 1: are you thinking about this whole thing? Are you enjoying it?
Speaker 1: And who do you think the attacker may be?
Speaker 4: I am very intrigued to see where they go with this.
Speaker 4: Before the big revealed this week, I kind of saw
Speaker 4: a few things on Twitter, you know, with people pointing
Speaker 4: out that they it looked like it was Roman and
Speaker 4: the screen grabs and everything, so I kind of already
Speaker 4: had an idea just from that knowledge beforehand, that.
Speaker 6: He was probably going to be involved in it.
Speaker 4: But I, like, I'm very intrigued with the Daniel Brian
Speaker 4: twist for apparently not knowing anything about it and not
Speaker 4: being involved and seeing Rowan wouldn't do that, and just
Speaker 4: pretty much defending Rowan and not presenting it as his
Speaker 4: evil brainchild or anything like that or like this master
Speaker 4: plan to get to Roman.
Speaker 6: So I'm actually very intrigued to see how.
Speaker 4: They take it and if it's concluded on SummerSlam or
Speaker 4: if it's drawn out for the next few weeks, and
Speaker 4: you know, so I'm definite planning excited to see where
Speaker 4: they go with it.
Speaker 2: I am too.
Speaker 1: I think it's been well done. I I it's something different,
Speaker 1: you know who done. It is not the newest and
Speaker 1: most innovative storyline ever done, but it hasn't been done
Speaker 1: in a long time. So it feels fresh because it's
Speaker 1: been quite some time since anybody, and any especially WW
Speaker 1: has done this. And I'm intrigued. I like the fact
Speaker 1: that it's it feels real. Although some of the camera
Speaker 1: angles are a little wonky and questionable and whatever, I've kind.
Speaker 2: Of just accepted that.
Speaker 1: And Samoa Joe was also kind of a side factor here,
Speaker 1: a sub story of him possibly turning babyface, you know,
Speaker 1: with Roman Reigns nearly getting run down to the vehicle
Speaker 1: in the parking lot, and Samoa Joe, instead of attacking
Speaker 1: him or trash talking him, actually called for help. And
Speaker 1: many people took that as a sign that a Samoa
Speaker 1: Joe is turning face. And you know, if that's the case,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a good time for him to
Speaker 1: turn I think that Simojo needs some kind of reboot.
Speaker 1: And I know what we're talking about the mystery attacker,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of a subset. I think that if
Speaker 1: Simojo's turning a babyface here, it's a good time to
Speaker 1: do it. And I'm interested to see Joe as a babyface.
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely mean too.
Speaker 4: And Joe this week was really intriguing as well, seeing,
Speaker 4: like you said, how he reacted and tried to call
Speaker 4: for help and was really showing sympathy and compassion towards Roman.
Speaker 4: That was a sign of him that I don't think
Speaker 4: we've ever ever seen in WW.
Speaker 6: So it's really cool and just like we saw a
Speaker 6: different level of Joe.
Speaker 4: And I'm, like you said, very curious to see how
Speaker 4: they take this direction as well for Joe, to see
Speaker 4: if this is maybe seeds for a full term babyface
Speaker 4: or maybe it was just a spur of the moment,
Speaker 4: I thing, just to try to give us some realism,
Speaker 4: maybe get some more sympathy for Roman, and then.
Speaker 6: Next week Joe's back to himself. So curious to see
Speaker 6: where they take that. Also, I am too.
Speaker 1: And as far as the actual attack goes, I mean
Speaker 1: many people are pointing to Daniel Brian. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you read any of the big wrestling websites out there,
Speaker 1: they would tell you that this match with Roman was
Speaker 1: supposed to conclude at SummerSlam with Daniel Bryan and they
Speaker 1: just decided not to rush it and they wanted to
Speaker 1: play out. And if that's the case, great, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's Eric Rowan. I think it's it's a And
Speaker 1: I talked about this earlier in the week that it's
Speaker 1: kind of a a parallel to the Stone Cold Survivors
Speaker 1: Series two thousand when he was run down or is
Speaker 1: it ninety nine s Friviver series ninety nine when Austin
Speaker 1: was run down by Rakisha and Triple H was the accomplice.
Speaker 1: So I think Rowan could be the accomplice and Daniel
Speaker 1: Brian is the driver.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I think That's good because I'd rather have a storyline
Speaker 1: play out than just kind of rush it to SummerSlam.
Speaker 2: And I think it would have felt.
Speaker 1: Rushed if indeed Daniel Brian is the attacker. I think
Speaker 1: it would have felt a little rushed. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of a motive for why
Speaker 1: Daniel Brien would do this. The only thing I could
Speaker 1: come up with is that back in twenty five fifteen
Speaker 1: when Daniel Brian was supposed to win the Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: and the fans revolted and you know, and filling right exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Yeah, that was one of my favorite rumbles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just for the reaction of the crowd, and.
Speaker 4: Real quick, before you go on, have you tried to
Speaker 4: go back and watch that rumble from twenty fifteen, like
Speaker 4: that specific one on the network?
Speaker 1: Have you tried since not on the network?
Speaker 5: Why are you having trouble doing it?
Speaker 4: I swear, and sometimes I feel like it I'm going crazy.
Speaker 4: But I've tried to go back and watch that rumble
Speaker 4: like a handful of times on various occasions, and it
Speaker 4: will not play throughout the whole show, Like I'll get
Speaker 4: maybe halfway through and then it just rolls over to
Speaker 4: the to the twenty sixteen Rumble, and like I've tried
Speaker 4: on every different like I've tried on my TV, my phone, everything,
Speaker 4: I'm like, why can't I watch this Rumble? And I'm like,
Speaker 4: I wonder if it's like a conspiracy since everyone booed rouman.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what I was gonna say, is I
Speaker 1: think they're still in the middle of editing the crowd reaction.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, they haven't sweaked it yet.
Speaker 4: But just side notes, so if you have, if it
Speaker 4: comes across your mind, just you know, just for me,
Speaker 4: if you don't mind, just try checking that out and
Speaker 4: see if it's if it is just me or whatever
Speaker 4: you said.
Speaker 2: It's about halfway through, right, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think it'll show me like maybe maybe
Speaker 4: not even halfway through, maybe two matches, but I know
Speaker 4: I definitely can't see the actual Rumble match itself.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Yeah, I've given that a try.
Speaker 1: That's that's very interesting that out of all pay per views, that's.
Speaker 4: The one exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: Here come all the conspiracy series.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I actually don't even remember what I was talking about,
Speaker 1: but I was talking all the slow burn.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with the slow burn.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing for storylines to play out,
Speaker 1: and patience patients, I think is going to be key
Speaker 1: for the success of both brands and the ratings of
Speaker 1: both brands. And so I don't know about you, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to not rush to a match at Summer sum
Speaker 1: just because it's Summer Slam, and I'm willing to maybe
Speaker 1: just get another piece of it at SummerSlam, but not
Speaker 1: end up in a match we just get under the
Speaker 1: clue as to who's behind this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and SummerSlam is already a loaded show of itself,
Speaker 4: so we definitely don't need any other match at it,
Speaker 4: especially a match to that caliber. That's something that you
Speaker 4: want the fans to look forward to and enjoy. So
Speaker 4: I definitely don't think they're gonna rush it. And like
Speaker 4: you said earlier, I think he made a good point.
Speaker 4: I think if it was going to be Daniel Bryan,
Speaker 4: it would have it would have the match would have
Speaker 4: been made official for sunder Slam, So I think it's
Speaker 4: not officially Daniel Brian as the attacker.
Speaker 6: I think we're going to see this playoff for the
Speaker 6: next few weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, and I think I'm fine with that. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: moving on to just a couple more things and then
Speaker 1: we'll get to our summer Slanne predictions. What did you
Speaker 1: think of Seth Rollins getting beat down for a second
Speaker 1: week in a row, and more importantly, his very somber,
Speaker 1: very real after beat down. I guess you'd call it
Speaker 1: a promo from Seth when he was talking about how
Speaker 1: this is all I have. What did you think of
Speaker 1: that that whole segment on Raw?
Speaker 4: So me personally, I was hoping I was not going
Speaker 4: to see Seth on Monday, because I think it really
Speaker 4: would have played up the whole him being brilliant and
Speaker 4: being injured and just selling the beating that he took
Speaker 4: from Brocklesner because it was just like an insane beatdown.
Speaker 4: So when he actually did him out, I was like,
Speaker 4: all right, well, you know, at least he's at least
Speaker 4: he's selling it. At least they aren't like playing it
Speaker 4: off like you know, he's he's kind of hurting a
Speaker 4: little bit, but you know, for the most part, he's okay,
Speaker 4: and he like ran down or anything crazy.
Speaker 6: But the thing that stood.
Speaker 4: Out to me the most was the line he said
Speaker 4: at the end where he guarantees victory that I feel like.
Speaker 6: Is gonna be a major key one way or another.
Speaker 4: I feel like if he guarantees it and he does win,
Speaker 4: then that just validates him even more as the baby face.
Speaker 4: But if he guaranteed it and loses, does he kind
Speaker 4: of snap starting on Monday? Does he if he loses
Speaker 4: to brock Lessner Because he said that's the only thing
Speaker 4: that he has in his life and that's what he
Speaker 4: fights for, that's what he lives for everything, which is true.
Speaker 4: We've seen video packages and everything like that.
Speaker 6: But do if he loses, do we see.
Speaker 4: Him kind of take like not a heel turn, but
Speaker 4: just like a turn towards the dark slide where he
Speaker 4: he just loses it, he goes crazy on everyone. He
Speaker 4: there's just like the sinister side to him. So I'm look,
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to see who pulls out in the
Speaker 4: match at SummerSlam, and I guess I'll say my prediction
Speaker 4: for later, but yeah, yeah, I'm really intrigued with this
Speaker 4: one as well, to see what they end up doing
Speaker 4: with Seth and if he's gonna, you know, win the title,
Speaker 4: and then if he does, who does he face after that,
Speaker 4: But that's a whole other story. But yeah, the whole
Speaker 4: beatdown on Monday, I think if he was gonna show up, that's,
Speaker 4: you know, it had to happen that way because he
Speaker 4: can't get any type of retribution back on brock Lesner
Speaker 4: a week before, So I think what they had to
Speaker 4: work with they did probably as best as they could,
Speaker 4: as kind of gruesome as it was, because it was
Speaker 4: just weird seeing him like just take forever to get
Speaker 4: to the ring, Like I was like, oh, come on,
Speaker 4: come on, Like yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Know, and it felt it felt much like Becky Lynch's
Speaker 1: non never ending injury leading.
Speaker 2: Up to SummerSlam that she was just hotantly moving around.
Speaker 2: I was like, somebody, please please, Like I.
Speaker 4: Don't want to see that just be injured or in
Speaker 4: stay in the back and not be able to come out.
Speaker 6: Like we get that.
Speaker 4: We wouldn't have looked at him differently if he didn't
Speaker 4: show up, like we understand, you know, and I guess
Speaker 4: we should appreciate that he did show up, and I
Speaker 4: get that, but it was just like kind of hard
Speaker 4: to watch.
Speaker 1: It was just like, man, but I know what they
Speaker 1: were trying to go for, too, they're trying to go
Speaker 1: for empathy, they're trying to go for yeah, and I
Speaker 1: know what they're doing and I appreciate it. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I mean, Seth comes out there and
Speaker 1: was limping. I don't remember him attacking his legs per se.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he was limping so much as
Speaker 1: he should have just been, you know, clasping his ribs.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's fine, that's fine. And as far
Speaker 1: as Brock, I mean, it's it's hard to get into
Speaker 1: the predictions, so I'm not going to. But this could be,
Speaker 1: like you said, a turning point for Seth one way
Speaker 1: or the other. And while many people look at this
Speaker 1: match as a lock, like many others at SummerSlam, we
Speaker 1: need to be very, very careful with this card. It
Speaker 1: looks so easy to predict, and I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be as easy as people believe.
Speaker 2: On paper.
Speaker 1: There are so many matches you go, oh, clearly, this person,
Speaker 1: this person, this person, I mean seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: this this card looks like you could place real money
Speaker 1: on it. And that's what scares the hell out of
Speaker 1: me with this card. So and I'm really trying hard not.
Speaker 5: To get into it. We will.
Speaker 2: We will in just a minute.
Speaker 1: But I enjoyed the beatdown of Seth in terms of
Speaker 1: me wanting to see Seth get his retribution, I want
Speaker 1: to see him beat down Brock Lesner. I just hope
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to resort to the constant low blows.
Speaker 2: And he is able. And I said this earlier too.
Speaker 1: This week, I think the majority of the match is
Speaker 1: gonna be Seth just on his on you know, on
Speaker 1: his ribs or holding his chest like gasping for air
Speaker 1: and coughing, and Brock toying with him. I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be eighty percent of the match, and then you
Speaker 1: know Sethel. If Seth wins, I'm not gonna give away yet,
Speaker 1: but if Seth wins, it's going to be a last
Speaker 1: second not I don't want to say Fluke win, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be twenty percent offense and Seth somehow pulls
Speaker 1: it off if he does. But one other thing I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about, and then we'll get
Speaker 1: into SummerSlam is Goldberg's return and he's facing Dolf Ziggler.
Speaker 4: Uh your hats, I get it, I get it. He
Speaker 4: needed to come back, and I kind of view it
Speaker 4: the same way I kind of viewed Undertaker coming back
Speaker 4: for Extreme Rules with Roman just to kind of wash
Speaker 4: the taste out of everyone's mouth about their match. So
Speaker 4: I guess it makes sense to me in that aspect
Speaker 4: with Goldberg returning. I don't really dolf. I get it
Speaker 4: in the sense that Dolph is a phenomenal worker, He's
Speaker 4: a great seller, he's, you know, probably one of the
Speaker 4: best workers that they have in the company, especially for
Speaker 4: as long as he's been there now. But I guess
Speaker 4: I think the thing that bothers me the most about
Speaker 4: it is we know it's just a random match, and
Speaker 4: is it gonna be a squash squash match?
Speaker 6: Where what does he do after this?
Speaker 4: Because I don't I don't know if you've heard, but
Speaker 4: I heard that he signed a contract for like four matches,
Speaker 4: so this will be his second one and then he'd
Speaker 4: have two more after that, So I don't know. I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's would be like a long drawn
Speaker 4: out thing, which I doubt it would be, you know
Speaker 4: that it's with Ziggler, or if it in the long
Speaker 4: run turns out to be leading to a Sean michaels
Speaker 4: In Goldberg match for like Saudi Arabia or anything, or
Speaker 4: heard that too, But I don't know. It's crazy seeing
Speaker 4: Goldberg back, but he's in phenomenal shape. It just never
Speaker 4: seems to amaze me, Like how Jack he still looks for.
Speaker 6: Being his age. It's just insane.
Speaker 4: He is still Goldberg, which is it's just so fun
Speaker 4: to see in that aspect he is.
Speaker 1: There's no question Goldberg actually still feels like Goldberg in
Speaker 1: terms of, yeah, his body type, yeah, he has some gray,
Speaker 1: he has a grey go t versus you know, his
Speaker 1: hair color back in the ninety zine, understand that. But
Speaker 1: in terms of his body shape and in the cardiovascular conditioning,
Speaker 1: I think he is as good as he could possibly.
Speaker 2: Be in his age.
Speaker 1: Now, that's never been the question with Goldberg, though. The
Speaker 1: problem is as good as or if you want to
Speaker 1: spin it as Goldberg is still Goldberg. Well, that's also
Speaker 1: the bad side, bad side of this whole thing is
Speaker 1: Goldberg is still Goldberg because he still has the wrestling
Speaker 1: skill set of Goldberg. And that's that's the problem. And
Speaker 1: it was severely exposed with his match and Undertaker.
Speaker 5: With the Undertaker a couple of pay.
Speaker 1: Per views ago, it was and that's The problem with
Speaker 1: Goldberg is he is not the most skilled technician. He's got,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of power moves. It's just in
Speaker 1: Goldberg would be the first to admit that his limited.
Speaker 1: He's very limited in his move set and his timing is.
Speaker 2: Still a bit off.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just always been goldberg Y. So for
Speaker 1: him to be put against Dolf Ziggeler, I think is
Speaker 1: the perfect opponent for Goldberg. I mean, he's the opposite
Speaker 1: of Undertaker in terms of mobility, being able to sell
Speaker 1: quickness all that. That would make Goldberg look like a
Speaker 1: million bucks and carry the majority of the match. So
Speaker 1: let's just jump into SummerSlam here because I can't handle
Speaker 1: it anymore. Let's start right at the top and I'll
Speaker 1: toss it to you. Brock Leser versus Seth Rollins for
Speaker 1: the Universal Championship, Who do you have?
Speaker 5: And why?
Speaker 4: Mm oh man, It's so hard to make a decision
Speaker 4: for this one because what kind of like we spoke
Speaker 4: about earlier, it's it's depending on what direction they take
Speaker 4: with Seth. And for bron for that matter, if he
Speaker 4: does retain, who is he gonna face next? Because you
Speaker 4: can't go back to Seth for the third time, because
Speaker 4: then it'll start to feel like Roman and Brock din
Speaker 4: and you don't want that because Seth is still, I feel,
Speaker 4: in his building phase as the face of the company,
Speaker 4: or at least the.
Speaker 6: Top top baby face.
Speaker 4: So I don't think that you can or his character
Speaker 4: can take any more beatings consistently, or just any more dry.
Speaker 6: Feuds, because he's already been through that with Farren. He
Speaker 6: doesn't need to do that with Brock.
Speaker 4: I think, as much as I want Seth to win,
Speaker 4: I think Brock is gonna keep it here and then
Speaker 4: move on and maybe face a Bobby Lashley type or
Speaker 4: maybe even a Broun showman if he's gonna remain a heal.
Speaker 4: I could see them moving over to Braun and Brock
Speaker 4: to kind of get us through the last phase of
Speaker 4: the summer, which is it's crazy.
Speaker 6: I think it's just the beginning of.
Speaker 4: August, because SummerSlam is normally the end of August. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, Fall is about to be here. Whatever, But
Speaker 4: but yeah, I could see them definitely maybe keeping in
Speaker 4: on Brock and moving on to Braun. So that that's
Speaker 4: why I'm thinking they're gonna go with tonight or go
Speaker 4: with on Sunday rather is keeping keeping him with Brocks.
Speaker 5: I'm with you on this one.
Speaker 1: I know at the beginning of this, when this match
Speaker 1: was announced, I said, oh, Seth Rollins, he's regaining it.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's obviously has to regain it. As the
Speaker 1: story has progressed, and Brock put the beatdown he did
Speaker 1: on Seth and Vince McMahon's obsession with Brock Lesner. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to end up being Brock retaining and
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about that because most people are
Speaker 1: probably looking at this going, oh, well, yeah, Seth looks
Speaker 1: like he has a disadvantage, but he'll he'll overcome. He'll,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll, he'll, he'll climb the mountaintop. That's what
Speaker 1: baby faces do. But that's that. I think it's a
Speaker 1: trap here. I really think it's a trap where some
Speaker 1: people are viewing it as that. I'm viewing it as
Speaker 1: his injured ribs as a way or whatever injury he
Speaker 1: actually has, as a way to make an excuse for
Speaker 1: Rollins losing without actually going, oh well, Brock just straight
Speaker 1: up beat him, and while Seth won't come up with
Speaker 1: that as the reason he lost, it's a way in
Speaker 1: the minds of fans to go well, you know, he
Speaker 1: was seriously injured coming into this match, so I could
Speaker 1: see where he'd lose to Brock.
Speaker 2: It's it's an escape.
Speaker 1: It's a good way to make Seth not keep him
Speaker 1: strong for showing up, putting up a good fight. He
Speaker 1: probably will have some very very close near falls, maybe
Speaker 1: get a couple of stomps, a lot of false finishes
Speaker 1: in terms of Seth.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's gonna pull it off.
Speaker 1: He's gonna pull it off, and Brock ends up pulling
Speaker 1: out one last f five and Brock ends up retaining,
Speaker 1: and you know, you have Michael Cole and Corey Graves
Speaker 1: talking about the guts and determination of Seth Rollins to
Speaker 1: even show up and put up the fight that he did. Again,
Speaker 1: I think seventy five percent of this match or more
Speaker 1: is going to be Brock looking like he's toying. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be doing his little bounce, he's gonna be smiling,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's gonna be toying with Seth the
Speaker 1: majority of the man while he rises in pain. And
Speaker 1: then when his guard's down, you'll think, you know, Seth
Speaker 1: will have that baby face fury.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he could pull it off.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, the fans dreams will be crushed and Brock will retain.
Speaker 1: I just think that's the only way this can go down.
Speaker 6: I'm right there with you, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, next match. And this is it's funny. I
Speaker 1: mentioned this earlier too. This week, this raw Women's Championship
Speaker 1: match with Becky Lynch and Ittalia. They they're labeling it
Speaker 1: a submission match. However, aren't both of their finishing maneuvers submissions.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I mean, it's such a false, well
Speaker 1: not false, but an overkill to name this a submission match.
Speaker 1: It would have been end in the submission anyway.
Speaker 4: It's like saying a regular pin like a regular match
Speaker 4: is going to end by pinfall like the majority of
Speaker 4: the time it does anyway.
Speaker 1: Right right, it would be like Austin versus Triple H
Speaker 1: in a pin falls only match. Well, no kidding, I
Speaker 1: mean you know, so yeah, It's just.
Speaker 5: I mean, I understand what they're doing.
Speaker 1: It's it's trying to add a gimmick that's already it's
Speaker 1: our ingrained in the match by default. But nonetheless, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on this? And who do you think
Speaker 1: is gonna.
Speaker 6: Win this one.
Speaker 4: I I'm kind of I'm just gonna say I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be surprised if they pulled the trigger on Natalia just
Speaker 4: to get that reaction for her and to see and
Speaker 4: to have Becky in Chase Mo, because I think Becky
Speaker 4: is strongest when she is in Chaseman, when she has
Speaker 4: the title. She Yeah, everyone still loves her, but I
Speaker 4: don't want to say the excitement is gone, but it's
Speaker 4: just kind of like she's just like hit a plateau
Speaker 4: and she's just like on she's on level field with
Speaker 4: everyone else, like in ring wise, and just like I
Speaker 4: guess match wise, but I think she kind of needs
Speaker 4: that little like kickstart in her character as well, kind
Speaker 4: of like Seth in a way, but obviously a little
Speaker 4: bit different. And I think they they're gonna be too
Speaker 4: tempted to pull the trigger, being in Canada and everything
Speaker 4: that's built around it, with everything that Becky has said
Speaker 4: about Canada being their new hero and like traging Natalia
Speaker 4: and all that. So I love Becky to death, but
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna go with Natalia on this one,
Speaker 4: which kind of leads into my next prediction, or for
Speaker 4: my prediction for the attrition Charlotte match. But yeah, at
Speaker 4: least for this one, I'm I'm unfortunately gonna say I
Speaker 4: think they go to Natalia.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting pick. I'm I'm I'm leaning towards you.
Speaker 1: I'm actually deciding in my brain as we speak, just
Speaker 1: because this one, this one could go both ways.
Speaker 2: And you have Becky who.
Speaker 1: Won it at WRESTLEMANI the fans went on and with
Speaker 1: with her on the journey. It was such an amazing moment.
Speaker 1: All that, and she became the biggest face of the
Speaker 1: of the Women's Revolution and in an instant trying to
Speaker 1: turn her heel last Summer Slam.
Speaker 2: So we're coming up now in a.
Speaker 1: Full year of her as a babyface ironically when they
Speaker 1: try to turn her heel. So what's interesting to me
Speaker 1: too is not just who's gonna win this, but how
Speaker 1: does the crowd react because they're in Toronto, it's home country.
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch is not as hot as she was. I
Speaker 1: actually think she's becoming a little bit unlikable with her
Speaker 1: arrogance and kind of her swagger. And I know she's
Speaker 1: supposed to be the man, and I am I still
Speaker 1: support Becky, but she doesn't have that mystique and momentum
Speaker 1: behind her that she did when Rowsey was there, and
Speaker 1: she was, as you said, in chase mode. So I'm
Speaker 1: very interested to see if, for the first time in
Speaker 1: a year, Becky Lynch gets booed by the Canadian crowd,
Speaker 1: who will go with blood is Thicker than Water and
Speaker 1: support inn Italia. So I'm going to say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go against you, but not actually by a whole lot.
Speaker 1: This is this is a very tough match, actually one
Speaker 1: of the few that don't look easy. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Becky retains and the crowd boos her, and it'll.
Speaker 2: Be interesting to see if do they.
Speaker 1: Dare run with that heel turn it with Becky. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if we go there yet. I think
Speaker 1: with her on the face of two K twenty and
Speaker 1: all that they probably won't. I think it's just a
Speaker 1: sorrow world is whatever they call Canada, and so I
Speaker 1: think Becky retains. I'm expecting a very good match, and
Speaker 1: then Becky moves on to her next opponents.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think one of the main things I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to the most about this match is just the dynamic
Speaker 4: and the energy and the atmosphere around it because I
Speaker 4: think Canada never disappoints. And of course, like all the momentum,
Speaker 4: like I said earlier, that's built up behind this match,
Speaker 4: I think I don't think it's gonna be a heel
Speaker 4: turn for Becky. I think, if anything, they're just gonna
Speaker 4: play it up for that one night. And as you
Speaker 4: were sitting there, as you were talking, I was sitting
Speaker 4: here thinking like, man, like I could kind of see
Speaker 4: them too, letting them have this fantastic match, us thinking
Speaker 4: Natty's about to get it, Becky reverses it or whatever,
Speaker 4: Becky wins and then the place goes crazy, just booing
Speaker 4: her and then just Becky relishing in that moment, like
Speaker 4: I can just see her holding the title up and
Speaker 4: just like with that, you know what, eating grin on
Speaker 4: her face, just.
Speaker 6: Like eating up all the hatred from them.
Speaker 4: So as you were talking, I was like, man, I
Speaker 4: could see them going with Becky too.
Speaker 6: So, like you said, this one is really hard.
Speaker 1: It is, and the crowd reaction is almost as interesting
Speaker 1: things the match itself. Here, I'm very interested to see
Speaker 1: how the crowd reacts. It's a big pay per view,
Speaker 1: arguably their second biggest of the year in the home
Speaker 1: in the ntality's home country, yet Becky Lynch is the organic,
Speaker 1: homegrown baby face. I'm it's This match is very intriguing
Speaker 1: from a lot of levels. So all right, moving down
Speaker 1: to the WWE Championship match Kobe Kingston and Randy Orton,
Speaker 1: Who do you have and why?
Speaker 4: First off, I just need to comment on how much
Speaker 4: I loved the promotion video they did for Randy. I
Speaker 4: think it was not this past week, but the week
Speaker 4: before when they when Randy did his sit down and
Speaker 4: kind of just went over their history, the story and
Speaker 4: his side of everything.
Speaker 6: I just thought it was so well done and.
Speaker 4: That his video is what really like hooked me for
Speaker 4: this match. I knew it was gonna be, like, you know,
Speaker 4: a solid and ring match, but you know, I didn't
Speaker 4: really think that.
Speaker 6: They were really focusing on the story as much.
Speaker 4: But man like, I just I really enjoyed what they've
Speaker 4: done with this, and I'm very surprised in the amount
Speaker 4: of effort that they've put into it, honestly, but I
Speaker 4: don't think they I don't think they make the change here.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a good match, and I
Speaker 4: think this is the match that KOFE needs to solidify
Speaker 4: his run as a champion and be a top worthy
Speaker 4: competitor and obviously a future Hall of Famer in Randy Orton.
Speaker 4: So I see KOFE retaining, but I think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be probably a good twenty five minute match.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm looking forward to this match for the quality
Speaker 1: of it. Both guys are extremely seasoned. They have like
Speaker 1: what thirty years of experience between the between one another. Uh,
Speaker 1: They're really they're good friends in real life, which I
Speaker 1: think will actually motivate Randy Orton to not just phone
Speaker 1: it in. And when Randy Orton phones it in, he's
Speaker 1: so good that it's still like a can't start.
Speaker 6: Match, all right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I didn't even know that they were friends outside,
Speaker 4: well like close friends.
Speaker 6: That's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's even more Like you said, Randy's definitely
Speaker 4: going to deliver for KOFE.
Speaker 2: Then he has to. I think he will.
Speaker 1: I think it Randy Orton will actually care about this match,
Speaker 1: unlike just kind of going through the motions of every
Speaker 1: other match he has ever because of rand Randy Orton's
Speaker 1: in preservation mode. Randy Orton's in long Jemmy note, He's
Speaker 1: kind of in bruise control, and he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: kick it up to fourth or fifth gear because he
Speaker 1: knows he's an established legacy star that has already paid
Speaker 1: his dues, has nothing left to prove to anybody, and
Speaker 1: is rarely ever extra motivated to have that that four
Speaker 1: or five star match.
Speaker 2: It's in him.
Speaker 1: Randy Orton can certainly have it if he wants it
Speaker 1: and given enough time.
Speaker 5: So I think that this match is.
Speaker 1: Could be could be the match of the night in
Speaker 1: terms of match quality, where like this is awesome chance
Speaker 1: come out and all that stuff. I think KOFE ends
Speaker 1: up retaining this will be the win that solidifies him.
Speaker 1: At the same time, as I said at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this, I'm scared because this match looks so easy
Speaker 1: to predict. It seems so easy to pick Kofi Kingston
Speaker 1: here when Randy Orton, if he wins, you could make
Speaker 1: him a very big heeled champion, being the guy that says,
Speaker 1: you know, I told you so. Randy Orton or Kofee
Speaker 1: couldn't hang in the big leagues, and you have Kofee
Speaker 1: in chase mode.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: You could really make Randy Orton white hot while Randy
Speaker 1: Orton is still unbelievably in the prime of his career
Speaker 1: and able to really turn it up when he wants to.
Speaker 1: So while Randy is just kind of the guy that's
Speaker 1: a legacy star, he'll never really get the championship back
Speaker 1: because he doesn't need it. You could really maximize Randy
Speaker 1: Orton here while he's still in his prime and make
Speaker 1: him a monster heel where KOFE chases. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it past him. I wouldn't put money on this
Speaker 1: match because it looks too easy to pick, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the easy pick of Kofee Kingston.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so true, and I'm just listening to you
Speaker 4: say that. Just imagine if KOFE was in chase mode
Speaker 4: as well, going into the Fall and was smacked a
Speaker 4: moving over in the Fox and just seeing Randy being
Speaker 4: that heel that ultimate bad guy because he was a
Speaker 4: very good bad guy. You know a lot of people
Speaker 4: downplay him, or of course you can definitely tell when
Speaker 4: he's phoning it in or whatever, but he was a
Speaker 4: really a good bad guy when the company really had
Speaker 4: no one else, so that that could be a fun story.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I just part of it, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't see them pulling the trigger on Kofee just yet.
Speaker 2: I don't either.
Speaker 1: I think out of all the champions that won at
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania with what I'm talking about is Seth obviously
Speaker 1: who lost it already, Becky, and Kofee. I think Kofe
Speaker 1: will be the one who holds his belt the longest.
Speaker 1: If I was to guess, just because of the story
Speaker 1: that he's had and the organic grassroots movement he's gone
Speaker 1: and he's been there eleven years and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: He's got a lot behind him, I would I don't know.
Speaker 1: If it were me, I would pull the trigger just
Speaker 1: because Randy Orton, if he's going to go all in,
Speaker 1: that's a big if. Would be a extremely good heel,
Speaker 1: and he loves being a heel. You could do so
Speaker 1: much with it. But I ultimately I think Kofe's gonna
Speaker 1: keep it. And just as we continue though during the
Speaker 1: year here, we have to remember the longer the year goes,
Speaker 1: typically more heel champions win because it's a big cycle
Speaker 1: of heel champions are typically crowned later in so that
Speaker 1: when WrestleMania rolls around in six seven months, you have
Speaker 1: that Babyface who finally climbs the mounta and to defeats
Speaker 1: that Heel champion, and then we go back through the
Speaker 1: cycle again. So the later the year gets, I think
Speaker 1: the more heel champions we will see. So as the
Speaker 1: months and weeks tick by, I would be very hesitant
Speaker 1: to pick Babyface championship victories as we move forward. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of championship matches, we had the SmackDown Women's Championship
Speaker 1: match of Bailey versus Ember Moon, and I'll give my
Speaker 1: quick thoughts. I'm not invested in this at all, and
Speaker 1: it's a shame because it's the SmackDown Women's Championship. I
Speaker 1: know they tried to really shock people and get people
Speaker 1: instantly interested in Bailey again and have like a quick
Speaker 1: fix for her character, but the problem is there was
Speaker 1: no follow up to it.
Speaker 2: There's no follow through.
Speaker 1: They just kind of let her flap out there on
Speaker 1: the wind and she's got the belt, but she has
Speaker 1: been losing a lot of momentum since that time. I
Speaker 1: just I'm not invested in her character. I'm not invested
Speaker 1: in Ember Moon's character.
Speaker 2: Bailey just decided to select.
Speaker 1: Ember Moon because she was standing there and she has
Speaker 1: a lot of charisma. That's her explanation for choosing ember Moon.
Speaker 2: It was very weak, very weak.
Speaker 1: And then she ends up trying to help ember Moon
Speaker 1: this week from I mean, it just it was bizarre
Speaker 1: this this Championship match. I mean, I will say I unfortunately,
Speaker 1: and I'm super into the women's movement. I support it,
Speaker 1: but I just this match is really lost to me here.
Speaker 1: I think this, unfortunately will be a concession stand break
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, and I see Bailey retaining,
Speaker 1: but I wish I was more invested in this match.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Same. The only like little glimmer of hope that I.
Speaker 4: Have in this storyline is when Bailey hit Ember with
Speaker 4: the Bailey to belly and did that smirk, and you
Speaker 4: actually heard people cheer for her, like in the background,
Speaker 4: like people reacted positively to what she had just done
Speaker 4: to Ember. Because it showed a little bit of edge,
Speaker 4: a little bit of like depth to Bailey's character and
Speaker 4: like she was actually reacting to something.
Speaker 6: It kind of took me back to when, oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 4: It was Alexa Bliss when she had that that feud
Speaker 4: and they had like an extreme rules match and she
Speaker 4: wouldn't hit her with a kindowstick. I think it was
Speaker 4: Alexa Bliss, but it kind of just took me back
Speaker 4: to me she's just thinking, like Bailey could be really good,
Speaker 4: and like Bailey, they just I don't know what it is,
Speaker 4: if she's just to conform to this character.
Speaker 6: Now or or what they can do, but it just
Speaker 6: makes me thinking.
Speaker 4: So of course all the great matches she's had an NXT,
Speaker 4: but it makes me miss like how good of a
Speaker 4: character and how solid she was and how much support
Speaker 4: she had. But like like you said, I'm not really too.
Speaker 6: Much invested in this match.
Speaker 4: I'm I would love for it to be a heel
Speaker 4: tern for Bailey, kind of like you know what they
Speaker 4: did with Becky or tried to do last year with Becky,
Speaker 4: but just do it with Bailey this time and just
Speaker 4: to see what happens. I mean, what's the what's the
Speaker 4: worst that can happen? It doesn't happen, and she just
Speaker 4: continues to get the reaction she's getting. So I think
Speaker 4: it'd be fun, but I see her retaining as well.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a quick match, probably less
Speaker 4: than ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd give us eight to eight to ten minutes
Speaker 1: as well, I was thinking too. Now again, if they
Speaker 1: ever decided to try to turn Bailey and I think
Speaker 1: that actually maybe exactly what she needs and that little
Speaker 1: smirk I appreciate that, and maybe that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of an easter egg.
Speaker 2: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: I don't think W's thinking that in depth. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: wish it would happen. However, if they did it, I
Speaker 1: have a feeling it may be the reaction to the
Speaker 1: same thing that happened with Becky Lynch when they try
Speaker 1: to turn her heel. If w B ever decides to
Speaker 1: show the evil side of Bailey, the dark side of Bailey,
Speaker 1: I think the fans would love it because it would
Speaker 1: be such because you're all thinking, I mean, this character
Speaker 1: is like kind of the innocent, shy, quiet, humble girl
Speaker 1: that they showed an NXT and people loved her because
Speaker 1: she was, you know, just you wanted to get behind
Speaker 1: her because she was just so innocent and so naive
Speaker 1: and and you can relate.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: So now that bring up to the main roster that
Speaker 1: all the damage that was done with the awful Sasha
Speaker 1: Banks storyline that was I don't even want to get
Speaker 1: into because it hurts my head to think about all
Speaker 1: the directions they went with it, and then and then
Speaker 1: they just decided to bring her back and make her
Speaker 1: tag team champions with Bailey, the first ever women's tag
Speaker 1: team champions.
Speaker 2: And then they both lose them.
Speaker 1: Sasha has a hissy fit, Bailey disappears too. She comes
Speaker 1: back boom, She's smacked down Women's champion. I think if
Speaker 1: they just just take it, take Bailey, give her a
Speaker 1: new entrance, stop with the Bailey buddies, stop with all
Speaker 1: the kiddy stuff, and give her an edge that people
Speaker 1: would love. I'm telling you, I think if you put
Speaker 1: not in a complete opposite, but just make her hair different,
Speaker 1: like don't do the side ponytail, maybe like frizze up
Speaker 1: her hair a little bit. I remember when Stephanie McMahon
Speaker 1: turned heel for the first time against her father and
Speaker 1: aligned herself with Triple H. She like did like a
Speaker 1: permur a frizz to her hair, and it made her
Speaker 1: just everything just changed about Stephanie mcmhon's aura. If they
Speaker 1: did that with Bailey and put some darker makeup on her,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could really do something here. I just
Speaker 1: I just don't think they'll do it. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a very straightforward championship match where Bailey retains.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Same, And I think if they were really serious and
Speaker 4: really invested in having Bailey turn heel, the perfect person
Speaker 4: for her to do it again so would be Sasha.
Speaker 4: I have Sasha come back, make a rent in to help,
Speaker 4: maybe even doing a summer Slam. If Sasha hypothetically speaking,
Speaker 4: Slasha is great, everything's good to.
Speaker 6: Go with them.
Speaker 4: She comes back Bailey, maybe there's some outside interference for
Speaker 4: whatever reason, or whatever happens, Slasha just comes out there
Speaker 4: trying to help Bailey. A backfires, or maybe it doesn't
Speaker 4: even backfire. Slasha helps Bailey, Bailey doesn't appreciate her.
Speaker 6: Bailey for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: Bailey is as mad as Slasha's out there, maybe trying
Speaker 4: to steal the spotlight, whatever you know, story you want
Speaker 4: to come up with, and just completely like demolishes Sasha.
Speaker 4: That way, Bailey has a good opponent and a good
Speaker 4: face to fight off of and to react to. So
Speaker 4: I think that was why Becky got over so well
Speaker 4: why last year is because she had a strong competitor
Speaker 4: to bounce off of. So you know, that's a whole
Speaker 4: other topic, of course, But I just think that that
Speaker 4: would be the best case scenario for that situation.
Speaker 1: Now say I'm like, I'm like, just in my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm imagining this happening. How awesome would be, and then
Speaker 1: just the reality of what is actually going to happen
Speaker 1: just comes over me like a depression and you just
Speaker 1: know that that's not going to happen. It would be awesome.
Speaker 1: I would love it if you just took the Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch formula. I think you could apply it to Bailey,
Speaker 1: and Bailey could get She would be one of the
Speaker 1: most talked about WW female superstars of probably the year
Speaker 1: with this turn. If they did it right, I just again,
Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening. But if you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it, yes, it needs to be a meaningful turn
Speaker 1: and has to be against and maybe a former bestie
Speaker 1: or wow, whatever you want to I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they're friends in the storylines.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Who knows, But yeah, you'd have to involve Sasha somehow. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving down the line here Kevin Owens and Shane McMahon.
Speaker 2: My quick thoughts on this.
Speaker 1: Again, Kevin Owens' career is on the line.
Speaker 5: I this one.
Speaker 1: It seems to slam dunk and I just don't see though.
Speaker 1: If Kevin Owens loses, how they get themselves out of
Speaker 1: him contractually saying he will leave WWE. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: ways around it. Ww's done it before, where you know,
Speaker 1: even when Stone Cold at Fully Loaded nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: told Vince McMahon, if I beat the Undertaker in the
Speaker 1: First Blood match, you're gone from WWE, and then stone
Speaker 1: Cold was in storyline the only one able to bring
Speaker 1: Vince back, so they brought Vince back.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's ways that you could get around this
Speaker 2: kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm gonna go with the unfortunately, the easy pick.
Speaker 1: I think Kevin Owens wins. He gets a couple of stunners,
Speaker 1: and it's a straightforward win for Kevin. But the problem is,
Speaker 1: and the problem that scares me again, it's SummerSlam. It's
Speaker 1: their second biggest pay per view. It's a McMahon. Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon maybe gets himself involved. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: think Kevin Owens wins. I just don't know how, and
Speaker 1: maybe you can, like me, how if Kevin Owens loses,
Speaker 1: how they get around it. But Kevin owns is my pick,
Speaker 1: like you.
Speaker 4: Said earlier, I you know, I with the history of
Speaker 4: Shane's matches for the past six months or so, I
Speaker 4: think the easy pick obviously is Kevin Owens, because of
Speaker 4: course they don't want, you know, Kevin to.
Speaker 6: Quit, you know.
Speaker 4: But I think Kevin loses and each week fights his
Speaker 4: way into the arena's leg a stone cold type like
Speaker 4: you he he of course he. The thing that kind
Speaker 4: of messes with this the most is that Kevin was
Speaker 4: the one who put it out there. It wasn't Shane
Speaker 4: who backed Kevin into a corner saying, you know, blah
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah, only fight, I could put your
Speaker 4: career on the line.
Speaker 6: Whatever.
Speaker 4: It was Kevin who initiated this whole thing. And yeah,
Speaker 4: they tried to clean it out this week, but it
Speaker 4: was just too late, you know, and it just of
Speaker 4: course Shane isn't gonna do it now. But so I
Speaker 4: think that's the monkey wrench in this whole thing, and
Speaker 4: maybe the thing that they, you know, could have done differently.
Speaker 4: But I could see them, heaven, Kevin lose and try
Speaker 4: to be that bad you know what type and try
Speaker 4: to you know, bust into the arena. Maybe take advantage
Speaker 4: of social media and have him confront Shane on the outside,
Speaker 4: like in the parking lot or something like that. So
Speaker 4: I could I could see them going in that direction.
Speaker 4: My gut kind of feels like, you know, just to
Speaker 4: make it simple and to be over with it and
Speaker 4: to get Shane off of TV for a while. Kevin wins,
Speaker 4: but I could see them go home with Shane. So
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna make the bold choice and go
Speaker 4: with Shane.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna blame you. I mean the way you
Speaker 1: laid it out, and they're trying to make they're trying
Speaker 1: to do a little bit of a flavor of stone
Speaker 1: Cold with Kevin Owens, and I don't want to see
Speaker 1: him be a stone cold part too.
Speaker 2: I don't need that I needed to be Kevin Owens.
Speaker 1: But that logic of the rebellious superstar, the one that
Speaker 1: just defies the authority and just makes his way into
Speaker 1: the building, beats up security guards, sneaks in somehow and
Speaker 1: attack Shane week after week. I could see that absolutely.
Speaker 1: Or maybe whoever helps Shane win, because Shane's not gonna
Speaker 1: beat Kevin Owens on his own. Whoever helps Shane win
Speaker 1: maybe is Ultimately, who's gonna come in and attack leading
Speaker 1: to an actual match with an actual wrestler week after
Speaker 1: week after week, you know, coming into building somehow. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that too, and maybe that's that's a
Speaker 1: good way to get around the contractually obligated I'm gonna
Speaker 1: leave w W fail lose this match. So yeah, fine, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Owens, You're gonna go with Shane, But
Speaker 1: both are extremely plausible, even though Owens is the quote
Speaker 1: obvious choice.
Speaker 5: All right, so let's.
Speaker 2: Get to Tristian and Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 1: I know you had some thoughts on this as well,
Speaker 1: So your pick and your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so kind of branching off of what I was
Speaker 4: saying earlier with Natalia and Becky.
Speaker 6: Why part of the.
Speaker 4: Reason why I think Natalia is gonna win is because
Speaker 4: I think Charlotte is gonna lose here Charlotte, And do
Speaker 4: I think Charlotte should lose, Absolutely not. I think Charlotte
Speaker 4: should win. She's the future of the company. She is
Speaker 4: she's the best women's wrestler.
Speaker 6: They have, and she is she's money.
Speaker 4: But in that same took, and that's why she could
Speaker 4: absorb a loss from a Trish Stratus.
Speaker 6: Or I'm sorry, that's why.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why she could absorb a loss from Trish,
Speaker 4: because I don't think that.
Speaker 6: I think I heard somewhere.
Speaker 4: That Tric this was Trisha's gonna be Tricia's last match,
Speaker 4: but we've obviously heard that in the past, so I
Speaker 4: don't I don't think they're gonna go with her winning here.
Speaker 4: So I could see them just having Charlotte come in
Speaker 4: and just it being a very good match, maybe seven
Speaker 4: to nine minutes, ten minutes max, I would say, and
Speaker 4: then just Charlotte going completely over Trish and and the
Speaker 4: crowd just hating it because of course Tricia's hometown, just
Speaker 4: like Kevin and Natalia are, and so they're gonna get
Speaker 4: that huge monster pop. So I could see them going
Speaker 4: with Charlotte winning here and just eating that that hatred
Speaker 4: up from Canada.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a lot of angry fans
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and it's I'm with you too. I think
Speaker 1: it's a perfect opportunity to put Charlotte Flair to that
Speaker 1: next level too. I mean, Trish is nowhere near I believe,
Speaker 1: and there's no disrespect to Trish, but I don't think
Speaker 1: she's anywhere near the athleticism or strength or any of
Speaker 1: that that Charlotte is. And that's not a knock on Trish.
Speaker 1: This is just a different generation of women, and so
Speaker 1: this is a perfect opportunity to get more heat on Charlotte,
Speaker 1: for her to brag forever about beating the legendary Trish stratus.
Speaker 1: There there's a lot that could be gained from Charlotte
Speaker 1: winning and not a lot to be gained by Charlotte losing,
Speaker 1: because Trisha is gonna be one and done or maybe
Speaker 1: two and done.
Speaker 2: Tricia is not sticking around. She's not the future you
Speaker 2: go with. Who is your future?
Speaker 1: What can who can gain the most out of winning
Speaker 1: this match? And it's lopsided that Charlotte Flair has the
Speaker 1: most to gain from this match and the most to
Speaker 1: lose if she loses. So Charlotte has to win this.
Speaker 1: She's gonna go bragging forever. Maybe leta pops up.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's from one on with Leeda, who knows, but
Speaker 1: I think Charlotte Flair she has to win this. Charlotte's
Speaker 1: being also kind of floundering out there, missing from SmackDown
Speaker 1: for a couple of months just shows up. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's kind of everywhere. Charlotte doesn't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of direction right now. So after this, after she beats
Speaker 1: Trish and brags about it, maybe on SmackDown Live, somebody
Speaker 1: who is a supporter or a friend of Trish comes
Speaker 1: out and shuts Charlotte up for you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of months of a fourth of a program. So Charlotte wins.
Speaker 1: It's I expect, as you said, yeah, ten minutes or
Speaker 1: less in a very straightforward but I think it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a good match.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't put at the top of the list.
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna be just like a B
Speaker 1: minus B match, And that's all I expect out of this.
Speaker 2: So I expect a lot of.
Speaker 1: Booing and a lot of pissed off Canadian fans with
Speaker 1: the predictions that.
Speaker 5: We are choosing.
Speaker 4: Oh I know, me too, Me too, Sorry, guys.
Speaker 2: I know, all right.
Speaker 1: So Goldberg versus Dolph Ziggler.
Speaker 2: Who wins this one?
Speaker 6: Goldberg?
Speaker 4: I think it would be hilarious to see Dolph win somehow,
Speaker 4: just to see the reaction from everyone on social media
Speaker 4: and just how like insane everyone would go. So part
Speaker 4: of me would just like find it funny to.
Speaker 6: See that aspect. But I think it's pretty obvious Goldberg
Speaker 6: is gonna win. It's just a matter of how long
Speaker 6: with this one.
Speaker 4: And Dolf is gonna look like a million bucks losing
Speaker 4: to Goldberg because Dolf is that perfect and you couldn't
Speaker 4: find a better n ring worker and seller for Goldberg
Speaker 4: than Dolf Zigler and ww So it's why I wish
Speaker 4: there was more story and more time to build up
Speaker 4: to this, like to this particular actual match, and not
Speaker 4: the Shawan Michaels twist and miss twists that they were doing,
Speaker 4: because that would have been fun just to hear Zigler
Speaker 4: maybe mouth off about Gooldberg. But yeah, it's just a
Speaker 4: matter of time and to see how long this match
Speaker 4: is gonna go.
Speaker 6: I give it like two minutes, three minutes, yeah.
Speaker 5: But definitely work.
Speaker 1: Definitely under five minutes. I mean it's just five minutes
Speaker 1: or less on this one. That's the over under Goldberg wins. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm eighty percent confident Goldberg wins. Could Dolph win and
Speaker 1: then brag about it forever, yeah, maybe, but Goldberg is
Speaker 1: the one that needs repair right now from his disaster
Speaker 1: of a match and Zigler is teflon. I mean, Ziggler
Speaker 1: just you expect Ziggler to lose the big match. That's
Speaker 1: just how it's been his entire career. Is that Ziggler
Speaker 1: we are educated to believe until told otherwise and have
Speaker 1: a large sample size of it. That Ziggler is just
Speaker 1: the guy that talks a good game, it performs well
Speaker 1: in the ring, is always a great asset to his
Speaker 1: opponent because he makes them look like a million bucks, which,
Speaker 1: as you said, is exactly why zigglers here. He is
Speaker 1: the antithesis of Undertaker's style, which is it's not a
Speaker 1: bad thing, it's what Goldberg needs because he's so limited
Speaker 1: in skill set. So Goldberg wins and he moves on.
Speaker 1: And if he has a four match a contract, fine,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think they're gonna have a rematch.
Speaker 1: So Goldberg goes over. They try to erase the match
Speaker 1: with the Undertaker from people's minds, and we move on,
Speaker 1: all right. So the United States Championship AJ Styles and Ricochet.
Speaker 2: This could also be a.
Speaker 1: Candidate for a Match of the night given enough time.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this? Could it be the
Speaker 1: match of the night and who wins?
Speaker 4: So I expecting him to get his his went back
Speaker 4: in the title back. But seeing how strong they're push
Speaker 4: pushing the see in that faction and and the gallasan
Speaker 4: Andrew or yeah Gallas see them keeping it on a J.
Speaker 4: I could see, you know, one of them interfering or
Speaker 4: you know, maybe like doing something to help a win
Speaker 4: and not just being like a clean, clean victory. But
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be, like you said, a very
Speaker 4: very good match, probably match of the night, if not
Speaker 4: the match of the night, probably second match of the
Speaker 4: best match of the night. But yeah, I just I
Speaker 4: think right now they're focusing on AJ and rebuilding this faction,
Speaker 4: So I'm I'm gonna say a J wins here.
Speaker 6: But it's gonna be a great match. I'm really looking forward.
Speaker 1: To it, absolutely this This is gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those matches that, again that they've had a couple of
Speaker 1: matches now to feel for each other. I expect every
Speaker 1: match that they have to be better than the last.
Speaker 1: And they their styles complement each other. Everybody's always looking
Speaker 1: to see the wacky, crazy reversal or crazy offensive maneuver
Speaker 1: that Ricochet is gonna do. There's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of just like jaw dropping moments in terms of like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe I just saw him
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: And that's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what this match is bill to be,
Speaker 1: and I expect ag to come out on top this one.
Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot of slam dunks. It
Speaker 1: would just make no sense to have Ricochet reclaim his
Speaker 1: United States Championship. They are in the rebuilding process of
Speaker 1: the OC, which is the original clan, the only clan.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever weird acronym that they have for
Speaker 1: the Bullet Club, which is was the Club and then's
Speaker 1: the OC.
Speaker 5: I don't know whatever they are.
Speaker 1: They're in the rebuilding process of it. They're holding a
Speaker 1: ton of gold, and that is what the focus of
Speaker 1: this should be. AJ Styles is the United States Champion.
Speaker 5: I think is.
Speaker 1: A better way to build the belt than having Ricochet
Speaker 1: holding it, even though Ricochet is an up andcoming star
Speaker 1: and I think he's a very bright future. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's about billing the value of the belt, and I
Speaker 1: think aj Styles does that better right now than Ricochet.
Speaker 1: All Right, So, Finn Balor versus the Fiend bray Wyatt,
Speaker 1: I don't believe we're getting the demon here, it is
Speaker 1: just plain old Clark Kent Finn Balor, not Superman, versus
Speaker 1: the Fiend bray Wyatt. So I think this one has
Speaker 1: to be I know that I said that at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show, but this one would make zero
Speaker 1: sense to have Finn Balor win. Finn Balor has been
Speaker 1: defined down to a very scary level at this point.
Speaker 1: The Fiend bray Wyatt, I know he's booked as a heel,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, bray Wyatt right now, he
Speaker 1: couldn't even get booed attacking Kurt Angle in his hometown.
Speaker 2: That's how.
Speaker 5: I don't know what WWE and.
Speaker 1: Why they're struggling to go out against the stream here
Speaker 1: and against fans reactions that have been consistently cheering.
Speaker 5: For bray Wyatt.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they're trying to book him as
Speaker 1: a heel. I think it's going to fail miserably. I
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna be in. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a very very heavy favorite for bray White in terms
Speaker 1: of crowd reaction Sunday. I think bray White wins. He
Speaker 1: wins very convincingly, and the crowd loves it, even though
Speaker 1: he's booked as a heel.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I agree with you one hundred percent. I part of me,
Speaker 4: of course, if they have the match, I see the
Speaker 4: Fiend winning. I don't think we're gonna get the Demon here.
Speaker 4: I've heard that Finn wanted to take like a few
Speaker 4: months off, so I see this just being like the
Speaker 4: Blowway match for Finn. Gives him some time off, let
Speaker 4: him chill, relax, whatever, And he deserves it, you know,
Speaker 4: he's been going hard for however long now. But and
Speaker 4: obviously this is Gray White's time. You don't put this
Speaker 4: type of momentum and energy and effort and build into
Speaker 4: a charriage and then just have him lose the first match.
Speaker 4: Of course not but I don't think we're actually gonna
Speaker 4: get a match. I can see something happening either backstage
Speaker 4: during the show or we see like little things, or
Speaker 4: maybe throughout the day, like we see Finn arriving and
Speaker 4: they just kind of play it up, you see like
Speaker 4: the puppets everywhere, and then he gets attacked backstage before
Speaker 4: he even makes it to the rain because they I
Speaker 4: think they have what nine matches on.
Speaker 6: The show or something like that, So it's gonna be
Speaker 6: a long show, So I.
Speaker 4: Could see them meaning besides the Goldberg match like a
Speaker 4: if you want to call that, what's probably gonna be
Speaker 4: a squash match. I could see them needing another short
Speaker 4: match or short segments, so I could see them just
Speaker 4: having to be an attack fin backstage, and that would
Speaker 4: be another reason for Friend to take some time off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there's really no other way to
Speaker 1: do this. I think Bray runs away with us. Even
Speaker 1: if it's not, as you said, an official match, Bray
Speaker 1: will somehow demolish finn Balor. There's no need to bring
Speaker 1: out the Demon because the Demon character, I understand they're
Speaker 1: trying to protect it. As cool as that would be
Speaker 1: and as like mysterious as that would be, the Demon
Speaker 1: versus the Fiend, I think you do that down the
Speaker 1: line when when finn Balor has been re established as
Speaker 1: a legitimate threat plus the Demon. As I understand, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I'm right, is that the Demon is undefeated.
Speaker 1: You don't just destroy, you don't just end that streng
Speaker 1: I mean, with really no build, I don't need I
Speaker 1: also need a reason for Finn Balla to bring out
Speaker 1: the Demon, not just because it's SummerSlam. I need the
Speaker 1: feud to Dick hate it, not just because I mean,
Speaker 1: just like Helen to sell, they just have it because
Speaker 1: it's part of the pay per view schedule.
Speaker 2: Just driving me nuts.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Finn Balor is going to get demolished, destroyed
Speaker 1: and maybe die on Sunday. He is going to lose
Speaker 1: the match or the fight or whatever it's going to be,
Speaker 1: and the crowd's gonna eat it up no matter what
Speaker 1: WB tries to do to get Bray Watt Boods. So
Speaker 1: one more match, and I don't think you and I
Speaker 1: are having a whole lot of thought on it. Is
Speaker 1: the cruiseweight Championship match with Drew Glack and Onny Lorcan.
Speaker 5: Who wins, I'll give you mine.
Speaker 1: I think Drew Gulak and just because I mean, I
Speaker 1: honestly don't have a whole lot of investment in this,
Speaker 1: what about you same?
Speaker 6: They're both really good.
Speaker 4: I've seen a few matches from Morkan and he's he's decent,
Speaker 4: So I think it's gonna be a good match.
Speaker 6: The Cruiseway match always delivers.
Speaker 4: I actually think Lorcan is more entertaining on Twitter than
Speaker 4: you know, like what he's actually doing on TV.
Speaker 6: No knock against him.
Speaker 4: He's just hilarious on Twitter and everything is like all calves.
Speaker 4: It's just, you know, just very entertaining. So but yeah,
Speaker 4: I see retaining here. But one thing, if you don't
Speaker 4: mind if I backtracked really quick, just to get your
Speaker 4: opinion on what if you think if they do stick
Speaker 4: with Eric Rowans being the guy who was behind the
Speaker 4: whole attack against Roman, what do you what if the fiend.
Speaker 6: Bray Wyatt put him up to it.
Speaker 4: And that's why Daniel has no idea because it wasn't
Speaker 4: Daniel putting Rowing up to it. It was Bray putting
Speaker 4: Rowan up to it. And not for nothing, Daniel has
Speaker 4: history with Bray as well. So it could be the
Speaker 4: form of a faction there. Like maybe Daniel didn't know
Speaker 4: at first, but he gets sucked into not the family
Speaker 4: and they're not gonna call it the family, but whatever
Speaker 4: word or term they used to describe, but maybe just
Speaker 4: their faction whatever they end up doing with it.
Speaker 1: But it's just the thought, yeah that would be then
Speaker 1: now you got me like thinking about this, like I mean,
Speaker 1: I I would sure I still believe that if they're
Speaker 1: trying to get Roman cheered against the fiend good luck.
Speaker 6: I mean, oh yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't believe is anyone you could put against
Speaker 1: bray White because his characters sorore over, his mask is
Speaker 1: so badass, his Firefly fun House was so good. And
Speaker 1: I would like to actually see bray Whye come out
Speaker 1: as like the evil Miss Rogers once in a while
Speaker 1: and not just always as the Fiend and have somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, try to propoke that out of him, provoke
Speaker 1: it out of him. And he said he could control it,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I wouldn't mind that version of it
Speaker 1: where he's a little bit you know, kind of the
Speaker 1: evil evil mister Rodgers, and then when needed, the Fiend
Speaker 1: comes out and you know he there's a lot to
Speaker 1: do with that there. So if bray White is indeed
Speaker 1: the true mastermind behind this, and ultimately they're looking down
Speaker 1: the line in a month or so to do the
Speaker 1: Fiend versus Roman, Yeah, and I think that's a good
Speaker 1: I would think that's awesome, and you bring Rowan back
Speaker 1: into relevancy. You could have a storyline that has bray Wyatt,
Speaker 1: you know, when he was facing Roman Reigns a few
Speaker 1: years ago, saying anyone but you Roman, anyone but you Roman.
Speaker 1: I mean, and there's I mean, you could bring it
Speaker 1: back because they did have a long standing feud together.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's history on to draw from, whether it's
Speaker 1: Daniel Bryant the mastermind, or it is ends up being
Speaker 1: Bray Wyatt. I just Bray White is not going to
Speaker 1: be Booeds.
Speaker 6: So yeah, sorry, just kind of popped my head.
Speaker 1: No, no, now you got me. I mean, we all
Speaker 1: believe that Daniel Brian's been suspect number one with all
Speaker 1: the rumors floating around, but.
Speaker 2: It could be very well Bray whyitet and.
Speaker 4: If they have and what if he says his announcement
Speaker 4: was that he unleashed the.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, oh man, you need to join the
Speaker 1: writing team. I mean, it's just like, yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of ways to go with this because the public
Speaker 1: perception is that it is Daniel Brian. But with the
Speaker 1: fact that they canceled the match at SummerSlam between Daniel
Speaker 1: and Roman and decided to quote let this play itself out,
Speaker 1: I think that that tells me it very well and
Speaker 1: may not be Brian. He's just kind of a red
Speaker 1: herring and he's just distraction for who is actually behind
Speaker 1: this and it Hey, if it's bray White.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 1: I'm all for slow burns and letting stories tell themselves
Speaker 1: rather than rush rushing.
Speaker 2: To well, let's get to the match. That's what it's
Speaker 2: going to be anyway.
Speaker 1: So wow, yeah, all right, well Ashley listen, it's it's
Speaker 1: been a blast. But before you go, let everyone know
Speaker 1: again about your your podcast and and where they can
Speaker 1: find it and where they can find you on social media.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thank you on Twitter, A S, H M,
Speaker 4: A N N S. Feel free to give me a follow.
Speaker 4: I love talking with everyone. But yeah, this other podcast
Speaker 4: is called Russell Rewind. We're live every Thursday. I feel
Speaker 4: like that's the schedule going forward. Still like I said
Speaker 4: earlier in the empasy stages of everything, getting everything sorted out.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's nothing, nothing serious, just four friends hanging
Speaker 4: out talking about wrestling, what's happening in the week. We
Speaker 4: talked a little bit about aw or just any anything
Speaker 4: that's been in the news or our thoughts feelings about anything.
Speaker 4: Looking to be more interactive in the future, So yeah,
Speaker 4: definitely check us out.
Speaker 6: But again, I love talking to you, Matt, and.
Speaker 4: I always look forward and I feel like, ironically enough
Speaker 4: whenever our three weeks rolls around. It's always right before
Speaker 4: pay per view, so I kind of looked out.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, that does it always does.
Speaker 4: Seem like it's always our predictions, so it's.
Speaker 1: Kind of However, I believe the next pay per view
Speaker 1: is Night Clash the Champions or Night of Champions, and
Speaker 1: I think this one though, is like four or five
Speaker 1: weeks from Summer Slime. There's actually a pretty big gap
Speaker 1: between this Summer Slave or this pay per view in
Speaker 1: the next so that that streak may come to an
Speaker 1: end after this this week. So I know, I know
Speaker 1: I did now that I never made that connection, but
Speaker 1: you're right. So all right, well, Ashley, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on the show. Three weeks flies by,
Speaker 1: so before you know it, we will be My gosh,
Speaker 1: the next time we talk it is gonna be almost September.
Speaker 5: I'll be like, wow.
Speaker 1: So it'll be the end of August and everybody check
Speaker 1: out the podcast and it's Wrestled. We want rewind on
Speaker 1: Facebook and eventually coming to all probably podcast forms that
Speaker 1: you can think of. It's gonna be a great show.
Speaker 1: So Ashley, thanks so much for joining me, and I
Speaker 1: will talk to you soon.
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you so much for having
Speaker 5: Me right bye bye