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Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a brand new episode
Speaker 3: of The Hardy Wrestling Podcast with your Girl. Stephanie Hardy,
Speaker 3: the host, founder, creator, and her of this amazing show.
Speaker 3: Co host of Stephan Kat Talk Wild which is on
Speaker 3: hiatus for right right now, but that show will be
Speaker 3: back fairly soon, and of course commentator on various promotions,
Speaker 3: but will be featured at Retinal Pro Wrestling at their
Speaker 3: obligatory third year anniversary show this Friday in Birmingham. And
Speaker 3: of course I'm so happy to be before you on
Speaker 3: this Wednesday evening, this wild out Wednesday where we are
Speaker 3: talking about WrestleMania. But thankfully I'm not alone. I am
Speaker 3: back with my co host with the most Bianca Addison.
Speaker 3: We are reunited and it feels so good. How are you, Bianca?
Speaker 4: Feel so right? Happy Humpday, Happy midweek service to you all.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Happy Mania Week to you all. I'm excited,
Speaker 4: i am blessed, i am highly favorite, and yeah, we
Speaker 4: have a lot to talk about. It's been very it's
Speaker 4: been ignorant in the world, rustling things to talk about.
Speaker 4: But yeah, overall, I'm very excited. It's Wrestlingia week. But
Speaker 4: it's just we we were talking earlier. It creep It
Speaker 4: snuck up on us, like it snuck it snuck up.
Speaker 4: It's snuck up to us really fast. It was like
Speaker 4: yesterday that we were staying up all like for like
Speaker 4: an hour listening to Triple.
Speaker 3: H and his whole of themes.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm from that time till now, It's crazy how
Speaker 4: time flew so fast. But yeah, I'm I'm, I'm really,
Speaker 4: I don't well, I'm and yeah, this is my favorite month.
Speaker 4: This is my favorite pay per view of the of
Speaker 4: the year. And yeah, I'm just very excited too for
Speaker 4: this weekend. Despite everything that's has transpired the past week couple.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot has transpired. But the one reason I
Speaker 3: wanted to do an episode this week was because of
Speaker 3: the fact that I wanted to sort of start off
Speaker 3: talking about joyful moment mins that WrestleMania has brought to
Speaker 3: both of our lives, because we have mentioned since you
Speaker 3: have started hosting how certain WrestleManias are very special to
Speaker 3: the both of us. And then of course because I
Speaker 3: started watching wrestling a little bit, you know, before you did,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of great moments that I did want
Speaker 3: to highlight and mention and just talk about and enjoy.
Speaker 3: Because Russellmania is also my favorite pl E slash pay
Speaker 3: per view. It became my favorite, I would say around
Speaker 3: nineteen I did not watch Wressemania nineteen Live. I watched
Speaker 3: the DVD after the fact because my dad purchased it,
Speaker 3: and so just getting to watch the grandeur and spectacle
Speaker 3: of that one because it was in Safeco Field and Seattle, Washington,
Speaker 3: where I have relative shout out to them, my auntie
Speaker 3: and my cousins, you know, getting to see that grandeur
Speaker 3: and everything just really exposed me very early to how
Speaker 3: amazing WrestleMania could be. So it's it's a very important
Speaker 3: event to me, and it's also important to the lifeblood
Speaker 3: of the Hardy Wrestling podcast as well, with being able
Speaker 3: to attend last year as media and just being able
Speaker 3: to attend various other ones as well that we will
Speaker 3: get into. But to start the show off, I wanted
Speaker 3: us to share our top five with some honorable mention
Speaker 3: WrestleMania moments, because of course, if you were to have
Speaker 3: a top ten or top fifteen, we would be sitting
Speaker 3: here for hours and hours and hours, and you know,
Speaker 3: we don't necessarily have that type of time. But I
Speaker 3: wanted us to discuss, you know, just some moments that
Speaker 3: we hold very dear and near to our hearts when
Speaker 3: it comes to this time of the year, because it's
Speaker 3: a spectacle. It's the show of shows, It's the showcase
Speaker 3: of the immortals. You know, this is our super Bowl,
Speaker 3: And because it's wrestling fans in Super Bowl, there's so
Speaker 3: much love and so much passion that you know, bring
Speaker 3: all of us together, whether it be wrestling fans that
Speaker 3: are just casual who had not watched in a while
Speaker 3: but are still exposed to everything due to the nature
Speaker 3: of wrestling fans being all over the place, you can't
Speaker 3: really escape them this time of year, or the die
Speaker 3: hards like us who watch it all the time every week,
Speaker 3: you know, day in day out. We're a part of
Speaker 3: the culture, or you know, just anybody who just want
Speaker 3: to be curious and just look at it. WrestleMania is
Speaker 3: a great uniter of various people of culture's backgrounds, fandoms,
Speaker 3: all the things, and it can be a very joyful,
Speaker 3: joyful experience. So I wanted us to discuss our top
Speaker 3: five moments first, and because this is Bianca's first maybe
Speaker 3: a season with me, we are gonna start with her
Speaker 3: top fives first and then we'll go into mind. And
Speaker 3: of course, if you are watching us live, thank you
Speaker 3: guys so much for watching on all the platforms. And
Speaker 3: if you, you know, have any moments you want to share,
Speaker 3: you know, filth to comment and share your moments and
Speaker 3: it might wind up on the screen as we go along.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Bianca, I am so happy to start by
Speaker 3: talking about this moment, which is also very special to
Speaker 3: me as well and also the lifeblood of this show.
Speaker 3: You said an honorable mention for you was Bianca Belair
Speaker 3: versus Mercedes Manet known then as Sasha Banks, in the
Speaker 3: main event of Night one of WrestleMania thirty seven in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. And this was of course the first
Speaker 3: time that black women ever main invented WrestleMania. This was
Speaker 3: Bianca's not really her very first WrestleMania because she had
Speaker 3: been a part of the Women's Battle Royal at the
Speaker 3: one in New Orleans, the last one they had in
Speaker 3: New Orleans years ago, but this was her first solo
Speaker 3: match at WrestleMania, and you know, she won the world
Speaker 3: rumble got to face off against Mercedes Manet in this
Speaker 3: historic moment. But specifically you mentioned one particular part of
Speaker 3: this match that you really loved as an honorable mention,
Speaker 3: So share, share, share that with everyone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, my gosh, let me pull up my notes
Speaker 4: so I don't miss anything. So I taught my honorable
Speaker 4: mention was this match, but more specifically the part of
Speaker 4: before it's before the match when they yes, when they
Speaker 4: were staring at each other and the pop of the crowd,
Speaker 4: it just kept chriscendoing, christ doing, christn doing, and then
Speaker 4: as it got louder, the tears just kept flowing. Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, and they kept nodding at each other, Oh
Speaker 4: my god, like breaking character being themselves, just like saying
Speaker 4: like saying saying to themselves, tell connectically, we're making history.
Speaker 4: We we we're here, we did this, We are those girls,
Speaker 4: we are that girl, and we we made it. And
Speaker 4: talk about representation, talking about opening doors because like this
Speaker 4: being this being the first that black women are main
Speaker 4: events in a pay per view p l E. A
Speaker 4: main an event that is viewed around the world globally,
Speaker 4: and black people are in the main event. And descent
Speaker 4: to stage, like what come on, like trying not to cry,
Speaker 4: like laughing. I'm like a lot of promotion and and
Speaker 4: all the black biancas who have who had a dream,
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I remember tweeting when I was seventeen,
Speaker 4: I want to be a DVA so bad step and
Speaker 4: doing a step. Nie McMahon, I want to be a D.
Speaker 4: I want to be a WWD. That's been it's my
Speaker 4: biggest dreams I was I was, I was seventeen, and
Speaker 4: that dream of being in the ring, well this is
Speaker 4: still there in the form of reannouncing, so like I
Speaker 4: can still be, I can still fulfill that dream. But
Speaker 4: like being an employee, seeing this woman, seeing this her
Speaker 4: skin color, sharing her saying this, sharing the same name
Speaker 4: as me, me sharing the same name as her, sharing.
Speaker 3: The love of love.
Speaker 4: A business for a business that we all hold dear
Speaker 4: to our hearts, sharing that in common and being of color,
Speaker 4: and oh my god, like I can go on and
Speaker 4: on and Mercedes Monage doing her thing, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: like ah and then yeah and that that that's just
Speaker 4: so cool and beat Yanka's reaction when she won, Oh
Speaker 4: my god, when she when she screamed and went to
Speaker 4: her family. Oh I love. That's what I love about WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: That's what I love about w W. I love the
Speaker 4: real moments. I love I love when moments art. I
Speaker 4: love when we see authentic moments. I love when we
Speaker 4: see who they are as people like I love them,
Speaker 4: we see their families and love just being in the
Speaker 4: front row and just in her her dad or was
Speaker 4: it her dad or Mont has four shout out to you,
Speaker 4: we miss you. One of them was carrying them, carrying
Speaker 4: her okay, Mont has carried her on her on his
Speaker 4: shoulders with pride. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's It's an amazing moment for sure. It's
Speaker 3: something that I made mention of when I was working
Speaker 3: with Daily DDT a few years back, and I wrote
Speaker 3: an article about Mantes Forn and Bianca Bella when they
Speaker 3: had that reality show and he lifted her on his
Speaker 3: shoulders after she won the SmackDown Women's Championship. In this match,
Speaker 3: I felt like that was low key akin to win
Speaker 3: Macho man Randy Savage, uplifted a Miss Elizabeth, And of
Speaker 3: course I know their relationship was different, but at the
Speaker 3: same time, it's still a WrestleMania moment, and just the
Speaker 3: idea of the emotion, like you mentioned, the authenticity of
Speaker 3: all of that alone is what makes this moment great,
Speaker 3: aside from the match already being spectacular in and of itself,
Speaker 3: because of how excellent these women were and how they
Speaker 3: performed the emotion surrounding the importance of it and the
Speaker 3: authenticity of that is something that rings true forever. It's
Speaker 3: just I'm so happy to have experienced this. I was
Speaker 3: a year and some change in to being a wrestling journalist,
Speaker 3: to a degree a podcaster, and to see this, I
Speaker 3: was a part of a watch along and to see
Speaker 3: this happen, it was very beautiful. And I didn't cry
Speaker 3: until the very end, so like, I held it together
Speaker 3: on camera until Bianca one and I just started sobbing
Speaker 3: because I just could not believe, you know, what I
Speaker 3: had seen, and I had watched this match back so
Speaker 3: many times. But I love the moment between Beionca and
Speaker 3: Mercedes just looking at each other knowing that this was
Speaker 3: a glass ceiling that they were breaking. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: will always be grateful for that. There are black women
Speaker 3: who are new to the business who or who are
Speaker 3: at least fairly new to the public when it comes
Speaker 3: to wrestling, who you know, cite this match as their inspiration.
Speaker 3: And it's beautiful and it always will be beautiful. And
Speaker 3: I'm so happy that you chose as a part of
Speaker 3: your honorable mention. So yeah, yeah, and I can't leave
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 4: I couldn't. Of course not, I wouldn't feel right to me.
Speaker 4: And you mentioned the moment between montees Ford and Bianca
Speaker 4: Bella Air and comparing that to Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Oh so when I so, when I
Speaker 4: watched every single WrestleMania last year, I watched that WrestleMania
Speaker 4: and when that moment happened, the tears that streamed down
Speaker 4: my face. Oh my god. Yeah, one of the one
Speaker 4: of the most beautiful, raw emotional moments I have ever
Speaker 4: witnessed as a wrestling fan. Oh my god, I didn't
Speaker 4: know that actually a couple.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were a couple. And then and then, of course,
Speaker 3: you know, it had everybody in the crowd invested as well,
Speaker 3: because you know, Macho Man had really started smelling himself
Speaker 3: as the King and the ring and you know he
Speaker 3: was he had sensational Sherry, you know, by his side,
Speaker 3: and you know, and Elizabeth just couldn't take it anymore,
Speaker 3: and she was kicking him down and she and Miss
Speaker 3: Elizabeth lifted him up and took him back. That was
Speaker 3: just a very very heartfelt moment in the lore of WrestleMania.
Speaker 3: So when you think about couples, you think about them too,
Speaker 3: and it's just looking at Montees and Bianca as a
Speaker 3: beautiful couple in that way and seeing him support her
Speaker 3: in that way. It was very important. Even though you
Speaker 3: didn't see an on screen, you saw the pictures later
Speaker 3: and it was just very beautiful. So there was a
Speaker 3: lot of authenticity, a lot of love all around for
Speaker 3: this moment, and it's something that Bianca continues to cite
Speaker 3: even as Mercedes has moved on to other great ventures elsewhere.
Speaker 3: Bianca still cites this as one of the greatest moments
Speaker 3: of her career. And I love that. So we love it. Oh, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 3: because black history is something that's important to Bianca as well.
Speaker 3: So it was it was just all fantastic. So I'm
Speaker 3: happy you chose this. So moving on to the proper
Speaker 3: number five, this is this is one that's special to
Speaker 3: the both of us for various reasons. Your number five
Speaker 3: was WrestleMania twenty seven in Atlanta. So I'll talk about
Speaker 3: how important this is for me. Even though this is
Speaker 3: your moment, it's important for me because even though critically
Speaker 3: a lot of people say online and this is one
Speaker 3: of the worst WrestleManias that's ever taken place. I don't
Speaker 3: like it either, because this was actually my very first one,
Speaker 3: because this one took place in Atlanta, Georgia. And of course,
Speaker 3: for those who are new to the Hardy Wrestling Podcast,
Speaker 3: I am from Birmingham, Alabama. I'm from the South, and
Speaker 3: if you're from Birmingham, Atlanta is historically just two and
Speaker 3: a half hours away. So when they first announced that
Speaker 3: this was going to be in Atlanta, me and my
Speaker 3: dad and my sister were like, we were all in
Speaker 3: according and said we were going over there. That's the
Speaker 3: closest WrestleMania has been to us, next to Florida and
Speaker 3: also next to New Orleans. So we were just like, Okay,
Speaker 3: so we're gonna go. We're gonna go, We're gonna go.
Speaker 3: And this was also the last pay per view and
Speaker 3: actually the last event I was able to go to
Speaker 3: before I graduated high school and went to college. So
Speaker 3: this was a huge deal to seventeen year old Stephanie.
Speaker 3: She this was huge for her. We had always talked
Speaker 3: about wanting to go to one, and this was the
Speaker 3: closest that it was gonna be. We it was there.
Speaker 3: We drove that Sunday, we went to church that Sunday
Speaker 3: and then drove over to Atlanta and this was in
Speaker 3: the Georgia Dome and The Rock was hosting it. He
Speaker 3: was the host and John Cena and the miss were
Speaker 3: the main event for the w W Championship. Sadly, the
Speaker 3: Devas Championship was not on the card, even though Eve
Speaker 3: Torres was a champion and she was there. The Undertaker
Speaker 3: in Triple H fought one more time, even though they
Speaker 3: fought after that. The next year, they fought this first
Speaker 3: time and the Undertaker came out to that Johnny Cash.
Speaker 4: Song I'm gonna talk about that.
Speaker 3: So yeah. And then John Cena's entrance was also with
Speaker 3: a choir, but before that choir, he had one of
Speaker 3: DMX's prayers playing with a montage that he had which
Speaker 3: is so beautiful, which was really beautiful if you were
Speaker 3: to go back and watch it. And I know last
Speaker 3: year when I went to Mania in Vegas, they were
Speaker 3: actually playing that moment and the choir with John Cena's
Speaker 3: entrance throughout the arena in w W E World, So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was pretty chills inducing. This is also where Snooky
Speaker 3: made her in ring debut as well. Due to the
Speaker 3: fame of Jersey Shore so it was definitely a product
Speaker 3: of this time, and it's not one of the perfect WrestleManias,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, it's still one that I
Speaker 3: hold close to my heart simply because I was there
Speaker 3: with my dad and my sister and it was my
Speaker 3: very first resumator that I got to attend. So, Bianca,
Speaker 3: why did you choose this as you're number five?
Speaker 4: Well like you like you. WrestleMania twenty seven was is
Speaker 4: actually the first Russmenia I ever watched. And I didn't
Speaker 4: watch it live because I was a broke ninth grader.
Speaker 3: I actually watched it if you were a teenager, so
Speaker 3: it's okay.
Speaker 4: Was actually I actually watched it. I found a website
Speaker 4: that had it in clips, so it took me so
Speaker 4: like I watched it in clips. So but before that,
Speaker 4: oh my god, to twenty one eleven holds a special
Speaker 4: place in my heart because that was when I first
Speaker 4: saw the Undertaker and Triple Ah and that and that
Speaker 4: whole segment was like, I know how big the Undertaker is.
Speaker 4: Was I know that name, but I've never seen him,
Speaker 4: but I know who he is and the lore of
Speaker 4: the Undertaker. I've never seen tipple h I never knew
Speaker 4: of Triple H but until that video, until that moment, yeah,
Speaker 4: and then that everything about that was, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it was so cool. I've never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 4: That face off was my loss girl with my wallpaper
Speaker 4: in nine Triple A just ponytail and just slick care
Speaker 4: of the Undertaker. Oh my god, I love that. It
Speaker 4: was my wallpaper. I loved this so much, and that
Speaker 4: was and when I weren't and when that that countdown
Speaker 4: and the Undertaker, before the Undertaker came hearing Ain't No Grave, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that solidified my love and stand ship for Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean that's a word, stand ship whatever, get into
Speaker 4: it for Johnny Cash because eight oh, Ain't No Grave
Speaker 4: was was I It was so cool that, oh that was.
Speaker 3: No and that and then not to interrupt you because
Speaker 3: the Undertaker even using that song was pretty cool too,
Speaker 3: because in the lore of WrestleMania, I can remember vividly
Speaker 3: watching WrestleMania twenty on DVD and seeing him come back
Speaker 3: after losing a bird Alive match to Kin and Kane
Speaker 3: thought for sure he buried his brother, all for the
Speaker 3: Undertaker to come back at that WrestleMania and beat him
Speaker 3: in that match, like like in the lore of WrestleMania,
Speaker 3: him using that Ain't No Grave song by Johnny Cash
Speaker 3: was perfect. It was. It was a perfect choice in
Speaker 3: whoever made that decision eight because oh my god, I
Speaker 3: felt like, honestly, that really just should have been the
Speaker 3: Undertaker's theme song from that point on. But you know,
Speaker 3: money and yeah, no, it wasn't like they just used
Speaker 3: that for that pay per view. But then what's so
Speaker 3: funny is if you go back and watch WRESSEMINGA twenty
Speaker 3: seven on streaming, it's not I don't think it's that
Speaker 3: song is featured on there due to licensing and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, so and it sucks. But you know, if
Speaker 3: you watch it in the moment and if you were there,
Speaker 3: you know that that was the song.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, wow. And then before and then I
Speaker 4: will get to wrest twenty seven. But then that was
Speaker 4: actually my first time watching That was my first time
Speaker 4: watching the Hall of Fame induction ceremony with Shawn Michaels. Yeah,
Speaker 4: my first time. It was my first everything and then
Speaker 4: just the hip okay mm hmm, went oh my god, I,
Speaker 4: oh my god, So okay, where was I Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm done. Okay, I think I'm and then when I
Speaker 4: I lost my lost Chuck, I was still talking about
Speaker 4: the Undertaker into the light that but that match and
Speaker 4: oh when when the Undertaker walked out mm hmmm, and
Speaker 4: then Josh Roberts one of my favorite ring announcers of
Speaker 4: all time that I can't and his announcement of the
Speaker 4: Undertaker and then just oh my god, and I did.
Speaker 4: That was my first time. That was the first time
Speaker 4: I actually like got into the streak and then we
Speaker 4: get into this I think about this all the time,
Speaker 4: the old girl, Oh my god. We talked, oh my god,
Speaker 4: oh my god.
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, John and yeah. All of that was really
Speaker 3: great because that was really my first time actually thinking
Speaker 3: paying any attention to the Streak too, and just seeing
Speaker 3: the Undertaker defended and seeing Triple H you know, go
Speaker 3: after it as hard as he did. Like that match
Speaker 3: was very tough, Like it was very tough to kind
Speaker 3: of just sit there and just witness at the time.
Speaker 3: And then at one point it also looked like both
Speaker 3: of those men kind of passed out and it was crazy.
Speaker 3: Another favorite part that I loved about this pay per view,
Speaker 3: even though.
Speaker 4: You huh, I have made it mistake. I meant to
Speaker 4: say Justin Roberts, not Josh Roberts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Justin Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, shout out to Justin Roberts. Oh hello, I
Speaker 4: love you. Okay, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Another part, another match that I feel like kind of
Speaker 3: flies under the radar from Wrestleman in twenty seven is
Speaker 3: also undashing Cody Rhodes fighting Ray Mystereo, and Ray Mystereo
Speaker 3: had this gear on where it was like Captain America theme,
Speaker 3: and that was the first time I had ever knew
Speaker 3: about Captain America. So Ray Mysterio is the reason why
Speaker 3: I know about Captain America because he cosplays him. Because
Speaker 3: every WrestleMania Ray Masterio had been in he has like
Speaker 3: either a cosplay or a special gear. And that was
Speaker 3: the first time I'd ever heard about Captain America because
Speaker 3: of Ray Mysterio.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then you know Cody Rose, he was undashing. He
Speaker 3: was walking around with that mask on and he was
Speaker 3: just walking around with the paper bag and everything. I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh my God, get away from me. I'm ok, you know,
Speaker 3: just being dramatic. And then he won that match in Atlanta,
Speaker 3: which is of course, you know, a home for him,
Speaker 3: So that was really interesting and that tends to fly
Speaker 3: under the radar a whole lot when it comes to that, because,
Speaker 3: like I said, it's it's critically, you know, panned is
Speaker 3: one of the worst WrestleMania's. But another reason why it's
Speaker 3: also you know, sort of looked at kind of funny
Speaker 3: is because you had John Cena fighting the Miss, but
Speaker 3: then at the same time he had this beef going
Speaker 3: on with The Rock, and The Rock was just hosting
Speaker 3: and every week I think me and my family were
Speaker 3: watching just to see if they were actually gonna fight
Speaker 3: in Atlanta. All for The Rock to just host the
Speaker 3: thing and then cross John Cena the match at the
Speaker 3: very end and helped the Miss retain, and it was
Speaker 3: just so nuts. And then on top of that, we
Speaker 3: got played with because they went ahead and announced at
Speaker 3: the once in a lifetime match between The Rock and
Speaker 3: Johnson it would happen at the next one in Florida.
Speaker 3: I was so, like, I was excited that it was happening,
Speaker 3: but I was sad because it really could have happened
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, it's okay that it happened
Speaker 3: the way it did, but at the same time, if
Speaker 3: it had happened in Atlanta. That would have made my
Speaker 3: entire life. But it's okay, it is okay, that was
Speaker 3: years ago. We're still happy.
Speaker 4: But you know, your time is up. My time, it's not.
Speaker 4: Your time's up, fine time, it's not good. Time is up?
Speaker 4: Time y?
Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, that that woman was singing for
Speaker 3: her life? Okay, maybe, oh my gosh, we need to
Speaker 3: find that choir and and see how all those people
Speaker 3: are even doing like at that point and ask them,
Speaker 3: you know what, do they even still watch wrestling or
Speaker 3: or had they ever even watched wrestling up to that point?
Speaker 3: Like there's so many questions I have for all those people.
Speaker 3: But either way, that was an awesome entrance. John Cena
Speaker 3: did what need to be done the miss His entrance
Speaker 3: was like awesome balloons and then he came out to
Speaker 3: you can Hate Me Now by Nas and that person
Speaker 3: who shall not be named, But yeah, Skyler, Oh, actually
Speaker 3: really like that song what you can Hate Me Now?
Speaker 4: What's Skyler Gray?
Speaker 3: And no that wasn't Skylar, No, that wasn't Skylar Gray
Speaker 3: and MGK, you can hate Me Now. The song that
Speaker 3: the Mis had his montage to for this one was
Speaker 3: by Nas and P Diddy. Oh yeah, yeah, that's like Ara,
Speaker 3: That's like a rap classic, like full on, like yeah,
Speaker 3: so you're thinking about another WrestleMania, you're thinking about the
Speaker 3: next one that actually had the Rock and Senes. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're still on twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, well but yeah, but even though that that
Speaker 4: still since that song is not in Wrestling in twenty seven,
Speaker 4: one of my favorite songs of all time was the
Speaker 4: theme song for Wrestling in twenty seven, and that song
Speaker 4: holds a special place in my heart. Written in the
Speaker 4: Star's tiny tempa, it returns too. Oh my god, that's
Speaker 4: like a soundtrack of my high school days hearing not
Speaker 4: on the radio and that being on the theme song.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I used to run to that song
Speaker 3: in college. I can't believe that. Oh my god, what
Speaker 3: is happening the time? But yeah, Wrestma twenty seven is special,
Speaker 3: no matter what anybody says. And I'm still holding out
Speaker 3: hope for the day they bring WrestleMania back to Atlanta
Speaker 3: or back to the South period, because this one was
Speaker 3: supposed to be in New Orleans, but just plans change.
Speaker 3: But either way, here's hoping that Russemania finds its way
Speaker 3: back to the South or even to Birmingham because you
Speaker 3: just never know I'm manifesting that from my city whatever,
Speaker 3: Yes it will one day. So we moved to your
Speaker 3: number four moment, Biaka. This is another special one that
Speaker 3: I'm blessed to say that I got to be here for.
Speaker 3: So I'll let you talk about this one. This is
Speaker 3: CM Punk and his entrance at WrestleMania forty one last year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll let you get into it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So okay, Oh my god. I actually got really
Speaker 4: emotional with this because you start oh before Living Color,
Speaker 4: and I love when I love when the actually the
Speaker 4: actual band comes out and sings live, sings the theme
Speaker 4: song live. But before that, there was this, There was
Speaker 4: the montage. There was there was this, the video of
Speaker 4: of IM Punk and Ring of Honor, his ole singing
Speaker 4: my name is ceym Punk and then cutting to him
Speaker 4: now besiding that whole entire h promo, seeing where he
Speaker 4: was and where he is right now, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: and its flight with kill Switch engaged, Oh this fire
Speaker 4: burns playing oh my goshness, gracious goodness, gracious, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: and just seek hearing and just seeing videos of the
Speaker 4: crowds singing even the dark, this f.
Speaker 5: Bed, oh this, oh seeing.
Speaker 4: The fuck you are an old child, and that that
Speaker 4: song has. I love the meaning to that song. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, it's just and then just seeing his reaction
Speaker 4: before he came out him crying, and then he came
Speaker 4: out to Living Color singing, what culture personality? Oh my god,
Speaker 4: A lot happened, everything a moment, and then before and
Speaker 4: then after he Maine invented. When the match was over,
Speaker 4: he was crying and he said, I often did it.
Speaker 4: And then just I love this man so much. Oh
Speaker 4: my god. Ah, oh yeahmpunk does and any engine cm
Speaker 4: punk any and he can he can never go wrong there.
Speaker 4: I have never seen a boring punk eine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me neither. And I just and let me just say,
Speaker 3: hearing your passion about it, I I love that that
Speaker 3: came across to you that way when you were watching it,
Speaker 3: because here again enough, this is a special moment. Wow,
Speaker 3: everything full moves, full circle. I was there for that
Speaker 3: last year, and I knew how special this was because,
Speaker 3: of course, in the weeks leading up to it, you know,
Speaker 3: when they were signing the contract for the Triple Threat,
Speaker 3: Paul told him, look, it's right there. You know you
Speaker 3: are a rest Mania main eventor and just seeing Punk
Speaker 3: cry about it, like you can tell that even though
Speaker 3: you know he this is a person who has every
Speaker 3: right to be jaded because he's been through so much.
Speaker 3: We know his journey, you know, it's been spoken about constantly.
Speaker 3: But for him to have finally gotten to that point,
Speaker 3: I felt like it was a very beautiful moment to
Speaker 3: experience as a fan and just as a person. You know,
Speaker 3: it just lets you know that your dreams are never
Speaker 3: far away, no matter how hard you have to work
Speaker 3: for them. They're they're never impossible. So to see him
Speaker 3: get to that point, and then I'm there sitting in
Speaker 3: Allegiant Stadium with everyone impressed, with all the fans and everything.
Speaker 3: He comes out and the video starts, so I'm up
Speaker 3: top and I'm looking at the video up from up
Speaker 3: here and it starts and he's talking and then you
Speaker 3: see his journey and you see the old Indie ran
Speaker 3: and everything else. And then with him talking about, you know,
Speaker 3: my addiction is wrestling, and you see everything he's been through,
Speaker 3: and he talks about how you know this night is
Speaker 3: you know, my fire is always burning, This night is
Speaker 3: my night, you know, while the music is playing, and
Speaker 3: I get chills even just thinking about it. Just sitting
Speaker 3: there and listening to the entire Vegas crowd sing this
Speaker 3: fire Burns. I didn't know that. I did not know
Speaker 3: all those people even still remembered that song, because Culture
Speaker 3: Personality has been this man's theme song for so long
Speaker 3: that I didn't even think that many people remembered this
Speaker 3: fire Burns. But sitting there and hearing everybody sing that
Speaker 3: song like that, it was just like, man, it was it.
Speaker 3: It was crazy. Everybody was locked in in that moment
Speaker 3: that this really was CM Punk's big, big, big, big,
Speaker 3: big chance and big moment and big dream coming true.
Speaker 3: We were all locked in and on one accord, so
Speaker 3: it was magical. It's that Mania magic. And then he
Speaker 3: comes out, you know, with Living Color, and of course
Speaker 3: they've performed with him at Mania before, at Mania twenty
Speaker 3: nine and that was wonderful, But this time for him
Speaker 3: to have both of his theme songs, you know, in
Speaker 3: that montage, and then of course with the band playing
Speaker 3: right there, it was wonderful. It was really, it was
Speaker 3: really awesome, and I count myself blessed to have seen
Speaker 3: a legendary black rock band perform that song and that
Speaker 3: hit that is essentially going to feed them forever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because because of you know, the relationship they have with Sampunk.
Speaker 3: It was a beautiful thing. And then you have Paul
Speaker 3: Hayman right there, you know, craziness aside that happened at
Speaker 3: that match. You have Paul Hayman right there, who believed
Speaker 3: in him from the very beginning. So it was very beautiful.
Speaker 3: And I'm so happy that it came across that way
Speaker 3: with people watching and then you know, with me and
Speaker 3: then with you know, us being there and everything else
Speaker 3: like that. I'm so happy that it came across as
Speaker 3: very emotional and then watching unreal and seeing him cry about,
Speaker 3: you know, saying I F and did I F? And
Speaker 3: may evented WrestleMania, Like that's one of the things that
Speaker 3: he's ever wanted. This man started his ww career writing
Speaker 3: on writing with a Tommy gun dressed up as a
Speaker 3: gangster on johns Dena's car.
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh my god, I remember watching that for the
Speaker 4: first time. Yeah, and I stopped.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I was sorry that it was We
Speaker 3: had no idea then back then, we had no idea
Speaker 3: what was on the horizon. But yeah, this is this
Speaker 3: is the proof that hard work and dreams can definitely
Speaker 3: come true. It may be a delay, but it's never
Speaker 3: a denial. Yes, And now he's about to man event
Speaker 3: mania again. So double the blessings. Okay, So this is
Speaker 3: a wonderful moment, and I'm so happy you included this
Speaker 3: because it was about as emotional for me as it
Speaker 3: also was for you too. So it was wonderful. I'm
Speaker 3: so happy to have witnessed this. So yeah.
Speaker 4: For you, like when when they hold on, hold on, Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: so when you when this Fire Burns started to play
Speaker 4: and the crowd popped.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 4: Knowing how loud it was, like, how was it? How
Speaker 4: was it? Like?
Speaker 3: Like it was nuts? It was nuts. It's like you
Speaker 3: could hear I guess this is just because of the
Speaker 3: way that the stadium is made. It's like, even though
Speaker 3: it was like like over sixty thousand people in there,
Speaker 3: it almost it sounded like a roar. But then it
Speaker 3: also sounded like an echo at the same time. It
Speaker 3: was a roaring echo of everyone singing the song, and
Speaker 3: it was just nuts. I have a video I can
Speaker 3: send to you later, but that's basically how it felt
Speaker 3: to me in the moment. Because I wasn't singing, like
Speaker 3: I was just quiet and just listening to it because
Speaker 3: it was just so nuts. It was a roar, but
Speaker 3: it was a roaring echo. That's really That's really what
Speaker 3: it felt.
Speaker 4: Like, what's it? It make sense? Like screaming and and
Speaker 4: like singing. It was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was screaming and singing, but mostly singing.
Speaker 4: Oh god, yeah, god. I just like when, like, how
Speaker 4: is the screaming?
Speaker 3: Well, I can't really specifically say how was it screaming.
Speaker 3: It's kind of had. It was kind of hard, but
Speaker 3: it was just it was like screaming and singing, so.
Speaker 4: Like I can screaming in unis for one interest, Like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every everybody was locked in. It was beautiful. But yeah,
Speaker 3: as we moved forward, you also listed a Styles, a
Speaker 3: future Hall of Famer as of this weekend, and his
Speaker 3: Boneyard match against the Undertaker, which wind up being the
Speaker 3: Undertaker's final match. I'm happy that you included this one
Speaker 3: because this is a part of the WrestleMania. You could
Speaker 3: almost say the WrestleMania that time forgot, but not really,
Speaker 3: because this happened during the pandemic and this was the
Speaker 3: one where you know, it could have been in Florida,
Speaker 3: but then of course the pandemic happens were all shut
Speaker 3: down and this was where the concept of the Two
Speaker 3: Night Mania began. Yeah, this is the where the concept
Speaker 3: of the Two Night Mania began because they wanted to
Speaker 3: continue to create content for people to escape in during
Speaker 3: that hard time. And you know, this is the Undertaker
Speaker 3: getting this is like his last hurrah, and aj Styles,
Speaker 3: you know, wanted to be the person to bury the Undertaker,
Speaker 3: but you know, the under Tricker was like, I think
Speaker 3: that if not like, you're not gonna destroy me in
Speaker 3: my last match, even if you do have the good
Speaker 3: brothers with you, forget that, you know. And this was
Speaker 3: a cinematic match, which here again it was very interactive.
Speaker 3: It helped people get into the things and this is
Speaker 3: something that I will always appreciate WW four during this time.
Speaker 3: And of course here again this was at the start
Speaker 3: of my wrestling podcast because you know, this is I was.
Speaker 3: We weren't expecting any of this, but I do appreciate
Speaker 3: all of the effort that was put into giving us
Speaker 3: a great show even though things were absolutely different. So Bianca,
Speaker 3: why did you pick this moment as your number three? Oh?
Speaker 4: My god. Wow, the the production, the story, the oh,
Speaker 4: the the drama is so cool. I was. I was
Speaker 4: in the middle of editing my thesis while watching.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 4: It was a really weird time. Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 4: needed Oh this couldn't have happened at such a better
Speaker 4: and a better time. Okay, because like that was that
Speaker 4: was really that was I need. That was something I
Speaker 4: never thought that I needed, nor that or in something
Speaker 4: that I was never expected expecting to see. You start
Speaker 4: with you start with the Undertaker on his motorcycle, you know,
Speaker 4: And something that you should know about me is I
Speaker 4: am a sucker for a man who can ride motorcycles.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, there is nothing sexier than a man
Speaker 4: who can ride a motorcycle, more specifically a chopper. Oh girl,
Speaker 4: oh like a bad boy. Oh. And then he just
Speaker 4: rolled in and then he got off, and then you
Speaker 4: and then the camera pans kept him with that music.
Speaker 4: What who was playing? I forgot who was playing that rock?
Speaker 4: I forgot that I've got the band. But when the
Speaker 4: camera pans to him, It's like, oh, that.
Speaker 3: Was so cool.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I didn't know what there was.
Speaker 3: This is so cool and awesome.
Speaker 4: And then a j sat was us his thing, not
Speaker 4: what I not what not what I expected coming out
Speaker 4: of like the hers and the casket they don't want
Speaker 4: That was so funny.
Speaker 3: And then mm hmm, yeah he was.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Aj Styles was a world class troll during this entire dynamic.
Speaker 3: He really was. It was hilarious how much of a
Speaker 3: troll he was, because when he came out of that
Speaker 3: cast and I was like, oh my god, this is
Speaker 3: how I know you're not gonna make it out of
Speaker 3: this match alive. They were fighting all over a barn
Speaker 3: and fighting with all of it. I can remember, like
Speaker 3: fighting with all of this, just the farm equipment and
Speaker 3: all of this stuff like it it. It was probably
Speaker 3: as good as great as any cinematic match could be.
Speaker 3: It really was.
Speaker 4: I was wondering before he got thrown into the the
Speaker 4: the the ground, before getting buried, I was wonding. And
Speaker 4: then he got out.
Speaker 3: I was wondy how he got out so fast? I
Speaker 3: don't know, man, WrestleMania magic. That was it lie or
Speaker 3: was the private pretain? I'm pretty sure it had. I
Speaker 3: believe maybe it was pre taped.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything proving it was pretaped, but because
Speaker 3: it was a cinematic match. I would have to imagine
Speaker 3: it had to be pretaped because I can't imagine anything
Speaker 3: like that happening live in the moment. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know exactly, so I don't want
Speaker 3: to spread any misinformation, but I would imagine it would
Speaker 3: have had to have been pretaped.
Speaker 4: But anyway, either way, that the state, the blocking of
Speaker 4: that match, the production, the drama, and just it was
Speaker 4: just it was just phenomenal and fantastic. And then the
Speaker 4: Undertaker getting back on his motorcycle after winning and doing
Speaker 4: that thing with his logo in purple or that purple.
Speaker 3: Right riding off into the sunset.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then you can't forget that Ajacys got help
Speaker 4: from and Gallows.
Speaker 3: And his glove was hanging out of the third after
Speaker 3: it was all over, it was a minute before we
Speaker 3: saw Aja after that, like like he didn't come back
Speaker 3: until maybe two weeks later. I think, if I'm remembering correctly,
Speaker 3: that was a blur, But that was probably one of one.
Speaker 3: It was a really great cinematic match, and I really
Speaker 3: appreciated it during this time because there's one thing, if
Speaker 3: there's one thing, I I think I'll probably get to
Speaker 3: and when we talk about the next match that you
Speaker 3: put well, not the next one, but the very but
Speaker 3: number one. But I really just love the effort that
Speaker 3: they put into it, and it was just a nice
Speaker 3: way for the Undertaker to kind of just say farewell
Speaker 3: to his enring career, because I do believe after that
Speaker 3: point he did officially retire and they did put him
Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame afterwards. So this was a
Speaker 3: very nice way of just, you know, to cap off
Speaker 3: his career, and then to do it with aj Styles,
Speaker 3: who was one of the best in the business is
Speaker 3: really cool too.
Speaker 4: I really liked watching the Undertail. I really liked getting
Speaker 4: to know the man behind the Undertaker and hearing him
Speaker 4: talk and seeing him and his hair and his everything,
Speaker 4: just him, no costume, just that at.
Speaker 3: Yeah and a lot of yeah, and a lot of
Speaker 3: wrestling fans would be like, no, he's breaking the facade.
Speaker 3: But my thing is he he's been in KFA his
Speaker 3: whole life. If he's retiring now and if he wants
Speaker 3: to let it go, let him let it go. He's
Speaker 3: earned the right to let it go. He has definitely
Speaker 3: earned the right to let it go and now just
Speaker 3: be himself. But you know, this was a really great
Speaker 3: cinematic match, so it was cool. Now your number two
Speaker 3: wasn't just you know, one specific moment. It was a
Speaker 3: election of moments that happened within the span of five
Speaker 3: minutes at Russell Mania forty, which is highly acclaimed as
Speaker 3: one of the greatest Mania moments of all time. Is
Speaker 3: of course the five minutes where it was the Cody
Speaker 3: Avengers is what I've dubbed them. I think somebody else
Speaker 3: dubed them that as well, but it just found sound
Speaker 3: to cash you the Cody Avengers versus the Bloodline as
Speaker 3: Cody and Roman fought again for the undisputed WW Championship,
Speaker 3: which he wound up winning in Philadelphia. I wasn't at
Speaker 3: this mania, but I was in town for it. So
Speaker 3: even though I did not get accepted for media at
Speaker 3: that point in time, I still wanted to go and
Speaker 3: be around the things because there were things that I
Speaker 3: did want to go to and things that I was
Speaker 3: invited to. So I was just like, no, I still
Speaker 3: want to go. So I still went and had a
Speaker 3: great time, and I went to a watch party the
Speaker 3: first night, and the second night I just stayed in
Speaker 3: my room because transportation was hard. But either way, I'm
Speaker 3: still very happy with this WrestleMania. It was green everywhere.
Speaker 3: It was the start of the Paul Triple a Slovak era,
Speaker 3: and you felt it. You felt the change in the
Speaker 3: air for sure. And yeah, Cody Rose got to finish
Speaker 3: his story here, but not without some help from his friends,
Speaker 3: the Cody Avengers. So Bianca La, let you get into
Speaker 3: the happiness of the last five minutes of Cody versus
Speaker 3: Roman two M.
Speaker 4: I think about that. It's not almost every day. It's
Speaker 4: really weird. I can't. I remember watching that live, remember
Speaker 4: saying to myself, Oh my god, a lot is happening.
Speaker 4: What is happening? And then we see Cody and Roman fighting,
Speaker 4: and then out of nowhere, I forgot who. I forgot
Speaker 4: which person comes out first.
Speaker 3: But I believe it was Solo Socoa okay, yeah, because
Speaker 3: he tried to help him. He tried to help Roman first.
Speaker 3: I believe he tried to help Roman cheat or something
Speaker 3: along the lines of trying to help him cheat the
Speaker 3: same way he did at thirty nine. But that didn't
Speaker 3: work out.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, So I forgot who comes out in order?
Speaker 4: But and then so oh and that okay, and then
Speaker 4: out of nowhere, you here, and I said, no, no,
Speaker 4: there is no way, there is no way. Oh no,
Speaker 4: he can't be there, No.
Speaker 3: Bianca girl. Look, I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 3: I'm guilty too. I'm guilty. Don't feel bad. Don't feel
Speaker 3: bad because I said the same thing. I said the
Speaker 3: same thing. Okay. I thought for sure when that shield
Speaker 3: music hit, I was saw because we saw Seth of
Speaker 3: course during night one. Well actually during night one we
Speaker 3: saw him, you know, fight side by side with Cody
Speaker 3: and the tag team match with Roman in the Rock,
Speaker 3: and then we saw him at Night two defend the
Speaker 3: World heavyweight title against Drew McIntyre and all the things
Speaker 3: and stuff, and he wasn't and we thought, you know,
Speaker 3: we were finished seeing him, right, So when that shield
Speaker 3: music hit, I was not expecting to see Seth. I
Speaker 3: thought for sure that they had pulled some type of
Speaker 3: Oakie dope. And John Moxley came back and I was
Speaker 3: I could not breathe. I could not breathe. I sware
Speaker 3: I couldn't breathe, and then this is not in order,
Speaker 3: so these pictures are not in order, so please bear
Speaker 3: with me. I know Seth came out last because this
Speaker 3: is what wound up Costume Roman in the end. But Baby,
Speaker 3: when that shield music hit, I thought for sure you
Speaker 3: could not tell me it wasn't John Moxley, but it
Speaker 3: was Seth, you know, being the shield that Cody needed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because he because yeah, and uh.
Speaker 4: Corey Gravy. Corey Grams even said it, he said, there's
Speaker 4: he can't what do he say? He can't be here?
Speaker 4: There is there is no way exactly possible.
Speaker 3: Some people like that, Oh my god, I would have
Speaker 3: went to the hospital if it was.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 3: Oh god lord, it was so funny. But that that
Speaker 3: was a very you know, like what the f moment.
Speaker 3: But Seth, Seth came in the clutch here when it
Speaker 3: came to that. But then you also have.
Speaker 4: And then Yes, and then.
Speaker 3: The Rock coming out there being the final boss, and
Speaker 3: then you have John Cena coming out there, like yo,
Speaker 3: it was John Cena first, and then the Rock came
Speaker 3: out there and then they had their face off, and
Speaker 3: I was like, are we going to get this again?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: When John Cena I came out, I screamed, and the
Speaker 4: Rock came out. I don't remember did I scream? I
Speaker 4: don't remember. But that whole face off and that whole atmosphere,
Speaker 4: there's this whole there's is still where there's where you
Speaker 4: not this angle, but like when there's there're standing and
Speaker 4: then you can see them slipping around and then the whole.
Speaker 4: The when I talk about the noise at forty when
Speaker 4: you were there, that was what I was talking about, Like,
Speaker 4: how was that noise, because like it was just, oh
Speaker 4: my god, just I love moments like that. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: is so loud and they're whoa. I think that was
Speaker 4: the moment when I said a lot of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you couldn't tell the Rock anything because he
Speaker 3: had on Now this was a moment where the Rock
Speaker 3: would have on lemon pepper steppers and the Rock had
Speaker 3: on some limit pepper steppers, and he had on these
Speaker 3: white flare pants and he came in with his belt
Speaker 3: and with Versace shirt, which low ki was like a
Speaker 3: callback to how he used to dress in the nineties,
Speaker 3: and you couldn't tell him nothing as the final Boss then,
Speaker 3: but then him and John had that stand off and
Speaker 3: it was just incredible, you know, and yeah, that was
Speaker 3: just it was just yeah, I know CM punk has
Speaker 3: been railing against cinema, but this entire part was basically cinema.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, like that pro wrestling is a combination of
Speaker 3: all of the arts and that includes cinema, and that's
Speaker 3: exactly what this was. It was Aura Farming, it was
Speaker 3: all the things, and it was just incredible. And then
Speaker 3: on top of that, you all, oh, sorry, I went
Speaker 3: too far. You also had Jimmy coming out to try
Speaker 3: to help Roman. But then you also had j who
Speaker 3: he had fought previously that wee can too, coming out
Speaker 3: to even up the odds as well. Then you had
Speaker 3: the Undertaker. I'm sorry, I'm only saying this because I
Speaker 3: don't have the pictures Forgiffee, but you know, it's just
Speaker 3: it was just one of those amazing moments where you
Speaker 3: remember where you were and of course all of this,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what is happening? Right? And he came
Speaker 3: out and scared the rock is ishless. You would have
Speaker 3: thought it was in nineties again, and it all I was.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, you know, ain't that I
Speaker 3: mean beyond come on, but y'all, all of the Cody
Speaker 3: Venger battles led to Cody finally finishing his story and
Speaker 3: becoming the undisputed ww Champion and winning the title. That
Speaker 3: his father never properly got a chance to hold. And
Speaker 3: it was beautiful. He got to win it in front
Speaker 3: of his gorgeous, gorgeous boss wife Brandy, and his mom
Speaker 3: and his father in spirit and so many other people
Speaker 3: who loved and cared about him. And you know, watching
Speaker 3: Samantha Irvian, even though I know she's not with the
Speaker 3: company anymore, please talk about that. Yeah we can just
Speaker 3: a little bit, just a little bit.
Speaker 4: Okay, So what like I actually wanted to talk like so,
Speaker 4: like like when Cody Rhodesworth did those three Cody cutters
Speaker 4: and then Michael Cole saying he finished the so and
Speaker 4: then I started and his song started to play. I
Speaker 4: replayed this moment in my head all the time, when oh,
Speaker 4: hearing some Samantha, Samantha Johnson, man, I love you to death.
Speaker 4: I hope you're well. I hope you're doing amazing. When
Speaker 4: she was announcing and she's and she started to cry
Speaker 4: and she just bald and lost it. I lost it
Speaker 4: with her because I don't care if she says, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm not a real ring announcer. That was She is
Speaker 4: why I want to ring announce. She will always be
Speaker 4: my inspiration seeing the passion in her voice and just
Speaker 4: and letting out and losing it when she was crying
Speaker 4: as she was saying, here's you winner in the new
Speaker 4: that's when the world heavyweight champion, the American Nightmare pretty.
Speaker 3: Roads all that, Yeah, And then Cody was saying that
Speaker 3: she was that Samantha was emotional, and then my cold
Speaker 3: chimed in, being the excellent journalist and storyteller, narrator, commentator,
Speaker 3: that he is talking about his vulnerability in the moment
Speaker 3: and saying, you know, this is special for him because
Speaker 3: him and Cody had to relate, have a relationship that
Speaker 3: dates back a while, and it was emotional for him
Speaker 3: as well, and just like emotions were just running high
Speaker 3: and everybody was just so so so so so happy
Speaker 3: for Cody. And I hated how Samantha, how people tried
Speaker 3: to drag Samantha through the mud and tried to make
Speaker 3: it seem like she was making it about her, and
Speaker 3: I'm just like, absolutely not. If that moment was just
Speaker 3: about her, then she would not have cried the way
Speaker 3: she did. She she would have just announced it the
Speaker 3: way that she would have professionally announced any anything or
Speaker 3: anybody else but her. She does she did her job
Speaker 3: so well throughout the whole night, and then when she
Speaker 3: got emotional at that one part, like she felt what
Speaker 3: everybody was feeling in that moment. And for that, I think,
Speaker 3: you know, the vulnerability that WrestleMania brings with dreams coming true,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just what it is. It was authentic,
Speaker 3: like we were just talking about earlier with Bianca and Mercedes,
Speaker 3: it was authentic emotion. And no matter what happens, no
Speaker 3: matter what she chooses to do with her future or whatever,
Speaker 3: you know, that is a moment that will stick with people,
Speaker 3: will stick with people like you, you know, and everyone
Speaker 3: else for the rest of time. And yeah, this the
Speaker 3: last five minutes was incredible, but the emotion after he
Speaker 3: won will always resonate greatly because this was a man
Speaker 3: making his dream come true for himself, but also for
Speaker 3: his family name, for his dad, you know, who was
Speaker 3: instrumental in so many people's careers and also his And
Speaker 3: it was just a dream come true for someone who
Speaker 3: felt like he had to, you know, really prove himself,
Speaker 3: and he did it in ways that people didn't necessarily expect,
Speaker 3: you know, But at the same time, he did it
Speaker 3: and he came back around and made his dream come true.
Speaker 3: So this was a very beautiful moment. I loved the
Speaker 3: last five minutes of it. You know, it was incredible,
Speaker 3: and it's still one of those moments that you if
Speaker 3: you're scrolling through TikTok or if you're scrolling through any
Speaker 3: social media account or watching it back, it's like you know,
Speaker 3: you're watching something special that is that moment fully embodies
Speaker 3: the passion and the authenticity and the love of professional wrestling.
Speaker 3: Because even Michael Cole was like, damn it, I love
Speaker 3: professional wrestling. And after he said, I was like, yeah, me,
Speaker 3: do you know, like this is real. It's it's very,
Speaker 3: very very real for us, like like that that old
Speaker 3: clip of that wrestling fan saying it's still real to
Speaker 3: be damn it. This was the embodiment of that right here.
Speaker 3: All of this was was literally the embodiment of that moment.
Speaker 3: It's real to us, damn it. And if it's not
Speaker 3: then to y'all, then that's fine, but it's real to us.
Speaker 3: And this was real to us right here. So I'm
Speaker 3: glad you mentioned this because it was incredible, absolutely incredible stuff.
Speaker 3: But as we move forward, we moved to your number
Speaker 3: one moment, another emotional moment now, But this is another
Speaker 3: cinematic match from Rustlemania thirty six during the Pandemic, the
Speaker 3: Firefly Funhouse match between John Cena and the late Great
Speaker 3: Bray Wyatt. Why did you choose this one as your
Speaker 3: number one?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, oh just like the Boneyard match. This was,
Speaker 4: oh god, oh my god, everything I wanted in that
Speaker 4: time and then some. It was so weird. It was
Speaker 4: so amazing.
Speaker 2: It was so.
Speaker 4: Freaky. The production, the just the staging, the blocking, the
Speaker 4: every uh just everything, the dialogue, the transitions, the costumes,
Speaker 4: the surprises, everything about it was just perfect everything. I'm okay.
Speaker 4: Ariana Grande taught me to enjoy and taught me to
Speaker 4: love the freaky stuff, to love the weird stuff. And
Speaker 4: I really, I really love this because, yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: seeing how hands on they were behind the scenes and
Speaker 4: seeing how break White was so involved in it behind
Speaker 4: the scenes to make this all come to light. I
Speaker 4: learned like this was all him, This was all break White,
Speaker 4: This is all his vision. So for it to like
Speaker 4: come to life like like this, Oh my gosh, amazing,
Speaker 4: so good John Star and we saw a really we
Speaker 4: saw a side of John. Tina we probably have never
Speaker 4: seen before. It was I think a side of him
Speaker 4: that he's always wanted to unleash, like his goofy side,
Speaker 4: his his ah, we his a weird side his yeah, his, uh,
Speaker 4: I don't know what. I don't know any other words,
Speaker 4: but that side of him. It was before he retired
Speaker 4: and doing it with someone he sees, he saw, he's
Speaker 4: he had seen such great potential in in bray Wyatt
Speaker 4: and the history they had in the WrestleMania years, years
Speaker 4: prior for and for all for but for Johnson to
Speaker 4: come back as the Doctor of Dagonomics and for us
Speaker 4: to see the fiend h five five fun house. We saw,
Speaker 4: we saw my favorite, We saw my favorite bray White,
Speaker 4: which is uh, we saw Hillbilly bray White had just
Speaker 4: it was just yeah, it was just really and John
Speaker 4: Cena cutting some bars, spitting some spitting some bars in
Speaker 4: the middle of the ring and just really a freaky,
Speaker 4: amazing stuff that I really truly enjoyed it. It's a
Speaker 4: ten out of the well for it's a ten out
Speaker 4: of ten, like amazing, ah so good.
Speaker 3: Oh man. Yeah, I honestly feel like if there was
Speaker 3: ever a list of the greatest cinematic matches to ever
Speaker 3: take place, because I remember when this happened. Of course,
Speaker 3: even though it was during the pandemic, a lot of
Speaker 3: people felt like, well, why was it the firefly funhouse match?
Speaker 3: Like an actual match that took place in the ring,
Speaker 3: And that discourse was happening back then a whole lot.
Speaker 3: But I think the thing that I appreciate the most
Speaker 3: about it now is the fact that and even they
Speaker 3: alluded to this more so in the bray Wyatt documentary
Speaker 3: that came out a little bit after he passed. It's
Speaker 3: just the fact that bray Wyatt had a creative mind
Speaker 3: that even surpassed the people who were in charge back then.
Speaker 3: I feel like back then there were It's like I
Speaker 3: feel like there could have been a power dynamic where
Speaker 3: it was sort of maybe limiting for him and his visions,
Speaker 3: because bray Wyatt had a creative mind that really could
Speaker 3: like enrapture you and bring you and like let and
Speaker 3: pull you in no pun and all puns intended. And
Speaker 3: it's just like his creativity just could not be limited
Speaker 3: in any way, shape or form. And this match is
Speaker 3: the living embodiment of that. There were so many layers
Speaker 3: to it. It was more than just entring work rate
Speaker 3: type of stuff, like this was actually playing into a
Speaker 3: lot of things that people had mentioned about John Cena
Speaker 3: and his entire wrestling journey, and of course it came
Speaker 3: back to bite us once he actually did turn heel
Speaker 3: during his retirement run. But it asked a lot of
Speaker 3: questions that we, I guess, weren't really ready to answer
Speaker 3: or contend with at the time, because there was the
Speaker 3: notion of Bray Wyatt during their first match at WrestleMania
Speaker 3: thirty of him asking John Cena, where is your dark side? Like,
Speaker 3: where is the part of you that wants to give
Speaker 3: up in all of this? And then this match right
Speaker 3: here sort of fed into that, Like what would have
Speaker 3: happened if you had have fed into your dark side?
Speaker 3: If you had if you had have gone the way
Speaker 3: of as much as I don't like him anymore of
Speaker 3: a whole Cogan who was the good shining example and
Speaker 3: then he did turn heel and join nWo and all
Speaker 3: the things, what would have happened if John Cena was
Speaker 3: allowed to tap into his dark side before he ultimately did.
Speaker 3: I feel like this was subverting that and well, just
Speaker 3: showing a level of of it was just making us
Speaker 3: contend with things that or making at least John Cena's
Speaker 3: character at this point contend with things that he tried
Speaker 3: to I guess suppress or ignore and the audience. And
Speaker 3: it challenged the audience in a way that I just
Speaker 3: don't think we were really fully ready for at the time.
Speaker 3: But then and then we thought we would never deal
Speaker 3: with it because John, They never thought they would ever
Speaker 3: pull the trigger on John Cena being bad offer them
Speaker 3: to do it. But this match was always It's special
Speaker 3: to me because it uses elements of the past to
Speaker 3: take us on that journey, and I will always appreciate that.
Speaker 3: And I hate that Bray physically can't get his flowers
Speaker 3: for how good this was. But at the very least,
Speaker 3: the most we can do is, you know, talk about
Speaker 3: the brilliance of his creativity. And then also praised John
Speaker 3: Cena for his willingness to go along with the idea
Speaker 3: because this was right before he was really busting off
Speaker 3: with his acting bag. And then now we're able to
Speaker 3: see how much how much he can really tap into
Speaker 3: more creativity as an actor with him doing stuff like
Speaker 3: this and then doing everything that he's done afterward too.
Speaker 3: So it was an artistic vision, and I'm so happy
Speaker 3: that it happened, and I'm glad that there were so
Speaker 3: many layers to it that even feeds into more recent
Speaker 3: wrestling history and it's perfect. And I'm so glad that
Speaker 3: you chose this as you're number one. And I'm so
Speaker 3: happy that you included moments from that mania during the pandemic,
Speaker 3: because so many people try to make it seem like
Speaker 3: because it was during lockdown, it didn't matter. No, it does,
Speaker 3: it absolutely does, and I'm so I'm so happy that
Speaker 3: you mentioned that. So that's that's tends for you, Bianca.
Speaker 3: I'm so I'm so proud that you mentioned moments from
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 4: Thank you that he'll replay that moment in time. And
Speaker 4: my I think my head space is still in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 4: twenty twenties, it's still in that, it's still in that
Speaker 4: space because so weird. I was in college, I was
Speaker 4: getting through I was trying to get through a major
Speaker 4: I regret, trying to get my degree, trying to edit
Speaker 4: my thesis, and then all that happened, and with all that,
Speaker 4: WrestleMania happened. So luckily I had my editing laptop, so
Speaker 4: I watched my I watched WrestleMania on my editing laptop.
Speaker 4: It was it had a big screen. It was a
Speaker 4: it was a Mac, but the big screen. So I
Speaker 4: cherished it for that for the time, and it was amazing.
Speaker 4: It was great, and I needed all that that this could.
Speaker 4: I'm happy this happened, although I do wish I do
Speaker 4: wish that it didn't happen because I liked the crowd.
Speaker 4: I'm used to the crowd. I wish they did I
Speaker 4: wish they postponed it. But hey, they made a way.
Speaker 4: They found a way, and a lot of amazing moments happened.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, it was and we were all just
Speaker 3: trying to make it through, you know, like you're mentioning
Speaker 3: all the things you were going through. I was, you know,
Speaker 3: transitioning into a new job at the time, still figuring
Speaker 3: out how to wrestling podcasts or even talk about anything
Speaker 3: on a podcast. I had never done it before. We
Speaker 3: were all we were all just trying to figure out
Speaker 3: how in the world we were going to get through
Speaker 3: that time. But I'm always grateful that wrestling was there,
Speaker 3: even though it was awkward, like you mentioned, with the
Speaker 3: crowds and everything. A lot of people are like oh,
Speaker 3: I don't think I can watch wrestling without the crowd. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I'm glad that a lot of us still continued with
Speaker 3: our love of pro wrestling because that was a part
Speaker 3: of something that we could look forward to in the
Speaker 3: midst of so much toughness and darkness and also trying
Speaker 3: to work through and make it through certain things. And
Speaker 3: you know, I'm happy that they still found a way
Speaker 3: to safely give us something to look forward to in
Speaker 3: that way, and WrestleMania is definitely a part of that
Speaker 3: and it definitely does matter. So Bianca, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for sharing your top five, and I'm just so
Speaker 3: happy and so proud of you for mentioning, you know
Speaker 3: that WrestleMania in particular, because it does matter. It does
Speaker 3: count in the wrestling in the WrestleMania pantheon. So let's
Speaker 3: not be weird because it looked different than the others.
Speaker 3: All WrestleManias matter.
Speaker 4: A lot of people didn't watch it, No people.
Speaker 3: Did watch it. I just feel like there's this notion
Speaker 3: that some people have, even with the NBA Finals, to
Speaker 3: a degree, like because all of that happened under Lockdown,
Speaker 3: there are some people who run with the narrative that
Speaker 3: they feel like it doesn't matter because it was during lockdown.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, it does matter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does, so you too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the WrestleMania matters as well, like everything that
Speaker 3: happened that year, even though it was different, it still mattered.
Speaker 3: So you know, so I just don't want, you know,
Speaker 3: I just if that narrative is out there about that WrestleMania,
Speaker 3: I would just very much prefer for it to not
Speaker 3: be out there because you know, it still mattered because
Speaker 3: it gave us something to look forward to. It gave
Speaker 3: us a level of escape, you know, and it made
Speaker 3: us happy. It gave us something cool. So thank you
Speaker 3: for mentioning that.
Speaker 4: So I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're gonna move to my top five along
Speaker 3: with my honorable mention, and I'm gonna start my honorable
Speaker 3: mention with a very loud video. So this was this
Speaker 3: is a moment from last year's WrestleMania. We're back at Vegas,
Speaker 3: so this is a my honorable mention right here. So yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you heard that music amidst all of the screaming, y'all,
Speaker 3: I lost my cool, my honorable mention in the midst
Speaker 3: of my top five WrestleMania moments is Joe Hendry and
Speaker 3: his surprise appearance at WrestleMania. So this was amazing for
Speaker 3: me because here again, this is a moment I'm so
Speaker 3: blessed to have witness as a media member and just
Speaker 3: as a fan in general. I love Joe Hendry because
Speaker 3: this last year I got to experience him surprise us
Speaker 3: at the Royal Rumble with his entrance, and at the
Speaker 3: time he wasn't TNA champion just yet, but then he
Speaker 3: wound up winning the TNA World title, and he was
Speaker 3: at Russell Khan in Las Vegas because of course when
Speaker 3: Russellmania is going going on all over the city, there's
Speaker 3: wrestling stuff everywhere, so he was at Russell Khan. He's
Speaker 3: still with TNA at the time. Randy Orton, funny enough,
Speaker 3: last year did not did not necessarily he was supposed
Speaker 3: to fight against Kevin Owens, but sadly Kevin Owens was
Speaker 3: out due to a neck injury, and you know, Randy
Speaker 3: came out and cut a promo and said, look like,
Speaker 3: you know, this is my I think I forgot which
Speaker 3: what number of WrestleManias he had been to at that point,
Speaker 3: but he said look like whoever is gonna come out
Speaker 3: there and who want and whoever wants to face me
Speaker 3: is gonna get the three most devastating letters r KO.
Speaker 3: So from my view, as you saw in that video,
Speaker 3: I was up top in the press part. You couldn't
Speaker 3: see who was coming out like the way you will
Speaker 3: if you were watching it, because I did go back
Speaker 3: and watch this wrestleman, or at least this moment, and
Speaker 3: you and they had the camera facing the stage where
Speaker 3: the doors opened, and you could see a silhouette. I
Speaker 3: couldn't see anything. None of us could see who it
Speaker 3: was gonna be, so or at least I couldn't see
Speaker 3: from my angle. So I'm just sitting there freaking out, like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, Oh my god, who could be? Who
Speaker 3: could be? Who could be? And his music hits, Joe
Speaker 3: Hendry's music hits, and I lose every inch of cool
Speaker 3: that I was supposed to have. In that moment, Journalist
Speaker 3: Stephanie left the building. Fan Stephanie just kept screaming and
Speaker 3: low key in tears because Joe Hendry is coming out
Speaker 3: and everybody popping. Everybody was screaming and singing the song.
Speaker 3: I was singing the song like it was just a
Speaker 3: moment of unbridled joy. Then I cherish you know that,
Speaker 3: I will always cherish because Joe Hendry is a great
Speaker 3: wrestler and I love crowd participation stuff. So getting to
Speaker 3: be a part of that at WrestleMania of all things,
Speaker 3: and then to witness him make history being the first
Speaker 3: ever TNA champion to wrestle at a WrestleMania like that
Speaker 3: was nuts. It was just so nuts, and I'll always
Speaker 3: cherish it because it was a surprise. I didn't see
Speaker 3: it coming, you know, and I just screamed. And there
Speaker 3: were a couple of friends sitting further down from me,
Speaker 3: who hosts The Ringer Wrestling Show, who saw me screaming,
Speaker 3: saw me dancing, you know, and it was just it
Speaker 3: was just unbridled joy. And that's what Joe Hendry brings
Speaker 3: to me. He just brings me joy every time. I
Speaker 3: gotta sing, I gotta dance every time. That's just how
Speaker 3: I feel about him. I love him. So this was amazing.
Speaker 4: Are you telling me that you saw one of the
Speaker 4: most amazing WrestleMania moments of all time, which is Randy
Speaker 4: Orton and Hendri doing the thing spitting around and you saw.
Speaker 3: Joe, Yeah, Joe Hendrick get r KAO. Afterwards, Yes, my
Speaker 3: heart was so broken because I thought maybe they made
Speaker 3: a bond. But then Randy was like psych.
Speaker 6: He wasn't even in the camera, cats the frame, and.
Speaker 3: Then Randy went to match and everything. But when I
Speaker 3: tell you, I couldn't even be mad. It happened so quick.
Speaker 3: I didn't have I didn't have room to be angry
Speaker 3: about it. I was just like, you know what, fine, fine,
Speaker 3: I had my moment.
Speaker 4: Man does the spand and he just.
Speaker 3: Like come on, man, oh oh god. It was so amazing.
Speaker 3: There are just no words to just fully define the
Speaker 3: how iconic that moment was. I'm just so I'm so
Speaker 3: honored to have gotten to see that. So this is
Speaker 3: my honorable mention, you know, and this is also just
Speaker 3: a reminder to just don't let anybody, you know, make
Speaker 3: you feel bad for screaming and you know, having unbridled
Speaker 3: joy and being silly at wrestling events and stuff. You know,
Speaker 3: life is too short. If Joe Hendry pops up somewhere
Speaker 3: near you, if you say his name and he appears,
Speaker 3: have fun with it, and that's what I was doing.
Speaker 3: I could I just couldn't. I couldn't bear it. It
Speaker 3: was just so much excitement running through my body. At
Speaker 3: that point, I regret nothing.
Speaker 4: You should not regret nothing, You should not get anything.
Speaker 3: I don't. So my number five properly is actually Stone
Speaker 3: Closed in Boston versus the at WrestleMania nineteen. Like I
Speaker 3: mentioned earlier to you, Biyanka, Wressemania nineteen was the first
Speaker 3: Wressemania I ever watched on DVD. And the reason why
Speaker 3: I love this match was number one because of the
Speaker 3: history that these two men have at WrestleMania's like these
Speaker 3: two could have a standoff with each other to this
Speaker 3: day and it was still illicit a level of emotion
Speaker 3: from fans of the Attitude era like to this day
Speaker 3: because of the iconic nature of their rivalry. They fought
Speaker 3: so much, and this was their third and final time
Speaker 3: fighting each other. And then this was after Stone Cold
Speaker 3: had dealt with some health issues involving I forgot what
Speaker 3: the health issues were, but I remember the lore that
Speaker 3: my dad was telling me about this match and how
Speaker 3: it almost didn't happen because Stone Cold was going through
Speaker 3: a lot health wise, but he decided to push through
Speaker 3: anyway and have the match regardless.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 3: This was just really magical for me at the time
Speaker 3: to just witness that level of war and to just
Speaker 3: see the toughness that that Stone Colst Boston had to
Speaker 3: push through that. And then you have the Rock, who
Speaker 3: was essentially like the first version of Hollywood Rock that
Speaker 3: we saw being a villain and just fighting against Stone Cold,
Speaker 3: and it was just it was a really great match
Speaker 3: for sure. I believe this is actually my favorite of
Speaker 3: all of their matches they've had, So it was just
Speaker 3: really great and I hold it very near and dear
Speaker 3: to my heart. It was great. I love this match
Speaker 3: here and I love WrestleMania in nineteen, so I just
Speaker 3: love it. And then I also just hold it dear
Speaker 3: because I'll just never forget how my dad was just
Speaker 3: telling me behind, you know, inside baseball stuff about this match,
Speaker 3: and it was just my first time hearing anything like that,
Speaker 3: and I was a kid, and I was just like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, like da, are you serious and he's
Speaker 3: just like yeah, and I'm just like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: So it was nuts. But I hold it very dear.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Stone Culver's the Rock. You never get tired
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: You remember when they were in the ring together in Texas,
Speaker 4: that's me. Was it thirty six?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it. Well, I don't think it
Speaker 3: was thirty six, but I do know it was the
Speaker 3: one in I can't remember if it was the one
Speaker 3: in Texas that happened in twenty sixteen or if it was,
Speaker 3: I can't remember which one it was. But yeah, anytime
Speaker 3: they they're just together, all wrestling fans are.
Speaker 4: Just like, oh yeah, it was in the Silver Dome.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah, all the every every fan is just
Speaker 3: like it's like they stop in their tracks because they
Speaker 3: know it's magic. Yeah, yeah, this is this is my
Speaker 3: favorite thing. And then the Rock I believe at this
Speaker 3: point had not beaten Stone Cold at WrestleMania, so he
Speaker 3: finally beat him in this. But either way, just the
Speaker 3: lore and the drama behind the scenes leading to this
Speaker 3: match happening, she was one of my favorite moments here
Speaker 3: and it feeds into it, so yeah, gotta love it.
Speaker 3: It was great My number four.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: I know people have their feelings about Ronda Rousi and
Speaker 3: wrestling now, but in the beginning, when Ronda Rousi was
Speaker 3: barreling through everybody in the UFC and she was the
Speaker 3: baddest or essentially in her mind even still the baddest
Speaker 3: woman on the planet. I was a huge fan of her.
Speaker 3: I loved watching her dominate in the octagon, and then
Speaker 3: seeing her transition over to wrestling. I was even more
Speaker 3: excited about it. I was just like, oh my god, yes,
Speaker 3: you know, she's coming over to our side. So when
Speaker 3: she fought in that tag team match alongside Kurt Angle
Speaker 3: against Triple H and Stephanie, I was absolutely here for it.
Speaker 3: I have I still have her rowdy Ronda Rousey T
Speaker 3: shirt that was pattern aft for Roddy Piper and everything.
Speaker 3: But it was this moment, in particular her lifting up
Speaker 3: Triple H that popped me so hard in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: I was screaming my head off. I was at my
Speaker 3: boyfriend's house watching it. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: she just lifted a whole man. I said it out loud.
Speaker 3: I was like, she just lifted a whole man, and
Speaker 3: it was incredible. I could not breathe. I could not breathe.
Speaker 3: I was just like, she really lifted this big man up.
Speaker 3: Triple H is not a small person. So to watch
Speaker 3: this woman, who you know, was fairly new to wrestling
Speaker 3: at the time, to us and watch her lift him
Speaker 3: like it was nothing, was so badass, and I just
Speaker 3: could not deal, like I just roll up. I just
Speaker 3: I it just lifted something in my soul that just
Speaker 3: empowered me so bad. I was just like, if I
Speaker 3: could just get strong enough to lift a man, I
Speaker 3: can do anything. It was just incredible. So this is this, This,
Speaker 3: this really got me together. This is my number four.
Speaker 4: So I remember like, yeah, like, oh, when Ronda Rossi
Speaker 4: came to j w WE, I said, oh my god, I.
Speaker 3: Could finally watch her for free, right.
Speaker 4: But I but yeah, this seeing yeah, just I never
Speaker 4: I knew how strong she was, so like, seeing this
Speaker 4: was very unexpected and something that I don't think I
Speaker 4: expected to see. So this it's AI. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: It's we're not spreading lies here. This is not this
Speaker 3: really happened. You can go back on Netflix and look
Speaker 3: at this WrestleMania and see that Ronda Rousey really did
Speaker 3: live triple h. This is not AI.
Speaker 2: This is real.
Speaker 4: Dang it, that's how real it is. It looks so fakes.
Speaker 4: Did that makes sense? I don't know. Anyway, I'm having fun. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, and yeah, three greats in WWE with Ronda
Speaker 4: Rousei with in like, what's so cool only at WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Well not only well yeah only yeah, Well it can
Speaker 4: happen somewhere else, but only yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, absolutely, this was just very magical for me.
Speaker 3: It just made it made me feel very empowered in
Speaker 3: the moment, it makes it makes my heart swell every
Speaker 3: time I look at it. Regardless to how things went
Speaker 3: down and how people feel about Ronda Rowsey, I will
Speaker 3: always hold dear the fact that I saw Ronda lift
Speaker 3: a whole man. I'm sorry, I don't care. I don't
Speaker 3: care that this moment was for me and I loved it.
Speaker 3: Let me get strong enough to lift a man. I
Speaker 3: dare you, I dare you to try me.
Speaker 4: You have your whole life ahead of you.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm just thirty two. I can do it.
Speaker 3: I can do it. Okay, So moving on to number three,
Speaker 3: I have to talk about Cody Rhose's wwe return from
Speaker 3: WrestleMania thirty eight and twenty twenty two. This moment, this
Speaker 3: WrestleMania is special to me for a lot of different reasons.
Speaker 3: I think I should be able to tell I can
Speaker 3: tell this story now, I think without losing my mind,
Speaker 3: without sounding weird. I hope, But at the no, it's
Speaker 3: just that the no, it's not even just a matter
Speaker 3: of that, it's just the fact that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of moving parts to it that I hope will make sense.
Speaker 3: So at the time before, while this WrestleMania was being
Speaker 3: hyped up, WW did an interview contest on TikTok the
Speaker 3: same time, the same way they did a re announcer
Speaker 3: contest and Rain Rain Cruise one that re announcer contest
Speaker 3: for SummerSlam, And I actually had her on my show before,
Speaker 3: so shout out to her. She still does re announcing
Speaker 3: on the West Coast. She they tick that WW and
Speaker 3: TikTok collaborated on an interview contest where you could make
Speaker 3: these videos pretending like you were interviewing a WW superstars
Speaker 3: side by side. And at the time I knew and
Speaker 3: I was still training and stuff, you know, in wrestling
Speaker 3: journalism with the people who I was working with and
Speaker 3: my show, and I wanted to win this contest so
Speaker 3: bad so I could go to WrestleMania and win the
Speaker 3: chance to interview a star backstage. And they said that
Speaker 3: they would announce the winner like like the week, like
Speaker 3: a few days before that WrestleMania and everything, and I
Speaker 3: got my nails done in the blue and everything, and
Speaker 3: they never announced Huan because they wound up actually going
Speaker 3: with somebody completely different and not even winning, and not
Speaker 3: even having anybody win the contest. And when I tell you,
Speaker 3: I was devastated, like I was crying and everything. But
Speaker 3: Emily May, someone who's out in Vegas right now, who
Speaker 3: is an interviewer and does broadcast work with various promotions
Speaker 3: all over Texas and everywhere else, you know, she encouraged
Speaker 3: me and gave me like the best pep talk and everything,
Speaker 3: and I felt better. So I stayed at home and
Speaker 3: watched this WrestleMania with my boyfriend and his family. And
Speaker 3: there were rumors all that time about Cody Rhoades coming back,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, I don't know, guys, because he
Speaker 3: had left ADW and like I just didn't know if
Speaker 3: he would ever come back. Fast forward, I'm sitting there
Speaker 3: with my blue nails, watching Seth Rollins talk about who's
Speaker 3: my opponent? Bring him out, don't make me wait, you know,
Speaker 3: and all this other stuff, and then the fireworks go
Speaker 3: off and then the music starts at It's Cody, and
Speaker 3: I'm in deep shock. I'm in deep shock that Cody
Speaker 3: Roads really came back here. And not only did he
Speaker 3: come back, he had a heck of a match with Seth,
Speaker 3: which fed into a rivalry they had over the course
Speaker 3: of that year, three matches against each other, one of
Speaker 3: which in Hell and the Cell, all the things, and
Speaker 3: just that moment, I just sat there in shock and
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. Even as he was walking down
Speaker 3: the ramp. I didn't believe it until the ring announcer
Speaker 3: announced his name and said the American Nightmare, Cody Roads.
Speaker 3: I didn't believe it. Mind you, this man is halfway
Speaker 3: to the ring, and I'm still just looking like is
Speaker 3: this even real? Like am I dreaming this? Like is
Speaker 3: this a fever dream? Am I high? Like what's going on?
Speaker 3: But no, Cody was really there, and it was just
Speaker 3: really nuts. So this is a This is like my
Speaker 3: number three. And I'm so happy that he actually did
Speaker 3: return because of course he was able to go on
Speaker 3: his journey to prove that he could be a top guy,
Speaker 3: and he is a top guy, so it was It
Speaker 3: was wonderful and I hold this moment very dear. But
Speaker 3: that WrestleMania in Texas was essentially the catalyst of my
Speaker 3: motivation to get to Mania as a media person, which
Speaker 3: I did, and I did wind up, you know, becoming
Speaker 3: a person who could interview ww stars, not backstage but
Speaker 3: other places, you know, the media junkets and everything, and
Speaker 3: that essentially was that and also working with the place
Speaker 3: I was working at was a part of my motivation
Speaker 3: to get there because I knew I could do it
Speaker 3: because I worked really hard and I knew I could,
Speaker 3: so Yeah, and then of course that WrestleMania also had
Speaker 3: Bianca fighting Becky Lunch and coming out there with the
Speaker 3: Texas Southern Marching Band and everything. There were so many
Speaker 3: moments at that Mania that I really wanted to be
Speaker 3: there for, but you know, God saw another way, and
Speaker 3: his way is better than mine. So yeah, Cody coming
Speaker 3: back was special and I loved it.
Speaker 4: When Cody came out, I didn't know that song was
Speaker 4: really was unfamiliar to me. Kingdom, I didn't know. I
Speaker 4: didn't know who was coming out because I wasn't familiar
Speaker 4: with the Kingdom song. And I saw Cody Rose and
Speaker 4: I'm like wow, but like like like you, I was,
Speaker 4: because like don't you have your old don't don't whatever
Speaker 4: don't you have. But yeah, when I watched it last year,
Speaker 4: when I watched it back, I forgot that even happened.
Speaker 4: I keep forgetting what's going I keep forgetting there was
Speaker 4: a surprise, and then hearing Kingdom helps me realize, oh,
Speaker 4: it's kind of now. But but yeah, and then you
Speaker 4: talk about Beionca's entrance that was on my WrestleMania moments.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I made you narrow it down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's hey, I'm just I'm
Speaker 4: happy you mentioned it. So yeah, that I know this
Speaker 4: is your moment, you can have it. That everything about
Speaker 4: that moment with the Texas Southern University, I'm I'm a
Speaker 4: sucker for drum lines. I'm a sucker for a good
Speaker 4: marching van. Oh so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it was incredible. So yeah, Cody coming back
Speaker 3: in this way at this Mania, just with the pomp
Speaker 3: and circumstance and the grandeur, it was just so cool.
Speaker 3: So I feel like and then I also like this
Speaker 3: was a perfect introduction to what to really what the
Speaker 3: motivation of the American Nightmare is all about. Because you
Speaker 3: saw him make his entrance, you saw him do the whall,
Speaker 3: and then you saw him you know, interact with the
Speaker 3: children and actually give you know, his belt to one
Speaker 3: of the kids in the front row, and they were
Speaker 3: sitting there in shock, like you know. It was just
Speaker 3: a wonderful moment and a wonderful introduction to this version
Speaker 3: of Cody that a lot of people who are who
Speaker 3: are probably just WWE fans, you know, you know, had
Speaker 3: never seen before. So it was just really cool. So
Speaker 3: it was wonderful. I love this moment, and I love
Speaker 3: the match afterward. Him and Seth did a heck of
Speaker 3: a job. It's a wonderful match for sure. I think
Speaker 3: I ranked this match in one of my articles that
Speaker 3: I released last year about the greatest matches in my
Speaker 3: opinion of WrestleMania history, because it was so good and
Speaker 3: because of the moment of it all, so it was great.
Speaker 3: I loved it. So my number two it is a
Speaker 3: match that I feel like doesn't get enough credit at all.
Speaker 3: This happened last year as well, was Tiffany Stratton versus
Speaker 3: Charlotte Flair for the Women's Championship. Of course, Tiffany had
Speaker 3: a banner beginner year as AWW champion, and this was
Speaker 3: sort of a dream match for women's wrestling fans who
Speaker 3: saw the similarities that Tiffany had to Charlotte and wanted
Speaker 3: to see this match happen. Now, of course, there was
Speaker 3: a lot of drama, with a lot of things that
Speaker 3: were said in promos about Charlotte's personal life and so
Speaker 3: many other things. But when it came down to the
Speaker 3: match itself and also to the grandeur because Tiffany Stratton
Speaker 3: came out like a Barbie doll and then Charlotte came
Speaker 3: out with her corset and everything. It was just fantastic.
Speaker 3: Then on top of that, you had the monte played
Speaker 3: before and the song that they used was Lady Gotga's
Speaker 3: Perfect Celebrity. It was so amazing and it just fit
Speaker 3: the both of them to a tea. And this match
Speaker 3: was a perfect mixture of brawling and hate for each
Speaker 3: other as rivals and also technical work as well, And
Speaker 3: I feel like it doesn't get enough credit for how
Speaker 3: good it was. So this was a great moment to
Speaker 3: have witnessed in women's wrestling history. Also on a personal level,
Speaker 3: I wanted to see Charlotte Flair win because my friend
Speaker 3: who I have mentioned on this show before, who has
Speaker 3: been on the show before or had been, was Nicky Bougie,
Speaker 3: who was a wrestling journalist. Charlotte Flair was her favorite
Speaker 3: women's wrestler, favorite horsewoman, and she had passed earlier that year,
Speaker 3: and I wanted Charlotte to win in her honor so bad,
Speaker 3: and it wound up not going that way. Tiffany wound
Speaker 3: up winning, which was probably the better choice at the time,
Speaker 3: but emotion I wanted Charlotte to win so bad for
Speaker 3: my girl, Nikki. But it's okay because at least I
Speaker 3: know that this match was still really good in the
Speaker 3: midst of it all. So yeah, this is one of
Speaker 3: my moments. It was really great.
Speaker 4: Thank you, she's here right now? Yeah, I know she is.
Speaker 3: Yes, Nikki Boogie always we mentioned we speak your name
Speaker 3: forever girl. Oh yeah, she she was a She was
Speaker 3: thunder and enlightening in the wrestling community. I swear you
Speaker 3: you would have loved her for sure. So yeah, this
Speaker 3: match was incredible. I'm glad I got to witness it,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I just I just feel like it deserves
Speaker 3: more credit, and I feel like maybe it'll give more
Speaker 3: credit as years go by. But yeah, this match was
Speaker 3: really good to me.
Speaker 4: Why do I feel like trist Shattis was a part
Speaker 4: of this match.
Speaker 3: Uh no, Well, Tiffany actually fought tristrat Is at Evolution,
Speaker 3: so that was the same year, but that was a
Speaker 3: few months later. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, yeah, and that
Speaker 3: match was great too. But either way, like just a
Speaker 3: lot of blonde power in the midst of all of
Speaker 3: these runs, but yeah, it was great. I also want
Speaker 3: to say the Hardy Boys coming back. I think I
Speaker 3: meant to take this off, but I think I left
Speaker 3: it on here simply because I'm biased and they're my brothers.
Speaker 3: When they came back at the WrestleMania in Florida, I
Speaker 3: wanted to die and I was screaming my head off
Speaker 3: because this was it was kind of the worst kept
Speaker 3: secret because people, the rumor mill was going off about
Speaker 3: them and everything. But I just didn't I try to
Speaker 3: wait and see what happens first, because rumors can be
Speaker 3: just that rumors. But when they came out and the
Speaker 3: New Day essentially said who could this thirteen possibly be?
Speaker 3: And then and then the Hardy Boys music hit, I did.
Speaker 3: I could not stop screaming. This is also where my
Speaker 3: boyfriend's mother put to put together that me and the
Speaker 3: Hardy Boys have the same last name. So because she
Speaker 3: could not understand why I was screaming, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: my brothers, and she was just like what and I
Speaker 3: was just like and she was like, oh, yeah, your
Speaker 3: last name is Hardy and I'm like yeah. So everybody
Speaker 3: was popping. I was screaming, I could not breathe. It
Speaker 3: was just a lot. But this moment, I would call
Speaker 3: this another honorable mention for sure, because it was just
Speaker 3: very special for me. I just could not stop screaming.
Speaker 3: A lot had already happened in that mania anyway, but
Speaker 3: it was just very special to see them come out
Speaker 3: and participate in WrestleMania in a ladder match for the
Speaker 3: tag ting titles and they won, so it was great.
Speaker 3: This is actually this is actually on some favorite Wrestlematia moments.
Speaker 4: So I am so happy this is your moment and
Speaker 4: you were talking about it because this is one of
Speaker 4: my favorite moments of all time. I didn't know that
Speaker 4: they were returning, so when they return and the crap,
Speaker 4: I'm a sucker for a loud pop, for a good
Speaker 4: loud pop, and that was a good loud pop. And
Speaker 4: then the New Day acting like three fools that I
Speaker 4: love and miss so much, Like during the song and
Speaker 4: then Jeff party like your brother, narrow like during his
Speaker 4: day and just walking down that ramp. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: like h I mean, and yeah, yeah, I think this
Speaker 4: was my first time actually seeing the Hardy Boys. I've
Speaker 4: heard of them, I've heard their name, the Hardy Boys,
Speaker 4: but actually seeing them, I think that's this was my
Speaker 4: introduction to the Hardy Boys and actually and seeing and
Speaker 4: getting to know them and seeing them. So I became
Speaker 4: a fan of them that night. I know I sound very.
Speaker 3: Slow, but but I have no I've heard, I've heard, I've.
Speaker 4: Heard of the Hardy Boys. So am I really that?
Speaker 3: No? I know, I know if they're not Jeff is
Speaker 3: my favorite or ever, I feel like honestly, Jeff is
Speaker 3: basically just the collective favorite out of all of them.
Speaker 3: But I just love them both simply because they're just
Speaker 3: both of them, you know, Like, I just love them
Speaker 3: both and they're just my brothers. And hopefully one day
Speaker 3: I'll get to meet them because it would be awesome.
Speaker 3: So yeah, read the Hollywood. I've been trying. I've been
Speaker 3: trying for so long, But it'll happen even if I
Speaker 3: just even if I just meet them, it's fine.
Speaker 4: So what we called episode will be called family.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, the family exactly, the hearty compound. I don't know, yes,
Speaker 3: girl man, Yeah, but ultimately I think my number one,
Speaker 3: I'm not the one of my friends. My number one
Speaker 3: is always to be kovie Mania. Forever and always It's
Speaker 3: Kofe Mania. That's it. I don't think this this needs
Speaker 3: any narrative.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've told the story on this show before about
Speaker 3: how this made me feel and how this moment had
Speaker 3: me sobbing the way that Xavier was sobbing. That's essentially
Speaker 3: how I was sobbing in my boyfriend's latine. This happened.
Speaker 3: This is a moment where y'all know how Drew McIntyre
Speaker 3: likes to say, I prayed for this and it happened. No,
Speaker 3: I literally got on my knees and asked God for
Speaker 3: this to happen, and it did. So Yeah, this, Yeah,
Speaker 3: tofee Mania is important and it always will be important,
Speaker 3: regardless of how the championship reign ended. It happened just
Speaker 3: overshadows any negativity. It overshadows any doubt, the representation of it,
Speaker 3: the love of it, you know, the new day being
Speaker 3: the best positive, the most positive versions of themselves pushing
Speaker 3: Kofee to this moment, the fans pushing Kofee to this moment,
Speaker 3: the signs and everything. Honestly, this WrestleMania that year could
Speaker 3: have ended right here and I would have been satisfied.
Speaker 3: I would have been happier. But of course the women
Speaker 3: had the main event and that was great. But you know,
Speaker 3: but yeah, this the paper you could have ended right
Speaker 3: here and I would have been happy because I was
Speaker 3: just so thrilled.
Speaker 4: And then his children came into the ring.
Speaker 3: Yep, and they had their shirts on. I have that
Speaker 3: shirt and I also have the Koffee Mania shirt that
Speaker 3: was in the WrestleMania logo that you're on. Yeah, like
Speaker 3: I bawled out. I lost my mind. I had New
Speaker 3: Day shirts anyway, But when Kobe had his own T shirt,
Speaker 3: actually I bought the blue shirt that had his big
Speaker 3: face on the front and had eleven hashtag eleven years
Speaker 3: on the sleeve. Like I bawled out. When it came
Speaker 3: to Kobe made I played no games, no games at all.
Speaker 3: This was a cannon event in my wrestling fandom.
Speaker 4: I remember when I first saw Kobe Kingston during the
Speaker 4: s sost Era and doing trouble in Paradise back in
Speaker 4: the day, back in this this is day, like in
Speaker 4: twenty eleven, late twenty ten, Ah, when I first started
Speaker 4: watching wrestling, and the Boom Boo Monday nights were exception
Speaker 4: vibe back in the day.
Speaker 3: They were. It may not have been perfect, but it
Speaker 3: was a vibe.
Speaker 4: I missed it during before a time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, it may not have been perfect
Speaker 3: and stuff because it was a different regime, but it
Speaker 3: was still a vibe because you you picked out your
Speaker 3: favorite people who you loved, and Kofi was definitely one
Speaker 3: of my favorites, even from the SOS era. So watching
Speaker 3: him fight and then win all the titles that he
Speaker 3: did win because him and Cmpunk were even tag team
Speaker 3: champions at one point, you know, watching him win all
Speaker 3: the titles that he did win and then get to
Speaker 3: this point right here when nobody ever thought he would.
Speaker 3: You can't beat it, You really can't. So this is
Speaker 3: my number one WrestleMania moment right here. I feel like
Speaker 3: Bianca and Mercedes probably would have been my number one,
Speaker 3: but you made that your honorable mention, so I just
Speaker 3: let you have that one. But they to me, the
Speaker 3: both of those moments right there just are equally as important.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this is the end of our top five
Speaker 3: WrestleMania moments. You know, I hope you guys enjoyed listening
Speaker 3: to us basking the joy of our favorite moments, or
Speaker 3: at least some of them anyway, because there's so many.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for sharing. I really, like, I really
Speaker 4: enjoy hearing your side and your experiences with your favorite
Speaker 4: WrestleMania moments. It was a joy that listened to.
Speaker 3: And I'm happy that some of yours or some of mine,
Speaker 3: And yeah, I loved hearing some of yours too, Like
Speaker 3: this is just a great, a great bonding moment. WrestleMania
Speaker 3: just builds bonds, you know, So I'm just happy that
Speaker 3: we were able to share that with one another. So
Speaker 3: not that we've bast in the joy of everything, It's
Speaker 3: time to get down to brass tacks. We have to
Speaker 3: give our predictions for this year's Raia, which is of
Speaker 3: course taking place in Las Vegas again at the Allegiance Stadium,
Speaker 3: home of the Las Vegas Raiders, my and my boyfriend's
Speaker 3: football team. Yeah, we love the Las Vegas Raiders. For
Speaker 3: better or for worse, we love them, And yeah, it
Speaker 3: was an honor to be there last year and to
Speaker 3: actually see their Super Bowl trophies and everything. Like, I
Speaker 3: always get a kick out of going into larger stadiums
Speaker 3: like that where NFL teams and other teams you know,
Speaker 3: get to play, and also NBA teams and stuff. So
Speaker 3: I love being in places like that. It's it never
Speaker 3: gets old to me. So and then to have wrestling
Speaker 3: events in them, it's just like, yeah, like I loved
Speaker 3: it because I love being in the Sofi Stadium for
Speaker 3: Mania and thirty nine, so stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 3: as a sports girl, you know, it just never leaves
Speaker 3: me the importance of it. So, WrestleMania will be happening
Speaker 3: in Vegas this weekend. The first matches or I don't
Speaker 3: know if the first hour really, the first matches will
Speaker 3: be on ESPN two and ESPN respectively for Night one
Speaker 3: and Night two, and then of course the rest of
Speaker 3: it will be on the ESPN app. So yeah, Bianka, so.
Speaker 4: About that, So Russell On Saturday, WrestleMania thirty one, the
Speaker 4: first hour will be on I'm blind, I'm bline, I'm blind,
Speaker 4: I'm on okay, yeah, the first time I will be
Speaker 4: on ESPN two. The first two matches will be on
Speaker 4: the first the first time I will be on ESPN two,
Speaker 4: and then on Sunday, the first hour will be.
Speaker 3: On ESPN Yes, and then of course after that that
Speaker 3: will transition over to the ESPN app so yeah. And
Speaker 3: then of course internationally it will come on for uh
Speaker 3: all of our international fans on Netflix. So yeah, we
Speaker 3: are gotta we gotta give our predictions for night one
Speaker 3: and night two. Thank you for sticking with us. Now,
Speaker 3: before we give our predictions, we do have to hold
Speaker 3: space for the fact that this WrestleMania will be hosted
Speaker 3: by the one and only John Sina. It's so interesting.
Speaker 3: We were talking about WrestleMania twenty seven and how The
Speaker 3: Rock was hosting it, and now you fast forward and
Speaker 3: now you've got John Ceno, who's officially retired now but
Speaker 3: has not left the world of wrestling and has not
Speaker 3: left us behind completely and he's hosting Mania this year.
Speaker 3: So yeah, cool stuff. It will be good to see
Speaker 3: him mix it up with us. I don't know how
Speaker 3: our reacts when they hear the song.
Speaker 4: I might.
Speaker 3: I might pass out me too, so I might cry.
Speaker 4: The tears might be heavy.
Speaker 3: So oh god, oh, oh oh god, oh god.
Speaker 4: It's been too long and weird, and.
Speaker 3: Four months without John Cena it's just too much. It's
Speaker 3: too much. But we get to have him for two
Speaker 3: nights this weekend, and WrestleMania is the perfect place for it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, this is gonna be cool. It will be
Speaker 3: nice to have him back, even for just a little while.
Speaker 4: Well, and how is it going to dress.
Speaker 3: We don't know. That's a surprise. We gotta wait and see,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I'm pumped. It's gonna be cool. So we're
Speaker 3: gonna start with the women of Night one of WrestleMania.
Speaker 3: We're gonna give our predictions, and we're gonna start with
Speaker 3: a Jane Lee. I did this for you, Bianca, because
Speaker 3: I know you want to get it to this one.
Speaker 3: We're gonna give our predictions for aj Lee versus Becky
Speaker 3: Lynch for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. Becky Lynch, of course,
Speaker 3: has main evented WrestleMania, of course, being a part of
Speaker 3: the first women's main event. She as she said in
Speaker 3: that promo that she had with aj Lee, said that
Speaker 3: WrestleMania is her home. But at the same time she's
Speaker 3: overriding the fact or completely ignoring the fact that she
Speaker 3: doesn't have that moment without aj Lee breaking down those
Speaker 3: barriers and having the matches that she did have and
Speaker 3: advocating for the women to have better. So you have
Speaker 3: a legend in aj going up against a person who
Speaker 3: is the representative of everything that she fought for in
Speaker 3: terms of the future of women's wrestling. So I'm pumped
Speaker 3: about this match. So Bianka, give your prediction. Who do
Speaker 3: you think is gonna win?
Speaker 4: It's about I've been thinking long and hard about this,
Speaker 4: and I haven't always been thinking. I always feel like
Speaker 4: Paige will return to help AJ win because Paige, because
Speaker 4: she has been talking about wanting to pay, wanting to fight,
Speaker 4: wanting to be in the match with Page, and she
Speaker 4: posted on her story and a J posted a video
Speaker 4: about Page. He's been talking about it, and Caitlin too,
Speaker 4: So one of them might come back to help Page
Speaker 4: to help AJ retain.
Speaker 3: That's my that's my Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, I really do think that that that's that will happen.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Oh yeah, because the hype is the
Speaker 4: hype around it and Page hyping it up to not
Speaker 4: just the WrestleMania for WrestleMania, but like her return, a
Speaker 4: return to WWE. Videos in practicing in wrestling rings. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I really do think Paige will return.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, that's a pretty valid prediction. Of course, we
Speaker 3: don't know if we don't know exactly what could happen,
Speaker 3: because WrestleMania is or can be, full of surprises. I
Speaker 3: know Becky has been known to not be above cheating,
Speaker 3: so I of course she tried to cheat and to
Speaker 3: even try to retain the Women's Intercontinental title elimination chamber,
Speaker 3: so you never know exactly what could happen with that.
Speaker 3: It would be cool if the Chickbusters got back together
Speaker 3: and you know, decided to sort of keep and keep
Speaker 3: things even with Becky lynchin Adre. But I think my
Speaker 3: prediction is that aj Lee will retain simply because this
Speaker 3: is her first Mania back in so long, and also
Speaker 3: because on a very personal level, from a fan perspective,
Speaker 3: I'm not entirely interested in seeing Becky hold the icy
Speaker 3: title anymore. I personally would like it better if aj
Speaker 3: were able, of course, her schedule permitting, I would have
Speaker 3: liked it better if aj had more time to fight
Speaker 3: with other competitors besides her, because I feel like Becky
Speaker 3: has done just about everything she could possibly do with
Speaker 3: that mid card title, and I do appreciate the fact
Speaker 3: that her big name being attached to this brand new
Speaker 3: title is good for it and the health of it.
Speaker 3: But I kind of want to see aj Lee fight
Speaker 3: against or feud against someone else after wrestle Mania for
Speaker 3: that title, like maybe Raquel Rodriguez or maybe Roxanne Perez
Speaker 3: now that she's come back, Like that's something else that
Speaker 3: I would like to see. I want to see her
Speaker 3: fight more people, more women, and then, of course, you know,
Speaker 3: you never know, after Mania, there could be more call
Speaker 3: ups from NXT. I want to see aj actually have
Speaker 3: a run with the title that's a little bit longer
Speaker 3: than that, and actually see her fight newer opponents who
Speaker 3: who have probably dreamed of facing off against aj their
Speaker 3: entire careers. I want to see. And then on top
Speaker 3: of that, like I don't know, I just want aj
Speaker 3: to win. So I'm predicting aj Lee will retain because
Speaker 3: I still feel like there are uncharted waters with her
Speaker 3: holding the title.
Speaker 4: Me too, and I'm not in no Becky I've met
Speaker 4: I've met both of them there. They were both so
Speaker 4: kind and so we have never forgot. But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Forever SOEs love you, Becker but a j Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: And next on the docket to predict, we have the
Speaker 3: four Well it's not a it's we have the tag
Speaker 3: team the Women's Tag Team Championship fatal four way match
Speaker 3: between Charlexa bay Lyra, The Irresistible Forces, Naya Jackson, Lash Legend,
Speaker 3: who are the current women's Tag team champions, and the
Speaker 3: Beli Twins permitting Nikki is okay from having her ankle
Speaker 3: rolled in that one match. I'm excited for this because
Speaker 3: I'm always happy to see the women's tag team titles defended,
Speaker 3: and all of these women collectively have made the women's
Speaker 3: tag team titles seeing more and more exciting to watch
Speaker 3: over the past couple of months. And I actually would
Speaker 3: have loved it if this were a ladder match, But honestly,
Speaker 3: it's okay that isn't I feel like the ladder match
Speaker 3: that is happening for the men's Intercontinental title could have
Speaker 3: gone to this, But then again, that's just me being crazy.
Speaker 3: I've loved seeing Lash and Nile hold the titles for now,
Speaker 3: but I think I'm gonna predict that the Bella's All
Speaker 3: Health the Bellas are going to win the tag titles.
Speaker 3: I think the Bellas. It's the Bella's time, honestly, and
Speaker 3: if you really, you know, get down to the brass
Speaker 3: tags of it when it comes to just the history
Speaker 3: of women's wrestling as a whole in terms of modern
Speaker 3: in the past ten to fifteen years, they really were
Speaker 3: like the tag team that we've been the most familiar
Speaker 3: with who never had a chance at those titles because
Speaker 3: those ti did not exist during their initial runs. So
Speaker 3: I am definitely a fan of them winning. So I'm
Speaker 3: predicting that the Bella Twins will win the women's tag
Speaker 3: team titles, and I'm also predicting that Bailey might crash
Speaker 3: out on Myra because of it. So that's my prediction. Beyoncle,
Speaker 3: what's yours?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just think that there was just
Speaker 4: stible forces will retained and that and the Bella Twins
Speaker 4: winning too. Oh yeah. I just there's something about that
Speaker 4: years of stiple forces. I just can't get my mind
Speaker 4: away from the like, they haven't the champions for a while, right,
Speaker 4: so losing it now would be would not be right?
Speaker 4: Was last legend? No no, no, I would not be right.
Speaker 4: For my soul, it might that would not be right.
Speaker 4: But if it in the event that it does happen,
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I'm with you. I think the Billetsuins
Speaker 4: will win. We've had the I I love Charlotte and Alexa,
Speaker 4: and I love Bailey and Lyra. Give someone a chance
Speaker 4: all allow the Forces to retain a little bit longer
Speaker 4: because they actually they actually look good with them, and
Speaker 4: they actually make good champions, and their storylines are funny
Speaker 4: and hilarious and they look good and I can I
Speaker 4: feel a crash out coming between if not with uh Alex,
Speaker 4: Alexa and Charlotte, then definitely with Bailey and Lyra. Bailey
Speaker 4: has already started the crash outs in the past, but yeah, but.
Speaker 3: They but.
Speaker 4: They it's stopped, so I think it will. I think
Speaker 4: that will come out again. Yeah, I think the last
Speaker 4: here's this BEFORECE has retained.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's valid because they have. They really
Speaker 3: have not been champions for that long. So I definitely
Speaker 3: get your point there. So I get your point. I
Speaker 3: definitely get your point. And it would be great for
Speaker 3: them if they did retain, especially with just being Lashes
Speaker 3: first wrestling, it would be really cool. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: think this is just where we agree to disagree. But
Speaker 3: of course, you know, it's a wait and see type
Speaker 3: of thing. So but either way, I'm very excited, and
Speaker 3: I do love Chart and Alexa Bliss together. I never
Speaker 3: get tired of seeing them together. I almost never don't
Speaker 3: want them to break up at this point, but you know,
Speaker 3: you just never know. But my pick is the belichuins
Speaker 3: to winded things.
Speaker 4: So imagine Rick Fleck comes out.
Speaker 3: Man should stay out of women's business. That's true to
Speaker 3: take on that. Yeah, And speaking of men staying out
Speaker 3: of women's business, somebody who doesn't seem to want to
Speaker 3: ever truly follow that rule a good portion of the time.
Speaker 3: We're here to give our predictions on Live Morgan versus
Speaker 3: Stephanie of a Care for the Women's World Championship. This
Speaker 3: is a match that the fandom is arguing should actually
Speaker 3: man event night one, just because of the pure intensity
Speaker 3: of hatred that has come from these women. You also
Speaker 3: have Lived doubling down on her privilege and also on
Speaker 3: the fact that she has the judgment day as bad.
Speaker 3: You have Stephanie Vikerra who is just not afraid to
Speaker 3: get in her face and beat her up and even
Speaker 3: break her face. Y'all saw what she did with Live
Speaker 3: backstage in their clubhouse and how she broke the TV
Speaker 3: with her like these women have just been bringing it
Speaker 3: throughout this entire feud, and also shout out to Live
Speaker 3: in that music video. It's so funny because when I
Speaker 3: first saw the flashes of that video, I thought for
Speaker 3: sure it was going to be like a feature with
Speaker 3: the Raider Ats, who are the dance team of the
Speaker 3: Las Vegas Raiders. But then it wasn't and it turned
Speaker 3: out to be a music video and it was cute.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna need for I'm predicting that Stephanie Vikare
Speaker 3: will retain simply because of the fact that this is
Speaker 3: her first WrestleMania Number two. It was just last year
Speaker 3: where she was the NXT Women's Champion and she was
Speaker 3: a part of the announcement of the acquisition of Triple
Speaker 3: A by WWE, and for her to be a part
Speaker 3: of it is absolutely awesome. I just feel like there's
Speaker 3: here again, something more to her being champion that I
Speaker 3: feel like is I'm just not ready. Actually, on a
Speaker 3: personal level, I'm just not ready to see her lose
Speaker 3: because I'm all for Stephanie's supremacy. I'm biased, I'm very biased,
Speaker 3: but you know, I'm predicting that Stephanie Vakobi retained simply
Speaker 3: because I feel like Live Morgan has too much dip
Speaker 3: on her chip and she feels like all of the
Speaker 3: outside things are going to intimidate Stephanie and it's not
Speaker 3: gonna be enough. So that's my prediction, Stephanie vakerb will
Speaker 3: retain beyond the I agree.
Speaker 4: And that music video that Live Morgan put out, Oh
Speaker 4: my god. I don't think I was familiar with her game.
Speaker 4: She wow, she gave Kasha, she gave our realness, she
Speaker 4: gave Britney. Oh my guys, she can dance. She wow.
Speaker 4: I am surprised when I saw that. I didn't I
Speaker 4: didn't know what it was. And then you told me
Speaker 4: to watch it. I was like, okay, and then what
Speaker 4: I I watched? It's fun wow wow like and she
Speaker 4: incorporated like like she can, she can, she can really
Speaker 4: hold a tune, she can really dance. I'm I'm I'm impressed. Wow,
Speaker 4: And this is all part of the storyline. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: That is whoever is the choreographer, whoever, whoever is the
Speaker 4: director and cinematographer for that music video deserves a raise
Speaker 4: because that is that that's amazing, Like Live Morgan gave
Speaker 4: main characters realness. She Wow, she gave popstar a she wow.
Speaker 4: If she ever, I don't know if she does music
Speaker 4: has any more songs, but if she ever decides to
Speaker 4: do this, like put out more music, like oh my god,
Speaker 4: the world is her, the world is her o' easter
Speaker 4: as they say, it was really good. Wow, it was
Speaker 4: I I I actually enjoyed it. It was so Yeah.
Speaker 3: The thing that I found the most interesting about the
Speaker 3: song was the fact that it was elements of her
Speaker 3: theme song Like if you I guess because I'm a
Speaker 3: music nerd, It's just like when I listened to it
Speaker 3: a second time, it really sounded like it really was
Speaker 3: like an amplified version of her theme songs. So that's
Speaker 3: something that I did appreciate about it. And then, of course,
Speaker 3: with all the interviews that she has been doing, and
Speaker 3: then with her all so being on the cover of
Speaker 3: Paper magazine to coincide with Dominic Mysterios cover as well,
Speaker 3: I just feel like there's a level of crossover appill
Speaker 3: that of course she does have. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I feel like all of this is sort of feeding
Speaker 3: into the notion and she feels like she's bigger than life,
Speaker 3: and I feel like she's going to be humbled real
Speaker 3: quick in that ring. So Stephanie ve Kerr is my
Speaker 3: pick to retain the championship. And that's just how I
Speaker 3: feel about the situation because Live has just been having
Speaker 3: too much dip on her chip. But eventually, when you
Speaker 3: put too much dip on your chip, the chip is
Speaker 3: gonna break. So yeah, it's gonna break Stephanie supremacy.
Speaker 4: Yes. Oh, and then and then Stephanie brings back her
Speaker 4: entrance song The only matters because what is that?
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know, but we're gonna move into the
Speaker 3: Men of Night one, and of course this match is
Speaker 3: gonna start off kick off the hour that's going to
Speaker 3: be on ESPN two. This is a six man tag
Speaker 3: team match with the tag team champions, the Vision Logan
Speaker 3: Paul and Austin Theory and the debuting I Show Speed
Speaker 3: going up against Jimmy and Jay, the USOS and l
Speaker 3: A Night. Yeah, Bianca, who's your picks?
Speaker 4: So Jay in La simple? Do I even have? We
Speaker 4: don't need to need to do we have?
Speaker 3: Do we have to discuss this?
Speaker 4: We don't need to discuss I mean we technically do
Speaker 4: have to discuss it.
Speaker 3: It's a part of the card, so I know you
Speaker 3: might not necessarily want to. Nobody's really fully looking forward
Speaker 3: to it because they have their feelings that I understand
Speaker 3: they're all valid, but because this is a professional podcast,
Speaker 3: we do have to give our opinion.
Speaker 4: Okay, So LA Knights and the Ussos dominate, destroy and
Speaker 4: nihilate and do their thing, do what they're do their job,
Speaker 4: and don't give me mad because because they will win.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you know who you sound like right now?
Speaker 3: You sound like RuPaul from and she was like, look
Speaker 3: team usso's good luck and don't f it up.
Speaker 4: That's what.
Speaker 3: I feel like. I'm gonna give two predictions. I'm gonna actually,
Speaker 3: uh predict that the Ussos in l A. Knight are
Speaker 3: going to win, But I also I'm also going to
Speaker 3: predict that I Show Speed is going to surprise the
Speaker 3: crap out of us with his wrestling ability because he's
Speaker 3: very athletic as a whole. So I'm ready for him
Speaker 3: to wow us. And I hope you just doesn't get
Speaker 3: beat down the way he did at the Royal rumblelast
Speaker 3: year because that was crazy.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm ready for whatever the atual speed is
Speaker 4: to give Logan Paul a black eye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he has been putting him through a lot,
Speaker 3: so I agree.
Speaker 4: Because he deserves it. But yeah, my vote is for
Speaker 4: the in l A nine two win. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I am excited about I show speed too,
Speaker 3: So it's I think it's gonna be fine. It's it's
Speaker 3: gonna be fine for for honestly what it is. I
Speaker 3: was very surprised to find out that the tag team
Speaker 3: titles weren't going to be defended on here, but this
Speaker 3: is you know, this kind of feeds into like the
Speaker 3: glamour of the box office appeal of WrestleMania, So I'm
Speaker 3: okay with it.
Speaker 4: So here we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, of course we have the unsanctioned match between
Speaker 3: Jacob Fatu, who is victorious at last year's WrestleMania winning
Speaker 3: the United States Championship, versus Drew Back entire the certified
Speaker 3: crash out of the WWA. I'm predicting that Jacob Fatu
Speaker 3: is gonna win because with this being an unsanctioned match
Speaker 3: and with there being really no rules here, I feel
Speaker 3: like Jacob fa Tu is gonna unleash a level of
Speaker 3: savagery that we haven't seen from him, and it's just
Speaker 3: gonna be crazy, considering Drew keeps trying to make fun
Speaker 3: of him being you know, a savage and also being
Speaker 3: a former, you know, convicted person. I think Jacob is
Speaker 3: gonna be like, oh you think I'm crazy bet and
Speaker 3: then destore him. So I'm predicted Jacob Fatu is gonna win.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. A lot of mass will happen and
Speaker 4: a lot of chaos will ensue, and I'm very see
Speaker 4: what Jacobi has to do. I need to see the wiggles.
Speaker 4: I need that I need and you flips. I need
Speaker 4: the whole bit. I need the world to win and
Speaker 4: no one to end. Well, why do I feel like
Speaker 4: Solo will interfere with his.
Speaker 3: And his gloves?
Speaker 4: I think so. I don't know that.
Speaker 3: You never know, he just might because you know he
Speaker 3: as it stands now, Solo does not have a match.
Speaker 3: But then he did have that interaction with Jacob last Friday,
Speaker 3: so you might be hitting on something right there. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but yeah, there's that part too, So it's
Speaker 3: a lot of layers to that. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: you can never bet against Jacob, No, Yeah, I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's Jacob's time. Yah did I mean ya? Now,
Speaker 3: this match was very surprising in execution when they announced
Speaker 3: it because it was rumored that maybe Brin Breaker would
Speaker 3: be making his return, but he has yet to be seen.
Speaker 3: So when I saw Gunter attack Seth Rollins, I got
Speaker 3: scared and got PTSD. I thought Seth was gonna tell
Speaker 3: us that he was getting ready to retire, and I
Speaker 3: was gonna start crying and throwing up because I'm tired
Speaker 3: of these retirements. But Seth is back and cleared to compete,
Speaker 3: So now he has this WrestleMania match against Gunter. Gunter
Speaker 3: essentially said he just wants to beat him because of
Speaker 3: their past history with the World Heavyweight Championship. You know,
Speaker 3: they got in each other's face. Seth Rollins unlocked a
Speaker 3: level of anger and passion, and we haven't seen from
Speaker 3: him since that one time he was fighting against Triple
Speaker 3: H at WrestleMania. It's the King player. So I'm hyped
Speaker 3: for this match, even though it was unexpected. I'm predicting
Speaker 3: Seth to win. Yeah, yeah, I beat that fish, even
Speaker 3: though he did win last year in one of the
Speaker 3: craziest moments of life period. But I don't know Bert,
Speaker 3: I'm predicting Seth. It's gonna weird with no help from
Speaker 3: Paul Hammon. I feel like, if anything, Paul Hayman will
Speaker 3: try to like screw him over.
Speaker 4: Right, oh god, because he didn't you would give him
Speaker 4: a low blow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's gonna be a mess if that's the case.
Speaker 3: I feel like, if anything, if Seth does lose, it
Speaker 3: will be due to shenanigans from Paul Hammon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he broke up the Yeah what if.
Speaker 3: Or what if Braun hasn't been back in all this
Speaker 3: time because they have him been hiding for this, so
Speaker 3: you never know, Like it's crazy, it would be crazy if.
Speaker 3: I feel like, if Seth does not win, it will
Speaker 3: be due to shenanigans. But yeah, and then Gucher will
Speaker 3: win or yeah, oh my god, and then Gucher will
Speaker 3: take credit for it because he's like, yeah, I defeated him,
Speaker 3: but now you had help, and yeah, I think craziness
Speaker 3: could ensue with this one because he has unfinished business.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you tapped out like a little beat, like.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it. As long as but
Speaker 3: as long as he can say whatever he wants to,
Speaker 3: as long as he doesn't retire, Seth. It's just all
Speaker 3: I care about. I'm tired of the retirements. Please if
Speaker 3: another person retires, I'm just going to go to the
Speaker 3: hospital and just go. I'm gonna have a psychotic break
Speaker 3: because I can't deal with it. I'm sire. I'm tire.
Speaker 4: Me too.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And finally, the most polarizing match of the Wrestlvannia
Speaker 3: card for the Undisputed w W Championship, we have Cody
Speaker 3: Roads versus Randy Orton, the Battle of the Generational Wrestlers
Speaker 3: for the Undisputed w W Championship. This is main eventing
Speaker 3: Night one, but it has the added caveat that if
Speaker 3: Cody Roads wins this match, then Pat McAfee, who it
Speaker 3: could be argued does not have any place in this
Speaker 3: match whatsoever, will leave professional wrestling for good. But of course,
Speaker 3: if Randy does win, he'll win his fifteenth world title,
Speaker 3: which people do want for him. But I don't want
Speaker 3: it like this. I don't want it like this. I
Speaker 3: don't want it like this. I wish Pat McAfee would
Speaker 3: have just been left out of it. I know today
Speaker 3: Cody Rose went and got his championship back and tore
Speaker 3: up the set of the Pat McAfee show. That yeah,
Speaker 3: he did that early today and that was that was
Speaker 3: interesting and very funny. But my thing is, I feel
Speaker 3: like Pat really has no place in this match. There
Speaker 3: was enough story and enough history that could have fed
Speaker 3: into this match happening to begin with without the added
Speaker 3: piece of Pat McAfee. Yeah, I'm predicting Cody Roads is
Speaker 3: going to retain because I'm manifesting of like him retaining
Speaker 3: it because watching Cody Roads lose at Russell Maynia two
Speaker 3: years in a row is something I do not want
Speaker 3: in my life. And I just need Cody Roads to
Speaker 3: just do the right thing and kick Randy's butt and
Speaker 3: kick Pat McAfee's but so that we can go on
Speaker 3: and move on to things, to the things that we
Speaker 3: actually love and actually care about. Go Bianca.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, okay, because initially I did not mind Pat
Speaker 4: McAfee coming out and feeding up Cody Roads.
Speaker 3: Why I know, because I like coach.
Speaker 4: I really truly like Patrick McAfee from Indianapolis or from
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh and sloy yeah by way of well not fault,
Speaker 4: not fault, yeah anyway, but I generally do like him
Speaker 4: and like I am because like I want Randy to
Speaker 4: win his fifteenth title, and I love I've been a
Speaker 4: Randy fans in twenty eleven, but he has a special
Speaker 4: place in my heart for that, and I really want
Speaker 4: him to finish his story. But then seeing how people
Speaker 4: see people's reactions with Pat McAfee definitely made me change
Speaker 4: my perspective because like, yeah, it's it wasn't necessary for
Speaker 4: it to be involved, and because I wanted it to
Speaker 4: be just those those two I was looking for it
Speaker 4: for I was looking for that, but this was before
Speaker 4: I realized that he's actually in the match, So that
Speaker 4: like kind of like I don't want to say bored
Speaker 4: me or turned me off, but I didn't turn me off,
Speaker 4: but like it was just I do wish that it
Speaker 4: didn't happen like that. There's too many celebrities in our
Speaker 4: war right now. But I generally do like Pat McCree.
Speaker 4: I think he's hilarious. I love his commentary. I his
Speaker 4: re announcing of dream Ac and Tire and Finn Malor
Speaker 4: are our My brain would shout out to sub Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I just yeah, see see.
Speaker 3: My thing is I would generally like Pam mag To
Speaker 3: when he was I like Pat McAfee when he was
Speaker 3: being a fan and he was just genuinely just happy
Speaker 3: to be there. But him as the character that Randy
Speaker 3: was talking to on the phone that was advising him
Speaker 3: was not something that I was prepared for. And it
Speaker 3: just fell flat to me because over the course of
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, it was Randy sort of
Speaker 3: alluding by saying, oh, wrestling has more than one royal family,
Speaker 3: and that he could have been and that he could
Speaker 3: have been talking to somebody else, you know, who could
Speaker 3: have been a part of a wrestling royal family. But
Speaker 3: for it to be Pat just kind of caught me off. Guarden,
Speaker 3: I just don't like a heel Pat McAfee. Like, mind you,
Speaker 3: he's been playing to heal the role of a heel perfectly,
Speaker 3: but I just don't like him as a heel because
Speaker 3: I would prefer him as a happy face guy like
Speaker 3: in all the above. And then also with him saying
Speaker 3: all the things that he said Friday about calling wrestling
Speaker 3: fans needy because you know, they were calling for lower
Speaker 3: ticket price and talking about how Cody has been leading
Speaker 3: WWE down the wrong path and how it's not what
Speaker 3: he used to be. In all these things like those
Speaker 3: things were just very off putting and I didn't like
Speaker 3: it because ww IS has been relatively successful since Cody
Speaker 3: Roads has been you know, QB one, So all of
Speaker 3: that was just really annoying for me. So honestly, I
Speaker 3: feel like Pat really could have just they really could
Speaker 3: have just left him out of this whole thing. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I have no problems with Pat being a fan of
Speaker 3: a product and everything else like that and being a babyface,
Speaker 3: but him as a heel was just really.
Speaker 4: Like, what the heck?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 4: But yeah, where I almost.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna need for I just want Cody to
Speaker 3: retain the title.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh now.
Speaker 3: We shall see, Yep, we shall see. We definitely shall see.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's all of the Night one predictions. Night
Speaker 3: one is shaping up to be pretty awesome. I'm really
Speaker 3: excited about it. And then we have Night Too, which
Speaker 3: has a lot at stake as well. So we're moving
Speaker 3: on tonight too with our one women's match that's on here,
Speaker 3: which is interesting. I will say, there's more women's matches
Speaker 3: on Saturday than there are on Sunday. It's interesting that
Speaker 3: we were talking about Tiffany Stratton earlier being the Women's
Speaker 3: Champion last year offer her to not be on the
Speaker 3: card this year, and then you also have the added
Speaker 3: weirdness of Julia and the Women's United States Championship not
Speaker 3: being on the car too. It's just very there are
Speaker 3: I feel like there are just other and then you
Speaker 3: also have EO and Osca and their supposed few that
Speaker 3: had gotten started and now that's not being a part
Speaker 3: of the Mania card either. Now mind you, I know
Speaker 3: they're gonna have the SmackDown before Wrestlemate, and you do
Speaker 3: have to have people there for that, but at the
Speaker 3: same time, it just feels very awkward to not have
Speaker 3: more than one women's match on both nights. But we
Speaker 3: move Jay Cargill versus Real Ripley. This is a match
Speaker 3: I'm very excited about because these are two of the
Speaker 3: biggest women's stars in ww battling against each other with
Speaker 3: pride ego and all of the looks and all of
Speaker 3: the the everything for the w W Women's Championship. It's
Speaker 3: interesting because last year we saw Jade ballot out with
Speaker 3: Naomi and now here we are, and then you had
Speaker 3: Riha having a stellar triple threat match with Bianca and
Speaker 3: EO last year It's very interesting all the things that
Speaker 3: can happen within a year. But my prediction is that
Speaker 3: real Ripley is going to win. As much as I
Speaker 3: love Jay Cargill as a black woman, and I want
Speaker 3: to see her succeed and do all the great things
Speaker 3: despite all of the haters. No matter what the haters say,
Speaker 3: I love Jay Cark, You'll love her down Rear Ripley
Speaker 3: is who I believe is going to win and become
Speaker 3: the new Women's World Women's Champion.
Speaker 4: I think, and I've been thinking, and I've been thinking
Speaker 4: about this for days now. I really think Nay and
Speaker 4: We will return to be a distraction for if Jade wins,
Speaker 4: she will come back and say, well this is mine,
Speaker 4: I'm coming for that title or yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I love them both and this is this is this
Speaker 4: is this is a really hard match to predict who
Speaker 4: will win because I love them both. Yeah, I want oh,
Speaker 4: I want Jay to win, but I think something will
Speaker 4: or someone will come and distract I don't know or oh,
Speaker 4: but she has her but she has be Fab and
Speaker 4: mit Chen. I forgot about them. M I don't know
Speaker 4: talk to tell right now, but I do think a
Speaker 4: woman will win this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, a woman will win. Yes, that's a funny
Speaker 3: prediction to make. Yes, a woman is gonna win. But
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know how ready Naomi is because
Speaker 3: on YouTube there was this in the midst of all
Speaker 3: the press that every wrestler or just about every wrestler
Speaker 3: is doing for WrestleMania, the USOS did a hot Ones
Speaker 3: video where Jay may have let it slip that Naomi
Speaker 3: had the baby with Jimmy, So congrats to them for that.
Speaker 3: So I don't think I'm not entirely sure we'll see
Speaker 3: an appearance from Naomi just yet, because it takes time
Speaker 3: to recover from that level of thing. I guess it
Speaker 3: just depends, But I don't I'm I'm just predicting that
Speaker 3: Rhea is gonna win, honestly, because Yeah, it just feels
Speaker 3: like that's just what's gonna happen for me. And I
Speaker 3: would love it if Jade retained, that would be really cool.
Speaker 3: But I just feel like, you just can't deny Rhea, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you just can't deny Ria at this point. So and
Speaker 3: and even and then yeah, she does have EO who
Speaker 3: could come out and help even thinks up with the
Speaker 3: batties with Meetchen and be Fab but I she could,
Speaker 3: but you just never know.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, I just think it's real. Yeah, or
Speaker 7: in or in in this or in your case a
Speaker 7: woman exactly.
Speaker 3: All the women win. So moving on to the men
Speaker 3: of Night two, we have a six pack ladder match
Speaker 3: for the Intercontinental Championship. Penta will be defending his Icy
Speaker 3: title against j D McDonough the Judgment Day in his
Speaker 3: first WrestleMania, Dragon Lee Javon Evans in his first WrestleMania
Speaker 3: the legendary Hall of Famer Rami Stereo and Russerve. This
Speaker 3: is hard to predict, but I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 3: If Javon Evans doesn't win, I'll be said. So my
Speaker 3: addiction it's Javon Evans, But if he doesn't win, I'll
Speaker 3: be sad. I agree, if it doesn't win, the Nicel
Speaker 3: Penson wins, Yeah, at the very least. If Penca does retain,
Speaker 3: then I won't be mad about that at all. But
Speaker 3: Javon is just my heavy favorite to win, absolutely.
Speaker 4: Without the hype and more around him. Yeah, I think yeah. Now,
Speaker 4: so JD looks like Roman Reigns here, He's like big
Speaker 4: Job Roman reigns. Oh my god, he actually looks good.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: Let's agree to disagree. I will say this, though, I
Speaker 3: am happy that Ray Mysterio is back in ring shape.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's gonna do some crazy stunts. I
Speaker 3: feel like the one guarantee we have in this entire
Speaker 3: match is that we are gonna see some crazy stunts
Speaker 3: take place.
Speaker 4: Leaping off the ladders, jumping, jumping off the ropes, and
Speaker 4: tables are gonna be broken.
Speaker 3: Like I'm excited.
Speaker 4: D D t's.
Speaker 3: It's it's gonna be sick with all of these men
Speaker 3: in here. Yeah, it's gonna be sick. But I'm definitely
Speaker 3: predicting that Javon Evans is gonna win.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just my my odds on favorite.
Speaker 4: O G crusher off the off, the off the ladder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh god, yeah, come on, come on. Yes, mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: This is another polarizing match for the United States Championship.
Speaker 3: You have Sammy's ain't going one on one with the
Speaker 3: innovator of one eight hundred whooped that trick Williams. I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna say that, I really feel like if by
Speaker 3: the end, by the end of this weekend, if Trick
Speaker 3: Williams gets attacked from behind by somebody, and if it's
Speaker 3: carmel O Hayes, I will support it because I support
Speaker 3: Carmelo Hayes's rights and wrongs. But if that doesn't happen,
Speaker 3: I'm predicting that Trick Williams is gonna win the United
Speaker 3: States Championship because I really, I mean, honestly, I feel
Speaker 3: like Carmelo Hayes should be in this match and this
Speaker 3: should be a triple threat, because it just doesn't make
Speaker 3: sense to me for Carmelo to have lost the way
Speaker 3: that he did and for him to not be at
Speaker 3: WrestleMania because he wasn't on the car last year when
Speaker 3: he could have been, and now he's not on the car,
Speaker 3: and it just doesn't make sense to me. It's an injustice. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But if that, if nothing changes between now and Sunday,
Speaker 3: I'm predicting Trick Williams is gonna win the United States Championship.
Speaker 4: I think so too. And if yeah, and if Sammy
Speaker 4: Zaine wins, and I've been holding out hope for this
Speaker 4: for a long time since all that happened, but I
Speaker 4: think if Sammy Zayin wins, it's because of the help
Speaker 4: of Kevin Owens. Oh wow, because I thought that he
Speaker 4: faked his injury last year. You thought, yeah, I thought
Speaker 4: thought I was part of the whole story. I thought
Speaker 4: he faked the injury.
Speaker 3: So yeah, other people, Yeah, other people did think he
Speaker 3: faked it too, So I understand what you're saying now
Speaker 3: that I'm remembering. Yeah, there were people who did think
Speaker 3: he was faking because he was supposed to fight Randy,
Speaker 3: but then it didn't happen because of that injury, and
Speaker 3: people thought, oh, well, the surprise person was going to
Speaker 3: be Kevin offered to be Joe injury. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: oh my god. That would that would create a whole
Speaker 3: other chapter in this in the book of Sammy's ay
Speaker 3: and Kevin Owens. That would be interesting. But if that
Speaker 3: did happen that way, But.
Speaker 4: If Sammy does does lose, he will still be in
Speaker 4: the ring and then sam Kevin comes out to comfort
Speaker 4: him that or yeah, because he can't beat him up again.
Speaker 5: No, that was.
Speaker 4: Horrible, So yeah, I think that. Yeah, I think Kevin
Speaker 4: Kevin Owens returns on Sunday one way or another that day.
Speaker 3: But specifically, you know, who do you who do you
Speaker 3: have to win the match?
Speaker 4: Did I not choose a winner?
Speaker 3: Oh my I don't think you did.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I think I'm with Trick Williams on
Speaker 4: this one. Yeah, definitely truck Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 4: chick ones for sure. That wouldn't be right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wouldn't necessarily be right, but and then you know,
Speaker 3: it would be cool be it would solidify his star
Speaker 3: power a whole lot more. But I would also like
Speaker 3: to and I will also repeat, if Carmelo wants to
Speaker 3: attack him from behind like he did it in XTO
Speaker 3: that time, I support it. So yeah, moving forward, we
Speaker 3: also have Demon Finn versus Dirty Dominic Mysterio the Judgment
Speaker 3: Day Civil War. I'm predicting Demon Finn is gonna win.
Speaker 3: Dominic has no clue. He's out of his death. I'm
Speaker 3: sorry to say that, but he's out of his death.
Speaker 3: I'm predicting Demon Fan is gonna win. Agreed, Yeah, agreed, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we can agree to that. But I'm very pumped to
Speaker 3: see dmon Fan because it's been a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really has.
Speaker 3: It really has been a while. Yeah, it's been too long.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I had a thought, oh my god, and just yeah,
Speaker 4: seeing all the moves they have because they can fly,
Speaker 4: they can I'm excited for I'm excited yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Athletically, the match is going to be fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I'm excited to see Dominic get scared and
Speaker 4: acting crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's gonna be funny. It's really gonna be funny.
Speaker 3: And I also would like to just give kudos to
Speaker 3: w W and their creative team for making this sort
Speaker 3: of like a continuation from last year, because I do
Speaker 3: believe it was last year a WrestleMania where Dominic covered
Speaker 3: Finn to win in condinental title, So this is gonna
Speaker 3: be interesting, or at least he pushed him out of
Speaker 3: the way when it could have been Finn winning the
Speaker 3: match and then Dominic one and then Finn kind of
Speaker 3: swallowed that. So I think that's a pretty cool continuation
Speaker 3: of that of that tension along with the other tensions
Speaker 3: that they have had over the past few months. So
Speaker 3: I'm pumped about it. It's gonna be cool. But I've
Speaker 3: got demon Finn for the wig.
Speaker 4: I go have to.
Speaker 3: Nxty Black and Gold Forever.
Speaker 4: I love the girl. I leave the jacket.
Speaker 3: Now, you're probably if you're watching this live, you're probably
Speaker 3: wondering why there is a giant drink here and this
Speaker 3: represents me creating a safe space for people watching this show.
Speaker 3: And also so the type of drink I'm gonna need
Speaker 3: if a certain person does not win this match. This
Speaker 3: is Oba Femi versus Pumpkinhead brock Lesner. We are all
Speaker 3: in agreeance that after the promo that Oba Femy cut Monday,
Speaker 3: we want him to win. I'm predicting Obami will win
Speaker 3: and skyrocket his stardom and his overness into overdrive.
Speaker 4: Kick the words out of my mouth. I agree. And
Speaker 4: he's if he's Nigeria, he's of Nigerian descent, and so
Speaker 4: am I so a Nigerian winning winning this will means
Speaker 4: a lot to me. So and he's like he's literally
Speaker 4: a little brother, even though he looks like he's in
Speaker 4: his thirty is what?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah that promo key, his his mic work has
Speaker 4: improved a lot, and it's shot on Monday, and yeah, amazing,
Speaker 4: ob wins period, Yeah and winds. For the last hour,
Speaker 4: I've been saying, I will go and repute myself when
Speaker 4: I say this is. If he doesn't win, it will
Speaker 4: not be right. Really, I'll be mad. No they can't, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: ober wins period.
Speaker 3: Yep. Now, I have seen some people's theories of them
Speaker 3: saying that they feel like if Oba does not win,
Speaker 3: that they feel that they see him and Pumpkinhead having
Speaker 3: a feud that feeds into Summer Slam h which would
Speaker 3: be in the beginning of August in Minneapolis, which is
Speaker 3: also two nights. But honestly, I just don't even want
Speaker 3: to stretch. I don't want them to even stretch just
Speaker 3: that far. I the the stars are too aligned for
Speaker 3: Oba Femi right now to have him lose at the
Speaker 3: Rumble and not win the Rumble and then also lose
Speaker 3: at Wrestleman and his first one at that when everybody
Speaker 3: is the the iron is just too hot. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just too hot. There are just certain things in life
Speaker 3: that are just simple, and Ova winning is simple. Sometimes
Speaker 3: all you have to do is keep it simple, stupid,
Speaker 3: keep it simple. Ova is winning, yes, And if he
Speaker 3: doesn't win, I will be drinking. We're grown, We're grown,
Speaker 3: We're all grown. We're grown. Bianca. Right, I'm drinking and
Speaker 3: I'm turning my phone off. The phone is off.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be like the mad guys who just plumbs
Speaker 4: this TV screen after a.
Speaker 3: Football game, the phone will just be off. But yeah,
Speaker 3: we're rooting for over here. And finally we have the
Speaker 3: main event of Night Too. See I'm Punk versus Roman
Speaker 3: reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship, or in the case
Speaker 3: of some little kids at home, I couldn't.
Speaker 6: That's the best day of my life.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you, oh my god.
Speaker 4: Wow. Wow.
Speaker 3: My boyfriend is watching high Baby sing Wow exactly. Y'all
Speaker 3: know I'm a clown. Y'all know I'm a clown. If
Speaker 3: you haven't learned this about me by now, then will
Speaker 3: I'm a clown. I'm a clown and I love Dsney.
Speaker 3: So anytime I can intertwine the things, I'm happy. Plus
Speaker 3: not to mention tonight like they have lin Manuel Miranda
Speaker 3: doing one of the cold opens, they have Joe Jonas
Speaker 3: singing the national Yeah, they got Joe Jonas singing the
Speaker 3: national anthem on Night Too.
Speaker 4: Disney.
Speaker 3: Kids are eating from this WrestleMania. So hey, z bras,
Speaker 3: this WrestleMania is brought to you by Dsney. Okay, I
Speaker 3: love it. Both of my fandoms have deserved to come
Speaker 3: together this long. Now we could just give Vanessa Hudgins
Speaker 3: in a match. I'm in there right, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: But but but all right, let's get back to business show.
Speaker 3: We've had fun. We've had our fun. We've got our fun.
Speaker 4: I love how you. I love how you mentioned.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah Zootopia. Yes to defeat Roman. Okay, I'm predicting
Speaker 3: that CM Punk needs to retain this He needs to
Speaker 3: retain because he lost last year at Many and I
Speaker 3: don't want to see him losing Many again in another
Speaker 3: main event. I'm sorry, Punk has to retain this title.
Speaker 3: Otherwise Roman's gonna win the title and we're never going
Speaker 3: to see it again, and that will defeat the purpose
Speaker 3: of what that title was creative for. So I'm predicting
Speaker 3: Sean Punk z bro is gonna win. What do you think, Bianca?
Speaker 4: Well, after along and hard thought and about this match
Speaker 4: and who is fighting in this match, it was very
Speaker 4: it has been very hard to choose just one, just one.
Speaker 4: But you know, oh.
Speaker 8: Well, I lost whatever, I gotta go right, Oh you know,
Speaker 8: I gotta go in mind here the.
Speaker 4: King of the pipe bomb on the my commentary in
Speaker 4: the ring. If he doesn't win, oh my god, I can't,
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: I see him.
Speaker 4: Punk does not win, I will not lose his government
Speaker 4: name because I have a spects though. Well, you see him,
Speaker 4: Punk is winning and with no interferences, no, no, Paul
Speaker 4: even get out, no no inferences. I can't take another interference.
Speaker 4: I can't take another low blow. I can't take any
Speaker 4: of that this year.
Speaker 5: No, just.
Speaker 4: Leave them, just let them. Let's see him Punk. But
Speaker 4: why do I think there will be an interference?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 4: Oh god, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Isn't John Cena hosting?
Speaker 3: I mean, but he might. I don't see him retaining
Speaker 3: in this, I don't. I don't see John Cena interfering
Speaker 3: in this. I don't. I don't simply because the fact
Speaker 3: that he has no dog in this fight. He's retired,
Speaker 3: why would he need to.
Speaker 4: John Stewart.
Speaker 3: But I mean, but this, this is not that regime though,
Speaker 3: so I don't think that's gonna. I don't think John
Speaker 3: Cena is I don't think there really. If there's going
Speaker 3: to be any interference from anybody, I feel like I
Speaker 3: see it being the USOS or maybe even any other
Speaker 3: any other person from any from from Roman's family maybe,
Speaker 3: But then I don't even see that. Considering seeing Punk apologized,
Speaker 3: two Romans face Monday so I don't even see that.
Speaker 3: I I don't know. I just feel like this really
Speaker 3: might be just a simple thing, and it really might
Speaker 3: just be them beating each other until one until somebody
Speaker 3: just can't get up anymore.
Speaker 4: Maybe again, we shall see, but.
Speaker 3: How Punk wins, Yes, we shall see how Punk wins.
Speaker 3: But you know that's the main event, and that's night too,
Speaker 3: and there's really exciting stuff happening. I know there's stuff
Speaker 3: that people really wish wasn't happening about it. But hopefully
Speaker 3: the positives will outweigh the negatives and everything will be
Speaker 3: fine and will be okay. And if all those fails
Speaker 3: will always happen, yeah, I have not I just know
Speaker 3: the fact that they're in it. That's all I know.
Speaker 3: But we have reached the end of our time together.
Speaker 3: This has been fun. This has been a very special
Speaker 3: WrestleMania episode. So I hope everyone is having a great
Speaker 3: We'll have a great weekend and be safe and enjoy
Speaker 3: WrestleMania in the best ways possible and not be toxic
Speaker 3: and stuff. I hope everyone who's in Vegas will be safe,
Speaker 3: stay high drained because it's hot out there, and just
Speaker 3: have all the best fun and just remember why you
Speaker 3: love wrestling in the first place. And yeah, we've reached
Speaker 3: in of our time together. So Bianca, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for joining me, and just tell everybody where they
Speaker 3: can find and follow you and what you've got going on.
Speaker 4: Well, I I don't really have much going on, honestly,
Speaker 4: but if you want to follow, follow me on Twitter
Speaker 4: and Instagram. My personal is Bionca Addison And if you
Speaker 4: would like to follow my ring announcing journey, I post
Speaker 4: I haven't been I haven't posted anything on Instagram for
Speaker 4: a while, but if you all like to uh follow
Speaker 4: my and support my ring announcing journey, you can follow
Speaker 4: my Instagram at Boni Rose Ringside. That's E b O
Speaker 4: and I R O s E ring Side And yeah,
Speaker 4: I can support my rennouncing trainy there and nothing really
Speaker 4: going on, but I'm really happy I'm still a part
Speaker 4: of this amazing podcast and this was a really fun
Speaker 4: episode and thank you. Will never suffice.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, you're welcome, and I'm so happy to have
Speaker 3: you be a part of it. I'm happy that you
Speaker 3: still want to be a part of the show, and
Speaker 3: this was a really great episode to do and I'm
Speaker 3: so happy that we've bonded over our love of WrestleMania
Speaker 3: and all of the things. This is my first time
Speaker 3: really sharing a space and talking about WrestleMania because this
Speaker 3: is actually my first time being at home for a
Speaker 3: WrestleMania like three years. So I just so this is
Speaker 3: just really fun to just sit and just talk about
Speaker 3: it from comfort and not just from work. So it's
Speaker 3: really fine and I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: So it's my first WrestleMania, it's been at home for
Speaker 4: the past.
Speaker 3: Well, hopefully you know, you'll be able to go, like
Speaker 3: to another one, because bro, they're fun, they're awesome. Sure,
Speaker 3: I recommend anyone attending a WrestleMania ticket. Prices be damned,
Speaker 3: make it happen. Life is too short, so know that
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Speaker 3: do have something going on this Friday. I have the
Speaker 3: honor of being on a commentary during WrestleMania weekend for
Speaker 3: Retinal Pro Wrestling here in Birmingham, Alabama, celebrating their third
Speaker 3: anniversary with their obligatory three year anniversary show. I will
Speaker 3: be on commentary with Ezra Miller, and it's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: We have Championship gold on the line with No Avail
Speaker 3: defending their brand new Retinal Heavyweight Championship, and we also
Speaker 3: have Kinsey Page from NWA and various other places participating
Speaker 3: in intergender action. So it's gonna be really cool and
Speaker 3: I'm just really proud to be a part of this
Speaker 3: promotion and I'm really honored to get to work in
Speaker 3: my hometown during WrestleMania weekend for this. So it's gonna
Speaker 3: be really cool and I'm happy about it. Support your
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Speaker 3: real so Mania weekend to in Vegas, because it takes
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Speaker 3: support the stars of the future because you never know
Speaker 3: who you might see on your TV. You might wind
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, AVAIL is fantastic. Oh they are absolutely fantastic. So yeah,
Speaker 3: m the non binary icon.
Speaker 4: That's so great it right?
Speaker 3: So, of course this has been the Hardy Wrestling Podcast
Speaker 3: with your girl, Stephanie Hardy and Bianca Addison. Please enjoy
Speaker 3: WrestleMania this weekend, y'all. Until next time by a happy
Speaker 3: Mania Weekends this weekend