Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, making her wait till the mic
Speaker 1: they started dimming the lights. You started feeling all right
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Speaker 1: and studies more. Once you discovered or rather of the lovers,
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston and Roman Reigns, all of the lovers, Mickey
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Speaker 1: escape every one of the buzz I was kind of last.
Speaker 1: I just made it up the troubled bud walking by
Speaker 1: the face because I know it was right in front
Speaker 1: of Udd.
Speaker 2: I ain't with the hay.
Speaker 1: You gotta focus on U's great ladies and gentlemen. And
Speaker 1: step Hardy is on the air. Had to drop a
Speaker 1: couple of bars just to make you all aware. So
Speaker 1: sit back, relax, enjoyed a show. You know, I'll go
Speaker 1: by Joe Well the wrestle.
Speaker 2: Good evening, y'all. Hey, welcome, welcome, Welcome to a brand
Speaker 2: new episode of the Hearty Wrestling Podcast with your girl
Speaker 2: Stephanie Hardy. I am trying to mentally put together that
Speaker 2: we are definitely living in a world world where we
Speaker 2: just don't know what's going to come next. So before
Speaker 2: I get started with everything, I just want to say
Speaker 2: that I hope everyone is taking care of themselves, and
Speaker 2: I hope that there are levels of caring for yourself
Speaker 2: that you're doing. I hope that you're keeping your spirits
Speaker 2: lifted in the midst of all this constant change, and
Speaker 2: I hope that you are loving on the people in
Speaker 2: your life as much as you can, because life is
Speaker 2: just lifing at a frenetic pace, and I just hope
Speaker 2: that everyone is doing well. This is watching this right now,
Speaker 2: and if you're watching this or going to listen to
Speaker 2: this later, I hope you're doing okay at this point.
Speaker 2: And I'm just grateful for the time that I'm about
Speaker 2: to have and for everything that has happened in this
Speaker 2: space and everything that I've been able to accomplish, and
Speaker 2: everything you've been able to accomplish. I'm proud of you,
Speaker 2: if nobody ever tells you that. And yeah, we're going
Speaker 2: to navigate this tough time together because I'm still trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out. I'm pretty sure you as a
Speaker 2: wrestling fan, if you're not even a wrestling fan. If
Speaker 2: you're watching for the first time, you're trying to figure
Speaker 2: your life out. But in the midst of this, we
Speaker 2: have to hold on to love and light because that's
Speaker 2: all we have. So yeah, this is a show where
Speaker 2: I talk about professional wrestling and everything that's going on
Speaker 2: in it, the ups, the downs, the highlights, the low lights,
Speaker 2: and everything in between. And there really is no way
Speaker 2: to start then to just start, and we got to
Speaker 2: get into it. So thank you all so much for watching.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yesterday was a day that I just did
Speaker 2: not think was ever going to not say never gonna happen,
Speaker 2: but I just did not think this, anything like this
Speaker 2: was gonna happen so soon. There was a lot of
Speaker 2: loss going on this week in so many different levels
Speaker 2: of culture. Will I will which I will get to
Speaker 2: a little bit later, But of course this is news
Speaker 2: and gossip fish, so of course we have to start
Speaker 2: with the big news, and this is involving the death
Speaker 2: of Terry Bolea, who I would always call the man
Speaker 2: formerly known as Hulk Hogan. He passed away yesterday at
Speaker 2: the age of seventy one. According to the Clearwater Police
Speaker 2: Department in Florida. He passed away on Thursday morning due
Speaker 2: to cardiac arrest. He was treated by a rescue crew
Speaker 2: before being taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Speaker 2: And of course, if you've watched wrestling over the years,
Speaker 2: or if you've paid attention to any form of pop
Speaker 2: culture over the years, you've probably seen this man with
Speaker 2: the big mustache and the blonde hair and the red
Speaker 2: and yellow bandana or the black and white bendana, depending
Speaker 2: on when you got started in wrestling or whatever. And
Speaker 2: he had been in movies, he had been in commercials.
Speaker 2: This man basically you've and I'm pretty sure you've heard
Speaker 2: a lot of people over the past twenty four hours
Speaker 2: plus talk about how he revolutionized wrestling and made it
Speaker 2: more on the mainstream level of things when it came
Speaker 2: to the nineteen seventies into the eighties. Now, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna talk about all of his accomplishments, because there are
Speaker 2: people who are definitely going to talk about all the
Speaker 2: championships he's won, all the WrestleMania main events that he had,
Speaker 2: how he basically broke the world when he turned bad guy,
Speaker 2: even though he actually started as a heel at the
Speaker 2: beginning of his WWE career. With classy Freddie Blassie as
Speaker 2: his manager. My dad told me that tonight and so
Speaker 2: many other things, but I can only talk about what
Speaker 2: this means for me and my experience. So I was
Speaker 2: born in nineteen ninety three, so I didn't start wrestling.
Speaker 2: I didn't start watching wrestling with my dad until I
Speaker 2: was about four years old. So the Hull Cogan that
Speaker 2: everybody had witnessed throughout the eighties and everything with the
Speaker 2: red and yellow, I did not get. The first hul
Speaker 2: Cogin I ever saw was Hollywood Hulk Cogin and the
Speaker 2: first match I ever saw him wrestling was against gold
Speaker 2: Berg at the Georgia Dome on w CW Nitro. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty huge first match to start with, but
Speaker 2: that's really what my first match was because my dad
Speaker 2: taped it and I was watching it his art at
Speaker 2: my grandma's house, and that's how my wrestling fandom started.
Speaker 2: So it started with me getting exposed to Haul Cochin
Speaker 2: as a bad guy. And during this time, of course,
Speaker 2: it was the height of the Monday Night Wars. Of course,
Speaker 2: my dad purchased so much nWo stuff that you can
Speaker 2: basically swim in it, and my grandma god rest her
Speaker 2: did not like houlcokein growing up like she she did
Speaker 2: not like Holcain at all. She was a huge wrestling
Speaker 2: fan and her favorite wrestl was Rick Flair. So yeah,
Speaker 2: my grandma new ball in that way. So as I got, however,
Speaker 2: as a wrestling fan and noticed that Hulk Hogan had
Speaker 2: basically took a turn from being the bad guy Hogan
Speaker 2: that he once was back to the red and yellow Hogan,
Speaker 2: that was when I kind of took a liking to him,
Speaker 2: because of course I was a babyface girl still am
Speaker 2: very much a babyface girl, and everybody was cheering him
Speaker 2: every thought. Everybody thought everything was cool and everybody was happy,
Speaker 2: and I was watching Hogan Knows Best with everyone, you know,
Speaker 2: watching the reality show Boom of the two thousands, you know,
Speaker 2: seeing all of that was a pretty colorful time to
Speaker 2: grow up in. It really was. And watching wrestling and
Speaker 2: conjunction to that, it just felt like you were in
Speaker 2: on a lot of the cool stuff on the reality
Speaker 2: show that not that many people would know about because
Speaker 2: they only watched the reality show side and not the
Speaker 2: wrestling side. And it felt like this was also in
Speaker 2: between the time he got inducted into the Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame too, so so growing up in the two thousands,
Speaker 2: it seemed like it was cool to be a younger
Speaker 2: Hok Hokin fan at that point because you know, he
Speaker 2: was getting his flowers for everything he had previously done.
Speaker 2: Of course, he had had his match with the Rock,
Speaker 2: which of course is labeled as legendary, and yeah, everything
Speaker 2: was going as smooth as it could go. You know,
Speaker 2: he was popping up every now and again, wasn't wrestling anymore,
Speaker 2: and everything was fine the older I got. But you
Speaker 2: fast forward to twenty fifteen, and that's when all of
Speaker 2: the crap hit the fan. This is where the title
Speaker 2: of this episode, a real American Requiem, sort of comes in,
Speaker 2: because this was where my sort of happy image of
Speaker 2: him just destructed into a billion pieces because I just
Speaker 2: remember him getting inducted into the Hall of Fame in
Speaker 2: conjunction with WrestleMania twenty one, and he had did that
Speaker 2: pose in front of the American flag, and everything was peppy,
Speaker 2: Everything was cool, and I just didn't think anything could
Speaker 2: really burst that bubble at that point in my life
Speaker 2: because I was, you know, a little bit older, getting
Speaker 2: ready to graduate from college, you know, learning about myself,
Speaker 2: getting deeper into my identity as a black woman, you know,
Speaker 2: at a liberal arts college, Everrea all the things and stuff,
Speaker 2: and then you hear tell that someone who you grew
Speaker 2: up watching and enjoying with your family members and you know,
Speaker 2: cracking up at and laughing about, said incredibly unkind things
Speaker 2: about black men and just black people in general. And
Speaker 2: of course I was angry, But I think the word
Speaker 2: that I have for now is just it's actually two words,
Speaker 2: disappointment and just anger, because how could this man who
Speaker 2: would tell us to eat your vitamins and say your
Speaker 2: prayers and you know, talk about how much he loved
Speaker 2: all his Hulka maniacs say the N word in a
Speaker 2: video in an audio and talk about how terrible it
Speaker 2: would be if his daughter actually dated a black man,
Speaker 2: as if that's the worst thing in the world. That
Speaker 2: ripped my heart to shreds. And at one point there
Speaker 2: was a point where a lot of people were like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't want to believe it, and
Speaker 2: all this other stuff, but the audio was the audio,
Speaker 2: and it hurts so bad. And then what makes it
Speaker 2: even worse is just like in this picture next to
Speaker 2: my head is like there are countless pictures of him
Speaker 2: in you know, sharing space with black talented people, rich,
Speaker 2: you know, and all of the above. You know, taking
Speaker 2: pictures with Dennis Rodman, shaking hands like they showed tonight
Speaker 2: on SmackDown, with Arsenio Hall, who was like Late Night
Speaker 2: Royalty at the time and an actor, you know, sharing
Speaker 2: space with mister T and so many other black people,
Speaker 2: and you know, and even in younger and also in
Speaker 2: more recent years, sharing space with people like Byron's accent
Speaker 2: and all the above, And yet you say things like that,
Speaker 2: and it's just the craziest thing on the planet. How
Speaker 2: do you do that? How do you work a moment
Speaker 2: black people for all of these years only to show
Speaker 2: your true colors what in what you think is a
Speaker 2: safe space, But as it turns out, it becomes public
Speaker 2: and then you want to sue the people who put
Speaker 2: it out there because you don't want to take accountability
Speaker 2: for it. It hurts so bad, like it just really
Speaker 2: hurts so bad, because you don't want to think that
Speaker 2: somebody that you've been watching on TV and enjoying on
Speaker 2: TV for so long wouldn't even look twice at you.
Speaker 2: You don't want to think that, but that's just the
Speaker 2: truth of what happened. And then he doubled down on
Speaker 2: it even more after his son got into an accident
Speaker 2: and his biggest talking about how his biggest fear was
Speaker 2: them being reincarnated as black men, and then doubled down
Speaker 2: and then doubling down on it even even further by
Speaker 2: supporting the administration in office which actively chooses to destroy
Speaker 2: and beat down on people of color all of the time.
Speaker 2: It is so hurtful as a wrestling fan, but also
Speaker 2: as a black woman to see someone go out like that,
Speaker 2: to see someone you know blame it on so many
Speaker 2: different things, like my like who I was surrounded by,
Speaker 2: and my environment and all this other stuff like it
Speaker 2: was so painful because because even tonight in the tribute
Speaker 2: they talked about how he was born in Augusta, Georgia.
Speaker 2: That's the South. And as a Southern woman myself, of course,
Speaker 2: you know that there are a lot feelings that white
Speaker 2: that some white Southern people have about black people. And
Speaker 2: it's no secret at this point, it's historical knowledge. No
Speaker 2: matter how much they try to erase it, it's the truth.
Speaker 2: But you decide to get into a business and train
Speaker 2: with people that are from so many different backgrounds, and
Speaker 2: you hold these feelings in for god knows how long
Speaker 2: and share spaces with all of these people who probably
Speaker 2: worked harder than you, and probably had to work harder
Speaker 2: than you just to prove themselves. And this is what
Speaker 2: you do, and this is what you say. Then, to
Speaker 2: make it even even worse, you not only harbored horrible
Speaker 2: feelings towards people of color and black people specifically, you
Speaker 2: tried to undercut people who considered you friends for your
Speaker 2: own gain, like you're a union buster, and you stopped
Speaker 2: an initiative that could have saved countless wrestlers' lives, maybe
Speaker 2: even including yours. But yet somehow you ruin that. And
Speaker 2: there is the little girl me that will always hold
Speaker 2: on to the memory of watching him in WCW on
Speaker 2: those tapes with my father. I will always hold on
Speaker 2: to that in my mind. But then there's the thirty one,
Speaker 2: almost thirty two year old me that absolutely knows that
Speaker 2: this man was not the best. He was not a
Speaker 2: good person, and honestly, it breaks my heart. And then
Speaker 2: it also upsets me as a black person to see
Speaker 2: the amount of coverage about him from the regular media
Speaker 2: side the pop culture media side and also the wrestling
Speaker 2: media side, full of people talking about how his accomplishments
Speaker 2: are this even though his politics were divided and all
Speaker 2: this other stuff, And the amount of people who are
Speaker 2: saying stuff like this are people who don't even have
Speaker 2: to think about it because they have the privilege of
Speaker 2: not having to think about it because it doesn't directly
Speaker 2: affect them. It's not like he was calling those type
Speaker 2: of people you know, horrible names and dehumanizing them and
Speaker 2: yet smiling in their faces. Because even in the tribute
Speaker 2: you saw him taking pictures. The only clips that they
Speaker 2: showed in that tribute were him taking pictures with white fans,
Speaker 2: not with any black ones. I didn't see any hispanic ones.
Speaker 2: It was always the white fans. And those are the
Speaker 2: ones who are privileged enough, and the white pundits and
Speaker 2: other pundits as well, who are in privileged places, who
Speaker 2: have the luxury of saying his accomplishments were this big
Speaker 2: in comparison to how his politics were. But considering those
Speaker 2: level of politics and those harmful feelings do not affect you.
Speaker 2: Of course, you can sit by and say stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You can sit by and say, oh, well, it was this,
Speaker 2: but this was this No, And you can't tell black
Speaker 2: people or any person of color how to feel about
Speaker 2: it at all, because, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: if you have the privilege of not having been degraded
Speaker 2: by a word for hundreds of years and having people
Speaker 2: say it to you in front of your face, as
Speaker 2: well as say it about you behind your back to
Speaker 2: try to degrade you and make you seem like you
Speaker 2: are less than human, then you don't get to talk
Speaker 2: about it, and you don't get to tell people what
Speaker 2: they can and cannot feel offended by. And there are
Speaker 2: even people who are trying to excuse it low key
Speaker 2: and not standing on business, who also, you know, want
Speaker 2: to just hang on, you know, to what it meant
Speaker 2: to their childhood. I mean, yes, you can hang on
Speaker 2: to what it meant for nostalgia in your childhood. Back
Speaker 2: the end of the day, you have to come to
Speaker 2: grips with the fact that you have to put away
Speaker 2: childish things and understand that this man would not have
Speaker 2: even spit in your direction. He would not have hugged you,
Speaker 2: he would not have taken a picture with you. If
Speaker 2: he had hired you on for a job, or if
Speaker 2: he had somebody to hire you on for a job,
Speaker 2: and if he found out that you were black, you
Speaker 2: would have fired you because exactly what he did to someone.
Speaker 2: And that's just the truth. And I am so sorry
Speaker 2: that this is us talking about him passing away. I
Speaker 2: never ever want to take away you know the pain
Speaker 2: of what that means, because I know what that feels like,
Speaker 2: even as recent as this year, having lost people that
Speaker 2: I care about, two people that I care about a
Speaker 2: whole lot, I know what that pain is like. But
Speaker 2: the thing is I don't. It's like I feel sad
Speaker 2: that a life has been lost, but I don't feel
Speaker 2: sad that that person led a life of trash and
Speaker 2: people are just expecting us to just erase it just
Speaker 2: because he's not here anymore. If you were trash in life,
Speaker 2: then people are going to talk about you the way
Speaker 2: that you treated them. And if you did not treat
Speaker 2: people the best, then that's the consequence that you have
Speaker 2: to deal with. And it seemed like he used a
Speaker 2: lot of his fame and a lot of his money
Speaker 2: and a lot of different things to cover up the
Speaker 2: idea that he was deeply flawed and hide the fact
Speaker 2: and hide behind all of that fame and money, because
Speaker 2: he was high behind all of that to hide the
Speaker 2: fact that he was masking some serious demons. And because
Speaker 2: it's not with me, I can't deal with that. But
Speaker 2: I just know that as a black woman, the heroes
Speaker 2: that I look up to, I would hope that at
Speaker 2: this stage they talk trash about me or make me
Speaker 2: feel like less than or whatever because of the way
Speaker 2: that I look, or the way that I sound, or
Speaker 2: the way that my hair looks in all of the above.
Speaker 2: So I found Hulk Hogan as a villain in wrestling,
Speaker 2: and now we've reached the end of our journey together
Speaker 2: and he was a villain at the end, and I
Speaker 2: hate that that's how it turned out, but he made
Speaker 2: his choice and that's just all there is to it.
Speaker 2: So that's the end of how I feel about the situation.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry that he's gone, and I'm sorry for
Speaker 2: the people that it directly affects. But as for me
Speaker 2: in my community, I have to take care of my
Speaker 2: black community. I have to take care of my woman community.
Speaker 2: And that's it. So yeah, that's the end of the
Speaker 2: real American requiem. Huh. What a world. And in speaking
Speaker 2: of more people who left us this week we do
Speaker 2: I do want to talk about Ozzy Osbourne, who is
Speaker 2: also a WW Hall of Famer, who we lost the
Speaker 2: day before I believe Hulkogan passed. He was, of course
Speaker 2: the prince of darkness and the voice to a lot
Speaker 2: of people's childhoods in terms of heavy metal with Black
Speaker 2: Sabbath and of course with his own solo career. I've
Speaker 2: ran up on him on the Osbourne's reality show because
Speaker 2: here again you have that reality TV boom that happened
Speaker 2: in the two thousand with him and Shine and all
Speaker 2: the stuff. But of course he was a music icon
Speaker 2: at that point. He was in lots of different commercials
Speaker 2: for my for our childhoods and everything. So it bummed
Speaker 2: me out when I found out that he had passed,
Speaker 2: especially given a few weeks ago he had a fair
Speaker 2: basically like a Black Sabbath reunion concert in his home
Speaker 2: of Birmingham, England. So I saw that he had been sick,
Speaker 2: but I was hoping, you know, that somehow another he
Speaker 2: would have a little bit longer with us, But sadly
Speaker 2: that wasn't the case and he passed. So I wanted
Speaker 2: to say rest in peace to him. He did show
Speaker 2: up on Monday Night Raw a couple of times. It
Speaker 2: was also said that he was at WrestleMania too when
Speaker 2: he joined forces with Captain lu Albano to manage the
Speaker 2: British Bulldogs as they captured the World Tag Team Championships.
Speaker 2: And he returned several times in the two thousands to
Speaker 2: perform his latest single, and he was the guest host
Speaker 2: for Roscott Talent in the two thousands as well. And
Speaker 2: of course he is the voice of the war Pigs song,
Speaker 2: which is the theme song to Survivor series war Games
Speaker 2: every year. So big ups to him, Rest in peace
Speaker 2: to him, and I hope he's rocking and rolling wherever
Speaker 2: he's at. And I'm sending prayers and love and light
Speaker 2: to his family because they really loved him a lot.
Speaker 2: And I might actually watch The Osbournes at some point
Speaker 2: because that show and looking at the clips of it
Speaker 2: again because I hadn't watched it in years. It looks
Speaker 2: really funny and I feel like to watch it with
Speaker 2: an adult mind would probably be a hoot. So yeah,
Speaker 2: sending love and peace to the Osborns. And of course,
Speaker 2: even though this has nothing to do with wrestling, Malcolm
Speaker 2: Jamal Warner past this week as well, in a freak
Speaker 2: accident on the beach at Coasta, Rica with his family,
Speaker 2: and I'm sending love in prayers to them as well.
Speaker 2: But he was a pillar in the black community as
Speaker 2: the actor who played the role of Theo in The
Speaker 2: Cosby Show, and for all of its controversy and everything,
Speaker 2: he was one of the most talented people on the
Speaker 2: planet because not only was he an actor, he also
Speaker 2: did spoken word. He also played the bass guitar, he
Speaker 2: had a band, and he just did a lot of
Speaker 2: different things. And I he was one of those Cosby
Speaker 2: kids who I enjoyed watching a lot of, you know,
Speaker 2: after the fact and after watching the show in syndication,
Speaker 2: because he was always doing something positive and always just
Speaker 2: sharing his different levels of talent. You can never put
Speaker 2: him in a box, and I appreciated that about him
Speaker 2: so much. And I've heard nothing but nice things about
Speaker 2: him from various actors that I've enjoyed over the years.
Speaker 2: And he will definitely be missed. And I'm just sending
Speaker 2: love and light to his wife and his child because
Speaker 2: it seemed like they, you know, had started a relatively
Speaker 2: young life together. And you hope that you have all
Speaker 2: the time in the world with somebody that you love
Speaker 2: like that, But that accident happened and it just knocked
Speaker 2: the wind out of me. It broke my heart. This
Speaker 2: has just been a very emotional and taxing week as
Speaker 2: a whole, and it started with him. So rest in
Speaker 2: peace and Malcolm Jamal Warner sending love and light to
Speaker 2: every person who's ever worked with him in all the above,
Speaker 2: and I hope that he finds peace on the other side,
Speaker 2: and that Ozzy Osbourne finds peace on the other side. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So now moving more into other news and god Fish.
Speaker 2: Elena Black, formerly known as Cory Jade in ww NXT,
Speaker 2: announced this week that she is stepping away from professional
Speaker 2: wrestling for the foreseeable future. She wrote a message on
Speaker 2: Instagram saying, I originally had a ten minute video explaining
Speaker 2: where my head's at, and maybe eventually I'll post it,
Speaker 2: but it seems unnecessary for now. I'll keep it short,
Speaker 2: but I am going to be taking a break from
Speaker 2: wrestling for the foreseeable future. It's no longer good for
Speaker 2: my mental health and I'll never know if that love
Speaker 2: for it I once had will return. If I don't
Speaker 2: step away, I'm gonna take the rest of the year
Speaker 2: to take care of me and go from there. I
Speaker 2: apologize to the fans and promoters who are looking forward
Speaker 2: to Slash booked by upcoming appearances. I hope you can understand.
Speaker 2: To my supporters, thank you, Signed Bree slash Elena Let
Speaker 2: go or be Dragged Now. When I saw this, this
Speaker 2: made me so sad because she had to fight through
Speaker 2: a lot of things during her time at NXT. She
Speaker 2: had to fight through at one point, I believe body
Speaker 2: shaming through another health issue that was just very tragic
Speaker 2: for a young lady to have to go through. She
Speaker 2: had to fight through so many different things in order
Speaker 2: to even be on television. So the idea of her
Speaker 2: having to go through that, plus being released on top
Speaker 2: of that, and then still trying to push through with
Speaker 2: a wrestling career. I don't blame her for taking a
Speaker 2: mental health break honestly, because sometimes you are going. Sometimes
Speaker 2: in life we tend to go and push ourselves so
Speaker 2: fast until we realized that, oh, I really can't go anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I love this anymore. I need
Speaker 2: some time to think, I need some time to breathe.
Speaker 2: I need a break. And if a break is what
Speaker 2: she needs and that's exactly what she needs. And I
Speaker 2: saw a lot of people on social media. I saw
Speaker 2: people reacting to men on social media shaming her for
Speaker 2: it and also shaming her for possibly also being an
Speaker 2: only fans model. And I'm the need for all of
Speaker 2: y'all to just get a life, because however, these people
Speaker 2: need to feed themselves and feed their family. There's no
Speaker 2: shame in it, So stop trying to shame these women
Speaker 2: or shame these men for doing it as like a
Speaker 2: form of a job, like lead these folks alone. People
Speaker 2: are trying to survive and eat out here, and you
Speaker 2: out here trying to make fun of them on social media,
Speaker 2: like get a life, touch some grass, or you know,
Speaker 2: check into a hotel, do something fun with your life.
Speaker 2: But just leave these people alone, because you tend to
Speaker 2: forget these are human beings and their lives are just
Speaker 2: as important still, And if she needs a break, then
Speaker 2: by all means, she deserves to take a break. So
Speaker 2: big ups to Elena Black. I hope she continues to
Speaker 2: recover in the best way that she can, and if
Speaker 2: it's truly meant for her to come back, she'll come
Speaker 2: back swinging. And if not, then that's fine too, because
Speaker 2: I would prefer for her to still be okay as
Speaker 2: opposed to just trying to push through and not be okay,
Speaker 2: because that can lead to so many different things. So
Speaker 2: big ups to her for knowing what she needs for herself. Also,
Speaker 2: we have another rumor about Travis Scott possibly falling out
Speaker 2: with the WWE. This kind of shocked me today. I
Speaker 2: was just like what. So of course, he was featured
Speaker 2: in different spots on WWTV, of course most famously when
Speaker 2: it came to the heel turn of John Cena in
Speaker 2: February at Elimination Chamber, and then of course his place
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania forty one where he got physical with Cody
Speaker 2: Rhoades causing him to lose a w W championship, which
Speaker 2: broke my heart for whatever it seems that according to
Speaker 2: Dave Meltzer, who we do still have to take with
Speaker 2: a grain of salt these days, Travis Scott was originally
Speaker 2: scheduled to be the celebrity surprise included in one of
Speaker 2: the DLC packs for WW two K twenty five, but
Speaker 2: it was not yet confirmed publicly. But they but apparently
Speaker 2: they fell out, and it was noted that the nature
Speaker 2: of which hasn't gotten out yet, but it's why it's
Speaker 2: open season to start knocking him and you know, dissing
Speaker 2: him on television. But here's the thing. My thing is,
Speaker 2: if you really don't know exactly what's going on, then
Speaker 2: don't speak about it. Because I also feel like if
Speaker 2: it was that much of a falling out, then maybe
Speaker 2: they would have changed the theme song of Monday Night
Speaker 2: Raw or something like that, but I don't know. And
Speaker 2: then the last room I heard about him was the
Speaker 2: fact that he was training for an n ring appearance,
Speaker 2: which I actually would have been okay with because I mean,
Speaker 2: he has been consistently, you know, had been popping up
Speaker 2: a lot and everything, so I would have been okay
Speaker 2: with it. But you know, I hope there is a
Speaker 2: complete falling out from it because there was a level
Speaker 2: of enjoyment that he was getting. So hopefully they'll work
Speaker 2: some stuff out, but yeah, you just never know. Also,
Speaker 2: in talking about celebrities, get a female celebrity in the ring, please,
Speaker 2: so yeah. Also in the news today, aj Mendes made
Speaker 2: her appearance at San Diego Comic Con and she had
Speaker 2: different signings and stuff. So she actually spoke at Comic
Speaker 2: Con and she was asked if she missed the fan
Speaker 2: interaction and the physicality of wrestling, and she answered by saying, quote,
Speaker 2: that's a really interesting question because they are two totally
Speaker 2: different things. My fans are like pieces of my family.
Speaker 2: They have been My mission in doing everything in the
Speaker 2: public sphere is to help people. It's to help make
Speaker 2: people feel less alone and help wonderful weirdos realize that
Speaker 2: underdogs are cool and we can be the stars of
Speaker 2: our own stories, and things that you are insecure about
Speaker 2: can be your greatest strengths in this world. That has
Speaker 2: been my mission statement. The group of fans that have
Speaker 2: kept with me these past ten years have helped me
Speaker 2: feel less alone. I don't know if they realize that
Speaker 2: we sort of share this mission statement in life, and
Speaker 2: I've seen them go out and become adults that become
Speaker 2: wrestlers or get into the mental health field as well.
Speaker 2: It is the most beautiful thing in the world. I
Speaker 2: love them and I feel like I say so close
Speaker 2: to them always. They are a piece of my heart.
Speaker 2: I do miss having that direct connection where I can
Speaker 2: see them every week. The really cool thing is when
Speaker 2: I do mental health keynote speeches, wrestling fans will show
Speaker 2: up at these medical conferences. You guys are the most
Speaker 2: beautiful people in the world. It really is a family bond.
Speaker 2: The physicality I was so afraid to do. In Heals,
Speaker 2: the TV show that was on Stars that she was in,
Speaker 2: it was the first time I wrestled in eight years,
Speaker 2: and my body bounced right back. It was like riding
Speaker 2: a bike, a really painful bike. The physicality is fun.
Speaker 2: So of course, in the midst of her you know,
Speaker 2: being a mental health advocate and also popping up at
Speaker 2: comic cons because she is a writer of her own
Speaker 2: comic book with Amy Garcia, she does these. She actually
Speaker 2: did Heals and that was and I love how she
Speaker 2: talked about how that was her first time in the
Speaker 2: ring in eight years and how it was sort of
Speaker 2: like a painful bike, but it was good to get
Speaker 2: back in the swing of things. And something that people
Speaker 2: always have a tendency to leave out is the fact
Speaker 2: that she did return to wrestling shortly when she was
Speaker 2: the executive producer and color commentator for Wild Women of Wrestling,
Speaker 2: because she was doing that when me and Katrina started
Speaker 2: covering it. So a lot of people tend to leave
Speaker 2: that out, and I really wish they wouldn't, but you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. But either way, I do miss her
Speaker 2: commentary on Wow, and a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Speculated and she would have had a place in Evolution
Speaker 3: because WWE Vault actually released a whole compilation video of
Speaker 3: the rise of aj Lee and it sent everybody into
Speaker 3: a tizzy like.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, is gonna be an Evolution And as
Speaker 2: amazing as that would have been as someone who was
Speaker 2: there and stuff, it just seems that she's okay with
Speaker 2: not being in the swing of the wrestling stuff, especially,
Speaker 2: you know, with that, and then we'll also with see
Speaker 2: him punk being and everything too, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just feel like people the fandom of wrestling, we
Speaker 2: do miss her. I do miss her too, But at
Speaker 2: the same time, you know, she's doing her own thing
Speaker 2: and that's okay. And if she chooses the comeback, like
Speaker 2: I always say, we'll be right here waiting and we'll
Speaker 2: scream over it, we'll celebrate and all the things. So yeah,
Speaker 2: aj if you want to come back, take your time,
Speaker 2: Please take your time, don't rush. But if you do
Speaker 2: decide to come back, I'll be happy. So yeah, that
Speaker 2: was cool. And lastly, in news and gossip Ish. We
Speaker 2: had Priscilla Kelly formerly known as GG Dolan go on
Speaker 2: Soreya slash Pages podcast called Rule Breakers, and she opened
Speaker 2: up about what life has been like since she was
Speaker 2: also released from wwn NXT as well, and she stated
Speaker 2: that she wants to go anywhere that gives her the
Speaker 2: opportunity to keep growing our brand and get to that
Speaker 2: point where I can afford these goals of mine of
Speaker 2: taking care of my family. I just want to go
Speaker 2: where I can have fun, and she stated. She continued
Speaker 2: by saying, the thing that sucks is right before I
Speaker 2: got released, I was having the most fun of my career.
Speaker 2: My time in NIX. He was very rocky. I never
Speaker 2: talked about this, but I went through a bad depression
Speaker 2: phase working there. It wasn't particularly because of anything. I
Speaker 2: was such a creative person on the indies, and when
Speaker 2: I went to WWE, it was a whole new thing
Speaker 2: for me to work that nine to five, heavy workload
Speaker 2: schedule and be told what I could and couldn't do
Speaker 2: a lot. There was some other stuff too, but I
Speaker 2: went through a really bad depression and kind of lost
Speaker 2: who I was. I wasn't sure of myself anymore. I
Speaker 2: got injured. I tore my moniscus in training and it
Speaker 2: was one of those things that snowballed after that. When
Speaker 2: I came back from my injury, I got to team
Speaker 2: with Shotzi, which we wanted to do for a while.
Speaker 2: They put us with Tatum Pasley, and as soon as
Speaker 2: we went out there together, it immediately clicked. We had
Speaker 2: all this chemistry. It looked good, it felt good. We
Speaker 2: had fun before we went out, and when we came
Speaker 2: back we were still laughing and having fun. That was
Speaker 2: the first time I genuinely experienced the best sisterhood in wrestling.
Speaker 2: There have been bits of that through my career, but
Speaker 2: this was different. We all felt it. And then when
Speaker 2: she was asked if she was giving a reason for
Speaker 2: her release, she said, I didn't get an answer. I
Speaker 2: was very close with some of the coaches at the
Speaker 2: performance center. Some of them reached out to me, and
Speaker 2: I was like, I want somebody to tell me what
Speaker 2: it was so I can learn from it and make
Speaker 2: adjustments so this doesn't happen or I can grow. Nobody
Speaker 2: had an answer for me. A lot of times, I
Speaker 2: don't think the people down in NXC even know. I
Speaker 2: think it's a higher up thing. Some of the people
Speaker 2: I was close with the NXC were pretty devastated about it.
Speaker 2: She also said that being released it's like losing a
Speaker 2: family because you get to know the people at the
Speaker 2: PC and see them every day, and then you are
Speaker 2: no longer there. That upset me really bad because I
Speaker 2: was a big Gigi Dolin fan. I loved what she
Speaker 2: brought to Toxic Attraction. I loved everything that she had.
Speaker 2: I loved her look, I mean, I loved her energy.
Speaker 2: Like when she got it really devastated me because once
Speaker 2: Mandy Sachs got released, after everything that happened with her,
Speaker 2: there was always the talk of what was gonna happen
Speaker 2: with j C Jane and what was gonna happen with
Speaker 2: Gigi Dolan slash Priscilla Kelly, And once Toxic Attraction as
Speaker 2: a tag team had broken up, there was all of
Speaker 2: this talk about what was gonna happen, you know with
Speaker 2: this one, what was gonna happen with that one? Who
Speaker 2: was gonna be, sadly, the Marty Jeannetti or who was
Speaker 2: gonna be the Shawn Michaels of the situation, And it
Speaker 2: was so terrible that people were even making those comparisons,
Speaker 2: and I never thought that Gigi would ever be let go,
Speaker 2: Like I just thought that maybe she was gonna have
Speaker 2: a future, and even to a degree she thought that,
Speaker 2: like she thought that at some point maybe she would
Speaker 2: even get called up, and she had been down in
Speaker 2: n XC for a while, Like there was a point
Speaker 2: where I even thought all of Toxic Attraction as a
Speaker 2: whole would have gotten called back up in the case
Speaker 2: of Mandy and Call and the other girls would have
Speaker 2: gotten called up with her. But sadly that didn't happen,
Speaker 2: and it was just like God dang, it's a very
Speaker 2: cutthroat business at times. But the thing about wrestling that
Speaker 2: I always say that I am happy about is that
Speaker 2: there's always different ways of people to succeed. And she
Speaker 2: is someone who I never get tired of watching wrestle
Speaker 2: and watch work and everything. So I'm wishing the very
Speaker 2: best for her, and I'm hoping that she could still
Speaker 2: have that level of sisterhood and connection with the girls
Speaker 2: and everything. And I just hope that all of her
Speaker 2: dreams and goals do come true because she deserves it,
Speaker 2: and she deserves to live a peaceful and loving life
Speaker 2: with her family and also with her fiance Zachary went
Speaker 2: from DNA, So yeah, big ups to them. And that's
Speaker 2: really all for news and gossip Fish. I hated to
Speaker 2: have to start off really sad and everything, but that's
Speaker 2: just the nature of how this week was. I just
Speaker 2: had to start off that way. So now we're going
Speaker 2: to move into what I liked in wrestling this week.
Speaker 2: And this is also sort of reaching back into last
Speaker 2: week because I know I didn't do an episode, but
Speaker 2: I was recovering from my trip to Atlanta as well
Speaker 2: as working. So I have to address the fact that
Speaker 2: the Raw After Evolution took place in my hometown of Birmingham,
Speaker 2: and I am so happy that ten thousand people showed up.
Speaker 2: I am so happy that ten thousand people showed up
Speaker 2: to the Legacy e Rent at the BJCC to see
Speaker 2: Raw on Netflix the Night After Evolution night where the
Speaker 2: women basically took over the first hour that would happen
Speaker 2: when I'm not there. But it's okay because I am
Speaker 2: just so thrilled and I'm so happy that we got
Speaker 2: that episode. I'm glad that they highlighted Birmingham. I'm glad that,
Speaker 2: you know, we had such a great episode, and on
Speaker 2: top of that. You know that the episode started with
Speaker 2: Naomi after of course she cashed in her money in
Speaker 2: the bank and became the main girl villain on Raw
Speaker 2: with the women's world title and rubbing it in Rhea
Speaker 2: and EO's face. Like that was just incredible. Like I
Speaker 2: was so happy for us, happy for everyone who got
Speaker 2: to go. And then of course, you know, Roman Reigns
Speaker 2: came back that night too. He made his big return
Speaker 2: in Birmingham. That's the second time something like that has
Speaker 2: happened in Birmingham where a big thing happened with Roman
Speaker 2: and stuff. Because last year, of course, if you may
Speaker 2: or may not remember, the we want Codin movement, basically
Speaker 2: God is jumping off point in Birmingham because the Rock
Speaker 2: came back, and you know, we thought we were getting
Speaker 2: the Rock versus Roman, but of course everybody was like,
Speaker 2: we want Cody and everything changed. So yeah, and now
Speaker 2: we got the return of Roman and the night after Evolution,
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of us. I'm so happy. And for
Speaker 2: those who were wondering where I was at, I wasn't
Speaker 2: there because I went to see Beyonce. I was still
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. I was still in Atlanta after Evolution I
Speaker 2: went to see Beyonce had the time of my life.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm just very thrilled that we had that
Speaker 2: opportunity and hopefully fingers crossed prayers up we can get
Speaker 2: a pl or at least a Saturday NIGHTE main event.
Speaker 2: Ww please give Birmingham a pl E or a Saturday
Speaker 2: Nice Man event or even an NXT event. Please please, please,
Speaker 2: please please. But yeah, I'm just happy about that. But
Speaker 2: moving into I went too fast, moving into what I
Speaker 2: loved and wrestling. This week, on Monday Night Raw with
Speaker 2: the Women, Naomi, the Women's World Champion, got in Stephanie
Speaker 2: Baker's face and proceeded to butcher her name in like
Speaker 2: the craziest way ever, like because Stephanie was in an
Speaker 2: interview I believe with virus accident and then Naomi called
Speaker 2: name Stephanie vakaar and I was like, y'all just ain't
Speaker 2: gonna do her last name right at all, And then
Speaker 2: she proceeded to get in her face and everything, because
Speaker 2: of course, Stephanie now has an opportunity at whatever title
Speaker 2: she wants. I guess at Clash in Paris, and Naomi
Speaker 2: was like, well, you know, if you're looking to come
Speaker 2: over here you need to perceive with caution and all
Speaker 2: of the above. And then she was stirring the pot
Speaker 2: between her and EO Skot of course, whom she had
Speaker 2: just cashed in on the night, well last weekend, and
Speaker 2: she was saying, well, I know you never defeated EO
Speaker 2: and y'all never got to finish y'all match, so maybe
Speaker 2: you want to go finish that and then maybe I'll
Speaker 2: see you in Perry. So this was interesting. I am
Speaker 2: very excited to see this match if it does happen
Speaker 2: at some point. But of course with them, with Naomi
Speaker 2: stirring to pot between Stephanie and EO, we got that
Speaker 2: match on Raw Monday, and when I tell you, I
Speaker 2: believe it is virtually impossible for EO and Stephanie to
Speaker 2: have a bad match against each other. I was glued
Speaker 2: to the TV, do you understand me? Glued to the
Speaker 2: TV watching them fight. And what made me so upset
Speaker 2: was that as the match could have gotten to a finish,
Speaker 2: you see the Secret Harvests come out and finish their
Speaker 2: business with Stephanie. That happened the Monday before, at the
Speaker 2: Monday After with the Raw after Evolution, and then the
Speaker 2: match went to a no contest again, and I was
Speaker 2: just like, we are never gonna finish this somehow. It's
Speaker 2: so crazy. But then, of course, as they were ganging
Speaker 2: up on Stephanie, EO actually helped and it was also
Speaker 2: ganging up on EO and out pops Rea Ripley with
Speaker 2: a real Ripley Houston Rocket shirt which was kind of
Speaker 2: which was really cute and everything, and then they even
Speaker 2: up the odds. So maybe at some point we'll get
Speaker 2: like a six women tag between Chelsea and the Secret
Speaker 2: Herves versus Ria, Stephanie and EO. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: either way, that was really fantastic, and the match before
Speaker 2: it was fantastic. I can't wait until Stephanie and EO
Speaker 2: actually get to a definitive finish because those two are
Speaker 2: magic together, just straight up magic. I can't wait. So yeah,
Speaker 2: then of course you have all the drama involving Lyra
Speaker 2: Valkyria and the Women's Intercontinental Champion Becking Lynech. The way
Speaker 2: she won that triple threat match and evolution was so slick.
Speaker 2: It was so slick to even witness like firsthand that
Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe it. I was like, oh, like,
Speaker 2: it ended so quick, Like, if I talk about Evolution
Speaker 2: when I'm talking about the women, it's because I'm still
Speaker 2: not over it. I'm not over it, and I don't
Speaker 2: think I'm gonna be over it for the rest of
Speaker 2: my life. But that match was fantastic, and of course
Speaker 2: Lyra Valcaria became the number one contender after beating Baileyn
Speaker 2: in two out of three falls match at the Raw
Speaker 2: after Evolution, and it upsets some people, but of course
Speaker 2: these two have a lot of bad blood with each other,
Speaker 2: so they got in each other's faces. Becky Lynch was
Speaker 2: talking about how she really could have been at the
Speaker 2: premiere of Happy Gilmour too because she was in the movie,
Speaker 2: but no, she had to be here in Houston or whatever,
Speaker 2: and she proceeded to run down Lyra, but then of
Speaker 2: course Lyra decided to get in her face, and then
Speaker 2: as they got to fighting, when Becky tried to sneak her,
Speaker 2: she actually gave Becky a man handled slam, and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, not you giving her a man handled slam?
Speaker 2: Lord Jesus how the turn tables. That was really funny
Speaker 2: for me. So yeah, I can't wait to see how
Speaker 2: this match turns out. But I do still wonder about
Speaker 2: the trajectory of Bailey when it comes to this, because
Speaker 2: even though I understand that Lyra and Bailey having a
Speaker 2: two out of three falls match, you know, was a
Speaker 2: cool way of trying to figure out who was going
Speaker 2: to be the number one contender, I would have been
Speaker 2: okay if they decided to like run back the triple
Speaker 2: threat from Evolution at SummerSlam, Like I would have been
Speaker 2: perfectly fine with that, because that match was fantastic. It
Speaker 2: was such a fantastic opening to evely that if they
Speaker 2: decided to do yet another triple threat, it would have
Speaker 2: been fine. But then again, they have so many matches
Speaker 2: over the weekend and maybe they just didn't want to
Speaker 2: tire us out or something. But either way, I was
Speaker 2: just like, look, what's going on with my girl, Bailey?
Speaker 2: What's going on with her? And in speaking of Bailey,
Speaker 2: it's like, Hugh, I know people had a lot of
Speaker 2: different feelings about her not being in the match or whatnot,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, and there are even people
Speaker 2: on the internet who are calling for Bailey to even
Speaker 2: leave WW at this point because they feel like they're
Speaker 2: only using her as a good hand. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to believe that, because there's always because there, because
Speaker 2: I've seen this narrative over the past two years where
Speaker 2: people really feel like, oh, they only use Bailey as
Speaker 2: a hand and they don't see her as like the
Speaker 2: box office attraction like the other Horsewomen and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and I just don't want to believe that, because that's
Speaker 2: just never how I saw Bailey ever, even when she
Speaker 2: was the Hugger. Yeah, she had a tough trajectory with
Speaker 2: that on the main roster and everything, But at the
Speaker 2: same time, I never wanted to believe that she couldn't
Speaker 2: be destined for big things like the other Horsewomen have been.
Speaker 2: And I feel like her leaving isn't always the answer people.
Speaker 2: Leaving isn't always the answer all the time. It might
Speaker 2: be the answer for some people, but it's not always
Speaker 2: the answer for everybody. And I feel like her sort
Speaker 2: of crashing out in this tag team that she had
Speaker 2: with Lyra for the tag Team titles, it's sort of
Speaker 2: her way of showing that she's about to go in
Speaker 2: another direction and maybe we should trust it instead of
Speaker 2: just jumping to is this the end? You know, let's
Speaker 2: just chill. So yeah, and it would almost be poetic
Speaker 2: if she were to go into a completely different direction
Speaker 2: involving SummerSlam, because you know, that was where she came
Speaker 2: back with damage control and basically shook up the foundation
Speaker 2: of everything. So hey, let's just wait and see first
Speaker 2: before we you know, just start you know, screaming bloody
Speaker 2: murder about things. So yeah, there's a part of me
Speaker 2: that still would have liked for her to have been
Speaker 2: in that. I see title picture, but there's still something
Speaker 2: else there that I feel like we're not seeing or missing.
Speaker 2: So we'll get the answer, but we just gotta keep
Speaker 2: watching now in order. So let's move on to the
Speaker 2: men of Monday Night Raw of course the New Day are.
Speaker 2: I just have something to say, and I know this
Speaker 2: is gonna sound really thurstastic, but Exember Woods has just
Speaker 2: been help. He has just been looking all kinds of
Speaker 2: fine lately since he's turned Hell he started wearing trunks
Speaker 2: that show off his thighs and everything. He's been showing
Speaker 2: his muscles or whatnot. He has the margin tattoo and
Speaker 2: he just been all ten and Kofi, you know, he
Speaker 2: never ages, so really, the both of them have been
Speaker 2: going hand with their looks ever since they turn you
Speaker 2: but The thing that gagged me about them after they
Speaker 2: lost the Contenders match on Raw was the fact that
Speaker 2: they kept saying that they need something and their answer
Speaker 2: was to bring in Grace and Waller. Excuse me, out
Speaker 2: of all the people, you want to bring in Grace
Speaker 2: and Waller, remember what happened the last time y'all brought
Speaker 2: in somebody like that wasn't Biggie and it was Kevin
Speaker 2: Owens and he wound up destroying you guys. I feel
Speaker 2: like this is another direction this is gonna go. And
Speaker 2: then with Grayson Waller just saying he just abandoned Austin
Speaker 2: theory so he had time for them, I was just like, so,
Speaker 2: you're just gonna leave Austin theory, So that's just gonna
Speaker 2: be the end of Atown down Under because for a
Speaker 2: while I was hoping, you know, that with the tension
Speaker 2: that they were teasing in the episodes, that maybe Austin
Speaker 2: and Grayson were gonna have like a beat for something.
Speaker 2: But that wound up not being in the case because
Speaker 2: he said Austin was injured and I was just like
Speaker 2: what because I could have swore he was just on
Speaker 2: main event like a few weeks ago, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just made me feel so sad,
Speaker 2: and I just want it made me feel so sad,
Speaker 2: and all I want is the best for Austin Theory,
Speaker 2: because I because my theory about Austin Theory is that
Speaker 2: I feel like he would just benefit from a face
Speaker 2: turn because here lately on social media, he's been posting
Speaker 2: all kinds of motivational messages and everything. So I'm sitting
Speaker 2: here like, Okay, well, if you're doing all this, then
Speaker 2: how is this going to translate to television? Make it
Speaker 2: translate to TV. Be happy, babyface, because I will definitely
Speaker 2: get behind that. Where in the world is Awestin Theory?
Speaker 2: Please bring it back. I feel like there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a common theme within the rest of this episode where
Speaker 2: there are a lot of men who I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Autin Theory, please come home. Please. I miss you.
Speaker 2: Handle your business. And another thing I liked for Monday
Speaker 2: nightra was the fact that the LWO became the number
Speaker 2: one contenders for the World Tag Team titles. They have
Speaker 2: been a good tag team for so long, but they
Speaker 2: always wound up getting undercut by either the Judgment Day
Speaker 2: or the New Day and other people and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and I was just so happy to see them finally
Speaker 2: get an opportunity like this, because come on, they've just
Speaker 2: been so good. Kruis del Toro, Joaquin Wilde have been
Speaker 2: kicking all kinds of butt like and I was just
Speaker 2: so happy to see them get a win. It's always
Speaker 2: so often that we would see LWO get the short
Speaker 2: end of the stick, so it was just really great
Speaker 2: to see them get this opportunity. Will they win, I'm
Speaker 2: not entirely sure because y'all know the Judgment Day they
Speaker 2: like to play dirty, but I definitely know they're gonna
Speaker 2: give it a really great try. But I would love
Speaker 2: it if they did win, because, oh my god, that
Speaker 2: would be amazing for them because I love the LWO
Speaker 2: and I miss Raymond Stereo. But you know, this was great.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed this very much. I was very happy about this.
Speaker 2: And then another thing I love from Monday Night Raw
Speaker 2: was just aj Styles tormenting dirty Dominic mysteria. Even while
Speaker 2: he was getting in women's business, which he really has
Speaker 2: no business doing. He kept getting in Dominic's face because
Speaker 2: he wants to keep teasing him until he finally gives
Speaker 2: him his tag Deep title opportunity, and Dominic did jump
Speaker 2: him backstage and say, fine, I am clear, Let's fight
Speaker 2: at SummerSlam. Blase bla. So they have their IC title
Speaker 2: match next weekend. But I can't help but feel that
Speaker 2: with AJ Stowles returning to TNA Slammiversary like he did
Speaker 2: last weekend, I don't know, I just would have liked
Speaker 2: it better if he had if he had gotten Trick
Speaker 2: William's face, like I really feel like later, of course
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about Trick Williams and the Undertaker, but
Speaker 2: I would have liked it better if AJ Styles was
Speaker 2: in Undertaker's place on NXC and God in his face
Speaker 2: and say you are not TNA. I am t and
Speaker 2: a bread let's go. But I don't know. I guess
Speaker 2: we're just going in a different direction. But either way,
Speaker 2: AJ being goofy with Dirty Dominic has been really funny
Speaker 2: and it's been cracking me up, so I like it now.
Speaker 2: Moving into the NXT side of things, I did enjoy
Speaker 2: seeing Hank in Tank and Sol Ruka, the Women's North
Speaker 2: American Champion and the Women's speed Champion, and Zaria tag
Speaker 2: team with hankin Tank like this was really fun. I
Speaker 2: enjoyed the match that they had with the culling, even
Speaker 2: though I was sad that the lights went out because
Speaker 2: of dark State, and then Tatum Pactley took advantage and
Speaker 2: got the win for the culling and stuff. I enjoyed
Speaker 2: seeing them fight. I never get tired of watching Soul,
Speaker 2: Ruka and Zaria together, and it will bumm me out
Speaker 2: when they do or if they do break up. I
Speaker 2: don't want them to, but if they do, it'll definitely
Speaker 2: hurt me because they're just so cute together and they
Speaker 2: just have such great chemistry. But oh my god, they
Speaker 2: just haven't really been on the same page lately, especially
Speaker 2: since ourrias speared Soul again at Evolution, So oh my god, help.
Speaker 2: But I just want is He Dame to leave Tatum
Speaker 2: Pasley alone because she's just taking advantage of the fact
Speaker 2: that Tatum doesn't have any friends right now, and she's
Speaker 2: just like, oh, I'll be your friend. And then she
Speaker 2: just added her to the couling because they got rid
Speaker 2: of Brooks Jensen and it's just like, brouh Izzy, you
Speaker 2: are not friends with her, you do not like her,
Speaker 2: You're a snob. Like it's just she's just using her
Speaker 2: like a puppy, and I'm just gonna need for Tatum
Speaker 2: Pasi to actually stand on her own two feet, on
Speaker 2: her own and not just be so dependent on others
Speaker 2: and just fight on her own for now. I know
Speaker 2: it sucks that her friends got taken away, but she
Speaker 2: needs to rise and be her own lady. So yeah. Also,
Speaker 2: when it comes to NXT, hold on movie some stuff around.
Speaker 2: I loved the interaction that lash legend. Well, before I
Speaker 2: get to last legend, I got to talk about j
Speaker 2: c J. Miss ma'am is now a double champion. She
Speaker 2: is the NXC Women's Champion and the TNA Knockouts Champion,
Speaker 2: and that is a heck of an accomplishment. Not that
Speaker 2: many people can say that they've been a double champion
Speaker 2: in NXT, but she definitely can. And then she's a
Speaker 2: champion on two different brands, So that's pretty lit for
Speaker 2: someone who a lot of people kind of considered the
Speaker 2: third wheel. So I love that for her. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: Even though I did predict that an evolution she was
Speaker 2: gonna lose to Jordan Grace Blake Monroe missed that all
Speaker 2: the way up. But will get to her in a minute.
Speaker 2: But when jay Z Jane was cutting her promo on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It was definitely given, I'm doing all the work and
Speaker 2: none of my fatal influence girls have been helping me.
Speaker 2: And you could tell that Fallin and Jasmine were very
Speaker 2: irritated by that. They was just like, look, you sitting
Speaker 2: here acting like you did all this by yourself. But
Speaker 2: this is but her one match where she beat Masha
Speaker 2: Slamovich by herself. I mean, yes, she did that on
Speaker 2: her own, but when she won the NXC title was
Speaker 2: because Fallen interfered on her behalf and she took advantage
Speaker 2: over Stephanie with care. So jac Jane is getting too
Speaker 2: big in the breeches and I'm pretty sure at some
Speaker 2: point Jasmine and Fallin are gonna walk out on her.
Speaker 2: And it bums me out that Fallin started being, you know,
Speaker 2: the ace in the hole for j C considering at
Speaker 2: one point she was she kept saying Fallon comes first,
Speaker 2: but then you're putting another girl first. It's just kind
Speaker 2: of weird, but whatever. I was happy that after all
Speaker 2: of that drama ensued, Lash Legend came out and it
Speaker 2: was just like, look, I am standing up for my
Speaker 2: chance at the NXC Women's title because at Evolution I
Speaker 2: made all these big eliminations. I eliminated Naya Jacks, I
Speaker 2: eliminated Nikki Bella. It's my time to shine. And I
Speaker 2: love that for her because mss Mama's really could have
Speaker 2: been Women's Women's Tag Team Champion if Maris Shardet was
Speaker 2: still there, but they never really got that chance. And now,
Speaker 2: of course Maris Shardat is in TNA now, but Lass
Speaker 2: should have been had some gold at some point. So
Speaker 2: the idea that now she's going for the NXC title
Speaker 2: or maybe even going for it all would make me
Speaker 2: so happy. But then you have Miss Jada Parker who
Speaker 2: comes out and starts, you know, jawjack and saying how
Speaker 2: she's next in line and all of the above. And
Speaker 2: the thing that bums me out about Jada Parker is
Speaker 2: that she will get all these great opportunities at you know,
Speaker 2: the NXC Women's title and wind up losing all the time.
Speaker 2: And it's just like, girl, what, what what is gonna
Speaker 2: make this time different? Because yes, your performance in the
Speaker 2: Evolution Battle World was impressive, I will give you that much,
Speaker 2: but every time you draw jack your way into these
Speaker 2: these women's title pictures in NXT, you always wind up losing,
Speaker 2: and it makes me wonder, when are you going to
Speaker 2: stop talking so much? And actually, you know, back up
Speaker 2: what you say, Like, I don't know, it's just it's
Speaker 2: just aggravating for me. But the thing that I do
Speaker 2: love right now is the fact that we do have
Speaker 2: two black women trying to go for the NXT title
Speaker 2: as well as possibly the TNA Knockouts title, because when
Speaker 2: it comes to the very last black NXT Women's champion
Speaker 2: that they had, it was literally Athena. Athena was the
Speaker 2: last Black NXT Women's champion they had, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: need for them to fix that right now. And these
Speaker 2: are the type of women that they can fix that with.
Speaker 2: I mean, they could fix it with Kaylanne, they could
Speaker 2: fix it with Jada, but they could most definitely fix
Speaker 2: it with Lash because she has been hungry for an
Speaker 2: opportunity for a long time, and Jada has had opportunity
Speaker 2: after opportunity after opportunity constantly, and yeah, it's Lash's time.
Speaker 2: It is Lash Legend time. Also, I just loved how
Speaker 2: her and Trick Williams were both dressed up like they
Speaker 2: left the cowboy carter across her it was really cute.
Speaker 2: But they were in Houston, Texas, which is the home
Speaker 2: of Beyonce, home of Cowboy Carter, so that was cool.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's Lash's time. Then. I also love the
Speaker 2: presence that the LFG coaches are having on NXT, and
Speaker 2: Michelle McCool popped up back there with fatal Influence and
Speaker 2: that was really interesting. So I thought this was really refreshing.
Speaker 2: And I just love how good she looks, even you know,
Speaker 2: after all these years. So a bag ups to Michelle
Speaker 2: Lash ledgends supremacy and now when it comes to Blake Monroe.
Speaker 2: She had her first ww NXT match this week, and
Speaker 2: I really don't have much to say about her n
Speaker 2: ring performance because it was pretty solid. And of course
Speaker 2: if you've watched her Wrestle and New Japan or washed
Speaker 2: her wrestle in Stardom or wash her wrestle in ae W,
Speaker 2: then you know what her style is. So I won't
Speaker 2: go too deep off into that, but what I will
Speaker 2: say is mss Mama's interest. Her interest is nuts and
Speaker 2: I just love how creative it is and I just
Speaker 2: love how girly it is. It's just definitely giving Barbie
Speaker 2: Girl Sabrina carpenter vibes, and I just love theatrical stuff
Speaker 2: like that. Like I know a lot of people might
Speaker 2: not like a whole lot of presentation stuff like that,
Speaker 2: but when you're watching TV, you want to see something
Speaker 2: that's going to catch your eye. And Blake Moro's entrance
Speaker 2: was really eye catching and very cutey and girly, and
Speaker 2: I feel like all levels of womanhood deserves to be
Speaker 2: represented in sports and even in wrestling as a whole,
Speaker 2: so this was really cute. I loved also the segment
Speaker 2: she had with Jordan Grace when they went to the
Speaker 2: spa and everything. That was really amazing. I like that
Speaker 2: level of femininity as well. You can be strong and beautiful,
Speaker 2: and I think that's the message that Blake Monroe is
Speaker 2: kind of giving at this stage in her career, and
Speaker 2: I like that. So it was cute. I liked it.
Speaker 2: Now moving to the men of NXT, Like I said,
Speaker 2: Trick Williams, the TNA champion, is really feeling himself. He
Speaker 2: was even on Raw on Netflix saying that the Undertaker's
Speaker 2: knees are about to give out any day now or whatever,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, bruh, why would you say
Speaker 2: that about him, and then Underchecker was like, okay, if
Speaker 2: you want to mess with my LFG kids, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get in your face. And that's basically what happened here.
Speaker 2: Trick Williams definitely held his own. I was so proud
Speaker 2: of him. I was just like, that's a trick, hold
Speaker 2: your own against the American badass, and that's exactly what
Speaker 2: he did. But of course Underchecker was like, look, I'll
Speaker 2: make it famous, and that's exactly what he did. He
Speaker 2: choke slammed him and Trick sold. The face he made
Speaker 2: when he laid flat was so hilarious. He was like,
Speaker 2: a Trick makes me laugh so much because he is
Speaker 2: just so extra and he's been like that forever before
Speaker 2: he really got his n ring bag. He definitely like
Speaker 2: had the personality on lock and he has a swagger
Speaker 2: and he has the braggadocio and everything, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's just so funny. He's so funny to me. So
Speaker 2: after this happened, and after he stood his own against
Speaker 2: the Undertaker, I said to myself, you know what, Trick,
Speaker 2: you got it. You'll be fine. You you are just
Speaker 2: fine in his business. I'm so happy he's here. I'm
Speaker 2: so happy that Trick is there. I'm so happy that
Speaker 2: Trick is in n XT. I'm happy he exists. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this this brought me a lot of joy. I enjoyed
Speaker 2: it very much, and I actually said to myself, you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like Trick should be grateful. He didn't. He
Speaker 2: didn't choke slam him off of a hell in a cell.
Speaker 2: And that's all I had to say about that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: Trick is and pretty good standing at this point, and
Speaker 2: he'll be fine. So yeah, I'm grateful for Trick. Now
Speaker 2: moving into AAW dynamite with the women, I will say this,
Speaker 2: I am so happy that Athena is being is being
Speaker 2: highlighted on television. Of course, she did win the women's
Speaker 2: Gauntlet match, the first ever women's gauntlet match at that
Speaker 2: I think at all in Texas. That was the same
Speaker 2: weekend as Evolution. It was a lot of restling going
Speaker 2: on that weekend. It was crazy. But I'm so happy
Speaker 2: that she won, and I'm happy that she is still
Speaker 2: the Ring of Honor Women's World Champion, the forever champion,
Speaker 2: and she's being heavily featured on AAW television now because
Speaker 2: for a very long time people complained about her presence
Speaker 2: not being you know, prevalent on the show and mostly
Speaker 2: just relegated to just Ring of Honor, which is behind
Speaker 2: the paywall for a lot of people. But but I
Speaker 2: am happy that we are getting to see her because
Speaker 2: she has that contract that she could sign at any
Speaker 2: point to get a title match against timeless Tony Storm.
Speaker 2: But there's just a part of me that's just wondering
Speaker 2: how this is gonna go over with Mercedes Manet, and
Speaker 2: I just don't know. I just don't know. But I'm
Speaker 2: just really happy that Athena is being featured on television
Speaker 2: more often because she deserves that. She is too talented
Speaker 2: to just be in one place. You can't just pigeonhole her.
Speaker 2: She deserves to be everywhere, and I'm just so happy
Speaker 2: to see that. Now, hopefully we'll get the same for
Speaker 2: my girl, Diana Parrazzo, because mss ma'am the Virtuosa, the
Speaker 2: representative for s NHU, MSS Mama's has been wrestling everywhere
Speaker 2: but on aw television, and that needs to be rectified immediately.
Speaker 2: Her versus Mercedes would feed families in terms of submissions,
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna need for something to actually shake
Speaker 2: for her real quick, because she is far too talented
Speaker 2: and far too amazing and far too gorgeous to just
Speaker 2: not be on aw television. It just makes no sense.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense. And I'm pretty sure if my
Speaker 2: girl Nikki Bougie were here, she would not like it.
Speaker 2: She would not like this at all. So yeah, get
Speaker 2: it together. AIW put Deanna Parazzo on TV. Please also
Speaker 2: pick up to Dianna because she had a magic as Jordan,
Speaker 2: I mean not Jordan, I'm sorry, I'm about to call him.
Speaker 2: His wife's name Jonathan Gresham, and he deserves to be
Speaker 2: on TV more often too. So get these folks on
Speaker 2: TV because they talented. And then, of course my goat,
Speaker 2: who I am just so proud of, regardless of how
Speaker 2: all in Texas went. Oh, Mercedes Money is still the
Speaker 2: rev pro UK un disputed British Women's World Champion. She
Speaker 2: had a match today and she won. She's still the champion,
Speaker 2: so she is still currently the holder of six titles
Speaker 2: and I'm still very much happy that she is going
Speaker 2: around the world and having matches against these women who
Speaker 2: have probably dreamed of facing off against her for years
Speaker 2: and have worked up for a huge opportunity like this.
Speaker 2: I love this for her, I love this for them,
Speaker 2: but I want my girl to get the big one,
Speaker 2: and I know Athena has that contract, but dang it,
Speaker 2: I want my Mercedes to have another big title while
Speaker 2: she has all the other titles. So yeah, my goat
Speaker 2: deserves it all. Like Kendrick Lamar, give her everything. So
Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes. But I'm proud of her regardless,
Speaker 2: it don't matter. That's my goat for life. And then,
Speaker 2: of course in TNA, I love that Mara Shade, who
Speaker 2: was formerly known as Jakara Jackson and NXT, got signed
Speaker 2: to TNA and she actually helped bring a victory to
Speaker 2: the Inspiration formerly known as the Iconics in TNA, so
Speaker 2: I'm really happy that she's been given a chance here
Speaker 2: in a new Lease on Life. She is a goal digger,
Speaker 2: g O, a l digger, and I am just so
Speaker 2: happy that she is having more of an opportunity to
Speaker 2: shine elsewhere because she was another person who I hated
Speaker 2: that thought released because her, Like I said earlier, her
Speaker 2: and Lash Legend were amazing as the Meda girls, and
Speaker 2: I really felt that they really could have carried the
Speaker 2: women's tag Team Championships, but sadly that wasn't to be,
Speaker 2: But I am happy that the very least she can
Speaker 2: get a fresh start in TNA, and for all we know,
Speaker 2: her and lash might bump into each other again. You
Speaker 2: never know, but either way, I'm happy that she got
Speaker 2: this debut and everything, So yay Maria. Now moving into
Speaker 2: the SmackDown side of things, of course, the episode was
Speaker 2: you know, sprinkled in with tributes to that man. But
Speaker 2: let's talk about the women first. We had Alexa Bliss
Speaker 2: and Charlotte Flair backstage having a touching moment while Alexa
Speaker 2: was bleeding out from her matches she had with Roxanne
Speaker 2: Friz and of course Raquel Rodriguez came out there with
Speaker 2: her to basically kind of just help her cheat, but
Speaker 2: basically after the match was over, Roxanne won and everything,
Speaker 2: which kind of gave them the upper hand leading into
Speaker 2: their match at Summer Slam. Charlotte and Alexa had a
Speaker 2: touching moment backstage, and I love this gradual growth of
Speaker 2: friendship between the two, and I love that we're seeing
Speaker 2: more of Charlotte be less regal and just kind of
Speaker 2: more of a fun girl because she came out there
Speaker 2: with the pomp poms the same way that Alexa came
Speaker 2: out with the pompoms for her, and it was just
Speaker 2: really cute. Plus it was really cool to see Alexa
Speaker 2: have that moment in Ohio because she's from there. Of course,
Speaker 2: she wasn't from Cleveland, but you know, she's from Columbus,
Speaker 2: but it was cool to see her get that Ohio pomp.
Speaker 2: And then we had this run in with Jade and Tiffany.
Speaker 2: Jade had a funny matchup with Chelsea Green because of course,
Speaker 2: Chelsea decided to go backstage and throws shade at Jade
Speaker 2: using the manchild lyrics from Sabrina Carpenter, and Jay walked
Speaker 2: up behind her and then Chelsea was like, she was
Speaker 2: right behind me, isn't she? And then Kathy Kelly moved
Speaker 2: out of the way and Jade proceeded to beat up
Speaker 2: on her. And what was so funny was Chelsea was
Speaker 2: getting beat up on in Gorilla and then she got
Speaker 2: beat and then she turned around and hit the wall
Speaker 2: and then just kept running after she hit the wall,
Speaker 2: and it was just so funny. It was like the
Speaker 2: definition of that TikTok sound where Helen Baylor said in
Speaker 2: that gospel song and my head hit the wall bomb,
Speaker 2: but I had a prayer and grandmother, that's kind of
Speaker 2: what it was. Chelsea is so silly and I hope
Speaker 2: she never changes. But Jade winds up beating up on Chelsea.
Speaker 2: But then the secret hervest winds up, you know, jumping
Speaker 2: her from behind, and then Tiffany came to help. But
Speaker 2: of course, since they have a match at SummerSlam for
Speaker 2: the Women's Championship, Jaye got a hold of that title
Speaker 2: and started feeling herself a little big, and Tiffany was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: give me my title, give it back, give it back,
Speaker 2: give it back. So I can't wait for this match.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that j one queen of the ring. Now,
Speaker 2: I will say Naomi cashing in on Io and Rhea definitely,
Speaker 2: you know, let us know that we didn't have the answers,
Speaker 2: because WW is really good at letting us know that
Speaker 2: we ain't got the answers. Sway, So to the whole
Speaker 2: Jade and Tiffany match, it's cool because you know, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure that they will have some words leading into
Speaker 2: next weekend. But I was hoping maybe they would have
Speaker 2: more of a fierce running this time. But I don't know.
Speaker 2: Everything just seems very slammed together with the scheduling of everything.
Speaker 2: But either way, I'm still excited for this match, and
Speaker 2: if Jade wins the title, I'll be happy. So yeah.
Speaker 2: And then another reason why I was happy, Lord, Lord, Lord,
Speaker 2: hold hold up podup, because y'all gonna have to see
Speaker 2: my face when I say this. Zelena got in the
Speaker 2: face of Julia and told her that she wants her
Speaker 2: rematch for the Women's United States Championship. And I was
Speaker 2: glad because at Evolution she eliminated the crap out of
Speaker 2: Julia and yelled at her with like a god will scream.
Speaker 2: And I was like, yes, Zelena, take your place, take
Speaker 2: your place. And I would have loved it if she
Speaker 2: won the Battle World, but she didn't, sadly, But it's
Speaker 2: okay because Selena is still out here trying to get
Speaker 2: her things and she has this darker look going on,
Speaker 2: and I'm just like, yes, I'm here, right here with you.
Speaker 2: I'm right here with you, girl. But we got a
Speaker 2: visitor here to shake things up, and that's Keanna James,
Speaker 2: who is finally on the main roster television. Thank god,
Speaker 2: thank God for Black women. She is back she is
Speaker 2: back and she is actually representing Julia. And she said, look,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna want to face her, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to go through the proper channels, which are through me.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, Keana, you basically are like her representation,
Speaker 2: like her attorney or whatever. Kind of like, okay, Keana,
Speaker 2: I like it. But Zelena gagged me when she called
Speaker 2: her clipboard Karen. And I said, Zelena, you did not
Speaker 2: have to gather her like that clipboard Karen. I can't.
Speaker 2: And of course next week they will be having their rematch.
Speaker 2: But I just got this weird feeling that Keana gonna
Speaker 2: get involved somehow. It's just gonna be some mess. So
Speaker 2: stop playing with my girl. Let her have her things.
Speaker 2: I love you, Zelena. Get your things back, please, please
Speaker 2: get your things back. So I was happy about that.
Speaker 2: Yay Keana. Oh now I know. Oh. People have their
Speaker 2: mixed feelings about Jelly Roll being in the mix of
Speaker 2: things in terms of celebrity fighters, and then on top
Speaker 2: of that, feeling like other superstars are being left out.
Speaker 2: But when I tell you, he ate Logan Paul up
Speaker 2: on the microphone, he ate him up on the microphone,
Speaker 2: like It's like for all of the insults that Logan
Speaker 2: Paul kept throwing at Jelly Roll and everything, by calling
Speaker 2: him a redneck and all it, Jelly Roll ate him alive.
Speaker 2: And I'm just sitting here like, Logan, how is it
Speaker 2: that you've been kind of on the main roster part
Speaker 2: time for a lot longer than the jelly Roll has been,
Speaker 2: But yet jelly Roll is getting you together. It's a
Speaker 2: Southern's that southern. That's what I really feel like it is.
Speaker 2: He been practicing, he been in he's been in his
Speaker 2: in his zoom, and I liked it. Jelly Roll ate
Speaker 2: him up, Like, if you haven't watched it, please go
Speaker 2: back and watch this episode of Backdown, because Jelly Row
Speaker 2: really held his own on that microphone. It was lit,
Speaker 2: and he was talking about how he represents, you know,
Speaker 2: the little guy and represents the people who were picked
Speaker 2: on by guys like Logan Paul, who were privileged with
Speaker 2: a silver spoon in their mouth, like the jocks. And
Speaker 2: then he definitely ate him up when he said that
Speaker 2: he was an asshole who empowers other assholes to get
Speaker 2: on camera and act like assholes. And I was just like,
Speaker 2: where's the lie? Where is the lie. I can't find it.
Speaker 2: I can't find the line, so jelly roll you clocked him.
Speaker 2: That was funny. I liked it. I liked it a lot,
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. And
Speaker 2: then Randy Orton came out here in his T shirt
Speaker 2: that said RKO everybody, And when I tell you I
Speaker 2: need this shirt, I need it. I need this shirt.
Speaker 2: I feel like me and my boyfriend need these shirts
Speaker 2: to match with because I'm feeling sentimental because our anniversary
Speaker 2: is Tuesday, and we've been together thirteen years and Randy
Speaker 2: Orton is the reason why he and I are together,
Speaker 2: and I just feel like us having these T shirts
Speaker 2: would just be so amazing because backstory, with my boyfriend
Speaker 2: and I started talking, he made a status about the
Speaker 2: RKO and I commented under it, and we have been
Speaker 2: talking ever since, and so for us to have ad
Speaker 2: a matching the Orton T shirt would just be amazing,
Speaker 2: and I feel like this has to be it. Also,
Speaker 2: I'm sort of manifesting that maybe one day Randy and
Speaker 2: his wife Kim will marry us. So Randy, if you're
Speaker 2: watching this somewhere or if you see this clip running
Speaker 2: around on the internet. Please know that there is a
Speaker 2: girl in Alabama who's in love with a man, and
Speaker 2: I want you and your wife to marry us. I
Speaker 2: don't know how it can happen, but I'm just putting
Speaker 2: it out there. If it can't happen, that's fine too.
Speaker 2: I will settle for y'all being guests. I don't care.
Speaker 2: But you're the reason we're together and I'm happy. So
Speaker 2: we need d shirts. So yeah, same, that was pretty
Speaker 2: lit tonight actually. And then you had the MIAs who
Speaker 2: made his return to Cleveland because this is his hometown
Speaker 2: or whatnot. But then he decided that he was gonna
Speaker 2: get in Jacob Fatu's face. And Jacob already mad because
Speaker 2: he got a fight solo, so koa in a steel cage. Man.
Speaker 2: He said, look, I told my family I wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: go back to the cage, but now I'm finna go.
Speaker 2: And then the Mens was like, look, you beating me
Speaker 2: up for a couple of weeks ago. I actually put
Speaker 2: the fire back under me, and now I'm back and
Speaker 2: I'm ready to fight. And he said, because I'm the
Speaker 2: Men's and I'm home, and then he's slapped him, and
Speaker 2: then I was just like now we already had one
Speaker 2: memorial on this episode, we're gonna have another one. Jacob
Speaker 2: gonna eat you alive. Sorry, sorry to you, miss and
Speaker 2: he wound up beating him. But ch'all this was crazy. Also,
Speaker 2: speaking of crazy, this is the first time we're seeing
Speaker 2: the Men's you know, on TV really like by himself
Speaker 2: without a certain Carmelo Hayes, And I'm gonna need for
Speaker 2: them to figure out real quick what's happening with him,
Speaker 2: because it feels so weird that someone is talented as him,
Speaker 2: and someone as star made and ready made as he
Speaker 2: is not getting the proper push or TV time or
Speaker 2: whatever it is that he needs. And it's like he'll
Speaker 2: get put in random matches every now and again, but
Speaker 2: it's just kind of like, what has happened to my Carmelo?
Speaker 2: I need more of him on my TV, please, because
Speaker 2: the fact that it's been like multiple pay per views
Speaker 2: and he hasn't been on them, and the fact that
Speaker 2: there's just been so much other stuff going on with
Speaker 2: the United States title and he hasn't been in that picture.
Speaker 2: He hasn't even like been moved to raw or anything.
Speaker 2: Like there's a disconnect happening and I don't like it
Speaker 2: because a few years ago I've made I've pattern a
Speaker 2: whole episode after him talking about all the ways of
Speaker 2: which he is a perfectly packaged star, but yet they're
Speaker 2: not treating him like it. And it's just so weird.
Speaker 2: And I'm wondering if the Mez in him is gonna
Speaker 2: be revisited, because at one point it looked like to him,
Speaker 2: it looked like Carmelo and the Minz were kind of
Speaker 2: gonna maybe break up, maybe not, But then the Mens
Speaker 2: went off and did something else, you know, and Carmelo
Speaker 2: was just kind of just left to his own devices
Speaker 2: after that. But you know, Carmelo won the Andre at
Speaker 2: Russellmania Weekend and that was fantastic and I was glad
Speaker 2: to have witnessed it. But mister Sir needs mister him
Speaker 2: needs something else. He needs more, he needs way more,
Speaker 2: he just does. So yeah, I've spoken my piece about that.
Speaker 2: Just don't let him get lost because he's super talented.
Speaker 2: So yeah. And also where is Ron Killings? Where is
Speaker 2: he at? Like? I mean him and Alistair Black had
Speaker 2: that thing, and now Alistair is feuding with Damian Priest
Speaker 2: because Damien was basically caping up for Ron Slash our Truth,
Speaker 2: and it's like, now Ron is not in the picture anymore, Like,
Speaker 2: what's going on with that? Where is he? Because we
Speaker 2: wanted him to come back. He's back, but where is
Speaker 2: he at?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Where's Ron killings? So yeah, and I believe that's basically
Speaker 2: it for what I liked in wrestling this week. I
Speaker 2: am so happy to have done this episode tonight. Thank
Speaker 2: all of you guys for watching me live, and of
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