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Speaker 5: a good time. So all right, let's get into it, guys,
Speaker 5: let's get into the mail bag and start with a
Speaker 5: new patron. And this person's name is your Mom's House.
Speaker 5: So I love it. Okay, So he says, Hey, Matt,
Speaker 5: just making a conversation about your about fighting Ria fighting JD.
Speaker 5: I honestly think that both superstars match and strength, but
Speaker 5: in my opinion, Ria has a big advantage on her reach.
Speaker 5: Love to hear what you have to say in the pod.
Speaker 5: Keep up the good work, Thanks so much, your Mom's House.
Speaker 5: So what I'll say to that is, you know, maybe
Speaker 5: in strength and actual like lifting weights in the gym,
Speaker 5: Ria is absolutely stronger than most women and stronger than
Speaker 5: probably a small fraction of men. Is she stronger than
Speaker 5: JD in the gym? Can she bench press more than
Speaker 5: JD in the gym? I still doubt it, but she's
Speaker 5: probably on the very top tier of women in the world.
Speaker 5: And strength, but even let's just say for argument strength,
Speaker 5: they're dead even in strength, right, say? JD and Rhea
Speaker 5: are dead even in strength. Here's the other problem, though,
Speaker 5: being a man offers more physical advantages than just strength. Okay,
Speaker 5: so take that away from JD. Pretend they're even. It's
Speaker 5: a wash. Higher lung capacity, which means a better cardiovascular system,
Speaker 5: you're able to last longer. That's why you have men's
Speaker 5: and women's sports, because men have an inherent physical advantage
Speaker 5: muscle density. That's also a big thing. Tendons tend to
Speaker 5: be also just naturally stronger, so it's more than just strength.
Speaker 5: Speed is also another one. She may beat him on reach,
Speaker 5: but if we're talking about this being an actual fight
Speaker 5: that I'm supposed to believe, JD would still win. JD
Speaker 5: would still I know many people don't believe that because
Speaker 5: Riya is a stronger woman for women anyway. Again, and
Speaker 5: she may compare to size with JD. But JD. I
Speaker 5: would put my money on JD if they were locked
Speaker 5: in an octagon, he would still kick her ass because
Speaker 5: he's a man. And yes, not every man can beat
Speaker 5: every one of the women of the world. I'm not
Speaker 5: saying that. It's just a physical reality that I know
Speaker 5: some people don't want to live in, but it is
Speaker 5: one more importantly than all of that. Then, laying out
Speaker 5: every reason why a man is physically superior to a
Speaker 5: woman when it comes to strength and speed and endurance,
Speaker 5: which is just true. Okay, it's not being being sexist,
Speaker 5: it's just biology. Trust me. Women have a lot more
Speaker 5: attributes in men than men do in some areas, so
Speaker 5: it balances out. Which is great about the sexist you know,
Speaker 5: that's what's great. We're a ying tiyang. But more importantly
Speaker 5: than that, more really, just the most important point of
Speaker 5: all of this is I don't want the precedent being
Speaker 5: set that just because a man looks like Rhea could
Speaker 5: kick his ass, that all of a sudden, Riha just starts.
Speaker 5: She's just suddenly facing men on a weekly basis. She
Speaker 5: suddenly just worked her way into the men's division. Suddenly
Speaker 5: she's challenging for the United States eight Championship. Suddenly she's
Speaker 5: challenging for the Intercontinental Championship. And this has actually happened
Speaker 5: in the past, in the Attitude of All places, if
Speaker 5: some of you are old enough to remember the Attitude era,
Speaker 5: when China faced Jeff Jareded and beat Jeff Jarreted for
Speaker 5: the Intercontinental title. It happened, So there is a precedent there.
Speaker 5: China was a freaking nature Joni Lawer, obviously, you know
Speaker 5: she had a tragic end. But that is a that
Speaker 5: is not something I still would have done because it
Speaker 5: sets the precedent at a level that you don't want
Speaker 5: to go to. Because all of a sudden, again you're
Speaker 5: having men compete with women. It becomes normalized. We're all
Speaker 5: supposed to just buy into it, and I don't buy
Speaker 5: into it. That's the biggest problem I have with this.
Speaker 5: It's precedent. Women compete with women, men compete with men.
Speaker 5: There's no need to try to blow up the system.
Speaker 5: Even if the woman looks like she could kick that
Speaker 5: man's ass, I don't care. That's not where I want
Speaker 5: to go because if we're gonna play that game, what
Speaker 5: about a man suddenly competing for the women's title. I mean,
Speaker 5: we could get into all kinds of trouble here, right.
Speaker 5: Why is it only one Why is it a one
Speaker 5: way street?
Speaker 3: Suddenly?
Speaker 5: But you know that Ria Ripley is not going to
Speaker 5: take more than she's gonna take three bumps or less,
Speaker 5: no punches, maybe a soft suplex, Maybe somebody will move
Speaker 5: out of the way and she'll hit herself in the turnbuckle.
Speaker 5: There will be very minimal man on woman violence. Despite
Speaker 5: what Ria Ripley does. She's lived through that through her
Speaker 5: whole career. She's been able to dawn that privilege of
Speaker 5: being a woman in twenty twenty four on television in
Speaker 5: which w W is going to protect her because they
Speaker 5: have to, and women can just do what they want
Speaker 5: with no consequence, even though it's pro wrestling, it's not
Speaker 5: actually it's not the UFC. Here, all right, let's continue
Speaker 5: and we're gonna go to Joel and and another patron says, Hey, Matt,
Speaker 5: I hope you're having a great week. Just wanted to
Speaker 5: say I was surprised how much I enjoyed the triple
Speaker 5: threat mat match with Pete Dunn. Them Is an Xavier Woods.
Speaker 5: I thought them Is looked great. I only wish that
Speaker 5: they would have pushed the story with Woods and Kinks
Speaker 5: it a bit more and had Woods move on. It
Speaker 5: felt like they teased a bit earlier in the show.
Speaker 5: If Woods had won, it would have caused more attention
Speaker 5: between the two, thus getting us closer to the glorious
Speaker 5: split of the Pooh Day. Well, if you remember during
Speaker 5: the quick promo that Xavier cut he talked about he said,
Speaker 5: nearly ten years going strong, and the ten year anniversary
Speaker 5: is coming up somewhat soon the official ten year anniversary
Speaker 5: of the New Day, and I think that's a perfect
Speaker 5: time to split them. Well, I agree. I thought kofein
Speaker 5: Xavier would both make it to the Fatal four way
Speaker 5: and then there'd be some tension there, but they didn't
Speaker 5: even take that road. But there's time. Thanks Schel. Let's
Speaker 5: talk to uh. Let's talk to DJ Cuzmo. He says,
Speaker 5: quick question, is La Knight issuing an open challenge for
Speaker 5: the US Championship this Friday night? Since he's not going
Speaker 5: to be at Bash in Berlin this Saturday. And if
Speaker 5: he's issuing an open challenge, who could it be? I'm
Speaker 5: thinking probably aj Styles might return, or maybe debuting a
Speaker 5: return of Giovanni Vinci or maybe someone from Raw who knows. Anyway,
Speaker 5: let's quickly get to the Bash and Berlin official predictions
Speaker 5: with no spoilers. So, for you, Jade and Bianca versus
Speaker 5: the Unholy Union and the women's tag team titles, you
Speaker 5: think that Jade and Beiyanc could get the victory, So
Speaker 5: the creative has something to do with them or for them,
Speaker 5: since they are the main stars of this so called
Speaker 5: women's tag team division and they haven't been doing anything
Speaker 5: since losing the titles to the Unholy Union at Clash
Speaker 5: at the Castle. If there's any way for Creative to
Speaker 5: build up a feud between the Jade and heeled Jade
Speaker 5: versus a face Bianca, I think he should start with
Speaker 5: them regaining the titles. As the storyline progresses, they have
Speaker 5: miscommunications and miscues and their matches and backstage segments. Finally,
Speaker 5: don't forget Naomi. Where does she fit in with this
Speaker 5: potential story? Does she and Jade turn on Bianca?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: All good questions, DJ. You know there is no tag
Speaker 5: team division for the women, or at least there is
Speaker 5: when they need the one to exist? And is there
Speaker 5: a heel Jade and faced Bianca? I mean, I think
Speaker 5: that's the way they'll go, But I also don't mind
Speaker 5: it in reverse where a heel Bianca versus a babyface Jade.
Speaker 5: Problem is, I don't think they're ready for that, because
Speaker 5: Jade's not ready. Jade's just not ready. She will be
Speaker 5: presumably at some point. She's not quite there. She's certainly
Speaker 5: got the look, as I've mentioned many times, as we
Speaker 5: all can see, but boy, I mean, she does at
Speaker 5: times leave a lot to be desired in the ring,
Speaker 5: but she does show flashes of being really good, and
Speaker 5: then there's some stumbles and I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: nerves or just just needs more time, needs more men.
Speaker 5: That's in the ring in front of a live crowd
Speaker 5: and not in the performance center or wherever she's training.
Speaker 5: There's nothing like the live minutes in front of live fans.
Speaker 5: They'll be the first one to tell you that you
Speaker 5: can't simulate that mixed tag team match, the Terror Twins
Speaker 5: versus Living Dirty Dom. You're thinking, the Terror Twins get
Speaker 5: to win just for the continuation of this story. The
Speaker 5: Terror Twins need this win and some needed help against
Speaker 5: the new Judgment Day Cody Roads and Kevin Owens with
Speaker 5: the undisputed championship. Cody retains and that's pretty much it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's a that's kind of a slam dunk. There's just
Speaker 5: no way right seam punkins Jr. McIntyre in a strap match,
Speaker 5: all right, So you're predicting that punk it's the victory here,
Speaker 5: as this is the rubber match between the two opponents
Speaker 5: heading into the highly anticipated Bad Blood finale in October.
Speaker 5: And fifth, and finally, Gunther and Randy Yorton for the
Speaker 5: World Heavyweight Championship. This has to be the main event
Speaker 5: in Berlin. Jeremy Hermany and I predict that Gunther retains
Speaker 5: and maybe, just maybe there'll be a third match heading
Speaker 5: into bad Blood, since this matchup has gotten somewhat personal. Anyway,
Speaker 5: DJ be who's most signing off Enjoy Bash and Berlin.
Speaker 5: Have a great weekend. See all the Discord chat for
Speaker 5: Friday Night SmackDown and NXT no Mercy this Sunday. All right,
Speaker 5: we'll get to that Joe Hendry report as always in
Speaker 5: just a few moments. So good stuff.
Speaker 6: DJ.
Speaker 5: I can't respond yet. I'll get to my predictions towards
Speaker 5: the end of the show. Oh, let's good to Freeman
Speaker 5: another patron. He says, I've had enough. It's time to
Speaker 5: say it. I'm completely over Jade and Bianca as a team.
Speaker 5: They need to disband and move on now. Even if
Speaker 5: I try to overlook Cargill's limited in ring ability, her
Speaker 5: lack of charisma, her weak move set, and how she
Speaker 5: drains all the fun out of bel air, it's too
Speaker 5: much to ignore, and believe me, that's a lot to overlook.
Speaker 5: But what I absolutely can't stand is the repetitive, stale
Speaker 5: formula of every match. Bianca starts off, she gets beaten down,
Speaker 5: she sells like crazy HOTX the cargill for the win.
Speaker 5: It's tired and none. It's uninspired. Jade is supposed to
Speaker 5: bring personality to the team, but instead this charisma vampire
Speaker 5: just repeats the same dance moves that even my seventy
Speaker 5: year old mother does it weddings well, I mean, I
Speaker 5: can't disagree that they are very formulaic. Even their promos
Speaker 5: together are insufferable. Now they are two very powerful women physically.
Speaker 5: Bianca has felt like she's taking a back seat for
Speaker 5: really kind of far too long at this point, and
Speaker 5: she's being the good foot soldier and helping out Jade.
Speaker 5: That's why she's with Bianca also to give her the rub,
Speaker 5: but in real life I'm sure learn from her. So
Speaker 5: there is a benefit in keeping them as a team.
Speaker 5: The problem is they're not going to split them up
Speaker 5: until they feel Jade is ready. I mean, I guess
Speaker 5: they could do a soft split. Not every team has
Speaker 5: to every time they split end in a rivalry or
Speaker 5: in a match. That does happen occasionally, but typically when
Speaker 5: teams or factions split up it's meant to create new
Speaker 5: stars from said team or a faction, and it results
Speaker 5: in inter war. But in this case, they could just
Speaker 5: split them softly, quietly.
Speaker 4: There's no.
Speaker 5: There's no actual bad blood pun intended, I guess between
Speaker 5: them and they go their separate ways. But I'm sure
Speaker 5: that when they put this team together, they're thinking, all right,
Speaker 5: we're gonna keep Jade and Bianca together for a while,
Speaker 5: and when we feel Jade's ready, they're gonna split and
Speaker 5: Jade and Bianca are going to have a rivalry and
Speaker 5: a match for a few months, you know. Whenever that happens.
Speaker 5: I mean, you'd imagine it's at WrestleMania match. But from
Speaker 5: the looks of Jade Cargill, you know, in the ring,
Speaker 5: I don't think she can really handle a match more
Speaker 5: than six or seven minutes one on one anyway, not physically,
Speaker 5: she's certainly physically capable, but understanding the psychology and understanding
Speaker 5: there's more to her, more to wait and pro wrestling
Speaker 5: than just look at my body, which she's gotten away
Speaker 5: with thus far, because it is very impressive, but that
Speaker 5: will wear off.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: Again, their promos are just they're bad. They're horrible, it's cringey,
Speaker 5: it's secondhand embarrassment. Bad Bianca with her you know, her attitude,
Speaker 5: and and Jade with her little quips, and it's it's childish.
Speaker 5: And then you know, you have Bianca continuing to just
Speaker 5: strut to the ring, swirling her hair at thirty five
Speaker 5: or thirty six, thirty seven, however old she is. It's
Speaker 5: also embarrassing. That's I mean, she's done that even when
Speaker 5: she's not in the team, but it's getting worse. I
Speaker 5: don't know how.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: It's her thing, it's just what she does. But if
Speaker 5: we just take two seconds to think about how ridiculous
Speaker 5: that is and how it really just takes her character down,
Speaker 5: it pulls it down to a childish level by doing that.
Speaker 5: But she's on her own against the world, I guess,
Speaker 5: is what her Her song says, all right, so I
Speaker 5: can already see the coming Jade and Beyonca will win
Speaker 5: the titles. And it's such a terrible move. I'm starting
Speaker 5: to believe Jade is beyond fixing and needs to be
Speaker 5: removed from the roster entirely. In their last few matches,
Speaker 5: Jade has either been protected in defeat or handed to
Speaker 5: win they can't keep this up. And now with Naomi
Speaker 5: being added to the mix, how long before Jade sucks
Speaker 5: the fun out of her too? When was the last
Speaker 5: time WW pushed someone so bad they needed two people
Speaker 5: to protect them yet still got a mega push. I'm done,
Speaker 5: all right, Freeman. Well, I think you have made your
Speaker 5: point very clear that Jade is a would you call
Speaker 5: her a charisma a vampire?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: What was the charisma vampire?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Well, so I can't fully agree with her being a
Speaker 5: charisma vampire again. I just slammed both of the women
Speaker 5: here because together they're insufferable. They remind me a lot
Speaker 5: too of like the Mizz and Morrison. They're just sometimes
Speaker 5: you jokey into over the top, not to that level,
Speaker 5: but that's kind of the chemistry I feel is miss
Speaker 5: and Morrison when I I mean, that was one of
Speaker 5: the worst tag teams I've ever seen. But I understand
Speaker 5: your point. But Jade has a presence, Otherwise they wouldn't
Speaker 5: have hired her. I mean they see something apparently that
Speaker 5: you don't. Maybe that a lot of us don't. I
Speaker 5: think they see her as a future main event star
Speaker 5: in the women's division. She's not nearly ready for a
Speaker 5: women's title. She clearly is not ready for any kind
Speaker 5: of long form match one on one. But as far
Speaker 5: as removing her from the roster, I mean, this is
Speaker 5: where I would implore you for patients, all right. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying that she's going to be the biggest star
Speaker 5: and just wait and see she's gonna main event wrestle
Speaker 5: Manie this year. No no, no, no no no no, no,
Speaker 5: far from it.
Speaker 4: She could.
Speaker 5: But I'm taking the middle of the road approach. I'm
Speaker 5: on the path of it's taking here longer than we
Speaker 5: would like. We are impatient as fans. We want everything now.
Speaker 5: If we see even the slightest sign of weakness or
Speaker 5: or weaknesses in a personality or promo or in ring,
Speaker 5: that person immediately sucks. And I sometimes have that reaction too,
Speaker 5: and I need to pull myself back. I think again,
Speaker 5: you're you have the right to feel this way. I'm
Speaker 5: not telling you how to feel, but I would implore
Speaker 5: you for a little more patience, all right. I would
Speaker 5: agree the team with Jade. As I said, Jade and
Speaker 5: Bianca are just terrible together in terms of just the
Speaker 5: feeling I get when I see them, not that they
Speaker 5: don't have on screen chemistry together, or that they aren't
Speaker 5: both well. Particularly Bianca an incredible athlete, and Jade does
Speaker 5: have a presence. But I just think patience might be
Speaker 5: your best course here. And what is the deadline? I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't have one in mind. I would say, you know,
Speaker 5: if by this year's WrestleMania she doesn't have a singles match, yeah,
Speaker 5: then you know it might be time to be concerned.
Speaker 5: But to release somebody that looks like Cargill is really
Speaker 5: difficult to do because of her look. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: you can only get so far with that, and we'll
Speaker 5: have to see. They know clearly how much she's progressing,
Speaker 5: more than we do because we only see her inering
Speaker 5: a few minutes. Perhaps behind the scenes, maybe she's kicking ass.
Speaker 5: Maybe she is, they just haven't brought it out yet.
Speaker 5: It's possible, all right, Well, Freeman, take a breath. I
Speaker 5: do feel your pain. I understand it, though, I do
Speaker 5: get it all right, Hungary pop, Let's go, he says, Hi, Matt,
Speaker 5: love your show and I appreciate perspective. Let's talk WWE logic.
Speaker 5: I'm fascinated about your view on things that quote take
Speaker 5: you out of the moment. For example, you brought up
Speaker 5: Ko talking about segments and breaking the fourth wall. There
Speaker 5: are so many worse things out there, like when someone
Speaker 5: runs into the turnbuckle and gets hurt when the victim
Speaker 5: gets out of the way, or when someone does an
Speaker 5: Irish whip then bends over waiting like an idiot, or
Speaker 5: people diving into the rope to catch a sixty one
Speaker 5: nine for raymisterio, do I really accept these but get
Speaker 5: annoyed when Cody uses the word heel?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So well here's the hungry pop. Okay, I can't deny that.
Speaker 5: I mean, everything you've said here are things that I've noticed,
Speaker 5: and I'm guessing that many of you who watch wrestling
Speaker 5: for any length of time can see the six one nine.
Speaker 5: Clearly they're diving to catch I mean really, any dive
Speaker 5: that's done, suicide dive, moon salt six nine. The idea
Speaker 5: is to protect your opponent, and if you just look
Speaker 5: close enough, any kind of excuse me, diving maneuver, you'll
Speaker 5: see the opponent catch their opponent, right, because the idea
Speaker 5: is safety. So that's with anything that's just part of
Speaker 5: pro wrestling. The Irish whip, Yeah, I mean you can
Speaker 5: see that it's like they're setting it up to help
Speaker 5: their opponent knock them over the ropes. That's something that
Speaker 5: can be kind of worked through. It doesn't take me
Speaker 5: out of the moment too much, but maybe it does
Speaker 5: for you. And the turnbuckle deal is, we've seen it
Speaker 5: so many times. Yeah, I don't even notice that when
Speaker 5: anymore because it's done so much with the running into
Speaker 5: the turnbuckle and get hurt and you know, but here's
Speaker 5: the difference. That's the actual wrestling part, the physical part
Speaker 5: that can be tightened up. That does sometimes take a
Speaker 5: little bit of practice and conscientiousness to understand that that
Speaker 5: does take people out of the moment, But that's easily fixable.
Speaker 5: The issue is when you verbalize something, you have a
Speaker 5: lot of control over what you say. What you say
Speaker 5: I think is more of a take me out of
Speaker 5: the moment. Because wrestling is wrestling, you know what pro
Speaker 5: wrestling is. You know that it's not actually two people
Speaker 5: trying to hurt each other, when in fact, it's actually
Speaker 5: a performance and you're trying to make sure that your
Speaker 5: opponent doesn't kill or kill themselves or get paralyzed, and
Speaker 5: they're trying to make sure the same for you. So
Speaker 5: there's that, and you're always going to see things in
Speaker 5: the match that don't look real quote unquote right. There
Speaker 5: are sometimes punches that are thrown that look horrible, right.
Speaker 5: That happens, That happens in every match. That's just part
Speaker 5: of the actual physical part of pro wrestling. But you
Speaker 5: don't need to blatantly, you know, just completely say that,
Speaker 5: Oh oh, the segments ending, guys, let's continue on with
Speaker 5: the show. That's a different fourth wall take me out
Speaker 5: of the moment than the intricacies of a pro wrestling
Speaker 5: match itself, because when you're speaking about it, you have
Speaker 5: a different part of your brain switched on than when
Speaker 5: you're watching a match. You can get into the match,
Speaker 5: but when a promo is being cut and you hear
Speaker 5: the person who we're supposed to believe is there to
Speaker 5: hurt an opponent or win a title or get revenge
Speaker 5: or whatever their motivation is, say, oh, I better hurry
Speaker 5: before this segment ends. It's like it's as if you're
Speaker 5: watching a movie in which you know the people in
Speaker 5: the movie aren't actually trying to hurt each other. In
Speaker 5: real life, the good guys and the bad guys are
Speaker 5: shooting at each other, and you have the good guy
Speaker 5: saying hold on and have him look at the camera.
Speaker 5: Imagine this in a movie. Have him look into the
Speaker 5: camera lens and say hold on, guys, and have him
Speaker 5: look at his watch and be like, I've got like
Speaker 5: two minutes. I hope I have time to go and
Speaker 5: try to pretend hurt my adversary. Here, hold on before
Speaker 5: the intermission, give me like two minutes to go and
Speaker 5: try to attack my opponent, and then we'll come back
Speaker 5: after you the inner mission. That's the same thing. That's
Speaker 5: way worse. It's way worse to me because again, the
Speaker 5: pro wrestling part, the actual physical part, can be tightened up,
Speaker 5: you know, it can be tightened up, and the words
Speaker 5: I think are a little bit more intentional, and it's
Speaker 5: to me. I know, Kevin Owens is trying to relate
Speaker 5: to the fans and all that, but it's it's a
Speaker 5: I don't know what the hell he was thinking there.
Speaker 5: I didn't like it. And Cody, I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 5: just going to ignore the Cody part because I'm gonna
Speaker 5: try to go a show without completely losing my mind
Speaker 5: over his character. I'm gonna try. My brain is starting
Speaker 5: to go that road. So let's move on, all right, Kay,
Speaker 5: Another patron here says, I think you're a patron. If
Speaker 5: you're not, you're no, I think you are.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: Well we'll go to a K and then we'll go
Speaker 5: to Dino so ka. Thank you for reading my reviews.
Speaker 5: Friday at SmackDown was a bore. A few good spots though,
Speaker 5: in my humble opinion, Cody with those two jackasses, done,
Speaker 5: done and done. Number two not enough Tiffy time. But
Speaker 5: something is brewing with Chelsea Green. You could possibly see
Speaker 5: them turn on Piper and Naya. Number three bloodlines so
Speaker 5: repetitive with outside interference. Number four, La Night is good.
Speaker 5: Number five, lots of filler. Yeah, SmackDown again. It wasn't
Speaker 5: something that you're gonna remember forever. It wasn't an all
Speaker 5: time great episode.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 5: In fact, the majority of SmackDown episodes in raw episodes
Speaker 5: you watch are forgettable, like ones that you couldn't tell
Speaker 5: me if your life depended on it. What happened in
Speaker 5: detail on SmackDown like a month ago, you just can't.
Speaker 5: You may remember big moments, big storyline advancements, that kind
Speaker 5: of thing, but most of what you watch in wrestling
Speaker 5: isn't this crazy? You'll just forget it's buried somewhere in
Speaker 5: your but you can't recall it. Most people can't. Okay, Monday,
Speaker 5: that raw not one of the best, but some cool
Speaker 5: things the Terror Twins and JD Feud, the Wide Six
Speaker 5: and American Maid is awesome. Stroman and Bronson I loved
Speaker 5: had a nineties feel to it. I would agree with that.
Speaker 5: R KAO versus guntherer on Saturday is gonna be awesome
Speaker 5: in Berlin, Drew and see, I'm punk predictable rest So
Speaker 5: so thanks again, Matt, looking forward to to b IB
Speaker 5: Bashion Berlin. You're looking forward to BIB on Sunday. Oh gosh,
Speaker 5: the acronym for Bashion Berlin is BIB.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's probably not on purpose. All right, everybody enjoy BIB
Speaker 5: sounds horrible? All rkay, thank you. Let's go to Dino
Speaker 5: and then we'll have one more email and get to
Speaker 5: get to the Joe Henry report. So Dino says, hey,
Speaker 5: it's you know from Scotland. Let me here say yep.
Speaker 5: Now before I get to my main point, which will
Speaker 5: be my quick fire predictions for Bash. As usual, my
Speaker 5: quick here are my quick fire bullet points. Oh see everything. Okay,
Speaker 5: you got quick fire predictions and quick fire bullet points.
Speaker 5: All right, let's do it. So this is going to
Speaker 5: be rapid fire it. Reply to your weekend review question
Speaker 5: on the choke slam. They should absolutely bring it back.
Speaker 5: It's a household move. People don't who don't even watch
Speaker 5: wrestling know what a choke slam is. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 5: good point. A choke slam. Even if you don't know
Speaker 5: what or not familiar with the ww product at all,
Speaker 5: you hear choke slam. You just somehow know everyone seems
Speaker 5: to know what the hell that is. Or a suplex,
Speaker 5: you know, again, even if you're not a fan of
Speaker 5: pro wrestling at all, you haven't watched pro wrestling a
Speaker 5: day in your life, you just know what a supplex is.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like you haven't even anybody that hasn't ever seen
Speaker 5: a baseball game in their life at all knows what
Speaker 5: a home run is. It's kind of like the same
Speaker 5: thing with a superlex or a choke slam. And I
Speaker 5: think the choke slam is sorely underutilized and should be
Speaker 5: used as a finish now. I know, Damian Priest has
Speaker 5: South of Heaven. It's like, to me, not really a
Speaker 5: chokes like. It's it's like a pseudo choke slam, sit
Speaker 5: down power bomb like.
Speaker 2: I like his finish.
Speaker 5: She don't get me wrong, I'm not crapping on Damien's finish.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying a proper cane slash undertaker choke slam.
Speaker 5: I think Ria Ripley could take. I understand she has Riptide,
Speaker 5: it's fine, she could keep it. But I really do
Speaker 5: believe with Rhea's size, it's totally believable for her to
Speaker 5: take the choke slam finish and use it and make
Speaker 5: Riptide her signature. Just my two cents. For those who
Speaker 5: will be in attendance for Bash in Berlin, you must
Speaker 5: be pissed. You're probably not going. You're gonna not getting
Speaker 5: Roman went Scotland and France. We didn't, but we knew
Speaker 5: there was no chance because he was on the shelf
Speaker 5: and wasn't actually active at the time. So I feel
Speaker 5: for you. Yeah, this is another romanless ple I continue
Speaker 5: to say, if you hated Roman's schedule even when he
Speaker 5: was a heel, I don't think much change is changing
Speaker 5: when he's a babyface. We're so far getting exactly what
Speaker 5: we thought we were with Roman. So sorry, yeah, sorry, Germany.
Speaker 5: I do feel for you if you bought the tickets
Speaker 5: thinking that Roman's going to be there, my deepest sympathies.
Speaker 5: It's still possible, I guess, but think about the next
Speaker 5: pl e bad Blood. What better name for bad Blood,
Speaker 5: what better feud for Bad Blood than Roman and Solo.
Speaker 5: I mean that Bad Blood event is perfect for a
Speaker 5: lot of storylines that are shaping up or I drew
Speaker 5: in Punk, likely the rubber match, Solo and Roman, you know, uh,
Speaker 5: potentially Cody and Randy. I don't know, just some thoughts here,
Speaker 5: but all right, I know there were a couple of botches,
Speaker 5: but how goober the lw own on Raw, there were
Speaker 5: some pretty cool moments. I don't think we get to
Speaker 5: see them compete enough. They have the ability to put
Speaker 5: on a banger. Yeah they do, but they're, you know,
Speaker 5: I think, not exactly a priority for the company. They're
Speaker 5: used when they need a good match and to occasionally
Speaker 5: compete for a tag title. But yeah, they do have
Speaker 5: more in them than we have seen as of late.
Speaker 5: But it just showed Unraw what they can do and
Speaker 5: reminded us what they're capable of, I would agree. Is
Speaker 5: it just me or does the music for American Made
Speaker 5: seem a bit generic or basic?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 5: I mean it's got a bit of bronze breaker feel
Speaker 5: to it. It's just kind of like there should be
Speaker 5: more to it. I also think that there's a bit
Speaker 5: of a syndrome going on in pro wrestling right now
Speaker 5: that's been going on for a few years. They were
Speaker 5: all all guilty of or I'd rather have contracted this
Speaker 5: disease that every song must be catchy, that every entrance
Speaker 5: music must have a lingering effect to it, that it's
Speaker 5: you know, it's got some kind of sing along ability.
Speaker 5: Now for a heel, I understand you don't usually want that,
Speaker 5: although sometimes it lends itself to happen, like Seth Rollins,
Speaker 5: who has had this music. I think he had it
Speaker 5: even before he was a babyface, and people are still
Speaker 5: singing along to it, So sometimes it organically happens. But
Speaker 5: you know, not every single team or every single individual
Speaker 5: has to have that kind of sing along ability. And
Speaker 5: we're conditioned to think that the quality of the entrance
Speaker 5: music should be up to where Cody Rhoads is or
Speaker 5: Sammy's Ain is or Roman Reigns is right, Randy Orton
Speaker 5: and so on. The sing along thing is kind of
Speaker 5: the new cool thing that fans do, all right. I mean,
Speaker 5: look again, Randy even mentioned it on Raw SmackDown. I
Speaker 5: ran raw that it took fit fifteen years to sing
Speaker 5: along to his song. Bronson read and Browns Strowman was
Speaker 5: amazing and so enjoyable. One of my favorite matches of
Speaker 5: the year so far. I can't speak highly enough of
Speaker 5: this match and want to see it again. This was
Speaker 5: just great, man, really good. I would agree that it
Speaker 5: completely exceeded my expectations and most people's expectations for what
Speaker 5: we thought this was going to be. I mean, when
Speaker 5: was the last time we saw a parking lot brawl
Speaker 5: like that? Now, we saw a little bit of ricochet
Speaker 5: getting ricocheted all over the place before he left, and
Speaker 5: but this was a true parking lot brawl. It felt
Speaker 5: like a video game, did it not? Like one of
Speaker 5: those insane video game moments crashing onto cars and off
Speaker 5: of scaffolding and all that kind of stuff. And this
Speaker 5: is just crazy. I mean, some of the bumps, like
Speaker 5: I told you that bump that Ronson Reid took off
Speaker 5: the car onto the concrete. How he doesn't have a
Speaker 5: separated shoulder or a broken clavicle. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I understand falling from the hood of a car to
Speaker 5: the pavement isn't exactly that high, but when you have
Speaker 5: pavement as the place that stops your fall, you don't
Speaker 5: need to fall very far to do considerable damage. So
Speaker 5: I mean, that was just oh my god. I know
Speaker 5: again it wasn't very dramatic, but watch it. Oh my god.
Speaker 5: All right, I thought, uncle Howd he had a solid
Speaker 5: debut and rown Bow himself seems to have improved a
Speaker 5: lot in the ring, at least to the extent of
Speaker 5: like you said the other week. Even if he isn't
Speaker 5: great on his character more than makes up for it. Boy,
Speaker 5: do I get goosebumps every time to Wyat six is on? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean just because of bray Wyatt. Bray Wyatt lives
Speaker 5: through this group and they're a tributary group, and they
Speaker 5: based in reality, and bo just looks so much like
Speaker 5: his brothers. It's crazy. Okay, let's go to your let's see, well,
Speaker 5: let's you know your bill of points. Lastly, it's back
Speaker 5: to great start times sweekend, We're over here in Scotland
Speaker 5: only an hour behind Germany. WW Live at a decent
Speaker 5: time is great. I have to say. Here are my
Speaker 5: quick predictions. The Unholy Union, Alba Fire and eyelid On
Speaker 5: will retain, thus hopefully meaning that WWE is finally taking
Speaker 5: the women's tag team belt. Seriously, one can only hope
Speaker 5: Cody will retain against Koh, which will probably be the
Speaker 5: easiest one to predictive for being honest, Living Dom will
Speaker 5: win with help from the judgment day the cum Punk
Speaker 5: win only as this isn't the last match between these two,
Speaker 5: so got to give Punk win the win. Here. To
Speaker 5: conclude at bad Blood, I can't see Drew winning all
Speaker 5: three and you'll probably see as you previously mentioned, hopefully
Speaker 5: there is a final match at bad Blood inside Hell
Speaker 5: on to Sell which will be carnage, chaotic, brutal, gruesome,
Speaker 5: just a complete banger, with Drew winning, thus putting an
Speaker 5: end to the rivalry two to one in Drew's favor. Finally,
Speaker 5: I think Gunther retains, but wouldn't mind Randy Orton shocking
Speaker 5: the world and walking out new world heavyweight champion. Last
Speaker 5: thing I'd like to add is that Gunther versus Randy
Speaker 5: should be the main event as Gunther although not at
Speaker 5: Home is going to feel like the one on home.
Speaker 5: Soil boring ass. Cody and Ko can open the show.
Speaker 5: Speak to you next week, let me hear see well
Speaker 5: do you know? Thank you so much. Hey again, you'll
Speaker 5: hear my predictions in a few moments. Okay, this is
Speaker 5: a final email, very very very quick from Robert, and
Speaker 5: Robert says Dominic should come out one week and the
Speaker 5: first thing he should say is let's hear it for
Speaker 5: America's first responders. That is a great way to troll
Speaker 5: the fans. Get the fans to boo something that no
Speaker 5: one should boo or would boo. That's a sane, morally
Speaker 5: not a morally debased person to boo the first responders. Right,
Speaker 5: I'll come out and say let's hear it for everyone
Speaker 5: that died in nine to eleven. Right, and before the
Speaker 5: people would realize whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, they'd already
Speaker 5: be booing. Of course, they wouldn't use that. That would
Speaker 5: be extreme and give a lot of negative attention to
Speaker 5: w w A. But you get my drift, and that's
Speaker 5: a good point, Robert. Have them put dom out there
Speaker 5: and say something really quick that would make them look
Speaker 5: stupid for booing. I like it, very very clever, Robert.
Speaker 5: All right, let's get to the John Hennyey Report very
Speaker 5: quickly and see h what's on it this week?
Speaker 2: Hello, don podcast World, this is DJ coosmel back added
Speaker 2: again on your Mailmax Show Records. You live on a
Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, and you know what time it is. It's
Speaker 2: time to see his.
Speaker 6: Name, Man Heppeers, I believe in Joe Hendry.
Speaker 2: I believe in Joe Hendry. That's right, folks, Joe Hendry
Speaker 2: is his name. As I take it to my seventh
Speaker 2: episode of the Joe Hendry Report. But before we get
Speaker 2: to the encore performance of Joe Hendry Live in a
Speaker 2: concert last night on NXC, I must talk about some
Speaker 2: breaking news, some exciting news on my part in regards
Speaker 2: to Joe Henry. Now, two weeks ago, I did miss
Speaker 2: the opportunity to meet Joe Hendry in person in Queens,
Speaker 2: New York at Marios Pizzeria at restaurant. But now it's
Speaker 2: two weeks later, and I thought, wait a minute, what
Speaker 2: if Joe Hendry made another appearance in New York City.
Speaker 2: Of course, it's New York City. It's one of the
Speaker 2: most popular cities in the world. He has to show up, right,
Speaker 2: so all I had to do say his name. And
Speaker 2: then one day I checked on Instagram and lo beho,
Speaker 2: I saw that he's doing another event in New York
Speaker 2: City and all I did was say is name. So
Speaker 2: on Sunday, September twenty ninth, how So Glory Wrestling presents
Speaker 2: Believe in the Glory and that is none other than
Speaker 2: Joe Hendry will be on that show and I will
Speaker 2: be the tendant. Because as soon as I saw that
Speaker 2: pop up on my Instagram feed, I bought my ticket
Speaker 2: right away because I had to jump on this opportunity
Speaker 2: to hopefully meet Joe Hendry in person and most likely
Speaker 2: get an autographed, get a picture, and whatever opportunity may
Speaker 2: show and present itself. I want to be there to
Speaker 2: see Joe Hendri person. So yours truly, DJ Kuzmo will
Speaker 2: be going to his first indie show, Believe in the
Speaker 2: Glory Sunday, September twenty ninth, in New York City Arena
Speaker 2: in Queez, New York, and let's see what happens. I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm just so excited I get to see my
Speaker 2: idol I get to see the living legend himself, the
Speaker 2: people that everybody he loves. Then everybody listens to his
Speaker 2: music and says his name. Joe Hendry will be it.
Speaker 2: Believe in the Glory. House of Glory Wrestling Presents on Sunday,
Speaker 2: September twenty ninth in New York City. Read I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: I'm pitching myself. I can't believe it. I wish it
Speaker 2: was Sunday, Sunday, September twenty ninth this weekend. I know,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited, but let's kind of din it back
Speaker 2: down as we go to NXT now. Last night on EDS,
Speaker 2: of course, it was the Encore live and concert performance
Speaker 2: of Joe Hendry. This time as he was making fun
Speaker 2: of Ethan Page and he was saying stuff like Ethan sucks,
Speaker 2: believe in Joe Ethan pood on some clothes, Ethan sucks,
Speaker 2: believe in Joe Ethan pood on some close. It was
Speaker 2: a catchy song that the crowd was just going along
Speaker 2: to as Joe Hendry was singing this song, very creative,
Speaker 2: very catchy, and here comes Ethan Page as he is
Speaker 2: absolutely annoyed about the song and absolutely hates the fact
Speaker 2: that Joe Hendry is the number one contender to face
Speaker 2: him for the NXT Championship, this coming Sunday at NXD
Speaker 2: No Mercy. But then Lowell mahow here comes the general
Speaker 2: manager of NIX you know, the Rocks Daughter for those
Speaker 2: that doesn't watch NXC. The Rocks Daughter is the general
Speaker 2: manager of EDXD. Ava. She comes in and makes an
Speaker 2: announcement that we're gonna have a guest referee and that
Speaker 2: is none of the than Trick Williams. He will be
Speaker 2: the guest referee. So there is the possibility, my friends,
Speaker 2: that Joe Hendry will become the new NXC champion this Sunday,
Speaker 2: because we got Trick Williams as the guest referee, we
Speaker 2: got the crowd that's gonna be channing Joe Hendry. We believe,
Speaker 2: we believe, So there's no chance that Ethan Page is
Speaker 2: gonna retain. It has to be Joe Hendry. As we
Speaker 2: saw this past Sunday at AW with Brian Danilson finally
Speaker 2: winning the AW Championship, we could see summons similar to
Speaker 2: this this come Sunday at No Mercy with none other
Speaker 2: that Joe Hendry becoming the new NXD champion we believe.
Speaker 6: Do you believe?
Speaker 2: Like John Cena, like Cody Road and a host all
Speaker 2: of other professional wrestlers that believe in Joe Hendry. This
Speaker 2: is the time I will be in the discord. This
Speaker 2: come is Sunday to witness this moment. You don't want
Speaker 2: to miss it. You don't want to miss this made
Speaker 2: event of no other than an ether page versus Joe
Speaker 2: Hendry for the NXT Championship. And this will be the
Speaker 2: next chapter in Joe Hendry's career. Know what that being said,
Speaker 2: Always remember to believe, say his name, and most of
Speaker 2: poorly do this science.
Speaker 5: Welcome to Hendry.
Speaker 2: Steg once again, this is your guy, DJ Couzmo, have
Speaker 2: a blessed week. Be kind to one of those stays
Speaker 2: in my friends. Believe and peace DJ.
Speaker 5: I'm excited for you man. A month from today you
Speaker 5: will be meeting Joe Hendry. So it's true that all
Speaker 5: the rumors are true. What Joe Hendry himself says is true.
Speaker 5: All you have to do is say his name. That's
Speaker 5: been the magic formula from the beginning. I gotta try
Speaker 5: that too bad. Other things aren't like that. I could
Speaker 5: get really inappropriate right now, but I won't. It's a
Speaker 5: family friendly ish show, but use your imagination. It's just
Speaker 5: that's it. You've unlocked the puzzle, You've solved the mystery,
Speaker 5: and I'm really excited for you. In a September twenty ninth,
Speaker 5: but thank you for the update on the Joe Hendry
Speaker 5: goings on over at NXT for those of us that
Speaker 5: don't watch. And again the ratings do pull out that
Speaker 5: most of us don't watch, so I appreciate that keeping
Speaker 5: us up to date and what's going on. As he
Speaker 5: eventually will make his inevitable main roster debut, potentially at
Speaker 5: the Royal Rumble. That's kind of what I'm eyeing, you know,
Speaker 5: even if he doesn't stay in the main roster, it
Speaker 5: could be just kind of a quick one off as
Speaker 5: bron Breaker did a couple of times before he finally
Speaker 5: made his landing look solidified landing on the main roster.
Speaker 5: But that's that's what I'm eyeing for Joe Hendry is
Speaker 5: the Royal Rumble probably do a massive pop and you know,
Speaker 5: and thank you for that, DJ, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: One thing that for some reason you triggered me DJ.
Speaker 5: I don't know how this triggered in my mind. But
Speaker 5: I just saw on TikTok that there is something that
Speaker 5: Stone called Steve Austin did say recently about his absence
Speaker 5: at WrestleMania forty and the reason why he didn't show up.
Speaker 5: So take a listen to this. This is I'll do
Speaker 5: the best I can because I'm I'm giving the audio
Speaker 5: through my phone into my microphone, so it's not gonna
Speaker 5: be the top quality, but you should be able to
Speaker 5: get to just this. So take a listen to what
Speaker 5: Austin said about wrestling forty one.
Speaker 6: WILSEMANI was the fortieth anniversary, and there was a moment
Speaker 6: with the Rock and Cody roads.
Speaker 2: You know, Rock with this heel turn, Cody Rhodes is
Speaker 2: bleeding and in one of the trucks, your face was
Speaker 2: popping up. And with the new storytelling with Triple As,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of marvel s theories that all
Speaker 2: that means Stone Cold is going to appear. Of course
Speaker 2: that wasn't the case.
Speaker 3: I've asked you how close.
Speaker 2: Was that to happening?
Speaker 3: Oh, it was close, and they certainly they certainly reached
Speaker 3: out to me. We had conversations, but my wife and
Speaker 3: I had some things going on. That I didn't need
Speaker 3: to go to Philly at that time, and I have said,
Speaker 3: I miss I missed that media and you know, God
Speaker 3: named Philly was a good town for me back in
Speaker 3: the day, and I appreciate those fans. We couldn't make
Speaker 3: it down on that one. But Russell Many this year
Speaker 3: is in Vegas, and I was doing an interview a
Speaker 3: while back and I said, hey, man, that's four hundred miles.
Speaker 3: That's you know, that's like right here where we're sitting right.
Speaker 2: There, three miles away from religion.
Speaker 3: I think we brought back to Reno and in my
Speaker 3: buggy and so but anyway, it'll be in Vegas, So
Speaker 3: I hope to be there this year.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: So you heard it right from Stone Callsey of Boston.
Speaker 5: This was I'm trying to find the source of this.
Speaker 5: This is somebody that retweeted it or re tiktokd it
Speaker 5: or reposted I guess is which call on and TikTok.
Speaker 5: So people are really speculating. I mean, Austin said it
Speaker 5: himself just recently that he is going to be trying
Speaker 5: to get to restumate at forty one. And he said that,
Speaker 5: oh something with his wife. We couldn't make it down.
Speaker 5: I mean whatever, Do I particularly believe that? No, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's true. I think it did come
Speaker 5: down to money, and he has to come up with something.
Speaker 5: From all the reports we heard it was money and
Speaker 5: that it didn't think that what they were giving him
Speaker 5: was what he's deserved. Those were the initial reports that
Speaker 5: were all over the place. It wasn't just me and
Speaker 5: my own brain. I mean, this was on major sites
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: Not everything you see.
Speaker 5: Of course it's true, but it tends to make sense
Speaker 5: instead of just ah as my wife because he comes
Speaker 5: up with a completely different reason because guess what if
Speaker 5: he had said we couldn't come to financial terms, well,
Speaker 5: then he looks like a jerk, you know, for what
Speaker 5: came down to money. You couldn't come to media because
Speaker 5: you weren't getting paid enough, you know, So he looks
Speaker 5: like the jerk and he knows that. So particularly do
Speaker 5: I care? No, But he essentially said, I'm gonna be
Speaker 5: there at WrestleMania forty one. If they'll have me, I
Speaker 5: will be there and this time I'm not gonna miss it.
Speaker 5: And is there a stunner in the Rock's future?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah? I think that's another reason why The Rock
Speaker 5: needs to stay heal. Is for this, this absolutely necessary
Speaker 5: stunner on the Rock needs to happen. Is it gonna
Speaker 5: be against Cody Rhodes or is Austin gonna do it
Speaker 5: when Rock faces Roman at forty one? Which one is it?
Speaker 5: We don't know yet, but you heard it here, guys,
Speaker 5: if you haven't checked it out, I don't know what
Speaker 5: damn podcast that was because it was somebody who reposted
Speaker 5: it and they didn't tell me who that will the
Speaker 5: original post was, but you can still look it up.
Speaker 5: Looks like Austin's gonna be a wrestleing in Vegas. Makes
Speaker 5: me more tempted than ever to buy tickets there and
Speaker 5: venture on over in late April. But anyway, that's concluded
Speaker 5: here for the mailbag portion of the show. It's time
Speaker 5: move on to my official predictions for Bash in Berlin.
Speaker 5: Let's start off with the World Heavyweight Championship. I'm not
Speaker 5: messing around. We'll go on reverse here. The World Heavyweight Championship,
Speaker 5: Gunther versus Randy Orton or This has been a rivalry
Speaker 5: that has been I mean, kind of out of nowhere,
Speaker 5: like an RKO Randy Orton was on Raw and they
Speaker 5: clearly didn't have a big enough person for gun Through
Speaker 5: to face at the Bash in Berlin Events, so they
Speaker 5: had to pull Randy Orton from SmackDown. Still no explanation
Speaker 5: as to how or why that happened. Somebody different SmackDown
Speaker 5: comes over and is able to just compete for the
Speaker 5: top belt on that brand again. I continue to be
Speaker 5: a stickler on that when no one else seems to
Speaker 5: give an him. But this matchup should be a lot
Speaker 5: of fun. I expect Ludwig Ky's to get involved, maybe
Speaker 5: even be the reason that Orton loses. He'll get an RKO,
Speaker 5: Gunther will get an RKO. Ultimately, Randy Orton's not winning
Speaker 5: this matchup, But if it's the main event, you know,
Speaker 5: you wonder are there any tricks up the sleeve here?
Speaker 5: Is anything happening? Are there any big possible returns? I mean,
Speaker 5: is it too crazy to think that brock Lesner could
Speaker 5: be the guy that comes out at the end and
Speaker 5: just comes face to face with Gunther? Is it too
Speaker 5: insane to think that I'm just trying to come up
Speaker 5: with something that might shock the world Again, I'd give
Speaker 5: that like a four percent chance I'm not saying it's
Speaker 5: gonna happen. It's not my prediction. I fully expect Gunther
Speaker 5: as the baby face, to be the one to stand tall,
Speaker 5: even though it's not in his home country. Okay, Germany
Speaker 5: is not Austria. That's why they have two different names
Speaker 5: for the two different countries. But I've said that before
Speaker 5: and whatever. They've just made Germany Gunther's home country now,
Speaker 5: but whatever, So the crowd should be. I don't think
Speaker 5: it'll be as anti Randy as a lot of people think.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be still Gunther sixty forty against Randy,
Speaker 5: but it's not gonna be overwhelming booze from Randy Orton
Speaker 5: because Brandy Orton's a beloved star Germany. When's the last
Speaker 5: time Germany on a pl E has seen Randy Orton compete.
Speaker 5: The fans are gonna be elated to see him. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be it's gonna take conscious effort to boo Randy Orton.
Speaker 5: So I don't think it'll be as overwhelming. It's not
Speaker 5: gonna be like you know, RVD and John Cena at
Speaker 5: ECW's One Night Stand in O six. I think it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a gun their favorite from the crowd, but
Speaker 5: not crazy overwhelming and Germany, please, I implore you, and
Speaker 5: I know this is gonna fall in deaf ears and
Speaker 5: it goes against the culture of Germany. So I mean,
Speaker 5: you guys, do what you want. But from the viewing
Speaker 5: perspective at home, lay of fans have no idea what
Speaker 5: you're chanting if it's not in English. Even if it
Speaker 5: is in English, you're the accent is sometimes tough to
Speaker 5: sift through. Please, uh, keep the chance that have nothing
Speaker 5: to do with wrestling to a minimum.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: That's the that's the orders coming down from the w
Speaker 5: WE podcast, So you better follow them or else. All right,
Speaker 5: that's an order, not even suggesting it anymore. That's a demand,
Speaker 5: all right, as I completely endear myself to the country
Speaker 5: of Germany here.
Speaker 2: But hey, but I mean, you.
Speaker 5: Guys, do what you want. Me I know it's w
Speaker 5: w it's all about volume. Just how many decibels do
Speaker 5: we have? How many decibels do we have? Trips, Oh,
Speaker 5: we're out one hundred decibels? Well, what are they actually saying?
Speaker 5: Oh who cares? It's just the amount of decibels to them,
Speaker 5: It's all about decibels and not actually what's being chanted,
Speaker 5: which is not telling the whole story. I look at
Speaker 5: it much differently. But anyway, underspeed A Championship, Cody Rhodes
Speaker 5: and Ko, Yeah, I mean I expect these two, as
Speaker 5: total professionals, too absolute pros, to have a physical match,
Speaker 5: likely one that challenges Kevin Owens to turn to the
Speaker 5: dark side.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Perhaps the referee gets knocked down, as he does in
Speaker 5: every underspen A Championship match since its inception, and there's
Speaker 5: opportunities for Kevin Owens to turn to the dark side.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Again, the referee gets accidentally knocked down. A chair is
Speaker 5: somehow laying in the ring. Does he decide to use it?
Speaker 5: Does he not? There's gonna be moments when Ko gets
Speaker 5: tempted with the dark side, and I think that's the
Speaker 5: story here. Not is Kevin Owens gonna win. I hate
Speaker 5: to say that with every Kevin Owens title match that
Speaker 5: he has no chance to win, but everyone he's had
Speaker 5: so far he's had no chance to win, and this
Speaker 5: won't be any different. But I think that's the story
Speaker 5: they'll tell, is teasing Ko turning heel with ultimately Ko retaining.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Kevin o' Cody Rhodes retaining Damian Priest and
Speaker 5: Marie Ripley. The Terrors wins versus dom and Live Mixed
Speaker 5: tag team match. This one to me, excuse me, fun
Speaker 5: I absolutely expect the Judgment Day in full to be
Speaker 5: there and to try to screw Rhea and Damien. I
Speaker 5: think Rihann Damien will come out on top. Will Rha
Speaker 5: finally get her hands on Dominic? Probably? I think maybe
Speaker 5: that she'll finally get that payoff and she can move
Speaker 5: on to facing Live for the Women's Championship at Bad Blood.
Speaker 5: That's what I think. So and Damian Priest maybe he
Speaker 5: gets his South of Heaven on Finn Balor. That's the
Speaker 5: payoff there too, all right, seeam punkin jermacatyreist trap match.
Speaker 5: I'm with everybody else here. I think Cmpunk wins to
Speaker 5: even to go to Bad bloods the perfect rivalry in
Speaker 5: a perfectly named plee for bad Blood. This is going
Speaker 5: to end at Hell in a Cell. There's just no
Speaker 5: two ways about it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Could Solo and Roman do Helen a Cell? I guess
Speaker 5: they could. But Seampunk and Drew I think is even
Speaker 5: more heated than Roman and Solo. This one has certainly
Speaker 5: been boiling over for a lot longer as well. The
Speaker 5: intensity the violence has gotten to a crazy level Seampunk
Speaker 5: and Drew. I expect a lot of welts to be
Speaker 5: created on both men's backs and stomachs and legs and
Speaker 5: everything else. A lot of welts, maybe even blood through
Speaker 5: the skin, which is I mean that that's hard to do.
Speaker 5: But they're going to break blood, blood vessels. It's going
Speaker 5: to be a brutal match and one that I think
Speaker 5: ultimately Cmpunk will win to lead to bad Blood potentially
Speaker 5: Helen a cell. I just don't know how you bring
Speaker 5: back bad blood and don't do hell in a cell.
Speaker 5: That's what bad blood was known for was the very
Speaker 5: first Helen to cell match with Shawn Michael's an Undertaker
Speaker 5: in ninety seven. But that's how I think I think
Speaker 5: ultimately it's gonna be. Are they gonna be in a
Speaker 5: big surprises in terms of returns? Probably not? Probably not.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry. The Women's Tag Team Championships. How could
Speaker 5: I possibly forget Alba Fire and Eiley Dono versus Bianca
Speaker 5: and Jade. This one's kind of tough. I could see
Speaker 5: Bianca and Jade winning this. They I'm with you guys,
Speaker 5: they probably will, and this will be the setup for
Speaker 5: Jade and Bianca to eventually split down the line. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's that's my guessin I honestly would would keep them
Speaker 5: as champions because it helps legitimize the Belts more than
Speaker 5: they otherwise would be, and it gives the team of
Speaker 5: Jade and Bianca, especially more importantly Jade time in the ring.
Speaker 5: She needs time in the ring. She needs minutes in
Speaker 5: the ring. As I said, so, more minutes in the
Speaker 5: ring should equate to longer, long term success, and that's
Speaker 5: hopefully what the idea is here. On the other hand,
Speaker 5: there's an argument to be made for the Unholy Union
Speaker 5: keeping this, keeping the Belts and having Jade and Bianca
Speaker 5: just softly go their separate ways with no rivalry, no
Speaker 5: turn yet. I mentioned that earlier too. There is a
Speaker 5: solution where it could you could have Bianca and Jade split,
Speaker 5: but there's no attack, no one turns healed, they just
Speaker 5: kind of quietly go their own ways. That does happen,
Speaker 5: and then they explore the rivalry later, So that's also
Speaker 5: a possibility. This is a really difficult match to pin
Speaker 5: down who's going to win and have every match on
Speaker 5: the card. This is the one that you just look
Speaker 5: at and go, yeah, I'm staying away from that. When
Speaker 5: it comes to betting on it, stay away from it.
Speaker 5: Keep your money away from this match. So that'll do
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