Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, it's your girl, Stephanie, a V. Hardy Wrestling podcast.
Speaker 1: Of course, the show has been on hiatus since after
Speaker 1: WrestleMania due to the fact that my family has endured
Speaker 1: an immense loss, as my mother, sephra Adeline Hopson Hardy
Speaker 1: passed into the next life on a higher plane the
Speaker 1: Tuesday after WrestleMania, and I have been taking some time
Speaker 1: with my family and I've seen a lot of people
Speaker 1: send their condolences and their love and their prayers over
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, and I'm really grateful for that.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to start this new episode of the
Speaker 1: show by talking a little bit about her and and
Speaker 1: how our relationship ties into wrestling, just a tadbit. Mom
Speaker 1: was not a wrestling fan. It was always me and
Speaker 1: my dad, and I've addressed that multiple times before, but
Speaker 1: when it comes to wrestling, my mom was kind of
Speaker 1: on the outside looking in until one day in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen were me and her in the picture as you
Speaker 1: can see with Charlotte Flair. She went with me at
Speaker 1: a meet and greet at Cricket Wireless here in Birmingham,
Speaker 1: and she started to see how passionate wrestling fans are
Speaker 1: and how passionate I was about it, and she always
Speaker 1: knew it, but she had never been She had always
Speaker 1: been on the outside looking in. And as the years
Speaker 1: had passed by since I had started the podcast and
Speaker 1: started my wrestling media career, she had been nothing but
Speaker 1: supportive of my endeavors, giving encouraging words and all of
Speaker 1: the above, and just telling me and reiterating me she
Speaker 1: had given me my entire life to help me perform
Speaker 1: to the best of my ability, and all things and
Speaker 1: everything that I have done, even before the podcast and
Speaker 1: even afterward, has been a testament to how she raised
Speaker 1: me and my sister as well. And I just wanted
Speaker 1: to come on here and publicly say on this platform
Speaker 1: that HWP does not exist without Sephra, without my mom,
Speaker 1: and because of years of her telling me, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do the best you can because you're my child, and
Speaker 1: because I've given you everything you need to survive in
Speaker 1: this world. I'm going to continue to do that, and
Speaker 1: that spirit will always live in this podcast and in
Speaker 1: everything that I do from now and to the rest
Speaker 1: of my life. So thank you, Mama for being the
Speaker 1: very best mom that anybody could ask for, and I'll
Speaker 1: see you later, and your brown baby is gonna hold
Speaker 1: it down and I'm going to continue to shine my
Speaker 1: light and not hide it because that's how you raised me.
Speaker 1: I love you so much. This is the Hearty Wrestling Podcast,
Speaker 1: all right, And with that in mind, we're gonna start
Speaker 1: this new episode of HWP extra. Of course, I'm your girl,
Speaker 1: Stephanie Hardy, hosting creator and founder of this fabulous platform,
Speaker 1: co host of stephan Kat Talk Wow, which has also
Speaker 1: been on hiatus. But you know, we will be back
Speaker 1: pretty soon because I'm still trying to ease my way
Speaker 1: back into things. But of course I'm not alone. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to be here tonight with my co host, my
Speaker 1: amazing wrestling fan, my future ring announcer of the future
Speaker 1: Byonca Addison. Have you been lovely?
Speaker 2: I love you? Oh god, Oh my god, You're I've
Speaker 2: been well. A lot has been going on. I've been
Speaker 2: very busy, very protective, but I've been trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: not go bizarre, go crazy, just trying to take it
Speaker 2: one day at a time. And uh, we've at everyone
Speaker 2: who is watching and everyone who has been watching, and
Speaker 2: we haven't been we haven't been doing this together for
Speaker 2: a long time, but I just want to say on
Speaker 2: behalf of everyone who's watching, who has watched, I just
Speaker 2: want to say that I love you and you are
Speaker 2: amazing and I see your resilience. I I don't know
Speaker 2: you that I mean apart from this podcast, but I
Speaker 2: see how you just I see how resilient you are
Speaker 2: and how strong you are and how you just like
Speaker 2: keep going. And I know you're hurting, but I see
Speaker 2: your strength and mss Hardy, I see. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I wish. I love hearing the stories about her through
Speaker 2: you on this podcast. And I didn't know that she
Speaker 2: wasn't interesting. That's that's that's very that's very interesting. The
Speaker 2: facts you brought up and that's that. And just hearing
Speaker 2: that how she this whole creation is a testament of
Speaker 2: her and you're living her spirit lives through you and yeah,
Speaker 2: just yeah, And I'm happy that this podcast is thriving
Speaker 2: and you're doing the Hearty name. Very proud, and I
Speaker 2: know she's looking down at you, very very proud. She's
Speaker 2: smiling right now. She said, that's my baby, that's my baby.
Speaker 1: Oh. Absolutely, Like I can't tell you because we all
Speaker 1: still we lived together in these past few years. So
Speaker 1: even as I was doing the podcast, I was helping
Speaker 1: my father care for her in these last few years.
Speaker 1: So even while I was doing the show, she would
Speaker 1: always say, you know, I heard you say this or
Speaker 1: talk about this and all of these things. So she
Speaker 1: always knew, you know, that this was a passion project
Speaker 1: and she was very supportive about it. She heard the
Speaker 1: last big thing that I did with BBC, so she
Speaker 1: knew any and everything that I was doing. She was
Speaker 1: always very supportive of it. And even with my sister
Speaker 1: as well and her endeavors, she was like a very
Speaker 1: supportive force. So I know that right now she's looking
Speaker 1: and she's just like, yeah, like you can do this.
Speaker 1: Cause I was talking to my dad earlier. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I really can push her and
Speaker 1: do this, and he was just like, yeah, yes, you can,
Speaker 1: you can do this. You've been doing this. It's okay.
Speaker 1: So and one thing I can say is that while
Speaker 1: watching wrestling, it has been giving me a great respite,
Speaker 1: as it has been doing my entire life. So it's
Speaker 1: been great, and I'm so happy to have had your
Speaker 1: support and everyone's support, like I said earlier, and we're
Speaker 1: going to keep the train moving for as long as
Speaker 1: I can, because of course, I am a human being
Speaker 1: and this has been hard. So I'm taking it one
Speaker 1: step at a time and being as resilient as I
Speaker 1: possibly can. But you know, I'm doing my very best.
Speaker 1: And yet Bianca she was not a wrestling fan. Like
Speaker 1: for the longest time, she would make fun of me
Speaker 1: and my dad and my sister, you know, watching certain wrestlers,
Speaker 1: seeing certain gimmicks and making fun of things. But it
Speaker 1: was it was when, but she could still tell that.
Speaker 1: You know, the older I had gotten, the more I
Speaker 1: started caring about it and caring about it even more
Speaker 1: from a contents perspective. She was invested in it because
Speaker 1: she saw she cared about what I cared about. And
Speaker 1: that is all you could ask for, you know, from
Speaker 1: a parent, and you know, and I'm really grateful to
Speaker 1: have had that over the years, because some people be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, and you know, and they
Speaker 1: don't care, but no, like Mom cared because I cared,
Speaker 1: and that was just her spirit of things. And of
Speaker 1: course she would poke fun and make fun of certain
Speaker 1: things even still now, but you know, she cared about
Speaker 1: it because I cared about it. So with that and
Speaker 1: with that spirit in mind, I know that there has
Speaker 1: been so much in wrestling that has happened. We we
Speaker 1: we aren't gonna talk about the releases just yet because
Speaker 1: something that I did write down a plan for is
Speaker 1: that I did want to do an episode about the
Speaker 1: New Day because I feel like that, I feel like
Speaker 1: that in and of itself, that faction just deserves an
Speaker 1: entire episode in and of itself. Yeah, so we will
Speaker 1: address that and other things, but mostly we're gonna address
Speaker 1: the New Day. But of course tonight we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Backlash, which has, you know, which has its history
Speaker 1: in wrestling, and that is coming up this Saturday on
Speaker 1: ESPN and also on Netflix internationally, and of course historically
Speaker 1: Backlash has been the pay per view that comes after WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: and WrestleMania this year, you know, for better or for
Speaker 1: Worse was pretty insane. You know, it was a pretty
Speaker 1: insane you know pay per view this time, of course,
Speaker 1: with it being in Vegas again, so real quickly, before
Speaker 1: we get into the history of Backlash, Bian could tell
Speaker 1: me how, you know, what did you love about WrestleMania
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow, I really loved A J's entrance. I really
Speaker 2: loved to see them. Punk's entrance me too. I really
Speaker 2: loved Dan Housen's set and the whole gimmick with John Cena.
Speaker 1: That was hysterical, absolutely hysterical. Couldn't stop laughing. John Cena
Speaker 1: and the Miz are two of the most unserious people
Speaker 1: on the planet in order to make all of that
Speaker 1: happen and it's it was incredible. I loved it. And
Speaker 1: I loved AJ's entrance too, because it just reminded me
Speaker 1: over the years of how many little girls and even
Speaker 1: grown ups our age and a little bit younger who've
Speaker 1: dressed up like her, holding different belts and such. So
Speaker 1: that was incredible. And then there was one little girl
Speaker 1: who got too scared and kind of just ran random back,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh no, but you know, it
Speaker 1: was really great. I loved it when children are get
Speaker 1: to be a part of the show, I think that's sweet.
Speaker 1: And I love Punk's entrance, And that was a lot
Speaker 1: of great entrances this year, I must say, so.
Speaker 3: Now it's oh I was I wasn't expecting it, and
Speaker 3: I was expecting it because what was so funny was
Speaker 3: I think something before that moment had me kind of upset, but.
Speaker 1: Then when she came out and her music and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait a minute, Bianca. And then she comes
Speaker 1: out and then she's in sort of like a blue
Speaker 1: version of the rope she had on last year, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, what's going on? And then she comes
Speaker 1: out and announces that she's having a baby, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: the mother, gang the mother. Yeah, and then she's having
Speaker 1: a boy. I know. I was so happy to see that,
Speaker 1: and it was just so interesting because of course, if
Speaker 1: you watch Love and WWE, her and Montees, you know
Speaker 1: have considered growing their family for a while but just
Speaker 1: didn't know how to do it because of their careers.
Speaker 1: So to see that it's happening now, even as she's
Speaker 1: healing from her finger injury and stuff, I was happy
Speaker 1: for her. But then another part of me was just like,
Speaker 1: dang it, the pregnancy hits again, because you know, you
Speaker 1: know when Naomi, you know, I was so happy with
Speaker 1: her and her pregnancy, but you know, like when it
Speaker 1: sort of takes you away and you want and the
Speaker 1: fan in you is selfish, but then the human in
Speaker 1: you is just like, you know what, Yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you get to do this because this is something
Speaker 1: that you really want to do and it's a choice
Speaker 1: that you've made as a woman that you want to do.
Speaker 1: Then that's perfect. So happy mothers ay to the both
Speaker 1: of them, my God, happy mothers ay to both of them. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Naomi as a mother herself, even though
Speaker 1: she's been a stepmother, and even Bianca as a step mom,
Speaker 1: like they get to Yeah, this is their real first
Speaker 1: mother's dare. So yeah, that was incredible. I love that
Speaker 1: and it was beautiful. So yeah. But then there's also
Speaker 1: other parts that we do get to get into when
Speaker 1: it comes to Backlash and stuff, but we'll get into
Speaker 1: that a little bit later. So y'all know me on
Speaker 1: the Hearty Wrestling podcast, we got to get into the
Speaker 1: history of these pay per views, honey, before we get
Speaker 1: into what's actually going on in the present. So, the
Speaker 1: first Backlash took place in nineteen ninety nine and it
Speaker 1: was Yeah, so it's a relatively young pay per view
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of a lot of them. And
Speaker 1: as you can see, the first Flyer had mankind of
Speaker 1: course Mick Foley giving the Rock a mandible claw and
Speaker 1: then on the side of that, you have Randy Orton
Speaker 1: because Backlash was held annually from nineteen ninety nine until
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine until it was discontinued and in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine and Orton was the last person
Speaker 1: to be on the cover of the featured superstar of
Speaker 1: the pay per view, but then it was continued. They
Speaker 1: brought it back in twenty sixteen and it was held
Speaker 1: every year until twenty nineteen. And of course, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't write that down, surprisingly, but I do. I believe
Speaker 1: it was the first one was in Rhode Island, if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. So I forgot to write that down
Speaker 1: in the haste of everything, So please forgive my brains.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to come back to life. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Backlash has was basically conceived to deal with all the
Speaker 1: craziness and the aftermath of WrestleMania, even though there have
Speaker 1: been a couple of Backlashes that had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with WrestleMania and they just did it as a pay
Speaker 1: per view just to have but historically they've sort of
Speaker 1: come back to that in more later years. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite backlashes had to do with aj Styles going
Speaker 1: up against John Moxley slash Dean Ambrose for the World
Speaker 1: Have You for the w W Championship, and it also
Speaker 1: had the six Pack Challenge for I believe the inaugural
Speaker 1: SmackDown Women's Championship in which beat Becky Lynch One. And
Speaker 1: this was during the SmackDown Live era, which I really
Speaker 1: feel like is a very underrated era and it deserves
Speaker 1: to be celebrated a lot more because there was a
Speaker 1: lot of great wrestling and a lot of great opportunity
Speaker 1: given to so many new people at that time during
Speaker 1: the SmackDown Live era. But and this was a SmackDown
Speaker 1: branded pay per view, hence why you had a lot
Speaker 1: of SmackDown stars there, and it was just really cool
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed that SmackDown that Backlash in particular.
Speaker 1: And then of course you had the Backlash of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: which of course happened during the pandemic, and this one
Speaker 1: was headlined by Adam Copeland slash Edge going up against
Speaker 1: Randy Orton and what they deemed the greatest wrestling match ever,
Speaker 1: which was.
Speaker 2: Fel like that happened at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: It didn't, it happened at Backlash.
Speaker 2: I felt something like this happened in WrestleMania No.
Speaker 1: But well, yeah, this happened at Backlash that year, and
Speaker 1: the thing, even though a lot of people made fun
Speaker 1: of it online at the time, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people were like, well, the greatest wrestling match ever is
Speaker 1: actually this match or this match or this match. I
Speaker 1: feel like, really what they were trying to do creatively
Speaker 1: was just trying to celebrate wrestling as a whole, because
Speaker 1: it felt a lot like a throwback type of deal
Speaker 1: when it came to elements of wrestling that we had
Speaker 1: seen over the past couple of years in the past
Speaker 1: and also more so in the present at that point.
Speaker 1: So Backlash actually holds a lot of history when it
Speaker 1: comes to wrestling, and during the pandemic there was a
Speaker 1: lot for us to actually embrace and talk about. And
Speaker 1: of course this year, this year's Backlash will actually be
Speaker 1: the first ple to take place in Tampa, Florida, because
Speaker 1: of course it is labeled Backlash Tampa since Helen is
Speaker 1: Cel twenty twenty one, which was during the Thunderdome era,
Speaker 1: which was sort of co headlined by a Helen a
Speaker 1: Cell match between Bianca, Belair and Bailey because of course
Speaker 1: Bianca had just won the SmackDown Women's Championship against Slasha
Speaker 1: Banks slash Mercedes Manet in that historic match, and Bailey
Speaker 1: decided to start a beef with her and they fought
Speaker 1: in that Hell in the Cell match, in which of
Speaker 1: course Bianca won, And this was just a really great
Speaker 1: hot streak for Bianca at that time. So yeah, Backlash
Speaker 1: holds a lot of history in terms of wrestling. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Bianca you've seen some of the stuff
Speaker 1: online where they have showed wrestlers in an old promo
Speaker 1: advertising Backlash, saying the word backlash or something like that,
Speaker 1: But yeah, they've been sort of beefing it up a
Speaker 1: little bit. So yeah, Bianca, how are you feeling from
Speaker 1: learning some of the history of Backlash before we get
Speaker 1: into our predictions.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how young it is. I thought it
Speaker 2: was something like that. I thought. I didn't. I thought
Speaker 2: that this like sid like in the eighties, like all
Speaker 2: the I mean, yeah, it's I mean yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it is kind of just all because since it's since
Speaker 2: it was in nineteen ninety nine, but I thought it
Speaker 2: was created earlier, like in the eighties. But now I
Speaker 2: see them clash. It's been a while, like I'm sure
Speaker 2: I've watched Backlash. I just have to like revisit and
Speaker 2: watch watch matches. But the information you gave me was, Wow,
Speaker 2: it was interesting, Yeah, thinking of yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand that because his back and then
Speaker 1: the thing about Backlash that I was finding as I
Speaker 1: was looking up the history was just how how it
Speaker 1: was consistent until it wasn't and then it was brought back.
Speaker 1: And then I also remember just the discourse that they
Speaker 1: were having online about it at one point being called
Speaker 1: WrestleMania backlash, as if we didn't as if the fans
Speaker 1: couldn't really put together that backlash was after Mania like
Speaker 1: in the past, and a lot of people were very
Speaker 1: angry about that, until, of course they took the WrestleMania
Speaker 1: off and then continue to just still call it backlash.
Speaker 1: So that, yeah, it was hilarious and also kind of irritating,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know the internet wrestling community, when
Speaker 1: we when we get a bone, we don't know how
Speaker 1: to really let it go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Why did I say that this is the after
Speaker 2: math of Vesselmanium and the after Mathavesselmania is raw?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there is that, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: just in terms of a Poe, I think or like
Speaker 1: a pay per view. It's the first pay per view
Speaker 1: after Mania, so I think that's the reason why they
Speaker 1: sort of make it as big of a deal, if
Speaker 1: not a bigger deal, because of course, the raw after
Speaker 1: Mania is still, you know, for all intents and purposes
Speaker 1: until recently, has been on free television, right, and it
Speaker 1: does have high stakes, of course, but here again it's
Speaker 1: still on free television, whereas Backlash is the first pay
Speaker 1: per view after Mania, and pay per views have a tendency,
Speaker 1: especially in more recent years, to have more higher stakes
Speaker 1: because of the exclusive of it. So I think that's
Speaker 1: really what it is. Not taken away from the grandeur
Speaker 1: of the raw after Mania, because of course you know
Speaker 1: that can that has a tendency to you know, turn
Speaker 1: up and be kind of crazy, but you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like because of the exclusivity of it being a
Speaker 1: pay per view is why it's a much bigger deal.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I'm glad you asked that. So
Speaker 1: of course, there has been so much that we did
Speaker 1: discuss involving WrestleMania, but in terms of this year's Backlash,
Speaker 1: there is a lot that people really aren't feeling too
Speaker 1: pumped about, especially given the recent releases and a lot
Speaker 1: of the decisions that people in charge have made along
Speaker 1: with TKO and so many different things. But we are
Speaker 1: going to continue to plug on through and talk about
Speaker 1: this year's Backlash, which, like I said, is happening in Tampa, Florida,
Speaker 1: and of course we're going to talk about the women first. Now,
Speaker 1: as it stands right now, there's only one women's match
Speaker 1: on the car for Backlash Wow, which upsets people, which
Speaker 1: has upset people. That even upset me to a degree
Speaker 1: because I'm just like just one really because in my mind,
Speaker 1: when it comes to highlighting the women, I would have
Speaker 1: loved and I'm gonna talk more about this, but I
Speaker 1: would have loved to have seen maybe, you know, another
Speaker 1: match take place that's happening on SmackDown Friday, happen on Backlash,
Speaker 1: or see Live defend her title against someone. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I guess we're just but we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk more about the other matches that I would have
Speaker 1: loved to have seen, but we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: one women's match that is on the card, and that
Speaker 1: is EO Sky versus Oska. Now, this match was highly
Speaker 1: touted as a match that should have happened at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: because WrestleMania Sunday only had one match, which was Jade
Speaker 1: car Gill versus Ria Ripley for the women's title. God
Speaker 1: that was the only women's match on that Sunday because
Speaker 1: all the other female matches happened on WrestleMania's Saturday. Okay,
Speaker 1: So a lot of people were really hoping that Eo,
Speaker 1: especially with the way that she performed last year in
Speaker 1: that amazing triple threat between Riha and Bianca, and just
Speaker 1: the amazing year she had in general, that she would
Speaker 1: have been on the Wrestmania card, but she wasn't given
Speaker 1: her back and forth that she was having with Osca
Speaker 1: over Kyrie as well. But now Kyrie is no longer
Speaker 1: with ww du to those releases, and now you have
Speaker 1: the battle of EO the Student, and then you have
Speaker 1: Osca the Master the Sennpi And of course that's in
Speaker 1: Japanese culture, and of course I'm not as well versed
Speaker 1: in Japanese culture in that way. So there are other
Speaker 1: creators who are like ds Shin with Ring the Bell
Speaker 1: and so many other So if you want to seek
Speaker 1: those people out who have more of the verbiage and
Speaker 1: more of the lore with that. In terms of Asian
Speaker 1: wrestling culture, you can go seek those people out. But
Speaker 1: it seems like the biggest conflict they have is that
Speaker 1: EO basically lashed out and left Damage Control and left
Speaker 1: Oscar behind and her tutelage because she wanted to be
Speaker 1: friends with real Ripley and just sort of be her
Speaker 1: own woman and go after her own goals. And then
Speaker 1: of course on Monday we saw them have that face
Speaker 1: off where Osca actually spit you know, the green miss
Speaker 1: in her face. So yeah, Bianca. Before we get into
Speaker 1: our predictions for this match, I do want to ask you,
Speaker 1: do you feel the absence of Kyrie saying sort of
Speaker 1: takes away from this match or are you still excited
Speaker 1: for regardless.
Speaker 2: I think it takes something, It takes something away from it.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 2: Oh I am excited about the whole thing. But it's
Speaker 2: just I don't want to say it's turning me off
Speaker 2: a little bit, but I don't know it. I'm still
Speaker 2: gonna watch, I still love, I'm still gonna like h
Speaker 2: It's just there's that that that that releases I think
Speaker 2: Kyrie is demons in peace. She's a comedic effect. I
Speaker 2: love especially when when like, oh, I will miss when Kyrie,
Speaker 2: When Kyrie stays by and then Oscar yells yells after her,
Speaker 2: that's funny. It's gonna replace. That's they need more and
Speaker 2: for the Japanese community and my representation in this modern
Speaker 2: era so that it really sings. And Kyrie saying has
Speaker 2: my pirate queen girl, Oh my god, I remember seeing
Speaker 2: her for the first time. Oh my gosh, her aura
Speaker 2: and her and her attire, her but insane elbow. You
Speaker 2: won't see that anymore. It's it blows and it's it
Speaker 2: really sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do agree with you in the regard that
Speaker 1: I do feel like Kyrie is that missing piece because
Speaker 1: EO really was trying to pull Kyrie, you know, away
Speaker 1: from the abusive nature of ASTA, and that conflict is
Speaker 1: now missing because Kyrie is no longer with the company.
Speaker 1: And I was really excited to see, you know, a
Speaker 1: level of Kyrie that we didn't get to see in
Speaker 1: her initial run at first. So the idea of her
Speaker 1: not being there, you know, it does take away a
Speaker 1: bit and that and just to speak to your point
Speaker 1: about the Japanese representation, someone on Twitter mentioned that this
Speaker 1: is probably the first WWE match to feature solely two
Speaker 1: Japanese women, and I think that's amazing for them. But
Speaker 1: the idea of Kyrie not being there, you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of bums everyone out to a degree. But I
Speaker 1: have no doubt that regardless, they're gonna make the best
Speaker 1: out of the situation, because of course that's what women do,
Speaker 1: especially women of color. That's something that we always do.
Speaker 1: We make the very best lemonade out of leomen's. And
Speaker 1: if it's one thing these two women have shown us
Speaker 1: over the years, is that these two can go. And
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see all of the amazingness and
Speaker 1: all of the stardom teas that they're gonna give us.
Speaker 1: And I just can't wait to see the athleticism that
Speaker 1: these women are gonna put on. So I'm predicting that
Speaker 1: Eo will more than likely win this match. I'm predicting
Speaker 1: Eo Sky will win this match and write that momentum
Speaker 1: to greater things. Because she did have that little tiff
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back with Becky Lynch, who was
Speaker 1: trying to relegate her to you know, the nobody of
Speaker 1: the tag team with her and Rhea and called her
Speaker 1: Eo Janetti, which I thought was just so disrespectful. I
Speaker 1: was just like, girl, how could you call her that
Speaker 1: when she literally had one of the best matches on
Speaker 1: the Russemania card last year and then had that Evolution
Speaker 1: match with Ria, even though it ended with a cash
Speaker 1: and it was still incredible, So like, how dare you
Speaker 1: just say that to her? Like it was just really interesting.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have seen Eo actually challenge
Speaker 1: her for the Women's Intercontinental Championship, but of course she
Speaker 1: could also you know, challenge Live down the line. But
Speaker 1: either way, I'm predicting the Eosky is gonna win. So
Speaker 1: who's your prediction, Bianca?
Speaker 2: I think as well, only because she's been through with
Speaker 2: the with uh Oscar and she needs her redemption. She
Speaker 2: needs a redemption stot, she needs her redemption song mm hm,
Speaker 2: she needs her payback from all the backlash how she's
Speaker 2: indured from. I do want to ask, can you can
Speaker 2: you explain the Eo Jeannetti name?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So back in the day, Sean Michaels got his
Speaker 1: big start in w w E as part of a
Speaker 1: tag team called the Midnight Rockers with this guy named
Speaker 1: Marty Jeannetti. And and I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 1: any of the older clips running around, you know, just
Speaker 1: in wrestling period of Seawan Michael Super kicking a guy
Speaker 1: through a through a barbershop said wasn't It was a
Speaker 1: long time ago, but essentially that was him in the
Speaker 1: Midnight Rockers breaking up that tag team. So Shaw Michaels
Speaker 1: can go solo and be the heartbreak kid that we
Speaker 1: knew him as. So because he was in that tag team,
Speaker 1: and because Shawn Michaels went on to be so successful
Speaker 1: in his career and Marty Jeannetti you know, tried but
Speaker 1: wasn't as successful in his wrestling career. If someone calls
Speaker 1: you Marty Jeannetti, they're basically calling you irrelevant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's not irrelevant.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Yeah, Becky was hella disrespectful when she
Speaker 1: said that, And that made me mad. I was like, girl,
Speaker 1: that's terrible. Why would you say that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was respectful. And that's and I'm and I'm
Speaker 2: not and I'm not. And it's not just me saying
Speaker 2: he says it.
Speaker 1: Literally everyone is saying.
Speaker 2: Yes, but yes, I have a love Yes EO Sky
Speaker 2: for the Wind on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely And I would love it.
Speaker 2: I love it if THEO also sprays the nest in
Speaker 2: Oscar's face.
Speaker 1: Oh that would be cool, right, Oh my.
Speaker 2: God, like blue miss or blackness, not blackness maybe.
Speaker 1: Or pink miss like you never know, like the mist
Speaker 1: in my mind, like comes in all colors. So if
Speaker 1: EO actually spits a miss in Oscar space, that would
Speaker 1: be the best type of get back and I would
Speaker 1: live for that. Another theory that's running around online is
Speaker 1: that a lot of people think that they might pull
Speaker 1: in our truth and bring Kyrie back. That I would
Speaker 1: love that too, simply because you know, she was just
Speaker 1: such a great part of the story and you just
Speaker 1: never know, so that oh, well, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know about that part. But you know,
Speaker 1: that would be really great. But you know, we're both
Speaker 1: on the EO sky train when it comes to this match.
Speaker 1: So as we moved forward, I did want to talk
Speaker 1: more about the women because I didn't want to just
Speaker 1: talk about this one women's match and then just leave
Speaker 1: it and just go to talking about the men. So
Speaker 1: on Friday, I feel like this is another match that
Speaker 1: could have been on the Backlash card, and actually, to
Speaker 1: be quite honest, I don't understand why the Women's United
Speaker 1: States Championship was not defended on WrestleMania, even though I
Speaker 1: know the men's United States Champion well, actually yes it was,
Speaker 1: but I don't understand why exactly the Women's United States
Speaker 1: Championship wasn't defended at WrestleMania. But I am happy that
Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton now has it no shade because I love Julia,
Speaker 1: but I feel like this match between her and Keana
Speaker 1: James could have very well happened at Backlash because to
Speaker 1: this day, since the Women's US title has been commissioned,
Speaker 1: it has not been defended on a pay per view.
Speaker 1: It's been almost two years almost, I think, if not
Speaker 1: one year, then two and it has not been defended
Speaker 1: on a pay per view, and I think that's very
Speaker 1: you know, strange, and I would love it if this
Speaker 1: match was taking place at Backlash as opposed to just
Speaker 1: having one female match there. But it is happening this
Speaker 1: Friday on SmackDown. Keana James and Tiffany Stratton are going
Speaker 1: to fight for the title, and I'm pretty sure that's
Speaker 1: going to cause a wrinkle between in the business partnership
Speaker 1: of Keana James and Julia but I am still pumped
Speaker 1: about it because these two have historically had great matches,
Speaker 1: especially down in NXT when they were together, So I'm
Speaker 1: excited about it, and I'm pretty sure Tiffany will retain.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to post this here because I
Speaker 1: just really wanted this match to take place on Backlash
Speaker 1: and I'm disappointed that it isn't.
Speaker 2: And wow, and I'm sorry, but the fact that this
Speaker 2: hasn't been defended on a pay per view two years
Speaker 2: since since its inception is mind boggling to me. And yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just, yeah, I didn't realize that, but yeah, why
Speaker 2: do you think that is.
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure, Like it's not something that I
Speaker 1: know or can say, and I will never pretend to know.
Speaker 1: But but all I can do is just talk about
Speaker 1: how it actually bothers me, because of course, I was
Speaker 1: definitely a champion for them having women's mid card titles,
Speaker 1: and we've seen the women's Intercontinental title, you know, be
Speaker 1: defended on multiple pls, so so for the life of me,
Speaker 1: for this one to not be on any it's just
Speaker 1: kind of strange to me. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: decision making process is behind that, but I hope somehow
Speaker 1: another they fix it because it deserves to have that
Speaker 1: spotlight on it because of what the United States title
Speaker 1: means for the men and definitely from an equality perspective
Speaker 1: for the women too. So yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I cannot pretend at all to know the answer to that,
Speaker 1: but all I can do is say that I feel
Speaker 1: that it should be defended on POLS. Yeah, because we've
Speaker 1: had so many champions who could have defended it, Like
Speaker 1: we've had Chelsea Degree, We've had Zelina, We've had Chelsea again,
Speaker 1: we've had Julia, and now we have Tiffany. And because
Speaker 1: Tiffany has been proven, you know, to be a star,
Speaker 1: especially a young star, you know, hopefully this will position
Speaker 1: the title for better things, but you know it can't
Speaker 1: happen unless it's being booked that so yeah, but either way,
Speaker 1: I am looking forward to this match. I just wish
Speaker 1: it was on the backlash card, so I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: This really isn't fully open for predictions because like I said,
Speaker 1: it's happening on SmackDown. But either way, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to talk more about the women and just was a
Speaker 1: good excuse to do that. Also, another match that could
Speaker 1: have happened on Backlash involving the women is fatal Influence
Speaker 1: versus the Women's Champion Ria Ripley and of course Charlexa
Speaker 1: because Fatal. Another great thing that did make me happy
Speaker 1: during this down period is seeing the debut of j C,
Speaker 1: Jane Fallon Henley, and Laney Reid. I'm so happy to
Speaker 1: have seen that, Like, it was a wonderful debut, and
Speaker 1: they are going strong so far on SmackDown and attacking everyone.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad to see Ria and Charlexa you know,
Speaker 1: team up in order to fight them and take them down.
Speaker 1: But I really hear and this is another women's match
Speaker 1: that I feel I could have taken place on Backlash.
Speaker 1: It really could have. But I'm pretty sure this would
Speaker 1: set up another program for Riha to have, you know,
Speaker 1: another opponent for her title, because of course Jade has
Speaker 1: lost and we haven't seen her since she lost at Mania,
Speaker 1: so of course this opens the door for more, you know, challengers.
Speaker 1: It could be her and Charlotte again, you never know,
Speaker 1: or it could be her and JC for the title,
Speaker 1: or her and Laney for the title, or her in
Speaker 1: Fallon you just never know, or her and Alexa you
Speaker 1: just never know, But I am excited for the six
Speaker 1: women tag match. I just hear again would have loved
Speaker 1: it if it were on the Backlash pay per view. So, Bianca,
Speaker 1: who do you think? Who do you think is you know,
Speaker 1: a really great next challenger for Ria Ripley.
Speaker 2: Just looking at j C. Jane in her aesthetic, in
Speaker 2: her attire, and like her character in her aura, she's
Speaker 2: a yeah, I would say J C. Jane, they I
Speaker 2: want to say they're the same person, but they're they're
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: Person. Well, I wouldn't necessarily say they're the same person.
Speaker 1: I feel like, of course Ripley, now, Ria Ripley of
Speaker 1: course is a rock star, and j C. Jane kind
Speaker 1: of has that cool, you know, sort of rock star
Speaker 1: persona as well. But of course Rhea is more of
Speaker 1: a goth Amazon woman with all of her tattoos and everything,
Speaker 1: whereas you know, jac is worth like the clean cut,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm too good for you everything type of
Speaker 1: vibe and I and I like that aesthetic, especially coming
Speaker 1: from a village. I feel like over these past few
Speaker 1: years she really has solidified herself as a amazing villain,
Speaker 1: especially like seeing her growth down in NXT from being
Speaker 1: just in attag Team with Priscilla Kelly aka gg Dolan
Speaker 1: and then being a part of Toxic Attraction with Mandy
Speaker 1: and them, and then rising and being you know, her
Speaker 1: own star with her own faction is just it's it's
Speaker 1: amazing to see, and then her being a top villain
Speaker 1: down in NXT now like and then and then of
Speaker 1: course going to SmackDown and basically essentially doing the same
Speaker 1: thing and eliciting the same type of heat. It's just
Speaker 1: incredible to witness. And I'm so happy because she's worked
Speaker 1: so hard for so long, and I'm just really pumped,
Speaker 1: you know, to see her challenge Ria. I'm excited if
Speaker 1: that's the case, if she is next up to challenge Ria,
Speaker 1: I'm pumped about it.
Speaker 2: And the fact that they got booed on their debut
Speaker 2: it's incredible, Oh my god, like wow, not even like
Speaker 2: ten seconds and they hated Like wow, that's all that's
Speaker 2: that's what you call both, that's the they are stars.
Speaker 2: That's what you call star power. That's star quality right there.
Speaker 2: They are. I can see them hall of fame one day.
Speaker 2: Definitely a hall of Fame caliber tag team. I definitely
Speaker 2: see that, and definitely see championships, main events in WrestleMania,
Speaker 2: and yeah, just if and if they ever do go solo,
Speaker 2: I definitely see j C. Jane being at being at
Speaker 2: being at a Ripleice caliber, if not Charlotte's caliber, if
Speaker 2: not both as high as at their caliber.
Speaker 1: So absolutely, yeah, I agree, Like really, all three of
Speaker 1: them have what it takes, you know, to be a star,
Speaker 1: but definitely j C. She just she just has it.
Speaker 1: And then that night when they got booed, of course,
Speaker 1: and then of course you you also that's also a
Speaker 1: testament to the to the way people love Real Ripley
Speaker 1: so much, is that if people didn't love Real Ripley
Speaker 1: so much, then that moment also would not have worked
Speaker 1: either because if you come against Mommy, you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna hate you, And that would not have worked, number one,
Speaker 1: if people if Real wasn't so beloved, and also if
Speaker 1: Jace didn't continue to feed into the fact that they
Speaker 1: did not want to hear what she had to say, dude,
Speaker 1: because of it, so and she was just feeding into
Speaker 1: the hate and just egging it on and egging it on,
Speaker 1: And that's just a testament to her to you know,
Speaker 1: her being such a good, bad guy. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: about this. I just wanted to, you know, talk more
Speaker 1: about them and just you know, give them, pray and
Speaker 1: give them love because here again, this is another match
Speaker 1: that I would have loved to have seen on the
Speaker 1: Saturday Backlash card, but it is happening on SmackDown, of course,
Speaker 1: But of course, you know, cards are subject to change,
Speaker 1: so you never know what could happen. But as it
Speaker 1: stands right now on Wednesday, those are all the women's
Speaker 1: matches that we do have to look forward to this
Speaker 1: weekend on SmackDown and Backlash. So we're moving now into
Speaker 1: the men of Backlash, and we have this heated rivalry
Speaker 1: right here, no pun intended between Seth friggin Rollins and
Speaker 1: bron Breaker. You have the pupil lashing out no pun
Speaker 1: intended here again against the It just keeps blowing out
Speaker 1: of me, against the teacher. Seth Rollins brought and recruited
Speaker 1: bron Breaker for the Vision just last year, and then
Speaker 1: you know, as quick as a flash, bron Breaker wound
Speaker 1: up turning his back on Seth Rollins and usurped the
Speaker 1: Vision away from him. And of course you have Logan
Speaker 1: now part of Logan Paul a part of things. Austin
Speaker 1: theory is in it, and they're the tag team champions,
Speaker 1: and of course Paul Hammon is still doing their bidding
Speaker 1: and all of the above. And Seth Rollins in his
Speaker 1: match at WrestleMania against Gunther, they had a stellar match,
Speaker 1: but then it gets interrupted and undercut by the interference
Speaker 1: of a returning Bron Breaker from his injury, who came
Speaker 1: back and gave him probably the craziest running spears I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. The fact that Broun Breaker
Speaker 1: is not on the Las Vegas Raiders right now upsets
Speaker 1: me and it always will because we could use his skills,
Speaker 1: but he chose his path and it's wrestling. So Seth
Speaker 1: and Bron have been fighting back and forth. They were
Speaker 1: definitely tussling. Seth Rawlins messed up his suit. They were
Speaker 1: tussling back and forth, spearing each other, back and forth
Speaker 1: and everything on this past Monday. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty crazy stuff. So, Bianca, who is your prediction to
Speaker 1: win this marriage?
Speaker 2: I hope Seth I do. But then why do I
Speaker 2: feel like Roan Bricker will win with the interference of them?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. He just might. He has that X factor.
Speaker 1: You're right, m.
Speaker 2: It's always so annoying when just always get interrupted, so annoying,
Speaker 2: but as much, Yeah, that's yeah, that's my prediction Seth rollins,
Speaker 2: although I feel that that he'll that Ron will get
Speaker 2: help from his millions and then end up winning and
Speaker 2: then doing his shick, his than spearing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I definitely predict that Seth is going
Speaker 1: to win. But I feel like he's gonna get attacked afterward.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get attacked afterward, and he's going to have
Speaker 1: to recruit some help if he has not recruited help already,
Speaker 1: because on raw backstage, we saw him getting into it
Speaker 1: and talking to the street profits and everything, So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like there's something else between him.
Speaker 1: He did have that stand off with Roman, but then
Speaker 1: he also keeps getting into it, into these arguments with
Speaker 1: montes Ford, and it's like a part of me feels like, Seth,
Speaker 1: why aren't you recruiting montes To and Angelo to fight
Speaker 1: alongside with you to even up the odds instead of
Speaker 1: you getting into it with montes all the time. I know, like,
Speaker 1: why don't you guys you know, just you know, team
Speaker 1: up for once and not just you know, be so
Speaker 1: angry at each other all the time. But then there's
Speaker 1: another part of me that would love to see a
Speaker 1: match between Seth and Montes. I just feel like that
Speaker 1: would just get me going, like because I just love
Speaker 1: watching Montes for fight, you know, solo. He's someone who
Speaker 1: I will always be excited to see, you know, do
Speaker 1: solo work. No shade to Angelo, because I love Angelo
Speaker 1: and I love the Street Profits, always have, always will.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like there's still so much treasure
Speaker 1: to unpack when it comes to Montes, and I feel like,
Speaker 1: if there's going to be a feud between Seth and Montes,
Speaker 1: and they need to pull the trigger on that immediately.
Speaker 1: But we're here to talk about Seth and Braun and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that Seth has recruited the Street Profits to
Speaker 1: even up the odds against Broun Breaker and the Vision
Speaker 1: at the very least, because if not, he's gonna get jumped.
Speaker 1: If he wins the match at Backlash Saturday, I feel
Speaker 1: like he's gonna get jumped after it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they will come out to help him
Speaker 2: against Dominions, and they will, and yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I definitely see the Street Profits making an appearance.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, So it's gonna be a mess. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's one one particular prediction I have outside
Speaker 1: of Seth winning, is just the fact that it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a mess, and I have due to all the interference,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be very real ignorant. Oh god, I haven't
Speaker 1: said that. I haven't said it in so long. Ignorant.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be real, ignorant. Baby. We do love you,
Speaker 1: Tony Wrestling and all in every other streamer. We love
Speaker 1: y'all so much. Lower Hammer, see, every other reactor, every
Speaker 1: content creator, we love you all. We're all in this together.
Speaker 2: Yes, my girl, it's weezy blo.
Speaker 1: We love you. So as we move forward with our predictions,
Speaker 1: we do have a United States Champion match, a rematch
Speaker 1: from WrestleMania between Trick Williams and Sammy's in. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is probably actually the only proper rematch from
Speaker 1: WrestleMania that's happening on this card so far. And of
Speaker 1: course Sammy Zain is crashing out, even though he's trying
Speaker 1: to pretend like he isn't crashing out, he is crashing out.
Speaker 1: He's angry, he's upset, that he's been bypassed by Trick
Speaker 1: Williams and all these things, and he wants his United
Speaker 1: States Championship back, and he's so angry that he even
Speaker 1: took it out on the gingerbread Man because of course
Speaker 1: Trick Williams and Lil Yachty, who they did say is
Speaker 1: supposed to be there Saturday, which I am looking forward
Speaker 1: to because I do like Little Yachty being there because
Speaker 1: he plays he plays his role. To me, he's a
Speaker 1: celebrity who plays his role really well and doesn't really
Speaker 1: overstep as much. He's not like he's not someone who's
Speaker 1: sort of you know how you sort of feel how
Speaker 1: you can feel when a person is there and they're
Speaker 1: sort of trying to force feed it to you as
Speaker 1: opposed to you wanting to see it.
Speaker 2: Naturally, like that guy in Envision.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like I feel like that's what Little
Speaker 1: YACHTI gives. Because my thing is I was never not
Speaker 1: a fan of celebrities being a part of wrestling. I've
Speaker 1: always loved it because that's just been that's always been
Speaker 1: a thing as quiet as it's kept, you know, because
Speaker 1: I feel like us wrestling fans and our memories and
Speaker 1: I also feel like the lack of media literacy to
Speaker 1: a degree kind of bites us in the butt as
Speaker 1: wrestling fans, because celebrities have always been a part of wrestling,
Speaker 1: and they've always been a part of WrestleMania. So the
Speaker 1: idea of celebrities being a part of it now is
Speaker 1: it's not something that I'm angry about or pissed about
Speaker 1: because It's always been there, and I feel like that
Speaker 1: just brings more eyes to the product. And you know,
Speaker 1: I never had an issue with it. In Little YACHTI
Speaker 1: on the team with Trick Williams is just I mean,
Speaker 1: it just makes sense. It's it's cool to me, and
Speaker 1: Little Yachti doesn't try to overplay his role and I
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: So he does what he needs to do and leaves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okayh Yeah, he does what he needs to do.
Speaker 1: He chimes in when he needs to chime in, you know,
Speaker 1: and he actually cares, which is another thing I like
Speaker 1: about when celebrities are part of wrestling. It's like you
Speaker 1: can tell the ones that are there that are there
Speaker 1: for the sake of being there, but then you can
Speaker 1: also tell the ones that are there because they actually care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Lil YACHTI has shown that he cares. Even Trick
Speaker 1: Williams has mentioned how much he actually cares about it,
Speaker 1: So I'm okay with this. But like I said, Trick
Speaker 1: and Sammy, it's so funny because Trick on SmackDown was fighting,
Speaker 1: was already ready to fight. Sammy's ain't for the time anyway,
Speaker 1: but because the Gingerbread band is now dearly departed, oh god,
Speaker 1: he's fighting for the honor of the gingerbread Man. And
Speaker 1: then of course Friday they're having a funeral form and
Speaker 1: it is so oh I don't, oh my, it's so silly,
Speaker 1: and it's so funny to me because I'm just like
Speaker 1: this gingerbread Man has just it's hilarious to me because
Speaker 1: of how much it looks like Ginger from Shrek. Like
Speaker 1: that's what makes me laugh so much about this gingerbread Man.
Speaker 1: It's just the fact that y'all use it to insult Sammy.
Speaker 1: But then you bring in the mascot and he looks
Speaker 1: so much like gingerbread Man from Shrek. I can't it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: This is the hilarity that I love in my wrestling,
Speaker 1: Like everything doesn't have to be so serious, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you just gotta giggle. But the idea that sammy' zane
Speaker 1: attacked this poor gingerbread man and then, to make matters words,
Speaker 1: he did this.
Speaker 2: The buttons, not a gun drop button.
Speaker 1: Helmet. He he took the gun drop buttons, and that
Speaker 1: is what did him in. He took the gun drop button.
Speaker 1: Sammy's ain't is not the gingerbread Man anymore. He's Lord Farquad.
Speaker 1: He's Lord Farquad now and the gingerbread Man is now
Speaker 1: no longer with us. So now Trick Williams is fighting
Speaker 1: not only for his title, but for the honor of
Speaker 1: the gingerbread Man. So I'm predicting that Trick Williams is
Speaker 1: gonna retain the United States Championship. This is his first
Speaker 1: main roster title, and I just feel like, due to
Speaker 1: Shenanigans or anything else, I just feel like he's gonna retain.
Speaker 2: I can't even be mad at that, because I watched
Speaker 2: RuPaul's Drag Race, and that show teaches me to be
Speaker 2: to love the stupid, to love the absurdity, to love
Speaker 2: the lun to see, and to embrace it. I'm not
Speaker 2: mad at it. It's just so stupid and the best
Speaker 2: way possible, in the best way. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 2: so campy, it's so ridiculous, just like Dan Housen exactly.
Speaker 2: I'm be mad at that. It's so ridiculous, it's so
Speaker 2: stupid and so delightfully, so wonderfully and delightfully stupid. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like watching cartoons because honestly, I mean, think
Speaker 1: about how many children watch wrestling week to week and
Speaker 1: they've probably been invested in the in the aftermath of
Speaker 1: the gingerbread man dying, Like that's that's what I think about,
Speaker 1: because I mean, I don't have any children, but I
Speaker 1: love children so so I never so for me, it
Speaker 1: doesn't take a lot for me to, you know, see
Speaker 1: things from a child's perspective. So imagine being a kid
Speaker 1: watching wrestling nowadays, and then you're angry at Sammy because
Speaker 1: he because because he hurt the gingerbread man. Like that's real,
Speaker 1: that's real, child, that's very real stuff. So you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like we got to turn off our
Speaker 1: adult brains at times and just watch things from a children's,
Speaker 1: a child's perspective, and like we used to like like
Speaker 1: like you used to when you were a kid, and
Speaker 1: so it's it's funny. I think it's funny. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I wouldn't call it stupid. I just
Speaker 1: call it funny and just really silly because and I'm
Speaker 1: and I'm a goofball, so I love stuff like this.
Speaker 1: But but for what are your predictionious, Biyakova is Mitch.
Speaker 2: I think trick will when I think this will make
Speaker 2: Sammy crash that look at his face, look at that beer.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's angry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just why are I? And then but then
Speaker 2: why do I keep thinking about Kevin Owen's returning m
Speaker 2: to help to you know, help have me calmed down,
Speaker 2: to like help help his friend. And then at the end,
Speaker 2: well not attack. Yeah, just got to help Sammy because
Speaker 2: little Bell by his side, so he needs his fan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think, yeah, that between that's a good
Speaker 1: prediction because we haven't seen Kevin Owens in a year now.
Speaker 1: Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean he would come back
Speaker 1: and fight, of course, because the neck injury is very serious,
Speaker 1: so you have to be careful when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: He could come and be Sammy's more Sammy's moral support.
Speaker 1: But I have a whole other prediction involving another person
Speaker 1: that isn't Kevin Owens Because I am such a big
Speaker 1: fan of Carmelo Hayes. A part of me fee that
Speaker 1: Carmelo could cause a wrinkle in things because he is
Speaker 1: someone who if he was, of course, you know, the
Speaker 1: United States champion before Sammy's ain used his underhanded tactics
Speaker 1: to capitalize on Carmelo getting attacked by Trick Williams. I
Speaker 1: feel like he could cause a wrinkle into things as well.
Speaker 1: And because you know a lot of people were saying,
Speaker 1: where's Carmelo, Where's Carmelo? You know, after WrestleMania, he did
Speaker 1: tweet and say see you soon with a picture, so
Speaker 1: he could show up on Friday, he could show up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and he could cause a wrinkle into things.
Speaker 1: So the way that you feel that maybe Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: could come and be a moral support for Sammy somehow
Speaker 1: or another, I feel like Carmelo could very well come
Speaker 1: in and cause a wrinkle for both Trick and Sammy
Speaker 1: and then try to reinsert himself back into the United
Speaker 1: States title picture, which he shouldn't have really, which you
Speaker 1: could argue that he's should not have lost in the
Speaker 1: first place. Yeah, yeah, because he has to get his
Speaker 1: look back. But because of that, and also because of
Speaker 1: his open challenges and everything, he had to miss Mania,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people were very angry about that,
Speaker 1: including me. But so I'm just saying, like Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: could also be someone who could you know, causing a
Speaker 1: new wrinkle into things. Yeah, and let me just say
Speaker 1: this interaction that happened before WrestleMania between Trick and Carmelo
Speaker 1: really bummed me out a bit because it's almost like
Speaker 1: looking into like a reverse mirror, because once upon a
Speaker 1: time it was Trick and mellow gang like an nx T. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Trick wasn't even wrestling fully at that point, and
Speaker 1: he was really the moral support for Melo until they
Speaker 1: broke up. And now you see Trick, you know, who's
Speaker 1: grown into who he is, and now he has little
Speaker 1: YACHTI with him, and it's essentially it's almost like, you know,
Speaker 1: the same thing, except but a hole in a different packaging.
Speaker 1: It's really insane how things evolve, right.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can pay thank you for a
Speaker 2: freshman memory because yeah, they did have their whole fac team.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love it when this is why
Speaker 2: I love NXC when they like go up in the
Speaker 2: main roster. They like have their have more storylines because
Speaker 2: they're more evolved. I love that, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then they make it make sense now too,
Speaker 1: because back in the day, under another regime, you know,
Speaker 1: they used to pretend that NXT stuff didn't matter or
Speaker 1: NXT lore didn't matter, whereas now they completely fully acknowledge
Speaker 1: NXC as a third brand and acknowledge the lore between
Speaker 1: a lot of the people that get called up, so
Speaker 1: they don't insult our intelligence in that way. Like if
Speaker 1: you watch all the show's hardcore, they reward you or
Speaker 1: that in that way. And I really appreciate that because
Speaker 1: for years it was almost like night and day, and
Speaker 1: now it's not. It's just like it's the natural progression. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I like that a lot. So yeah, we could
Speaker 1: see Carmelo Hays pop back up Friday or Saturday, and
Speaker 1: I hope so because I miss him. I miss him,
Speaker 1: and I love that him shirt. I gotta get it.
Speaker 1: I gotta get it. I gotta get it because his
Speaker 1: shirts were fresh to death. I gotta get it. I
Speaker 1: gottack it. But yeah, it's gonna be interesting. Another interesting
Speaker 1: match we have. Speaking of the silly we have a
Speaker 1: tag team match between the Miz and his pupil, Kit
Speaker 1: will soon going up against Dan Housen and a mystery
Speaker 1: tag team partner of his choosing who loves human monies.
Speaker 1: There's two sets of predictions here. Number one, who's gonna
Speaker 1: win this man? At number two, who do you think
Speaker 1: his partner is. I've seen people say that they feel
Speaker 1: like it might be Seeing Punk because see him Punk
Speaker 1: and Dan Housen are friends, and he likes human monies.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's really hard to say. I almost
Speaker 1: feel like maybe it could be Johnny Gargano. Maybe it
Speaker 1: could really be anybody knowing Dan Housen. A part of
Speaker 1: me wants it also to be our truth for some reason,
Speaker 1: because him and our truth Truth Housend would be so
Speaker 1: silly and I will Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't know. It really is a mystery when
Speaker 1: it comes to Dan Housen. But I'm gonna predict that
Speaker 1: Dan Housen and his mystery partner are gonna win because
Speaker 1: the Miss and Kit Wilson they're a pretty okay tag team,
Speaker 1: but of course they've been cursed, so I think the
Speaker 1: fix is in. What do you think Bianca.
Speaker 2: I love that the miss has been in w b
Speaker 2: E for this long and then he and for all before,
Speaker 2: as long as he's and for as long as he's
Speaker 2: been in w w E, he's been, he's kept up
Speaker 2: with not only the bad guy, but like the funny
Speaker 2: and serious bad guy. Does that mean.
Speaker 1: Yes, it makes a lot of sense. And there.
Speaker 2: I love the storyline, I really I love. It's so
Speaker 2: funny and so ridiculous. And I do I do think
Speaker 2: that Dan Housen and his mystery guests will win. I
Speaker 2: I I have. I speaking of Dan Housen, every time
Speaker 2: I see I always try to avoid seeing like pictures
Speaker 2: of him unmasked, because like it just doesn't feel right
Speaker 2: seeing him without a mask, without without did I say
Speaker 2: a mass without paint? Yeah, because like every because like
Speaker 2: it's just like like the old Steak. I don't want
Speaker 2: to know his name, he's the all steak guy, Like
Speaker 2: I don't want to see I don't know it, just
Speaker 2: doesn't want to feel I just wouldn't feel right seeing
Speaker 2: him without face paint. Like every time I stumble upon
Speaker 2: pictures of him, I just like like get it out
Speaker 2: of my face like real quick, because like I just don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see it. I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: just I like this very mysterio, like like Rays. Seeing
Speaker 2: him without a massa, it doesn't it doesn't feel right.
Speaker 2: I know you're without a mass You're the king of mystery,
Speaker 2: that's your name. You're very stereo. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 2: that has a moment.
Speaker 1: I understand that sentiment because I felt the exact same
Speaker 1: way the first time I saw Ray without his mask,
Speaker 1: like my dad showed me, and I felt like I
Speaker 1: low ki felt like I cursed for the first time
Speaker 1: because I was just like, what do you mean, Like
Speaker 1: without his mask, that's bad, But they come to find out,
Speaker 1: to see him without his mask, to see Raymond Sterio
Speaker 1: without his mask is to be blessed because he was here.
Speaker 1: That's a good looking man, like his wife is very
Speaker 1: lucky because he he is gorgeous. Raymosterio is a gorgeous man.
Speaker 1: I love seeing the old clips of him in w
Speaker 1: CW with his mask off, because that that man was
Speaker 1: was cute, like for real. But yeah, I understand how
Speaker 1: you feel seeing people without their you know, persona on.
Speaker 1: It's it's very different. It's it's very it's very evil,
Speaker 1: very not nice.
Speaker 2: At all. But the man behind that housing, he's a
Speaker 2: father and a husband. Was the last thing I expected
Speaker 2: to be to hear. You know, it's very unexpected.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing that surprised me was just the fact
Speaker 1: that Dan Housen really is his last name, like that
Speaker 1: it is? It is. I looked it up. I kid you,
Speaker 1: not like dan Housen really is his last name? What
Speaker 1: for real?
Speaker 2: We've been saying his last thing this whole time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's amazing though, because I mean, what, well,
Speaker 1: I'm biased because I've done this for years, but what
Speaker 1: better brand to get behind than your own name. Seriously, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's it's great, but then it also
Speaker 1: sounds like a name that you would hear, like in
Speaker 1: like a very scary book, like in an episode of
Speaker 1: Goosebumps or something. I like it. I like it. We
Speaker 1: love Dan Housen so hopefully, so hopefully, the Hearty Wrestling
Speaker 1: Podcast will never be cursed. So yeah, we're both predicting
Speaker 1: that Dan Housen, whoever his mystery partner is, will definitely win.
Speaker 2: I remember hearing I'm getting I remember I would follow
Speaker 2: CM punk when he would be at when he was
Speaker 2: when he was in w W E and just seeing him,
Speaker 2: just seeing that name, I wasn't like I think he was.
Speaker 2: I think it was at a E W. Can I
Speaker 2: tell you that, of course, Okay? I I think that
Speaker 2: during that era was when I was first introduced to
Speaker 2: Dan Housen because oh really, okay, I'm not okay cool?
Speaker 2: And then I and seeing him now and seeing how
Speaker 2: like he and like getting to know him and seeing
Speaker 2: why people love Dan Hillsen and seeing why seem punk
Speaker 2: likes Dan Houson. That's the his introduction at well, was
Speaker 2: it Russell Palooza?
Speaker 1: No, dan Housen's introduction was at Elimination Chamber this year,
Speaker 1: was it? Yeah? That was that Elimination Chamber this year
Speaker 1: because it was in Chicago, it was yeah.
Speaker 2: And then and wow, and that's right.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I love and I remember how everybody
Speaker 1: thought for sure was going to be someone else, but
Speaker 1: then when it turned out to be Dan Housen, people
Speaker 1: online were trying to add like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so disappointed, only for Dan Housen to now be more
Speaker 1: over than than ever before. Yeah, get it together, guys, relaxed,
Speaker 1: but you know, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, no, but yeah, I just really liked Dan
Speaker 2: Housen and getting to and getting to know him, and
Speaker 2: just I get it, I get the ship, I get it.
Speaker 2: It's he's really, he's he's really, he's really funny, and
Speaker 2: I love that he's a family man. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: love the the fact that he gets actual the fact
Speaker 2: that people actually give him money, not just for his marriage,
Speaker 2: but like just because you can see the amount of
Speaker 2: money see him FuG gives Danausen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then did you also see how he actually
Speaker 1: how because he cursed Stephen A. Smith on ESPN, and
Speaker 1: he cursed the New York Knicks they weren't winning, and
Speaker 1: then when he reversed the curse on a cameo for
Speaker 1: a fan, they actually started winning more. And now that
Speaker 1: I believe they're still in the playoffs, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious to me. Yeah, Like that's the kind of
Speaker 1: stuff if I really enjoy, like I enjoy, I enjoy
Speaker 1: the crossover, and I also appreciate how silly it is.
Speaker 1: But it also teaches you a lesson, like you gotta
Speaker 1: be careful of the world you say, because they can
Speaker 1: become real, like words have power. Like that is very
Speaker 1: much a thing.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I'm like, does Dan has to have powers?
Speaker 2: Because like I feel like.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, he has powers.
Speaker 2: This is like wow, that's just like I feel. I
Speaker 2: feel some like magic, like I don't know, I feel
Speaker 2: some energy. I don't know. It's just I think without
Speaker 2: the mask, like he's he's cool, he's like a normal guy.
Speaker 2: But with the mask he has magical power.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's he's a magical being, even though even though
Speaker 1: his disappearing acts aren't exactly the greatest, because he'll try,
Speaker 1: like in a puff of smoke, and he'll still be there.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, and then he'll run.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Oh, Dan Hausen never changed.
Speaker 2: A beetle Juice.
Speaker 1: Exactly. He does remind me of Beetlejuice. I see that
Speaker 1: great observation.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the last stick at missus House in
Speaker 2: the pool? Yeah, that whole thing reminded me of like
Speaker 2: those nineties villains, well not villains those, It reminded me
Speaker 2: of Beetlejuice. It reminded me of those.
Speaker 1: Freaky nineties cartoons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not not only cartoons, but like those movies with
Speaker 2: the with the freaky and campy ness of it, all
Speaker 2: that jump from the pool, Like, hell, I want to
Speaker 2: know how he thinks about this, and like what it
Speaker 2: takes for him to create these videos and montages and
Speaker 2: is it vignettes? Those? I want to I want to know.
Speaker 2: I want to know his thought process. I want to
Speaker 2: know because he's very creative mm hmmm and.
Speaker 1: Mack.
Speaker 2: And he's only wrestled many like mph oh, he hasn't
Speaker 2: wrestled a lot. But seeing him wrestle like he has,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was exactly shocked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan has. It might be very silly, but don't
Speaker 1: get it twisted when it's time to get in that ring,
Speaker 1: like when he fought the like on Dave Dews the
Speaker 1: first time, Like I was just like wow, okay, like
Speaker 1: you really can't go like when it comes down to it.
Speaker 1: So he's he's a substantial a very very substantial talent,
Speaker 1: and he's very hilarious. And I need his shirt too,
Speaker 1: I just I need I need to shop. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we're but back to just the predictions of it all.
Speaker 1: We love Dan Housen. He's very evil, very nice, and
Speaker 1: we want him to win this tag team match and
Speaker 1: we can't wait to see who his mystery partner is
Speaker 1: going to be. And I also love Kit Wilson too,
Speaker 1: like I love him. I've always loved him. I loved
Speaker 1: him even when he was with Pretty and Pretty Deadly
Speaker 1: with Elton Prince get well suited to him. I loved
Speaker 1: Pretty Deadly so much so to see Kit Wilson sort
Speaker 1: of jump down on his own with this is really
Speaker 1: cool for me. But yeah, Dan Housen for the win
Speaker 1: and finally, wow, we have this beefy match right here
Speaker 1: between Roman Reigns the new world heavyweight champion. I'm so sorry, Bianca.
Speaker 1: I know you wanted to see him punk to win.
Speaker 1: I know you did. I know you did. I wanted
Speaker 1: Punk to win too, but you know, the facts are
Speaker 1: the facts, and Roman Zebra is the world anyway champion.
Speaker 2: I don't know he's I'm just like one two. I
Speaker 2: just gave up.
Speaker 1: It was I just wanted to cheer you up. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to cheer you.
Speaker 2: I don't think now it's not the time.
Speaker 1: That I just wanted to cheer you up.
Speaker 2: There's a time of place for.
Speaker 1: I never get.
Speaker 2: Tired of it.
Speaker 1: I just don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not worry his story.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, exactly mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. But the facts are the facts. Roman
Speaker 1: rings the OTC is the World heavyweight Champion, and look,
Speaker 1: they've been pissing a lot of people off, so it
Speaker 1: seems like that's putting par for the course over the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. But he is fighting his family again
Speaker 1: because Jacob fought to fresh from defeating Drew McIntire in
Speaker 1: an unsanctioned match, decided he wanted to step to his cousin.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know the specific relation. I think it's
Speaker 1: cousin and challenge for the world heavyweight title. He's made
Speaker 1: the jump to raw and this match is happening now.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. This surprised me when Jacob challenged him,
Speaker 1: because of course Jacob was, you know, doing his thing
Speaker 1: on SmackDown, but of course, you know, in the moving
Speaker 1: around of things, I understand how that can go. But
Speaker 1: to see him challenge Roman, I'm not gonna lie. As
Speaker 1: much as I love Jacob Fatu, it bummed me out
Speaker 1: that a certain ruler did not challenge Roman. So before
Speaker 1: we get into predictions, let me just say this was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts of WrestleMania. I haven't said
Speaker 1: it's on record yet. This was one of my favorite
Speaker 1: parts of WrestleMania. I was so glad that Obafemi beat
Speaker 1: and subsequently retired Pumpkinhead. It was an amazing display of strings.
Speaker 1: Oba did what needed to be done, and he is
Speaker 1: now the new Big Bad. However, having Oba Femi in
Speaker 1: these open challenges, I mean, it's okay, but I feel like,
Speaker 1: once you defeat one of Roman Reigns's greatest rivals, why
Speaker 1: aren't you moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're waiting for a bigger moment for him to
Speaker 1: do that that's bigger than backlash. But I was disappointed
Speaker 1: that it wasn't Oba challenging Roman instead. Even though I
Speaker 1: understand that there is another chapter and another layer of
Speaker 1: bloodline stuff that they could do with Roman and Jacob,
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be Oba versus Roman. To me,
Speaker 1: that just made sense. Bianca, tell me how you felt
Speaker 1: about number one Oba winning at Mania and number two.
Speaker 1: Did it surprise you to see Jacob challenge Roman?
Speaker 2: Well, the whole oh my gosh, this whole match. I'm
Speaker 2: I was rooting for Oba. I'm really glad he won
Speaker 2: after the whole thing, after I said he's done, and
Speaker 2: then he said taking off his buzzs and like I was, like,
Speaker 2: I was just skiddy and then it actually happened. But
Speaker 2: I digrest. I'm really happy. I'm really happy obaman. And
Speaker 2: that entrance though, oh my god, that is one of
Speaker 2: my favorite entrances to date.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, chills inducing.
Speaker 2: Everyone saying, ohba that long walk, Oh my god. I
Speaker 2: have watched it back, but I I hold that entrance,
Speaker 2: that that entrance has a special place in my heart
Speaker 2: along with a J's and punks and more. Yo, oh
Speaker 2: my god. And he just the fact that he just
Speaker 2: came up on the main roster right now, He's has
Speaker 2: this star quality to him, insane and now and all.
Speaker 2: And I'm so happy he won. I'm really happy he won.
Speaker 2: He has and he's going places.
Speaker 1: And I pray for it. Didn't happen, amen, I legit
Speaker 1: prayed for it, Okay, like legit, like full on, I
Speaker 1: ask God, it will, it will happen.
Speaker 2: It will definitely happen. I just don't want. I just
Speaker 2: fear and feel like someone or something will mess his run.
Speaker 2: We'll mess up, we'll mess up. Well, I don't want
Speaker 2: to drink something, but I just hope no one messes
Speaker 2: something up for him. Or does something or to like
Speaker 2: put in put him in some weird situation, you know,
Speaker 2: like that, but like I mean what they like, what
Speaker 2: they do with Yeah, like I mean that, I mean
Speaker 2: because that that is something that the ri is all
Speaker 2: the words stuff. I just don't want him to like
Speaker 2: fall into that trap because he's that good and we
Speaker 2: all see it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: But yes, I'm praying, praying Haran. But back to going
Speaker 2: to but going and talking about Jacob and Roman. I'm
Speaker 2: actually happy this is. Oh, I I'm actually I'm at
Speaker 2: I don't know how I I mean, I'm I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to it. I'm actually happy. I'm actually very excited
Speaker 2: that this is happen. I'm actually very excited that this
Speaker 2: is happening. When he appeared on Raw, anytime Jacob I
Speaker 2: I love any Jacob Fatu appearing. He always hypes it
Speaker 2: up and he's always so fresh, and I'm really excited.
Speaker 2: I'm really happy this is winning and he better win.
Speaker 2: Although oh gosh, although some stuff will happen like like
Speaker 2: they always do. My rote, I'm rooting for Jacob. I'm
Speaker 2: voting for Jacob. Do you hear his do you do
Speaker 2: you hear his mic work? Do you see his micwork.
Speaker 2: Do you hear his promos fire every time? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And yeah, he's unserious, but he's serious, that makes sense,
Speaker 2: Just like Roman, he's always uns I hope I'm answering
Speaker 2: your question or am I just rambling?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, I mean you are answering my question.
Speaker 1: I mean because Jacob, Jacob has earned this opportunity. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Even though a part of me would
Speaker 1: have loved, love, love, love for Oba to have the opportunity,
Speaker 1: you know, he still has time. Whereas Jacob, of course,
Speaker 1: being a part of the bloodline, I'm happy that he
Speaker 1: has his opportunity because he's worked so hard his entire career,
Speaker 1: even before WWE, and of course with all that he's
Speaker 1: overcome in his life, you know, he deserves an opportunity
Speaker 1: like this, and I'm happy that he does have it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like you mentioned with his mic work, he's
Speaker 1: very intense, and you believe him. You believe every word
Speaker 1: he says, You believe you know his movements, you believe
Speaker 1: the way he wrestles, like even though it surprises you
Speaker 1: with how athletic this man is, you know, you believe
Speaker 1: everything about Jacob Fato and I definitely loved that promo
Speaker 1: to him and Royce Key slash Powerhouse Hobbs had when
Speaker 1: they were you know, bonding over their California connection, Like
Speaker 1: that was really cool too, Like you believe stuff like
Speaker 1: that because it's authentic, Like j is authentic. He's real,
Speaker 1: and I love that someone as real as him can
Speaker 1: have an opportunity like this, So I am happy for him,
Speaker 1: you know, don't get me wrong. So I understand everything
Speaker 1: you're saying, Bianca, but I will say this. The thing
Speaker 1: that the thing that does boggle my mind a bit
Speaker 1: in terms of this bloodline storyline is wondering if this
Speaker 1: is going to result in Roman either winning the match
Speaker 1: by himself or using the USOS to cheat like he
Speaker 1: used to do, and then them beating down Jacob so
Speaker 1: bad to where he has to fall in line and
Speaker 1: join the family like everything used to be back in
Speaker 1: the day, Like, is Roman gonna fall back into those
Speaker 1: old habits where you have to acknowledge me or else
Speaker 1: I will beat you into submission? Or is this a
Speaker 1: new reformed version of the tribal chief that we're saying.
Speaker 1: That's really my biggest questions going into this match. So
Speaker 1: with that in mind. As much as I love Jacob,
Speaker 1: and I would absolutely love it, love it, love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it if he won the World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 1: I think Roman is going to retain. But I think
Speaker 1: this is where we are going to see what Roman's
Speaker 1: actual intentions are in terms of reuniting with the USOS.
Speaker 1: Is it going to be something diplomatic or is it
Speaker 1: going to be something abusive like it once was? And
Speaker 1: is he going to try to beat Jacob into submission
Speaker 1: because of it? Because then you also have the violent
Speaker 1: nature of it too, because Jacob ran up on that
Speaker 1: dude and did the tongue in death grip. He tried
Speaker 1: to take that man's win pipe out twice. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, it's gonna be violent for sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm definitely predicting that Roman is going to win.
Speaker 2: It's not supposed to eat it. I think Roman is
Speaker 2: going to win too. Yeah, but I want to see
Speaker 2: Jacob Bott with the World Heavyweight Championship.
Speaker 1: And that would be sick, right.
Speaker 2: I don't has he everyone this speak?
Speaker 1: No, he won the United States title last year Russell Mania,
Speaker 1: so he has held gold in w before, but not
Speaker 1: the top gold.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, he definitely needs that top He definitely
Speaker 2: looks like a top man. He has he proved himself
Speaker 2: that he's a top man.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. He can yeah, you know, and if he
Speaker 1: doesn't win it this time, he definitely has another chance.
Speaker 1: He can definitely get another chance, Like this guy is
Speaker 1: the limit for him. But I'm just wondering, like, are
Speaker 1: the USOS going to help Roman win or is Roman
Speaker 1: going to do it himself because he did defeat Seampunk
Speaker 1: by himself at Mania. Yeah, but so a part of
Speaker 1: me is just wondering, you know, how is this gonna
Speaker 1: play out in the New bloodline of things? Interesting things
Speaker 1: to think about. Backlash Tampa, you know, has the potential
Speaker 1: to be a really good pay per view. Like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, it will be airing ones on the ESPN app,
Speaker 1: but the first hour is going to be on ESPN
Speaker 1: two on the TV on the cable, and of course
Speaker 1: internationally it will be on Netflix. So yeah, we have
Speaker 1: a lot to look forward to with this pay per view.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about it, you know, regardless, And it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a cool weekend regardless, even with SmackDown being
Speaker 1: before it as well. So I'm pumped. Yes. So something
Speaker 1: else I do want to mention before I go is
Speaker 1: that I wanted to talk about how I was blessed
Speaker 1: to have been featured on a BBC podcast. So for
Speaker 1: those who may or may not know, BBC is you know,
Speaker 1: basically CNN for Great Britain and they have different networks
Speaker 1: of news involving you know, television news, mass media, podcasts
Speaker 1: and everything. And I got to do an interview for
Speaker 1: their Business Daily podcast for the BBC World Service on
Speaker 1: the episode that they released on April the fifteenth, call
Speaker 1: how Wrestling Became Big Business. They released it during Wrestlemingia
Speaker 1: weekend and I was very proud to have been to
Speaker 1: have been a part of it. I'm also proud because
Speaker 1: this was a major moment because just the idea of
Speaker 1: people listening to me, you know, in the United States,
Speaker 1: is cool, but the idea that people would want to
Speaker 1: listen to me in the UK is even amazing too,
Speaker 1: So I'm really grateful for that and thankful to BBC
Speaker 1: for even thinking of me in that regard. And then
Speaker 1: it also means a lot because this was the last
Speaker 1: major thing that my mom got to hear me do.
Speaker 1: She listened to it and she was very excited. My
Speaker 1: dad told me when he listened when he had her
Speaker 1: listen to it, that she wasn't paying attention like in
Speaker 1: the first few seconds, but then when she heard my voice,
Speaker 1: she was like, oh, you know, so I'm really grateful
Speaker 1: that I got to do that, and that was the
Speaker 1: last thing she got to hear me do before she passed.
Speaker 1: So if you have not already, go on BBC World
Speaker 1: Service and go on their Business Daily podcast and scroll
Speaker 1: a little bit down because they do release episodes every
Speaker 1: other day and listen to that. Because that episode got
Speaker 1: released during WrestleMania weekend and I just wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about it on the pod because I didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance to given life stuff.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's a great Interville listen to. She gives
Speaker 2: great insight on wrestling. So the way she talks about
Speaker 2: wrestling on hear is what she does on a very
Speaker 2: more much more professional I mean it is professional. She's
Speaker 2: very professional on this on this uh episode episode.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a very great listen. She's very insightful, she's
Speaker 2: she knows what she's talking about. She's she's a very
Speaker 2: great wrestling wrestling historian, and she gives the she gives
Speaker 2: great facts and she knows the fact, she knows what
Speaker 2: she's talking about. And yeah, please give it a listen.
Speaker 2: I listened to it. It's amazing and I'm really happy mother,
Speaker 2: miss And I'm really happy my mother got to listen
Speaker 2: to this and witnessed this before she went on to
Speaker 2: Greener and Great, the Great Beyond. Yes, say her name
Speaker 2: one more time.
Speaker 1: Yes, her name is Cephra Hardy. Adeline Hobson Hardy is
Speaker 1: her whole wife. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, may always be a blessing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, so that brings us the end of our time together.
Speaker 1: So I'm so happy to have done this episode, and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to have done this episode with you, Bianca.
Speaker 1: So tell everybody where they can find and follow you
Speaker 1: and what else you have going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have some things coming up. I have. You
Speaker 2: can follow my my main announcing journey on Instagram and
Speaker 2: TikTok at Ebonie Rose Ringside. That's E B O and
Speaker 2: I Rose R O S E R I n G
Speaker 2: s I d Ebony Rose spring Side. Spell that five times.
Speaker 2: So if you want to follow me on the personal level,
Speaker 2: we'll get to know me on personal level. You can
Speaker 2: follow me on Twitter and on Instagram at Beyonca Addison
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, that's pretty much it cool.
Speaker 1: Awesome sauce. So of course you can follow me your
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Speaker 1: which is of course the Hardy Wrestling Podcast with the
Speaker 1: purple logo that you see in the corner over there.
Speaker 1: Get those subscriber numbers up, and of course repost and
Speaker 1: like and share different video clips as they are shared
Speaker 1: throughout this weekend because I'm trying to get back into
Speaker 1: the swing of things slowly but surely, so you know,
Speaker 1: just bear with me. But either way, that's where you
Speaker 1: can find and follow all the stuff there and just
Speaker 1: continue to support the vibe and support us as black
Speaker 1: women in wrestling media and black women in media as
Speaker 1: a whole, and just continue to just support the content
Speaker 1: creators out here doing their things and doing their best
Speaker 1: to express their love of professional wrestling in so many
Speaker 1: different way shapes and forms, and also continue to hold
Speaker 1: on to your love for professional wrestling, because I think
Speaker 1: it's easy to get caught up in the dirt sheets,
Speaker 1: and it's easy to get caught up in rumors and
Speaker 1: just so many ups and downs and changes of wrestling,
Speaker 1: But you'd really have to appreciate and just dive into
Speaker 1: why you love wrestling and hold on to that and
Speaker 1: not let that get tainted just because things change. You know,
Speaker 1: life is made of change, but you have to learn
Speaker 1: how to adapt and also have an open mind, which
Speaker 1: is another great lesson that my mom taught me in life,
Speaker 1: is that you have to have an open mind and
Speaker 1: know that even though your favorites won't be here anymore,
Speaker 1: they could be somewhere else and you could see them
Speaker 1: operate in another different function, and you have to be
Speaker 1: open to that level of change and that level of evolution.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be Okay, We're gonna hold on, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna still love wrestling for what it is and
Speaker 1: for what it gives us, and we're gonna try our
Speaker 1: best to just hold on to the things we love.
Speaker 2: So well said keep on
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So, of course, this has been the hardy wrestling
Speaker 1: Podcast with Your Girls Stephanie Hardy and Bianca Addison And
Speaker 1: until next time, Bye y'all.