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Speaker 2: So we're gonna start with news and gossip fish like
Speaker 2: we always do, and we got to get into all
Speaker 2: of the crazy stuff that happened even as recent as Thursday.
Speaker 2: And that's the news of Miro formerly known as Russev
Speaker 2: in WWE, and he was God's favorite wrestler in ae
Speaker 2: W and he was a big signing that a lot
Speaker 2: of people were excited about when he got signed to
Speaker 2: a but some news about him came out that really
Speaker 2: kind of shocked people. He actually asked for his release
Speaker 2: from aw after being there for a while, so he
Speaker 2: requested his release and it was reported by Fightful Select
Speaker 2: And he has not wrestled at all for AAW in
Speaker 2: the year of twenty twenty four, and his last match
Speaker 2: in the company was a win over Andrade at AW
Speaker 2: World's n in December of twenty twenty three, and if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, that was Ondrade's last match in ww
Speaker 2: well not in AAW as well before he went over
Speaker 2: to WWE. So it's just really crazy how all this
Speaker 2: is happening. He was dealing with injuries for the last year,
Speaker 2: but he's been healthy for a while, but you know,
Speaker 2: he just hasn't been on TV. And he was signed
Speaker 2: with them, and he signed with them in September of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and then he signed a four year extension
Speaker 2: near the time his original deal was set to expire,
Speaker 2: and he's only wrestled eleven So this is just really
Speaker 2: shocking when you think about how powerful this man is
Speaker 2: and just how strong he is and what he did
Speaker 2: give to WW in the years he was over there,
Speaker 2: and what he did do in aew his character work
Speaker 2: did seem kind of okay. But then I feel like
Speaker 2: something kind of changed when C. J. Perry, formerly known
Speaker 2: as Lana, came over there, and of course they used
Speaker 2: to be married, but they're not anymore, and there was
Speaker 2: something about that that just changed a bit for him.
Speaker 2: And then after that it just wasn't nothing really happened
Speaker 2: from that anymore, and it was just really strange. But
Speaker 2: I do wish him the best in his wrestling career.
Speaker 2: I hope that he figures out what's best for him
Speaker 2: at this point, because, like I said, he's really powerful
Speaker 2: and very gifted. He was a multi time champion in WWE,
Speaker 2: so really the sky's a limit for him. So we're
Speaker 2: just gonna keep our fingers crossed and he will land
Speaker 2: on his feet and be in the place that best
Speaker 2: suits him right now in his life right now. So yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty crazy news the fact that he got released. Also,
Speaker 2: if you guys are watching, you know, chime in in
Speaker 2: the comments wherever you guys are watching, and your comments
Speaker 2: might pop up on the screen. I might show it
Speaker 2: up on their and you know, react to it, So yeah,
Speaker 2: just tell me how you feeling about this stuff. Also
Speaker 2: in the news, we have the amazing song never Play
Speaker 2: by Megan thee Stallion and RM of Bts. This song
Speaker 2: costs quite an up for because this is now the
Speaker 2: new SmackDown theme song since they made their move to
Speaker 2: USA two weeks ago, and a lot of people did
Speaker 2: like the fact that this was a new theme song
Speaker 2: and loved the idea of her being involved more in
Speaker 2: the wrestling things. I was definitely an advocate of her
Speaker 2: getting more involved in wrestling, but of course a lot
Speaker 2: of people lost their minds about it, didn't like it,
Speaker 2: wanted to say that this is not a wrestling theme
Speaker 2: song and that it should be more rock and all
Speaker 2: this other stuff, which was kind of a microaggression just
Speaker 2: to say that you don't like the fact that maybe
Speaker 2: black women are getting more involved in wrestling. Stay over there.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. The song actually debuted at number
Speaker 2: one on both the Billboard Digital Song Sales and Rap
Speaker 2: Song Sales dated to September the twenty first, and this
Speaker 2: marks RM of Bts' second number one on the digital
Speaker 2: sales charts and Megan thee Stallion's sixth number one, so
Speaker 2: we want to sing congratulations to them for giving such
Speaker 2: a cool song and such a cool offering that was
Speaker 2: able to be transformed into this SmackDown theme song. I
Speaker 2: really like it. It hipes me up. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people in wrestling, because they've been watching it
Speaker 2: for so long, feel like, oh, well, it has to
Speaker 2: be rocking. That's something that you know, just gets the
Speaker 2: blood pumping and everything. But hip hop definitely gets the
Speaker 2: blood pumping, because have you ever been to a party
Speaker 2: and just you know, somebody's song just comes on immediately,
Speaker 2: but oh, that's my song and then they just start
Speaker 2: dancing and rapping all the words and stuff that hipes
Speaker 2: people up too. So I'm more than sure that this
Speaker 2: is going to feed into the audience of people who
Speaker 2: love megan a sound and love to listen to our music.
Speaker 2: So I'm okay with it. I'm a hottie as well,
Speaker 2: I'm cool with it. I actually wrote an article talking
Speaker 2: about why she actually needs to get in the ring
Speaker 2: because we've seen lots of male celebrities such as Snoop
Speaker 2: Dogg and such as bat Bunny get in the ring
Speaker 2: with others, and it would just be really nice to
Speaker 2: see another female celebrity do that, because we have not
Speaker 2: had a female celebrity really get in a ring like
Speaker 2: that since Snooky from Jersey Shore, and that was years
Speaker 2: ago when I was like seventeen. So we gotta, you know,
Speaker 2: get some more celebrities in the mix, and Megan Stallion
Speaker 2: is one of the best people to do that because
Speaker 2: she's very active, she's physically fit, she just has everything
Speaker 2: that you need to have that charisma for professional wrestling.
Speaker 2: She even joked about it on Twitter and said, well,
Speaker 2: I guess I need to make my debut soon and
Speaker 2: I'm just like, yes, girl, come and do it. But
Speaker 2: congratulations to her because I just love watching her succeed.
Speaker 2: And also of BTS and the BTS Army because they
Speaker 2: are a huge fandom and I know this is huge
Speaker 2: for them as well. So we just love representational all
Speaker 2: friends for black people and also for Asian people as well,
Speaker 2: So big up to them for that. And in talking
Speaker 2: more about Mercedes, well not Mercedes, about Megan Thee Stallion
Speaker 2: in professional wrestling. There was a certain report that came
Speaker 2: out this week talking about how there were talks between
Speaker 2: Mercedes Monette and Megan THEE Stallion possibly working together in
Speaker 2: ae W and Mercedes was really excited about it, and
Speaker 2: she actually you know, talked about it online and said,
Speaker 2: you know, for fans to stay tuned. Well. When the
Speaker 2: news came out last week that Megan would be using
Speaker 2: letting ww lose her song for the SmackDown theme, the
Speaker 2: reports came out, and you know, there were rumors, but
Speaker 2: Mercedes Monette confirmed on her Money mag Weekly, which I
Speaker 2: do recommend you subscribe to because it is a really
Speaker 2: good read, that there was something cooking between her and
Speaker 2: Mercedes Money. So she said, and I quote Sports Illustrated
Speaker 2: and other sources reported on conversations between my advocate Kevin
Speaker 2: Undergaro and Meg's manager might be regarding her and me
Speaker 2: doing stuff at AEW. It's true. A few weeks ago
Speaker 2: in an interview, I made the mistake of teasing the idea,
Speaker 2: which made headlines. Of course, naturally, because she's Mercedes Money
Speaker 2: and she's the Beyonce of wrestling. More recently, it was
Speaker 2: announced that Meg would be part of the new SmackDown theme.
Speaker 2: It could all be a coincidence, of course, but then
Speaker 2: they don't call me the Blueprint for nothing. In hindsight,
Speaker 2: I should have kept my mouth shut about it, but
Speaker 2: all you can do is live and learn. I'm flattered
Speaker 2: and honored in a way as it proves we are
Speaker 2: clearly on the right path. While I would have loved
Speaker 2: to have worked with Meg and would have loved to
Speaker 2: see her work with our brand, I'm still happy for her.
Speaker 2: She's a great person in telling who will get exposure
Speaker 2: to the vast wrestling audience. Trust in this, AEW and
Speaker 2: Team Maney have a lot more brewing. So it's all good.
Speaker 2: You all will just have to wait this time to
Speaker 2: hear about it. And so finding out that this was
Speaker 2: true that her camp and Megan's camp did talk was
Speaker 2: really interesting to hear. If she did get involved with AW,
Speaker 2: that would be cool for you know, the vast wrestling
Speaker 2: community as a whole, to gain that type of exposure.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Even though this could have just
Speaker 2: so easily fed into the notion of possible tribalism, I
Speaker 2: feel like Megan is Stallion is such a big star
Speaker 2: that she could show up on it. She could work
Speaker 2: with WWE with the music half and then show up
Speaker 2: and do wrestling in the AEW have like just because
Speaker 2: she did, you know, bring her song to the WWE
Speaker 2: does not mean that she can't work with AW two
Speaker 2: because Snoop Dogg, Mercedes's cousin, actually worked with both. He
Speaker 2: got in the ring at AAW did a splash and
Speaker 2: then also did comment to and got into the ring
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania in Hollywood as well. So you know, Porkinlos does.
Speaker 2: Why can't Megan do both? So if she could do both,
Speaker 2: and if Snoop Dogg can do both, make it happen.
Speaker 2: I feel like Megan is one of those artists that
Speaker 2: could very well pop up on both promotions and everything
Speaker 2: will be just fine. So hey, let's just all have
Speaker 2: fun and let's just let these artists have fun with
Speaker 2: wrestling in a huge way. The rap and wrestling era
Speaker 2: is definitely in full swing. I love to see it.
Speaker 2: And then, of course there's more when it comes to
Speaker 2: rap and wrestling that we do have to discuss, and
Speaker 2: that is Sexy Read being announced as a guest for
Speaker 2: NXT in Saint Louis. Of course, she has talked about
Speaker 2: how big of a fan she is of NXC. She
Speaker 2: even popped up on an episode to reveal the to
Speaker 2: help reveal the NXC Women's North American Championship. She even
Speaker 2: popped up on NXC Battle Out Las Vegas, where she
Speaker 2: famously told Sarah Schreiber to twerk. So she was really
Speaker 2: having the time of her life. So she will be
Speaker 2: back at nx C Saint Louis, which of course are
Speaker 2: really big shows. Of course because NXC is moving over
Speaker 2: to the CW next month, so it's gonna be really cool.
Speaker 2: So to see all these women get involved in wrestling,
Speaker 2: it's just really fun and really cool. So for all
Speaker 2: we know, she could very well get involved in things
Speaker 2: the way that she did when it came to pulling
Speaker 2: the title away from Gallas to keep them from cheating
Speaker 2: on an episode of NXT. I'm here for it, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm just really excited. Malcolm in the comments, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for watching. He said, Megan is doallion
Speaker 2: at WrestleMania in Vegas. Book it. Hey, you can also
Speaker 2: book her for double or nothing if you want to.
Speaker 2: So I'm here for it. So yeah, rapping wrestling is
Speaker 2: alive and will and it's thriving, so I'm here for it.
Speaker 2: I love it. Let's just be open to other genres
Speaker 2: getting involved in wrestling. It's okay, It's literally okay. It's okay.
Speaker 2: Hold my hand. It's okay. So yeah, big ups and
Speaker 2: Sexy Red and big ups and NX making a huge
Speaker 2: move to the CW, and also big ups to US
Speaker 2: wrestling fans not getting confused and turning on to USA
Speaker 2: when it's supposed to be the other channel. It's fine,
Speaker 2: but yeah. Also in news and Gossipici more contract news, Pentha,
Speaker 2: l C Zero Mieto forgive me if I butcher that,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, and Ray Phoenix, known as the Luca Brothers,
Speaker 2: have signed a multi year deal with WWE, and it's
Speaker 2: being reported that they will go straight to the main roster.
Speaker 2: This was also very surprising for me, and apparently they
Speaker 2: said to WW has started producing masked T shirts and
Speaker 2: more promotional materials. Kelvin, who's watching, thank you say meg
Speaker 2: it all out twenty twenty five would have made all
Speaker 2: the since she's from T is okay, come on, talk
Speaker 2: about it, talk about it, manifest the things, Kelvin. I
Speaker 2: like that. That's a good thought. But yeah. The Luchre
Speaker 2: Brothers are now signed with WWE, and apparently they started
Speaker 2: to produce mass T shirts and more promotional materials. The
Speaker 2: Wrestling Observer newsletter notes that Penta was expected to leave
Speaker 2: AAW for some time, and Phoenix leaving with him means
Speaker 2: that Tony Kahan let him out of his deal early,
Speaker 2: as he was out for a year due to injuries,
Speaker 2: which added time to his contract. This surprised me because
Speaker 2: the Lucher brothers have been rocking with AAW for a
Speaker 2: long time, and I do believe where I did read
Speaker 2: where they have basically been with them since the beginning,
Speaker 2: the very beginning of AAW in their beginning stages. So
Speaker 2: to watch them, you know, leave, was just really surprising news.
Speaker 2: But I do wish the very best for them because
Speaker 2: they are really talented. I've seen their tag team work previously,
Speaker 2: so they are really cool. The thing though, I'm also
Speaker 2: sort of being cautiously optimistic with them because I don't
Speaker 2: necessarily and this is no shade at all to l WO,
Speaker 2: no shade at all, because I love them so dearly,
Speaker 2: especially my girls of Lena Vega. I don't want them
Speaker 2: to be placed with just LWO automatically just because they
Speaker 2: fit that demographic. I want them to sort of stand
Speaker 2: on their own two feet as a tag team and
Speaker 2: to sort of just help uplift the tag team roster
Speaker 2: per se like of course if they want to work
Speaker 2: with them, like with one offs with the lw O,
Speaker 2: and that's fine, But don't just put them over there
Speaker 2: just because they fit, you know that demographic. Like, let
Speaker 2: them stand on their own if they're going to be
Speaker 2: on the main roster. That's really the only thing that
Speaker 2: I'm hoping from their time on the main roster, if
Speaker 2: that's true. Sports for you in the comments saying good morning,
Speaker 2: good morning guys, thank you for watching, Calvin saying Luca Bros.
Speaker 2: Were day one. It's sad to see them go, but
Speaker 2: they will do. Grant and WWE. Yeah, it's really interesting,
Speaker 2: how you know, the how stuff can change. Michael Bullet, Hey,
Speaker 2: I met him yesterday at work. Hey, shout out from
Speaker 2: Bullet Club yesterday. Yes, thank you so much for watching
Speaker 2: and subscribing. I'm so happy to see you on here
Speaker 2: watching live. Good morning. So yeah, the Luca brothers are
Speaker 2: in WW. I'm really excited to see the type of
Speaker 2: matches they might have. They could fight with the Street
Speaker 2: Profits and it would definitely eat. They could even go
Speaker 2: down to NXC and fight with Nathan Fraser and Axiom
Speaker 2: and that would be great, you know, just whatever they
Speaker 2: decided to do in the tag team mix would just
Speaker 2: be absolutely fantastic. I wouldn't even be opposed to them
Speaker 2: taking the titles off of the Judgment Day, but we
Speaker 2: just got to wait and see. But congratulations to them,
Speaker 2: to the Lucre bros for getting signed sports for you
Speaker 2: and the comment saying, got to see them at the
Speaker 2: Forum in that trio's ladder match. They're gonna kill it,
Speaker 2: and I agree, and I agree they don't need the LWO. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just but no shade because I love the LWO all
Speaker 2: the way down. But don't just put them over there
Speaker 2: just because they fit that demographic. Don't do that. That's
Speaker 2: kind of late. But yeah, shout out to them and
Speaker 2: for them having that opportunity, and that's gonna be huge. Also,
Speaker 2: in more news and gossip fish, we have AAW TV
Speaker 2: deal rumblings going on. Of course, since AAW has been
Speaker 2: on with Warner Brothers and the TNT and TBS for
Speaker 2: a long period of time now, there have been lots
Speaker 2: of rumors regarding their TV deal and ratings and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. And there is this rumor that AW Rampage,
Speaker 2: their show that comes on on Friday nights right after SmackDown,
Speaker 2: could be canceled, so Dave Meltzer, who we do have
Speaker 2: to take with a grain of salt because sometimes he'd
Speaker 2: be off the leash. But he did report that rampage
Speaker 2: may not continue as AW shifts his attention to bigger
Speaker 2: opportunities with broadcast networks like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Telemundo, Univision, CW,
Speaker 2: or Ion currently in the home stretch of its marathon negotiation.
Speaker 2: AW has most recently been linked to Fox with the
Speaker 2: promotion filing trademark for the term AW shock Wave, and
Speaker 2: also John Rand of Puck reported that AAW was nearing
Speaker 2: a Warner Brothers deal that could in the ballpark be
Speaker 2: of one hundred and seventy million dollars per year for
Speaker 2: four years, three years guaranteed, and such a deal would
Speaker 2: make AW profitable. However, AAW could find itself in no
Speaker 2: man's land if it does not improve key indicators in
Speaker 2: the future necessary to make them relevant. Now, this isn't
Speaker 2: something that I like to fully get into because I
Speaker 2: feel like notions like this feed into the tribalism and
Speaker 2: the toxicity of the wrestling community that tends to get
Speaker 2: really rough at times. But when it comes to ratings,
Speaker 2: people I do see stuff that people say about their
Speaker 2: ratings and stuff, and it's just really hard because you
Speaker 2: want to see wrestling succeed as a whole and the
Speaker 2: idea that AW, you know, they're basically like this second
Speaker 2: big company underneath WW that's offering opportunities for people, and
Speaker 2: you just don't necessarily want that to fail because everybody
Speaker 2: you know at this point in time can't necessarily be
Speaker 2: in the one big place at this point. So it's
Speaker 2: good that there are other options like AW, like TNA,
Speaker 2: like NWA, like WOW, you know where you can be seen.
Speaker 2: So I want to see AW succeed in the idea
Speaker 2: that they're that they can continue to be an option
Speaker 2: for wrestlers to get on television because you have a
Speaker 2: lot of ndie people like Willow Nightingale and like the
Speaker 2: Bounty Hunter and Brian Keith even though I know he's
Speaker 2: called the Bad Apple right now, who have life changing
Speaker 2: opportunities to get on television and get that type of
Speaker 2: exposure in that way that they might not be able
Speaker 2: to get elsewhere at this point, but they're getting it
Speaker 2: because AAW exists, and I want that to still succeed
Speaker 2: to a degree. And if Rampage isn't want to necessarily
Speaker 2: be a thing anymore. I've been of the notion that
Speaker 2: I feel like AW should have an all women show
Speaker 2: because I just love all women's content, obviously, and if
Speaker 2: they had an all women's show, that would be amazing,
Speaker 2: or if they replaced it with an ROH show, because
Speaker 2: I would love to see Ring of Honor on television
Speaker 2: and not just in streaming because I have enough streaming
Speaker 2: services as it is, and I just don't want to
Speaker 2: break the bank further and there's just no shade to them.
Speaker 2: But YO, like times is hard, money got to keep it.
Speaker 2: So I would have loved it if AAW transitioned Ring
Speaker 2: of Honor back to television because their wrestlers on there.
Speaker 2: They're doing a phenomenal job over there. But of course
Speaker 2: it's up to them ultimately. So we just got a
Speaker 2: chill ranting with Ricardo saying good morning, good morning, and
Speaker 2: he said, I would love to see AW succeed, but
Speaker 2: it's hard to watch their television because it's all over
Speaker 2: the place and rushed. Now I have seen those type
Speaker 2: of complaints too. For me when I do try to
Speaker 2: watch it as best as I can because I also
Speaker 2: do other work. As well in wrestling that I have
Speaker 2: to focus on. I do watch them, and I do
Speaker 2: find it easy for me to catch up with things
Speaker 2: because well I just know what's going on a lot
Speaker 2: of the time, and I do find it pretty good
Speaker 2: television when I do watch it, and I am into
Speaker 2: it for the few hours that I am looking at it,
Speaker 2: It's not hard for me. But I do understand that
Speaker 2: complaint because a lot of people might feel that way.
Speaker 2: But you know, they're still finding their footing. They're getting
Speaker 2: ready to celebrate their fifth anniversary. Like this is still
Speaker 2: a baby company all in all in comparison to others,
Speaker 2: So they're still finding their way. They're about to become
Speaker 2: a running toddler at this point, like they're a child still,
Speaker 2: so they still have to find their way. So I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure this TV deal will find will give them
Speaker 2: inspiration to do more with their talents. So that's all
Speaker 2: that really matters. Malcolm saying, do you think AW is
Speaker 2: running out of ideas? I don't, I literally don't. I
Speaker 2: feel like they're fine. They're fine, So big up to
Speaker 2: them and their TV deal, and I hope that they
Speaker 2: figure stuff out and just really just figure out what
Speaker 2: helps the brand in the meantime, because really, all that
Speaker 2: truly matters are the people that are working there and
Speaker 2: helping to make it grow and the wrestlers that illuminate
Speaker 2: the show. That's all that matters to me. So, oh,
Speaker 2: Kelly Keagan, thank you for watching saying take on Nigel's return.
Speaker 2: I love it when he look When Nigel McGinn is
Speaker 2: returned to wrestling, I was okay about it. I was
Speaker 2: really happy about it because I was actually one of
Speaker 2: those people who had not heard of nigel beginnings outside
Speaker 2: of the the ww UKCNE when he was a commentator,
Speaker 2: so I did not know that he was a wrestler
Speaker 2: until he would talk about it and I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2: And because I'm a weirdo who doesn't look back on
Speaker 2: certain things a lot of the time, I was really
Speaker 2: surprised and happy to see him return to the ring
Speaker 2: at all. In that was a really cool moment. So
Speaker 2: I was really okay about it. Thank you for that question,
Speaker 2: and thank you for watching. So more stuff in news
Speaker 2: and Gossipish is that there's a rumor that Raw and
Speaker 2: SmackDown are having hour changes. It was announced that Monday
Speaker 2: Night Raw will be going down to two hours in
Speaker 2: the month of October before their move to Netflix next year.
Speaker 2: And there's another rumor that SmackDown might be moving to
Speaker 2: three hours on USA once Raw makes it shift over
Speaker 2: to Netflix next year. And I know that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: watch it regardless, But this kind of caused a lot
Speaker 2: of confusion for people due to what's actually been announced
Speaker 2: and what the rumors are. But we're just gonna wait
Speaker 2: and see. I'm not opposed to more wrestling because I've
Speaker 2: been watching hours upon hours upon wrestling for years, so
Speaker 2: I'm not opposed to it at all. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's really up to DEVB what they want to do
Speaker 2: with their two flagshear, so, Hey, they like it, I
Speaker 2: love it. I don't care. I'm just gonna I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna watch it how it comes, and ranting with Ricardo
Speaker 2: saying I carved out three hours of my Monday for Raw.
Speaker 2: Who asked them to change it to two? I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I have seen complaints about it being being so
Speaker 2: long for years, because I remember when Raw changed to
Speaker 2: three to the three hour format on their one thousandth
Speaker 2: episode in twenty twelve, and that was an insane time
Speaker 2: and it was really fun for it to happen at
Speaker 2: that point. But I did see people complain about it
Speaker 2: being the three hours. You're like, oh my god, they're
Speaker 2: not They're they're this is this is gonna be boring
Speaker 2: and dah da da da dah. But you know, people
Speaker 2: got used to it and here we are, so hey,
Speaker 2: it's whatever. Kelly in the comments saying taking up three
Speaker 2: hours on a Friday is easier than a Monday. That
Speaker 2: is true because Monday is at the beginning of the week.
Speaker 2: You know, you do have to get up and go
Speaker 2: to work and do certain things. But then on Friday,
Speaker 2: when you're up and you're celebrating this the weekend, you
Speaker 2: can do it. So I get it. So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fun regardless. We're gonna adapt to all the changes
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be fine. So yeah. Now, there was
Speaker 2: another report released about WWE possibly commissioning women's mid cart
Speaker 2: titles and Bionca bel Air was in an interview one
Speaker 2: half of the women's tag team Champions, and she was
Speaker 2: talking about how she would actually like more titles for
Speaker 2: the women and having more opportunity. So this led to
Speaker 2: a conversation happening online about women who they would love
Speaker 2: to have an opportunity, you know, to be a workhorse
Speaker 2: champion in that way, whether it's IC, United States or
Speaker 2: whatever they choose to name it. And a lot of people,
Speaker 2: you know, we're definitely bigging up meetching me and m
Speaker 2: and she is absolutely she is absolutely a fantastic choice
Speaker 2: to be a first women's mad Card champion because the
Speaker 2: amount of work that she has been doing this year
Speaker 2: has been absolutely amazing. Her bouncing from SmackDown to NXT,
Speaker 2: having all of these amazing feuds, getting extreme and seeing
Speaker 2: more of her personality. It's just really cool. And I
Speaker 2: just feel like she'll be an amazing face to put
Speaker 2: out there for a mid card title. I think that
Speaker 2: would just be great for her because she's just been
Speaker 2: working really hard to prove herself and to just be
Speaker 2: out there more. And I like that. I really loved that.
Speaker 2: But of course y'all know, y'all know who I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go up for. If y'all follow me on social media,
Speaker 2: y'all know, Zelena Vega is my girl. Zelena Vega is
Speaker 2: my love and she has been for a long time,
Speaker 2: and she is someone who I really truly believe could
Speaker 2: fully benefit from this. You know, from being the first
Speaker 2: ever Queen of the Ring to being a tag team
Speaker 2: champ and all of the above, she continues to go
Speaker 2: out there and prove that she is more than just
Speaker 2: a manager. And she has the attitude, she has the charisma,
Speaker 2: she has the mic skills because she has that you know,
Speaker 2: that New York fast in her and she's just and
Speaker 2: she has that representation and she represents people you know,
Speaker 2: from Puerto Rico and she's from New York and she's
Speaker 2: just amazing. She's just this amazing and talented woman who
Speaker 2: I really believe deserves to hold the title at some point,
Speaker 2: if not this year, then within the next year. So
Speaker 2: I would definitely love it if she had an opportunity
Speaker 2: to be a mid car champion. And then of course
Speaker 2: you have Crazy Chelsea Green, who has been doing amazing
Speaker 2: character work as well as you know, match work as well.
Speaker 2: She would be an amazing mid car champion as well. So,
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully, if WW really is thinking about going
Speaker 2: forward with a mid car title or just doing more
Speaker 2: with the titles that they currently have, then that is
Speaker 2: perfectly fine. And then you could also defend the title
Speaker 2: wherever you want to. With NXT being a thing, even
Speaker 2: with the whole NXTNA thing being a thing too. I'm
Speaker 2: just really excited about, you know, what's to come for
Speaker 2: the women because they just continue to show and prove
Speaker 2: that they are you know, the headliners and the opening
Speaker 2: act and you know, the after party like outcast, like
Speaker 2: they're just it, you know, And I'm just so happy
Speaker 2: for all the growth that they have given that those
Speaker 2: three women especially have given this year, and they definitely
Speaker 2: deserve a reward for it, and a mid car title
Speaker 2: is perfect. Rantom with Riccardo said, I would love to
Speaker 2: see a women's mid car championship. We would definitely get
Speaker 2: more out of the women's division than we already see. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: and then there's other women who would have opportunities who
Speaker 2: we don't get to see on television that much, like
Speaker 2: Indie Heartwell and Candice Lorat and so many others. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this guy's dilemmit for them, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: So I believe that is all for news and gossip
Speaker 2: fish and we are going to move into what Stephanie
Speaker 2: liked in wrestling this week, and there is a whole, whole, whole,
Speaker 2: whole whole lot I liked it wrestling this week too much.
Speaker 2: Even even as soon as yesterday, so much has happened
Speaker 2: that I loved it wrestling this week, I got a
Speaker 2: change it to love and not just liked. But y'all,
Speaker 2: let's start on wrong with these women. Biyonca Belair, one
Speaker 2: half of the Women's Tag Team Championship Champions with Jay
Speaker 2: Cargill and EO Sky wrestled a banger of a match.
Speaker 2: I think someone clocked this match as only being nine minutes,
Speaker 2: But what's so funny is I felt like this was
Speaker 2: a longer match with all the things that they were
Speaker 2: doing and pulling off. And this picture is one of
Speaker 2: them Eo diving onto Bianca. Bianca actually lifting Eo over
Speaker 2: her shoulders and pressing her up the steps the same
Speaker 2: way she did Mercedes at WrestleMania, but just like lifting
Speaker 2: her like straight up. This match was just absolutely impeccable.
Speaker 2: I cannot say enough good things about this match. If
Speaker 2: you have not seen it, I suggest you find whatever
Speaker 2: streaming service you watch wrestling on, or find YouTube or
Speaker 2: something like that and just watch it because it was
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. And of course EO Sky won. She got
Speaker 2: the victory, and this sort of puts the battery in her,
Speaker 2: and Kyrie says back to challenge them for the women's
Speaker 2: tag team titles. But these women put on a show,
Speaker 2: and this is just what women's wrestling is all about.
Speaker 2: I love these two. I love this match. I love
Speaker 2: Bianca's gear because I just love like the tiger stripes
Speaker 2: thing that it just gives. These women tore the house
Speaker 2: down and I'm just so proud of them. Ricardo's saying
Speaker 2: Eo and Bianca are wrestling soulmates. No one can tell
Speaker 2: me differently. They really are. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: people online who shared that very same sentiment, So if
Speaker 2: they fought each other again, I would definitely be here
Speaker 2: for it. So these women deserve all the flowers for
Speaker 2: the amazing match that they gave us in nine minutes.
Speaker 2: But what's so weirdness, it felt longer than that, but hey,
Speaker 2: they did it. It just proves when you give women
Speaker 2: the time and the opportunity, we can make diamonds. And
Speaker 2: that's exactly what they did. Also, huh the drama surrounding
Speaker 2: the judgment day and real Ripley. This is in my
Speaker 2: Women's section because I love the way that Rhea Ripley
Speaker 2: stood her own against Finn Balor, who was trying to
Speaker 2: gaslight her and make it seem like her and Damien
Speaker 2: were just so bad for the judgment day that they
Speaker 2: had to kick them out and that they didn't benefit
Speaker 2: them in any way. And Finn was really out here
Speaker 2: being delusional and talking about all the ways in which
Speaker 2: they weren't helping and how they didn't do anything for them,
Speaker 2: and Rhea had to check him and say, look, there
Speaker 2: were times where I even put my body on the
Speaker 2: line for y'all to succeed and win your you know,
Speaker 2: your tag team titles, or even keep those tag team titles.
Speaker 2: I know, because there were times where I would get
Speaker 2: on here and talk about it and be mad at
Speaker 2: her interfering on their behalf, on Dominic's behalf and all
Speaker 2: of that. So we're not gonna sit here and pretend
Speaker 2: that Ria didn't spear Kevin Owens when they were trying
Speaker 2: to fight them at was it payback or payback last year? Like,
Speaker 2: we're not finna sit here and pretend that stuff like
Speaker 2: that wasn't happening. And Finn was really trying to play
Speaker 2: in her face. But the icing on the cake is
Speaker 2: Jay Uso made of it. Jay beayj rolled up on
Speaker 2: Fenn and said, do we have a problem here. Look,
Speaker 2: if it's one thing I love more than anything else
Speaker 2: in this world is a stand up in the middle
Speaker 2: of the road man. And that's what my grandma used
Speaker 2: to say. And jay Uso is proven himself to be
Speaker 2: a stand up in the middle of the road man
Speaker 2: when it comes to Rhea. He came up and started
Speaker 2: his presence alone in defending her. That's the type of
Speaker 2: masculinity I need to see. I love it. I just
Speaker 2: love it. And what's so funny is they ain't even
Speaker 2: a real couple yet on television, but the way he
Speaker 2: stood up to defend her had me giggling and kicking
Speaker 2: my feet. Baby, that's a real man. That is a
Speaker 2: real man. Ricardo saying, that's a man right there, he said,
Speaker 2: we got a problem. I love it, exactly, loved it,
Speaker 2: absolutely it can't I can't get enough of romance along
Speaker 2: with being a wrestling girl. I love romantic films. I'm
Speaker 2: just a hopeless romantic, so seeing stuff like this just
Speaker 2: be sending me over the edge. I just love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. Defend your lady, now, mind you, we
Speaker 2: know real repl can hold her own We've seen her
Speaker 2: do it plenty of times with both men and women,
Speaker 2: But baby, nothing, I love it. If you know, you know,
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. I love it, And
Speaker 2: just what makes it even cuter, it's just you see
Speaker 2: the way Real let me make it bigger, y'all see
Speaker 2: the way Real looking at him and the way he
Speaker 2: looking at her. I love it because it's just I
Speaker 2: just love it so much. And I said this in
Speaker 2: April on my show, like wouldn't it be cool if
Speaker 2: Ria and Jay were a thing on television? And at
Speaker 2: first a lot of people didn't like it, but now
Speaker 2: everybody sees it. It's just like I heard, I told
Speaker 2: y'all this could work, and it is the cutest thing
Speaker 2: on the planet. I just love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: I just love it. It's just so cute. And I hope,
Speaker 2: I just hope that it has an ending that we'll
Speaker 2: all love and be satisfied with. Like, of course I
Speaker 2: want Ria to be a dominant champion, but you can
Speaker 2: be dominant and have a man that loves you, right,
Speaker 2: And I know because I know, so this is just
Speaker 2: the stuff that I love. Ricardo saying it's given real
Speaker 2: demirir Real cutesy. Absolutely, I love it, so yeah, let's
Speaker 2: just move on. I want to give props to Joe Tessitour.
Speaker 2: He has been kicking all kinds of butt on commentary
Speaker 2: and this is hard because when he first got on
Speaker 2: there a lot of people didn't necessarily like to change
Speaker 2: because people love Michael Cole and Pat McAfee together, like
Speaker 2: Michael Cole on the show, because he's a standard. He's
Speaker 2: an institution when it comes to commentary, you know, and wrestling.
Speaker 2: But the thing is they needed to make some changes
Speaker 2: to sort of keep things fresh. And with Pat being
Speaker 2: gone for college game Day and with his Pat McAfee
Speaker 2: show that he does on ESPN every day, and Michael
Speaker 2: Cole being moved to Smacked Down with Corey, you know,
Speaker 2: we needed a new guy. We needed a new play
Speaker 2: by play guy. And Joe Tessitour is a really great
Speaker 2: straight man. His voice gives me vintage like I feel
Speaker 2: like listening to his voice, he could have very well
Speaker 2: commentated next to Gorilla Monsoon, like that's really what he's
Speaker 2: giving and right next to Jesse the Body of Ventur,
Speaker 2: like that's what his voice gives to me. And I
Speaker 2: like that. Gravatas but then on top of that gravatas,
Speaker 2: he really looks like he's having a good time with
Speaker 2: everything too. Like this man actually held up a sign
Speaker 2: with the people Okay, I don't have a picture of
Speaker 2: it with the people of Portland. They said it was
Speaker 2: Yeak Country or something like that. Like, Joe Testator is
Speaker 2: having the time of his life. And I really feel
Speaker 2: like us as wrestling fans, we feel nostalgia very deeply
Speaker 2: and we take everything very seriously and wrestling when it
Speaker 2: comes to the things that we love and the things
Speaker 2: that we miss and stuff. But we also can't be
Speaker 2: closed minded to change either, and sometimes you need, you know,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a shaking up for things. So
Speaker 2: I like Joe Testator. I like what he brings. I
Speaker 2: like the gravitas that he brings. And you can clearly
Speaker 2: tell that he's having the time of his life. So
Speaker 2: let's just give him a chance and let him grow
Speaker 2: on commentary before we just be like nah, I don't
Speaker 2: like it. No, Like, let's open our minds to new things.
Speaker 2: So yeah, big ups to Joe Testator. He's doing his thing.
Speaker 2: I like listening to his voice. It's cool, he's cool,
Speaker 2: and it's great. Now we have to talk about mister
Speaker 2: man the best in the world to seeing him Punk,
Speaker 2: he came out here mindy and he doesn't come and
Speaker 2: this time he didn't come out all happy, you know,
Speaker 2: to be alive in the city that they're in and
Speaker 2: all of the above. He was mad because he of
Speaker 2: course is now recovered from the attack Drew McIntyre hat
Speaker 2: on him. He's recovered from Drew mcintar breaking his bracelet
Speaker 2: and trying to choke him with it. He's back and
Speaker 2: clearly he is upset. And what's so funny is he
Speaker 2: was talking about how you know, he has an angel
Speaker 2: on his shoulder, but then he had a devil on
Speaker 2: his shoulder, telling him that he needs to go straight
Speaker 2: to hell, you know. And with him making all these
Speaker 2: references towards the devil, and with bad Blood being in Georgia,
Speaker 2: it made me think of this. The Devil went down
Speaker 2: to Georgia. He was looking for a soul to steal.
Speaker 2: He was in a minds, he was way behind and
Speaker 2: he was willing to make a deal when it came
Speaker 2: across session. So if you know that song, you know
Speaker 2: that song. But yeah, Sampunk is the devil and he
Speaker 2: is going down to Georgia and he is looking for
Speaker 2: a soul to steal. He is going to steal Drew
Speaker 2: McIntyre's soul in Hell and the Cell. And I am
Speaker 2: so excited. I am so thrilled, you know, to be
Speaker 2: going for media and to do it, because quite frankly,
Speaker 2: dis feud has just gone absolutely off the rails and
Speaker 2: the only way this can end is in Hell and
Speaker 2: the Cell. And of course this is a very old
Speaker 2: school notion from back in the day because my dad,
Speaker 2: who is a huge wrestling fan and who got me
Speaker 2: into it, you know, talked about, you know, how certain
Speaker 2: rivalries need to end in Hell and the Cell because
Speaker 2: that's just how it always ended back in the day.
Speaker 2: And bab Blaad was definitely one of those payer views
Speaker 2: where stuff like that would happen. And now, mind you,
Speaker 2: they've gotten rid of the pay per views, so that
Speaker 2: doesn't happen anymore. So it leaves room for rivalries like
Speaker 2: this to end in a cage like that, and I'm
Speaker 2: so happy that it's being utilized in that way. So
Speaker 2: CM punk definitely has the upper hand. I believe he
Speaker 2: has been in Hell and the Cell before against the Undertaker,
Speaker 2: so now this is a difference seam Punk a gravelly
Speaker 2: more veteranized and I know veteranized is not a word,
Speaker 2: but either way, a more veteran CM punk who's been
Speaker 2: through some things, who's beaten people with straps and even
Speaker 2: blood and aew like here has been through some stuff.
Speaker 2: So this is the type of man that we're getting
Speaker 2: this time in Atlanta, and I am so thrilled about it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out what Drew McIntyre has to say
Speaker 2: this coming Monday, but honestly, these two cannot say anything else,
Speaker 2: and I would be okay with it. I am here
Speaker 2: to watch them fight in Hell and the Cell because
Speaker 2: Punk is going down to Georgia and he's gonna still
Speaker 2: Drew soul and he ain't gonna deal in cards either.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be cool. It's gonna be so cool. Ricardo saying,
Speaker 2: I just want to know if security all rod gets
Speaker 2: paid because they let everybody get whooped. It almost unalive.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. You could also say that about
Speaker 2: Smackdale two, but we're gonna get into there. But this
Speaker 2: was a very painful part of Monday night raw here
Speaker 2: because I love the New Day absolutely down. Okay, So
Speaker 2: to see them continue to go down this road of
Speaker 2: not liking each other and not agreeing with each other
Speaker 2: anymore is very painful. Of course, Kofe and Xavier had
Speaker 2: a chance to fight the Judgment Day for the tag
Speaker 2: team titles, and because Kofe could see that the Judgment
Speaker 2: Day was gonna play those numbers games and Xavier wanted
Speaker 2: Damien and Rihea to stay out of it, he did
Speaker 2: not know that Kofe had asked the LWO to back
Speaker 2: them up. And because Xavier didn't know about this, and
Speaker 2: because Kofe jumped out onto everybody outside of the ring
Speaker 2: while he had the cover and the referee was distracted,
Speaker 2: he was pissed off about it, rightfully so, and he
Speaker 2: walked away from him, and he stormed away from him,
Speaker 2: and these two had an argument backstage that cut at
Speaker 2: the absolute heart, flesh and bone, and they were talking
Speaker 2: about how since they don't have big email, everything's different
Speaker 2: and that, you know, and Xavier took it as Kofe saying, oh,
Speaker 2: so I'm not good enough, and Kofe was like, no,
Speaker 2: that's not what I'm saying. And it is just so
Speaker 2: hard to whtch she's to fight. These two are coming
Speaker 2: up on their tenth anniversary as a stable, and the
Speaker 2: fact that they're fighting hurts so bad. But to be
Speaker 2: autist in order, I almost feel like in order for
Speaker 2: Exavier or an order for Kofi to further grow their careers,
Speaker 2: the breakup might have to happen. And as somebody who's
Speaker 2: been through breakups before, sometimes they're necessary for you to
Speaker 2: evolve as a person and for you to be better.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it's negative, sometimes it isn't, but if sometimes
Speaker 2: it just has to happen. And I love these two
Speaker 2: so much, and there is a happy, perfect part of
Speaker 2: me that would love it if they just work their
Speaker 2: issues out and just be with each other forever until
Speaker 2: they retire. But if they're having these type of differences,
Speaker 2: even while Odyssey Jones is out of the picture, it's
Speaker 2: definitely giving pain and it hurts me so bad because
Speaker 2: the New Day has done and accomplished so much together.
Speaker 2: They've made the world even a better place outside of wrestling,
Speaker 2: and I just can't even begin to fathom the emotional
Speaker 2: outpour that might happen if they break up. I can't
Speaker 2: even imagine it, So it's really painful. Ricardo in the
Speaker 2: comment saying he was the equalizer. He was the one
Speaker 2: man wrecking crew, and Xavier and Kofe were the cleanup.
Speaker 2: This breakup was years in the making when they got
Speaker 2: drafted to different brands. I wouldn't necessarily say Xavier and
Speaker 2: Kofe were the cleanup. I think they all equally had
Speaker 2: their different strengths because of course Biggie was the powerhouse,
Speaker 2: Xavier was the brains and of course also more of
Speaker 2: the verbalizer. But he was also really good in the
Speaker 2: ring too, and I feel like his work in ring
Speaker 2: goes very much unnoticed and it shouldn't be anymore in
Speaker 2: that way. And then you have Kofe, who's the veteran
Speaker 2: out of all of them. So they brought different things,
Speaker 2: different stuff to the table. So to see them struggling
Speaker 2: in this way with also Biggie being gone, which is
Speaker 2: something they haven't really addressed since his injury, it's just
Speaker 2: really painful. It's gonna hurt real bad. If this is
Speaker 2: gonna go the way I think it's gonna go, I
Speaker 2: might cry, So pray my strength if that's what you do.
Speaker 2: But I did write an article about them and their
Speaker 2: top five moments on Daily DDT. That's the most recent thing.
Speaker 2: It came out this week. I was very proud to
Speaker 2: have written it. So if you have a mind to
Speaker 2: go on Daily DDT, please read it, or you could
Speaker 2: use my link tree to go to the Daily DDT
Speaker 2: with my name on it and read all my work.
Speaker 2: But you can read the article and how I ranked
Speaker 2: their top five moments. This group really could have had
Speaker 2: a top ten or fifteen if they wanted to, but
Speaker 2: I did five because that was the assignment. So I
Speaker 2: hope you guys read it and you guys like it,
Speaker 2: So yeah, they need healing. Okay. Another thing that I
Speaker 2: loved and with Raw with the Men has to do
Speaker 2: with the fact that Jay so really ate Broun Breaker,
Speaker 2: the inter Continental champion, up on the microphone because Ron
Speaker 2: Breaker out here acting like he's just gonna run through
Speaker 2: Jay like he ain't nothing right, and it's just so
Speaker 2: aggravated because I'm just like bron Breaker. I understand that
Speaker 2: you're young and you have, you know, the youth on
Speaker 2: your side, and everybody sees you as as badass, and
Speaker 2: of course your bloodline is the Steiners and all of that,
Speaker 2: but Jay Uso is the blood line. He is the
Speaker 2: absolute blood line, and he had to tell him like, sweetheart,
Speaker 2: when you were young, I was here winning championships. I've
Speaker 2: been here for fourteen years. You ain't gonna do this
Speaker 2: to me. And he said, look, I'm gonna dog You
Speaker 2: might be a dog, but he said, I'm gonna dog
Speaker 2: walk your ass. And then he said, and who knows
Speaker 2: your inner condinental title reign might be short and sweet,
Speaker 2: just like your NFL career. And I cackle. I cackled
Speaker 2: when he said that, because I was just like, dang, dang,
Speaker 2: why you got to come for him like that? But
Speaker 2: it's true though, because Broun Breaker was out here thinking
Speaker 2: that Jay Uso was nothing just off of the strength
Speaker 2: of what his family did to the ida Yi family,
Speaker 2: saying that nobody in his family ever, nobody in Jay's
Speaker 2: family ever beat anybody in the Steiner family. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that might be true, but this is today and Jay
Speaker 2: could very well beat you. So let's not do that.
Speaker 2: Let's not do that. Let's not do that, Okay. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this tension was amazing, and I pray jay Uso wins
Speaker 2: because I just want him to be a champion so
Speaker 2: very badly, like I want it more than anything else
Speaker 2: on the planet. So not saying that this was stop
Speaker 2: not saying that. I don't want braun Breaker to continue
Speaker 2: to grow as a young talent, but jay Uso is
Speaker 2: a super novastar at this point, and I just feel
Speaker 2: like not putting a title on him, it's just kind
Speaker 2: of it just kind of sucks a bit because why
Speaker 2: are you Why else are you making this do go
Speaker 2: on this killer run if you're not gonna let him
Speaker 2: do his thing. So we just gotta wait and see.
Speaker 2: But this exchange was hilarious and I loved it, short
Speaker 2: and sweet, like your NFL career baby what but yea? Also,
Speaker 2: braun Stroman and Bronson Reed tried to kill each other
Speaker 2: and I will never get enough of watching him trying
Speaker 2: to murder each other. The fact that they broke the
Speaker 2: ring and Bronson actually threw a person at him is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I love it. These dudes just need to just try
Speaker 2: to murderize each other every week and I'll be satisfied
Speaker 2: absolutely now the movie. What I like This week in NXT,
Speaker 2: I wanted to give some appreciation to Ava something that
Speaker 2: even though I know he's doing this because he's a
Speaker 2: bad guy. The NFC Shampia Eathy page always has something
Speaker 2: slick to say to Ava and talking about how she's
Speaker 2: not doing her job well as a GM and all
Speaker 2: of the above. And the thing that I would just
Speaker 2: say to that in retort and in taking up for
Speaker 2: Ava is the fact that, even though I know this
Speaker 2: is all kfabe, I'm pretty sure the way that she's
Speaker 2: running NXT is a whole lot better than where you
Speaker 2: did come from and what we have her. But we
Speaker 2: ain't gonna do that today. I just want to show
Speaker 2: appreciation for Ava because the fact that she is a
Speaker 2: woman of color in a position of power in this way,
Speaker 2: the same way that aj Lee was back in the day,
Speaker 2: It's just really cool for me. I just love seeing
Speaker 2: this from her, and I love the fact that she
Speaker 2: is out here, you know, putting her foot down and
Speaker 2: just being amazing. Now, mind you, these men might be
Speaker 2: out of control because they're all crazy and whatnot, but
Speaker 2: I just like the fact that Ava is just out
Speaker 2: here doing her thing and being in charge and bossing
Speaker 2: around Robert Stone and Stevie Turner like it's hilarious. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, I just want to give her
Speaker 2: her flowers because because Ethan Page be mad disrespectful to her,
Speaker 2: just because he thinks he can, and it's just like sweetheart,
Speaker 2: she will book you in a TLC match and watch
Speaker 2: your brain get broken and enjoy it. So you might
Speaker 2: need to chill. But yeah, Ava deserves more respect. And
Speaker 2: I just wanted to come on here and say this
Speaker 2: well Ricardo saying, Ava really could get petty with Ethan,
Speaker 2: but she keeps it very cute, seeing very demure she does.
Speaker 2: She really does when she could not, you know, but
Speaker 2: you know, don't make her call her daddy, cause I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure if the Rock showed up on the episode
Speaker 2: of NXC and went faces and face with Ethan Page,
Speaker 2: he'd be gagged. But we know that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But we gotta chill. But yeah, big up to Ava.
Speaker 2: You're doing your thing and don't let him get you
Speaker 2: because you're in charge. Another thing Ricardo said, don't make
Speaker 2: her call the rest of the family that too. Another
Speaker 2: thing that I loved on NXT was the interaction that
Speaker 2: Roxanne had with CM Pump. Now. CM punk said he
Speaker 2: had some type of idea last week on NXT on
Speaker 2: social media, and this happened right when Julia was fighting
Speaker 2: in her match against Chelsea Green, And what's so funny
Speaker 2: is is when he said this. He said this as
Speaker 2: they were showing the replay of Julia doing her not
Speaker 2: an octopus hold, but it was another type of hole
Speaker 2: that sort of reminds you of the black widow that
Speaker 2: aj Lee used to do back in the day. And
Speaker 2: I thought maybe he had an idea for the women.
Speaker 2: That's not what was going on. He came out there
Speaker 2: to make an announcement, but Roxanne, the NXC Women's champion,
Speaker 2: interrupted him and basically said that little me is really
Speaker 2: excited to be standing in the ring with you right now.
Speaker 2: But I did always prefer your wife. I believe you know.
Speaker 2: He couldn't fight that because a j Lee is a
Speaker 2: goddess and she walked so all these women could run,
Speaker 2: so we gonna give her her props too. But then
Speaker 2: Rock Saying just stuck the knife even further by saying
Speaker 2: that she should have been a Drewmacin tire fan as
Speaker 2: a child. And I said, girl, you are so petty
Speaker 2: for that. You did not even you did not have
Speaker 2: to hit below the belt on your dad like that.
Speaker 2: And then Julia pops out and then they cut up
Speaker 2: from on and they almost get the fighting, but CM
Speaker 2: Punk breaks them up and everything. But what CM Punk
Speaker 2: was also saying about the women before that was really amazing,
Speaker 2: Like he was giving he was telling rock Scene that
Speaker 2: by all means she should be on the main roster
Speaker 2: having badass matches the way that Bianca and EO did
Speaker 2: on Monday. And it's crazy because I always felt that
Speaker 2: when the first draft happened, not this past draft, but
Speaker 2: the one before it, I thought for sure she would
Speaker 2: have been called up to the main roster. But mind
Speaker 2: you not that her being NXC Women's Champion again is
Speaker 2: bad for her character, because clearly it's working and it's
Speaker 2: doing good stuff and producing good stuff. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, I thought for sure she would have been
Speaker 2: called up. I thought she would have been called up
Speaker 2: when she was featured in the Royal Rumble at one time,
Speaker 2: but she wasn't, and I was like, okay, well fine,
Speaker 2: But and then she talked and then he talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, her having a chip on her shoulder. But
Speaker 2: quite frankly, even though I really think you can't be
Speaker 2: a champion and have a chip on your shoulder, but
Speaker 2: I guess you know she can. But either way, I
Speaker 2: just love hear and see him punk big up women's
Speaker 2: wrestling the way that he does, and I didn't fully
Speaker 2: realize it until he came back to a w and
Speaker 2: he said that that the audience at Chicago knows how
Speaker 2: to make her make him feel like Britt Baker and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, wow, that's really interesting, and
Speaker 2: just seeing everything that he says about women's wrestling, it's
Speaker 2: just really cool. We love a feminist king, and that's
Speaker 2: exactly what he is, and I just really appreciate it,
Speaker 2: even with him giving props to Mickey James, you know,
Speaker 2: being a part of his start in WWE. You know,
Speaker 2: like that is just amazing stuff. So I just love
Speaker 2: feminist king. Saampunk Ricardo is saying PEPSI feel is not
Speaker 2: gonna keep playing with my emotions about aj not coming back.
Speaker 2: It hurts my spirit. It kind of hurts me too,
Speaker 2: but you know, we just gotta chill. She if she
Speaker 2: wants to come back, she'll come back, but we just
Speaker 2: gotta wait. Then. We also have Lola Ice and Jada
Speaker 2: Parker and the acts that they have to grind with
Speaker 2: fatal influence. And when I say these two are probably
Speaker 2: one of the prettiest tag teams possible tag teams to
Speaker 2: ever exist. They literally are just I know that they're tough,
Speaker 2: and I know that they can definitely fight down, but
Speaker 2: just looking at these two from head to toe, they're
Speaker 2: just so beautiful, Like this is team Gorgeousness as a
Speaker 2: tag team. And I hope they do take down Fatal
Speaker 2: Influence at some point because the way that Fatal Influence
Speaker 2: was jumping on Lola afterwards and then Jada came in
Speaker 2: and fought and fought them off was just really pute,
Speaker 2: was really amazing and perfect. So I'm just gonna need
Speaker 2: for them to put their differences aside and actually, like,
Speaker 2: you know, teach Fatal Influence a listen. And then they're
Speaker 2: also gonna like and maybe they need a third girl too,
Speaker 2: so hopefully they'll make that happen. But yeah, Ricardo saying
Speaker 2: that they're so beautiful, God took his time making him
Speaker 2: like literally he did, he really did. Like they are
Speaker 2: just so gorgeous. I just love them so much. Yes,
Speaker 2: And then we have the announcement that Sampunk will be
Speaker 2: at NX Chicago and he will be the special guest
Speaker 2: referee for the match with Trick Williams and Ethan Page
Speaker 2: for the NXC championship, and of course they signed the
Speaker 2: contract after Tyrese Halliburton came out there to have them
Speaker 2: sign it, and he said, look, since I'm the special
Speaker 2: guest referee, you two can get the fighting right now.
Speaker 2: Well no, he said, y'all can get the fighting right now.
Speaker 2: And let me just say the amount of joy that
Speaker 2: I get hearing Sampunk, a guy from Chicago say the
Speaker 2: word y'all as a Southern person, it's just out of
Speaker 2: this world. But I just love him getting involved in
Speaker 2: the things. I just hope that somehow or another, he
Speaker 2: doesn't get dragged away by Drew mcintar. And we don't
Speaker 2: have a definitive finish to the rivalry between Trick and
Speaker 2: Ethan because either Page be talking all this stuff acting
Speaker 2: like he beat Trick Williams when he did it in
Speaker 2: Canada when heat was going on, Ethan Page accidentally fell
Speaker 2: into being champion and Trick wasn't even the person that
Speaker 2: he pinned, so he really don't need to calm down.
Speaker 2: So hopefully Trick will get his title back, because I
Speaker 2: really feel like he should have. He should have still
Speaker 2: been champion, But hey, whatever, I hope Trick beasts. But
Speaker 2: that's all I have to say about that, and Cumpunk
Speaker 2: as a referee is gonna be really cool. So I'm
Speaker 2: here for Ricardo said, I'm from Kansas City. Y'all is
Speaker 2: in my everyday vocabulary. Okay, team, y'all, let's go love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. So that was basically everything I loved
Speaker 2: from NXT. I think, wait, no, I got one more
Speaker 2: thing I got to talk about that made my heart
Speaker 2: feel warm inside. Javonne Evans is gonna fight Randy Orton
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. This made my heart feel warm inside
Speaker 2: because Javon Evans is just twenty years old, and because
Speaker 2: he's just twenty, he falls under the same age range
Speaker 2: low key as my sister, and Randy Orton was coming
Speaker 2: up in his career during that generation's time as children.
Speaker 2: So the idea that this little boy had these action
Speaker 2: figures of John Cena of Red Jorton of Edge, and
Speaker 2: now he's grown up and become the young Og and
Speaker 2: now he gets to fight him. It's just the stuff
Speaker 2: of legend, and it's just the stuff of knowing that
Speaker 2: your dreams can come true if you manifest it and
Speaker 2: if you work hard along with that manifestation and prayer
Speaker 2: as well, if that's how you believe, if that's how
Speaker 2: you move, and Javonne having this opportunity just made my
Speaker 2: heart feel warm inside because javonn to me, is just
Speaker 2: like a little brother. So seeing him make his dreams
Speaker 2: come true at this stage, it's just absolutely unbelievable. It's
Speaker 2: enough to make you cry, really, So I'm just really
Speaker 2: happy for him, and I just wish him nothing but
Speaker 2: great success. And I know he's gonna do good in
Speaker 2: his mash with Randy Orton, but I'm pretty sure if
Speaker 2: rand Jorton gives him an arkao, it's gonna be ungodly
Speaker 2: because Javonna can jump in the air like nobody's business.
Speaker 2: So I know it's gonna be really cool. But I'm
Speaker 2: just so happy before Javon, like on a very personal
Speaker 2: and spiritual level, just to see him make his dreams
Speaker 2: come true in that way, it's just really beautiful. It's
Speaker 2: really beautiful from a holistic standpoint, so big up to
Speaker 2: him for that announcement being made for him. That's just
Speaker 2: really cool stuff. So it's gonna be great. And then
Speaker 2: you have Tony Dianngelo losing his he he doesn't believe
Speaker 2: in himself anymore as the don of NXT, because he
Speaker 2: was going to fight a match with Hammerstone from TNA
Speaker 2: and he just didn't believe in himself anymore, and he
Speaker 2: lost the match via count now and he didn't even care.
Speaker 2: And this, of course caught the D'Angelo family off guard,
Speaker 2: and they were trying to give him, you know, a
Speaker 2: pep talk and everything for him to get himself together.
Speaker 2: And when I tell you, he was cutting his promo
Speaker 2: and he said that he was afraid for the first
Speaker 2: time in his life, and he was taking lines from
Speaker 2: Rocky three. I was just gagged because this is the
Speaker 2: second time in WWE lore we have heard Rocky three utilized.
Speaker 2: And as a person who grew up watching all the
Speaker 2: Rocky movies, but as someone who's Rocky three is like
Speaker 2: their favorite one of all time, I just love it.
Speaker 2: And then Adriana came behind him and was saying, look,
Speaker 2: you know, I believe in you, and it's okay, you know,
Speaker 2: and everything is gonna be fine. And then what's so
Speaker 2: funny is is that earlier this year you had Sammy
Speaker 2: Zay utilizing the whole Rocky three thing, because of course
Speaker 2: Russell Maya was in Philadelphia, Rocky is a Philadelphia legend,
Speaker 2: even though he wasn't real, and he was using the
Speaker 2: whole I'm afraid thing, you know as well when he
Speaker 2: was going up against guns, you know, and Chad Gable
Speaker 2: before he turned Hell was like, look, there is no tomorrow,
Speaker 2: just like Apollo Greed. It was sending me over the
Speaker 2: edge because I love Rocky three all the way down.
Speaker 2: Like any given Saturday, if I'm one of my parents
Speaker 2: is playing Rocky three, I'm going to stop and watch it.
Speaker 2: I have to because it's just the best one. It's
Speaker 2: the best one to me. And hearing Adriana Rizzo, you
Speaker 2: know us part of Talia Shire's speech to him, like
Speaker 2: saying like you know, we're all afraid, you know, what's
Speaker 2: the truth? Like what's the truth? Like it was just
Speaker 2: really getting to me. And I was just like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, they're using my movie. I love this movie
Speaker 2: so much so the fact that they just they're just
Speaker 2: this is the second time in the span of the
Speaker 2: year they've view just used it just proves that they
Speaker 2: have a Rocky fan working for them somewhere and big
Speaker 2: up to them because whatever he's getting paid, it's not
Speaker 2: here or she whatever they're getting paid it's not enough
Speaker 2: for using it. So yes, Rocky three Supremacy, Rocky three
Speaker 2: Supremacy did meet. So yeah, that's just really cool. And
Speaker 2: of course I have to give big ups to Joe
Speaker 2: Hendry because the NXT audience is still singing his song
Speaker 2: about Ethan Page to him every time he comes out.
Speaker 2: Every time Ethan Page comes out, they'll always start singing
Speaker 2: Ethan sucks. Believe in Joe Ethan put on some clothes.
Speaker 2: Joe Hendry deserves all the things he just does. Okay,
Speaker 2: say his name and he appears, so yeah. Another thing
Speaker 2: that I loved in wrestling this week on the AAW
Speaker 2: front is the fact that Rick Isshhe and will Ospray
Speaker 2: are going to be fighting. They're gonna be fighting in
Speaker 2: two weeks at AW Dynamited fifth Anniversary show, And for
Speaker 2: the people who know about the lore of their matches
Speaker 2: before they got signed to larger companies and stuff, this
Speaker 2: is a major deal. And as someone who has seen
Speaker 2: the matches, I'm excited about this. And of course you
Speaker 2: could argue that it's a little bit too soon for
Speaker 2: a certain ricochet to have a match like this for
Speaker 2: a title, but because this is AW and they cater
Speaker 2: to the part of the wrestling community that loves dream
Speaker 2: matches like this. They gonna run it right now, and
Speaker 2: I feel like a match like this deserves to be
Speaker 2: on the fifth Anni Nursery show. So him and Will
Speaker 2: Osprey are gonna fight, and I'm so excited to see it.
Speaker 2: I hope that it's on the level of their first encounter,
Speaker 2: and I just hope that everybody enjoys it. And I'm
Speaker 2: gonna enjoy it, and it's gonna be cool. And I'm
Speaker 2: not entirely sure if Ricochet is gonna win, per se.
Speaker 2: It would be cool if he did, but even if
Speaker 2: he doesn't, it'll still be cool. So we got this
Speaker 2: dream match happening on television, free television, y'all. We'd have
Speaker 2: made it. So yeah, this was cool to see. Also,
Speaker 2: even though I know I have my own show about
Speaker 2: Wild Superheroes, I just have to come on here and
Speaker 2: talk about the fact. Then, when I watched the very
Speaker 2: first episode of season three of Wild Superheroes, their production
Speaker 2: value has gone up. Okay, yesterday's price, it's not today's price.
Speaker 2: They're staging their camel work, the lights, the costumes, everything
Speaker 2: is up. Do you understand me? Wow, it's not playing
Speaker 2: for this season, and I'm so happy to see all
Speaker 2: the colors, all the prettiness. It's just I was gagged
Speaker 2: watching the very first episode of season three. And of course,
Speaker 2: if you're not already watching Wild Superheroes, you ought to
Speaker 2: because if you enjoy all women's content, that's a little
Speaker 2: bit different here again, back to that notion of having
Speaker 2: an open mind and wrestling, I definitely recommend that you
Speaker 2: watch it because it's such a beautiful show. Those girls
Speaker 2: on there are so talented. They have new superheroes coming
Speaker 2: in and everything like, it's just beautiful. So production is up,
Speaker 2: the stage is staging, all of the girls are girling,
Speaker 2: and it's just really great. So I will talk more
Speaker 2: about it next week as me and Katrina host our
Speaker 2: first episode of Stephan kat Talk Wow this for our
Speaker 2: season two. But yeah, the production is off, so I
Speaker 2: just had to come over here and talk about that
Speaker 2: because they really gagged the f out of me, and
Speaker 2: I just had to address it because we didn't have
Speaker 2: a show this week, so I just had to talk
Speaker 2: about it. But I'm gonna talk about it more next week.
Speaker 2: So yes, big up to Wild Superheroes and big up
Speaker 2: to whip his wrestle like as a whole because we're
Speaker 2: doing it. Okay, Now, when it comes to the women
Speaker 2: on SmackDown, when I tell you, Chelsea Green gagged me
Speaker 2: with her all pink outfit going out there in the dumpster.
Speaker 2: It was so hilarious because now her and meeching Mia,
Speaker 2: we'll be fighting in a dumpster match in Nashville on SmackDown.
Speaker 2: And I'm really excited about this because here again this
Speaker 2: feeds into the notion that these two women work really
Speaker 2: hard and that they deserve, you know, war opportunities. And
Speaker 2: Ricardo was saying, Chelsea fighting that raccoon was funny. Af
Speaker 2: It really was. And the thing that I love the
Speaker 2: most about that segment was the fact of the song
Speaker 2: that was playing in the background sounded like a song
Speaker 2: that the City Girls made with Usher. It sounded like
Speaker 2: it like it sounded so much like the City Girls,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, okay, so they really leaning
Speaker 2: heavily into the hip hop. I like it. But then
Speaker 2: just seeing her in all that pink in the dumpster,
Speaker 2: It's like, it's not something that you see every day,
Speaker 2: but only Chelsea Green could pull off something so goofy
Speaker 2: and so funny, and I love her so much and
Speaker 2: I love Meetcheen too, So I just can't wait to
Speaker 2: see how extreme they're gonna get in this dumpster match.
Speaker 2: And I definitely will not be given credit to the
Speaker 2: woman who suggested it because it's it could very well
Speaker 2: be argued that Vicky Gerrell should not be on ww
Speaker 2: should not be on WWTV after the allegations her sister,
Speaker 2: her daughter put out. But you know, justice for Sheriylyn Guerrero.
Speaker 2: And that's all I have to say about that mark
Speaker 2: with Mikes. Thank you for watching saying it sounded like
Speaker 2: the OG version, freaking it did, but the City Girls
Speaker 2: also sampled it, you know, with that song with Usher,
Speaker 2: and that's just what it sounded like. And considering they
Speaker 2: were talking so much stuff about Atlanta, it low key
Speaker 2: fit and I was like, oh, I just like it. It
Speaker 2: did sound like that though, So thank you for watching
Speaker 2: on Twitter. So yeah, it was funny. And this part
Speaker 2: of SmackDown really caught me off guard because you have
Speaker 2: the women's champion Naya Jacks and Tiffany Stratton is money
Speaker 2: in the bank get it ready for their Tornado tag
Speaker 2: team match against Naomi and Bailey, and Tiffany is of course,
Speaker 2: believing in them, you know, begging them up, you know,
Speaker 2: before the match and everything. But Nya looked at her
Speaker 2: and told her, look, if you lose this match, and
Speaker 2: you might as well leave smack Down too. And I'm
Speaker 2: sitting here like, no, why Tiffany gotta leave? Why does
Speaker 2: Tiffany have to leave SmackDown? Like that's just od you
Speaker 2: doing way too much, Naya, Like, no, why Tiffany gotta lead?
Speaker 2: Don't let Tiffany stay on in the blue Bread Okay,
Speaker 2: let her stay there, Let her stay there, Okay, chill.
Speaker 2: So I just thought that was really funny. But I
Speaker 2: literally feel like it's only a matter of time before
Speaker 2: Tiffany plays her cards right and she cash you in
Speaker 2: on her. Or if she did go to raw, she
Speaker 2: could cash in on live that would be funny. But
Speaker 2: either way, you know, don't let Tiffany leave SmackDown. Keep
Speaker 2: her right where she at. You're doing fine, She's doing fine. Now.
Speaker 2: This this broke my heart. This broke my heart so
Speaker 2: bad because I love me some Bailey and I love
Speaker 2: me some Naomi. But of course the implication of the
Speaker 2: Tornado tag was that if Naomi and Bailey, whoever got
Speaker 2: like the pin on either Naya or Tiffany would get
Speaker 2: a title opportunity, and this played throughout the night, even
Speaker 2: leading into their match with each other, because Bailey wants
Speaker 2: to go for the title because of course she lost
Speaker 2: it at Summer Slam to Nya. But Naomi, though, she's
Speaker 2: been gunning for an opportunity since she got to smack
Speaker 2: Down and since she got back to WWE. Because let's
Speaker 2: talk about it, Miss ma'ham left WWE and wrestled in
Speaker 2: TNA and became a whole knockouts champion and held onto
Speaker 2: that title for over one hundred days, and she was
Speaker 2: a dominant champion over there. So what sense does it
Speaker 2: make for her to come over to ww after proving
Speaker 2: herself and proving her words more and more and coming
Speaker 2: over here and just sitting in the back of the
Speaker 2: line just because the same people want to challenge all
Speaker 2: the time. That's not fair. Naomi has been fighting and
Speaker 2: putting forth her hard work and all of the above.
Speaker 2: And yeah, she's in the tournament now for ww Speed
Speaker 2: and she's going to be fighting EO Sky in the
Speaker 2: semi finals, and that's cool and everything, but that's not
Speaker 2: what she came there for. She came there for top
Speaker 2: goal because she proved that she deserves top goal in
Speaker 2: TNA when she was Trinity. So, Bailey, I get that
Speaker 2: you're a four horse woman, but miss ma'am, you've had
Speaker 2: your chance. You won your title at WrestleMania like girl,
Speaker 2: you beat Damage Controlled. Why can't Naomi have a chance.
Speaker 2: We're team Glow over here. I'm sorry. Ricardos in the comments,
Speaker 2: saying villain era Naomi. That's it looks it looks like
Speaker 2: that's exactly what we're getting because Naomi got the pen
Speaker 2: on nyaj X. But then she also covered Bailey and
Speaker 2: smushed her in the process. But in the midst of that,
Speaker 2: because they were arguing backstage, when Nick Nick all this
Speaker 2: said fine, to make it fair, how about the both
Speaker 2: of you just fight whoever and whensday match becomes number
Speaker 2: one kid tender. And the way that Naomi was looking
Speaker 2: at Bailey, if her eyes were bullets, Bailey would be
Speaker 2: dead and we'd only have three horse women left. You
Speaker 2: hate to see it, but it's true. Naomi deserves her chance,
Speaker 2: and if she crashes out, do so be it. Ricardo's
Speaker 2: saying villain Arabic three with missus Jacqueline as their manager, oh,
Speaker 2: that would be interesting. And considering she did just sign
Speaker 2: a legend, still you cook in Ricardo, you cook in
Speaker 2: That's a good idea. So yeah, that's what's going on there.
Speaker 2: But it's really intriguing stuff. And if Naomi does decide
Speaker 2: to crash out, I can't blame her. I can't blame her.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just can't. And I will say this
Speaker 2: when it comes to the men on SmackDown, the match
Speaker 2: for the United States title between La Knight and Androde
Speaker 2: I'll be Although it had a few hiccups, this was
Speaker 2: a really good match and it was a good way
Speaker 2: to open the show Andrede continues to prove why he
Speaker 2: is that dude out here and La Knight continues to
Speaker 2: prove why he you know, deserves to have this opportunity
Speaker 2: at this point in his career. This match was definitely
Speaker 2: like a really great back and forth between the two.
Speaker 2: It was really good ANDROTI definitely impressed me because he
Speaker 2: did a top rope moon salt over the ring post
Speaker 2: onto l A. Knight before they went to commercial, and
Speaker 2: I was like, yo, Andrade, who told you to show
Speaker 2: out like this? I but when he did that, it
Speaker 2: reminded me of Charlotte Flair, who is of course is
Speaker 2: his wife, and a part of me would just love
Speaker 2: to see a mixed tag between them two and watched
Speaker 2: and watch them fight, So I just can't. This match
Speaker 2: really good and it was a really solid opening, and
Speaker 2: then Ricardo was saying, Ellen and I had me worried
Speaker 2: about him falling, get your fancy footwork together. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: did have a little bit of hiccups, but you know,
Speaker 2: mistakes happened, but he did bounce back from him, and
Speaker 2: that's all that matters. Mark, with Mike saying this right here,
Speaker 2: this match was genius fire. Absolutely, it really was. It
Speaker 2: was really good. It was very physical, very hard hitting.
Speaker 2: It was just really good. But something funny that happened
Speaker 2: was that you had Carmelo Hayes, my dude, the only
Speaker 2: heel man that I love at this point, talking crazy
Speaker 2: at Andrade after his match and telling him that he
Speaker 2: was washed. He said, look, put the fries in the bag.
Speaker 2: You're washed, You're done. And then in Sacramento, California, this
Speaker 2: man had the absolute audacity to say that I haven't
Speaker 2: seen anybody choke like that since Sacramento did with the
Speaker 2: Lakers and all of the Booze that this man got.
Speaker 2: I was like, Carmelo, I love you, but you're deserved them, Booze.
Speaker 2: You did not have to be disrespectful like that. And
Speaker 2: then to tell Andrede, who has a wrestling family from
Speaker 2: Mexico that Michael cole was talking about on commentary to
Speaker 2: put the fries in the bank, that was disrespectful as as.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly why they got the fighting backstage. And
Speaker 2: that's exactly why they're gonna fight each other again next week.
Speaker 2: To be honest, they could have been at Bad Blood.
Speaker 2: This match really could have been at Bad Blood because
Speaker 2: they just gonna keep fighting each other. But you know
Speaker 2: them on SmackDown. I'm not mad about it either, Mark
Speaker 2: with Mike saying them boys were squabbling backstage. They really were,
Speaker 2: They really were. Carmelo Hay is my favorite here. He's
Speaker 2: just so messy. He my favorite heel too. I love
Speaker 2: him down. He is my favorite here. He is him
Speaker 2: for a reason. But he was real disrespectful. They belong
Speaker 2: in Bad Blood. But even if they're all SmackDown, it's
Speaker 2: cool too. But let's get some black men on our
Speaker 2: pay per views please, So yeah, they deserved it. Now,
Speaker 2: my friends This is the part of HWP where we
Speaker 2: gotta get serious up in here. Cody Roads, the undisputed
Speaker 2: WW champion number one on the PWI list this year,
Speaker 2: had a standoff conversation with Roman Reigns in the Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech football field in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. When I tell you,
Speaker 2: there was tension when they released the pictures before we
Speaker 2: even saw this take place on screen last night. But
Speaker 2: when I tell you, me and my dad were watching
Speaker 2: it together and we were quiet the whole time, and
Speaker 2: you could just feel the tension and the hot air
Speaker 2: between these men. You can feel it. You can feel
Speaker 2: it every time they stare at each other. To be
Speaker 2: quite honest, these two men have been fighting each other
Speaker 2: and have been at each other's throat for the last
Speaker 2: two years. But yet they still found a way to
Speaker 2: make this so interesting. Room and Rings rolled up with
Speaker 2: all these seven cars like he's the President of the
Speaker 2: United States. He had a whole motor cave of security
Speaker 2: and all of that protecting him going to Georgia Tech
Speaker 2: and to paint the picture. For those who don't know,
Speaker 2: Roman Rains went to Georgia Tech and played football for them,
Speaker 2: paint that picture and then He also had on some
Speaker 2: matching nikes. Do not ask me the name of the shoes,
Speaker 2: because I am not a sneaker head. Liked that, and
Speaker 2: they were matching the colors of the Georgia Tech Field,
Speaker 2: and I thought that was cute. But then you have
Speaker 2: Cody Rose roll up in his Mustang, shiny white Ford
Speaker 2: Mustang by himself. This is me rolling up in my car.
Speaker 2: They getting each other's face and start talking Roman. For
Speaker 2: all of the things that he was claiming to have
Speaker 2: lost with between his ulafalla and his title, he is
Speaker 2: still very delusional because for him to look Cody in
Speaker 2: his face and tell him that Atlanta was his city
Speaker 2: because he played football for them was absolutely ridiculous. But
Speaker 2: then Cody had to send his ass straight forgive me
Speaker 2: for cousin had to send him straight and tell him, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you played football, thank you for that. But my family,
Speaker 2: my dad was fighting in the Omni down the street,
Speaker 2: and he mentioned a couple of other businesses too in
Speaker 2: Atlanta that I had never heard of. And he talked
Speaker 2: about the Omni and he said, this might be your city,
Speaker 2: but this is my home. So in other words, Cody
Speaker 2: said that.
Speaker 3: You need a few dollars. No, you met a colleague.
Speaker 2: You a fucking colonizer.
Speaker 3: The family matter truth for them.
Speaker 2: Cody told him, you're a colonizer, boo, like you. This
Speaker 2: is not your city. This is not your city. This
Speaker 2: is my home. Okay, not like us. It's a gift
Speaker 2: that keeps on giving anyway. This is not your city, sweetheart,
Speaker 2: this is my home. And you're just not gonna come
Speaker 2: up in him and talk about how this is your city.
Speaker 2: And then they quit the history lessons or whatever because
Speaker 2: Roman didn't want to go out like that or whatever.
Speaker 2: And he was talking about how Cody was fighting people
Speaker 2: who didn't have anything to lose. But yet Cody has
Speaker 2: everything to lose because he's a champion and all this
Speaker 2: other stuff. And then Roman has nothing to lose because
Speaker 2: he doesn't have Jimmy, he doesn't have his wise man
Speaker 2: Paul Hayman, and he doesn't even have his ulafalla. And
Speaker 2: what's even sadder is when you think about the layers
Speaker 2: of who gave him the ulafalla in real life, Like
Speaker 2: it's just so sad, and he really doesn't have anything
Speaker 2: to lose at this point. And yeah, Cody is the champion,
Speaker 2: you know, and once he fights them, you know, he
Speaker 2: could just get it over with or whatever. But the
Speaker 2: layers here were very deep when it came to Roman
Speaker 2: and stuff. But the thing that I just don't like
Speaker 2: about Roman is the fact that he just be acting
Speaker 2: like Cody is just a nobody in comparison to him.
Speaker 2: And yes, you could argue that there was a point
Speaker 2: where Roman, of course, you know, was the standard for
Speaker 2: WrestleMania main events, the way Cody said he was. He
Speaker 2: was the standard and the guy and the face. You know,
Speaker 2: before John Cena was part time or whatever. They were
Speaker 2: prepping him to be the guy. And at one point
Speaker 2: us as wrestling fans did not want Romeraines to be
Speaker 2: the guy, remember, and it's just now he is the guy.
Speaker 2: You know, he was the guy for a long time,
Speaker 2: but now he isn't. He's not even champion anymore. But
Speaker 2: yet he's still out here acting like he's still running things,
Speaker 2: and Coda is telling him, no, you are not running
Speaker 2: this ship anymore. I am the landscape has changed. And
Speaker 2: then the killing part about it is with Roman talking
Speaker 2: about everything he has lost and how Solo you know,
Speaker 2: is running around here like the tribal chief. All of
Speaker 2: this is happening because it's Roman's fault. And that's the
Speaker 2: part that nobody else is talking about in all of
Speaker 2: their shows and in all of their articles. Nobody is
Speaker 2: saying that Roman reigns is the reason why all of
Speaker 2: this is happening. All of this is happening to Roman
Speaker 2: Raines because of what Roman Rains did and the system
Speaker 2: he set up with his family. He was the one
Speaker 2: who propositioned himself as a tribal chief, chosen as a
Speaker 2: tribal chief, always talked down to the usos, told Solo
Speaker 2: that he was the tribal air. If stuff doesn't go
Speaker 2: right with him, Solo took over and now he's running
Speaker 2: rampant and he's got power drunk. You lost the wise man,
Speaker 2: You lost, Jimmy. All of this has happened because of
Speaker 2: actions that you set forth. Roman Rains sent these chickens
Speaker 2: and they came home to roost, and everybody can blame
Speaker 2: Cody for it all they want to, but the truth is,
Speaker 2: the sad fact is this is all happening because Roman
Speaker 2: Rains set this emotion. He said all this to happen
Speaker 2: for himself, and Cody was just telling him, look, I'm
Speaker 2: just the beneficiary. Of all of the mess you've got
Speaker 2: going on with your family. I'm the champion because I
Speaker 2: beat you. But finally he said, look, I just need
Speaker 2: to know if you're gonna have my back at Bad
Speaker 2: Blood and he said and Roman was like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: have my word. But I don't trust Roman rains his word.
Speaker 2: I just don't because of everything he has done with
Speaker 2: his family, because for all these years and everything, and
Speaker 2: how he's just stabbed people in the back constantly. I
Speaker 2: don't believe him. I just don't believe him. And then
Speaker 2: what's so bad is is Roman was walking away and
Speaker 2: Cody stepped in front of him after he told him,
Speaker 2: I'm coming back to tape what's mine? And Cody was
Speaker 2: like this is not yours to take and Roman was like,
Speaker 2: you're in my way in life, and I'm just like,
Speaker 2: you are so delulu. You are so delulu because you
Speaker 2: really think that just because you've been to God for
Speaker 2: so long means that somebody else can't be. Cody is
Speaker 2: that guy, and people don't want to admit it. Another
Speaker 2: holding hands moment, Cody Rhoades is the champion and he
Speaker 2: is that guy. Now, mind you, you can say Roman
Speaker 2: Reigns could still very well be that guy because of
Speaker 2: the aura that he has and how everybody's excited that
Speaker 2: he's back, that he's trying to come back and take
Speaker 2: you know, his rightful places, the tribal chief back, and
Speaker 2: all of that is one hundred percent valid. I get it.
Speaker 2: But he is not the top guy. Cody is the
Speaker 2: top guy. Cody the way that everything was sort of
Speaker 2: handed to Roman to be the top guy to a degree,
Speaker 2: Cody really had to work for it, and he couldn't
Speaker 2: necessarily stay in WW and work for it. He had
Speaker 2: to work for it everywhere else for him to prove
Speaker 2: himself to be a top guy. And now he is one.
Speaker 2: And y'all don't want to give him his problems because
Speaker 2: y'all keep holding on. No let it go, And y'all
Speaker 2: can get mad at me for saying it, but that's
Speaker 2: just how I feel like. Cody is the top guy.
Speaker 2: And yeah he's a babyface, and yeah he doesn't have
Speaker 2: all the v and roomerains had going off with the
Speaker 2: bloodline or whatever, blah blah blah, but he's that's not
Speaker 2: his job, that's not what he's supposed to do. He
Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to be Roman Raines junior. He's supposed to
Speaker 2: be Cody Rhodes, the American Nightmare, the son of the
Speaker 2: American dream, the champion, his own man, the babyface, the
Speaker 2: complete opposite of what Roman was doing. Winning his matches
Speaker 2: by himself in a straight way. That's what Cody is doing.
Speaker 2: But yet people keep beating down on him and making
Speaker 2: it seem like he's not the guy, and that's just
Speaker 2: not true. Cody is the guy, and Roman is just
Speaker 2: gonna have to deal with it and put on his
Speaker 2: big boy breeches and go back to the drawing board
Speaker 2: and figure it out like Pete doesn't. But this whole
Speaker 2: segment was beautiful. This segment was beautiful. It felt like
Speaker 2: a movie. The idea that they were able to film
Speaker 2: this in the middle of college football season sent me
Speaker 2: over the edge when I was watching it. And then
Speaker 2: the fact that they had all this they were able
Speaker 2: to do all of this in the midst of busy
Speaker 2: downtown Atlanta at that because downtown Atlanta is always busy.
Speaker 2: If you've ever been there, it's busy. So the fact
Speaker 2: that they were able to do this, it just blows
Speaker 2: my mind. And the fact that they're doing this for
Speaker 2: Bad Blood, which is a paper view that they're bringing back.
Speaker 2: Bad Blood did not exist a few years ago. They
Speaker 2: weren't doing it anymore. So do y'all get that they're
Speaker 2: doing all of this for bad Blood And not even
Speaker 2: for SummerSlam, not even for the Royal Rum but not
Speaker 2: even for Mania, not even for Survivors Series. They're doing
Speaker 2: all of this for bad Blood, a pay per view
Speaker 2: that's happening in the South. Y'all can't tell me nothing
Speaker 2: no more. So, Yeah, this segment was absolutely beautiful and
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see more like it. It was
Speaker 2: very dramatic, very insane, very cinematic, like a lot of
Speaker 2: people were saying in the comments. It was so good
Speaker 2: I had to watch it again. Bad Blood is gonna
Speaker 2: send me to the hospital, and I'm just gonna hopefully
Speaker 2: I'll be okay, but this is gonna be great. So
Speaker 2: that's pretty much all I liked in wrestling this week.
Speaker 2: Of course, you know, thank you guys for going off
Speaker 2: in the comments and telling me everything that you guys
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