Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Gimmick Your Wrestling Show here
on the Geek First Network. I am the man who
still believes in John Cena David.
Speaker 2: And I am the Stage four rivalry. I suppose because
tomorrow we're not just doing the gimme today, but tomorrow
will be going live with My GM Season two, at
least the first part of it, and that's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And we are excited to bring you a good show
where you're going to be running down a couple of topics. Today,
we've got our draft updates. We are going to give
you a slight sneak peeking to some of our thoughts
about our last my GM Mode streaming.
Speaker 3: What's coming up?
Speaker 1: Like s bub said, tomorrow at today in Pacific time,
that is one pm Eastern time, we will be going
live with season two of My GM Mode. We've worked
out a lot of king since last time, so it
would be a lot smooth or a lot more fun.
And uh, I know the guys have been working on
some strategies along with that, we have predictions on Saturday
Night's main events coming up, Battlegrounds coming up, and Aw's
double or nothing. So I can't wait to start talking
about all these topics. It's gonna be a good one.
But before we do that, s bubs, how's your weekend
since I've seen you.
Speaker 2: Last It's been good. I'm trying to remember. I didn't
even remember what our last cast was. Was it WrestleMania?
Speaker 1: It was wrestling, Yeah, it was WrestleMania. So we we
had our post WrestleMania stuff. We were going to uh
talk about everything that happened in the fallout from Backlash,
but that just happened to fall you know, around Mother's Day.
Things got busy, so we decided to wait a little bit. Luckily,
we've got a lot of things coming in the month
of May, so now it's a perfect time to come
back to you guys. Our cohort, the other part of
this trios team, Travis Snail, cannot be with us here today.
Bus I know he's got a lot of stuff that
he's preparing for the next season of My GM Mode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might just say he's not able to be
here and he's just playing my GM trying to get
some extra rep. Then well, at least on to go
out here and do this.
Speaker 1: See you guys are sitting here like the old school NFL,
like fantasy drafts where people have their big boards of
who they're gonna pick and how they're gonna do. And
I'm just here, like, let me throw whatever I can
at the wall and make it stick. Let's just go
for my favorites. Have I'm aw style booking over here.
Let's just collect all the toys I can and keep
doing them. And you guys are over here like long
term booking. I'm twenty twenty five. Aw, you guys are
twenty nineteen long term booking aw over here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so some of my feuds in my gym, it'll
be like three months of just the same people just
fighting each other. But yeah, I mean I don't I
have like a little bit, like I have a few
notes on my phone of like stuff I generally want
to do. But I've seen Travis he brings them. He
never wants the show too much, but I've seen that
he's scrolling through like his five pages of information about
what to.
Speaker 3: Do on my GM.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it will definitely definitely be a fun one.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I am looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow is gonna be a good time.
Speaker 1: So again, join us this time tomorrow we will be
going live with another season of My GM and it's
gonna be a wild wild ride there. Also, some new
characters have been released in w W two K twenty five,
so that's gonna make it a little bit more interesting.
Speaker 2: So that's why we waited it until now just to
get those, because it's We've got Stephanie Vicer, Julia and
Alex Shelley and Chris Saban of the MotorCity machine Guns.
Speaker 3: And the Prime Bottle. I'll not forget the Prime Bottle.
Speaker 2: It's good. I've got like I've used it in my gym.
It has good, it has like a five promo skill,
so better better value than the McAfee. I think it
costs less than I was, better, better promo.
Speaker 1: It's a future world champion Prime bottle right there. Yeah,
I'm calling it so yeah again.
Speaker 3: That is this time tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Right here on the Geek Whirst Network. I'm looking forward
to it. Our next upcoming thing when it comes to
wrestling wise, is Saturday Night's main Events. So I am
super looking forward to this. There has been a lot
more built up for this than I think that there
was for backlash.
Speaker 3: Would you agree to that?
Speaker 2: Uh? I would say so? Yeah. I think there's definitely
a lot of stuff that yeah has been building into
this because Backlash, like the Don versus Penta maatch, Like,
I don't think they interact it at all, and they
just announced it for Backlash. It was just like and
they'd already done that match on The Rock Termania. So yeah,
I've definitely been enjoying the built of Saturday Knights main event,
especially since I'm going to be there, so every big matches, Like,
I just hope they announced this for Saturday Night's main event,
and I'm happy with what's announced so far. I'm hoping
for maybe one more. I mean, I assume they're probably
gonna have a women's match, because I don't think it's
gonna be just for men's matches at least I hope not.
But uh yeah, I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is on my birthday, so it will
be a nice little freak for me to have a
little bit of wrestling, an entire packed weekend of wrestling
for my birthday. So I'm feeling like this is the
wrestling world's birthday present to me is some good wrestling events.
So let's get straight into Saturday Night's main event. We
have jay Usso versus Logan Paul for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Not something that a year ago, if you had to
ask me, I would have said would be on the
car for any event. Uh, jay Usso as the champion
versus Logan Paul. I don't see Logan Paul taking the
championship right now, not a world title, but I do
think that this will be just a fun, high flying match.
Of course, jaus is going to retain. I don't think
he loses against Logan Paul right now. It just doesn't
make sense for me.
Speaker 2: It's like I said, Logan Paul only wins at WrestleMania,
like and Saudi shows, but he lost that cod to
Cody Insadi, but he's lost at Summer Slam. I think
what other even know. He's lost on like smackdowns, like
literally the only time he wins this at WrestleMania. So
I'm not worried for for jaus So, but I'm hoping, Yeah,
it'll be Uh, I'm hoping for a fun match. I mean,
there's probably gonna be like some of the Logan Paul's
friends interference, but I feel like you can still do
fun stuff with that, you know, Like I don't know,
do like instead of just the one one guy, get
like ten of them out there and have Jay like
dive onto all of them or whatever. I think it'll
be a fun.
Speaker 3: Match, yeah, I mean it would be a good chance.
Speaker 1: Whoever Logan Paul Rings, you can have Jimmy come out
and have them score off against whatever influencer Logan Paul
Rings and just you can have a lot of fun
with this match.
Speaker 3: But I think the ending of.
Speaker 1: This should be very predictable. I mean, it's in my
opinion this will most likely be the show opener, because sure.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like they're promoting it, like
when they're doing like the card Rundown. This was like
like at the very end of SmackDown, they're like, sorry,
Knight's main event next week with Logan Paul versus Jay Us,
And that was like the match they mentioned. So I
feel like it might have I mean, I feel like
they have to give Day at least one main event,
even if it's not on any of the even if
he's vinciting backlash and money in the bank, like you
have to a main event of some kind just just
to put him in there.
Speaker 3: The only reason I think that this would be the opener.
Speaker 1: Is it's between this and the Stillcage match for the opener,
because they rely on that old school field, they rely
on that big production feel of these things. I think
you're either going to start with the World Heavyweight Championship match.
I don't think they're starting off with John Cena versus
Our Truth.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Maybe they my mic got like unplugged, but I was
like twisting it around and I unplugged it, but I
was gonna say yeah, sortry next mon events and sits
on like like primetime NBC. I think maybe they do want,
like if you put John scene out there first, like
there's people scrolling through like, oh, John Cena is on
the show right now. So I feel like that's maybe
one reason why he might open. I'm not sure if
he will. The other reason I feel is this sort
of getting into that match later on. But I do
think Sina versus Truth is probably not gonna be a
very long match. I feel like they probably want to.
I feel like Jay versus Logan. It might not be.
I'm honest saying it's gonna be like twenty minutes long,
but I feel like it could be. I don't know,
like fifteen minutes and that's like a main event match.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just think for Logan Paul's star status,
having him come out first, for the people who are
flipping channels and seeing this, having Logan Paul kick this
thing off, it gives you that name recognition. Having a
world headweight championship kick this thing off has it name recognition.
I do think John Cena versus Our Truth will be
a short match. We'll get more into that later as
to why I think that, but I definitely think that
they're gonna go on last. The other option is again
the steel cage match, because the look of especially if
these the old school, the big blue steel cage.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I hadn't even thought that they might then
be fun if then.
Speaker 1: That also gives you that look and feel for the
people who are just switching channels or whatever. It's leading
is to Saietay Night's main event. Having that Oh okay,
I remember this from my childhood moment, so I think
we're both in.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was gonna say. I think really all
these matches have some reasoning as to why they could
be the main event. Like if you're just looking storyline wise,
I think like the tag match could even main event. Yeah.
I feel like these all have Like if I see
any of these announced as the main event, I'd be like, okay,
that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but I think we're both in a grants
that jay Us is winning this thing. There there's no
scenario where Logan Paul walks out the World Heavyweight Champion.
Speaker 2: And Paul the new Game and just giving him the
first title defense against the Cody erg Aj for Cody,
but he was like the second one they just did
with like yep, just Logan Paul there, and you're gonna
depend against them now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The other thing about that is I think that
right now, if you put a World Heavyweight Championship on
Logan Paul, then you lend a little bit more than
WW may want to to what keny Omega just said
about our future WrestleMania is mister Best versus Logan Paul,
and no one really wants that. Yeah, so after that
we have see him Punk and Sammy's Ain versus Seth
Rowlinson bron Breaker.
Speaker 3: I just think this is gonna be a good match.
Speaker 1: I think this is going This is not gonna be
a wrestling match, This is gonna be in everywhere, breakout
brawl and I'm here for I every time seeing Punk
and Seth rollins locks up.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 1: Bron Breaker is there, Chess be an absolute monster, and
Sammy Zain is gonna get his moves in, He's gonna
get those crowd reactions, He's gonna sell his ass off.
I think this is going to probably be my most
fun match of the night, or the one that I
enjoy the most.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think it's gonna be really good.
Sammy Zane and Punk when they had their one on
one match a few months ago on RAW, I really
love that match. They had really good chemistry. So I'm
wondering how that works out for them as a team,
but I think it'll be fun. Obviously, the first match
of Seth and bron Is as a team, so that's
not gonna be interesting. And yeah, I think it's gonna
be good. I think probably Sammy takes the pin here,
probably from bron Breaker. I'd say, unless they're really going
forward and they want to do Punk and Broun like
like at Money in the Bank or something like that
for example, I don't think so, but I think definitely
probably Braun is getting the pin. Here on Sammy or Punk,
Like I said, if they want to do that match so.
Speaker 1: Quickly, Yeah, I'm not sure who's walking out with this one.
I could see either side for storyline reasons taking the win,
but I'm leaning towards Seth and Broun walking away with
the win, especially after this is their newly formed thing,
you know, having that Paul Hayman Robb. I think that
they're going to find a way to win it. And
between Punk and Sammy, I don't think either of them can.
I think they both can take a loss right now
and it not hurt their momentum or where their characters
are at. But with this newly formed team with Seth, Rollinson,
Brown Breaker, I think that they need to have a
definitive win.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you think we can see like a third
member in this tag match maybe help them win, especially
since these last few rear on Raw they've sort of
been running away because they've been outnumbered by by those
faces here.
Speaker 1: I think this is an opportunity to introduce that person,
But in my mind, I would probably wait just a
little bit more, give it more teasing that a third
man is coming before you full on introduce them. I
don't think it's necessary right now, especially since we've had
a lot of just new people come in every single event.
Maybe let this one slide and again, once I get
to the John Cen or our truth, it will make
more sense. Why I think right now you just probably
wait a little bit longer before you introduce the third man.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3: You'll have too.
Speaker 1: Many new people and then okay, what do you what
are you going to do unless it's somebody that we've
just been waiting on their return, which right now, I
don't I think that there's anyone who fits that bill
that we've just been like, when are they coming back?
When are they coming back? I think that you you
wait a little bit because you just had Jeff Cobb,
j C.
Speaker 3: Matteo I think is his name.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe you just had alistair block and Russev return
a little bit ago. So unless you're bringing in somebody
like that, and Russive doesn't absolutely does not make sense
to fill this role because in his not so redeemer
redeemer situation that they're doing their play on just basically
letting him keep what he was doing in aw going
on with just a little bit of a retooling I
don't think he fits right here, So let it play
out a little bit more tease more that you're having
a third man in there, but maybe not debut them
right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I was just curious on
on your thoughts there. But I do think it'll happen,
probably sooner rather than later. I'll say, before SummerSlam, there'll
be more members of this faction.
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: So I do think it's coming soon, and I just
don't know about right now. And then considering that we
have a draft coming up and everything else, you know,
we could find out some time around Money in the
Bank or Night of Champions who's going to be this
third man. But I just think maybe not right now
they do it, because let us get through the draft
and everything else.
Speaker 3: We'll have some restructuring.
Speaker 1: Then we'll have a little bit more of an idea
of where people are and who it could be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say maybe once they're in a like a
more important match or something like that. Like maybe if
it's coming up to a set or a bron title match,
that's when you sort of tease someone else coming in
to help them win. But yeah, I see why. I'll
just think just because well, it sort of happened with
the Jeff Copp thing, but it was the sort of
the same thing last year at Backlash when it was
Randy and Ko versus Solo and Tom when you got
the surprise Tongalowa debut. So I was just thinking back
to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So next up, we have Damien Priest versus Drew McIntyre
in a steel cage, absolute banger. Like again, this won't
be my favorite match, but I think this is gonna
be just a hard hitting to quote Biggie Big sweaty
man slapping me, this is gonna be just a brutal
back and forth and I am here for it. Throw
in the addition of the steel cage. Like I said,
I hope for the aesthetics of Saturday Night's main event
they go with the big blue bars, and I will
be all for this match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope. So I hadn't even thought of that,
but I do hope they do that because they've definitely
tried with the classic aesthetic and stuff like that. Yeah,
but yeah, I'm excited for this. I've liked all of
Drew and Damien's matches. I think they're very hard hitting
and I think with the steel cage, they can do
some some cool stuff in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I I have a I feel like Drew
needs this win more than Damien, but I could see
this going either way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say, hm, I'll say probably Drew still wins here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think with him being the not so heel heel,
him being the you know, you try to injure me
by slamming my head into the concrete, he is that
in that kind of in between moment of he he
is technically working heel, but everyone loves him. Everyone wants
to see him get those wins. Everyone wants to see
him put on the show. He's not wrong in some
of the stuff that he says. To quote Anthony Mackie's
Sam Wilson, he's out of line, but he's right on this,
Like you know, he the points that he makes, the
points that he has been making, and everything that he does, he's.
Speaker 3: Not technically wrong.
Speaker 1: It's just the way that he goes about doing it.
So people want to see him. When I think this
is a good chance to get him a win. I
don't think you hurt Damian Priest too much with this,
and just yeah, let Drew have that moment. But I
think that they're going to have a good, hard hitting match.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So let's see.
Speaker 1: After that, we have the big match, John, the seventeen
time record breaking world champion, John Cena versus his biggest fan,
biggest supporter, the biggest cheerleader, Our Truth. And this is
a match that I didn't know that I would want
as much as now I wanted, especially seeing Our Truth
sit down with Nick Aldis and everything like that.
Speaker 2: I'm the Wade Barrett.
Speaker 3: Yeah oh yeah, wa.
Speaker 1: So I just think that this this is going to
be a shorter match. This isn't going to be twenty minutes.
This isn't gonna be the five Star championship match. I
do think Our Truth will show bits and pieces of
Our Truth being run. The Truth killing is the guy
who won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship back when he
was in TNA. But I don't think you're gonna get
a lot of that. This isn't going to be like
in Orange Chassidy where he goes from comedy and just
turns it on and keeps it on. I think he'll
turn it on for about two or three minutes and
then go back to you. Our Truth being our Truth.
I could even see a comedy spot where John Cena
threatens Little Jimmy and we get that callback to the
imaginary friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like this match
could just be like like Sina like start fighting like
Truth does like the leap frog and the splits over
him he like Truth does the five Moves Ado and
then Sina just like picks him up in aas and
that's the end of the match. Like I feel like
that's that's what could happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the main reason why I feel like this
match will go on last is because I think that
the fallout of this match, we'll see whoever John Cena's
next big challenger is going to be, whether it be
a returning Cody or someone else, This is where we
are going to get where John Cena is going next.
There will be an angle to end this night that
will linger on the next path for John Cena. And
I think if the big emphasis right now is John
Cena's career winding down his remaining dates left him being
the last real champion and walking away with that belt,
having it end with the shot of whoever his next
challenger is going to be will be the shot that
they will want to end on to bring people back
for more events, more live television and everything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. I hadn't thought of that, but
I could definitely see so, you know, like beating up
our truth or like, I don't know, they just like
hitting him with the belt over and over something like that,
and someone comes out for the save there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so match ends either John Sena continues a beatdown
or he just gets on the mic and just starts
berating truth and then berating the crowd and continuing to
talk about you know, the people and how they're the
reason he's turned heel and people like our truth are
the reason and all this other stuff and just you know,
berating him. And then that's when we get whoever the
next challenger is, who's going to take that away? We
lead into the next couple of weeks, the next couple
of months of television, and we just that will be
your segue and that will be what will keep the
people coming back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's a situation where John Cena
walks out of this and we don't know what his
next path is going to be, because with his limited dates,
you got to sell what's coming up next, whether it
be appearances from whoever the challenger is. If it is Cody,
you can start promoting that Cody's going to be in
the next city, whether John Cena is there or not,
or if it's someone else like Randy Orton or anyone
else who's coming to challenge it, you can start promoting
that immediately come the next show on Monday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially how many weeks after that is money in
the bank will like pretty money one week later or
something like that.
Speaker 1: Two weeks later. It's June seventh.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, that would make sense if you get
someone out there and then they can be on SmackDown
the next week and then probably SnO will be there
for the go home and then you have your your
match there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So with it being seventh, that's two weeks from there.
Speaker 1: So you have this on the twenty fourth, then you
have SmackDown on the thirtieth, SmackDown on the sixth, and
then the pay per view on the seventh, So perfect
time to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think we're pretty on par with our thoughts on
the Saturday night's main event. I said, I other than
whoever's going to challenge John Cena, I don't think anything
big or major is gonna.
Speaker 3: Happen, no huge title changes.
Speaker 1: I am surprised that there is not a women's match
on this show, but this does also leave an opportunity
maybe to officially announce evolution and everything else and bring
the women out and promote that if it's going.
Speaker 2: To be a gonna have a match, because, like I
was saying on the discord, like the first Surrey Knice
main event, like the one in December had five matches,
and then the one in January just a few months
ago had four. But the thing with the one that
had four was that the Jay and Gunther match was like,
if you include entrances, was like thirty minutes or something
like that, and I don't think any of the matches
on the show necessarily going to be close to that length.
So I still think there's space for probably one more
match on this show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't see any any huge thirty minute
matches with this, so I mean you do have a
chance to have I would hope in Intercontinental Championship or
a United States Championship match, get those in there. We
don't have enough time for Live to return for and
build up anything for the Women's Tag Team Championship, but
at least you can use those mid card titles and
throw them on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So my vote for that though, would probably be the
Women's Championship, just because again, this is the your your
big television facing one.
Speaker 3: Give Zelena that moment.
Speaker 1: I think Lyra has been putting on some banger matches,
but I think it would be nice to give Selena
that moment. She comes out, she does her thing again.
You appeal to a broader audience with the United States
Title match, and you know Zelena is gonna come out
with a banger outfit opening and things like that. So
if you're gonna do it, I would say, go ahead
and use the United States Women's Championship. But I do
hope they either throw in a women's match or use
this time to bring the women out and promote the
Evolution pay per view. Yeah all right, next up, very
next day, we've got a NXT battleground. Now this is
your wheelhouse. I have been watching NXD a little bit more.
I am nowhere near the officionadel that you are part of.
It is that I have Board of Education meetings every
other Tuesday. So when NXT is going on. I'm sitting
in a Board of Education meeting, so most times I'm
catching it secondhand or here catching highlights, here's what happened.
Speaker 3: On, or I'm falling along.
Speaker 1: You are amazing in our discord about breaking down not
only match results, what's going on, Like I can just
leave a window with our discord open, and I'm feeling
like I am falling along beat by beat with the commentators.
So thank you for that because that definitely helps me
feel like I don't have to rush home and watch
every part of the show. Yeah, let's see, we have
Tony Dangelo versus Stacks and you know, Jess, this is
the culmination of their the family breakdown, So why don't
you give us a little bit more info on how
we got here and what do you think is going
to be the fallout of this? Do you think that
don takes it or is Stacks continuing in his rise?
Speaker 2: I feel like Stacks will probably end up winning this
because I feel like Tony d is one of those
who is probably like in need of a of a
call up, like I think he's people pointing out there
was that one like NXT Black and Gold is two
point zero War Games match and he's like the only
person in that match who hasn't been like the rest
of that match was I think it was Pete Dunn, Gargano,
hell A Knight, Champa, Grayson Waller, bron Breaker, Carmela Hayes,
and Tony D. I think that was the name. So
Tony literally the last person in that match who hasn't
been called up yet. So I think Staxas is probably
gonna win here. And yeah, the story has been well,
you know, the family, they've been together for a long
time now, and yeah, there was the big moment there
at Standing Deliver where he betrayed Tony D. And since
then there were like some vignettes and stuff of like
stax like killed off like Luca Cruzefino or something like
that in like the desert, and then like Adrianna Rizzo
was like sent to a safe house, and then this
past week he was up on the Titan Tron like
outside her house. So Tony DE drove over there and
the stacks a sneak attacked them and challenge them for
a for a match at battle Ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's been a wild ride with the family
and and where they're going. Uh, I do think that
this would be a perfect time for Stacks to basically
put the nail in the coffin for the family and
then give Tony D'Angelo a chance to go to the
main roster do something else. I feel like it has
it's been fun, but it's kind of run its course
and Tony Dangelo needs a new direction, so this is
the perfect time to in that and give him an
opportunity to move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the family definitely had a lot of great moments obviously,
like being like a base faction who just like killed
people off. It's like really funny, and they've been the
the bait like they've started off some like they pretty
much created the the new No No Quarter catch Crew
because the story if you Go Back is in k Babe,
Charlie Dempsey paid them to kill Drew Gulac and then
ren Sinclaire caught them taking the body away, and then
she pretty much forced them to make her join the
fashion because she said she was gonna tell people if
if they didn't let her join. So that's the story
of pretty much the No Quarter Catcher now that she's
a big part of it, but all started with her
blackmailing after seeing them dispose of this dead body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's definitely.
Speaker 1: It's been fun, it's been interesting, but I don't see
a full direction for them to go after this. So,
like I said, it's good time to wrap up the
family and move forward. Give Tony dangel to something else
to do. Stas can continue working on his own and
building his name. He'll stand in the next tea. But
it's a good time for Tony di to get caught up. Yeah,
we've got Trick Williams versus Joe Hendry for the TNA championship.
Speaker 3: This one, huh.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little worried because I like both guys.
I love Joe Hendry. I've liked Joe Hendry since what
culture Pro Wrestling days, when I would watch that on
YouTube or watch his amazing entrances in North Wrestling or
ICW VIA clips and things like that. So I've always
been a fan of Joe Hendry. I'm glad that he's
getting his time to shine. I'm glad that he's getting
his pop around the world. Do we think that TNA
is gonna let their champion lose t Trick Williams on
a non TNA show.
Speaker 2: I think they will like I've said it like on
Turn this Cord, but see, I can see the direction
where they're where they're going with this, because obviously Trick
has like pretty much turned heel this point, and so
obviously he's there. He's attacking Joe Hendry on on TNA
they set up this match, but also when Trick was
on TNA, I forget if it was. I think maybe
like two weeks ago or something like that. They tease
like a little interaction there with Mike Santana, And so
what I've been plotting out here is I think, like
Mike Santana's whole story and this Mustafa Lea feud they
had like over the past few months, was he wanted
to go for the title, but Mustafah like mess with
them and was like you have to fight me first,
pretty much, And now that he finished that feud, it's like, well,
obviously he has to go after a world title, and
he's pretty much Mike Santana's is probably like the second
most over person in TNA after Joe Hendry. So I
think they definitely want the title on him, but they
don't want him fighting Joe Hendry. I don't think they
want to do like face versus face. So I think
what's gonna happen is, Yeah, Trick wins it, maybe even
my cheating or something like that. Maybe they do a rematch,
but I think he wins the TNA title, holds it
for just a few months, probably defends on TNA, and
probably boosts some ticket sales for them in their eyes,
and then I think he drops it to Santana and
Slammiversary in New York there and crown Santana is like
the new TNA guy saving TNA from NXT.
Speaker 1: You know what, I did not think that long term
into the booking, but I could see that. I could
definitely see that that being the direction. I know Mike
Santana is been putting in huge work over in TNA
and is absolutely loved and so do this is a
good way to put the title on him without him
being the one to take it off of Joe Hendry,
which with the love both of those guys have, that
would not be a viable option. So yeah, have Trick
take it than him be the save to bring it
back to TNA. That that could definitely be a shout
right there. So do you think that if Joe Henry
loses the TENA Championship that further solidifies he's making the
jump to WWE full time.
Speaker 2: I think his contract is still not up until like
around the end of the year, but I think either way, yeah,
it's probably probably going over. I mean, they've used him
already so much. I don't see like I think he's
definitely coming over whenever his contract is up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The most that I could find was that it is
late twenty twenty five, so not quite sure exactly when
that falls. I mean, if that is November, that's what's
six months from now. So it could be a deal
where they get it off him now and then he
continues to be in the picture before coming over to WWE,
or their working relationship. There's just that straight, Hey, we
will buy out his last six months and go ahead
and send him our way.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But at the same time, I feel like it's
like if they already pretty much have free reign to
use them like whenever they want. I don't think they'd
necessarily do like the contract buyout, because I feel like,
why do that when you can pretty much just use them.
I don't know how much they have to pay t
Ina or how the transfer really works, but I assume
it probably costs less than like paying his contract if
it's like a buy appearance deal, so I assume they'll
probably keep using him. I assume he will probably make
some more appearances on NXC throughout the year before he
eventually is a sort of like what Jordan Greece did,
Like she made at the end of last year. She
was on NXT a few times. They did the show
at the ECW Arena and she was there, and then
she was sort of gone for a few months and
then reappeared at the Rumble as a full time WWE person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: You kind of have me convinced now that this is
a chance for Joe Hendry to lose the title. I
don't want it, because again, I love having him with
the title. I like the guy, just period been watching
him for years. If anyone gets a chance, go listen
to his interview with Chris van Vliet that just dropped
this week. It's also pretty good. I think he dropped
interviews with both Joe Hendry and Matt Cardona this week,
both of which are awesome. But the Joe Hendry one, men,
you will if you don't have a love and respect
for Joe Hendry beforehand, you definitely will after this. He
has definitely pushed to make himself what he is and
he is very grateful and loving to the fans, and
I could see him making that jump to WW. Sean
Michaels loves some Triple Lach loves him, they respect him.
So hopefully if there is a title change, this is
what it's being built for.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of former TNA, we've got Stephanie Vaktu versus
Jordan Grace for the NXT Women's Championship. Is this the
moment when Jordan Grace wins the big one?
Speaker 2: I also think it will be uh.
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna lead to the call up
for Stephanie Vacia, especially since Julia just got her random
call up to smack Down in the most no pumping
circumstance way ever. They're just like, oh, and here's the
newest member of the SmackDown roster, Julia, and moving on.
Speaker 2: Now, that's sort of how it happened. Like if you're remer,
that's like, that's that's how Tiffany Stratton got called up.
Like it was just like she was in the rumble
and then like three weeks later she was just like
literally this exact same segment, like there were like three
of them like talking outside and then Nick all this
door open. It's like meet the newest member of Snackdown,
like the only like it was Jade and Brown who
got like the big contract segments, but Tiffany was like, yep,
she's on the Snackdown out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well one of us now just deal with it
and moving on out. So I I think that, yeah,
this is the time for Stephanie Veker to drop the
title and then get her call up. Give Jordan Grace
that win. Let her be just an absolute powerhouse with
the NXT Women's Championship for a while, and I think
they'll have a great match. I think they'll have a
fun match. But let this be a chance for Jordan
Grace to really shine and set herself up to be
the next long defending NXT Women's champion.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree. I think Jurned definitely gonna win. I
think she's gonna have a good rain because, especially right now,
she's sort of I think there's definitely contenders, but I
definitely think she's holding it for for a while until
some of those I think some of the people who
were in the North American Division are definitely gonna start
getting built up more to that main event level, and yeah,
definitely have a care Definitely, I could see this being
her call up. Honestly has shown. They used her on
the rock ter Mania. They used through the week after
that literally just for a random match that had like
they just wanted her on roll like they definitely want
her on the main roster as soon as possible, and yeah,
I think it's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Obafemi versus Miles Born for the NXC Championship.
So Obafemi is facing uh Minie Randy Orton. I was
shocked to see that Miles was getting this shot, but
I think that uh He's been working his way up
through the NXT roster recently, been getting a lot of shine.
So who do you have taken this one?
Speaker 2: I think Obafemi is probably still going to retain, but
I like that they're definitely giving someone different a title
shot here, Like it's not like like a tenth Ethan
like Trick William's reign. I think what hurt it was
just that it was all like rematches, Like it was
like three Ethan Page matches, three Rich Holland matches, and
then just like o Femmy beat him. I like that
with Obafemi, there's definitely gonna be some some variety, and
obviously if you need you can't just have the same
people fighting for the title over and over. You have
to build new stars, and I think giving a shot
to to Miles Bourne is a really good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's something that hurt both Trick Whims
and Carmela was both their runs felt very repetitive and
stay after they got going like they had a heart
a hot start, but then things would just kind of
stell out.
Speaker 3: It'd be the same repetitive thing.
Speaker 1: Rematch after rematch, we're okay, well we're gonna do the
same two people, but then we'll throw in someone else
for a triple threat, and it was obvious that's who's
taking the pen, and then we'd go back to a
one on one. Oh, you didn't beat me directly over
and over against So yeah, I'm excited that Miles Bourne
is getting a shot. Let's give some other people from
NXCA a shot and let Obafemi looks strong and dominant
against different opponents, not just the same person over and
over again. But I agree with you, Obafemi's taking it.
I think that he's going to have a nice, healthy,
dominant reign for a while, and like I said, I
just hope that they continue to rotate out his opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he even made a joke on NXT. I think
it was this week or last thing he said, no
more triple threats the joke boy like all is North
American title defenses are triple threats, and all his last
NXT tell the matches were triple threats. So it looks
like he's gonna be doing more on one v one matches.
But yeah, obviously opa Femy has had a fun rain
so far. Obviously he's fought Trick Williams, he fought Eddie Thorpe,
he fought a town down Under pretty much two on
one in a match, which is just like if you
do stuff like that, I think it's definitely not just
the same people over and over, and even if it's
triple threats, there's obviously different dynamics you can do. But yeah,
I think Obafemi's gonna have a good rain. I think
that's also another one similar to to Jordan Grace, where
I don't well, actually I do know. I hope Javon
Evans is the one who eventually beats over Femi, but like,
I feel like that could still be down the line
a few more months. I don't think it's it's happened here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I if it is Jevon Evans taking this, I
would love the underdog, the the scrappy, flippy guy taking
it off of the big powerhouse and yeah, let let's
let's go with that. I I'm definitely excited for that.
So I, like I said, this is another one where
we seem to be pretty on par with uh, with
where this is going. Doesn't mean that the matches won't
be good. Don't mean that's match won't.
Speaker 3: Be fun or memorable.
Speaker 1: It's just it's for people who are in the know.
It's just kind of written in the stars.
Speaker 2: And if Joe I was gonna say there's actually two
more matches, one of them it's like pretty much confirmed
and the other one I'm not sure about. But this
week on NXT it's it's if Kolonie Jordan beats Zaria,
she gets a shot at the North American Women's Championship
at Battleground. So I think that'll happen. So a rematch
of the great match from heat Wave, the one where
sol Ruka Klonia just did all of Osprey and Ricochet's
spots and it was like a great match, and so
I think they're definitely gonna do that rematch as like
a big title defense for soul Ruka because that first
match was so good and then the other one, which
I'm not sure i'd like miss this backstage segment just
because I was doing other stuff. So I don't remember
if they said it was for Battleground, but there will
be a triple threat on NXT with the winner facing
Ricky Saints for the North American title. But I don't
remember if they said if that's gonna be at like
if the match for the North American Title will be
at Battleground, but the triple threat is Javon Ashanti the
Adonis and a Sean Legacy from Evolve in the Indies
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: No great use of their partnership with Evolve, and great
use of they have been doing good work with in
my opinion, building up their next generation of stars and
bringing these people in and giving them some shine. So
kudos to that. And I think Ricky Saints is a
perfect person for someone new or someone just getting into
the TV wrestling experience. I will say that because some
of these people who aren't involved, some of these people
who are in some of these developmentals that they have,
they have been wrestling for years, they just don't have
that TV experience. I think Ricky Saints is a good
person to work with and have a good match and
get that TV experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think definitely NXT has a lot of the
like that Ricky Saints, Ethan Pig Sean Spears are definitely
those people there who can take losses but are also
there to have, you know, a safe match and also
sort of guide people through what they're sposed to be
doing there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the final match or the final event
of the weekend Doublin Aw's Doublin Nothing between twenty five.
This one is starting to look like a very uh
loaded pay per view, which good and bad. I mean,
AW puts on some amazing wrestling, but it also means
that on a Sunday night, I will not get quality
sleep going into Monday morning. So we have a Hangman
Adam Page versus Will Osprey for the Owen Hart.
Speaker 3: Who do you think is going to take this one?
Speaker 1: It is Will Osprey, the technical wrestler doing it.
Speaker 3: Are they giving it to Hangman?
Speaker 2: I think Ospray is winning it because I think it's
still gonna be swerving Hangman versus the Bucks that all.
Speaker 3: In Yep, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think Osprey's win it for two reasons.
Speaker 3: Number One, I.
Speaker 1: Think they have plans for a Hangman going forward, and
some of that will be revealed later. But I think
this is the perfect time. Give it to will Osprey.
Let him have that moment right now, and the scene
of him afterwards, the promo that he's gonna give after
winning it.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun for aw They always do the
interview with the winners afterwards. I think it will be
a more fun showing with will Osprey than it would
be for Hangman.
Speaker 3: Adam Page.
Speaker 1: I've thought since it was announced that will Osprey was
going to be in this that he was gonna be
the one winning this so and I'm still riding with that.
It's gonna be will Osprey taking the men's own heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, especially since Hangman has technically already fought
Mox for the title. They had that four way, even
though I feel like people have probably forgotten that match already.
But technically he has fun him, so I feel like
it just makes sense. Osprey is like, he's the biggest face.
It doesn't make sense for him not to be going
for the title at the biggest earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say to the point that you just made,
I have forgotten half of John Moxley's title defenses. They
have just all kind of blurred together in a big
pot of Moxley title matches that just all seem the same.
So again, give it to a lost break give him
that moment. I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: For the women's if you had asked me two weeks ago,
it would have been more of a lock of who's
winning this, But now I'm not quite sure. We've got
Jamie Hayter versus Mercedes Monette. Back when Mercedes still had
all the belts, I was like, yes, it's gonna be
one more notch in the women's belt collector persona that
Mercedes Monette has. Now I'm just like, could could we
be switching it up? And could we uh? Could this
just be a knight for the Brits? Like, could Jamie
Hater take it? Could this be one more crack in
Mercedes's breakdown? Because the way that she lost herself after
losing in her women's title match with Japan with the
Stardom Belt. I was like, Okay, she's now showing how
she's gonna crash out when she loses, so she could
she lose another one? Could this be the descent? Now
we've had the rise with her collecting belts, could this
be the descent of it? And this is one more
that she loses against Jamie Hayter because she's too distracted
by being the belt person.
Speaker 2: I think she's still gonna win. I feel like like
I feel like for me, her losing that title maybe
even makes it. I think she's gonna win even more
just because she can. She doesn't have as important like
the other test she has. And I was obviously she
has the TVs title and then the other ones are
rev pro I believe. So I feel like her taking
a pin with the title she has now is less
of an impact than if she had all of them.
I would say, or like, well, no, I just confused
myself with my own point I was trying to make.
But I feel like she's she's gonna win this. I
feel like Tony and Mercedes is the biggest match they
can do. But also the reason I feel like she's
not gonna lose this because I don't really know what
she'd necessarily be doing at all in, because honestly, people
were talking about like the Athena match, but I don't
think that's happening. Like Athena hasn't shown up on AW
since the owen Hart Tournament match, and they're setting up
like some stuff on ROH for her probably for the
All In weekend. So I don't think she's gonna be
at all in.
Speaker 1: I mean she'll Mercedes will still have the TVs Championship.
I mean she she's lost the strong I can't remember
which all bell she has.
Speaker 3: She had four two.
Speaker 2: It's like it's a rev It's like it's something weird
where it's like a REV Pro Like it's like an
undisputed title, but they still have like both titles. I
think it's what it is. It's like she's like the
undisputed REV Pro champion, but she has like both Like
they don't have like an undisputed title. It's like both titles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rev Pro Undisputed British Women's Championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like two separate titles.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So she held that.
Speaker 1: She just lost the New Japan Women's Strong Championship and
she still holds the TVs championship, so as far as
what she could be doing going further, she still has
the TVs championship. But yeah, I don't there hasn't been
enough for me built up for the Athena matt going
forward to shit, unless they just jumped straight into that
going forward.
Speaker 3: But if I remember.
Speaker 1: Correctly, Tena's already got some other things that she's working
with and working on.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's looking like it'll probably be thunder Rosa,
which makes sense for Texas and all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 2: Like you said, if you would if you had asked
you like two weeks ago, you would have said Mercedes
was a lock if you if you had asked me
like three weeks ago, I would have said, Chris Staalander
win the lock to win this and gotta win back
over Mercedes. But it doesn't look like that's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so very good chance Mercedes take Sas again. I
would like Jimmy Hater to get that moment, but it's
looking like it's gonna be Mercedes Monet with another belt.
Speaker 3: To her Arsenal.
Speaker 1: And we've got the Hurt synd Kit versus the uh
Sons of Texas.
Speaker 3: Where the ae W Tag.
Speaker 1: Team Championship, we've got the the Hurt Syndicate. Now with
m JF officially in their corner. H do you think
that uh they continue their dominance, continuing hurting people and
moving forward.
Speaker 3: Do you think that.
Speaker 1: Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guervara end up winning the AW
Tag Team Championship.
Speaker 2: I think the Hurt syndicat definitely routine here. I don't
think Dustin Road's gonna be a It's gonna be holding
three belts U. Yeah. But yeah, I do wonder what
the MJF part of this will necessarily be. I think
maybe for this, like first match, maybe he just just
like there's no tension, he just straight up helps them
win or something like that. And then after this when
he sort of build you know, the betrayal or I
assume they're playing, it's probably gonna end up being like
MJF versus lastly at like all In is what I'm
thinking it's probably gonna come out of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like this could be a situation where
somewhere on the outside, when the ref isn't looking MJF
doest something to Dustin, because we know Dustin's not afraid
to bleed on TV, so this could be a he
takes it a little bit too far and he's like,
what we hurt people. I'm part of the Hurt Syndicate now,
and that's what helps them. Him taking out Dustin is
what helps them win. But it also creates that division
within the Hurt Syndicate of Hey, you're not in charge here.
You listen to what we say, you follow our orders,
and continue to build up that tension between him and Lashly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see maybe him going in with like
the Diamond ring and just like busting him open through that,
and yeah, just all the references looking he turns around
and Dustin's all bleeding and stuff. But yeah, I think
it'll be a fun match from what I've seen. I
think Dustin and Sammy were on the Russell Dynasty show
if I remember, and they had a nice little match there,
So I think it'll be a fun match. I don't
necessarily know if it'll be like super super long or
anything like. The Hurt syndicare definitely a very dominant team,
but I think it'll be a good match there. Yeah, definitely.
I feel like it'll be less about if the Sons
of Texas have a chance of winning and more about
building the story here of MJF and the Hurt Syndicate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that we have a timeless Tony Storm versus Mina
Shirakawa for the a e W Women's Championship. This is
gonna be a fun one with and you know, people
are gonna be chanting for Mariah the entire time, trying
to while she's in her aw prison, her Contanamo bay,
I believe, is what you referred to it. So Yeah,
I think Tony continues her reign.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 1: Tony continues herragn. I absolutely love timeless Tony Storm. I
think that her promos, her in ring work, everything. She's
just a complete package. And I don't think that Mina
is the one who should be taking this belt off
of her. If you're going to take it off of her,
it needs to be for a big reason. When they
took it off for Mariah May and Mariah had her
run with it, I mean that the mess that they
had was just absolutely amazing. It was built to it,
every the build up to it, the aftermath of it,
everything about it was just it was great. And the
way that it made Tony switch characters for a while
back to the rock star version of herself and things like,
all of that made sense. It does not make sense
right now for Mena to be the one to take
it off of Timeless Tony Storm unless you're bringing Mariah
May back with a fat ass contract and she's gonna
be here for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, especially with the Owen Heart like tournament
on the way, there's just no way she's losing. But yeah,
I agree, I think even if Mariah does come back,
I don't think that would lead to a Mina win.
If anything, would just lead to another Mariah title match.
But yeah, I think with the whole Mariah thing, I
think with how quick Willow was to resign without even
her contract being up, I think that says a lot
Like I don't doubt that Tony Kahan play offered Mariah
that contract. I think she just didn't take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mariah's got plenty of She's got the look
in the promo she can go wherever she wants, and
I think she knows that. But again, Timeless Tony Storm,
she is fitting so perfectly within this aw system, and
a lot of the things that she's doing with her characters,
especially a lot of promos that she's been making, I
don't think she can make in any other national company
or worldwide company right now. So I say, leave the
belt with her, keep with her, let her keep putting
in amazing work, and I'm just here for every time
Tony Storm is on my TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think especially with the with Mercedes, like
I said, I think she's gonna win the cup and
obviously challenge at all in I think that's definitely gonna
be a very interesting feud. Like I'm curious on how
those two characters are are gonna interact. I think it'll
be fun, but definitely like it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the promo battles between them will be fun.
With Mercedes over the top, you know, I think she's
all that type feel versus timeless Tony Storm and her
stuck in the fifties and six.
Speaker 3: Like that whole thing going on.
Speaker 1: I think that they will have some interesting interactions and
I think it will be fun. So yeah, definitely Tony
Storm keeping this future about against Mercedes, who's gonna win
the owen Hart and we will go from there with
those two and just have some incredibly funny and lovely
promos and then a great match because you know those
two together will.
Speaker 3: Put on a banger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we have in a match that I
did not see coming. FTR versus Daniel Garcia and Nigel mcguinnis.
Speaker 2: So like a very built on on collision there, because
after your like been terrorizing them and Daddy Magic and
all of them for a while. So honestly, Nigel has
he's come back now a few times. He had a
match in roh when they were at the Hammerstein just
this like last year, so he's made a few appearance honestly,
was in the Casino Gauntlet last year and the Yeah,
he's going here to to help Daniel Garcia. Yeah, I
think maybe there's a chance. I don't know why. I
feel like there's a chance of Daniel Garcia maybe joining
FTR or something like that, because they did work together
in the past before this this turn and obviously Garcia
having lost his his title, maybe he turns heel and
goes back after Adam Cole at some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is just a chance to get
all of these guys on the card, get them some shine.
Let Nigel mcguinnis have another match. The fans love seeing
him get back in the ring. You're giving FTR something
to do. But I think FTR takes this and we
move on hert Yeah, and then finally thankfully know John
Moxley World title match. But we are getting anarchy in
the arena as challenged by Swerve this past week. It's
gonna be Swerve, Kenny Omega, Samoa Joe, Powerhouse Hobbs and
Willow Nightingale versus the Young Bucks, John Moxley, Gabe Kid
of All People and Marina Shaffir.
Speaker 3: So I was.
Speaker 1: Shocked to see Gabe Kids show up on AW television.
I was shocked to see this announcement of anarchy arena
including women on both teams. But I think the women
who are included are women who when you look at it,
you go I could see that Willow can hold her
own and has proven like as fun and bubbly as
she is, she can be a hard hitter. So to
see hearing this, we all know Marina Shaffir's background in MMA.
I think this is gonna be a good fun match.
You've got the brawlers on this heel side, but you
still have the fun flippiness of the young bucks who
can go between both of those. I have a feeling
we will get an appearance from Okata to kind of
go against Kenny and set some stuff up with them.
I'm excited for what Swerve's gonna do, because between Swerve
and Moxley, somebody is going to be bleeding in this match.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm trying to think, like, what can they even
do to top the previousers, because I was trying to
remember what they've done in each one, because honestly, the
anarky and the arena sort of like the evolution of
the stadium stampede. Right, So Yesuly the original stadium Stampede,
there was a second one that was the one that
it looked like it was a standing stampede, but ended
with them actually going into the the actual arena and
back into the fans at the end. Then you had
the first like anarchy in the arena match, which is
that was.
Speaker 1: The Jericho Appreciation Society versus Blackpool Combat Club Eddie Kingston
and Santana and Ortiz. That's the one with the uh
this cool shot of Eddie returning all bloody.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with the gas can of stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we had the Elite versus the Blackpool
Combat Club.
Speaker 2: Which had the exploding super Kick yep. But they had
last year obviously, which had you know, Tony Kahan rolling
down the ramp and flamethrower and yeah, hanging by one
foot above the ring and getting beat up. So that
was definitely like the most wild one. But I think
even that one, watching it, it was like, I thought
it was a lot of fun about some points for me,
it was like too much, not in the terms of
the content, but like they were doing so much stuff
that the camera just like literally couldn't keep up. Like
it felt like it felt like they needed, like they
were doing full Kevin Dunn just to try and show
what was happening because there was so much going on.
So I hope this year they'll do a lot of
crazy stuff, but maybe try and keep it, I think
with having such big teams here, I feel like because
last year, I think they were doing a lot of stuff,
but it's sort of like everyone was sort of like
one v one in each other, so it's hard to
get like they're just cutting between everything because there's so
much going on.
Speaker 3: I feel like this.
Speaker 2: If you have more coordinated like teams and like groups
of people finding each other, I think they can do
some really cool stuff without the camera work being like
all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jack Perry drove a bus into Darby Allen at one
point last time, like it it was that.
Speaker 2: So much stuff like backstage, in the ring, in the crowd, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so. I think this one's gonna be.
Speaker 1: My only big question is whose music plays throughout the
entire match. Because we had Jericho's music keep playing one year,
we had wild Thing two years ago. Last year, Daniel
Bryan's Final Countdown kept playing. So are we getting a
Swerve's House playing throughout the.
Speaker 3: Beginning of the match?
Speaker 1: I think that's the only one that I can see
that the crowd would sing along with. But each time
it's always they forget to turn off somebody's music.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel either that or you do like like
Kenny's like epic music as you just have like this.
Speaker 3: This war going on.
Speaker 2: I think those are the two options there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think that the.
Speaker 1: I think that the Heels are gonna take this as
much as I want. Swerve Willow Kenny at some Mojo
and Powerhouse Hobs. And when I think the Hills are
gonna take this, I mean they've got Gabe Kid on
their side. You're not bringing in Gabe Kid for no
reason in between after the match that he had with
Kenny Omega earlier this year, and then I also think
that Okada is going to make some his presence known
at some point to continue to set something up against Kenny.
Speaker 3: So well, he's something.
Speaker 2: They don't bring Gavid Gave Kid in for no reason.
But like they may have just brought him in because
Pot got injured, and they're like, well, Gave makes the
most sense of someone else had in here, even if
it really doesn't, cause like two weeks ago, he's cutting
a promo about how he hates aw and the Young
Bucks and now he's on a team with them.
Speaker 3: But uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing, Like if you're bringing him
in and I think that they brought him in yet
Pot got injured, I don't think you can put Okada
in that place because you need Okada for whatever spot
he's going to have with Kenny Omega that's going to
set up for the future. So if they're just one
be wanting each other, then you lose the opportunity to
have that spot to set up their future match.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Green.
Speaker 2: Feel but yeah, yeah, like you said, yeah, I give
Kidd and especially I feel Kenny probably wins it all
in and becomes the Intercontinental Champion combining those two titles,
and I feel like probably at Forbidden Door you do
a Gabe and Kenny rematch for the for the title there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: It would be a good one. It's just it will
be a long one. And that is the only part
that I am not too much looking forward to when
it comes to these aw py previews is they they
know how to pack them on and they know how
to go late. And ARKI in the Arena is going
to be anywhere from forty five.
Speaker 3: Minutes to an hour. Probably.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the FTR. Daniel Garcia is going to
be short. Hang Man versus Will Ospray is probably going
to be twenty to thirty minutes. Jamie Hayter Mercedes Monday
is probably going to be fifteen to twenty minutes. So
between that promos and everything else, I'm a feeling it
it's going to be a long night and it's probably
gonna end somewhere around eleven o'clock my time, midnight your time.
Speaker 2: So it's I was gonna say battleground, but I feel
like when I leave almost still being able to catch
the Anarchy and the arena match. By the end of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you will probably be able to sit in traffic
from there and only miss two or three matches the
way that.
Speaker 3: AW does their pay per views.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's wrap up of the three main e
things that we have going on. Like I said, it's
going to be a busy weekend of wrestling. I'm excited
for it, but also I'm definitely going to have to
have my magnesium in my tea ready. I'm going to
be lacking some sleep by the end of this.
Speaker 2: But yeah, obviously good that we're going to be doing
the show the week after that, so we have time
to catch up on what we just didn't catch that weekend,
and obviously we'll be reviewing all three of those shows
the week after.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I can't wait.
Speaker 1: We're going to see all the big things that pop
up and go from there on that next show. Our
friend and brother, Trevis Snell, should be back for that,
so we will be set with that.
Speaker 4: We go.
Speaker 1: So let's do some draft updates. Where are we sitting
right now? Because it's with everything that happened with backlash
and everything that's coming up, like, I need to start
looking forward to what points I can get because Lord
knows I need the help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. The thing that helped me and Travis is
we are one hundred points for the ww return Slash debuts.
So I'll just read off what are our scores? You're
Luckily I've fixed my my spreadsheet here so I actually
have like a tab that has like the total points
instead of me having to like manually calculate them each time,
and I combined all of it so I can see
it more easily hereby I can obviously still break down
individually where those points are coming from. So I'll start
here with years. You are at a total of forty points,
and it's because let's see you. Yeah, you are at
negative nineteen normal points. You have fifty five like main
event slash bonus points, and then you have four jobber points,
which all adds up to forty in total. Then you
have Travis in second place, and he is at one
hundred and seventy two points, and he has one hundred
and five normal points. Sixty five main event Slash bonus
points and two JABA points and then I am in first.
Then I'm at one hundred and ninety eight points and
I have one hundred and forty seven normal points, fifty
eight bonus slash main event points, and one Java point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kicking myself because those those two debuts for
both on my list of people to take, and I
was like, I'm await and take them with my final pick,
and then I was like, I just should have took
him when I had the chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like there's still maybe potential obviously the
big point getters coming up. Honestly, you could draft another
debut or something like that. And also obviously money in
the bank. Those are some big points there. So yeah,
and yeah that's it.
Speaker 1: I need Cody to come back and win the title,
and I need steam Punk to uh win the title,
so then I can just ride high.
Speaker 3: For a little while.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Definitely for me, I've got like, I see who is
not getting any points? Uh, I'd say good the obviously
he had the one match, uh and that got me.
Just those are the only points he's gotten me and
Bailey has obviously been gone, so hasn't got me any
points there, but uh yeah, someones that are obviusly eos
and getting me a lot of points Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Thank God for Tiffany Stretton.
Speaker 2: And uh what else and yeah, I've seen us, so
those those main event points that are helping me there too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh two of my women have barely even
been on TV.
Speaker 1: So uh, I'm like again, I need I need some
match points, and I need them soon. So we shall see.
Like I said, we've got a nice main event coming up.
We got money in the bank coming up.
Speaker 3: We will uh do some.
Speaker 1: Restructuring with our people, some drops and some pickups and
some trade. So hopefully I can make some moves sometimes
soon to pop that up, because man, this last place
ain't feeling too good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but obviously you know, things can change. Like by
the end of last year, we were all like within
like a hundred points of each other pretty much.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's what I'm hoping for a big uptake.
Like I said, I need Cody and Seeing Punk to
come back and do their thing. I know, Seeing Punk's
probably not winning a championship until after Saudi Arabia because
he's not going to Saudi Arabia. But other than that,
like I'm hoping for us some big points coming soon.
Speaker 3: So between that and the.
Speaker 1: My GM mode, I need, I need to win somewhere.
I need to come back somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, like we said, my GM mode tomorrow,
season two, we're sort of starting over, but having the
option to keep some of the people that we drafted
in the previous round, but starting over from week one.
We're gonna do the first few weeks, not going through
the whole season like we did last time for like
nine hours straight. But I think it'll be also different
doing it in just like a few weeks stretches, because
I think we'll have some time to maybe view the footage,
review what picks we made, and have time to think
of what we want to do next. I think we're
gonna end up doing I think the first five weeks
plus the draft, so you know, they'll still be getting
a good, nice episode there, and obviously five weeks means
you know, building up to the first pl and then
having our cross brand matches there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna be taking a more episodic approach, which
again it's gonna make not only getting these episodes out
to you guys a lot easier. It's gonna make our
day's a lot easier. Our first one between technical issues
figuring some things out, and it wasn't necessarily technical issues
on our end. It was the first week of the game,
and if you know anything about games, like the way
that they ship now is the most incomplete thing ever.
So we face a lot of glitches, a lot of bugs,
a lot of getting kicked out of our draft rooms constantly.
It was a comedy of errors, but we made it work.
Seven hours later we were done with everything. But we're
gonna be taking a more episodic approach that way. We
can also get things uploaded so that everyone can watch
it in shorter, more consumable bites, so you're not trying
to remember, Okay, where did I leave off with this one?
Where did I leave off with this one? Where we're
at And it's just gonna make it a lot better
for you guys to watch, for us record, for us
be able to bring you more episodes. So it's just
gonna be more fun that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, like you said, it's gonna be a
fun time. Definitely, probably gonna be changing up some of
our strategies and now obviously knowing a bit more about
the game. Also a difference is that last time we
played on sort of like the New Mode, which is
sort of you need to upgrade all your different parts
of your show to unlock different match types. But this
time we're playing on Classic Mode, which means if you
wanted to do a Hell and sl in your first show,
you could, And so it's definitely different because something I've
noticed this, when you do the new mode, when you
unlock stuff, a lot of your wrestlers, like match specialties,
will be those first ones. Like a lot of them
will have tables as their specialty just because that's one
of the first ones you unlock. When you do all
of them, you'll have some people whose specialties might be
harder to use because it's those like some of them
they might have like an Underground specialty or helensl specialty
or iron Man specialty which is costs more, but obviously
you'll be able to get that rating boost. So it's
definitely a different strategy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So follow us on on the geek First YouTube
channel if you want to go back and watch the
last season.
Speaker 3: We already have it broken down.
Speaker 1: If you go to the YouTube channel, go to geek
First podcast network, click on playlists and then you will
see w W two K twenty five My GM Gimmick
play Session and that will list them and like I said, smaller,
more consumable bites.
Speaker 3: That playlist section is.
Speaker 1: Where you can find everything from the geek First Network
in a nice little breakdown, so you can see previous
episodes of the Gimmick. You can see everything else that's
on the geek First network. So you go over there,
take a look at it, come back join us tomorrow
for a live play through and.
Speaker 3: It will be fun. I can't wait for it.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to try out the one or two
new strategies I can't have compared to the notes and
notes that you guys have, and just to hang out
and have some fun. So guys, get your your Sunday coffee,
come join us. It's it's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So with that, I think that wraps up this episode
of the Gimmick. Like I said, we will be back
tomorrow for the my GM playthrough track. Snow will be
joining us. It will be a good time, and we
look forward to coming back after Saturday Night's main event,
after Battlegrounds, after Double or Nothing, looking ahead towards the
possibility of the actual ww draft, money in the bank
and things with that. So we will catch you guys
tomorrow at again ten am Pacific time one pm Eastern
time here on the geek First Network. We'll be throwing
links out there on Twitter and all of our socials
so you can follow us there as subbos to tell
the people where they can follow you.
Speaker 3: I am at.
Speaker 2: The s bubs pretty much anywhere, but I'm mostly on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Yep, and I am at the Phantom across all social media.
So again, come see us tomorrow's same time, same channel,
and we look forward to bringing you another fun season
of the Gimmicks w W my GM mode. So we
will talk to you guys tomorrow by seek
Speaker 2: Hm