Turnbuckle Tabloid - Episode 504

Jay covers a packed weekend of professional wrestling on this week's episode. With WWE Saturday Night Main Event, NXT Battleground, and AEW Double or Nothing taking place, Jay fills up you the listener with recaps and opinions as well as the news on Wrestling Rundown. LinksFollow Turnbuckle Tabloid on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnbuckleTabJoin the Turnbuckle Tabloid Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/320104321733922/?source_id=382960952118538Become a fan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Turnbuckle-Tabloid-382960952118538Follow TBT on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turnbuckletabloidpodcast/

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• 0:26Speaker 01

  Hey you. Yeah, you. The listener.

• 0:33Speaker 01

  In case you haven't heard, because I've been basically saying it for the past few weeks, we just started a new network. Yeah, New York Wrestle Media. It's a whole virtual experience visually for all those connected in the world of wrestling, pop culture, livestream video games. Oh, it's happening. And it's not only me doing it. Yeah. Got a few cohorts who jumped in the mix. Covering subjects matters as history, indie wrestling, news of the day, pop culture, and like I mentioned, video games. I know, me too. I'm excited.

• 1:15Speaker 01

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• 2:20Speaker 01

  Turbo Tabloid, cutting a promo. It's been a minute and now we're back again, ladies, gentlemen.

• 2:30Speaker 02

  Hello.

• 2:32Speaker 01

  Hello, my lovely, lovely people. Uh, it's been a, it's been a long week for me. I'm, I, since I, I work overnight, I get the time to sit there and, and change shifts, like to do, I like to educate and train people. So, um, let's just say it's just been messing with my sleep really, really badly. I, I don't know, sometimes I fall asleep for two hours and it feel like I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm fresh as a daisy. And then I'll fall asleep for maybe six hours and I feel like I gotta do another 12. It's just a real painstaking thing.

• 3:08Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 3:09Speaker 01

  Mike, you've been, you've been busy lately, right?

• 3:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, my work schedule is about to start changing. It's overtime season. It's time for primary elections, so we'll be, I'll be working 8 to 8 until then, until beginning of June, so.

• 3:23Speaker 01

  Ugh, I don't know, I don't know how you can do it, bro. Like, that, that old thing?

• 3:28Speaker 02

  Well, think, well, think about, I, I started my job, the second weekend we was in, we started overtime and that was for the fucking presidency, so. I got, I was pretty much thrown into the, with the sharks right away.

• 3:39Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 3:40Speaker 01

  And good, good, yeah, good luck with that. I'm, I'm just looking forward to July, cause I'm on three weeks vacation and I am.

• 3:49Speaker 01

  I'm just waiting. I'm just, I really am just waiting. It, it's needed, it very much been needed.

• 3:54Speaker 02

  Going, going, going anywhere?

• 3:56Speaker 01

  I will be going to Puerto Rico.

• 3:58Speaker 03

  Nice.

• 3:59Speaker 01

  I will be going for a week. I am taking super producer Selly for her graduation gift is to Puerto Rico.

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  Beautiful.

• 4:05Speaker 01

  I do not know how I am going to act, cause I have not been on a plane since I was 13 years old, so I do not know, I'm gonna be like, yes.

• 4:12Speaker 03

  Really?

• 4:13Speaker 02

  Well, behave yourself, cause you do not wanna be arrested by people on the plane, so.

• 4:18Speaker 01

  I'm gonna look.

• 4:19Speaker 03

  Especially these days.

• 4:21Speaker 01

  I'm gonna look for as any kind of relaxing like supplements as possible to get me through it so.

• 4:29Speaker 02

  Knock yourself out, whatever you have to do.

• 4:32Speaker 03

  They serve drinks, they serve drinks on a plane.

• 4:35Speaker 01

  That's, that's the hope.

• 4:37Speaker 02

  That's the issue, that's the issue.

• 4:40Speaker 01

  Well, that could be the issue, but.

• 4:42Speaker 03

  Oh, my gosh.

• 4:43Speaker 01

  Let's, let's, let's, let's cross our fingers with that. So, kicking off the live stream, we are doing some recaps and some predictions for tonight. Forgot that a battleground was on as well, going head to head with Double or Nothing. Is that good for wrestling?

• 5:04Speaker 03

  I don't know. It depends on what you like to watch, right?

• 5:07Speaker 02

  If you, if you have two TVs, good, I guess.

• 5:13Speaker 01

  Uh, doesn't that like take away from like the fandom like, I, I mean, I don't know.

• 5:19Speaker 03

  I mean, I'll be watching Double or Nothing, so.

• 5:21Speaker 01

  Right.

• 5:22Speaker 03

  You know?

• 5:23Speaker 02

  Well, Jay, let's be real here, one show will be lasting until midnight, the other one will be, end be over by 10 o'clock.

• 5:29Speaker 01

  True, that is true, so.

• 5:32Speaker 02

  When we, when we talk about the match card lineup, like one, like NXT has six, AEW has 10 so far. By the time we're done, 10 matches so far. Nine, nine of the actual show, one of the buy-in, but by the time we're done, we'll have like five more matches as of the buy-in.

• 5:49Speaker 03

  Uh, I, I never come to those matches.

• 5:53Speaker 03

  I always come to the main card.

• 5:55Speaker 01

  And I think the other one, you could actually watch it on a playback anyway, it's much easier to watch it on playback, you'll just, you know, go back on Peacock and watch it when you want to. Alright, so kicking it off, going into recap, Saturday night's main events, um. My opinion, some hits, some misses, but, uh, we'll talk about it on the rundown, so Mike, what we got so far when it came to, oh, look at that there.

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  I'm looking at you, sir.

• 6:22Speaker 02

  Why can't you guys do a good Saturday night's main event?

• 6:26Speaker 01

  Uh, yeah, it it was.

• 6:31Speaker 01

  There was some issues last night, so, uh.

• 6:36Speaker 01

  Um.

• 6:37Speaker 02

  What are these classified as like TV specials or because they're not like a P L E?

• 6:42Speaker 01

  No, they they are. They're specials. Exactly. They're they're they're TV specials.

• 6:47Speaker 02

  But they saw they definitely saw down the bottom. So we can do better than you want. Like nobody can do anything. Nobody can do it better.

• 6:53Speaker 01

  No, and and honestly, that crowd last night, I don't know if they were the elderly, but a lot of them were just not in. It didn't seem like they were in, uh, excitement mode.

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  What city were they in?

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  Tampa.

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  Tampa, Florida.

• 7:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I I don't know. It just it it was it. It just rubbed me the wrong way.

• 7:16Speaker 02

  The the venue looked nice, though.

• 7:19Speaker 01

  I I guess, I guess, I mean.

• 7:22Speaker 02

  I mean, that's the only highlight when I when I turned it, I was like, oh, that's a good looking venue.

• 7:28Speaker 01

  To me, they all look the same anyway. You just, you know, they're they're just big, lots of seats and it's all they are. They all look the same to me.

• 7:35Speaker 02

  I mean, I saw all the people.

• 7:38Speaker 01

  Wow, awesome. What do we got? What kicked off? What kicked off tonight?

• 7:43Speaker 02

  I think pretty much the best thing on the show was the Oprah was the tag match. Same as you said, Seth Walz versus Bob Breaker and Seth Walz where. I always appreciate when new factions get together, they match like so breaker and, uh, while it's an all black gear with like, like the the. Very much like I did gear stuff like the S R and the breaker stuff like that, like big dog type of stuff on the gear you can see as darkened.

• 8:07Speaker 03

  I like that.

• 8:08Speaker 02

  And it's it's it's same as you can see a punk that actually matched too with the color scheme on their gear too.

• 8:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, apparently it was pro Palestinian. Much respect, much respect.

• 8:20Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:21Speaker 01

  I um, I thought, uh, Mike would know the reference to this. I thought the, the gear that, uh, Rollins and, uh, Braun Breaker came out in looked very much like Mutiny. For the WWE 2K, uh, My Rise. They had like the whole, whole black motif going on.

• 8:38Speaker 02

  I mean, so the way people are acting today, then there might be a Mutiny Against Creative, most, most part about that later on, but. I mean, overall, the tag match was fine and then we, let's, we'll jump straight to where Payman pulls the foot of the referee. And then the cameras like behind him and in the far distance, we see some really big Australian jump the barricade and run towards CM Punk. And oh my God, it's Bronson Reed. He's back earlier than expected because I think people thought he was going to be back in the fall.

• 9:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 9:09Speaker 02

  Back way earlier and, uh, the same, same thing got distracted, got hit with a spear and Breaker and Rollins wins. And then he's the third man, everybody, because apparently there was a thing going into this match where who's the third man and it's Bronson Reed. So they shook, so Rollins gave him a big hug and then Braun and Bronson. Oh God, this is gonna be annoying for reviewers everywhere when it's gonna be.

• 9:36Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 9:37Speaker 02

  Bronson, when, when they shook hands, then CM Punk trying to come at Paul Heyman and then Bronson Reed went up top for a tsunami splash and just crushed CM Punk, which. All right, I can just imagine the big goofy smile on your.

• 9:51Speaker 03

  I, but did you see like when he cannonballed him when he first came into the ring again and he was like on his hands and knees? I was like, oh, he just blow out his knee on that because the way his legs kind of like crumbled underneath him. I was like, oh, here comes another injury on this guy.

• 10:05Speaker 02

  Cause as soon as he grabbed him, he was like, oh, cause as soon as he grabbed his legs, he wasn't like, like, like you said, hands and, hands and knees on the.

• 10:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, that cannonball was brutal, brutal.

• 10:16Speaker 02

  And it, and it was because you have, because you have Rollins and Breaker like hold his arms and legs down. So like all midsection, he, Bronson connected with that tsunami splash.

• 10:25Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 10:26Speaker 01

  Yeah. Uh, are we gonna be seeing that they'll be, are they gonna be the tag team known as the Braun Bros? Are we looking at the Braun Bros?

• 10:34Speaker 02

  B and D.

• 10:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, I, I hope not. Uh.

• 10:39Speaker 02

  I mean, I mean, I texted Ari, I was like, could these guys tag both now?

• 10:42Speaker 03

  No.

• 10:44Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah, thi- thi- this looks like it should, uh, this should be a gimme by now. Was it shocking to see, uh, the, the shock was for him to come back so soon, that, that, that's one. But was it shocking for him to align himself with Seth Rollins and this plan?

• 11:01Speaker 03

  Um, yes, yes, cuz I wanna see how they're gonna explain this after he was basically killing Seth all last year.

• 11:08Speaker 02

  Well, that was, that was last few before he got hurt in war games.

• 11:11Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 11:12Speaker 02

  And Breaker had that face too, like he didn't know this was gonna happen.

• 11:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, he was ready to confront him.

• 11:18Speaker 02

  And Hammond had to be like, like, he's one of us, like, he, like, it was like, like, he has the same name as you.

• 11:25Speaker 02

  That's what we said, but like, but Bron was like, taking it back, like, wait a minute, like, like, I thought, uh, he had that feeling, wait, is he with us?

• 11:34Speaker 03

  Right.

• 11:35Speaker 02

  And if Bronson was gonna come back, I mean, he would have thought he'd be aligned with Solo with the new Bron, like, I thought it would continue on, but.

• 11:42Speaker 03

  From the, from Survivor Series, right?

• 11:44Speaker 02

  Right, but no, he's, and pretty much everything with Seth and Bronson, that didn't happen, apparently.

• 11:50Speaker 03

  No, I mean, they have to explain it, cuz I mean, that was a major, major storyline throughout 2024. Because he kept constantly destroying Seth, so how do we go from him making Seth like, a bloody pope a few times and to then now being aligned and hugging each other and all smiles?

• 12:09Speaker 01

  I'm just hoping that we don't get this, if you can't beat him, join him, no, no, no, we, we need a little bit.

• 12:16Speaker 02

  Now that, now that you said it.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  It's gonna happen.

• 12:21Speaker 02

  I mean, maybe Paul Hammond definitely give, give him a call and said, I, I, I give you money. Or, if you want, if you, if you wanna be a bigger star, I know the way you sound.

• 12:30Speaker 03

  I just hope it, it, it just give us something meaty, give us something meaty, like,

• 12:36Speaker 03

  talk about them, I don't know, not, not just have a, we called them and we bought them off, like, that's just so.

• 12:42Speaker 01

  Cheap.

• 12:43Speaker 03

  Cheap, quick, easy.

• 12:46Speaker 02

  I mean, I mean, the easiest thing to say is like, like, like, maybe Paul called us and Phil's taking your spot, brother.

• 12:54Speaker 01

  I don't know, I guess I

• 12:57Speaker 02

  Cause that's what we targeted and that's pretty much I think punks could be feeling with for the next couple of months.

• 13:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, cause how do you explain, like, how do you still like, like, it like Bron would have been, Bronson would have been like, alright, so if he's gonna do more damage to Seth, cool, fine, I'm with it. Like, I don't know, it just seems,

• 13:15Speaker 03

  ah, I don't know, I just wanna see how they explain themselves out of this little conundrum.

• 13:21Speaker 01

  I was more, I was looking forward to more of it to be a tag team as opposed as a single. I would have liked them to have maybe recruit a tag team so that you could get everything across all your, your, your, your titles across the board. You'll get your mid card title, you'll get your tag team title, and then eventually you'll get the main title. I was hoping that it would come into that, but like you guys said, just give them the damn championships already. It's, it's already a gimme.

• 13:50Speaker 03

  It's kind of very much like Hurt Syndicate, right? When they came in, you know, like, give them the belts. And they immediately did that.

• 13:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, we, we should immediately recognize that, that, that's already, that, as the kids would say, that's mad OP right there. It's like, it's overpowering right there, that tag team.

• 14:07Speaker 02

  My face has turned into a logo.

• 14:10Speaker 03

  And it's, yeah, right? And then it's like, to me, they still feel very tweener. Like, you know, they

• 14:20Speaker 03

  fans still love them. So, you could pair them off with any tag team, right? You could have them face, you could have them face the, the War Raiders, you could have them, what other tag teams are in?

• 14:33Speaker 01

  They got New Year's, you got Judgment Day.

• 14:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, they could face any of them and just destroy them and people will love it. And they could still be healed and love it.

• 14:43Speaker 02

  I, I pretty much, that's what the war tag division is like, what tag division? They pretty much have three teams.

• 14:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, you heard me. I was like, hmm, what other tag teams are there?

• 14:52Speaker 01

  No, McDonald is the one that's loaded with all the tag teams, remember that?

• 14:57Speaker 03

  You should just combine those belts already again. That was

• 15:00Speaker 02

  Which, which by the way, I was happy to see the whites back. And you know what? Put them in the mix with the tag belts. I mean, they pretty much have a team in them, so.

• 15:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, they could switch them around.

• 15:10Speaker 02

  Also, there's something they call the Dangerous Alliance, or like, this, this faction still doesn't even have a name. Not like the Heeman family.

• 15:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:19Speaker 02

  I wonder if

• 15:22Speaker 02

  Cause I mean, we, we, me and you have been pitching for Theory. Get this fucking young dude.

• 15:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, man, give him something. He could be the mid card guy.

• 15:31Speaker 02

  I mean, maybe Hayman's the one that can help Wal and Theory like, like Dr. Like, like Dr. Dr. Bullshit Off. Cause they are a team, so.

• 15:40Speaker 01

  I have a feeling that with Theory, they're gonna probably wanna turn him face. If they're already like alluding to it, so.

• 15:46Speaker 02

  That's true.

• 15:46Speaker 01

  And, you know, guy had.

• 15:48Speaker 02

  Then take, then take Wal with them. Let it be, let it be the loud mouth of the group where he like, like he talks, talks some shit and then they read it, right? You're looking like, shut up.

• 15:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, like him and Seth can have, probably have really good chemistry, cause you know Seth's a big shit talker too.

• 16:02Speaker 01

  Right.

• 16:03Speaker 03

  Talkers in the group, they, yeah, and, and the two quiet guys like Bronson and and, and Bron together, I think that'd be a good balance. I mean, you have Paul Hayman also the biggest shit talker that there is, but.

• 16:15Speaker 02

  This is when it'll be like, it'd be perfect to bring Murphy back for this, cause he'd be perfect at the spot.

• 16:21Speaker 03

  He ain't going nowhere anytime soon.

• 16:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's locked in. Yeah, he's locked in.

• 16:25Speaker 03

  He likes, he actually said he likes having to work in A W separate from Ria, cause they do their own thing.

• 16:31Speaker 01

  Right.

• 16:34Speaker 01

  Next up.

• 16:36Speaker 01

  Next up, for the uh, Women's United States Championship, we has Alina Vega going up against Chelsea Green. Um. Yeah. About this.

• 16:51Speaker 02

  I, I, can I speak first on this? Cause I, I really don't like being the, the mean one, but.

• 16:58Speaker 01

  You don't?

• 17:00Speaker 02

  I really don't want to, but like, look, but first, first off, they fucking match, so what, there's a problem, number one.

• 17:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:07Speaker 03

  Why are they having all the women match in their, in their ring gear all the time now? Like, uh, who's, who's? Is there nobody in the back saying, oh wait, you guys, you can't do this?

• 17:16Speaker 02

  It's like.

• 17:19Speaker 02

  You think it's a memo like, oh, I'm doing this color scheme tonight?

• 17:22Speaker 03

  You know?

• 17:23Speaker 01

  My whole thing is like, do they do like the whole Spider-Man meme where it's like?

• 17:27Speaker 02

  Not usually.

• 17:28Speaker 03

  You're wearing that tonight? Come on. I'd be pissed if I was a women's wrestler and like, I'm like, listen, I wanna stand out.

• 17:38Speaker 01

  I I I I'm more like I'm more American than you is this what what the whole thing was?

• 17:44Speaker 03

  This this gives that vibe when you're going out with your girlfriends and you're matching with one of them you're like come on.

• 17:50Speaker 02

  But the the thing the more important thing is we're spoiled so badly today with women's wrestling where we've seen so many great women athletes do what they do.

• 18:00Speaker 03

  Right.

• 18:00Speaker 02

  And and then you have Zelina there doing not six one nine six was nines because this this woman can do the whole move at all.

• 18:09Speaker 03

  She did a three oh four.

• 18:12Speaker 02

  It's like it's nice that you won the belt you took.

• 18:16Speaker 01

  That's what the fuck she did.

• 18:17Speaker 03

  A seven one eight.

• 18:20Speaker 01

  The old school the old school area.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, she she I felt bad when I saw that I was like.

• 18:28Speaker 02

  They should have called it all the balls they switched the belt switched the belt. But the only thing the only thing was the good the finish was the only good thing was the code right off the top and those are the only good looking thing. Chelsea busted her nose for no reason.

• 18:41Speaker 03

  Oh gee I know when she when she sat up oh. But um yeah that match was extremely underwhelming.

• 18:50Speaker 01

  Do you do you know how long that match was?

• 18:53Speaker 02

  Too long too long for me.

• 18:55Speaker 01

  Five minutes and ten seconds.

• 18:57Speaker 03

  All these matches were very short last night.

• 19:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 19:00Speaker 02

  Ten seconds too long for my liking.

• 19:05Speaker 03

  The ten seconds it took to set up that six one nine right?

• 19:09Speaker 01

  Look like you said the best part of that batch was the ending and and it sucks because like I love Chelsea. She just didn't have a great night last night um.

• 19:19Speaker 02

  She tried to.

• 19:20Speaker 01

  She tried but.

• 19:21Speaker 03

  I don't really think it was her and and and no you're not to take away anything from Zelina she just was having an off night.

• 19:27Speaker 01

  Right.

• 19:28Speaker 02

  But just when you see Julia Stephanie for care or Joyce like all these great women's wrestlers and they like Zelina is not on their level unfortunately she's so she's still like ways beyond or way like not up to their level where it's like I'm waiting for Julia to take this belt away from her like let's go now let's switch the belts let's you had your little moments Lena where you got to bring the belt to where your father lies which is a nice gesture and.

• 19:55Speaker 03

  Yeah the experiment is over.

• 19:58Speaker 02

  Yeah we gave you your moment let's move on.

• 20:01Speaker 03

  Yeah hmm is she in the money in the bank?

• 20:05Speaker 01

  Uh, no.

• 20:06Speaker 03

  But she eliminated, right, right, right?

• 20:08Speaker 01

  Right, no.

• 20:09Speaker 02

  There's only, there's only one spot left for women on SmackDown. Jade, Nai and Naomi Phil on SmackDown.

• 20:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, I, um, like I said, it just eh, it was what it was, five minutes, ten seconds in, Zelina retains. Next up.

• 20:27Speaker 02

  Which was weird, because they did two commercials, they're getting up to it twice, like, like John Cena, our truth is next.

• 20:32Speaker 01

  Right.

• 20:33Speaker 02

  Commercial comeback, here's the legends. John Cena, our truth is coming up next, like, like, something happened, I don't know.

• 20:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, it, they did prolong it for a tad.

• 20:44Speaker 02

  Which I was thinking, like, something going on, is it already about to see an angle, but we saw John Cena versus Ron Cena, next.

• 20:54Speaker 02

  Doesn't mean, Ron, our truth came out, is John Cena, music at all, entrance at all.

• 21:00Speaker 03

  It was cute.

• 21:00Speaker 02

  Here at all.

• 21:02Speaker 03

  I, it was cute.

• 21:03Speaker 02

  I mean, once, like, our truth got in there, Cena blasted him, he did the shoulder tackles. And then, you know, this moment where he was about to clock him with the bell, and then John Cena was like, oh, no, like, it's my friend, our truth, I'm not gonna do that, but gives the referee the bell. And five seconds later, swift kick in the dick. AA, one, two, three, it's over, and.

• 21:25Speaker 03

  Hard to match.

• 21:27Speaker 02

  And this is John Cena heel turn, I, I, this definitely needed him to beat the shit out of our truth for fun. But now he just grabbed the bell and walked away. Well, he did, he did him in the face with the belt, but that was all it.

• 21:38Speaker 03

  Eh, eh, how long was this match, like, three minutes?

• 21:42Speaker 01

  Uh, it went on for four minutes and twenty-five seconds.

• 21:47Speaker 03

  I mean, really, like, I really expected a little more out of this match, you know, and uh, when, when he got the pin so fast, I say, you gotta be kidding me, like, come on.

• 22:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, I I didn't expect really much. I I'm honestly believing that the real thing that's happening here with Cena is he's really gonna sell the douchebaggery shit as opposed to just going full on heel. That's the thing that's really like pissing me off about this.

• 22:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:16Speaker 02

  Um. We'll we'll wait till we get into what he's doing next.

• 22:20Speaker 03

  Oh, I don't see.

• 22:22Speaker 02

  That's later on, but we'll get into that later. But I mean, I mean, also, let's be honest here. Do we honestly think we're gonna get a competitive match between Cena and R. Truth?

• 22:31Speaker 03

  No.

• 22:32Speaker 02

  Where where R. Truth for the past decade has been a goofball?

• 22:35Speaker 03

  But can we at least get 10 minutes out of this? It's a world title match.

• 22:38Speaker 01

  Right.

• 22:39Speaker 02

  Well, well, well, that guy wasn't a title match. It was not a title.

• 22:42Speaker 03

  It wasn't a title match? It was non-title? Oh, even worse.

• 22:44Speaker 02

  Why why are you gonna waste a title match on R. Truth?

• 22:48Speaker 03

  First of all, we barely get to see Cena in the first place defending the belt. Make him defend the damn belt.

• 22:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, but at least give a reason.

• 22:56Speaker 03

  What, 20 more freaking appearances to go? Come on.

• 22:59Speaker 02

  23, yeah. I mean, he's gonna go to Spentown next week, but we now know what he's gonna talk about, but.

• 23:03Speaker 03

  And what what a waste of a, just a waste of time period for both of them. That was the case.

• 23:08Speaker 01

  Listen, regardless of what you think, and and and even the fact of you saying waste a title match on R. Truth, remember, R. Truth is the most decorated WWE champion of all time. Remember, he's won the 24/7 belt like 49 times. So, let's be clear. This is, this is, this is, this is a Hall of Famer in the making here. Come on.

• 23:27Speaker 03

  You know, like, Ron's a talented guy. He really is.

• 23:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:31Speaker 03

  They could have put a decent 10-minute match instead of him basically getting squashed.

• 23:37Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. But just unfortunately, the way Truth's been booked, like, people are not gonna, I mean, let me ask you, if the belt was on the line, did you honestly think he would win the fucking thing?

• 23:48Speaker 03

  He was gonna win it, but but either way, at least give, give, give the illusion that he had a chance. I always say that. Give the illusion.

• 23:56Speaker 01

  Did, did we share in a group chat the, the, the, the story that another podcast had was having R. Truth win the title? Uh, get a feel-good moment for like a week and then Cena takes it back. It's like.

• 24:12Speaker 02

  That was associated with number 18.

• 24:14Speaker 01

  Right, and make sure he distanced himself from, from Flair.

• 24:18Speaker 03

  That would have been hilarious.

• 24:20Speaker 01

  But did you, did you hear now that, um, AEW is now claiming that Ric Flair is a 21-time champion?

• 24:27Speaker 03

  That number is all over the place.

• 24:29Speaker 02

  I mean, I thought it was twenty-three, but if you want to say twenty-one, go for twenty-one.

• 24:32Speaker 01

  Go for it, right?

• 24:34Speaker 02

  Fuck it.

• 24:35Speaker 03

  A median right there, you know?

• 24:38Speaker 01

  And Jerry Lawler sitting on the side going, what?

• 24:42Speaker 02

  Hello?

• 24:42Speaker 01

  Hello? My hundred and something titles don't count?

• 24:48Speaker 02

  Your record is more horrible, we don't want to acknowledge a damn thing, Jerry. But we'll take the alcoholic, though.

• 24:55Speaker 01

  All right, seeing as they win here at four twenty-five, which leads us up to the steel cage match with Damian Priest going head-to-head with Drew McIntyre. Um.

• 25:06Speaker 02

  Drew's injury, I really didn't expect much, honestly, with him being hurt still from backlash, which was two weeks ago.

• 25:15Speaker 01

  Right.

• 25:16Speaker 02

  Him hitting his head off the fucking concrete floor.

• 25:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:20Speaker 02

  And now with him taking time off, I mean, Damian Priest needed this, this was the obvious win.

• 25:25Speaker 03

  It's just an overwhelming way it happened.

• 25:28Speaker 02

  And you gotta love Jesse Ventura, commentary goes, you win by leaving through the damn door, you don't go over the top.

• 25:35Speaker 01

  Well, what was it that he said? He said, would you like the limo driver to come pull you open the door?

• 25:42Speaker 03

  No, I agree, I really expected a little more climactic ending, like climbing over the top rope. I thought he was gonna go back in the ring, when he looked back and beat the shit out of him a little bit more, and then leave the ring, that would have made it a little more... It just felt very like, okay, I'm done, I'm out of here, I'm going home.

• 25:59Speaker 02

  I mean, do the, I mean, do the jokes him off the top rope, I mean... At least make it more clear Drew's gonna be more off, I mean, they did the concerto spots to clarify that, like, you're gone for a couple of months.

• 26:12Speaker 03

  Yeah. He could have got the pin too, if he wanted to.

• 26:17Speaker 01

  The buildup was more, uh, was more bigger than the match itself, you know, especially the night before on SmackDown, they were all over each other. Uh, you know, I'm gonna put you in the hospital tomorrow night, but tonight I want my pound of flat, I was like, okay, like, I was, I was like...

• 26:33Speaker 03

  Right.

• 26:33Speaker 01

  I was excited for this. And then, and especially with a steel cage match, it's like, yeah, you know, you want, there's a reason for this to happen.

• 26:43Speaker 02

  Also, say that to me, the fact you can't pull out the blue cage?

• 26:46Speaker 03

  The classic.

• 26:51Speaker 02

  Like, if you're gonna go old school, go old school.

• 26:54Speaker 01

  That is true, right?

• 26:56Speaker 02

  I mean, shit.

• 26:58Speaker 03

  I was very surprised, I'm sorry, I was very surprised they used the, the, one of the women referees inside the cage.

• 27:03Speaker 01

  Right, alright.

• 27:05Speaker 03

  I'm not surprised by that.

• 27:06Speaker 01

  I heard it was, I heard it was a real pain in the ass to fucking put together that blue cage, that's why they, they, they shied away from it.

• 27:14Speaker 03

  They could have made a new one that's easier to put together, because the ring is way bigger now than it was thirty, forty years ago.

• 27:21Speaker 02

  You wanna learn something recently about the blue cage is that you remember the Bojibi prison structure? That, the inner cage is the blue cage, just covered in bamboo.

• 27:30Speaker 03

  Right.

• 27:33Speaker 02

  So imagine hitting that stupid thing with blue bars and fucking real bamboo.

• 27:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 27:41Speaker 03

  That was a jungle gym, uh, cage.

• 27:44Speaker 01

  The Jumanji, the Jumanji escape cage.

• 27:47Speaker 02

  The, the swings on the fucking outside, you could swing from one part of the cage.

• 27:53Speaker 01

  That's one of those matches that we hope never to return, bro. I, I, I hope never to see that ever again.

• 28:00Speaker 02

  So Damian Priest wins here, he's not going to money in the bank, uh, anyway, so what does he do now?

• 28:06Speaker 01

  Uh, that's a good question, uh.

• 28:10Speaker 03

  I personally would love to see him get into a feud with Alistair Black. Because first of all, get him, get Alistair away from the mist, please.

• 28:19Speaker 01

  Right, I, I, I think we might have seen something yesterday, uh, uh, uh, on SmackDown.

• 28:26Speaker 02

  That pretty much. Laka Mora might start something.

• 28:29Speaker 01

  Right, I think we saw something there.

• 28:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, I wouldn't mind that either.

• 28:32Speaker 01

  Right, uh, Damian, yes, should be in the mix for the US title, I, I think him and Jacob has some unfinished business still there.

• 28:40Speaker 03

  Absolutely.

• 28:40Speaker 01

  I think that works there, or possibly, uh, maybe him dancing with J.C. Matteo.

• 28:48Speaker 01

  Fuck.

• 28:49Speaker 02

  I mean.

• 28:50Speaker 01

  Like, come on.

• 28:51Speaker 02

  I mean, I like Jeff Cobb, but when they go face to face or face to nuts, it's gonna look awkward.

• 28:57Speaker 03

  I'm gonna go mute, I'm gonna go mute for like one second.

• 29:00Speaker 01

  Alright.

• 29:01Speaker 03

  Answer call.

• 29:02Speaker 01

  Okay. So, um, yeah, I, I think from here on out, uh, Damian now has to forge ahead and we have to find out, um, now that his, his, um, dance with, with, uh, McIntyre is put off for a little bit, where he goes and still mid card run, maybe, maybe we see him have a one to one match with Cena. I doubt it. Don't think that he, although he is highly, um, praised by the bigwigs in the back, I don't see him getting that shot this year. I don't see it happening, but, uh, hopefully, uh, we keep him in the mix because he, he, he is still very much over.

• 29:44Speaker 02

  Right. I mean, it'd be like, I think the idea with him going to SmackDown was the best idea. I could get him away from the judgment day. Let him prove he can do everything on his own, but, and like, I think he could be the future of SmackDown if that's what they want, but.

• 29:57Speaker 01

  Right.

• 29:58Speaker 02

  With him, like, he's not, like, so he wins, he gets his big win with Drew, like you said, a, a match with Cena, might be like a Saturday night to be an event type of thing though, because I don't see SummerSlam or Survivor Series. And like, I would think about it, like, we only have a few couple of months with Cena. I mean, it's definitely a long shot if you want to say, Damian Priest earns a WWE championship match against them, but.

• 30:22Speaker 01

  Right.

• 30:22Speaker 02

  It just feels like United States mid card. And so I feel like Damian Priest is not gonna get anything big until next year, which is the sad part.

• 30:31Speaker 01

  Uh, ho- ho- hopefully they just at least keep him busy and keep him healthy so he doesn't have the, he doesn't have much to deal with. And finally, huh, excuse me?

• 30:38Speaker 03

  No, I'm just gonna say that, and you hear, like, I don't know if you have seen, like, in the news, like, how, uh, Backstage is very happy with Damian's performances. So, let's see what, I don't know, let's see what happens.

• 30:49Speaker 01

  And it's, even it's funny when, even when he talks and he, he puts the, the Spanglish involved and he throws it in there. I always feel like that's for me. So I, like, I understand what the hell you're.

• 31:00Speaker 03

  I gagged him, bro.

• 31:01Speaker 01

  It's like.

• 31:03Speaker 03

  I feel you.

• 31:05Speaker 01

  That's exactly how we get it like we want to get anywhere. Oh yeah. You you know what? You know, go over there.

• 31:15Speaker 02

  I feel like they definitely want to give him like the Undertaker like new like like the new SmackDown Muta type of role. Where like he wants to be like the leader at that type of thing. But I mean, there's a bunch of people you can work with on this roster. Yeah, I mean, if they I don't think they I hope they don't do a draft to the the window period thing where people come over because I mean.

• 31:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, apparently like the draft is not going to happen as they say it's a maybe until around SummerSlam, so.

• 31:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, they made no mention of it.

• 31:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, so.

• 31:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's always a stupid stupid idea though, but. I mean, he's definitely I would say keep him on SmackDown. There's no point in switching back over to Raw. It'll be worthless.

• 31:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, I feel the same way. It's it's a it's he's as long as they don't get like the whole Teddy Long thing and everybody has to fight.

• 32:04Speaker 02

  We go to a one on one.

• 32:05Speaker 01

  The priest. The priest.

• 32:10Speaker 02

  With the Damian.

• 32:12Speaker 01

  Uh, then finally, we closing out the night with the main event, the main event we had for the World Heavyweight Championship. World Heavyweight Championship. Both these guys barely are breaking two twenty five, honestly. It's like heavyweight. I mean, okay, come on. Uh, we had Logan Paul coming in, challenging Jay Uso for the championship. You guys thoughts?

• 32:33Speaker 02

  Uh, I will say when the the earlier there was an earlier segment, we're seeing a confronted Jay. And then they said at the last time, I think I forgot who mentioned it, but last time we ran into each other was the Royal Rumble.

• 32:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, Jay said it. I eliminated you.

• 32:48Speaker 02

  And then John said like, listen, I'm doing wrestling right now. I can't wait till Logan beats your ass and we ruin wrestling together. But I was like, that was one of those like statements where it's like when I heard it, it was a little chuckle, but there was also like. Oh, like it gave me chills. Like, oh.

• 33:04Speaker 03

  Dreadful.

• 33:06Speaker 02

  But this is one of those things where I'm gonna say it was like, why does Jay have better chemistry with Logan than Guter?

• 33:15Speaker 02

  It was better than I thought.

• 33:17Speaker 03

  I think.

• 33:18Speaker 02

  Better expectations were higher.

• 33:20Speaker 03

  I would think because Logan and Jay have a very similar style in the ring, similar size. Whereas Gunther is just very like plotting in the ring, chop chop, suplex, chop chop.

• 33:34Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 33:35Speaker 03

  Where these two guys can mix it up a little bit and move faster in the ring together and do, you know, spots that neither one that Gunther could ever do with any of anybody, so.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  And mind you, I was going into this thinking, wait, why is the winner of this going to challenge, well, well, the face of Gunther the night after Money in the Bank, but then at the end, I was like, oh, I get it.

• 34:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:01Speaker 01

  I'm glad that Jay found a way to change up his outfit a little bit.

• 34:04Speaker 02

  I mean, he's got red blue.

• 34:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, he had black and gold on.

• 34:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, he changed up a little bit.

• 34:11Speaker 02

  I mean, a little white, I mean, Logan's wearing his usual yellow and black.

• 34:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:18Speaker 02

  Represent Cleveland so well with the Pittsburgh colors, I mean, fuck it.

• 34:24Speaker 01

  The thing that annoys me more is that they announced him from Puerto Rico. Oh.

• 34:28Speaker 03

  Ah, sickening.

• 34:29Speaker 01

  Ah, that just, ah, it just, it boils me.

• 34:32Speaker 02

  I think the way they say it too is like, like more like raised in Cleveland, but like living in or residing in Puerto Rico.

• 34:39Speaker 03

  Ah, ridiculous.

• 34:42Speaker 02

  Because you, because you, because you look at him like, yeah, Puerto Rico, okay.

• 34:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, right. He's a scream Puerto Rico, right?

• 34:49Speaker 03

  He's probably one of those people complaining about the coquilles making too much noise.

• 34:52Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 34:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, you like that one, don't you?

• 34:57Speaker 01

  The one thing I'm looking forward to seeing, hearing when I get to the island and then you got people like, you think you could turn the noise down on that?

• 35:04Speaker 03

  Spray them to death so they can shut up.

• 35:06Speaker 01

  Can you do something about that? The fuck off, fucking asshole. So the match itself was.

• 35:12Speaker 03

  Mike's like, what are they talking about?

• 35:14Speaker 02

  I was I was about to be like, well, so if anybody thought Logan was gonna win, they actually bet wrong because Jay Uso did retain here, but then John Cena reared his uh balding. Well, no, he fixed it, but.

• 35:26Speaker 01

  Uh, uh, uh, he got he got money, so he he he he may not have got, he may or may not have gone to Turkey. We don't know, but he got money because he could have done it locally.

• 35:36Speaker 02

  Still looks weird physically and like white as hell. You can see the veins in his arms, but he comes up, beats the shit out of Jay Uso. And then Cody Rhodes makes his spectacular return from WrestleMania.

• 35:46Speaker 03

  Just so happened to be there.

• 35:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, and he said this is so he beat. Cena and Logan runoff and then as Cody's with the cut his promo, we see his executive producer like, oh, oh, let's go hurry up. Whatever you about, whatever story time you're about to start. Finish it. And pretty much he said, listen, Cena, you got yourself a partner. I got myself a partner. I'll see you at the big buy and the show's over.

• 36:12Speaker 01

  Oh, okay. That, that, that, that, that, um. Why? Why are we doing it? Why?

• 36:20Speaker 02

  Does Cena and Logan actually like each other? I mean.

• 36:25Speaker 01

  Listen.

• 36:26Speaker 02

  People said they don't, they can't wait for the press conference, though, when like Jay Cody get drunk again, or. The last time that's all the people.

• 36:35Speaker 03

  That was cute.

• 36:36Speaker 01

  Is it about time that we said that? Because we we said it to, we said it about Tony Khan. Tony Khan had his three-year window of booking excellent um. Storylines, angles to get us to where we wanted to. Then after that, some may say that it's got a little bit flat. Can we now say the same for Triple H and his crew over here? Like, what are we doing?

• 36:58Speaker 03

  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

• 37:00Speaker 01

  I mean.

• 37:01Speaker 03

  I've been saying it for a while now. Oh, just waiting for everybody to catch up with me.

• 37:06Speaker 02

  I think it's just, it's just, it's just definitely like since February, it's been very noticeable. Can we, can we put some issue with The Rock too? Can we blame The Rock a little bit too? Cause somebody also said too, like not for nothing, with The Rock is old, the old regime is coming from Vince's story telling. That's, that's who is, that's where he gets his bookings from.

• 37:26Speaker 03

  I don't even wanna blame The Rock at this point because I've heard that they didn't want him around after that. That they didn't want him around. So how is that his fault?

• 37:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 37:37Speaker 03

  A hundred C K O decision to not have him come back.

• 37:41Speaker 02

  But that's a problem now, don't you think? Like with Triple H and The Rock, like bookings last week, they're clashing. I mean, if The Rock goes on social media one more time, it says, I want Cody to turn heel. Somebody just disable his fucking social media.

• 37:53Speaker 03

  I mean, I agree with him. I want Cody to turn heel already.

• 37:57Speaker 02

  If you can't do that and have Cena turn heel at the same time, like everybody can't be a heel.

• 38:02Speaker 03

  He wanted Cody to turn heel. He didn't want John to turn heel. That was Triple H's idea. Now look how that's turned out.

• 38:08Speaker 01

  So we, so I, I was at, um, I was at the Senate the last night. We were watching it there and I had a couple of people that were there. One of the bartenders, he's looking and he's like, um, this Cena thing, uh, what his bag. I saw. Even me trying to explain it, I was like. It's, I can't even explain it properly because he's not, Cena himself is not really leaning into it for real. Like it's not. It's not organic. I, and, and, and.

• 38:36Speaker 02

  I sold my soul to The Rock. Why?

• 38:38Speaker 01

  But at the same time, it's like, he's doing the retirement tour and this is like everybody saying thank you to Cena. While he's being a bad guy. It doesn't, it, it doesn't click. It doesn't make any sense. I, I, I think that, um, they've hit a stumbling block there. The opportunity to make stars is there in their palm of their hands and they're still relying on celebrity bullshit. And this is just what's bothering me. We're now hearing of talks that Travis Scott has been fucking, uh, uh, he's been in the P C. And they're lining up a match for him as well coming up. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? This is what we're doing?

• 39:22Speaker 02

  I I did text Ari, I said, at least the same Travis Scott and and tag a match of Money in the Bank. At least at least it's Logan Paul, it's like a celebrity that we know who's competent enough to do a wrestling match. And and it's gonna be at least interesting to see if they tell a story there. But I mean, this this whole year, I think everybody had their plans out for it. What does Cena do like? People was like, oh, maybe he has his one more match with Randy. He has a ma- one match with Punk before they go off into the sunset. Maybe AJ Styles or cause by December, Cody will get his belt back. And then it's like plans what was what was Zoom with Cody as the face of the company.

• 40:01Speaker 03

  I don't know. I think they should have just went with Cody turning Homelander and keeping John on his face. So that John could have had his fanfare. He could have still wrestled other faces for, you know, like he's still gonna have the match with Randy as a legacy match.

• 40:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 40:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, still have his matches with faces as a, you know, this is my tribute. I'm passing this on to you. You don't want to beat you. But yeah, they they they should have went with the Cody turning heel idea. They dropped the they it it having Cena as a heel did have potential in the beginning, but they have dropped the ball so badly with it by cutting out elements that were introduced and then it's it never happens.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  I would have had.

• 40:45Speaker 02

  Well, I just wanna say, but there's two factors for the Cena thing. It's like you can either blame the company or you can blame John Cena. You can blame Cena for the, well, this hear me out. For the company, it's for their booking, but for Cena, it's also like he's limited on dates. He's not gonna be here every week. So he has to capitalize. Okay, when he's here, what's he gonna do? And I don't know if they're gonna tell him to cut like, this is what you say. But but but I mean, like the first three weeks he came out, that was pretty much all him. And then we didn't see him till Mania, and then now we have this where like where I do I do like the fact where he tells the ring announcer, like, no, no, better introduction. Let's go. Come on. You know the deal. Like, I do appreciate that.

• 41:27Speaker 02

  But then it's also like the substance for what he's gonna say. It's good. It's all on him. Because I mean, he's been here for 25 years and you're not gonna start writing problems for him, but maybe.

• 41:37Speaker 03

  I'm trying to give him guidance, like, listen, go this direction, and he's probably like, I don't want to do this shit.

• 41:43Speaker 02

  Let me, let me go, like, I tell you, I was a fat kid in the front row, because I will feel like.

• 41:47Speaker 03

  I know, it was a cheapie.

• 41:48Speaker 01

  I would have done it, especially when, and this is, and I've probably mentioned this before, I would have done it the way, um, we could have had, because he was already getting, starting to get booed, uh, uh, uh, during his run, we'd have had, uh, Cody tees that he was leaning to the heel turn, leading up to Mania.

• 42:08Speaker 03

  And it felt like there was a little bit of that going.

• 42:10Speaker 01

  Right. And then at Mania is when we got to see in a heel turn, and that's when it popped off. That would have been, not the shit that we got at Mania, that fucking finish. I would have preferred it had gone that way, that you would have walked out of Mania going, holy shit, not only did John Cena get the 17th title, he's a fucking bad guy now. Like, that would have been a bit, a bitter, a bittersweet ending.

• 42:33Speaker 02

  He, he went back on his laurels.

• 42:35Speaker 01

  Right.

• 42:37Speaker 01

  Then, but all the, the pomp and circumstance that he had with his so-called, um, heelish promos would have started from then and there, but this is what we're getting now. So, uh, it's unfortunate, but that's gonna wrap up our portion of Saturday Night's Main Event recap.

• 42:58Speaker 01

  After bouncing back from the not-so-great showing of Saturday Night's Main Event, we go into a Sunday which was, well, it was loaded with wrestling, I'll tell you that much. I wasn't even shocked that WWE would go head-to-head with AEW's Double or Nothing. That card was so stacked that I was probably more on the side of maybe airing Battleground a bit earlier. Uh, if he was gonna roll into it, it would have been something different, but, um. I I I'm gonna believe that they probably lost a lot of numbers with it.

• 43:43Speaker 01

  They did, I, to say the least, I would, I would believe that they got them back on the replay cuz I was the, the um, the benefit of having the uh, uh, battleground on Peacock. Go watch it later, which I did. It, it just, I don't know, I, I always think that you're splitting the audience by doing that. I, I'm more of the, hey, if you're a wrestling fan, be family, uh, you know, fan friendly, you know, give them what they want, give them both shows, just split the time, but, eh, what do I know, I'm not in business, this is what they do. So, uh, I'm gonna go with the one that I watched first, which was uh, AEW's Double

• 44:23Speaker 01

  and a Nothing, just to go quickly with the preliminary, the preliminaries, the buy-ins. We have Anna J with Cameron defeating um, Megan Bain and Penelope Ford.

• 44:37Speaker 01

  Beautiful women, oh, there was just ass everywhere. Did I even care about the match? I really didn't, didn't really give two hoots about it, but uh, this one went in at 12:40 and that was a hell of a 12:40 for me. Anna J and Harley Cameron get the win here. The one thing I could say is that I do appreciate the fact that the women here are at least looking like tag teams and also I think they're, they are gonna express more of an emphasis on getting women's tag team on TV and possibly get a title for them, uh, for AEW, so that's not a bad thing.

• 45:18Speaker 01

  Next up, we get Bandido, A.F., Fox and Los Danos de Aire, uh, Hologram and Commander.

• 45:27Speaker 01

  The, they defeated uh, RPG Vice and uh, Crew by Pinfall, eight man tag.

• 45:36Speaker 01

  Insane match. This was what you would believe happened in a match like this happened. There was two spots in here that was just utterly ridiculous. You had the tandem,

• 45:50Speaker 01

  four fifties and it was just a great, great, uh, fun start for the night. Guys were, uh, just diving bodies everywhere. So, uh, this one finished at three twenty-five with Bandido A R Fox and Los, uh, Titas, uh, Titanes del Aire.

• 46:13Speaker 01

  I guess that means the Titans of the air. So, yeah, they get the win here. Next up, we get for the Owen Hart Foundation Cup final. The winner gets a title match at All In. We have Mercedes Monet going against Jamie Hader. I must say that this was a great curtain jerker match. The women left it all out on the line here. I was not disappointed and sometimes I could be very judgmental and opinionated about Mercedes Monet. But tonight she looked really good. There was like two spots that I was like, uh, that looked like it could have been problematic.

• 46:52Speaker 01

  And for some reason, her splashes and her meteor, especially her meteor, is just looking

• 47:01Speaker 01

  dangerous. I don't know. It doesn't even look like dangerous as in like you're selling it well. It just looks dangerous. She doesn't do it as well as she used to.

• 47:12Speaker 01

  Other than that, Jamie Hader looked amazing here. There was a lot of, uh,

• 47:17Speaker 01

  close calls. There was, uh, uh, false finishes here that made sense. I was only perturbed really about one spot. It was a suplex off the top rope in which Monet just, she had, she, she took the, the suplex from the top rope and then no sold it. And I was like, then what the fuck is the point? What's the point? But other than that, with, uh, twenty-one fifteen, Mercedes Monet gets the win here and she will be calling her ticket at All In against the winner later on of the night. Next up, we get FTR with Stokely, uh, squaring up against Daniel Garcia and Nigel McGinnis. Uh, Matt Minar was in that corner as well.

• 48:03Speaker 01

  Not a bad match. Thought it was um a nice return for Nigel McGuinness. We saw his classic wrestling prowess, his his style. I was very um happy to see that, you know, for his age, because he and I are the same age and he didn't miss a step. He looked, he looks really good.

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  I just thought FTR's gear, the red and that black, that black lettering was awful. Like, it just didn't, but the red was nice, but the FTR, yeah. Um, FTR gets the win here with two, with 2230. Um, no one got hurt here, as in like, it was harm, no, no harm, no foul.

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  Especially being done by um by technical submission. No harm, no foul here for the both. Next up in a wild and crazy match, we get a stretcher match between Mark Briscoe and Ricochet. Once again, don't even know the backstory. Didn't care. I, when it comes to AEW, I've been telling you guys for the longest. Don't even care. Don't know the backstory, don't want to know the backstory. Ricochet,

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  you know, he's found something to do in AEW. I'm not sure. I know a lot of people saying like, well, he could have been doing this in WWE. I don't think it would have really translated well in that environment. But here, it's working very well for him. Uh, the scissor gimmick is working well for him. The spots that was done here, especially on a stretcher, is insane. Mark was just bleeding all over the place. It was ridiculous. And you would have thought that would have been just enough, but no, there was just uh brutality that occurred on this match. I, we weren't, we weren't sure what the match was gonna be, but apparently it's just get him on a stretcher, wheel him to the back, and just throw

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  him in the ambulance, which is basically an ambulance match, which I guess they can't call it that. So they call it a stretcher match. Um, great match all in all. Whatever, whatever spots you wanted, you got it here. It was fun all around. Uh, Ricochet closes the door here with at 1620. I actually thought this match was longer than it was, but it wasn't. But it played out that way, and I thought it was a really, really fun match.

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  We next get for the AEW World Tag Team Championship, we get the Sons of Texas, Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara going against the Hurt Syndicate.

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  Um, fun tag team match, didn't go, didn't run too long. I expected maybe some surprises here, but nothing surprising here happened. You just got hard hitting action. Sammy did a spot where he threw, and he's done this often, but I'm always impressed by it. When he throws someone across the ropes, um, they run under and he does a backflip over them. I always think that spot is fucking shot on. It's crazy.

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  Dustin still looks good. He still moves well. We got to see the, um, the old, um, Goldust nut kick shot there, uh, but Hurt Syndicate is way over and they look way too good here. It's ridiculous how, um, great that these guys are. It's so, it's phenomenal that they actually get the recognition. And as I, you know, I tried to mention with Ricochet, this should have happened for them in WWE. It could have happened for them that way, but it would, they would have translated well over there, but it's, once again, it's just ridiculousness. Uh, Hurt Syndicate get the win

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  here at 12:35. Uh, next up, seventh match on the card. We have, uh, Speedball Mike Bailey versus Kojusko Okada for the AEW Continental Championship. And wow, what a match. We, we said, as I said, this was probably going to be one of the matches of the night and it did not disappoint. Hard hitting, hard kicking, back and forth. My whole thing is Okada is like way too pretty to like be like this really bad guy. He just looks way too pretty with his silverish

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  hair, but, um, Bailey's found his, his, uh, his home here. I know he did a lot of work at TNA and, um, he was spot on there, but this is going to be a place for him and he's going to be able to,

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  Excel here in this company. The finish was phenomenal. I love the uh um the transition and to the um it it was basically just a spot on um Rainmaker finish transition combination. It was awesome. So we get uh the winner and still your continental champion. We get Okada at sixteen oh five. Next up, we get for the AEW Women's Championship. We have um Amina Shirakawa going up against Timeless Toni Storm. And my Amina, oh my lord, I forget how gorgeous

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  you are. But at the same time, I forget how great you are in the ring. These two women killed it. Toni looked fantastic. I loved the the the gear that they were going with for that old wild west look. Uh even Luther was dressed in it. Um they left nothing out uh uh uh they left nothing on uh that that couldn't have been done. Everything was left on the table. Toni Storm retains here. I was shocked because I would have thought we would got a shock victory here. Amina uh did one hell of a job. There was some close finishes there and especially the working of the legs aspect. I really thought that was a a good a good look for wrestling fans to see that there is a story when it comes to that. She

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  really tried to uh sell the fact that she was beaten down on the on on Toni's legs and Toni was selling well for it. But we get Timeless Toni Storm who retains here at uh fifteen forty nine. Then became the madness. We get the Arne uh the Anarchy in the Arena match. Kenny Omega, Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale, the Ops, some old John Powerhouse Ops, and Shibata with Nana going against the Death Riders, Moxley, Claudio, Marina Shafir, Willa Yuda, and the Yuck Bucks, Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson, the founders of AEW look.

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  When you want to be douchey, you're going to be douchey. And sure enough, you became douchey looking, and that's exactly what happened.

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  This was chaos all over the place. The one spot that I was really like, uh, because I get kind of creeped out about stuff like that, was the Willow Nightingale getting locked up in the turnbuckle post with a chain and lock by her ear. I vaguely, I do remember that this occurred with Jeff Hardy at one time, or he was being held with pliers or something like that, through that hole, something.

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  But yeah, even that was like, it freaked me out. This match was everywhere. When Joe popped up on Claudio and they were going to town, it was a to show love to the man, JR. God bless. Hope you're doing well. Hope everything is progressing for you. It was a slobberknocker, ladies and gentlemen. This was a, Gabe Kidd pops up. He intervenes. We get a spot where Hook returns, hits, makes a shot with a golf club. Joe was inviting him into the ring. Let's go.

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  He

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  doesn't look as though they're on the same page with the ops. Why does this always have, they just got together? Like, come on, man. Chill out.

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  Powerhouse Hobbs looks like a fucking star in this match. The guy is huge. It's just remarkable how fucking menacing this young man is. Also, who was a star here, looking great, was Swerve Strickland with the Predator look. Guy was taking fucking a fucking staple gun to the tongue.

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  Guys, this is some weird shit, but everybody else is taking them to the nuts. That was the other thing. That's that's kind of outrageous. Other than that, we had a pop up with Gabe Kidd. I think everybody knew that was coming, but the one thing that shocked everybody was Mark Briscoe popping out of nowhere and helping to assist the ops and Kenny Omega and such with

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  the dastardly deeds of the Def Riders. He returned during this match, still bloodied, still looking like he went through a war. It was great. I thought Nicholas Jackson took a hell of a spot on the stage area. I thought he was concussed himself. Goes to find out that many of these guys are actually banged up and they're going to take a couple of weeks off. That's what they say. I doubt it, but a lot of them are going to be out of commission. But we have the winners, Omega and their crew at 3510. I thought this would, I thought this would have been a match that closed the show, but it didn't.

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  Next up, we get a trios match. We get the Callas family with Kenoske Tekeshta with Kyle Fletcher and Josh Alexander going against the Paragon, Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong.

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  To me, this was like, I thought this was going to be a squash match. Honestly, the Callas family looks way OP. They look like overpowered in this match and it didn't, it didn't disappoint that way.

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  I don't know, there's, the Paragon, just when you look at them in comparison to what these guys with the Callas family look like. You're too small dudes, like it just looks too small. Uh, Callas family get the win here at 1250 and it was just, like to me, it was just overpowering. And finally, for the O1 Hard Foundation Cup Tournament Final, we get the AEW World Championship match at All In. We had Will Ospreay versus Hangman Page in a hell of a main event. I wouldn't have been mad if this and the anarchy of the arena match swapped. I think it would still had kept the same momentum.

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  But both these guys were, um, through and through a, a,

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  it was a battle of what could have been technique, uh, technical aerial, striking, it all mixed together. I know, um, Hangman had a, uh,

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  brief stint of, you know, not figuring out what we were gonna do with him, what was gonna happen with him after his title run, but it looks like he's hit his stride here. He's back, he's ready to go. And Ospreay just got the short end of the stick in this match.

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  I, I don't see it hurting him. I think there's something big for him coming down the line. Of course, he's gonna be, um, the flag bearer for this company from here on out. Uh, I don't see him going anywhere else. I think he'll make a fine, fine, um, leader for, for this, this, this company's organization. Uh, but once again, uh, Ospreay falls short, Hangman gets the win here with 36-56. My all in all thoughts of, of, of Double or Nothing. Like I told you guys, story wise, I, I, I don't, nothing makes sense to me. But matches wise, to me, I thought this ma- these matches were great. I had a fun time watching them. Like I said, it's one of those where,

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  just like a video game, sometimes you could just pick up and play. Like if you're playing Guitar Hero, you could just pick up and play, you know, whatever, you know, you wanna do with it, you just pick up and play. I, I think with AEW when it comes match wise, that's what you're getting. So, um, I give it, you know, uh, a big thumbs up both these, uh, for, for, for this night. I thought it was really, really good for, for Double or Nothing. And it seems as though that the fans believe so as well, cause I think they're gonna, um, feel as though that, that, that AEW might be on a comeback here.

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  On the same night, I watched afterwards, we got the WWE Battleground. And the one thing I could say is,

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  Mike Santana on NXT.

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  It's bound to happen, right? I'm just, I'm just saying. I'll, I'll express my thoughts later about that, but congratulations to him though. Shout out to him. He put in a lot of work for him. So, um, starting off the night, we had, for the NXT Women's North American Championship, we had Kalani Jordan versus Sol Ruka. I hadn't seen Sol Ruka wrestling quite some time. Watching this match, I thought that

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  she's still working with the wrestling aspect of it. But it wasn't as spotty as it was early on. I know the athlete, the gymnast in her is everywhere. It's, it's out there. You're gonna see it and she's gifted. Her, her cartwheel back handspring outside the ring is flawless. It looks amazing. Even her finisher, it's just, it's, it's amazing how she can hit that spot and still able to catch a person the way that she does. It's, it's utterly amazing.

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  Kalani Jordan here, she looks as, as good as she's always looked.

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  No, no, um, no negative outlook here. We have Sol Ruka retaining at 12:59, almost 13 minutes here. Retaining her NXT Women's North American Championship. We had Hank and Tank versus, with Josh Briggs versus The Culling, Brooke Jensen, Nico Vance and Sean Spears. Six man tab, nine minutes and 26 seconds. Honestly, it was just what you expect and nothing really stood out to me here. I just was like, eh, it's just big guys going at it, whatever. Nothing really stood out for you, except for, um, I believe it was, um, Josh Briggs, who did a Swanton off the top roll. I thought that was.

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  Pretty much amazing. I thought that was, that was, that was a beautiful, um, big man move for him. But, uh, other than like, uh, it was your ordinary match for me. Nothing really stood out for me here. Um, Hank and Tank with Josh Briggs got the win here. Next up, we get for the family. No one goes against the family. We get Tony D'Angelo against Channing Stacks Lorenzo. Um, Tony's always gonna be Tony. Stacks looked, um, really good in this match as well. Uh, there was times where I thought that, uh, maybe they could have ran it a little shorter. They didn't have to lag on so long. Um, but I think this is just a testament to what Tony D'Angelo's career NXT is like. It's just sometimes

• 1:04:05Speaker 01

  you're just hanging around a little bit too long. And this may or may not be the kiss off for Tony D'Angelo.

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  We had, um, a form of interference, but not really. And, um, Stacks gets the win here at 1514.

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  Like I said, it was, um, good match, but it, for me, it just maybe ran a little bit longer than it should. Uh, for the NXT Women's Championship, we get, uh, Stephanie Vakur, Vakur versus Jordan Grace. Great match. I mean, what did you expect? The, the best part is when, uh, Stephanie went to go for her signature move, but Jordan was able to muscle out, get her outside the ring and powerbomb her in front of, um, Booker T. That was, mwah, chef kiss. I thought it was beautiful. Then she just gave him the look like, mm, how about that? Uh, these women, there was no, um, denying that this wasn't gonna be a great match. And sure enough, it was. I called it.

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  Uh, Stephanie locks in the win here at 1607. Uh, there's nothing but an upswing here for both these ladies. I expect Jordan to be in the main roster, like soon. They really need to start shaking it up up there and put some of these ladies on notice.

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  So yeah, um, Stephanie retains her women's championship here. Follow that with, um, the feel-good story of the night, Myles Bourne versus Obafemi. God, that kid was just, if, that's a fucking Randy Orton clone at this, at his finest. He might not be as tall, but everything else just matches Orton for him. Even the way he moves, the only thing is that he's not really, you know, Randy doesn't do any, um, you know, toe pays outside the ring and such like that. But even still, just, just the move set and such looks good. He hung, he hung in there. He was toe to toe with Obafemi for a while. Obafemi is just, um,

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  he's just massive. There's a, there's, there's gonna be a lot of problems when he finally makes his way up to the main roster. There's gonna be a lot calling for that man and, um, it's gonna be something.

• 1:06:21Speaker 01

  Both these men going back and forth, I thought that, um, much respect due. Myles Bourne looked really, really good here, but he takes the, the, the, the agony of defeat here. And Obafemi retains his NXT championship. And finally, after we heard earlier that Mike Santana will be facing the winner of Joe Hendry and Trick Williams for the TNA World Championship. He'll also be making his appearance on Tuesday to go against, um, Heights in a match. We have, um, a shocking turning events that occurred on this night. Both men laid it all on the line. You could see, I love the whole Trick Williams,

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  uh, paying homage to Booker T thing, you know, as, as he's the mentor in some ways. And, um, this played out beautifully during the match. Joe Henry is just, he's just a star. And, you know, it helps that he can wrestle as well. I know a lot of people would say, it's like, well, what, what oversh, what, what really overshadows him? His personality or the wrestling? No, he actually does both well. So, um, but we have a miracle of all ages. What we didn't know was gonna occur, it occurred. Trick Williams becomes your new TNA World Champion on NXT.

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  You kind of got a feeling that something was gonna go down, especially when you see the president of TNA in the audience. So it was like, hmm, this could be interesting. But, um, well, if you, if you believe in it, it happened. Truk Williams is your new TNA world champion. And, uh, that was done in almost 15 minutes. Alrighty guys, that's gonna wrap me up here for cutting a promo. Uh, when we come back, we'll be doing, uh, wrestling rundown. Much, a lot of news stories to talk about. Make sure that, uh, get your, get your logbooks and get your, uh, get your, your opinionated ears open because I got a lot of stuff to say about what's going on in the news this week. So guys, as always,

• 1:08:23Speaker 01

  don't go anywhere. Stick around. We got much to talk about and check you guys in a sec.

• 1:08:38Speaker 04

  Live from New York. Turn buckle tabloid.

• 1:09:23Speaker 01

  All, all that stuff that you take for like heartburn and such, it's not really working. And it sucks because I enjoy eating spicy foods. Uh, especially after a night of drinking, I like to get me like some hot wings, some buffalo wings or especially, uh, especially like Popeyes ghost pepper wings. Oh, oh, that'll kill me. And then in the middle of the night, I'm having to get up and.

• 1:09:51Speaker 01

  I have to drink a milk to calm it down. So I've been trying to get, trying to take some pain relievers and some an acid relievers to deal with that.

• 1:10:01Speaker 01

  Fucking sucks getting older. Jesus. But, uh, as always, I am the Nor McDonald of this section and, uh, you're listening to Weekend Updates Wrestling Rundown. To get it off Wrestling Rundown this week, we have, um, did you guys see the story about, um, Eric Bischoff explains how, uh, the reason why Hogan was acting so oddly, especially when it came to discussing his thoughts about race and, um,

• 1:10:41Speaker 01

  the, the, the derogatory terms he used for black people is, um, his reasoning for that was because of the medication he was taking.

• 1:10:55Speaker 01

  Right? Yeah. Because I mean, I mean, uh, who hasn't had a moment in time where, you know, we're, we're taking BP medications and all of a sudden, I gotta throw out some antisemitic stuff. We've all been there, right? I mean, come on.

• 1:11:14Speaker 01

  You guys are, you guys are being a little bit too hard on Hogan. You know, you take an antidepressant and all of a sudden you're like, uh, F, you know, F the Jews or whatever. It's, it's just, come on, let's, let's, let's, let's take it light on Hogan, right?

• 1:11:29Speaker 01

  Let's be for real, guys. Come on. Bischoff, I know that's your boy, but really you gotta stop that. Really, y- y- your boy, your boy's in, is in another world right now. And I don't think, there's no coming back for him unless maybe you're in the same world with him. Uh, I, I can't say that you are, can't say that you're not, but, um, well, it's, it's, well, y- y- you'll figure it out. I mean, honestly, because of medications, you gotta be fucking shit in me, right?

• 1:12:04Speaker 01

  Next up, congratulations to the Miz. It seems as though that he got his call and will be hosting another version of American Gladiators. How many times have we've done this already? Like, this is... This is like, maybe the third, uh... Iteration of this, maybe? Listen, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not mad at this at all. As a matter of fact, I am a huge fan of the American Gladiator series. It just brings me back to my childhood. I love it. Please, bring, give me more.

• 1:12:43Speaker 01

  I, I love to see, you know, big bodybuilders, men and women who are part of a fake sport and challenging people into prove that they're dominant in whatever field of excellence. Oh, wait a minute, that's pro wrestling, anyway. Um, any case, yeah, listen, let's go for it. Hell, shit. Like weird names like Zap and Blaze and Gunner. Oh, there was a Gunner in wrestling, too. Well, you know, you, you guys know what I'm talking about. Any case, uh... Honestly, I used to love fucking American Gladiators when I was growing up. Oh, man, two scoops. Fun fact, Rico, remember Rico?

• 1:13:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, I believe he was, if not a champion, he was a runner-up for American Gladiator. So, you might find some talent there. So, who knows?

• 1:13:42Speaker 01

  So, there's been talks on when Evolution will occur. So, apparently now they've zeroed in and Evolution will occur now. I believe it's July 12th and 13th. Uh, not both days, but one of those, because that weekend is, is slotted, this, it is allotted for, uh, Saturday Night's Main Event, Evolution, and I believe it's one other, I think it's, it's an NXT show. And it's going head to head with AEW's All In.

• 1:14:19Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 1:14:22Speaker 01

  I I mentioned it before, I'm not a big fan of splitting the audience like this, but you know, I guess it's business. I I I I don't I don't see what's the benefit for this, but I guess WWE does. I think I think their last PLE, the Battleground going against Double or Nothing might have hurt that audience, or maybe not, because unless, you know, they're

• 1:14:53Speaker 01

  unless they're relying on the fact that people will watch the replay, that works for them. And I think that's what always is the comeback for that, too.

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  That people are gonna watch the the replay. All In is also slated to start earlier that day. I believe the the East Coast would get it like at three or or something like that, because it's in Texas. So, uh, well, good luck with that, because that's gonna be hot as balls out there. Jesus. Good luck, yo.

• 1:15:26Speaker 01

  We get the MACs running.

• 1:15:32Speaker 01

  So there was talk that Willow Nightingale was on the WWE A radar before she resigned with AEW. WWE were they were interested in her. Why not? She's a talented young lady. She she's a hard worker. We saw her this past Double or Nothing put in that work.

• 1:15:57Speaker 01

  Um, I know she would be an instant fan favorite. Crowd will love her.

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  And, um, yeah, like I said, she she'll she could fill out those slots of which the

• 1:16:12Speaker 01

  female fan, like Bailey type role could easily transition over to. So I I think that that would have been a great pick, but apparently she resigns with AEW, and she's very happy where she's at, and congratulations for her for grabbing that bag. Good for her, girl. That's what I'm talking about.

• 1:16:34Speaker 01

  We've all heard the diagnosis it was JR has shared with the wrestling world. He announces that he has colon cancer. Apparently they have caught it early. And this past week, it has been announced that he has had successful surgery. They believe that they've gotten all of the colon cancer. And right now he is stabilized. JR has admitted and said that he does not plan to retire. In fact, that he's looking forward to doing commentary for AEW's All In.

• 1:17:12Speaker 01

  So much blessings to him and make sure that he stays on top of his doctor's appointments. Because it's very, very important to make sure that we are in remission. But we also don't want to see any sneaky returns of the C word. And hopefully our boy JR, who's been through so much in the past few years, is able to beat this one as well as he beat the other one. So stay strong, our good man.

• 1:17:49Speaker 01

  So apparently the WWE draft has been moved to SummerSlam season.

• 1:17:57Speaker 01

  I don't, I don't understand why. I, I guess because they're trying to tie up some loose ends when it comes to storylines. I, I really believe that if you're going to do the draft, do it right. Let's do it after Mania season. That's supposed to be the end of your season. You're supposed to tie up your loose ends after backdraft. But apparently they feel as though that, yeah, we, we still have more storyline to go.

• 1:18:30Speaker 01

  I don't know. I, I just, I just would prefer to have it at an earlier date. But let's see how it ties closely to SummerSlam and what occurs then.

• 1:18:46Speaker 01

  Uh Billy Jack Hayes, you guys uh might not remember or know who he is, but uh he's my era. Was with WWE for a click, but he was mostly known in north uh northwest region of the territories. Apparently Billy Jack Hayes, who was on trial for murdering his wife eh has been deemed unfit for trial. It's apparently, it's apparently seems as though that the man has had um um an evaluation, uh mental evaluation and is deemed as all that, yeah. He doesn't look like he could be able to answer his own questions and such, so.

• 1:19:26Speaker 01

  Uh some are stating that he might be dealing with early onset uh uh onset of dementia. So, so yeah, this is an unfortunate situation, but yeah.

• 1:19:41Speaker 01

  Sad, sad story.

• 1:19:47Speaker 01

  Well, well, well, the million dollar man is not really the million dollar man, or apparently his. Kids aren't million dollar men. Uh Ted DiBiase Jr., one um one-third of the former faction known as Legacy,

• 1:20:04Speaker 01

  is looking at forty-five years in jail for fraud. He and other individuals are involved in a welfare scamming process down in their home state. And litigation, litigation, litigation, so I um.

• 1:20:30Speaker 01

  Hope they pay a million dollars for their lawyers, cuz woo forty-five years is

• 1:20:36Speaker 01

  pretty much a long time to be locked up, guys.

• 1:20:43Speaker 01

  I've never seen a relationship get so much traction and so much hate in such a short period of time. It's been announced that Stephanie Vacua is dating Myles Bourne from N A C and the wrestling universe lost their shit. Like really? Like if you had a shot, guys, like honestly, you didn't have a shot. But apparently, um, yeah.

• 1:21:18Speaker 01

  Oh, it was vicious.

• 1:21:23Speaker 01

  People just can't be, I'm more upset that he's drinking a White Claw. That's the thing. Is that a White Claw or like some kind of, some, some kind of like spritzer? Ah, gross. That's more disgusting to me more than anything. But yeah, congratulations on the young newly anointed relationship of these two. But man, the backlash was ridiculous. I, I, I was like, woof.

• 1:21:59Speaker 01

  Uh, shout out to Damian Priest for uh, being honored with his own street in the Bronx. Congratulations to, where exactly is that in the Bronx? I have to find out. I, I should have done better research on that. But uh, where exactly in the Bronx is that? All I know is that somewhere up there, um, there is the smell of Gucci Frito restaurants going. Um, one or two robberies are occurring and they may, may not be a couple arguing outside.

• 1:22:40Speaker 01

  All in that one area is all happening on one block that's happening right there. Listen, I can say this, I'm from New York City, I'm from Brooklyn. And whatever occurs in Brooklyn, happens in the Bronx, two times more. So, yes, I am aware what happens up there, but congratulations to Damian Priest for his, his honorary street in the Bronx. And hopefully, his name will carry some weight and that there will be less crime that occurs up there. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

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  Where's my sound effect? Oh, there it goes.

• 1:23:19Speaker 01

  Uh, so,

• 1:23:22Speaker 01

  couple of weeks ago, I just found this funny, I know this is kind of late, but a couple of weeks ago, Collision was cut off 30 minutes earlier for the movie Black Adam. Irony, huh? The Rock actually cut you off? A shitty rock movie at that, that is terrible. Um, suffice to say, the AEW numbers for Collision on Saturday are actually doing a little bit much better. And, uh, there were some issues as well that occurred on, um, on Max, that seemed that they got their feet cut as well. And they thought it was only on the East Coast that this happened, but apparently this happened on the West Coast as well, so,

• 1:24:02Speaker 01

  The Rock does it again, right, ladies and gentlemen? Wow.

• 1:24:16Speaker 01

  Natalia. I, I love this woman because she's now at a, at a area of her career where she's just like on some, I don't give a shit mode. Like, I could, I just, whatever, bro, like, I, I'm going to anywhere I want. I'mma beat up on a fan, whoever talk shit, so I'mma jump up on them, even if it's a plant. The plant looked like they were scared shitless and looked like she was, um, ready to handle business. NWA, uh, welcomed Natalia for a match and, yeah. Someone else got welcomed from Match at as well, a fan in ringside. Uh, you go, girl. That's how you stick out your claws, you represent your catness, your feline ways, and let them know that you ain't taking no shit.

• 1:25:01Speaker 01

  That's right, girl.

• 1:25:06Speaker 01

  So apparently, uh, Sareya, the artist formerly known as Paige, was approached by a fan, I believe it was during the signing, and the fan wanted to get a little bit up, a little up close and personal with her. So personal that he wanted to kiss her on the mouth. Ew. I mean, you, you guys, you guys go too far, bro. I honestly, this is boundaries, boundaries dudes. And some of you guys are just like the worst individuals to have to be around in the first place in society. But then now you're imposing yourself on wrestlers and being even more creepier than you are in regular society.

• 1:25:51Speaker 01

  You just wrap it up another lot and now, now, and now you're just like, uh, creep 2.0 and shit. Like, come on. We, I, I, I don't, you're lucky that, that, listen, she, like, she's like a legit fighter, like she'll bust your ass, like seriously. Regardless of what it is, she, she's not gonna play. But at the same time, you, you're lucky that there isn't like a real, like, some dude around her that handles this shit and will fly you somewhere. I, I don't, it's just like those guys who take pictures with, with, with the wrestlers, the female wrestlers, and they're grabbing them from behind and they're hugging them like if you had a prom. What the fuck is, I, I don't get it. I didn't, I mean, never.

• 1:26:34Speaker 01

  It escapes the mind to me that, I don't even like bothering wrestlers for pictures. It's rare that I'll be like, hey, you, you'll take a quick pic. Uh, because it's rare that I do that. I don't like do, but then to, to have the gall, the audacity to kiss him on the mouth, I want to kiss him on the mouth. Uh, dude, like, come on, man. We gotta do better, bro. Honestly. Yeah, but we're not though. Ooh, we fooled.

• 1:27:05Speaker 01

  Congratulations to Darby Allen, who has made it to the top of the summit of Mount Everest. I know everybody was sitting there talking about Darby's gonna show up at a double or nothing.

• 1:27:18Speaker 01

  Did you see how long it took him to get up there? Do you think he's just gonna jump off the top and like immediately land that fast? No. Um, I can't say this is the first time that we can honestly say that AEW is on the top of the world right now. Boom, boom, shh. Damn it. I wish I had my drums stuck in my head. But, um, congratulations to Darby Allen. That is a tremendous feat. I don't know about, I don't know about you. I wouldn't have been doing it. Fuck, fuck what you heard. And these are like, you know, people have died doing this shit, like.

• 1:27:57Speaker 01

  No, no, I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for doing it for me, Darby. Thanks. You're awesome.

• 1:28:09Speaker 01

  So we've already seen that we have some movements that occurred on to the main roster from the, um,

• 1:28:19Speaker 01

  from the NXT realm. We got quick moves that occurred with Julia making it already made her way on SmackDown and Roxanne Perez is already shaking it up on Raw. Possibly getting into something frisky with Dominic Mysterio. But we're also getting some news that there might be some big moves that are occurring.

• 1:28:39Speaker 01

  In the next couple of weeks as well with the NXT roster, the shakeup that's happening. We, um, we have gotten some news that maybe Ricky Starts and Ethan Page are about to make their way up to the main roster. Looks like, uh, there's some talks also after what occurred this past week on NXT. That Stephanie Vacur will be making her way up as well. Let me tell you something. That women's division is gonna be put on notice.

• 1:29:06Speaker 01

  If you guys wasn't getting over before, you better start getting over now because man, there is gonna be problems. Is I get a dollar and fucking and players go, I don't want no trouble, trouble. Well, there's gonna be some trouble. When you get those women that go up there, can't be sitting on your laurels, man. They go, they go, they go already showcasing show ass. Tell me y'all better be getting ready to, to, to start, um, finding something to do. Or maybe, maybe kick down a notch. Maybe I should go back to NXT, maybe put that, the, the, the, the other, uh, part of the division over down there, help them down there because when you got women who could showcase like

• 1:29:49Speaker 01

  a Julia or Stephanie or Roxanne, mm-mm, something going down. Yeeks, next up. Ah, ugh, God, it's Ovi's injury this, uh, this past week on Raw. Honestly, for the longest time, I've been watching her do that move, that dropkick move, and I'm like, that doesn't look good. That looks like that could end badly. Uh, some are saying that maybe Kyrie saying maybe didn't take the kick properly, but I'm like, yeah, I don't know about all that, though. That was not a good look at all.

• 1:30:32Speaker 01

  I'm just, um, I'm hoping for a speedy recovery, but yeah, I, I think she needs to take that move and retire it and needs to go to, um, yeah, just don't even use it at all. I mean, honestly, it, it, just the way she lands, it lands, she lands awkwardly on that anyway. I don't know how she was able to do it for this long, but, uh, yeah, speedy recovery for her and hopefully, hopefully she's able to muscle through and make it through out of there. Yikes.

• 1:31:08Speaker 01

  It is really is believed that Ace Austin's contract is up with TNA and there are talks that he may possibly be making his way to AEW. A terrible thing, especially what occurred with ABC with Chris Bay and his injury. Thankfully, he is making a road to recovery and he's doing much, he's doing much better. But it's still a long road for him. But as for Ace Austin,

• 1:31:39Speaker 01

  now as a singles, unfortunately, we're gonna see how this works out for him. Very talented kid. I've seen him a few times at HOG and other spots and the kid actually is a great work. And he has a look and he appeal and I know he'll be able to step into some, some wrestling rings and impress people outside of TNA. So, good luck to him and you know, who knows? With, with things that are happening in wrestling this day and age, we never know where these guys are gonna pop up. And I'm saying that because I'm going, speaking of which.

• 1:32:22Speaker 01

  So, J C Jane just recently won an NXT Women's title.

• 1:32:29Speaker 01

  Santana appears on NXT and wins a match on NXT.

• 1:32:36Speaker 01

  And

• 1:32:39Speaker 01

  Trick Williams wins the TNA

• 1:32:43Speaker 01

  World Title. Either we are in the fifth phase of wrestling multiverse, like in the MCU, are we stepping into that? Or we're entering the third ring of wrestling hell. What the hell is going on here? Things that you thought you would never occur and never see is happening in wrestling. World's collide is about to happen soon. We're seeing big matchups there with WWE, 3PLA and TNA being a part of it as well.

• 1:33:19Speaker 01

  Someone woke up and said, "Hey, in the world of WWE, it was like, listen, guys,

• 1:33:26Speaker 01

  you might want to consider doing some business with other places because

• 1:33:31Speaker 01

  it kind of works. People like dream matches.

• 1:33:35Speaker 01

  So, I don't know. I'm nervous, but at the same time, I'm excited. I guess that's what it probably feels like when you're walking through hell. You're about to enter the tour. Like, you get nervous and you're like, "This might be fun." No, it's not going to be fun. It's not. But, yeah.

• 1:33:55Speaker 01

  It's gonna be interesting. Santana and X. Okay, alright.

• 1:34:08Speaker 01

  And finally, to close it out for Wrestling Rundown for Main Event, we have WrestleMania has moved from New Orleans back to Las Vegas. And the consolation prize for New Orleans was, "Hey, you guys get money in the bank."

• 1:34:27Speaker 01

  People are upset about this, especially those who already booked ahead of time and they already had gotten their packages done, in which they would get their hotels and they'll get their tickets and they get their expos and whatever it is that they're doing over there in New Orleans.

• 1:34:45Speaker 01

  And so far, it does not seem as though it's refundable.

• 1:34:49Speaker 01

  Yikes. That is horrible. As of this day, I do not, I did not see if anyone getting any refunds yet, but I believe they will. Either that, or they'll just be like, "Hey, go always carry it over and take it to Vegas, right?"

• 1:35:05Speaker 01

  So,

• 1:35:07Speaker 01

  people were upset about what occurred here, and I just said, "You know what?" There's only one, one source to be blamed for in this. And it's wrestling fans. You guys are, you're at fault. It's you guys' fault. I don't ever want to hear you guys complain about the economy. Don't want you guys to say that, hey, I can't buy eggs, I can't buy milk, uh, chicken, uh, chicken wings, oxtails. I mean, I can't even get fucking oxtails. That's crazy. See how much oxtails are? It's, you might have, you, you might as well buy diamonds in the supermarket because that's how much oxtails are. I can't even, I, I, I can't even imagine. I, I don't even, I don't even eat oxtails, but I, I know a lot of people enjoy them.

• 1:35:52Speaker 01

  But apparently, um, yeah, that you, you, you guys can't complain about buying shit anymore. SummerSlam tickets are, it's insane. Like, I, I, I'm not even, I'm not even looking to even want to be a part. I said the closest I would do probably is to do, um, probably one of the nights I'll do, uh, uh, what you call it? Um, in the parking lot and when you're out there partying and, and you know, that, that, that shit. But, uh, no, I'm not, uh-uh, nah, nah. It's, you guys, you guys are to blame. They made their biggest money, tailgating. There you go. Just hit me.

• 1:36:32Speaker 01

  It, I'm telling you, getting old. I can't take, um, and I, I can't take, um, spicy foods and the brain is getting shot.

• 1:36:40Speaker 01

  You, you guys, you gave them the biggest payout in WrestleMania history in Vegas. They, they, they did everything, they did, they did financially well.

• 1:36:51Speaker 01

  Did you not think that they would do this again? They, we gotta run this back. It's crazy. What? The biggest payout? What? No, no way. Let's see, we could do it again. Let's make magic happen again. And you want, wrestling fans will do it again. You guys will make it happen again. And mind you, WrestleMania last year wasn't really that good. It was okay. You know, night one. There's problems, night two, much better, but it was an average mania. It wasn't nothing crazy. And y'all still was like out there partying and spending money and no.

• 1:37:28Speaker 01

  What, what economy? You crazy? Like, we got tariffs. We don't have $3,000 iPhones. What? I'm buying this many tickets. Fuck that. What? Cars. Please. I'm, I'm, I'm gonna pay another 10,000 on another, on, on, on, on top of a car and add 10,000 on WrestleMania tickets.

• 1:37:49Speaker 01

  Ridiculous. I'm not mad at them. Apparently, uh, London, who's been looking forward to getting a mania. It seems as though that they have problems with that because it looks like with, um, the fees that's going on on that side, looks like it might not be possible. So, uh, uh, there, there's, they possibly gonna be a long wait for that. But, uh, other than that, like,

• 1:38:14Speaker 01

  I, I, I'm just like, you guys, you guys really didn't think this was gonna happen. Uh, let's, let's, let's, let's be for real. WWE knows what they're doing. They're, they pretty much had it on the, on the, on the mind to say, hey, guess what? Um, you guys spent money and we're gonna make y'all spend money again. And sure enough, they are. But, uh, yep. And on that note, thank you guys for being a part of this week's episode of Wrestling Run Now. Like it. Oh, that's like and subscribe. You see, this is what happens when you're doing too much stuff at one time. Like and subscribe on, uh, all social media outlets. Make sure you check us out on all of

• 1:38:59Speaker 01

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• 1:39:42Speaker 01

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