WWE SummerSlam Review: Did Roman/Seth Live Up To The Hype?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me continue with it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It is no fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The better it is, the better it was, and the better it will be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're back here in my eyes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The only way to cry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And not reach me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: acknowledge and indeed the Roman reigns, a still world heavyweight championship WWE SummerSlam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 2026 in Jesse's neck of the woods.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Many apples Minnesota just wrapped night too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're here to talk about it with all of you both nights.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is top-robination episode 422.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Start-off our 11th year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Jesse, we just we just celebrate our 10 year anniversary.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're starting year 11, talking a little Summerslam on a Sunday evening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How you doing tonight, sir?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Very thankful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's somewhat early.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's both cards started at five in my neck of the woods.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Outside of that, though, I'm really tired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's what happens when you go on vacation in you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Come back and just out of your realm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know you're used to it and yeah, you got some things in the pipeline too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely, but it wears you out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I appreciate you doing this live with me to here tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we can knock this out and get it out to our listeners.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm his summer slam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's depending on your perspective.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the second or third biggest show of the year for WWE.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I got to tell you when they announced this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What two years ago?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought for sure, I would attend the show and you know what got closer and closer and didn't turn out that way and a new several people who were up there for in Ryan Huffman was in the building tonight and you were kind of in the vicinity, you went to Russell Connell a little bit, that's some pretty significant people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, what did the city feel like this week and you drove around, you were around did you feel like any electricity with WWE in town for this major event?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely saw a lot more merchandise and shirts and I mean even that's within like a mile mile and a half radius I felt of U.S. bank stadium.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I walked around a lot there like quarter to five last night till about six or so and yeah there was definitely a vibe going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean there was like 34,000 plus both nights and wrestle con definitely was fun had a two and a half floors full of former performers and

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[SPEAKER_00]: merch, member Belia memories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just yeah, it was a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I also ran to Ryan Huffman himself earlier this afternoon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He sent me a snapshot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was like, Jesse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was legit there for, I think a half hour today is my girlfriend's birthday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was nice enough to come with me yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We went on tour looking for gummies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and we left to go get it with like 40 minutes left in the convention yesterday, ran back to go who I was going to distribute them to and they were gone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I had to make a solo trip up there today and I actually talked with a former ECW manager, Francine for at least 15 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh wow, super nice person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she's a different realm and different wave of things now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She has her own podcast, I believe it's called two broads and one fork where they just go to a restaurant and yes, I know we got to do a heavy discussion about that and also the just the way of the land and the wrestling industry and she's starting to gravitate a little away from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She just felt like nothing's grabbing her these days from a story perspective.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a couple of people that she likes, but just not her thing anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Understandable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got Eric and the chat here, patron of the show says I saw a lot of WWE and CM puncture.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's at Mall of America yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did see that Jewish and Liger made an appearance at the first wrestling show at Mall of America.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he was in Garb signing autographs this on yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The hearty's might have had the biggest line of the entire weekend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: on the wrestle con side of things, not WWW, Rick Flare was there also today, and his line was pretty big too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd say outside of that, there really weren't any astronomical lines.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No question about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: along with our, I don't know, 40 plus or so patrons over there these days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got to get to 50 because Justin, who's not able to join us tonight, Justin has said he would start his own boat of show if we got to 50 patrons.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so, Jesse, give me your grade A through F for night two of summer slam and night one if you'd like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then those are you tuning in live, hit us in the chat, give us your grade as we always do A through F, the old school scale here on T-R-N. What do you got?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got both of these nights ending in a minus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight, be minus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Night one, see minus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For those who may not know, I had

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[SPEAKER_00]: really considered buying tickets yesterday because the two matches that I wanted to see the most were on night number one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Night number two didn't really appeal to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't much hitting home pun intended in spite of the fact we did a couple of Minnesota performers on the docket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt they

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[SPEAKER_00]: slightly over-delivered tonight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the main event was a little bit drawn out, but I think that's par for a Roman Reigns course.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you notice both nights, the world title matches were a half an hour long, and this is kind of a negative.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything else was 13 minutes or less.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet about half, I believe, 50% of the PLE,

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[SPEAKER_00]: being actual match time as opposed to ads and commercials in Summerslam will be right back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what I got to see on my screen today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but I did feel that the talent did well tonight and there wasn't anything horribly egregious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, night two graded out for me a little bit better than night one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would agree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Night two is definitely better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I think just across the board.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a stronger night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought night one had just a

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there was a pretty bad one tonight too, but there's a real bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I actually, for my star ratings, both nights, are gonna have a match that was in the one star range.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But night one had a real bad one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The middle of the card, I guess, kind of slowed down a little bit last night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say, yeah, this one was more consistent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it would grade out higher for me on night too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The main event,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a very WWE main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was very good, night two, Roman and Seth, but it definitely had like what they always do to make you think it's an all-time epic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did all of that stuff and just the way it's done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I enjoyed that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a good, I thought it's probably the match of the weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was a good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not gonna be like a match of the year for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would say night two,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would give a be night one I'll just I'll go a strong I'll go see I'll just go be and see yeah I'll say definitely night two was the better night we're sure written in the chat agreeing she enjoyed night two a little bit more yeah so did you have any foam, oh, then for not going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I mean, like I said, this week has been so long and you're my my girlfriend can tell you that like I was kind of a nurse ball of energy yesterday morning and even I think even into the afternoon going into the summer slam card so I was a little bit distracted and while just sitting outside U.S. Bank City, I'm like, I'm like do I really want to go in kind of, but no, I think the answer is no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the kind of got like a cheap enough ticket I might have considered, but yeah, it was just I got a busy week coming up to making the three hour drive up there just I couldn't work it out, but, you know, we would have been fun to hang out with you have some drinks watching live pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But we will be doing that a little bit of a month so we do have that to look forward to you know You mentioned all the the commercials.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not as bad as it was earlier this year, but it's still pretty bad I mean you got like these three-minute ad breaks on a paid service I don't know about you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean there are some local ads because I was getting constant political ads Because we've had it of Senate race down here now for the first time in a while and it was just tons of those ads This was actually the very first time

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[SPEAKER_01]: that I was able to watch it on ESPN unlimited because now they have the YouTube TV support.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I know Justin joint can watch these shows now with no extra charge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure how to set it up, but yeah, it was the first time I didn't have to sail the high seas and go to England to watch one of these on Netflix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I did watch it on unlimited.

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[SPEAKER_01]: more buffering issues than I've ever had a Netflix through VPN watching the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Audio sync issues here and there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was not super impressed with the ESPN unlimited experience.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I mean, tons of ads.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is what it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just sucks when you're on a paid service.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're getting ads between every single match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You put the timer up there in the corner.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a three minute commercial break every time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really dug the logo and the design for the Summerslam 2026 set with that giant almost looked like the Viking ship behind covering the entryway, which I know there's the controversy all the time out there of there being tarped off seats, yes those were tarped off seats.

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[SPEAKER_00]: US Bank Stadium though does not seat 73,000 people contrary to what some people believe it's like the mid-50s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So nonetheless, I mean, you could have gotten 20k more in there, but I think just ticket prices were too high.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then even on the secondary market, I was looking and people were starting to slowly mark them down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think today's was actually going a little bit cheaper than yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's still, like I said, there's definitely a demand for the WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not quite where once was in Green Bay, even the night before had like 5,000 people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Smackdown, it really weren't ready for, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Really weren't right for the WWE to stroll in with the Peelie the next day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah, I mean, they did that special where they marked those tickets more and more than 50% off because there was lower level 100 seats for Summerslam at like the end of the stadium for 45 bucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe at one point, I want you to do the Justin Jefferson code.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, they discounted them big time to fill it up, but you know, they didn't fill it up as you said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was noticeable tarps in the upper deck and then they didn't show the hard campside if they could help it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a couple of times where we're kind of sneak in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's lots of tarps, like lower level, middle level upper level.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't really sell much on the hard camps side, but they did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They shot it in a way to avoid it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, any time they go for one of those far away shots, the left side of the screen would end right where the left side of the stage ended.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, on these stadium shows, they like to show them from the top and you see the whole stadium, and they did not do that for the show because they would have shown that

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[SPEAKER_01]: know, about a third of it was empty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you couldn't really hide the upper deck tarps where they could see those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a little bit on that, like the end of the stadium up by the video board and a little bit up kind of by the entrance way, but you know, still 35,000 people, two nights in a row, largely the same people, but that's still 70,000 tickets sold.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to be happy with that either way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we'll Minnesota get another stadium show, probably not any time soon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cleveland never got one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Tennessee got one after some reslam 22.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think Hunter TKO, WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're just going to go to markets.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also overseas quite a bit, because they know that they're going to have rockets crowds and good feedback.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know for Midwest stadium shows, they're talking about running something

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[SPEAKER_01]: at some point, maybe that gets done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I could see him doing that for like a rumble or something, maybe if the bear stadium ever gets built for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, it's when I hope it's in Chicago, please, not Indiana.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it'll end up in the Chicago suburbs, but I mean, we are years away from that ever happening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe one more Midwest stadium show, but not anymore for quite a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not gonna go blow for blow, you guys on every single match, but we'll just start off with Rollins,

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[SPEAKER_01]: and rain since it closed, it got by far, well, not by far, I guess night one, punk and Rhodes got 30 minutes, this one got 33 minutes, but I got by far the most of night two, as you said, Jesse, the entrances like took absolutely forever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rollins came out, they did a brief little bit of the shield entrance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the mask on when he arrived earlier in the day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He brought that out again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This wild, like white and green and pink.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Robon with the outfit underneath.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was wearing the Air Jordan five grapes, which I thought was cool underneath his boot covers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the famous fresh Prince of Bel Air Air Jordan five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to Seth for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Roman makes his just never ending endurance, of course, but the crowd was getting heights.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was some people in there, Jesse, that we're trying to get a holy shit chant going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I kept thinking to myself,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's guys have wrestled many times in singles matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like this is some dream match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've never seen before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they wrestled at the rumble a few years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, we've seen it many times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And each guy has beat the other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, yeah, big stage, whatever, but it was, you know, that's the face off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They take forever to finally lock up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, all the tropes that they do to make you think this is like the biggest match ever, the way they shot it, the stare down, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: They finally get going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm again, not below for blow, but some things that stood out was Roman actually took a power bomb through a table on the outside, which you don't see Roman do very often.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Minnesota Vikings were sitting right behind the announced during including Justin Jefferson and Roman kept jarring at them, basically toying with Rollins, like, oh, he played high school football.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought Roman was really working kind of eelish throughout the match, even so more of the crowd I would say was behind Roman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you agree?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, well, two nights in a row, a Minnesota Viking practice squad player made events.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't see any annoy jerseys in the crowd though, unlike the legendary ones from last night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What year were to that event when he was there like, oh, sixish, probably?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the same year, so he graduated the same year Calvin Johnson came out of George a tech because they were co captains together on the team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it would have been and he's only in his late 30s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So rumours, I guess rumours just turned 40 didn't he so I would guess 18 years ago eight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that sounds right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, great call there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking that during the main event didn't he try out for the Vikings and I was pretty sure, but I couldn't remember for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As they were going off the air, he said, uh, y'all need to make a soup bowl run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like, you can do the half.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of do, but didn't have any time soon, buddy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, they did all the, they did all the, they did all the shield stuff, you know, through how they, they talked about the, the history at one point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They even like Cole said Dean Ambrose because like Rollins did, you know, the mid, mid-rope rebound close line that Moxley used to do, you got the Moxley's DDT in the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they were calling back to the shield stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, towards the end of the match, you got like the chair shot deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: like they were going to redo and Rollins turned on Roman and then, you know, Rollins ends up getting his come up ends and Roman attacks him and everybody kicks out of everybody's finishers, which I expect all the bad faith actors and Twitter to totally criticize that they're killing the business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was one out of each other's finishers oppositely because Roman hit a stump and I believe just set it a couple spears too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I actually thought it was pretty cool as he Roman doing the stop and then the way they went back and forth with that, you know Roman Roman took a superplex to in this match, so Roman did more than he would normally do in a match took a superplex took the power bomb, you know, through the table, so I got to give him credit for that, but he took a superplex from Seth and it was the deal where Roman fights him off, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went back and forth, and then he went forth,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Seth gets down to the net, then he runs back up there leaps to the top rope, hits the superplex, and then he's going to roll through probably for the falcon arrow, but Roman, then like grabbed him into the guillotine and just totally no sold, the superplexy just took which again, those people that criticize AEW and the bucks and I spray for not selling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Where are you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's hear it for this one too, but you know, that's that's modern wrestling for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I mean, ultimately in the end, Rollins is like, he's gonna go for a top rope, a top rope stop, and Roman dodged it, Seth comes down on his feet, Roman ended up hitting the spear, getting the one, two, three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a ref bump too at one point in time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was down just forever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All the stuff was happening back and forth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, yeah, I mean, overall,

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[SPEAKER_01]: To me, it was the best match of the weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a solid main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not my match of the year, but it was very good and probably a top five WWE match for this year, I would say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, probably.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I liked Reigns and Punk from Night 2, WrestleMania Morne.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I would agree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You had the teasing going on of Seth's going to grab the title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then he goes, nope, I'm grabbing the chair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Roman, I have had some convictions grab in the chair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's his whole character now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was trying to prove that he can defeat everybody on his own without any help.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And tonight he did it again, which makes it, makes me happy that they're not bringing out the bloodline for any interference and trying to just continue with this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, they did this thing at the end where they were talking again about how like Roman has vanquished one of his skeletons and you know they he stands in the middle of the ring and he puts his fist out and Seth is just kind of staring at him from the corner and Seth comes over and he like lays his face mask down and they go fist to fist and then

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[SPEAKER_01]: Seth walks off after the show respect and Seth had this dejected look on his face.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea where you go with Seth Rollins now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After this, no clue what they're going to do with him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, Roman wins was not at all surprised that Roman won.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They could possibly do a rematch down the road, because Seth has a lifetime record against Roman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then a couple things, Roman, after the show went off the air, like a minute, it's before we got on, was interviewed, I think, by Kathy Kelly at Ringside and just saying that we being meeting Roman and Seth were the ones that

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[SPEAKER_00]: carried this place when folks decided to leave, when things started to get rough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were the ones that were carrying this generation, which was interesting to say, and I guess in a sense it is, but it's also kind of frowned upon that this, these last seven years of WWE television, in most of it other than that like 22 to 23, maybe early 24 periods looked at that as good, but the rest of it's just been kind of a down, downside of things for world wrestling entertainment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Cole mentioned a couple times on commentary.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said something along the lines of like these guys never left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're two of these guys have been here through everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They never left and you know, and all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'd like to see Seth leave to be quite honest with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I don't think it's ever going to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about on the show when his contract was coming up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That a Tyler Black run elsewhere could be really interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: kind of seen him do everything in WWE, but he just, he seems like a life for there, a guy holding that relief, he'll have an office job one day, you know, and that'll be that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So tonight is a whole felt like WWE and NXT 2015 was revitalized.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then is certainly like a little more interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was a couple of years ago and I didn't win, but they're treating them a little more serious, at least in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of that, let's just start at the beginning of the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then we got Kevin Owens making a return.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was reports out there that he was in town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not super shocking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but they ended up making that opening match, which was for the number one contendorship for the WWE title, which is the one that, of course, CM Punk has by the way, Roman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who he has next.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've kind of teased on TV that it might be LA night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Might get a shot at him in the near future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to, he's definitely not going to be speeding Roman reigns, but I think that ship is sailed still right really, really popular.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But,

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[SPEAKER_01]: that might be out there at some point in the fall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But on the other side, they did something a little more interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So at the very beginning, it was supposed to be Sami Zayn and Finn Baller for the undisputed title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But out comes the once again, general manager, Nick Aldis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Nick Aldis says, well, I've changed this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he calls out Gunther.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the guy who beat him last night, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Gunther is like, you know, really yuckin' it up and he's clapping and he gets to the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then all this is like, you know, by the way, you know, he still has, again, he was reinstated as General Manager smacked up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, I didn't say this was a triple threat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually a fatal faraway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got another guy to add to this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Kevin Owens came out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Owens got one of the loudest pops of the weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just got a massive, massive reaction when he came out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He looked in great shape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I really, really liked this opener a lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't long as like eight and a half minutes, but it was full steam ahead, fatal faraway, which I'm not usually a huge fan of those types of matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought, you know, there was some ambiguity in who is going to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when Gunther came out, I was like, I'm probably going to be Gunther.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you're going to be Gunther and Punk again, which has been reported that they're going to be going that direction.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then when Owens was in, I was like, you can't beat Owens, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he's coming back and he's getting this massive reaction, so Owens wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so now it's going to be Owens and Punk and when Punk first came back, they kind of had this interaction backstage where they teased it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're finally going to get that match that that's going to be the next championship contender for CM Punk.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like I said, I really like this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was really good at the time that this match happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was probably as good if not better than any match that happened on night one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Kevinstein, aka Kevin Owens, welcome back 18 months away from the ring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we saw him in Sammy at a elimination chamber.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, does it, did Orton k-fabes take him out or is the other way around as one of the two?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, what's that Orton?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't, I can't even remember.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was like 17 months ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, at the end of elimination chamber, I think it was Orton who a cavefade took him out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't seen him since unfortunately, but yeah, these like all four of these men, we didn't know each other well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, NXT 2015, those three, and then Gunther as well, to kind of round it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there really wasn't any loose ends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt even guys were fighting on the outside, which you don't see as much in fatal four ways.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So paying homage again to the final

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you would have wished that this one was probably about five minutes longer because it would just start to get heated up when Owens won the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if it would give him five or ten more minutes, they might have had a match of the year contender because yeah, it was really good for what we got.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be honest with you, Owen's punk is pretty interesting to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to see that match, so that's good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully we get good promos, not WWE style promos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kevin's very good in Winnowville is when he wants to be, so we'll see what this looks like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... barren corpsman defeated trick Williams to win the u.s. title in a nine-minute match you know little yoddy came out for the entrance and all of that um... it was like a distraction finish uh... towards the end with

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[SPEAKER_01]: Lil Yaddy getting involved and like trying to prevent Corbin from cheating and then like the belt was in there and then when he got involved and they did this little tug of war, the ref was distracted and then Corbin used the belt to take out trick and you know, hit the other days and covered for the pen fall little, little surprise that they would go that direction, you know, trick is, you know, such an up and coming star for them and Corbin is just a guy who's, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: his best days are behind him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a solid worker, but you know, whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At the same time our friend Frank Petty Annie, I think he responded to a tweet of mine on the podcast account tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, you know, I'm fine with this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is where Corbin belongs and it can allow trick to move on up the card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's probably true, but you know, tricks not going to get the world title anytime soon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: though, if he moves up the card, he's just going to lose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, until until they're ready to actually potentially let him get the title, which he's a ways away from right now, like not even close to them trusting him in that scenario.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's got to be a midcard title holder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a log jam at the top we mentioned the four guys, uh, like in that fatal four-way match on top of Cody Rhodes who's still going to be there, Randy Orton still going to be there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate to say it, but you could always pull the trigger on Drew McIntyre again if you did another main event or so yeah, trickle probably be like a bra and breaker when he gets thrown up there, he'll probably lose a match or two and then go right back down the card and you just wonder it's like win.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It should pull the trigger sooner rather than later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With this match at all, I mean, you just hire Baron Corbin back a month or two after like being gone for five to six years, at least he's not happy Corbin anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And his potent end of day's finisher wins the United States championship.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you would have liked to have seen a little more build in Baron Corbin or at least in this match, but I don't really care much about Baron Corbin at this point in this career.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you remember when the eternal, the online people?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know a decade ago, we're talking about how at the end of days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like the greatest finish of all time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the most protected finisher in WWE and all this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's cool looking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a cool move, you know, but yeah, no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This surprised me, you know, it was whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the next one kind of surprised me a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, people love Chelsea Green.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I guess it shouldn't be that surprising.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did think Tiffany Strat would be the most over in this match though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's done some media around up there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that she's from prior lake, which is like a Southwestern suburb of Minneapolis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Super beautiful place by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember if I type out some pot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was up, I was through prior like a few weeks ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is just a really beautiful area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was up at Mystic Lake because you know up there for a concert.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got canceled because of wildfire smoke.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Canada.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it took me into the mech of concerts this year in 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I swear to you, there's a concert.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Six days a week there crescent played two nights there last week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was so disappointed not so much about the band, but just like I wanted to see it because I've heard it's such an awesome amphitheater.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's really big.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they gave like 25-30,000 people out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've had a bunch of concerts booked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but yeah, the smoke was really heavy that day and they canceled it, but I still went up there and we're driving through prior lake and my wife knows who Tiffany Stratton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, oh, yeah, this is where she's from and we're looking around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, this is a really nice area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought her being kind of the hometown gal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She got a good reaction.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Chelsea Green was way more afraid like not even close, you know, like there was times where it looked like Tiffy might win and there was a little pop, but like when they thought Chelsea was going to win they went nuts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just like crazy and she had it up getting the win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tiffany Stratt did take a crazy bump to the outside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Chelsea Green turned on her and pushed the ladder over and Tiffany took like a basically a front centon flipped to the outside, kind of landed on her legs after she collied with a couple of the women out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was towards the end, but she ended up getting up from that and got up on the ladder again after that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that was like the bump of the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, pretty much everybody got taken out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Chelsea was like hung upside down in the ladder, and she was the last one left, but she was hanging upside down and the crowds are chaining for, and then she like sits up on the ladder and gets up there and gets the belt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now she's the interim champions with a, you know, rear out injured as the new women's champion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: a couple of things on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a decent amount of Chelsea Green member Bili at today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a, couldn't have been more than seven years old with a Chelsea Green hat on, Francine's are walking by like that is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with it too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, there's my oldest daughter loves Chelsea Green.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She has a sign figure from her too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't even like buy sign stuff very much, but we are at a wrestling show convention one time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she really wanted it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I bought, it wasn't that much, I bought it for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's got it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's zero question, and then the way that she sprung herself up reminded me of somebody else who was at WrestleCon yesterday, Tecla, having just lost her women's title, but yeah, she was out signing things, and yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, Chelsea's over with this crowd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think she's over with the professional wrestling audience as a whole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a ton of respect for her character work and all that she does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's a decent, I think she's a passable in ring performer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then you give her a character to latch onto, which he's had for the longest time, and she absolutely should get something out of this interim championship.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the unfortunate part is re-replace the one that's coming back, and I don't know how you could, you have to finagle like some big time outside interference for me to believe the Chelsea can be Rhea and a one-on-one match straight up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was a good match though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I was, it was another solid one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the opener was really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Corbin and trick was like a solid match despite the surprise finish.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This one was really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tiffany by the way, took a second bump on that ladder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She get power bombed on that ladder by Nate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That one made me cringe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She looks him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she took some big shots tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she was wearing Vikings colors as well, and so we're like, basically, yeah, outside the finish in the second one for decent or good matches, we're three for three at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But all good things, Jesse, let's come to a net.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Damn you New York, Nix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are now saddled with Dan Housen on paper view shows,

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[SPEAKER_01]: against Dominic Mysterio and all I could think of is you remember how six months ago ESPN and not your friend Andreas he was not we we discovered he was not the one responsible for this award

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[SPEAKER_01]: ESPN awarded Dominic Mysterio, the 2025 male wrestler of the year award, which was totally ridiculous in the moment, but even more ridiculous now six months later as Dominic, who is the AAA mega champion, by the way, is wrestling Dan Housing at Summerslam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the match is all smoke and mirrors because you know, Dan Housing is a much of a worker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You get the little people out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You get the tricks and you know, look, they went six minutes and 50 seconds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the end, they climb up to the top row or sorry, Dominics on the top row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Dan Housing does his magical point and like a little Roman candle or like sparkler thing goes off and it takes them out and Dan Housing gets the victory on the human money is on a pole match because he climbs up and he grabs the money that was up on the on the corners so Dominic was about to get it when the little pyro stream went off and so Dan Housing gets it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was not good, Jesse.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not F and good as Kyle Ross.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's way back in the day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's lots of Dan House and merch out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a lot of people with his face paint on the human monies, which was really weird.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a little bit better worker than I think people give him credit for, but he's not really allowed to display it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This whole comedic character, which Kudos to him for when his six months ago, he basically got laughed out of the building in Chicago for his debut And all of a sudden he's become like one of the biggest folklor so far of 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just wish you would have on curse the Vikings when you was here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it worked for the next Oh Okay

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I just saw a tweet that made me laugh, but I want to give this guy a new attention, but it's funny.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll send it to you off here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds good to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, moving on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the semi-main, this one was an obvious one I would expect going in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, the hometown gal in Tiffany Stratton doesn't capture gold, but then you got Chad Gable, who of they have had ample opportunities.

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[SPEAKER_01]: to put over over the years and they haven't done it as you like to remind us Jesse Chad Gables been in the company since the Obama administration and they've never really given him much of an opportunity here he takes on pentah for the icy title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he talked about how he was like born in Minneapolis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He still lives in Minneapolis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had to look it up because I am pretty sure he didn't go to high school in Minneapolis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know where he graduated from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like 40 minutes away, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's small, kind of a small town.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... my my son's cousins as mom side they all go to say michael albert's bill yeah it's like thirty five minutes north west of here it's a really good school yeah so yeah he was a state champion there i looked out for a layer in about three hundred four i'm a sense why he went there and yeah two thousand four

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, there was no way that this guy doesn't win here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to put them over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had a really solid match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a destroyer on the outside, like off the middle rope that Henta gave Gable that looked kind of gnarly at one point in the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But in the end, Gable locks on the ankle locks sits down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tap out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Chad Gables, the new Intercontinental Champion, he celebrates in the ring and his whole family gets in there as wife is kids his mom and dad who it's kind of funny they had shirts on that said like Chad Gables number one fan and number two fan and they celebrate but then the final shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Chad Gable celebrating with the was at the mug rip your mascot on the rope you just say that of course they had to get that in as the final shot But yeah, I mean, this is another really good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was very solid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I liked it I was waiting for him to unmask and let it be some random performer that's gonna jump in Me the next opponent in your continental title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's kind of what I was waiting for but no Chad definitely He's been there forever and ever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's this would have been like a really good teeny match

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt split it being in Minnesota and there was a there was a decent pop for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I felt in this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you got really good crowd reaction for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I mean, that was night two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we said, there was a B show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was enjoyable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It flew by is like a three hour show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you the ads, which I could do without imagine how short the show would have been without the ads.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was at least three minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe three and a half minutes between every match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're talking at least five ad breaks between all of those matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, you're probably shave off 15, 20 minutes right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're almost like, entrances would have been almost like an old in your house.

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[SPEAKER_01]: back in the day two hours.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I see UFC model though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it's like the fight then there's the theatrics in the middle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They'll give you the build up for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then the next fight will be thrown at you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about night one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So night one was definitely the weaker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have just a few discussion points when we roll this one home tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so live Morgan and EOS guy open the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought like going in maybe they'd open with Hell on a Cell because Brock does work the first match sometimes, but at the same time, you know, they had the trilogy that was kind of I thought the most anticipated match, no offense to Punk and Cody, but like storyline wise, it was the biggest match I think on night one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I kind of felt like they had to put that one out there last punk and Cody I didn't think would open so they go in the semimane so instead that you get live Morgan and you'll sky out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they got the second most time on night one it was actually longer than the hell in a cell match about 13 and a half minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, Sky is so good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we have given her flowers on the show time and time again, and yeah, they had a really good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was a fan of this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was very good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The crowd was really into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the end, live Morgan retains.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went back and washed it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think this might have been the best match for the night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, yeah, I think I scored at number two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I had it in the running for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I had Punk and Cody the slightly above and on my stars, but it was number two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely in contention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It helps when he goes guys in the ring shout out to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I actually saw her the links game that I don't know if I want a shout or an hour or not, but they live Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're both behind the basket of the links Indiana fever game today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was in the locker room with the links.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did see some clips out there about that game for sure on some screenshots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Links one 10 in a row.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have been to one Licks game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just went last week for the first times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 2015.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was amazed at the crowd and how interactive it was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking it might have been 2015 when I went, but no, my old this was a baby and we took it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was 2016 when we were pretty close to the same same time period.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, that this was a strong

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, then they followed that six man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was L.A. Knight, Solosicoa, Royce Keys, against the bloodline, which was Jacob Fattu, J.U.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and Jimmy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, it was fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Much to it, the biggest pop was when Solo tried to do the J entrants, you know, spot during the middle of the match, Solo's doing like this comedy gimmick now kind of whatever the fans are taking to it a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: powerhouse, Royce Keys got pretty much zero reaction for this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, he's a guy we really like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about him before hard hard worker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just they're not doing anything with him really.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Jacob, too, I mean, what a just complete waste of a guy this is to have him back in the bloodline with the usos.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about that on the show a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was just kind of a nothing, six man to get some of your more popular performers in the roster on there, the L.A. Knights and the J.U.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was of the world, and of course, she could fought to you to shred a highly to him as well, but no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just kind of a standard again, would have been a good smack down to their opener, or maybe even a main event to further a story for them on that side of things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I mean, again, there's there's some talent in that ring, but it was just kind of this throwing together six men get everyone on the show, but in the end LA night hits J.U.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So with the BFT covers for the pinfall, pretty pretty average stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We did get Gunther taken on Nick Aldis in his first match ever in WWE.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He'd been out there for how long was it like three years

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[SPEAKER_01]: W-W-E. Yeah, he hadn't rustled three years, I think, make all this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was pretty close.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was, yeah, it was, actually, this is hilarious that I know this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned the the modest brewing appearance that he made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was going to be an independent show and that was February of 2023.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, three, three, yes, three and a half years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you know, a lot of talk about, oh, they actually ponyed up the money to come out to morning glory by Oasis, which was cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got plenty of money to do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's be honest, but they they allowed them to have the Oasis rent entrance, which, you know, I had heard that he had asked for that weeks ago and they're like, oh, maybe we'll see, but they got that put together for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It looks pretty good out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean he you could tell he hadn't been in the ring in a while like a little bit of ring ross I mean I always been training and everything but overall it was a it was a pretty pretty solid match and you know he's in there with a guy I was one of the best workers in the industry so you know they go just under 12 minutes but uh no surprise that Gunther would win this how how did you think make all this look out there?

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you look fine, there was a course, a little rest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we've seen guys like Nigel McGinnis come back from stuff like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they obviously were in a couple of steps, but yeah, being in there with a fellow European, because I believe all this is an Englishman.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Always helps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it was fine for yeah, something you probably wouldn't want on a summer slam card.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you'd probably want it on a clash card somewhere else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's one of those things where it's like, you know, Nick, all this never has had a WWE match and they've never really wanted him to be a wrestler despite him not being that old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And him, he's still in great shape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not even 49.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 39.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's younger than the main of it tonight, though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he obviously could still work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He looked in great shape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've just never really wanted it to be a wrestler.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't really leave this open for him to wrestling, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He'd always bring it back and he could.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it felt more like this was a situation where it was like, All right, you know, he's going to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He grew up dreaming of wrestling for WWE and we're going to let him have the match and we're going to put him out there with a big star like Gunther and he's not going to win, but that's what they did and Gunther obviously won with the sleep or no surprise.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, he looked good out there and I don't know for sure if he'll ever wrestle again in the WWE, but he definitely proved he could hang.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fans kind of just see him now in a role as General Manager and don't think of him as a performer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure there's some of the people out there that don't even know that he was Magnus and TNA, and that he was a big deal with the NWA for all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like one of the biggest presented acts in the first all in a 2018 when he wrestled Cody Rhodes kind of a throwback to Yesteryear and they put on a pretty good match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Nick, Nick can work and he can definitely talk people into a building.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you really want to unleash him for a little while and just see if he can strike gold with WWE audience go for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Before we end the next match, I want to throw out our super chat here that Brittany sent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a very kind and it's about a little side project that I have been working on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Brittany says, not WWE related, but shout out Ryan the historian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the Rayford Johnson, Elvis and Bobby Kennedy's story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Never knew Elvis admired the Kennedy's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so for those of you who don't know, I started a sub stack, or I'm writing my history.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Mr. Drasty History.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's sub stack.com.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's free.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can become a supporter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've done a YouTube channel on history for a long time called Mr. Drasty History and pretty much is writing about stuff that

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[SPEAKER_01]: comes to mind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I bought a vintage poster recently of an old Elvis movie called Wild in the Country, which you probably never heard of, but it's one of his few like dramatic movies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's they're singing in it, but it's a decent movie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And one of the actors in that movie with him is a guy named Rayford Johnson.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're at a Rayford Johnson, Jesse, I have my read the article.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so Rayford Johnson was a decathlete.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He won gold medal in the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I noticed his names at the bottom left of the poster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, this would make for an interesting history story because I've left it open on the subject that I might write some pop culture history, some sports history.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's also far because it's the summer of America 250.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I've been writing about the founding and stuff like that, George Washington, Jefferson, Sally Hemings, I wrote about the other day,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, this is actually a really interesting story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm gonna write about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Rayford Johnson is in that movie in two scenes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they put his name on the movie poster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because he was this big star he had just won gold at the Roman Olympics and he ended up like doing some sports casting and being in more movies he actually was offered the role in Spartacus and turned it down with Kirk Douglas right before the Olympics because they said if he took the movie role he technically wouldn't be an amateur and couldn't compete in the Olympics anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyways he's in this movie while in the country never shares the screen with

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rayford Johnson was there in June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a bodyguard for Robert Kennedy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I don't know, it's just, he's like kind of this cool segue that ties together Bobby Kennedy, the original Bobby Kennedy, with Elvis Presley.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Most people probably don't know that connection and there's stories out there, I'm a big Elvis fan, my TCB cast here in there, podcast, where he really admired the Kennedy's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He admired a lot of people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He took pictures with Nixon too, but he really admired the Kennedy as if you've seen the Baz Lerman movie about Elvis,

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[SPEAKER_01]: he sees the Kennedy assassination the Bobby Kennedy won and then he sings a song called if I can dream and that was truly inspired by what he was feeling when Bobby Kennedy got assassinated and MLK two months earlier.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was as well as things where it's almost like the Kevin Bacon thing, you know, degrees of separation and it's like, well Kennedy and pressly never met but Rayford Johnson, this famous athlete, is the guy that kind of ties it all together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: for this kind of a cool story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you want more of that stuff, you guys and check out my sub stack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'll link it in the podcast description.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it's it's Mr. Drasty history dot sub stack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not comp.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Brittany.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate that shout out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We watch your videos a couple times a month, Ryan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll read you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm dating a second grade teacher who loves going back in time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she'll she'll point out that she agrees with you almost things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that's cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I do have an Elvis question for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is obscured a sum.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is your thoughts on the song?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got stung.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe you're bringing this up because

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have a group chat of the TCB cast hosts and that came up not too long ago and I actually am not like a huge fan of that song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, but it's not like one of my favorites from the late 50s, it's fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like most of his music, but do you have a thought on it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, a client of mine who is currently in Las Vegas is just a huge, huge, huge, huge Elvis hand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She actually goes and sees big Elvis at in Las Vegas with just hilarious, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it's the guy who will just play Elvis songs, give him a little bit of money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's actually her favorite Elvis press.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just he has so many great songs in that era that's now like a upper tier, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a big impersonator guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I'll just throw on the real guy until you see if I want to watch him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, I get it for some people who are into that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But no, that's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Very nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was hoping you wouldn't ask about hockey talk, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'd really get off the rails.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw him there today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you really?

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[SPEAKER_00]: On, I did, or he's there yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, oh, man, Wayne Ferris.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and not just that, I remember you mentioning a few days ago in the discord chat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Has Johnny Laura Knightys been de-excommunicated from the rest of the con.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Saw him on the escalator in somebody fist bumped him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, I come orange.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know where that fist has been.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you have to act.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, come on, people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sean, Lauren, Nitis, Russell, Khan, what are you doing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are you doing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Police successful, Lauren,itis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He, you know, least successful, Lauren,itis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh god.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of not very successful, let's see, the six woman tag was asked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no pun intended.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No pun intended.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would back and watch this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not a good ride.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Ben, all right, fatal influence, J.C. J. and Fallen Henley and Laney Reed against the Bella Twins, Nikki and Bree, and Paige.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it was like a one-star match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was bad, not good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Seven and a half minutes, Bree Bella gets hurt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hurt's her shoulder, I believe it was during the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You could barely do anything after that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a thing is like the whole thing that they've been setting up here is a Bella twins tag team title run and now they can't do it because we got another injury, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, this is, this is definitely not worth watching you guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was very bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The idea you see is really certain to love them some Fallen Henley.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm noticing this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Saw some of that out there for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then after the match, by the way, the bell is turned on page.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and go heal, and despite breathing injured.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I guess you now have to do like a Nikki Bella page feud, which I'm not sure anybody is clamoring for that, but that, you know, they have to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did the turn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this has been okay in 2014, not, not 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, what are they doing making the bell is heels?

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like a legacy act at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, why would you turn, I don't get that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why would you turn them heel?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just doesn't make any sense to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Page could probably do more as a heel, honestly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she absolutely could.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do your, do your daughters have any, do they like the bellies at all?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do they know much about them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: They do not, um, not at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Really, like I have said this on the show before, like when they went into the Hall of Fame, I think that was totally warranted, because look, not great workers, but they brought a lot of eyeballs to the product through total divas, and they were gateway for a lot of female fans in particular.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they deserve props for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Around the time that my wife and I got together, but before our first kid was born, we had a friend at work who we'd never thought was a wrestling fan and she was a wrestling fan because of total divas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she's come over and watch the paper views with us back then and like the early to mid-20 teens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when our oldest was born, she actually got her a Bremode T-shirt that she wore as like a six-month-old when she watched, you know, our first WrestleMania, she has no memory of this, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, my kids don't know anything about the bellows, but, you know, again, they're like, that's like a 10-year ago act, and they're the, you know, Hall of Famers, and I just don't see any purpose in turning them heel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, those two AJ Lee page, times passed them by, there's so many women.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Look across the ring, all of those women just came up from NXT and they've only been in there since like 23 or 24, yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, speaking of which they did win, JC Jane took out page, hit the rolling on the core got the win for a team, but the big thing was like the turn after the match on page despite, really being able to do anything with that injury, unfortunately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, you know, it's not, it shouldn't be out too long, but man, that sucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Punk and Cody in the semi-main.

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[SPEAKER_01]: they worked a match, which I have seen being very divisive because it was like a really slow past match, old school, like 1980s, early 90s style match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, all about working the body parts, punksell and his leg throughout the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I liked it, you know, for what it was, it did start really slow, and the crowd was not into it really at all at the start, but they were really into it at the end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Punk.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was for the moon salt off the top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, terrible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, you feel bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he made the leap off the top rope through the announced table.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it kind of landed on his feet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was worried he wasn't going to get there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because we've joked on here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, Hunk is the guy who jumps off the top rope and doesn't clear the top rope and height.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was like no vertical.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he made it with room to spare.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to give him credit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he lands like on his feet, Cody moves.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he, you know, comes down on his left leg.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he's he's selling that, you know, throughout the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that, again, like that was kind of the story throughout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What did you think of the match?

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[SPEAKER_00]: it was the opposite leg that he landed on that he was selling too because he was selling the left for the whole matching landed on that right uh yep you're right i don't know if i i know he's like a hardcore NHL fan and i know he's like a big Chicago blackhawks guy hmm yeah you're a big Chicago blackhawks guy you should not be wearing Minnesota Norstars colors that was also a talking point that i mean that's kind of that is kind of odd

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm like I said, I know I've seen him in, I think he was in the Stanley Cup final.

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[SPEAKER_00]: See, he was at the, he's at a game in Vegas, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's a huge, NHL person, but yeah, you don't wear it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, if I become popular, I'm not going to go to Green Bay with Wisconsin, and you're not going to see me with the Josh Drake of Sturzy on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's like those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine Jesse, if I was a pro wrestler and they were in Green Bay, Wisconsin, could you think I would ever, and a million years, come out with Green Bay Packer's stuff or merch gear geared towards, I mean, I'd never in a million years, what I do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's a cool nod, I guess, for the local fans, but I personally think it would have been way more cool if he came out to like, table scare or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sure, something neutral or I know he's a cobs fan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: where something twins related?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, I know hockey's like his main sport, but yeah, and that rivalry and all of that, I was really sure how Minnesota fans felt about the North Stars because, you know, we've talked about this in classics when we talk about the old Stanley Cups, how few years after they moved, they won the Stanley Cup.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, but, I think Eric said in our discord, he was Eric that, you know, he sees as much North Star gear if they're still today as a wild.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hate the Dallas stars personally, because I met the owner the year before, I've told the story a couple of times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, promise in to keep them here in the Emovism.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, and then the Minnesota Watt will wear tribute, green and gold gear, which I love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love when they break those out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, why can't you, I guess you had to change the logo and everything?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe name them the Dallas South stars or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Keep us bring it back the Minnesota North stars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be okay with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyways, yeah, the match itself, I, I thought it was just like classic pro wrestling, but I could see how modern fans wouldn't like it just too slow for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I've seen some people saying this match was absolutely sucked in other people saying it was like, actually your contender and I'm like kind of in the middle on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I gave it three and three quarters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like borderline thought about bumping it up, but in the end I was like, yeah, was a little sloppy with the moon salt and all of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So three and three quarters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I mean, there was the rough bump, just like we had in the main event tonight, they always do this in their title matches, both guys are hitting their finishers, but then nobody can make the count.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we get one Randall Orton.

01:00:05.870 --> 01:00:14.853
[SPEAKER_01]: who comes out of the crowd, hits Cody with the RKO, wingset the camera, and leaves punk doesn't see that this has happened.

01:00:14.893 --> 01:00:20.315
[SPEAKER_01]: He was down, he gets back up, gets in there, hits the GTS, covers for the pinball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, welcome back, Randall Keith Orton, I suppose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To that point, he had gotten the biggest pop of the night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, for sure, easily.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I told the sandman that today because we talked for a few minutes as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just like, because he didn't watch the show last night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He just said,

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[SPEAKER_00]: who got the loudest pops that said Randy Orton, he's eyes popped up, so he's like, what's?

01:00:43.812 --> 01:00:51.256
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, I thought he was out, I go, yeah, he just came back, last night in her fear, then that championship match, up to that point, which was, I'm with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We always grab the whole, the novice of the grab a whole tell of story, and that's what they did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I would lean more towards that and suppose to the modern day stuff, or it's like, this is too slow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah.

01:01:04.005 --> 01:01:08.588
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we're uh, I mean, it's going to good news is likely it'll take Cody at the title picture for a while.

01:01:08.829 --> 01:01:14.833
[SPEAKER_00]: That's something that I know fans have wanted and rightfully so we'd like some newer names at the top.

01:01:14.993 --> 01:01:18.856
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to start with Kevin Owens, which is not a newer name, unfortunately.

01:01:19.016 --> 01:01:20.677
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's something new for punk.

01:01:21.538 --> 01:01:21.758
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:01:23.110 --> 01:01:26.572
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so yeah, we'll do Orton Cody and now we got Punk and Owen.

01:01:26.632 --> 01:01:31.855
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, Punk and Owen's will be interesting, like you said, if they let them kind of go all out on the microphones.

01:01:31.875 --> 01:01:32.195
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.

01:01:32.335 --> 01:01:38.779
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what happens and then we got the third match in the series to close the show.

01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:40.080
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell on a cell.

01:01:41.101 --> 01:01:41.901
[SPEAKER_01]: Brock Lesnar.

01:01:43.122 --> 01:01:43.682
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but Femi.

01:01:45.863 --> 01:01:47.484
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't really need to be a hell on a cell match.

01:01:47.504 --> 01:01:48.125
[SPEAKER_01]: Did it, Jesse.

01:01:48.969 --> 01:01:55.831
[SPEAKER_00]: No, this was more of an extreme rules or a no-disqualifications match, they didn't really use the cage at all.

01:01:55.851 --> 01:01:58.592
[SPEAKER_00]: They used weapons supposed to the cage as a weapon.

01:01:58.612 --> 01:02:00.253
[SPEAKER_00]: I think one time someone got thrown into it.

01:02:01.013 --> 01:02:04.094
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, pretty much nothing involving the cage.

01:02:05.034 --> 01:02:06.094
[SPEAKER_01]: Just a weapons match.

01:02:06.675 --> 01:02:12.616
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to use, to me, a hell in a cell match almost has to have blood.

01:02:13.877 --> 01:02:15.637
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost, you almost have to do it.

01:02:15.957 --> 01:02:17.178
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know,

01:02:18.302 --> 01:02:19.063
[SPEAKER_00]: we didn't really get that.

01:02:19.443 --> 01:02:20.985
[SPEAKER_00]: These guys were bruised.

01:02:21.025 --> 01:02:21.606
[SPEAKER_00]: Brock was.

01:02:21.966 --> 01:02:24.509
[SPEAKER_00]: He definitely had some well-solve over the place.

01:02:24.970 --> 01:02:32.379
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, I think it's just with the world-ressing entertainment policy with blood not really being there.

01:02:32.479 --> 01:02:36.563
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like a few times a year where I don't know how, but some people politics to get it.

01:02:37.204 --> 01:02:49.409
[SPEAKER_00]: into their match, and you definitely could use it here, especially if you want to blow it off and create a huge moment for someone like Oberfemi, and they try to do it in the modern WWE way.

01:02:50.250 --> 01:02:53.091
[SPEAKER_00]: And to their audience, they succeeded into others.

01:02:53.151 --> 01:02:56.132
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like, I could have used a little bit more.

01:02:58.268 --> 01:03:03.930
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, no, they had Oba take these brutal shots from the steel steps.

01:03:03.990 --> 01:03:07.111
[SPEAKER_01]: They look really brutal and nobody.

01:03:07.131 --> 01:03:11.872
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like you take the steel stairs that they had that hard multiple times.

01:03:12.592 --> 01:03:13.913
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to be a busted open.

01:03:14.013 --> 01:03:19.094
[SPEAKER_01]: And look, we saw what, McIntyre and Punk, they had some serious blood in the hell on a cell.

01:03:19.394 --> 01:03:21.335
[SPEAKER_01]: And nope, not for this one.

01:03:23.035 --> 01:03:47.755
[SPEAKER_01]: In the end, we get the ring apron pulled up, we get all of that exposed, you know, we get the, we get the wood exposed down below and you know, they're pointing out they're like, you can clearly see under the canvas that there's like padding and I think it's Michael Cole was like, oh, look, you know, there is padding, but you know, we got to have that because look, it's just just wood under there, you know, so they're trying to kind of explain that.

01:03:48.929 --> 01:03:55.873
[SPEAKER_01]: And we get a tombstone pile driver onto the wood.

01:03:56.413 --> 01:04:00.136
[SPEAKER_01]: Obafemi gets tombstone onto the exposed wood.

01:04:00.156 --> 01:04:02.997
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Brock does like he mocks take her kind of covers.

01:04:03.558 --> 01:04:12.323
[SPEAKER_01]: Oba with his arms and you know, puts his head up, like, I don't know if he actually rolled back his eyes or not, but he did that take her pin in Oba kicks out.

01:04:12.843 --> 01:04:16.245
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, once again, those bad faith actors on twitter.com.

01:04:17.780 --> 01:04:21.222
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they angry that someone kicked out of a tombstone under wood?

01:04:21.322 --> 01:04:24.865
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, who's to say, but Obafemi kicked out of that.

01:04:26.066 --> 01:04:38.514
[SPEAKER_01]: He ends up biting back and we end up getting, I've seen different theories on this when he hits the power bomb on Brock, but he didn't hit it on the wood.

01:04:40.383 --> 01:04:41.203
[SPEAKER_01]: and who was it?

01:04:41.244 --> 01:04:44.865
[SPEAKER_01]: I was, I think it was Alvarez was talking about this.

01:04:44.945 --> 01:04:47.966
[SPEAKER_01]: How if you watch it, it was clearly the plan.

01:04:47.986 --> 01:04:54.049
[SPEAKER_01]: He was supposed to power bomb rock on the wood, but at the last second, he didn't move over there.

01:04:54.089 --> 01:05:04.574
[SPEAKER_01]: And his theory is that he saw how like the ring apron was folded up down there and he got worried that he would like trip on it, walking over to the wood, and so he just put him down where they were.

01:05:05.697 --> 01:05:10.721
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can almost kind of see it on Brock's face a little bit that he's a little surprised that he didn't fall on the wood.

01:05:11.842 --> 01:05:20.529
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, like I suppose, it could have read done it and he got to kicked out at the first one and it said take us over to the wood do it again, but you know, you know, they didn't do that because this is the finish.

01:05:20.549 --> 01:05:22.671
[SPEAKER_01]: This is his finish and so Brock doesn't kick out.

01:05:22.811 --> 01:05:30.236
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but it just looked a little silly because it was right next to the exposed wood and you're like, why wouldn't he have power bound him on the wood?

01:05:31.017 --> 01:05:50.786
[SPEAKER_00]: It was less than a minute after the Brock Tomb stone, which Brock's defeat and take or twice in hell on the cells, which Cole, I think, paid homage to, it's probably why you pull it out to treat a beat this monster, lots of suplexes, lots of F5s, and yeah, I would have liked a little more of a decisive finish, maybe a little more punishment added on.

01:05:51.307 --> 01:05:53.268
[SPEAKER_00]: Next for a minute, I think, because it only went 11 and a half.

01:05:55.115 --> 01:05:59.117
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I didn't think much of this match because of the fact that it didn't feel like a hell in a cell match.

01:05:59.137 --> 01:06:01.378
[SPEAKER_01]: There was really no reason to have the cage out there.

01:06:02.479 --> 01:06:03.299
[SPEAKER_01]: The right guy won.

01:06:03.359 --> 01:06:06.221
[SPEAKER_01]: I never had any question that the right guy would win.

01:06:06.421 --> 01:06:09.643
[SPEAKER_01]: Brock always puts over people like he put over Drew McIntyre.

01:06:10.343 --> 01:06:13.024
[SPEAKER_01]: Really strongly, it just happened to be during the pandemic.

01:06:13.064 --> 01:06:14.805
[SPEAKER_01]: So it didn't really work.

01:06:15.126 --> 01:06:17.487
[SPEAKER_01]: Brock's not a guy who's going to big time anybody.

01:06:17.607 --> 01:06:22.670
[SPEAKER_01]: For all the criticisms of Brock and there are certainly criticisms as we've talked about on the show.

01:06:23.610 --> 01:06:29.916
[SPEAKER_01]: He does business and he's not a guy who sees himself above anyone really as far as like putting guys over.

01:06:29.956 --> 01:06:31.137
[SPEAKER_01]: So he put him over strong.

01:06:31.157 --> 01:06:39.645
[SPEAKER_01]: He gets back in the ring gets on the mic and he's like, essentially, I'm paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of, I'm yesterday's star.

01:06:39.685 --> 01:06:40.306
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the guy.

01:06:40.886 --> 01:06:41.527
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, was the guy.

01:06:41.547 --> 01:06:44.590
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then he walked off and that over, you know, kind of celebrate.

01:06:44.610 --> 01:06:47.693
[SPEAKER_01]: So it didn't come across like he was trying to steal the moment.

01:06:48.013 --> 01:06:50.075
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this wasn't Hogan at WrestleMania six.

01:06:50.615 --> 01:06:55.520
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like he legitimately wanted to know this is the guy I'm putting him over strong.

01:06:56.441 --> 01:06:57.282
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, or your star.

01:06:57.382 --> 01:06:58.343
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he kind of walked off.

01:06:58.763 --> 01:07:01.165
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, call them Obofemi said, I'm the past.

01:07:01.245 --> 01:07:02.206
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the future.

01:07:02.866 --> 01:07:04.027
[SPEAKER_00]: Obofemi is the future.

01:07:04.648 --> 01:07:05.208
[SPEAKER_01]: That was it.

01:07:05.809 --> 01:07:06.009
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:07:06.750 --> 01:07:10.513
[SPEAKER_01]: So Brittany asked, do you guys feel Brock is really retired?

01:07:10.553 --> 01:07:13.775
[SPEAKER_01]: Triple H wouldn't confirm them Potio when someone asked.

01:07:13.975 --> 01:07:14.256
[SPEAKER_01]: No.

01:07:15.312 --> 01:07:19.235
[SPEAKER_01]: If he really wanted to retire, I think they would have made more of a show about it with this being in Minneapolis.

01:07:19.636 --> 01:07:21.657
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he'll be working at Saudi Mania for sure.

01:07:22.418 --> 01:07:23.178
[SPEAKER_01]: No question about that.

01:07:23.198 --> 01:07:25.240
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that might be it for him.

01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:29.243
[SPEAKER_00]: I think just that Saudi payday is going to be too good for him to pass up.

01:07:30.825 --> 01:07:35.148
[SPEAKER_00]: Funny, there's a picture of him out in the wild at a bar last night in Minneapolis.

01:07:35.168 --> 01:07:35.929
[SPEAKER_00]: It's somebody took.

01:07:36.942 --> 01:07:37.663
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw that.

01:07:37.763 --> 01:07:41.725
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, I think it was a hotel bar because it didn't the people say something.

01:07:41.805 --> 01:07:50.811
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the tweet said something like, if you're going to a wrestling show, stay wherever there's a fancy bar or something like that, that person's not wrong.

01:07:52.172 --> 01:07:52.833
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you would know.

01:07:53.253 --> 01:07:53.533
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:07:53.833 --> 01:07:55.654
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I've got stories I've heard.

01:07:56.055 --> 01:07:59.757
[SPEAKER_00]: I've met my handful of performers and bars in Minneapolis.

01:08:00.498 --> 01:08:00.778
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:08:02.042 --> 01:08:04.423
[SPEAKER_01]: So now I definitely don't think he is done.

01:08:05.044 --> 01:08:12.268
[SPEAKER_01]: Obafemi, remember, traded a guaranteed title match for this, which seems still seems pretty nonsensical.

01:08:12.908 --> 01:08:18.851
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a bad faith actor on Twitter say that Oba was going to cash in his king of the ring tonight on Roman Reigns after the match was over.

01:08:18.871 --> 01:08:21.473
[SPEAKER_00]: He traded that in.

01:08:22.253 --> 01:08:23.414
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yep.

01:08:24.682 --> 01:08:29.028
[SPEAKER_01]: Peter says, do they just reheat this Roman Seth feud every two years at this point?

01:08:29.108 --> 01:08:33.474
[SPEAKER_01]: Has Seth relevance changed any part of his accent since 2014 outside of dressing like an asshole?

01:08:36.162 --> 01:08:37.223
[SPEAKER_00]: Not much Peter.

01:08:37.643 --> 01:08:37.923
[SPEAKER_00]: No.

01:08:38.784 --> 01:08:40.045
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about those even years.

01:08:40.105 --> 01:08:48.310
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the architect in 2016, and I don't know what he was in 2018, and then he just shared into a weird clown for 2022.

01:08:48.790 --> 01:08:57.336
[SPEAKER_00]: Started to serious to put a little bit of serious tone a couple years ago, ended up looking like the biggest fifth wheel in the history of the wrestling industry at WrestleMania 40.

01:08:57.896 --> 01:08:58.797
[SPEAKER_00]: And here he is today.

01:09:00.358 --> 01:09:03.300
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the only thing he's changed really is like the fashion stuff.

01:09:04.703 --> 01:09:10.505
[SPEAKER_01]: He added that cackling laugh, no, even my kids even when he came out on this show.

01:09:10.525 --> 01:09:12.445
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, Dad, why is he dressed like that?

01:09:13.125 --> 01:09:14.846
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they don't watch WWE that much.

01:09:14.866 --> 01:09:15.966
[SPEAKER_01]: They just don't really like it.

01:09:16.006 --> 01:09:17.527
[SPEAKER_01]: They are way bigger fans.

01:09:17.547 --> 01:09:18.767
[SPEAKER_01]: They eat up you quite frankly.

01:09:19.867 --> 01:09:22.128
[SPEAKER_01]: But they've seen Seth dress goofy, but they must have forgot.

01:09:22.208 --> 01:09:23.948
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, you know, that's this thing.

01:09:24.288 --> 01:09:25.789
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, it doesn't really match well.

01:09:28.309 --> 01:09:29.510
[SPEAKER_00]: Damn, when I was finest.

01:09:29.790 --> 01:09:30.830
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's indeed.

01:09:31.010 --> 01:09:32.471
[SPEAKER_01]: But then I had to point out, don't you remember?

01:09:34.409 --> 01:09:36.911
[SPEAKER_01]: We did go to his coffee shop down there and it was very good coffee.

01:09:36.971 --> 01:09:39.052
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to say he's a big coffee thing.

01:09:39.592 --> 01:09:39.872
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:09:41.413 --> 01:09:45.076
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyways, that is summer slam summer slam 2,026.

01:09:45.756 --> 01:09:52.160
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, oh man, we have recapped a lot of summer slams on this show every single one since 2017.

01:09:52.200 --> 01:09:54.762
[SPEAKER_01]: So check the archives if you want to go back in time.

01:09:55.802 --> 01:09:56.443
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll.

01:09:57.023 --> 01:09:58.704
[SPEAKER_01]: Check the tribute video.

01:09:59.024 --> 01:10:01.386
[SPEAKER_01]: I put up on the YouTube channel and the podcast feed.

01:10:01.406 --> 01:10:06.129
[SPEAKER_01]: If you guys haven't heard or seen it, if you heard it, I would recommend going to the YouTube channel.

01:10:06.649 --> 01:10:12.853
[SPEAKER_01]: So they put together a little special intro and then notably an outro with a slideshow with all of us featured in it.

01:10:13.593 --> 01:10:17.436
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the video for, you know, the 10th anniversary of the podcast.

01:10:17.896 --> 01:10:27.300
[SPEAKER_01]: just top rope nation celebrating 10 years that logo, which is inspired by the WrestleMania 10 logo was done by our good friend who was here in the chat, Tim Jensen.

01:10:27.320 --> 01:10:32.803
[SPEAKER_01]: So thank you, Tim, for designing that 10th anniversary logo, which is also available.

01:10:32.823 --> 01:10:40.667
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to show this on a t-shirt right now on our store and everything on the store is marked down 15% off for SummerSlam.

01:10:40.687 --> 01:10:43.128
[SPEAKER_01]: If you've been waiting on getting some top rope nation gear,

01:10:45.818 --> 01:10:47.518
[SPEAKER_01]: Click Merchant Dicell, take you to the store.

01:10:47.938 --> 01:10:49.159
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything's 15% off.

01:10:49.299 --> 01:10:55.360
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't show you the sale price, but once you go to check out, everything will be automatically marked down.

01:10:55.460 --> 01:10:57.200
[SPEAKER_01]: I also just put up a ton of new hoodies.

01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:03.542
[SPEAKER_01]: They're all on classic 90s style, indeed, champion branded hoodies.

01:11:03.742 --> 01:11:09.503
[SPEAKER_01]: We had some hoodies on there before, and I wasn't like a huge fan of the brand I ordered one, and I was like, yeah, we can do better.

01:11:09.563 --> 01:11:09.803
[SPEAKER_01]: So,

01:11:10.623 --> 01:11:26.634
[SPEAKER_01]: Champion's always a classic brand, so I put everybody's look like there's a TRN unplug logo, there's the the podcast logo, there's the I love this sport design, they're all up on there with the discount, I think they're about 40 bucks, which isn't too bad for a champion custom made up.

01:11:26.754 --> 01:11:28.295
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can check those out as well.

01:11:28.695 --> 01:11:33.599
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, the 10th anniversary shirt and long sleeve are up as well.

01:11:33.739 --> 01:11:34.859
[SPEAKER_01]: Or get yourself a barglass.

01:11:35.120 --> 01:11:36.260
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are marked down as well, 15% off.

01:11:37.627 --> 01:11:38.447
[SPEAKER_01]: those are high quality.

01:11:38.967 --> 01:11:47.069
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'll keep that sale up until the end of the day Monday so that everyone who listens is tomorrow can cash in if they'd like on the sale.

01:11:47.129 --> 01:11:51.350
[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's about all I have Jesse, I don't know if you have anything on unplugged coming up.

01:11:51.370 --> 01:11:54.690
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to plug or if there's anything else you want to plug it and talk to about that off air.

01:11:54.710 --> 01:11:56.311
[SPEAKER_01]: You can or you can hold off on that.

01:11:56.331 --> 01:11:57.131
[SPEAKER_01]: That's totally up to you.

01:11:57.771 --> 01:11:59.251
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I feel like I should wait one more week.

01:11:59.711 --> 01:12:01.772
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, but anything on unplugged you

01:12:03.515 --> 01:12:16.803
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I'm going to bring something down the pipe Thursday, but next week is when I'll revisit the just kind of the classic match dive where I'm probably going to go back and do Kenny Omega to Tsuyenaito from G1 Climax 2017.

01:12:16.823 --> 01:12:20.886
[SPEAKER_00]: Steven Conway and Jeremy Feinstone.

01:12:20.946 --> 01:12:22.327
[SPEAKER_00]: I have one more question for you.

01:12:22.807 --> 01:12:24.608
[SPEAKER_00]: They can keep us in a cliff notes version.

01:12:25.349 --> 01:12:26.789
[SPEAKER_00]: AEW redemption.

01:12:27.030 --> 01:12:29.011
[SPEAKER_00]: It took you a long time to watch it.

01:12:29.991 --> 01:12:30.732
[SPEAKER_00]: What did you think?

01:12:31.952 --> 01:12:36.054
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I would agree with what you guys said in your grades.

01:12:36.074 --> 01:12:38.235
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I listened to the review that you ingest and did.

01:12:39.196 --> 01:12:44.338
[SPEAKER_01]: It was definitely a step down from most AEW paper views.

01:12:44.678 --> 01:12:45.279
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was.

01:12:46.727 --> 01:13:08.411
[SPEAKER_01]: To have to bottom, it was better than either night of Summerslam, but like we have these super high expectations for AW paper views and they're really hard to live up to and like you've set on unplugged on your Patreon show, you know, this show was really kind of shoehorned in there and they call it redemption because Kenny was supposed to win the title at it and then like

01:13:09.885 --> 01:13:14.788
[SPEAKER_01]: they don't end up doing that, you know, because, you know, they needed the title change earlier.

01:13:15.408 --> 01:13:17.410
[SPEAKER_01]: So the name didn't really even make sense.

01:13:18.270 --> 01:13:19.271
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a solid show.

01:13:19.351 --> 01:13:26.535
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, I don't have any problem watching the shows live or even most of it live and finishing it on a Monday morning.

01:13:28.142 --> 01:13:50.035
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you don't watch any of it live and you go back to watch it like during the day as I was doing and you have children takes forever to get through that show I mean a four hour and 50 minute show or whatever it was it took me like four days to watch it show and I'm like I got to get these matradings out for our patrons which I finally did.

01:13:51.396 --> 01:13:53.538
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know I yeah I mean I like to show but it was.

01:13:53.558 --> 01:13:53.638
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.

01:13:57.021 --> 01:14:01.244
[SPEAKER_01]: I probably would have gone like the minus to see plus on it.

01:14:01.844 --> 01:14:03.705
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's pretty close to where you guys were.

01:14:04.125 --> 01:14:07.327
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, you're higher on it to Justin and about the same as me.

01:14:07.908 --> 01:14:22.476
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like it was, again, it was, there was a lot to like on it, but there was also a lot of matches that I thought in the, especially in the middle of the show, especially when I went back to rewatch it, where I was just kind of getting bogged down, you know, they opened that ladder match.

01:14:22.837 --> 01:14:22.997
[SPEAKER_01]: And,

01:14:23.970 --> 01:14:27.512
[SPEAKER_01]: only get that three in a quarter because it's just like I don't need to see any more ladder matches.

01:14:27.572 --> 01:14:29.113
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so burned out on ladder matches.

01:14:29.173 --> 01:14:37.978
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like pretty much everything in a night scene before, you know, it was, it was fine, um, fun to give it to Kyle Ross Doug.

01:14:38.578 --> 01:14:39.739
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, right.

01:14:41.220 --> 01:14:42.541
[SPEAKER_01]: Bucks and mocks and Osprey.

01:14:42.561 --> 01:14:46.703
[SPEAKER_01]: Like if I was a solid match, but not like a world beater of a match, no.

01:14:46.963 --> 01:14:48.604
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like the bandie don't flutter.

01:14:48.764 --> 01:14:51.306
[SPEAKER_01]: If I was an excellent match, I want four stars on that one.

01:14:52.348 --> 01:14:54.332
[SPEAKER_01]: And then after that, you know, it was

01:14:55.405 --> 01:14:56.585
[SPEAKER_01]: dogs and bang bang gang.

01:14:56.605 --> 01:14:57.665
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that match sucked.

01:14:57.806 --> 01:14:58.506
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't great.

01:14:59.646 --> 01:15:00.706
[SPEAKER_01]: She'd a my world.

01:15:00.766 --> 01:15:02.246
[SPEAKER_01]: I tucked in her discord about that.

01:15:02.326 --> 01:15:05.467
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I just, I don't know why she'd even got the belt.

01:15:05.507 --> 01:15:07.568
[SPEAKER_01]: She's noticeably slower than she used to be.

01:15:08.208 --> 01:15:15.269
[SPEAKER_01]: She feels like I'm not saying they couldn't heat her up and get her back to where she was, but she's so like five years ago in this promotion.

01:15:15.469 --> 01:15:17.930
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's just she seems out of place.

01:15:25.460 --> 01:15:33.063
[SPEAKER_01]: feel like they bought the hype a little bit too much on that and we'll see how she can do as champion, but I'm not sure she's ready.

01:15:33.163 --> 01:15:34.003
[SPEAKER_01]: I like her a lot.

01:15:34.043 --> 01:15:35.423
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think she needs more reps.

01:15:36.284 --> 01:15:38.864
[SPEAKER_01]: So that matchup was not a fan of as pretty sloppy.

01:15:38.884 --> 01:15:43.526
[SPEAKER_01]: Hage and Copen the Death Riders was just like an average AEW match I thought.

01:15:44.858 --> 01:15:46.700
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like Jericho and Champa.

01:15:46.941 --> 01:15:49.524
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to say that was a really good match.

01:15:49.544 --> 01:15:50.525
[SPEAKER_01]: It goes a fun match.

01:15:51.246 --> 01:15:56.932
[SPEAKER_01]: And everybody knows I've been critical of Chris Jericho for years, but that was really entertaining stuff.

01:15:57.153 --> 01:15:58.574
[SPEAKER_01]: I really like that match.

01:15:58.674 --> 01:16:00.617
[SPEAKER_01]: It was close to my match in the night.

01:16:00.637 --> 01:16:02.599
[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably my second or third.

01:16:02.619 --> 01:16:03.200
[SPEAKER_01]: They were matching.

01:16:03.220 --> 01:16:04.581
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a third, yeah.

01:16:04.602 --> 01:16:04.882
[SPEAKER_01]: With you.

01:16:06.264 --> 01:16:10.128
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, on dry day, you know, and Davis was fine.

01:16:10.248 --> 01:16:12.210
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a decent good match.

01:16:12.290 --> 01:16:13.611
[SPEAKER_02]: Not underwhelming for them.

01:16:14.031 --> 01:16:14.312
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:16:14.332 --> 01:16:15.633
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I thought they could do more.

01:16:15.673 --> 01:16:16.634
[SPEAKER_01]: I gave it three and a quarter.

01:16:17.895 --> 01:16:28.825
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and then, you know, willow and tecla, I've wasted this in the discord to I would not have taken the title off a tecla that said I did finally watch dynamite and the willow Mercedes.

01:16:29.983 --> 01:16:31.824
[SPEAKER_01]: promo had tons of hype.

01:16:32.304 --> 01:16:34.686
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that Detroit crowd was something else though.

01:16:34.706 --> 01:16:36.547
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's partially the reason.

01:16:36.567 --> 01:16:37.968
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were so into that segment.

01:16:38.588 --> 01:16:43.932
[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought Techload Mercedes was a more interesting match for all in personally.

01:16:45.038 --> 01:16:46.460
[SPEAKER_01]: So I would have kept the belt on Tecla.

01:16:46.480 --> 01:16:47.481
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she comes out.

01:16:47.521 --> 01:16:49.764
[SPEAKER_01]: She got a great response at redemption.

01:16:49.904 --> 01:16:51.986
[SPEAKER_01]: And that crowd was not good in Montreal.

01:16:52.207 --> 01:16:56.612
[SPEAKER_01]: They were quiet for a lot of that show, but when Tecla came out, they went crazy for her.

01:16:57.373 --> 01:17:01.778
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think, like, there's so much more to burn there than I would not have taken the title off her.

01:17:02.491 --> 01:17:06.214
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think they wanted Willow to win it at all in from her.

01:17:07.415 --> 01:17:15.221
[SPEAKER_00]: And now they found the moment to wear, because Julia Hart right now is competing in the start of G1 Rampree, they're now the six women tag with Sky Blue.

01:17:15.702 --> 01:17:16.122
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:17:16.262 --> 01:17:17.763
[SPEAKER_00]: So tech was going to do some work over there.

01:17:17.843 --> 01:17:19.124
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think the timing's bad.

01:17:19.304 --> 01:17:22.227
[SPEAKER_00]: She should have at least finished out the summer here and moved on.

01:17:22.727 --> 01:17:33.532
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like I've said in the show, you know, the show is in the UK and I know your Europe is a big continent and area, but European would have been cool to have a walk into that show as as champion.

01:17:33.552 --> 01:17:36.134
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I see Brittany in the chat saying she likes Willow's champ.

01:17:36.474 --> 01:17:39.035
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you my oldest daughter Willow is her favorite wrestler.

01:17:39.335 --> 01:17:42.216
[SPEAKER_01]: She's so I mean, she has a lot of I like her too.

01:17:42.477 --> 01:17:44.558
[SPEAKER_01]: I just would have I would have kept it on tech love.

01:17:45.458 --> 01:17:51.881
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I thought when I watched the segment on dynamite, I was like, oh, maybe I'm wrong, because that was pretty awesome segment.

01:17:52.441 --> 01:17:57.384
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, Kevin Knight and Kenny was a really good match, too.

01:17:57.984 --> 01:17:59.145
[SPEAKER_01]: I gave it four stars.

01:17:59.265 --> 01:18:00.805
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it could have been a little better.

01:18:00.825 --> 01:18:04.467
[SPEAKER_01]: I had really, really high expectations for it.

01:18:04.767 --> 01:18:08.029
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it mostly delivered and was a solid match.

01:18:08.469 --> 01:18:09.950
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it would be better than it was, though.

01:18:11.869 --> 01:18:12.869
[SPEAKER_01]: It was it was still really good.

01:18:13.449 --> 01:18:13.609
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:18:13.790 --> 01:18:14.010
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.

01:18:14.030 --> 01:18:15.390
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I'm with you on that one.

01:18:15.550 --> 01:18:27.213
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Kevin night shows that he belongs and he can hopefully he can continue this cocky persona as a heal or wherever what they want to do with him and I still think it's a little bit of an odd pairing with Don Callis.

01:18:28.713 --> 01:18:30.213
[SPEAKER_00]: But we'll see what unfolds.

01:18:30.294 --> 01:18:33.454
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they get the Darby rematch at all in.

01:18:35.135 --> 01:18:37.675
[SPEAKER_00]: Take a TNT title off of them and then move him somewhere else.

01:18:38.115 --> 01:18:38.956
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they'll do.

01:18:39.496 --> 01:18:40.396
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but

01:18:41.763 --> 01:18:48.625
[SPEAKER_01]: That said, Omega and Osprey on Dynamite, that was a hell of a segment.

01:18:49.125 --> 01:18:52.226
[SPEAKER_01]: That was, oh my god, I got goosebumps watching it.

01:18:53.126 --> 01:18:58.188
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree that Osprey with the Death Rider stuff, he had definitely started to lose some steam.

01:18:59.168 --> 01:19:02.810
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was about to come on this podcast and be like, man, they've ruined Osprey.

01:19:03.030 --> 01:19:11.755
[SPEAKER_01]: He lost all his momentum in that storyline, but that segment, he was so believable and him and Kenny just had something manned.

01:19:11.775 --> 01:19:14.937
[SPEAKER_01]: That was excellent, just terrific TV.

01:19:16.037 --> 01:19:22.681
[SPEAKER_01]: I watched that with my kids, and then I told him something else related to Osprey right after that, and they were really hyped.

01:19:24.162 --> 01:19:42.461
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm talking about so I think so, but yeah, that was that was awesome I am definitely looking forward to that match big time Which I could go to London and we'll have plenty of you to talk about in the weeks Yeah, I'll I'll drop it an ounce of it next week on the show sounds good sounds good

01:19:43.910 --> 01:19:44.350
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:19:44.811 --> 01:19:45.371
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there we go.

01:19:45.391 --> 01:19:48.134
[SPEAKER_01]: A little AW chat cover both nights of summer slam.

01:19:48.394 --> 01:19:49.575
[SPEAKER_01]: Did it now in 20 minutes.

01:19:50.215 --> 01:19:52.417
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01:19:52.577 --> 01:19:58.442
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01:19:59.263 --> 01:20:05.829
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01:20:05.989 --> 01:20:08.731
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01:20:09.051 --> 01:20:09.812
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that would be great.

01:20:10.323 --> 01:20:14.605
[SPEAKER_00]: That'd be the greatest thing in 2026 from this side of the side of things.

01:20:15.165 --> 01:20:15.806
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

01:20:16.106 --> 01:20:16.806
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01:20:18.047 --> 01:20:18.747
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, guys.

01:20:19.027 --> 01:20:22.248
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I got, Jesse, any parting words.

01:20:23.629 --> 01:20:24.089
[SPEAKER_00]: I have none.

01:20:24.409 --> 01:20:25.690
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just, actually, I do.

01:20:25.810 --> 01:20:30.952
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just slightly disappointed in world-ressing entertainment because I don't have FOMO yet.

01:20:31.132 --> 01:20:33.333
[SPEAKER_00]: I would have loved for the product to be more enticing.

01:20:33.654 --> 01:20:37.135
[SPEAKER_00]: In many, many ways, so I could have gone tonight or last night.

01:20:37.876 --> 01:20:38.096
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:20:39.942 --> 01:20:53.505
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I got to say shout out to your girlfriend who let you ever break, they do this and I got a, I got to take in a meal with you and her sometime up there in St. Paul at a certain restaurant that would be a lot of fun.

01:20:54.075 --> 01:21:04.543
[SPEAKER_00]: I told her that YouTube would hit it off for your teaching prowesses as well as your views on politics as an education.

01:21:05.204 --> 01:21:13.210
[SPEAKER_00]: I witnessed her get into a 10-minute conversation with a, what is it a Senator candidate on the Republican side of things last week?

01:21:13.250 --> 01:21:13.630
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh wow.

01:21:14.391 --> 01:21:22.657
[SPEAKER_00]: And she held back, but I knew I was just like, she's super smart, not one I would combat on that side of things.

01:21:23.949 --> 01:21:25.390
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, happy birthday to her.

01:21:26.470 --> 01:21:27.470
[SPEAKER_01]: That's very cool.

01:21:27.851 --> 01:21:28.111
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:21:29.311 --> 01:21:29.911
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, guys.

01:21:29.991 --> 01:21:30.372
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, hey.

01:21:30.632 --> 01:21:32.252
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01:21:32.753 --> 01:21:35.134
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