2023 SRTU Awards Show | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #724 – 12/28/23

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It's still leave living all right,
Let's complain to see the Faith tells people

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lost the song back thanks to see
he leaves Basbell. Young girl said that

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said, I don't tell, Gety
tell Jill, Jimmy Jes. Welcome everybody,

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Welcome to this week's Just a misten
a Realta Show, episode number seven

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twenty four for December twenty eight,
twenty twenty three. Welcome. Due to

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the twenty twenty three s R T
You Award show, I am one after

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the show, I am jeff at
Packett joined every single week my coast.

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I won't only got you Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey looking fancy in that tuck

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seed. Oh my friend, Look, you don't get called doctor unless you

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know how to dress up. Ironically, enough is my work is having their

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awards ceremony via zoom. I have
to wear the same outfit two days in

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a row, so I'm kind of
perplexed on how to maintain its cleanliness heading

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into that one as well. But
hey, at least it's fresh from the

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dry cleaners a day for you.
Final show, twenty twenty three. I

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know we say this about a lot
of shows that there's like this big you

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know, it's always like a couple
shows that are always the biggest show of

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the year. I always think that
when you look at the biggest show of

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the year, I think it's this
one because it's the award show. We

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wrap up the year, we hand
out our awards. I think the SRT

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Award Show specials the biggest show of
the year. My friend, yeah,

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I agree, I think it's our
biggest show. I think the WrestleMania preview

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show comes in there as well.
But look, this is my favorite one

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because this is really wicks. We
do news and our opinions, but this

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one really comes down to just how
we view wrestling and then also our version

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of what kind of wrestling we like, which is why people tune in every

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single week for seven hundred and twenty
three episodes. So here we go,

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folks. Let's go through the award
show category. Then we'll start handing out

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the awards for twenty twenty three.
We begin with new Story of the Year,

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Breakout Star of the Year, Moment
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Year, Few of the Year,
Match of the Year, Tag Team of

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the Year, Female Wrestler of the
Year, Male Wrestler of the Year,

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Wrestling Promotion of the Year, and
we wrap it up with the biggest award

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that we will hand out, the
SRTU Wrestler of the Year. Eleven award

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show categories will be covering here on
this week'sition in the podcast. To wrap

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up twenty twenty three and Doctor Trey, There is no better way to kick

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it off than with our first category, which is News Story of the Year.

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What was the biggest story covered in
the world of professional wrestling in twenty

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twenty three? Recent winners including in
twenty twenty Doctor Trey and I both having

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the COVID nineteen pandemics impact on professional
wrestling, in twenty twenty one w surprising

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talent releases, and last year both
Doctor Trey and I again for three years

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straight, had Vince Wickman retiring and
Triple H taking over WWE Creative and Content.

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Doctor Trey, would you like to
kick things off, my friend,

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with the News Story of the Year. You know, it's funny years past,

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it was pretty easy to pick this
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one of the first years where we
were like, yeah, any one of

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these top six could have won in
any other year. I kind of feel

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like twenty twenty three is the same
way that there was a bunch of things

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that happened outside of the world of
professional wrestling that was news impactful. But

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my winner for this one is something
that I never thought would ever ever happen,

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and that was ww being sold to
Endeavor. I never thought I would

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live in a world or a McMahon
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and you in a lot of ways, you know there's still McMahon fingerprints on

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it. You have Triple H running
the creative, Tony Kahan or not to

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be that's pretty conn Nick Cohn is
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Vince is still part of the Endeavor
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But to live in a world where
WWE is not owed by basb Man I

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never thought would happened. So that's
why WW in sultim Endevor is my News

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Story of the Year for twenty twenty
three. I think that is a fantastic

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selection, Doctor Trey, and I
would completely agree with you that that is,

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in my opinion, one of the
top news stories of the year.

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I think that there's a one A
and a one B, and I had

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a very tough time picking this award. It came down to literally your selection

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for the New Story of the Year, but I ended up going with this

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selection. So for the first time
in a long time, literally since twenty

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eighteen, Doctor Trey and I will
be different in the New Story of the

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Year, Doctor Trey, I went
with cmpunk getting fired by AW in September

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and returning to WE in November,
because, similar to you, something I

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never thought I would see in professional
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Wrestling the way he was with Cause
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years later. It's it's hard to
pick in this year of who should receive

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the New Story of the Year.
So I kind of like, actually,

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I really like that you and I
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the end of the day, for
me, this was a really tough call

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and it literally came down to your
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go with cm punkintting fired by AW
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Doctor Trey, you went with w
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Group Holdings along with the UFC.
I think those are very solid winners for

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a New Story of the year,
yeah, I mean, and the CM

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Punk Store was my one be and
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was more impactful I guess worldwide and
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But then again, CM Punk like
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our very first shows was covering the
Heart of Wrestling podcast with Colt Cabana and

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listening in on Punk just ripping ww
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is very impactful. And that's and
not to mention like you know, some

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of the others, like you know, the passing of Brey Wyatt, like

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that, any other year that'd be
number one, you know. It's like

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Dear Lord, like when you got
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you got WB soul Bray White's passing, Adam Copeland jumping to aw You know,

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that's forced things right there that any
other year could have been number one.

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So a very very eventful year in
wrestling, all right, And now

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it's time for the next category.
I'm really looking forward to this one to

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see how we go because there's a
lot of potential opportunity for anybody nominees when

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it comes to this award. It
is the breakout star of the Year who

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took twenty twenty three by the throat
and made it very year to step through

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the next level echelon in their professional
wrestling career. There's a ton of nominees

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they can go for this one,
and I am really interested here how Doctor

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Trey and I potentially differ or agree
when it comes to this award because similu

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to a new Story of the Year, I had a very tough time picking

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the breakout Star of the Year.
I went back and forth with several wrestlers.

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I have about three wrestlers, which
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our picks out there. But Doctor
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when I go back to January first
of this year, and when you

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have to go back further than that, months prior September twenty twenty two at

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Clash at the Castle, even go
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August twenty twenty at SummerSlam against Seth
Freakin Rollins. I never thought I would

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find this person, this character their
wrestler, entertaining and a good in ring

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worker, because it seemed he seemed
very vanilla, seemed too much of a

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good guy. But boy, oh, boy, did he break out this

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year and may have the biggest heat
in all of professional wrestling. Dare I

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say he does have the biggest heat
in a professional wrestling Doctor Trey my breakout

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star of the year. It was
very close, but I'm gonna go with

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Dominic Mysterio from Monday Night Raw.
And I was interested as well. I

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was want to see if we were
going to differ on stuff because a lot

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of times you and I will not
talk off air about our picks, but

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you can kind of feel how we're
trending in certain directions. And when it

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came to breakout start of the year, I thought you might go a different

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route, or I thought I might
surprise you at my pick. But my

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pick is your pick. This is
something that I literally blasted on this show

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for years, and from a twenty
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out. So I, like you, I had a couple of picks.

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I had a couple of things that
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to just from where he was to
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really really broke out, And like
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man in professional wrestling. He he
gets more heat than anybody else in the

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building. His character is despicable,
like it's all those things you look for

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at a heel. Dominic's really capitalized
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So Dominic Mysterious my twenty twenty three
Breakout Start of the Year as well.

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Wow, there we go, both
of us picking Dominic Mysterio pass winners of

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this award In twenty twenty two.
Doctor Trey and I both had Sammy Zan.

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In twenty twenty one, I had
Darby Allen, Doctor Trey and Matt

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Riddle. In twenty twenty I had
Keith Lee. Doctor Trey had MJF.

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So there's some recent winners for this
award. So back to back years,

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doctor Trey and I picking the same
winner for Breakout Start of the Year.

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I was really pumped about this award, so I narrowed it down to three

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Doctor Trey, I would say my
number three was Orange Cassidy and aaw My

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number two was Swerth Strickland and aw
The number one went to Dominic Masterio.

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At different points this year, I
felt like Orange Cassie was the Breakout Start

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of the year than the other two
or behind. Then I felt like Swerve

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Strickland was the breakout start of the
year. The other two were behind Dominic

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Mysterio. It was like a NASCAR
race on the final laugh, and I

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felt like those three, to me
were my like narrowed down nominees. I

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don't know if you agree with that, but I just felt like this was

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a Dominic Masterio, Swerve Strickland,
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Honestly, so you had Orange higher
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Mine came down to My number four
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broke out the last half of the
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Good Call, Very good Call.
And then I had Swerve at number two,

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and I had Dominic at number one. So it kind of came down

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to just consistency and breaking out.
I guess that's kind of the way I

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phrase it, Like I felt like
each of those people had like really high

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peaks, but dom was just consistently
getting better and better and better as the

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year went on. All Right,
there you go, breakout start of the

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year. Doctor Trean and I both
go in with Dominic Mysterio, and now

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it's time for moment of the year. What was the biggest moment in professional

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wrestling in twenty twenty three recent winners. In twenty twenty two, I had

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Cody Rhodes returning to We Doctor Trey
had Stone Cold Steve Austin returning at WrestleMania

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thirty eight. In twenty twenty one, we both had Cmpunk's return to professional

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wrestling at aw Rampages First Dance,
And in twenty twenty we both had Edges

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return at the Royal Rumble. So
some major, major, major memorable moments

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of professional wrestling recently captured here by
this award, Doctor Trey, what winner

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joins that illustrious list in your opinion
for moment of the year? See this

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year. I also was a little
more cognizant of what happened earlier in the

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year. I think sometimes we get
blindsided by the knee jerk reaction of what

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happens recently because one of those things
happened recently, and I'm like, I

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could have gone here, but I
had to think about for me when it

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comes to a moment of the year, is what really gets in my emotions,

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what really gets in my fields as
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I gotta go back to WrestleMania Night
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Sammy Zaying and Kevin Owens won the
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the tag team titles made Inventing Your
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and Jeff's life and arguably our two
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To actually win the tag team titles
together at WrestleMania that I got emotional.

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I got a little choked up.
I instantly thought of Jeff when they

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won the belt. So for me, Sammy and Kevin one of the tag

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belts at WrestleMania Night one was my
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Yeah, this is another one that
was really tough. So again it

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just kind of showcases how awesome professional
wrestling was in twenty twenty three. That

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was like, again my one b
in this category. I went something different

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while very emotional Sammy Zaying and Kevin
Owens and they are a staple in the

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history of this podcast, Doctor Trey. Again, I went with the cmpunk

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making his shocking return at to w
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was shocking. It never felt like
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the only thing I could compare our
two winners to was I felt like Sammy

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and Kevin had a really good shot. I never felt like Ceampunk had a

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really good shot at coming back.
I really liked being surprised. I liked

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my jaw hitting the floor. I
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I don't I like not being able
to be spoiled by a big moment professional

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wrestling, and that's what this moment
did for me. So I went with

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Cempunk making his shock and return to
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I mean that's when it comes to
wrestling, it's it's about emotion and

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it could be the shocking moments or
the feel good story moment. So that

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was on my list. That was
actually my number three. Sammy's turning on

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Rollman was my number two. That's
a great moment as well. And then

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also just the site of all in
a Webley stadium and seeing eighty five thousand

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people cram ability to watch a wrestling
show is on my list as well.

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All right, doctor Trede, it's
got to our next award here, which

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is Event of the Year. When
you look back at the wrestling events that

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transcended the year of twenty twenty three, what was the event that was the

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best? Recent winners twenty twenty two
WRESTLEMTA thirty eight by both Doctor Trey and

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I. In twenty twenty one,
both Doctor Trey and I had aw all

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Out. In twenty twenty I had
NXC takeover Portland. Doctor Trey had Royal

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rumblet twenty twenty. So can we
go three peat here with the best show

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of the year, the best wrestling
event, Doctor Trey. I'll kick it

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off here. I went back to
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we have a very very simple process, and my event of the year

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based on ratings alone was WrestleMania thirty
nine. So I gave it a four

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point eight on Saturday, a four
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most entertaining, fun, athletic,
great inning performance, good sports entertainment,

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all encompassing show that I loved.
I think it's one of the highest rated

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shows we've ever covered here on the
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all in all, So that was
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to April twenty twenty three WrestleMania thirty
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have my event ratings in front of
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so I actually just kind of went
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and I was like, Okay,
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they had my moment of Year and
then it had a finalist for my match

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of the Year, So I know, I was really high. I think

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I was like probably around four point
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there. I'm just ballparking. I'm
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pretty close. But I had Wrestle
Wrestle Media Night one was actually my events

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at the year, but we're combining
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like literally like it was almost it
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the matches where clunkers everything kept you
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good action, there was conclusions of
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So just on paper, like it's
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per views you and I have ever
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Seven hundred and twenty three episodes in
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mean, we both had wrestlemana Saturday
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eight. Doctor Trade four point seven
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Doctor Trey was a four point two. That was the highest rated show

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this year if you're looking at standalone. It was resumated thirty nine Saturday.

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It's very weird to like combine or
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of us giving WrestleMania thirty nine the
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and now it's to our next award, which is Feud of the Year.

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This was one that was really hard
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wasn't that many feuds in twenty twenty
three like there had been in years past

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recent winners. In twenty twenty two, i'd see him puncking MJF, doutch

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Trade, Cody Roads, and Seth
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both had Chris Jericho on MJF,
and in twenty twenty we both had Edge

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and Randy Orton Dot Trey. Like
I said here in the intro, this

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was a real tough one, and
this one in the past would be one

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that you could look at and go, this is an easy one to call,

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so interested to hear what your choice
for fear to the year was for

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twenty twenty three, Yeah, it
was. This was was tricky for me

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because really I only came up with
three good feuds. One I felt like

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and it'd being too short. One
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interesting and it ended up interesting,
and then one was like was the culmination

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of one sou For twenty twenty three, my few of the year, I

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went back to Rumble and the elimination
Chamber in WrestleMania, and that was the

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Sammy versus the blood Line, Sammy
Ko versus the blood Line, just because

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that was the ending of that story, so to speak. So and it

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got that that moment of the year
of Sammy and Kevin, Wayne, the

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Bell, Sammy turning on Roman,
all those things factored into that. I

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think you got a little bit of
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on, but like I also had
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because that was really intense for a
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But Sammy versus the blood Line still
was that carry over that really kept me

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entertained in the first part of the
year. So that's my feud of the

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year for twenty twenty three. Yeah, this was a tough one to call.

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I didn't choose Sammy's and and Kevin
Owens versus the blood Line like Doctor

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Trey and I did so the streak
ends because I felt like it was so

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all over the place. It was
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and Owens was in there, then
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All in all, it was a
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was a top two or three in
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really tough time choosing this one because
there was no true feuds like there used

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to be in years past of covering
this podcast. However, it was a

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very short feud. It was a
very brief feud. It was just a

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couple of months, but it was
very impactful and had some of the best

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matches I've seen in twenty twenty three. And I'm going to go to All

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Eat Wrestling and I'm going to go
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I love a good person storyline.
I love a good few that gets makes

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you go like, Wow, I
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They really went there on that few
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thought, that's what this feud capsulated
ultimately, Doctor Trey. So my twenty

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twenty three pick for few of the
Year from all EITE Wrestlings were strictly versus

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Hangman Adam Page. Yeah, it
was a fantastic shortview. That was my

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number two few of the year because
it basically took all the personal stuff,

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all the intensity, and just amped
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And it was that time that kind
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where if it had just been another
month longer, it might have jumped over

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Samy and Kevin. And then that
Cody brockview is pretty good too, and

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that was one that you and I
were like, this is gonna be ridiculous,

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and then by the end we were
like, that's actually not bad.

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So I think those three feuds were
the top rivalries for the year in professional

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wrestling. I totally agree. I
actually had those down as my top nominees

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for this So I think hit it
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the head on that one doct tray
with few of the Year. I could

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not agree more. All Right,
let's get to Match of the year now.

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What match stood out as the best
match in twenty twenty three in the

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world of professional wrestling. Recent winners
include in twenty twenty two, Steve Austin

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versus Kevin Owens at Wrestleming thirty eight
from both of US, Bianca Belair,

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and Sasha Banks from Wrestlemy thirty seven. For me, Hangman Anti Paid versus

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Brian Daniels from AW, Winners Coming
for Doctor Trey, and in twenty twenty

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we both had The under Taker versus
aj Styles in the Boneyard match from Wrestling

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thirty six. What was the match
of the year, Doctor Tray? I

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will start on this one. I
looked back at all of our notes.

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I had a lot of top nominees. I had Gun through Seamus True McIntyre

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from Wrestlemy thirty nine, Will Lost
Bray, Kenny Omega from AW New Japan

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Pro Wrestling, Forbidden Door, Becky
Lynching, trist Stratus from w Payback,

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Swerve Strickland, and Hangman Adam Page
from AW Full Gear. But for me,

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when I look back at Match of
the Year and the best match of

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the night that I saw from any
show that we covered, or on anything

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on Raw, SmackDown, NXTAW,
Dynamite, Rampage or Collision, or outside

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of WWEAW as well. I felt
like to me, the match of the

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year was one Rhea Ripley defeating Charlotte
Flair at Wrestlemanta thirty nine to become the

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then SmackDown Women's Champion. I love
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You felt like Ria Ripley was on
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I went with Rihea Ripley versus Charlotte
Flair from Wrestlemanty thirty nine, Doctor Trey.

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I love this show because once again
we're different. I think we've only

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agreed on one thing so far because
that was my number two and I'm with

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you like I had all those same
matches you mentioned, the only one I

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to go. There also was a
MJF and Brian Danilson Firm Revolution, but

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my number one I got to get
to Phil a Gear. That match was

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when Swore Strickland and Hangman Adam Page. It was just something I had never

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There was stuff in that match I
had never seen before. So when I

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look at Match of the Year it's
either gonna be something this guy keep me

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entertained the entire time, this guy
keep me guessing. I like a surprise

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result as well. And that match
had everything I looked for in a wrestling

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match. I mean, Violin's blood, athleticism, storytelling, everything that I

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wanted to match. Wasn't that match. Rhea and Charlotte was my number two,

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But for me, Swerve and Hangman
was my match of the year just

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because it had everything I looked for
in a wrestling match. Yeah, this

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is a really good category because there
were a lot of contenders, and I'm

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with you. I think my number
two would be like Swarve, Strickland,

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Hangman Page And then number three I
loved going through Seamus and Drew McIntyre from

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Wrestlemany thirty nine. I felt like
those were the matches that really stood out

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this year, Doctor Trey. Those
three, Yeah, those are those were

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up there. And then like it's
like the one you mentioned with the Kenny

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and will Osprey from Forbidden Door was
probably my number four. But yeah,

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like those matches, like every single
time I watched them, like who's gonna

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top this, Who's going to top
this? And then you know, two

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of them were at WrestleMania, and
it took almost all the way to the

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end of the year for somebody atop
one of those two matches. So just

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a phenomenal year for professional wrestling inatering
stuff. SOO, there are match of

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the Year still to come. We
have Tag Team of the Year, Female

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Wrestle of the Year, Male wrest
of the Year, Wrestling Promotion of the

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Year, and our SRTU Wrestler of
the Year. But let's pause for a

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second and let's recap the winners so
far here on the twenty twenty three edition

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of SRTU Award Show and for news
story of the Year, I'd see him

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Punk getting fired by aw in September, returning to w w WEE November,

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Doctor Trey at w being sold to
Endeavor. Breakouts are the year. We

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both had dominic Mysterio moment of the
year. I had seen him Punk's making

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his shot and return to w at
Survivor Series Wargame. Doctor Trey had Sammesean

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and Kevin Owens winning the w WN
Disputed Tag Team Championshi at Wrestlemating thirty nine

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over the USOS Event of the year. We both had w WrestleMania thirty nine

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Few to the Year, I had
Sport Strickland and Hangman at and patriomin A

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w Doctor Trey at samy'se A and
Kevin Owens versus The Bloodline from WWE or

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SmackDown, depending on how you look
at it. Match of the Year.

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I had read Ripley versus Charlotte Flair
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Doctor Trey had Swerve Strickland versus Hangman
Adam Page from aw Full Gear. So

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there's our first half awards, and
we have some of the biggest awards coming

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up here in just a few moments. Let's get to our Tag Team of

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the Year. This award is the
best tag team in all of professional wrestling,

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according to Doctor Trey and myself.
This award has been given out back

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in twenty twenty two to the USOS. In twenty twenty one, I gave

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it to the Young Bucks, Doctor
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In twenty twenty I gave it to
This Tree Profits, Doctor Trey gave it

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to the North. So last year, same pick, two years previous,

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different choices. Let's see where we
stand. On this one, Doctor Trey,

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you want to kick this one off, my friend. Yeah, this

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one was hard, and I think
a lot of it is because there was

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really no dominant tag team. I
mean, the Bucks were banged up for

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most of the year, the Bloodline
split up, New Day was the USO

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split up. The New Day was
injured most of the year. Some of

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the other teams, like we talk
about Lucher Bros. Ray Phoenix was you

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know, did singles and also was
injured. So this was a pretty tricky

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one for me in my head.
I came down to like three real nominees

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and at the end of the day, and this just reminded me of something

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when you listed off the name of
the tag teams. This tag team has

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never been Tag Team of the Year
for either one of us. So I

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went with my Tag Team of the
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I mean, they ended last year
pretty strong. They carried over to January

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still being the IWGP Tag Team Champions. They were a W A or should

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be a W Tag Team Champions.
They were Ring of Honor Tag Team Champions.

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The Dog Collar Match with the Briscoe
brother brothers last year, and then

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all this stuff they've done over the
last year plus, you know, for

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five years and never being named Tag
Team the Year. I just full those

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times. So for my Tag Team
the Year, it was FTR. This

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is one hell of an award show. I gotta be honest with you,

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because if somebody just asked me who
I thought you were going to give Tag

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Team of the Year two, I
would have gone with my choice of Tag

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Team the Year, which is Sammy's
Ay and Kevin Owens, because you gave

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them few to the year and moment
of the year so far in this show,

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I didn't give them anything. And
I'm like one of the biggest Sammy's

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A and Kevin Owens fans, along
with Doctor Trey as well, and I

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just figured, well, this would
be like the icing on the cake.

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But I like this. I like
how different we are in this so far

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this year because it was such a
wide range of different opinions in professional wrestling.

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It was there wasn't as many predictable
moments and things that we've seen in

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past history. That has made this
show, this award show, really really

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and surprising to see so far.
So I've never given this award to them.

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They've never been Tag Team of the
Year as well. From my standpoint,

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I gave it to sammy's Ay and
Kevin Owens. They were both on

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SmackDown and Raw this year. But
FTR had a really strong year. This

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like few of the Year, Doctor
Trey, I really struggled with because it

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was such a good year for tag
team wrestling. However, I never really

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felt like there was one tag team
that separated itself from the rest of the

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pack. Yeah. No, I
when I was going through my nominees,

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I was like, well that they
were good, but they were really on

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top of it, like the acclaimt
The Acclaim were on top for a couple

402
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:44.319
of months, you know, and
then pushed to the bottom. Like I

403
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.400
really we talked about earlier. I
loved the Guns and but they only got

404
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.000
pushed towards the end of the year. And you know, with Sammy and

405
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.839
Kevin, they had a really great
like first six seven months of the year,

406
00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.519
but then they broke up and Kevin
got traded smack So it was kind

407
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.799
of like, well, FTR is
still around, They're still doing stuff.

408
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.720
They had a very very solid year, So it was almost like kind of

409
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.559
like what the dominic Mynsterior think it
was the consistency over the entirety of the

410
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:17.480
year is what gave them the edge
to me over Sammy and Ko, even

411
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.119
though like you said, I had
Sammy and Ko win several awards this year,

412
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.640
but just consistency throughout the entire year, I gave the edge the FDR.

413
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:27.880
Yeah, it's hard to argue your
pick. I mean, FTR is

414
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:33.519
phenomenal. I loved Samians and Zane
and Kevin Owens because I felt like for

415
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.920
the first eight months of the year, from like February to what was it

416
00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:42.359
like August, maybe July, August, September timeframe, they were on top

417
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:45.960
as a tag team. They obviously
headlined Wrestle Many as a tag team.

418
00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:51.000
So I was like, let's give
this one to samys And and Kevin Owens.

419
00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.400
They it felt like to me that
they were the best tag team of

420
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:59.200
this year. And yeah, this
was a really, really tough one to

421
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.440
call, so doct going with FTR. I went with Sammy's and and kemn

422
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:07.359
Owens. And now it's time for
Female Wrestler of the Year. I'm going

423
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.039
into this category thinking that this is
a very easy one to pick, but

424
00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.720
the way this podcast has gone today, this way this award show has gone.

425
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:19.480
One may never tell previous winners this
award. Doctor Trey and I both

426
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:22.720
had Bianca Bellair last year. In
twenty twenty one, I'd Bianca Bellair,

427
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.359
Doctor Treya, doctor Burke Breaker.
In twenty twenty I had Bailey. He

428
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:32.039
had Osca. So I've had Bianca
Belair two years in a row. Can

429
00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:36.079
she make it a three pete?
Let me begin with my choice. And

430
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:41.000
as much as I love the eest
of w WE, my choice for Female

431
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.960
Rest of the Year is one Mommy
aka RIEA. Ripley of the Judgment Day

432
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:51.599
from Monday Night Raw. What do
you say that hasn't cannot be said about

433
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:56.680
this twenty twenty three version of Ria
Ripley. The year that she has has

434
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.839
had is amazing. It's been a
break through year. I felt like in

435
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.359
January of this year, Rhea Ripley
was not a household name. I think

436
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.440
we're getting to the point now here
in December that Rhea Ripley is becoming a

437
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:18.319
household name outside of the world Professional
Wrestling. She is maybe the most over

438
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.160
wrestler in all of w right now, and she's working as a heel.

439
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.640
I mean, the confidence that she
has as a character, as a performer,

440
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:33.039
as a wrestler, just radiates off
the screen. What an awesome year

441
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:34.960
for Ria Ripley, Doctor Trey.
So I don't know what else I could

442
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.960
say glowing about her, but she's
one of my favorite wrestlers I've watched in

443
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.559
twenty twenty three, and I give
it to Ria Ripley for this year.

444
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:48.960
Yeah, this one for me.
It was hard coming up with other alternatives.

445
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.400
Like Ria Ripley is my pick as
well, and she's just on a

446
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:57.720
different level this year, Like she's
a senate into Becky Lynch, the man's

447
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:04.200
status from a couple of years ago, where it doesn't even matter who she's

448
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.119
in the ring with, who she's
who they have up against her, Like

449
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:09.680
what she's doing on the show,
she's must watch right now. So,

450
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.880
like I said, it was really
really hard to find anybody else that could

451
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:20.319
even be, you know, a
one B. It was almost like she

452
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:22.319
was number one. Everybody else was
like three, four and five because like

453
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.119
she was just so far elevated above
everybody else. There wasn't even a number

454
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.720
two this year. So yeah,
for twenty twenty three, Ria Ripley Female

455
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.720
Wrestler of the Year. All Right, let's get into the next category here,

456
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:39.160
which is Male Wrestler of the Year. Which male performer was the best

457
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:45.599
wrestler in their category for twenty twenty
three. Recent winners twenty twenty two,

458
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.920
we both had Roman reigns. Twenty
twenty one, we both had Roman reigns.

459
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:52.599
In twenty twenty we both had Drew
McIntyre. In fact, Doctor Trey

460
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:58.359
and I have picked the same Male
Wrestler of the Year every year since twenty

461
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:00.720
nineteen, when we picked Adam Cole. The last time we had a difference

462
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:06.200
of opinion twenty eighteen, I had
Kenny Omega, Doctor Trey ad Tamaso Champ.

463
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:07.400
But prior to that, the two
other years we've done this award,

464
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:12.039
we both had aj Styles in twenty
seventeen and twenty sixteen, so there's only

465
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.160
been one year Doctor Trey and I
have differed. Can this be a year

466
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:19.880
that adds to another difference of opinion
for Male Wrestler of the Year. I

467
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.039
think this is tough one, Doctor
Trey. I don't think this is as

468
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.519
easy as the Female Wrestler of the
Year. Take it away, my friend,

469
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:28.799
who is your male rest of the
Year for twenty twenty three? Yeah?

470
00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:31.200
This one was really tight for me. It kind of came down to

471
00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:37.200
two people had I had. I
made four nominees, so but it was

472
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:42.160
kind of like one out of the
four, one's not a main eventser,

473
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:46.640
one is off TV a lot,
and the other two guys are pretty much

474
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.160
featured all the time. And when
it came down to and at the end

475
00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:53.880
of the day, I went with
Maxwell Jacob Friedman as my Male Wrestler of

476
00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:58.759
the Year. To me, he's
you know, between a lot of it

477
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:04.039
was they. I mean, the
match with Brian Danielson that you know,

478
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.519
some of the other ones he's had
been just fantastic, and then the whole

479
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:12.239
angle with Adam Cole and him,
which started off as him being a meggie

480
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:15.719
heel and then you know, kind
of organically turned into the people's scumbag,

481
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:22.920
and then even helping elevate an angle
currently that not everybody's a fan of this

482
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:28.679
whole Devil's Angles. He's done his
part of it, so from endwing work

483
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:34.360
to character work, to going from
heel to babyface everything else in between.

484
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.599
It was really hard, but MJF
is my Male Performer of the Year for

485
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:43.320
twenty twenty three. Well, Ladies
and gentlemen. Our four year streak of

486
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:47.760
male Wrestler of the Year being the
same each and every year has ended.

487
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:53.719
The streak is over, as my
twenty twenty three Wrestler of the Year is

488
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:58.639
on Monday Night Raw. He is
the current World Heavyweight Champion. His name

489
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:04.800
is Seth Freak Rollins. I have
been open here the last couple of months

490
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:09.679
that I felt like this was a
two horse race for SRT Wrestler of the

491
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:13.840
Year in my opinion, whether it
be Ria Ripley or Seth Freaking Rollins.

492
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.559
Maybe the surprise in there. There
was a surprise last year that Doctor Dray

493
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:21.320
provided when you named the Bloodline the
SRT Wrestle of the Year. Maybe I

494
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:24.800
have a surprise as well. One
may never tell, but Seth Freaking Ronalds

495
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:28.480
for me, ever since has become
World of aweight champion, has been a

496
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:31.840
workhorse champ. He's been putting on
phenomenal matches, really good feuds, and

497
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:37.280
even before his title reign, had
some really good stuff with people like Logan

498
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:42.519
Paul at WrestleMania. He has been
a ton of fun to watch, great

499
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:47.239
character, great ring performer. This
is shockingly enough between even both Doctor Trey

500
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:52.199
and I the first time Seth Freaking
Rollins has ever won this award, which

501
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.239
is surprising as all hell. But
I'm gonna go with Seth Freaking Rollalds as

502
00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:00.239
my twenty twenty three Male Wrestl of
the Year. Doctor Trey, Yeah,

503
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.679
I can't argue that because that was
that was the other pick for me.

504
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:07.719
It was really hard. It was
literally splitting hairs for me because MJF is

505
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.800
why I watched Dynamite and Seth's why
I watched WRAW and it was lyric I

506
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.440
just splitting hairs. I could have
sworn back when before the AJ styles,

507
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:21.800
before we split the stuff up,
I thought Seth had won two years in

508
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:24.519
a row for us. He did. Yeah, yeah, so he won

509
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:29.119
Wrestler of the Year but not Male
Wrestler of the Year, but correct.

510
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.159
So it shows you, like how
like he's just been the model of consistency

511
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.320
now for almost a decade in ww
wh is crazy to think they's been around

512
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.639
that long. But to me,
this year was kind of splitting hairs just

513
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.639
you know, like, I don't
think either one of us is wrong in

514
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:46.920
their pick because if I could have
called it a tie, I would have

515
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.119
called it a tie. But I
don't want to be a fence trailer,

516
00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:53.519
so I just gave the edge to
MJF and you win with Seth. Yeah.

517
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:57.320
So in twenty sixteen, we added
Tag Team of the Year, Female

518
00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:00.559
wrest of the Year, Male Wrestler
of the Year, split up our SRTU

519
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:05.199
Wrestler of the Year, and while
Seth Freakin Rollins has been our SRTU Rest

520
00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.719
of the Year for both Doctor Trey
and I in twenty fourteen and fifteen,

521
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.880
never has been named Male Rest of
the Year by either one of us since

522
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:15.119
then, so he's had quite the
rollercoaster. I named him my twenty twenty

523
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:20.920
three Male Rest of the Year Doctor
Trey naming MJF. It's hard to argue

524
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:23.519
that one. I mean, he's
been the guy in all elite wrestling,

525
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:29.480
and I just feel like heading in
twenty twenty four he is set for another

526
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:35.079
big year in professional wrestling and can
be a name that I think fits into

527
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.440
these categories like Male Rest of the
Year and SRTU Rest of the Year for

528
00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:42.960
many many years to come. So
Doctor Trey went MGF, I went Seth

529
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:49.199
Freaking Rollins, and now it's time
for wrestling Promotion of the Year. What

530
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:52.159
was the best wrestling promotion of the
Year in ww we break it up on

531
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:58.559
Raw. SmackDown in NXT AW is
its own standalone. You've got TNA Wrestling,

532
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:02.480
You've got various independent wrestling out there, like Major League Wrestling, Game

533
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:07.079
Change of Wrestling. Could they shock
the world or will it be one of

534
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:12.679
the big two in either we or
aew recent winners of this We both had

535
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:16.280
Raw last year, Smacked Down in
twenty twenty one aw in twenty twenty and

536
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:22.199
when we introduced this award in twenty
nineteen, we both picked NXT. So

537
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:25.440
Doctor Trey, you and I have
never differed on the wrestling Promotion of the

538
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.800
year since re introduced in twenty nineteen. We will see if that is a

539
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:37.239
case in twenty twenty three. I
will start here. My wrestling Promotion of

540
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.840
the Year was my favorite wrestling show
that I watched in twenty twenty three,

541
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.320
and for the first time ever,
we have back to back winners, at

542
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.840
least with me. I gave my
award to w RAW. We talked about

543
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.920
it on last week's show. We
used to always complain that Raw was three

544
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:57.000
hours, you gotta narrow it to
two, and now that it's three hours,

545
00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:59.199
it's like, well, I don't
want it to go back to two

546
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:02.239
because they're putting out really good programming
and that is what they've done since tripa

547
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:07.599
A has taken over with Creative Raw
is a really fun show. I like

548
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.199
what they're doing. I gave Raw
my wrestling promotion the year Doctor Trey.

549
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:16.599
So as much as we've disagreed on
this award show, which is rare that

550
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:21.199
we disagread this much, on this
one, we actually agree again. We

551
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:23.320
actually agree. So for me back
to back when and again for Monday Night

552
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:27.599
Raw, and for all the same
sentiments you put out there, not only

553
00:39:27.719 --> 00:39:30.800
has it been, you know,
the best programming, the best, it's

554
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.280
been the most enjoyable television show.
And I think that's what people forget about

555
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.559
is at the end of the day, some of these these wrestling shows are

556
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.239
television shows. And when Monday Night
Raw goes off the air, most of

557
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:45.000
the time, I'm still is either
like a cliffhanger or oh man, I

558
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:49.400
can't believe. I still want more. And those are the signs of great

559
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.559
television, is when you're left wanting
more and for a product that for a

560
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:55.519
long time you and I bemoaned the
fact that it was three hours long.

561
00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:59.840
To watch a wrestling show for three
hours and when it's over, go damn,

562
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.360
which they had about fifteen twenty more
minutes of airtime left. That just

563
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.280
shows you it's been really really good
television. So Monday Night Raw back to

564
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:12.320
back years for me as well as
a wrestling promotion of the year, So

565
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:15.119
that was very easy, both of
us picking the same wrestling promotion. I

566
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.719
guess, just for conversation's sake,
what would you put as the number two?

567
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.440
Uh? My number two. This
is where we're gonna get tricky because

568
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.639
now, like for most of the
time that we've been doing the show,

569
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:30.840
it's been AW has just been Dynamite. But now that we have Collision and

570
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:36.480
Rampage and those two shows are suffering, do we have it to separate Dynamite

571
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.920
from the other two shows or do
those two shows pull it down? For

572
00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:45.119
me, it was really really tricky
because like the other shows, like they

573
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:49.239
all had really highs and lows,
where like I'd really enjoy it for a

574
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.719
while and then it would kind of
go away. I think I might give

575
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:58.519
the edge to AW just because Dynamite
has been so consistent for most of the

576
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:02.320
year. A collision was really good
for a while. That kind of helped

577
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:06.800
pull it up from where it's been
at now. So it's it's I think

578
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:13.400
for me it's probably Dynamite, and
then SmackDown third and NXT fourth and Smackdug

579
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:15.440
is pulled down just because of the
lack of Roman reigns this year as well.

580
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:21.480
Yeah, I think I would have
gone SmackDown number two AAW three NXT

581
00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:28.119
four, but I think it easily
can be interchangeable there between SmackDown and AW

582
00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.559
In twenty twenty three, there were
weeks that it felt like SmackDown was really

583
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:35.440
good and weeks at aw dinn't and
then it felt like AW was feeling like

584
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.079
it was really good, and then
there were sometimes that SmackDown wasn't a solid

585
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:43.239
So I thought that was interesting to
see what we thought would be number two

586
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:46.079
there. So doctor Trego and AW
me Go and SmackDown as always, feel

587
00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:52.039
free to chime in at SRT podcast
on X before we get to the biggest

588
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.880
award of all once again, just
to recap here new story of the year,

589
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.119
I had cmpunk getting fired by AW
in September, returning to w WEE

590
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.199
November, Doctor Trey at WW being
sold to endeavor in forming TK group holdings

591
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:08.480
along with the UFC breakouts are the
year. We both had Dominic Mysterio Moment

592
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:12.800
of the Year. I had C
Himpunk making his shocking return to w W

593
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.199
at Survivor Series War Games, Doctor
Traded, Sammy's A and Kevin Owens win

594
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:21.480
thee Undisputed Tag Team Championship at Wrestlemanta
thirty nine over the USOS Event of the

595
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:23.519
Year. We both had WrestleMania thirty
nine. Few of the Year. I

596
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:27.559
had Swerve Strickland versus hanging Man Out
in Page, Doctor Trey, Aed sammese

597
00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:30.880
A and Kevin Owens versus the Bloodline. Match of the Year. I had

598
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.960
Rear Ripley versus Charlotte Flair from Wrestlemanta
thirty nine, Doctor Trade, Swerve stricklandversus

599
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.159
Hanging Man Out of Page from aw
Folk Gear Tag Team of the Year.

600
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:42.960
I had Sammy's A and Kevin Owens
Doctor Trade FTR Female Rest of the Year.

601
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.159
We both had Ria Ripley Male Wrestler
of the Year. I had Seth

602
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:49.719
Freakin Rollins, Doctor Trey at MJF
and Wrestling Promotion of the Year. We

603
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.920
both had WWE Raw Doctor Trey before
we get into SRTU Wrestler of the Year

604
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:58.559
and reveal our winner, the biggest
award that we hand out the MVP of

605
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:02.440
Professional Wrestling in two thousand two twenty
three. Thoughts on everything that we've just

606
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:07.760
recapped here and going through with the
award show this year, Yeah, I

607
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.199
just think it goes to show that
there's a lot of depth in professional wrestling.

608
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:15.199
This wasn't like they weren't. I
always gona say most of these awards

609
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.159
weren't just slammed dunks across the boards
because you can just gotta see by the

610
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.280
difference of opinions. It also just
kind of shows like what people like that

611
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:30.840
everybody's tastes a little bit differently,
and then just also just on transparency.

612
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.559
For me, there there are certain
things where I felt like it was so

613
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.239
close that I felt like, like
Fear to the Year Match of the Year

614
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.639
they tied end together for me because
few of the Year with me having Sammy

615
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.679
Ko and the bloodline, the Swerve
Hangman one was so close that we came

616
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.000
to Match of the Year. I
felt like I kind of not that it

617
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.599
wasn't deserving, but it kind of
feel like it helped give it the edge

618
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:58.039
because I just wanted to kind of
reward everybody's solid performances. It was just

619
00:43:58.119 --> 00:44:00.760
kind of hard to just I didn't
want to just pick one for everything.

620
00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:05.000
So but I think you see by
breakout start of the year at Female Wrestl

621
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.440
of the Year that the judgment day
was the big act of the year,

622
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:12.360
and that kind of shows was again
that stables, if done properly, could

623
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.880
really help elevate people to do heights
as well. Yeah, I think the

624
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.639
thing that to me that showcase is
like some really good professional wrestlings going on

625
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:25.639
right now, and it's very vast. There's no real like wrestler that or

626
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:30.800
wrestlers that are peeling away from the
pack. It's all around solid and really

627
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:35.920
really good. So this was a
fun award show Dots track. I think

628
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:37.800
this is the first time I've ever
seen it like this where we've been this

629
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:42.760
different in the entire history of this
podcast. Yeah, and also goes to

630
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:45.840
show like the thing that you've been
chirping on, like, even if with

631
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:52.000
aw struggling at times, how beneficial
it is to have a strong second brand

632
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:55.719
because you know, you can look
at the AwardIn and for somebody that gets

633
00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:00.559
called an aw hater a lot.
They've won quite had a few of my

634
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.000
awards this year, so they put
a couple of yours as well. So

635
00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:07.840
just to other shows. As long
as there's a strong alternative to WWE,

636
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:12.440
wrestling gets better, all right.
Now it is the time to hand out

637
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:17.760
the biggest award of them all,
the SRTU Wrestler of the Year. In

638
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.440
twenty ten, I gave it to
the Miz Eric Ardula, the former co

639
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:24.320
host, gave it to Chris Jericho. Twenty eleven, I gave it to

640
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:29.480
Sampunk Eric Rdula gave it to Randy
Yorton twenty twelve, we both had CMPUNK.

641
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:30.639
Doctor Trey and I the first time
he handed out of the award.

642
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:37.199
Twenty thirteen, both award awards we
handed out to Daniel Bryan. In fourteen

643
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.400
and fifteen, we both gave it
to Seth Rollins. In sixteen and seventeen,

644
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:43.280
we both gave it to aj Stiles. In twenty eighteen, I gave

645
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:45.480
it to Kenny Omega. Doctor Trey
gave it to Demaso Champa. In twenty

646
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.119
nineteen, I gave it to Adam
Cole. Doctor Trey gave it to Becky

647
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.800
Lynch. In twenty twenty, we
both gave it to Drew McIntyre. In

648
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.360
twenty twenty one, we both gave
it to Roman Reigns. In twenty twenty

649
00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:59.159
two, I gave it to Roman
Reigns and Doctor Trey shocked the world by

650
00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:02.440
giving it to the Bloodline Stable.
Now it is time to hand out the

651
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:08.679
twenty twenty three edition of SRTU Wrestler
of the Year, Doctor Trey take it

652
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:13.599
away, my friend. Well,
not gonna lie. I thought about pulling

653
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:17.360
out the Stable card again. Uh, it was on the list, but

654
00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:22.960
really this person kind of just separated
themselves from everybody else in the pack.

655
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:29.079
She was my female Wrestler of the
Year, but my srt you performed the

656
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.960
year is momy. She always comes
out on top. Rhea Ripley just a

657
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:38.360
phenomenal year from start to finish,
and then helping elevate everybody else around her

658
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:43.039
as well, whether it's you know, the Zoe Starks of the worlds or

659
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:45.840
you know, having a great match
with Charlotte, or being in the corner

660
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:51.519
for everybody from Dominic to to Damian
Priest of Finn Ballard, even j D

661
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:54.400
McDonough. And now the stuff with
her and our truth is going to be

662
00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:58.440
great. The stuff with her and
Jay usso is great. You know,

663
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:02.119
it's just a nominal all around year
and she's kind of giving the rub to

664
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:07.440
everybody, which is the sign of
a true like Lynch Pin superstar if there

665
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.360
is one. So my SRTU Performed
the Year for twenty twenty three, Reea

666
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.639
Ripley my srt wrest of the Year, just like Doctor Trey is Rhea Ripley

667
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:22.199
from Monday Night Raw. History made
here on this year's edition of this award

668
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.519
as both Doctor Trey and I handed
out to a female. Doctor Trey has

669
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:29.039
handed his out to a female in
the past with Becky Lynch. This first

670
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:31.480
time I've handed it out to a
female wrestler, but the first time ever

671
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:36.320
that both of us are handing it
out to a female performer. And I

672
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.559
mean, what can you say that
Doctor Tray didn't say already. I mean,

673
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:45.880
she was the best character, the
best in ring performer, best all

674
00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:52.000
around. I mean just completely broke
out. From the start of the year

675
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:54.960
to the end of the year.
She's been dominant in the ring, dominant

676
00:47:55.039 --> 00:48:00.400
on the microphone. It feels like
nobody can touch her right now. This

677
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:07.960
is Becky Lynch nineteen levels right now, like mid to late twenty eighteen to

678
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.719
nearly all of twenty nineteen levels of
Becky Lynch. That's what's going on with

679
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.679
Ray Ripley right now. So damn
entertaining such a good in ring performer,

680
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:21.079
lover on the microphone, lover as
a character. I'm like, like,

681
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:22.679
as a wrestling fan, I know
this is kind of weird to say,

682
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:25.239
but I'll just say it anyway,
Like just proud of her as a performer

683
00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:29.639
because I don't know doubt Trey.
We've watched her grow up from the May

684
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:36.440
Young Classic to nxc UK to nxt
HE in the United States to being called

685
00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:42.800
up and working raw and SmackDown like
she's just been phenomenal. And I think

686
00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:45.199
the thing that has been missing,
and I mentioned it before in the Female

687
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:51.360
Wrestler of the Year is just having
like one hundred percent confidence. She wasn't

688
00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:55.079
like a performer that wasn't confident in
herself, but you just feel on the

689
00:48:55.119 --> 00:49:00.679
screen that she's got confidence to the
eleventh degree. I mean it's just one

690
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:06.559
fifty percent. She has confidence in
what she does on the microphone, in

691
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.039
the ring and as a character.
And that's really exciting to see as a

692
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:14.079
as a wrestling fan. So here
we are Doctor Trey in twenty twenty three,

693
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:17.519
both of us agree once again our
SRTU Wrestler of the Year the MVP

694
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:24.079
for professional wrestling is Riya Ripley from
Monday Night Raw. Yeah, and you

695
00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:28.239
hit the nail on the head when
you see somebody and this is you know

696
00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:31.480
very much Roman reigns ask Becky Lynch
as the man ask type thing when they

697
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:37.360
have that untouchable swagger about them,
like, no matter what I do right

698
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.199
now, it's they trust their instincts. Everything I do right now is going

699
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:44.320
to be solid like and she has
that about her right now, and like

700
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:47.079
you said, like she's We've grown
like this show has grown up with her.

701
00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:51.800
It says like you see her in
the May Young Classic and for lack

702
00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.079
of a better term, looking kind
of like a knockoff version of Charlotte Flair.

703
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:59.119
Even so, like I know people
have made jokes that hey, maybe

704
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.920
Rick had a daughter on a tour
of Australia one year, that's where Rhea

705
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.559
came from. But to see the
transformation from that person at the May Young

706
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:14.320
Classic to where she is now just
shows you how much like just trusting her

707
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:17.119
instincts, being on point, going
with her gut, and then also the

708
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.480
company having trust in faith in her
to allowing her to grow into this character.

709
00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:28.360
Now just shows you how beautiful wrestling
can be. It's literally like watching

710
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:30.840
a Lebron James go through or middle
school in the high school to the NBA

711
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:36.400
to where he ended up. It's
just that confidence, that swagger, that

712
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:43.079
belief in their self is just such
a joy to actually watch somebody on the

713
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:49.880
screen just exuded out into emotion from
a television show. Yeah, I think

714
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.280
this is I think this has been
great, Doctor Troy, this award show.

715
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:58.480
I thought you and I covered everything
in twenty twenty three pretty well here.

716
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:00.760
I mean a lot of your pick. If I was opposite, I

717
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.519
felt like, was my one P
or my number two selection? And then

718
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:08.920
you know you were saying vice versus
well for your one B or number two.

719
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:13.599
So I thought this was a really
fun edition of the award show,

720
00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:15.960
very vast and different, with the
exception of just a couple of awards,

721
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:21.320
obviously the SRTU Wrestler of the Year. Congratulations to all of our award winners,

722
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.719
and I think we'll get to plugs
and sponsors here, But this was

723
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:30.800
a really fun edition of the award
show for SRTU. Yeah, it's really

724
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:35.480
fun with you and I don't agree
on everything absolutely absolutely for a while that

725
00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:37.840
was kind of I don't want to
say a knock against us, but there's

726
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:39.360
like, man Jeffin dun't tray agree
on a lot of stuff, and this

727
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:44.079
year we were able to kind of, you know, have a variance of

728
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:47.599
opinion, but it wasn't too drastic, I will say. Luckily for us,

729
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:52.280
we don't send out championship belts to
everybody because otherwise you and I would

730
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:55.079
go broke really quickly on this year's
award show because that'd be a lot of

731
00:51:55.079 --> 00:51:58.360
different belts we would be sending.
Yeah, yeah, that would be that

732
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.079
would be very expensive. So there
you go our twenty twenty three award shows

733
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.599
in the books. Feel free to
chime in on x at SRTU podcast or

734
00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:09.800
Facebook dot com slash the stillrealta show
before we close up shop on the last

735
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:13.679
show of twenty twenty three, let's
get a couple plugs and sponsors out of

736
00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:15.320
the way. You can down on
the show every Thursday or Friday at Real

737
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:20.519
Guy Radio dot com Wreussel chat Neett
on X and the Still Relta Show iTunes

738
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:22.639
feed, don't for to rate,
review and subscribe telp us comment charts on

739
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:27.400
iTunes. You could follow us individually
on X for myself at SRTU Jeff and

740
00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:30.119
for Doctor Trey Franklin at The Doctor
Trey. And of course don't forget to

741
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.760
follow the show on X at SRTU
podcast. With that being said, what's

742
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.079
going on the one for World of
Doctor Trey Franklin this week? Well,

743
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:39.000
like Jeff said, you can follow
me on X at the Doctor Trey.

744
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:44.239
You can find me on Instagram and
Facebook Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on

745
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:49.039
Facebook, check out Rocket Stay Championship
Wrestling as we are just one week out

746
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.719
from the Rocket City Rumble coming up
to January sixth. It's our biggest event,

747
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:55.559
one of our biggest events of the
year. I think right now we

748
00:52:55.679 --> 00:53:00.599
have thirty three names confirmed for our
Rumble, looking at confirm a few more

749
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:04.960
before we actually get the January sixth. So if you're in the area,

750
00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:07.440
go check it out. And if
you're not in the area, go check

751
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:10.440
out your local in dependent wrestling show
because those people that you see out there

752
00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:14.440
on the independence now could be winning
awards for me and Jeff in like ten

753
00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:16.639
more years, God willing that we're
still doing the show. So there you

754
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:21.880
go. Support all the great things
that support SRTU. Friendly reminder on next

755
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:24.280
week's edition in the podcast on January
fourth, twenty twenty four, it's the

756
00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:29.199
last episode of our holiday programming schedule. It's the twenty twenty four wrestling preview

757
00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:31.800
show. We will also bring you
our five bowld predictions wrestling any forty card

758
00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:38.159
predictions. Doctor Trey and I will
be throwing out there at least a bonus

759
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:44.239
podcast where we give our aw World's
end preview and predictions. We'll throw something

760
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:47.239
up there in the midst of the
holiday programming schedule for whatever reason, Doc

761
00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:51.440
Trank and I can't sink out during
the holiday programming. As we record this

762
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.840
show well in advance, we'll throw
up our predictions for everybody to check out

763
00:53:54.880 --> 00:54:00.039
on Twitter or Facebook, and then
you know, we'll recp aw World ten

764
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:04.280
either in a bonus podcast or maybe
we'll do it in about two weeks when

765
00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:07.880
we do the show where we recap
everything that we missed turning the holiday programming

766
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:13.199
schedule, Doctor Trey before we shut
out the door here on twenty twenty three.

767
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:16.559
Any thank yous and farewells you'd like
to give to the listeners, Well,

768
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:20.800
I mean always thank you to all
of our listeners. It's always just

769
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.519
a joy to see people chiming in
from all over the not just the country,

770
00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:25.480
but from the world. I know, you know, we talked about

771
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:30.519
here like it was always intrigued to
get a message from study somebody from like

772
00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:34.079
the Middle East or from the UK
saying how much they appreciate the show.

773
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.880
Not just that, but then a
big thank you to Jeff. Jeff's been

774
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:44.159
my writer die now for roughly twelve
years on this show. So the fact

775
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:46.559
that we're always able to kind of
work things out, given weather, given

776
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:51.559
any other situation, we always figure
way to make it work, not just

777
00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:54.079
for our listeners, but just this
is our way to decompress. So I

778
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:59.920
always appreciate and cherish Jeff Peck as
my partner in this. And then just

779
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:01.360
thank you to all the guys and
girls who actually listen to show they're actually

780
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:04.480
out there in the wrestling business,
Like we could do this without you guys

781
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:07.480
putting your bodies on the line for
us. So I just want to say

782
00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:09.440
thank you to all those folks as
well. Yeah, and just to piggyback

783
00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:14.760
off off to what doctor Trey said, but I mean, first and foremost,

784
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:16.800
thank you to doctor Trey. He
always makes time after his work schedule

785
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:20.440
to sit here and do the podcast
each and every week. We've been doing

786
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:24.639
this now twelve years. Doctor Trey's
been doing this with me fourteen as a

787
00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:29.159
show, seven hundred and twenty four
straight weeks of doing SRTU. It's something

788
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:32.280
that we're really proud of and something
that we really enjoy as professional wrestling fans.

789
00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:37.519
Sitting here doing this podcast, Being
in this little bubble in this box

790
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:43.800
of talking professional wrestling for an hour
or so helps us decompress stress, you

791
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:45.400
know, veedg you out a little
bit. And what we're doing is wrestling

792
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:51.159
fans and as friends to talk about
professional wrestling each and every week. So

793
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.559
thank you to doctor Trey. Thank
you to everybody who makes time to listen

794
00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:59.239
to this podcast, downloads this podcast, interacts with this podcast, whether it's

795
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:04.960
direct message mentions on Twitter, hitting
us up on Facebook. Thank you to

796
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.119
everybody who downloads this each and every
week. Sincerely, Like you know,

797
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:10.760
this is so we've been doing for
a long time, and we're passionate about

798
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:15.199
so we appreciate all you guys for
supporting us each and every week. Yeah,

799
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.840
I mean, what else do you
say, but just thank you to

800
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:22.039
everybody who supports this podcast. It's
a ton of fun. Another year is

801
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:29.119
in the books. Enjoy New Year's
be safe out there. Let's get ready

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for twenty twenty four. We will
be back once again next week, kicking

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off twenty twenty four with our wrestling
preview show, So five Bowl predictions,

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wrestlemining, forty card predictions, all
on next week's edition of SRTU. So

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that'll do it for twenty twenty three. That'll do it for the twenty twenty

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three SRTU Award Show special until next
week for doctor Trey Franklin. I'm Jeff

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Pack. This is this is a
real USh show.