Oct. 4, 2024

5 Years of AEW Dynamite and WWE Bad Blood Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #764 – 10/3/24

5 Years of AEW Dynamite and WWE Bad Blood Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #764 – 10/3/24

On this episode of The Still Real to Us Show:

- -- We celebrate 5 years of AEW Dynamite and share our favorite moments!
- -- Discuss the impact of AEW's new TV deal with Warner Bros Discovery!
- -- A Cody Rhodes storyline that finally has us excited!...

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On this episode of The Still Real to Us Show:

  • -- We celebrate 5 years of AEW Dynamite and share our favorite moments!
  • -- Discuss the impact of AEW's new TV deal with Warner Bros Discovery!
  • -- A Cody Rhodes storyline that finally has us excited!
  • -- We look back at NXT's debut on the CW Network!
  • -- And we preview & predict "WWE Bad Blood!"

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It's still Jenny.

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Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition The Still Realbo Show,

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Episode number seven and sixty four for October three, twenty

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twenty four. Welcome to this week's edition of s RT

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You I am one After the Show, I Am Jeff Pecker,

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joined every single week from my host, the one Only,

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Doctor Trey Franklin. Doctor Trey. Can you believe it's been

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five years since Dynamite launched?

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My friend, h Can I believe it's been five years? Yes?

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Because as you get older, time flies by, and so

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I have no concept of time anymore. Like stuff I

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think happened like a year or two ago.

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I find out was like ten. So has it? Do

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I feel like it's been five years?

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No?

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But there have there been times during aw's run that

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I've been watching and go, God, this one episode feels

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like five years.

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Yeah. It's wild. When you're younger, you're in the adolescent's age,

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you're going through school. Everybody would tell me, like, enjoy

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this time because time flies by once you got out

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of high school. And there is nothing more true than that.

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I mean, it's it's like a lock at the switch

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and it's been five years, and that is like that

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in any stage of life. Watching my son grow up.

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It's been three months, nearly four months, and he is just,

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you know, completely changed since from when he was born.

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And I'm sure that's going to continue on and on

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as life goes on here. But that is one of

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those bits of advice that you always hear that is

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so frigging true, is that time flies by. And that's

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what I was thinking about on Wednesday night watching Dynamo.

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I'm like, man, it's been five years since AW Dynamite launched.

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I remember all the build up towards AW, watching the

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YouTube shows to start launching AW, whether it was being

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the Elite Cody had a show, then they had some

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of those specials like in Las Vegas and February to do,

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and now it's double or nothing, And here we are

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five years later. AW is a brand that is well known.

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It's you know, I think it's recognizable by probably outside

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folks in professional wrestling here and there. I think it's

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it's gained enough momentum where people are like, oh, AW,

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that's that other WWE like wrestling promotion and it's like, yeah, yeah,

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kind of that's it. But here we are five years later,

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and it's amazing, Doctor Try. I mean they really, I

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know they've had their ups and downs, but they changed

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professional wrestling for the better ultimately.

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Yeah.

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I mean we talked about it leave on last week's show.

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You know, the different and the contract negotiations and the

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way they run their business and being more talent friendly

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than what WWE was under Vince. I mean, you go

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back to the pandemic era. They changed the way the

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shows were shot, they changed different things, like they've They've

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changed wrestling for the better for the most part there.

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You know, there are certain things that I kind of

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wish they put the genie back in the bottle on

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a little bit, but you know, their way of doing

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things has changed the industry. And that's what you and

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I always talk about, was like competition is good for

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all businesses because it breeds new ways of thinking, new

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ways of doing stuff. And they've done a fantastic job

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of that over these five years.

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Yeah, WWE Professional Wrestling was complacent for twenty plus years.

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I mean TNA made a run at WE, and really

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they got I don't want to say they didn't get close,

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but they did not get as close as AWS. I

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mean TNA on Spike TV at one point, which a

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major network now known as the Paramountain Network, and they

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were out there on the national televised audience. Ring of

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Honor had a good cult like following amongst wrestling fans

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that is similar to ECW. They were on the Sinclay're

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broadcasting network, but they never kind of broke through like

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an ECW did in the late nineties. Is that third

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brand in professional wrestling? It wasn't really until AW came along,

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had some money that they could throw around and was

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doing the complete opposite of WWE where it truly changed

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professional wrestling for the first time in twenty plus years

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and it was a breath of fresh air. They have

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done amazing things to really challenge the norm and kind

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of take their business model and make it the norm.

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Where would WWE have been in the last five years

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if it wasn't for AW pushing them to get better, creatively,

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to get better and taking care of the professional wrestlers

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to get better for making sure their fans leave home happy.

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Would that have all happened if AW wasn't pushing the norm.

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So huge hat tip to AW on celebrating five years

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of AW Dynamite this past Wednesday. I thought the one

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thing that was actually lacking from this past week's edition

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of AW Dynamite was not many lookbacks to some memorable

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moments in AW history. I know they would have them

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coming in and out of breaks. I would like to

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see some sort of video package looking back at the

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last five years of AW Dynamite. I thought that was lacking.

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It's nice to get a little nostalgic from time to

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time and look back at the good times that was

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in the early days of AW Dynamite. With that said,

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Doctor Trey five years celebration for AW Dynamite, what are

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some of the moments, memories, matches that stand out to

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you from the last five years of AW Dynamite on

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TBS and formally TNT.

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I mean, for me, like some of the sixty Man

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or sixty minute Iron Man matches that Brian is a

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with with Hangman and Kenny Omega, Like those are great matches.

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God, you kind of caught me.

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I wasn't prepared for this question, and so I'm trying

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to run through some stuff. Honestly, even this is as

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crazy as it may sound, like the Jericho Orange Cassidy

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feud stands out to me and A lot of it

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was just because it was a little bit different. It

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was a little bit wwe ask you had the giant

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orange juice spot that they brought back up into the

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current feudis in with.

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Man.

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Trying to think of some other ones. Those are ones

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on top of my head that kind of stand out,

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and just maybe some of the like the times you

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get to see the new people, like the first time

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I got to see the new Malachi or excuse me,

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the House of Black entrance on AW and how it

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differed from WW. Seeing the different presentations of guys we

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knew from other shows and then getting to learn who

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the hell Sammy Gavara is, Who the hell Darby Allen

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was like learning some of these, you know, the pillars

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of AW and seeing them on a big stage and

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it had actually becoming household names for me.

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One of the big things that stands out as favorite

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moments from AW Dynamite was the pandemic era of AW Dynamite.

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I remember those first couple of weeks when everybody was

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legit locked down, not really going out, and I was

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so relieved and happy, and when television that I recognized

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was coming on because there was not a lot of

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new content at the time, and I remember that they

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think they did a show at Daily's place and then

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they went and did some shows at the Nightmare Factory

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and it was the TNT title Tournament when they launched

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that championship, and it was just like a breath of

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fresh air. And I think some of their best work

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was done in front of barely anybody during the pandemic.

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I mean, they really came into their own during the pandemic.

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And then when they were in Daily's place for whatever

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those fifty plus weeks, I think it was almost like

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six seventy weeks of programming from March twenty twenty to

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about June twenty twenty one was memorable. I mean, they,

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like Doctor Trey pointing out, they made w change the

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way that they did their presentations for programming for a

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period of time when WW was doing the shows out

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of the PC that they really broke through there and

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I think it was some of their best again, some

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of their best stuff with nobody around. And you know,

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I kind of I kind of missed the days where

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it was just aw dynamite because I think creatively they

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did their best stuff. I get why they need two shows,

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especially with the amount of people on their roster that

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they have, but the way that they used to build

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those AW dynamite shows early on, from like nineteen to

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twenty one, maybe twenty twenty two a little bit. We're

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so well done, creatively, very organized, great approach that has

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obviously unfortunately been lost as time has gone on in

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AW because creative is something that is often a sticking

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point with me as a fan watching where it's like

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a lot of stopping. There's the stretches where they're really

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really good, from like March this year till up until

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all out and yeah, it's been fun. I mean the

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OSPRAMJFF match that recently took place stood out to me.

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Brody Lee's debut, Matt Hardy's debut, Malachi Black's debut. I

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know you mentioned him. He showed up surprisingly during a

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show in Miami, one of those first shows back on

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the road, and he was not expecting. AW but wwat

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that snafu with his contract where he was like an

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NXC talent and not only thirty days instead of ninety

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days to let his to let his contract lapse. Yeah,

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I mean, it's it's just been a really fun run.

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I think of a lot of great stuff there various

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different times in the early stages of aw Dynamite and

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how exciting that was. And you know, I think of

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episode number two, Private Party defeated Young Bucks was stood

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out to me. I mean, that was a really fun moment.

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And you know, you look back at those early aw

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Dynamite days and you're like, man, they still got that

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in there, and they could still get those crowd reactions.

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They kind of went old school on Wednesday Night. Aw

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really love showing the crowd shots, and rightfully so, because

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they've not had a chance to really do that over

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the last six months unless it's a pay review. So

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I mean, massive accomplishment here, Doctor Trey. And there's some

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more things to celebrate in regards to all of the wrestling.

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But I think if you asked me back in October

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twenty nineteen, would we'd be talking about the five year anniversary,

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you know, in five years from now, I would say yes,

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But you never really know when that type of stuff happens.

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So I mean that's a huge accomplish, the accomplishment for

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them to still be here for five years, to still

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be a very solid number two in the United States

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for wrestling, promotion and to really push the envelope and

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change things for the better when it comes to the

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world professional wrestling.

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I mean if you had asked me that if they'd

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be around in five years, I'd say yeah, because look

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at TNA, like you and I, well you and Eric,

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you said, have a running joke and we did it

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on our show as well, like was t and A

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going to be in business in a year? And that

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ran for fourteen fifteen years? You know, if they're going

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to make it. So I always kind of thought they'd

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make it to this mark. I just didn't know if

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they'd be able to grow or if.

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They'd have to downsize.

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And I think they've done an admirable job of slowly

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growing their brand awareness. It may lack in some other areas,

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but like you said, if you go around talk to

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people who are kind of, you know, borderline wrestling fans

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and you ask what AEW is, they're gonna be, Oh,

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that's that other show that's kind of like WWE. That's

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where Chris Jericho is, or that's where you know John

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Moxley is or Daniel Bryan or somebody like that. They'll

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they'll mention one of those guys. So I think they've

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done a great job with that. I mean there, I mean,

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obviously there are always some things that you can tweak,

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but it's a.

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Learning curve like there.

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I mean, just think about this, Like the amount of

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information that you learn in that your son will learn

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from birth until the age of five, like Samy's doing now,

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is incredible, And what you learn from kindergarten through fifth

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grade is a five year window and you learn a

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ton in that space.

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They've done a lot.

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Of learning, tweaking, changing things, trying new things out. So

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I give them all the props in the world to it.

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to mention was, and you brought it up, was when

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we're doing those daily the daily Plaza places or shows

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that having the wrestlers around the ring side and hearing

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an MJF or hearing you know, Sean Spears in the

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time or something talk trash to a guy in a

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match that he's not involved in. I thought was so

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clever and so witty, and it was actually a way

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of like character development for guys that maybe weren't on

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the show like that. That stuff was really really well

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done and really fun and next thing, you know, you

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see NXT doing the same thing a month later because

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they all realized, hey, that's a great idea. We could

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have some feedback and not just these empty arena matches

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that we've been having. So but yeah, like I'm really

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happy for that company. They've they've they've come a long way,

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and you know they can keep growing. You just keep

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learning and adapting and business is more about adapting and

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surviving than anything else, and they've done a good job

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at that.

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So.

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I also think I remember you were mentioned like wrestlers talking.

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That's like how I got introduced to Coltman Austin Gun

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because they would like lose their minds on the outside

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of the ring as the crowd back then. So props

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all around, Awn was It was a very celebratory day

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on Wednesday for AW, so outside of the five year

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anniversary of Dynamite, it was officially announced by Variety that

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AW had signed a multi multimedia rights deal with Warner

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Brothers Discovery. We had heard about this for some time

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that this was intimate, intimate, and it happened also intimate,

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I mean, it was a very intimate situation with Warner

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Brothers as well. The deal is reportedly three years with

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a four year with an option for a fourth year.

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The fourth year would be at a substantial increase in price,

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according to Dave Meltzer. Variety also said that AW programming

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will streave live on Max simultaneously for the US subscribers

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and will be available to stream on demand starting in

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January twenty twenty five. Their pay per views will be

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available on Max, but at a discounted price. What that

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price is, nobody knows. That's a little bit concerning, because

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I was hoping that with this new deal that it

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would go over to Max and it would be a

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similar price point to what ww's doing on Peacock. But

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I guess AW had said that, you know, WA and

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UFC are basically losing their shirts now on pay per

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views by only having them up there for four ninety

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nine a month on Peacock. There was a report out

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there from Sports Business Journal, according to Russell Puris and

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Fightful Select, where it stated that they were reporting that

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Warner Brothers Discovery had an equity stake in AW. That

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has been something that has been long rumored since AW launched. Reportedly,

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thus far, neither AW nor w or Warner Brothers Discovery

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have confirmed this. Additionally, PR contracts contacts at both companies

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stated they've never heard of that aspect of Warner Brothers

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Discovery having equity in AAW and then finally aw's new

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deal with Warner Brothers Discovery is closer to one hundred

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and eighty five million per year, not to previously reported

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one hundred and fifty million, according to a source close

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to the situation that comes via Russell Votes. Also through

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the Russell Puris Twitter feed. Sean ross Sapp also confirmed

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that that is what he had heard as well, so

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a three year deal with a fourth year option, whether

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it would be an increase at one hundred and eighty

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five million a year. They will be on HBO Max airing,

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it will be streaming and also Next Day and there

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will also be a discounted price for pay per views

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on Max Doctor Trey. This is for Dynamite and Collision.

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Rampage was not part of the press release. Nothing new

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as of yet with Rampagne. There's been rumors that there

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will be a show on Fox, but this for the

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Friday show. Rampage may be done completely in twenty twenty five.

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There may be a new show called AW Shockwave on Fox,

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but we'll talk about that once it happens down the line. Nonetheless,

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let's look at the deal here at DOTG Trade. This

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is very big. This is great news for professional wrestling.

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This is great news for professional wrestling fans, and this

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is obviously great news for AW. Your thoughts on the.

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Deal, Yeah, it's good for everybody evolved because not only

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do you get you know, for Max, you get to

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stream Dynamite because there are people like me that you know,

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I stream everything. I don't have satellite, I don't have cable,

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so I don't get TBS or TNT on my streaming platforms.

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I do have Max because it comes with my AT

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and T subscription, so I can now watch dine in

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my life and not have to go to you know,

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some alternatives excuse me, some alternative sites to try and

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watch it.

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It's good for wrestling fans.

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We got three more years guaranteed pretty much of professional wrestling.

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If if the Fox deal goes down and you get

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some more wrestling on FS one, I doubt it will

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actually be on main Fox, but I think FS one

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things like.

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That is good. It's great for the wrestlers.

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It's more money being generated into the company, so they

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can you know, play with salaries, raises, you know, things

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like that. Overall, it's just it's just good in general.

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And then for like I said, for Max, it's great

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because you get that. Plus there's still an opportunity for

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them to stream you know, past episodes of Dyna, My,

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past episodes of Collision, Ring of Honor, stuff from Days

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of Old, because Tony Kahan bought the library, so there's

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more content available for Max, which has been struggling with

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content for a while. Like I like, literally yes to

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Day was the first time we've turned bax on in

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probably six months, just because they haven't had anything new.

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To watch that we were interested in.

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So getting more content on these platforms is great for

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everybody involved.

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Yeah, this is great. I guess there were remembers about

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Ring of Honor potentially going a true TV, but that

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wasn't part of the deal. It's I think Meltsa reported

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earlier today that everything with Ring of Honor is status quo.

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If you are an AW hater for whatever reason, you

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should be celebrating this because this is good for whatever

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you like. If it's w E, if it's new Japan.

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If it's whatever, If it's whatever, you like that it

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is an AW. This is good because we need more

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wrestling promotions on network television schedules in the United States

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and beyond. Like we need that. We need both companies

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to push one another. And you should be cheering on AW.

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If you don't like, like, we could sit here, we

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could bash their creative we could bash their matches, we

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could bash their cards long they are whatever, But this

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is ultimately we are still pushing for them to be successful,

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and this is a form of their success. So I'm

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very happy for them. The thing I'm going to be

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watching with a very keen eye here, Doctor Troy again

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is the discounted pay per view prices. I want to

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know how much it is and like, what is a

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fair price for me to want to spend that money? Again,

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I was hoping, what if you had a Max subscription,

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you'd be able to watch AW pay per views, but

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there's still going to be a paywall behind there. I mean,

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what is a fair price if you're already subscribing to

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Max to also make the pay per view for available

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for the fans, And that could actually open up the

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door for WWE Togo. That's interesting. Maybe we'll do that

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in the future, which I don't want to have happened.

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I have everything that is good for aw, that's not

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what I want to have happened. But I was hoping

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that I would be able to watch the pay per

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views VA Max Doctor Trey. That won't be the case.

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What is a fair price point then, in that realm.

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Right, I think that's the best price for the point

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for them, because hey, you've already conditioned your wrestling fans

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to ninety nine, like we heard it for for god

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knows how long on the network, and then you know

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you have Peacock. But nine ninety nine is a good

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conditioning price, especially if you're already paying for a Max subscription.

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On top of that, it's just extra money for Mac

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for Warner Brothers, I mean that they're that's just gathering,

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that's just double dipping into your client base. Anything more

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than that you're gonna have, You're gonna have fans and

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just go, yeah, I'm already paying ten bucks, twelve bucks,

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fifteen bucks a month for Max.

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I really don't need this.

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I mean, it's just to me, it's more about just

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price conditioning, and then that way you can still say

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that you're in the same ballpark as WWE, and you

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can sell that to advertisers as well, so you can

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get that great rec pieces or Reces sponsored Darby Ellen

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Coffin match or something.

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Didn't they do like Cracker Barrel in the early days

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of AW where there's like a Cracker Barrel match.

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Yeah, I know, WW has done more than anybody else.

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So like the Dorito's Mountain Dew, you know, all that

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fun stuff, you know, but you got me for like

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aw's got to do a Red Bull ladder match, you

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know something like that.

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Hey, money talks, money talks. So we'll see there's more

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details that funnel out in regards to this deal. Congratulations

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to AW and Warner Brother Discovery. Another at least three

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years on TNT and TBS programming, potentially another four years,

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and I guess we'll keep an eye on whether or

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not there is an actual stake in AW from Warnbro Discovery.

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There's always been that rumor, and now you've got conflicting

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reports for like the first time. Now you've got some

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real solid people out there talking about it, and they're

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saying both sides are basically saying I have no idea

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what you're talking about that is not the case at all.

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One of the people who helped become a founder of AW,

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Doctor Trey, is the current we Champion, Cody Rhodes. He

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is now in WWI. You want to talk about moments

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that I was, like my mind, BLEW is two and

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a half three years and Cody's gone from AW. But nonetheless,

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Cody rhoads and is in WWI. He's the Wee Champion.

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He has a very big match at Bad Blood over

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the weekend. He'll be tagging with the Roman Raids to

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take on SOLOSIKOA and Jacob Fottwo. We'll preview that here

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in a little bit. But one of the things that

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we've been talking about for sometimes that he became champion

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was our concerns of him becoming vanilla, his storylines not

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being compelling, his story lines not being entertaining, historylines not

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being interesting in him kind of floundering a bit as

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a world champion. So there was some concern on our part,

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and I think that they may have found a potential

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storyline that peaks at least my interest. Doctor Try. I

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want to get your thoughts on this thing. So I

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feel like Cody Rhoads finally has a good storyline as

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champion for fans to sink their teeth into storyline is

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him tagging with Roman Rains on Saturday and Kevin Owens

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and Randy Orton kind of looking at him as a

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quasi trader for tagging with Roman Reigns. I like the

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interactions of the last two to three weeks on SmackDown,

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whether it be with Rhodes and Owens, Roads with Orton,

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or Roads with both Orton and Cohen Kevin Owens in

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the rain this past Friday's edition of SmackDown. I'm digging

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that because it makes so much sense. One of the

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worst things in professional wrestling, especially during the time where

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Vince had the creative books, is you would have two

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enemies that had this really intense feud and then two

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months later they would be tagging with one another like

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nothing ever happened, and it would be like, well, how

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do come we never explain how we get here? Well,

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Cody tagging with Roman, how they built that up makes sense.

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All the stuff around it, and how he would be

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looked at by his peers is something that typically is

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not included in these types of storylines, or it's typically

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lost over. I love that two people who were at

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war with Cody Rhodes against the Bloodline, Kevin Owens and

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Randy Oran are basically like, what the hell are you doing, dude,

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and they want to kind of call him a trader,

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but they don't get there. It seems like Kevin Owens

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has one foot in there where you could see him

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turning on Cody Rhads at one point Randy Orans kind

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of like shrugging his shoulders a little bit. But I

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watched that on SmackDown. Light bulb went off and I

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was like, We've been talking about this for a long time.

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We want a good Cody Roads storyline. I think we

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found it, Doctor Try. I'm really digging what they're doing

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as part of like this character development with Cody Rhoads,

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Kevin Owens, Randy Orton, and of course the stuff that's

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being included with him tagging with the Roman Reigns at

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Bad Blood.

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Yeah.

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It's actually one of those things that you and I

471
00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:48.559
have talked about, I mean several times over the years

472
00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:51.720
of the show. Like I remember, you know Sena and Orton,

473
00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:53.880
you know, having their feuds, and it was like two

474
00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:55.759
months later seen in Orton or in a tag match

475
00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:57.960
together and they would do the whole like, I don't

476
00:24:58.039 --> 00:24:59.000
think I trust you.

477
00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:01.039
Well, I don't think I try chew that much either,

478
00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:04.119
But it was never like as as.

479
00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:08.279
Poignant as what we're seeing right now. And then you

480
00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.680
never have anybody question John Cena or Randy ordes so

481
00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:13.880
why they're tagging with the other. And you know, it's

482
00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:15.960
always one of my favorite things in wrestling the bitch

483
00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:19.680
about is when your good guy is getting beat down

484
00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:23.079
by four people and nobody comes out to save him. Well,

485
00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:25.720
is he really a good guy ie if nobody in

486
00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:28.640
the back wants to come help him. So this storyline

487
00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:31.680
is like the perfect combination of little nitpicky things that've

488
00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:34.039
had over the years where you're like, okay, Cody and

489
00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:38.680
Roman pretty serious feud. I mean literally, like Roman and

490
00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:42.119
Rock were trying to destroy Cody less than a year ago,

491
00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.720
and now he's teaming with Roman. I love the way

492
00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:47.960
they played out with the Roman where Roma's not asking

493
00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.440
for Cody's help, he kind of doesn't want it, but

494
00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:54.559
Cody's kind of positioned himself that like, hey, the enemy

495
00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:56.720
of my enemy is my friend.

496
00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:58.319
All right, this makes sense.

497
00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:01.079
And then you really have two people that like you know,

498
00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:05.240
have great storyline history at the bloodline and with Roman

499
00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:08.079
in particular, going dude, what the hell are you doing?

500
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.039
Like we trust you, we love you, but we don't

501
00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:15.920
trust him. What are you walking yourself into? It's a

502
00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:19.680
great storyline, the fact that it takes away from real life,

503
00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:22.799
Like if you have somebody in your life who hates

504
00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.440
somebody with a passion and then all of a sudden,

505
00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:29.079
out of nowhere, they're helping that guy out for some reason.

506
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:31.160
You're like, dude, what are you doing? That makes no sense?

507
00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:35.240
Like you hate that guy, Like what's going on? I

508
00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:37.759
love when they I'm not saying that this is not

509
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:39.920
one of those instances where they're blending. They're blurring the

510
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:43.480
lines with the reality and storyline, but this is a

511
00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:47.240
situation where you're taking a real life situation, in real

512
00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:51.599
life emotions and transposing it into wrestling, which is one

513
00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:53.480
of those things that we love, Like we love when

514
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:56.680
art imitates life, and this is one of those really

515
00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.880
good segments where it's imitating life.

516
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.279
You've heard the words in titles that they have now

517
00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.119
wa of character development, and that is so important, so

518
00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:10.119
poignant and so true, and I love that they have

519
00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:13.519
job titles that have that name in their job title

520
00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:17.680
because of the importance behind it, because it's it plays

521
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:20.200
a massive role in creative and maybe sometimes with these

522
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.440
writers they're not thinking about, Okay, this this loose end

523
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:25.079
is well, we can just kind of forget about out

524
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.559
that and the fans will remember it anyway. I remember

525
00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:29.920
you used to reading reports that like they would think

526
00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:32.640
in creative fans will remember this anyway. We'll just you know,

527
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:35.160
start doing it this way, and so be it well

528
00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:39.079
forgetting some sort of history that took place three, six, nine,

529
00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:42.200
twelve months prior. And I love that WA is choosing

530
00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.519
not to ignore it. And that's one of those things

531
00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:47.839
that's always been a bugaboo and I just like it.

532
00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:50.759
And because when as time goes on, as I get

533
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:53.119
more invested in I watch at home and they put

534
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:56.079
these little pieces of the puzzle together, I'm going to

535
00:27:56.119 --> 00:28:01.240
be more likely excited, entertained, and looking forward to the

536
00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:04.680
crescendo of this all. And that is what WW is

537
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.720
doing so so well, I know we just praised AW.

538
00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:12.119
I'm gonna pick on them a little bit, but creatively,

539
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.160
this is where they are lacking in a lot of things,

540
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.440
and it's a very minute and small thing. Because I

541
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:21.160
watched so much of AW I do not miss their programming.

542
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:24.559
But take, for instance, I was watching Collision recently, and

543
00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:29.279
up until this point, Rouche was aligned with the don

544
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.559
Kallis family. He had they had done the storyline, he

545
00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:36.039
had joined don Kallis family, blah blah blah blah blah.

546
00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.400
And he kind of saw as time went on with

547
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:42.720
the will Ospray Kyle Fletcher Kenoski Takeshka stuff that roushe

548
00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:46.440
was not part of the don Challis family randomly anymore.

549
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.759
It was like, where's Ruce. Maybe he's away, maybe he's injured.

550
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.920
I have no idea. Well, they do a segment on

551
00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:57.039
Collision where he like reunites or restarts l I j

552
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:02.480
for like no reason at all, and I'm like, but

553
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.400
what happened to the alignment with the don Kallis family.

554
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.599
Why isn't he with don Kallis anymore? Zero explanation. I'm

555
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:13.279
picking I on AW here, but that is something I'd

556
00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.920
like to see where just a simple segment, Ruth just says, hey, listen,

557
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.440
I've decided to go in my separate ways from you.

558
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:21.720
I appreciate what you've done for me, but I have

559
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:24.279
something up my sleeve, will still remain friends or whatever,

560
00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:26.880
and they close out the segment. But that is the

561
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:28.960
stuff of professional rights, and that comes to mind, like

562
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:32.799
in recent times, while probably most things people are like

563
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:38.359
skipping over, that is something that kind of like reminds

564
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:42.039
me of moments that there's been gaps in storylines. And

565
00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:44.319
that's the thing that I like with WWE's doing right now.

566
00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:46.759
And the same point, I will say, I'll talk good

567
00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:49.200
here about AW Dotor Trey. I like the stuffing that

568
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:55.279
they're doing with Moxley, Claudio Poc Danielson and Wheeler Da.

569
00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:58.200
I like the stuff with Da. That is some good

570
00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:00.880
character development. They closed out the five Your Anniversary with

571
00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:05.200
Yuda tagging with Danielson taking on Claudia Unpack. I eventually

572
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.720
think you'da does turn on Brian Danielson. But you're seeing

573
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:12.359
some good character development. Bad character development again with AW

574
00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:14.960
that I understand. When did Marina Shaffir just get a

575
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:22.279
Russian accent? Right? I believe she's Russian. I may be

576
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:25.279
completely wrong. I'm gonna say Eastern European accent just to

577
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:27.920
be on the safe side here, But again, those are

578
00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:31.519
times where there's been good character development and bad bad

579
00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:34.839
character development, and it is so important profession rustling for

580
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:35.640
fans to get that.

581
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:39.920
Yeah, what what was the name of the group that

582
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:43.119
they formed to back MJF when he climbed the ladder

583
00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:47.720
to the devil so to win the briefcase? Oh, the firm,

584
00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:50.799
the firm, And then like it just gone. And there's

585
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:53.440
never been an explanation to that.

586
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.160
You know, they basically said an interview, is that like

587
00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.759
once Punk got injured and the whole brawl loud thing happened,

588
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.359
that it like completely screwed everything up, but then they

589
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.559
never really followed up with it.

590
00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:08.240
Yeah, but I mean we've we've seen that wrestling before

591
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:11.440
where they start something, an injury kind of derails it,

592
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.440
but they still make it work or they still dance

593
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.400
around it for a little bit, and then there's but

594
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.920
there's usually a write off or a finality to it,

595
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.920
not just completely dropped. You know. Dear God, I'm just

596
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.440
waiting for Triple H to call Roderick Strong and be like,

597
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.039
wasn't when did Marina get in accents? You know, just

598
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.079
having Kobe flashbacks here, But like you know, like you said,

599
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.039
like the different little small subtleties of stuff the way

600
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:44.000
things are going on. Remember back when when the Fiend

601
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:49.559
was on top and everybody he wrestled changed afterwards, whether

602
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:51.880
it was Seth Rawns or Brian or Daniel Bryan or

603
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:53.839
whoever it was he was in the ring with. And

604
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:56.160
you see that now with a guy like carrying cross

605
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:59.240
like he had the interactions with with a Xavier was

606
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:01.720
and now we're seeing darker sunning. Xavier Wood's coming out.

607
00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:03.880
He's had the interaction to Miz and then Miz turns

608
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:06.279
on our truth. Like, to me, those were great little

609
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.519
callback things, and you know, it always drove me nuts

610
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:13.680
when I would hear that, Oh, wrestling fans don't remember this.

611
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.039
Wrestling fans don't remember this.

612
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:19.279
If you're a fan of professional wrestling, you're in the

613
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:22.160
same book, in the same boat as Star Wars fans,

614
00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.640
Star Trek fans, soap opera fans, comic book fans, and.

615
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:27.759
We remember everything.

616
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:33.440
We remember every detail of every interaction that goes on.

617
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.799
And it just used to drive me nuts when stuff

618
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:39.599
like that would go on, and we're like, hey.

619
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:40.880
Like, you know, I brought up a couple weeks ago.

620
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:44.160
I think I was like, when did Roderick Strong, Like

621
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:45.839
all of a sudden like hook and shake his hand

622
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:47.839
after a match like I thought he was a Like

623
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.839
things like that drive wrestling fans nuts.

624
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:53.839
It's that thorn that gets into our brain.

625
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:57.480
It's still I mean, to this day, Jeff, I still

626
00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:59.240
don't know who the hell Katie Vick is.

627
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:03.799
Well, I none of us should, none of us.

628
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.519
But I mean I I and I had.

629
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:09.000
I had came up with my own storyline, like my

630
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:11.160
own theory in my head as to why that whole

631
00:33:11.160 --> 00:33:11.880
thing played out.

632
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:14.400
And I was like, Okay, I have to.

633
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:18.599
Make up my own backstory to get that thorn out

634
00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:22.519
of my brain. But different little things like that, We'll

635
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:26.799
just eat at people forever until there's, you know, some

636
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:30.599
kind of conclusive finish to a storyline.

637
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:33.359
We need beginnings and ends. We don't need just beginnings

638
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:33.920
and no ends.

639
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:36.599
And we don't need just random ends with no beginnings

640
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:41.160
like we need concrete storyline. Character development, which when I

641
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:44.519
heard Shawn Michael's introduced as the was he the senior

642
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:47.200
vice president of character Development.

643
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.279
That's where I heard it on n NEXTD on c W.

644
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.160
Yeah, I was like, that's an awesome title that that

645
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:53.880
gets you a promotion.

646
00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:54.920
I think with the title like that.

647
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:58.039
Yeah, I like that there's I like it in a

648
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:01.519
title because it is a major vocal point. There's not

649
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:04.519
just creative, it's like, how do I start to care

650
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:08.079
about these wrestlers? And that's the thing that at any

651
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:11.679
point of our wrestling fandom, whether it was caring about

652
00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:17.920
Sting taking on Rick Flair or to take on Rick.

653
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:20.960
I'm trying to think of who else there Hogan during Hulcomania,

654
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:27.760
Steve Austin going after Vince McMahon, Brett Hart, Sean Michaels

655
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.719
Rock Austin Like there was a character development behind a

656
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:33.519
Doctor Trey and I'm just happy that they're doing that

657
00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.199
right now with Cody Rhoades. So, I mean, that's that's

658
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:42.840
pretty exciting to see that. Yeah, speaking of Shawn michaels In,

659
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:46.400
character development is new role with w E. Let's talk

660
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:49.920
a little bit about the NXT debut on the CW Network.

661
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.719
Some notes I had written down Doctor Trey Roxane Perez

662
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.360
shockingly defeating Julia thanks for the help of the returning Corra.

663
00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:59.039
Jade wes Lee defeats Zachary Wentz in an awesome street fight.

664
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:03.079
Austin Australian female star Delta appears to be NXT bound.

665
00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:07.400
Trick Williams wins the NXC Championship. I'm still not feeling

666
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:11.079
Trick Williams matches, and then Seampunk takes out Ethan Page

667
00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:14.000
to close the show, which was pretty funny. During the confetti,

668
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.920
you just see a gts. Overall, I thought it was

669
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:19.639
a great, crowd, solid show. I don't know if I'm

670
00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:22.119
digging the new NXT logo yet, but those are some

671
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.639
of my thoughts from NXD on the CW network.

672
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:28.760
I actually really enjoyed the show. I actually watched it live,

673
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:32.159
which is a rarity for me with kids and everything

674
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:35.480
else going on the world. That rock Stand and Julia

675
00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:37.480
match was really good. There's a couple of spots in there.

676
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.599
Once again Julia brand new to the company, but I

677
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:43.199
thought they did that match really well. The Core Jade

678
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.760
return was surprising because I didn't know she had been

679
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.079
kind of cleared to come back. But that was great

680
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.760
that the I mean, everybody lists the show knows. I'm

681
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:54.679
a huge Wes Lee fan, known the guy for forever.

682
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:57.280
I've known Zach Wentz forever now as well. That was

683
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.639
just one of the most fun, entertaining. Like Street Fight

684
00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:03.960
match is in a long time women's tag match was

685
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.920
a little bit kind of but and I'm kind of

686
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:09.960
with you, like the Trick getting the belt back. The

687
00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:13.079
crowd loves Trick Williams, but man, I can only I

688
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:15.199
can only watch so many of his matches and I'm like,

689
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:18.320
it's still kind of off at times. To me, that

690
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:20.119
was more of a hey, let's put the belt back

691
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:23.000
on Trick to let the crowd go home happy. I

692
00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:26.400
guess his character development arc of trying to figure out

693
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:29.800
if he could bounce back after losing the title and

694
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.840
having to go talk to all the former champions, get

695
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.679
beat up by Pete Dunn, and then now defeat you know,

696
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:36.920
Ethan Page is kind of the.

697
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.599
Climax of this.

698
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:42.440
And I'm really looking forward to Saria's show because the

699
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:47.039
orcuse Me next Tuesday show in Saint Louis. The Tony

700
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.039
d Obafemi on Miss TV was was pretty entertaining and

701
00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:53.960
leading into this match and then, uh, I don't know

702
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.039
if it's been announced, but I saw it on Twitter

703
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.840
Randy Orton and Javon Evans that.

704
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:03.000
Has been announced. I mean they're basically setting it up

705
00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:04.760
for a wild rcho.

706
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:07.519
Yeah, like I am, I am I'm all in on

707
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:11.519
that match because it kind of reminds me of the

708
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:15.559
Mustafa Aldie Randy Orton stuff before Mustafa got hurt and

709
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.000
we got Koche Maney out of it.

710
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:19.599
So I'm really excited for the show.

711
00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.360
I like. I don't know if I like the tweaks

712
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.039
to the belt. I think it's kind of necessary, but

713
00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:26.079
I do like they say, hey, it's new, it's new show.

714
00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:29.840
We got you to get new belts. The logo, eh,

715
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:32.079
But I like that it's already being referred to as

716
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:35.599
the Black and Silver era, So I don't know if

717
00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:37.280
I like. I mean, I like it because it's close

718
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:39.960
to Black and Goal but not quite there. But also,

719
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:41.840
as a forty hundred fan, I hate the Raiders and

720
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:42.719
they're the Black and Silver.

721
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:44.039
Okay, I'm born.

722
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.559
Hey, that's fair enough. Sometimes when those things happen. As

723
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:51.880
sports fans, we see our sports fandom come out professional wrestling. Yeah,

724
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.280
it was a very solid debut on the CW network.

725
00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:58.719
NXT has been a really good brand over the last

726
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:01.480
six months or so, and it's been a very solid

727
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:04.239
year for them, and I hope it. Hope it continues.

728
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:10.079
I presume Stephanie vak Kor will be coming soon to NXT.

729
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:13.039
I think maybe there's some rumblings for her to appear

730
00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:18.400
in the Saint Louis show. The Tony d Obafemi storyline

731
00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:21.280
is Rocky three, which is kind of funny because it

732
00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:24.800
wasn't the whole thing Moxley was complaining about with Sam

733
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:30.320
Punk during the aw stuff. I like Punk a lot

734
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:33.800
in NXT as well. I think he's a great fit

735
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.880
when he's on that brand. Again. I think the only

736
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.480
takeaway Doctor Trey is I hate to say this because

737
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:43.039
I really like him as a character. The entering workers

738
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:45.320
not that much, and I don't know if they have

739
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:48.679
any other choices right now, but I just is it

740
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:52.639
possible that w W is potentially pushing Trick Williams down

741
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:53.760
our throat a little too much?

742
00:38:56.599 --> 00:39:00.480
Maybe because he's he's probably the biggest NXT merch mover,

743
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:03.039
because whoop that Trick is a fun little chamber, but

744
00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:07.639
he get behind. I'm just wondering if this move is

745
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:11.280
setting up Tony d to defeat Oba Femi, for Oba

746
00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:15.000
to move up to the heavyweight contendership, you know, and

747
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.920
move that along, and then we get Trick and Oba

748
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:21.480
down the road, and then we can do two African

749
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.719
American men fighting for the NAC Championship, that type of stuff.

750
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:28.440
He's kind of doing the Carmelo trick angle, but with

751
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.159
a much bigger man. I'm just curious see what they

752
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:33.599
do with some of these guys that have been in

753
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:36.800
the undercard, like O Wesley his he O run. What

754
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.320
do you do with Oba Femi since he's been the

755
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:40.280
champion for so long? Do you use the time to

756
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.039
move him up so and then now what do you

757
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.159
do with Ethan Page with him dropping the belt?

758
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:46.920
How does that whole thing play out?

759
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.000
So it leaves some questions in the storylines and does

760
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.360
when Stephanie vakor comes in, do we get Stephanie and

761
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:59.000
Julia against Roxanne and Korra Because I'm kind of on

762
00:39:59.039 --> 00:39:59.840
board for that one.

763
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:03.920
Yeah. No, I think that is a potential direction that

764
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:06.639
they go and keep an eye on the NXC women's

765
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.719
division because that is about to explode here very soon.

766
00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:12.199
I mean, they were very, very good under and mid

767
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:15.159
card in the NXC women's division. I said months ago,

768
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:16.960
I thought it was one of the most deepest women's

769
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:20.280
division in all professional wrestling, and I feel like we're

770
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.960
on the verge of it. Exploding here in late twenty

771
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.599
twenty four and certainly in twenty twenty five with some

772
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:28.599
really big additions. Delta, who I've read some good things

773
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:31.519
about from the Australian wrestling scene. As I mentioned before,

774
00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:36.159
Stephanie Vakhor, who we saw at Forbiddendor in aw New

775
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.159
Japan back in June, Julia who we've been seeing here.

776
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.039
Roxanne Perez has been really good as a heel. Cor

777
00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:43.840
Jate is really good as a heel, so I'm happy

778
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:46.440
to see her back. Klonnie Jordan has been very fun

779
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.760
as a North American women's champion. So yeah, keep an

780
00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:53.360
eye on the NXC women's division, folk, because that may

781
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:58.000
be the most exciting wrestling division in all of professional wrestling.

782
00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:02.400
Soon enough, so views on the CW Network. I did

783
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.360
not know I had the CW Network, so that was

784
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.239
very exciting to find once they made this announcement. So

785
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:09.840
congrats all around, very solid show. Looking forward to Saint

786
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.920
Louis this upcoming Tuesday. Speaking of upcoming shows, Doctor Trey,

787
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:18.079
we have Bad Blood premium predictions here takes place this

788
00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:20.880
Saturday from the State Farm Marine in Atlanta, Georgia. Before

789
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:24.199
we go match by match, Bad Blood is an old

790
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:28.880
wrestling pay per view. It was the debut of Helena

791
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:32.519
sel Seawn Michaels and The Undertaker back in ninety seven.

792
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:35.159
I think it will be on October fifth, ninety seven.

793
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:38.760
It was then in your House Bad Blood. When do

794
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.079
you think the last WA bad When was the last

795
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:44.480
time WA had a pay per view named bad Blood?

796
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:51.800
I'm gonna say s i' musa say two thousand, two

797
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:52.800
thousand and one.

798
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:55.480
Very close. It was two thousand and four, So twenty

799
00:41:55.559 --> 00:42:00.280
years later, Bad Blood has returned. Let's get to the

800
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:04.280
first match on the card here. It's gonna be Damian

801
00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.920
Priest taking on Finn Balor. This is a tough one

802
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:10.440
to call Doctor Trey, but I'm gonna go with Damian Priest.

803
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:12.119
Yeah.

804
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:17.000
This one's tricky because typically these rivalries last a little while,

805
00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.920
and this is their first one on one meeting. I

806
00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:23.639
think I'm gonna take Finn stealing a victory here, So

807
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.039
I'll take Finn stealing one from Damian Priest to set

808
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.079
up the rematch with some kind of you know, stipulation

809
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:30.480
on it.

810
00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:33.679
Next match is Live Morgan taken on Rida Ripley for

811
00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:37.000
the WA Women's World Championship. Dirty Dom we suspended above

812
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:38.960
the ring in a shark cage. Who do you like

813
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:39.880
in this one? Doctor Trey?

814
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:43.760
See this one's tricky also because liv won the last one,

815
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:46.679
so you expect Ria to get a revenge. But if

816
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:49.559
I'm not mistaken, the last couple times we've had people

817
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:54.000
in shark cages, the heels have won those matches, Like

818
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:57.320
I remember Paul Ellering being in one for an AOP

819
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.280
match in NXT and he was able to drop stuff

820
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:06.119
down to help them win. So I think I'm gonna

821
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:08.000
take Ria thoughs I think everybody wants to see Ria

822
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:09.800
get the wins. I think I'll take Ria getting the

823
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:11.320
win in becoming the new women's champion.

824
00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:14.519
Yeah, I'm gonna take Ria Ripley as well. I'm really

825
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.880
looking forward to this one. I like the sharkage element,

826
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:19.559
I like Dirty Don being in the shark cage, and

827
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:21.280
this has been a good few but I think it's

828
00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:23.480
time to put the championship back on Rihea lives had

829
00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:26.119
a great run with the title, but I'd like to

830
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:28.519
see Ria get the championship back on because if she

831
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.760
doesn't get it now, I guess when will she get it?

832
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.239
Because we're gonna head into war games, which she may

833
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.360
be involved with, and then we're looking at what maybe

834
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.760
the first episode on Netflix, maybe they do a rematch

835
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:42.679
with her and live for that episode, because you got

836
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.719
to figure that's gonna be who huge episode. So I

837
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:47.960
can't see them going a couple more months without Ria

838
00:43:48.039 --> 00:43:50.320
having having the championship around her way. So I'm gonna

839
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:54.719
go with Ria Ripley to regain the WA Women's World Championship.

840
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:58.360
Next batch year is Naijacks defending the WA Women's Championship

841
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.559
against Bailey. I'm gonna take Naya Jackson this one. And

842
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:03.760
for all the good things that we say about creative,

843
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:06.239
well I like the creative that got us to this match,

844
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.880
Doctor Trey. I just kind of feel like that the

845
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:11.519
SmackDown Went's division has been a little bit too one dimensional,

846
00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:13.880
with Nijack's Bailey matches taking place a lot.

847
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:17.920
Yeah, outside of Naya Bailey and Tiffitty Stretton, who I

848
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:19.840
don't even know who else is on the SmackDown Women's

849
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.800
roster pretty much like that's pretty much all we ever see.

850
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:26.079
So yeah, really Blair Davenport's on there, but that's kind

851
00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:26.719
of falling off.

852
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:29.599
Yeah, but I thought Blair was doing stuff with the

853
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.480
Unholy Union at times, and they're on raws, so it's

854
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:35.079
just like she's on their roster. But then we see

855
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:39.400
her pop up on PL's they get involved in, you know, Alba,

856
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:43.679
Fire Island Dawn matches. So I'm looking forward when they

857
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:45.239
shake their rosters up to get some more women back

858
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:48.679
on SmackDown or with SmackDown goes to three hours. I'm

859
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:51.199
with you, though, I'm taking Naya to retain just because

860
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.760
it feels like she needs a little bit of time

861
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:57.280
with the Belt. I know it's hard to book this

862
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:01.679
because Nya's amm and she has Tiffany stretton kind of

863
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:04.880
his backup, but I mean this could be where she

864
00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:08.440
gets on an dominant ron and she goes, you know,

865
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:10.840
three hundred days with the Belt, and then whoever thrones

866
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:11.679
are is a big push.

867
00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:13.519
So I'll take Naye at retaining right now.

868
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:15.840
Keep an eye on the stuff with Tiffany Stratton. They

869
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:20.079
are starting to lead up to the idea of Tiffany

870
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:23.119
eventually turning on Nie and maybe cashing in. I thought

871
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:24.599
this whole stuff with n I was gonna be leading

872
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:27.639
to the return of Charlotte Flair Queen versus Queen but

873
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:30.519
there's some rumors out there that Charlotte may not be

874
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:32.840
back in twenty twenty four at all from the injury

875
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.079
she sustained back in December of twenty twenty three. Next

876
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:39.360
match here, and I think I thought this match should

877
00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:42.800
be headlining main eventing the show Doctor Trey. According to reports,

878
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:47.159
it'll be the opener CM Punk versus Drew McIntyre in

879
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:49.079
a Helen of Cell match. Who do you like in

880
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:49.440
this one?

881
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:55.280
Yeah? See, baby Faces and Helen of Cell matches typically

882
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.039
have the upper hand, so I'm gonna take Punk. Plus

883
00:45:58.079 --> 00:45:59.800
I feel like they might move Punk on to Gunther

884
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:03.360
or something else, so I'm gonna say Punk getting the win.

885
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:06.000
Yeah, I'm gonna take Seampunk as well. The reports out

886
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.840
there right now that we'll be getting Punk and gun

887
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:11.119
through here soon enough. And then what is reportedly main

888
00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:13.559
eventing Doctor Trey will be Cody Roads and Roman Reigns

889
00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:16.159
taking on Solica Coo on Jacob Fat two. This is

890
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:19.199
a real tough one to call. I want to choose

891
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.840
Solo in Jacob Fat two, but I'm gonna go with

892
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:24.320
Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns in this one to win

893
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:24.840
this match.

894
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:29.719
Do you feel like our predicted Survivor series wargame match

895
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.400
with the Bloodline against the OG blood Line is completely

896
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:35.320
out the window, and we get Cody, Roman, Randy and

897
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.679
Ko against the New Blood Line.

898
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:40.400
I do think that may be the direction, not even Yeah,

899
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:43.519
I was thinking that during that actual actually that segment

900
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.679
where Cody was talking with Kevin Owens and Randy Orton

901
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:48.719
and they were setting up I think the tag team

902
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:50.320
match later that tonight for SmackDown.

903
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:53.039
Yeah, So, on one hand's kind of disappointing that we

904
00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:56.159
might not get O G Bloodline against New Blood Line

905
00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:59.599
anytime soon, but that with the storyline, it could be

906
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.880
very freaking does do we get Ko or Randy turning

907
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:07.840
on Cody in the cell for war Games? But it's

908
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:09.840
hard to pick because I really want to pick Solo

909
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:12.039
and Jacob because I think I think they need the

910
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:18.639
win more than Cody and Roman, so I think they

911
00:47:18.760 --> 00:47:20.719
wanna take the upset. They're gonna take Solo and Jacob

912
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:22.679
getting the win over Roman and Cody.

913
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.199
Who should be main eventing Bad Blood in your opinion,

914
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:25.840
by the way.

915
00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:30.840
See I'm punk and Drew McIntyre. Yeah, it's the better feud,

916
00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:33.239
it's the more I mean that's the feud. I mean

917
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:35.079
you look all the blood all of a sudden they've

918
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.599
put into this. Like, I get the storyline is great,

919
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:41.559
but you know for Cody and Roman and all that stuff.

920
00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:43.760
But I mean, this feud has kind of carried the

921
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.920
company for the past four or five six months.

922
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:49.599
I think something big is going to happen and that

923
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.440
is why this match is headlining Bad Blood. I don't

924
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:56.360
know if you saw the clip this week, Doctor Trey,

925
00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:59.679
but Cody Rhodes was on the Pat McAfee show and

926
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:03.960
they clip I think on McAfee's account or something, and

927
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.159
it was some sort of and wrestled Puris pulled it

928
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:09.400
off of Twitter and Cody Rhodes going around thinking everybody

929
00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:11.639
for having him on the show. And you hear Pat

930
00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:14.920
McAfee said, I heard we're getting the big Guy back

931
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.519
this weekend, and Cody kind of was like caught off guard,

932
00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:22.920
like holy crap, he knows and he's like, what big

933
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.000
guy are you talking about? And I think it was

934
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.599
something like like the big Guy And to me, I

935
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:32.840
jumped to either Paul Hayman or the Rock, so it

936
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:36.760
could be Paul Hayman returns. That's the big guy that

937
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:39.800
Pat McAfee's talking about, but I'm also thinking when he

938
00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:42.199
says the big guy, he may be meeting Dwayne the

939
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.119
Rock Johnson. I think something big is going down this

940
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:46.159
Saturday at Bad Blood.

941
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:50.320
Doctor Trey Well, and if that's the case, I saw that.

942
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:51.480
I'm sure he saw it too.

943
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.920
Brock Lesner has been added back onto the WWE page,

944
00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:58.079
so Brock could be a big guy.

945
00:48:58.119 --> 00:48:59.559
But I don't think Brock fits in here.

946
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:05.000
But if Rock comes back, I mean Rock and solo

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against Brock and Roman at some points, you know, like that,

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it would be kind of cool, and we've never seen

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that happen. So yeah, I do think if this is

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the main event, you're getting something big to happen at

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the end of the match, because otherwise you'd go with

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punkin McIntire.

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Yeah, So interesting times ahead to here Bad Blood this

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Saturday from Atlanta, Georgia. We will recap and review it

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for all of you on next week's edition of SR

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to You, and we'll also preview and predict aw Wrestle

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Dream that will be taking place next weekend. With that said,

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let's get a couple plugs and sponsors out of the way.

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the fall show on X at SRTU podcast. With that

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being said, what is going on in the wonderful world

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of dot Trey Franklin week.

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Well, like Jeff said, you can follow me on X

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at the Doctor Trey. You can find me on Instagram

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and Facebook Doctor Trey Franklin. When you're on Facebook, be

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sure check out rock and See Championship Wrestling. Big show

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going on this Saturday, so you'll see me there. Spartan

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Championship Wrestling that you see me at every so often,

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just kind of depends on on the scheduling, game time.

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Championship Wrestling and then we're also doing a fundraiser for

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the for a local police department up in Ardmore, Alabama

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on October.

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Twenty sixth as well.

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So four different companies this month, Jeff, I guess I'm

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back in the swing of things.

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There you go. That's really really good to hear that

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Doctor Trey is back out on the independent wrestling scene,

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because I know he's been missed with that bum leg

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for some time. So happy to see Doctor Trey back

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out there doing his damn thing. With that said, thank

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you once again for downloading this week's edition of SRT you.

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Anything we discussed, feel free to chime in Facebook dot com,

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slash the Still Real tut Show, or on x at

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SRT you podcast. Enjoy the weekend, enjoy Bad Blood, and

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until next week. For Doctor Trey Franklin, I am Jeff Pack.

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This has been This is the real the show.