Have we been too "harsh" towards AEW lately? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #745 – 5/23/24

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It's still welcome. Everybody. Welcome
to this week's edition of This Storreal Does

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Show, Episode number seven and forty
five for May twenty three, twenty twenty

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four. This is your w week
King and Queen of the Ring and aw

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Double or Nothing Preview and Predictions edition
of ass R T You. I am

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one after the show. I am
Jeff Pack who joined every single week with

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my cost Thelena, Lindy Dutch,
Tray Franklin, Doctor Trey. It's the

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busy Memorial Day weekend, my friend. Yeah, I just heard of the

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news that they've already had four of
the biggest travel days in history have been

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in the month of May. My
travel schedule very very light, though for

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this Memorial Day weekend, I don't
think I'm going anywhere. But for everybody

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out traveling, why are you traveling? There's like two giant pay per views

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going on. Just stay home and
watch wrestling and be like Doctor Trey.

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Yeah, yeah, it's just don't
bother with the barbecue. If it's a

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good weather outside, just stay in
at one o'clock on Saturday East Coast time

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and then eight o'clock in the evening
Sunday night and enjoy some w and AW.

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It's become a tradition here in the
last five years that Memorial Day weekend,

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which is typically the kickoff the unofficial
kickoff to summer here in the United

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States, has become a big wrestling
weekend. I think it's the last.

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I wanna say, two or three
years. W has added a show on

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Memorial Day weekend in Saudi Arabia as
well. We do get smacked down on

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Friday night from Saudi Arabia and then
of course the Sunday Double or Nothing has

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been ongoing since twenty nineteen as AW
celebrates five years since its launch as a

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company. That brings us to our
first discussion here on this week's edition the

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showr of SRTU Doctor Trey. So
last week we asked for some fan feedback,

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some fan comments from people that are
listening to the show each and every

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week, and our old friend EJ. Reid commented on our Facebook page,

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Facebook dot com slash there still real
to us show and he had had the

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following to say in regards to our
comments lately regard to all Elite wrestling.

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For those who didn't listen, then
why didn't you On last week's show,

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Doctor Trey and I talked about being
at a viewership crossroads when it came to

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All Elite Wrestling, and EJ had
the following to say to us, Doctor

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Trey. He said, and I
quote, I think you guys have been

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a little harsh on the AW product
lately. I and then in parentheses along

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with other shows podcasts that I listened
to and parentheses, think that this has

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been their best output since Brawl Out. I think that the ratings will bump

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back up if they say focus and
stick with certain stories. Triple A's it's

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done a tremendous job on the other
side of the road, but gives me

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a different flavor of wrestling to enjoy
as well. That's all I responded to

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them on the Facebook page. I
will re respond here on this week's this

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of the podcast, but I figured
i'd start with you, doctor Trey and

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EJ's thoughts on our harsh comments in
regards to AW. I don't really think

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we've been any more harsh than we
have over the past five years. I

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just think there have been ebbs and
flows in the AAW product throughout its launch.

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But what I would hope when you're
into year five is that you would

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be far more consistent than you are
in year one and two, and I

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still think the same inconsistencies in the
programming exists now that they've had all along.

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This past week's episode of Dynamite,
I actually did enjoy it because they

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were building up storylines, and that's
one of the things I need as a

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wrestling fan. Now. There are
other wrestling fans out there that disregard all

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the backstage stuff for the storylines or
whatever, and just want to focus on

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in ring action. And for those
people, like I said last week,

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that's great, you can get that
same thing from UFC, But for me

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as a wrestling fan, I need
some storyline. I need to meet on

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the phone to kind of enjoy it
more so. But there have been moments

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in the past four months where that
show has been un Dynamite's been I would

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say decent for the four months,
but Collisions awful, Rampage is awful.

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The only saving grace to me that
they've had over the past four or five

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months has been their pay per view
events, which have been fantastic. If

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you look at the ratings for our
ratings for pay per views for aw their

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ratings are great. Is just the
television programming, which is supposed to be

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a television show, has not had
good continuous storytelling and that's why it just

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it makes me just be frustrated as
a fan because like Ricky starts Big Bill,

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Ricky starts Tag Team Champions, Big
Bill down with Jerica, Rickey starts

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too ever seen these stops and starts
and the storylines of stop and start is

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so frustrating because you start to get
into something and then it just goes away,

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never to be seen from again.
Yeah. I had a similar response

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to j and our facebook page,
and I said that Dynamite has been good

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and solid and Collision is an okay
show with a couple of good matches sprinkled

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in there, in here and there. Rampage is at times completely unwatchable.

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There have been some little bits of
stretches lately where they've done a good job

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making my interest in Rampage a little
bit more. With the Willow Nightingale Blue

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Sky like street fight they did,
I forgot it was like something in regards

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to the location in Canada, I
think was a Missawa street fight or something

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like that. I'm probably saying the
city wrong. And then there was the

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Trent Bretta Chuck Taylor Backlop Brawl from
Daily's Place that I thought was really well

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done as well. I don't think
we've been harsh on the product. I

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think we've been honest. These are
two guys, speaking of Doc Trey and

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I who want to see AW succeed. We certainly don't want to see them

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fail. But I just saw an
interview or something off of like Eric Bischoff's

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podcast recently in regards to AW and
how they built up all this goodwill with

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wrestling fans back in twenty nineteen,
and it's kind of eroded away to a

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degree with viewership down, attendance down, and the erosion is going to be

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harder for them as a company to
gain back those viewers than anything else because

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some of those people have made up
their minds, like listen, Aw's not

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for me. I don't want to
watch it anymore. If there's a good

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match, if there's a good segment, maybe I'll tune in here and there.

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But as a weekly subscriber to All
Lead Wrestling, I'm not going to

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do that because maybe they're getting their
weekly fixed from what they're seeing on WETELI

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right now. WWE for people my
age, Doctor Trey's age. Most of

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the viewers of this podcast, this
has been like watching the NFL, the

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NBA, MLB. It's the standard
bearer. There are years when the product

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is really good. There's years when
the product is really bad. But if

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we're a fan of the sport,
we still tune in and we watch it

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while AW, maybe that USFL that
is trying to break in or the XFL

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ironically enough and break things in,
rattle the cage of the industry a little

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bit. Sometimes they implement some really
good things, like you're seeing the XFL

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implementing a new kickoff rule in the
NFL, we saw the way that AW

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was implementing things, giving a little
bit more freedom, and then they implement

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it to their product, and those
products and those subsidiaries like change the game,

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and that right now is what all
Elite Wrestling has done. They've changed

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the game. They've given another home
professional wrestlers. We still want to see

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it succeed and thrive, but for
two and a half years, really maybe

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a little bit longer, it's been
a product that's kind of meddling, does

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not have a creative way anymore like
it used to, and is hit or

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miss. I agree with Doctor Trey. I watched Dynamite this past Wednesday,

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and I was like, that was
a really good episode of the show,

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and Dynamite typically is I thought that
was one that really stood out as of

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late as a really good episode and
a good way to build into double or

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nothing. But I'll watch Rampage and
Collision on Friday and Saturday, and it

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may nowhere hold a candle to what
we saw with Dynamite. So yeah,

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I mean, obviously we're biased.
I don't think we've been harsh. I

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think we've been honest, and I
think what maybe some of the people that

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are aw diehards that listen to this
podcast, hopefully you don't forget. I'm

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going to reiterate it again, is
we want to see it succeed, but

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you can't turn a blind eye to
it. I mean, it's just I

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mean, I legitimately have thought in
the last couple of weeks, like,

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man, do I just stop watching
Collision and Rampage and tune in Dynamite and

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just check out what's going on YouTube. I would gain three hours of my

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life back if Dynamite continued to you
know, if it went down the same

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hole as Collision and rampage, and
I removed those two hours from my life.

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Now I'm just not watching their product
for five hours a week and I

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could be doing something else. It's
starting to be summertime. You can go

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outside. I'm having a kid soon, spend time with my child obviously.

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So yeah, again, I mean
completely biased, but I don't think we've

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been harsh doctor try No. And
for a long time listeners of the show,

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I mean we got, you know, a pretty long track record.

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We've had moments with WWE where we
felt the same way, where the product

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was damn near unwatchable, but they
had built up enough credibility and good will

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for us to still kind of linger
around and hope for it to get better,

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and then lo and behold it gets
better, and then it kind of

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goes down a little bit. And
then right now, for the last you

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know, two years, they've basically
been hitting home run after home run and

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in a for the most part,
has been a good is a good quality

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product like they have at leaks on
the show. They have more talent in

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aw than they do in WWE,
from top to bottom, like they're their

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roster is deeper is and that's I
guess maybe it's we have so much high

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expectations for them now with how deep
this roster is, that when it doesn't

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meet expectation, we're let down.
You know, as you were talking earlier,

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I was like, once again,
I always bring up like are you

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creating new stars or are you making
people who are stars even better? And

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really, I mean be honest about
it, Like, for all the guys

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from WW who have come over,
are any of them a bigger star than

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they were when they were in WWE? Has anybody well? And I almost

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don't count Swerve because he never made
it. He made the main roster for

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like what three months even less than
that, Like Swerve is the only person

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in the company right now I think
is a bigger star now than they were

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a year ago. Well, I
was gonna say, maybe Moxley isn't that

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Roman as well? I don't.
I don't know if he's a bigger star.

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I think he's been the most consistent
star they've had, But I don't

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know if John Moxley is more famous
now than Dean Ambrose was probably a little

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bit, maybe internationally because he's spending
more time in Japan. But you know,

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is Adam Copeland a bigger star now
than he was in WWE, Brian

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Danielson, Miro Malachai Black, you
know, any of the guys they've brought

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in, I mean even even their
homegrown I mean, is Adam Cole a

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bigger star now than it was at
XT Keith Lee obviously not. You know,

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they haven't really And if you look
at the homegrown talent, maybe m

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Jff's bigger now than he was.
You know when he started, Tony I

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would say, Tony, I mean, but you've had so much talent come

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in and you've elevated four people.
I mean, that's not a great track

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record where ww B. I mean, you can watch that show now and

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you go, well, Chad Gay
wasn't a better spot now than he was

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a year ago. Sammy's maybe dropped
a little bit from wrestle Mania. It's

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to wrestle Mania, but intercondal Champion. You know there they are bringing people

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up. You look at Jake Cargill, she obviously, I mean, you

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know, it's probably a bigger star
now than she wasn't. Aw Cody's a

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way bigger star now than he wasn't. Aw, Like, there is a

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track record of them elevating people up
and giving them quote unquote the ball to

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run with. I just that's where
to me. I look at it like

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if if you're a television show,
are you hooking me in to watch next

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week's edition? And are you creating
people that are musty talents? And really

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I think WWE's done a better job, But any W's got some things.

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But you know, right now,
like remember how popular Hook was. Is

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Hook on the same level he was
a year ago, The acclaimed on the

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same level they were a year ago. The guns have probably elevated up,

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But I don't know if Jay White's
a bigger star now than he was a

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year ago. So there's some things
there that you can work on to boost

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your product up. And I just
don't think they've done a really great job

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of it. I will say in
the short term, I thought the creative

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has improved in the last build towards
double or nothing. We'll preview the card

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here later on, So maybe they
are listening to fan base that's out there

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saying like I gotta have a little
bit more to this than just seeing a

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dream match with real no real storyline, Like if I quickly go through this

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card very fast, out to Trey
given everything going on in the show,

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tell me if you think it's been
a good or bad build. Like Roger

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Strong will ospray, it's gotten bad. It was really bad in beginning.

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The last two weeks have kind of
pushed it back up for me. So

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okay, yeah, Timeless, Tony
Storm, Serena Deep Yeah, not really

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really. I mean they just ran
multiple angles on Collision and last night they're

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shoving a lot of stuff into short
period. Yeah, but would you prefer

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that versus nothing at all? Okay? So, if we're going off,

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have they built a or you just
gonna have they built a storyline or a

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good storyline? I'm saying, have
they built a storyline here rather than what

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they were doing in the past.
There's reasoning behind the matches? Yes,

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Okay, we're going off that one. Okay, So yes, then in

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that case, Tony Sorcerde has a
storyline. Copeland Malachi, Yes, Moxley

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Kenosk. I'm in the middle on
that one. I was gonna say,

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ish like, I'm in the middle
on that one. If you if kind

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of bringing some past stuff as well
into this stuff, I'd like to see

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a little bit more On Friday and
Saturday, Brett and Orange Cassidy without a

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without a doubt, Yeah, Jericho
Hook Shibata, Yes, Bang Bang Gang

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Death Triangle if you can't want if
you say one week's storyline, yeah,

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right, Uh, there's been a
little bit of build with Pac, I

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would say, but I would put
that in the middle of like Moxley Knoske

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a tick higher than Kenoski and and
Moxley Nightingale, Mercedes Yes, Elite and

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Team aw Yes, Swerve and Christian
Cage Yes. So I mean there's some

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creative behind it, which is which
is important right now and again that's what

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we've been asking for. It's not
the sup I would say, it's not

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the super indie show type things where
they just go hey, like who's our

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best, Like, who's our best
inter ring guys. We're just gonna throw

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them in a match and not really
just hope the fans go, oh,

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I got to see that match.
Yeah, it's like stuff creatively that I

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disliked was the Bank Bank Scissor Gang
like coming together then breaking up so quickly,

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Like it's like, what was the
point of that. They could have

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made a ton of merchandise and remained
together for like a year plus and then

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you break them off in like less
than three months. It was like bizarre

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to me, and then rekindle a
feud like it'd always been there. The

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things that are that are interesting with
AW right now, you know, spraining

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off of EJ's comment to us,
which thank you EJ for doing that.

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If more people hit us up on
Twitter and Facebook, we'll talk about this

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on the show. Each week you
had, Ricky Starks had an interview where

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he talked about he doesn't know what
his status is with all Elite Wrestling,

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and sometimes I tried to be very
cautious with that because I don't know if

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they're playing k fab or not.
However, there was an interview recently with

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Kenoski Takeshka, and that was a
recent interview with DDT Pro Wrestling, and

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this comes to us from Wrestling Inc. The Japanese wrestler say that he hasn't

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found anything enjoyable about his AW run
and has lost the joy of wrestling with

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a quote since arriving in America,
if you were to ask me what I

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found enjoyable, there's been nothing in
my heart. I've thrown already thrown away

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the joys of wrestling, said Takeshka. Everyone felt like they're having fun here

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in Japan. I didn't have any
fun wrestling ever since I got to America.

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The effort was bearing fruit, but
I didn't feel the enjoyment. It

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was the most mentally exhausting period in
all twelve years of my wrestling career.

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He added, though that his match
has been well received despite him not having

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fun in the ring. Takeshka highlighted
the challenge of wrestling in the US,

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asserting that the American audience may not
be keen on wheat in an Asian wrestler

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on television, saying, I thought
hard work could cover for everything else before

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getting there. If I showed how
good I am, I could get more

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of your time. But there are
other aspects that come into play when competing

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here in America. Discrimination is not
the word here, but unfortunately there's lack

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of space for an Asian person beyond
the TV show watched by Americans, said

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the former KOD Openweight champion. One. I feel awful that Kenoski Takesha feels

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that way because I don't look at
his success in America and go, well,

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he's an Asian wrestler. How am
I going to relate as an American

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fan because we've seen Osca Shinsky Nakamora
when he's had his NXT run really succeed

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because it's Gocot, I think can
really succeed, and I think Takeshko was

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succeeding. But so it's unfortunately he
feels that way. The second part about

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this, he completely rips apart his
current employer, and how this isn't a

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major story to me is like mind
boggling, Like this was just kind of

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like a thrownaway story last week when
I found it, and I'm like,

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this is the problem we're seeing with
all Elite wrestling. If Ricky Stark's comments

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are not in storyline and they're not
there to promote anything, and he's legitimately

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bashing the company or quasi bashing the
company, and you've got Kenoski Takeshka nut

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Quasi completely bashing the company, We've
got a problem here because this is the

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things that we're seeing as fewers and
the wrestlers are now saying this in interviews.

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Yeah, No, it's it's major. I mean when you have especially

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younger talent, I can understand some
of the older like it's an older wrestler

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or somebody who doesn't feel like,
you know, that they've earned their spot

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and is not being used or whatever. Those guys I kind of get it,

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because I mean they've they've put in
there you know times, you know,

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time and their equity builds up those
people. And to me, Ricky

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Starks, that's a that's a huge
story to me, like you have arguably

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one of the most talented wrestlers in
the world on your roster and you're pushing

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him and then all of a sudden, not on TV for months, you're

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saying he's injured. He's saying he's
not injured. That's a complete miscommunication.

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And that's one of the things that
we've heard about in the past with AW

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is when they're not using somebody,
they don't communicate with that person very I

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mean that you go back to this
stuff with Janella and those guys when they

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were being quietly released and he was
like, you know, I haven't heard

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the company in like five months.
You know, if you're an employer,

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you need to be touching base with
your employees, you know. And the

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stuff with Takeshka was shocking because I
mean, this was a guy that was

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kind of hand selected by Kenny Omega
to come in. You think of that

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run that he and Omega had,
you know, and all the stuff with

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the Kallus family, and that was
some really compelling stuff, and you're like,

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but he's not having fun, he
doesn't enjoy his time, he's lost

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the joy of wrestling, Like that's
that is shocking to hear anybody say that,

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especially when you're in the middle of
the storyline with one of the biggest

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stars in the company, you know, heading into you know, I made

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a big time match for the ISWGP
Championship, So like it's I don't know

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if I've ever if I can recall
a time when a WWE employee came out

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and just openly bashed the company.
Maybe I mean maybe a little bit the

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Zach Ryder Internet days, the YouTube
days, but really, I mean it's

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just like there's just lack of communication
sometimes in ADEW. I mean I heard

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that from you know, when Brian
Pelman was leaving and he came to work

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Rocket City, Like that was one
of the things that he had brought up.

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Like when you're a favorite of if
you're in that circle of Tony Kahan

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and you're getting used, Yeah,
like they're open to everything. But as

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soon as you're like, you know, no longer flavor of the month,

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that communication well kind of dries up
and then you're just kind of left in

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limbo waiting for somebody call you with
something to do. So it's an ongoing

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issue they've had. And sometimes this
is in business. And I don't know

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what company Jeff works for, I
know kind of what he does, but

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I know in my company that sometimes
when you overexpand your infrastructure is lacking because

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you've gotten too big for what you
start with. And I think that's always

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been an issue with AEW. As
the product it's more and more expansion,

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they're still lagging on that infrastructure in
the middle to kind of keep everybody at

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peace and keep everybody happy with what's
going on. Yeah, it's it's a

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bizarre story in bizarre comments, and
I don't think that's anything storyline related.

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I thought the Ricky Stark stuff could
be like you come back as this you

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distruntled employee to AW and they could
play off of that. But the Kenowski

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Takeshka stuff is like completely does not
come off the storyline whatsoever. So very

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interesting comments there in regards to AW. AW made a very interesting move announcement

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last week via press release. Starting
on Saturday, July twentieth, AW is

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partnered with the City of Arlington,
Texas for AW Path to All In Summer

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Series at the East Sports Stadium in
Arlington, and that begins on July twentieth,

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So they're going to be hosting AW
Collision for several weeks on July twentieth,

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twenty seventh, August First, which
is a Thursday, August tenth,

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and August seventeenth heading into All In. ROH Death Before Dishonor will also air

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on Friday, July twenty sixth from
the same arena. So they're gonna be

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having six shows over the summer,
five of which are gonna be Collision.

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And this is two parts a very
outside the box interesting move by AW because

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they're gonna have a home where it's
gonna save some cost. They're not gonna

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have to fly there wrestlers all over
the country. They're going to be able

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to leave their stuff in this stadium
for a couple of weeks and all fly

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to one place and save a little
bit of money and hopefully have a good

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crowd. And this is second part
intriguing because if Collision from an attendance standpoint,

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was very successful. They wouldn't have
to do this so interesting move here,

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Doctor Trey by AEW to make this
move, and I just thought that,

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you know, no matter what,
if they re up with with Warner

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Brothers Discovery for millions or billions of
dollars and what have you, they are

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kind of acknowledging that business may not
be as good as it should be from

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a ticket sales standpoint by doing a
deal like this. Yeah, yes and

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no. To me, I like
the move because, yes, it does

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save money, and that's that's a
big thing, you know, for any

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company. If you can find a
place where you can kind of put down

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an anchor and just you know,
save a little bit of money but still

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put out a good product and still
generate revenue, it's a good move.

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One of the things I really liked
about this is, you know, AAW

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has not really established a home area. I know, we can say Jacksonville,

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but Jeff, you go to Ford
all time. Jacksonville and Orlando are

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not very far apart, and we
have the the Performance Center and NXT,

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you know, less than two hours
away. It's kind of hard to establish

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that Florida is our home state,
Texas for everything people said to the state

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is a rabid wrestling fan base.
I mean, you can go back to

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the seventies eighties with World Class Championship
Wrestling and things like that. If you

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can put down roots and say like
this is our one of our home areas

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that we know if we come to
Arlington, we're going to sell out,

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or we're going to have a really
good crowd, or we're going to generate

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some revenue. If you can capture
something to be a base of operations,

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then you're kind of putting down roots
and you can kind of work out from

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there as well. I mean,
the crazy thing to me was they picked

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Arlington, which has hosted to WrestleMania's
in the last nine years. I mean,

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that's it's it's kind of also a
kind of a middle finger to WWE.

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But you know WWE, you know, for everything that we talked about

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for being a global entity, their
home base is in Northeast. They run

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Boston, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, that's their stopping around.

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They know that area better than anything
else, you know. And when WCW

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is going strong, a lot of
their stuff came out of Atlanta, and

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Georgia and the Carolinas. They had
regions that they knew they could be successful

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in. And if you can put
down roots in an area like Texas,

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you know, and kind of grow
that fan base to be you know,

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an AEW centric audience, it's a
really good move on their part, you

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know, as far as building a
base to kind of work out of.

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Yeah, I like the move.
Don't get me wrong here. I like

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the move. I like where they're
just you know, kind of saving money

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a little bit. They're gonna have
a little bit of a home base for

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a couple of weeks, what have
you. But I do think again,

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if if AW was was successful in
their ticket sales and attendance on the Saturday

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show, that they wouldn't need to
do this. They could also potentially be

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countering the fact that people are going
to be traveling a lot during the summer

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months, and maybe they don't think
that they're going to have the crowd like

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they should, but during the summer
months when people are away in various different

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cities and locations. So I like
the move from business standpoint, but I

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do think it's them acknowledging like,
hey, there may be a little bit

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of a problem here, but they
have a remedy to fix it, rather

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than than saying let's just continue to
move forward and hope for the best.

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And next thing, you know,
they're going to be doing a show out

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of like a Universal Studios sound stage. So AW Collision will be airing from

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Arlington, Texas for about five weeks, heading into AW all In in late

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August there, which, by the
way, they have pushed out All Out

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in Chicago a week instead of being
the weekend of September first, it's going

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to be September seventh. I love
that move. It's a two week gap

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in between all In and All Out. I don't less than five days between

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two pay per views. I think
there's a little bit of fatigue, and

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they actually saw the buy rate come
down I think pretty substantially, maybe by

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like twenty to thirty buys versus All
In to All Out. Maybe that had

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to do with somebody named Sampunk also
getting fired. But I do like a

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little bit of space between the pay
per views. Some more business news that

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was announced. It was actually announced
today on Thursday here as W announced that

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Summer Slam in twenty twenty six.
We haven't even held to Summer Slam twenty

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twenty four, yet it'll be held
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was rumored

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to be hosting Russell Many forty one, which is now going to be in

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Las Vegas. And the other big
news here Doctor Trey. It will be

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a two night event taking place on
August first and second. Obviously, this

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is one surprising that they've announced the
show eight hundred days out already, and

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two it is now joining WrestleMania as
a two night event. You know,

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no word of this change will also
be taking place in twenty twenty five whenever

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that is announced the location, but
twenty twenty six, as it stands presently,

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Doctor Trey will be the first Summer
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and this looks like it may be
here to stay when it comes to

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some of the big events, whether
it be the Royal Rumble and Survivors Series

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as well in the future. Your
thoughts here on the announcement and the two

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nine event announcement. No, I
love the two nine announcement event because you

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know, we've always said that,
you know, SummerSlam is like the second

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biggest event they hold. Uh.
To me, this kind of gives it

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more gravatas to be like, hey, you know, we're gonna do the

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big one in the springtime, but
we're also gonna have this massive one in

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late summer. So I like to
move. Plus, it gives more wrestlers

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a chance to be in the card. You know, you you're a big

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fan of you know, the smaller
cards, but the more ring time that

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Triple H has kind of been doing
the last you know, a couple of

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years. But if I can have
a two night event for one for WrestleMania

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and one for SummerSlam, then where
you know that your stars are gonna get

404
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:49.279
a chance to be featured on one
of the on probably both these shows.

405
00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.960
I also love it in a kind
of a in a sense to the city

406
00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.960
of Minneapolis, we're like, hey, we didn't give you WrestleMania, but

407
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.119
we're gonna do something completely new that
we've never done before for you guys for

408
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:07.000
SummerSlam. In dear God, summertime
in Minneapolis is way better than early spring

409
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:12.079
in Minneapolis as far as hosting events
all the other stuff that goes along with

410
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:18.160
a big event like the WrestleMania weekend. To me hosting that in Minneapolis in

411
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.440
like late August, early September is
better than late March early April, just

412
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.799
weatherwise, and just you know,
this just also shows the evolution of the

413
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.799
business, Like we're at a point
now where that rostering WV is very deep

414
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:36.240
as well and very talented, and
it gives them a chance to really showcase

415
00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:40.799
their talent and not have that,
you know, those seven hour, six

416
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:45.240
hour shows that can really fatigue a
wrestling fans. So I love the outside

417
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.279
box thinking that they're pulling off here
and now I'm just curious to see where

418
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.920
SummerSlam twenty five could be, because
it is weird that they're announcing twenty six

419
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:53.880
and they still announced where twenty five
is gonna be. Yeah, there's been

420
00:29:53.920 --> 00:30:00.160
some rumblings out there. Saudi Arabia
had come out recently and said that they

421
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:07.960
will be looking at hosting events like
a Royal Rumble or a SmackDown or excuse

422
00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:12.000
me, WrestleMania there. So I
wonder if they would bring a Survivor series

423
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:15.920
there as well in the future,
make it a two nine event. So

424
00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.240
pretty big news there coming out of
w WE today. And actually we have

425
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:26.119
some breaking news that we'll discuss here
when we preview and predict w King and

426
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.200
Queen of the Ring as well,
which probably by the time everybody listens to

427
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:34.240
this won't be breaking, but it
is breaking to us, unfortunately, Doctor

428
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:44.000
Trey. We are celebrating a very
not celebrating remembering a very sad anniversary.

429
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:48.160
On May twenty third, nineteen ninety
nine, at the Kemper Arena in Kansas

430
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.000
City, Missouri, w WE held
then WF held the Over the Edge event,

431
00:30:52.359 --> 00:31:00.079
which saw the passing of the legendary
wrestler Owen Hart. I saw how

432
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.279
this this morning, and I could
not believe it was twenty five years ago.

433
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.279
I think we talked about this at
the twentieth anniversary of his passing,

434
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:10.839
and here we are at the twenty
fifth anniversary, which is just absurd.

435
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.400
Makes me feel old. I can't
believe Owen's been gone for twenty five years.

436
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:19.720
Now, Where were you when this
event took place? And how did

437
00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:25.960
you find out about the news of
Owen Heart's tragic passing? So ninety nine,

438
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:32.559
I was back living in North Carolina. I had not actually watched the

439
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:34.519
Over the Edge of pay per view
because at the time it's still pay per

440
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.400
view and the time the family still
did not have a lot of money,

441
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.000
so it was one of those things
where, like I was reading reports about

442
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.960
it that night when it happened that
Owen had had an accident was in the

443
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:49.880
hospital, and then I didn't find
out about his passing until the next day

444
00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:53.720
when I was actually I had just
got into work and one of the guys

445
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:59.200
came up and told me about it. So, yeah, it's still the

446
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:01.000
I mean, you said twenty five
years ago. I'm like, I'm still

447
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:06.880
blown away by how long ago that
was, but yeah, like it's still

448
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:12.920
to day. Is one of the
most shocking, horrific and indelible prints on

449
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:17.079
my mind in my wrestling fandom as
too, Like I still remember like sitting

450
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:21.440
there. I was sitting on a
forklift when I actually found out that he

451
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:23.759
had died, and I was just
like blown Like I sat there for probably

452
00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.720
a good ten minutes, and it
was like one of the guys that had

453
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:29.599
come out and kind of shaked me
out, Like I was almost just like

454
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:34.480
in a state of like shock and
just deep diving into my mind like all

455
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.960
the times I'd seen oh and wrestle
and everything else. And then there's always

456
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:42.000
you know, as a wrestling fan, when you hear about stuff you always

457
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.480
had that momentary of like is this
real, did this really happen or is

458
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:49.559
this like a storyline or something.
So this was one of those first ones

459
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.680
where you're just like, oh crap, this this is real, this this

460
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.400
really happened, and you know it
just completely shocking and just kind of blows

461
00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:00.240
you out of water. Yeah,
I was watching the show live. Parents

462
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:02.279
used to buy the pay per views
for me. When I was growing up.

463
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.759
They weren't what they are now.
I think they were like nine ninety

464
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:10.200
nine back in the day. I
remember that they had ran the video package

465
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:14.119
at the Blue Meani Blue Meaning was
supposed to be taken on the Godfather for

466
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:19.200
the Intercntional Championship under Owenhart under the
Blue Meanie persona, and then they cut

467
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.240
back to the live crowd and Jim
Ross said that we have like a problem

468
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:30.039
here, something along those lines,
and then they cut back to the crowd.

469
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:31.400
They cut back to Jim Ross.
I think they may have aired like

470
00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:37.920
a promo package from the Godfather hyping
up the match, and then they went

471
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:42.240
back on Jim Ross and talked and
he just talked about what took place if

472
00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.519
there was an accident. This is
not part of the show. Jerry Lawler

473
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.480
wasn't there. Lawler comes back,
looks white as a ghost and says it's

474
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:55.920
not good, and they move forward
with the card. I remember the Jeff

475
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:02.400
Chair Deborah promo back Stay where they're
like in near tears and trying to hype

476
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.720
up their match with Valvenus and Nicole
Bass that they were going to be having,

477
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:14.239
and it was just, you know, tragic moment in resting history.

478
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:17.760
Then Jim Ross announces the passing of
Owen Hart and yeah, it was just

479
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.679
like a numb feeling. I was
a young kid back in ninety nine.

480
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:25.079
I had May ninety nine. I
was twelve years old and a huge fan

481
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.840
of Brett Hart. So I grew
up on the Brett Hart Owen Hart feud.

482
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:36.119
That is one of the most impactful
feuds that I can remember as a

483
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:40.960
child when I was growing up,
and he was the heel of heels back

484
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:49.920
then. And it's extremely tragic.
It's sad Owen should be here today and

485
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:55.239
he's not. I know, his
legacy is playing out more in aw and

486
00:34:55.360 --> 00:35:01.079
hopefully this doesn't come off as insensitive
in any type of way, but with

487
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.800
you know, the change in we
recently where vinsick Man is no longer involved,

488
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:12.840
maybe the owen Hart family would be
a little bit more open to letting

489
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:19.719
Owen's legacy be honored, you know, in a hall of fame sense from

490
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.639
w WE now, and they can
do just as equally the same amount of

491
00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:29.760
you know, publicity and awareness for
the Owen Heart Foundation as AW does.

492
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:36.199
Maybe that door is open because I
I mean it's not my saying, but

493
00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:40.360
there'd be a lot of solace,
enclosure and allowing owen Hart's career where he

494
00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:45.440
predominantly was in WWE for a large
part of time and became a megastar there

495
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:51.639
to get his rightful flowers in WA. I mean, just from the w

496
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:57.400
ws W standpoint, it's this tragedy
and the Owen har memorial that took place

497
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.920
at the next night on RAW and
that's really that, I mean, really

498
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.719
don't speak about his name. I
think they did a DVD about him a

499
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:08.079
couple of years later, maybe like
ten plus years later, but it just

500
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:14.440
have a little bit of closure and
allow him to be honored in the spotlight

501
00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.000
by w WA. Again. The
family has every right to continue to say

502
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:21.440
no to that, and I completely
get it, and they are giving us

503
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:25.119
an opportunity in aw to honor the
life of Owen Hart. I just gonna

504
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:28.679
believe it. When I saw it
this morning, like twenty five years ago,

505
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.920
Owenhart passed away, I was like, man, that is amazing to

506
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.400
me that it's been that long.
So one of the most tragic days in

507
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.360
professional rest in history in my time, Owen Heart's passing away the twenty fifth

508
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:49.840
anniversary from Over the Edge nineteen ninety
nine. Owen is most known from winning

509
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.239
the nineteen ninety four King of the
Ring where he became the King of Hearts.

510
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.400
The ninety four King of the Ring
tournament is one of my favorite of

511
00:36:55.480 --> 00:37:01.360
all time. When Jim nampl n
iHeart turned Brett Hart and joined up with

512
00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:06.000
Owen. I think Owen defeated Razor
Moone in the finals of that tournament.

513
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.639
That was just a really fun time
of professional wrestling. And we segue as

514
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:14.960
best we can from honoring the legacy
of Owen Hart and talk about the w

515
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.639
W King and Queen of the Ring
and preview and predict that it is this

516
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:25.000
Saturday from Jedda Super Dome from Jedda, Saudi Arabia, and this is breaking

517
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:30.159
Doctor Trey. According to wrestle ops
on Twitter, Triple h Is announced that

518
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:35.400
the winners of this Saturday's King and
Queen of the Ring Tournament finals will each

519
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:42.880
secure a championship opportunity at this year's
SummerSlam. So does that change things for

520
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:51.719
you there, my friend? Uh
yeah, maybe that's I like it because

521
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:53.760
it gives a little more credibility to
whoever wins. I mean, you and

522
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:58.559
I both love the King and Queen
and the Ring tournaments, just as they've

523
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:02.679
done over the past few years when
they brought back, but nobody has really

524
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:07.760
capitalized on it like maybe they have
in years past. I like the move.

525
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.000
I think it's a really solid move
to kind of lend a little bit

526
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:15.519
more I'm gonna use that word again, bravatas to whoever becomes the King or

527
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:19.800
Queen of the Ring. Yeah,
I think that is the right move.

528
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:22.800
They did that with brack Lesner back
in two thousand and two when he defeated

529
00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:28.159
the Rock and then his career sended
that evening in Summers Siam in twenty twenty

530
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.000
two, two thousand and two in
Long Island, New York. I love

531
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:35.840
the move. We'll see how that
now plays into some of our predictions here,

532
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.000
because let's get into the King of
the Ring Tournament final, Doctor Trey,

533
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:45.119
it will be Gunther taking on either
Randy or In or Tamatunga Tamatunga,

534
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:47.599
which is this is not the unfortunate
part because you and I are making these

535
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:53.679
predictions before SmackDown, so we're basically
taking to gas of a three way race

536
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:59.039
here. I ultimately think that on
Saturday it is going to be Gunther versus

537
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:04.039
Randy Oran, and I have Gunther
winning the King of the Ring. I

538
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.920
think that was my initial person that
I was selecting to win this, and

539
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:10.239
that doesn't change for me despite Triple
H's announcements. So I'm gonna go with

540
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:16.000
Gunther. So the only thing my
question would be, because we are still

541
00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:20.559
brand specific, is this kind of
like The Rumble where you can challenge any

542
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:24.039
champion? All I know is and
I can't play the audio here, but

543
00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:30.519
Triple H is saying that it will
be a championship opportunity. I don't believe

544
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:36.239
it's brand specific, because, yeah, because I can see Gunther challenging Cody.

545
00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:39.599
I just don't know if I can
see Gunther challenging Damian Priest. I

546
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.119
can see Drew Mcatar. Yeah,
I can see Randy challenging either guy,

547
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:49.000
you know, so it's that be
said. I'm with you, like I

548
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:52.880
got Randy Ordon winning on fred A
and SmackDown. I'm gonna go with guntherher

549
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.760
as well, becoming King of the
Ring and then he can be the Imperial

550
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:58.239
King or whatever you want to go
with. But uh yeah, I got

551
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.360
gun Thor winning as well, and
I could see Gunther challenging Cody, but

552
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:06.199
that's at Summersland. That would be
really really good because that ties into the

553
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.719
Royal Rubbles stuff for the last couple
of years. Next match here is Lyra

554
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:14.880
Valkyria taken on Naya Jax or Bianca
Belair in the King the Queen of the

555
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:20.360
Ring tournament final. I'm going to
pick Naya Jacks to advance here and defeat

556
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:24.360
Bianca Belaire. She is selling a
knee injury right now, which anybody who

557
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:29.599
is a longtime wrestling fan, I
think in that ninety four tournament, the

558
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:31.760
one two three kid was selling some
sort of injury that I believe owen Hart

559
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.880
took advantage of in the semi final
match. I'm not having this in front

560
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.280
of me. I'll actually have to
check and see how sick and twisted I

561
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:43.039
am if I have that right,
So I'm going to go with Lyra Valkyria

562
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:47.519
taken on Naya Jacks, and I'm
going to have Naya Jacks defeating Lyra Valkyria

563
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.480
to win the Queen of the Ring
tournament. Yeah, I honestly I thought

564
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.559
about it, even with the knee
injury angles like that. Plus you had

565
00:40:55.599 --> 00:41:00.760
the last week's match where Jade lost
by d Q Tanaya. I could see

566
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:06.119
Jay getting involved in costing Beyonka the
match accidentally by DQ being the hot head

567
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:08.840
youngster trying to get you know,
revenge on Naya. So I got Nio

568
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:12.800
winning as well, and then I
got Nio winning Queen of the Ring.

569
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.559
So there you go, both of
us having Naya Jacks. Next match,

570
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.679
yere is Becky Lynch defending the w
W Women's World Championship against liv Morgan Doctor

571
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.639
Trey. Who do you like in
this one? This one's tough for me

572
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:28.280
because like I like both ladies.
I like both women in this match.

573
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:35.320
Becky just got the belt because of
Rhea's injury, but it ties more into

574
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:38.920
Live Morgan causing the injury, and
you know Benjally Reison want to come back

575
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.280
for that, so I think I
wanna take a Live Morgan getting the upset

576
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.760
win here and winning the Raw Women's
Championship. I like, you have to

577
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.920
lift Morgan winning this match, becoming
the new w WA Women's World Champion.

578
00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:54.159
It's exactly what you said. It
ties into the storyline, and according reports,

579
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:58.760
then I expect her to re sign
with the company. But according reports,

580
00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:02.440
Becky Lynch's current contract is expiring soon
and I have not seen any contract

581
00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:07.039
being announced during this recording, So
I'm gonna go with Live Morgan and win

582
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:13.199
the title. Sammy Zain defends the
WA Intercuntental Championship in a Trible Threat match

583
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:15.039
against Chad Gable and Bronson Reid Doctor
Trey. Who do you like in this

584
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:22.000
one? Once again, this one's
tricky for me because I really would love

585
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.320
e Chad Gable get to win.
I feel like it's trending that way.

586
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:29.639
But it's gonna be really hard for
them to have Sammy louse in Saudi Arabia

587
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:31.440
because that man, if you go
off. The last time they were in

588
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.440
Saudi Arabia, oh dear Lord,
that was a great reception for him.

589
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:43.599
So I think I'm gonna go to
take Sammy retaining at this show and then

590
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.039
possibly losing it when they get back
to the States for at raw or the

591
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:51.880
following We're all afterwards. I'm gonna
take Sammy Zain to retain the Intercuntalental Championship

592
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:55.559
as well, and then finally for
the undisputed WA Championship, Cody Rhades defense

593
00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:00.519
against Logan Paul and just sidebar here. I love that w we actually had

594
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:06.159
reason behind why the title is not
title versus the title on this one.

595
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:08.559
They actually had creative in the storyline
rather than just being like, well,

596
00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:10.920
it's on the line, because we
felt like it's not gonna be on the

597
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.000
line, like there was actual meaning
mind and so I like that. With

598
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:17.599
that said, I'm going to take
Cody Rhodes winning the smash Doctor Trey.

599
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:21.800
Yeah, I mean, but dear
guy. I mean, I know people

600
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:23.840
have been giving him prosperb but Logan
Paul, now this is what his second

601
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:30.840
shot at a at the World Championship
in less than two years. Good decent

602
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.800
United States title run. I mean, the kid, the guy I call

603
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:36.840
m a kid because he's half my
age, but he's just phenomenal in the

604
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:38.239
ring, Like he's come so far
and this is a short amount of time.

605
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:45.360
But yeah, it's Cody as much
as as Logan Paul. Now Logan

606
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:50.360
Paul heading into SummerSlam as your world
champion, that would get some eyes and

607
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:52.360
some more eyes on the product.
But Cody's still the right choice. So

608
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:55.239
I got Cody retaining as well.
So there we go. There is w

609
00:43:55.760 --> 00:44:00.880
King and Queen of the Ring taking
place this Saturday. After a nude from

610
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.519
Jeda Saudi Arabia, then let's go
to AW Double or Nothing preven prediction this

611
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:08.280
Sunday from the MGM Grand Garden Arena
in Las Vegas, Nevada, but on

612
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:12.599
Wikipedia says it's located in Paradise,
Nevada. I don't know what the difference

613
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:17.519
is. First match here, Doctor
Trey Roger Strong defends the AW International Championship

614
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:21.920
against Will Ospray. Who do you
like in this one? I think I'm

615
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:24.639
gonna take Ospray in this one because
it is international and he's British and Roder

616
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:29.480
Strong's from Florida, so I will
take will Osbray. I'm taking will Ospray

617
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:34.599
as well. Timeless Tony Storm defends
the AW Women's World CHAMPIONSHP against Serena Deeb.

618
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.599
I'm having a little bit of trouble
with this one, but I'm gonna

619
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:42.039
take timeless Tony Storm to retain Doctor
Trey. Yeah, like Serena Deeve is

620
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:47.960
so good and maybe the most underrated
female wrestler of the last decade as far

621
00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:52.440
as injuring and everything else like that, But I just I think if you're

622
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:57.000
gonna have some maybe the anchor of
your division, I think Tony Storm makes

623
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.519
more sense. So I got Tony
Storm retaining Adam Copeland. He fends the

624
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:04.559
AWT and T Championship against Malachi Black
and a barbed wire steel cage match,

625
00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:08.320
Doctor Trey, Who do you like
in this one? This one's tricky because

626
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:12.639
I just said earlier that you know, have either of these guys gotten any

627
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.719
bigger than they were when their time
in WWE? I don't think so.

628
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:21.199
But this might be a chance to
really start that Malachi Black run and get

629
00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.280
him featured more on television. So
I will take Malachi Black getting to win.

630
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:29.760
I'm gonna take Adam Copeland to win
and retain really good Bill so far

631
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.239
and sidebar, I'm gonna throw in
a Gangrel appearance in this match. Doctor

632
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:37.360
Try you want me? You want
me to text him and see if I

633
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:42.039
can find out, you know,
you have his number. Yeah, we're

634
00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:44.280
friends on Facebook. I can send
a message and see if he's gonna be

635
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:49.000
there, ask him. I mean
they kind of teas some stuff there because

636
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.199
Chris Van Malay interview where he said
Gang Grel was he tried to get Gangrel

637
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:58.639
to wrestle Mania and it was shot
down. I was it WrestleMania or SummerSlam.

638
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:01.559
I thought it was the summers that
match with where he came out and

639
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:05.719
did the Brood theme song. I
thought he had said it was WrestleMania.

640
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:08.000
Maybe it was WrestleMania. Yeah.
I saw those notes and I was like,

641
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:15.079
hmm, that's interesting. John Moxley
is not defending the IWGP World Awight

642
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:21.280
championshipstead it's an IWGP Worldywaight Championship eliminator
match. If Takeshka wins, he will

643
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:25.039
receive a future IWGP World aweight Championship
match. I creatively, I think this

644
00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:31.519
is strange because like they just had
an IWGP Championship match on Dynamite against Powerhouse

645
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:36.400
Hobbs, but they're not doing one
here with Kenoski Takeshka, and I don't

646
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:39.280
remember if Hobbs needed to win an
eliminator mast match. So I wonder if

647
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:45.119
New Japan was like, hey,
don't do that again. Make it interesting

648
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.000
and make the challenge or earn it, because why wouldn't you want the title

649
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.880
on the line at one of their
biggest shows of the year. So anyway,

650
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.639
Doctor Trey, John Moxley, Koski, Takeshka, I'm going to take

651
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:59.599
Moxley to win. Yeah, I've
kind of gotta kind of got back and

652
00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:02.400
forth. I don't know if it's
a case of the squeaky wheel gets the

653
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:06.840
oil and they go, well,
Takesha's complaining, let's let him win the

654
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:10.079
match, or they go to Qutsha's
talking, so let's have him not win

655
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:14.880
the match. I can see going
either way, but I'm gonna take the

656
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:15.920
safe pick. I mean I can
see them now with it not being the

657
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:20.000
Tomes letting them somehow, let toketch
pick at the wind. But I'll take

658
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.800
the safe pick and take Moxley in
this one. Next match is Trent Barretta

659
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:25.639
and Orange Cassidy. And this has
been really good fewed Doctor Trey, who

660
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:29.440
do you like this one? Uh? This was tough. I don't know

661
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:31.960
about you. This was tough because
I feel like they're trying to elevate Trent

662
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:37.159
Barretta here and try to make something
out of this. But Orange Cashi's kind

663
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.760
of one of the one of the
guys that gets the Sino rub a little

664
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:47.440
bit where it doesn't lose very often. I think I would take Barretta here

665
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:50.880
in the upset. I think I'll
take Trent Barretta getting the win, just

666
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.960
to kind of shake things up a
little bit. Yeah. I originally thought

667
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:58.599
that Orange Cassi was gotta win this
one, but after I watched Dynamne on

668
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.559
Wednesday, I do think that they're
set up that Trent Peretta ends up partnering

669
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:06.599
with the don Kallis family rather than
Orange Cassidy. So I thought this was

670
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:08.440
the opportunity for Orange Cassidy to get
his comeupance. But I'm going to take

671
00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:12.880
Trent Peretta in the upset as well. Yeah, makes sense to me.

672
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:19.000
Next match is Chris Jericho defending the
for the World Championship against Hook and Kasti

673
00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:22.760
or Shabad in a three way FTW
rules match. I'm gonna take Chris Jericho

674
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:28.400
and Sidebar. I hope that they
stop doing the hook signal because goddamn that's

675
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:34.639
corny it is. It's so damn
corny. I just like that you had

676
00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.400
to call it the for the World
Championship, so just that was that was

677
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.960
great too. I'm taking Jericho as
well. I just think that there's gonna

678
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:45.440
be some miscimfications in Shabata and Hook
leading to Jericho getting the pin on Shabana.

679
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:47.960
Wouldn't it be interesting like Shabbata turned
heel in this match and joined up

680
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:54.559
with Big Bill and Jericho, like
Shabata needs to be under the Jericho learning

681
00:48:54.639 --> 00:49:00.400
tree. Yeah, it would be
so like as absurd and drive pure wrestling

682
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.039
fans notts, But I think it
would be really fun for this storyline.

683
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:07.360
I think, I mean, you
need like as much as like And maybe

684
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:10.320
this goes into what Takeshka said earlier
about Asian wrestlers. Some of them do

685
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:15.639
need like an English speaking person around
them to kind of help them get over

686
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:19.519
with the crowd. You're seeing it
with Ocada in the Bucks. It wouldn't

687
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:23.679
be the worst thing in the world
for Shabata to be Jericho's like enforcer henchman

688
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:29.880
type guy like that, just brutal, villainous sidekick that loves torturing people.

689
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:31.039
So it wouldn't be a bad move
on their part. They did it,

690
00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:37.360
so if it happens, I love
the idea. Next match is the Bank

691
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:42.280
Bang Gang taking on Death Triangle and
a trios match for Unified World Trios Championship.

692
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.519
I have Bank Bank Gang retaining.
I think Juice Robinson returns. Yeah,

693
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:49.480
Bang Bang Gang for me because they're
odds to me. Is still one

694
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:51.960
of the most entertaining acts, even
though they don't get featured as much as

695
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:53.679
they were a couple months ago.
This is a tough one. Willow and

696
00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:58.679
Night and Gil de Fenzi AWTBS Championship
against Mercedes Monet. I'm sure who do

697
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.079
you like in this one? I
have Mercedes money because I think they're feeling

698
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:06.000
the heat from everybody saying what a
failure this has been so far with the

699
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.320
signing. They need to kind of
get something, some kind of bang for

700
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:12.360
their buck out of it. So
I'm gonna take Mercedes getting to win.

701
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:16.039
I'm gonna take Mercedes to win as
well, and I think it may have

702
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:22.119
an alternate vibe from the crowd.
I don't think the crowd's going to be

703
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:27.320
happy with this because Willows so over
as a aw homegrown talent, and you

704
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.239
may see Mercedes acting a little bit
more of a heel going forward. So

705
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.760
I have Mercedes winning as well,
because I think it would be strange should

706
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:37.639
she lose in her debut match,
but it would be very beneficial for Willow's

707
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:42.039
career as well. Next match,
here is the Elite of Kozucho, Kata,

708
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.119
Jack Perry, Matthew Nicholas Jackson taking
on Team aw Brian Danielson, Darby

709
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:50.239
Allen, Cash Wheeler, and Dax
Hardwood in an anarchy in the arena match.

710
00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:55.280
I have the Elite winning this one
and Tony Kahan driving Darby Allen to

711
00:50:55.400 --> 00:51:02.719
the arena. Only for Darby Allen
to have a flamethrower was as absurd as

712
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:07.119
it sounded, but it was a
It was a decent segment. I would

713
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:09.679
say to close the show. I
love that Tony Kahan knows how For one,

714
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:13.760
Tony con knows how to drive a
car. Jeff like, the kid's

715
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:15.239
a billionaire, Like you figure he
just has me driving them around her.

716
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:19.320
So the fact he drove the car
and then I'm like, I need to

717
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:22.719
picture them like if in real life
going hey, darg I'm coming to get

718
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:25.800
you. You got your stuff?
Wait? You have a flamethrower. Yeah,

719
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:28.760
I think that could fit in the
trunk, maybe the backseat. I'm

720
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:30.840
not sure I got room for it. We can make it, we can

721
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:34.440
make it happen. Which, honestly, you can buy those. And I

722
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:37.119
have been debating whether or not I
want to drop seven hundred bucks on a

723
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:42.719
flamethrower. Well, the wife told
me no, and I'm like, because

724
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.239
we don't need a flamethrower. I'm
like, no, no, you never

725
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.719
need a flamethrower. But it's always
fun to have a flamethrower. So uh.

726
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:55.960
By the way, I'm way happier
about Darby being in this match than

727
00:51:57.039 --> 00:52:00.159
Eddie Kingston because Dady Kingston Park didn't
make sense to me, but Darby does

728
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:02.519
make sense being Team ae W.
But I'm gonna take that with you.

729
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:07.320
I'm gonna take the Elite just because
I think they need more heat on them

730
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:09.760
and that will help build more baby
faces. So I'm gonna take the Elite

731
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:15.039
getting the win. I think Hangman
Paige returns and helps them win. On

732
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:19.480
Sunday, Doctor Trey, he goes
full blown heel in this one. Yeah.

733
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:21.920
I know they fired him, but
I could see him making a return.

734
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.599
Yeah, Well that that wouldn't surprise
me. I mean the crazy thing

735
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:30.519
for me is you have FTR teaming
with Brian Danson when they were just feuding

736
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:36.039
with the Blackpool Combat Club a couple
of months ago, and then Eddie was

737
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.199
in the match too, and Eddie
was feeding with Mox and Claudio a couple

738
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:43.440
months ago, and yeah, so
it's a little and they don't get along.

739
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.719
They need that mutual respect match from
the kind of classic thing and Eddie

740
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:51.199
doesn't have it. No, Eddie
has no belts. But Darby's back,

741
00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:53.559
which I thought Darby got hit by
a bus. He's dead, he just

742
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:58.760
got cleared. And also Eddie Kinkson
I just read today he is due to

743
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:05.599
have surgery in July. He broke
his leg towards acl Uh, fractured his

744
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:10.079
tibia against Gabe Kid during that New
Japan Pro Wrestling show I think was in

745
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:14.320
California. He's he's gonna be out
for almost a year, Doctor Trey.

746
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:19.920
So anybody that's a young wrestling fan, go watch that spot where he got

747
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:23.280
hurt. Never ever, ever do
that spot. I know. At least

748
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:28.719
Eddie Kingston makes the fourth person in
the last five years that I know have

749
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.960
broken their way doing that stupid soup
like spot near the rails, so stop

750
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:36.519
doing it. Such a shame man. So Eddie will probably be out for

751
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:39.719
almost a year by the end of
this thing. And then finally the main

752
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:44.199
event here Swerve Strickland defense the aw
World championshipgainst Christian Cage. They had a

753
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:47.639
great segment on Wednesdays. Dyna might
really enjoyed that parking lot brawl. That

754
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:51.440
was a lot of fun. Doctor
Trey, who do you have in this

755
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.800
one? I gues you can't put
the belt. I mean, as much

756
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.599
as I love Christian Cage and I
love the patriarchy and I love all that

757
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.320
stuff, you can't put the belt
on. Soore having lose to Christy Cage

758
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:06.599
this quickly. So I got Swerve
retaining. I have Swerve retaining as well.

759
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:12.119
We will recap interview both shows on
next week's edition of SRTU. Would

760
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:14.480
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766
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768
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00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:45.320
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I wasn't there, but I know we

772
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had. I know the shows.
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coming, we'll bring it up here
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784
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:40.760
some good comments and stuff from the
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785
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bring it up the week later and
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786
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787
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So with that said, until next
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