John Cena's Time Is...Almost Up | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #752 – 7/11/24

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It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to
this week's edition Mister Realta Show Episod number

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seven and fifty two for July eleventh, twenty twenty four. Welcome to this

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week's edition of ass R to You. My name is Jeff Peck. I

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am joined every single week four.
First, when we got Stret Franklin,

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Doctor Trey, I wish I could
get some more sleep, my friend.

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Now you're living in my world where
just random things happen and you have to

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pop up in the middle of iper
a feeding, a diaper changing, or

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just the sheer volume of wrestling is
keeping you up all night. So yeah,

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welcome to my world, Jeff.
Yeah, real quick story here before

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we get into recap interviewing WWE Money, NXC heat Wave, everything that happened

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in professional wrestling this week. I
went into Wednesday night where I had an

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hour left to watch on NXC Television, and I had the entire episode of

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aw Dynamite that I needed to watch
before recording the podcast, and I had

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a conflict early Thursday morning. So
we're recording this Thursday afternoon, and I

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was like, I've always prided myself
on my ability to like try to watch

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everything before we sit down and record
the podcast, and I was like,

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I think I'm getting to the point
where I can't because of the newborn.

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I mean, the newborn life is
definitely keeping me up. And my son,

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Lord Love them, must have heard
that, because instead of going to

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bed at ten o'clock at night or
whatever, trying to watch some of the

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wrestling and then before dozing off and
then trying to watch in the morning,

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my son decided to stay up until
two am on the East Coast, thankfully,

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and I was able to watch the
end of NXT television this week and

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all of aw Dynamite and Doctor Trey. I still had some time to spare

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where I could watch Baseball Highlight.
Ooh, baseball highight. That's always good.

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I was just glad my Cubs won
over the weekend. But so I

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had a similar situation except for that
my son, Lord love him, We

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put him to bed around a thirty
every night. He's you know, we're

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gonna try and get him ready,
you know, into this. He starts

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kindergarten in August. Wow, So
we're trying to get him into the flow

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of going to bed, getting up
for school, everything else. So he

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is completely fascinated with YouTube gaming channels, Like he knows how to work his

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Roku remote to pull him up and
he'll sit there and watch him. So

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last night we put him to bed, you know, around a thirty eight

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forty five, wife and I start
getting ready for bed ourselves. We fall

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asleep. We don't hear any noise
coming out of his room. We're good.

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She gets up this morning at five
forty five to get ready to go

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to work. He is out in
the living room watching TV. Did not

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go to sleep at all, big
pile of stuffed animals on the couch,

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and had managed to poop himself in
the process. Oh my god. Yeah,

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so that's how our morning picked off. So I stayed up make sure

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he fell back asleep. It's now
one o'clock Central time. He's been asleep

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since like six point thirty, so
I don't know when he's waking up at

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any point. I gotta let him
sleep, but I also got to get

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him back on his sleep schedule.
But uh yeah, So I've also realized,

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like now I have to take YouTube
off all of our TVs because he'll

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stay up all night watching just random
videos of stuff. So I have to

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I have to shut this down to
keep him, you know, on track.

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But yeah, so uh, I
mean we've even put up the baby

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gate. He he'll climb over it, he'll climb under it. He's like

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an American Ninja warrior when it comes
to escaping his room. Go out and

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watch it and if you can't get
out, he's figured out how to get

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it loaded up onto his TV.
And he'll stand on top of his bunk

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bed and try to jump off at
times to watch them. He's he's fun

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and crazy and insane, Like it's
like having baby Jeff Hardy in the house

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right now. What a world.
I know he would he didn't he did?

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Did he do swanton bombs in a
video? Once? He did?

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Coffin drops Okay, that's what he
was doing. Yes, okay, yeah,

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he would stand on the like if
anything, he's standing on the railing

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of the bed and then coffin drop
back onto stuffed animals and pillows on the

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bed. This podcast is, especially
at the beginning of the show, probably

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each week, is gonna start making
people really think about if you are a

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young male or female in the world
and you're thinking about starting a family,

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Doctor Trey and I may be swaying, you too have a family by listening

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to these stories, or we may
not be depending on some of them.

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If if, if you don't want
to be up until two am, or

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find your child on account watching YouTube
videos after he trapped himself. We can

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totally understand each to their own.
But I did have a fun moment at

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one point watching aw Dynamite during the
very good Brian Danielson hang man out on

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page match from Dynamite and me explaining
to my son, like the reason why

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they're doing the s chance. He
had no idea what I was saying,

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but at least I felt like I
was doing my part. So there is

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your moment of parenting for both myself
and now doctor Trey as well. So

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I can join Doctor Trey officially in
having those moment of parenting talks here on

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SRTU. Maybe it'll be a segment
each week where we compare in contrasts.

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Even though my son really can't do
much right now, Sammy is is way

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way way way way way way more
far advanced than mine, who just kind

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of sits there and I can't really
see anything in front of his face right

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now, because I guess they can't
see until like, I've heard three weeks,

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I've heard eight weeks. Everything else
is just like a blob, which

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we all kind of look like anyway. Yeah, so there you go.

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Moment of parenting on SRTU, Doug
Trey. Let's get into it. WWE

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Money in the Bank recap review came
to us this past Saturday from the Scotia

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Bank Arena in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, the first match here being Drew

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McIntyre defeating jay Uso, Carmelo Hayes
Andrade Chad Gable in La Night in the

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Men's Money in the Bank Ladder match
to win a Men's Championship Match contract.

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We both had Drew McIntyre in this
one. Big Drew winning Money the Bank

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made so much sense based on his
character development over the last year. I

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really loved the participants they chose for
this Money in the Bank match, and

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I really hope they all get some
good run for the rest of twenty twenty

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four. Very fun Money in the
Bank match. That's all you can think

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of, really was I was watching. I was like, I love that

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the people they selected this match.
This made so much sense a lot of

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breakout stars, and I hope it's
people that they focus on heading into twenty

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twenty four and twenty five and beyond. But nonetheless, Big Drew walked out

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with the briefcase Doctor Trey. Yeah. Really fun match. Maybe not on

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the best money the bank matches,
but still, I mean, if you

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compare this one to some of the
recent ladder matches we've had, even like

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NXC and in AW, like,
compare this one to the TV or the

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TNT Championship match from a couple of
weeks ago. This was head and shoulders

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above that. But it's it's weird
watching because you're, like, none of

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these guys are really outside of Big
Drew a main event guy. I mean,

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I know La and I had a
couple of main event matches, but

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none of them are like main event
picture guys. But they're all guys that

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you can go. I could see
this guy taking a step up, and

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that was the only knock I saw
people saying online was oh, I wish

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they would have, you know,
let so and so win just because they

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could build a new star. You
don't really the roster's so deep you don't

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really need to build anybody new,
but it's nice to have somebody ready to

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take that next step. But a
good match, good storytelling. That bump

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that Chad Gable took from hanging from
the money in the bank briefcase down to

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the mat was just that might have
been one of the biggest falls I've seen

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since Jeff Hardy got speared off of
it, you know, so just crazy

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that he took that, but led
it right into to finish. So good

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match and good outcome. I don't
know about you, but I kept kind

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of waiting for the lights to go
out when Gable was climbing the ladder.

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I get waiting for Yo the Wyatt
six lights to go out and you know,

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just scare him off the ladder.
I would have lost that bet because

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I thought in my mind as I
watched that match, doctor trailer was like,

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They're gonna get to a moment where
it's just Gable and the lights are

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gonna go off and Nicky Cross will
come out and all that stuff. I

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mean, I would have thought that
as a slam dunk. They did obviously

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did not do that, and I
thought that was a missed opportunity. If

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there was any missed opportunity in this
match, which was a very good match,

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that would have been one because that
would have been a nice fun moment

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and then he like leaves the ring
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The money bank Ladder match actually gives
up his his title shot, but fun,

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fun, fun money in the bank
Ladder match, there's big Drew wins

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the briefcase and more on him in
a bit. As the next match here

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was Sammy's ay and defeating bron Breaker
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I had samy'se ay and doctray at
bron Breaker. Sammy really helped get Braun

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over even in this match. Breaker
is an absolute animal. He will be

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a big star in we year from
now Sammy Zain. I compare him to

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Sean Michaels. I compare him to
mc foley. He is one of the

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best baby faces in all of wrestling. As always, I think people probably

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thought myself included that bron Breaker was
gonna win this one. I compared him

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to like the Wes Lee of the
main roster. I always predict Sammy matches

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wrong. I got this one right
for once, and keeping the title on

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him and having Braun chase him like
we saw on Monday's Raw is the right

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thing to do. Is Sammy's ain
retained. Yeah, it's another way also

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to like, the only thing I
worry about is how, like how many

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times do you have Sammy beat Braun
if you're gonna keep the belt on Sammy.

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If that was the case, then
why not make the switch now because

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you can't have Sammy win two or
three in a row over Braun Breaker.

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I know, it's nice to have
Braun get a clean lock because you don't

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have to worry about like an undefeated
streak or a Goldberg streak or anything like

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that that you have to protect.
But the match itself. I mean,

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ron Breaker is such a phenomenal athlete. I mean, I love that,

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you know, Michael Cole throws out
how fast he gets in the ring,

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the miles per hours you know he
gets. But you know, you're right,

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like Sammy is the Wesley of the
main roster, like I always pick

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his matches wrong. And that comparison, like, yeah, i think if

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Shawn Michaels and mc foley had a
kid, it would look like Sammy's name.

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So I'm totally on board that comparison
as well. Just had a vision

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of mcfoley and Shawn Michaels together next
match, here. No, no,

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no, don't put that. I'm
just saying, if you took the DNA

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and put it in a laugh,
I'm doing the JBL Randy or in comparison,

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if you had mcfoley's look and Sewn
Michael's charisma, and I mean they

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both had very, very good connections
with the audiences. I mean, that's

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who he reminds me of so much. Is Seawan and mcfoley the connection to

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the audience. When Shawn Michaels lost
his smile, if he became homeless for

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four months, true, yeah,
I decided that he was going to become

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a vegan, that would be Samy
say. Next match here is Damian Priest

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defeating Seth Freaking Rollins and Drew McIntyre, who attempted his cash in of the

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Money the Bank briefcase and failed in
a last chance match for the World of

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Weid Championship. With Priests win,
Rowlins will never challenge for the title as

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long as Priest's champion, but as
we saw on Monday's raw, they like

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rescinded that agreement and should Priest retain
at SummerSlam against Gunther, it would be

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Seth Rollins and Damian Priest back on
for that one. Our predictions for this

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was both Damian Priest getting the victory, and my notes from this match are

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I would have really loved this match
and angle if Rollins didn't actually pin Damian

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Priest on a three count causing a
bunch of confusion before Drew came out to

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cash in shortly thereafter. I don't
know if Drew's music miss its Q which

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days later that appears to be the
report, or if Priest was knocked loopy

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so he never raised his hand before
the three count. But that was a

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tough look. That was a real
tough look, and it was something they

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had to address in the post show
as well. That aside, the match

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was really good, and the angle
of Drew's cash and attempt at punk thwarting

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it and in turn causing Rolinson ever
challenge for the title while Priest's champion was

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really good stuff. Obviously, there
was a dark cloud on that three count

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Doctor Trey because seth Ronin's legitimately pinned
Damien Priests should be the new champion today.

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But if you remove that aside and
you look at the angle, this

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was a really well structured, creative
execution during an in ring segment and match.

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I enjoyed everything, but the part
of the pin. Doctor Trey,

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your thoughts on this one. Yeah, I was literally watching my wife and

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I went, oh, that's not
a good look, because you know,

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sometimes when you miss the three count, it's because the referees on the wrong

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side. The ref was right there, I mean his head was looking right

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at Priest's shoulders. So the fact
that he stopped the three count, and

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you know, I have a lot
of old school wrestling friends that are mad

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because the ref. You're taught to
always count it legitimately because of stuff like

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this. But the upside of this
is there's so many different storylines and ways

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they can go with this because now
you have all four guys, you know,

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storyline wise in this whole title stuff
with Luther looming at SummerSlam and the

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possible implosion of the Judgment day and
Finn Ballar and how that he ties into

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it. That's six main event guys
that you have fighting for the title.

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This is really reminiscent in a sense
of what we had during the Attune area

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when you had Taker Stone Cold,
Taker's Stone Cold Rock Triple, h mc

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foley, all those guys are right
the top and the title could jump to

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either guy at any moment and you
never knew what was going on, So

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it's compelling storytelling. It's just that
the black Cloud was the mystery cap.

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Yeah, I completely agree. I
actually thought about that during Monday's Raw as

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I was watching the whole Rollins Punk
segment and then stuff with Damian Preeths and

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Gunther's match. Is the world title
picture is so unpredictable right now, which

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is so good for professional wrestling,
And it is that it's that nineteen ninety

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eight, ninety nine, two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand

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and two, even top level talent
where it could be anybody. It could

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have been a Jericho, a Triple
H, a kurd Angle, an Undertaker,

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a Kine, A Rock and Austin. It's it's great, and it's

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really really good for professional wrestling,
and I'm really enjoying the Raw title picture.

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Everything about this match was great,
obviously, again except for the dark

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Cloud, which definitely took a lot
away from it. But if you remove

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that and you just look at everything
and how it was executed, very very

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fun stuff. Next match here is
Tiffany Stratton defeating the EO Sky Chelsea Green,

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Lyra, Valkyria, Naomi and Zoe
Stark in then Women's Money the Bank

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Ladder match to win a women's championship
match contract Doctor Trey and I both at

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Tiffany Stratton. The spots these women
executing this match were insane, from Lyra

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being power bombed onto the ladder,
Chelsea Green hitting it on Prettier on Naomi

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onto a ladder, to Eo hitting
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on Zoe Stark onto a ladder,
and then Chelsea going backwards onto tables set

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up outside the ring. It was
nuts what they put themselves through in this

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match. There were some timing issues
as Zoe and Chelsea had moments in the

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match where it looked like they could
have easily unclipped the money in the bank

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briefcase, only to wait for their
opponents to climb the ladder. But that

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should not take away how awesome this
match was at all. Tiffany Stratton a

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getting the victory was the right call, as I think she's going to have

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a breakout second half of twenty twenty
four. In twenty twenty five, Doctor

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Trey, this was a great,
great match. Your thoughts to Tiffany Stratton

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wins Women's Money in the Bank.
Outside of a couple of timing issues and

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you know, a couple of weird
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my favorite Money the Bank women's match
in a very long time, if ever.

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Like it was, like, the
stuff these women put themselves through,

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like you mentioned earlier, is just
incredible. Some of the bumps You're just

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like, dear, like I thought
these people had died almost like that EO

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Sky like inverted tombstone type piles or
I were onto a ladder, Like I'm

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like, that's just you take that. Nobody comes out of that healthy after

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that. And for the fact that
during the post show news conmerce Replace said

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basically everybody was still pretty healthy was
insane to me. I'm watching this and

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the entire time I'm going I think
Chelsea Green might be what La Knight was

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two years ago, where just ready
to break out. The crowd is so

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behind her, it's crazy. Now
once again it was in Canada. Chelsea's

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from Canada, maybe that ties in, but I think even to the stay,

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she's super over and that was the
struggle you and I have when we

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were predicting this match was we really
love Chelsea Green, but storyline wise,

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it makes more sense for Tiffany Stratton
to get the belt or get the money

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that bangs briefcase, and that's where
they went. But this was just a

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fun nomenal Money the Bank Briefcase match
for the lady. Yeah. I wanted

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to say the same thing you said
where I think this is my favorite Women's

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the Money Bank Ladder match ever,
But I also feel like I say that

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every year following these Money the Bank
Briefcase matches. But I mean, this

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was just a really, really good
match, and I think when you go

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into the weekend, I don't think
people thought it was going to be that

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good or on the same level as
maybe the other matches on the card,

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and it exceeded way beyond the expectations, like this was a breakout moment.

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I actually thought that they should have
had a No Mercy ninety nine moment on

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Raw the next night, where the
people involved in the match should have been

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the rain getting a standing ovation,
because they were really trying to push that

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on commentary. They were really trying
to push that like everybody's up giving them

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a standing ovation, and rightfully so, I don't think it transcended on television

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as well as Corey Graves and Michael
Cole were trying to push, but it

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definitely was standing ovation worthy when that
one was all said and done. Next

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match is the main event as the
Bloodline defeats Cody Road, Randy Orton,

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Kevin Owens in a six man tag
team match. We both had the Bloodline.

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If you're doing Cody versus Solo at
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this was the absolute right call having
Solo get to pin on Cody Rhads

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and the main event heading into that
match. I also think WWE wasn't going

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to have Jacob Flock two lose his
in rank debut match. And the stock

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on FA two is sky high right
now. I mean he is being pushed

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on commentary, you can feel it
on television, you can feel it in

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the crowd. People believe he's going
to be a major star, and I'm

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really excited about it. So ww
really hyping him to be a big deal

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and me being super excited as a
fan has me super stoked for this because

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this is a few and far between
where we see these moments and I think

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it's only a matter of time that
maybe Jacoba two starts getting cheered when it

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comes to the Bloodline stuff. I
think it could have that possibility where fans

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are behind him because of how excited
they are for his high upside. This

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was a solid main event to close
a fun show, dot tree your thoughts

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as the Bloodline and gets a big
victory. Yeah, but side note,

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I thought it was really funny the
pre show stuff when like Jay Usso made

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the comment that he was like just
impressed that he got into Canada. I

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said the same thing about Jacob Fatoo
because he has an arrest on his record

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as well. So the fact that
they got Jay and Jacob Fattu into Canada

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for this paper year, good job
from ww's legal team to pull that off.

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But uh no, they're gonna push
Jacob Fatu to the moon. I

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mean, you don't put a guy
in a match with Cody Kevin Owens and

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Randy Orton and have him no sell
that draping DDT that Orton does. Uh,

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if you're not planning on pushing the
hell out of the guy. I

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mean they didn't do it with Manu
back in the days of Legacy, So

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I mean just Scott, I mean
he's already kind of jumped over Toma Tonga

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and Tonga Loa in kind of the
hierarchy of the bloodline already in the fan's

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eyes. So uh, just an
incredible debut for him. Getting solo the

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win makes a ton of sense,
like you said as well, especially setting

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up you know, Cody and him
at SummerSlam, and just good as he's

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solo getting some wins because for while
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he was taking all the losses.
Now that he's in charge and seeing

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him get some big victories helps kind
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that down that route for SummerSlam.
So good, solid fun six man tag

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and at least six man tag where
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that as well. That is true, we don't get to see that often

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professional wrestling nowadays. Pay per view
prediction record I went five and oh doct

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Trey went four and one. Coming
out of this paper for you, I

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was at eighty five and seventeen.
Doctor Tray is at seventy five and twenty

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seven. Match of the night and
event rating. I gave the event a

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four point one out of five,
and my match of the night was the

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Women's Money in the Bank Ladder match. I was a little bit under you

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as a four point zero and I
also had the Women's Money in the Bank

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Ladder match. Yeah, I mean
you can't beat that. I think that's

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definitely a match that from a WWE
perspective, you talk about a year end

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Doctor Trey. Yeah, I mean, going back, it was just it's

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it's on one hand, this is
the sad thing. Diff On one hand,

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I comment on the spots in that
match because they were incredible, but

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then I'll crap on some other stuff. But in that match, the spots

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made sense, and then there was
a storyline leading out of it. So

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I can't knock them for doing crazy
spots because at least they had a storyline

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tight end as well. Obviously,
there was a major story that came out

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of that pay per view that will
be addressing on its own accord here Following

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the NXC heat Wave recap review which
came to us from this past Sunday again

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from the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. The pre show match

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was Carmen Petrovic and Arionic Grace defeating
JC Jane and Jasmin. Next, we

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both ad jc JY and Jasmine next
winning that one. The upside in the

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NXC women's division is really intriguing and
if they keep progressing well, it can

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be a potential force in late twenty
twenty four. In twenty twenty five,

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I thought turning Arionic Grace babyface briefly
was a surprising move despite being a hometown

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girl along with Petrovic. Obviously,
that went away as they had a match

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on NXC Television's Past Tuesday Doctor.
Sure your thoughts on the pre show match?

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Yeah, I literally thought they turned
her baby face just to get the

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crowdage here for issues in Canada.
But she, like I don't know how

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I feel about Ariana Graciat because she's
a great talker, but her promos are

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a little too over the top and
a little too cheesy. But just a

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a good, solid tag match and
then you know the fallout on Tuesday,

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mate sense so a good way to
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Agreed, that was a really fun
match to kick it off. Then

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the Maine card here is you had
Oba Femi defeating Wesley in a last chance

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match, retaining the NX North American
Championship with EMI's win, Lee can ever

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challenge for the title for as long
as Semi is champion. We both at

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Obafemi. I thought this was Femi's
best match I've seen for him in his

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young career. I was wondering how
he would do in a normal match rather

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than a near squash match, and
he held his own against one of nx's

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best in ring talents in Wesley.
Obviously, there were some big notes from

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Wesley that we'll talk about here on
NXC television following this match, But doctor

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Trea thoughts, as Obi Obafemi retains, I love, I really really like

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this match because it showcase both guys. I mean, you saw the power

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over Femy, some of the some
of the stuff he was doing wes Lee.

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Like, once again, like I
said earlier about the women's Mind the

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Bank match, you thought Wesley was
dying. I mean that, you know,

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he f fived him like twelve feet
off the ground. I mean,

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just some crazy stuff he was pulling
off of that match. And but then

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he sold for wes Lee as well, which I hope a lot of the

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big guys on the independence scene take
note that just because the guy's one hundred

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and seventy five pounds you can sell
for him if it makes sense, and

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how you put your match together.
But just really really fun match. I

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will say I like wes Lee.
I know Weslee. Sometimes the whiny character

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put spot times of him get on
my nerves a little bit, but the

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payoff on Tuesday was well worth it. Yeah, so let me just ask

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you, doctor tre mean, you
and I are both fans of this group.

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You followed him longer than I have. Did you cry when the Rascals

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were reunited on Tuesday's Nxday? I
didn't cry, but I got really excited.

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I mean, for one, like
I've known those guys you know for

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shoot sixty five years, four or
five years now see Wentz back in NXT,

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given what had happened from you know
previously, was great. Just seeing

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them together and hearing them called the
Rascals you know as well, Like that

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was really fun. But I didn't
tear up, but I got really excited

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and really happy to see all those
guys back together. Yeah, that was

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really really cool and very surreal.
I mean, Zachary Wentz was was fired

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by w then known as what Nash
Carter and MSK and then seeing Trey mcguill

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working in we you know arena.
That was pretty cool and you could tell

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that like he was like looking around. It was a very very cool moment.

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And yeah, we saw some great
stuff with the NXCT and a relationship

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moving forward on Tuesday's NXT television.
So that was really really cool and I'm

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happy to see that they'll be wrestling
on Tuesdays NXC against at Gallas, so

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that'll be a lot of fun.
Next match year is Klonie Jordan defeating Soul

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Ruka to retain the NXC Women's North
American Championship. We both had Klonie Jordan.

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These two up and coming stars had
a mission to steal the show and

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they did a great job making the
k for both ladies. Have a very

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bright future and I'm excited to see
where they go as their careers advance.

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Very fun match and for me personally
as a fan, this was one of

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those cases where two wrestlers came in
and I had a perception of them.

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When the match was done and they
came out of that match, my perception

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changed for the better. This was
a fun, unpredictable, unexpected good match.

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Doctor Trey as Klonnie Jordan retains.
Yeah, I watched this match,

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and like, you know, I
think I told you like last month,

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like I didn't. I hadn't really
watched a lot of Klonnie Jordan over time.

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I'm watching this match, I'm like, Okay, I'm really impressed.

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These two girls have a ton of
potential and they hit all their spots.

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My only knock on this match is
it's the in between stuff. It's the

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footwork, it's the fore arms,
it's the punching, it's the little stuff

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that they really need to tighten up. They can hit. The two girls

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with great gymnastics backgrounds can do all
the moves. You just kind of have

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to work on the in between stuff. But a really really fun match.

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If you don't know much about these
two, Like if you didn't know anything

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about them, this would be a
showcase match to feature them on. The

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next match year was Nathan Fraser and
Axiom defeating Chase University Andre Chase and du

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cuts In to retain the NXC Tag
Team Championship. I had Chase, you,

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Doctor Trey had Nathan Fraser and Axiom. Fraser and Axium are a really

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fun tag team to watch, and
I wonder what the longevity of them as

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a team is since they keep teasing
an impending split as of late with Fraser

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focusing more on his singles career.
They are a fun watch and I wouldn't

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mind if they stay together for some
time, despite feeling like a second title

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reign for Chase You was coming soon, despite the loss at heat Wave and

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their storyline as well. Fraser and
Axiom, to me are like this generation

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of nxc's version of DIY. This
was a fun one Doctor Trey and they

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retained it once again. Yeah,
really really fun match. A lot of

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near falls, close calls, like
I mean really, I mean you get

404
00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.119
towards the last you know, five
minutes of that match, you honestly had

405
00:26:56.119 --> 00:26:59.640
no clue it's going to win,
which is great for television. One of

406
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.960
my notes was, like I love
Fia Hale, Like her intensity for being

407
00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.680
so small is great. Just seeing
her stuff at ringside, her facials at

408
00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.200
ringside was really really good as well. Just a really fun match, and

409
00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:17.680
like you said, like the impending
split between Fraser and Axiom because you saw

410
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:19.799
it teased, you know, earlier
in the show, and Fraser just rolls

411
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.480
in two hours late, you know
something like that. It's good storytelling.

412
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:26.759
I love matches like this where it's
a great match and then you have two

413
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:32.839
storylines that actually don't even really involve
the two teams fighting each other. It's

414
00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:37.519
all internal stuff. Is really good
television. Next match here is Roxanne Perez

415
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:40.720
de feeding Lolavice to retain the NC
Women's Championship. Dot Trent I both hat

416
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:45.079
Lolavice winning. I really liked the
old school approach to this match where Roxanne

417
00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.440
focus on Lola's injured forearm, as
you don't see that as often as we

418
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.319
probably should in wrestling nowadays. I
also liked how Roxanne took a page out

419
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:55.920
of Cody Rhad's book by hitting consecutive
finishers to put away a tough opponent.

420
00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.359
The desperation on Roxanne's face a multiple
pop rocks to put away Lola has helped

421
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:03.960
Elva. Lola is an extremely tough
opponent. Lola's stock has been on the

422
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.960
rise lately, some good momentum,
so I'm interested to see where she goes

423
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.400
following this match. I thought this
match was gonna be good. This succeeded

424
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:12.240
my expectations. Again, Doctor Trey, this was a fun one as Roxanne

425
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:18.079
Perez retains. Yeah, really really
solid match, really fun match. Could

426
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.119
you didn't know where it was going. The spinning backfist that hit the post.

427
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:23.759
I was like, I don't know. I still have not figured how

428
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:29.160
people do that and not break their
hands. Great, I've slapped a post

429
00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:30.119
and thought I broke my hand.
I mean, how do you get the

430
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:34.440
speed to go and do that?
I don't know. Just you know,

431
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:38.119
for Roxanne, every now and then, just take a second because that one

432
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:42.119
botched. Pop Rocks looked really rough
in that sequence that she did, but

433
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:48.400
it's weird. I'll say I liked
this sequence of finishers to put away a

434
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.319
little vice, but I'm going to
bitch about something in the next match with

435
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.920
the kind of the same situation.
Interesting as the next match yere was Ethan

436
00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.599
Paige defeating Trick Williams, Javion Evans, Sean Spears and if fatal four ROAI

437
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.799
match and retain the NXC Championship dot
train and I about that Trick Williams winning

438
00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:07.440
this match as he did not.
This was a great match and a real

439
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:10.359
enjoyable watch from start to finish.
The finish of the match is something I

440
00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.599
don't recall ever seen before, and
it was executed very well. Especially with

441
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:15.720
the title online. I think I've
seen it before, but not with the

442
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.119
title on the line. I really
liked the decision of Ethan Page becoming the

443
00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:23.200
NXC champion because I felt like Trick
Williams as the NXC champion was starting to

444
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.440
get a little flat. I think
having a heel at the top of NXC

445
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.880
as the champion will be good for
the brand. And I also felt like

446
00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:33.880
Javion Evans really broke out in this
match. For anyone who hasn't seen his

447
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.640
skill set so far, Evans reminds
me so much of a young will Osprey

448
00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:42.880
and the sky is the absolute limit
for the young star. Again, we

449
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:48.759
talked about in the preview podcast last
week, Javon Evans has only been on

450
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.559
NXC television for three months and he
wasn't this name previously that came into the

451
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:55.640
company and you're like, oh,
this makes a ton of sense like Sean

452
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:59.240
Spears and Ethan Page were, and
he's in that main event match and I

453
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:00.720
did not bet at I I was
like, yeah, no, this makes

454
00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:06.079
sense, and he was amazing.
I really enjoyed this match. Dot Tray,

455
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:10.519
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on
what maybe you didn't enjoy about this

456
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:14.960
match, so I like the match
as a whole. Like the Jvon Evans,

457
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.400
I did not realize how many people
we me and him have in common.

458
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.480
I pulled him up on Facebook.
We have like four hundred and fifty

459
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.319
mutual friends. Wow, I was
like. So I went through. I

460
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:26.519
was like, oh, crap,
this is the guy I had heard about

461
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.359
in North Carolina and Georgia. I
just didn't realize with the same guy because

462
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.240
I haven't I didn't watch him on
main events and Level Up and all their

463
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.400
said that he's been on but watching
this match because you were the one that

464
00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:40.200
hyped him up to me, I
watched it. I said, he reminded

465
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:44.720
me a lot of Jeff Hardy when
Jeff Hardy first got to WW his stuff

466
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.240
he's doing in the ring and his
bill, like he's very tall but lanky,

467
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.480
Like he just is Jeff Hardy esque
in a lot of ways. And

468
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:53.400
my wife, who had no idea
who he was, I was like,

469
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:56.960
he looks like baby, are truth. She was like, yes, that's

470
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:02.680
it. What I didn't like about
it was early on you saw Sean Spears

471
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:04.920
hit a C four. There's a
kickout. Seawan Spears hits a c four

472
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.880
from the top rope and there's a
kickout, like you're kind of killing his

473
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:15.000
finisher with those kickouts and not breakups. I also didn't like the foot on

474
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.200
the rope breakup because I didn't think
a foot on the rope broke things up

475
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.119
in a four way because if there's
no DQ, how does a foot on

476
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.559
the rope break up a pin?
So I didn't like that spot. But

477
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.079
outside of that, the finish to
the match was incredible. Like you said,

478
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:32.519
I'm like, I don't think I've
ever seen somebody knocked out and win

479
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:37.200
a title. I know I've seen
something similar, but also like the fact

480
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.880
that you know he's knocked out,
Tricks trying to get the wing and Sean

481
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:44.519
Spears pulls Trick away to not break
up the pinfall was great. And then

482
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:47.519
also the camera shot. I don't
know if you saw this camera shot,

483
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.039
but there's Ethan Page laying there Tricks
making a face like he's completely distraught and

484
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.480
up said Booker. T's face behind
that was just jaw drops, so you

485
00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.880
get for me, I was like, okay, that tells me that he

486
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.839
and then the announcers didn't know who
was going over in that match. I

487
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:05.680
thought was great camera work, but
it was a really really fun match.

488
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:08.920
I just hate when they kill finishers
cleanly. Like I don't mind the sequential

489
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:13.599
ones like rock stand hits, but
when you hit a top rope version of

490
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:15.400
your finisher on a guy and he
kicks out cleanly, that does kind of

491
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:20.200
kill your finisher. No, I
can't understand that. I can't understand that

492
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.599
what you're trying to say. I
think just overall, like for me,

493
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.720
like looking back at the show,
looking back at that match, it was

494
00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:29.519
just very surprising, like how much
I enjoyed it, And when the show

495
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.079
closed out, I was like,
we like that was shocking. I did

496
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:35.319
not think Ethan Page was going to
do it. I did not think they

497
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:37.440
were going to take the title off
Trick Williams. I did not think they

498
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.559
were going to do it in that
fashion the way that everybody sold. As

499
00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:43.960
you're pointing out here, even Booker
t was like, really really well done,

500
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:46.960
and yeah, I put a close
to a very fun show here.

501
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.599
So pay perview prediction record coming to
this one, I went to and four.

502
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:53.359
Doctor Trey went three and three on
the year. Now heading to our

503
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:57.079
next pay per views, which I
think will be you know, SummerSlam.

504
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.400
At this point, I'm eighty seven
to twenty one, Doctor Trey, seventy

505
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:05.240
eight and thirty match of the night. In event rating, I gave the

506
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.480
event rating a three point nine and
let me put the caveat here that out

507
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:14.319
of everything we have watched in twenty
twenty four, this was the most surprisingly

508
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:19.440
enjoyable show I have seen from any
wrestling company. I think everything else,

509
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.480
I had an expectation that they would
deliver, or I had an excitement or

510
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:27.359
expectation that they would deliver. This
was his show. And typically with NXT

511
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.319
shows, I hate to say this, but as they're really on a good

512
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.960
swing right now, and I'll get
to that as well, this show way

513
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:39.279
beyond exceeded expectations, and I was
like, oh, I've been feeling this

514
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:43.359
way lately. I was like,
oh, crap, Like NXT is on

515
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.200
one right now. They are on
something and it's exciting to watch and it's

516
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:51.519
exciting to see, and I thought
this was a really good show to potentially

517
00:33:51.680 --> 00:34:00.400
continue catapulting that this was the most
underrated show for me and professional wrestling twenty

518
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:02.680
twenty four thus far, A great, great watch. So I gave NXC

519
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:06.640
Heatwave dots for a three point nine
out of five, and my match the

520
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:09.840
night was Ethan Page Trick, Williams, Javon Evans, and Seawan Spears.

521
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:14.559
Yeah, I so my raiser might
surprise you. I actually gave it a

522
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:19.119
four point one like on its own. I actually enjoyed this show more than

523
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.400
Money in the Bank, and I
think probably it was because I had lower

524
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.920
expectations going into it, and like
you said, it exceeded all my expectations,

525
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.840
so I had more fun watching it, whereas Money in the Bank kind

526
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.480
of hit my expectations and didn't really
exceed it didn't really go below it.

527
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.280
So I gave it a four point
one, and I also had the men's

528
00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:42.480
fatal four way to close it out
as my match of the night. Yeah,

529
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.639
it was a really good show.
If you're not watching NXT, if

530
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:47.239
you did not watch heat Wave for
whatever reason, go out of your way

531
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:52.639
and check it out. It was. They're really really on a good swing

532
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:57.239
right now, and it's exciting to
see as NXT is preparing for some major

533
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:01.639
changes as they head over to I
believe the CW network in September. I

534
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:06.000
think it's a start when they make
the change. There's a really good run

535
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:10.320
for NXC. I'm excited for them. The big news outside of Money in

536
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.719
the Bank and NXC he wave obviously
from the weekend was during Money in the

537
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:20.639
Bank. John Cena made a surprise
appearance appearance and he announced that he will

538
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:27.320
be retiring from WWE in twenty twenty
five. The details on his retirement and

539
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.519
this comes to us from Sean Ross
SAPA fightful on his Twitter account are as

540
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:35.679
fall and I believe this is what
Sina talked about on the post show conference

541
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:39.719
press conference they did following Money in
the Bank. Sina it could work between

542
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:45.119
thirty to forty events and plans to
work from January twenty twenty five to December

543
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.119
twenty twenty five. He's still juggling
some other things. I believe he is

544
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.599
currently filming Peacemaker or will be filming
that soon, the second season the show

545
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:57.159
that he was on. He will
remain in the wa family after his entering

546
00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:01.920
retirement WRESTLEMANI isn't his retirement, it's
his last in ring WrestleMania. He said.

547
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:06.679
Royal Rumble and Money the Bank are
possible path to the record breaking seventeenth

548
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:10.239
title reign. He wants to contribute
and help future generations. So there were

549
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:15.400
some notes in regards to his announcement
that he will be retiring in twenty twenty

550
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:20.639
five. If you have read or
watched any recent Johnson to interviews, despite

551
00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:22.360
this being shocking news and something that
you know, we're bringing up really the

552
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.559
first time on the show, if
you look at some of his recent interviews,

553
00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.639
read them, whatever, Whenever he
talks about his wrestling future, it's

554
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:36.000
his time was coming to an end. I think he wants to be retired

555
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:40.159
by fifty, which he is surprisingly
getting closer to. And nonetheless, it's

556
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.400
it's a sad thing to see.
It's seeing for me, he was a

557
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.480
baseball fan, sports fan. It's
seeing Derek Jeter retire. It's, you

558
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.960
know, part of my childhood.
I mean, I was still in high

559
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:57.559
school when John Cena was wrestling,
and back in two thousand and two when

560
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:00.639
he made his debut. I was
when we were Doctor Try talking about the

561
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:05.199
two thousand and two to two thousand
and four era of all professional wrestling before

562
00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:08.519
we got on the podcast tonight.
So I mean, my love and dislike

563
00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:15.159
for John Cena has obviously wane.
With probably the most normal male eighteen to

564
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:20.079
thirty four wrestling fan over the last
twenty five years. I'm in the pro

565
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.760
Scena camp. There was a period
of time, if you listen back to

566
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.880
this podcast, I used to being
jammed down our throats and then their period

567
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.679
sign that we saw like the best
work of John Cena. All in all,

568
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.760
I mean, there will never be
a bigger workhorse than John Cena was

569
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:37.000
for the company, because really from
two thousand and two to twenty seventeen,

570
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:39.639
just before he started doing like a
lot of part time stuff. After that,

571
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:45.159
he was doing everything house show loops, raws, smackdowns, headlining pay

572
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:49.760
per views, champion here, champion
there, putting guys over here, putting

573
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:53.119
guys over there, maybe depending on
your perspective, maybe squashing some people here

574
00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:58.920
and there as well. And nobody's
ever had that run. Austin didn't have

575
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.079
that run for that long. Hogan
didn't have that run for that long.

576
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:05.760
Rock certainly didn't, Triple h didn't. I mean, these are folks that

577
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.840
on top that that were never like
this, and he was. He is

578
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:14.920
certainly one of a kind. Doctor
Trey, It's it's sad to hear,

579
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:19.679
but I was not surprised by the
news. Your thoughts as we prepare ourselves

580
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:24.039
now for the next fifteen months where
John Sena retirement tortably kicking off in World

581
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:29.559
Wrestling Entertainment. Yeah, it's losing. It really made me feel old,

582
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:31.480
and I know for you it was
like one of the piece of your childood.

583
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.679
For me, John Cena and I
are a month apart in age,

584
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.320
I'm like, oh crap, he's
hanging him up. Damn. That means

585
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:44.719
I'm old. Okay, yeah,
that's that's legitimized it. But yeah,

586
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.320
I'm with you like I was,
you know, very pro Sena in his

587
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.760
early days in the Eel Run,
kind of anti Sena when he was in

588
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.159
super Sena mode, and then towards
the end of the run back to being

589
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:59.960
pro Sena because he was putting guys
over, having incredible matches. I mean,

590
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.239
I mean you go back to the
US title run when he was doing

591
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:05.639
the Sena Open challenges. I mean, some of those are some of the

592
00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:09.559
best matches he ever had. It's
going to suck because this is one of

593
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:15.400
those bankable stars that you know,
you and I have always come to come

594
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.239
to rely on whenever w needed a
kind of a shot in the arm over

595
00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:22.199
the last few years. Hey,
in case of versus he break glass and

596
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.679
pull out John Cena, and to
know that that's going to be gone at

597
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:29.039
going away is this hard, especially
when you say when he says like,

598
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:32.480
I will never be in a WrestleMania
match again. I mean, we've seen

599
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:36.679
guys wrestle in their fifties, We've
seen guys wrestle fifty five, you know,

600
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:40.199
years older wrestle manias just kind of
sucks that he's going nope, I'm

601
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:44.400
done, and he's made enough money
that he's gonna be one of those guys

602
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:49.039
that when he shuts it down,
he's gonna shut it down. So just

603
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.320
you know, sad, but happy
for the man that he can actually walk

604
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.599
away on his own terms and get
one final run. It will be interesting

605
00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:01.360
to see if they give him title
run number seven to break Flair's record,

606
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:07.880
given the love affection Triple H has
for Rick Flair, So that's gonna been

607
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:09.559
a kind of an interesting dynamic to
see if they go that way. And

608
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.119
if that's the case, do they
go that with him, does that mean

609
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.079
Orton you know, can kind of
jump up that list as well, because

610
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:20.400
he's said at fourteen right now,
So and if we somehow got a Randy

611
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:24.039
Orton Johnson a WrestleMania match for seen
his last WrestleMania. I'm okay with that.

612
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.559
I'd be fine with that as well. So yeah, just kind of

613
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.000
my thoughts on that whole situation.
Yeah, there's a lot of exciting things,

614
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.440
and we're gonna certainly, I mean, this could be a topic of

615
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.880
its own if we want to do
some special shows, which we may have

616
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:39.360
to do in a couple months anyway. But you know, I didn't even

617
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:43.159
think about Sena versus Orton at WrestleMania. That would be a ton of fun.

618
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.199
You heard Punk on Monday talk about
he wants one more match with Sina.

619
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.800
He probably went off script there,
or maybe it's something they talked about

620
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.400
buying the scenes, or it's a
couple of pictures of those two guys talking

621
00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.199
behind it in the backstage area,
which is really cool to see seeing him

622
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:59.599
miss I'd love to see again.
I mean, that was something that I

623
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:02.519
think a lot of people tend to
forget, maybe purposely or not. Would

624
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:06.760
we see seeing a Rock one more
time, seeing a Rains one more time?

625
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:08.760
When they bring back is Leslner going
to be brought back in good graces,

626
00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:13.679
depending on the legal situation where you'd
get seen a Lesner one more time.

627
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:16.639
I'm yeah, it was. It
was sad to see, but again

628
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:21.119
I was not surprised by the news. So a lots of stuff we could

629
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:22.800
see in the next year, and
of course, maybe some some dream matches

630
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:27.199
that we've never seen, never seen
Drew McIntyre and John Cena, maybe we

631
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.760
do Johnsen and Seth Rollins again.
Maybe John Cen and Gunther again, or

632
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.480
for the first time ever in a
dream match scenario, John Cena and Shamus

633
00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:37.039
would be good. So I'm happy
he's doing it for a full year and

634
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:43.079
it's not like from now until WrestleMania, And yeah, it'll be really really

635
00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:46.360
interesting how they close us out who
his final opponent is, with the feuds

636
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.199
we see, the matches we see, does he get the title run?

637
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:54.480
I just heard a new doctor Trey
go for it his last matches against Baron

638
00:41:54.519 --> 00:42:01.199
Corbyn. Oh god, oh god, and then Damian Sandow. Yeah,

639
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:04.480
I mean, just you know,
Baron Corbin is the one who retired Kurt

640
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:07.840
Angle. So Baron Corban retires John
Cenah, I thought you were referencing money

641
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:10.159
in the bank, Casina. I
stopped that one. I was thinking of

642
00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:15.360
Corbyn angle at WrestleMania Corbin and Sena
for Seena his last managine Corbyn gets the

643
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.000
win. Maybe feel free to chime
in. Just hit Doctor Trey up on

644
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.280
that one, folks. Yeah,
the Doctor Trey switching gears. Uh.

645
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:30.239
There was a shocking we signing that
was announced last night, confirmed by Sean

646
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:35.079
Michaels on his ex account Twitter account, and it was. It was gaining

647
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:40.400
momentum all day Wednesday to the point
where it was confirmed by the news websites

648
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:45.079
and then firmed up by Sean Michaels
later that evening. Stephanie Va Kor,

649
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:50.400
who was holding the New Japan Strong
Women's Championship, was the women's champion in

650
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.119
CMLL, was a women's tag team
champion in CMLL, just performed at Forbidden

651
00:42:53.199 --> 00:43:00.039
Door against Mercedes Monet that Mercedes Moone
and aw went out for the purpose of

652
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:06.440
that match was to make her a
bigger star. Shockingly signed with World Wrestling

653
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:09.719
Entertainment. Completely came out of nowhere. I guess. She announced a CMLL

654
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:15.760
in New Japan that she was leaving
the company abruptly. There are reports out

655
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:20.320
there that she was backstage at NX
heat Wave this past Sunday talking to w

656
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:25.000
officials. I don't even think she
dropped the championship she held outside of the

657
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:30.119
obviously we know the New Japan Strong
Women's Championship was dropped in Mercedes Monet Forbidden

658
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:35.079
Door, but Vakor is on her
way to NXC, so it could be

659
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:39.960
as something as early as next week. I saw some reports that she may

660
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:44.679
be on the tour of Mexico with
WE. But this is obviously a very

661
00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:47.719
notable and big signing Doctor Trey.
There are people that are saying that there's

662
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:51.320
a little bit of a yoke on
the face of AW because they went out

663
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:53.440
of their way to make her look
really good. But I think a lot

664
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:58.159
of that has to do with their
relationship with CML and New Japan as well,

665
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.039
which Doctor Trey and I talked about, and Door pay per View was

666
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:07.159
a lot of AW people going over. Nonetheless, Betty Man last week's show,

667
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.039
I would say, well, yeah, she'll end up in AW,

668
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.639
but here she is a full fledged
member of the w WI and soon to

669
00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:20.119
be NXC roster. Your thoughts as
Stephanie Vakor leaves CMLL New Japan and shockingly

670
00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:25.000
signs with WA. Yeah, this
is kind of like a middle finger and

671
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:30.519
everybody for them. And this is
one of those like signings that WW typically

672
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.800
doesn't pull off, like we've seen
this, you know, for the last

673
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.239
two three years. We see the
person come over, works CMLL, work

674
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.039
New Japan, you know, work
something, work Forbidden Door, work some

675
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:45.519
special tapings and then gets signed to
AW. Whether it's you know, Will

676
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:50.760
Osprey or Acado or j White or
anybody else we've seen down the list.

677
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.639
It's kind of a surprising signing.
It makes sense. I mean, she's,

678
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:57.480
you know, super talented. We
saw you know a little bit of

679
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.159
that it Forbidden Door when she actually
got a chance to to kind of get

680
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:04.440
in some offense. But you know, for WW to pull this off,

681
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.360
it's really really surprising. So it's
it's kind of like a big middle finger

682
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:13.480
to everybody. So I give W
credit for pulling this one off when all

683
00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:17.400
signs pointed to AW and they get
their girl here in this situation. Is

684
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.320
there egg on the face of AW
dot trap? I don't think there is.

685
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:24.440
This was not a slam dunk.
She was going to sign with them.

686
00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:28.159
I get she just worked for bid
in Doors, so you would think

687
00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:31.280
that she would make the path from
New Japan and CMLLL at some point to

688
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:35.840
AW. But I don't think it's
as much of an egg on the face

689
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.079
of AW as most people are trying
to make it out to be. No,

690
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:40.760
I don't know it's egg on the
face, or maybe they just kind

691
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:45.400
of took this one for granted considering
their past success. I mean, it's

692
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:46.920
negotiations. I mean, you and
I are big, you know, sports

693
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:52.159
fans, and we're NFL fans baseball
fans. How many times have the Yankees

694
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.000
signed the person they thought they were
gonna get? Yeah, ninety five percent

695
00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:59.639
time. But there's always that one
out of every hundred that there every goes,

696
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:01.679
oh he's with the Yankees, and
he ends up going somewhere else.

697
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:06.280
You know, same with me of
being a Cubs fan the Niners fan.

698
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:07.679
It happens. It's just one of
the things that every now and then you

699
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.840
take a situation for granted, and
you maybe don't put on the full core

700
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.960
press because you think it's already kind
of in the bag and they slipped through

701
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:17.440
the cracks. But you know,
it could be a thing where like,

702
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:21.760
hey, she had an offer and
WW just did a better offer, and

703
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:23.559
you know, from what I was
red. Also, she was a lifelong

704
00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:28.320
WWE fan and that's where she actually
wanted to end up. So you can't

705
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:30.039
really fault her. You can't really
fault AW. They did their best,

706
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:34.400
but it just, you know,
in this situation, the stars aligned for

707
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:37.880
Stephanie fuck Orr and WWE. Yeah, there's a lot of reports out there.

708
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.039
I guess she's from Chile and that's
what she grew up on. That

709
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:45.679
was sort of dream AW obviously wasn't
around then and this is what she was

710
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.599
looking to do. There are reports
at CMLL in New Japan are not happy

711
00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:53.199
with her at all on how this
all went down, because she put in

712
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.679
her notice like the night before.
Then twenty four hours later, Shawn Michael's

713
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.320
put out a tweet, you know, confirming that she is now part of

714
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.400
the NXC roster and join the w
family. So I could totally understand that

715
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.480
the again, I mean I talked
about it about ten minutes ago. NXC

716
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:13.440
is if you're not watching NXT,
you gotta start adding it to your viewing

717
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:16.159
right now as a wrestling fan,
because I really think NXC has been good

718
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:20.280
lately and it's going to get better
with the influx of the TNA stuff that's

719
00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.400
going on right now and some of
the science that they have. You know,

720
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:28.679
Stephanie vak Kor and Julia are going
to be added to the NXC roster

721
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:30.719
here in the next three to six
months on the women's division, and that's

722
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:36.559
really exciting, and that women's division
is growing up there. The upside of

723
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:40.559
them is phenomenal. The amount of
great female talent that they're churning out in

724
00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:47.000
the PC right now is is phenomenal
and it's exciting times for and NXC.

725
00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:52.159
So Sephane vak Kor thwarts CML in
New Japan and for some AW and is

726
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:58.079
shockingly signing with WA a huge,
huge get for Rollers entertainment. And then

727
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:04.079
finally doctor Trey I wanted to go
to AW here for some positives. The

728
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.599
owen Hart Foundation Tournament for Men and
Women was wrapped up on last night's edition

729
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:14.360
at Dynamite, Brian Danielson defeating Hangman
Audam Paige Mariam May defeating Willow Nightingale.

730
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:19.639
So at all in it will be
Swerve Strickland versus Brian Daniels for the AW

731
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:23.800
World Championship barring any changes or Swerve
dropping the title, and then you've got

732
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:29.360
Timeless Tony Storm taken on Mariam May, Swerve and Danielson. That is a

733
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:32.039
dream match for me as a wrestling
fans. I'm really really excited about that.

734
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:36.599
I did think they were gonna go
Swerve Hangman Adam Page to continue that

735
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:39.480
great, great feud over and maybe
there is a case that still happens.

736
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:46.360
But the Maria May Tony Storm stuff
that closed out AW Dynamite this past Wednesday,

737
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:51.960
back to back weeks for me.
In aw Dynamite, they closed out

738
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:57.320
with a really good angle with MGF
turning on Daniel Garcia and then the angle

739
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.039
of Mariam May turning on timeless Tony
Storm. Can came out of nowhere.

740
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:06.320
It was visually gruesome and brutal,
and there are people saying that it's one

741
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:09.559
of the best endings to AW Dynamite
in their history, and I do not

742
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:15.280
disagree at all with that sentiment.
I mean that, I mean Tymelstony Storm

743
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:20.599
was just pouring blood. It was
very violent. It was completely shocking.

744
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:22.480
I thought if there was going to
be a turn, it was going to

745
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:27.840
be building up towards aw all In
that takes place in late August. Here

746
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.159
we are on July eleventh and The
angle was executed July tenth, so they've

747
00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:35.039
got five to six weeks to build
this up. Maybe Tony Storm is going

748
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.599
to be off television selling this for
the next couple of weeks, which would

749
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:39.320
make a ton of sense, and
then you've got the build heading into the

750
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:45.360
August AW all in. But you
know, again, we get often criticized

751
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:47.599
that we are tough on AAW.
I want to say the last two episodes

752
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.199
of AW Dynamite really good. The
angle again of Maria May and Timer Tony

753
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:57.480
Storm was very memorable, one of
the best ones that I've seen. I

754
00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:00.760
will say, and this is the
butt on this the cav on this all,

755
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:02.280
and I think this is a good
thing. So bear with me,

756
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.480
folks. For those that are like, oh god, here he goes what

757
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.519
he is going to say bad about
AW? There are some really I think

758
00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:15.320
drastic creative changes that they've made based
on the way that viewership and attendance is

759
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.360
going down. I think the MJF
back to heel turn was part of that,

760
00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:23.280
and then this angle was obviously part
of that as well, And for

761
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:28.119
that I say this is a good
thing. So AW is not happy and

762
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.440
content with the way that their creative
is going right now as they should not

763
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:36.000
be, and in back to back
weeks, they left the show closed with

764
00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:39.599
an angle that had everybody talking and
had the wrestling world exciting. Another solid

765
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:43.079
edition of AW Dynamite. I don't
think it was as good as the week

766
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:45.880
prior, but I really love the
length of the Brian Danielson Hangman in a

767
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:52.239
Page match, and again that closing
angle with Brian mayontimein Tony Storm was great.

768
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.880
So AW all in main event matches. The owen Hart Foundation Tournament is

769
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.480
all wrapped up, Doctor Trey,
your thoughts on how AW Dynamite went last

770
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:02.280
night. Yeah, it's amazing when
you just add in something like, hey,

771
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:06.400
the winners of the tournament are going
to get a shot at the title

772
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:09.719
like they do with King of the
Ring. Is really cool because now you

773
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:15.119
have something else these folks are fighting
for. So it added some credibility and

774
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:19.800
some storyline, and it's something that
typically hasn't had thoryline the last couple of

775
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.519
years. So, uh, I'm
with you. I I thought Hangman Page

776
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:27.280
would win as well to kind of
go into him and Swerve, but you

777
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.760
know, this is kind of an
injury matchup with Swerve and Brian Danielson at

778
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:37.320
all in because you know, it's
the future in the in the past in

779
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:42.000
a sense, it's kind of a
changing of the guard. H So it's

780
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.719
one of those you know, borderline
dream matches that we talk about and you

781
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:49.760
know good and then it led to
Hangman joining back up with the Elite to

782
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:52.719
you know, for blood and Guts
coming up and led to Swerve captaining Team

783
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.360
a W. So it all tied
up nice there as well. And then

784
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:01.320
that closing segment, like you said, like maybe the show itself wasn't as

785
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:05.880
good, but that's how you end
it. That's how you end a television

786
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.199
show. And that's one of the
things that you and I have talked about.

787
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.400
Adem He's always there. Their weak
spot has been how do you close

788
00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:14.039
out a show to make me have
to tune in next week? They did

789
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:16.079
it this week, they close it
out toward now I have to see what

790
00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:21.960
the payoff is for Mariah May and
Tony Storm And how do you reintroduce Tony

791
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.960
Storm? Does she come back still
as this character she's been doing where some

792
00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:30.079
fans are kind of, you know, maybe saying it's kind of plateaued,

793
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.440
and she got back to the way
she was, or is this the comeback

794
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:36.280
for the actress? You know,
how did they go from here? But

795
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.960
I did not see the Mariah may
turn coming. I think you and I

796
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:45.639
have both assumed to be Tony Storm
turning on Mariah Mabe. So to see

797
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:49.800
this side of her come out adds
some depth to her character. It's a

798
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.480
vicious sight we haven't seen. And
Dear god Portan Luther, I mean,

799
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:58.400
poor guy just can't get a win
now he's a butler and then he gets

800
00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:01.320
thrown off a stage by a girl. I mean poor guy, but just

801
00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:06.960
Jojo. He's getting paid pretty well
so but just that is great way to

802
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:09.320
close out a television show. You
close it out with the cliffhanger. So

803
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:12.800
now we have to tune in to
see what's next. A great job by

804
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:15.800
aw this week. Yeah, and
this is what we want professional wrestling.

805
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:19.000
We want every show that we watched
to be really good, Doctor Trey and

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I do not want to sit here
every single week and critique a show negatively.

807
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:24.039
I want to sit there and go
man like. That was a really

808
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good week of professional wrestling, and
from Friday to Wednesday, from in between

809
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.840
each episode of SRTU from last week
to today. That was a really really

810
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:37.880
good, solid week of professional wrestling
from SmackDown, Money the Bank, NX

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heat Wave, Collision was was solid, Rampage was thrown away as again as

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always, Raw was really good.
We'd even talk about DOM Live, the

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00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:52.199
return of Rhea Ripley. Yet NX
Television is really good. Aw Dynamite was

814
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really good, Doctor Trey, I
mean, this is this is getting to

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the point where I mean, this
is historical life levels with how good professional

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00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:04.840
resting is right now. It's really
exciting time to be a professional wrestling fan.

817
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:07.679
Yeah, I mean, I don't
think the Rock can take credit for

818
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:13.119
all of this, but you know, but you know, it's when all

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the shows are hitting on all cylinders, you're just like man like. I

820
00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:20.079
mean, we didn't mention. I
even enjoyed that statement with Jericho and the

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forklift. You know, I thought
that I have never seen somebody drive a

822
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:28.119
forklift through a sheet through sheet rock
on wrestling before. So you can pull

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00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.960
off stuff that's still new and indifferent
and original and just have good television across

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the board on all platforms, Like
you're right, ram Page is a throwaway

825
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:40.440
show. But NXT's been good,
you know, TNA with the crossover stuff's

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been good. You know, AW
has been really really good for the last

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like six weeks, you know,
across the board. I mean, Collision

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has been better, you know,
DYNA might's been really really solid the last

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you know, six eight weeks,
and then WWE almost like every show just

830
00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:58.320
hits it out of the park.
So you're just like, there's not a

831
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.159
bad thing to watch right now when
it comes to wrestling television. No,

832
00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:07.039
it's it's a really really fun time. So I'm very happy to see like

833
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:10.039
n I see an AW really pushing
their games up to be on the same

834
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:14.360
level as the entertainment value that I'm
watching on Ron SmackDown right now. And

835
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it's been a really good couple of
weeks of professional wrestling. I just think

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the only thing is just AW has
to cut down those paper views. That's

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that's all I'm asking, Tony con
That's please all I'm asking. With that

838
00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:28.960
said, let's close up shop on
this week's edition of sr TU and get

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a couple of plugs and sponsors out
of the way. You can down the

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show every Thursday or Friday at Real
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842
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review and subscribe to help us com
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843
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follows individually on X for myself at
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844
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:46.119
at the Doctor Tray. And of
course don't forget to follow a show on

845
00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:50.840
X at SRTU podcast. With that
being said, what is going on in

846
00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:53.719
the wonderful world of Dot Tray Franklin
this week? Well, like Jeff said,

847
00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:57.840
you can follow me on X at
the Doctor Tray. You can find

848
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:00.360
me on Facebook and Instagram Doctor Tray
Franklin. When you're on Facebook, check

849
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:06.039
out Rocketsay Championship Wrestling. I was
unable to return last week due to my

850
00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:09.519
car being vandalized and not able to
actually travel anywhere. But coming up not

851
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:15.000
this hour, but next Saturday,
the Sewn Shocker Evans Memorial Tournament. It's

852
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:19.039
a big deal for us at Rocket
City. Sewn Evans was a huge part

853
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.920
of the Pittsburgh wrestling scene, help
train you know with best friends with our

854
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:27.719
owner Barry Coleoff. Helped train Kurt
Angle in his early days of professional wrestling.

855
00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:30.320
It's one of our biggest shows of
the year. So our tournament coming

856
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:32.880
up next Saturday, so be sure
to get on Facebook check them out,

857
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.239
and just go check out your local
independent wrestling shows because that person you see

858
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:42.320
in the ring might be spurning aaw
and signing with ww you in a couple

859
00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:44.760
of weeks. So you just never
know who you're gonna see out there.

860
00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:49.280
You never ever ever know who could
be seen on the independent wrestling scene.

861
00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:52.719
With that said, we will close
up shop here and say goodbye, thank

862
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:58.559
you for downloading this week's edition of
SRTU. On next week's edition of the

863
00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:01.360
podcast, we'll be looking at our
twenty twenty four SRTU Awards at the halfway

864
00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:06.079
point of twenty twenty four, so
join us all on next week's edition of

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srt as we look at some of
the early candidates and leaders in the clubhouse

866
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:13.239
for each over one of our awards
for the last show in twenty twenty four

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that we do each and every year. With that said, again, thank

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00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.760
you for downloading SRTU, thank you
for making as part of your week and

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00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:23.039
until next week. For doctor Trey
Franklin, I'm Jeff Pack. This has

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been This is a real deus show.