NXT Great American Bash Preview | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #702 – 7/27/23

0:00 It's stupid. What are you up? Welcome everybody, Welcome to this week's edition. This is the Real of the Show. Episomber seven hundred and two for July twenty seven. Two Doubts four gree did your NXC Great American Bash Preview and Predictions edition of ass t you? I am one aff the show. I am Jeff back joined every single week in my coast, I only got you Cray Franklin, Doctor Trey. While it may be NXT, it's still really cool to say Great American Brash preview predictions my friend. Oh no, absolutely, And being somebody of my age growing up on you know, the n w A and WCW and the Great American Bash and you know that's where war Games came in and all those things like this to me is like, oh whatever, the Great American Bash roll around. To me, that was like, okay, it's summer and if you haven't been outside, it's summer. Oh yeah, why do you think of all the WCW names for pay per views, like the only ones that have made it has been Great American Bash. They've done that time and time again. They've done Clash of Champions a couple of times. They did a starcade I think once or twice.

1:26 Think one time it may have been televised on ww network when they used to do like exclusive live events, and then the other time it wasn't. Why do you think Great American Bash is the one that stood out? Because I always felt like, if you're going to do any type of w CW esque pay per view, I would have figured starcade. Yeah, but I think the problem with Starcade is the fact that that was the answer to WrestleMania, you know, back in the day that was you know, WCW, Ted Turner. That's kind of what I think. That's kind of why they left alone where you know, the Great American Bash, Clash of Champions, Halloween Havoc, those were kind of yeah, I will say ancillary shows, but they weren't on the level what Stark was supposed to be. So um, you know, I'm still waiting for like an NWBO sold out show to come back, you know, Uh, try to think it's the other one where something I can't remember something the Beach Slamboree, well, bashing the Beach got taken by aw no, no, no, it's back Cody had Cody Haddy owns it. Cody owns it, and then I think to trade off the Cody Road's name coming back. They got Bashed the Beach back. Remember w W E let like a bunch of trademarks go. Cody like took them all. I think maybe him and Conrad did, and I know they aw did Bashed the Beach and then I'm pretty sure that the way that Cody got the Road's last name back was by giving a lot of the w trademark pay per view names that he took and given them back to w W. A.

2:59 All right, well that's seems like a fair trade, especially now that Cody's in WWE, so he basically gets to be a part of the stuff that he gave away. Anyway, But you know, I mean, and honestly, some of those names, like a slam Marie like that just sounds dated anyway. But you know, Great American Bash sounds fun, Halloween Havoc sounds fun. You know, Clash of the Champions sounds fun, Starkade sounds cool. But once again, I just think it's one of those we don't want to bring something back that was seen as the rival to wrestle media. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess it's always it's always cool to say, like Great American Bash. The old schooled fans and us certainly love it. But um yeah, Well, we'll preview and predict the Great American Bash towards the end of this week's edition of SRTU, so stay tuned for that.

3:42 First thing I want to start with, Doctor Trade talked about war Games and a sibling. A copycat of War Games is Blood and Guts from AW, which aired this past Wednesday. The Blood and Guts match basically was the entire second half of AW Dynamite this past Wednesday or depend when you listen to this, I guess two wednesdays ago. I thought the match for ninety percent of the time was great. I really enjoyed the match. I thought it was a lot of fun, job well done by everybody. These you know, these guys when they put their bodies on them like that, like ton of respect for that. But there was one major thing that I have a buggaboo over, Doctor Try and I have a buggaboo over this for a lot of things that AW does when it comes to their production. So the match ends with I believe either one of the Jackson's and Hangman page had the chain around Wheeler ut his neck and they're choking him out and the match gets called like, okay, did Wheeler pass out? Did the ref make the decision?

4:42 Did he tap out? You know? The Golden Lead is celebrating the victory in about two minutes after the match was called Tony Shiavanni Tazz Excalibur. They're all on commentary making a point that the way that the match ended was that John Moxley surrendered. So John Moxley is in between both rings, he is handcuffed to one of the turnbuckles. He can't move, he's bloody, he's beaten up, and he's watching Wheeler Utah get choked out and he surrenders to save Wheeler Utah. Okay, the problem here is that aw never showed that happening. The commentators didn't know it, the production team didn't know it, and we miss a excuse the pun golden opportunity for the most impactful part of the match to air on television. I'm thinking, before we get your thoughts on this, another thing, I'm thinking, well, they probably got footage that they could replay. No replay on Dynamite, no replay on Rampage, no replay on collision. They never got footage of John Moxley surrendering to cost his team the match and to give up and give the VIC to the Golden League. I loved this match for ninety five percent of the time, but you cannot miss that moment. From a production standpoint, What the hell gives you a doctor? Trey so um Aw's been on the air now for

6:15 what three years now, three almost four years. Yeah, they emulate a lot of WCW, but they also be laid a lout of W and Wwe would not miss that shot. I mean they may miss it live, but some cameraman is hitting his mark. For them to have such a big match that's been hyped up for you know, weeks in I mean borderline months to build to this with you know, Coda Abushi, you know, making his debut and Pock returning to the company after being away for months, and to have this match be as good as it was, it was really in entertaining match, Like you said, those guys like I mean literally like they spilled blood for the entertain these fans. To miss that shot is just catastrophic because like that's the whole point of the match is to get to that finish.

7:16 You know, That's one thing that I've learned in wrestling over years, over that my years in it is that people remember entrances, and they remember finishes, and they remember emotion. That's it. The moves in the middle don't even matter for the most part. Like I've said before, Sean Michael's Brett Hart. You know, wrestle banias one my Ironman match, one of my favorite matches all time. I remember the entrances, I remember the finish. I couldn't tell you really what happened in the middle. Just remember how I felt the same thing here. Moxley surrendering is a big moment. And how do you have multiple cameraman around the ring with headphones on, with producers in the back, and nobody says, hey, somebody hit a camera on Moxe.

8:01 That's just like Bush League that that's what happens at independent shows and to have it happen on a naturally televised, well funded show is just terrible. It's just misses the point completely. I mean, that's that's what TNA did back in the Hogan Bishop area. I mean, that's where we're at right now. That's what WCW did the last year they were in business. Is missed the important shots, especially when you have a build to this match and the match itself was really great and then you just blow the finish completely. I mean, I don't know it's worse than this, this this one or Moxley Omega exploding ring batch when it comes to finishes. For AW, that was pretty bad. This is more from a production standpoint, I feel like and this I feel like this happens often. I'm a fan of AW.

8:48 I really enjoy the program, especially lately. Creative has been on high. We've talked about this last couple of weeks are on the podcast, and like I said, if anybody's like, oh man, they're just bashing AW, hear me out on that match. I love the final five percent, Like is this portion and it was just a completely missed opportunity by AW. I felt like the production team let there was some sort of communication breakdown. Somebody let somebody down so that the viewers at home could not see that moment and then nothing is captured on replay. That was like, okay, well, you know, say face here we missed it on a live show, but here it is in replay on Rampage later that you know, the replaced stuff with Dynamite, and then on Collision that you could play on forever. I mean, John Moxley, the way that he has been built up in AW is one of the toughest sons of bitches you'll ever meet. In real life.

9:37 He is one of the toughest s obs you'll ever meet. And for him to surrender because he couldn't take Wheeler you to you know, being he wasn't going to tap out, he was going to be choked out is like a very talent emotional moment in the match. And not only that, who knows if that was supposed to play into anything now coming out of this feud with the Golden Elite that was going to take a take aim on AW television each week, and as doctors trying to record this AW Dynamite to Erring right now, it's very well possible that maybe that carries itself over on Dynamite tonight as we record the pod. Nonetheless, this happens very often on AW programming where there's a moment in a match that you miss because they are, you know, watching somebody do another flip over the top rope or something like, I just feel like whenever there's a match going on, they're missing something and it has caused problems. And I don't understand the production element side of professional wrestling as a wrestling fan. I sit down, I'm the viewer. I watch. I need to see the most necessary points play out on my television because that's how I get the emotional investment in the product. I know the physicality and athleticism that I'm seeing in the ring is fantastic, that's great, but I need to see the moment, especially the most crucial moment of the match, as to why the match ended. So I was reading some sort of article this week, and come to find out, I think it was I was reading the article about Orange Cassidy, or maybe it was the Cody

11:07 Road stuff, because so Cody was talking about like the last thing he did for AW as producing match that Ruby Soho was in, and I think maybe Orange Cassidy, who is now working doing some producing stuff behind the scenes for AW. There was some talk about this as well. So the producer is the one responsible that they talked to the wrestlers. They map out the match, they lay out the most important points, and then they go back to production and they say, hey, these are gonna be the most important points. This is how it's going to carry itself over, and that is where the production team is then supposed to, you know, make sure that they're watching. You know, Matt Jackson dumped the thumb tacks from the top of the cage onto you know, the second ring in the Blood and Guts match.

11:48 I don't know what have you. So somewhere there was a communication breakdown, whether it was the producers involved in the match or the production team itself, somebody missed a very crucial spot and it just blew my mind. At the end of Dynamite, I mean, I was like, man, this is a great match, cool finished, cool ending. Chivanni, ex Caliber, Tazz are all chiming in that the reason why the Golden Elite one was because John Moxley surrendered. I'm looking for a replay. It doesn't happen a downe of my clothes out you miss it? Nothing on YouTube again, nothing on rampage and Collissen and I just pulled my hair out, like how do you miss this as a major wrestling promotion in the United States? So I don't know, Doctor Trey. It just left a very bad taste in my mouth, and it's something that AW needs to clean up because, as you stated, you know, this is a four year old company. They've been on television now in the United States for forty years this October. They got to clean this shit up because by not doing it, I mean, what an ample opportunity that was missed. And I'm disappointed as a wrestling fan because I wanted to see that visual like why did Moxley do it? What did you know? What was the emotion on his what led to him doing that?

13:01 The fact that AW production whoever missed this, it just really left a bad taste in my mouth for a really fun match last Wednesday on Dynamite. Yeah, the really frustrating part of it is that that sequence was not quick like it was a drawn out process, like you know, they got the chain around around you to they're choking him out. This wasn't like the chain went around his neck and then all of a sudden Moxley surrendered. There was time in there, and somebody in production like dropped the ball, because that should be the queue to put a camera on Moxley, Like, you know, I understand the announcers not knowing what happened because I know from my experience doing commentary over the years that typically we don't know the finish. They just want a real life reaction from the announced team. So I get it why they you know, to try. You know, they had to cover it up at the end, but I mean, to have multiple cameras around the ring and nobody say, oh, guys, here's the finish, somebody get a camera on Moxley like it is just like it's it's bush league. I mean, I don't know how else to put it, because you know, it's like this is a big thing because I don't know about you. Moxley.

14:22 Surrendering to me is a baby face move, Like baby faces are the ones that surrender your edge surrenders, yell that I quit to save his wife. It's a baby face thing to do when you surrender to save your partner. So this is something that there's a storyline that should be coming out of this, and to miss that shot almost blows that angle completely, Like, yeah, are we going to see on Dynamite you to come out and be mad at Moxley for surrendering? You know, is Brian Daniels is gonna be mad? Is somebody is Claudia is is somebody gonna be mad at mocks? You know, does that kick make Mocks get kicked out out of you know, Blackpool Combat or whatever. Like, there's a lot of storylines you can play office, and to miss that shot is just reg I could understand it.

15:09 Like we've seen fishing before, where also the camera missed a superkike or missed something suddenly missed an arc you know, just barely cut an r KO. But to have something that played out roughly for about thirty seconds, to miss that is just that stuff that you see in like the lower level independent leagues. So there's also two elements the report they came out on Wednesday night. Two two major parts that were missed by the Blood and Guts match, And it was just from a timing standpoint, So there's supposed to be a big spot with Hangman page that was cut, and then at the end of the match there's supposed to be like five minutes left over, I think, and they wanted to close out Dynamite with the Blackpool Combat Club and the Golden Lead shaking hands. That moment ended up taking place, but off air again, Doctor Treynor are recording this while Dynamite is literally on the air right now, so I have no clue if they ended up airing that. I did not see anything again on social media or YouTube that I could recall. So again, so timing issues now with a match, major moment with Hangman Page that was supposed to take place, cut, the handshake to end the feud was cut, and then of course John Moxley surrendering. It's just not it's just these these things about AW still Doctor Trey that are a little bit wet behind the ears still, and these things need to be worked out the more that they grow. And I think it's to the point where you know, there's frustration here in the voice of Doctor Trey and I where maybe it's gone on too much. I mean, you're a four year old company, you

16:41 know, back in May, four years on US television this October, Like, you got to clean this shit up if you want to really go toe to toe with w right now, because you're missing times. So some more stuff coming out of blood and guts the match itself again ninety five percent of the match. I really enjoyed, very fun episode of AW Dynamite, but those final five minutes the Moxley surrendered. It's like, are you kidding me? I did not want to have one problem in the match, but I did and had nothing to do with the actual athleticism. And then way that the match went on, it was everything to do with production and how the hell did that happened? Because it shouldn't happen. So aw, blood and guts nonetheless, fun match. Moxley surrendering, How the hell did we miss that? Switching gears to W right now, Doctor Trey. One of my favorite things on television right now is the Judgment Day Finn Balor, Damian Priests, Rea Ripley, Dirty Dome Masterio. They are at a all time high as a stable. They are confident. It is playing out on television that they are confident. They are over with the fan base. Whether you're getting cheered or booed, they are riding a high right now. And just like every time a stable is riding high, it certainly feels like that W creative maybe coming for them to do a cut and now let's to get ahead of this. Is it time to break it up? I feel like we had this discussion recently, so let's have it again because we're heading into SummerSlam.

18:07 We preview predicted on next week's show, Finn looks poised to go over for the world title at SummerSlam, or Damien Priests may cash in. Right. Could we live in a world where Finn defeats Seth Rollins Avenges at SummerSlam loss from the very first Universal Championship match, only for Damian Priest to come out cash in on him and he becomes champion and Finn holds a title for a very small amount of time, as was alluded to by Seth Roninds during his promo recently. A couple of weeks ago, almost a month ago, we saw Finn Balor talking to j D mcdonah when there was cracks in the Judgment day between he and Damien Priest. We have not seen j D mcdonneh since.

18:48 JD mcdonneh has been someone who has had Finn Balor's a mentor. So is JD mcdonnah hurt or is he looming? Ria Ripley's blowing up, She's getting baby reactions. Domisterio is coming into his own and he's breaking out. Even though he's getting very heel reactions. You could tell the fans are loving him. We were wrong about breaking up the Shield when WWW we decided to we love the Judgment Day. The riding high right now is now heading into SummerSlam in the next week or two or the next month. Is now the time to break up the Judgment Day? No, I think you need to kind of ride a hot streak. We saw with the Bloodline. It took him three years to kind of break up the Bloodline. I think the difference between the Judgment Day and the Shield was I think WW looked at every single member of the Shield as at least a main event or upper mid card, borderline main event guy. I know. The crazy thing is, as we say here now, like Seth was the guy that you know, it seemed like w W had had questions about could he be a main event guy?

19:56 But I just think we look at on paper, does Triple H and to a degree Events believe that all three, all four members are made of vent people like I Obviously Rhea is a main event player, but do you see Finn, do you see Damian Priest? And do you see Dom being made of vent guys? You might move one out and bring somebody else in, but the whole purpose of a stale is to help baby faces get over and establish top level guys coming out of it, and I just don't know.

20:37 If I don't know about you, I just as much as I love Finn Valor, just because of how badly he had been booked for so long, I still don't see him as the top guy on a brand. And Damian Priests, I think is getting close, but I don't think he's there yet. And it may take them moving Damian Priests out or moving Finn out for somebody to ascend up. But on paper, right now, I just I look at three guys and I'm like, I just don't think one of those guys is ready to kind of break out on his own and assume the top spot on Raw. All right, great points there, So if we're not breaking them up now, what is the compelling storyline right now? Because this, to me, judgment day stuff has like this is beginning of year one of Bloodline right The way that the Bloodline has taken over professional wrestling with their storyline has been some of the best step stuff that we've seen in a very very, very long time. And I feel like w we could have the same luck when it comes to the Judgment Day. So what do you do with them now, right like coming out of SummerSlam, we'll pre even predicted on next week's show. You know, I'm right now leaning towards that maybe Finn walks out as world champion. Maybe you're thinking he doesn't. You've got Damian priests looming with the briefcase. Does he cash in? Maybe Seth rollins retains as he cash in and become world champion, and then that's the storyline between he and Finn. I feel like we're still directionally pointing towards tension in

22:12 the judgment day, and I don't know how right now we get out of that potential tension, because three weeks ago they tease tension. It's been great since like three to four weeks, they've been back on the same page. Close of raw contract signing, Finn is down, Damien comes in, takes out Seth with the briefcase, stares at the briefcase. Finn gets up, stares at Damian staring at the briefcase, and we get to tease before Sammy Zane's music hits. So they keep going back to that, even though it's like that rubber band. It's like they go to it, then they come back away from it. They go to it, they gope back to it. So if we're not breaking them up, now, what is the storyline with him? What do you think the direction is coming out of SummerSlam that we see with the Judgment Day Because it certainly feels like, you know, they could be that compelling bloodline ask for Raw that brings people in and keeps them interested and entertain each and every week and they can run rough shot on Raw for the next year like they have. You know, they've been very, very good, and this is a pretty crucial time for creative to come up with something really compelling for this group that seems to be over. Whether you'd like to cheer them or boo them, Yeah, for me, it's it's a little bit of what we've been seeing with you know, them battling with Sammy and Kevin and then whichever Kylie we saw with Imperium, with Sammy and Kevin and Matt Riddle against Imperium. Where you take your tag team champions, you line them up against Judgment Day, you mix in another baby face.

23:45 But to me, I think they're gonna end up putting the tag belts on Finn and Damien here before long, and then with the briefcase in the middle, just keep teasing that tension back and forth until they decided to pull the trigger. I still think it's too early to take the belt off Seth. He's only had it for two months. Like you still have to establish some credibility behind that tip, because like right now, if you watch Draw to me, the Intercontinental title is more valuable than Seth's title just because Gunther's had it for so long and when somebody finally beats him is going to be a huge thing. Sets only had that belt for sixty days, so I think you need to keep the belt on set to kind of help build up that prestige some more. So maybe you move the tag belts over to Finn and Damien. They keep bickering over money the brain briefcase, Sammy and Kevin Handy with them have a good feud. I like him putting the putting a title on Dom just because it gives Dom a little more credibility, even though you know he's a heel and you want to buy chicanery. But you know, if you can get the tag belts on Finn and Damien, while Dom has the NXT North American title and Maria has the Raw or the Women's Championship and Raw that you get all four titles on one group. That's pretty impressive, and I think that's a good way to kind of run that angle until you decide to split somebody up. The other angle would be you brought up JD. Mcdonnaugh is to have Finn win the belt, Damien go to cash in, and Begunna run in to stop Damian from cashing in, and then

25:18 basically kicking Damien out out of the Judgment Day for trying to use surf Finn balor instead. So there's a couple of different ways to play with it if you if you really wanted to, Yeah, I don't know. It's it's really confusing right now. I feel like the best thing that they could do is put the title on Finn and keep writing this Judgment Day wave. And I know you'd like to think that Seth Rollins shouldn't have a short reign as champion because he just won the title in May, But there's some things that I'm seeing in interviews and new sites what have you right where leading into and becoming World of the Weight Champion. Seth was starting to do some movie roles. Granted, I think movies are basically shut down with with the strikes going on. But he was involved with some movie rules and then I saw something recently that he needs some sort of surgery, like it's on his back that he's been wrestling with a bad back basically for three years, and he needs to take some time off eventually to get surgery to clean this up whatever, And it's like, man, is this Could this be what they're doing right now? Could they theoretically, you know, did they have Seth win the championship first too, to make it a big deal and set up this entire storyline that makes a ton of sense creatively with Finn Balor at SummerSlam. Revisiting their match at SummerSlam twenty sixteen seventeen in the first Universal Championship match where Finn got hurt and Finn avenges it and then Seth goes away, like that could be the storyline to their Doctor Trey. I mean, as I talk it

26:52 out loud, maybe Finn ends up injuring Seth in the match and Seth goes away for a couple of months, Like I could see Seth going away again for a little bit of time. Maybe he returns Survivor series. Maybe they hold him off until the rumble heading into Rustlemania forty season. There's a lot of different things here, but I think a loss at SummerSlam for Finn equals a Judgment Day like breakup, or a Damien priests cash in at SummerSlam leads to a Judgment day breakup. I think you have Finn win the title, and then the compelling storyline for the next three, four or five months is Damien wants to cash in the money in bank. Briefcase, would he do it on Finn the entire time and then eventually he does turn it on Finn and maybe that's your Rustlemania forty match. No, that's a really good point too, because, like as you were talking, I was like, well, if Seth needs to have surgery and take some time off, you know, his wife has a big match with Trish, which is to blow off to their feud, I wouldn't be surprised to see that match in and both ladies go away for a while and then that way Seth and Becky me off with their daughter and convalesce together. Um, you know, the Finn with the title and Damien constantly kind of teasing the cash in is a great storyline as well, Like that would be really fun to watch, especially if they end up do bringing in you know what, JD mcdunn or something that you know that way Finn feels like not because right now, if you watch Judgment

28:23 Day, it kind of feels like Damian, Dom and Rhea are their own little click and Finn's kind of to the side. If Finn brings in McDonough to be back up to be his support within that, then I can see that playing out and then you split it evenly and Dom and uh, Damien go off together, Finn and JD go together, and then you have a few that way. So uh, but the idea of Damien cashing in on his own, on his own brethren would be really good TV. So if they do, if they go that route, that'd be fantastic as well. Yeah, it's um, it's good stuff right now right Like I would also say, in a perfect world, if you're looking for a cool storyline coming out of all of this, keeping the Judgment Day together, figuring out whatever you do with the bloodline, I would love to see some sort of intersecting with the bloodline of Solisico Roman reigns and some of the members of the Judgment Day. Like, I think that would be pretty compelling television as well.

29:19 But you also have some other stables. They may be being built presently. You've seen Bobby Lashley talking with Carmelo, Hayson, Trick Williams, he was talking with the Street Profits on SmackDown the last couple of weeks. Maybe there's something there so good times. Stables in professional wrestling, Doctor Trey I think are so successful. They were successful in the Attitude era. They were successful in WW in the late nineties as well. During that run, they went away for about twenty years. They're back now in w W, and they're bringing Capelli Television to w right now. And I guess you could say the same for AW presently as well, coming out of the Blackpool, Combat Loud, Golden Elite stuff. That stables are a really good way to make fans care and give you compelling storylines. Because the Judgment Day, I mean, I think they've superseded in a way the popularity of the bloodline that was going on, because the Bloodline is basically no more at this point, and the stuff that you're seeing with the Judgment Day on RAW and NXT and when they do show up to smack down from time and time again, has made sure some really entertaining TV on w right now, and it's so organic and it's enjoyable, which I always like to see as a as a wrestling fan, never understood when stables kind of went away, because you know, to me, wrestling is supposed to be somewhat of a mirror to a degree of real life. And you know, most people have a friend or have two friends, and we didn't have stables. It was like, you know, a

30:52 good guys getting beat up by three bad guys and no good guy comes out to help. Is like, well, is he actually a good guy behind the scenes because nobody's coming and save him and he's getting his ass kicked. So, you know, nowadays it kind of feels like everybody has somebody to watch their back, which I think is a much more reflection of life. And then like you know, wrestling mirroring life, so um, you know, can you have too many stables? Yeah? Maybe aw has too many stables, but you know in WW when you only have like a couple of stables and a couple of tag teams, it gives you storylines also to playoff of and build people with that. So you know, we saw it with you know, Biggie winning the world title when he kind of broke out from the New Day. You know, we've seen it with you know Jet, We're going back to the Shield. We've seen it with the Ya family.

31:44 We've seen it with other stables or the last you know, eight years. It's just a good formula for success if done properly. All right, let's get to u NXT Great American Bash preview and predictions. It comes this Sunday on Peacock from the H e B Center and Cedar Park, Texas, says doctor Trey. Your Southern is it h e B? What is that? HEB is a grocery chain? Okay, so I think it's a h B. But he's always called Hebe. I didn't know. I didn't. I never shopped in there. I just saw it a lot when I was traveling through Texas. But yes, it is a kind of like Giant Foods and oh stop the shop. Yes, hib is a regional chain. Okay, there you go, and the more you know. Here on this week's edition of sr TU, let's get to the first match here. It's the pre show match eight person mixed tag team match Dragon Lee, Nathan Fraser, Luisa Leon and Valentine of Freroy's take on the metaphor of No Man, No m Dar, Oral Mensa, Jacar Jackson and lash lens It Legend Doctor Trey.

32:43 I'm going to take the metaphor in this one, yes, because I love the name because of that's just that's fantastic. It was a great name. So eever came up with that, kudos them. I am taking metaphor because, like you said, we like stables, so uh just beaters. Who takes the pinfall on the other team? Because you have Dragon Lee and then you also have the Heritage Cup champion of Dathan Frasier, I'm assuming probably one of the ladies will take the pinfall on next match. Here's the triple threat match for the NXT and North American Championship. Dirty Dom Mysterio Defense against Wesley and Mustafa Ali Doctor Troy. Who do you like in this one? It might be the hardest match on the show for me to predict because I really want Dom to keep the belt. But then do we see the North American Title on you know, Raw and NXT every single week? Does that actually give an XT a boost. I think I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Dom.

33:37 I'm gonna take Dom to somehow steal the way and keep the belt for another month or two at least. I agree you. This is a very tough match to call, and there were periods of time triple threat match titles on the line. I'm like, man, you know, maybe Mustafa Ali gets the pin on Wesley and they protect Dom. Dom goes away for a little bit. But viewership is up in NXT right now. A lot of how to do with the Judgment Day. I think they want to keep the Judgment Day on NXE television for a period of time, So I'm gonna have Dirty Domasteria retain as well. Next match, here is Tiffany Stratton defending against Theia Hale, and I say, a mission match for the Nexy Women's Championship. I've really enjoyed this bill. That's been very basic and simple and it's been fun to watch. Tiffany Stratton retains in my opinion. She says she's going to debut a new submission move. She keeps tapping out to Thia Hale with that. I think she defeats the Hail. On Sunday, Yeah, I'm with you. I think as much as I love Fia Hale, I love her and she kind of reminds me of you know, A Live Morgan was an NXC which he first came up. I think thea Hale could be a bigger star here in a couple of years. But right now, Tiffany Stratton is your new Mandy Rose and they're going to run that for a while, so I'm thinking Stratton ever retain as well. Next matches for the NEXC Tag Team Championship is Gallus of Mark Coffee and Wolfgang defend against the Family of Tony D'Angelo and Channing Stacks, Lorenzo, Doctor Trey. Who do you like?

35:00 This is one of the ones where, like on paper, I take Dallas, But with all the stuff they've been doing with D'Angelo and Stacks over the last few months, with D'Angelo going to jail and then Stacks turn them in, with all of that stuff, they have to have a payoff for the baby faces, So I am going to take D'Angelo and Stacks the family to win the NXECY Tag Team titles. Yeah, they've been doing that storyline for the entire time of Tony d being arrested getting out of jail, the chase for them to become the NAXE Tag Team Champions. If they were to lose this match, it would be strange unless there was some sort of turn, and I don't see that happening right now based off of the way that the entire storyline played out. With that said, I'm going to go with the family Tony Day and Channing Saxe Lorenzo to win the NXC Tag Team Championship.

35:45 Next match is Gabel Steveson making his in ring debut against Baron Corbin. Gabel Steeveson not going back to college, not going to the Olympics next year, he is going to be wrestling in NXT. Have to think that this is the beginning of a potentially big career for someone who is an Olympian, Golden Medalist, Olympian. We know how that works out in WI with Curt Angle. So I am not going to pick against Gabel Stevenson in his debut match. I have him defeating Baron Corbyn. Do we feel bad for Baron Corbyn right now? Like That's where I'm at right now, Like I'm picking Gable Stevenson who win as well, but I'm just like, I'm looking at going damn Baron Corban up until you know, three weeks ago when jay Uso pin Roman Rains was the last guy to pan Roman Reins three years ago, and he has come all the way down to where he's basically probably gonna be a squash match for a new debuting superstar. So on one hand, I feel bad for Baron Corbyn. On the other hand, I know he's well paid and you know, pretty happy with his job and his career. So but that Bean said, I'm taking Gable Stevenson, and then I'm wondering when we're gonna get the Damon Kemp tiant because aren't they brothers. They did tease that during the Eddie Thorpe Damon Kemp stuff that was going on with NXC Underground and Gabe Steveson was helping Eddie Thorpe out. But yeah, maybe they carry that over a little bit. The stuff with Barren Corby. I just read an interview I think he was on After the Bell with Corey Grays and Kevin Patrick THEE podcast, and he said he requested to go down at NXT and

37:20 refresh his character a little bit. So he seems to be enjoying it, and I think he's the perfect person on the NXC roster to have that first big debut match in NXT. So Baron Corbyn Gabel steveson this Sunday at NXC Great American Bash. Next match here is he Weapons wild match as Roxann Perez takes on Blair Davenport Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one? Kind of gone back and forth because I'm trying to fig out that, you know, we need another challenger for Tiffany Stratton. Roxanne Perez makes a bunch of sense, but you're still trying to establish Blair Davin boards. I think I'll take as a weapons match, I'll take a Rock Sam. This one's been really hard for me too. I think I'll take Rock Sand just because the baby faces typically don't lose weapons matches, So I'll take the baby face.

38:07 Roxam Perez get the whinever Blair Davenport. Yeah, Roxam Perez needs a big victory. She has been taking a lot of els. They did a cool segment on Tuesday's NXT where her and Blair Davenport battled and like a gas station supermarket and it is very um head nod to the Booker t Stonehold grocery store segment from SmackDown like in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, So that was pretty cool and roxand looked good in that, and I think that needs to carry over in Weapons Wild because She's She's definitely not been booked great in my opinion in the last couple of months on NXET, So I'm taking roxam Perez as well, and that takes us to our main event is Carmelo Hayes defends the NXCAT Championship against Eliot dragging Off. I'm really looking forward this match. This match kind of came out of nowhere. Did not see Carmelo feuding with Elia, and it's been pretty good on XC television so far. Elie definitely looks pretty strong. He closed out NXT taking out Carmelo Hayes, which, if you are a long time listening the show knows that that typically doesn't pan out well for the pay per view match itself. So I'm gonna take Carmelo Hayes to retain the NXC champiship at the Great American bashover Elia dragging Off. You look at dragging Off over the past couple of months.

39:20 I mean he got he got a victory of a braun breaker, he had that great falls count Anywhere match with with Ordi Jack. He's for a guy who's like one hundred and eighty five hundred ninety pound, they're almost booking him like a monster, So kudos to him. But you know, wrestling one on one says, whoever gets the upper hand on the go home show means they're losing the pay per view. So although the stuff of Bobby Lashly is an interesting and it could be a way to transition out of it, but I just don't think it's time for that yet. So I think Carmelo retains. So there you go. Carmelo Hayes retains from both of us here and Doctor Train I had the same prediction. So if you're looking for some changes in the pay per view prediction records, you probably won't see it at the Great American Bash. But we will recap and review the Great American Bash on next week edition the show, and we will also preview and predict Www SummerSlam All on next week's SRTU. With that said, let's get a couple of plugs and sponsored other way you can download show every Thursday or Friday at reelgot radio dot com, Russell Chatnet on Twitter, slash x and the still Real to Show iTunes feed. I don't know what to say anymore. Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe devit stumm charts on iTunes. You could followus individually on Twitter or x for myself at srt U Jeff and for ductor r Franklin to The Doctor Trey and of course don't could follow a show on Twitter or X at SRTU podcast. With that being said, what has going on the one for the world of duct Tre Franklin this week? Oh?

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