Nov. 22, 2024

Which Group of Free Agents Had The Biggest Impact in 2024? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #771 – 11/21/24

Which Group of Free Agents Had The Biggest Impact in 2024? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #771 – 11/21/24

On this episode of The Still Real to Us Show:

- -- Which group of free agents had more of an impact in 2024?
- -- Do we overlook Solo Sikoa?
- -- Moxley is putting a lot of pressure on AEW to be successful!
- -- And we preview & predict "AEW Full...

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On this episode of The Still Real to Us Show:

  • -- Which group of free agents had more of an impact in 2024?
  • -- Do we overlook Solo Sikoa?
  • -- Moxley is putting a lot of pressure on AEW to be successful!
  • -- And we preview & predict "AEW Full Gear!"

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It's still.

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Welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition this No Realda

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Show EPISO number seven and seventy one for November twenty first,

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twenty twenty four. Welcome to your aw full year preview

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and Predictions edition of f RT.

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You.

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I am one half the show. I am Jeff Peck

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joined every single week my coast one only doctor Trey Franklin,

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Doctor Trey. I felt like this was the first time

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I did a normal introduction again, my friend.

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I know there was part of me that felt so

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bad for the listeners because the last few weeks you've

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kind of struggled on the welcome part. But yeah, no,

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you sound great. I was you were talking off here.

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I feel horrible. I feel completely under the weather. So

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I blame myself for kind of semi mocking.

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You to myself.

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But you know, between you being sick and then having

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you know, Luke throw up all over you right before

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last week's show, you've had it rough. So I guess

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this is my this is my karmic retribution coming back

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on me for you know, just kind of like laughing

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quietly to myself about your your struggles the last couple

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of weeks.

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It all comes back in different ways. My friend, I

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actually like remember doing the intro of the last two

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weeks and it's like does my voice have enough to

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get there? And it would get there, but it's undlike shit.

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So I apologize to everybody. We pushed through here seven

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and seventy one straight weeks of SRTU and you know,

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can't miss it. So here we are. We're an injured

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bunch here on srt you each and every week, and

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we are racking up the doctor's bills between Doctor Trey

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and I just on sicknesses alone, all the other stuff, surgeries, whatever,

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you that's a whole nother bucket for another, a whole

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nother day. Welcome to this week's edition of sr T

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It's it's not I said, Doctor Try and I are

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here talking with one other that Packers and Niners. Our

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teams are going into a big show down this weekend.

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It is in November and not in January, where January

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Doctor Tray's team typically kicks the ass of my team,

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the Green Bay Packers. But here we are in November.

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Dot Tray and I are are. We're on good terms

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right now, right going into this. There's no beef here

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there's no feud.

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No, I mean, I think we're good because all in all,

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the biggest thing about the season, like, look, there's a

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competitive rivalry between Packers and Niners.

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I don't think there's a hatred.

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But the Cowboys suck this year, which I think makes

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everybody happy.

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See, that's always the one that for those that are

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not an NFL fans, football fans, American football fans, and

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my apologies, but for those that are, you're gonna get

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what I'm saying is you could have a rival, semi

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rival because I think Niners and Packers I liked this

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semi rivalry.

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It's like a B plus. It's like a B plus rivalry.

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I think it's always on respect and it's as long

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as I've remembered this rival read Doctor Trey. It's there

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was a period of time where the Niners dominated, then

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there was a stretch of time where the Packers dominated,

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and right now we're in the stretch of time where

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the Niners have dominated, like the last ten years. And

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that's not typically how a rivalry goes. So I would

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just say it's like one of those showdowns you get

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excited about, Like even me outside looking in speaking about

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your Niners. Whenever I see Cowboys versus Niners, I'm like,

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that's exciting because that reminds me of the nostalgic football

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when I was growing up. Packers Cowboys, Packers, Niners. I

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feel like it's a triple threat. And as doctor Trey

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pointed out to while there may be a healthy respect

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and rivalry between the Green Bay Packers and the San

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Francisco forty nine Ers, us the Niners fans and all

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the other NFL fans can all agree upon we hate

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those Cowboys.

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Yeah. I mean there was a time when I was

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growing up in Heisland, Arkansas, like everybody Arkansas's a Cowboys fan,

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and I felt like I was on an island unto

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myself because every and as also like during the late

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nineties when they were fantastic and just dealing with that.

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But then the last thirty years, basically since about ninety

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five ninety six through now, it's been great. But yeah,

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whenever I don't want to see him to get hurt,

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but you know, Dak goes down, backups come in and

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you're just like, yeah, they're really struggling.

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This is the best time to kind of beat up

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on Cowboys. Fans.

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So I'm like, the only thing I can ever troll

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Packers fans on right now is well, you're well, as

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I go, well, your coach came from our coach's coaching tree,

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so it was kay, yeah, it's like, well, yeah, you're

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you're good because your coach came from our team. So

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that's why you guys are so good right now. And

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you know, the best quarterback you guys had the last

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twenty years grew up as a Niners fan. So those

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are the two things I can always kind of troll

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Packers fans with for the most part, but other than that,

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I actually respect. Like I've been to Green Bay, it

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is not a comfortable place to be at times. So

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the fact that people show up fifty sixty seventy thousand

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fans to a Packers game in like negative twenty, Yeah,

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you guys always have my respect.

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For that counterpoints to doctor Trey. They are saying that

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our best quarterback the last twenty years grew up a

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Niners fan. I do want to mention that the Niners

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did pass on that same quarterback for Alex Smith.

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Yes, I recall it, but that was also not our fault.

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That was the Jeff Tedford effector all the cal quarterbacks

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coming into the league sucked.

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So we're like, well, we'll take a chance on a

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guy from.

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Utah because that's how bad Kyle Boehler was in the

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previous couple drafts.

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And despite the Niners playing in more Super Bowls than

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the Kareema Packers in the last twenty five thirty years,

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Green Bay has won more.

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Doctor Trey, Yes, yes, and that's only well, well, do

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we count the do you guys count the AFL championships

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and stuff?

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Well, they do.

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They are references thirteen time world champions in the Super

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Bowl era. Yeah, I mean they're five time champions, but

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we have five also, champions Championships are championships, right, yeah.

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So but then you guys have been around for longer,

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because up until about the mid sixties, San Francisco is

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not a real place.

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No, no, it wasn't. We just discovered in the sixties.

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Speaking of wrestling talk, let's let's tie this all in.

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So we're talking about the Dallas Cowboys who play in

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at and T Stadium, which is also the home of

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WrestleMania thirty eight. I saw a funny statistic this past weekend.

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Doctor Trey Jake Paul, the brother of Logan Paul, former

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w United States Champion who took on WWE Hall of

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Famer Mike Tyson in a boxing match, now has more

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wins in AT and T Stadium this year than the

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Dallas Cowboys.

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So does the Texas A and M.

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Maggie's for there you go, Gigam.

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I learned that one from the radio show you and

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I were talking about Haffe or the Colon or the

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Macroy and Kublic show. That was one of the fancy

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stats they threw out because Texas A and M in

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Texas is a big game coming up, I think next Saturday.

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But yeah, they're like, yeah, Texas AM actually has more

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wins in AT and T Stadium than the Cowboys do

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this year.

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Did you watch the Fight Doctor try to have Netflix? Yes?

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I did so.

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By the way, how cool is it that in one

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year we've had two Hall of Famers be in two big,

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big events non restling related. You have one Hall of

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Famer running for president and one Hall of Famer fighting

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Jake Paul.

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Crazy Yeah, one Hall of Famer who is a two

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time winner of an election. Now and his countinate is

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going to be filled with the now separated wife of

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the former founder, CEO and chairman of the board of

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World rest Entertainment One, Linda McMahon remembered to be in

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the Department of Education. But you know how this goes.

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We don't talk politics nor religion here at this dinner table,

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that is SRTU.

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I do have one funny thing about that. So as

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I got home from work today, they were mentioning Linda

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McMahon being probably going to be nominated by Trump to

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head that department. The people on the news mispronounced her

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last name man macmahone. Never I've never heard it called that,

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but they referenced her as Linda mcmahone three times and

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then mentioned her husband, Vince. And it's all because of

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the lawsuit and things like that.

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But I was I'm.

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Sitting here like egregiously offended that the news mispronounced McMahon

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and called it macmahone.

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I was like, you're not even close. You quit the

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news at this point.

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I thought you were going to say they pronounced it

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like Gerald Briscoe did back in the days of US

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War in the late nineties.

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Mister MacMahon, we're not that southern on the news. But yeah,

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it's just hearing macmahone. I was like, I I because

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I wasn't even kind of it was like the news

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was on, the sound was on, but I wasn't really

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watching it. And then I heard Linda mcmahone. I'm like, macmahone,

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what the had to turn in? There she was, and

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I'm like, please, don't do that again. Please somebody correct her,

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some producer jump in and get in the earbut and

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say no, it's McMahon, it's bicmahon And I'm like, like, seriously,

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there's Jim McMahon too.

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There's other McMahon's in the world.

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This cannot be a foreig and last name that you

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have never excuse me, ever seen before. And it's just

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befuddling you to pronounce it. I've never heard it pronounced

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that way. It just it kind of made me mad,

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and I had to turn up the news and watch Netflix.

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Well, Doctor Trey, you and I are old now, so

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I think we need to do what every old person does.

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Can you go on their Facebook page and leave like

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a nasty comment.

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I actually thought about that.

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I thought about, like, because I know some people that

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work at the station, be like, guys, seriously, do we

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need to have an annunciation class and you guys like

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to prepare the anchors, like, Hey, we're gonna do a

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story in this person. This is how you pronounce their

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name before you go on air.

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Well, you gotta love it. I mean it's so simple, right,

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I mean you're not. This isn't like crazy.

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So no, it's not like you're trying to pronounce vivek

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Ramashwami or whatever that guy's name is. This is a McMahon.

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They've been around for quite a while. I'm sure you've

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heard of wrestling at some point in your life and

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you've heard somebody say the name Vince McMahon. How like

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it was just like when somebody says something that dumb.

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I just I can't listen to anything else I say,

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because I'm like, you've lost all credibility by mispronouncing a

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simple last name.

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So, speaking on Netflix, Fight there, Doctor Trace. So there

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was some news and notes there takeaways, at least for

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WWE's launch on January the sixth, for Raw one. They

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released a new logo for Raw which I think looks terrible.

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Looks like it's a Monday night baw baw. And then

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obviously were you one of the I think like five

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hundred thousand people out of sixty million, which is absurd

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that had issues with connections of watching the fight live.

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Yeah, from like early on, you can kind of.

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Tell when people tuned in, because it felt like early

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on I didn't have any issues. I got to about

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the second middle of the second fight, and it started

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glitching in.

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And I live in the middle of nowhere, I live

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in the country.

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I thought it was my internet connection, and then I

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checked my Facebook and I see people all over my

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Facebook feed talking about the you know, buffering and freezing out.

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to get to the live feeds. So, yeah, if it

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was only five hundred thousand, I'm actually surprised the number.

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Is that low.

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what you saw on social media, but I think that's

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what they're reporting. So according to reports, we is obviously

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concerned about that. I don't think sixty million people will

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be watching the debut of Monday Night Roll, but I

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think it could be potentially the biggest audience of all

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time if there's a lot of hype in this show.

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Doctor Troy.

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Tyson fight, which is a nostalgia. I mean, if you say, hey,

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we're going to have if you throw other Stone called

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Steve Austin appearance for the first time Monday Row, you're

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going to draw ten to fifteen at least.

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I think.

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I really think there's I was amazed that sixty million

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people had Netflix because that's like one out of every

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six people have it, you know, So I'm like, if

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you can draw ten million, you know, that's a huge,

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huge get for a wrestling that's as we haven't seen

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since you know, the nineties, Like that would be a

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huge number. I think the debut episode will be way

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more than their the number that they're saying that they

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get now, like what two to two point five on

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a good raw. I think I think you'll probably triple

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that if promoted and you know, hyped the way it

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should be.

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raw of all time. And because it's just the amount

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of money that Netflix has thrown out their five billion

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dollars over ten years, Like, I don't think it's out

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of the roma possibility. You said, like a stone Cold

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see Boston appearance, I don't think it's out of the

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roma possibility that the Rock is there and the Rock

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wrestles on this car. Doctor Trey.

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Yeah, I like for me, if I'm WWE for the debut,

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I'm pulling out I'm bringing up everybody that is still around.

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I'll bring in Hogan. I will find a way to

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get Flair out of his AAW contract. I'll somehow have

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Rock and Austin have an interaction in the ring. You know,

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I will pull out every bell in a whistle I

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possibly can. Because it is a transitioning not only of networks,

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but of platforms as well, So you got to make

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sure everybody knows where you're going. It's not like when

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they left USA it went to Spike and people had

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to go find them. You know, this is an entire

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platform shift and a new way of a new business

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model as well for them. So you got to make

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sure that the audience easily confined you. And right now

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you better make sure Netflix has all their stuff tighten

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up so you don't go through what they went through

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with the Tyson Paul flight.

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That is less than eight weeks away, so a lots

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to discuss in regards to the first edition, of Monday

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Night Raw on Netflix on January sixth. As we get

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closer to they announce the Into It Home in Los Angeles, California,

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the new Arena where the Los Angeles Clippers play that

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is like this amazing arena right now. If you watch

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any of the NBA stuff, they this entire section called

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the Wall, which is just insane to see on television.

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It's really really cool. Travis Scott, who's a rapper, Doctor Trey,

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and I'm gonna guess Doctor Tray as listen to his music.

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I've heard some of it that doesn't really do it

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for me, but you know, John Cena is being promoted

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for the show Roman reigns Cody Rhodes. I expect it

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to be the biggest Raw of all time, and I'm

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sure we're going to be talking about that a lot

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here as we get in the month of December and

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that card starts to take shape, and some more announcements

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come out for that first show of twenty twenty five

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and the first on the Netflix era. But the one

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thing I wanted to talk about here to kick off

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the show this week, Doctor Trey formally kick off the

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show was twenty twenty four one of the big themes

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was going to be the swath of free agents that

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were going to be available to the market for All

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Eat Wrestling. We figure there's gonna be a lot of

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free agency wars as we went into this year, and

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those certainly existed, but probably not to the degree that

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we were hoping now that we look back at it.

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We thought that there was gonna be the bidding war

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of twenty twenty four between AWN and WWE for the

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rights of MGF that never really came to fruition. We

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knew will Ospur is gonna hit the market, and by

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this time a year ago, at the end of twenty

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twenty three, made his inclinations known that he was going

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to go to All Elite Wrestling. At the Full Gear

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pay per view, we announced that in twenty twenty four,

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there were some glimmer of hopes that maybe Okada does

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make it interesting he goes to WWE, or at least

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listens to w he ends up in AW. Mercedes Bone

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was rumored to potentially be returning to WWW in late

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twenty twenty three. That didn't work out, and those rumors

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quickly switched to her eventually signing with AW and it

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took her three months to debut, and then I guess

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the real last one for AW was the signing of

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Bobby Lashley MVP and Shelton Benjamin as the Hurt Syndicate,

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the former Hurt business in all Elite Wrestling. On the

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WA side of things, you have the MotorCity Machine Guns,

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the current w Tag Team champions. They signed with the company,

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and I think all of us going into this year

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figured that if mcmg was available, they were gonna be

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going AW. They had over wrestled Aware I think once

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or twice, and they had a great relationship with the Buck,

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so figured they would go there. They flipped the script

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and ended up in WA. W signed Stephanie Vakor, who's

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currently performing in an NXT, shortly after she performed at

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the AW New Japan Pro Wrestling for Bidden Door twenty

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twenty four pay per view, taking a loss from Mercedes

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Bone in that match. Then Julia, who has always been

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rumored to be going over to w W, she appears

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in NXT. Zaria, who is not a real big name

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per se. I did not know her work heading into

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this year, but she's been impressive so far in her

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short time in NXT. And she was known as I

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Believe Delta in Australia. The last one on the W

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side of things was a big name in the MLW world.

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He was a MLW champion for over eight hundred days

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and that was Jacob Foto signed with the company. Now

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he's performing with a new bloodline and is one of

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the big up in coming risers that I could see

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in two three years time, maybe even shorter as being

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one of the top stars in the company. WWE certainly

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believes in him, likes this look, likes his feel, and

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has big things planned for Jacob fat two down the line.

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So when you look back at everything there, doctor Trey,

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and you recap the free agents of twenty twenty four,

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aw Will Osprey, Becazisco Cotta, Mercedes Moone and that hurts

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syndicate w W WI, Motor City, machine Gun, stephie Vakor,

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Julia Zari and Jacob Fattwo And maybe there's some free

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agents I'm missing here. Please feel free to jump in

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if I am missing Anny. But with that said, which

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group of free agents had more of an impact for

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the company that they joined this past year?

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And that's that's a really I'm doing the math in

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my head, I'm like, that's actually kind of a tricky question,

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Like I would say, like just overall impact on their programs,

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I'd probably give the edge to AW.

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I think Ospray's been a fantastic signing.

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Uh.

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He's made me more and more of a fan of

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his the Mora watch him.

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Uh.

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The Okada signing to me has fallen kind of flat

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over the last few months. The Mode signing was great

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for AW as far as viewership and getting people's attention,

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but once again I kind of feel like it's plateaued

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a little bit. The Heart Syndicate is a great signing.

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I think there's gonna be a huge They're gonna be

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huge business, but it's still early in the signing to

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kind of get a gauge on it. WWE the Women, Julia,

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Stefanie vacor Tzaria. They're impactful signings for down the road,

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but being NXT signings, they're not really a huge boom

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to overall business. I think the Most City Machine Guns

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is a solid signing, but I don't think it really

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moves the needle ton. I think Jacob Fatoo signing, I guess,

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was another one, kind of like the Girls in the

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sense of it's a really solid signing. He's made an impact,

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but I think we'll feel his impact more here in

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a couple years. Because I'm with you, I think he's

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a future, main event caliber talent. So I think just

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an overall to each respective company's business, I give the

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edge to aaw Yeah.

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So the answer to my question impact wise aw WWA,

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I think the biggest impact is aw right. I think Ospray, Ocada,

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Monet Hertzyndicate have had the most impact. It gets interesting

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when you go, all right, which company has done a

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better job with these free agents though? And I think

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you can make a strong case that's w A. Right now,

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Doctor tre MotorCity machine Guns are doing really well, Vakor

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Juliet Zaria doing very well in NXC. Jacob Fatu is

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on the rise, like they're doing more to do character

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development and build them up for the future. While aew

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like I've loved Ospray, I've loved Osprey twenty twenty four,

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I would say the final quarter of twenty twenty four

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he has fallen off a little bit. The stuff with

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Kyle Fletcher that feud is inter I've seen makes sense.

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Should be a good match on Saturday. But he's fallen

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off a little bit, and that has nothing to do

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with its in ring ability, but his character development and

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time on television Okata. You pointed it out like I

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don't even I don't know if his contract has very

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unlimited dates, but I feel like the American audience has

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not had a great taste of Okada, and maybe that

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changes for the final five to six weeks of the

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year with the Continental Classic returning on AW television. Mercedes

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Monet sort of great out of the gate. I think

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she has completely fallen off a cliff and I know

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you are the Mercedes Monet hater and I'm the defender.

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I am not enjoying her character right now. The stuff

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with Camill as the brick house as the bodyguard, it

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has gotten to the point where it makes no sense

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at all. Why is Camill being booked as like a

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comedy act? Makes no sense to me at all. Does

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her syndicate They've done good but it's been a very

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short time. One of my issues that I have with

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this past Wednesday's edition Dynamite, Why are we having Bobby

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Lashley's first match in AW on Dynamite and with little

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to no fanfare no promotion behind it whatsoever. Bobby Lashley's

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going to make his AW debut, why are you not

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saving it for the pay per view on Saturday against

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Worth Strickland unless he's potentially taken an owl? So impact. Yes,

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aw's free agents has had more of an impact. Who

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has done the best job with their free agents though

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that they've entered this year? I think it's WW.

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We doubt to try, Yeah, but we're not you and

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I are not surprised by that because that's kind of

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been the mo for these two companies of the last

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you know, at least the last two years. Like WW

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does a better job of developing characters for their television product.

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AW maybe showcases their talent in ring better, but the

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character developments not there. Like we have Okada but the

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Bucks left, So is Ocada still is still the elite?

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Is Ocada still a heel?

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Are we going to see a different Okada with the

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Continental Classic?

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Like?

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What are we going to do?

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Osprey has been enjoyable. I've actually learned more about Osprey

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during his time. But you know the Mercedes Monette thing

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that I mean to me, you know I mentioned Kyle Boller.

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I mean this is like the JaMarcus Russell drafting number

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one by the Raiders.

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I mean to me, it's a complete.

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Bust now, like nothing she does looks good and nothing

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in her problem was look good. It looks like a complete,

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you know, albatross of a contract the her syndicate early on.

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So far, I have enjoyed their build.

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They've this may be the best booked Shelton Benjamin I've

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ever seen, Like he looks like a legit badass in

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these matches, and the last stuff is good, and then

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there's a little bit entry like who else is going

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to join? But you also have Swerve come out and

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kind of clean house. Well, you still got to make

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00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:47.319
your heels look like dominate heel faction to create those

473
00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:51.000
obstacles for baby Face to overcome. So but ww, I

474
00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:53.119
didn't know who Zaria was. I didn't really know who

475
00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.519
Julia was. I didn't really know who Stephanie Vakor was

476
00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:57.880
when they signed I'm interested. I knew a little bit

477
00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:00.880
about Jacob Fatoo, and they've done a great job with

478
00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:02.039
him and the machine guns.

479
00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:03.279
God bless him.

480
00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.480
One of the greatest tag teams of modern generation, but

481
00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:12.400
maybe not the best personalities. They've actually tried to give

482
00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:15.880
them a personality and then create intrigue around them with

483
00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:20.279
talent that can help flush out their characters. Having Champa

484
00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:23.200
and Gargato, having the Street profits, getting involved with the

485
00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:25.960
Bloodline to win the titles. Those are all characters people

486
00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:28.319
care about, so it makes them care about what the

487
00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:30.279
machine Guns are doing. And that's so W's just doing

488
00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:34.519
a better job of developing those characters. And I would

489
00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:37.680
say almost maybe with these signings long term, we might

490
00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:39.680
look back in five years and say this class was

491
00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:42.319
better for WWE than what aw's classes.

492
00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:44.400
And the last thing I'll talk about hearing these free

493
00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:46.880
aging classes for twenty twenty four Doctor Trey, because I

494
00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:48.759
think they are notable. I think there's something that makes

495
00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:51.200
an impact on these two brands for years to come,

496
00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:54.839
the next five to ten years. Is it's very interesting

497
00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:57.640
because Ospriocatta mone were like the big names on the

498
00:23:57.680 --> 00:23:59.640
market this year. They all went to AW, which we

499
00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:01.960
all suspected that they would, and again we knew a

500
00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:04.559
year from now, a year ago that Austray was going there.

501
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:08.720
What's funny is the year has gone on. MotorCity machine

502
00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:10.319
Guns would have figured they would have gone to AW.

503
00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:13.480
They go to WA Stephanie Vakor you figured she'd go

504
00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:18.279
to AW, she goes to WA. Juliazaria Jacobatu always felt

505
00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:20.680
like they were W bound, but you started to see

506
00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:23.559
a shift in the mid to late part of twenty

507
00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:28.119
twenty four where the free agents were considering W more

508
00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:31.319
than AW. The AW. AW was like the place for

509
00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.119
free agents to go because w was a little bit

510
00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:38.119
of a cesspool. There was no maybe not as good

511
00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:41.319
of an environment as W as AW was. And it's

512
00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.119
completely one eighty. Both companies have completely won eight and

513
00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:47.000
I found that to be very telling doctor Trade that

514
00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:51.680
you're seeing more free agents considered WE as a likely

515
00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:54.400
landing spot than AW, because I feel like a lot

516
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.519
of people that were coming from TNA, coming from the

517
00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:59.920
independent scene, coming from Japan, were gonna just they were

518
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.519
basically just considering AW and that was it. The only

519
00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:06.799
difference here is obviously the hurt syindecon joining WAW later

520
00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:09.960
this year, and that's because we let their contracts run

521
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.880
out or they were let go like Sheldon Bejamin. So

522
00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:15.160
I just felt like that was very talent this year,

523
00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:16.839
and I think it's something that it's a sign of

524
00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:22.240
the time, because AAW is not an enjoyable watch. W

525
00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:25.039
is an enjoyable watch, and now you're starting to see

526
00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:27.559
that play out with free agents on their likely landing

527
00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:29.240
spots as the year has gone on as well.

528
00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:32.240
Oh yeah, by the way, you forgot a signing for

529
00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:33.640
w the Gorillas of Destiny.

530
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:35.599
Oh yeah, that's a big one. That was another one

531
00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:37.440
you would have figured would have gone to AW, right.

532
00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.200
Yeah, well, I mean technically speaking, I mean they are

533
00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.200
somewhat related to the bloodline. But yeah, like if with

534
00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.559
their ties to New Japan, you figured they would tie

535
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:49.839
in with the AW stuff.

536
00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:52.839
So well you figure with the Bucks working and Kenny

537
00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:54.799
are working with the Bullet Club, right, Yeah.

538
00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:57.680
Well, I mean the Bullet Club is basically split between

539
00:25:57.680 --> 00:25:59.640
the two shows because you still have the finn aj

540
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:02.960
Good Brothers tie in in WWE, and then you have

541
00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:09.240
the AAW Kenny Bucks Ja those guys, So the Bullet

542
00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:12.079
Club is basically split in half, half on one show,

543
00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:12.759
half on the other.

544
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:15.920
They basically have the mid to early twenty tens version

545
00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.160
of the Bullet Club in w and then the mid

546
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.680
to late twenty tens version of the Bullet Club in AAW.

547
00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:24.319
But the Good have been around so long they've been

548
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.279
parts of both branches.

549
00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:28.160
Yes, and Cody was part of the later one and

550
00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:30.279
he's in w A so, But.

551
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:35.000
As far as you know, the change in philosophy, I

552
00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:37.039
think is the telling part, because you and I have

553
00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:39.400
been talking about ever since Vince left, like w's kind

554
00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:42.119
of and since the merger especially, like we've changed the

555
00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:43.000
business model.

556
00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:44.279
The guys are people.

557
00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.839
The workers are getting more time off, they're getting more freedom.

558
00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.279
We're seeing aj Go wrestle and Noah, you know Shin's

559
00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:54.400
k wrestling in Japan, like we're seeing these guys. Lexus

560
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.559
King actually had an independent booking in Georgia recently as well,

561
00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:00.720
which is something you'd never see all those guys do

562
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:02.160
under the Vince regime.

563
00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.160
Like you, we're seeing those w talents go in other places.

564
00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:09.759
And then the TNA crossover, which I think, although maybe

565
00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:13.880
ratings wise isn't as good as the Kenny crossover, the

566
00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:19.519
AW crossover, But as far as building talent and highlighting talent,

567
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:22.440
I mean the Joe Henry stuff, the stuff with the Rascals,

568
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:25.599
the Jordan Gray stuff has been good for TNA to

569
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:29.160
get them exposure on NXT television and it allows NXT

570
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.880
talents another place to go work outside of that bubble

571
00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:35.720
to get that kind of experience. So it's just been

572
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:37.880
a shift in philosophy I think has made it more

573
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.119
welcoming for those independent talents to come in and go, Hey,

574
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:43.960
I can come in. I can still kind of do

575
00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:48.079
my thing, but just under the format of WW instead

576
00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:51.160
of coming in and having to triple my work dates

577
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:55.519
and do whatever. Vince says, there's a lot more flexibility

578
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:58.400
and freedom in this new WWE as opposed to what

579
00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:59.880
it was two three years.

580
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:03.240
And I would say that WE is doing the things

581
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:06.119
that made AW so appealing and they're adding it to

582
00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:10.359
their business model now, less house shows, more time at home,

583
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:15.519
more flexibility to do outside projects. The stuff that they

584
00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:17.759
were getting bashed for and why people were going to AW,

585
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:20.519
they're now doing it in this new business model, and

586
00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:23.359
it's making it more of an attractive place for wrestlers

587
00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:28.920
to go to because the business had to evolve. I mean,

588
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:31.920
Vince wasn't the only game in town anymore, and he

589
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.079
didn't seem to know that when he was running the show,

590
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:35.680
where it was like, well, if you don't want to

591
00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:37.400
work here, then screw you, and a lot of people

592
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:39.160
didn't want to work there, anymore, and they went to AW,

593
00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:43.039
and that's when AW was most successful. It's just it's

594
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:45.759
very and this could be set for another day, and

595
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:47.640
we got a lot of shows to wrap up the

596
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.079
year that maybe this has talked about, but really the

597
00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:54.720
biggest turning point in wrestling for Bothe and AW was

598
00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:58.599
Vince retiring and leaving and the book being handed over

599
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:01.480
to Triple H. Because when you saw WWE get better,

600
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:05.359
and that's where you saw AW get worse, and W

601
00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:08.359
started to pull away and AW started to fall down

602
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:14.079
the ladder. The erosion of good faith that wrestling fans

603
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:16.759
in AW is eroding. I mean, look at the viewership

604
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:20.599
each week for Dynamite Rampage and Collision. Rampage and Collision

605
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:24.599
viewership is almost embarrassing at this point. I mean it's

606
00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:28.200
in levels that even the worst WE shit didn't even touch.

607
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:33.920
I mean, Dynamite is competing below where NXT was right now,

608
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:38.279
and TBS and TNT are supposed to be in equal

609
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.759
homes as to the USA Network or parts of it.

610
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.839
You know, it's just crazy to see. So the free

611
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:50.160
agentcy of twenty twenty four biggest impact immediate definitely on

612
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:54.319
the AW side. Best character development w WE most potential

613
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.839
for long term, it's got to be W right now

614
00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:01.680
because fakor Julia Zaria too. These are people that could

615
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.359
all be top stars in five years. I'd like to

616
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:06.480
throw the owner City Machine Guns in that list, But

617
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:08.720
I'm still very optimistic when it comes to the tag

618
00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:10.640
TM division in WEE Doctor Trey.

619
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:13.279
Yeah, I mean really on the AW side, when you

620
00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:15.599
look at the signings, it's like, is Okada going to

621
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:17.440
be any better than he is right now in five

622
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:20.720
years now? I mean probably not mercedesmen A, Probably not

623
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:24.960
Bobby Lashley Sheldon, those guys that are in their mid forties.

624
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:26.440
Are they gonna be any better in five years than

625
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.400
they're at right now? Probably not Ospray's these. If Ospray

626
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:34.759
becomes the face of AW and starts generating by rates

627
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:39.759
and generating ratings increases, then that that line becomes a

628
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.279
little more blurred as to which class is better, because

629
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.119
you can have one person offsets five people.

630
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:46.200
In that situation.

631
00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:48.920
If he becomes the hottest star in the business at

632
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:50.920
BOOM is kind of like you know, Stone Cold versus

633
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:53.640
the nWo, and if he has honest things, stone Cold

634
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.640
takes off and he basically ran the other company out

635
00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:57.200
of business.

636
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:00.680
But that means you have to trust in the.

637
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.400
Booking of AAW putting ospray in that position, in ospray

638
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.559
generating those results. Otherwise, Yeah, five years from now, we're

639
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:10.720
gonna look back and be like, you know, WWE smoked

640
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:13.559
this class because A, these guys are all these people

641
00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:16.440
are all big stars, and B they didn't cost as

642
00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:19.400
much as the other guys, So you're getting a return

643
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:21.799
on investment that's much better. I think right now you

644
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.240
look at aw go and is your return on investment

645
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.319
really generating the results you wanted. I think wwkn honestly

646
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:33.359
say that, Yeah, our class is even now generating return

647
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:35.759
on investment better than what they thought they were going

648
00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:36.039
to get.

649
00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:38.279
And I don't know. In AW you can't say that

650
00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:38.680
right now.

651
00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:41.960
WWE is a better product. As the year has gone

652
00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.599
on with these free agents. Aw is a less than

653
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.319
product than it was at the start of the year

654
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.680
with the addition of these free agents. And that's shocking

655
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:51.519
because you would figure, and we said it in the

656
00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:54.799
early onset of twenty twenty four, like Osprey locatam on

657
00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:57.480
A this should inject some life in the company. And

658
00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.640
it's been the complete opposite. It's like reverse osmosis for

659
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:04.559
all leave wrestling. So it's been a very interesting year

660
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.119
for free agents and it's something that as we get

661
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:08.880
close to the end of twenty twenty four, I was

662
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:11.920
really thinking about as we get to these last couple

663
00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:14.440
of weeks of the year, because it was such a

664
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.880
big year. It was such a big topic of discussion

665
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:19.720
was the free agent market and professional wrestling for this year.

666
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.519
Speaking of we speaking of good character development, doctor Trey.

667
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:26.480
One of those people that has really benefited from that

668
00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:31.880
in twenty twenty four is one solo Socoa. I've watched

669
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:34.680
in the last couple of weeks on Raw and SmackDown

670
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.480
and I was like, man, it's under the radar, but

671
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:41.400
this guy has gotten really good. He has found his confidence,

672
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:45.000
he has found his personality. He is extremely likable, even

673
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:47.200
though playing one of the top heels in the SmackDown brand.

674
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:48.960
I think this is a guy that could be like

675
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:51.839
a really big baby face at some point because his personality,

676
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:54.440
which is the same for his brothers like Jay and Jimmy,

677
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:59.440
are like very magnetic, have great charisma, great personalities that

678
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.599
I think the just kind of adhere to and they

679
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:04.000
love I think Solo could get there someday, but he's

680
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.839
been so great as a heel. I'm just like thinking

681
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.119
to myself, we got the award show coming up, which,

682
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:11.440
by the way, we will formally announce a holiday programming

683
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.440
schedule on our Thanksgiving special on next week's edition of SRTU.

684
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.319
And I'm like, we keep talking about could it be

685
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:19.480
Ospre for Breakout Start of the year, could it be

686
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.559
Swerve the breakout start of the year, Like who could

687
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.160
be the breakout start of the year. I'm like, why

688
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.880
aren't we consitting considering Solo Soca? So I asked you this,

689
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.839
doctor Trey, should Solo Socoa be strongly considered for the

690
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.359
Breakout Start of the Year award? When we talk in

691
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:36.279
about a little over a month, and do we over

692
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:40.039
have we overlooked Solo Socoa after a really strong year

693
00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:41.000
in twenty twenty four?

694
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.319
So my answering versary, so have we overlooked him? Absolute

695
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.440
frecolutely and the evolution of his character? Nine months ago

696
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:53.720
he didn't speak and now he cuts. He's one of

697
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:56.720
the best promo guys that we see on television and

698
00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:58.839
in a lot of ways. And I saw somebody suppose

699
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.440
his picture of it was two weeks ago he came

700
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:03.240
out in like a black turtleneck with a gold chain.

701
00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:05.680
I'm like, he has gone from Umaga to the Rock

702
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:09.840
in nine months. I mean that's the evolution of solo

703
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:12.679
in this and it's an incredible transformation.

704
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:15.760
And he's helped elevate, you know.

705
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:21.039
Toma Tonga, Tongolowa and Jacob Fatu into being upper mid

706
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.519
carb borderline main event stars just by being in his orbit,

707
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.320
which is what The Rock did for Dilo, Mark Henry

708
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:29.599
and the Godfather back in the Nation of Domination days.

709
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:33.119
So yeah, he's a completely we've completely overlooked him and yeah,

710
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:37.079
absolutely is Should he be considered in that breakout level?

711
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:38.360
Yeah, because he's done.

712
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:40.760
What we're seeing is if you remember when he was

713
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:42.760
in nxteen, when he came in, he was a heel,

714
00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:47.880
but because his personality was so inviting and he was

715
00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.920
hit that a little bit of that swag and charisma

716
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.880
to him, they turned him Babyface before he got moved

717
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:56.159
to the main roster just for that reason. So I

718
00:34:56.320 --> 00:35:01.159
think he's been overshadowed by the Aweso spray import to

719
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:04.679
the United States, and that's why we kind of just

720
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:08.360
kind of took Solo for granted, and you know there's

721
00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:12.280
people have a bias excuse me against Solo because of

722
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:14.599
you know, he's just getting he's in his spot because

723
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:18.440
of his family and everybody else. We've seen you and

724
00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.519
I've been watching wrestling for a long time. We've seen

725
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:25.840
nepotism hires and some do great and some are David Flair.

726
00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:30.239
So it's just because you get the spot doesn't mean

727
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:31.199
you keep the spot.

728
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:35.079
And Solo has done everything correct since we were the

729
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.559
main roster to earn his place on the card where

730
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:38.280
he's at right now.

731
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:41.679
And absolutely, I mean breakout star.

732
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:44.920
I mean Ospray May I guess ospray for the United

733
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.639
States the audience is a breakout star. But Solo, for

734
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:51.400
evolution of character in nine months has just been incredible

735
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:51.719
this year.

736
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:54.840
Yeah, I'm watching the show and I'm like, man, why

737
00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:57.280
are we not mentioning him more as a breakouts are

738
00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:59.760
of the year. It's been completely well lost brace for whoever.

739
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:03.039
And it's like Solo has as you said, and you

740
00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:04.280
hit it on the head and these are the things

741
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:06.559
I would think about. He went from not talking to

742
00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:09.320
talking all the time and having a lot of confidence

743
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:12.320
and charisma on the microphone. One of the subtle things,

744
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:13.960
and I don't know if you've seen this on social

745
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.800
media dotch tray at all, but one of my favorite

746
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:18.039
things that like pop up on my algorithm now for

747
00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:22.480
various different social media accounts is these Solo Socoa like

748
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.920
dark matches or events, stuff at house shows, or him

749
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:32.199
out out to like day to day life where he's

750
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.119
like helping someone like put put luggage on an airplane

751
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.280
that always pops up. He's like walking into an arena

752
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:45.280
and somebody calls him like the fake tribal chief or whatever,

753
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.199
and he like makes him flinch. He messes with people

754
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.320
at ringside during commercial breaks. There's a great one where

755
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.760
there's this famous picture of the usos as kids plus Solo,

756
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.679
and Solo's like very young, probably like eleven years old,

757
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:03.639
and he's got like a backwards hat on. It's everything

758
00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:07.840
that you'd seen like the late nineties, early two thousands,

759
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:10.519
and it was like, this is not my tribal chief.

760
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:14.320
And they put that picture on the sign at ringside

761
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:17.320
and he just is like staring it down. There's a

762
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:19.199
lot of good stuff by about him, and I really

763
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.679
think Solo at some point someday will be a very

764
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:26.159
over babyface because he is so damn likable and is

765
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:29.440
having so much fun and that resonates on television and

766
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:33.400
he still has that magnetic personality and that like he's

767
00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:35.800
having a lot of fun on we television, but it's

768
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:39.679
correlating extremely well as a heel right now. So yeah,

769
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.360
I don't know, Doc Trey, I thought that this was

770
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:43.880
kind of like a slam dunk decision this year, but

771
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.280
I feel like Solziko has made a real strong push

772
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:48.039
to close out twenty twenty four right now.

773
00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:51.480
Yeah, I mean, you can tell he's sat under some

774
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:54.039
good learning trees because he has some of the best facials,

775
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:56.440
Like he can just look at the camera and you

776
00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:59.920
know exactly how he's feeling, and a lot of that's

777
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:01.920
is It's a lot of the same stuff we were

778
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:04.159
saying about Roman towards the end of the Blood like

779
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:08.440
like he was so affable and likable being a heel

780
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:09.559
that you knew once.

781
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:11.079
They turned a baby face they would kind of blow up.

782
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:13.440
And Solo's in that same realm right now, like his

783
00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:17.559
confidence is just oozing out and bubbling over, and a

784
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:19.599
lot of the same things that Roman was doing there

785
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.480
those just remember like Roman was like yelling at Paul

786
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:24.840
him I think when they were in England for Class

787
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:27.480
of the Castle, like how he hates this place and

788
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.599
how stupid the fan. Like those little things were things

789
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:33.000
that you and I would go, that's a babyface thing

790
00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:34.920
that would actually get people to laugh and like him

791
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.199
a lot more if he was a good guy. Solo's

792
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.159
the same way, So he's he's really picked up a

793
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:41.639
lot of the stuff. And then once again, when you're

794
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:44.239
the son of Rakishi and you're the brother to the

795
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.559
Usos and the cousin to Roman reigns and these are

796
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:51.280
four of the biggest stars wrestlings ever had, it's it's

797
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.880
kind of hard not to pick up on those things

798
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:56.320
to help you get over You just have to know

799
00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:58.320
how to apply it in the right way to really

800
00:38:58.400 --> 00:38:59.559
get the audience to react to you.

801
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:01.119
And he's done a great job.

802
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:04.119
Like if you had ever told me that somebody who

803
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:08.119
basically was booked like Umaga would be the focal point

804
00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:11.280
heal and not have a mouthpiece with them what I

805
00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:13.039
told you, there's no way a guy can pull it off.

806
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:15.679
He's pulled it off, and he's made this race for

807
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.719
breakout star really really close and interesting because as he

808
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.960
keeps ascending and getting better, we see Osprey not getting

809
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:26.559
booked as well, so he might catch him by the end,

810
00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:29.800
because it feels like the Tortoise and the Hair where

811
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:33.079
Ospray got out to a big lead, but he's kind

812
00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:35.559
of slowing down here at the end, and Solo just

813
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:37.840
keeps getting better and better week after week, and he

814
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.320
might catch him by the end of the year.

815
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:43.480
In twelve months, so Sokoa has pinned both John Cena

816
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.159
and Roman Reigns at a major plae for World Hours Entertainment.

817
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:53.039
That is no small feat. Doctor Trey switching gears to

818
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:56.679
all the wrestling will preven predict your full gear momentarily.

819
00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:59.880
But there was a big comment made from John Mock

820
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:04.079
recently where he talks about why AW needs to be

821
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.960
successful or it will set the business back. He had

822
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:13.159
an interview with Sam Fishman and he said, and I quote,

823
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.960
AW has to be a success. If it's not, the

824
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:19.480
business gets set back another twenty fucking years. I'm not

825
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:21.719
willing to go through that again. Others who I've known

826
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:23.400
for fifteen to twenty years are not willing to go

827
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:26.119
through that again. It's at the hands of our generation.

828
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:27.880
This is what we wanted to do in all we've

829
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.440
ever wanted to do. The future is in our hands.

830
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.280
Whatever AW will become in the future is up to us. Frankly,

831
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:36.239
in five years nothing has been built. We're going to

832
00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:38.599
build it right now. There has been no flag. AD

833
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:41.199
was not really nailed down its identity, but being a

834
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:44.400
young company, and that's fine. There has been a known

835
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:46.400
flag for everyone to unify and say, this is who

836
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:49.320
we are and who we are what we do in

837
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:51.920
the direction we're going. We're going to plan our flag.

838
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:53.960
That's starting with me and a few people watching my back.

839
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.320
In others, we're going to demand more of everybody around us.

840
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.840
I think the big telling thing here to Treys is

841
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:03.440
Moxley saying AW has to be success. If it's not,

842
00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:06.679
the business gets set back in another twenty years. Do

843
00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:10.880
you agree with that statement, Because as much as the

844
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:13.199
influence of the last few years of five years of

845
00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:17.199
wrestling is due to the launch of awwwe got better

846
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:19.599
because it was heavily influenced by the launch of AW

847
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:22.239
and they needed to get better. Do you really think

848
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.960
if AW was not successful the business gets set back

849
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:25.840
in another twenty years.

850
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:28.159
I actually agree with them on that.

851
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:31.000
Yeah, I do, because when you look at when WCW,

852
00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:35.239
even in the early eighties, when the NWA was battling WWF,

853
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:39.760
there was still that pressure on WWF to beat your competition.

854
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.039
There was still that line there, and it still gave

855
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.760
guys an opportunity to go somewhere else and still make

856
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:50.519
a good living. So the talent pool built because wrestling

857
00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:55.400
was a viable career for these guys, you know, and

858
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.199
even all the way up through the nineties, and when

859
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:01.840
you look at when WCW died, like wrestling got really

860
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:05.480
bad for a long time, there was no opportunities. When

861
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.079
guys got released, there was nowhere else to go to

862
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:11.719
make the kind of money that they were making in WWE.

863
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.400
With the launch of AAW, it gave guys a platform

864
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:18.480
and an option that, hey, if I don't like what

865
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:21.800
ww's doing with me, I can go here and still

866
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.400
make a good living. And we saw a lot of

867
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:27.039
those guys make that move out from under Vince and

868
00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:29.920
make that move to AW for those reasons.

869
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.840
Whether it's Moxley, Jericho FTR, you know.

870
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:35.639
All those guys in those early days of AAW, that

871
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.360
was what it was, and if AW goes away, you know,

872
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:42.280
I heard a guy say today like when in absence

873
00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:47.639
of leadership, a power vacuum develops as somebody fills that role.

874
00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:50.679
We saw that a little bit in the early.

875
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.920
Two thousand and twenty tens with the rise of TNA

876
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:56.840
and Ring of Honor, but they were never really viable

877
00:42:56.960 --> 00:43:01.079
competition on the level of economics. Like AAW does, AW

878
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:06.320
has enough bankroll to match WWE. If that goes away,

879
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.599
is anybody gonna be running to go jump a new

880
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:13.280
jumpstart a new wrestling promotion if AAW dies, no, because

881
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:17.000
they're gonna look at going Well, TNA didn't succeed, ECW

882
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:19.280
didn't succeed, Ring of Honored in seed, and now AAW

883
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.239
that had a billionaire backing them up, they didn't succeed.

884
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.559
Maybe this is a one trick ponent kind of business

885
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:29.840
with WWE. So I think that we need that second

886
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:33.199
option to keep the health of wrestling going.

887
00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:35.800
Because wrestling is a smarteressboard.

888
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:38.480
There's different flavors for everybody in between AW and WWE,

889
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:41.119
you get your bases covered. But like I said, when

890
00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:45.079
WCW died, WW is the only option in town, and

891
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:48.000
the ratings went down the talent kind of went down,

892
00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:51.559
like we got really like the Jeff, there was times

893
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.079
that you and I thought about quitting this show because

894
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:57.519
wrestling was so bad in that window of time between

895
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:01.800
twenty twelve and twenty sixteen. You know, it took an

896
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.800
AW to reinvigorate the WW product. So I think you

897
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:09.199
need some kind of healthy option. And if AW dies

898
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:11.880
in a billionaire fails, I don't think any BAILS is

899
00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:14.519
jumping up to fill that void for the next twenty years.

900
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:17.800
Yeah, no, I agree with you on that where we

901
00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:22.119
need that second option. I guess the part that I

902
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:27.159
will find a little debatable is I think WWE has

903
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.320
learned from their ways and I can't see the current book,

904
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:34.800
the current creative, the current business model, the current guys

905
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:40.440
running the company, the TKO board, letting WW fall back

906
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:42.440
into the trap that after two thousand and one when

907
00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.599
WWNECW folded, that are just got to like wrestle their

908
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:48.039
laurels and if somebody pops up, great, But the most

909
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:51.480
likelihood is that WE dominates for twenty plus years. That

910
00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:54.880
part I don't think will happen again. I think Vince

911
00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:59.840
didn't have a desire to appease his audience after those

912
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:03.400
companies folded and there was no competition left. I think

913
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:05.840
the folks now it's a bit different because of the

914
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:09.280
television contracts, Doctor Trey. So, I mean, they have to

915
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.039
perform to earn that five billion dollars from Netflix, they

916
00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:15.480
have to perform to earn that money from the USA network,

917
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:17.719
they have to perform to earn that money from the

918
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:20.119
CW network, And they have to perform for people to

919
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:23.760
watch want to watch their pls on the Peacocks platform

920
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:26.880
in the United States. So I think things have changed

921
00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:29.800
a bit where we do want a second company. We

922
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.639
do want a company that is going to push AWWE

923
00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:35.119
in aw and we also want a company that's going

924
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:39.760
to push ine AWW better. But I don't think it

925
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:42.599
will have the same ramifications it did in two thousand

926
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:44.760
and one when WCWNCW closed.

927
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:48.360
If that makes sense, Yeah, it does a lot of that.

928
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.320
On the level of it makes sense that they would

929
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:54.840
continue on doing what they're doing. Makes sense, but we

930
00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:58.159
also know that they're no longer a privately owned company.

931
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:02.800
They're part of a corporate and every corporation goes through

932
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:04.559
ups and downs, and there are times like well, if

933
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:07.039
you don't have any competition. Do we need to be

934
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.920
paying these exorbitant salaries to people? Do we need to

935
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.519
be paying Do we need to be offering Becky Lynch

936
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.320
three million dollars a year if she has nowhere else

937
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:15.559
to go?

938
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:16.880
Can we get it? For one?

939
00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:20.559
And so if you start shrinking the budgets and shrinking

940
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:24.039
the things up like that, because you're assuming that when

941
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:28.400
aw folds up that that audience will translate over, that's

942
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:29.239
not always the case.

943
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:32.280
So there is a little bit of hesitancy and me

944
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:32.800
to sit.

945
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:34.920
There and say that, yeah, you're absolutely right, it'll actually

946
00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:36.800
go that way, because we've seen it in business models

947
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:42.599
before that when competition dies off, whoever survives that battle

948
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:47.880
does kind of shrink down their their costs to maximize

949
00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:50.599
their revenues, and then the product actually suffers a little bit.

950
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:53.320
So that's that's my nervousness in it, because we've seen

951
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:55.199
it before that when these companies go out of business,

952
00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:58.639
whether it was the Independent Territories in the eighties or

953
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:03.400
WCWN the in the two thousands, when the competition dies

954
00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:07.159
up or dries up, the winner doesn't go, hey, let's

955
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:09.280
go spend crazily and just blow this out of the water,

956
00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:12.000
they shrink up their piece of the pie. Also bring

957
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:15.239
everything in house to maximize their revenue. So that's that's

958
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:17.239
my nervousness in that kind of concept.

959
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:21.400
Well, it's funny because it's the same old it's the pendulum, right.

960
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:22.840
I mean, we just saw it in the United States

961
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:25.039
a couple of years ago, where the pendulum was swinging

962
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:27.880
for the very first time to the employees. Job market

963
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.400
was tight, people weren't there was plenty of open jobs.

964
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:34.119
People could leave their jobs at any given moment, and employees.

965
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.360
Employers want to do everything possible to make their employees

966
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:39.440
happy and give them all these benefits, the ability to

967
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:43.840
work from home, travel here, stipend there, blah blah blah

968
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:46.800
blah blah, and that was all well and good as

969
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.199
the economy took a shit. Then all of a sudden,

970
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:51.519
the power went back to the employers and cuts are

971
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:54.559
happening and everybody's going to return to the office. So

972
00:47:54.920 --> 00:47:58.239
it's just funny how things work. And right now the

973
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:01.000
power is in the fans and the power is in

974
00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:04.360
the wrestler. The organization does not have the power, and

975
00:48:04.440 --> 00:48:06.960
that has been consistent right now for five years. So

976
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:11.719
you're starting to see more ability being thrown back to

977
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:14.719
the fans and more ability thrown back to the wrestlers.

978
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.119
You would figure it at some point that maybe the organizations,

979
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.000
the employers get that power back right now. But as

980
00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:21.639
long as they are in number two and they're they're

981
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.280
vying and pushing w to be better, then I don't

982
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:28.000
think that will happen. But I guess the one thing

983
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.159
that I'll say, just to wrap this all up, doctor Trey,

984
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:35.199
is I mean, is aw And a number two anymore?

985
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:38.559
I mean there are times I'm watching Dynamite rampage collision.

986
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.719
The crowd reactions are very poor. They are an arenas

987
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:44.639
that they should not be in anymore because the attendance

988
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:48.280
is so low. I think the MVP arena in Albany

989
00:48:48.760 --> 00:48:52.440
where they just had collision recently, and I'm going to

990
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:56.199
double check this real quick, but I'm pretty sure that

991
00:48:56.639 --> 00:49:03.360
fills over like ten thousand people and they sevente five

992
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:06.599
hundred people, and they may have had two thousand in

993
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.880
there for collision this past Saturday night, and you could

994
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:12.440
see that most of that arena was blacked off. I mean,

995
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:15.440
are they a number two right now? I mean they're

996
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:18.440
falling behind in viewership to NXT. I mean, I understand

997
00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:21.559
that this may open the floodgates to a conversation, but

998
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:24.320
I guess on the short term here and in a

999
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:28.199
short term response short response, are they are they a

1000
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:29.440
viable number two right now?

1001
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:31.840
I think they're still I think they're still a viable

1002
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:34.800
number two. It is a little bit of and I'm

1003
00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.599
not saying they're closing up shop or they're going out.

1004
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:37.880
I don't want to. It's mistaking me for that.

1005
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:40.599
It does feel a little bit like the end of WCW,

1006
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:43.760
where you can still find WCW products out in your sword.

1007
00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:45.760
You can still buy the t shirts, the action figures

1008
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:49.079
also like and that is still brand visibility. They still

1009
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.280
have more brand visibility than any other company out there.

1010
00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:56.039
That's why when the Joe Henry phenomenon took offer. But

1011
00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.679
it's like, what's this TNA stuff? And TDA got a

1012
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:00.320
little bit of a bump in viewership for where they're

1013
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:02.079
at before because it was just kind of like, oh,

1014
00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:04.519
I thought they went out of business or I thought

1015
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.480
they had kind of close up shop. AW is still

1016
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:11.519
a recognizable brand, Like they still have international deals, they

1017
00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:14.920
still have their wal like Walt, their products are walmarts

1018
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:17.920
and targets and you know, hot topics and things like

1019
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:20.039
that place, so you can still get their stuff in

1020
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.920
brick and mortar stores. Is not all online like an

1021
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:25.400
MLW or you know any of these other you know,

1022
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:29.639
even TNA for that matter, there's still a recognizable brand.

1023
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:33.880
The problem is is that if you don't stop the slide,

1024
00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:36.519
you're not going to bring new viewership in.

1025
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:37.960
You're going to continue to slide.

1026
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:39.440
You have to find a way to write the ship,

1027
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:41.679
which I thought Moxley in that interview made some great

1028
00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:43.360
salium points, which is some of the things that you

1029
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:44.719
and I have been saying the last couple of years,

1030
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:48.519
Like the brand doesn't have an identity, and you have

1031
00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.880
to create one, and whether it's like downsizing into small

1032
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:54.480
arenas and going more to like what ECW did at

1033
00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:57.519
something like when they've got rebranded into Extreme Championship Wrestling

1034
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:01.000
and found their little niche products to create buzz again

1035
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:04.840
and draw people in to watch it. Hey, maybe that works,

1036
00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:07.480
and then you have the already have the infrastructure in

1037
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:11.000
place to re expand the business out. They are in

1038
00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:14.599
an identity crisis right now, and that's why I think

1039
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:16.000
that a lot of the viewers have gone away because

1040
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:18.559
it's like, well, we don't really know what we're getting

1041
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:21.360
from week to week. There's no consistency in the product.

1042
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:26.199
There's no consistency in the inn ring performance, there's no

1043
00:51:26.280 --> 00:51:29.840
consistency in the storylines. And if you don't have consistency,

1044
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:30.920
you can't build loyalty.

1045
00:51:32.039 --> 00:51:33.480
That's a great way to end it, right there. Not

1046
00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:35.639
sure I think that is the perfect way to end it.

1047
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.800
So let's get into the big show this Saturday for

1048
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.000
aw Full Gear Previeum predictions this Saturday from the Prudential

1049
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.760
Center in Newark, New Jersey. We'll start of the pre

1050
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:48.119
show match here, Doctor Trey, one of your favorites, Big

1051
00:51:48.199 --> 00:51:51.800
boom AJ taken on QT Marshall. I'm going to take

1052
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:55.000
on Big Boom AJ from the Costco guys. I am

1053
00:51:55.079 --> 00:52:00.400
not in this Costco guys Metaverse multiverse? Are you Dot

1054
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:01.760
Tray and who do you like in this match?

1055
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:04.199
I don't. I don't know who any of those people are.

1056
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:06.679
I know Qt Marshall, I saw his rap video.

1057
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:10.119
You don't know, you don't know the Rizzler.

1058
00:52:11.480 --> 00:52:13.679
It was, is that like Bizarro Riddler.

1059
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:16.360
It's like this eight year old kid that this is

1060
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:17.840
like weird thing with his face.

1061
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:19.480
Is that like Ryan's world.

1062
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:20.360
I know that guy I saw.

1063
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:22.239
I saw his stuff at Walmart. I don't know.

1064
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:25.280
Like when they when they start talking about this, I

1065
00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:27.960
was like, I don't know. This is like when like

1066
00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.079
music award shows come on now and I'm the old

1067
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:30.480
guy going on.

1068
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:32.199
I don't know who. I don't know who any of

1069
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:34.519
these people are. What the hell I don't know? I

1070
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:35.599
thought Big Boom and a J.

1071
00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:38.440
I thought Aj Francis was making like a debut for

1072
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:41.679
aw from TNA. It's what I literally thought, and then

1073
00:52:41.719 --> 00:52:43.079
somebody had to educate me a little bit on it.

1074
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:45.400
I'm like, I don't know who this is. I will

1075
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:48.679
take Big Boom AJ in the Wrizzler just because there's three.

1076
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:50.159
There's only one QT Marshall.

1077
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:52.239
I don't think it's a three on one match, but

1078
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:55.000
we'll go with Big Boom AJ. I can't wait for

1079
00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:57.159
you to watch this match and give your feedback on it.

1080
00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:00.800
MJF versus Roger Shrunk to Trey, Who do you like

1081
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:01.239
in this one?

1082
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:03.719
I got MJF, but I don't know about you.

1083
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.440
Could Could I see Roderick turn on Adam Cole at

1084
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.159
the end of this match, like Adam comes out to

1085
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:13.480
help or Adam Cole comes out to him help Roderick

1086
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:16.000
cost him the match, and then we find out that

1087
00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:19.000
MJF is actually the head of the of the Enniscuta Kingdom.

1088
00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:22.880
Right now, I think that is possibility, Okay, but I'm

1089
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:25.039
taking I'm taking MJF just because I I we had

1090
00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:28.519
to build to MJF and Adam Cole, so MJFF losing

1091
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:29.559
to roder doesn't make sense.

1092
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:31.360
So I'm taking MJF to win.

1093
00:53:31.480 --> 00:53:35.400
By the way, the MJO maybe mjf's joined the patriarchy

1094
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.599
because there are some vicious shots at Roderick Strong's dead

1095
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:39.840
father this past week.

1096
00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:43.880
Those vignettes that they've been airing. By the way, I'm

1097
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:46.039
taking MGF as well. Those vignettes that they've been airing

1098
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:49.920
after all these matches with Adam Cole and and Roger Strong,

1099
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.519
they are got awful. I'm not a fan. I mean,

1100
00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:56.519
there's it's sunlight and it's it's it's a nighttime show,

1101
00:53:56.920 --> 00:53:59.920
like where is the Iceland? Like what do we do?

1102
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:02.920
I mean that that I like the creativity, but that

1103
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:03.719
those have been bad.

1104
00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:06.280
Doctor Trey, Well, I mean this is you know, this

1105
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:08.360
is what moxis talking about we've we've tried some stuff

1106
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:11.119
that didn't work, we got out what actually works, and

1107
00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:14.440
apparently taping a show at night but doing your vignettes

1108
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.519
in the middle of the day that air post match

1109
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:17.719
doesn't make a lot of sense.

1110
00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:21.320
Next match, here is j Why taking on Hangman Adam Paige.

1111
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:24.519
J White is going on about on and on about

1112
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:27.840
how he has Hangman out in Page's number. He won

1113
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:30.039
the match at Wrestled Dreams. Therefore I'm gonna go with

1114
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:31.239
Hangman at a Page in this one.

1115
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:34.360
Doctor Trey, Yeah, I'm doing like the same with the situation,

1116
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:36.719
Like if if Jay got to win, Hangman gets a

1117
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:39.400
win because aaw Tipley does fifty to fifty booking anyway

1118
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:41.800
on with her big stars, So it's time for Hangman

1119
00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:44.159
to get a win and get back into the title.

1120
00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:45.880
We got to figure out where Hangman lies in this

1121
00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:50.480
whole bcc aw takeover storyline at some point, or does

1122
00:54:50.519 --> 00:54:52.760
he get involved with Swerbigan at some point after this

1123
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:54.000
hurt business thing dies off.

1124
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:58.639
Next match here is Private Party defending the aw Tech

1125
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:00.920
World Tag Team Championship in a four way tag team

1126
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:03.760
match against the Outrunners. Came to the Black Throne and

1127
00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:05.719
the acclaimed Doctor Trey. Who do you like in this one?

1128
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:08.480
Well, I'd love to see the outrunners win.

1129
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:11.320
I don't think, like, how do you put the belts

1130
00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:13.119
on Private Party and take it right back off them?

1131
00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:15.440
To me, House of Black is the most deserving team

1132
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:17.760
to get to win, But I'm still taking Private Party

1133
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:21.000
just because they just got the belts a month ago.

1134
00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:22.920
You gotta let him hang on to it for a

1135
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.559
little while if you're trying to actually build your tag

1136
00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:26.440
team division again.

1137
00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:28.400
Yeah, I'm with you here. I don't think you take

1138
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.039
the titles off Private Party right now. Mercedes Monete defends

1139
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:36.719
the AWTBS Championship against Chris Statlander. I'm gonna take Mercedes

1140
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:37.880
money in this one, not to try.

1141
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:40.440
By the way, did you see this segment with her

1142
00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:41.599
trying to hit the backstabber?

1143
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:43.440
Yeah, it was awful.

1144
00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:47.000
That was so bad, and it messed up her tombstone

1145
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:49.400
as well because she couldn't get one hundred and twenty

1146
00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.320
pound person into position. Like it's just it's got awful.

1147
00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:56.480
I really want to pick stat Lander in this match,

1148
00:55:56.880 --> 00:55:58.639
and it's hard because I kind of want to see them,

1149
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:01.840
but with Yama kind of still heading up the women's

1150
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:05.800
title division. I think I think Mercedes Monet gets the

1151
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:08.280
wins one. What are why are all the champions Eminem?

1152
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:09.960
By the way, I just now did the map on

1153
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:10.400
that too.

1154
00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:12.519
But the Eminem collection isn't a champion.

1155
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:13.199
Yeah.

1156
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:18.079
Next match Strickland taking on Bobby Lashley Doctor Trey. Who

1157
00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:18.880
do you like in this one?

1158
00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:21.000
I'm going to numbers Games again.

1159
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:22.920
I'm gonna take Lashley getting the win here because you

1160
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:25.960
still have Sheldon, you still have MVP, And as much

1161
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:28.639
as I love Prince Nana, is he really a threat

1162
00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:32.000
against MVP or you know Sheldon to get involved. So

1163
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:34.360
I will take Lashley getting the win by hook and

1164
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:34.880
by crook.

1165
00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:37.880
I'm going to take Bobby Lashley getting this victory as well.

1166
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:39.760
I don't think you signed him to have his first

1167
00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:43.039
to have him lose on the first paper he's involved with.

1168
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:46.519
Next match is Jack Perry defend the AWT and T

1169
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:49.360
Champion against Daniy Garcia. This has been some really good

1170
00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:52.159
vignettes and segments so far, a lot of Batman and

1171
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:55.159
Joker stuff. With that said, I would love to pick

1172
00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:57.440
Daniel Garcia in this one, but the way they left

1173
00:56:57.480 --> 00:56:59.519
it off on Dynamite, I am going to pick Jack Perry,

1174
00:56:59.559 --> 00:56:59.960
Doctor Truck.

1175
00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:03.960
Yeah, I'm picking Perry as well, just because you destroyed

1176
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.719
the Man's ice cream truck.

1177
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:08.039
Whatever that thing is, I don't really know.

1178
00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:09.480
Is it plus old school bus?

1179
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:11.400
Right, it's an old school bus. It looked like he

1180
00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:13.239
stole from the ice cream Man. Also, I don't really know.

1181
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:15.960
It looks like he got a leftover thing from a

1182
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:19.480
Samoa Joe's Twisted Metal TV show and turned into a vehicle.

1183
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.360
But I'm taking Perry as well because of that, and

1184
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:23.960
also I just watched nine of two and oh and

1185
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:25.960
his dad was on it, So I'll take Jack Perry.

1186
00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:29.480
Next match is Will Osprey taken on Kyle Fletcher, Doctor Tree.

1187
00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:30.360
Who do you like? In this one?

1188
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:33.639
I'm taking will Osprey to beat the fake as Eminem,

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So yeah, I.

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Am taking Will Ospray as well. And then the main

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event here, John Moxley defends the aw World Champions against

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Orange Cassidy. Decent build, decent feud. I'd like the character

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development of Orange Cassidy, the John Moxley Death Riders storyline,

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I'm starting to potentially lose interest in. With that said,

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I am going to take John Moxley in this one.

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I'm taking Moxley as well, because Orange Cassie's stood up,

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uh in put his hands in his pocket to close

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out Dynamite or was it that Mite, So he's showing

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his uh, you know, fu to the man, so to speak.

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But I'm taking Moxie because as much as we love

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Morenge Cassidy, he's not the biggest baby face in the company,

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and we got to get to the death writers against

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the bigger baby faces.

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Uh So I'm taking Moxley to Weather.

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And why the hell did we have Claudia beat the

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hell out of Darby Allen last week as well?

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I don't I don't get that.

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Uh you just brought up like the top baby faces.

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I would figure the next guy in line would be

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Darby Allen. And I was just gonna. I was thinking

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the same stuff, like why is Darby getting jobbed out

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hard to Claudia Castagnulli right now?

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Yeah, I mean to me, I get I mean, if

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I'm going off top baby faces, it's Swerve and Ospray

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and Swerves feeding with a new a new stable that

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00:58:48.719 --> 00:58:51.599
just showed up. Ospray's you with another stable, and we

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00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:54.360
have another stable over here that basically is going up

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00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:57.239
against the upper middle card of aw right now, and

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they're supposed to be the biggest storyline, so I don't

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get it. So I I just assume that after this

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we're moving on to bigger and better things with the

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death writers other because I do feel like Moxley is

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kind of running the show right now.

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So with that said, we will recap review full Gear,

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we will preven predictivity, we surviviseries, war games all on

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our very special Thanksgiving edition of srt We'll also announce

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the holiday programming schedule for everyone on next week's edition

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of SRTU. We'll try to get that episode out a

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little bit early because I would envision dot trene and

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we'll talk about it off air. I envision that we

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will be recording early next week, probably not going to

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record on Thanksgiving because we'll be busy, and so we'll

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try to get that out to you guys sooner rather

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than later so you can enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday or

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pop this in and listen to this podcast to get

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away from the family during the Thanksgiving holiday. Would that said,

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it's got a couple of plugs and sponsors out of

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the way. You can down the show every Thursday or

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follow a show on X at SRTU podcast. With that

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being said, what is going on in the one for

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world of doct Trey Franklin this week?

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

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at the Doctor Trey. I have not joined Blue Sky.

1250
01:00:16.119 --> 01:00:18.360
Maybe I should because maybe then I'll know who some

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01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:20.840
of these people are, like who Travis Scott is or

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01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.320
who a Wrizzler is. I don't know these people, but

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you can find me on Facebook and Instagram. That's cool

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for old folks like me as well. Just search out

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Doctor Trey Franklin when you're on Facebook trib be sure

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check out Rockety Championship Wrestling.

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Just had a huge show last week.

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Next show coming up December second is our nine year

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anniversary show. Hard to believe Rockessy has been running for

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01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:41.559
nine years, so be sure to check it out and

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also check out Spartan Championship Wrestling, the other show I

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work with here in the lovely state of Alabama that

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has weather like New.

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York right now, because I'm freezing my butt off right now.

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01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:53.760
There you go. It is one of those times of

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the year where it's seventy one day and snowing the next,

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So it is the month of November here in our

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Lord of twenty twenty four. Thank you for downloading this

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week's edition VESTR to you. Enjoy full gear if you're watching,

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and enjoy the weekend. Everything's going on the one for

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all of professional wrestling and it is a fun time

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to be a professional wrestling fan. And once again we

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will be back next week for our Thanksgiving special. So

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thank you for downloading. Spread the word about ASR to you,

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Doctor tre Franklin, I am Jeff Pack. This has been

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This is worth a show.