SummerSlam 2026 Predictions, AEW Redemption Fallout & Wrestling’s Ticket Crisis | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #859 – 7/30/26

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It's still real to be damaged in it!

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Welcome everybody!

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Welcome to this week's "The Sanusto Rillow Show"

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episode of "Anner 59" for July 30th, 2026.

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This is your AW in redemption recap and WWE Summer Slam weekend

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for the preview and predictions edition of SRTU.

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I am one half of the show "I am Jeff Pack" joined every single week

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my coach the one on the Dr. Trey Franklin.

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Dr. Trey, do you miss the biggest party in the summer tagline, my friend?

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Oh, is that the one that you have to playboy mansion in the grotto?

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Oh, no, the wrestling one, yes.

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I don't know if you play the online game, WWE Supercar, but they do like...

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It's basically a car gathering game similar to Pokemon, but for wrestling cars and stuff like that.

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The car is inter- I would say.

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But the background for the Summer Slam 26 is kind of that old throwback, Miami Summer Slam kind of vibe to it.

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It's like you said that and it is that you're reminding of like,

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"Yeah, nobody's calling it the biggest party of the summer."

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But then again, nobody is calling it...

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What did Jeremy Piven call Summer Slam?

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Summer Fest, Summer Fest.

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Yeah, I haven't heard Summer Fest this year.

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I always feel like we hit that reference.

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Every time we talk about Summer Slam, one of us hits it.

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And at some point I feel like people are going to be old

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and have no idea what we're talking about.

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But back in the days of the RAW guest Ulster, that was what Jeremy Piven,

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who was he promoting, Otterosh?

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Was it the movie?

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Otterosh, the movie?

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He was pro, there was a movie he was in...

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About used car salesmen.

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That makes sense for him.

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And it was like...

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He was like the slimy used car salesman that had a heart of gold.

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Yeah, it's like the classic Christmas Carol, but just a car salesman.

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So yeah, he called it Summer Fest and a long time fans continue to reference that at least.

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Every time around Summer Slam.

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A big weekend, obviously for professional wrestling, big week for professional wrestling.

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Coming off of the AW paper view, headed into the WEPLA, everything that was sandwiched in between.

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To hype up Summer Slam, to recap and decompress from AW Redemption.

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Let's start here, Dr. Terry, with AW Redemption recap.

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It was this past Sunday from the Bell Center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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The results we have the conglomeration, defeating a lethal twist to retain the AW World Trio's

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championship.

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They obviously ended up dropping that to the demand this past Wednesday on Dynamite.

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Speedball Mike Bailey defeats Jack Perry, Commander of the Beast Mordos, Nick Wayne,

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and El Clone in a six-way ladder match to earn an AW International Championship opportunity,

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which will be this Wednesday at Grand Slam Mexico on Dynamite.

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The Young Bucks defeat Will Ospreay and John Moxley, Kyle Fletcher retains the AW International

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Championship against Bandino, the dogs, David Finley and Clark Honors defeat the Bag-Bang-Gang

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of Jay White and Juice Robinson in a double chain match.

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My world defeats the Carl Sheeted to win the TBS Championship,

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Cope and Kade to defeat Pock and Claudio Cassing, only to retain the AW World Tag Team Championship.

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The pain maker Chris Jericho defeats the Mosul Champion and holds Bard Match,

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Andre El-Elo defeats Mark Davis to win the AW National Championship,

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Will Nightingale defeats Teclat to win the AW Women's World Championship,

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and Cade Omega defeats Kevin I and the main event to retain the AW World Championship.

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Some talking points here, Dr. Trey coming out of redemption. Will Ospreay finally breaks away

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from the Death Writers, but Cade Omega still does not trust him. That was a great close for redemption

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this past Sunday, and then obviously what we saw with Wednesday, a great back and forth between

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Will Ospreay and Cade Omega to set up their match for all in as we are now full steam ahead.

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What did you think of the last two seconds there for Will Ospreay and Cade Omega coming

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from redemption, as well as the stuff that we saw in Dynamite, whether it be the Ospreay

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interactions with the Death Writers or Ospreay interacting with Kenny Omega?

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I mean, I love the closer redemption, you know, moxley bringing out the bag again, and this is what

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I loved this segment because it harped back to the Bryan Daniels and stuff, and it gave Ospreay

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a chance to break away. So I like that. It also, once again, kind of clearly defines the Death Writers

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as he owes again and not that. Well, John's kind of a good guy, but Pox a bad guy, you know,

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it once again kind of gives those clear defined roles, which most old people like me like to have.

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I still don't like shades of gray. The interaction on Dynamite, I thought was really good

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with Ospreay and Kenny going back and forth into slaps from Kenny into Ospreay fired up.

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Like all that to me once again was really good. Plus it sets the line of Omega and Ospreay is like

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professional rivals and one guy just wanting to be better. So you don't need the deep storyline

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unless you want to dig into it, but it also sets the background of like what's moxley's going to

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roll going to be in this as well because this now by proxy has put him back into the main event

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title pictures. Well, the only thing I didn't like was Ospreay struggling to fight the plastic bag.

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Yeah, hey, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose some. I liked what happened this past Sunday

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and on Wednesday. We're recording this before collision. So I don't have anything to add from

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collision on Thursday. I just will say I would have liked to see in the Death Writers things play out

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a little bit more closer to all in or maybe take place at all in, but you know, they know the

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creative better than I do. Dr. Trey maybe getting out of this now makes sense, but you know, that's kind

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of the issue that I have with AW at times when it comes to the creative is they'll have some really

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good stuff. And then you they like abort the mission like way too early. And that's what I felt

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like here with Ospreay and the Death Writers. Yeah, I mean, I could have easily seen them still play

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up the moxley influence all the way to London. And then if Ospreay loses, hey, it's a natural

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progression for him to kind of like from moxley to say you failed us. Lava blot if Ospreay wins,

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you know, mox wants a shot. You know, there's a natural tie into it kind of aborting this early,

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just kind of makes you feel like it doesn't give it a clear path, which maybe for some folks like

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we having that ambiguity to the situation is great, but not that I want to know the story progression,

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but I kind of want to see a path to where it's going so to speak. Maybe this is a situation, Dr. Trey,

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where it leads to Ospreay like siding with the the the death writers again. Like I think that's

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a possibility in this entire thing. Like that wouldn't surprise me. I do think to myself like that

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may not be the direction they want to go because you know, Ospreay has got to be the hometown boy

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in London, England and there's enough of that type of reaction than they don't really need to play

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out the death writers thing, but I do think that the window is cracked open here for a reunion of

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sorts between Ospreay and the death writers. Anything it could always be a swirp. I mean, you could always

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add, I mean, the wrestler, but it could always be a swirp. Yeah, that break up, you know, was actually

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a ploy for Ospreay to use the death writers to win and London and Ospreay could easily say, look,

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I was sincere in what I did at redemption, but the way Kenny acted towards me made me realize

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John was right all along. And then you can kind of play back into that. I just have this feeling that

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Ospreay defeats Omega at all and Omega goes away for a little bit and we get Ospreay moxly feud for

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like the last couple of months of 2026. That's what it just feels like to me is pass the end of the torch.

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Omega goes away for a little bit, takes some time off, whatever. And that's what we get with Will Ospreay.

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Other talking points that came out of redemption, Dr. Trey did Kevin Knight come out of the main roster,

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excuse me, the main event looking like a bigger star. He pushed Omega throughout the match, survived

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several major attacks and nearly stole the championship after handing Crash Landing onto the TNT title.

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Omega ultimately retained with the one wing in Angel, but the discussion is whether night was elevated

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or overshadowed by the post-match Ospreay angle. What do you think? Did Kevin Knight come out of the

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main event looking like a bigger star? In ring, yes, with the surrounding storyline. No, because

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you kind of blew up his spot with the post-match angle. You know, I would have been perfectly fine with

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like Kenny retaining, slowly walking back to ring, just kind of giving Kevin Knight the nod,

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you know, or saying, "But then he and Knight's a heal and maybe you don't want to

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elevate him storyline-wise, given everything else we can all end." I think in ring wise, he showed

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he can hang with Kenny Omega. And that's for me, if I'm looking at that show and this is my talent,

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that's what I'm looking for the most. Can this guy stand in the ring with Kenny Omega in the

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main event of the paper view? Physically and technically look the part, we can always add in a storyline

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later on to make him a bigger star. I just want to make sure the spot isn't too big for the kid,

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and he did a great job in this. Three championship changes reshaped AW heading in, heading towards

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all in, Willow overcame, Sky Blues interference of Pentechla with the backside, backslide to capture the

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AW Women's World Championship. Maya World upset her car or she'd on her birthday to capture her first

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AW Championship. And Roddy won his first AW title by defeating Mark Davis while Willow's victory

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placed her directly to one of all in's featured matches. Dr. Tre, what do you think of the three championship

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changes and how will it affect all in here towards the end of the month? I like Willow winning.

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I don't like how they had her win. I mean, when was the last time you saw something when it titled

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the backslide? Yeah, it's got to be like the early 90s. Yeah, I like I'll tell my head. I'm like, I'm thinking like

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was it worth like Texas wrestling or like that's how far back my brain would. I'm like I can't even

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realize was it a Ricky steamboat match? Like that's how far back my brain wins. I mean, Willow's a big

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thick girl and to have a big strong thick person win with that type of maneuver kind of

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lessons the gravity of what they actually are as an in-rate performer. I mean, you can always have

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Fecla make a mistake to lead into the finisher to put her down. We see that all the time.

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You don't have to reinvent the wheel. So I like the position because Willow and Mercedes have history.

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You know, and that's what you kind of want on the big stage. The Maya Whirl that just kind of

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felt like a reward for her doing so well, you know, kind of jumping into the spot in the in the

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own cup tournament. I'm just I watched that six person tag match they had a couple of days ago.

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I don't get it. I don't see it yet. She's got great energy, but outside of that I don't get it yet.

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And the on-draw team like I'm just happy for Andrade the guys. I don't know about you. He feels like

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a completely different person this time around as opposed to his last WWE Rod in his previous

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AEW. He just feels fresh. He just he feels almost like Andrade NXT. This is the closest thing we've

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seen to that since that run. Yeah, I would agree with you Andrade. It definitely seems

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the closest to the NXT style of Andrade. I think he's a main event level talent and he just hasn't

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tapped into it. And I think that's in a case because there was failures of both AEW and WWE runs.

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At times you just got to point that to the person themselves and he just seems so. Yeah.

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He also say I don't make a drop. He also needed a gimmick. He needed a hook. And as crazy as

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it is, how you know has become that hook to get the audience to buy in there. Yeah, and they're

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running with this whole real Latino man thing. Yeah, it's just amazing how like if you find the right

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hook and the right catchphrase at the right time. I mean, it's amazing. I saw it something right

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there day about Kitt Wilson. How was four months ago? Kitt Wilson was the hottest star in wrestling.

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And then I was sitting now. He's in the Danhausen. I don't say even Bore tags, but it's kind of like,

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maybe like guys have something really hot and then you kind of killed it. That's usually an AEW thing

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with this new on Draughtay. They're like, no, he's hot. Let's run with it and see how far we can go with it.

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And it's fans been great. Yeah, I was going to bring up here that like I think how you know is

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creeping into top five most annoying taglines. I mean, still what by Steve Austin is,

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but it will make him a ton of money. So props to on Draughtay for finding something that's sticking.

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And he definitely is looking like he's rejuvenated and motivated as well. The My World stuff,

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I mean, I watched the match with Persepity on Don and Mike this past Wednesday. And I'm with you.

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I mean, I feel awful what happened to her and her family. I thought it was a nice little Cinderella

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run outside of that inring wise microphone stuff as just a fan watching at home. It's just not,

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it's not on the same level as some of the others that are in the AEW women's division and props to AEW

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for trying to build a new star. I don't know. I just don't know if the if the storyline is

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catching with fans. It's not something that like I'm truly interested in to be honest with you because

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My World as I've mentioned before on the show since she's had this run own cup all that stuff.

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She was working with high-end and tag teams where they would have no introduction. And it was a big

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deal when they finally got one on an episode of collision like last summer. And they were basically

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jobbers for the tag teams. So for her to come out of nowhere and get this title, it's like I would

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like to see in a little bit of a of a nicer client that would have gotten people behind this. But

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it is wasn't she so weren't they supposed to be paired up with Mercedes last year? I don't I don't know.

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I know she was working with a Fina on a H. Or that was the Renegade twins that were supposed to be

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there's that rumor that Mercedes was going to get her a little faction. Maybe it was the Renegade twins.

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I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't remember if it was my and high-end or the Renegade twins. But

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it almost hey saying this but it almost feels like a little bit of like a favoritism nod to

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Mercedes because they are pretty good friends like Mercedes like Maya's actually said that

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Mercedes kind of like you know been a mentor to her since she kind of got on the scene and Mercedes

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came back. But yeah I is really really hard to play up a real life death situation into a compelling

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storyline. You've seen it. I think the the failures far outweigh the number I mean Chavo after Eddie

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died that never really caught fire you know even even the Wyatt 6 after Bray Wyatt. But when you

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when you link in that real life family stuff it's really hard. The fans will get behind you for a

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little bit but until unless you can't make a genuine connection yourself it's going to die on the

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line really. Well yeah I mean I think from a storyline and like human aspect people are happy for her.

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I mean I'm a stag that she's she's getting this shine and all that stuff but when you watch it

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as a performer it's like I just I don't think it's there yet comparable to from what I'm seeing on

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the AW brand or you know any of the WWE NXT brand stuff too it's just it's not there yet but happy for

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yeah it's it's a weird thing to talk about because you kind of understand why they're doing it

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and you just kind of wish that the talents is what shown through rather than just basically like

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trying to really get into this storyline. So anyway there we go. AW Redemption this past Sunday

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from Montreal Quebec Canada. Dr. Trey on last week's show we talked about the Summer Slam ticket sales

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that were struggling it's a Saturday and Sunday Minnesota Minnesota. It's not just that now it's

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AW all in London too. Russell Ticks reported last week the 33,504 tickets were distributed with 8,000

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and 39 still available in the current 41,543 seat set up for all in London. The complete seating

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map contains 93,556 seats. There is this viral thing going around that if you have an eligible

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blue light card I don't know what that is in the in the UK quite honestly I guess it's for

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emergency services healthcare and public service workers not the general public that's what they hand

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out in the UK. You can get one dollar and 50 cent pound seats for the tickets. AW has also offered

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standard tickets starting around 31 I keeps 31 pounds and 70 cents and promotions such as summer 26

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for 50% off selected seats WWE meanwhile has promoted summer Slam tickets starting at $25 with

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the Jets code. All in added 1,522 distributed tickets over the three days approximately $500 per day

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but it remains unclear how much of that increase came from Omega Osprey versus the discounts.

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And then the question here Dr. Trey is a 40,000 plus at Wembley a respectable recovery or would

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it still feel disappointing compared with the 53,922 tickets distributed for all in London 2024.

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It's a letdown. I mean obviously like you would want to think that you're basically building off

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your success of your previous endeavors and you kind of it's business. I mean you and I both

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work in businesses where like every year like you look back at your last year tolls the company

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wants to add 10%. Like it's a letdown but then you have to look at the status of the worldwide

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economy and kind of go hey there you almost I don't say it's it's not a COVID era pass but it's like

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look every country in the world right now is in some kind of form of financial issues.

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sellings UFL team. They just put out an announcement today that they're moving the stallions out

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of Birmingham because we're only drawing like 15,000 people in a 40,000 seat stadium and they're like

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we just need you guys to get a smaller stadium. It's like what we got to go smaller that makes no sense

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but that's kind of the you know equation I was watching Cubs Cardinals one of the best maybe

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second best rivalry in baseball 20,000 people at Bush Stadium. You know it's like that's not normal

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like usually it's 30,000, 35,000 people so it does kind of show that it's not just

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wrestling being affected it is kind of worldwide but you would think for London to really only get

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one big show a year or one big show a two years that they would pull out all the stops to pack the

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arena much like it was in 2023 when they did what 70,000 it went well I think they went over 80,000

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right because they were saying they defeat they beat the WrestleMania 3.

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Yeah so I mean if you're saying you did 80,000 three years ago and now you're only coming in at 40

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yeah it's gonna be a disappointment but you also have to look at what the financial status of

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everybody around there is right now and hey lowering it for you know you said blue light I thought

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it came more but then again I'm old and that's my you know my go-to for blue light specials

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but doing something to promote the show among people that normally would be able to come to the show

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to try to hook a larger fan base in the long run and they actually be beneficial to them maybe a

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year or two from now when they come back to them. I think this is a representation of obviously

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ticket sales are way too high I don't think it is reflective fully of the promotion because I think

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the I think AW is doing really well I think the car they're putting together is strong I would make

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the same case for WWE as well there may be just a little bit of like stadium fatigue right now

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and I know for me and my family and and you know I'm not poor by any means but we're cautious with

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what how we spend our money especially with children right now and there's I just don't think it's

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economically it's it's a good time for people to be showing out $500 ticket for a two-night show

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and for WWE this weekend or whatever they're calling it costing it and the same for you know

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think that's a representation right now of kind of the economics of where they're doing these shows

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unfortunately and you know overall in the world and and I think WWE and AW need to be mindful of that

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I think they need to be mindful that their consumer their customers are not willing to shell out

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that type of money we're seeing inflation in plenty of other different places and this is not to

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get political or economical or business standpoint but you're seeing that the gas pumps grocery stores

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what have you so it's just not it's not an easy time for folks and you know I don't know if I'm

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going to take some of my disposable income doctor train go pay you know 40 40 40 40 50 bucks for

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you know one ticket for one night and then do it again for the second night it's just it was crazy

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it was crazy with what things got and you know I think there's a little bit of maybe stadium fatigue

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as well doctor try yeah because I and you you've did you deal with this more than or things that I do

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in Alabama says but like like it's not easy to get to a stadium venue like there's traffic there's

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headaches now you gotta jump 50 60 70 bucks for parking a two night event you're dumping in another

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because trust me the hotel's know what events are going in town so that hotel that's normally 120 bucks

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is now 240 so now you're paying the hotel costs on top of it and then it's super crowded so just

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trying to get a nice place to eat while you're there also like there's some like do the benefits

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outweigh the difficulties for a lot of folks like you and I where it's like yeah we're not poor but we're

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not you know filthy rich like we have to look at all those dynamics when we're deciding whether

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or not we want to spend our money to go to a show like for for summer slam like if I could go to

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Minnesota would I go probably not because I know it's traveling downtown Minnesota trying to get

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to the stadium all of that stuff is a huge headache the cost is there I can stay home and watch it

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in the comfort mount home get the food I want if I need to get up and leave and go do something else

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I can do it like it's just easier in that experience now WrestleMania comes to Nashville

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yeah I'll probably put all the stuff for Nashville but to do something you know four or five

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states away or across the pond as people like to say it just the juice is not worth the squeeze

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absolutely not absolutely not so it's just weird times right now for for wrestling shows take it

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wise and hopefully some of both companies really take taking to account with how people are spending

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their money right now uh dr. Tray there's some pressure coordinate reports on Nikon

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and triple H that may be looming here and we'll rest in entertainment the rest of the news letter reports

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that 2028 could become a major checkpoint if WWE's ratings remain weak TKO leadership including

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Mark Shapiro may begin applying greater pressure to Nikon and triple H Paul Leveck J.F. U. Morgan

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reportedly considers that fan dissatisfaction worth monitoring but not yet a structural business problem

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premium live event viewing appears to be growing while raw ratings are declining year over year

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our traditional television ratings so the proper measuring stick when WWE's audience is

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increasingly divided across broadcast television Netflix ESPN and other platforms the larger concern

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is whether online dissatisfaction eventually becomes lower viewership we could ticket demand

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declining merchandise sales or subscription at churn i think the big question here dr. Tray

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does triple H need to change WWE's creative direction now or are the companies revenue and premium

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live event numbers strong enough to stay the course i think for me if i was running a business you

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gotta look at revenue and not just you have to also factor in the cost the increase cost of it

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dear god this is turning into a business podcast it is but when you're looking at like the cost

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of inflation you know we've talked about years before they're like this was the biggest gate ever

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well yeah you're charging three times as much for a ticket as you were 10 years ago so if you get

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if you get half the audience you're making more money for me it would be like it would be buy rates it

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would be uh netflix contract viewership on raw and you see how many eyeballs are getting on it

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you can see it on the on the PLEs you can see it in uh amount of merchandise sold and may not be

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the actual revenue numbers but like hey how many shirts is Dan houses selling right now versus what

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Cody was selling two years ago are those numbers comparable or are those numbers way down like that

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those are the metrics i would kind of look at uh before you look at viewership because of your ship

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we've been bitching about viewership since streaming era and all that stuff started coming into play

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because you know hbo max does not give out viewership numbers uh peacock did not give out how many viewers

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there really was and then there's always that delayed reviewers like yeah we can see how many

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people are tuning in live but we're not we don't really know how many people are watching it on the

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replay on the backside so you the numbers are going to be skewed because the viewing habits are

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so different so but you can track it on the metrics of like items shipped or items sold or ticket

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sold or things like that you can still track it that way um because that will be a much more key

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indicator of how well you're probably connected uh and then here next topic dr. trade to discuss

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as uh things have been looking bleak and back to back i think there was a bright spot moment this past

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Tuesday night when grace and waller cut his own little pipe bomb promo to open up NXT this week

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waller made a surprise NXT return and admitted that the previous two years of his career had been an

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embarrassment immediately presenting this as a personal reset uh he attacked awesome theory as the

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weak link of eight down down under described his time alongside the new day as a comedy role that

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was killing his career waller called nxc men's division softening a place in arguing that the women were

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out performing them and that very few men were ready for the main roster he ignored producers ordered a

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wrap up challenge on michael's to stop him and target at nxc champion Tony de angelo and newcomer

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the former mike santa and now known as cruise montana did one promo instantly restore waller's

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credibility and should this become a permanent nxc run built around an eventual championship match

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does one promo changes correct is no because honestly he was cutting a lot of

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i don't want to say shoot style promos during his first xt run but he was much more off the cuff

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than what he was when he got the main roster i if the promos great but he loses his first four matches

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does the promo matter um you know the old ww thing was always like wins and losses don't matter

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but credibility does you can be allowed mouth but if you lose every single match nobody's going to

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take you seriously this you almost have to be a completely different version of yourself is

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i think that is still yet to be determined where they go the grace of the waller but i mean you and

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i like i think he even said in that promo like he felt like there was always something missing

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i've said the same thing about grace of all and i athletically charisma wise he's got all those

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rules his presentation there's always something out of his the baggy shorts or what like i don't

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know if he looked like he was auditioning for a role in white men can't jump to i don't know what it was

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but i always feel like the presentation of grace and waller there's always something missing uh

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but he has all the other tools it's just can you find the right fit for those tools to really work

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hey you kind of forget how much of a silver tongue he has on the microphone he's he kind of great promo

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um i do think that this could be a a life changing promo for him um

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and what he does from this point forward is going to be extremely telling him what doubta belief

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does with him and with how the fans embrace him is going to be very telling he's always had that in him

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he's always had that on an xc he's always had that on ron smack down the the the stuff with

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eight down down under i i really didn't dislike it at all the stuff of the new day was kind of like a

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throw away and i thought it was very very disrespectful that he was shunned away and austin theory got

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the shine on the vision because i think grace and waller's just as talented like i think he would have

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been great for the vision pairing up with logan paul austin theory brown breaker bronzer re what have

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you um so he gets that reset in xc and and sometimes we we see this reset work in an xc like fin

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baler and then there are times dr. tray that this reset does not work we've seen that with a polo

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cruise we've seen that with baron corbin it led to releases for both those guys one who is now

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back in on the summer slam card somehow um so i mean this is this is across from moment but for the

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first night back in nxt uh this is a a huge step forward and we will see where things go i i think

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he's a guy that's marketable i think he's a guy that could be a great heal in do we we i think he's

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the closest thing to that natural heal that we see from like an mjf i think there's certainly

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comparables there um and i'm happy for grace waller i find him entertaining and i find him talented

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and i hope this is is the right step forward for grace waller as he cut an amazing promo

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to open up nxt this past Tuesday it's just it's funny how you answered it dr. tray it's like uh no i

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mean i i knew that was in there i think a lot of people were surprised because they've forgotten but

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i'm with you like i knew that was in there for grace waller yeah i mean that's what god i'm never

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sitting in in the beginning it was it was his promo he's a natural on the microphone um

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what i was gonna say also about the promo is the promo itself like we know that was not a shoe promo

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like he did not come up some of that stuff was i mean i'm sure that he put his own spin on it but some

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of the things that he was pointing out also means that yeah wwe does pay attention to your social

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media wwe does pay attention to their their consumers because a lot of the things he was saying is

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things that we have seen people post online like oh tony dee got the shot because everybody else

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was gone like he was the last man in the room so they gave him the belt you know you and i have said

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you're saying yeah the the women are running laps around the men in nxt and they're run and that

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comes out so it does show that although we may not always agree with that with wwe does they do pay

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attention into their consumers because promos like that show they pay attention uh so dr. tray we

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are sandwiched in between a big uh two shows from a w and summer slam this this week um at the end

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of the month we'll have what i would say is a w's answer to resolmania in all in london um summer

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slam is the second biggest show of the year for wwe i think wwe in their minds knows or thinks it's

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comparable uh a one you know like a one b to the one a that is resolmania since it's a two night

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event a hell of the summer and we've got some really strong men's main events we've got rains and

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ralands pumpkin roads and omega and osprey and i want to talk a little bit about ranking each one

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of these these main event matches on the men's side you got Roman rains versus Seth ralands that

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offers the deepest personal history dating back to the shield ralands wrestle many betrayals and

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the unresolved 2022 Royal rumble finish cm punk versus Cody roads is a genuine dream match and

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their first one on one meeting in nearly 18 years we the underspeed wwe championship on the line

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kennel mega versus will osprey completes their trilogy at wembley stadium with the eight of a

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world championship and osprey's long-awaited coordination potentially on the line i want to rank

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all three based on storyline star power championship stakes and expected match quality uh which will be

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the best match which feels like the bigger spectacle and which outcome is the hardest to predict so

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three two one how do you see it the way you broke that down is really difficult if i'm going off

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star power i'm probably going in kody and pop number one if i'm going off storyline it might be

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set the enrollment and if i'm going off expected in-ring action it might be osprey and omega so it

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is kind of a toss up for me personally the way i'm ranking these right now i have ralands and rains

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number one just because of the history of their rivalry the expected in-ring action and then

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i need to go with the fallout of this is going to be which part who's the actual baby face here

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in this whole thing and where do their characters go from here i got omega and osprey actually at number

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two because their their rivalry is pretty strong going back to new japan in ringwise they're

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arguing to the top five in the world and star power wise these are two of their three biggest stars

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right now so and then i have uh punk and roads coming in at number three because other than personal

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rivalry and a little the a w story that you can't really allude to uh and punks in ringwork hasn't been

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fantastic since he came back to w it's been solid above average but not as good as you know he was

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15 years ago obviously so i'd have them number three i think for me i would have number three

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it's a tough it's a tough call i think it's number three is rains ralands

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two is osprey omega one punk and roads because i think that they're and the way i'm looking at this is

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the possibilities at the shows themselves and what the fallout is i think the fallout for punk

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roads could be something special like i think it could be a top storyline we talk about on next week's

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show i think there's a lot of people thinking that potentially something major may happen out of

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the match i think rains ralands just pushes the bloodline storyline forward and like i said earlier

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i feel like osprey omega like i just see the torch pass to osprey omega goes away for a little bit

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osprey goes into a new feud like i don't think this isn't a follow up at all out in chicago and i

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maybe totally wrong so that's why when i went three rains ralands two osprey omega one punk roads what

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was your three two one again so i had your i had the wwe matches flipped i had an ome

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osprey two but i had rains ralands one punk roads three mainly because i don't think we're getting the

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coat the only reason for me punk and roads would be number one is if i thought we were getting the

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Cody yields heard i just don't think we're getting the end um they got a shake of tv right they got a

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shake of tv yeah but i'm more intrigued by what we're not i don't say i'm intrigued it's because

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there's more moving parts with the bloodline stuff um in the sense of you have the usos and Jacob

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basically playing heels to li9 solo seco which by the way solo fantastic baby face not in

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he is he is how far he's gone in the last two and half solo dolo yeah and and roise he's so you have

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you have the bloodline playing heel in that match romans kind of been the heel in this storyline but

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then you had to mass square garden thing where he's kind of the baby face i i just and then what do

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you do is Seth after this you know this this Seth turn heel the Seth rejoining the vision like where

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does that go like i'm just the the there's so many branches to what that has maybe more so than

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Cody and punk um that's just why maybe and then you know we saw it you know last Friday night

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rains gets the chair to emulate you know the shield turn from you know a decade ago because he's

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still harping on that and it's sets the one guy that's been the randy savage to his whole kogan

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you know this entire run so i think that's why i have that i think i'm more visited in rolleys rain that i

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am punk and Cody right now no no it's it's fair enough i it's going to be interesting you know a month

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from now early september where we sit with both those show both the all three of those matches i will

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say like the fact that we are having this conversation about these three main event matches also tells

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you how far a w's come this year yeah because like it's i mean when i'm splitting these it's really close

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like i can't if you if you had said omega osprey one Jeff i couldn't argue with

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i i really couldn't it's just personal preference for these three i mean that's how close all

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three of these matches are heading into the next couple weeks yeah and i and i would argue that i think

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the top matches that they've announced so far for all in are on the level plain field as summer

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slam as well so you know i think there's been some ground loss by wwe and some ground gained by w and

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that's just a good thing for professional wrestling fans it's just funny economically going on to

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the earlier parts of the show where it's like even with all that and and there are obviously

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strong points on both shows and there's points on both shows where there's just fresh frustration

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it's like fans are still not they're like fatigued a little bit about all these stadium shows

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speaking of stadium show dr. tray let's preview and predict wwe summer slam it's a saturday and

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sunday from us bank stadium in miniapolis minnesota home with a minnesota viking to have never won a

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super bowl uh... sorslam streams at six p.m. eastern on both nights that doesn't sound like a packer's

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fan right with six matches scheduled if they didn't know you were a packer fan before they do not

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with six matches scheduled for saturday and six for sunday saturday is headlined by cm punk defending

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against kody roads and the third broccalizer oba femi match this time inside hell in a cell sunday

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is headlined by roman rains defending against saith wrongs along with the latter match to crown

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an interim doubly women's champion uh... we've got plenty of great stuff here dr. tray let's

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look at the saturday show august first and give our predictions let's start with the bell twins

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and page taking on fatal influence uh... in a six woman tag team match i'll start first i'm

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going to take the bell twins and page in this one dr. tray yeah i'm taking the bell twins and

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page as well because that's how you get the bell is back after the tag belt and you can kind of

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move page off on to something else and give her some rest so yeah i'm taking the bell twins

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the bell twins and page as well uh... next night is elay night solosako and rois kis taking on the

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bloodline jg of hot two and the usos dr. tray who do you like in this one i'm taking solo dolo

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elay night and rois kis in this one i think the baby face is kind of need a win not so much they need a

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win but also you can still play into the disengent of jacob and j uh... and kind of go from there so i'm

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taking uh... the the good guys in solo dolo and is nice red suit to get the win uh... i'm with you i

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think i well i'm with you in the sense that uh... the the baby face need a win however i am taking

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the bloodline jg of hot two and the usos i think there's a turn in this match and i think the turn

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is coming from rois kis i think rois kis a lines with the bloodline and joins up with them

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despite the new bloodline t-shirt i think everybody feels like solos get a turn on them but you're seeing

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reports that the the creatives like shocked at how much the baby face run for solos going over it

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was supposed to be very they said it was supposed to be very short which tells me that something was planned

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so i'm going to take jg of hot two and the usos in this one uh... next match is gun through take it on

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nick all this um props to nick all this magnus whatever you want to call him for getting back in the

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ring i hope he shows out i really do there was a great interview we had with christian volet where he got

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emotional talking about having this opportunity in this match so i really hope he shows out for for

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himself um but with that said you can't bet against got there i'm taking got through in this one

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how do you have the gm of smacked down pin the guy who ended the career of johnson yeah like i

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this is one of these like yeah i hope nick all like i was a big magnus fan back in tn a days i

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love nick all this one the nicest guys and wrestling but yeah like i just i hope he gets a strong

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performance but booking wise gun there has to win this match next match is for the women's world

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championship and i got a met dr tram disappointed the bill for this one it's live morgan defending against

441
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eo sky who do you like in this one yeah like lit i don't know about you it just and it's it's just it's

442
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odd like i haven't really enjoyed it that much i'm gonna take eo and mainly i'm picking eo because

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they put the ic title on ruck out and i just feel like somebody's gonna get somebody in the judgment day

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women's size gonna get pissed off and cost to live the match so i'm taking eo sky to win the raw women's

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cheek uh i'm gonna take live morgan to retain i think she's having a women's wrestler of the year type

446
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year like eo had uh previous years um dr tre live has been the champion since russ almania over 100 days

447
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now how many title offenses do you think she's had with that championship one she has had none

448
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this seven Saturday will be the first one that's not good booking no it's really not and that's

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and that's why it's like if you're not gonna have her defend the title or not have a little guy like

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john like a strong champion put the belt on eo have rock sand cost or the match then you can

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have live in rock sand and do eo with somebody else just to kind of break up the monotony of the blood

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of the judgment day a little bit so yeah i knew it was law i couldn't remember if she actually had

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wrestled um liar up for the title or not like after that Stephanie ruck el match so i couldn't

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remember next match here is how on a cell it's oba femey taking on Brock Lesnar dr tre i'm taking

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to open this one this is reminiscent to me the Cody Rhodes Brock stuff i mean it only

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it like Brock's going away for a little bit put over oba hell on a cell in his hometown uh they said

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Brock is not retire he may wrestle again and the next time we may see him will be in early 2027

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following this one so you know pass the torch let'll run with it and let his build continue on in

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the rest of 2026 i don't know how you Jeff i want to even though you're a packer fan i kind of

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want to see Brock wear his like in jersey to the ring number 69 i pay now yeah i want to see if he's

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i want to see if he's still got that line around i'm with you i'm taking oba oba has shown if not only can

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can the guy win a king or any tournament can he hang he's showing that he can he can headline a uh uh uh

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you know one b pay per view with a guy like Brock Lesnar i mean he's he's held his own in this feud

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so i'm taking oba as well uh and then finally in the main event here you've got CM Punk defending the

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end speed of WWE championship against Cody Rhodes dr. Trey who do you like in this one

466
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i'm this hard i'm gonna take punk just because you just put the belt on him so to me that means you had

467
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:33,760
a storyline in mind you had a path in mind so i'm gonna take punk retaining uh as summer slam i

468
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:40,240
don't know where the storyline go i don't know i don't think you turn Cody heel here i think you

469
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cycle sammy back up to challenge punk so uh i'm taking i'm taking punk to retain i'm gonna take punk

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to retain as well i don't feel like this is 1998 where it just goes person to person every month where

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it would go from Cody to sammy to punk to Cody in like almost a one month span so i'm with you i

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i'm in agreement with all your thoughts there that you you put this title on punk for a reason and

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00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,480
the reports after punk won the championship was the expectation is he'll have a pretty decent run

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with it that universal NBC universal wanted him back on television we'll have a chance with the

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00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:16,240
championship and here we are so i'm taking CM Punk as well to retain the end speed of WWE championship

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and then that takes us to night two on august the second this sunday dr. Trey you have trick

477
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,560
Williams defending against baron corporate for the united states championship i hope they push

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00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:29,040
this a little bit more on smack down this friday because basically it's been some stuff that you just

479
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:37,200
see on um television like excuse me on social media after the show is over or brief run and uh

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with that said i don't think you bring baron carbon back to to lose so i'm gonna take baron

481
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corp and to shock the world here and become united states champion yeah i went back and forth on

482
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:51,440
this one because i mean trick just got the belt to wrestle mania so he's only had the belt for

483
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:57,840
about a hundred as long as lives had her belt he's actually has some defenses um but i'm gonna

484
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:01,920
take baron corp and because i want to trick and car mellow get back i want to trick mellow get back

485
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,720
together so i want to take baron corp and and maybe because little yaddy turns and little yaddy sides

486
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:12,000
of baron corp and we get happy corp and i don't know i don't know i i'm just taking baron corp and here

487
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:18,400
um yeah so there you go both of us taking baron corp and um next match is dan house versus

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dominant mysterious and i can't believe i'm saying this uh human money is on a pull match

489
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:29,840
winner take all dr. trahoody lacking this one okay so at least human monies is better than

490
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:37,040
viagra on a pull which i have seen done and judy bag well on a pull so at least it's human monies

491
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:44,960
on a pull i don't know how long the dan house thing runs but i don't think it ends here so i'm

492
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:52,000
gonna take dan house and i just hate that dom was the biggest heal in wrestling six months ago

493
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,920
and now he's in a human monies on the back which i love dan you know you know i love dan house

494
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:03,360
yes i just don't like sacrificing dominant to dan house and maybe literally man like maybe

495
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:09,040
dom gets sacrificed and gets executed and they have to cut his hair and shave off his muscles

496
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:13,920
i just love that too baby face dom i just love that we keep saying human monies on a pull match

497
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:20,400
it's like w-999 or 2000-2001 i guess i'm taking it no no no wait wait wait wait wait

498
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,960
wait go i don't know i don't know you have not used it

499
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,920
so you just say tell me you have not said human monies though at least once in every day life

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00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:34,800
since that came or i haven't yet no i haven't really yeah i do it with sammy all time samuel

501
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:40,640
so you may you may be you may be ahead you may be ahead of me now i'll tell you guys a funny story at

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the end of the show okay right on uh next match here is we both take a dan house and next match

503
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:50,720
is sammy's aim versus fin baller for uh the number one container of the nsb wwe championship um

504
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:56,800
dr. tr i'm taking fin ball and this one i think it's fin is pushing the ten-year stuff it's been ten

505
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years since he won the championship and i think it's more entertaining with sammy's current character

506
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:08,720
that he lose this match okay you know i think you got me to change my mind sammy loses because

507
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:13,760
somebody else screws up and samy blames them so fin wins i can't argue it because we you saw the

508
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:20,080
the the fin cm punk match from irland uh fin actually i think i'm chris family shows that that was his

509
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:27,280
fate maybe his favorite or second favorite match he's had in his entire w w run uh they had great

510
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:33,200
chemistry so and that gives you maybe punk wins to get a couple title defenses on his belt before

511
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the next big things uh comes up into play so you change my mind Jeff i'm gonna take fin baller as well

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next match is pentadefending intercontinental championship against chad gable dr. tr i who do you like

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uh i i'm gonna take chad gable here it's in minnesota you're on the heels of arguably his break up

514
00:48:52,720 --> 00:49:00,000
excuse me break up performance in triple a um i just don't know if chad stays baby face oh wow

515
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:06,880
if there's something there's something about his smile that is so dishinguous at times he's great

516
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:12,160
as a baby face he's just better as a heal but i i see chad gable winning his first intercontinental title

517
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at summer slender i i think he stays baby face right now i think uh the nickelback style theme song

518
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:23,600
that he has and clapping doing the skull chance and smiling and all that stuff is what they want to do

519
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:29,280
and i'm i agree with you i'm with everything else i think miniapolis minnesota has home down all that

520
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:35,040
stuff i think that is the spot for when the i see title so i'm happy for chad gable way way over do

521
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:39,760
long overdue that this is he's in the spot it'll be his first singles championship which is just absurd

522
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:44,880
and then the five woman ladder match for the inner drum WWE women's championship something we've

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never seen WWE do before you got Tiffany strad and jade carcass all the player Chelsea green and

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two we determined no idea who the tbd is yet i think the last time they did an interim champion was like

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when punk left in money after money the bank 2011 and they had that little tournament rame is

526
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,080
terrier won the championship then he dropped in the same night on rod john cna so that it was c

527
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:09,840
numbers as punk it's summer of 2011 and punk return that night i think before that the last time

528
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:14,640
must have been like razor and shaw michael's 94 i see championship so very few times that we see

529
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:19,680
the inner interim title thrown around there uh with that said i think this is one of those summer

530
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,160
slam moments after the people are going to be talking about i'm going with Chelsea green to win the

531
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:30,000
interim w e women's championship yeah i was thinking about this earlier i was like man like you know you

532
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:35,680
could you could have jade or charlotte win to set up a match between them at the next pay review

533
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:40,960
which is what they were trying to do for summer slam anyway um Tiffany strad and it's from mini

534
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:47,600
appalice she's from minnesota like you can't have every minnesota person lose in minnesota but we

535
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:56,080
picked chaggable so that takes to Tiffany off the page i like the Chelsea pick um because of the

536
00:50:56,080 --> 00:51:05,440
backlash wb kind of got from you know the uh unreal program uh so i'm with you like i i i'm gonna take

537
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:10,000
i'm going instead of going with my logic i'm gonna go to my heart i really want to see Chelsea wins

538
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,040
i would take Chelsea's world there you go both of us taking Chelsea green uh then that takes us in the

539
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:20,080
mid event here roman reigns defends the world of weight championship against sathra on stop to try

540
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who do you like in this one i'm taking roman like it's just one of those things it feels like five

541
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:33,600
years ago it's just hard like it's hard to pick against roman especially when the guy he's wrestling

542
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:40,960
doesn't need the title um you know this is a i mean set the top guy says a hall of favor he doesn't need

543
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:48,080
to beat roman i i still kind of feel like whoever beats roman for this title is somebody who either

544
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:54,480
needs it or we're watching them into the next stratosphere with like a lot of Cody Rhodes you know from

545
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:59,280
a couple years ago i'm i'm taking roman reigns to retain i'm with you i like your logic i like your

546
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,880
theory behind it as well i'm gonna take roman reigns to retain i think the next person that

547
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,520
deframed him is oboe feme and i don't think that's happening until april and saudi rapian next year unless

548
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:12,480
the rock decide he wants to come out and wrestle again um so you know we could see that happening again

549
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,560
with like mark shepero and tk i'll really screw up one more main event storyline heading in wrestle

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mania so you're gonna have to trade that is our preview and predictions for w e summer sand we

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obviously recap interview the show on next week's edition of s r t u uh with that said let's get a

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couple plugs and sponsors out of the way you could download the show at patreon.com/srt podcast

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that being said what is going on the wonderful world of dr. franklin this week well like jeff said

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you can follow me on x at the dr. tre you can find me on facebook and instagram dr. tre franklin

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when you're on facebook go check out rock n se jb she's wrestling uh big show coming up this

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Saturday night so we're competing against summer fest i mean summer slam we're competing against

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them Saturday night uh you can check out rock n se jb youtube page rock n se jb jb on youtube

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with the funny story before we wrap up so last show one of our young wrestlers uh at rock n se jb

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named a john comes out with one of those uh money guns you know the ones you pull the trigger the

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money shoots out he's gone and done the young bucks thing and got all the money made with his face on it

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so he runs out there he's shooting the gun off and the money is just scatting everywhere

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sammy franklin runs up and grabs two of these bills these are million dollar bills so for the last

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three weeks or two weeks sammy franklin has been going around to un everybody he's a millionaire

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and so now that's the right joke is hey so now the right joke is how you know how you know how much money

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you got how much human monies do you have in your bank and he'll tell you he has two million dollars

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in his in his biggie bank because he got it from wrestling hey there you go i think the last time a

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million bucks was given away vincex man had a stage fall on them so the more you know folks the more

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you know congratulations to young sammy franklin i'm becoming a uh not only millionaire but two

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millionaire whatever you want to do multi-millionaire so congratulations young sammy franklin uh with that

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said we will close up shop and say goodbye to all of you enjoy this weekend's summer slam enjoy summer

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fast whatever you are watching joy collision tonight depending on whenever you're downloading this

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podcast and uh enjoy your weekend it's it's august it's let's enjoy the summer while we can't

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folks before you know we'll be trapped inside again with cold weather's some places gets now some

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places get cold nasty weather like dr. tre so enjoy the weekend thank you for downloading thank you

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for making this part of your week and for your dr. tre Franklin i am Jeff Beck this has been

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this terrible show