We owe WWE creative an apology | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #696 – 6/15/23

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It's stud up. Well. Welcome
everybody. Welcome to this week's This in

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a snow Reel to show episode number
six hundred ninety six for June a,

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teen to two thousand three. Welcome
to this week's Ssion of ass are the

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team years. I am one after
the show, I am Jeff Pack joined

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every single week. My cow song, my doctor right, thank doctor Trey.

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What is up? My friend?
I think I am like NWA Country

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right now or TNA Country. I'm
in Nashville, well, Murphy's Borough,

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but I'm Nashville at Jason so,
like, uh, I mean the home

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of the third place wrestling companies.
I don't. I don't really know what

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you call this thing, but I'm
here. It's music city and we're some

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wrestlings pretty excited. Do you do
you still watch Impact on occasion? Like

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I can't. I have a hard
time finding it on because I have we

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have switched from Direct TV to Hulu
Live, so it's difficult for me to

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track it down. Yes, So
I just kind of like find clips and

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videos and YouTube stuff and kind of
watch you out there. Plus Josh Alexander's

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out injured, and everybody knows my
love for Josh Alexander, So I really

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haven't watched Impact in like two years. It was it was like the wrestling

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promotion I needed cut from the pandemic
when the pandemic was going on, Like

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everybody that listened to the show back
then, I was watching Impact every single

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week really enjoyed it. Was one
of my favorite shows during the pandemic was

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Impact Wrestling. I thought they did
some great stuff. Don't follow it all

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that much, but they have a
lot of good things going for them right

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now. They're doing the stuff with
the New Japan for like the Metaverse,

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they're tour in Australia. They just
seem to be doing really well and they're

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pretty much under the radar for company
that used to be number two that was

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you know at times I think people
forget, but they were similar to like

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what AW is now. Probably AW
is more popular from a national perspective and

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then obviously fell off the face of
the earth, but from like a very

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solid wrestling promotion. They're doing a
good job and I think they need to

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be applauded for the stuff they putting
out there each and every week. So

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I forgot they were having a pay
per view and I'm on Facebook and they're

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like Alex Shelley New Impact World Chaman, I'm like, I didn't know.

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Alex Shelley was like, like they
just put the belt on Steve Macklin and

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then switched it right back on to
Alex Shelley is like, all right,

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but I mean for having you know, the former Naomi there, the women's

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divisions always been good. Tag Tea
and divisions always been good. You got

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Sammy callahan and Jake Chris back together
for me, you know there, Oh

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I four K type pig, so
Rich Schwan's a part of it. I

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mean, they got some good stuff
going on. It's just you know,

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they just don't have that draw.
They don't have that person that's going to

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change the ratings, you know,
And well they have to draw. Sam

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mccallahan, Yes, yes, so, but he's not you know, the

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demo guy. True, he gives
people to pay money to come to see

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him wrestle, but Jericho gives him
to gun watch for free. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's it's uh, they're
doing good. They're doing good. I

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agree with you. They don't have
that like big name value that I see

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that can bring everybody in. But
yeah, they've got some very solid workers.

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People that you are are very entertaining, and I'm happy for him.

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They seem to be in a much
better place than they were six years ago,

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and I think they've kind of realized
what their niche is at this point,

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that this is probably how they will
be as arresting promotion going forward is

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like this very small, middle of
the road, mid tier arrested promotion,

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and they're okay with that. Now. The TNA days are behind them.

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The chance of running at w is
way behind them. And running third in

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a world where there's a lot of
amazing wrest in promotions the United States is

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not a bad thing. So props
the Impact Wrestling. An unsolicited conversation to

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kick off this week's This to the
podcast Switching Gears, Doctor Trey, You

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know, I mentioned this recently and
I figured we should bring it up for

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conversation now. But I believe I
don't necessarily know if you believe, but

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I believe that we owe the Cody
Rhodes and Brock Lesner feud an apology.

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Night after WrestleMania, everybody was not
happy. I mean literally everybody was not

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happy with the way that that raw
was ran. People didn't understand the Cody

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feud to begin with, and then
they had a match at Backlash and it

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was pretty good match, and then
build heading into that match was pretty good.

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And then they had a match at
Night of Champions and that match was

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pretty good and it made sense,
and the build for that was pretty good.

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It made sense. And here we
are in this weird time period where

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they're obviously angling for Cody versus Broad
at SummerSlam, and there's some rumors right

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now that that may be a bull
Row match, which would be awesome because

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that is in line with Dusty Rhodes. But here we are this time period

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where Cody's getting ready for Dominic and
I just took a step back with everything.

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And Cody mentioned in his promo and
Raw that you know, maybe Brock

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accepts his challenge or what have you, comes out and accepts it, And

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I'm like, man, this feud
is is pretty darn good. I don't

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know if it's knocking on the door
a feud of the year at all.

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I think it maybe knocked on the
door of at least a candidate for few

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to the year, but ultimately Doctor
Trey, I feel like we as wrestling

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fans, oh this feud in apology
because they've done a pretty damn good job

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so far. Yeah, I mean, like you said, you know,

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after wrestle Mania, the weird turn
out of Nowhere, which then you know

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you read the stories about, well, actually we dropped hints there was some

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foreshadowing of who the Brock was going
back to. But yeah, it's actually

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been pretty good, and it's accomplishing
something that we talked about heading in the

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wrestle Mate, which was where Cody
didn't have them any obstacles overcoming. Now

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in the past, you know,
three months, he's had a ton he

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has to had to overcome now,
so it's been really good. If they

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do the bull rope match, I
mean, not only is it you know,

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Nomasa Dusty, but it kind of
fits the characters as well, because

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you got still cowboy Brock and you
know, Cody being the grandson of a

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plumber. I mean, it's Americana. It kind of fits all those things

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together. And I mean I'm sure
now, I'm like, really, you

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go back and watch a lot of
Champions. That was a really good match,

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and it's actually one of Brock's better
matches he's had in a while.

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And even uh, you know at
Backlash, it was still one of Brock's

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better performances. So and those are
the times you can tell Brock's actually really

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into the story as well, is
when you feel like he's trying and he's

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also helping elevate somebody else. So
to me, that's also shy a sign

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that you know Cody has a Brock's
respect, which well, ten years ago,

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there's no way in hell if I
ever thought that would have. And

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not only that, but we loved
Babyface Brock. We loved everything that he

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was doing, and a heel turn
like this soon kind of didn't make any

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sense at all. Peculiar booking for
Bobby Lashley Versus Brockett Elimination Chamber in February,

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and come to find out that that
was starting to plant the seeds of

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a heel turn. Peculiar build with
Omas heading into Wrestlemanian again, that was

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then planting seeds for a heel turn. You know, sometimes we as wrestling

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fans don't give credit to things that
we don't snuff out or find out right

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away. And you can make a
case that w Creative did stuff that we

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weren't realizing, but afterwards maybe we
were too pissed off. About the way

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that that raw after WrestleMania took place
to fully understand, like, wait,

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that was really good what w WE
did, And I think that's something for

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me as a wrestling fan, and
like I feel like I'm at wrestling fan

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anonymous now even though everybody knows me. Let's listen to the podcast, like

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hand up that you know moment in
February's Elimination Chamber, that Easter Egg was

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pretty brilliant. The build heading into
wrestum Anting with Omas was pretty brilliant because

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what we're seeing right now, like
it makes sense and that's our biggest gripe

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right at the time. In February, Marshall like this doesn't make any sense,

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and then here we are in June, it's like ah. And that's

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what wrestlers, wrestling promoters, creative
writers, producers in wrestling tell us nowadays,

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is like, don't initially react to
things. And that's tough for two

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guys to do a podcast, but
don't initially react, Absorb what's going on,

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Enjoy what's going on, enjoy the
ride, and just let it take

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you to that point and when it
happens, you realize it. And I

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think that's the epiphany in this hall, the Tiffany Epiphany, Tiffany Stratton epiphany,

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doctor training. This entire thing is
like, man, w Creative did

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a pretty damn good job, and
we were shifting on it pretty hard.

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It's probably the most we've crapped on
w programming in twenty twenty three was that

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night after WrestleMania and specifically that Brock
Lesser Cody Rhodes feud kickoff. Yeah,

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like, I mean, I still
remember, like the Rods that was bad,

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but I remember seeing You're going,
yeah, I don't understand why they

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did it. It was kind of
weird, but you know, codium Brock,

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I mean, hell, that's it's
a good opportunity for Cody, and

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now you've seen him take advantage of
that opportunity. And then I think the

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other thing is is over the last
nine months and almost a year now,

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because I think it's almost been a
year since Triple Agis kind of took over

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WW for the most part, We're
so used to kind of seamless transitions from

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storyline is storyline, and this was
so knee jerk, you know. It

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was like it was a stop to
the Roman race thing and then boom right

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into Brock and we're just kinta of
carpet. You you look at like Kevin

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and Sammy and the bloodline, those
are like kind of seamlessly transitioned into alternate

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rivalries as well, and you know, those are things that we like.

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And you know, plus out of
this whole thing, we get a little

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bit of Cody and Dom, Like
I'm kind of on board for this because

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Dom's a great heel and they both
have these lineages and legacies, Like I'm

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looking forward to money in the bank
right now just because there's a little mini

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feud in between the Brock feud.
So it's it's really good across all boards

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of getting cross over, getting guys
elevated, getting guys more TV time.

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It's been fantastic. And a couple
of weeks we'll look at some of the

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candidates for our twenty twenty three SRT
Award show at the halfway point of twenty

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twenty three, which is mind blowing
to say out loud, where is this

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feud starting to enter that candidacy,
Doctor Trey, Because I think a lot

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of people want to point too,
well, you know, look at Sammy

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and the bloodline, or maybe the
stuff with the USOS and the Bloodline,

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and I think those are definitely considered
feuds. Those are more like storylines.

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It feels like to me, the
Cody Brock thing is more of a feud.

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And when you look at the w
W perspective, this is possibly top

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three five and definitely right now.
Maybe Ray and Dom as a few is

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much better than this one, but
this has some potential if this goes all

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the way towards SummerSlam. Yeah,
I mean, I'm I probably got it

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in the top four or five for
the year at least, you know,

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And a lot of it is where
do you position stuff as far as like

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if we're going straight from the beginning
of the year to now, like uh,

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Ray and Dom you know kind of
started before the year changed over,

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but then uh, you know obviously
only through Wrestleman and even a little bit

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lingering over now. Um, I
had another one. I mean Sammy in

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the Blood Life. You just look
at Sammy saying versus the Bloodline. You

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know, that's obviously gonna be like
right up the very top. Um,

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even the Elite versus the you know, the Blackpool Combat Club right now,

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it's got to be up there too, because that's been very compelling television as

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well. So it's up and probably
the top five, especially if they go

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away the summer slamming. It's just
been I mean seeing Brock get busted open

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a backlash and seeing the broken you
know, the supposed broken arbango. I

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mean, this is some intensity in
this rivalry that we typically don't get within

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the first two matches of a feud. But so for the Dance was Kennedy

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helped rush the elevation to be appreciated
that for Cody Rhodes, this is a

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damn brutal rivalry. And it's not
Cody just kind of going out of his

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way to be brutal. It's literally
it's in the confines of your storytelling.

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Yeah, and if they do a
bull rope match, and I expect it

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to be a great match, this
could this could this could be knock on

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the door of a few of the
year. Can it pretty hard? Which

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is insane because again mind boggling wise, um, we were not in favor

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of it. So I stand here
today, doctor Trey. I apologize to

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w Creative as a wrestling fan for
the Cody and Brock feud. My initial

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thoughts on it. We owe it
an apology. Are you co signing this

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apology with me? I am with
one one caveat do we get the old

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school ball roll match or do we
get the four corners bull row match?

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But I always thought the four corners
was old school? Am I wrong?

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No? No, Like back back
in the Texas days, the bull rope

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matches were like Texas death matches.
Basically you had the bull rope and like

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knock them out at all and you
basically beat a guy until you pinned them.

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But I think they do the lights. I think they do the lights.

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I'm just wondering if it's if it's
Brock, is this it's Brock and

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Cody, Like can they use like
a little bit of like creatively away with

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this, because I mean, really
it's getting to point now like those four

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corn matches is kind of hard to
do something creative for the finish to satisfy

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the audience. And we've we've almost
seen everything when it comes up to it,

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and they've done some pretty creative finishes
so far with the Kamara lockpin to

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the passing out, Like, yeah, I think they can, I'm hope.

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So like we did one one year
Rocket City and as the Heel did

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the baby Face goes around hits all
three cords that the heels behind him,

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hitting all three baby Face goes at
the fourth quarter as the manager, I

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jumped in the ring and pounced on
the turnbuckle so he couldn't touch it,

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and he gave the bad guy time
to knock him down. I got away

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from the corner and the bad guy
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there are there are some ways out
there to pull it off and actually be

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creative, but I kind of missed
the old school like NWA, you know,

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Georgia Championship Wrestling stalages like Brutal Fish's
matches where like you have to you

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know, walk around the ring to
win. Do you join in on the

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apology for this feud? Hit us
up on Twitter? Yeah, you are

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joining in on a doctor Trey.
Yeah, I'm in on it. I

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just you know, I want a
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I'm signing off on it. Um. It's it's been really good in

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entertending, so I can't I can't
complain either. I fully expect it will

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be good. I feel like lessner, I mean obviously more Cody and Triple

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h R students of the Game but
Lessner doesn't get a lot of credit for

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it. You know, there's some
old school minds there with Cody and Triple

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H, and Lesner has a good
creative mind as well. So I think

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this summer Slam stuff is going to
be pretty awesome, speaking with things that

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are going on creative right could relatively
right now with the last couple of weeks,

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there's been some teasing right now of
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The Judgment Day to me is this
is I think a little bit of

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polarizing because the Bloodline is so damn
good, But the Judgment Day to me

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is the hottest stable in all professional
wrestling right now. No disrespect to the

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elite Blackpool Combat Club the Bloodline.
I'm loving what's going on with the Judgment

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Day and it just feels special.
And I would say, as a longtime

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wrestling fan that if it looked like
they were all going to remain together,

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that maybe a baby face turn could
be coming, which would be very difficult

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because of Dom's healheat. But nonetheless, when you look at the individuals right

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now, Damian Priests coming out of
Backlash, he seems to be ascending.

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This seems like, where were you
when you saw the beginning of the rise

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that was Damien Priests And I feel
like that is going on right now.

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He's every Money in the Bank,
which we'll talk about here momentarily as well,

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but he seems to be ascending.
Ria Ripley is getting cheered and is

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super over, maybe one of the
highest cheered wrestlers in the entire company right

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now, of like Kevin Owen,
Sammy Cody Rode, Seth Rollins, and

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Ria Ripley, Like people are going
nuts and doing mommy chants. Dominic Mysteria

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is one of the biggest heat magnets
in all of wrestling right now, and

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it's super over as that heel.
People love to boo him. He's doing

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amazing in his role. Finn Balor
has a Money in the Bank World Heavyweight

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title match now against Seth Freakin Rollins
in a couple of weeks, and he

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had some interesting interactions with Damien Priest
lay. Plus he was seen talking to

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PROTEJJD McDonough on this past week's edition
of Raw. So to me, there's

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maybe some tensions between Damian and Finn, and could this be the beginning cracks

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of a breakup for Judgment Day as
a group, or could we see that

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maybe the group is kicking out Damian
Priest in the future to help with that

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ascension that seems to be organically taking
place right now? Where do you stand

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on this creative booking right now with
the Judgment Day, Doctor Trey? Is

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it time to break up the Judgment
Day? Do we see a Damien Priests

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kick out and exit, maybe he
gets replaced with the JD mcdonnah or do

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you just keep the good times rolling
and let them continue to do their thing

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each and every week? Un raw, I mean personally, I'm you know,

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I'm a big stable guy, and
you know, to me, bringing

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mcdonnah in and kind of still letting
them do their thing right now would be

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good. The biggest thing if you
go kick somebody out is you're helping to

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elevate them and make them a bigger
star. And it's hard. Like I

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think when you look up paper,
you're like, Okay, Rie is a

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big star. Don's becoming a big
star. Damien's position to be a big

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star worse fit? Like do we
think Finns any better now than he was

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in NXT? Do we think Finns
any higher up the food Charee because Finn

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takes most of the losses when Judgment
Day loses, and although he does have

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a world title match, and they
did a good job of referencing the first

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you know, universal title match to
kind of give him some credibility. Like

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them kicking Damien out and Damien to
few with Finn, does that really do

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anything for Damien at that point?
So I think you got it, Like

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they haven't had that big singles title. When for the men's side of it,

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to help elevate one of the guys
that they kick kick him out,

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there's no chase other than revenge.
They've done it with Ria, But I

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think in w'siris, the star of
the group and the guys of their support

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her, So I would just kind
of help. I would kind of keep

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it as as is, maybe at
him mcdonnaugh and then if somebody else catches

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fire that maybe you end up kicking
out to help them catch fires a baby

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face and that's the way you go. Yeah, it's interesting right now.

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It's just it feels like that something
is bubbling up with the Judgment Day.

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I feel like the stock is rising
for the entire group. I feel like

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as individuals, their stock is rising
as well, and it I just get

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good vibes watching creatively what's going on
with the Judgment Day right now. I

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feel like they're part of the mussy
television that you see on w programming each

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week. Love what I'm seeing from
Raw and I like the current storylines that

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are involved with It's it's great to
see and again creatively for something that started

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out post restimating with edge and had
a lot of different stumbling blocks along the

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way. I mean, I think
there was one point they were off television

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for a little bit and I think
Finn and Damian priests did like a main

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event match a tag team, and
it was just like this big question mark

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of what was going on. And
then Triple H gets evolved and you just

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see the group move forward very proactively
and become over as heels and and that's

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part of my concern is a long
time wrestling fan, I watched them.

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There's there's some d xish to them, their anti authority, anti establishment,

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and as time goes on their anti
heroes, fans genuinely start to adapt to

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that. And I would have a
tough time seeing that right now with Dom

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and the group, but I think
fans would still share on the group,

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but boo Dom because they enjoy doing
that. It's it just seems like that

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this current time frame that we're seeing, I just feel like that there's something

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special going on with the judgment day, and I think creatively it's a very

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important time for them and their future
as a group moving forward. Yeah,

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you're absolutely right, Like then there's
a lot of ways. I mean Dom's

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I don't know. I think you
could eventually pull the trigger on making it.

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Like if they all turned on Dom
and threw doma. I think the

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crowd would pop her that too,
because at first they'd be like, oh

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right, Don's getting beat up.
But as long as the rest of groups

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stays heal, Like if if Rhya
decides, they just beat up Dom because

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she's now in love with JD mcgunna, you know, or something like that.

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But it gives you options, and
that's one of the great things about

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stables is that you can kind of
go, hey, who do we think

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catch fire if we move somebody?
So, I mean that's what the Horsemen

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did for years. The nWo did
that for years. You know, DX

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didn't really kick guys out, but
they were so edgy as a heel that

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you can flit back and look at
the nation when they kicked Farruca and Rock

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went on top. So there's there's
all gives you options across the board to

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kind of play with and figure out
the what chess pieces you want to move

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around the board to get the maximum
results. Speaking about the ascension of Damian

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Priest, it appears as it stands
right now, the Men's Money in Bank

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ladder match is cemented, and when
you look at the participants in that Men's

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Money in Bank match, there are
no former world champions and that as people

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pretty excited and I am here for
it. Those participants include Santos Escobar,

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Butch, Damian Priests, La Night, Ricochet, and Chinsky Nakamura. It

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certainly feels to me that's a lot
of, if not all, Triple H

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guys are getting showcased in this match. So I saw this on Twitter recently,

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Doctor Trey, and it was pointing
out and I was like, Wow,

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that's really really cool, because we're
gonna have a fresh new name involved

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in some sort of world championship title
picture, whether it be the Universal Title

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or Undisputed University Tite or whatever they
call on that belt. Now that Roman

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has the World Everyweight Championship, or
if for some ungodly known reason they decide

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that the money brank briefcase winners got
to cash in on an XT champion,

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which is right now Carmelo Hayes.
No disrespect to Carmelo, but I feel

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like, if you're going to do
this, let up be what we're seeing

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on Ron SmackDown right now, since
especially NXT kind of went back more towards

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the developmental brand than a legit footed
brand like we thought it was back in

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twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. So
with that said, fresh competitors, fresh

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new competitors, Doctor Trey, I
am here for it. What are your

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thoughts about this? Like, I
love that this field is taking place,

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and it has a lot of people
excited for the Men's Money to Break match,

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more excitement that we've seen in some
time. Yeah, I'm excited about

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it. Just once again, it's
also about elevating, you know, talent

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up the ladder so to speaks and
you know, as we've seen over the

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last few months, we see people
move up and then you see like the

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Baron Corbyn's, the Dana Brooks as
peopill drop down to kind of help out

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at NXT, so it gives you
know, a fresh coat of paint for

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some of these guys. And when
you're looking at at the guys in this

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money in the Bank match, you're
like, man, like, any one

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of these guys could win, but
they would also have to work on building

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them up to not just win,
but actually be credible in the way we

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don't want to jack swigger anybody,
so to speak. So, um,

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I don't know, but you like, I feel like La nice the odds

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on Favorite though, but I mean
out of everybody else in there, I

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can make a case for just about
anybody hid in the match, but just

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once again, like form my perspective
of always like I always like when the

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eel win because they can be sneaky
when they cash in. Like right now,

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my odds on Favorite La Night,
Well, you know, I think

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I think it's Damien Priest right now, but I couldn't make a case so

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I can make it for Damian Priest, l and I and shins K.

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I love Santos Butch and Ricochet as
well, but I think to me those

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three are the favorites. Yeah.
I once again, I always kind of

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look at like who looks like a
world champion in addition to being just a

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great wrestler. But who looks at
the park And as much as we love

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Shinsk, can you put Shinsky?
You know on well used to be Regions

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and Kelly. I don't know who
the hell does the morning shows anymore,

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but you know we you know it
was it's Kelly and the guy for American

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Idol. Last it was I believe
it's her husband. Now it's what I'm

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seeing. Mark. Oh, Kelly
and Mark. That's the name of the

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show. That's all okay, So
Kelly and Mark, that's it sounds like

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that, It sounds like it just
it sounds like a gospel group in the

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nineteen seventy two. Um. But
yeah, it's really you know, if

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Damian Priest wins, Damian Priest could
actually be a great promo guy. We've

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seen that elevation with like I don't
know, Damian Priests in some ways reminds

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me like a blend of Dwayne,
Like he's got an it factored to him

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that you just can't teach and then
La Night of course to get maybe one

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of the best talkers in the business
right now. So like either one of

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those guys can carry a title belt, look good at a suit and tie

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and go out there and parade around
in front of people to get them to

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come by into watching the wrestling show. So I mean, yeah, I

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would say Elie for me, Elie
Night one priest too, And you're probably

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in reverse. So question in regards
to this match, right, you and

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I two three weeks ago, you
know, would would give aw grief for

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the four Pillars match that they did, and that was pushing four new stars

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that we knew basically nothing about five
years ago. Here we are now and

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de wie Uee is doing a similar
approach where they're pushing six stars now.

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Granted we everybody kind of knew who
some of these folks were. Damian Priests

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punish him, our teams, La
Night and Schinsk. Ricochet was out there

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as well. Santos Escobar had a
run butch had a run over in the

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UK, Like these were names that
were known, but on a national level

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we're not well known. Why are
we more excited about this match from WWE

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than we were for the a w
four Pillars match for the World Championship.

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I think for me, it's the
style of the match, Like this money

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the bank always kind of also has
an element of luck involved into it.

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So if you lose, if you
don't win money in the bank, it

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doesn't hurt your career. Where the
four pillars match a I was worried that

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whoever took the pinfall was going to
take a hit. Secondly, at that

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point, I didn't see the upside
because in a way, if MJF one,

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he was beating three of his youngest
rivals, and you know, what

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do you do coming out of that, and really they just almost I don't

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want to say they ignored them match, is just that the all four guys

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went in different directions with money of
the bank. Like I said, it's

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an element of luck. It's not
like one guy who's going to Japan one

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of their guys to win, so
nobody gets hurt and the loss and I

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think that's one reason. Two,
we've seen how it's worked in the past

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to help elevate guys up. Let
the see Him Punks, that Daniel Bryan,

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the Jeff Hardy's, you know,
the edge golf stickler. We've seen

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it help guys where in that situation. The only comparison I had to was

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the WrestleMania that we had to had
a Big Show Rock? Was it Mankind

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and Stonehold usual about WrestleMania, Yeah, the four Corners was Triple H Rock

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mc foley, Big Show. Yeah, so that was my only comparison,

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And I mean, how when he
came out of that match, Yeah,

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it kind of pushed Big Show down
a little bit, but those guys are

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also on a different level. I
like that was also part of the bill,

404
00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:57.640
was your Buildings. That was a
main event match, and really three

405
00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:02.880
of the guys in that match have
not been main event players. So I

406
00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.279
don't know if Money in the Bank
is the main of his name. Paper

407
00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:07.559
is named after it, but I
don't know if you because they're the Money

408
00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.680
in the Bank match the main event
of Money in the Bank when you have

409
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:17.279
other stuff going on around it,
like Cody and Brock and Seth and Fin

410
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.880
and whatever we do with Roman and
the Bloodline and stuff like that, Like,

411
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:25.759
I don't know what Mighty the Bank
might be the fifth best match on

412
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.160
Money in the Bank. So I
was giving thought to my own question here

413
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.759
right, like why are we more
excited about this one? And I think

414
00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:34.640
anybody who was a true aw homer
would be like, let's because you guys

415
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:38.759
always saw it with DVD WW and
you hate AW, which is completely not

416
00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:45.119
true at all. Love AW as
well, But when you look at the

417
00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.720
AW Four Pillars match, we felt
like, creatively, some of those guys

418
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.359
did not deserve to be in that
match. When you look at money in

419
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:57.000
the bank, none of those guys
are main eventures right now. But the

420
00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:00.200
belief that one of them will be
a main event or coming out of that

421
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.400
match has us as wresting fans excited, And I think that's probably the different

422
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:11.519
there is, Like the Four Pillars
was forced on us, This was organically

423
00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:15.759
produced, and once the realization came
in, like hey, these are people

424
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.319
that are upper mid carters maybe mid
carter or upper mid carters, and one

425
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:21.839
of them will come out of this
with a potential chance to become a world

426
00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:25.720
champion, that has as excited.
And these are six people that we genuinely

427
00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:30.359
like and want to see build rather
than being pushed down our throats. Four

428
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:37.680
pillars that maybe the fans just cannot
relate to. Overall, if Sammy or

429
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.039
Jungle Boy or Darby had won that
match, would we feel different about it

430
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.720
because wouldn't that person be a main
eventer? I feel like if Sammy won

431
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.640
the match. I would be happy
Darby won the match. I'd be happy

432
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:53.880
jungle Boy would be the one that
I wasn't. So if Sammy or Darby

433
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.640
won, would we feel differently about
that match? Like you and I went

434
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:00.640
to that match, it's fully believing
that it was MJF. Nobody else really

435
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.480
had shot Ye if Sammy or Darby
had won the match and we were in

436
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.839
that match was actually it was good
match, very good And if Dammy Darby

437
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.480
had won, like we'd probably be
like, man, that was actually a

438
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.359
fantastic match, and put it would
now Sammy's a main inventor. No MJF

439
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.599
has to chase Sammy down to get
his belt back, maybe we'd feel different

440
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.759
about it. But I think the
way it was put together and the way

441
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.640
it was booked leading into it,
where you didn't really have that belief that

442
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.839
three of the guys in that match
deserve to be in the main event match.

443
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:34.440
That's where the hold up was.
But you know, Sammy has shocked

444
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:37.400
the world or Darby has shocked the
world. That won the match, would

445
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.640
like dear God, that was great
and aw surprised us so so looking more

446
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.599
than anything else, Like with that
match, right, MJF made sense why

447
00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.799
it was there. Darby felt like
a main event player. The thing with

448
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.119
Sammy during the beginning that feud felt
like he was out of place, but

449
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.160
that feud actually helped to build him
up. And like I've said recently,

450
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.359
like you can make a case and
I think he's a baby face again,

451
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.039
jungle Boy was the one that never
like made any movement. Like for me,

452
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:10.960
I think jungle Boy comes off more
helish than anything and more unlikable coming

453
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.200
out of it because his characters kind
of boring, his personality is kind of

454
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:19.599
boring. I feel like this is
creatively pushing him to become a heel.

455
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.440
I feel like that is ultimately what
pays off. Just you know, we're

456
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:26.759
recording this during Dynamites, so maybe
he's turned heal tonight for all I know

457
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.400
by the time this is downloaded.
But that's the expectation for me, is

458
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:37.359
that he is creatively being pushed heal
organically we pushed Heal with And that's how

459
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.519
it felt about that match, where
by the end of it, like three

460
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:45.160
people felt like they belonged, one
didn't, Mund the bank all six of

461
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.880
these people don't feel like they belong
in the world. Title picture presently,

462
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.440
but you know, some of them, most of them, all of them.

463
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.400
Rustling fans could be like, I
would love to see Santo Seskabar in

464
00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:57.680
a main event, few and Butching
a main event, few, Damian prec

465
00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:00.480
in a main event, feud,
et cetera. But now once you see

466
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:04.240
it out there and there's that like, Okay, wow, who's going to

467
00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:08.759
get that choice by creative to be
in that next echelon, that's pretty exciting

468
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:19.000
And that was great matches was that
this match was supposed to help push the

469
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.599
next echelon up. Yeah. Absolutely, That's why I was. You know,

470
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:24.079
when you reference from the past title
winners, I mean, of course

471
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:30.680
you had your your brock Lesner at
Anomaliesy they haven't looked seth Rawlins was money

472
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:32.000
in the bank and cashed in and
it was one of the hudd of the

473
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:35.400
century. You know. Yeah,
there's been a couple other guys that have

474
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.599
won and you're like, damn that
happened, But I mean, hell,

475
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:43.160
Rob van dam getting the shot against
John Cena one of the most memorable matches

476
00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:46.559
in WW history. You know,
Brian danil Due Daniel, Brian cashing In

477
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.839
and Jackson Judd super Dolph's sicular cashing
in. No, you said, Jack

478
00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:53.680
Swiger, that made sense too,
Yeah, but I mean his run was

479
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:57.440
pretty bad. But I mean,
yeah, we've had Kane win and some

480
00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:01.519
other guys win, but really that
was always the shot for guys to get

481
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:06.400
elevated into main events status and prove
or whether or not they get belong So

482
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.960
I think that's why we also make
cut some slack, you know, just

483
00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:15.839
because of the history of this match
into what it's done as well. To

484
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:17.400
me, the purpose of the money
Bank briefcase match, whether it be for

485
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:22.279
men or women, is to push
a new star and put them up at

486
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.079
that echelon and give them an opportunity
and run with a championship. And that's

487
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:29.880
always been very exciting, whether it
be Cmpunk, whether it be Dolf Sickler,

488
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:34.519
whether it be the Miz. Like, that's the purpose of this live

489
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.680
Morgan Carmela, Like, you want
to see somebody that you least expect to

490
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:42.079
become a world champion have that opportunity, and it's been kind of lost a

491
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.480
little bit here and there over the
years, but now you're stilling with this

492
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:49.720
match, like six fresh faces never
been in a World championship feud never been

493
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.119
a world champion. I know people
are probably screaming, well, what about

494
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.559
Shin's case runs NXC champion. I
get it, but this is we were

495
00:33:55.559 --> 00:34:00.359
talking about. They don't acknowledge that
this World championship. So I'm excited about

496
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:04.079
it and I love to see that
there are no formal world champions in that

497
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:06.559
match. I'm looking forward in the
Monday Bank in just a couple of weeks.

498
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.440
And then, lastly, speaking of
excitement, Doctor Trey, it hit

499
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:14.639
me this past Saturday. I was
like, Wow, this is the last

500
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.920
Saturday Night where there is no professional
wrestling on television for maybe the rest of

501
00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:24.760
my life. This upcoming Saturday AW
Saturdaynight Collision TNT the return of cmpunk.

502
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.320
He'll be teaming with FTR to take
on Bullet Club Gold and Samoa Jail.

503
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:35.800
That's j White and Juice Robinson.
I simply ask you, are you excited

504
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:38.519
for AW Saturday Night Collision? Are
you excited for another night out of your

505
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:42.840
week to sit down and watch professional
wrestling? Well, first of all,

506
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.719
I'm not gonna be able to watch
it because I am in the business and

507
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.559
so I have a show I have
to do so and it's also my anniversary.

508
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:55.519
So there really the worst night they
could have picked. But I'm intrigued.

509
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.599
They have my mouth watering a little
bit to see what they do.

510
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:06.840
I don't know if I'm excited,
but I'm I'm oh god, what's the

511
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:12.760
most overused phrase that we use here, I'm cautiously optimistic about what this collision

512
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.519
brings to us because it is,
Look, we may get on this guy's

513
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:19.360
case and we have this weird love
hate relationship with but like see him.

514
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.639
Punk's good for wrestling. He always
creates something that makes people talk. So

515
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:29.480
and the more eyes that you get
coming to AW is better for everybody involved.

516
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:34.159
So and then you know, getting
FDR in the main event. Jeff's

517
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.880
excited, is ja White's in the
main event? I mean, all these

518
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:38.440
things are coming together for this first
show, and so it's kind of a

519
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:45.159
mini perfect storm for anyw just with
this match alone. So yeah, I'm

520
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:47.119
I don't know if I'm saying exciting. I'm not giddy, you know,

521
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:52.920
but uh, I'm feeling pretty good. Jeff feeling pretty good. Yeah,

522
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.639
I'm gonna be honest, I wouldn't
say I'm I'm I'm not excited. I

523
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.800
think there's an oversaturation Professional Round right
now on the market. Docs Tray,

524
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:07.039
I don't like knowing that on Saturday
Night there's going to be a show and

525
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.239
it's gonna be a DVR show basically
for a lot of folks, including myself.

526
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.079
And while I love the sport that
is professional wrestling, it's another night

527
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:20.760
of the week where another show is
on, and um, you know there's

528
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:25.199
a possibility that one out of every
four shows is really good. I just

529
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.920
I just think that there's so much
oversaturation Mondays with Raw, Tuesdays with NXT,

530
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:35.719
Wednesdays with Dynamite, Thursday with if
you watch it Impact Wrestling or New

531
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:39.719
Japan, Fridays with SmackDown and Rampage, and now Saturday with Collision, and

532
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:45.679
then if you watch Sundays Superstar Sundays
in A and E, there's in depth

533
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:50.719
of wrestling stuff going on. Dutch
Tray, I don't. I don't.

534
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:53.960
I don't think we need this added
layer to it. I gotta be honest

535
00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:58.000
with you. As a wrestling fan, if I was just an AW fan,

536
00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:00.199
this makes total sense. But as
a've sen fan that watches everything,

537
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.639
I think this is too much.
Well, it's a little bit like we've

538
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.280
talked about in the past. Is
it's a little bit of the all you

539
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.719
can eat buffet right now era pro
wrestling, where it just kind of depends

540
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:14.480
what your flavor of choice is,
like what you're going to watch, and

541
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:17.320
you know, some of us are
conditioned to always watch Raw and Monday nights,

542
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:21.519
and you know, watching anything else
is kind of like, okay,

543
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:24.880
where's the priority list? And but
for the for the show itself or for

544
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:29.199
fans of AW like, I think
it's great because now they get an extra

545
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.119
couple of hours of television time,
they can do some storytelling, elevate some

546
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:36.639
people that haven't been on TV.
I mean, we're probably getting Mirror back

547
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.920
and I love missa Mirro, you
know on drawd as me back at some

548
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:45.480
point, like Collision might be a
little bit more WWE than what you know

549
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:47.519
Dynamite is. And for those fans
who have been conditioned for an eight or

550
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:51.599
for a WW product, hey,
this might be the right show for them

551
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.320
as well. Yeah. I mean
again, let me split this up.

552
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:59.199
As a wrestling fan that watches a
lot of wrestling, this is it's this

553
00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:02.639
is a little bit of a gott
to be totally honest. As an ae

554
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:07.559
W fan, this makes a ton
of sense. They needed to do this

555
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:09.719
with the way that the roster was. If I was just a standalone aw

556
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:15.000
fan, they watched Dynamite and Rampage
and now added a collision. It's like,

557
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.440
Okay, this is great because now, like doctor Trey said Miro Andreid

558
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:22.159
Alida Low thunder Rose, Scorpio,
Sky, Samoa, Joe, Cmpunk,

559
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.119
whoever Powerhouse ops Like, now they're
getting an opportunity to shine more than the

560
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.440
three hour window that they have with
two hours of Dynamite in the one hour

561
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.400
of Rampage, which has kind of
been a throwaway show. So I look

562
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:37.719
at it in two different ways.
Wrestling fan who does a wrestling podcast,

563
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:43.719
It's like, oh my god,
another two hours. Aw fan love it

564
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:46.039
so split personality. I feel like
I'm two faced from Batman. Doctor Trey,

565
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.719
Well, his last name was Harvey
Dent and that's actually the last name

566
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.000
is my birth name. So they
go, it's just all full circle at

567
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:55.239
the end of the day. Somehow
we always get back to one another.

568
00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:00.840
Unfortunately, there are no comic book
book character that are PG that were had

569
00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:05.719
the last name pack So or at
least pack in it. That's for other

570
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:09.000
adult type Marvel comments, I guess
so, no, there there's the great

571
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:13.440
Gregory Peck. So you know,
great Pat. That's true. He great

572
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:19.159
actor. And didn't the writer of
Moby Dick. Wasn't that Peck? I

573
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.599
don't know. Now we're talking about
literature, which is that's for literature casts

574
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:24.280
that we do. Dude, I
live in Jeff, I live in Alabama.

575
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:27.639
You know I can't read true?
That is true. He actually the

576
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.079
book is upside down and you gotta
turn at this point, doctor Trey,

577
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.239
and there we go, my friend. So there you go, Saturday Collision.

578
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.440
We will talk about that on next
week's show. And speaking of the

579
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.920
upcoming schedule, next week June twenty
second, we will preview and predict AW

580
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:47.079
and New Japan Pro Wrestlings Prevents Presents
Fourbidendoor twenty twenty three. Two weeks from

581
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:50.880
now, we will preview and predictivity
Were Mine in the Bank two thousand and

582
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:52.840
twenty three, and we'll look at
the two thy twenty three SRTU Award Show

583
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:57.400
candidates at the halfway point of the
year. And then three weeks from now

584
00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.920
July the sixth, we recap and
review with aw New Japan Forben and Door

585
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:05.119
and ww Money in the Bank twenty
twenty three. Now you may be asking

586
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:08.639
yourself, wait, why are they
recapping Foreben and Door two weeks after it

587
00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:15.519
airs? Yours truly is getting married. That's me on the week of that

588
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:19.519
June twenty ninth, So we're going
to be in a pre recording mode.

589
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:23.199
We will do the best we can
to bring you normal programming here for SRTU,

590
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:27.320
but it just won't be timely enough
where we could sit down and preview

591
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.480
and predict Forben and Door and Money
the Bank for you. So sometimes life

592
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:34.840
gets in the way. This is
obviously something that I think all married men

593
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.639
can relate to. I just cannot
get away and go, hey, I'm

594
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:43.159
going to record a podcast the week
that we're married. That's just not going

595
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:45.480
to work. So bear with me, folks, and we'll get it all

596
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.760
with you here in these next couple
of weeks, as we bring you regular

597
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:52.800
SRTU programming, then before you know
it, Doctor Trey, it'll be our

598
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:59.559
seven hundred, seven hundredth episode.
Isn't that mind boggling? We're in the

599
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:04.559
seven hundred club almost, Yeah,
this is this is six ninety six.

600
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:08.440
What's the seven hundred club? There's
the old religious show with Pat Robertson back

601
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:10.760
in the day called the seven hundred
Club. Was it seven hundred or eight

602
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.719
hundred? Yeah, that was seven
hundred Club. Yeah. Okay, well

603
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.360
there you go. So for the
next hundred episodes, we just get religious.

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Uh, we just go straight into
a seven mode from a way back

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in the idea was it wasn't that
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Dustin Rhodes character. No, no, no, Uh, Kevin Thorne's character,

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Mordecai Mordecaiven seven was Dustin Rhodes.
And yeah, so Mordica, we

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go straight. Mordecai, we go
straight. Uh, Ministry of Darkness.

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That's all we do is just recap
any religious gimmick and wrestling history for one

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hundred shows. Yeah, top one
hundred religious characters. So I guess we'll

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have to try to figure that out. How we're going to do that.

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Um, all right, with that
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and sponsored out the way. If
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the wonderful world of Doctor Trey Franklin
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you can follow me on Twitter at
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tak out sesay sneeze blush, you
blush as we head into the religious

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error blush you I know, I
may I make a religious joke and God

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makes me sneeze. Um, speaking
of God, when you're got to check

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out Rocket Sea Championship Wrestling, where
your stree was once known as the right

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hand of God. So there's a
little fun for you as well. But

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second about we just had our first
big showback set since wrestling comment I've been

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showcoming to Saturday really fun times.
Yours truly kind of in a storyline right

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now because this evil group showed up
in corrupted my estranged wife and took her

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to the dark side. She's sorry
kind of there anyway, She's what even

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darker? So but fun times in
some good story telling your Rocket City.

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So if you're in the area or
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a lot so you go. So
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again, We'll be back next week. We'll preview and predict aw New Japan

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