No-Contest Wrestling: This Was One Of The Best Weekends In Wrestling

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special Tuesday episode. Of the No Contest Wrestling Podcast. I am the heel that you love to hate, O'Shea Jackson Jr. A. K.A.

Petty Guerrero. Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the T-O-O, J-I-G-G, Tuji Great. TJ Jefferson.

Yeah, man. And, you know, we hope you guys enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend. Hope you guys are all safe. Which is what we wanted to do as well, which is why we didn't have an episode yesterday. But here we are on Tuesday.

A plethora of wrestling news. A lot has gone down. It's been one of the best wrestling weekends I've had in a long time. And we will be getting to all of it today. We will be talking about everything going on in WWE.

We're going to be talking about AEW, Rocking the House, and the fact that our boy. Oh, baby. Our boy. Our brother. Trick William.

Trick Willie. Is your TNA world champion? No doubt, man. That's crazy. You know, I know we got a little bit of our head ourselves.

We'll get back, but like, how many group chats are we in with heavyweight champions of the world? Yeah.

Okay, I'm only in one. Yeah, yeah. It's me, you, and Trick Willie.

Now, you got two. Yeah.

Shout out to Jey Usa. Yeah, you got two, but I only got one.

So, yeah, there we go. That was from a few weeks ago. He's champ now. He's the champ, TNA Heavyweight Champion of the World made history. Um, you know, Shay, it's it kind of goes back to the first thing I saw it.

said when I saw a trick. I brought it up to you. I brought it up to him in the interview when he was working with Mello Hayes, and he was kind of the heater. He was the heavy. And Mello was doing his thing.

He was getting pushed. You could tell they had high hopes for him. But I was always looking at the dude behind him going, That dude to me is a star. Yeah.

You know, he just, there was something about him. Like, if he can go at all in the ring, this dude will be a star. And then it's kind of like, I felt a little validated when that three-count got hit. And. Trick Willie became the first WWE superstar current to win a TNA.

Championship to TV World. And like we said, we're going to get to that a little bit later. But we had to give him props. Yeah, we got to give him props to top it off. But we're getting to the shows and everything, but I think.

Uh The best way to start this off is with some major news that happened. New Orleans lost WrestleMania. Yeah.

And uh You know, as terrible as it is for our bank accounts, we're going back to Vegas. Allegedly, we're going back to Vegas. Allegedly, allegedly, is what it seems like. I didn't know that you hit me up on the group chat, not the one Trick was on, but the one with me, you and our manager, Don Bowie. And I was like, wait, what?

Like, Yeah, but you know, a lot of people are upset, but people are going to be upset about everything, no matter what you do. Remember what Pac said? There's many rules to the game, I'm going to share with you too. No, people are going to hate you for whatever you do. No matter what happens, someone's going to be mad.

I understand if you live down in Louisiana, if you were, you know, you were looking forward to this probably for the last few months since it's been announced. And I don't know the reasons behind it. You know, they just had a Super Bowl.

So I don't think infrastructure is really an issue. I don't see how it can be when you hold a Super Bowl. But for whatever reason, man, you know, I've already been checking out rooms at the Fountain Blue. I did not book it. And then overnight, the price went up $100.

So I might have to just go ahead and put a hold on the room just in case. Just in case. And, you know, I. Number one, I do feel for the people of New Orleans because I know what it's like to be excited for a WrestleMania, just to have it taken away. If people don't remember.

The Los Angeles WrestleMania was actually planned before, but. Tampa lost theirs because of the pandemic.

So they had to go back to, they had to give Tampa their WrestleMania before we could get ours.

So I know what it's like to have your mindset for it. And, you know, honestly, I was. Really surprised because you and I talk a lot about. Uh, mania, and I recently was like, How does New Orleans get another mania? Like, it was like through a mania every four years, like, they were on a weird run, they were just like getting a lot of mania rotation.

You know, it's unfortunate. They'll, I know, they'll get you back, but right now, absolutely, right now, for whatever reason, a bid has been drawn. A lot of speculation that it is Las Vegas, and so we'll see. It might be the first time since uh, WrestleMania 4 and 5, where they do back-to-back cities. That was Atlantic City, and it was.

You know, sponsored by the president of the United States. How crazy is that?

So, Hall of Famer. How full circle is that, right? But yeah, we'll see. Either way, you know, we'll stay tuned to where WrestleMania is going. But the No Contest Wrestling Podcast.

We're going to be there. We're going to be there. I'm going to let you know right now. Hopefully, you know, we had a great time in Vegas. You know, Fountain Bay was excellent.

Just everything, man. Everything was, and it's still so fresh. It feels like it just happened. And you realize, man, that was like a month ago. Right.

My liver is still recovering. But yeah, looking forward to it simply because it's closer for us. Yeah, I love that. You know, you rode the bus there, man. I had a 50-minute flight there.

So, and, you know, with TKO in charge, like you said, we're, look, we're not investigating journalists. It's not where we're necessarily going with this podcast, but a lot of people feel TKO in charge. Vegas being the fight capital of a world to someone like me who grew up loving boxing and knowing where Vegas stands in that. When it comes to the fight game, it makes a lot of sense. Absolutely.

You have it there in Vegas. I know a lot of people were upset, but again, like I said, people are going to be mad about anything. Anything. That's the one thing about social media: it made everyone feel like they have a voice. And sometimes that voice is going to get ignored, and we're going to watch anyway.

Yeah, we're going to be.

Somebody was like, I read a. Tweet from somebody like, well, you know, last year stunk, and night one stunk, except for the main event. That has to do with Vegas. Yeah, that was Las Vegas' fault. You didn't like the card because of this.

Because had it been an I don't know, like, you know, Bowling Green, Kentucky would have been different. Right, exactly. The Bowling Greens, fine people down there. I'm sure. Fine people down there.

But to quote Travis Scott. They feen in for more.

Now let's up no more. Please, please, God. My bad.

So. A lot of wrestling. Friday, obviously, SmackDown is on. A couple of Money in the Bank qualifiers that happened. But first, I want to talk about there was a segment between Tiffy, Charlotte, and Alexa Bliss.

And Tiffy shows little things. They've been talking crazy about you. And it was good to see her. She felt comfortable, felt in control, dropped a bar. You know, what more could you ask for out of the vintage line?

You guys are a little vintage for me. And then I love the fact that she brought up to Charlotte, didn't you just diss me for being the money in the bank winner that cashed in? Why are you even in a qualified match? And Charlotte had to give it up. Like, damn, this is a good one.

I'm not saying, but that didn't. Why are you bringing up old stuff? That's what I'm saying. Hold on, that was months ago. It was a whole different story.

But I thought that was hilarious. And Charlotte, for Charlotte to even in the moment, give the nod of like, fair point. I did say that. You know, I love that. Obviously, Alexa Bliss, you Don't get in the way with words with five feet of fury.

I'm telling you, man, like Bliss can she's spicy, she can bring it on the mic sometimes, man. Yeah, you know, the what was the she took the vintage line, and it was like the older you get, the more valuable you were. Yeah, and then on Twitter, she was like, uh, you know, calling us vintage when you're the knockoff or something like that. You know, it was something that we're paraphrasing, but we all know Alexa Bliss got bars, which is why we're we were so excited at Royal Rumble. If you've seen the Royal Rumble, you saw our faces when Alexa Bliss.

I will say this: I mean, I was excited, but you marked out. I'm so excited. You had the mic strikers, bro. Markout moment when Booker T came back to the Royal Rumble. Like, you marked out for me.

Because I'm such an Alexa Bliss fan. You know that her. Even though they changed it. Thanks, Def Rebel. But even though they changed her theme.

Which you had on your top 10. It's on my top 10, bros. I've been a Bliss supporter for so long. She was gone for so long. It was so I was so happy to see her back.

Well, she was creating new life, bro. That's what you're doing. Yeah, you know, I completely understand that. And that's a beautiful journey. Yeah, she made a beautiful journey.

She made a baby with your body. Whole person. Yeah.

Whole person is crazy. All right. What else went down? We got our girl, Julia. Julia.

She qualified. She beat out Zelina Vega and Charlotte Flair to qualify. The response, I feel like. I recently said on Twitter that, like, is Julia the fastest call-up from NXT that I've ever seen? And crowds are still going to have to get used to Julia a little bit.

You know, there's certain moments that. Will come over time because of her in-ring ability. Yeah.

But it's just one of those, I wish. She kind of had a little bit more like of that NXT growth, but she's such a star. She's you kind of foam at the mouth for like getting her there, but she's there. And I expect her to put on a show in Money in the Bank. It changed my ideology on Lyra Valkyria when she put on a show in Money in the Bank, the Money in the Bank, where Tiffy ended up getting the briefcase.

I watched that and Zoe's and Lyra. I was like, okay, I'm paying attention now. And I think Julia has to put on one of those performances. Yeah.

And I think, you know, I've been following Julia for a few years on Twitter now and, you know, just have seen some of her work in Japan. I can say this based upon stuff that I saw. WWE NXT fans, you haven't even seen like... You don't haven't even seen how good this woman is, right? For anything that you've seen so far, it's like we're getting her at maybe 60%.

Mm-hmm. When they finally decide to unleash her, it's going to be special. But like you said, it would have been awesome. For her to kind of had time to build up her name here a little bit because over there she was a superstar. Everybody outside of the WWE bubble knew Julia.

So it would have been nice for her to be able to build herself up a little bit, but then she had the injury, I guess, had to drop the title to Stephanie. And now it was like she was finding her way. You know, her and Roxanne came up, or, you know, our niece Roxanne were like, that was a weird tag team.

Now they're split apart. Right. So. We'll see, but I'm glad she got the dub. And you know, it helps that Charlotte didn't get the dub because now we can kind of hopefully lose some of this anti-Charlotte sentiment that's out there that it's, I've been saying from day one is just ridiculously uncalled for.

But you know, yeah, big ups, Julia, getting that win and moving on. Absolutely. We're excited to see it. Also, LA Knight qualified. Yeah, LA Night qualified and beating Aleister Black and Shinsuke Nakamura.

By the way, The idea of a triple threat that involves Aleister Black and Shinsuke Nakamura is just crazy, right? L.A. Knight getting the victory. L.A. Knight is just one of those guys where.

This is his third money in the bank. You kind of feel like the crowd has been behind LA Night for so long. Obviously, his hottest was during the bloodline thing.

So it's kind of hard to get a title victory during that run. Yeah, that just ain't gonna happen. Yeah, it's just not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.

So, you know, a lot of people are speculating that third time's a charm. Or LA Knight, but there's some names piling up in this money in the bank, bro. Obviously, when you sat down and you are a member of the NCW fam, we hold you a little title for you. You know, we got LA Knight. He was a friend of the show.

So, yeah, man, it's going to be interesting. I need to see the whole card really shape up to decide who. But, you know. You know me, man. I love Nakamura.

Yeah.

February 24th. It's just that his birthday? Yeah.

Okay. Is that your birthday? Oh, okay. That's my boy. Yeah, it's just, you know, it's tough for me, man, because like.

You know, I really started following Nakamura Heavy back in, I think, 2009, 10. I started subscribing to New Japan World back in 2013. I think somewhere along the way there, just so I could watch Wrestle Kingdoms, just so I could be up at four in the morning to watch Wrestle Kingdom. And a lot of the reason was Shinsuke Nakamura. He is my favorite wrestler, and it just, I don't know, man.

Him and Finn are kind of feeling like, but at least Finn's getting TV time. Finn's got a storyline. I don't know what's going on with Shinsuke, but like that to me, it's just a great disappointment. That WrestleMania, the title chain should have been pulled. I'll never forget.

You know, and so it just, for me, it just stinks when you have a guy who you've seen just. Be as charismatic, be as great in the ring as anyone that you've ever watched. And now it's like, all right. It's kind of an afterthought. I don't like that, man.

I really don't like that. Yeah, that's what happens when you let Seth Rollins take his flavor. Anyway, so we had Jacob 2. Jacob Fatu and uh JC Mateo. Yeah.

Jeff Carl Mateo. Yeah, Jeff Carl Mateo. They got the win over Big Jim and Ray Phoenix. We obviously see the writing on the wall, what's going on with Jacob, Solo and JC. Um Anticipate it.

You know, I think they're going to stretch that a little bit longer. Yeah, Mr. Fantastic style. Yeah, a little bit longer. Um, I know you love what Solo's doing right now.

I love you, Solo. You know, Solo's just funny, man.

So far, I remember he got over so quick when he got brought up, and then he just kind of got lost when, like, with the LA Night thing, you're now you turned on Roman, and now you got to go face him. Like, you ain't going to get too many L's, I mean, too many W's in that position.

So, it kind of puts Solo in a weird position for a while where, like, Fans were a little over him, I think.

So I think it was good for him to get away for a little bit. Yeah.

Kind of, you know, a little go away here. A little go away here. You know, and now he's coming back. He's doing fantastic impressions of Jacob. Yeah.

And low-key, Solo Sokoa is funny as hell, man. Funny. For a guy who, when he got called up, couldn't say a word. He is hilarious. And not because, obviously, because he couldn't.

They just didn't let him. The enforcer gimmick.

Solo is low-key, hysterical, man. And so, yeah, I'm interested in this. I'm buying this. Like I said, I like Jeff Cobb. You know, I like Solo.

I like Tomatonga of Jacob. Like, that new bloodline, if that is what they are, whatever they're calling, I'm still drawn to that group because I like everybody in it. Absolutely. All gas, no breaks. You got what I mean?

Yes, sir. Also, side note, I do love that they put Meach in. and be fab together. A lot of rumblings for those who are in the know. Uh on social media.

Those two are very underappreciated. And so when it comes, you know, you hear. AJ Francis, you know, friend of the show, AJ Francis, you know, he spoke so highly of BFAB and Meachin has been done, she's done everything that's asked of her.

So, you know, just to see two people that. You want the best for team up. I hope that they find some gold within that, and I hope that they find the magic a little bit.

So, I just wanted to give a shout out to that pairing. Uh, my eyes are on you, and uh, you know, nothing but great success. Tomas, you got something you said, speaking of gold, it seems like everyone's complaining about them getting rid of the tag team, so like. What's going on with this tag team division? You know, you.

Letting some tag teams go, you're you know, you had People that you could have paired up together and then released them.

So it's gonna be interesting. I noticed that when Kairi Sane came out, you don't hear representing damage control. And and live.

Well, I'm gonna get ahead of ourselves. Yeah, well, I'll save that. It was also good to see Kyrie back. Looked like she put on a little bit of muscle, which is good for her because you know. You know, just physically, it seemed like it was taking a toll on me.

Yeah, but when you're taking bumps, you need a little cushion. Yeah, a little cushion. She's not the biggest woman, so. Yeah, but she's yoked for her frame for sure. By the way, best elbow drop in the game?

Absolutely. You see how high the game is. Insane elbow, like Kyrie's elbow. Like, I always thought Machaman had the greatest elbow. Yeah.

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Yeah.

Y6 is back. I feel like, and like we were just saying, it just seems like there's a little. Wonkiness with the tag team division, and now you gotta A team of five people.

Well, six.

Soon to be. Yeah, yeah. So it's like. You really got to see what they do. And it was a great, great nod, and just doing it on Bray Weisberg.

Chills, man. The cake in front of him with the can. It's for that. Like Montez. Like, Montez is just money.

Montez for it. Montez is money. He hops up on the rope, the lights go down. Wide six appeared. Montez gets that frightened look on his face.

That's the sign of the cross. Montez is money, and you can pull the trigger on him whenever you decide to. Absolutely. But I've been loving him and Dawkins still. I can't.

That's the thing. You just like, you don't want to see him. You have stepped their game up so much.

So I'm really liking it, and I hope they get a decent run. With these straps. But yeah, the wide six, you just kind of get chills when you hit the mute, you hear the music. You see all of those things that Braig created come to life in human form. And it's still, man, it's still kind of like it trips you out a little bit.

And then, as someone who loved Bray Wyatt, it still kind of gets you a little emotional and stuff. Absolutely emotional. Like, there's no way around it. And it's one of those. Every time you see it, Like the way that he's in the back of your mind watching those guys is.

Is almost a happy tear moment. Yeah.

You know? And to be for it to be his brother, I can only imagine what goes through his mind. Every time he gets in the mirror and puts that mask on before he goes out, like. That's got to be heavy. As a man with two brothers, man, I couldn't imagine.

Uh, we got to get him on the show, man. We got to get to get our Barbara Walters moment on that super necessary. Um, but like you said, the birthday cake. You know, the in the ring, and then, you know, my life for yours. Right before he blows the candles out?

Like... Man. It just, it was a moment, man, and it was something I'll remember for a while. Yeah, well, they put the tag team division on notice, so we will see what's going on with the Wired Six. And can we just like hurry up?

We already know where we're going with this. Alexis 6, just get her in there. Let's get this thing running. But, you know, what's also kind of cool, the way they're using them is kind of like. They're not there all the time, right?

And they're They're now An attraction, I feel like we're making them an attraction.

So you don't have to see them all the time. They don't have to be on every show. You bring them out specifically for moments. And then you kind of let them fade back into the background because if you're not going to push them to the moon, which I don't think they are right now, then you kind of just use them the way they're being used. And I kind of dig it right now.

Right. Before, obviously, they put the title on him, which I thought was too early. But that's how I felt about The Fiend. You never know when the Fiend was going to pop up on you. And we all know how successful that was.

But now. Friday is gone. It's time for your Saturday night main event, folks. And a lot went down in these little five matches. We had Zelina Vega getting the victory over Chelsea Green.

A little mixed up during that match. I mean, Chelsea seems to be in great spirits, but these things happen. You know, these things happen. It's unfortunate. But They love each other.

They'll be okay, guys. Chelsea Green making fun, which I knew was going to happen. Mick Foley was here. And if you know about Mick Foley, he lost his ear during the match. And all he could think about was the promos that he got to cover: missing an ear.

He talked about the thumbtacks and was like, I might lose an eye, but think about pop. Yeah, so Chelsea's going to be making. But the last time we were here. Yeah.

Was sitting over here. Mick Foley was here, bro. Like, that is who do you think we are? Yeah, that still trips me out a little bit. The fact that, you know, Mick Foley gave us two hours of two hours and we could have talked to him for eight hours.

Honestly, he would have allowed it. We could have gone with him to lunch.

Well, dinner. He had a good dinner plan. Chill, TJ, chill, chill, TJ, chill. But yeah, you know, look, I'm just going to say this. The internet's going crazy over this Zelena move that busted Chelsea's nose.

And it's just like it wasn't a 619. It was like a 308 and a half. That's good math. Thank you. It wasn't a 619.

It was a 308 and a half. And, you know, like I said, things happened, but it just didn't look good. And, you know, it reflected in the noise that came online after. Yeah, and that's the thing. And that's the thing that as a performer.

Sucks to have in the back of your head. It's just like, now I, the one thing you don't want to do in this day and age is feed the internet, because the internet is full. She don't need nothing more.

So to have that in the back of your mind, it's got to be for every performer. For every performer, that's gotta be like, oh, great, here they come. But yeah, these things happen. These both are professionals. I'm sure it's not the worst injury that either of them had.

And yeah, we'll see the bounce back. Uh, but also another injury that was on the show, not necessarily hurt during the match, but he went into the match with the news that he's been performing hurt. Um, Our buddy Drew McIntyre. He's my guy. He takes the L to Damian Priest.

Damian Preece. Put on a great performance. They were able to kind of manipulate the feeling of him walking out as being this disrespectful taunt to Drew McIntyre. And then, of course, the governor, Jesse Ventura. Let me tell you something.

Jesse Ventura. Hated that more than I like more than he hated everything, anything. He did not like that. Caprice just walked out. You know, for a split second, I'm like, Well, is Drew really hurt?

Because you know, he took the concerto, and I was like, And it looked real good, good.

So I was like, Well, maybe he's walking out because he don't want to touch. I don't know, man. It just did seem kind of a weird ending. Yeah, because you look back, don't look back, you're like, No, he's gonna step in. My whole mind is like, All right, he's gonna take a couple steps down, realize, go back in, bust him up.

But no, he he walked right out.

So that leads me to believe that Maybe something was called during the fly. Was that really how the end of the match was supposed to be? I got to call, you know, text Drew later and find these things out. Yeah, we got it. Yeah, I got his number, so what?

Oh, man. Big flex. Big flex. But yeah, Damian Priest gets the win. Shout out to Priest.

It seems like Drew's going to be taking some time, which obviously, as fans of Pro Wrestling, we. Got to completely understand. I mean, the man's hurt, give him some time. And even if he's not, like, he's been doing great work back to back to back to back.

So, uh, shout out to Drew McIntyre. We need you on the show, man. Um, Also. We had uh We found out who the third man was. Finally.

Yeah, dude. It was a punk and Sammy verse Braun and Seth. And somebody came out the crowd.

Somebody big as hell. You know, the way the camera shot was, you could tell somebody was going to be coming from that corner. And the way they had it lined up, had no idea who it was going to be, but you could just tell something was building. And it was a massive person come jumping over. It's like, oh, okay.

Yeah.

Kingpin was the third man, dude. And boy, he just took Punk out. Just wiped him out. Wiped him out. It was a moment once they showed.

By the way, it's Bronson Reed for us. People who don't know. But yeah, Bronson Reed, the Benjamite menace himself. There you go. He's the third man.

I love that while they were showing just the group in its entirety to hard cam. Punk still tries to crawl just to get to Paul Heyman. And what does Bronson Reed do? I'm going to just throw my whole body on you. My whole body.

Even before that, it's almost like, it's like. Braun Breaker didn't know. Yeah.

So Bronson comes in the ring, and Braun's like, okay, let's do this. And then Seth kind of jumps in and hugs him. And if you recall, of course. Bronson tsunami Seth like 18, 19, 25 times a turn. Eternal bleeding.

Yeah, so you know, that was interesting to see. Those two come together, then Braun kind of got it, and Paul was just smiling the whole time. And you know, I guess that's your new faction, right? Yeah, Bloodline Light. But I don't know about that, man.

It's like I'm a hater, bro. I know you are. I'm a hater. But just the way groups like that are traditionally designed, right? You usually have.

one monster. Yeah.

They got two with Seth.

So it's going to be interesting. Do they add someone else to the group? Is this how they're rocking? I'm invested though. I ain't never.

I mean, right now. They don't need no more help. Right, because that's we the ones that need the help, bro. They're going to KMD, they're going to cause much damage. Yeah, right now.

And I know I said KMD, you know that. Third base. I know. Roman had to call punk. For Orwell Paul.

Roman needed Punk's help for Survivor Series. Right now, punk. Punk knee roman. Think about that. Punk knee roman.

I just didn't even get that far ahead. Yeah, punk knee roman.

So, you know, that gasp, that was that was a real gasp on my part. That's no contest wrestling podcast gasp right there. That let me know these things sometimes. And then we had. Just the the ageless one.

Not John Cena. Ron Cena. Ron Cena. Ron Cena himself. You know, John comes out and does the, you know, the black and white thing.

He's ruining wrestling, so it's boring as hell. That's why I'm throwing it away. But then. You think you're gonna hear truths, you know, music? What's up?

But he comes out to Cena's music, does Cena's entrance, does the running the ropes, does the whole nine as John Cena's number one fan staring darts at it, hating, hating, hating, hating, and uh. It's just, you didn't know what you were about to get out of this match, but for truth to come out and he had us in the palm of his hands. You know, just more of the priceless comedy that he brings you effortlessly. And, you know, they have their match. It's not long.

No. Not long. I mean, you could listen to a good RB song and then the match would be over. But I guess that's. How it should go right now.

It's non-title. John is going on this, this. Tour, and he's the undisputed champion.

So it should be that quick. But he went in there, and I didn't know he had a losing record to truth. I didn't know that. He wanted to against truth. That was wild.

So, way to tie it up. All right. But you don't have the over. And I just had a weird thought too lately. I haven't said it on the show, and I'll say it now.

John Cena keeps saying like he wants to ruin wrestling, right? Knowing that TKO is, I I guess, trying to seemingly distance himself from the WWE of old. What if, like, John's seen this for real? and he takes this title and he dips. And now you They've got to start a whole new lineage of WWE with this new ownership and everything.

What if that is the case where they're just like wrestling as you knew it? In the past, This is new. That's pretty good screenwriting. I mean, that's what I'm saying. You know, because, like I said, I'm always trying to think: where could they be going with this?

Like, what if he really does? What if he's like, nope, this is it?

Well, it's looking like his last date is going to be a Saturday Night Main event in Boston, where he's from. And There's nothing like watching Boston lose a championship, so I hope he loses it.

Well, he traditionally doesn't get cheered in Boston for some very weird reason. Because Boston is crazy. A bunch of nut cases throughout the day. Woo. I've been waiting for these drums for a long time.

We had Jey Uso versus Logan Paul. Obviously, John Cena backstage has his little run-in with Jay. Thinks about how cool it would be if a little YouTuber, as he put it, would take Jey Uso's title. John Cena comes out to try to help Logan Paul succeed and get this title. And then you hear.

Turn it down to turn it down. Cody Rhodes is back, folks. Adrenaline in my soul, something, something Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes.

So, Cody Rhodes is back. He helps out Jay, his buddy. And from there, we get a setup for a money in the bank match. I haven't seen this at Money in the Bank. We're getting champion versus champion with tag teams, of course.

Logan Paul for John Cena, Cody Rhodes for Jey Uso. And where does it happen? That's right, folks. Los Angeles. LA gets everything.

I mean, I'm just sick of it. And more. Yeah.

That is not the words I thought I was going to hear you say. More importantly than that, that place, that match will take place no more than a 15-minute drive from where we sit right now. And that is with traffic to get over to the Intuit Dome, home of the Los Angeles Clippers, where O'Shea should be banned. He's probably not yet, but I'm sure that at some point he will be banned. Facial recognition and all that.

But yeah, right down the road, man, I'm looking forward. I haven't asked for tickets. I haven't talked to anybody for tickets. But we got to go to this show. I mean, it's right down the street.

We're going. We're already there. We might as well help build the ring. I would do that, as a matter of fact. It'd be fun.

I would definitely get on tour. I'm going to bring my dad's stage on tour. Yeah, so you know, and I've, you know, I've worked in production. I built things. Yeah, he built things.

Yeah.

Got it. I mean, all right.

Now. But yeah, so I gotta be honest with you, though, man. Saturday night's main event, Saturday night's main event now is. Seems less like a P L E and more just like a little hyped up. Regular SmackDown or Ross.

You're getting a little Sunday night heat on me. You know, it's still on the mm. I mean, like, if you don't have them big moments at the end, it's a You're just showing me commercial after commercial after commercial. And I get it. Make your bread.

Yeah, you got to get your bread. Make your bread. You got to keep the lights on. But I'm just saying, as a viewer, what everybody's thinking as a viewer. And I like to think that we're men of the people.

You know what I'm saying? We say we say to these mics what they're out there saying in these streets. Yeah, man. So, you know, this is just a thought. Like, I was very excited when I heard it was coming back, and now it's just like, okay, it's cool.

So, Saturday night main event happened, but there's some other stuff goes down. And we all know we will get to AEW. We're going to knock out WWE first NXT Battleground. Battleground. Battleground.

We started it off with a banger. Yo, Sol Ruka. Who? Kalani Jordan. Who?

Come on, dog. It's a way to start the show. The ladies did not come to play. No. All right.

They're not for game. And, you know, the internet's going crazy. Obviously, Sol Ruka is. Doing her thing, coming into her own, only two years in. And my God, what a star.

But don't sleep on the performance Kalani put on, too. Yo, those two just like. Close like Starsky and Hutch. You put them together. That would make a good match, dude.

You know, you take two magicians. You take. You know, Copperfield and Doug, whatever the dude's name is. Yeah, helping out. Whatever the dude's name is.

Yeah.

Yeah, but like, you know what I'm saying? They just go together. Like chocolate and peanut butter, like pepperoni and pizza, like you put them together and something special is going to happen. And look, man, they deliver when they're in that ring. They were showcasing, bro.

High athleticism. You know, I will say this, though, it seems like. Storytelling, and I don't want to be that person who starts. It's all right. It's a storytelling.

It's almost just like you want a nitpick for the sake of nitpicking.

So I'll say it, even though it's not that, you know, whatever. Like the storytelling, I don't know if they're quite there yet. It's a lot of high spots, a lot of athleticism, but I'm okay with that because those two women are still new in the game, man. They've got a long career ahead of them, a long time to really understand and put all that stuff together. But.

What they're showing us is incredible. It's great. And the thing is, it also fits. You know, it also fit. You're starting to show off.

You know, you're starting to show off. You wanna get the crowd electric. And it really felt like both ladies were showing off great athletic ability. They showed great chemistry together. And it is the perfect way, I think, for that.

PLE DUF Start. Yeah.

Obviously, Soul Rookie getting the win and retaining. And the other magician was Doug Henning. My bad.

Oh, David Copperfield and Doug Henning. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Doug, whatever his name is, is great too. I knew who he was talking about. He had mustache?

Yeah, but the the soul snatcher, man. This finishing move is I must have watched this 15 times from eight different angles. Mm-hmm. The precision That it takes to pull off what this woman did, doing that off the top rope, the trust that they both have to have with each other, with one another. She's going blind backwards into this.

Kalani's got to put herself in the position right there, and they hit it perfectly. Perfectly. If you haven't seen it, if you're watching this podcast, I guarantee you've seen it because you're all wrestling freaks like we are. Talk to them. But if you haven't, just go on Twitter, go on Instagram, go on YouTube, search this out.

One of the greatest finishers I've seen, that whole sequence was amazing. Yo, Bravo saw Kalani did your thing. And now it's going to be interesting to see. I think that's the second time on a PLE that they've wrestled, if I'm not mistaken.

So, I think the third time's got to be for something really big. Maybe the NXT Women's Championship, but you let those two kind of do their thing for a while. Yeah.

Bring them back because. It's something that you can always go back to and know that these two are going to deliver no matter what. where we put them or when we put them. They're going to rock the house. Box office.

Yes, sir. And by the way, Sol Ruka is holding two titles right now. She got the speed title, too.

Sold two titles. Yeah, sold two titles. That doesn't sound right. We got to come with something a little bit better than that, but yeah, you know. And then what else we went down?

We have DJ. Seventy Vicar. Stephanie Vacare, who let's like so good at wrestling. Let me explain something. It just drives me crazy.

I was watching her, by the way, she was going up against Jordan Grace. It it While I was watching her, I had the tweet of just like... This lady is Insane. It's just the way her movements, the way she just flows, everything looks so effortless. It's like she's floating sometimes.

And she was in her bed. Bag. It was just seamless. It was seamless, the performance she put on. And then.

Jordan You can just, of course, not right now. Right now, NXT is Stephanie Vacares, but Jordan is going to be such a fun champion when that finally happens because she's the type of performer you can tell she's always going to. How can I top the last thing I did? And there's a part of her coming from TNA where I know she wants to. Prove that.

to the WWE crowd. She's hungry, obviously. She's she's Yoked. Yeah.

Yoked. Yeah.

So the time is coming, but for now, they put on an excellent matchup out of. You know, the NXT women. Are just so incredible. Yeah, dude. They are so incredible.

Crazy. Um, There's not much more you can say about it than that. Those two. Almost like, you know, Seoul and Kalani, those two seem to be made for each other. You know, and like you said, Stephanie does these moves and.

You know, it's just like you sit there in awe of some of the things that she does. It's like. I don't want to say a perfect wrestler because I don't know. I want to get ahead of myself, but man, she's. getting to the point where i i'm really questioning what she could do better Yeah.

You know, I was saying, oh man, I wish I could see her versus Eddie. Like, I don't know what she could do better, man. And then, you know, she has her usual finishing move. Yeah.

Which didn't work. And then she goes and breaks out a spiral tap, which I think I may have seen her do that once. But it was scary, you know. And Jordan props to Jordan Grace because Stephanie, obviously, she got, I think, pretty much one of the, if not the loudest, pops of the night. The crowd really behind her, even though at one point, you know, a lot of Jordan Grace cheers as well.

Jordan, being the veteran that she is so smart, she kind of leaned into the hill thing. Like when Stephanie was going for that. Devil's kiss. The first time, you know, Jordan kind of stopped her, rolled her out the ring, picked her up, and then dumped her right in front of Booker. And then, my goodness, Jordan Grace just sitting in front of Booker T, like, yeah.

Eating it up. You know, and Book got all mad about it. What's up, man? What's going like? Like, Book, like, you ain't love Stephanie getting dumped at your feet like that.

Like, come on, dog. You can't fool us, Book. You can't fool us. But yeah, so Jordan kind of did the thing where, you know, you got two faces. She kind of.

Took the hill roll a little bit without going overboard, but you know, she, whenever you make the crowd not get their kiss, yeah, the devil's kiss, they're gonna get upset, and they were. Great heel work. I gotta be honest, I love the fact that that name has really gotten around it almost. kind of made me sad that they didn't say it. On this On the program.

But you know what? McAfee Cole have said it. Corey Graves has said it.

So it's cool. What do we learn that name? Yeah, I'm just saying it's kind of dope that we had even like. The smallest part to do. With it.

I know you were flipping when I asked the question, but it was just like everybody wanted to know. She kind of seems, I was re-watching that video. She kind of seemed like she knew it was coming. She was into it. You know, I saw a few comments way back when we posted it.

Like, they thought maybe it was disrespectful to ask her. Is she doing it? She's doing it. It's the most over move in wrestling right now. Like, so it needed a name.

Right. It couldn't be. It doesn't merge all the time, even though it could. You know, that's a funny name. But you know, I just can't say enough good things about her.

Make them say, uh, like, you know. And then you had like in the crowd, you had Triple A's Chick Tormenta and Dahlius, I believe is how you pronounce her name. And they're there. And here's where wrestling fans really annoy me, Shay. Here, yeah.

Let me tell you the stuff I was reading that kind of ups that upset me because it didn't ruin my day, but it just kind of just shake my head.

Okay, so remember about three weeks ago in the wrestling Twitter, there was a thing about why women seem to get discarded after their 40s. You know, there was that whole thing about like you know, they could still go, and so that was a big conversation piece, you know what I'm saying? Here you have these two women from AAA, who I'm not familiar with their work, but I knew when they were sitting there talking to her, it doesn't take a genius to go, okay, these are AAA women. boys coming in. You know what I mean?

But then people, I saw so many comments about like, oh, well, that woman looks like she's 50 and she's 50 and she's yeah, and I'm like. Two weeks ago, you, Jabrodies, were complaining that older women don't get the chance. And now here's a woman a little bit older, I guess, and you're now saying that she's too old. Like, you got to pick a side, man. Make it make sense.

You can't have it both ways.

So that was annoying to like kind of. And we reached Queen of the Ring, right? Honestly. Man, that was just kind of annoying, especially considering you don't know anything about these women. I promise the majority of us don't.

I'm sure I've watched a lot of, not a lot, I've watched enough Lucha Libre to know that those women can go, man. Yeah, and if you don't know, they'll learn you. They'll learn you. And where do you think Stephanie got so good? That's, you know, so that was just a little.

You know, a little nitpick, a little, you know, check yourself before you wreck yourself to the wrestling. Yeah, you know him, to the wrestling community. But yeah, so you know, they get to the back. Stephanie gets the win. She gets the spiral tap.

You know, it's going to be interesting. I think I told you we were talking yesterday. Eventually, Jordan Grace, I think, is the one that's probably going to happen sooner than later because Stephanie ain't going to last long in NXT. You know, Tripps and Sean are probably already arguing right now. And I think it's kind of obvious, I would think, that Jordan Grace is going to be the one to eventually take the title from her.

And I think, you know, she'll do great with it. But. Stephanie's amazing. And then, you know, we go backstage later on. We see her talking to the two women from Triple A.

What I read was some of the translation was like, I taught you everything you know.

Okay. You know, I know you from. It was one of those things, like, don't forget where you came from, B. I'm glad you had it because my dude was lingo, bro. I was not getting up.

Yeah, so I think that's where that was going, like, hey, don't forget where you came from, you know. And so it was that kind of thing. They came from the same place, but then out of nowhere. You get Chase James in the background arguing with our girl, Fallon Henley. I like to call her a girl because we met her a few times, and I'm a fan.

You're a fan. And then JCJ just jumps up, like, you know, what did the five fingers say to the face? JCJ slapped the face off of Stephanie Vacare's lips. Like, and but what nobody saw was the forearm that Stephanie threw to JC's jaw. Yeah.

That got overlooked after the snap, after the slap, but bam, and they're going at it.

So now, JC, I just to quote Bill Duke. You know you eff'd up, right? Steph is going on. You know, you eff'd up, right? You know that, right?

Yeah, so La Primera is coming. Playing no dams. You, JCJ, and I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to be you. No. You know what I'm saying?

But. Yeah, that was that was a great match. It was a lot of fun. Like I said, um Great pop from the crowd. Yeah.

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Or go family. Versus Miles Bohr.

Now, obviously, we know how Miles Bourne got into this match through the Battle Royal. And you're going against Oba Femi, the ruler. You know Oba is coming with the force.

So, pause.

So, it's important to make sure that you know you're in for a war. But Miles Bourne, man, has some spots in that match. He did. Where I was like, okay. There he is.

There he is. That's what they see. That's why you got the opportunity. And, you know, the crowd is already behind Miles, finding out the information that we did about what he battles with. And, you know, it's not about his disability, it's about his ability.

And he's. The dude came. Yeah, the dude came to play. You know, baby Orton. And he did his thing.

He did his thing against Oba Femi. You know, the baby viper. Yeah, and you know, it's tough, man, because you got Oba Femi. He's just a beast, right? Most.

And so, getting a victory over him at this point just is very unlikely, you know. Miles did a great job of showcasing himself. He had a spotlight put on him. You know, he has, I'm sure, attracted so many new fans. based upon the struggle that he's gone through, everything that he's had to overcome.

I started following Miles Bourne. I think he had about 5,000 followers on Twitter. When I found him and I just start following him. And, you know, now to see, you know, the guy kind of come up, do his thing, no quarter catch crew doing their thing, you know, it's interesting. But again, you got to give it up to Oba.

Like, right now, he's, he's incredible. Gerula. Um, You know, Oh, but works like this. He doesn't work like a big man style. A lot of his matches are kind of fast-paced.

Of course, the hard. He's going to make you look good. Yeah.

When we had him on, that's a young man that understands the business. He understands, like, he's. Him, you know, obviously not the character, but like he understands that one day somebody will come for the ruler. And he understands that this run that he's on is to make sure that that person that he puts over. Has the moment, and you know, just certain people got to be in the way, and right now that is a young Miles boy, yeah.

And like I was saying, so Oba, you know, traditionally the pace is a little fast. This one, they slowed down a little bit, yeah, it's kind of giving Miles a chance to kind of get his stuff in, build anticipation for the crowd, make you think, hey, is this. Is this the night? Is this the night ultimately though? The rule is stand.

Rooster tall. Can be mad, but Miles cannot be ashamed of that performance. Nah, man. I'm trying to think what else went down on that one. I made some notes here.

You know, Bourne, I guess, is supposed to be the baby face in this, which is weird, but the crowd. People love over. People love ovum. And, you know, um, Oh, yeah, the double foot stomp into a standing moonsault was a move. I wanted to break it.

I made a note about that, but Oba then caught him in like a choke slam. Like, this dude, Oba Fremi, man, just a wall. And then, of course, after the match, the ruler stands tall, but he gives Miles that nod of approval: like, all right, all right, kid. I see you. And that, you know, that's acting like an OG.

OG over family. You know, you did well. Yeah.

Well done. And then. History was made. Man. I love history.

History was made, folks. We got Trick Willie versus the TNA World Champion. He appears. I'm sorry. I believe in no contest.

I believe I love what you did. By the way, we didn't even like rehearse. I just did that. Yeah, off the top. And we just went with it.

Yeah, bro. Come on, dark paint. My name's Sam. My name's Sam. Uh, wow, yeah, like you and I have been lucky, right?

We last over last month, we got to go to TNA a few times. Yeah, we got to kind of see, yeah, big ups to TNA. Everybody back there just was so welcoming. Uh, by the way, shout out to my man, the inevitable Ace Austin. I know he's going through some injury thing right now, Kayfabe.

I don't know if it's real or not, but if it is. get well soon. He was he was a great guy to meet. But um We kind of saw this whole thing with Trick and Joe Henry kind of Happened. You know, we were backstage when, you know, we were talking to Trick for a whole two-hour show, and I thought he was just there to watch Lash.

And then all of a sudden, I realized he's in the corner practicing jump spin kicks. I'm like, Oh. And I said to him, you're about to do a run-in. And he just laughed and smiled. I think I brought this up.

I have video of him backstage at TNA Or whatever. Retribution? Oh, rebellion. Rebellion. My bad.

Yeah.

No disrespect. TNA Rebellion. And, you know, I'm recording him right before he. Dips out through the curtain on the side of the stage and does a running. I knew I need to post that.

But so we kind of got to see this whole thing kind of. Play out come to fruition. And it led to this championship. Yeah, and it was a moment of, because we've seen the this a few times with a few of the other titles in uh TNA and NXT respectively and They always retain. Like whose ever belt has been up, they're going to put on a great match, but you get to keep your stuff.

So you kind of feel like this was the first time, I think, where the world title was on the line. And so, you know, you know what you think is going to happen. Joe Hendry's so over that, like, yeah, that it's just crazy to think otherwise. But that's why you have to watch. Watch always.

Because they're going to throw that in your face. Or you think you're smarter than the company. And yeah, man, it was a great sequence. I love that. You know, the title was still being used, but it was inadverted.

Well, even before that, it was like you could tell Trick thought the match was kind of getting away from him a little bit. Yeah.

So he went and grabbed the belt to bring it in. But it's like, why, Trick, you're going to get disqualified? I thought it was just a heel move just to like, you know, forget it. But the belt was there. Yeah.

But you know who put the belt there? Yeah, the ref. The ref. That was a trick. The refuge didn't get the belt, and then Trick sees this.

Yeah.

You know, he's going to get Joe's finisher, a little poke in the eye. Yeah.

Hot shot on face first. Yeah.

Then trick shot. And it's one.

Okay. Yeah.

Two. All right, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. Three. And he had the same face I did. I just screamed in my apartment.

Yeah.

Because I didn't get, I told you, I was out to dinner. I was having Korean barbecue that night. Yeah.

So I didn't start watching until I got you. Called me. He called me. I'm on my way home. And he's like, so wait, you don't know anything that went on.

And I'm like, well, no, I mean, I said, I specifically, for the first time in dinner, I didn't look at my phone. You know me when you called me.

So I got home and I started watching everything late. You know, I didn't get to AAW till the next morning. Yeah.

Still stayed off of social, so I didn't know anything went on there. But yeah, when Trick got that three count, man, it was just, it was such an unbelievable. Thing just because you know, you and I, we've been fortunate enough to kind of build a little bit of a friendship with Trick recently. Yeah, got to run into him a few times. Great dude.

Like I said, we've got a little, you know, group chat with him. And it was just so amazing. There you go. That was after a TNA show a few weeks ago. But, you know, we're standing there with the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, man.

And it's so good just to see, like I said at the beginning of the show, because I thought from the get-go that that dude had something special in him. And to be the person that NXT and WWE chose. Yeah.

To go ahead and do this thing that's never been done before. There have been, I think, four or five NXT champions that were also TNA world champions, but in reverse order. He's been the first one. to go From NXT Championship. While currently in WWE.

Yeah, so it was just, it was amazing. It just shows that this company has a lot of faith in Trick. Yeah.

Right. They're going to push him, they're going to give him every chance to succeed.

Now he's going to go work multiple shows with different opponents. It's only going to make him better as a performer. Exactly. I mean, I think they got big plans for Trick Willie, man, and I'm here for it. And, you know, I just said to him, man, just stay healthy because that's the most important thing.

Keep honing your craft, keep working because they obviously have big plans for you, brother.

So I know you and I were both very happy and very excited to see that. That's our boy. And, you know, obviously, the online discourse starts. Joe Hendry gets what they say is squashed at WrestleMania, which he didn't. But Joe Henry, Joe Hendry got a WrestleMania match with huge pop with Randall K.

Huge pop. Royal Rumble, huge pop. Yeah.

Mania, huge pop. And now, guess what? Joe is going to be fine. He's going to be just fine. And people are talking about how, you know, now he takes the TNA world title.

You have to understand, WWE is now making one of their key pieces of NXT. Like on the men's side of things, it's Oba, it's Trick. And they're sending him to TNA.

So those eyes that are on Trick now have to go to TNA and check TNA out and start to see TNA and how they do things. And you're going to be happy. You're going to be surprised. There's a lot of talented performers. Yeah.

And then from there, now TNA people have to be on CW on NXT.

Now they're getting exposure. It's a great shout out to Santana. Shout out to Santana, my boy. By the way. Help say, like, I look, I'm not gonna question you, but I was too far away.

Santana stopped you from probably getting your ass beat the other day, bro. First-class Pennsylvania. Not with them knees on Francis. I'm just saying, AJ and KC, they think they would have bogged you up, no disrespect. Anyway, the point being, I'm glad Santana was there for the same.

You talk, you're talking about me getting jumped. I wouldn't have to. Where if he was in the back, yeah, but you know, where I was sitting was so far away that it would have been hard for me to get over. Plus, I had security in front of me. Your own people, security was in front of me.

They thought I was going to jump in to try to help you. Then, as I pushed my way past security, nobody saw this. That's when Santana's music hit. He came down the ramp. I said, Oh, Shay gonna be fine.

So, I played back. I went to go jump them in the back, you know, but then they never came back after.

So, I think they left. But anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Look, the point being, Santana helped you, so I'm glad he's going to get a little shine because otherwise, I'd be sitting here by myself, and three quarters of you wouldn't watch this anymore because he's not here.

So, I can't have that.

So, I needed Mike Santana to save my tag team partner. Because, like I said, I couldn't get over. the way you know 3,000 people were between me and You and and and I didn't have the kendo stick, obviously, because if I did, You know, I would have been right there, but you know, they they don't know me there, security.

So. Yeah.

Let's get to Monday Night Raw. I'm going to go through Raw kind of quick because I really want to give AEW their time. Pinta going into the qualifying, he gets the win. He's going into Money in the Bank. Rusev had a quick little match against Cesawa, but it seems like Rusev and Seamus.

That's where that built. Yeah, that's going to be, you know, meaty men smacking meat. Not me. The New Day retained over the Creed Brothers and the War Raiders. Saw the match.

First of all, shout out to the New Day for coming dressed up like Giant Gonzalez with the fur. He lives. He lives. You got. But here's always next level.

Yeah, that's where their mindset, their references, their Easter eggs. It's why people love them to this day. Kyrie versus Liv.

Now, there's a little bit of drama there because Roxanne out here passing nuggets in the back. A Roxan game I don't know. Like, she I don't know what she's doing. She seemed like a spy, right? Right?

I don't know. She seemed like a little splinter cell type. But you know it's a no context. We gonna ride with Roxanne Perez to the wheels of rocks. Whatever rocks we eat, but we live too.

But we live for live. And we ain't never had, you know, we live for live, but we love Roxanne too because they both friends of the show. Uh Don't do this, dude. But also. You know how I feel about Raquel, too.

Yeah, you know, that's a dumb friend of the shit. That's a tall drink of water. Good to Dom. Yeah, we're talking those three. Shout out to Raquel.

I just want to give her a chance. But you know.

Something I touched on earlier, getting back when Lib came out and was like, oh, no more damage control.

So that was the part that we said, let's hold up on. Is damage control finished? Is it like, is it a rap? They're not introducing it, but like. With the way things are going at home, Liv, it's probably not too much more judgment day either.

Wow, I mean, and this boy. Dirty dom. Like, you are a dog. Oh, yeah, bro. I hired the beat.

The Riz on this man is just out of control. I see it. How are you going to be the greatest Mysterio in the world? Yeah.

How you going to be the greatest intercontinental champion of all time? And then have a roster like Dom already has, and then looks like he's going to take our niece. And I don't know what's going on there. She's bringing my man chicken nuggets and tenders off. You know what I mean?

Yo, Dom, you need to slow down, dog, because you need to slow down. Leave some for people back. You think he's Leon Phelp? The ladies, man. The ladies, man.

And then Seth. Call the shot. He's going into money in the bank. CM Punk with probably the easiest day of work came in, gives him to go to sleep, runs back into the crowd, and probably does something somebody from Chicago does after that. Easy day of work.

Easy day of the office. I mean, you could call him and find out what he did, you know? I ain't nosy like that. But that was our recap of everything, WWE.

Now let's get to. Whoop! Let's get to first of all, shout out to my boy Swerve. Shout out to my boy Swerve. This is his latest collab with Reebok, the Allen Anderson.

I don't know which questions these are, but the answers is Swerve Strictly. I'm telling you, those are all right, man. Yeah, I'm not mad. I'm they're talking. Interesting $3.99, they hate, but you know, he was on my podcast too, you know.

I That's cool. As long as one of us got something. That's true, bro. Anyway, uh AEW, you double or nothing. Yeah.

Once again, just like Battleground, they start off with a banger from the women's division. My goodness, Mercedes Monet. And Jamie Hare. Hate, hate, hate, hate. Let me tell you something.

Talk to me, man. I don't want to keep getting on these folks that sit behind. Computers to phones, but like y'all, you have to. Just come to the realization. Put your personal feelings aside.

Mercedes Monet, and I'm looking right down the barrel of this camera. No, this one right here, Don Bowie, because I need to know. Mercedes Monet is one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the world. You heard. All right, whether you like it.

or whether you don't like it, learn to love it. Because it's the best thing going the day. I don't know if it's the best thing going the day, but it's one of the best things going the day. As a once great wrestler used to say all the time, she's money. That's why her name is Monet.

She is money, man. And I know people want to point to, oh, well, her on the mic's not that great.

Sometimes her promos. Fine. You know what? If you want to spend all your time just listening to people talk, that's one thing. But eventually you got to get in that squared circle.

And when she's in that squared circle, she does it as well as anybody on God's green earth. It's so funny that. You know, there's always the discourse that, you know, WWE is all promo. And then AEW is supposed to be the spot w with more wrestling than promo. But then y'all complaining about her promo, and then don't give it up for her wrestling.

Make it make sense. Yeah, and you know, I think. I had always been a fan of Mercedes, obviously, in her time in WWE when she was Sasha Banks. I think I can pinpoint a moment where I was like, oh, she's in my top five all time. Was her versus Rhonda at Royal Rumble.

I was instantly a fan. I was like, she's. She's showing up, Rhonda, on purpose right now. And like, she's letting her know, like, this is my world. And, you know, from there, it was just like, you know, banks all day, but now it's, it's, it's nothing but Monet, bro.

CE, and Her and Jamie Hayter, they put on a great show, The Meteora to the Outside of the Ring. Oh, man. It's just one of those, like, I flinched. I'm at the house, you know, and I flinched. And Jamie Hayter was selling like the rent was due.

Right? Like, you know, woo-woo. It was a it was a couple though that that really connects. Jamie Hayter, just a powerhouse. You know, and the thing is, that AEW crowd, they absolutely love Jamie Hayter.

And it sucks so bad that she got hurt when she did and was out for so long. Because I feel like a lot, man, what she could have accomplished in what, those 13 months she was out. Like, it was, it was over a year, right? It's a long time. And then she comes back.

Her look is different. I personally, I was a fan of the blonde, the bang, you know, and then she changed. She went like. Wasn't this good we do? Right?

Like Daphne in a Daphne in this. And at first, I was like, okay, look like she lost her muscle. But now it's like she seems like she's becoming the Jamie hater of old. Like, you know, I guess you got to knock off somebody. Get the rust off, baby.

And also, mentally, I'm sure. Anytime you have an injury, man, mentally, like, I remember I dislocated my kneecap once. And my biggest obstacle was walking down the steps of my apartment. That I walked down, like I would take two at a time before. And it was just like mentally, like, All right, I gotta make sure this is all right.

So, I'm sure with a wrestler, you know, yeah, mentally, you gotta make sure that everything's working right. And I think you know, she's gotten to the point now where it's like, all right, this is the Jamie Hayter we wanted to see, Jamie Hayter that we had before she got hurt. Those two, like I said, man, just props to them. Great match! Shout out to Mercedes for the.

Black and pink, you know, kind of heart foundation, natty like inspired gear. Yeah.

Yo, her and Jamie Hayter just did the thing, man. It's great. Great heel work, obviously, getting the roll up and the running out the rain. You love that. Running up the ramp towards it.

She deserves it, bro. Yeah, and she's such a banger. And, you know, I hate to see her. No, I'm not going to say that. No, I'm not going to say that.

Well, absolutely. And for those who don't know, TJ dislocated his kneecap. In a strip club incident where he was trying to escape. It got crazy. FTR got the winning there, man.

I wish that's how it happened. It'd be a far better story than my own epic. Against Daniel Garcia and McGinnis.

Well, you know, just to touch on this real quick, decent match. I wish that most people, I don't know how, did you really watch Nigel McGinnis wrestle back in the day? No. Okay. I really wish people understood that, like.

Nigel McGinnis, before he injuries kind of slowed his career, he was on Brian Danielson's level, like R-O-H. Like, he was. If I recall correctly, like WWE was looking to sign both of them at the time, and then Nigel had an injury. They talked about the worst. Nigel went to TNA.

He was Desmond Wolf for a while. But, you know, when you go and you watch old ROH, Nigel McGinnis was him. And I don't know if a lot of. fans, younger fans now really know how He wasn't good. He was incredible.

And now we've got this other thing where. Commentators standing up for commentators against bullies, a la McAfee, Cole, Gunther.

Now you've got FTR and Stokely. Why are you trying to start? Stuff with Tony Schiavone is beyond me. Tony Schiavone, of all people. I've been watching Tennessee since I, literally, since I was like 10 years old.

Of course, Nigel can't let that go, so he jumps in.

Now he's in the match with Daniel Garcia.

So I just thought that was interesting that WWE and EWAEW both had that kind of similar storyline, but were as good as Pat, you know, turned out to be Nigel McGinnis, like I said, was on another level when he was an everyday performer. And in a situation like the match that they had. A well-established Team like FTR should get the win over a makeshift team. Whether or not you like FTR or not, the fact is they are truly, they are one of the best tag teams out there. Yeah, man.

In wrestling.

So, yeah, FTR got that win, and that's what it is. Rick O'Shea. Man. Rick O'Shea. Can I start from the top of this real quick?

Talk to him. Talk to him. First of all. How ill is the nickname the Dapper Yapper? Christine Roberts.

Like that name is the dapper yapper. And then I love how he introduces them. Show some love. Yeah.

For Ricochet. I've never heard anybody kind of get that type of, you know, and it shows some love for Ricochet. I like that. Yeah.

I just like when it starts. Ricochet's doing some great work over there as well. You know, it's one of those. He got so much. Flat for once again, him on the mic, though, him on the mic.

But now it just feels like he is. Diving into it is so Just amazingly annoying. And I love that for Ricochet. But he went up against Mark Briscoe in what I'd call a horror match. Man, you know, and you know this.

I love Mark Briscoe so much. And I just wish, man, that like the Briscoe brothers would have had their chance to go to the WWE because. We could have gotten Briscoe's Usos, Briscoe's New Day, like the amount of just tag team bangers. That we could have gotten, you know, but they they didn't WWE said, I believe they weren't aesthetically pleasing, is what They said, but like WWE has had some of the prettiest people on there. But again, do yourself a favor if you're not familiar, man.

Just go to YouTube and just look up Briscoe Brothers promos. When I tell you that Jay Briscoe and Mark, I will put in my top 10 of all promos. The promos were amazing, the matches were incredible. And, you know, still is just so sad to see Jay pass, but luckily, Mark is still doing this thing. And low-key, like, I feel like Mark Briscoe is a treasure.

Yeah.

And one day I want to see, just to get ahead of this, I want to see Mark Briscoe and R-Truth together in a program, somehow, some way, because I feel like that is comedy gold, and that would be something that the entire world would smile at. Yeah, make them interview each other or something. Just some Mark Briscoe and R-Truth together. But man, this was a really violent, bloody match. Bro, it was a point where I was like, okay, we got some color.

Oh, my goodness. It's a lot of color. And it was up there on the movie. And that smile, that smile with just the crimson mask. And he was just like, this is kind of nuts.

This is why I'm talking about, can we just figure out where he's stashing all these damn scissors? He's hiding them. What is happening?

Well, I'm pretty sure he hid one on the rail underneath the ring. He had one in the ambulance. In the ambulance.

So smart. It's smart. You got to choose your weapons. And use it wisely, you know, but just like. Man died.

I love the match. Bloody. Yeah.

Like the. The use of the stretcher, the use of blood. Oh, it was a crazy leg drop onto the stretcher. Leg drop. That was crazy.

You know, just everything about it. It was. And then, you know, pulling out the cleaning products and then cleaning ricochet. Why you bald? Cleaning Ricochet's head.

Just like I said, just that type of, you know, entertainment. That type of sports entertainment. That you can throw in essentially a hardcore match like this. I love the match, man. That's a match that I intend to go back and watch again because, like I said, I liked both of them and I thought it was fun.

Yeah, it was either an elbow drop or I think it was an elbow drop. Either way, Briscoe hitting Ricochet on that stretcher. Ricochet gets the win, but not without having to go to hell with Briscoe. From there, also, we have the Hurt Syndicate getting the win. Yeah, getting the win over the Sons of Texas.

And, you know, just. I know him as Goldust, but it just y just Dustin Rose. Every time I see him, I'm just like, man. I think about that match he and Cody had at AEW. And I would.

I underappreciated that guy.

Okay. You know, I underappreciated that guy. And. You know, the run that he's having right now, the man seems to be happy. There's enough roads for everybody, it seems.

And yeah, the Hurt Syndicate, though, they're just on fire. They retain. They retain. And now that they have MJF attached to them, there was a cool little moment where you thought, like, maybe there's going to be some friction between Bobby and MJF. They ended up like a gotcha moment for the rest of us and laughed it off.

I put on Twitter, I'm like, did they just become best friends? Right. It was one of them moments like. They're gonna be here for a long time and now you just added a third Danger. Oh, technically, fourth.

MVP is nothing to laugh at either.

So you added a fourth. dangerous ally to the hurt syndicate and It's crazy right now. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see. You just death taxes and not trusting MJF are things that I feel. Just staples of life.

So we all see one eye open. Yeah, I just don't know where this is going. They're going to mess around and make MJF a baby face. Like, people are just loving the fact that he is with the hurt syndicate.

So, I mean, look, I have no idea where this is going. Right. But I'm invested. Love Bobby. Love Shelton.

Yeah.

Love P.

So, you know, let's see. I think, just, you know, from my own personal opinion. Seeing them Not anything that's, you know, obviously Swerve and Hangman, you know, the main guys, but like as far as stories go. It's probably the second most interesting story there. Like, watching the Hurt Syndicate is something that I look forward to on AEW programming.

Yeah, because you don't know where AMJS is going to be. You don't know what's happening. You don't know what he's going to say. It's interesting, and I don't know where it's going. And that's the thing.

You're going to keep me tuning in, and that's, you know, essentially what you want. But then you had Okada. Versus speedball. Speedball Bailey. Can I tell you something about this, Matt?

Talk to me, man. That's what we're here for.

Well, Connor went over, right? But I'm going to be very honest with you. There were numerous times in this match, at least three. Where I went. My belly's gonna beat Ocata.

Like, that's how good this match was. It was Okada seemingly not being able to have a defense for Mike Bailey spinning kicks. He was getting the crap kicked out of him. You know, speedball Mike Bailey doing all types of video game, like, you know. And it's just like...

I was at the point where I was resigning the fact, this is what I told myself about. Five minutes left in the match, like, all right. I know we're going to Okada Omega. We need that. They don't need a belt.

Like that doesn't need a title.

So yeah, I guess Mike Bailey's going to beat him. And that's how close it was because I was like I just let, I was like, let it go. All right, baby. Wait until your ass get dropkicked out of midair by one of the three prettiest dropkicks in the business. And then you get, you know, your neck broke with a clothesline.

And when you realize, oh, yeah, this is Rainmaker.

Okay. Let me let me just cut all this out. He's one of the best in the world. But yeah, man, it was a really, it was a better match than I was expecting. Yeah.

But it's Okada, right? I think I tweeted, all right, Okada not losing this, bro. Not yet. I really did. Yeah, but it's like that's why.

Speedball is putting on the performance that he is, and that's what you that's how you know, like you're dealing with pros. As far as like, you got to look good, but you know, I ain't about to lose this, bro. I'm okay, man. Rainmaker. You better drop a coin or something.

And uh Sorry, I'm thirsty. You know how it is. Go ahead. Toy store. Timeless Tony Storm versus Mina.

And some of the best display of sportsmanship I've ever seen. See? Forgive me. It's sportsmanship. What do you want me to do?

I didn't do anything. All I said was: that's the type of sportsmanship I like to see. From my wrestling program. Time with Tony Storm, Mina. Obviously, they have a friendship going in, but Mina wants a victory.

What's the kind of R is the title, dude. And, like, by the way, can we talk about how beautiful the AEW winners title is? That's a good looking they definitely came up from the original sell it. Sell it by the way. Sell it on your site, please.

Yeah, I mean, that first title was nice, but it was small. Yeah, this one is, you're right. This is much better looking than the men's title, I think, because I don't remember what it looks like. Yeah, I mean, I would have brought it for the AEW segment, but I just feel like the big. Spray painted X over it.

It's a little. This is the wrong message. You could get some. You could wipe it off. I'm not wiping that off, bro.

It was a moment. But. Obviously, Thomas Tony Storm, she gets the dub. It's just where they're setting up this Monet versus Tony Storm at all in. That's going to be box office.

A lot of people are having whispers that that might be the main event. And so it's a weird spot because you think about how much they built up Mercedes, you think about the resume that Tony Storm has had and how. Like it's As far as women's matches in this company, This is the biggest one. You got the TBS versus the big girl, you know, the big girl belt.

So, like, it is such an important match about the future of the women's division in AEW. There's a chance. There's a chance. They have a right to kind of see if that could be the main event. And if it is, that makes Monet.

The only person on the planet she's main invented for women's at least main invented mania. Hand all in? Is she the only person if she get that if she gets it? Should be, I mean, like I don't know another lady. Oh, yeah, female.

Yeah.

No. Yeah, bro. This is another historic moment if it comes to fruition. I'm rooting for it because I like seeing history be mad. It's going to make a lot of people mad, more mad than they already are.

Yeah, I love that for them. And then we have obviously what. This needed all the time for the anarchy in the arena. Swerve. Kenny.

Willow, the Ops versus the Bucks and Death Riders. Tuesday. This match is insane. This match was insane. This match had.

So much ridiculousness that, like, how could you not appreciate it? Number one, for the Bucks to have that ridiculous intro. of just like the the four the the founding fathers. And then from there, Uh Kenny Omega telling him to switch up the music. I'm so excited and I just can't hide it.

And then he had a moment where he said, uh. Yeah, can we switch it to some early 2000s alternative rock? I'm expecting alternative rock. And I hear, let the bodies hit the floor. Pretty sure that's not alternative rock, but I'm a rap baby.

What do I know? And it was chaotic, dude. Yeah.

Yeah, it really was. It That's what anarchy and arena is all about, is chaos. You know what I mean? And it's chaos from the jump because you've got four screens going. People are in All different positions in the stadium, in the ring, in the arena.

You got guys fighting at the concession stand. You got people outside. You got people in the ring. You got people in the ramp. Like, it's just, I don't even know how you keep track of this stuff.

Yeah, I don't know what it looks like while you're there. I hope that they have monitors showing everybody what's going on because it is chaotic. It is, it is fun. It came with a soundtrack. To the people who had to listen to Let the Bodies Hit the Floor four times in a row, God bless you.

That's a lot to take in. I like that. I do too. I loved Fiend before WrestleMania. You feel like, and I can't get that out of my dreams.

But it was amazing. There was a Crazy spot. Uh uh I forget who had to get the the short end of it, but um Hanging over the ropes, and I think it was Matt Jackson that landed on him into his brother. Giving him a power bomb through a table. It's an insane spot.

That was one that stood out to me. Obviously, Uh Willow. Willow was a a What do you say? An underappreciated MVP. There was a moment where I really thought she was going to get the pin, and I love me some Willow Nightingale.

Like, I just see the lady and I get happy. And yeah, but the match goes on. I'll get to that in a minute because there's one thing that mathematically I need people in AEW to understand. Swerve strictly. Plus staples.

equals popeye plus spinach. Do not show this man staples. You show Swerve Strickland staples, and a gear kicks in with that dude. He starts to get sadistic. He ends up getting his tongue stapled.

But I'm Maria, dude. And I asked him, how did you get that out? He said, the doctor in fingers. Oh, you talked to him after? Yeah.

I mean, you got your tongue stapled on TV and showed us. Wow. You're a sicko, dude. You're a sicko. It really was an entertaining mess throughout.

I do feel like, you know, like I said, there was a moment where Willow was about to get the pin. And I'm Really felt like that's where things could have ended. It drug out a little bit for me, but. The spots that they did fill that time with were amazing. And the saving grace, for me, at least.

Swerve getting that sneaker promo at the end. That's hilarious. How do you not find that funny? You got tax in the bottom of the box? Oh, no, no, no.

Mine are cool. They didn't come with tax. Thank goodness, bro. But yeah, he turns his Allen Iversons into cleats. Ends up getting the victory.

That match right there, bro. It's one of my favorite matches that I've watched from the company. And as a whole, double or nothing. Everybody who's followed me knows that my favorite AEW pay-per-view has been Full Gear. when it was at the forum.

Mm-hmm. This took the cake. This was my favorite AEW pay-per-view I have ever seen. Uh and I loved it though. Silence.

I'm trying to touch on something that you have, and I think you pretty much hit everything, man. It just, it's chaos, it's insanity, there's blood, there's text, there's staples, there's a high-low forklift, there's a swerve off the top of a forklift. Um there's Kenny Omega being just You know, hyped up by powerhouse hobbs to do a backflip off of the railing. Oh, right. Yeah.

Yeah.

Just like, man, there's just so much going on. Like I said, I'm just checking my notes. Shout out to Smo Joe. Right. Like, Joe was great.

Everybody. You know, then you had Hook come out. Oh, right. And now you can see, though, that there's a little beef there with the ops and Hook, which I get because Hook gets hurt. Hobbs takes his place.

I think Hook's going to play that you didn't check on me, you just replaced me.

So that's where that's going. But then you had the announcers who, like, it. And I guess I'm never going to be happy. I know where you're going.

Okay, because he comes out in a hood, and sometimes the announcers are like, Well who is it when it's so Painfully obvious to the person. And you're like, what do you mean? Who is it? But then. Hook comes out, and I think it was Tony.

I don't know if. Was it Taz? I don't think it was Taz. I don't think Taz say anything. Yeah, Taz.

I better not say, like, who's that? They were like, oh, it's Hook. And I'm like, before the hood was off. And I'm like, well, yeah. Yeah, man, just wait till the hoods off.

And it hit me like. Either way, I've been complaining. Like, if they act like they know who he is or they act like they don't, so I don't know what to do. You just do whatever you're doing. Yeah, man, you do your thing.

By the way, the hoodie was hilarious. It was orange on camera. Yeah, that was hard. Um, yeah, and uh, oh, I know what I want to bring up because I need to, I got a bone to pick with you. That title is not in that briefcase.

What did y'all do with the title, man? I know something happened to that title. There's no way that you just don't show your heavyweight title on television. What y'all do to that title, bro? Because it's not in that briefcase because Kenny was about to punt it and then he was like, uh, let me just give it a nudge.

That briefcase is way too light, bro.

Well, King wouldn't break his toe on a briefcase that was holding 20 pounds of gold in it. TJ. 20 pounds of gold in that thing. He breaks his toe, then what? I'm all for Elias and Ezekiel not being the same person.

I'm all for most ridiculous things. That title is not in that briefcase, bro. It's not in there. And I don't know what y'all did. We'll find out one day during the documentary.

But just know, I know it ain't in that foam ass briefcase covered in tape. Thank you. And that was on his mind. Obviously there was uh Don Callis family getting the win over Paragon, but But we are ending our show with Hangman Adam Page. Hangman.

Will Ospreay Yeah. When I say this match was. Hmm.

Solid. Bro. As a rock. Bro, they did their thing. And I went in rooting for Hangman.

Obviously, they had their promo battle. And I have been going against Hangman for a long time because I'm a swerve strickland guy. A little bit of a hater. But hangman, you know, I. Used to have a friend that worked for that company, but Hangman Won me over with this match.

And I, I, I chose with the promos first, but with the match, and Hangman. Number one, you're going to you're going to Texas. You go to Texas. It's hard to go into Texas without, you know, the guy who's a cowboy. going for the belt.

Still had the drama. I love that Will Ospreay, he's been talking his best in the world. Um and he came out showboating a little bit. He came out, you know, just a little confidence, you know, and. Hangman had to kind of show him throughout the match, like, no, you're going to respect me.

Like, all these taunts to the crowd, the bows, all the laughing and the shit while we're like, no, no, no, no, you're going to respect this gangster, bro.

So, like, hangman doing his thing. Um, Obviously, the spot that I really liked was some little some little storytelling, if you will. How about that? Which one? Them using their rival's moves.

Moves, right? Yeah.

That was sick. Yep. That was some sick shit, dude. What you got any favorite spots out of that match?

Okay. Uh Man, just The It's not even so much just the favorite spot of the match for me. It was the build-up, right? Because. That promo that they had before the match, where Osprey is telling his story about.

How he flies over every Tuesday, 12 hours, or whatever, and he completely by choice, by the way. Yeah, leaves his family, he doesn't want to move, leaves his family. You know, everything he he's done. to kind of get to that point and now they're going back over there and he's like I need to be the champion, bro, to prove to everybody. You know, and then you've got.

Page in his redemption story, like how he's lost himself for two years, chasing a vendetta, you know, letting anger kind of lead him. Yeah.

And now he is trying to come back and and be the man. That the fans thought he was, or they wanted him to be.

So to me, it was just like that buildup at that point. After that was done, I was like, I don't know who's winning this match. Yeah.

Because they both had compelling, valid arguments, very valid reasons as to why they needed to win this match.

So I would have been surprised by no outcome. Like, either one of them winning would have been. They put themselves in the position where they deserve it. Osprey really is one of the best wrestlers in the world. Last time I saw him in LA going up against Kyle Fletcher in a steel cage, that match was insanity.

He just he's on fire every time he steps in the ring. You said you became a Page fan. I think I told you. Hangman Page is one of the, did one of the. hardest things in wrestling to do.

when it comes to me, and that's take somebody who I initially don't like, And make me change my mind. And I think it was actually the first anarchy. and they or st it was either the stadium stampede maybe I think, but it was one of those early matches that I just kind of went, wow, man. Page dude. All right.

I think I was wrong about him. My sister was the first one to really point him out when AW was like.

So brand new, they still had the receipt. She was like, watch that dude page and watch MJN.

Well, I think the problem was I started watching him in ROH, and he was essentially a young boy in ROH for BJ Whitmer. When he first started out.

So I think I kind of always looked at them like that. And then, you know, they went over to New Japan, started working with Bullet Club. And I still was like, yeah, this guy in Bullet Club just not doing it for me. And, like, even in AEW, like I said, it took. Like I think it was a stadium stampede.

One of the ones that was done outside on the football field. Yeah, when he ran 60 yards before Larry. That was the moment, bro. That was it. That was the whole period of time where I went.

Yo, I don't think I was wrong about this dude. And he's just gone on to become, you know, a guy who's, I dare say, one of my favorites in AEW very easily. Um the whole thing would swerve. That whole program was insane. Yeah.

You know, you broke into your house, you lost your mind, you were just set on revenge. Which completely took you off of your path to the point where you did something that you probably never would have done, and which is burned a man's house down. And then you had that man say to you, I deserved it, which completely messed up his head because now he didn't like.

Now, what am I fighting for? That's therapy, right? That's therapy, right? So he needed to get back up. On track, and look, this is a five-star match, man.

Like, we don't do rankings. Yeah, this was as good as any wrestling match you're gonna see.

So, all the false finishes, the using of the rivals' moves. Like, he did like he did the swerve stomp, didn't he? Or he did. He did the big press. Wait a minute.

Hold on, did I write it? What's the name of it? He did. We're having such a weird blank right now, but he did the slam. He didn't do the stomp or the.

Yeah, now I'm trying to remember which but it was just like it was one of those moments where it's like When Osprey did Kenny's gun. He did hit big pressure on him. Yeah, big pressure. When Osprey did Kenny's gun, I was like, ain't no way. Ain't no way.

He didn't hit a V trigger. Yeah, he hit a V trigger. Then he's going for Angels' Wings of Christopher Daniels. And then for. For Hangman to reverse it into Swerves move, big pressure.

I was like. That right there is. Is a moment, not even telling stories about each other, but just individual stories coming together to make one of my favorite moments. I could think of, as far as performers go, of just like. Where they've been, the roads that they've been leading them to this spot, and even paying homage to the people that they had to cross to get here.

Come on, man. Get the popcorn. That is what they call. Cinema. Talk to him.

Okay. Well, I remember a spot.

Okay. The styles clash to the outside of the ring. Oh, yeah. What? You're going to have to talk.

And again, I think Shibuati was like, don't do it. Yeah.

Like, we're going to have to talk about this afterwards, dude. Are you crazy? Yeah.

Dude, you just talked to Mick Foley about how that's the only move you're not supposed to tuck in your chin. I need to know what you did. All right, because all I see is Osprey go off the side. You got to keep your head back for souls clashes. I mean, I'm going to the floor.

That's crazy. Yeah, that was nuts. They I mean look bravo bravo all around us double or nothing double or nothing man ten stars well done whatever you want yeah it man it was such an amazing weekend for wrestling All, you gotta watch TNA, you have to watch WWE and AEW, NXT, NXT, bro. Like everybody brought their A game, and it is exciting to see where they all have a reason for you to have to watch. Which means that, man, I'm going to have to be watching a lot of wrestling.

We already do. But, like, Bro, I was on multiple screens. Do you know how hard it is to pay attention to a tag team match and a six-man tag at the same time, bro? Because I have 255. They're mixing people up.

It's nuts, bro. And now that they're doing this stack thing, WWE, you're being mean, but it's kind of funny. Doing this thing where they're having pay-per-views at the same time. I'm going to have to keep doing that. All right.

That's how I watch TV anyway. I got two 55s next to each other.

So there's always two things going on side by side. And with the laptop.

So, you know, that's basic everyday TV watching for me. That's how I get down. Stressful, man. But yeah, it's stressful. You got people getting stomped on with you know new Reeboks with tacks on them.

You got you know Mercedes just DDT and Jamie Hayler and when she did the the package just dumped it right on her head. But you got you know a guy bringing cleaning products to you know shine up Ricochet's bald head. You got blood everywhere. You got guts. You got people jumping off of railings.

You guys is in the corner shooting dice. It's nothing. You got earrings being handcuffed to ring posts. It's just this is dangerous out there, man. AEW is wild.

It's wild, dude. But. We will be covering that. Every time you see us on the No Contest Wrestling Podcast, TJ, if you could do me one favor. What would that be?

Can you tell them where to find us? Oh, yeah, they might need to know.

So if you're on the Twitter/slash X machine, We're at There's No Contest.

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