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I am the hero that you love to hey, O. Shay Jackson Jr., aka Pettiguero. Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the TOO, J-I-G-G-2 Jiggy.
TJ Jefferson. What I'm ain't. What's going on, man? The day before Turkey Day. Let's talk about Thanksgiving.
I'm ready. I'm ready for all of it. The turkey, the ham, the mashed potatoes, the gravy, the dressing. We don't do stuffing. We do dressing, you know, just all of it.
The sweet potatoes. Can't wait. Damn. Can't wait. Yeah.
I'm down with it. Ham? Ham. That's right. Nah.
I know you're going to dig on swine. But Asalamu alaikum, please hold the bacon. That's all right. More from me. Looking forward to it.
But, you know, we. We got a nice episode today. We're going to keep them longer today, I don't think. No, no, no. I mean, we know everybody wants to enjoy their day.
Whenever you are listening to this, we appreciate you listening to it. Thanks for rocking with us. Yes, we will have. Big Bronson Reed on the No Contest Wrestling Podcast today. And Actually a chill guy.
You know, I guess. I mean, I've known me and him have spoken on Twitter for a few years now. Chill, dude. Hopefully, he's a little less aggressive than he usually is on Raw. I got to knot my sneaker epidemic.
Oh, you know what? Yeah, he ain't got to say nothing about it. I don't know, man. I will be cool, man. Because he's already in the bag.
What's he going to do? What's he going to take her sneakers? I don't know, man. I kind of like my shoes. You know, but we'll see.
We'll see how the interview goes. You just never know with these guys. I mean, We are professionals. You know, nobody's caught us off guard. You know, I'm not sending any shots.
We got a kendo stick. That's right. Yo, I gotta start bringing mine in here. Who's gonna mess with us with a kendo stick? Right.
By the way, for those who don't know, on the Rich Eisen show, he keeps the kendo stick by him. Oh, yeah. Because you never know when somebody might want to try to start something, Chris Brock. You know what I'm saying?
So, big tuna. Stop. By the way, thank you to everybody. I really love that. Everybody, there's people sprinkling that big tuna.
That big tuna in the comments, bro. Hashtag big tuna. Keep that up. Y'all gonna respect this man. There's gonna be a barbershop window behind you one day.
Keep it up. Big tuna. Keep it up. Well, you know what I mean? Brutus Beefcake is gonna be sitting there like, what you just do?
Listen, bro. All right. That's a cool name. Brutus Beefcake? No, Big Tuna.
You're an idiot. Disrespect the beefcake. You know what I want to do real quick? Because we got Bronson. He's popping out here in like three minutes.
I think Zoom's getting ready. You know what I wanted to do real quick? Because traditionally, Thanksgiving back in the day meant Survivor Series, and it meant Survivor Series teams, traditional five-on-five. We haven't even talked about this.
So I know we don't really have a list made.
So this is going to be top of the dome real quick. Let's just do this. Let's pick a traditional five on five. Men's and women's all-time Survivor Series team. I should have thought about this earlier.
We could have done some research. There's what, a thousand wrestlers to pick from.
So there's obviously going to be a thousand that we don't mention, but we're just going five. I'll go ahead and I'll give you the first pick. Who would you want in your men's traditional Survivor Series team before Bronson Reed gets here?
Somebody who scares the hell out of most people that he's in the ring with.
Okay. I gotta go Brock Lesnar. I'm so surprised I get to see him in any sort of war games alone. Actually, I can't even remember if I've ever seen. Brock Lesnar tag anybody?
Well, you know, back in the day, him and Shelton Benjamin were the Minnesota stretching crew, and I always wanted them to have a match on the main roster together, and they didn't really. But yeah, I can't even think about ever seeing like Brock Lesnar holding the roads for a tag. You got to go back to old OVW wrestling back in the day.
So we're doing all time, I guess. I guess a traditional 515 Survivor Series match could take some time, right?
So I need a wrestler with just unmatched cardio. I'm going to take Kurt Angle. On that one right there.
Solid.
Solid to combat that Brock for sure. Yeah. 100%. Um Okay, I gotta go. Like I said, this would have been better maybe planned, but I like this.
It's fine. It's fine. I gotta go plot armor. It's hard to eliminate this guy for sure. I'm gonna let you know right now.
I gotta go Texas Rattlesnake. I gotta put Texas rattlesnake. Uh Tagging him with Brock, it just seems like I got a lot of plot armor on my side. The crowd is going to be going to. ballistic.
I don't know how well they'll get along. But you know We're doing this off the top of the dome. Yeah, and plus, there's so many wrestlers. I guess we got to keep it just WWE or else I'll go start picking. Yeah, you'll have a pick.
Yeah, you know, I'll pick Kobashi.
Okay, so I got Kurt. You got Brock. You got. Steve, so I gotta have someone in there who can combat those two, man. Uh, you know what?
I'm gonna pick make this pic just to make you mad. Give me my tribal chiefs. Oh, that's hateful. Yes, sir. That is kind of gross.
Okay. All right. Um Hmm. Ugh, do I want to do another powerhouse? I mean like I don't want to have too many of those dudes.
I want you to because when the lungs start to burn, that muscle kind of makes it hard to keep going.
So keep picking powerhouse. No, no, because I got to go. If I want somebody who can go for quite some time. Give me Latino Heat. Give me Eddie Guerrero, bro.
Man. Give me Eddie Guerrero, man.
Okay. I'm not mad at that. Eddie Guerrero. You know what? Eddie's gonna lie, cheat, and steal his way.
Yeah, that's true. I didn't even see him. Didn't even think about that. Man, I really wish we'd have put some thought into this earlier. Right, right.
You know what? I got Kurt. They're gonna kill us in the comments, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, but you know, they gotta understand this is just off the dope. I got Kurt, I got Roman.
Give me. Give me John Cena. Oh, I mean, why not? You want to talk about plot armor? Come on.
No, give me John Cena. All right, that's solid. Like in my squad, right? Yeah, that's that takes me back to Eddie Guerrero and John Cena having a parking lot fight, remember, for the U.S. title where the cars are all in the circle, just beating the crap out of each other while everybody's standing around.
I wonder what the rental bill for that was because. A lot of windshields got smashed that night. 100%. Okay. Mm.
I feel like we're not. There's so many people we're forgetting. Yeah. So, I mean. I mean, just so I can.
I can keep sighs while still having Technical wrestling. I'm gonna go Brett. I'm gonna go break the hitman heart. And then my last one is going to be last, and it's my turn. I'm saying my last one.
Okay. You know, I already have it in mind. All right, bet. God.
So I'm trying to just get ahead of you. All right. I'm stalling because I ain't got nobody right now. All right. So I got Kurt Angle.
I got Roman Reigns. I got John Cena. You know what? I'm just gonna go star studding on this piece. Oh, yeah.
Come on. Yep, exactly. All right, yep, that's where I was gonna go next. That's where I was gonna go next. Yes, sir.
Okay, okay.
Now, do I want somebody who No, no, no, this is traditional. This is traditional. There's DQ. There's DQ. All right, so because Cactus Jack was for sure by the video, but um All right.
Your plot armor is pretty strong right now. Uh You know what? Just so I can have. Another tank. At the end of it.
Because I got some guys that can go in the middle. But you're taking Brock out, I still need somebody who's formidable. Let me get the animal Batista. Dang it. Dave Batista.
Bro, Rock and Cena is crazy. Yeah. Let me see. I got Kurt Angle, Roman Reigns, John Cena, The Rock. All right, this guy, easy plotter.
Here's this guy. He thinks he's cute and he knows he's sexy. He's got the moves. Hell yeah. That drives all the girls wild.
He's just a sexy boy. I want to see him, bro. Him and Eddie. Let's go, Sean Michaels. Him and Eddie going at it for a while.
That'd be crazy. All right. So I'm sure we'll post this, and I'm sure the internet will tell us we're crazy without noticing that we didn't even give ourselves time to think about this. All right. So that's it.
Traditional Survivor Series men's team for O'Shea, Brock Lesnar, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Eddie Guerrero, Brett Hart, and the Animal Batista. While I have Kurt Angle, Roman Reigns, John Cena, The Rock, and Sean Michaels. And if you ask me this tomorrow, I probably give you five different answers. Listen, but it is what it is. Not one Hulk Hogan.
Stop. That's crazy. Let's go, women. I gave you the first pick. Yeah, yeah.
You go ahead.
So, women, survivor series, traditional. I need someone. Mm. Man, someone who I can count on from Bell. To Bell.
There's so many to choose from. I mean, I'd always be disrespectful if I didn't go with my GOAT, right? I mean, yeah, you know.
So that's Oscar. I got Oscar as my pick for the women. Mm. No, no. I mean, my goat has a terrible pay-per-view record, so I can't pick her.
Shout out to Sasha Banks. You're Sasha Banks for this. I know you're a Mercedes-Bonnet. Um, but um hm. I gotta go if I'm if I'm if I need somebody.
I'm gonna go plot armor early. I'm going plot armor early and I'm going Rhea Ripley. I'm going Rhea. Got to. Kind of figured it out.
Plot Armor, baby. Yeah. They're not gonna make real lose China. China art, solid, solid. Oh, I gotta go.
I mean, you know, I gotta go Bianca. I gotta go Bianca, bro. Cause, like, you know. Plot armored, baby. They don't like to make them lose a lot.
All right, I'm going to pick someone who I was a fan of who I don't think gets enough love. That's what we kind of do here. We like to shine lights on people who don't always get enough love, right?
So just right off the top, I'm putting together a team. I'm not saying these are the five best. I'm just saying I feel like this works well on the team. Give me Beth Phoenix with Glamazon. Yeah.
Always a big deal. Um Let me get the 14-time champion, Charlotte Flair. And of course. You know, I know I'm doing a lot of current relax. It's coming.
This one You know why not? Because a lot of people on this list can claim to be the best, right? But only one person says she's the best, and it's not just her saying it, it's bleacher reports saying it. I mean, no contest wrestling may have said it at one point. Give me the man, Becky Lynch.
Solid.
Um, okay. All right, hmm. You know what? The stars are purposes. Uh do I wanna go that way?
Yeah, man. Let me get Lita. Let me get Lita, man. I need somebody who might take somebody out for at least a little bit, you know, a nice hurricane rana to the to the outside. Takes people out for at least five, six minutes.
You know, I know what I said when I was building my men's squad that I wanted, you know, some cardio, some versatility. I think with this women, I just want to go in here and smash, just Hulk smashed, right?
So. She didn't have a long career in WWE. Oh, my God. But she was there. You're talking about awesome.
I know where this is going. In WWE, she was known as Karma. Everyone else knows her as awesome Kong. Yeah. Karma.
I'm taking her on my team.
Okay. Well, uh to combat that I'm gonna use some sort of Some something that's simply irresistible. You know, I'm going to need, I'm going to need Nia Jax.
Okay, well, you, yeah, you. I'm going to need Nia Jax. I gave you a barrier that you need to. Yeah, bro, because, like, yeah, I was not going to go anything that could come at her. I'll tell you that right now.
All right. So, for your women's Survivor Series team, you have Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, Charlotte Flair, Lita, and Nia Jax. Yeah. Well, I have Asuka, Chyna, Beth Phoenix, Becky Lynch, and Karma. Yeah, if you didn't say Karma, I was going to go for care.
I was going to go for care.
Well, like, there's no way. Yeah, I need to, I need Nia Jax. Yeah, yeah. So, anyway, like I said, that's just our traditional Survivor Series teams. That was just off the top of the head.
We didn't put this together beforehand. We know, obviously, there's hundreds of people we forgot. But in the comments, I'm sure you'll tell us, give us your squads, man. Traditional five-on-five men's and women's. Let us know who you got.
But I think I'm seeing the sign that it's time. Hey. You know what time it is, all right. And our next guest, he is a the Tim Tam tyrant, the Vegemite villain, Auszilla, uh, uh, the Lord Wave, Wave God, whatever you want to call him, Jonah Rock, give it, yeah, give it up for. Our man Bronson Reed.
Yes, sir. Thanks for having me, guys. Thank you for doing this with us. You know, just getting ready for war games, you know? Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely, man. Everybody is pumped. It's definitely one of the. heaviest packed uh war games or survivor series in general that I've ever seen. mentally, what goes into that?
Something before, but going into this one of this magnitude, where's your head at right now? I mean, it's in my mindset, I'm always trying to. To make sure, if I'm doing something again for another time, you're always trying to up the ante and make it as good as possible and try and outdo the other war games, which is always hard because I feel like every year it's just getting more and more, you know. Um, and this year, I think the biggest deal is just who's on. On each side, you know, on our side, you obviously have myself and Braun Breaker, the vision, teaming with Drew McIntyre, Logan Paul, and the beast, Brock Lesnar, which is such a stacked team.
But then you look at the other side as well, and you have Cody, Punk, Roman, you know, three future Hall of Famers with arguably the greatest tag team of all time in the Usos.
So it's just a stacked match going into War Games. Absolutely. I know everybody on this side is exciting, and all of the listeners that we have on the No Contest Wrestling podcast as well. But how we usually start interviews, man, basically what When did you get bit by the wrestling buck? You know, what was it that led you on this journey to become big Bronson Reed?
I've been a wrestling fan my whole life.
So I always tell people my earliest memories of life are actually sitting down and watching wrestling in my living room.
So I was two, three years old watching, you know, the first WrestleManias and Royal Rumbles and stuff like that with my uncle.
So I had an uncle that was big into wrestling. And at the time, I lived. My mother My uncle And myself all lived with my grandparents. You know, we all lived in one house. We were all gathered around watching wrestling pretty much most weekends because he would go to the local blockbuster and hire tapes.
So. That influenced me from a young age. And then when... Attitude era hit. I was like 10 years old.
So, like, Stone Cold was such a big thing for me. Still a huge fan. And then through my teenage years, I discovered independent wrestling back home in Australia and indie wrestling here in the States and Japanese wrestling. I just dive deep into. As much wrestling as I could consume, I did.
I became obsessed with it. And then as soon as I finished high school, I went and started training and became a local indie wrestler and then went from there. If you've shopped online, chances are you've bought from a business powered by Shopify. You know that purple Shop Pay button you see at checkout? The one that makes buying so incredibly easy?
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Hi, so you and January of 2019, you got signed, right? You got signed to WW or E's NXT. And what was that like, man, coming from Australia, having to go to Florida? Like, what kind of life changes did you have to make? What were some of the challenges that you may have had?
And also, was there someone that you kind of leaned on once you got here that kind of helped you transition? Yeah, for sure. You know, it wasn't a huge change. Like Australia and the USA are sort of similar, you know, both English-speaking countries and stuff like that. It was more so leaving family and friends from back home, and I packed all my life up into two suitcases and moved to the other side of the world.
Obviously, knowing I was going to be with NXT and WWE, but it is still like a big gamble to be like, okay, let's go give this a shot. Uh And I moved all the way to obviously Florida. I'm still here now. I'm here in Orlando. And I was lucky enough at the time, there was a wrestler by the name of Shane Haste, who wrestles in New Japan at the moment.
He was actually signed to WWE and Funnily enough, the man that coached me in pro wrestling when I started when I was 18 years old, his name is Hartley Jackson. He was actually coaching at the PC at the same time.
So I was able to lean on those two, like two guys that I sort of grew up in the business with before WWE happened to be at NXT at the same time.
So I was lucky I was able to lean on them those first six months or so and then find my own groove.
Now back when you first started this journey, A question that we love to get an answer on is: What was your welcome to wrestling moment? Whether that was a bump. That might have. took the wind out you a little bit or that let you know that you're ahead of that path I know straight away.
So where I trained in Adelaide, South Australia was run by a guy that I mentioned, Hartley Jackson, and he was trained by Antonio Noki.
So he was trained in the strong style of professional wrestling in Japan. And that's sort of what. Got me interested at first. I always was intending to be just a progressor in Japan. I didn't even know WWE was attainable for guys in Australia.
I thought, you know, this might be my main goal. And then. WWE was far-fetched to me until it became a reality. But we did tryouts, and you did a tryout, and if you were tough enough to make it through, that's when he would train you. But in the tryout, we did forearms, just like getting an elbow, forearm to the face, neck area.
And I remember he hit me with a forearm and instantly smashed one of my teeth and it fell out of my mouth. And so this was just the tryout to get into to be able to be able to train to become a pro wrestler.
So that was my introduction to wrestling straight away. I was like, okay, this is for real.
So I better grip my teeth and be ready.
So, but I was hooked straight away.
Now, you're a big dude. I'm sure you're well aware. Is there a move that you don't like taking? I mean, the bigger I've gotten and the older I've gotten, I'm trying my best to not land on my upper neck area. You know, when I was younger, I weighed a little less.
I was maybe, I've always been a big guy.
So, you know, even as a teenager, I was 260, 270 pounds. And I remember taking German suplexes and stuff like that. And you do land on your. upper neck area and Years and years of doing that. Luckily, I'm safe.
I don't have any neck injuries or anything like that. But now being over 300 pounds, I try to avoid taking those sort of bumps, you know, high-angle German suplexes or anything like that.
Well, at least you got the right guy on your team so you don't have to worry. About taking out those Germans. Yes, I have I have we have Brock on our side, he can German suplex and take everyone else to Suplex City. Same as Brombreaker is my tag partner. If he's gonna throw people around, he's throwing them around, and I'm just on the side with him.
All right, you know, I might as well, you know, we like to stay current here, Bronson Reed, so I might as well talk to you about Monday night. That wasn't even my question until just now. But you guys are surrounded the ring. You're ready to hit the ring on Monday, and Brock's music hits, and he comes out and he does his Brock Lesnar thing. And then we find out that Cowboy Boots, so maybe a steel ramp aren't the best, isn't the best move, right?
So, did you see it? Because it looked like Drew's back was turned, so I don't think Drew saw it. But you saw it. And then if you saw it, what went through your mind at that moment?
So knowing Brock Lesnar as I do, you know, I've only known him for a short amount of time. He is a very intense individual. He is the beast. That is him. And I saw him slip and somehow back roll, get straight back to his feet.
And in my mind, I was like. He's either going to laugh this off, which he seemed to do, he laughed it off, we got to business, or he's going to be very angry, and all those guys in the ring are going to pay for it.
So I did see it, but I just let it slide and I made sure to get back to business. All right. So I normally I probably wouldn't ask this, but since we've had Unreal and we've gotten that curtain peeled back a little bit, Would you mind telling us what was said when you guys got back to Gorilla? Did anyone bring that up? Was anyone.
Too afraid to not even like, you know, like, did somebody say anything? You know, I think. I think Brock himself said it. You know, he walked through the curtains and he had slipped on something.
So I think, I don't know who wrestled beforehand because Drew said in his entrance, he almost slipped.
So I don't know if someone had wet their hair or oil or something was out there on that entranceway.
So, you know, I don't think it fazed him too much. He's the sort of individual, you know, if that was someone else and and they were to slip. They'd probably fall on their ass and that'd be it, you know, and people wouldn't engage anymore from there. It'd be hard to get the people back. But because it's Brock Lesnar, he almost backrolled, got straight back to his feet, took his cowboy hat off, and you knew, like, oh, he's gonna still beat the hell out of people.
So if it was gonna happen to anyone. At least it was him. I think it's also cool. He kind of owned it at the moment. He laughed because there's nothing more frightening than a man who's smiling at you, and you know you're about to get your ass kicked.
And he's looking like he's about to go to Disneyland. Right. So he puts on breaker and he's smiling. And it's just like, oh, this is going to be even worse than I thought. Yes, 100%.
Now. How do I say this? Because we had Jerman, you know, we had Braunbreaker on. He's one of our earliest guests. Yeah, we like to call you guys the most aggressive law firm there is, you know, Braun and Bronson.
We're here for you. Not in a good way. Another, you know, we talked to him a little bit, and he's in the video games. You know, he was in the old school Nintendo 64 type video game.
So I. Uh casually call you guys the Super Smash Brothers, Braun and Braun. All right. Are you into gaming at all? That's pretty good.
Are you into gaming at all? Is that any of your forte in there? Yeah, so for me, I'm sort of similar. I'm more an old school dude. I'm a little older than Bronzo stuff for me is like Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive.
And then I got into the 64s and PlayStation and stuff like that. But I don't really do anything current. You know, I know a lot of the guys backstage play Madden or Tekken or stuff like that. But for me, it's like arcade stuff. I actually have.
You can see in the background, I don't know if you can see it very well, but there's a huge arcade machine here, which is WrestleFest themed. And, you know, that's sort of my stuff, like those old school wrestling games.
So you mentioned the Mega Drive, and fans of No Contest will know where this is going. For those who don't know, the Mega Drive is the other name for the Sega Genesis. And not to put you on the spot, Don, but we had Javon Evans on, and Javon Evans. 21 years old. Called it the second Genesis, has no idea what that system is.
And we almost shut down the show right then and there.
So to hear you bring up the mega drive, it hits close to home.
So we appreciate that very much so. Of course, yeah, you gotta be playing some streets of rage, you know. That's what I was all about, that sort of stuff. I mean. I mean, I get it.
Javon is 21, you know, but you got to do some, some, some history lessons and learn your stuff, you know what I mean? Like, I always went back and looked at things. You know, I played the Atari and stuff that was like older than what my generation was. You know, I learned that, you know, different like arcade systems in different arcades that I played from years ago. I'd still go play that stuff and know what it's called.
So yeah, I don't know about the what his are. Yeah. Now, in April of 21, we'll take you back to NXT here. You wrestled Johnny Gargano. And you became.
the new NXT North American champion. And also, you became the first Australian and non-American wrestler to hold this title. What was it like? You know, another question we like to ask of champions. Just tell us about that night, man, when you're able to take that belt home and realize that you're a champion in the WWE.
Yeah, it was a big deal for me. You know, it almost felt like. A culmination of all my work on the independence to get to that point. You know, I was wrestling for 12 years before I got signed with WWE, and it was always a goal of mine to not only get signed with WWE, but become a champion. And that was the night where it happened.
And I remember this is when Triple H was still in charge of NXT black and gold era. You know, it was a lot of, a lot of what you did was. based on what you could do in the ring you know it was all around the matches and i think me and johnny had a hell of a match uh my wife was there to see it happen and i just remember i think the ending shot is there's there's pyra going off behind me and i i'm down crouched down looking at this championship crying i just couldn't help it it was overwhelming sense of emotion i'm crying with this championship and i can hear like referees and stuff say stand up and hold the title stand up and hold the title stand up they're yelling at me to try and get to try and get this last shot obviously on camera and i'm like i'm too invested in the moment to even realize what they're saying so but it was a very very cool moment brunson i'm glad you brought that up i don't think we've ever asked anybody this You know, the haters, the wrestling haters will say, Well, you know, you kind of knew, or whatever. You know what I mean?
Something that a non-wrestling fan would say. What you just said made me think, even though you. No, going in what the outcome's gonna be. You said you were still crying. Can you just explain to people that?
There's still emotion with this, man. This is like you said, this is a culmination of your life's work. And even though, you know, it whatever how you got it, the fact is you still got it and it still means something. I don't think people understand that who aren't wrestling fans. Yeah, yeah, it's still Like, as much as you can say things are predetermined and stuff like that, you still got to remember that winning a championship means that the people behind the scenes have faith in you to be that champion.
And, and, and when you do, when you're someone like me who's who's followed this their whole life, like and you've dreamt of these moments, like it's surreal to have these moments come true. And uh, I'm still waiting on you know, main roster. I said I need some gold on the main roster, so that's coming. And I'm sure I'll have a flood of emotions if that happens, but I gotta stay, you know, I'm a bad guy now, so that's gonna be a bit of a different experience. But yeah, it's really hard to explain to people that see it from that point of view, that like, oh, but it's but it's you know, they know that it's gonna happen.
And it's like, well, we don't necessarily, we might know that night we're becoming champion, or we might know that week we're becoming champion, but I liken it to an actor winning a golden globe or winning a, you know, an Academy Award. You, you're getting praise for the work that you've done. Mm-hmm. Say, you know, to wrestling fans, no explanation is needed, right? And if you're not a wrestling fan, then no explanation is going to be good enough.
So it's like you either get it or you don't get it. That's true. And we get it. Yeah, being from Australia, by the way, shout out to Adelaide. I've been to Adelaide.
Super chill. Oh, yeah. That's my hometown. Yeah, man. Shout out to Adelaide.
I actually had a girl in Adelaide.
So peep game, peep game to get myself in trouble.
Now, one thing that we've learned is that Australians, man, you guys are countrymen. Like, you love Australia. You love to rep Australia. And I know that. Back a while ago, there was an opportunity for you to perform in Australia for Elimination Chamber and you fell a little short.
For those who don't remember, you put out a tweet. You know, you put out a tweet saying that, you know, it had been a dream of yours and you felt like you failed your people. And for you to. Get past that. I want to know what was going through your mind when you kind of find out that you're not going to be able to perform Australia to get to the point where you're taking down the tribal chief.
Like, you know, the like when you get to. Go from the lowest of lows to being able to take out one of the greatest of all time in front of your countrymen. Talk to us about that low and that high. Yeah, I think for me, originally, so I was about to have my firstborn daughter, which is a big deal. But there was a chance that I was going to be able to go to Australia, do the chamber and then come home and then still obviously be there for her birth.
And originally, there were plans of Miver Seth Rollins, which was a big deal. He was the champion at the time, and then He got a knee injury, which then derailed everything. And then I was told: okay, you're not gonna be on the show. We're gonna save you for something else. Obviously, you have your daughter's birth coming up, like, focus on that.
And I was very upset at first because, yeah, again, another dream of mine was. When I joined WWE to be able to go back home and tour with WWE in front of all my friends and family, and they get to see me on like a big show. But things work out and things are for the best. I was very blessed that I was actually able to be home and see my daughter be born. Once I had that moment and I saw my daughter Deja be born, I was like, oh, I.
I'm glad I'm nowhere else than where I need to be right now.
So I was glad I was there for that. And wrestlers know our schedules are crazy.
Sometimes we do miss these big moments, family moments.
So I'm very blessed that I was able to see that. And then as time went on, it almost worked out better because then I got to return to Australia and go against Roman Reigns, who undoubtedly the face of WWE for the last decade. And not only did I face him in my home country, I beat him.
So things, things sometimes happen for a reason. And I'm glad I got to redeem that story and go back to Australia and, you know, thief over chief. Oh, see, there you go. Hold on. How are you done set?
Let me just. I'm just going to take these off. Ain't about to get me. Yeah, get them ready. Check these off here.
Put them to the side. Yeah, yeah. You got a nice chain on as well, though. Relax with a chain, man. Tuck that.
Demo coming out. As I was saying, bronze with the guns. Yeah, not only, you know, as a wrestling fan, not only did you, you know, get to pin Chief, you got to pin Okada. You know, like, that's that's a nice one, two to have under your belt. Not a lot of people on earth, let alone the business, get to say that they even went toe-to-toe with them.
I think he and Finn Balor are the only two that I can think of. That's good.
So dub over those two. What's it like to have that under your belt? I saw that step. Yeah, it's crazy. You know, I saw that stat recently.
It's me, me and Finn are the only two to ever do that. And it's a cool achievement because I also beat Okada at like his peak. You know, he was unbeatable, untouchable that time in New Japan. And so I beat him in the G1 tournament as well. Like a big deal.
And then the same with Roman Reigns. Like he's at his peak right now. Like every time he makes his entrance, people lose their mind. It's a big deal. And not only did I beat him, but I beat him in the Australian street fight.
So it's a cool little thing to have on your pro wrestling resume for sure.
So I got to touch back on this sneakers thing, man. Yeah. It's just rude. How? Like Roman Reigns, right, is, I think we all agree, top of the food chain, right?
If this was a movie said, he'd be number one on the call sheet. Yeah. We're. First of all, for you to lay out Roman Reigns is one thing. How many people get to do that, right?
But then you did something. That we only see in the streets. You get a shoe. How? Yeah.
Where did this come from? Like, this isn't just like Joe Blow. Do you know what I mean? This is Roman Reigns, dog. And you took not one time, but.
Two times. You know how cold that rant was walking around? Roman Raiden's shoes. How did this come about? Could you like.
Let me know how this happened. You know, this is something I've always tried to. I want to make what I do in the ring appealing to as many people as possible, you know, as broad as possible. I think I'm one of those wrestlers you could throw me in the 80s, 90s, 2000s right now, and I work in any generation. But I'm always thinking of those things that are outside of the box as well that people can relate to.
And I remember, you know, I grew up with not a whole lot of money and in a bit of a bad neighborhood in Adelaide in South Australia. And I remember people getting their nice shoes stolen all the time or taken from them in school and stuff like that.
So I was like, if we could do something like that. In WWE, then people are going to get it. And I thought, you know, I thought I would have a little, you know. Just a little section of the fans that watched WWE on TV would understand what I was doing, understand the reference to Debo or taking someone's kicks. But it blew up.
Now I go to meet and greets and photo opportunities, and there's kids with shoes around their neck that would have no clue about that sort of stuff or street culture or sneaker culture at all. And it's sort of cool that I sort of became synonymous with stealing someone's shoes. And not only that, like you said, it was Roman Reigns, you know, top dog of the business. I feel like taking his shoes sort of humanizes him. I said it's sort of like making Superman Clark Kent.
Yeah. Do you still got him? No, so I was going to keep him. You know, I was walking around with the Shula Fowler with both of them and in Paris. Yes.
Another thing that I came up with on the spot, but he cut the Shula Fala apart and he threw it into the crowd in Paris.
So there's some lucky fans in Paris that have them now. Yeah, he autographed them. And I put on Twitter, I'm like, whoever caught these, please post a picture. I need to see them, man. But yeah, that right there is legendary, dog.
Like. Because top guys like that just don't get touched in that way. Exactly. Took his shoes, that was so disrespectful. It's a little kid somewhere.
I also have my eyes. I have my eyes on some other people's things within the company. I'm not going to say what, but you know, I don't think that. That's the last thing you'll see me take from someone. I'm definitely going to be a repeat offender.
Oh, wow. Nothing nobody can do about it. That's a good idea. What you're going to do. That's a swagger.
So when you. Were we ever, whenever we have.
Somebody on here who grew up as a fan, we know that you watch, we know that you have moments in your head. But we'd like to ask. When was a time as a fan where wrestling broke your heart. An example I always use is when When I saw Hulk Hogan run over the rock when he was in an ambulance, it broke my heart, dude. I was crushed like for a week straight, just like ruined.
So was there a time as a fan where wrestling broke your heart? Yeah, I think for me, I remember being super young and I was such a fan of The Undertaker. I remember there was a show where all the heels get him and put him into the casket and then they pretty much kill him off. You know, they bury him and he's gone. And I was like, oh my God, they've gotten rid of the dead man.
Like, I thought that was it. I was like, he's never coming back. That's it. And obviously he comes back later. You know, you can't stop the dead man.
The urn comes out, Pulberra comes out, he's back. But I remember being a kid being so sad about it, like watching being like, oh no. What's gonna happen?
So probably that. That was probably my first one. Then I had much, much more actual heartbreaking moments working within the industry. And everyone, we've got big Bronson Reed here on NCW and Make Sure to check out Survivor Series this Saturday, November 29th, streaming live. on the SPN app and Flix as he takes on.
The team. Look at that, man. You got Cody Rhodes, WWE champion, world heavyweight champion CM Punk, the Usos, and the tribal chief Roman Reigns taking on your squad, the vision, Bronson Reed. You. Braun Breaker, Logan Paul, Drew McIntyre.
And that man Brock Lesnar. It's going to be downright ugly at the Survivor Series, you know. Um. Let's ask him about the the bar fight. Oh, we got to.
I think we're almost running out of time with you here.
So I want to get get some of our good ones. Our number one question is a situational, a situation-based question. You're in a bar, there's fifty dudes in that bar. I need you to pick a team. Of you and four other superstars to make sure that big Bronson Reed is getting out of that bar and into the car.
And it can be superstars of any era, Bronson Reed. Yeah, I'm gonna get any advice. I'm gonna say this: Bronson Reed's a big man. I gotta film where to see some big dogs. Let's make it like 100.
You know, because 50. 50 doesn't seem like enough right now, you know.
Okay, so four other guys with me. Yes. I think 100 guys, we can do any era. I'm going to pick. My tag partner right now, Braun Breaker, 100%, because I know he's always down.
He's always got my back, you know.
So I know no matter what, he's going to be fighting by my side. Number two, someone else sits on my War Games team, and that's Brock Lesnar. That makes sense. Because. Come on, he might be one of the scariest individuals I've ever met.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm not very intimidated by anyone. Like, I've been in this business for a long time, I've been around a lot of fighters, but that's an intimidating man. You see him coming from intimidating, he is the beast, right? Yes, yeah.
So, I'm gonna put Brock Lesnar on there. There's two. I'm going to do Haku because I've heard some crazy stories about that man and Haku in his prime, I think, had ripped out some eyeballs and broken some jaws.
So I'm going to choose him. And then number four. You know what? Let's say New Jack. Oh, I know some stories.
I know some stories. Yeah. Paul Heyman, Paul Heyman himself has told me some stories about New Jack that I'm like, okay, he's a man that knows how to handle himself. Can you share any of them? I'd have him on my squad as well.
Probably not. Didn't bring so not New Jack.
So, Brunson, one thing I like to ask sometimes is I like to ask somebody, like, who would they like to have a WrestleMania main event with throughout time, right? But I decided I want to flip it and I just want to give you. My TJ's top five guys that I would love to see you have a main event with throughout the year.
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Okay. DSW, let us surprise you. Number five, you know, we have a tsunami, right?
So that means another natural disaster would make perfect sense.
So I got earthquake coming in at number five. Just another big man. This is going to be a couple of hoss fights here, but yeah, like you and Earthquake, man, just, I don't think Earthquake really. I don't think people give him the props that he deserves because that dude was low-key so good and so dominant. And he was just in that Hogan era that it's almost like you're being.
I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah, he's someone. He's someone that like uh As a kid, again, I didn't really appreciate him. As much as I should have, and then later on in life, as I'm doing sort of the things I'm doing as a big man, attacking people, I'd go back and watch Quake do the stuff that he did and the way that he laid out Hogan and stuff. And he was devastating.
Like he was such a big individual, but also fast and a former sumo champion. Like he was legit.
So that'd be a cool match. Yeah. Okay. Number four, I got Bam, Bam, Bigelow. Oh, yeah.
Any thoughts on Bam Bam, were you a fan of his? One of my all-time favorites, actually.
So the first action figure I had. Done by WWE Mattel is actually me in my Bam Bam-inspired gear that I wore in NXT.
So he's someone that I've always been a big fan of. And yeah, that'd just be electric. That'd be a great one.
Now, for this one, we're going to take you to the Hall of Pain. I need to see you and Mark Henry at some point in time just throw down. Yeah. Godzilla versus Godzilla, man. Yeah, he's someone that I'm lucky enough, you know, he's he's given me some guidance and and uh obviously I think he sees a little bit of himself and me and the stuff that I'm doing.
But yeah, that'd be crazy, crazy fight and world's strongest man. I feel like I'd maybe be able to get him on the agility aspect and work around him a bit quicker, but he gets those hands on you. I've seen him bend those frying bands. Yeah. And remember, he was a man who was dunking at his size, too.
So that's an athlete right now. Oh, yeah. Now, I threw this guy in because I just don't feel like when we do lists, you know, all wrestling fans do lists. And I feel like this man, I don't see his name enough. And for as great as he was, I just feel like a lot of younger kids don't know how great this guy was.
So I'm throwing his name out there to see what you think. And that's Terry Bam Bam Gordy. Yeah. You're preaching to the choir. I'm a huge Terry Gordy fan.
So, again, here's someone I go back, I still watch now. Actually, the other day, I was on the plane watching a Terry Gordy match. Oh, right. He's someone, he's one of those. He's one of those big men like in in the vein of a Stan Hansen who who's Deceptively fast, has a gas tank that doesn't end.
He can wrestle for 30 minutes. He's over 300 pounds and he's going as fast as he was at the start of the match to the end.
So he's someone that, yeah, I definitely look up to. And I think, yeah, hell of a hoss fight. Oh, no doubt. Shout out. And then at number one, you got to go to the mountaintop when it talks, the big man.
So seven feet, four inches tall. Oh, man. 500 pounds. Andre the Giant. That's a posse.
This is a guy. You got to topple this big man, Bronson. Yeah, I'm again huge Andre the Giant fan. I have some I think I probably can't see it, but there's some artwork of Andre in the background and stuff.
So I don't know. I'd love to do that match, but I feel like he was so unbeatable. Like, how do you even beat Andre the Giant? There's so much lore around him. I can only maybe name a handful of people that have beat him in those last 10 years of his career.
So again, anything like that, that's like big box office type stuff wrestling Andre the Giant. All right, so you're down with that list? I don't have to worry about myself.
Okay, cool. Great list. There's probably only one other person I'd throw in there as far as like hoss fights, and it's someone that I still watch a lot of now. And again, a little underappreciated, and that's Vader, big van Vader. Yeah, one of my all-time favorites.
I had Vader on my list to start with, and then I replaced him with Earthquake just because Vader. The name. Yeah, the name. Even though Vader is another guy who I don't think, even though he does get mentioned sometimes, I don't think he gets enough. Especially with the athleticism.
Yeah, so yeah, Vader was on there. I just decided the tsunami against the Earthquake would be. You know, the oh yeah, yeah. You have to put the natural disaster stuff in there. And I pick Earthquake over Typhoon.
Nothing against him, but you know. That's a shock master record.
Now, I got this. Yeah. What people don't know, Bronson Reid has some of the greatest tweets of all time. And this is the last tweet I have up here. It was at the beginning of the year, January 1st.
I think I might know what it is. Can we see that with Tom? Don, do we have that one? Is is the should be the first one I sent you. It should say uh oh twenty-three I was 23 I was edging.
2024, I was stroking. 2025, I'm bussing on y'all.
So, how do I form this question? Is 2025 going the way that you assumed it would have for you? Personally, you're going to give that a little pause. Yeah, hey, yo, hey, yo.
Well, I think if you look at my 2025, of course I'm busting. Look at it. Look at what I've done in the time, especially those first six months I was out with an injury. Yeah, I've been able to do all this stuff in this small amount of time.
So I don't even know what I'm going to tweet about 2026 because how do I top that? That's a goat. I'll say something. I'll say something on purpose. That's what this tweets are.
Yeah. Yeah. I've had a few people, obviously, like people like the tweets. I have fun with it. I've offended a few people, but I'm Australian.
I get away with it. You can't offend Australians, so I'm going to say whatever I want. Brusson, you got a few more minutes? Are you good right now? Oh, yeah, yeah, we're good.
Yeah. Okay, just let us know. Yeah, yeah, we can go a few more minutes for sure. You spoke of Adelaide. Australia.
Yeah. Right. And solid. There is, you know, a a fairly big star. On the women's side, that that's from there.
Oh, yes. Tell me us about Rhea Ripley, right? Did you have any knowledge of her back at home? And what do you feel or how do you feel about her putting the spotlight on where you come from with her stardom right now? Yeah, I have a, you know, me and Rhea are good friends.
She actually, I tell people this story all the time that she actually was a fan that used to come and watch me when I was just a local independent wrestler in Adelaide. And I remember meeting. After the fact, when she first started wrestling, started training, and I was still, I was sort of. At the point in my career where I was wrestling in Japan and doing more stuff overseas, so I wasn't. always in the local scene as much.
And I remember meeting her and her saying, like, oh, you know, I'm a big fan. I used to come to all these shows. I remember you doing this match and blah, blah, blah. And I just remember at the time, even when she had only been a few months in training and she wrestled on this same show that I was wrestling on, I remember watching her and being like, oh, she's. She's going to be a big deal.
I knew then and there, I was like, she's going to be in WWE, and she's going to be a big deal. Being able to watch her career and then also be in WWE with her. We're both from, you know, little old Adelaide, which is a small town, and be able to talk to each other. And, you know, it's good to have someone that you sort of are very familiar with and have a similar. Backstory to as well to talk to.
So I think she's undoubtedly. Maybe the greatest of all time when it comes to women's wrestling. I'm being a little biased, but she's definitely on top of that mountain. Yeah, yeah. So I've known her for a long time and uh sh she's incredible.
Now, I know you're a Big fan of Japanese wrestling, New Japan, and everything that they have over there. Um AJ Styles, we had On the show, and he mentioned how, you know, there is a bit of a WWE fan bubble. You know, there's a large majority of the fans that are unaware of things like New Japan, mostly because they might not even know where to look for it, you know?
So I wanted to ask you personally, as somebody who's been a fan for as long as you have, to kind of educate. uh some of our listeners and viewers Give us. Five matches from New Japan that are must-see TV that they have to look up if they want to know what it's all about.
Okay, yeah. I'm going to say Japanese wrestling in general because I was a huge old Japan pro wrestling fan as well. And then Pro Wrestling Noah, who I worked with, and New Japan. I'll say something like Quidd Essential stuff. You got to find Antonio Noki versus Billy Robinson, which is old New Japan.
This has to be probably 70s. It was such a clash of styles. You have Antonio Noki, who's one of the greatest of all time. And when it comes to Japanese wrestling, that's who you. Think of most people, think of him, and he wrestled with Billy Robinson, who's a British wrestler who's so technical.
I think it goes for almost an hour, if I remember, or it might even go a full hour. But I think it's pretty, it's on. This is the thing I tell people all the time, I get a little frustrated. In my era, when I was a teenager, trying to find these things was so hard. Like, you had to find tape trading or people that had DVDs, or then the internet, there was like torrents and stuff, but it was still very hard to find Japanese wrestling.
Whereas now you can go on YouTube and type something in, and it might be on there.
So I say, don't be lazy, track it down.
So Antonio Noki versus Billy Robinson for sure. Uh, Kenta Kabashi versus Stan Hansen in old Japan, one of my all-time favorite matches. I love both those guys, super hard-hitting. Kenta Kabashi is on my Mount Rushmore of Pro Wrestling, is one of my favorites of all time.
So, I'd say that. Another Kentuckashi match against Mitsuhara Misawa. Misawa was one of the the leaders of Proressing Noah and all Japan in the 90s and they just killed it.
So I'd say find find their their match in old Japan and then find their match in progress in nowhere as well. Uh two more. I'm going to say Kenta versus Naomichi Marafuji. I think it's around 2005, 2006. These guys were both juniors at the time, so smaller wrestlers, but pretty much.
Changed the wrestling game. If you look at someone like Mara Fuji, he's been so emulated by so many different people.
So many of his moves have been taken by so many other wrestlers. The code breaker was his, you know, the sliced bread was his. The drive-by that Roman Reigns does on the apron with the dropkick, that was his first. Like, he has influenced wrestling so much. And same as Kenter.
Look, the go to sleep. That was Kenta's thing. Like, so I say, hunt down that match. And then for a fifth and final one, you might as well go watch Brunson Reed versus Okada. You might as well.
Jonah at the time versus Okada. And you get to see, you got to see, you got to see me beat him up and pin him. Why not? Absolutely. There's one I got to throw in there.
By the way, I subscribe to New Japan World. I've had a subscription to New Japan World for like the last 10 years.
So it's like. The you know, I did it specifically for Wrestle Kingdom, and then any other time I like to just go back, dig through the crates, and find some dope ones. I'll throw in their one for you, Okada. Hmm. I'll say Okada versus Shibata.
From 2017, it was the match that Shibata, and I've mentioned this on the pod before. He head-butted Okada, the blood just starts dripping, and then he had a. Hematoma or something like with his brain that literally almost killed him after the match.
So that, but that up to that point was one of the greatest matches I'd ever seen. It was April of 2017. If I'm not, if I'm not, it's incredible. I agree with you. That match is very incredible.
That's what sort of made me a fan of Okada. I wasn't, not that I didn't like his stuff or anything like that, but I watched that match and I was like, oh, wow, this guy is incredible. And I've always been a fan of Shibata and his style of wrestling. It's very hard-hitting, very, very much like the Yanoki style.
So yeah, I feel like for people that have never watched Japanese wrestling, they see something like that or something like another one for you, Kentuckashi versus Kensuke Sasaki. They have a chop battle where they chop each other for almost three minutes straight. Like you see that stuff for the first time and you're not used to seeing that sort of stuff in a ring, it blows your mind. Amazing. And you know, just another thing, you know, I spoke Wrestle Kingdom, and so I know this is coming up, so I'm just going to pop that out there.
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At the Allegiant Stadium, home of the Raiders. And you were talking about winning gold, and I got a feeling that if you don't. But you know You're not a predictor of things, but I'm just saying I predict at some point if this man isn't walking into WrestleMania with some gold, he'll be walking out of WrestleMania with some type of gold. Singles tag team, I don't know, but I feel like it's coming for you at the biggest show of them all. Absolutely, man.
I appreciate that. You know, so somehow, you know, this is a big deal for me and Touchwood. Nothing happens from now until WrestleMania, but I still have not made my WrestleMania debut.
Somehow, I've always been off the card or injured or fired at one point.
So this is the year. Yeah, yeah. This is the year where the thief makes his debut and hits a tsunami in front of that big crown of WrestleMania. Yeah. Yeah, man, a thief in Vegas.
That's not bad at all. Ocean's 14, 15, 16. Speaking of tsunami, real quick, one thing I love, Shay, you and I both love is when you do the tsunami, right? You add a little extra with the arm. Was that a conscious thing?
Was that a conscious thing, or did you just do it, notice you did it, and was like, I'm going to keep doing that? Or was it like? Part of the whole thing because I personally love it because it makes it seem like you're flying and you're getting some extra, you know, oomph on the tsunami there. Yeah. It was something that in NXT, I just, when I started using the tsunami in NXT as my finish, I just happened to do it a few times to try and, you know, when I'm up there, I try and put as much energy into it as possible to make it look as impactful as possible.
And trust me, the guys will tell me it is. But. I did it a few times, and then some of the guys backstage started saying, Oh, I love that, you know, you do this when you're in the air and you're moving in the air like that.
So. I so many people were saying it to me backstage that I was like, well, I'm going to keep it. And I also like that it just makes my splash a little different to everyone else's. You know, I'm doing that arm movement. I come off one foot off the top rope rather than two.
It just makes the tsunami its own little unique thing. Absolutely. Moves in the business right now. I don't know about you, TJ, but my feet are cold. I think I might be tied to let Fronse.
Good thing I wore good socks today. I mean, you know, I was even thinking that my alphas might get jacked. One thing, I'm a girl dad, so I got to listen to a lot in the car, bro. I know you know about Sabrina Carpenter, you know, about Chaperone.
So, do you know about Cat's Eye? Because my daughter has been putting me on Cat's Eye. And they no, I don't listen. I'm I'll send you something, I'll send you something, but I know I know that gets you going when you're working out, so I'll send you some cats out, bro. But yeah, just had to let you know that because I know about your music, I know about your music, bro.
But yeah, I have a very uh broad taste when it comes to music, so I'll throw it on. You know, I'm always listening to something, so I'll throw it on, I'll give it a spin. All right, absolutely, Broncer Reed. This has been great, bro. We got to get you on, we got to get you in studio one of these days.
Wherever you're in LA, hell yeah, yeah, like we like to say, man, your family now, you'll know where the spare key is kept. Help yourself in, raid the fridge, do whatever you want to do, man. Yeah, man, ladies and gentlemen, wave god, wave god, bronson react. I saw a tweet. What is your issue with Thanksgiving, man?
It's delicious, you know. You don't like it. Like Brandy Rhodes said she wishes your turkey would be dry after you beat up her husband Cody, and then you said you don't even celebrate. Like, what you doing with Thanksgiving? It's delicious.
I mean, I don't, you know, I am from Australia. I never celebrated Thanksgiving until I got here.
So, but I will say the food is great, and I've had friends and people that I've made friends with here in America that invite me over, and I get to eat and stuff. And I'm actually. Tomorrow. I'm making a sweet potato pie.
So, man, we're going to see how that goes. You know, I was like, you know what? I'm going to, I'm, I'm going to dabble in the food of Thanksgiving because these people are inviting me. I might as well bring something. I'll make something for myself.
And I chose sweet potato pie.
So we'll see how it goes. I'm not a hater on Thanksgiving. I think I'm more of a hater of Cody.
So I just threw that tweet out there to sort of get a jab at him.
Well, he's more of a Halloween guy. Halloween is his thing.
Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Big time. Big Halloween guy.
Yeah. See, my family, we don't do the pumpkin pie. We're all about the sweet potato pie.
So I loved hearing that, man.
So I guess you don't really hate Thanksgiving. It's just Cody. And now it makes sense. That's all right. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Cody better watch himself. Enjoy your Thanksgiving, man. And, you know, much health to you this weekend at War Games. We'll be watching.
And yeah, we'll see the results. Yes, sir. All right. Appreciate it, guys. All right, he's gone, right?
Yeah, boy. Get my shoes back on. I just found this. It's not a game. You know what I mean?
Like, I didn't think he's. Like, I said he can't do anything through the camera. I don't know that. I don't know. Anyway, what a dope interview with Bronson Reed, man.
Like, Oh, yeah, you tucked the chain, that's right. Yeah, come on. My grandma gave me this chain. But yes, thank you to Bronson Reed. What a cool dude, man.
Chill. You know? Super chill. It's almost a. It's just night and day.
Yeah, he seems like such a nice guy. And every time I see him, he's just crushing people. Yeah. I mean, he killed Ricochet.
Well, that was Breaker. He really. I mean, yeah, okay. I'll give you that. I'll give you that.
That was Breaker. But like He killed Seth for a while. Yeah, and then Seth was like, I don't want to kill him again. Yeah, which made sense. Like, if I'm Seth and you did that to me, I'm going to be like, yeah, you know who.
We should not work together. Right, right, right, right. We should be on the same side. Yeah, you know, I'm thinking about Bronson and Strowman. When he hit him on the car, yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
By the way, that was a hot smash up right there. Yeah, thank god they didn't put all them bronze and like all them bronze together. That was just a brawn, but um, yeah, man, Bronson Reed, thank you so much. Um, super chill, dude. Definitely would love to have another interview with him because he, um.
You know, if he didn't do wrestling, he was a theater kid.
So I wanted to ask him a little bit about acting and you know, some other things.
So that's the whole point of this show. People could come back anytime they want, and then you just ask them the rest of the questions you have. Right? That is the inside baseball of us hosting this show. All right, Survivor Series really quick, man.
Like I said, we don't want to keep everybody too long because we know we got some turkey to eat tomorrow, probably today. What Men's main event. What are you thinking? The You know, the rule of thumb is when the last person that the last team that they show on top. usually is the one that's gonna fall.
They cut the camera off. Like they cut the cameras off before it really got down. But I did see the All the faces pouring prime on Logan Paul.
So that means they were up. Twice. two shows in a row. The hills? It's kinda crazy though.
That's kind of crazy to have Roman punk and Cody. And Jay. All take L same night. That's wild. And big Jim.
Yeah, big gem, but like as far as World Trade Center, Chance 4 are the like, you know, they're the uh who the internet says never loses. You know, they're the top baby faces. Yeah, so that's uh that's wild. That's wild. But uh one thing I'm just gonna make a prediction on that.
I don't know hill or face, but someone's gonna turn. In the snatch.
Someone's turning. Ah, yeah. I don't know who. I don't know what side. Just a Not a spoiler.
I don't know. Just a prediction. Just a prediction. All right. Here you go with this.
This is my creative liberties. It's the most dangerous segment in sports entertainment.
Somebody on one of these two Survivor Series teams is going to flip. Uh like I said I don't know who But you can almost guarantee it.
Okay. I mean, it's Survivor Series. It is a part of the big four.
So on the women's side, we have. On the face side, we have Rhea Ripley. Yep. Sky. Crazy.
We have Alexa Bliss. We have Charlotte Flair. We have AJ Lee. Taking on the Hill team. Yeah.
Of the Kabuki Warriors, the women's tag team champions. Nia Lynch, Burton. Two. Nia Lynch. I'm combining.
Becky Lynch. Yep. Nia Jax. Yeah. Lash Legend.
Last Legend, this is going to be a coming out party for her. She's going to show, they are going to showcase her. In this match. Nihil Lynch. Nihil Lynch sounds scary as hell.
But I got the faces on this one. You do? I got the faces on this one. Uh just because I don't know if they I don't know if they show AJ Lee losing yet. That's true.
I don't know. And I feel like it would be able to. Becky Complaining is just good TV. By the way, Becky is so money right now. Yeah.
Like she's kind of morphing into Becky Trump a little with her. I had a tweet about that a couple months ago. Trump Becky is best Becky. Wow. She is just the way she was gaslighting everybody about like Asuka, how they've had battles and she took her to her brink.
But I beat you about nine out of 10 times. And then Kyrie, I saved your life. And then Naya, you're strong. You're strong. Not as strong as me, but you're strong.
You broke my face, but I have strong bones. Yeah, I have strong bones. And then last, you know, if you just stick with me, you'll be a star. Like, Becky's doing her team. We're her team, right?
So. I don't know. I'm going to go with the Hill team here, man.
Okay. Yeah. I feel that. I think the Hills are going to win. Yeah, either way, it should be.
And also, we got John Cena versus Dom. I think Dom takes that. Look, there's a good chance that Dom wins back the Intercontinental Champion at home in San Diego. But for some reason, I kind of feel. Like that last match that John Cena has coming up.
Why take the title off of him? Should be a title match, the last match.
So, man, I was really pushing for Carmelo. Yeah, whoa, you know who I was pushing for, man. Yeah, I know. And uh No, I guess you don't like money. I guess you like leaving copious amounts of money sitting on the table.
Hey. But need to listen to you more. The ruler. The ruler. Open Femi.
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Well, that's what Liz does. She. But yeah, man, I'm grateful for everyone, man. Everybody, man. Thankful for everybody, dude.
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