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Subject to credit approval. AppleCard is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch, terms and more at applecard.com. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. To another Wednesday episode of the No Contest Wrestling Podcast. I am the heel that you love and hate, O'Shea Jackson Jr., aka Pettiguerre, and still Shinshay Nakamura.
You see him. You see. Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the T-Dou, the J-I-G-G, Tuj, TJ Jefferson.
And. What's up, man? It was so It has been so much damn wrestling. A lot of wrestling lately. There's been so much damn wrestling from the last episode to this episode.
Episode 102. 102. 102. We have Titles changing hands. Yep.
We have Heartstrings being pulled. tear jerking moments, if you will. And uh We also have My your app. Tribal chief demanding respect from the IWC, and they still won't give it to him. We got to start off on what happened on Friday.
A little shocker to me, to most of us. Sami Zayn. Ando. And new justice was served for Sammy, I guess, because that's something Sammy shook up the world with the help of shenanigans. Non-planking Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae and Kevin Owens defeats.
Charles Montgomery punk and he regains. The undisputed WWE Championship. You better give Johnny that match, boy. I guess. You know, he looked at you kind of crazy.
Well, I mean, look, Johnny helped out. Yeah. But yeah, man, I think this was a bit of a surprise because you and I, we talked, we kind of assumed, and I guess that was crazy for us to assume that maybe Punk would take this the whole way to Mania, but that is a long time. A long time. But what, eight months?
Yeah, we were mad. When Sammy only had nine days with the belt.
So I can't now turn around and be mad that he regained it, can I? No, I don't think I can. I don't think we should. God gave you free will. That means it's true.
I can. Like Michelle Pfeiffer said, you could choose to not get on that bus. Not the point.
So I don't think that we can get so upset because we were a little bit, you know, down on the fact that Sammy only held the belt for such a short time.
Now he's got it back.
So. Let's just see where this goes because there are opportunities to make some good matches here. He and Kevin Owens, those two will always eat. But now we got Johnny Gargano, who. As pointless of a thing as I can remember in years, to have this man as talented as Jardi Gargano is for months and months and months.
Months and months and months. Just simply laying on his face, planking and doing nothing with him. Unless there was an injury that we didn't know about, it made no sense for a wrestler of his skill level to be doing nothing.
So at least he's back in the fold a little bit. And we like wrestling matches. You're going to get, if we get it, a great wrestling match between these two.
So there's a lot of options there for Sami. Yeah, you know. Johnny Gargano. And uh You know, Tomaso Champa, Chompa. You love Champa.
Yeah, bro. I was a big Chomper guy his time in NXT with Goldie. You know, I still hold my title like he did in that black and gold era. And they were part of that crew that. Got called up prematurely to the main roster.
Remember, it was like: did they just introduce? Ciampa, Gargano, Aleister Black, like, remember, they just all were like just in the ring, and it's like, these are the new guys. And it was just, you know, we see. What can happen when you let things happen organically, i.e., Javon and Trick and Oba.
So, you know, they were part of that crew that kind of was thrown into the main roster and trying to figure out a way to fit them in. You know, once Once Triple H took over, you kind of felt like, okay, the NXT people are going to. be able to get that That push that we were all waiting for. And it just never happened for Gargano and Ciampa. And, you know, kudos to Ciampa for.
Betting on himself and you know, going elsewhere, but also kudos to Johnny for staying the course because now it finally looks like he's about to get a shot. It was a Johnny Lucha chant in Mexico. Johnny Lucha. Like it is. It is definitely going to be a good match.
And I know there's got to be a part of him that feels like, oh, I got to put it on. I got to put it on. They're giving me the ball, and I got to show them what I can do. Do you feel that Sammy. Should get a long rain this time.
Because part of me is like You know, that would be fair, but what's fair in wrestling? And another part of me is like. That championship has now gotten into open season again. Like any match that Sammy's really in, it's not really far-fetched to think, like, this is gonna be it. And that's pretty cool, though.
Yeah, that nine days. No, no, Sammy, but for a wrestling fan. Yeah, yeah. Those nine days from the first reign makes you look at every match now like. This could be it.
You know, this could be it.
So it makes it enticing as a viewer. Yeah, Sammy, bro, you're going to be watching your back constantly, which apparently you do already. You just feel like he's just treated unfairly all the time. You know, the proof is in the pudding. Bro, you know how many titles he done had?
He's had a lot. The big boy. Not the big boy, but it would be. Like. I wouldn't even put it past them.
Yeah, right. You know, for him to lose this on the next rate.
Okay, wait a minute. Friday, right? Friday. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. That's seven days.
If they take this championship off this man after we were mad after a nine-day reign, how are you going to feel if it was a seven? Like Tony Braxton, seven whole days, not a word from you. Want to be on. Deep boys, deep boys. Seven whole days.
It could happen. It bet not happened. I hope we don't get knocked for that because I love Tony Braxton. I hope she sees that as the tribute that it was meant to be. But look.
Strangers has happened and would it surprise you? Like, oh, no. You thought nine was short? How about seven? How about that?
Man, you're lucky you made it to the car. But I don't think they'll do that. But there's something else. That me and you had our discussions about or so we done with this? No, not necessarily.
We're still on it. Uh He is the undisputed. Yeah. Why? Yeah, you had, and look, you have a great argument.
Like, there are two world championships. And we understand that it became undisputed when, like you said, Roman unified them, but now we have a world champion.
So, undisputed is not supposed to be there no more.
So, it should just be universal. No, you're the universal. No, universal got put to bed. It used to be WWE world.
So you're the WWE champion, and that one's the world champion, like the old school days. Old school days. Yeah, because undisputed makes no sense. There's a bit of a dispute. There's a bit.
Yeah, there is a bit of a dispute. And, you know, I felt here to interrupt you, but like your argument to me this week about this, at first I was like going to disagree with you, but you were so passionate about it. I was like, all right, yeah, you do that. I mean, because, dude, because what you guys are, I don't know if we talked about it, but. I'm in the Fantasy Football League with TJ.
And in this league, Rich Eisen has just made it an all-star game. Here is Lee. Just happens to be. For anyone that didn't see, that was a genuine spit tape. Because I know where this is going to give up.
In this league. And I just spit tea all over. In this league. Just happens to be. Seth freaking Rollins, right?
So. I see that Sammy wins the title. And I'm like, hmm. Sami Zayn just won the, what I call, the universal title. That makes him tie Cody Rhodes and.
Seth Rollins. Sami Zayn is tied with Universal Championships with Seth Rollins. Seth, how do you feel about that? And of course, he sends a hilarious ice cube, Jif. Good to see you, as always, Dad.
But yeah. TJ saw that and was like universal. That's not what that's called at all. I didn't want to call you out on the group chat and print everybody. Bro, it would have been a whole episode of NCW in that group chat.
Because I was like, this is embarrassing. How are you going to? I mean, like, dude, it is the same, bro. Undisputed makes no sense. Am I wrong?
I mean, yeah, yes. Come on, man. They need to switch that up, bro. The Undisputed is a tongue twister, anyway.
So, yeah, bro. Undisputed. You know, stop it. As soon as Cody won it off Roman, it should have not been undisputed anymore.
Soon as you want well, the second they uh introduced the new world title. Yeah, but who cares? When Roman got it, Roman got it. It was different, man. And he had Paul Heyman carrying the other two.
And then he had the girl just walking out there with three titles. How many days was that? 1,316 days, man. God. Damn!
This dude has to look up his daughter's birthday, but he knows how many days Roman reigns. Oh man. I'm just joking about that. Yeah, man. August 4th is easy.
But yeah, man, I'm still mad at WWE for not doing Roman 1316 shirts. But I never even think about that, bro. That would have been hard. How did I never even think about that? Bro, man, they dropped the ball.
I'm gonna make one, and then they're gonna be mad at me, and I'm gonna get a cease and desist. Oh, yeah. By the way, my Bailey shirt worked, so. Hey, Becky Lynch saw it, you know. Becky was so cool.
Bailey Hogan. When she started going on on Bailey Hogan. Bailey Hogan. Oh my God, what ah, it's so good. Becky, you know.
I know this was two episodes ago, but like that was just that was a lot of fun. She's, you know, we like I said, we met her in Anaheim. I think was the first time we really met her. And I walked away after like a five-minute interaction with her, going, either she's the best actress on the planet Earth or she is literally one of the nicest people. Yeah, what a treat.
And I know she can act a little bit. I've seen it, but I think it's shout out to the Marine Six. She's just truly like a funny, dope person, man. Yeah. That was a lot of fun.
But yeah, she definitely noticed that. You had a Bailey shirt and then kind of mocked you because you didn't really buy one to put any money, merch money in their pocket. You made it. Hold on now. I already talked about getting Lodestone in 2K.
My God. What more can you do?
Well, my man, N was a spur of the moment thing. I was like, I'm going to be on camera. There's questions about Bailey. I couldn't go I'm sorry they weren't selling a shirt at the event So she was in the air. But Bailey's back.
So we ain't worried about her back, man. Even though I got to admit, I did like fantasy book a lot of stuff when people thought Bailey might take her ball. I was like, there's a lot of the money. I like to see in some other places, but we ain't gonna get those. Life insurance is one of those things that's easy to put off because it doesn't feel urgent today.
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God, I love Bailey. Anyway, what else went down, brother? We saw. Oh. Finally, the prophecy has finally come true.
El Grande Americano. is the triple R. Mega champion, though. From where that Began. to where it is now is like It's just the ultimate, like, this is why you just gotta just watch, right?
Just watch, just watch it, watch what happens. When you think about, you know, Chad Gable and when he, by the way, We're not letting anything out of the bag because of the mask versus mask match earlier this year. We found out that that was Chad Gable. I was stunned. I got to be honest with you.
You know, I had a list of people who I thought it was when he was revealed to be Chad Gable. Call me shocked. I was like, yo, you pulled the wool over my eyes, people. You really did. Yeah, I am.
So. Chad Gable when that thing first popped off and like the Gulf of America, which I still think is funny. See, I hated it. I still thought that was kind of funny. I hated everything about it.
It was kind of fun. But yeah, what really felt like a poking fun at Lucha Libre, and it didn't really. It felt like. people in the rider's chair. Missing the mark.
It's missing laughing with someone and laughing at someone. Yeah. You know, and it kind of felt like this was a laugh at. And then, like, if it was like, if he would have gone out there and was, you know, getting his ass whooped.
Okay, then you're making yourself the joke. But he was going out there beating Lucha. It was like, you know. And remember, his goal was to learn about. The way of the, you know, and then uh.
Yeah, just The new iteration of El Grande Americano and him coming out and just automatically being once once he started speaking Spanish, it was over, bro. And I remember when When Dom Showed up In uh triple R. Uh remember he was like He had a hoodie on, and like we people didn't know what he was. And then when he unveiled that it was Dom under there, and he had just won the Intercontinental Championship, too. By the way, we were like, dude, they treated Dom like he was a member of the Beatles.
Like, it was like insane. And then. for the new iteration of El Grande Americano where it was like bro he has that He has the city in the palm of his hand. There's literally a mural of him in Mexico City, and under it in Spanish, it says. A Mexican is born whenever the hell they want.
Oh, really? Yeah, like, dude, like, this dude is the man. All right. And for the two of them to finally Go at it in that match. It was just like.
WWE has to feel like their partnership with AAA has been a home run. Just knocked it out the park. And Taker being down there running things. Taker and Ray. Insane.
First of all, Rey Mysterio. That dude Could have anything he wants over there. The way, like, anywhere in the world. It was so appreciated. And it just felt so.
These last couple of nights of WWE being in Mexico, like, it just. Felt so damn good. Yeah, it was a lot of fun, man. I honestly think this past Raw is probably one of the best episodes of Raw I've seen in. I couldn't even put a number on it.
Yeah, we'll get to that. Yeah, just El Grande Americano. Finally, reaching the prophecy. And is your triple O mega? Yeah, you know, the legend of El Grande of Maracano was, you know, like the legend of Paul Bunyan or any type of great legends that you had to be there to see.
Yeah, you know, but yeah, it was a situation, it was a character that shouldn't have worked. Yeah. Okay. Like and if Chad Gable doesn't get hurt We don't get This El Grandi Americano, because as far as I know, Chad Gable, one, doesn't speak Spanish, and two, that's not where his character. He was supposed to be a bad guy in the OGL.
Now, the second one came in and kind of took over where the first one left off, but. It's just a case we talked about with Becky, where fans sometimes are not sure if their voices are getting heard. They got heard with Becky Lynch. The fans' voices in Mexico got heard because they embraced El Grande Americano in a way that nobody thought they would. There is no way on earth anyone involved with this storyline or these promotions could have predicted when this thing started where it would be today.
And as far as, you know. Mm. El Grande Americano, the man behind the mask, still don't know who that is, but that guy. Yeah. He will never be who he was before.
And, like, we're going to try to keep this cave.
Okay, come on. Whoever he is, he will never be who he was before for the rest of his wrestling career because this man proved to be so good. The fact that I Like I said, I want to stay in K of A, but I don't.
So let me break it real quick. When did he learn Spanish? How did he know? Like, because he, this is a guy who just got a Rosetta Stone and starts speaking Spanish like a year ago. This man's Spanish has been craft and honed over years, you can tell.
So it was just like. He's doing something that never he probably never thought. He probably thought, maybe I'll go cut a promo in Spanish at some point in his career. But obviously, he never knew. That his career would be where he is now, right?
He'd be the top star in Mexico. Yeah, like I said, no one could have predicted. The way this story has come, Shay. And this is honestly, to me, one of the greatest stories in maybe all of wrestling history because you took a character that shouldn't have worked. Fans who should not probably have embraced the first interracial the first like The first El Grande, the first generation.
Thank you. That was the word I was looking for. Saw something in version two that they just not just embraced. They squeezed the crap out of it, yeah, and it wasn't just an embrace, it was a bear hug. And you know, with him with his girlfriend being you know, a ring announcer, like everything just started to work with this character and.
Putting up some great matches, having fans get behind you. Then ultimately, he kind of saw the path that they were going on. He and Dom were going to have a clash. He kind of had to know that if you don't put the title on him now, what are you going to do? Yeah, real.
Where do we go? But man, that was a fun match. You know, it speaks to. Just that American bubble. You know, you got.
Chad Gable, born in Minnesota. Minnesota. You know, just as American as apple pie. And, you know, Our buddies across the pond, you know, just the European lifestyle, it's nothing for them to know several languages. I mean, it's a whole nother country is about an hour away from each other.
That's true. They're a lot more. Yeah, and so, like, you know, they're taught early, like, you know, how the world communicates. And yeah, it showed that American school system really showed because. Um whoever this man is, who's not Ludwig Quiser.
Who? Kaiser.
Well, well, Kaiser is working the hell out of it. Exactly. It's not. I don't know why people say that, but. Yeah, it showed bro.
I'm fluent in Spanish. Yeah, like he not me, but like he came in, knocked it out the park, and showed appreciation. That's it. You showed appreciation. That little bit of respect goes a long way.
Like I said, bro, laughing at and laughing with. Yeah, and you came out and spoke to the people in their native tongue. They're like, oh. Hold on. And they embrace the crew.
You down? I didn't know you were down. You down, down? Yeah, so like, that's all it takes. Boy, it.
Black people are are are We are especially victims of this because all it takes is for us to hear that you know a little bit about the culture. We laugh. Oh, you come to the checkout. On to the career, like that's all it takes, and so like I feel them 100%, and his entire career has completely shifted and. It's just so, it's just so amazing that if you really look at it, like there's no way he could have mapped this out, and now you're running it down there.
And yeah, more power to him. El Grande Americano, but he's really European. And then you know, the cool thing at the end, you know, you had the Judgment Day interference, you had Rayo and Bravo, they come down, live. came down, she interfered, but. To have all of that and then have Rey Mysterio in the neck brace come down and make the three count, Uno.
Okay. Can you talk about that bump Ray took, by the way? From Omos? Yeah. Yeah, you know, he had a match with Omos the two days prior to night one.
You know, he got, of course, because Omos is 7 feet 14 inches tall, Ray got beat down. He puts him on a medical stretcher. And Omos was like, nah, we ain't done that. Yeah, man. Hey.
We're not done yet. He picks him up and slams him through it. Bro, I had to. I had to be like, hey, you all right? He was like, yeah, man.
How you hit him up? Yeah, yeah. I was like, dude, you know, that looked a little rough, a little rough for you. He was like, no, man, I'm tough, but that dude's strong as f. Yeah, he's big in the mug.
Also. Uh Keep going with this because I would. But yeah, I want everybody to know. I told them that, you know, I know that you're tough. You know, you're a Padres fan.
Gotta be some of the toughest people on earth.
Sometimes you're a jerk, sometimes what am I wrong? Am I wrong? Yeah, big ups to El Grandi Americano. Big ups to Dirty Dom. What a great, great match.
And that was fun, man. By the way. El Grande Americano. Alright. He is.
Playing a Mexican man from the States But he from Europe. How do you know where he's from? I almost said something that was going to get us in trouble. How do you know? But I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. But yeah, shout out to him. Like I said, it was a fun card, it was a great card. You mentioned Omos.
If you haven't been paying attention, he's been putting in work down there, you know, working with Dom. I love the fact that they found something for Omos to do because you simply can't. There's a lot of things you can teach. You cannot teach speed and you cannot teach size. And Omas.
You can't teach that. We've got to meet him. First of all, amazing human dude. Yeah. Hate taking pictures with him.
Right? Because he makes you look amazing. He made me look like a damn action. All right, you know what? I'm going to put a note for D'Lo to put this picture in of you, of me, you, him, and truth.
Bro. Because I look like, you know, picking up his son from school. I don't like that. Never take a picture with him again. It's cool to see him getting some run, getting used down there, and he's coming off as a monster.
Yeah. He should be. He won the uh the the battle royal, of course.
So big ups to to Omos and um another big championship change Within, I think it was night one, which was the Reign Dee Reyna's Championship. Yeah, Queen of Queens. Queen of Queens. And we saw La Catalina defeated Flommer. And she had been champion for, I think, 1,100 days herself.
Damn.
So, yeah, that was a long time coming. La Catalina, they brought her in, and she was someone who came into. The promotion and made it known that I'm going after the top belt with the person with the longest reign. I've wanted this my whole life. They showed pictures of her as a kid.
She drew pictures. Of the Reign of the Reigners champion.
So, this was like, you know, a story that was building. She wanted this title. She was bold enough to point at the champion and be like, I'm coming for you. Yeah. She got busy and she got the belt, man.
So congratulations to her. Yep. She was, she, uh, she had came on to NXT yesterday and had a little microphone battle with. Kalani and uh uh uh Zara.
Okay. And uh Hamburger. Hamburger. But now we've got a number one contender to that. Because that's going to be interesting.
And that is our girl, NCW's niece. Roxanne, Roxanne. Roxanne.
So I need. Come on down.
Well, can before as you gather in your thoughts, this is what... How many times have I looked in this mic and told people, I'm not worried about Roxanne. Roxanne's going to be fine. But it got to a point where I'm like, look. Although I truly believe she's going to be fine.
And we love Roxanne. We are very pro-Roxanne. You can't, you know. But you can't. Keep.
Having her take L after L after L because people, unlike us, who don't see the vision, who don't know how she good is, how good she is, is gonna, they're gonna start questioning.
So it was great to see her get a big win down there. D'Lo, get the bleep ready. All right, D'Lo. Yeah. What?
Top. Yeah. Okay. is going on. With rock sand?
Julia? Jordan Grace What is happening? Everything that I knew and know and thought. What the shit? I need some action around here.
She is the prodigy. Yes, she got this victory and yes and yada yada yada. But the prodigy All right? It the whole Judgment Day thing. is a plus and uh a a little worrisome.
Right now, Judgment Day is, you know, they're kind of licking their wounds.
So it's going to be interesting to watch that. But, like, man, I need some W's in the columns of Roxanne, of Julia, and I need to at least see Jordan Gray. Yeah, but I say not just a W, we need to see her. I need to see her. You work here still?
She does. She's too good to be sitting on the sidelines. Yeah. You know what I mean?
So Bailey's back, though. Yeah. Hey, Bailey. Hey, hey, Bailey. Who?
I want to know.
So, yeah, great, great card. I had a lot of fun watching this new tag team champions film. Let me give a shout out. Because I wrote this down. The Cruiserweight Championship was up for grabs, and it was Ray Phoenix against Nathan Fraser, Jack Cartwell, and Minnie Vakingo.
And let me tell you something. There were multiple moments during this match where I thought all four of these guys were going to win the match at one point. I was so caught up and convinced. There were two times I just knew Nathan Fraser had this thing wrong. My man, Nathan Fraser, first of all, he goes 150 miles per hour when he probably could go about 80, but no one ever told my man to slow down.
Like, he is just a ball energy. Minnie Vakingo is still in high school, dog. No way. I'm pretty sure he's still in high school. If he's not in high school, then he, I know he's not 20.
I know he's not 19. You know, and Jack Kurt will, he is going to become a thing if they just let. Yeah. I'm Jack Cartwell. Jack Cartwheel, man.
But at the end, Ray, Ray. Got the win, held on to the belt, but bro, that was a fun, fun match to watch because, like I said. Multiple times. Yeah, it could go either way. I fell for it.
Yeah. I fell for it each and every time, man. I got a. I gotta hit our boys Fraxia. We got a game, man.
I got a game with them, dudes. True, that, true. I got a game with them, man. And I got a game with AJ Styles, man. AJ, bro.
Thank you for the video. By the way, for sure. You did for us. And we obviously had Awesome Kong on. But yeah, Kia.
But yeah, I need to step it up now. I'm a terrible. I'm a terrible gaming friend right now. You got to get into it then, baby. And then what we saw.
We saw another championship. Switch hands and The childhood dream has come true for Sean Michael. Oh, wait a minute.
Sorry. Oh, that's wrong. And we didn't see it. We didn't see it, but it happened. It happened at a house show in Santiago, Chile.
The childhood dream, not for Shawn Michaels, because it did for him, but it also came through for Friend of the Show, another one where we are unapologetically a fan of Stephanie McCare. Congratulations to you, ma'am. You regained. And defeated, you regained the women's world championship by defeating Liv Morgan in a house show in her home country. And I said this.
Was it last week or the week before? We were surprised that she didn't get the win before, but I was like, don't be surprised if you give it to her in our home country. I got to be honest, though, I don't know if I felt that because I knew.
So was it going to be televised? Right. But every now and then, WWE Will you know surprise you? And that's what they did. And what a moment.
They let Stephanie go to her home country. And. Regained her title, and it was an amazing atmosphere, an amazing pop. And just you could see the emotion was just, it was real. For a sport that people don't consider real, for a sport, sport, and I air quote because some people don't consider it that, whatever.
People say, well, you know beforehand, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. The emotions are real, man. This girl who grew up in Chile, who left there on her own to go to Mexico and Japan to hone her craft and understand and learn the ways of wrestling, for her to be able to come back home in front of her dad and her family and win the world championship, bro. You gotta just applaud it.
Because she's thinking about all the hard work. She's thinking about that first day when she decided. I'm gonna be a wrestler. She's thinking about telling her dad that she wanted to leave. Yeah, like she's she's thinking about a.
The little girl that's in the audience watching her win it. Like, oh, I can do that. Yeah, like, all I got goosebumps right now. Like, all of that goes into those emotions and, like. Once you know what you're looking at, it's so, it makes you so happy.
When the company decides to, you know, do right by somebody. And, you know, this was something that. It's probably one of the, if not the best moment in her wrestling career, right now. It has to be. Like, even better than the first time this year.
Yeah, what she said she was going to do, she did. Knocked it out of the park. Of course. WWE Smart Move. It's going to be available on the WWE Club.
That's where we can watch it. Gotcha. I was like, I knew y'all was going to make me buy that some kind of way. But yeah, so it is available to see. I definitely want to see it because we've just seen clips of it online, and from the clips that people have recorded.
It seems so loud in there. Yeah, man. It was, it was wild. And we spoke of her before. We talked last week about how Becky Lynch was just like, look, I'm going to help you out because I know you're getting jumped.
All you got to do is give me a shot. And Stephanie didn't seem like she wanted to. You know, work anything out with Becky. All of a sudden, Becky Lynch is now the special guest referee in this match. And if you saw what happened, and I obviously spoilers because it's all over the internet, Liv hit her finisher, and Becky went down for the three count and decided that she wasn't going to count three.
And this is because we all know Becky Lynch, referees, Jessica Carr, I'm talking to you. But if Liv didn't get in Becky's face prior and slap Becky across the face. Maybe that three count would have gone down, but you don't. Touch the man. Not the man.
You don't touch the man, especially in the man's face. Right. Moneymaker, man. Yeah. So, Liv Smacks, Becky.
Becky doesn't like that shit. And yeah, she had to get the bird. One, two, F you. Nope, not gonna happen. Yeah, not gonna happen.
And then, you know, shenanigans ensue. And. Can we talk about how difficult Stephanie Vicer's top rope finishes? Not only is she already backwards, But to get that spin off and to land the way that she has to You gotta think before you jump. It's not like that's not automatic.
Like, you have to figure out where your footing is and get that rotation off. And yeah, that, that. The roof just shot off the place. And it made me think, TJ. House shows How many times has the title changed at house shows?
Now, before prior to the modern era, it was a bunch because they're all on television.
So, like, I remember Bob Backlund lost the WWF championship to Kevin Nash in what, nine seconds at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, since 1992.
Okay, it's been three times. That's it. That's it. What you got? Ric Flair to Brett Hart, Brett's first title.
Witches. Fucked up, by the way. Which is Rick, because Rick was on his way out. Yeah, but just like Brett Hart's first title was on televised, that sucks. Like, as a fan, I'm like, I don't think they were sold on Brett Hartoon.
You know, Brett had to make them show, see that he was in the manner.
So, and then Randy Savage in Hershey, Pennsylvania to Ric Flair. Yeah, okay. And then Bob Ackland and Diesel. Yeah. And so Stephanie Vacare is only the fourth time since 92.
Since 92. You know, I told you in our phone conversation that I thought AJ Styles did it. He did, but it wasn't the world title, it was a U.S. title over Kevin Collins. But I knew he won eight belts on television.
But yeah, man, can you just imagine what. It just Probably the woman probably had no words, man. Yeah. Oh my God. To be like, bro.
I'm sure those were some of the best feel-good tears. Oh, yeah. And you know, we. You know, we like to do this pod. We sometimes keep in Kayfabe, and sometimes we don't.
But here's a real moment: if you really go back and you watch. The clip of the one, two, three, you can see for a split second, lives on her back, and she reaches up and she kind of embraces and hugs Stephanie. Yeah, real quick. Shoulders up, by the way.
So there was kind of a little thing, but Becky was hitting that through regardless. But yeah, you could see Liv kind of reach up and hug. Stephanie, for a second, and that just shows, you know, that the love and the respect that all these competitors have for each other. And I'm sure Liv was thrilled for Stephanie to be able to get that win. What's her real name?
Oh, Liv's real name, you know. Oh, Gianna Daddy. Gianna, I'm sure Gianna was very live. Probably didn't give two pieces of round. No, no, no, Gianna was probably very, yeah, yeah.
That Gigi Daddy O, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Gigi Daddy, Gigi Daddy, hard as hell. A couple new world champions, man, between La Catalina. And there's also pictures going around that La Catalina and Stephanie they had a GW trout. And there's pictures.
I'll try to find those for D'Lo so he can put them in there. Uh, yeah, man, that they they, I think La Catalina was 19 and Stephanie was like 24, 25. Things didn't work out for them then, but every time, man, stay with it. You know, God's plan. And the plan was for those two to win championships.
Back to back, like that's kind of amazing, bro. Yeah, man. Bro, it is so much to be said about staying with it, you know. Uh My uh, one of my favorite rappers by the name of uh Fabulous F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S-O-U-S says my plan B is just another way to get my plan A to work. Oh, okay.
So, like, it is. It speaks to people just Staying with it. And that's so hard to do. There's been times when no contest where we're like, man, what are we doing? Like, what's going on?
But stay with it. You know, if you drop the same droplet of water on concrete, it will crash eventually. But eventually doesn't come for a lot of people. Even for me, Shay, like, you know, everyone knows that watches this show what I do for my day job as they know what you do. That part.
But bro, it took me 20 years. I was in like actually my 27 year anniversary of moving to Los Angeles was this week. September the 11th, 1999 is the day after I drove cross country that I made it here. Obviously, what happened a few years later, I don't celebrate it on that day. But yeah, my, so I've been here that long.
It took 20. I've always wanted to do these things that we're doing now. Talk sports, talk music, talk culture, movies, talk wrestling. But it took. 20 years for someone like Rich to be like, all right, I'm going to give you a chance to do this.
He put me on air in 2020. And then it took, you know, longer than that for, I've always wanted to do a wrestling pod. And it took. you know, it's funny, bro. I was just looking through my, um Pictures of my phone, and I found a screenshot.
I found the screenshot of the day that I texted DM'd you on Twitter and I said, Hey man, it's TJ from the show. I got something I want to chop it up with you about. Can you just give me a call whenever you get a second? You know, and that was 2024.
So it took even longer to do this.
So that's it, man. If you've got a dream and if you've got a goal and you really feel that strong about it in your heart and your soul. You're going to get a lot of no's, man. Like I remember I had an idea for a talk show back in 2001 and Ashton was behind it. You know, Ashton Kucher, as people know, was my old roommate, one of my best friends.
And we had a meeting once, and a guy that we were friends with. We all went and we were discussing this, and he goes, Well, why would anybody like care what TJ has to say? Damn.
And I was like, wow. And that kind of like. I sat on that. I was like, oh, okay. You know, and that kind of messed me up a little bit because it was like, yeah, why would anybody care?
And I think that I allowed that. To not let me drive, have the drive that I should have. But yeah, it took a while, man. But I'm here where I wanted to be, where I want to be. And yeah, if you just, if you've got a goal and you got a dream, don't let anybody.
Stop you from doing that. Sure, it took me two years to get one job. One job. Two years. You auditioned for two years to get the job playing the man whose bedroom was down the hall from you.
Yeah, you know what I mean? Gary Gray and you know, the suits over at Universal. My dad was like, Yeah, I want my son to audition to play me. His response was, Cube, is this a joke? It's wild.
That is wild, man. Ah, jokes on you. Beep that deal. Gotta bleep that de-lo. Gotta bleep that de-lo.
But yeah, man, jokes on them all because we kind of made it. Yeah. Yeah, you know, a little bit. And even with this, you know. 100 episodes in.
We aren't where we want to be. No. We aren't where we want to be. And, you know, there's been times where it just felt like. We are we growing?
Are we like As long as we're progressing. I feel like that is, whether it's, even if it's a little or a lot of it. As long as you are a step further than you were yesterday, and some days I'll feel like we were jumping rope, but stay with it. Um, you know, the growth of the show, the growth, you as a person got to stay with it. And uh, those ladies stayed with it, and now they got hardware, yeah.
So, we're gonna have some good matches coming up with those new world champions. Looking forward to it. We already got to see. A tag team between with Stephanie and El Grande as they took on Dom and Liv. That was hard.
That was dope. Crowd in it. Yeah, I think they're in a good spot right now. I'm looking forward to see where Sammy goes, where Stephanie goes, where Liv goes, where Dom goes, where El Grande goes. But, you know, just real quick, you mentioned something about, you know, are we growing and things of that nature.
But I always kind of tend, people always say, don't read the comments, but I have to. How can you put out a product and not read the comments? And I did catch something and it made me pretty happy because it shows that, you know, we've been out to multiple, not just WWE shows, AW shows, MLW shows. We've been indie wrestling. We've gone to shows and we've gotten a lot of love.
From people. And for you, like I said, it's kind of, you know, it's a normal thing. You're at movies, you know, from who your dad is. But for me to get love, it's like, who am I? I'm just like, you know, the dude, I'm the man sitting next to the man, you know, as Robin Harris once said, you know.
But we You know, on your DMs on Instagram or Twitter, you have DMs from people you follow, and then you always have like a from a random section of DMs. I just randomly checked this one day last week, and I saw. I saw a DM from a man. named Philip Corley, uh P. Corley 86, and he Dropped a DM to us, said, This is September the 7th, had a special shirt made for tonight since I'll be at Raw.
So pay attention to where they go up the steps and get in the ring. I'll be ringside.
So I saw this, I think, during Raw, and I waited until after it was over. I actually was over and I wouldn't watch it.
So I was like, oh, let me go back and watch it.
So then I looked and I definitely saw, I personally made a NCW shirt in the NWO font. Yep. And Philip. Saw that and he made his own, and he was front, like first two rows of raw. And I'm like, man, this is cool as hell to see somebody who like watches us and thought enough to, and we will get on the merch.
I promise you guys that. But that was really dope for him to take it upon himself. And so we just want to say thank you, man. We really appreciate you for doing that for us. His name, Philip?
Philip, Philip Corley. Shout out to Phil. My dog. Where would NCW be without a Phil? Right.
And seriously, man. Yeah, man. Like I said, we don't. We're not the number one pod. We don't have the most listeners or viewers on YouTube, but we have the right people who are aware of us and watching us.
So, you know, just want to say thank you to that. Thank you, Philip, for doing that. I I really I tried to take a picture. But it was so it was kind of quick and the picture didn't come out great So I don't want to pop it up here because it looks a little jabrony But it I kind of sat there and I hit pause and I saw that and I was like damn That's really We're not the show that like Like we just too chill. Yeah, because we don't screaming.
We're not those pods like And I feel this way about sports, right?
Okay. These sports shows, we're on The Rich. I'm on YouTube because you're part of it. The thing about Rich, that people like him, he has a very. Nuance take.
Like Rich, you know, yeah, he loves Michigan and he'll wear that proudly on his chest. But everything else, like, Rich can at least look at something. If he says something Monday, he has no problem going back on Thursday and being like, I was wrong. That's why I love listening and watching to him. These sports shows who take everything so personal, right?
Like the Cowboys did something wrong, and you want to get on and yell and scream, and how this, like, it's not. It's not really affecting you that much, right? Yeah. So we have these wrestling shows that people just get on here and they're so mad and they yell and they scream about wrestling. It's wrestling, dog.
It's not, I mean, it's serious, but it's not that serious for you to like have a heart attack over yelling and screaming about something you don't like.
So yeah, we, that's not really our lane. And sometimes I wonder, should it be our lane? Because I get the most views, they get the most, you know, traction. But to me, it's not being authentic. You know what I mean?
Like, I'd be mad at myself. I would be like, man, that's not even me. Yeah. Yeah. So the people that watch us and like truly appreciate the way we handle the business here because we've heard it.
We've had people tell us. We've had comments, you know. And so we appreciate you guys. And like, I don't want to be on here yelling and screaming and getting mad about stuff. I want to have fun.
But I will if need be. You will. I will if need be.
So, yeah.
So, like I said, appreciate it. Everyone, thank you, Philip, for that t-shirt. That's dope. And it just goes to show that whatever we're doing is kind of resonating with people. Yeah.
So, and you know. Speaking of High energy towards takes.
Well, there are a bunch of new champions, TJ. There is one Mm. S Yeah. Your world heavyweight champion. Uh Golden!
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I know how you feel, but I'm going to say this. I'm a Roman Reigns fan, always will be. But I got to be honest with you, I'm going to look you right in the eye and tell you this. The W WWE missed out On one of the greatest opportunities that they ever had to put that title on Penta on Monday night in Mexico City because that crowd was so hot. That crowd was so behind Penta.
They actually booed Roman. Roman don't get booed anymore, Shay. Even when he was a bad guy, right? People stopped booing him. That crowd booed him.
They were so behind Penta. There was a chance to do something because last week or a few weeks ago, I always say wrestling is about moments, right? Mm-hmm. What better moment could have been made than giving pen? Look, look, Roman could have came back a week later.
He could have got the belt back, but I feel. that they did a disservice to the wrestling fan. By not putting that belt on Penta on Monday night, the pop would have been legendary. It would have been something that would have been talked about for generations to come. No matter.
Look, we've seen guys have. Three-hour tidal reigns, Rey Mysterio. We've seen guys like Tommy Ryle, Fire Rich, have a five-day reign. We've seen a nine-day reign. The reins are one thing, but it's always the fact that you want it.
Right. So if Roman came back the next day and beat Penta. Whatever. The fact is, to me, in that moment, on that day. Penta should have become the world champion because that was one of the hottest crowds I've ever seen.
And I know you love Roman and you don't think so. But I don't know, bro. I don't know. Let me just let me get let me get this together. Let me tell you.
The WWE gave Mexico City an amazing feel-good weekend. But that was the weekend. This is Monday Night Raw. We're talking about my your Our tribal chief. It's only been what three people to beat him in like five years.
Yeah, so that because that loss doesn't hurt him, it would have been a gray moment, and it would have been all of that and more, and all of that, yada, yada, yada. But if it was on anybody else, I'd probably agree. But. It's Roman Reigns we're talking about here. And what I will say though is Roman Reigns loves Pinta He loves it.
They put on. He loves. Oh my God. Roman. First of all, there's no props for his selling one of the best sellers out with as much like Brock Lesnar.
Yeah. That's what it felt like. It felt like Brock and Over how Brock was like... I'm having fun out here a little bit, you know? And you can see.
You could see them feeding off that crowd, and Pinta looked like a god out there. And, like, and Just what Roman was giving him lets me know how he sees Pinta. And then it made me think about. When Roman was in the Rumble. He told Pinta, like, he like boosted Penta up for one of his moves, and like they kind of were working together during the Rumble.
Roman Reigns digs Penta, bro. Like, he rocks with Penta, and Penta. Looked larger than life. And yes, he lost the match. But bro, he he He was that moment, dude.
He was that moment. And to show him going toe-to-toe with Roman puts, it's got to put his stock in the company higher. He just looked like a star. He looked like somebody I can see with that title. Just not against the big dog, baby.
Come on, dog. Come on, Jesus. Come on, me. All right, so you're looking at it from your love of Roman, which, like I said, I do too, but I also love a moment. In that moment, bro.
Yeah. Ever by no. I don't know. Dude, you know what? I get to come back next week and kind of thing like that.
Bro, that's top two in my book. It's up there. With the punk one. The punk mania match might be one. College and him from 42.
Bro, or there was a lot of But I hate the one from 40. But what made that match so good? Was all of the, you know, it was a great match, but then you had everything else. Dude, that was an incredible spectacle. It felt like a PLE.
I'm talking about the Cody Road.
So that match, you know, the match was amazing, but everything else, like everything that came through, that was a spectacle. This was, you're right. I'm not going to say it's his top two matches because I hadn't really thought about it.
So I got to go back and really. You know, maybe make a list. But Roman and Penta, if I hear next Monday, we're running the bat, cool. It's not going to happen because now it looks like Los Angeles Knight has thrown. He sat into the ring and I don't understand.
It's Netflix. Why did we not see the confrontation between LA Knight and Roman? Right. Why the hell is the point? What's the point if you don't have.
And by the way, there was like six ads. Like come like throughout the show you get an ad and then you gotta go like Minute like the amount of ads is just it takes away and so because of that now we miss LA Knight coming out to confront Roman now he's got a money in the bank title match which I'm pretty sure we're gonna go to money in the bank this year But we had to go on social media to watch it. It's like Netflix, you don't have time constraints. Why can't you show this? And.
Also Let us get a picture in picture, baby. A little pip. I don't know. I think I'm kind of over picturing pictures. No, I mean, if you go show me the commercial and the pip.
They won't, they'll never do that. They'll never put the commercial in the god, bro. It's a big, it's kind of a big deal happening. And Charles Rice, I'm sorry, bro. I know you don't like me talking about the ads, but like, we know the bills got to get paid.
But also, it's like Netflix, why? Why Was there no blood on Stranger Things? Why are we blurring out blood? Why are we doing all of this? Yeah, right.
Hoopla. You're Netflix. I can see some suggestive things on Netflix. I have seen some suggestive things on Netflix. It's a, never mind.
But yeah, it's a couple of wild shows on there. You ever see Sex Life? My boy Adam Dayton Emos is on sex life. Make it an option. Make it an option.
I don't know how the app works, but there's got to be like: if I want to watch the family-friendly version of Raw, or I want to watch Raw. I want that uncut rod. What is when you go and you log on? You got the kids have their own, and the adults have their own. Yeah, man.
Don't blur out my blood. Yeah, man. And I want to hear some cursing. All of that, everything that I thought I was gonna get. It's just like I'm paying a lot of money for Netflix.
Bro, do you know how much I gotta have Netflix, the ESPN, Peacock, Disney Plus, because they gotta watch us, you know? Bro. If I want Some crazy. Curse words and some blunt and a runtime that doesn't even exist. Like, you could go on forever.
It's all in your mind. Yeah, so like. You gotta come on, baby. Yeah, that's am I crazy? You're not.
Well, you are a little bit, but not for that.
Some peanuts, some peanut. All right? Like, it just makes all sense in the world. Or at least. Give us a description why.
Right. Give us a description. Why, man? You're just making us mad. Yeah, they're blurring stuff like we're watching movies from Japan.
You know what I mean?
Yeah. But it's all black and white. Oh, those are the movies from Japan. Things are blurred. But, but.
Why are you my dog, bro? We know what it is. What are we doing here? Oh, man. God.
God, that sucked. That sucked, man. You know ball.
So, yeah, bro, Pinta. Congrats, bro. Friend of the show, been on twice. Yeah, yeah, man. High energy.
You were a star. And if I'm WWE. I am thinking of any kind of way. I can get Pinta in money in the bank. Oh, yeah, that's a given.
That's a given. He has to have it. Who do we got so far in Money in the Bank we got? Javon and Brombreaker. That's four spots left.
Yeah, he's definitely got to be in that match. Because look, ultimately we know. I don't know, but no, but we kind of feel the WrestleMania plan is for Oba to probably beat Roman. Yeah, probably. But there ain't, you know what I mean?
There's a lot of time between now and WrestleMania, man. You know what I mean?
The way that belts, by the way, belts in both major companies have been, you know, hot shots lately. Yeah, you gotta watch them.
So, yeah, no, no title reign is secured. That's Pinta having that money in the bank. That's a dangerous person to have you do. Dangerous person to have it, man. And I, oh, God.
Pinta for money in the bank. Please, I beg of you.
Well, is that how we get the Oba? Does Oba win money in the base? Is that how we get to Oba? Oh, his big ass bet not be on no ladder. All right.
Now I felt Brock climbed. Think about it. Brock won it. I was like, what the hell do you need that one? Think about the big like Kane has climbed the ladder and won.
Brock, Otis, you know what I mean?
So the big boys climb ladders. Can we talk about that? Let's not. That'll make votes. What the hell was that, WWE?
Otis is so over, too.
Well, like. Yeah, we actually uh Ms. Miz. And again, you know, shout out to The Miz. You know, his 20 years was.
This month, really, is his 20-year anniversary. We gotta get The Miz. We gotta get him on here because, you know, for years I hated The Miz for a personal reason that he and I got to chop it up over when he was guest hosting the Eisen show. And it just, I had this. Deep dislike for the Miz for so long.
But then, what happened is my boy John Pier Marini, who I've spoken about, became a writer at WWE. And he would report back to me when he moved to Stanford, dude. This is great. And I'd be like, I don't want to hear that. And two of my boys over here.
Yeah, Nathan Zagura and Vince Condi, they became friends with Miz. They're all in this fantasy football league together. Nathan, who is the radio color guy for the Browns, he was in Miz's wedding, and those two would call me. and go, yo. You're off on the Miz, bro.
He's great. And I'm like, I don't want to hear this. And these guys for years just kept telling me how dope he really was. And in every championship he won, it would just be more like, I'd be so mad. But, you know, then, you know, we got to chop it up and talk it over.
And I'm like, yeah, Miz, you're the man, bro. I can't front you. Matter of fact, he's. Awesome!
Okay, Dupre. That's okay.
So, a lot of new champions, a lot of new potential matchups that we can have going forward. I'm really looking forward to it, man. Money in the bank coming up. Let's see what time it is. You know, we got Roxanne off to Schneider.
She at least got a dub. Had to go to Mexico to do it, but they were very pro-Roxanne in that match, by the way.
So, yeah, good stuff. Good stuff. But, um, Let me tell you something uh if we can move on to something a little bit more somber.
Okay. And it's A W. And I'll tell you why I'm saying this because I watched last week the Rebel Heart AEW Dynamite episode. I watched um The tribute to Andy Williams, aka the butcher. on collision and i'm just going to tell you this Nobody does a tribute show better.
than AEW and Tony Khan. Because both of these shows kind of Yeah, many got you, especially Rebel. We have Tanaya Brooks, aka Rebel, and you know, she's battling ALS, Luke Gehrick's disease. We talked about my brother, Eric Dane, who lost his fight earlier this year. Uh, to ALS, and it was, you know, the day that you and I went to Stanford, Connecticut.
We got up there for WWE 2K26. We had a great. Day, you know, it was right after we interviewed John Cena. We were getting a lot of props. It was like personally, professionally, that was one of the best days of my life.
We get back to the hotel and the text came in that my brother had passed away.
So that went from the ultimate high to like the ultimate low.
So I, you know, I've already had some feelings about ALS, but, you know, for Rebel, what they did for her, they did the tribute show, and it was amazing. Like her and Britt Baker did the waiting room, which is what they used to do back in the day. And just, you know, at the end of the show, you know. Britt's the heel, but here comes Rebel down to the ring in her chair, and she hands Britt Baker the glove that she would always give her so Britt could put the lockjaw on. And even though they were the heels in the match, the fans weren't having it.
Of course not. And then they got the dub, bro. And like I said, the entire show was a beautiful, beautiful tribute to her. And I know she feels the love and it's amazing. But then Britt sits on her lap and they make their way back in Rebel's chair and she's got the role model written on there, which is awesome.
You know, that's what I, you know, with Bailey, but like even Bailey got to give it up. Yeah, you got to give it up to that. But then there was a moment where Rebel kind of spun around. And just the look on her face, bro. I think she really took it all in, took in all that love, and she broke.
Yeah. Put her head in Brit's chest and hugged her. And dude, it was at that moment where, like, I didn't cry, but I. Yeah, it took a lot for me not to, man, because you could just feel the emotion, you could feel the pain, but you also felt the love. And I'm so glad, like, we talk about.
Giving people flowers while they're here to actually smell them. And I'm so glad that they gave her the opportunity to show how much she was loved. And she really is loved by that whole locker room and wrestling fans all around the world.
So that was emotional. That was hard to watch. And then, you know, Saturday, they did the tribute to the butcher, Andy Williams. And I've said this to you before: the amount of people. From all wrestling companies that have the most amazing things to say about Andy Williams, the butcher.
It just kind of made me sad, dog, because it made me wish that the butcher and the blade and the bunny would have got, even though they were a big part of AEW at the beginning, I kind of wish they would have had a Bigger run with that company because you love to see good people. Succeed. And by all accounts, Andy Williams wasn't just a good guy, he was one of the best guys. And, you know, they had that tragic incident in the ring in Pittsburgh for him to lose his life, bro. You know, that's troubling.
It's troubling and it's sad. But the love he got shown, I hope his family, I hope his friends, I hope he up above, I hope he really felt it. And yeah, you definitely you just got to give people their love and their flowers while they're here because it was there were two amazing tributes and I just feel like We have to acknowledge that and say what a great job this company did. I'm really showing love to these two people. Yeah, dude.
Some of the fan edits of Rebel on TikTok, bro. Like, I'm talking like, choke you up, bro. And um it's just so unfortunate when I mean, these are some of the most in-shape people on the planet, you know, and. Your body It starts to fight you. Like, I could I could just.
The nights and the things that have gone through her head, I'm sure. To feel the energy that she felt on that ramp. You know, it is. There's no way. I'm trying not to get choked up right now, but just like.
I was so happy for her. And I didn't want it to stop. I hope it doesn't stop. Yeah, I hope they use her. I hope they use her as much as they do.
Yeah. So I'm sorry I interrupted you. No, but you're absolutely right. And Tony is so good at that. And I think that's where that's the one of the reasons why.
you know, those close to Tony, those that work with Tony. Continue to do so because he shows the appreciation when it's needed. And yeah, man, getting your flowers while you could still smell them. That is something that we all should practice more when it comes to these stars and legends, of course. But shout out to Rebel, man.
Shout out to Rebel. And shout out to the Butcher's family as well. But yeah, I have very surface level knowledge of the butcher, right? And the more these tributes come in, I started doing a little bit of a deep dive, you know, about his music and. Just like I said, the way everyone...
Had such great things to say about him. I know, like RJ City, who does a. Does a great job in his interviews. He said to Andy, he goes, It was something to the effect of, like, does it feel weird that you look like a racist, even though you're not? Because you look at the outside, you see this big grok tattoo guy, big mustache, had the long hair, then he got bald.
And like, you look at him, and I, you know, my first, I was like, I don't know if I want to even engage with this dude. And it turns out with his dog in the front seat. Turns out this man was, you know. The furthest thing from that, and like I said, it's just you tend to learn about people.
Sometimes after it's too late, you know, but and that's what I like to think that we do here on the show because every episode since we've started, I've, how many times have I said to someone, hey, go check out this person's match, or if you don't know this person, there's a way of me trying to give them flowers, and I never really said it that way.
So maybe going forward, I'll make it specific that, like, I'm going to give so-and-so their flowers because, you know, there's a lot of, you know. We know all about the stars and the big names, but There's a ton of other people who aren't like on the marquee who who have just an influence on on the other performers. You can see what he meant to the, you know, the Eddie Kingstons. You could see what he meant to the to Pac. You could see what he meant to Daniel Garcia, who won the the Butcher Battle Royal, you know.
So Yeah, man, just Salute. Congratulations and thank you AEW because those were two beautiful tributes. You know what, TJ, I wonder if that should be a weekly thing from you. F roses. Yeah, yeah.
Let's get out some of some of the. TJ's Roses and pick a match for us viewers to watch. And I think that would be a really cool thing for the show to do. We're just thinking out loud with our audience. I'm trying to think what was the last match that I ran randomly watch oh, I r just you know I'm like this Bob Backlund obsessed guy.
I was watching Bob Backlund Superfly Jimmy Snooka 1982 steel cage match when Snooker climbed to the top, jumped off and missed Backlund. It was one of the first things I ever remember seeing wrestling-wise. Like, I didn't see it live or anything. It was after that, but like that, the shot of Jimmy Snooka. on top of the cage.
Yeah, so if you've never seen that match, go back and watch that because a star was born on that day and it was Jimmy Snooker. Bro, I uh Mercedes and um MVP or her who put me on to Monomi Toyota. Yeah. Oh my god, dude. Like, oh my God.
That right there. It's life-changing. Yeah, there's some great wrestling out there, great wrestlers. Maybe we'll bring a list back next week. Maybe, have we ever done our favorite women's wrestlers, right?
Absolutely, bro. We'll find another list. I love talking about the ladies. Yeah, we'll find another list to do next week. And.
Yeah, man. Thank you guys for chilling with us. Episode 102. TJ homie? Can you tell these people where to find us, man?
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
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Who are them people, man? I mean, I got Amazon Prime, so I could. I mean, I could. Can I be honest with you? I listen to each platform just to know we at least get.
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Bro, I did that one time and then woke up to Jim Cornette cussing me out. I don't know if I told you, you know, on one of our ESPN2 cutdown shows, I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up in the middle of the night. I look at the TV and I'm staring at myself. And I was like, whoa, we're on, like, you know, how many times in my life that I've woken up and, like, yeah, I'm watching ESPN or something or a movie, but to turn over and see yourself on television, I was like, wow, man.
Mama, we made it almost. Yep. I was about to say something inappropriate. You both that what's par for the course with you, man? Geez.
On behalf of myself. And the big tuna himself. T that's T-O-O-N-A if you're gonna use it. Don't, but if you are, spell it right. Make sure y'all have a good day, but not too good.
So who the hell you think you are? Mm. John of Turkey? By the NXT's hitting up too, you know. Yeah, bro.
Osbourne turned on Tableon again. I mean, what a week that was. Hey, I love that he was like, I'm sorry, man. Shut the ass. Like, I was like, that's hateful.
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