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I am the heel that you love and hate, O'Shea Jackson Jr. KA Petty Guerrero. Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the TOO, the J-I-G-G2J.

TJ Jefferson, and it's Wednesday. You know what that means. Yeah, man. Also, a very special Wednesday because today. Is my mom a birthday?

Yes.

So happy birthday, Ms. Kim. Good to see you, as always. Happy 25th. Hope you have a great one.

Right. Yeah, man. She can legally rent a car now. How's it look at life? You know what I'm saying?

That would make s I think a lot of the family vacation is very illegal. But so We have um We have some title defenses. We got some money in the bank. Qualifiers qualified. And kidnapping.

Which is always great. In broad daylight. In broad daylight. And also, not to mention, we have. TJ's Roses.

Roses, TJ's roses. Yes, we heard you guys. We saw the requests, and uh, it turns out that people think it's a good idea. Yeah, so we'll do an idea.

So, we're gonna have the almanac educate us and put, um, you know, put what you, how many you got? You got five? I got one wrestler. I'm gonna suggest a few of his matches for people to watch.

Okay, I like that. I like that. Let's like, like I said, we're building this community where I feel like you know, what that's what we've been doing since day one. We've been, you know, suggesting matches, suggesting wrestlers, and I love it, man. Let's just keep this thing rolling.

Right, okay.

So, I mean. Sami Zayn, I feel like we got to start off with the fact that he defended his title, dude. I was worried. Oh, bro. I told my sister, I was like, WWE has a chance to do the funniest thing in the world.

Wouldn't have been that funny. It would have been the funniest thing in the world. It's like, oh, you thought nine was bad. Here he goes with just seven days. Like I said last week, Tony Braxton, seven whole days, not a word from you.

By the way, shout out to Tony Braxton. And I'm just about three. Man, I used to love me to Tony Braxton back in the day. Yeah, man. She had a whole got a hold on DJ.

Yes, she did. Young me. It was that haircut. But so. Sammy has made some promises.

It was like, all right, Johnny Gargano, man. Like, I helped you win it, bro. Like, let's be real. I helped you win it. And Sammy's like, what?

Yeah, like, oh, you know, my back. And, like, you know, he's got to make it official. But then that damn Kevin Owens. And then there's two things that are for certain in wrestling. And you know, Def Tax is in Sammy versus Kevin Owens.

They are soulmates. They are for our anime listeners. They are. I want Goku and Vegeta, I would say, but neither of one is really Goku. Goku's the man.

I don't know if you know this. How would I describe it? Anyway, put your, put your, for the anime fans, list the anime. Rivals that you think Sammy and Kevin Owens are. And I will greatly for the non-anime fans.

This is bro. This is the Hatfields and McCoys. There you go. The Bloods in the Crypt. Yeah.

But they, you know, they have a truce for a little bit. I swear they're best friends, but then they have to go at it all the time. You know what I mean? They'll fight and then we'll get together. We'll have a WrestleMania main event.

Madara and Hashirama. That's for Madara. And Hashirama. I have no idea who either is. Yeah, bro.

That's them. That's them. They are Naruto and Sasuke. I'll take your word for it. You know, because I don't know.

I got you, bro. Like I said, Hatfields and McCoy's was his clothes. That's right, that's right. Or the Celtics and the Lakers? Hold on now.

They need a lot of championships. There's a lot of championships. It's the most.

So I guess. Yeah, you're right. They are. Pistons and the Lakers? I mean, Pistons Bulls had a nice little thing.

Either way, they will always be going at it. Then they will always make up. They are. There's Sasha and Bailey. Essentially, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, but so. They go at it. Obviously, chaos is going to ensue because that's just how these things tend to work out. On when they give us championship defenses on the weekly shows, there's going to be shenanigans.

And you got Gargano thrown in there. And Gargano got, you know, wifey Candace in there. Candace Michelle. Candice Michelle. What was it before, LeRae?

Well, I'm saying it. Cole said it again, and I'm like, is he doing this on purpose? But I think he legitimately just accidentally keeps calling her Michelle. Candice Michelle. Why do you have Candice Michelle on your mind?

I can explain to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because back in the day. Good times, man. I was a young man, young man, young man.

But uh yeah, dude. We see that Sammy gets it through shenanigans, but Charles Montgomery has something to say about it. By the way, Charles Montgomery is so right now. My man is swole. He had the crib, bro.

I hate it. In them jail workouts. Like, it was like this movie I remember. This character named Doughboy said there ain't nothing to do in the pen but lift weights and eat. I don't know if you guys remember.

Did you ever see that movie? Wow. I seen that movie one time. No, shut up. Yeah, one time, it's because my late grandmother Doris was like, You never seen Boys in the Hood?

And she put it on. Like, Del Tuvo's losing it back here. You only saw it. I mean, like, you know, you know, it's good. I prefer more ice cube in it.

Shout out to Cuba Gooden Jr. Ain't nothing to do with that. But you know, my favorite part is: turn your punk ass over. I was like, oh my God, dad. What's wrong with you?

Are you the good guy? But yeah, he's getting swole. Yeah, he's getting swole. He obviously is still in the title picture. And it's something I pointed out to you through text.

Sami Zayn still has CM Punk's side plates on the title. You not holding that for a long time, do Well, he's held it longer than you thought he. We thought he thought seven days. Seven days.

So we'll see. I bet you on Friday that the plates are changed. Bro, they better be because it's starting to feel like when. Baron Corbin had a bad thing. Had Trix fur still on the belt.

You know how I'd like to know where you're going? Thank you because you pay attention, man. It's been a rough day. And you got tired. I mean, you're not tired.

I'm so tired. I am, I'm tired like the Michelin man.

Okay. But I will prevail. But it feels like when we saw that Corbin still had Trix fur around the belt, like it doesn't feel like Sammy, that's not your belt. It's not your belt. It's not your title.

And CM Punk Let him know, let him and Kevin Owens know that he's not about to be running away from the title picture for that for a minute. Both of them get GTS. GTS'd? Go to G sleeped. They both get go to sleep.

Anyway, they got the ass beat. It was clock and Z's as well. Yeah, yeah, clock and Z's. And yeah, so I mean, that's how that went down. What else we had?

We had oh, that triple thread. I know you like that triple thread. Listen, I had to put on Twitter. Come on now. EO versus Roxanne Roxanne versus La Catalina.

Oh! Leave me alone. All right. Let me just watch this match in peace. Don't text me.

Don't call me. Don't tweet me. Let me be. Yeah. Let me be and watch this and let me tell you something.

These three women did not disappoint on Monday night. Let me just tell you. No. I just want them to love me like I love them.

Well, that's impossible. I realize that none of them will love me the way I love them. And I just have to come to that conclusion. And I have to just accept the fact. By the way, you almost got us killed.

How so? With the blurred Japanese. I was watching it back, I was like. What is the matter with us? I didn't watch it back, but I saw like three comments on YouTube.

Somebody was like, that boy TJ knows the Japanese. He knows good. You know ball.

So, what a great match. I'm giving that all the stars. First of all, you got EO, Roxanne, and La Catalina, who's a star in the making, another Chilean-born superstar, like her and Stephanie. What's in the water, Donald? Oh, my guy.

But yeah, top takeaways for me here: huge spot for La Catalina. All right, this is like kind of her introduction to a lot of American-based wrestling fans who weren't. familiar with her game. Yeah. And then you s then you saw her and you got familiar.

With her game, and that was her raw debut against two of the best workers in the world, like you know. I think it's safe to say, man, there's big plans for her to put her in that spot with those two. And make her look as good as she did. Yeah, so it's, and there were many. Like four times during the match, I was like, she's going over.

Yeah. Yeah, so you know it uh It makes me wonder, just because we know how it went on. I'm going to let you finish the breakdown. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead.

No, no, yeah. But, like. EO is in a Different spot than I'm used to seeing her in. You know, she's not exactly being showcased on TV, but she is. Working her ass off.

That's what she does. That's what she does, right? And I think WWE is starting to see this new. Bunch of uh Athletically gifted talent, and it's like physically gifted. Put EO in there.

You know, just throw EO in there. Watch what they do when they put EO in there. Watch your work. And it is It is putting out some banger matches.

Some banger matches. Oh! 'Kay. Speaking of Speaking of banger matches, I just want to just show some love. To Dominic Mysterio.

Okay. You jumped, you jumped way. I know, but like, because I didn't mention it during the rundown, but like. Bro, what Dom was doing, Dom looked like that, uh, like he was that guy that was put on that best under 30 list and wanted to remind people the higher ups. Yes, don't be trying to Fugaze me, bro.

Don't be trying to hit me with the okie dope, don't hit me with the okie dope. Got the pistol smoke, all right. And uh, yeah, here's that reversal 619. We'll get to that, we'll get to that, but that, but man, I just want to give up, give my flowers to Dom. But yeah, these ladies put on a banger.

Roxanne comes out with the victory. She is headed to Money in the Bank. There she is. And I, you know, I've said this. If I've said this.

Once I've said it 20 times. We are not. Worried about Roxanne. I didn't like the fact that she was eating so many pens. But the fact of the matter is, fans gotta look at it like this.

Every single week Roxanne Perez is on your television. Right. So that in itself Says that you're never really buried. You're never really out the game when you're on, when every single week.

Now, she was taking L's, did not love that. But again, I kept saying, we're not worried about her. She's too good. She's the prodigy. And, you know, I was a little surprised.

I thought that they might put EO over in this match, but it was. Nice surprise to see Roxy get that win. You know, she's also got a big title match coming up down in AAA's. Triple A. Triple A.

My bad.

So, yeah, it's about time. It's about time that. The things that we kind of predicted months ago, Shay. Remember who we thought should get the money in the bank? Yeah.

Well no. What do we say? Roxanne was like one of the first names. We were. Hey, we might be right.

We might be right. Right now it is Soul Ruka. Lola Vice J C Jane And Roxanne Perez.

So that's four. We need two more spots. I know there's a map Man, who's a match for that, right? There's a match Friday, I'm sure. I admit, you know, with football really kicking in now, all the free time I had to watch just a stupid amount of wrestling has kind of shrunk down a little bit because it's football season and got it like yeah, bro.

You got to do two shows. I got two jobs. You got two jobs, bro. But yeah, I mean. First of all, I was I was surprised that JC James got into it.

Just because I feel like title holders being in Money in the Bank is usually a sign to me of like, you're not going to win. That's a good point.

So it's just like weird to give those spots away, but they are trying to showcase JC Jane. Lola Vice is in it, defeating Raquel, by the way.

So, you know, Judgment Day do have somebody in with Roxanne. And Sol Ruka, cool, you know, we all love Sol Ruka. Universe. Universe. Soul.

Oh, the soul's sister. By the way, you see her new hairdo. By the way, you couldn't tell me that wasn't Kalani Jordan for a second. And now it's like, oh no, that is. That is.

Poppy, Papi, you're no black. But. Right now from these four. There's no clear cut. There's no clear-cut favorite.

We'll see who these other two are. I was, you know, anybody who has been watching knows I've been harboring for Julia to get into a match like this just because I've seen what Money in the Bank did for a Zoe Stark, for a Lyra, and I feel like Julia needs that where she can showcase what she can do because they seem to be just confused about her direction. I mean, there's a few ladies that we have championed on this show and have tried to push that could use that spot, but we shall see where these next two go. But Roxanne is in that move. Mark Sanders in that mug.

And what would that mean for the Judgment Day if she's walking around with that briefcase? It would mean there would be a little bit, a lot of bit of tension between her and Liv. You know, uh Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking maybe Liv wouldn't, but no, yeah.

There was definitely. Come on, Liv calls herself the greatest women's world champion of all time. I don't think that would sit well with her. Yeah, like, is Liv happy that she's in the match? Yeah, would Liv.

Would live Maybe cost Roxanne. No. Raquel's good, right? I don't Raquel. She's got the IC title, so I think she's good.

But yeah, man, when you're used to being number one on the call sheet like Liv is, what happens when your understudy comes up and insurps you? That is not good. It's not a good look. And the usurper, Roxanne. Oh, the usurper.

Yeah. By the way. Do you know? Do you watch? Do you watch House of Dragon?

I don't, man. And I've and I've heard that I should. Here's the fire, dog. Game of Thrones, and here's just one of our normal asylums. Hey, you've seen wrestling.

It's not a lot to talk about right now.

Okay. I got in the Game of Thrones when it first came on, right? But then it became so hard because there were all these houses and weird names.

So I stopped for a few years and then, man. On the Rich Eisen show, we had Cersei herself. Lena Haiti came in. And her and I hung out in the green room because before I got put on air, I used to do social media for the show. I did behind the scenes.

Yeah, that's how you and I met. You know, I did interviews in the green room. And I'm gonna tell you this. There is absolutely no shame in me saying this. After I got done interviewing her.

You know that emoji with the hard eyes? Yeah, that was me. And then She came out and did the interview, and I was taking pictures. And Chris Brockman always says that she goes, Bro, she was just like staring right at you. I was like, Well, yeah, that's because me and her were just in the back, but.

I felt it. And then, what did I do that night? I started Game of Thrones again from the beginning. That's a hell of a first episode. I had to go back because after we met, I was just like.

Yeah. So here's one thing: if you get in trouble with Game of Thrones, and I'm sure House of the Dragons is the same. Put on closed captions. Oh, no. That made all the difference in the world because there's too many houses, too many weird names.

You start to like, now you see them, and now you're able to process them, and it just helps you get through the series. Just a little TJ tip right there to help you. But game House of the Dragons, what we're doing. Yeah, House of the Dragons because Usurper comes up a lot. And I thought we were doing a little reference there.

But for anybody who watches House of the Dragon, Black people call it. House of Dragons? House of Dragons, yep. And it's called House of Dragons. House of Dragons.

So, yeah, House of Dragons. Yeah, we make things out. You know, my parents, I'm sorry, mom and dad. My parents, for whatever reason, called Taquitos Tosquitos. And I'm like, what the hell are those, bro?

They're like a different version of a mosquito. Tosquitos. It bothers the hell out of me. But I love them, so I never correct them, not one time. And you never should.

Never should. Anyway, that was a quick little ramble for y'all. We'll be right back. Back into the wrestling now. Yeah, so we're going to see there's two more spots in this women's money in the bank.

I mean, I'm guessing probably Jade Cargill might be in it. There's a chance. Do we get a return? There could be a surprise return. We don't know what's up with Rhea.

Could it be a surprise out of the blue? Rhea Ripley comeback. Have you been paying attention to her social media? Do we know any updates? I saw a picture of her in the gym.

Now, I don't know if this was old or not, but she looked like she's getting Mike Yoke again, getting a little bit diesel.

So a little diesel. Yeah, because she got buffed Bagwell and then she lost some weight. And then it looks like she might be putting the muscle back.

So I'm not sure. But yeah, we haven't heard anything about her.

So is it? You have to imagine maybe there's going to be a surprise maybe entrance that you say. But it can be Jade because JC Jane beat Jade and Alexa Blake. Right, right, right, right.

So like that eliminates her. I mean, has Charlotte had a mat, but like, they wouldn't have Charlotte and Alexa going against each other in money in the bank. Maybe. We don't know. Yeah, that's the thing, man.

We don't know, dog. Which I love. I love not knowing. Yeah, let me check out this message. I love not knowing because you remember there was a point, and this was a few years ago, especially when dirt chains were really running rampant, where like you could find somebody was leaking the.

You know, the results of every single match. And then it became the where would you look for dirt sheets back in the day? Just on Twitter. It would just pop up. Straight up Twitter.

Twitter, yeah. It'd be in your algorithm. And the next thing you know, you got the whole, you know, Vengeance Day rundown with all the winners and losers. It was like, come on, man. After a while, you don't.

Don't want that.

So, were you looking at the men's? Yeah, just checking to see who was defeated in the men's as well. Like, so in the men's. Rey Mysterios defeated Ethan Page, Austin Theory, Big Cass, Randy Orton, Ray Phoenix, and now Dom and Dragon Lee. Have all been defeated, so none of them are going to be in it.

We don't know that, though. The next qualifier is CM Punk versus Gunther versus Finn Balor.

Okay, now you got three guys who definitely should be in there. Holy sh. I have to say, though, right? That's a match, bro. Based upon what you've done with him, right?

Based upon. The foes that he's conquered You just can't let Gunther go and be a normal cat. He's. already past being like a normal cat, right? Yeah.

You've got to keep I hate saying this because I know this saying just followed Roman around forever, unfortunately, but you've got to keep Gunther looking strong. You can't just let him fade away into the distance, right? Not with the names that he put to bed, putting heads to bed, straight out the box, MCs. Yeah, maybe we're doing too much rap here. You just can't let him put down Cena, Goldberg, Styles, Rollins at WrestleMania, and then just let him be a normal dude.

Like, you just can't do it.

So he's got to stay. Hot, but what about Finn Bollard? Finn Finn ain't had nothing positive about him. He maybe one thing.

Well, he former tag team champion. That was a great one. Yeah, I know, but like, you know, like singles, Finn has taken L after, L after, L after. L after L after L He needs something, man. He does.

He's just one of those guys that, like, he just got. He got the raw deal at the end of the stick. A raw deal, man. Raw deal. And like so many names started to pop off when he came back from that injury, and he's never been back in the title picture.

That's unfortunate as hell. Maybe this is some way that you can. Rejuvenate that Finn Balor to have him have that money in the bank, the pop that would happen when his music hit after a big match if he was money in the bank. That is just unfortunate, man. But you're going up against punk.

Gunper Woo! Like, who did that? In triple threats, that third guy is always the dark horse of the match. That's a good spot to be in. You got Gunther and CM Punk.

Punk is in the title picture no matter what. He established that. Yeah. He established that. But yeah, it's just like do you make Gunther look strong?

Or do you bring Finn back into the picture? And then Like, this is just to qualify. You're going up against Pinta, Trick, Javon, and Braun Breaker. That means that means Money in the bank, bro. I I do not envy booking that.

Well, yeah, I I think the everyone's looking at it Breaker being the one. Yeah, but like that would mean that the vision won the money in the bank back-to-back years. Two different versions of the vision. It's still that same faction getting it.

Well, they run Monday Night Raw, right?

So everybody says that, damn it. At some point, them in the judgment day, got to be walking. Down the same hallway and looking at each other like the bloodline run raw, judgment day run raw, vision run raw. Everyone can't run raw. God, yeah, yeah, that's like stop it, stop it.

Stop it. Where your hat. Yeah, everyone can't run raw, but uh Hashtag running raw. By the way, don't ever go on Twitter and tweet about Monday Night Raw and just put hashtag raw. Just Take my word for it.

Put Raw on Netflix. Algorithm messed up for at least one of those. WWE Raw, but do not just hashtag Raw. No. Trust me.

Trust me. Trust me. And that's from your pal, Big Tun. I don't want your algorithms messed up. Uh, yeah, man.

So, speaking of Liv, we talked about her earlier. You know, she had a You know, she was going off in the ring about how Becky kind of screwed her out of the championship, which Becky kind of did, but then out comes Stephanie. And the greatest bodysuit I think maybe ever made on the planet Earth. And She She basically said, look. It's gonna be the three of us.

Yeah. So we're getting that triple threat, Liv, Becky, and Stephanie for the Women's World Championship. Hey, sign me up. Yeah. Prepare for that.

It seems like they're setting up a lot of triple threats. A lot of triple threats seem to be in the works. Liv kind of has a point that Becky screwed her, but Liv, you hit her. You can't slap the man in the mug like that. You hit her.

No, no, no. You hit her. Yeah, was it a slap? It was a punch. No, like, no, slap across the face, and you shoving her.

This is Becky Lynch. Come on, you, yeah, that ain't gonna fly with Becky Lynch, dog. And so, what happened? Happened. Yeah, you can't, you can't smack me in the mouth and expect me to hit you with a clean one, two, three, right?

Like, oh, let me follow the rules. And I love that her and Seth were kind of put in kind of the same spots as refs. Like, honestly, they both were doing great jobs as referee until going by the book. And until you put your hands on me, can't do it.

Now, if you put your hands on any other ref, that's a DQ. All right. Now, if it ended like that, all of Santiago, Chile would have rioted. Whoa. And now, what are we in?

Danger. Danger. Danger. Um, what else went down? No, no, no, no, no, no, Lola Weiss.

You know, we got her signing to Rawher and her and Roxanne look like they're going to be going at it. I didn't understand a lot of what they were saying. Didn't need to, though. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.

I was about to do the noise again, but I'll say that. But yeah, so we got Lola. She's going to be in that match, and then we're going to see her and Roxanne kind of look like they're going to start a little program together. And I'm with that because, you know, they had a little something going back in NXT together. You know, for those that watch.

For those that watch, you got to pay attention to NXT. It's amazing that people don't. And it's crazy to me that WWE Hella be acting like it don't exist at the same time. You know, your NXT championships don't count towards your championship total. Your, what else?

Just like certain, they don't bring up history from NXT. Um And it might help. It might help viewership. I think it would definitely help viewership. Yeah, but if not help viewership, it would help fans kind of have a better understanding.

Because I've said this before, and I guess I get it. It's like If you watch NFL, Most people that watch NFL also watch college football.

So they have a general understanding of who these next stars are. But for some reason, it seems like a lot of WWE fans don't watch NXT, which is kind of wild because NXT is technically, I would say, a step ahead of college, obviously. Yeah, right. But still, isn't that what we all want? We all want to know about something before the next person knows.

You always want to know about the new band or the new musician or the new artist coming up before everyone else. You know, you always want to know about everything before. it becomes popular so i That's why I watched NXT. That's what drew me in was seeing all these people before they hit the main roster to be like, oh, I was a fan of so-and-so before they got big, you know. And so that's how you feel about it's just a certain feeling when we see Oba, Javon, and Trick and how far they've come, especially Trick.

You know, Trick was like an afterthought almost. Like I said, like it was always all about Mellow, and Trick was the heater. He was the, you know, the bodyguard. Oh, so also justice for Mellow. Just feel like we got to say that every show from now on.

I don't know. I mean, is it. I mean, they sent Waller back down and he's had success. Do you do that? They lost Ilya.

We didn't even really go in on him about that. I don't understand. I don't understand. I judges don't get it. What don't you see?

What did you not see in that guy? They're like, you can't find no place to fit. He imagine him and this money in the bank. Yeah. It might be dangerous for everybody else.

Yeah, I I don't know, man. It's I Obviously, John Cena taught us about data yeah so i'm sure there's data saying that this person and you know Viewership goes up or down, but like as a fan, as someone who's watched wrestling for as long as we have, we know what we see when we see it. And Ilya Draganov was. Like He was him. He was him.

He and Mello put on banger. He was on bad match. Yeah, him and Mello put on banger matches. Him and Trick down in NXT put on banger matches.

So, yeah, it's a little bit sad to see. Ilya gone to see Mello not really have a direction when he's so talented and, you know, just has almost everything you need to become a superstar. And yet, no se. You know, but that also shows you, man, there's there's. That's why I kind of, and I've said this to you before about when people always claim or talk about like the mid card.

There's only so many folks who can be in the main event picture. Everyone else is pretty much in the mid-card, and that's a nice place to be, right? You get on TV every week, get a con, you know. Comfortable paycheck, I would assume, but you're always there, you're always in the mix.

Now, if you're not In the mid card, that means... You're sitting and catering, and nobody wants that.

So I think we have to put a little bit more respect on mid-card as a whole. As a phrase, and what exactly it means: you're the meat and potatoes, right? You know, like you are the body of the show. And when that starts to fizzle out, then. You know, there was a a a large gap for me in my Obsessive viewership of WWE because, like, I just felt like, you know, besides the main event, guys, it wasn't me what I need.

And as a kid, bro, some of the mid-card that we had in the early 2000s, disgusting. Yeah. Some just, just, just, some. Real bangers and legends that went on to become main eventers. Yeah, like if you watch WCW, every show almost on Nitro Thunder was let off, kicked off.

with a cruiser weight smash. I've heard Jericho say this. They would just tell these guys, they had no direction for them, just go out there and do something. And every week, those cruiser weights from Mysterio to Guerrero to. you know psychosis to jericho To all of those guys went out and just put on incredible matches.

And that was the mid-card. Yeah. Those were some of the best guys out in the world when it came to wrestling.

Somebody who I always had a bit of interest in, but I don't really know too much about him. I just always heard he got into his own way, was a. Hoova Too Hoovituce, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, who Guerrero was dope, man. Yeah, and um, that's another dude I just remember from those times, you know. Uh, but I digress.

Justice for Mello. Uh What is we talking about, man? We'd be rambling. Yeah, just you know, more guys in the um in the in the male men's money in the bank match and who else we could see. Yeah, because they have they they just announced that for Friday.

Monday night raw, I guess, has to put in one more guy. Yeah. That's heavy, man. But I think Pinta's iron is hot as hell right now. And we brought it up last week.

Suggested that there's got to be some way to get him in. How about that? And then guess what happens? Yep. But the reason it happened is because Uh Solo got kidnapped, folks.

Okay. We're talking real crime. Right, real criminal activity happening. Yeah, what's up, man?

Solo getting kidnapped. 946, right? They are not here to play. Do they run raw? They're going to end up running raw, apparently.

Because we see A little backstage. You know, Solo's getting ready, tight, taping up his thumb. Here comes Los Angeles Knight. He's getting ready. Taping up his knee.

He's taping his thumb. And, you know, LA Knight's always trying to. Trying to get solo to be like, look. Let all that stuff go. Let's do what we got to do to get to where we need to be.

And then we can worry about these jokers. But he wants Solo to keep his eye on the prize and he's like, Don't you cash in on me when I win this? You know, and then LA Knight goes out to the ring and he cuts a very good promo. Oh. He cut a great promo, right?

To the point where he was saying that Even though all the fans cheer for him. You don't really believe I can beat Roman Reigns. Right. And that was kind of like, oh. I don't.

And then, you know, he said Roman came out and he had help all the time, and then it flipped. He flipped and now he's coming out and he's beating people without help. I don't even know if I could beat Roman Reigns. But he essentially says he's going to do it, right? He's going to do it.

But. I've got. A little creative liberty here. Oh no, I hate these. Oh, Shea Jackson Jr.

What now? We know Royce Keys' crew, 946, correct? Yeah. Varyoka area. Oakland area code.

Let me say that again. It's comprised of Royce Keys. The town, if you will. Bronco and Nima. Yeah.

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Oh, I'm going to say it. Because they kidnapped Solo, right? Hmm, that's interesting. You kidnapped him? You might think, uh, Solo's probably not in this group.

That's what you would think. But, uh-uh. No, how about this? Look me in the eyes, folks, when I tell you. Look at him.

Look at him. Look at him in the eyes. Can we get this one doing? If I could. What if?

The leader of this new faction It's Los Angeles Night. Cool. What if LA Knight Royce Keys in OTM. Or in collusion. Because the things LA Knight was saying In that promo was it was I don't know.

Some felt a little... Mmm to me and I'm thinking what would be the wildest thing that could happen?

Solo getting kidnapped. Yeah, but people would think, oh, maybe this is a setup, and Solo's really a part of this crew. But what if LA Night. Was the geppetto of all this? What if LA Knight?

and voice keys. And Bronco and Lucian. What if they were working together? Because LA Knight. Feels like He deserves this world title, right?

Shay, and he feels like opportunities have been taken from him by the bloodline and by Roman Reigns and by multiple people time after time again. What if Ellie Knight is like, man, F all this? I need someone to watch my back. What if LA Knight is running this thing, man? And what if.

when this match happens. They come to the ring and they help L.A. Knight win this world title, and he beats Roman Reigns. I really thought it should be Penta in Mexico. It didn't happen.

But it's just something to think about. It definitely is because they have been brewing this. nine four six Bloodline B S very aggressively. And now the leader of the Bloodline is just going to have a match with nothing happening in it? Oh no.

I mean, it was just a thought. But how many times have I said to you in the 103 episodes that we've been doing this? 103. I've had a thought. And how many times have those thoughts?

That's why I hate them. When they're pertaining to Roman Reigns, I cannot stand them. I can't lie. I know. You remember me screaming at WrestleMania.

They're like, you did this. You did this. Oh, when Seth and Paul Heyman and Paul Heyman got together, you did this. I remember Seth was on the Eisen show and I brought that up to him. He goes, why would you think that?

Cause I've been watching this stuff too long dog. I've been watching this too long. Yeah We Seth Rollins' team is so good. In the in the our fantasy lady I really thought nobody was paying attention after like round eight. He was paying attention.

Well, he ought to draft it after a few rounds. God, but his team all drafted him a nice ass team. They did. By the way, you know who's good at fantasy? And I hate it.

Dumbu is good every year. I don't know if he's good at numbers or something like that. I don't know what it is. Because he's Asian? What's that?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know what I'm just saying. Dawn is excellent. I can't hear him, but I hear him. You know what he's saying in my ear right now.

You know what he's saying in my ear right now. I don't know if he's good with numbers or something like that.

Well, yeah, just as an aside, every year Don is like in the championship or basketball and football. It's kind of annoying, to be honest. Yeah, bro. It's like, bro, crunching him numbers.

Sorry. Mm-hmm. That's crazy. Oh man. Shout out to Dodd, man.

He's 2-0 right now. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, man. You know, Money in the Bank is in his stomping ground. I know.

Are we going to that? Bro, I'm Chuck right now. Let's see. Don Boy, we heading to Nolins for money in the bank, I think. I think it seems only right that we go down there and do that.

But yeah, man, just think about it. But it could be solo too, right? Could be the fake, it could be the kidnapping, or they really could have kidnapped this man and dropped him off somewhere in the middle. They really could have kidnapped him. I just whooped his ass.

But, like, like Roy Ski said, ain't nobody safe. Ain't nobody safe. If you can't be safe at work, Shay, right? Here's one thing you're not worried about, right? We're sitting here at work.

We're at the Rich Eisen studios in lovely El Segundo, California. One thing you're not worried about is someone coming through the back door and scooping you up and throwing you in the back of a van because we're at work. We feel safe. We feel secure. You know what I mean?

So if you're getting kidnapped at the job site, Well, Triple H needs to hire more security or something. Or something. Or if you allow yourself to get kidnapped, I mean, it's it's it ain't no allow. Them three big ass dudes, like it's just like, yeah, Solo got kidnapped. It's believable.

In a god. Anything's possible. Yeah, and Solo is playing... This so well. You know, just like the buddy-buddy with LA 9 or the going to his brothers, like, hey, you know, we need to work together.

And all of a sudden, getting kidnapped, this dude would be the greatest actor in the history of Kayfabe. Absolutely. By the way, you know, solo has been the movies, so, you know. What movie is he in? Oh, we talked about this before.

I can't remember the name of it. I have to look. Juice? I think everybody in Jews. He was not in Jews.

I have to look this up. But, um,. He was in the movie with Nicole Kidman. I gotta look up the name of it. I don't remember off the top of my head, but yeah, years ago, Solo was in the movie.

But there's a name we haven't said yet, and I think a lot of people will probably think it's probably Jacob, right? But again, that would also be too obvious, wouldn't it? Too obvious, too on the nose. And that'll probably be what ends up happening. Boy, the way he be talking, I'm waiting for a gang slur to come out, bro.

I'm surprised it hasn't yet. You know what I mean? Like, man. Let's see. What movie was solo...

So co a little trivia for y'all, mid-show. He was in. Destroyer with Nicole Kinman in 2018. Yes.

Okay. He was like a guy who walked because I'm sitting there. 2020, I think it was during the pandemic. I'm watching this. Randomly, she pulls up.

She was a cop. If I remember this correctly, she pulls into like a... you know Of a garage where they chop up cars, and solo comes out and starts talking. I was like, wait a minute, why does that look like solo? It was solo.

So, yeah, if you get a chance, look up with Solo. Look up Destroyer with Nicole Kimmen and Solo. But yeah, Jacob, I think, would obviously he would be the most obvious one in Solo, but I'm saying for that little bit of a swerve. Los Angeles Night. Cause who else wears Tim's?

LA Knight. Royce Keys, OTM, they all wear Tims. Right, and that pisses me off about LA Night. Me and Callie Armstrong were talking about this. He don't got nothing to LA about him.

I don't know nobody in no vests. I mean, I rock Timms every now and then. The other day, Rich said he never wore a pair of Timms. Yeah, yeah. We need to maybe buy him a pair for his birthday.

Yo, can you imagine Rich Isaac in the bud? Oh, man. Just the boots stomping in my big blood boots. Kate was wearing 20. I mean, this happens.

Yeah. By the way, how about them Rams completely destroying Jackson Dart? Man, that was sad to watch. And, you know, I'm not a Giants fan. I will say this.

I hate the Giants. It's like I hate the Eagles, the Washington football team, and the 49ers. But of all the teams I hate. I like the Giants the most, if that makes sense. Like if they if I can only pull one of them onto a raft, it would be the Giants and I let them all the rest of the way.

I mean, with the Pacific Division, the only team I would uh help out would be the Warriors.

Okay, yeah. There's another aside. And then also, you guys remember when we were at WrestleMania, our boy George Kittle, friend of the show. Hey, diddle, diddle. He and O'Shea had this thing going back and forth where, and this was amazing, where Kittle would point at me and everyone would cheer.

And then he pointed you and give you the finger and then everyone would boo because you were a Rams fan.

So this went on all of WrestleMania was like, point at me. Yeah. Point at you, boo. Yeah. I'm a heel that you love to hate.

Oh, man, that was spongy. That was a good thing. You know what's crazy? The San Francisco 49ers are on a Super Bowl losing streak. You know, I tried to tell, I mean, no disrespect.

Everyone wants to talk about how the Cowboys haven't won in 30 years, which is true. But the thing is. The Niners have a longer Super Bowl-winning drought than the Cowboys, but you'll never hear anybody but me now. You say it, because that's what haters do on the Cowboys. By the way, after we lost week one, another aside, oh.

My Twitter, my YouTube, my personal phone was blowing up all the hate. Everyone had something to say. Del Tubo sending memes, and yet we win week two. I ain't heard nothing from nobody. He was quieter than a mouse pick.

Old cotton in this place. Right. So, boy, a mouse can find some cotton. Yeah, and it's quiet when it peeves on it. Yeah.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Yeah, man. Let's get back to the rest. Yeah, I agree. But they're really good this year.

It's unfortunate, man. I got Christian McCaffrey. I don't like it at all. What else do we want to talk about here, man? Let's talk about.

So.

So far, we know we got our money in the bank. We kind of know how that those two matches are coming. We got Roxanne moving on. We got the introduction of La Catalina. EO is still in the building.

We've got Stephanie Bequer saying that she's going to give. Becky Lynch. And Liv Morgan a shot at her title, so we're looking at the triple threat. I cannot wait to watch that match. Oh, how about this?

Braun Breaker? And Jawon Evans, we're in the back. And Jablon, man, he got the dog in him. Two, three, four, five. Five, what did the five fingers say to the face?

Slap like that was. The testicular fortitude, as Mick Foley once said, the testicular fortitude of young OG Javon Nevins is standing in the back, outnumbered five, well, six, because Maxine was back there too to one, and then just slap the baddest man.

Well, I don't know, he's better than Bronson, one of the baddest men in there in the most smashed bros. You know, you just slapped him in his face like that. Like that, that was a ballsy move. But then they go out, have the match. It looks like Javon is about to get smashed, and then oof.

Bro, and I like the they played a version that like the beginning drums weren't in, it was just Ooh, and then bomb, bomb, and the hymn coming out of the bottom of the bottom. And that's what I love. I remember the only time. Bianca Belair, and we miss you, Bianca, by the way. Holy crap, I miss Bianca.

Bianca, man. Geesh, I hope Romeo's doing well, though. You know what I want to do? We need to have her and Tez. I'm going to get Romeo a no-contest little onesie for me.

Yeah, let's do a little gift back. You know what I'm saying? We need to get our little nephew one of those. But the only time Bianca ever did something that I didn't like was after Becky cost her a title and then she came out. Because, you know, at that moment, when you have those type of, now it's on on site, you got to come out.

She came out skipping one time. And I was like, nah, I don't like that B. You got to come out like. But like you're on a mission. And that's what Oba did.

There was no. Strut. There was like, nah, my man hit the ground running. I love that. He beat their ass.

It's almost to the point now where We got Brunson Reed, right? And now he's back in phenomenal shape, looking great. But we can't. lose the fact that we talk about like you can't let Dunther be just a guy. Right, you can't let Bronson Reed, who has a victory over Roman Reigns, you just can't let him be another guy.

So it looks like every time they touch each other, though, Oba's just completely mopping them. And then, you know, Bronson pulls out a chair and even-the lightest Bronson Reed there's ever been. Yeah. But also like uh You gotta have Oba look like that, dude. That dude went toe to toe with Lesnar.

But don't you have to also make sure Bronson doesn't look like he's just Another cat. They just gotta go one-on-one. It has to happen. There's enough time for that to happen, too. It's enough time to schedule a money in the bank match.

Oh, my God. They're not going to make him be the next qualifier, are they? Look, bro, you never You don't need that. But I don't need no briefcase. I don't need no stinking badges.

Yeah, that's true. You don't need it, but. But um I love this and I wrote this note uh Javon's kind of like an underdog babyface, I think it's safe to say, right?

So, this was a great way to kind of make him look like more of a threat. Like, he went out there without any fear. Yeah, man, I'm here to scrap. If you really want to go, if you want to go at it, and if you notice the last few months, there's been that progression. He was always happy, you know, doing the 6'7.

He was always happy to be here. But now it's more like, all right, I know what I bring. Yeah. And he looking bigger, you know. He's not a short guy.

He's like 6'4. Yeah, it's one thing to be one of those dudes that are jumping everywhere and you little. He's little. He ain't little. And he's getting size with the gold teeth.

He's starting to come into his own. And, like I said before, you know, we watched him and Jackson Drake at 14 years old have wrestling matches.

So.

There's a reason he's a young OG because he's been in the game for years, but it's just like every week you just see Javon like improving and then like. You know, the Javon of today would not have done the of yesterday.

Okay. Would not have done what the Javon of today did, I don't think. He would not have gone on 105 and smashed somebody in the head. Yeah, but I'm like, bro, bring it. Yeah, bring it.

Oh, by the way, something that's fun, a nice comedic moment of that whole thing was Logan about to get in the ring. Oh, right. I was stepping on his floor. He was like, yeah. He didn't even try.

I'm good. By the way, what's going on with Logan Hare? Yeah. He says it's fine, though. He says it seriously.

He says it's fine. Yeah. Okay, bro. There was somebody who put up a meme of him as a Hulk Hogan. Oh, right.

And he was like, if it gets a certain amount of likes, we'll do it. I'm. Pretty sure it got that number. Oh, yeah, because I voted twice for it. I made two other accounts just so I could like it.

If he pulled that out on his. There's no way. There's no way in hell. It'll be something that he might do because Logan is an entertainer, right? That's what he loves to do.

But now, because you don't know, they might not grow back right if you do.

So that's the last thing you want to do. For a joke? Yeah, no. Put that ball cap on. That's it.

So, yeah, so that Javon kind of made himself look like a star with the help of Oba.

So, yeah, we'll see. But you're right. I think we're going to get Bronson Reed and Oba Femi. We've got to see those two link up. Just get it on because also you don't want, I don't think you want Oba and Braun.

Touching too much right now because you can see the future. You can see the vision and see where that's going down the line.

So we'll see. Then we had our girl Bailey take on Lyra. Bailey, we want some Bailey. Yeah. And, you know, that was a good match.

But Bailey ate the pin again. Old girl cheated. Yeah, she pulled me tights. She grabbed the tights. We didn't see it at the first look.

Hashtag grabbed the tights. Couldn't see it at first. Then the replay, and Graves pointed out, yes, she did. She. Mm-hmm.

You know, she at the tights. I don't know where they're gonna go with this story. You're building up Lyra to be this new big bad. Can't really have her lose to Bailey. Like And keep her momentum, so I don't know where they're going with them.

Yeah, we'll see. I mean, you know. But I'm gonna see more Bailey. Yeah, there ain't nothing bad with that. And Bailey looked mad serious, too.

There wasn't like the smiling, happy Bailey. Like, she was looking like she wanted to put in work. She's not a thugger. She's a thugger right now. She's a thugging right now.

But, you know, I do. I love the new Lyra look. I love the new. Wait, you want to talk about looking tired? I know I look tired.

Lyra looked tired.

Well, I think that's on. I know. It's well done with the makeup. Very, very well done. They're doing their job.

But we'll see. We'll see where this is going. Is it possible? Could the. Man, Bailey did sign a contract, right?

Because we thought she did someone else was like, well, no, I said she didn't. I'm pretty sure they're not going to let her walk out the building, but what if there was like a loser-leave stipulation or something? I will kill somebody. Wherever Bailey goes, wherever Belly goes, I'm going. I'm just going to go.

Nearby, just could even now. Yeah. And then we had the men's triple threat ladder match for the money in the bank, which, by the way, Don Mysterio is very smart. He sees that his opponent's been kidnapped. All right.

He knows like it's not a safe work environment. Maybe he should just go ahead and get the win. Make sure everyone's safe. That way security can do their job. Brilliant.

Brilliant move by Dirty.

Now, Pierce cussed him out, basically. I was like, Pierce, don't be mad at him because, by the way, everyone should have thought this. I would have thought the same thing.

Well, he's working for employee safety. Yeah. Safe work environment. Look at him. We just had someone get kidnapped.

This probably isn't safe. I know the authorities probably want to come in here and take notes and interview some people.

So maybe we'll just let me just, let's forget the match. Let me go ahead and move on. But no, Pierce. Big brain. Pierce one in more violence, I guess, in the workplace.

But so we got Dragon Lee and we got Dom, and then Pierce goes, He's got a guy and. And here he comes. Yeah. And here comes Crowds. Crowd goes crazy.

And there were two things that I knew were going to happen. I knew Penta was winning this, but I also knew. Man. We're about to see a banger of a man. Yeah, bro.

Don't try to go. I know I don't wear a mask, but I am a luchador. I'm about to put it on you. The luchador. The dominant.

It's the king of the luchadors. Don't get it twisted. There was a part of me for you. And we also know from having Penta on here on No Contest Wrestling what he thinks about Dom. He said Dom was a fake Mexican.

Yeah. He was a fake husband. Yeah. He was a fake luchador.

So I was like, is he going to bring this back out?

So if you didn't see what happened, check us out. I can't remember the exact. I believe that was the episode where we went to for WWE. And he called him a fake. That was after.

That was when he was on Zoom when he called him. Yeah. Yeah, the fake Mexican.

So he, yeah, and we were like, I told him to show the bicep. We were like, oh, my goodness. Yeah. Fake Mexican.

So we know there's already some beef with those two. Penta is not a Dom fan, and the Dom is not a Penta fan. But I'm going to tell you this. I make a note that. I mean this was it was a great show and it goes to show you how much that they've put into Penta.

Because he started the show and ended the show. They don't let anybody just do that, right, Shay? Like, that's that dude is money. Come on, look at him. Samio, who also and his favorite football player is George Kittle.

So, you know, there's that. Hmm. You gotta be a little bit more. Dragon League, man. Dragonly is like Roosh to me.

Remember how before I said about Roosh? Like, has anyone ever let Roosh know that he doesn't have to go 190 miles per hour, but Bro, his move of diving out between the ropes and then flipping, because you can't start the flip until you're out of the rope. Like like that is You're breaking physics. That's incredible, man. And he is really coming to his own.

It's so hard when. When you are in a promotion with Rey Mysterio and fans not might not be, you know, the majority of the fans aren't. Appreciating like lucha and everything that goes into being that style of wrestler, and you got a mask on. Yeah, you gotta stand out. And he has begun to stand out.

He is having the hottest year he's had in the company by far. Also, when we were in Anaheim for Raw last year, got to chop it up with him back before we met Asuka. Mad cool dragonly, you know, and so, yeah, with his family. Did you take a picture? Oh, yeah, with them.

I don't have it, but yeah, he's doing great work. Um And it was so cool to see Dom Mysterio get to be the Dom Mysterio that we know he can be. He didn't play the Cowardly Hill list match. No. This was a great Luchador match.

And that's why there was part of me, like I said, I walked in thinking it was going to be Penta halfway through. I'm like, oh, maybe they'll put Dom in this. Maybe Dom will go over. He didn't. But yo, uh Just applaud to those three.

Well done. I loved watching that match, man. Yeah, that's a banger on match. It's definitely re-watchable. And Penta went over as he should because he is, you know, he's hot right now.

Hot.

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But I have to go back, though, and say that LA Knight thing, bro. Like, that truly was one of his best promos. And if you didn't see it, go back and watch it. It was long. It was a long promo.

And I'm telling you, man, because of that, something in my head went. He's saying this. And I can see him doing this by always. Hitting on that. You couldn't do it all alone.

You couldn't beat me by yourself.

Well, guess what? Yeah. Now I'm not going to beat you by myself. Yeah. And October 10th, or.

Yeah, October 10th in New Orleans. Money in the bank. Maybe we'll realize that the LA was for Louisiana all along. Love the chicken from Popeyes. That wasn't a paid ad Popeyes, We Just Love You.

No, not at all. But yeah, so we'll see. You know, a lot of things are going on in AEW too, but there's one thing that's really cool that we haven't touched on. And that's Stephen Borden, aka the son of Sting. Yeah.

doing his you know starting his in ring career and it's It's really Kind of throwing me off, man. It's because I understand how genetics work. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

Like, you look like you're dead, of course. Because that's how genetics work. But he looks too much like his dad. Yeah, some say three months. You know what I mean?

And it's funny, his brother, Garrett. Who, if you remember from Sting's retirement match, they both played different versions of the Sting from different points in his career. They both look exactly like their dad, but they both look different from one another. It's like Garrett is shorter and more stocky than his brother, so he's looking like early surfer Sting, who came out with the Blade Runners from when he and Ultimate Warrior were tag team partners. He's the more jacked of the two, but looking just like his dad.

Then you got Garrett, who's a little taller, leaner muscle, looking like later Sting. Was there a mother? Right? Mom just carried the baby. Sting was like my DNA.

Like, mom's genes didn't even try. But I it's just cool. You know, wrestling, I bring this up because you get this a lot. People have a feeling about Nepo babies, right? Yeah, Nepo babies up by a billion.

And let me tell you, you're now up by a billion and one, now two. Maybe matter of fact, I didn't even think to talk about this. You're up more than that because let's think about the Nepo babies who have recently made a splash. We're talking about Stephen Borden and AEW.

Now he and Darby Allen are going to be going after the tag team champions, looking just like his dad. It's so weird. His brother Garrett, from what I understand, is signing with AEW.

So he should be. He's doing a lot of dark matches. We have Avery Styles, son of AJ Styles. I just saw him throw a phenomenal flying forum off of a stage. They looked like they were wrestling in the gym because, you know, he's still starting out.

Yeah. Couldn't tell me that was his dad. We might have to hit AJ up and get Abra on this. Then, of course, we got Zilla, son of Umaga.

Now, Zilla's been in the game longer than all these other guys, but now he's just making his way to NXT and WWE.

So, there are a lot of Nepo babies. And I think the one place in wrestling where you shouldn't have, at least I never have an issue. I don't have an issue with anybody following in their parents' footsteps, but I especially love wrestling because I root it for your dad. I root it for your mom. I root it for your uncle.

You feel good. You know, and so it's cool to kind of see them doing that. That's why people like. You know, I say this, and I'm not saying this to sweat you or anything, but like when you and I go out. You know, when we're especially at wrestling matches, the amount of love that you get shown, it's dope to see.

I love to see my boy get shown that love, but and it's Half of it's because of your dad and they just know you from them. The other half is because of everything that you've accomplished on your own. acting music. Podcast-wise, I'd love to see it.

So I'd love to see Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton and guys like that who followed the family's footsteps. It's cool to see this new. Batch. New wave. New wave of kids following in their parents' footsteps.

And so I just wanted to throw that out there.

So dope to see Steve Borden. It freaks me out. It really does. Because it's like, wait a second. Shay, I start watching Sting.

The first time I saw, no, you don't know how old I am, but you know, I'm an old cat. I first saw Sting. I was like 16 years old, bro.

So like to see this guy now, it makes me feel like. You know what I mean? It makes me feel like I'm that age again.

So yeah, just big shout out to all these guys. Like I said, Steve and Garrett and Avery and Zilla, you know, and anyone else that I, oh, and then we have Aaliyah Mysterio. She just signed. All right. Congrats on that.

Dean Malinko's daughter has just signed. You know, and I know I'm missing some others, and I apologize for that. I'm sure you'll let me know. But yeah, it's a kind of a cool time if you're fans of wrestling and you get to see these kids following. But Aaliyah Mysterio, because that opens up the door for a lot, man.

Like, what if she comes in? Is she going to align herself with her brother? Is she going to. Mm-hmm. Put on a mask.

Oh, no. The last time we saw her, she's getting water thrown. Right, so I don't know, man. It's just cool. It's cool if you're a wrestling fan, but.

It's cool if you're not a wrestling fan. It's just it's Tells me that wrestling is still thriving. People like to say it's dead or whatever, but it's not. Yeah, bro. The the Loom and Gloom the Loom and Gloom fans they'll never win.

Wrestling don't stop. And, you know, f speaking of a uh A feeling of nostalgia. Yeah. I think we promised the people that you had some gifts to give out. Yeah, why don't you tell them like last week what you said that made me go, yeah, I should.

Yeah, we were just speaking on giving people their flowers. You know, and you want to be giving your flowers when you're around to smell them. And Usually, stars pass, or whether it be movies or music, they're products that they put out skyrocketing because people want to see, people want to know about the person, and they want to be able to appreciate why everyone feels so emotional about their passing. And so we decided that it should be a good thing to kind of educate those who aren't in the know who watch us and listen to us. And so we have a segment now where.

The wrestling almanac. All right, big tuna, TJ Jefferson will be giving out flowers for these great legends that will give you some matches for you to watch so you can appreciate these people while they are still around to smell their flowers. Yeah, so this first guy wanted to go Wanted to celebrate, let's just say, like you should know him. But if you're new, because I know we got a lot of new fans that watch us, Shay, which is really cool.

So we're introducing them to a lot. But there's a wrestler I want to kick this off with. And this man, I would say, would be the ultimate baby face. As far as I can remember, he never turned hill. And he was someone who other wrestlers look at and say, this guy was the consummate professional.

This guy's work was incredible. And this guy just should be put up. Top of every list, but he doesn't really get put on when you talk about the greatest of all time. He never really gets mentioned. But we want to end that today.

So I want to give a shout out to a guy who, like I said, when I was a young man watching wrestling, he was one of the guys I used to love. His real name, How dope is this? It's Richard Blood. Like, how dope is that name? That's your name.

That name's so dope, but they went, nah, we're going to give you a wrestling name.

So instead of Richard Blood, they took this young, good-looking Hawaiian bodybuilder and said, We're going to make you Ricky Steamboat. And that's who I want to give flowers to is the dragon. Ricky the Dragon steamboat. He's widely regarded as one of the greatest, most technically gifted, and universally respected professional wrestlers that have ever lived. And when you talk about his moves, like if you want to see how, you know, an arm drag should be done to the highest degree, just watch Ricky steamboat.

If you want to see how a full body press off the top rope looks. Perfect. You go to Ricky Steamboat. If you want to see how you sell. And carry a body part that's been injured.

From the time it gets injured to the end of the match, watch Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. And so, basically, I want to do this: I want to say, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, you are the man. You deserve all the flowers, you deserve the roses. Because Ricky was a guy, Shay, he was the first babyface I ever saw the fans turn on. Believe it or not.

I remember being a kid, and he's going up against Ric Flair. Right. And Flair will tell you this. I've heard Ric Flair say this multiple times. Dusty Rhodes was his greatest opponent.

Ricky Steenboat was his favorite opponent.

Okay. Flair kind of saw Steamboat back in the late 70s and decided he wanted to work with him and help him become a star, which he did. But we get to NWA WCW time in the late 80s. Steamboat's coming back. He was in WWE for a while, but he came back, and now it looks like he's going to, not looks like, he's working with Ric Flair.

He's about to take him on for the WCW, the big gold belt. And Ricky Steenboat's doing everything right, man. He's a family man. He talks about his beautiful wife, his son, how he wants to represent family values. He brings his wife out.

He brings young Richie, his son, who became a wrestler, also an NXT. From what I understand, Richie Steenboat was really good until he decided to stop wrestling. But, Rick. Ricky Steenbelt's doing the right thing. Here's his wife.

Here's his son. He's representing family values, right? It's the American dream. But then Ric Flair comes out. With Six girls, and he's telling you there's six more in the limo, and they're all dying to hear him go, woo.

And all of a sudden, everybody turned on Ricky's steamboat. All the preteen and the teenage and the early 20s kids were like, We don't want to be like him. We want to be like him. And it was the first time I heard. It was the first time I heard a white meat baby face get booed by the crowd because Ric Flair made them all think that limos and private jets and Rolexes and alligator shoes and custom-made suits.

Woo! We're so much better than marrying the love of your life and having a baby in a white picket fan. Yeah, man. So that was kind of weird to me. Bite them kids.

But yeah, man. All right, Shay.

So, you know, because we're giving him his roses and his flowers, what I wanted to do is for the people who maybe aren't familiar with Ricky Steamboat's work, I want to give them five quintessential Ricky the Dragon Steamboat matches, at least five matches that I personally love that can maybe introduce him to a new fan base of wrestling fans. Because when I tell you, the man was great, he truly was great. One of the first ones here, and these aren't in order or anything, these are just as they came. This match was universally recognized as maybe the gold standard of professional wrestling matches for years. As time has gone on and more matches have happened, I think we kind of lose this sometimes, but I don't want it to get lost.

And that is the WrestleMania 3 match between the Macho Man Randy Savage and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat for the Intercontinental Championship. Like I said, this match gets all the stars. It gets all the flowers. It gets all the roses. Thing about Savage is apparently he was a guy who liked to rehearse.

And apparently, according to Steamboat, it drove him crazy. But Whatever they did worked because this is truly a gem of a wrestling match. It's one of my favorite matches. It's one of the best matches of all time as Ricky Steamboat wins the Intercontinental Championship, defeats the macho man Randy Savage, and becomes champion. He did not have the belt long because apparently he asked for some time off for family business from Vince.

And Vince decided to take the belt off of him, put it on the honky-tonk man, and he got a year-long reign, which I can only imagine. What Could have happened if that had been Ricky Steamboat. Yeah, because that would have elevated that IC title. Because remember, when Randy Savage had that IC belt, it was the first time that that really felt like it was on par with the world title. Yeah, freak out, freak out.

I'm talking. Can you wipe the dragon steamboat? Yeah, I'll never forget. In a position I'd rather not be here. Me and Gene talking to Miss Elizabeth.

And Randy's like, What are you looking at? I'm the interconnected. But yeah, Savage Steamboat. We should have gotten way more matches with those two. But yeah, WrestleMania 3, Savage Steamboat.

If you haven't seen it, please look it up. It's phenomenal. And then we got. Dig him deep because there's another guy who I'm a huge fan of. You guys, of course, know Bray Wyatt.

Well, this is his uncle. Barry Wyndham, who is one of my favorite wrestlers of all time. And this is a tag team match. Back in the NWA, this is Ric Flair and Barry Wyndham as the four horsemen. And they're taking on Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert, and he has a special guest party.

partner. And that partner happens to be Ricky Steamboat, who comes back to NWA, back to WCW after his time in WWE. And Flair and Wyndham are losing their minds because Steamboat comes out. There's a clip on YouTube and I think If you just type it in the way we have it here, NWA Ric Flair. And Barry Wyndham versus Eddie Gilbert and Ricky Steamboat from January 21st, 1989.

It's about a half hour long clip.

Well, worth the time watching. Eddie Gilbert's trying to tell Flair he's got a surprise for him. Steamboat comes out. They go nuts. Great tag team match.

Peep it if you get the chance. Another great tag team match I want to bring up, if you haven't seen, is Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood versus Sergeant Slaughter and Dawn Cernodle for the NWA tag team titles in a cage match from March 12th, 1983. Another one of the all-time great matches. This is Sergeant Slaughter before he became, you know, WWF Sgt. Slaughter.

He and Don Kernodle were tag team champions, and Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood, multiple-time tag team champions, if I'm not mistaken. But this cage match was awesome. Or as Tiffy calls him. SGT slaughter. Yes.

But yeah, if you've never seen it, like I said, just type that into YouTube and sit back and relax. Great, great professional wrestling match. And then, of course, we talked about him earlier. The greatest of all time, in my opinion, Ric Flair. He and Steamboat have so.

I can't even tell you how many times they've... Wrestled each other. But I'm going to give you this one in particular. It's from Clash of the Champions, April the 2nd, 1989. Two out of three Falls matches.

Two out of three falls match for the NWA title, and it's Ricky Steamboat versus Ric Flair. And when you talk about, you know, your Mount Rushmore great all-time matches, this one usually makes it in there from a lot of people in the know. Again, if you're not familiar, if you haven't seen it, go peep it. It's about, I don't know, 45 minutes to an hour long, but you're talking some of the best wrestling with two of the greatest wrestlers of all time. You know how great Ric Flair is.

And if you don't know how great Ricky Steamboat is, this is going to show you. And then I wanted to add this one.

Now, Shay, there's another man who many people consider to be the greatest of all time, the most popular wrestler of all time. And that is Stone Cold Steve Austin. Not bad. But A lot of people don't know that before Stone Cold Steve Austin existed. Stunning Steve Austin existed.

Yes.

And the long flowing blonde locks. Yes.

So.

There's a match. If you're unfamiliar with his time before he shaved his head and became the taskmaster in Stone Cold, check this out, man. 1994, WCW Bash at the Beach. Steve Austin, stunning Steve Austin, takes on Ricky Steamboat for the WCW United States Championship. And I'm going to tell you, those guys had a lot of banger matches together in the time that they both were in WCW.

But this is just one I want to point out: Bash at the Beach, 1994, great match between the two of them. And Yeah, man. We just wanted to give some people some flowers.

Some roses. Give the fans of wrestling maybe some matches that you haven't watched or never knew about and give our friends at no contest. Show the t-shirt. Show the t-shirt. Oh, yeah.

I forgot about that. Today's t-shirt. I almost forgot. I'm glad you said that. I got you, dog.

I forgot I was wearing. Come on, dawg.

Okay. I put that on this morning for this moment, and then I forgot I was even. I got you, man. This is why we tag team partners, man. But yeah, man.

So those are just, you know, Ricky Steele. Hold on. Can we talk about how you got Ricky the Dragon Steve? I got Dragon Ball Z on. Did we call each other?

We did. I haven't talked to you since last year. That is kind of weird. But yeah, man, there's some roses to give out to Ricky the Dragon. Hopefully, he's a guy who I'd love to get here on No Con.

But yeah, check out those matches. You'll see his greatness. For our fans, if you know a way to get a hold of any of these legends, if you just happen to be a guy who's like, oh, actually, my cousin is, he knows such and such, such and such. Oh, my God. What's up?

My uncle's Tommy Wildfire Rich. Bro, come on. We are easily accessible. Matter of fact, we're so accessible, TJ. Tell them where to find us, yeah, man.

So, if you want to find us, here's what you do for your airgate, wherever you listen to podcasts. You can find us, you can find us on the ESPN app, you can find us on Apple, on Spotify, on Amazon Music, I guess, anywhere wherever you get your podcast from.

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And before we go, you know, there's something I want to say too? I want to say. It's Wednesday.

So Free Ren Sinclair, Mr. Stone. Oh, no. I got a bone to pick with you, my guy. I know he's a friend of the show.

We've seen people dang there get murdered in parking lots. And the NXT parking lot is the most dangerous spot on the planet. Yeah. How many people have we seen get beat up, bloodied, just broken in that parking lot? Yeah, exactly.

Matter of fact, Is it a? I wonder if it's an arena on the game. It should be. It should be most dangerous. It's one of the most dangerous.

The Bermuda Triangle is dangerous, almost as dangerous as the parking lot. Here's my beef, though. You got Wren Sinclair, who, yeah, she wilded out a little bit. You know, she went and attacked Kalani Jordan after her match against Jada last week, but that's because her best friend Kendall got hurt.

So she snapped, took the Kendo stick. We got one here. We get it. You lose it sometimes. Murdered.

Murdered who? But now she's suspended. She can't get back in the building? Yeah. Like, Ren Sinclair has entered that.

Phase of I don't care.

Now, you might go, well, what do you mean you don't care, TJ? What I don't care means I don't care what she does. I ain't gonna be mad at her. I ain't mad at her in. I don't care what Ren does.

I shoot on Ren's days. You know what I'm saying? Much like Bianca, we don't care what Bianca does. We ain't booing her. We ain't never booing EO.

I'm not booing Ren.

So, Stone. Get over it, dog. Robert? You know what I mean? Ren didn't do nothing wrong as far as I'm concerned.

Shay. Yeah. Free ran. Free run. It's backwards.

What you do? What do you do? This is a bang-banging territory. Also, real quick, before we go, NXT yesterday we watched. Grayson Waller, our guy, friend of the show.

Yeah. Great on the mic. Kind of the thing with Mason Rook, a little low-hanging fruit about his weight. Look, I'm a big boy. Like, I'm not, you know, I don't weigh.

You know what I'm saying? I got a little, like Dusty Rhodes said, I'm not built like the athlete that they supposed to look. My belly a little big, my heiny a little big. That's Mason Rook.

So I don't like that. I like wrestlers built like me, like Kevin Owens and Mason Rook, guys like that. But if you didn't get the chance, check out Mason Rook's promo last night. I thought it was a little bit fire. It was a little bit fire.

I think he took Gray Sonalo on the mic last night.

Now, I don't know if he's going to win this NXT title. But Mason Rook's telling you that's 300 pounds. 300 pounds. He's a bad boy. And uh I'm Very invested now in this feud and this match.

So just wanted to give Mason. Yeah, wanted to give Mason his props. That was a dope, dope promo. And of course, Our friend, our favorite, Rain of a Khan, she returned. She's back.

Hit another one of our friends. The problem with us and NXT is we're friends now with everybody, and I hate to see them fight. Yeah. Oh my god, I hate to see him. The homie Cam telling wait, telling Cruz, didn't your mama used to sell drugs?

Oh, wait, it's like, yeah, oh, that's my. By the way, Cruz Montana is still money on the mic, too. Yeah, he's always like, hold on, man. Mama? My mama, man, but yeah, NXT, man, that's the problem with interviewing somebody.

And when we start to like them all, then we don't want to see any of them fight. But it looks like we're getting reigned against Callie soon. I've turned it into that. Please believe it. Real buff, real buff.

Yeah, you believe in that like you believe in Jesus.

Now, and also, I just want to add about Ricky Steamboat's real name, Dick Blood. It's crazy. That's why I said Richard. On behalf of it, and it. Oh.

Speaking of mamas, once again, we started. Let's leave it with it, too. Happy birthday to my mom, Kim. Yes.

This is probably the eighth time I've ever said your name in my life. One time I was on Jacob. What was it called? Jalen and Jacoby. Remember that old show?

No, it was like, shout out to your mom. What's your mom's name? I was like. I don't care. One time, my mom needed my phone to call her phone because she couldn't find it.

She was like, I don't see my name.

So, well, your name's Mom. Yeah, why would I put you in here? I'm like, what sicko am I? My mom is mom in here. Yeah, mom.

Your name is mom. Either way. Happy birthday, mom. I love you. Shout out to all the people.

Look at them. Look at them. Happy born day. First of all, I want to, I know we're trying to go, but just black love for one thing. And then seeing a couple, especially a man in your dad's situation, right?

To be the star that he is. You never hear no type of strife, never no type of BS. You go work, you go home. And isn't that what he told you? Yeah, bro.

It's not. I just talked to Uncle Mike Epps the other day, and he was like, Your dad told me it's not a party, every night is not a party. You know, do work, go home, man. Get yourself a good woman and you keep her. And that sounds good, man.

You're never going to see yourself in your car.

So make sure your interior is where you want to be. Oh, there you go.

Well, happy birthday, Miss Kim. Happy birthday, mom. I love you. I'm headed there right now to probably eat some cake. And I got you a present, too.

But on behalf of myself and my podcast partner, make sure that y'all have a good day, but not too good because it's my mama's birthday. Right. And as always. Bye, Miss Parker. I wonder what Miss Parker's birthday is.

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