Royal Rumblings

The DM team makes their best effort to go over the events of the Royal Rumble in as positive a manner as they can, but you can only be so positive when you’re this disappointed. Jeremy was at BoLA though, so that’s cool. He can recap that for you. 👍🏻

Transcript (Made by robots)

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jeremy: You know it’s too bad that they had that Uh, that Saudi Arabia show called The

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jeremy: Greatest Royal Rumble a few years ago, Because now they can’t like re reuse that now

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jeremy: you can’t have the greatest Royal Rumble too. You know,

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matt: Yeah, I mean, lets let’s be real. The probably the greatest Royal rumble. at least in

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matt: the last I don’t know. fifteen years or so was two years ago. Um,

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matt: but uh, yeah, this. let’s talk about the Royal rumble. Have you had a chance to watch

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matt: the show?

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jeremy: Uh, I just, I saw only seen clips of it. I just like. So we were going a pocast on

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jeremy: on Sunday this week and I was at Uh, P, B, Gs. Battle of Los Angeles. Uh had a great

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jeremy: time, but when I like red is our plan was I was going to come home. I was go to

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jeremy: watch it the next morning before we podcastes before I went to nightight to P. w. G,

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jeremy: and I just read the recap and I just like, and also mats live texting me during the

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jeremy: show and I just I just like I can’t. I like. I knew this episode would be a huge

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jeremy: bummer if I, I had immediately like recorded on Sunday, not even watching it. Just

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jeremy: like hearing what they did just just was

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jeremy: disappointing. and I know we’re trying to be positive here on this this

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matt: try trying

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jeremy: season of the show. So this is

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jeremy: so this like, we would have already been set up for failure if we did on Sunday. So

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jeremy: that’s why we would did a little bit later this week.

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matt: so well. let’s let’s quick hit this thing. I mean, Uh, the easiest way is just we’ll

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matt: hit these these singles matches. Um, Since you, since you didn’t watch them, Uh Roman

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matt: and Rawins kicked off the show. The match was great, as should be expected. Uh. Roman

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matt: entered first. It took him what felt like forty five minutes to get to the ring. He

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matt: got a full, like Undertaker level entrance. Um. Seth Rallins did a full shield

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matt: entrance shield music. He had the the full gear on. He came through the crowd. Uh,

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matt: somehow did all that in about forty five seconds compared to Roman entrance. Um, and

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matt: then these guys that, I mean, you knew the match was gonna be good and they were

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matt: tearing the shit down. Um,

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matt: and then

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matt: Roman refused to break the guiltine, Uh, while Seth had the ropes. So you got a d. ▁q

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matt: win for Sethrawins, leaving the belt on Roman. Um. That was the first pay per view

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matt: loss Roman Reins has had in two years since the twenty twenty Royal Rumble. Um, Yeah,

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matt: and um.

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matt: I mean it. just I don’t know something about the it. It felt lazy. Um. and and now

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matt: reports are coming out that

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matt: internally they knew that the ending was not going to be popular at all, and they

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matt: had Rome and do a chair beat down so that he personally got booed instead of the match

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matt: ending. Um, when you already know ahead of time

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matt: that the match ending is gonna get booed Book Something else. It’s oak. At this point

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matt: it is okay for for Roman to get a clean win on Seth Rollins. We’re all okay with that.

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matt: if somebody’s gonna gonna do a, you know De you finish like do something. Don’t don’t

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matt: just have him not break a hold that that doesn’t work.

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matt: and it’s it’s so detrimental to both these guys. I mean, it’s not going to hurt their

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matt: star power at all, but I mean that Roy rumble for me is like the best show of the year

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matt: every year. I mean Y the surprises. They always put their best foot forward to get you

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matt: excited for Wrestlemania. Even if Russemania’, lacklustster like last year’s was they

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matt: do things to get you excited for it? And Um, if this, if this is the marker of what

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matt: we’re heading for at the most stupendous two nights in in pro wrestling or sorry,

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matt: sports entertainment, Um,

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matt: I, I don’t know. It’s it’s hard to get excited. Um, And this was just the first match

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matt: that they had to. They had to strategically plan around a boo.

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matt: From here we went into the women’s Royal Rumble, which will will come back to in a few

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matt: minutes, Um. Becky, ▁lynch, uh, defended her belt against Dedrop. Charlotte was just

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matt: in the rumble inexplicably rather than having a title defense.

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jeremy: I mean, I will say like, I mean. I know. it’s like one of your top women’s

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jeremy: championship. like I. It does get a little tiresome when they, when they have tried

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jeremy: to like, squeeze in like all the titles as well as do the

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jeremy: rumble. Um, So like I, I think do think it’s it’s necessary that you need to have

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jeremy: like some champions in the rumble. Uh, but most of the time that’s a mid card

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jeremy: champion which the women don’t really have.

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matt: I. I agree with you. completely.

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matt: At the same time, as short as everybody knew Bobby Lashley, Brock Lesner was going to

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matt: be cause. I mean, even even as as good a shape as both those guys were in, we were. We

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matt: were probably capted about ten minutes like that and that was probably pushing it. Um,

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jeremy: Well and that, and that’s the best you know. I’m not. I’m not a fan of Brock Prock

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jeremy: leer, but that’s the been the best Brock Leser mates has been those ones that have

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jeremy: been just like fast and good, Uh, like that Goldberg match at Mania, which didn’t

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jeremy: need to be for the Universal championship, But it, you know, that’s what happened,

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jeremy: but it was a a good quick match of. I think five

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jeremy: minutes, I think is what they said it was and

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jeremy: I, it can’t have been. I was about to say including entrances, but there’s no way

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jeremy: you can include Goldberg’strances and being anything less than five minutes. Uh

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jeremy: that that that’s wrong to a Survivor match might have been been one where Goldberg

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jeremy: could snuck out that wind. But but yeah, I know

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jeremy: the the last le match it was. It was going to be the right. I mean, there’s other

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jeremy: problems with that match that will get to you, but yeah, you’re right. it would

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jeremy: never been more than ten minutes like, even in the best case situation is a

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matt: Becky and Doodrop also had a a fantastic match. Um. It got a clean finish, which in

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matt: felt odd. Um,

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matt: for I, I don’t know it. Like of all the of the three singles matches on this show,

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matt: the only one that got a clean finish was the one with your top heel in it. Uh, well,

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matt: ▁z, I mean, obviously, Romman’s your top heel, but top top m female heel. Um got a

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matt: clean finish over Dedrop, So I mean, you know we wish her her best in all of her

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matt: future endeavors. At this point, Um, the match was good. I mean, it really was.

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matt: They’re two talented performers. Uh, Becky retained Um,

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matt: and then uh, we moved into Lesner, Lashley. This is the match that I was the most

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matt: excited about on this show. Surprisingly enough, Um,

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matt: and in the five or six minutes that they did perform

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matt: they they prove me right. Uh, ▁, Brock Lesner has invested as hell right now. he’s

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matt: excited. It’s it’s fun to see. Um. I didn’t watch a lot during his like heyday coming

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matt: up, Uh, his initial runs and things,

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matt: so it. I’ve always just seen like you know Law Lesner wins. Um, he runs in, does four

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matt: Germans and an F five, and then the match is over. Um. Bobby Lashley was whooping his

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matt: ass and he was just taking it and cool with it. And

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matt: then Roman interfered. That’s how we set up. Brock Lesner and Roman, Roman interferes

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matt: to to take out Brock Lesner, Uh, Paul Hayman turns on Brock Lesner and goes back to

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matt: Bobby Lashley comes out of there with a belt and Brorock is just moving on to Roman.

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jeremy: I don’t know what you talk about. This sounds great.

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jeremy: I love it. everything about it. Why escape watching this show

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matt: The. The. The match was so good,

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matt: so good, like and I think the most frustrating part of this is that Bobby Lashley was

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matt: one of the ▁lynch pins that got them through the pandemic.

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matt: He finally got a match. he’s waited twenty years to have. And this is the best you

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matt: could give him.

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matt: I mean it’s

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matt: it’s It’s just like the Roman Seth match. It’s O, k, for one of them to eat a clean

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matt: loss. Nobody’s go to get hurt by it. Uh, if Lashley loses clean, Lashley still looks

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matt: like a million boxs and he’s a threat to anybody. If Lesner loses, Lesner has lost

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matt: before. we’re Ok with it.

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matt: Like we didn’t need all that arbitrary extra stuff Like Just let this match happen.

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matt: It’s like it has been building and brewing, you know, for six months for those of us

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matt: watching right now, twenty years for Bobby Lashley. Like it. I. it. it was so

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matt: frustrating, Um, Every, everything on this show just felt lazy, Um like they. They

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matt: knew it was just going to be Lesner and Roman and they were like, Let’s figure out the

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matt: laziest way to make this happen. Uh, and and they gave it to us. Um. and it, God, it

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matt: pissed me all. and I I’m trying so hard to be positive about about things. Um, but

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matt: yeah, they it it. everything about the the four and a half hours that this pay per

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matt: Um, and it?

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jeremy: So you know, So you think Uh, Lashley’s dream match was was Lesner. I thought he

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jeremy: already had it. Uh. back at Wrestleman In twenty three

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matt: Oh, who do you

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jeremy: wrestling A

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jeremy: he. He faced Yaga as a proxy for Donald Trump,

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matt: that this that? Now I understand why he left

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matt: A and worked with. Uh, oh, what is American top team? What the hell’ is his name? Uh

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jeremy: Dan Lambert,

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matt: Yeah, why he left and agreed to work with Dan Lambert for a while. Um, I

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matt: prob. Yeah, I. I would rather work with Dan Lambert than then Donald Trump, and that

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jeremy: It like this is better. This is better.

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matt: says a whole lot. Um, so Yeah, those were your three singles title matches. Um, and

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matt: then we got.

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matt: we got our rumbles

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matt: boy. Did we get our Vbs,

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jeremy: We got so many Uh, forbidden door entries after all. all the the teasing that came

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jeremy: through got Mickey James, and

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matt: That was it?

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matt: Uh, I will. I will give them props. Mickey James got to use her own music. She got to

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matt: come out with an Impact looking banner that said Impact Women’s Champion, and she got

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matt: to wear the belt to the ring. Um. I didn’t think they were going to give her all of

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matt: that, but I, I will give them credit for that. that was. Um. you know this. This’s a

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matt: least they could do after they mailed her her shit in a hefty bag. but um,

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matt: I mean, they didn’t do her any favors in the the booking of the match. So

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matt: um, but yeah, for all the for all the uh, the rumors and the forbidden door talk,

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matt: when? when you, when you know who won them it it really doesn’t. It really doesn’t

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jeremy: clear, including Renee Dis on faning the flames Is. I don’t know what my husband is

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jeremy: doing like on Saturday.

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matt: Yeah, yeah, we’re We’re both so busy. I don’t know what his schedule looks like. Saint

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matt: Louis is driving distance.

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matt: so you? Oh, you teased us. You just made it that much worse. Uh, Moose’s Twitter made

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matt: it that much worse for you and I, um,

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matt: you know, Cody Rhodes and all the free agency talk, and then the day of the rumble,

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matt: posting the picture of of a plane flying into Saint Louis, That was. that was an an

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matt: ▁ultimate troll move And I, I applauded him for that one. Um,

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jeremy: I don’t know if you called up Aj, but I a ▁j. was all way. I’ll challenge Cody

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jeremy: Rhodes to come into the rumble or whatever you know. So

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matt: we’re going to have a

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matt: Um, so yeah, let’s uh, quick hit on these rumbles. Uh, all the women’s surprises were

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matt: spoiled, except for like a Leishia Fox, which isn’t really a shocker. Um,

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matt: none of the none of the surprises fared terribly well. Uh, Lida did have a good

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matt: showing, Um, but was ▁ultimately eliminated so that we could get a

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matt: A. a stare down longer than the actual confrontation between Charlotte and Rond de

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matt: Rosi. Uh, who won the match

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matt: because she needed the rub. Um.

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matt: it came down to them as the last two. Charlotte charged in for a. S. A. a big boot and

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matt: so they didn’t wrestle at all. Uh, it was. it was not pretty. Um did this match and I

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matt: I can give. I can give a lotta Lee way to the. you know, the the legends, the The

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matt: you know, no surprises here, Um one. actually, one. Uh, the internet had spoiled

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jeremy: one criticism I I was reading is that the the uh jackass theme immediately puts the

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jeremy: about the character of Johnny Knoxville like as well, like If you just you’ve never

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jeremy: seen Jackass it fits. If you like, look at him and he come to the ring and kind of

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jeremy: kind of goofy, but like kind of crazy. Like ready to do some crazy stuff. So

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matt: Jackass. You were definitely not listening to the spotcast.

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matt: Um, other other things, Austin theory got to look good. Uh, he didn’t get the wind

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matt: that, I secretly, uh, just hoped for, Um. Randy Orton in front of his home crowd.

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matt: He was the second shortest survival time of the whole match. I don’t know if if

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matt: Orton’s working hurt or what is going on. he wasn’t on Raw. Um, which is weird because

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jeremy: I mean, you know. it’s It’s not surprising that W. Wd didn’t book a hometown person

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matt: you know it it, it does happen occasionally. Uh, rand, Yton, just got the shit end of

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matt: the stick. Uh, he came out too late in the match, and then when our our glorious

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matt: last night to say that he is. He’s definitely going after Roman Reigns, So at least

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matt: but that’s not all. he. Uh, he confronted Bobby Lashley Um,

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matt: ready for a match, Which, which was weird on a row to see Lesner dressed for a an

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matt: Uh, Brock Lesner was then immediately inserted into the W. W. B championship

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matt: Yep, So

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jeremy: back to Saudi Arabia.

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matt: so that was? That was the twenty twenty two Royal Rumble event.

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matt: Tell me about. Tell me about the Battle of Los Angeles. Let’s talk about something

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jeremy: I thought that were really good last week. The Um. The latter match with Cody and

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jeremy: Man, what they, those two put themselves through for just a regular episode of

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jeremy: Television is nuts and the whiplsash. When when? uh, When Sammy did that senton on

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jeremy: Dakdy onto that ladder, and just the whiplashship his bodied us bending around.

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jeremy: That’s just it’s It’s too much and and I, I, I made sure to to point out to

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jeremy: youcause. I knew you were going to watch it later. It’s just like there was reports

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jeremy: more of a a. A clear clear mind.

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matt: the the centon on the ladder that didn’t give um, was was bad.

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matt: that cutter off the ladders

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matt: with the arm I thought he was. I thought he was going to turn around and have a Ra

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jeremy: but and then uh, also, I really loved. Uh Bowens versus Uh mox. I thought that was

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jeremy: excellent. you know, Anthony Bowen’s really killing it. Um, you can say what you

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jeremy: want want to say about Maxcaster. He’s definitely hit or miss, but but Bowens, he

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jeremy: just brings it every time and I I think it’s kind of a big star in in the making.

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matt: Yeah, Bo Bones isn’t incredibly talented dude. Um,

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matt: I, I know that the the gimmick needs Ma Max caster, But when they finally break that

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matt: something special

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jeremy: Um, so

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jeremy: let’s jump to the battle of Los Angeles. So this hasn’t happened since twenty

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matt: to the batt oldlasing. So this happen happened since nine. So quite old time. I was

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jeremy: nineteen, so it’s been quite a long time. Uh, I was there the last time. Uh, a Mr.

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matt: there the last time

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jeremy: Uh, I believe that’s when

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matt: that I, about any the woman again

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jeremy: man. I can’t remember who went, Oh, bandido one. Yeah,

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jeremy: ’cause then he went at a challenge for the championship, and then he won the

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jeremy: championship, and then

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matt: Even even recently he of

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matt: he was suppose the Fa. I had give up his last month of

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jeremy: he was supposed to defend. I had came. Remember if it was last month of the month or

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jeremy: through the month

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jeremy: of the show before that one, but he was, uh, he got coveed,

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matt: before that one, but he was a Gcko

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jeremy: so he had to drop out and wasn’t able to defend his championship.

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matt: He had a stave field of sixteen. only fifteen, twenty four. the last several years say

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jeremy: Uh, we had a a field of sixteen. It’s normally it’s been twenty four in the last

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jeremy: several years, ’cause they end up with a a triple threat, But this this year they

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matt: number Thosele friends, this Un man man, The same question

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jeremy: only had Uh. a just a singles match.

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matt: again, Arabes person, rain grus, and first match Cle heaven Blwood for Ste Gracia Ja

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jeremy: versus Daniel Garcia, Jake Cart Wheel versus Leo Rush, Lee Moriary versus Alex

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jeremy: Bendido versus Speedball Mac Bailey. So what I actually did? Uh, You know, the first

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jeremy: been banned from the U S. for several years for uh,

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jeremy: And they got a band. I guess is what the story that I’ve heard could be wrong. Uh,

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jeremy: but I, that’s just what I overheard. Why I was there.

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matt: So what actually did? After the first night I, I created old old and inm inly of the

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jeremy: So what I actually did After the first night? I uh, created a little pole, and in

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jeremy: you know if you’ve ever been to P. o b G, you had to get there early. It’s kind of

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matt: interew myself

399
00:26:05,740 –> 00:26:06,740
400
00:26:06,454 –> 00:26:07,454
jeremy: nineteen people,

401
00:26:07,440 –> 00:26:09,280
matt: some of which the rest of the

402
00:26:07,994 –> 00:26:10,394
jeremy: some of which are into wrestling, but most are

403
00:26:10,020 –> 00:26:11,020
404
00:26:10,474 –> 00:26:13,834
jeremy: not about. Uh. I made a little Google pole with the big

405
00:26:13,380 –> 00:26:14,380
406
00:26:13,914 –> 00:26:15,674
jeremy: pictures of everybody and I asked.

407
00:26:15,920 –> 00:26:17,200
matt: would be to face off.

408
00:26:16,074 –> 00:26:20,554
jeremy: Okay, who do you think just based on names and pictures of these people is going to

409
00:26:20,634 –> 00:26:25,994
jeremy: win this championship? And Uh, nineteen people indulged me and filled it out.

410
00:26:26,000 –> 00:26:27,040
matt: So out of that

411
00:26:26,534 –> 00:26:27,534
jeremy: So out of all that,

412
00:26:29,114 –> 00:26:31,834
jeremy: um, let’s see. let’s actually pull it up here.

413
00:26:34,254 –> 00:26:35,254
414
00:26:35,994 –> 00:26:38,954
jeremy: I think believe, uh, Buddy Matthews

415
00:26:37,040 –> 00:26:40,320
matt: Bu Mans did end up

416
00:26:40,074 –> 00:26:41,514
jeremy: did end up with

417
00:26:42,634 –> 00:26:44,234
jeremy: the Uh. most amount of

418
00:26:45,354 –> 00:26:47,354
jeremy: votes. I think it was about five.

419
00:26:50,394 –> 00:26:54,634
jeremy: Okay, I am not logged in. That’s great. Um, this is a great radio.

420
00:26:56,154 –> 00:26:59,194
jeremy: Um. Black Tors ended up with number two. I did

421
00:26:58,900 –> 00:26:59,900
422
00:26:59,254 –> 00:27:00,254
jeremy: do remember this.

423
00:27:01,754 –> 00:27:04,314
jeremy: Okay, Here you go. I got got. I’m got in here now.

424
00:27:05,994 –> 00:27:07,274
jeremy: All right, so we had.

425
00:27:09,214 –> 00:27:10,214
426
00:27:11,994 –> 00:27:13,034
jeremy: Yeah, So five for

427
00:27:13,040 –> 00:27:14,320
matt: Mathews, black

428
00:27:13,114 –> 00:27:15,434
jeremy: Buddy Matthews, four for black tours,

429
00:27:15,520 –> 00:27:20,080
matt: threey armies That those were like the these nont fans

430
00:27:16,074 –> 00:27:21,114
jeremy: three for Aramiese and that those were like the least non wrestling fans. They all

431
00:27:20,894 –> 00:27:21,894
432
00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:23,200
matt: of people. I, they all went,

433
00:27:22,074 –> 00:27:24,874
jeremy: Of the people I, I voted. they all went for the The Luchdor,

434
00:27:25,260 –> 00:27:26,260
matt: Re you,

435
00:27:25,594 –> 00:27:27,034
jeremy: Um, three for you, Wheeler

436
00:27:27,120 –> 00:27:35,280
matt: some of which people have said, just a handsomeper, Shelly one,

437
00:27:27,194 –> 00:27:31,434
jeremy: udah. some of which people just said, This’s just a handsome man And you know,

438
00:27:31,674 –> 00:27:37,194
jeremy: probably I don’t disagree. Really, Uh, two for Alex Shelley, one for Red Death,

439
00:27:37,434 –> 00:27:39,274
jeremy: Daniel Garcia, and one for

440
00:27:39,440 –> 00:27:40,480
matt: the only impressed

441
00:27:39,514 –> 00:27:42,394
jeremy: Leo Rush, the only wrestler in the field of eight

442
00:27:42,480 –> 00:27:44,480
matt: going into the ninete.

443
00:27:43,114 –> 00:27:46,634
jeremy: going into Uh night Two wisp ball Mike Bailey.

444
00:27:47,294 –> 00:27:48,294
445
00:27:49,120 –> 00:27:51,520
matt: Of course, that means beed up with

446
00:27:49,754 –> 00:27:53,274
jeremy: of course that means we ended up with Speball, Mike

447
00:27:53,434 –> 00:27:57,434
jeremy: Bailey, spoiler. Anyway, I, I feel like if you’re if you’ve been listening this far

448
00:27:53,520 –> 00:27:55,120
matt: spoiler. anyway, I feel like a.

449
00:27:57,514 –> 00:28:00,634
jeremy: and you, you were concerned about spoilers for the Battle of Los Angeles. Uh,

450
00:28:01,754 –> 00:28:06,874
jeremy: you should prob. she’ll probably stop listening a while ago. Uh, but Speba, Mike

451
00:28:07,034 –> 00:28:13,274
jeremy: Bailey and Daniel Garcia ended up in that final round, which only one person guessed

452
00:28:13,434 –> 00:28:18,874
jeremy: that a non wrestling fan, who, when I told him he won, celebrated with a bunch of ho

453
00:28:18,954 –> 00:28:23,354
jeremy: Cogan gifts, and then said And it’s like I didn’t realize the only wrestler I really

454
00:28:23,434 –> 00:28:26,394
jeremy: knew was a big racist, So it was just like Ah, okay,

455
00:28:27,454 –> 00:28:28,454
456
00:28:29,274 –> 00:28:34,234
jeremy: but yeah, he had a great showing, you know, I. I. I’ve seen him as part of as two

457
00:28:34,394 –> 00:28:36,394
jeremy: point O, son, but he.

458
00:28:37,754 –> 00:28:43,194
jeremy: He brought a lot of personality to his matches and he won every single match by

459
00:28:43,274 –> 00:28:46,714
jeremy: submission, which I thought was interesting. Um.

460
00:28:47,754 –> 00:28:53,274
jeremy: The other thing that’s kinda going around. Uh. Leo Rush got injured, so in his match

461
00:28:53,514 –> 00:29:00,394
jeremy: versus buddy, uh, Uh, his semi final bat, Ma with with uh, Buddy Matthews, Um, but

462
00:29:00,554 –> 00:29:05,674
jeremy: he started off with a promo just gl, glowing about previous years of P. w. B. G, and

463
00:29:05,674 –> 00:29:08,234
jeremy: then instantly turned it into a heel Pro Pro promo.

464
00:29:08,814 –> 00:29:09,814
465
00:29:10,394 –> 00:29:16,074
jeremy: there were some fans that threw drinks into the ring and it’s just not cool. Um.

466
00:29:16,794 –> 00:29:18,154
jeremy: There’s speculation that.

467
00:29:19,194 –> 00:29:23,194
jeremy: Uh, so so Buddy Matthews, his finisher right now is like a curb soamp situation

468
00:29:24,234 –> 00:29:28,234
jeremy: And he went for the stomp and that he might have slipped or or whatever. And just he

469
00:29:28,394 –> 00:29:34,154
jeremy: might have came down too hard on on Leo. And I guess he like potentially potentially

470
00:29:34,314 –> 00:29:37,834
jeremy: separated his shoulder or something. something. Hopefully not as bad. Maybe

471
00:29:38,074 –> 00:29:43,914
jeremy: hopefully’ll be like Ra Phoenix, and not as bad as it initially seems. Um, but yeah,

472
00:29:44,154 –> 00:29:48,794
jeremy: so Leo Rush is out for a few more months, it. it. Unfortunately, it seems like every

473
00:29:48,954 –> 00:29:55,274
jeremy: time I see Leo rush in a wrestling match he gets injured. Um. and I think I, maybe

474
00:29:55,434 –> 00:29:59,194
jeremy: Id have had bad luck or he’s injury prone. I’m not entirely sure. Um.

475
00:29:59,040 –> 00:30:02,320
matt: He’s got a music to contract. Now he’ll just retire again.

476
00:30:02,094 –> 00:30:03,094
477
00:30:02,960 –> 00:30:05,440
matt: So whatever, he never does anything when

478
00:30:05,054 –> 00:30:06,054
479
00:30:05,520 –> 00:30:06,560
matt: he shows up anyway.

480
00:30:08,314 –> 00:30:14,474
jeremy: I mean, he was entertaining in in the the two matches I did see him in. Um. but it’s

481
00:30:14,634 –> 00:30:19,674
jeremy: just not cool. like in general, like Excaliber was like super pissed. People have

482
00:30:19,754 –> 00:30:23,754
jeremy: said they’ve been going to p. O v g for years and they’d never seen him like as

483
00:30:23,994 –> 00:30:28,394
jeremy: pissed after that match where he like, just braided. You know people for like

484
00:30:28,954 –> 00:30:33,274
jeremy: throwing stuff in the ring ’cause it’s just not. It’s just not what we do as is is

485
00:30:33,434 –> 00:30:35,034
jeremy: good fans and stuff. And if you’re

486
00:30:36,234 –> 00:30:41,434
jeremy: uh, you know and it’s alcohol that I understand that, Um, and some people go too far

487
00:30:41,834 –> 00:30:45,754
jeremy: with that And but it’s still like there’s that line. You can’t. You can’t do that

488
00:30:45,914 –> 00:30:50,954
jeremy: ’cause it’s endangering people like you know. Everyone’s real coset ring. If you

489
00:30:51,034 –> 00:30:54,634
jeremy: throw a beer can and it gets all the way other side like you, you could hit somebody

490
00:30:54,874 –> 00:30:58,314
jeremy: in the face. Uh, that’s just trying to watch wrestling. so

491
00:30:59,594 –> 00:31:04,954
jeremy: it’s uh. it’s a shame. but overall, despite that little hiccup, it was uh, quite

492
00:31:05,114 –> 00:31:09,034
jeremy: good. Wheeler, Uda and Blake, Christian might have had my favorite match of the

493
00:31:09,034 –> 00:31:12,874
jeremy: whole whole thing on the their first round match And considering that they were Um,

494
00:31:14,154 –> 00:31:19,274
jeremy: they were a replacement, Was pretty, was pretty good was pretty cool. Wheeler didn’t

495
00:31:19,354 –> 00:31:23,514
jeremy: have any march. He just came out and just hung out during the breaks like he. Ho. He

496
00:31:23,594 –> 00:31:26,954
jeremy: hung up his tights on the ropes and just like hung out and took pictures of the

497
00:31:27,034 –> 00:31:31,514
jeremy: people. Uh, he seems like a good dude, and as I said on this podcast several times,

498
00:31:31,594 –> 00:31:36,474
jeremy: I think he’s gonna be like a big star like two, three years from now, Um, and I’m

499
00:31:36,634 –> 00:31:41,834
jeremy: excited just seeing how he’s interacted with Trent and how Trent doesn’t really

500
00:31:43,334 –> 00:31:44,334
jeremy: accept him.

501
00:31:45,194 –> 00:31:49,754
jeremy: I think we’re going to eventually get a match between those two. maybe a like a a

502
00:31:50,074 –> 00:31:55,114
jeremy: respect. you know, to gain that respect from Trent and help him become like you

503
00:31:55,434 –> 00:31:59,754
jeremy: become a true member of of chaos or best friends, and stuff like that. so I’m I’m

504
00:31:59,834 –> 00:32:02,554
jeremy: kind of looking forward to that in the future. that at least lasts my fantasy

505
00:32:02,714 –> 00:32:04,714
jeremy: booking of that of that angle.

506
00:32:07,334 –> 00:32:08,334
jeremy: So Yeah,

507
00:32:09,114 –> 00:32:11,754
jeremy: any other other things you’ looking for to this week?

508
00:32:11,700 –> 00:32:12,700
509
00:32:13,140 –> 00:32:14,140
matt: well, uh,

510
00:32:15,120 –> 00:32:17,280
matt: you know, as bad as Role Rumble was

511
00:32:18,720 –> 00:32:21,040
matt: Raw wasn’t bad, Um,

512
00:32:21,614 –> 00:32:22,614
513
00:32:21,840 –> 00:32:27,280
matt: lots of good matches on this show. Um, I don’t. I don’t understand why it is that we

514
00:32:27,360 –> 00:32:32,720
matt: need a ▁ qua. You know qualifying tournaments for stuff before we finally get good

515
00:32:32,880 –> 00:32:41,360
matt: matches. Uh. we got a ▁j styles, uh, taken on Ray Masterreo on Raw, Uh, no funny

516
00:32:41,680 –> 00:32:47,280
matt: business. No, nothing. They just wrestled the match. It was awesome. Uh. Ray went for

517
00:32:47,360 –> 00:32:53,040
matt: a hurricane Rana that a ▁j instantly reversed into a Styles clash. It was great. like.

518
00:32:53,200 –> 00:32:57,440
matt: Why have we? Why has this not been like a marque match before? Um?

519
00:32:58,640 –> 00:33:02,880
matt: So a ▁j Styles is going to be in the elimination chamber match along with you know,

520
00:33:02,960 –> 00:33:10,800
matt: Lashley and Lesner Uh. Austin Theory got a win over K O to qualify, So he will be in

521
00:33:10,880 –> 00:33:13,440
matt: the elimination chamber as well. Um.

522
00:33:16,080 –> 00:33:22,160
matt: Matt Riddle beat Otis to qualify. Uh. Randy Orrton, again was nowhere in sight. Um, So

523
00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:23,300
matt: Riddle is is going

524
00:33:23,094 –> 00:33:24,094
525
00:33:23,600 –> 00:33:29,920
matt: singles for the next Pa per view. Um, who were the other two? Seth Rollins was

526
00:33:30,160 –> 00:33:36,160
matt: automatically inserted into the elimination chamber with no qualify necessary. Uh, I

527
00:33:36,240 –> 00:33:39,760
matt: mean, he did just beat the universal champion, so I guess that that’s his

528
00:33:39,840 –> 00:33:45,280
matt: qualification. Uh, I think that’s six. I think that’s all of them. Um, outside of that

529
00:33:45,920 –> 00:33:48,480
matt: rousy decided to turn up. Um

530
00:33:49,760 –> 00:33:56,240
matt: cut some weird promo on how shed wrestle Charlotte Fllair to prove that she didn’t

531
00:33:56,480 –> 00:34:01,520
matt: think very highly of Becky, So I guess she does think highle of Charlotte. I don’t

532
00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:06,560
matt: know. it was I. it was. It was random as hell, and whatever, Uh,

533
00:34:07,194 –> 00:34:10,074
jeremy: So is should go and face or heal here?

534
00:34:09,520 –> 00:34:15,200
matt: I. I don’t nobody likes her. I don’t know why she got a pop in Saint Louis, Um, right

535
00:34:15,440 –> 00:34:20,720
matt: before she left after Beckymania, I mean, she was getting booed out of buildings, Um,

536
00:34:20,980 –> 00:34:21,980
matt: the U f C

537
00:34:21,534 –> 00:34:22,534
538
00:34:22,000 –> 00:34:27,040
matt: Bodder out of the building after Misia Taate kicked her head off. Um, and she did not

539
00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:33,920
matt: endure her fan or India wrestling fans to herself, Uh, constantly talking shit about

540
00:34:34,240 –> 00:34:39,200
matt: them and the company and the other women in the locker room, And you know I. I. I, why

541
00:34:39,280 –> 00:34:44,400
matt: would you bring somebody like that back? I, I don’t know. but uh, when she left the

542
00:34:44,480 –> 00:34:50,080
matt: ring with Becky standing in it, Uh, Lida confronted Becky and challenged her to a

543
00:34:50,160 –> 00:34:53,360
matt: match at Elimination chamber. Um, so it it.

544
00:34:54,500 –> 00:34:55,500
matt: I can hope.

545
00:34:56,400 –> 00:35:01,440
matt: Um. I was actually really hopeful that that Lita would be would be one of the women’s

546
00:35:01,600 –> 00:35:06,560
matt: championship matches at mania, Uh, I, I was kind of hoping she’d win the rumble and

547
00:35:06,720 –> 00:35:13,200
matt: get a get a nice run here on on her way to Wrestmania. Uh, but we didn’t get that. We

548
00:35:13,360 –> 00:35:19,520
matt: will probably get Becky and Lita at Elimination chamber. Uh, Hopefully it goes well,

549
00:35:19,920 –> 00:35:24,560
matt: Um, maybe it’ll just end up with like a dusty finish and then we’ll get a a fatal

550
00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:30,800
matt: fourway Uh, Becky, Charlotte, Lida and Ronder Rousi at Wsalmania. Somehow, I don’t

551
00:35:30,880 –> 00:35:35,920
matt: know how the hell they’ll work it into that, but I got a. I got a feeling just based

552
00:35:36,080 –> 00:35:41,760
matt: on roster depth that we are. Uh, we are about to get a shit load of title unification.

553
00:35:42,100 –> 00:35:43,100
554
00:35:43,840 –> 00:35:48,720
matt: which you know, the matches will be good. Uh, Gable and Otis versus the Usos could

555
00:35:48,880 –> 00:35:54,240
matt: probably be a banger. Uh, Chad Gable could wrestle a paper bag and I think it would be

556
00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:58,960
matt: entertaining. Uh, but you put him in there with the Usos and I, God, they could put on

557
00:35:59,040 –> 00:36:05,280
matt: a show. Uh, um, but that I, it is the only logical way, Um to get back to some

558
00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:10,880
matt: semblance of decent booking at this point, which is sad. Um, to that you have to take

559
00:36:11,040 –> 00:36:16,320
matt: away half the belts to to actually put some creative effort in. But uh that that seems

560
00:36:16,480 –> 00:36:21,440
matt: like the road we’re on. Um is is a whole bunch of title. Uh, unification.

561
00:36:22,480 –> 00:36:28,240
matt: Um, so we’ll see, But that’s that’s what. The road restsmania. is looking like

562
00:36:30,234 –> 00:36:31,354
jeremy: it’s paved with gold.

563
00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:32,720
matt: it’s paved with something.

564
00:36:35,834 –> 00:36:41,674
jeremy: Oh, man. well, uh, we got a a Super Bowl coming up. Uh, this has nothing to do with

565
00:36:41,754 –> 00:36:47,594
jeremy: wrestling. Um, so yeah, I don’t know why I’m mentioning this like it happens every

566
00:36:47,280 –> 00:36:51,680
matt: Is it is it bad that I lose interest as soon as Tom Brady’s not involved

567
00:36:47,294 –> 00:36:48,294
568
00:36:53,360 –> 00:36:58,400
matt: like I? I? I get you. I mean, you’re in ▁l A and ▁l A is hosting and they’re in the

569
00:36:58,640 –> 00:37:05,680
matt: the Super Bowl. Um. And then you know the the super underdog Cincinnati Bengals, uh

570
00:37:05,840 –> 00:37:08,080
matt: midm team making making

571
00:37:07,774 –> 00:37:08,774
572
00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:14,000
matt: good. Uh, I mean it, it’ll be an entertaining, entertaining, super boowl, Um,

573
00:37:15,220 –> 00:37:16,220
matt: curious to see,

574
00:37:16,154 –> 00:37:20,474
jeremy: I got a hug out of it like it was happened during P. d B G, and someone was just

575
00:37:20,634 –> 00:37:24,794
jeremy: real excited about them winning Like I mean, he was super drunk and he came over and

576
00:37:24,874 –> 00:37:28,554
jeremy: hugged me, Uh, like, like he was standing standing right next to me. Heard the news

577
00:37:28,634 –> 00:37:31,354
jeremy: and he was just like hugging people around him And it’s just like all of a sudden,

578
00:37:31,514 –> 00:37:36,154
jeremy: this guy just like like, just hugged me. That was just a strange thing. He was not

579
00:37:36,234 –> 00:37:39,994
jeremy: one of the ones that threw uh stuff in the ring, So so that’s good. I think he

580
00:37:40,074 –> 00:37:43,434
jeremy: passed out somewhere by the time that that actually happened. So

581
00:37:42,560 –> 00:37:44,960
matt: We, some of us have been there. It’s fine.

582
00:37:45,214 –> 00:37:46,214
583
00:37:46,954 –> 00:37:50,074
jeremy: um, but yeah, uh, we’ll see if uh

584
00:37:51,434 –> 00:37:55,834
jeremy: anything happens. I don’t know it. it’ll It’ll be fun. Uh, a fun atmosphere. If

585
00:37:55,914 –> 00:37:59,514
jeremy: anything, it’s going to be kind of a preview. What Wrestlemania? Um,

586
00:38:00,794 –> 00:38:07,594
jeremy: uh, twenty twenty three will be like here in Los Angeles at the Sofi stadium. Um, I

587
00:38:07,594 –> 00:38:12,954
jeremy: mean, W. W have would have to get exceptionally bad. Uh, for me to not go to that at

588
00:38:12,954 –> 00:38:18,074
jeremy: all with, especially with it being in my backyard. Um, but we, we’ll say, never say

589
00:38:17,974 –> 00:38:18,974
jeremy: never, I guess

590
00:38:19,440 –> 00:38:20,560
matt: The sad thing is that

591
00:38:21,620 –> 00:38:22,620
matt: the the

592
00:38:23,200 –> 00:38:25,760
matt: takeover would probably be misable

593
00:38:27,260 –> 00:38:28,260
594
00:38:27,774 –> 00:38:28,774
595
00:38:28,160 –> 00:38:30,000
matt: something drastic changes in a year.

596
00:38:32,000 –> 00:38:34,800
matt: we don’t even get takeovers anymore. It’s awfully sad.

597
00:38:35,034 –> 00:38:41,114
jeremy: I. yeah, yeah, I think though it’s it’s the. I think they had do have some kind of

598
00:38:41,194 –> 00:38:46,714
jeremy: time line. I think N. ▁x T will look quite a bit different if by this time next

599
00:38:46,954 –> 00:38:52,314
jeremy: year, um, they haven’t gotten to the goal that they. they’ve been looking to do. Uh,

600
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jeremy: At the very least, I don’t know when their u s a um television dealers with with n,

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jeremy: ▁x T is up, but I don’t know. I wonder if that that changes. Um. I mean, I think Nx

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jeremy: T would definitely change if they lost that uh, u. s a deal, or if it became like a

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jeremy: peacock, only Um situation,

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jeremy: Um, which, on one level why, I kinda almost prefer that ’cause like I don’t know. I

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jeremy: mean, I guess it’s fine on wholu. I don’t know whatever, but I think it’ll look

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jeremy: different around this time next year If if there metrics that haven’t gone anywhere,

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matt: Well, it speaks highly to how how they they feel about the talent down there. That not

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matt: a damn one of them was in the Royal Rumble.

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jeremy: yeah, I kind of feel like they just definitely want to keep. This is like this is

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jeremy: development only development. It is more. It’s probably closer to what the original

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jeremy: Anarx T was, Um a long time ago. not uh, not like Nexus, but like the original N ▁x

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jeremy: t. Um. so it makes sense on one level, but it’s kind of weird to put the genie back

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jeremy: in the bottle after like it was just so so big and so kind of

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jeremy: popular. the W version of the Indies, Um,

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matt: A. after it was stealing weekends from the Big four.

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matt: Yeah, that’s sure. okay, They.

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matt: I, I don’t get it, I mean, and like, clearly they know they’ve got something down

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matt: there in Bron Breaker like he, He

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jeremy: yeah, yeah,

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matt: is a star.

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matt: Like what? Two years ago, Dam and priest didn’t get called up. He showed up in the

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matt: rumble got a couple of eliminations and then he was done. Like it. It was a nice way

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matt: to gauge whether the audience, the general broad. What Sixty four thousand people I

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matt: think they said were at Royal Rumble. Do those sixty four thousand people know who the

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matt: hell this guy is? Or is it just the? What is it? The The sixty four to eighty four

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matt: metric that they keep winning within

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matt: ▁x, T. People that fell asleep during Uh n C. I, S left U. S a running. Um. So it it’s

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matt: I don’t. I don’t know. I. I. I thought it was really weird that they didn’t have any

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matt: of them At least test the waters to see if the audience reacted. Um. for all the all

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matt: the dark matches that these guys are working. Um, you know for main event and what?

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matt: not? Uh, it was a little weird to not at least get bronbaker or Champa or Um. The most

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matt: recent rumor was that Um, somebody backstage is real high on ▁l a night. Um, So it? I

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matt: thought that was a little strange.

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jeremy: yeah. I think the room I saw they expect him like the night after Wrestlemania.

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jeremy: trying to make the the The Raough to wrestle media kind of a bigger deal again. Uh,

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jeremy: which you know makes sense, but that’s still like. what Like three months, three,

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jeremy: four months away. At this point, um, ah, three months. we’re in February.

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matt: What? sixty sixty six days? I guess it is.

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jeremy: Yeah, yeah,

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jeremy: so yp, we’ll see it’ll It’ll be interesting. Uh, the very least

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jeremy: next year we’ll have moves probably here in ▁l A somewhere, so that that’ll be fine.

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jeremy: That’ll be worth, Uh, Wrestlemani being here.

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matt: Oh yeah, we. we’ll just find like

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jeremy: it’ll be somewhere.

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matt: a. We’ll find an impact show to go to in in ▁l. A. that’ll be

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matt: nice. Go see Moose. I could probably drive to an impact taping.

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jeremy: Yeah, yeah,

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matt: It’s it.

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jeremy: you could.

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matt: It’s only five or six hours, and then I’d get to be in a room with Moose, and that

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matt: would be awesome

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jeremy: Oh man. all right well, uh, yeah, like take it away. What what should they do?

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matt: Like subscribe. Ring the bell. Uh. keep up hope. I know it. It’s dismal coming out of

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matt: this royal rumble. but you’re here because you love it. Try to remember that. Um, and

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matt: even when it gets bad, something happens like Biggie winning a title or the money in

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matt: the bank briefcase. And then you remember why you keep watching. Um, So have faith. I

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matt: mean it’s it’s hard. I know it’s hard to stay positive, but like subscribe, share,

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matt: keep the faith and we will see you next time

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jeremy: And there’s no, uh, no harm in. uh in just taking a break from watching it And you

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jeremy: can just listen to us and we can just fill it on what you’re missing

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matt: That’ll work. I’ll torture myself

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matt: so you don’t have to.

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jeremy: right later,

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