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: this instance

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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: view was just felt lazy.

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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: match and then we’re going to debate flat earthism

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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: Kelly Kelly, and And a Leishia Foxes, that haven’t wrestled in a while, Uh, when

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

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matt: about Bad bunny. Um. I do. I do hate that he. You know, he gets booked over some of

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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: everything that. That’s a good theme because it says everything you need to know

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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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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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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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jeremy: because there hasn’t been uh very any, any many

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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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