October 7, 2025 • 38 mins
The Queen of Extreme is back with an all-new episode of Eyes Up Here, and this week Francine and Chad dive headfirst into one of the most talked-about wrestling crossovers in years — the shocking NXT x TNA partnership. Is this bold move the start of a real wrestling war, or will it fizzle out before it even begins? Francine shares her insider perspective on how cross-promotions worked (and failed) back in the ECW days and what this could mean for the future of both brands.
Then, the team tackles another hot topic: the insane WrestleMania ticket prices for Las Vegas. Who’s actually paying thousands for a seat, and has WWE priced out its biggest fans?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hm hm.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
M. Hey everyone, it is the which you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Are listening to.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I dony I hear, but you remember wherever the podcast
as always, I am joined by my cousins Chad, it's up.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I'm getting a call. The second we started.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Recording, of course, well you are so popular.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
The second we start recording, the phone rings Is it
a telemarketer? No, one of my baseball guys ah picks.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
This time to call back, of all times.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Of all times. How's your softball going or your baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Or everything's going? Well, we got a tournament this weekend. Yeah,
you know, another big one.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
This is uh, you know, travel tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So you know, every couple of weeks, you uh you know,
you get on the road and you get three games
at least and uh two on Saturday, one on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So when you do this with the kids, do you
put them in a bus or do the parents?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We all drive out to the same place and uh,
you know, we practice all week to get to these tournaments,
and you ge're guaranteed three games, and you know, if
you win, you get some bling. Some of them may
give you rings if you win. Yeah, some of them they
give you medals, give you trophies. So yeah, he's a
(01:55):
pretty big deal. We got a big one coming up
in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware at the end of October. So
uh yeah, yeah, it's a big one though for you,
isn't it It'll be it'll be worth it though.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's a cool one.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
They get to dress up in costume, so they get
to their uniforms will be costumes instead of like their
softball uniforms.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Do they have to wear a mask?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, no, no, it's gonna be like coordinated, like you know,
they'll be wearing like their softball pants, but instead of
like you know, their uniform top, it'll be like a
softball like a coordinated Halloween uniform costume top.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh, everybody wears the same one.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So the we're cops and robbers, so coaches are the
cops players and.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The robbers run bases to get away.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
From people exactly. But now it's a good team. It's
a it's a real good team, you know where. We
got a lot of talent. So I think we're gonna
do very good in this tournament coming up.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Very cute, that sounds fun.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
We're not cute, We're tough.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're very one of our chances.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We don't pay with Barbie dolls. We just play with
bats and ball.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What you have cheerleaders do?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, they do chants.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh very cute. I missed out on this. My kids
aren't into sports, you know. They're more on the the nerdy,
brainy side, which I'm fine with. But it sounds like
a good time.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
So good luck to you and your what is your
team called?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
This is the Inferno?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, yeah, every every thank you, every every team I
coach is usually the Mets, but this is a different organization,
so this is the Inferno.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
This is a big time one.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So all right, well, good luck to them, and I
hope you take it home and get that big championship
ring around your finger.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I want that ring. I want that ring.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I was watching a video the other I don't know
when it was, and I didn't realize how crazy the
Eagles Super Bowl ring was.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Somebody was showing it on a short or something, and like,
I don't know, if they popped it open and you
could hide like a small house inside. It was ridiculous
with the diamonds and the emeralds and and I'm saying
to myself, I wonder how much they spend on those
rings because everybody gets one, you know, like the coaches
(04:20):
and the players of course.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Play oh my god, the water boy gets one, the
equipment one. They all get one.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I've never seen a ring, a Super Bowl ring as
blinged out and as crazy as the Eagles from last year.
Like I was in awe. I was like, damn, that
has to be at least I don't know, fifty grand.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
If not, they get more and more, like collaborate, elaborate over.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Ta it's crazy, which is kind of stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Because like, you know, you meet like some of the
guys from you know, like I'll use for example, like
the nineteen eighty six championship Mets team, right, and you know,
you shake their hand, you see their ring, You're like wow,
like that's that's a ring because they can wear it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
These guys can't wear those things because their hand would
be goofy. They would be like, hang it off.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well. Another example of these rings being out of control.
I was watching LFG and Michelle McCool had her Hall
of Fame ring on and Booker T had his on.
The difference was like night and day. Like Michelle mccool's
is like this refrigerator sitting on her hand, and Booker's
(05:34):
was just this tiny little and had like black on it.
I don't know what it was. And Michelle's was like
this bit and I was like, damn, they're they're like
doing what the Super Bowl does.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I like that though.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I like the tiny one because you know, it's like
it's modest and you.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Can wear it. Yeah, you know, it's those giant things.
It's just so it's huge. Yeah too.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's just that's where they have taken that influence from
outside sports.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And I'm saying I compared it to the Yeah Super
I mean, it wasn't like the rap style.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You know, it's all about the bling. It's all about
the you know, the style, the.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Flash, very very big ring. I was like, good lord,
I just had noticed it and I was just like, damn,
what happened to the little dingty Hall of Fame rooms
they used to have, which I thought were big back then.
I was like, look at that big ring, but now
like she's wearing a safe on her finger. It's hears Anyway,
(06:37):
Speaking of WWE, we had a request. We had a
couple of requests. Actually, one is from a channel member
Kim Shout out to Kim. We love you, Kim. She
wanted to know my opinion on the NXT versus TNA
angle and what they're doing. I guess it's called the
(06:59):
n X versus TNA Showdown, Showdown Showdown. So again we
all know, I don't watch religiously, but I have been
watching a little bit here and a little bit there,
and I saw when they were at the NXT what
(07:24):
is that arena called.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The Performance Center?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
At the Performance Center, Okay, I saw when they were there,
and then like there were people I think it was
Mike Santana who was on commentary, and then one by
one they were showing people in the crowd, like you
had like a franky Kazarian here, and you had all
kinds of people like sitting in the crowd. And next thing,
(07:47):
you know, everybody jumps the guardrail and it's a big
to do and everybody's in the ring. They had Matt
Cardona there, Like there were so many different people and
it became just this huge brawl and then it went
off the air, and I was just like, Okay, this
is kind of an invasion, Like what makes it different
(08:09):
for me? Between because I threw it back and I
was like remember when they were doing like the invasion
of ECW and WCW to the WWF guys. Right, yeah,
but we all knew. I mean, come on, if you're
not smart, what the hell is going on? We all
(08:32):
knew that the companies were bought by Vince at the time,
and all these people were.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Employed by WWE.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
This angle is a little different because TNA is still
its own company, but there's a partnership with WWE. So
it's not like the TNA people are under contracts under
WWE contract that I know of, unless there was a
buyout that kept secret and nobody knows about it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
So for me, that's what makes it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Like a little more compelling, is because this is a
different company altogether, but there is that collaboration.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah going on.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So I watched I also watched what happened with the
teams for like the Survivor series type match that they're
going to have and who picked two? So everybody is
standing in the ring, and I guess the captains.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Are the people who have belts.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's the only way that I could figure out who
the captains were, because they were maybe holding belts or
they had some kind of like.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I guess you could say that because they picked people
with belts.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So that's what I noticed. Now, I don't know if
Ricky Saints has a belt.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I didn't he has a belts.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
He does have a belt, okay, because I saw the
girls holding.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Belts and then I was just like, Okay, maybe that's
how they're.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Picking these teams. So NXT has Ricky Saints, who was
he was Ricky Starks. Correct in a different life. Okay,
so Ricky Saints, Trick Williams who was the TNA champ.
Is he still the TNA champ?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think? So is it? Javon Eedans, Miles Bourne. Correct, Uh,
that's your NXT team, while TNA has Mike Santana who
was the spokesperson, Frankie Kazarin was still kind of looking
like Elvis to me, but he looks great, Moose who
(10:41):
looked awesome, and Leon Slater, who I said before I
think is going to be a huge star in this business.
I really like the way he works. Then we have
the women, and the NXT side was j C. Jane,
Jada Parker, soul Ruka and Lola Ice. And the TNA
team is Kilanie Jordan. Yes, now Klanie Jordan is a
(11:05):
member of the NXT roster, but because she is the
TNA champion, she feels that she has decide with TNA
on that she was by Santino.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, her verbage, but her verbiage made it like she
was TNA.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, tried and true it was, yeah continued.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
All I'm saying is maybe we will see a trader
on the TNA team in her, and maybe she will
go and rally and help the NX people. I don't know.
I'm just thinking of outside the box, different things that
could happen. But it was Klannie Jordan, Jesse McKay, Cassie
Lee and is it my Mara Maraday. Okay, so that's
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the four women on the TNA team. Now it peaked
my interest. I do want to see this match. I
do want to see how they do this. I didn't
know if this is going to be televised on NXT.
(12:12):
Is that what they're is that the probe? So they're
gonna do a match of this caliber at the Performance
Center in this very small building, correct, I see. I
would have tried to do this at a bigger facility
because I feel like this could draw more people, This
could draw more.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Fans October seventh at the NXT performance.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah. I like the vibe of the performance center.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I like the esthetics.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I like I've always said I like smaller buildings because
you know, as a performer, you can connect with the
audience a little more. It's more intimate. You could see faces,
that kind of thing. But like, I don't know, I
feel like this is kind of a big deal. This
is something different than hasn't been done in a very
long time, and I feel like it's a missed opportunity
(13:05):
for ticket sales. I feel like they could have, like
just tried to do it in a different venue, a
little bigger maybe, and I don't know, generate more buzz
for each I mean, NXT is doing well, but TNA
is on the up and up. I feel like more
(13:27):
fans probably would have liked the ticket to see this,
and it's so limbit. I don't know what they hold there,
but it looks very small.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's a great venue that's, without.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
A doubt one hundred and it's gonna be I think
they're gonna get good reactions and stuff. But I just
feel like maybe this could have drew more money for
them if they would have been at a bigger facility. I
don't know, I could be wrong. It's just the vibe
I get because this is kind of I don't know,
this is kind of different to me. This is peaking
(13:59):
my interest and I want to see what they do,
you know, and I know it's on TV, but.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Don't you feel like they could have drew.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
More people than what two three hundred people that fit
in that performance center?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Oh? Yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I just want to clarify Ricky Saints is the NXT champion.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
NXT CHAMPI okay, And that's that's my bad because I
forgot that he had a belt.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He I can see in that you know, in that
overhead that I just put up, he is holding the
belt here.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I just figured all the captains.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But there's and then Trick Williams has the TNA championship. Yes, yes,
I mean it's Look here's another thing. It's so super
confusing number one. But I mean, look, you know me
at this point, I mean it's it's gonna take a
lot for me to get behind something like this, But
(14:56):
it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Peauk your curiosity.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
How they're going to go without it?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And I will go all the way back to whatever
what was the show that we covered. We covered back
to back NXT and TNA shows or No Excuse Me,
the Evolution, and the WWE Women's Show, and then we
covered TNA back to back and we discussed a build
to a TNA versus WWE show. We talked about this,
(15:23):
We speculated on this and said, oh my gosh, we
could see a Survivor series match at some point. Right
said this, this had to be August something like that.
I was almost embarrassed for the people watching this last night.
Why this was like watching people play. This was almost
(15:46):
having a camera in a play playground last night. I
just I just don't know if they were all two,
they like they look young. They just look This looked
so bad. This looks this should not be televised.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
This sucks.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They stop what looked bad, the fight after the.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They're just not They just doesn't look like a polished
television product.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
To me, this sucks. This is bad.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
This is just not good TNA. I just don't like
this in WWE. I don't like it. WWE should go
to TNA. They should not be in WWE. T if
WWF WWE is gonna boost the TNA product. All this
stuff should be happening on TNA TV, it lowers the
(16:32):
WWE television product. If I'm CW, I'm telling WWE get
this ship off of my network. I bought WWE programming,
not TNA wrestling. To TNA wrestling, you want to do
this crap?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Right? This is not good.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Wrong. More people watch WWE programming. Therefore the TNA guys
need to go to their show to be seen. Why
would WWE guys go to a TNA It doesn't make
any sense.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
But if purchaser, I don't want guys that I don't
know on my television.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But there you're getting to know them. They need the exposure.
WWE doesn't need to go on TNA. They don't need
their audience. They don't need the exposure. It's the other
way around.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
So they're not going to send.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
WWE guys to a TNA show. You need to send
those people over to WWE programming where they're gonna be
seen by millions instead of by the anthem group. You
know what I'm saying. They needs more. They need the exposure.
WWE does not at this point. That's why they're doing
(17:51):
everything over on their platform. On the WWE platform. They
need the exposure. They need to get bigger. They're growing.
We see how great the pay per views have looked,
and they're in like the five thousand range, six thousand
range now for pay per views. They are expanding and
(18:14):
I really feel like this is good for them. I
don't know how much it does for uh, you know,
NXT as a company. It does make it different, and
it does peak my interest how they are inter changing
their stars with the different belts, and like you said,
(18:37):
it is confusing. This one has this TNA belt, but
he works for NXT. She has the DNA belt, she
works for NXT. Like it to me. I don't know
how it's going to play out, and that's why I
want to watch this, just to see if anything switches hands,
if anything changes, like how many times are we going
(18:59):
to see matches between the companies for different belts? Is
this going to be an ongoing thing? How does this
angle end? Will this angle end? Is TNA going to
become part of the WWE family eventually? Are they going
to buy them out? You know what I mean? Like,
I don't know at this point, but it has peaked
(19:23):
my interest and I am excited to see how this
one works. Because as a fan, I'm kind of like confused.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, And if I'm CW, I want at least five
to ten of my twenty to twenty five million dollars
back because you're wasting my TV time on TNA talent
when I didn't purchase that. I purchase WWE developmental and
I'm not getting that. I'm getting this hospodge of indie talent.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But you're not open minded in enough as a wrestling
fan to want to see new talent come in. Isn't
this just like when TNA, or excuse me, when NXT
signs a new person. If you don't watch TNA, here's
an example. You're not a TNA fan. You don't watch TNA.
You don't know anything about them. Okay, you see this, uh,
(20:20):
Mike Santana or you you see somebody from the TNA roster.
Is it not kind of the same as when NXT
has a new person walk in. Isn't it a talent
that's the blast?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Possibly?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Okay, So why are you so close minded in giving
somebody a chance to win you over.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
By performing under their umbrella?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Who am I giving? Who's giving me a chance?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
There's ninety guys right now, the four.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Guys that are representing tnakatching them Williams.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Watching them now on NXT program for six months.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I don't know how long they've they've been They've been there.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
For quite a while.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And another thing too about NXT and please, okay, folks, please,
I'm begging you to hear me out.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
On this one.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'm not going to say a word.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You talk, please, And I need the loyal NXT you
watch every week listener watcher of this show to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Truthfully comment on this.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
How many times do they end the show with this,
with this giant fight in the ring and around the ring,
with the announcer screaming that it's melee and.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
We don't know what to do and we're going off
the air like this. They do this all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
This is such a crutch for NXT and whether this
is Sean Michaels and Triple H and whatever the brain
trust is, they don't know what to do on this show,
so this is what they throw out there. This is
such a lazy booking show.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And honestly, every time.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
We have to do something NXT related, it frustrates the
ever living shit out of me. And now throwing TNA
in the mix, it brings it down even more. And
I see folks in there, like the Iconics who've already
been through NXT and who were on SmackDown and we're
a top tag team, are now back in NXT as
(22:29):
TNA stars and having to like sell this as it's
like the biggest.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
No, you were already there and you left the company.
Now you're back in this small little thing. No, you
were on WrestleMania. Get back to WrestleMania, Kay Kazarian, the
Super Vet.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
No, go back to TNA. Get out of there. No, No,
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Hey Santino, lovable WWE character.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
They released him for a reason. They didn't need him.
I don't want to see this.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
If I'm watching w WE developmental, it's to have the
stars of the future. Ethan Page needs to be on
Monday Night Raw next week.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Put him on there.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Tired of him in NXC, Get him out of here.
Mustafa Ali. So they didn't want him in WWE.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
They released him. Now he's on nxten next week. Makes
no sense.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
If you want the Hardys, resign them. They're on NXT
next week. Makes no sense. It's stupid. If I'm c W,
I want my money back.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
What did you think.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Ridiculous? What did you think about Sewn Michaels walking out
during this melee and just standing there and smiling. I
didn't understand that at.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
All, Like, is he digging this.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Mayhem? Is he the mastermind behind it?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
What is the point of him coming out and just
standing there with that smirkleness.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
A friend of mine would say that it took the
attention off of what was going on in the ring,
and it put the attention on Sean Michael.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He did chance HBK.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
They did.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So it literally was pointless because it took the attention
off of this ridiculous melee that's in front of us,
and it put the eyes and that is not a
joke on Sewn Michael.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Got it put the eyes on Michaels. I don't know
where I believe he's looking at the ring?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You're a dick. I didn't get with this unless when
they went off the air, maybe he came and cut
a promo or something. I didn't read anything, but I
was just like, why is he just standing there laughing?
Like this is so weird?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I mean, it looked like somebody was gonna take him out.
It looked like maybe the lights to go out and
then he'd be laying there unconscious and the walkway who
took out Shawn Michaels. Maybe it's like, you know, a
TNA star of the past, Like here's where you could
think they would go with this right to draw some
interest for TNA coming in. It's like, gee, all the
(25:19):
speculation about AJ Styles as of late, what's happening with
AJ Styles?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Is he retiring? Is he gonna do this? He was
on the TNA show two or three months ago, whatever,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Nope, he's gonna be now fed to John Cena on
Johnsena's retirement tour after Johnsena got destroyed by Brock Lesner
a couple weeks ago. Right, No AJ Styles in this
TNA versus NXT invasion, he's getting ready for a match
against John Cena out of the friggin' Blue where they're
just like, we listen to the fans, We're gonna give
you what you want.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You want Johnson univers AJ Styles.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
AJ Styles nowhere near the TNA versus WWE crossover, where's abyss?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Have Chris Park put his.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Abyss mask on and just give a little black hole
slam right there, Boom, you have Abyss in your backstage,
Bobby Rude, you have him in the backstage area, him
come out and be a part of this nothing. It's
just this hodgepodge mess.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And if I was c W, I would be pissed
off about it.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Are you gonna watch?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I will? I will watch.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Watch that you're gonna watch?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I will because of our journalistic integrity.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, okay, for the.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Eyes up here listening and watching audience and our journalistic integrity.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I will, gotcha. Okay, Well, I mean listen, I've said
watch it live. Everybody's aloud of their opinion. I'm intrigued
just for the simple fact that I want to see
where this goes. Because it is so chaotic with teams
and who's on whose side and who has what Belton,
(27:01):
I'm curious to see how it plays out. So unfortunately,
this episode is going to air before we get to
see the actual match itself. But I'm gonna watch and
I am looking forward to it. I'm like you, who
(27:23):
is just going to watch for the integrity of the show,
which is fine, But yeah, I mean, tell us what
you think? Do you like this angle? What are your predictions?
I don't have any predictions because I don't. I don't
really understand what's happening, so I don't know, but I
do kind of wonder how Sean plays into all of this,
(27:50):
because again, why did he walk out and smirk the
way he did? Is there gonna be a barber shop?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
They say? Is he gonna screw over? Is NXT superstars like.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
The Shawn Michaels jumped to TNA? O great?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah? Is Martin jen Eddy gonna head team TNA?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
It's great? This is great. The positivilities are now endless.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Switching over to something I've seen, I sent you a
screenshot of it. Are you able to pull it up?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Okay. So we've discussed WrestleMania coming back to Vegas for
twenty twenty six, which I'm heartbroken about. They posted ticket
prices and let's get into it. The ticket prices for
WrestleMania forty two in Las Vegas next year, not including
(28:47):
Ticketmaster fees, which I hear can be astronomical in itself.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
If you want to sit in the in the prime.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Section, which is Section A on the floor, one seat
will cost you eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight dollars.
Let me repeat that, eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety
eight dollars for one seat. Section B A little cheaper,
(29:19):
we got three thousand, eight hundred and sixty eight dollars.
Section R one h one is twenty two hundred dollars.
And then you get into the levels. One hundred level varies.
The cheapest is eleven seventy four, then it's thirteen oh three,
fourteen to ninety five. Two hundred level is from eleven
(29:42):
seventy four to thirteen oh three, the three hundred levels
eleven seventy four, and the four hundred level. The cheap
seats are eight hundred and fifty four dollars each. Now,
if you're a high roller and you want to get
the owner suite, which hey, who doesn't want the owner suite?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
You get twenty six tickets. It's all inclusive.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's just a mirror fifty two thousand, five hundred dollars
which you could buy a car, a down payment on
a house. Now you just want to go spend time.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I mean, look, you could buy a U car for
your Section eight tickets, so much.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Could you could?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
And savings on your twenty six tickets a.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Club suite which has twelve seats and an open bar
will cost you twenty six thousand, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
And then I'll just you know, if you want to lay.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Low and just get a traditional suite with twenty six tickets,
thirty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Fifty two thousand, five hundred dollars for a suite I need.
And is this for just one night?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Where is this for both nights?
Speaker 4 (30:54):
That is a great friggin question.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Even for both nights, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But if this is just.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
One night, good lord, what the hell man who has
this kind of money to do? Like I this blows
my mind, really blows my mind.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Why do these prices have to be so high.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Because these idiot people will pay for Sorry, people, I'll
call you out.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
If you're paying this, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I would love, I would really love just for tickets.
I mean just to just say, look, shame on you.
The floor not selling like all empty, and then like
a week before they just drop everything. You know what
I mean, what what planet do these people live on? Like?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
If you have the money for this, God bless.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You, you are blessed in life, because most of us
don't have this kind of money just laying around for
a seat at WrestleMania, Like, this is astronomical to me.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I don't know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It is so crazy. And I know it's WrestleMania, it's
the biggest show. Blah blah blah. Come on. I can
see floor seats being like a grand maybe even two
thousand dollars, almost nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Wow, And like, imagine having to justify the show being good,
like if it sucked, like you hated the show and
you're like, it was.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
A good show, but I would have changed this or that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You have to be a die hard fan to spend
this kind of money. And let me say something. If
I'm in level four hundred and I spent eight hundred
and fifty four dollars for a nosebleed seat. Sometimes, I
when they panned the crowd, it looks like there's poles
(32:58):
and TV.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I'm like, block your view?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
How pissed off would you be spending almost a thousand?
You are probably spending a thousand with the ticketmaster fees
and then parking fees and then you're you're blocked. How
would you feel?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Is crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
To me?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I would imagine you got a hair in your hot
dog or something too like out of all that, you
spend nine grand and you got a hair in your
food like this. Again, this doesn't include buying merch. This
doesn't include going to the.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Meet and greets that they do.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now, we haven't seen the price release for the John
Cena Breakfast package like.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Last year with it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
No, he won't be there.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
He might still show up for a meet and greet.
You never know, No he won't what okay, sorry, let's
all right, take out John Cena. Wham, he's gone. Let's
put in Roman Reigns. Let's do the Roman Reigns package.
Let me tell you and Brett Hart didn't show up
last year, if you remember, didn't even show up.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm wearing a trench coat that has like eight pockets
inside it, and I'm bringing all my snacks because I'm
not paying.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I thought you're gonna say you were gonna flash we
no get back here, You're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Out paying sixteen dollars for a hot dog on top
of my my level four hundred, eight hundred and fifty
four dollars plus tax plus parking seat. I'm smuggling shit in.
I can't afford the b I can't afford to buy food.
This is beyond just pay this thousand dollars for my seat.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, it's beyond stupid.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I mean, like crazy, It's just this is this is
how things are going. I mean, it's it's driving the
average fan. It's not just wrestling, it's everything. It's driving
the average fan away from the spectacle of things. We
all want to pretend that we're rich now when we
do things.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
So that's how it is. I mean, that's how everything
is now.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Everybody wants to pretend that they're rich, so they go
and spend this insane amount of money at these events
so they can say that they did it.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
And and it's just it's just the way it is.
It's perception. So you know what, if.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You've got it, we're recording this on a Jewish holiday, mazzle,
That's what I'll say.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's it's a great way to make memories with your
family if your kids like it. I get all that,
And memories are priceless. And I understand that I am
not knocking the consumer. I am knocking the product because
it is just I mean, I don't know how anyone
can just swing it and like I said, if you can,
(35:34):
God bless it, because these prices are ridiculous. So whatever,
I'm curious to see what the Saudi Arabia prices are
going to be like when it when it goes there
for forty three.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Something tells me people might be given an arm and
a leg.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
To get there. Oh that's terrible. Anyway, That's that's what
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I'm getting a call. The second we started.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Recording, of course, well you are so popular.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
The second we start recording, the phone rings Is it
a telemarketer? No, one of my baseball guys ah picks.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
This time to call back, of all times.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Of all times. How's your softball going or your baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Or everything's going? Well, we got a tournament this weekend. Yeah,
you know, another big one.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
This is uh, you know, travel tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So you know, every couple of weeks, you uh you know,
you get on the road and you get three games
at least and uh two on Saturday, one on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So when you do this with the kids, do you
put them in a bus or do the parents?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
We all drive out to the same place and uh,
you know, we practice all week to get to these tournaments,
and you ge're guaranteed three games, and you know, if
you win, you get some bling. Some of them may
give you rings if you win. Yeah, some of them they
give you medals, give you trophies. So yeah, he's a
(01:55):
pretty big deal. We got a big one coming up
in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware at the end of October. So
uh yeah, yeah, it's a big one though for you,
isn't it It'll be it'll be worth it though.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's a cool one.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
They get to dress up in costume, so they get
to their uniforms will be costumes instead of like their
softball uniforms.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Do they have to wear a mask?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, no, no, it's gonna be like coordinated, like you know,
they'll be wearing like their softball pants, but instead of
like you know, their uniform top, it'll be like a
softball like a coordinated Halloween uniform costume top.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh, everybody wears the same one.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So the we're cops and robbers, so coaches are the
cops players and.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
The robbers run bases to get away.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
From people exactly. But now it's a good team. It's
a it's a real good team, you know where. We
got a lot of talent. So I think we're gonna
do very good in this tournament coming up.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Very cute, that sounds fun.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
We're not cute, We're tough.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're very one of our chances.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
We don't pay with Barbie dolls. We just play with
bats and ball.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What you have cheerleaders do?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, they do chants.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh very cute. I missed out on this. My kids
aren't into sports, you know. They're more on the the nerdy,
brainy side, which I'm fine with. But it sounds like
a good time.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
So good luck to you and your what is your
team called?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
This is the Inferno?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, yeah, every every thank you, every every team I
coach is usually the Mets, but this is a different organization,
so this is the Inferno.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
This is a big time one.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So all right, well, good luck to them, and I
hope you take it home and get that big championship
ring around your finger.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I want that ring. I want that ring.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I was watching a video the other I don't know
when it was, and I didn't realize how crazy the
Eagles Super Bowl ring was.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Somebody was showing it on a short or something, and like,
I don't know, if they popped it open and you
could hide like a small house inside. It was ridiculous
with the diamonds and the emeralds and and I'm saying
to myself, I wonder how much they spend on those
rings because everybody gets one, you know, like the coaches
(04:20):
and the players of course.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Play oh my god, the water boy gets one, the
equipment one. They all get one.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I've never seen a ring, a Super Bowl ring as
blinged out and as crazy as the Eagles from last year.
Like I was in awe. I was like, damn, that
has to be at least I don't know, fifty grand.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
If not, they get more and more, like collaborate, elaborate over.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Ta it's crazy, which is kind of stupid.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Because like, you know, you meet like some of the
guys from you know, like I'll use for example, like
the nineteen eighty six championship Mets team, right, and you know,
you shake their hand, you see their ring, You're like wow,
like that's that's a ring because they can wear it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
These guys can't wear those things because their hand would
be goofy. They would be like, hang it off.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well. Another example of these rings being out of control.
I was watching LFG and Michelle McCool had her Hall
of Fame ring on and Booker T had his on.
The difference was like night and day. Like Michelle mccool's
is like this refrigerator sitting on her hand, and Booker's
(05:34):
was just this tiny little and had like black on it.
I don't know what it was. And Michelle's was like
this bit and I was like, damn, they're they're like
doing what the Super Bowl does.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
I like that though.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I like the tiny one because you know, it's like
it's modest and you.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Can wear it. Yeah, you know, it's those giant things.
It's just so it's huge. Yeah too.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's just that's where they have taken that influence from
outside sports.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And I'm saying I compared it to the Yeah Super
I mean, it wasn't like the rap style.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You know, it's all about the bling. It's all about
the you know, the style, the.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Flash, very very big ring. I was like, good lord,
I just had noticed it and I was just like, damn,
what happened to the little dingty Hall of Fame rooms
they used to have, which I thought were big back then.
I was like, look at that big ring, but now
like she's wearing a safe on her finger. It's hears Anyway,
(06:37):
Speaking of WWE, we had a request. We had a
couple of requests. Actually, one is from a channel member
Kim Shout out to Kim. We love you, Kim. She
wanted to know my opinion on the NXT versus TNA
angle and what they're doing. I guess it's called the
(06:59):
n X versus TNA Showdown, Showdown Showdown. So again we
all know, I don't watch religiously, but I have been
watching a little bit here and a little bit there,
and I saw when they were at the NXT what
(07:24):
is that arena called.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The Performance Center?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
At the Performance Center, Okay, I saw when they were there,
and then like there were people I think it was
Mike Santana who was on commentary, and then one by
one they were showing people in the crowd, like you
had like a franky Kazarian here, and you had all
kinds of people like sitting in the crowd. And next thing,
(07:47):
you know, everybody jumps the guardrail and it's a big
to do and everybody's in the ring. They had Matt
Cardona there, Like there were so many different people and
it became just this huge brawl and then it went
off the air, and I was just like, Okay, this
is kind of an invasion, Like what makes it different
(08:09):
for me? Between because I threw it back and I
was like remember when they were doing like the invasion
of ECW and WCW to the WWF guys. Right, yeah,
but we all knew. I mean, come on, if you're
not smart, what the hell is going on? We all
(08:32):
knew that the companies were bought by Vince at the time,
and all these people were.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Employed by WWE.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
This angle is a little different because TNA is still
its own company, but there's a partnership with WWE. So
it's not like the TNA people are under contracts under
WWE contract that I know of, unless there was a
buyout that kept secret and nobody knows about it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
So for me, that's what makes it.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Like a little more compelling, is because this is a
different company altogether, but there is that collaboration.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah going on.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So I watched I also watched what happened with the
teams for like the Survivor series type match that they're
going to have and who picked two? So everybody is
standing in the ring, and I guess the captains.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Are the people who have belts.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's the only way that I could figure out who
the captains were, because they were maybe holding belts or
they had some kind of like.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I guess you could say that because they picked people
with belts.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So that's what I noticed. Now, I don't know if
Ricky Saints has a belt.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I didn't he has a belts.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
He does have a belt, okay, because I saw the
girls holding.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Belts and then I was just like, Okay, maybe that's
how they're.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Picking these teams. So NXT has Ricky Saints, who was
he was Ricky Starks. Correct in a different life. Okay,
so Ricky Saints, Trick Williams who was the TNA champ.
Is he still the TNA champ?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think? So is it? Javon Eedans, Miles Bourne. Correct, Uh,
that's your NXT team, while TNA has Mike Santana who
was the spokesperson, Frankie Kazarin was still kind of looking
like Elvis to me, but he looks great, Moose who
(10:41):
looked awesome, and Leon Slater, who I said before I
think is going to be a huge star in this business.
I really like the way he works. Then we have
the women, and the NXT side was j C. Jane,
Jada Parker, soul Ruka and Lola Ice. And the TNA
team is Kilanie Jordan. Yes, now Klanie Jordan is a
(11:05):
member of the NXT roster, but because she is the
TNA champion, she feels that she has decide with TNA
on that she was by Santino.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, her verbage, but her verbiage made it like she
was TNA.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, tried and true it was, yeah continued.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
All I'm saying is maybe we will see a trader
on the TNA team in her, and maybe she will
go and rally and help the NX people. I don't know.
I'm just thinking of outside the box, different things that
could happen. But it was Klannie Jordan, Jesse McKay, Cassie
Lee and is it my Mara Maraday. Okay, so that's
(11:51):
the four women on the TNA team. Now it peaked
my interest. I do want to see this match. I
do want to see how they do this. I didn't
know if this is going to be televised on NXT.
(12:12):
Is that what they're is that the probe? So they're
gonna do a match of this caliber at the Performance
Center in this very small building, correct, I see. I
would have tried to do this at a bigger facility
because I feel like this could draw more people, This
could draw more.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Fans October seventh at the NXT performance.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah. I like the vibe of the performance center.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I like the esthetics.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I like I've always said I like smaller buildings because
you know, as a performer, you can connect with the
audience a little more. It's more intimate. You could see faces,
that kind of thing. But like, I don't know, I
feel like this is kind of a big deal. This
is something different than hasn't been done in a very
long time, and I feel like it's a missed opportunity
(13:05):
for ticket sales. I feel like they could have, like
just tried to do it in a different venue, a
little bigger maybe, and I don't know, generate more buzz
for each I mean, NXT is doing well, but TNA
is on the up and up. I feel like more
(13:27):
fans probably would have liked the ticket to see this,
and it's so limbit. I don't know what they hold there,
but it looks very small.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's a great venue that's, without.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
A doubt one hundred and it's gonna be I think
they're gonna get good reactions and stuff. But I just
feel like maybe this could have drew more money for
them if they would have been at a bigger facility. I
don't know, I could be wrong. It's just the vibe
I get because this is kind of I don't know,
this is kind of different to me. This is peaking
(13:59):
my interest and I want to see what they do,
you know, and I know it's on TV, but.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Don't you feel like they could have drew.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
More people than what two three hundred people that fit
in that performance center?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Oh? Yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I just want to clarify Ricky Saints is the NXT champion.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
NXT CHAMPI okay, And that's that's my bad because I
forgot that he had a belt.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He I can see in that you know, in that
overhead that I just put up, he is holding the
belt here.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I just figured all the captains.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But there's and then Trick Williams has the TNA championship. Yes, yes,
I mean it's Look here's another thing. It's so super
confusing number one. But I mean, look, you know me
at this point, I mean it's it's gonna take a
lot for me to get behind something like this, But
(14:56):
it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Peauk your curiosity.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
How they're going to go without it?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And I will go all the way back to whatever
what was the show that we covered. We covered back
to back NXT and TNA shows or No Excuse Me,
the Evolution, and the WWE Women's Show, and then we
covered TNA back to back and we discussed a build
to a TNA versus WWE show. We talked about this,
(15:23):
We speculated on this and said, oh my gosh, we
could see a Survivor series match at some point. Right
said this, this had to be August something like that.
I was almost embarrassed for the people watching this last night.
Why this was like watching people play. This was almost
(15:46):
having a camera in a play playground last night. I
just I just don't know if they were all two,
they like they look young. They just look This looked
so bad. This looks this should not be televised.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
This sucks.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They stop what looked bad, the fight after the.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They're just not They just doesn't look like a polished
television product.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
To me, this sucks. This is bad.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
This is just not good TNA. I just don't like
this in WWE. I don't like it. WWE should go
to TNA. They should not be in WWE. T if
WWF WWE is gonna boost the TNA product. All this
stuff should be happening on TNA TV, it lowers the
(16:32):
WWE television product. If I'm CW, I'm telling WWE get
this ship off of my network. I bought WWE programming,
not TNA wrestling. To TNA wrestling, you want to do
this crap?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Right? This is not good.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Wrong. More people watch WWE programming. Therefore the TNA guys
need to go to their show to be seen. Why
would WWE guys go to a TNA It doesn't make
any sense.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
But if purchaser, I don't want guys that I don't
know on my television.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
But there you're getting to know them. They need the exposure.
WWE doesn't need to go on TNA. They don't need
their audience. They don't need the exposure. It's the other
way around.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
So they're not going to send.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
WWE guys to a TNA show. You need to send
those people over to WWE programming where they're gonna be
seen by millions instead of by the anthem group. You
know what I'm saying. They needs more. They need the exposure.
WWE does not at this point. That's why they're doing
(17:51):
everything over on their platform. On the WWE platform. They
need the exposure. They need to get bigger. They're growing.
We see how great the pay per views have looked,
and they're in like the five thousand range, six thousand
range now for pay per views. They are expanding and
(18:14):
I really feel like this is good for them. I
don't know how much it does for uh, you know,
NXT as a company. It does make it different, and
it does peak my interest how they are inter changing
their stars with the different belts, and like you said,
(18:37):
it is confusing. This one has this TNA belt, but
he works for NXT. She has the DNA belt, she
works for NXT. Like it to me. I don't know
how it's going to play out, and that's why I
want to watch this, just to see if anything switches hands,
if anything changes, like how many times are we going
(18:59):
to see matches between the companies for different belts? Is
this going to be an ongoing thing? How does this
angle end? Will this angle end? Is TNA going to
become part of the WWE family eventually? Are they going
to buy them out? You know what I mean? Like,
I don't know at this point, but it has peaked
(19:23):
my interest and I am excited to see how this
one works. Because as a fan, I'm kind of like confused.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, And if I'm CW, I want at least five
to ten of my twenty to twenty five million dollars
back because you're wasting my TV time on TNA talent
when I didn't purchase that. I purchase WWE developmental and
I'm not getting that. I'm getting this hospodge of indie talent.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
But you're not open minded in enough as a wrestling
fan to want to see new talent come in. Isn't
this just like when TNA, or excuse me, when NXT
signs a new person. If you don't watch TNA, here's
an example. You're not a TNA fan. You don't watch TNA.
You don't know anything about them. Okay, you see this, uh,
(20:20):
Mike Santana or you you see somebody from the TNA roster.
Is it not kind of the same as when NXT
has a new person walk in. Isn't it a talent
that's the blast?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Possibly?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Okay, So why are you so close minded in giving
somebody a chance to win you over.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
By performing under their umbrella?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Who am I giving? Who's giving me a chance?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
There's ninety guys right now, the four.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Guys that are representing tnakatching them Williams.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Watching them now on NXT program for six months.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I don't know how long they've they've been They've been there.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
For quite a while.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And another thing too about NXT and please, okay, folks, please,
I'm begging you to hear me out.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
On this one.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'm not going to say a word.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You talk, please, And I need the loyal NXT you
watch every week listener watcher of this show to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Truthfully comment on this.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
How many times do they end the show with this,
with this giant fight in the ring and around the ring,
with the announcer screaming that it's melee and.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
We don't know what to do and we're going off
the air like this. They do this all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
This is such a crutch for NXT and whether this
is Sean Michaels and Triple H and whatever the brain
trust is, they don't know what to do on this show,
so this is what they throw out there. This is
such a lazy booking show.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And honestly, every time.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
We have to do something NXT related, it frustrates the
ever living shit out of me. And now throwing TNA
in the mix, it brings it down even more. And
I see folks in there, like the Iconics who've already
been through NXT and who were on SmackDown and we're
a top tag team, are now back in NXT as
(22:29):
TNA stars and having to like sell this as it's
like the biggest.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
No, you were already there and you left the company.
Now you're back in this small little thing. No, you
were on WrestleMania. Get back to WrestleMania, Kay Kazarian, the
Super Vet.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
No, go back to TNA. Get out of there. No, No,
I don't want.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Hey Santino, lovable WWE character.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
They released him for a reason. They didn't need him.
I don't want to see this.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
If I'm watching w WE developmental, it's to have the
stars of the future. Ethan Page needs to be on
Monday Night Raw next week.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Put him on there.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Tired of him in NXC, Get him out of here.
Mustafa Ali. So they didn't want him in WWE.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
They released him. Now he's on nxten next week. Makes
no sense.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
If you want the Hardys, resign them. They're on NXT
next week. Makes no sense. It's stupid. If I'm c W,
I want my money back.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
What did you think.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Ridiculous? What did you think about Sewn Michaels walking out
during this melee and just standing there and smiling. I
didn't understand that at.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
All, Like, is he digging this.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Mayhem? Is he the mastermind behind it?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
What is the point of him coming out and just
standing there with that smirkleness.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
A friend of mine would say that it took the
attention off of what was going on in the ring,
and it put the attention on Sean Michael.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He did chance HBK.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
They did.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
So it literally was pointless because it took the attention
off of this ridiculous melee that's in front of us,
and it put the eyes and that is not a
joke on Sewn Michael.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Got it put the eyes on Michaels. I don't know
where I believe he's looking at the ring?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
You're a dick. I didn't get with this unless when
they went off the air, maybe he came and cut
a promo or something. I didn't read anything, but I
was just like, why is he just standing there laughing?
Like this is so weird?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I mean, it looked like somebody was gonna take him out.
It looked like maybe the lights to go out and
then he'd be laying there unconscious and the walkway who
took out Shawn Michaels. Maybe it's like, you know, a
TNA star of the past, Like here's where you could
think they would go with this right to draw some
interest for TNA coming in. It's like, gee, all the
(25:19):
speculation about AJ Styles as of late, what's happening with
AJ Styles?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Is he retiring? Is he gonna do this? He was
on the TNA show two or three months ago, whatever,
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Nope, he's gonna be now fed to John Cena on
Johnsena's retirement tour after Johnsena got destroyed by Brock Lesner
a couple weeks ago. Right, No AJ Styles in this
TNA versus NXT invasion, he's getting ready for a match
against John Cena out of the friggin' Blue where they're
just like, we listen to the fans, We're gonna give
you what you want.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You want Johnson univers AJ Styles.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
AJ Styles nowhere near the TNA versus WWE crossover, where's abyss?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Have Chris Park put his.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Abyss mask on and just give a little black hole
slam right there, Boom, you have Abyss in your backstage,
Bobby Rude, you have him in the backstage area, him
come out and be a part of this nothing. It's
just this hodgepodge mess.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And if I was c W, I would be pissed
off about it.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Are you gonna watch?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I will? I will watch.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Watch that you're gonna watch?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I will because of our journalistic integrity.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, okay, for the.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Eyes up here listening and watching audience and our journalistic integrity.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I will, gotcha. Okay, Well, I mean listen, I've said
watch it live. Everybody's aloud of their opinion. I'm intrigued
just for the simple fact that I want to see
where this goes. Because it is so chaotic with teams
and who's on whose side and who has what Belton,
(27:01):
I'm curious to see how it plays out. So unfortunately,
this episode is going to air before we get to
see the actual match itself. But I'm gonna watch and
I am looking forward to it. I'm like you, who
(27:23):
is just going to watch for the integrity of the show,
which is fine, But yeah, I mean, tell us what
you think? Do you like this angle? What are your predictions?
I don't have any predictions because I don't. I don't
really understand what's happening, so I don't know, but I
do kind of wonder how Sean plays into all of this,
(27:50):
because again, why did he walk out and smirk the
way he did? Is there gonna be a barber shop?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
They say? Is he gonna screw over? Is NXT superstars like.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
The Shawn Michaels jumped to TNA? O great?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah? Is Martin jen Eddy gonna head team TNA?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
It's great? This is great. The positivilities are now endless.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Switching over to something I've seen, I sent you a
screenshot of it. Are you able to pull it up?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Okay. So we've discussed WrestleMania coming back to Vegas for
twenty twenty six, which I'm heartbroken about. They posted ticket
prices and let's get into it. The ticket prices for
WrestleMania forty two in Las Vegas next year, not including
(28:47):
Ticketmaster fees, which I hear can be astronomical in itself.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
If you want to sit in the in the prime.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Section, which is Section A on the floor, one seat
will cost you eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight dollars.
Let me repeat that, eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety
eight dollars for one seat. Section B A little cheaper,
(29:19):
we got three thousand, eight hundred and sixty eight dollars.
Section R one h one is twenty two hundred dollars.
And then you get into the levels. One hundred level varies.
The cheapest is eleven seventy four, then it's thirteen oh three,
fourteen to ninety five. Two hundred level is from eleven
(29:42):
seventy four to thirteen oh three, the three hundred levels
eleven seventy four, and the four hundred level. The cheap
seats are eight hundred and fifty four dollars each. Now,
if you're a high roller and you want to get
the owner suite, which hey, who doesn't want the owner suite?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
You get twenty six tickets. It's all inclusive.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's just a mirror fifty two thousand, five hundred dollars
which you could buy a car, a down payment on
a house. Now you just want to go spend time.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I mean, look, you could buy a U car for
your Section eight tickets, so much.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Could you could?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
And savings on your twenty six tickets a.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Club suite which has twelve seats and an open bar
will cost you twenty six thousand, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
And then I'll just you know, if you want to lay.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Low and just get a traditional suite with twenty six tickets,
thirty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Fifty two thousand, five hundred dollars for a suite I need.
And is this for just one night?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Where is this for both nights?
Speaker 4 (30:54):
That is a great friggin question.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Even for both nights, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
But if this is just.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
One night, good lord, what the hell man who has
this kind of money to do? Like I this blows
my mind, really blows my mind.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Why do these prices have to be so high.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Because these idiot people will pay for Sorry, people, I'll
call you out.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
If you're paying this, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I would love, I would really love just for tickets.
I mean just to just say, look, shame on you.
The floor not selling like all empty, and then like
a week before they just drop everything. You know what
I mean, what what planet do these people live on? Like?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
If you have the money for this, God bless.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You, you are blessed in life, because most of us
don't have this kind of money just laying around for
a seat at WrestleMania, Like, this is astronomical to me.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I don't know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
It is so crazy. And I know it's WrestleMania, it's
the biggest show. Blah blah blah. Come on. I can
see floor seats being like a grand maybe even two
thousand dollars, almost nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Wow, And like, imagine having to justify the show being good,
like if it sucked, like you hated the show and
you're like, it was.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
A good show, but I would have changed this or that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You have to be a die hard fan to spend
this kind of money. And let me say something. If
I'm in level four hundred and I spent eight hundred
and fifty four dollars for a nosebleed seat. Sometimes, I
when they panned the crowd, it looks like there's poles
(32:58):
and TV.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I'm like, block your view?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
How pissed off would you be spending almost a thousand?
You are probably spending a thousand with the ticketmaster fees
and then parking fees and then you're you're blocked. How
would you feel?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Is crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
To me?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I would imagine you got a hair in your hot
dog or something too like out of all that, you
spend nine grand and you got a hair in your
food like this. Again, this doesn't include buying merch. This
doesn't include going to the.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Meet and greets that they do.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now, we haven't seen the price release for the John
Cena Breakfast package like.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Last year with it.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
No, he won't be there.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
He might still show up for a meet and greet.
You never know, No he won't what okay, sorry, let's
all right, take out John Cena. Wham, he's gone. Let's
put in Roman Reigns. Let's do the Roman Reigns package.
Let me tell you and Brett Hart didn't show up
last year, if you remember, didn't even show up.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm wearing a trench coat that has like eight pockets
inside it, and I'm bringing all my snacks because I'm
not paying.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I thought you're gonna say you were gonna flash we
no get back here, You're gonna get.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Out paying sixteen dollars for a hot dog on top
of my my level four hundred, eight hundred and fifty
four dollars plus tax plus parking seat. I'm smuggling shit in.
I can't afford the b I can't afford to buy food.
This is beyond just pay this thousand dollars for my seat.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, it's beyond stupid.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I mean, like crazy, It's just this is this is
how things are going. I mean, it's it's driving the
average fan. It's not just wrestling, it's everything. It's driving
the average fan away from the spectacle of things. We
all want to pretend that we're rich now when we
do things.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
So that's how it is. I mean, that's how everything
is now.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Everybody wants to pretend that they're rich, so they go
and spend this insane amount of money at these events
so they can say that they did it.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
And and it's just it's just the way it is.
It's perception. So you know what, if.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You've got it, we're recording this on a Jewish holiday, mazzle,
That's what I'll say.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's it's a great way to make memories with your
family if your kids like it. I get all that,
And memories are priceless. And I understand that I am
not knocking the consumer. I am knocking the product because
it is just I mean, I don't know how anyone
can just swing it and like I said, if you can,
(35:34):
God bless it, because these prices are ridiculous. So whatever,
I'm curious to see what the Saudi Arabia prices are
going to be like when it when it goes there
for forty three.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Something tells me people might be given an arm and
a leg.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
To get there. Oh that's terrible. Anyway, That's that's what
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