June 5, 2024 • 29 mins
Welcome back to the WrestleChat Podcast! I'm AntMan, joined by Michael, and we've got a packed episode for you. We're diving into the latest wrestling events, including the build-up to Clash at the Castle and NXT Battleground. We discuss AJ Styles' retirement tease, Ricochet's interesting title situation, and AEW's unique setup at the eSports Arena in Arlington. Plus, we can't forget the entertaining Liv and Dom storyline in WWE. Tune in for all the wrestling chatter and more on this week's WrestleChat Podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
They talked to the press for no good reason.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, she goes, she goes on that ramp because she's like, uh,
how do I know people are guilty? Well, when I
ask them, you know, oh, oh, miss Joe, you should
you should bring that swift hammer of justice or whatever
it is.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And then and then I'll ask one of them. I
don't know how it goes.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Then well, miss Joe, they probably had a reason for
doing it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's how I know.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That's the first aus we checked. I remember that now, yeah, yeah,
her mom was a prison guard.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's first.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Usually the first atis we checked, because guilty conscience or
clean conscience don't need no Mercy's right, all right, you
don't talk.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Wrestling, I guess let's talk some wrestling.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Is this wrestling podcast gonna turn into an office podcast?
Or should it?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think it could, you know, very for the couple
of office podcasts that there are, I don't think there's
too many run by super fans.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think we could. I think we could do some.
I think we should do some of the Lord's good
work in there.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'd question if it's the Lord's work, but I'd still
do it anyway. Right, Welcome back to the wrestle Chat podcast.
My name is the A man. His name is Michael.
He had to talk some wrestling that happened over the
past week. A lot has gone down, a lot of it.
We are still kind of in that limbo phase of
wrestling right now, that time, that lull between WrestleMania and
the next big thing that happens, especially in w WUE.
(01:41):
Of course, the next big thing happens overseason a week
from Saturday. Clash at the Castle. That's if you don't
count NXT Battleground as being a big thing, although it
is a big landmark for those guys. We'll talk about that.
Comeingu up here in just a little bit, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you were dropping brock Lesnar hints there, I'm like, all,
is he back in the fold?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Like what are we doing here? You know what, if
you hadn't have said that, we just left it alone,
and and he does come back and Clash at the
Castle or something like that, We're like, we said it first,
we hinted at it on the wrestle Chat podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh please, Brock, ain't flying all that way for the
five minutes. He'll say, yeah, I'll do it on TV
next week.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It does depend on how much money there is.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Speaking of money, you would think that maybe if they
were going to run the same angle, they could have
had Aj Styles wear a pink jacket. Aj Styles giving
his best Mark Henry impression this week, teasing that he
was going to be retiring. He never said that. The
rest of the world said that, which they did play
(02:46):
it up very nicely. And having Luke Gallows and Carl
Anderson there to kind of hold off someone coming to
rescue Cody Rhodes was a nice touch that we didn't
have with which I don't think we needed with Mark Henry.
Mark smashing John Cena was plenty. But man, I remember
the Mark Henry one clear as day, yep. And we
(03:09):
even talked with Mark here on the podcast about it,
and that was such a because it kind of was
in that time in Mark Henry's life where you're like, Okay,
I could see him going on doing something else and
not wrestling anymore. He's had a great career, and he
brought his boots into the ring. He did all. That's
one thing. The two things it was the pink jacket
(03:30):
and it was the boots. That's the two things that
Aj was missing. Did it come across as good as
it did in my mind to you, Michael.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The Mark Henry segment was so iconic that and it
was so well done that it can't really be done anymore,
you know, like you can just see it coming a
mile away, like Mark Henry nailed it with this AJ
styles version, I think it would have been much smarter
(04:03):
to do like a permanent retirement injury angle, and you know,
with the exact same layout, just the premise be a
career ending injury, and I think it would have gone
off way better. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it.
It was still good. The problem is you saw it
coming a mile away. And sometimes in wrestling that's fine.
(04:26):
I mean, there's just things like Cody winning over Logan Paul.
You see it coming a.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Mile away, but you're gonna enjoy the ride, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
In this particular situation, I don't think seeing it coming
was the right move when you're trying to set up
an angle and get heat. So I wish they would
have gone more of an injury route rather than a
retirement route. But I'm still glad we're here. I'm stoked
that we're getting AJ Styles Cody Rhoads because you just
(04:55):
know it's going to be a banger and.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Or multiple bangers hopefully.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But but yeah, I mean, you can't really think of
a better thing to come up with in this you know,
median point between Mania and SummerSlam. That's going to be
a really, really fun match to watch. And even though
I do believe that likely Cody will retain the title,
I believe because of who AJ Styles is, he should
(05:20):
never be underestimated to pick up a title.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Ever, no, I agree, And that's what I think is odd.
Of what I did think was odd about the Angle
in the first place was that I never once believed
that AJ Stiles was going to retire, right That may
have been something that was going around, and never once
I go, Man, yeah, he's had injury after injury, or
he's he's kind of done his thing and he's run
(05:45):
his course and he probably could hang it up right
about now. Now in two years, and he said, you know,
he goes through this this nice run with with Cody,
maybe he gets I don't know what what happens in
the next year or so with AJ Styles, but there
could have been more to set up to make it
a little more believable with because it kind of felt
like it was out of nowhere that AJ's retiring. I
(06:06):
did like, I did like how it mimicked or imitated
or reflected the the Mark Henry point. And that was
kind of kind of kind of what I was the
angle I was going at there with it. Uh. Yeah,
I didn't think that it was as believable Mark. Like again,
I'll reiterate that the Marks I felt like, not that
it was time for Mark to hang up his boots,
but Mark had, he'd had several title runs. He was
(06:29):
kind of in that place where you're like, okay, yeah,
you know, I could see Mark. Uh. And it was
also a different time at WWE where you kind of saw, okay,
maybe Mark is moving on to a different different part
in the company and some some other guys going to
move up into that place and hen that is just
it's a but that's the problem with it is we're
always going to compare those two and you're right, such
(06:51):
just a just a fantastic angle with Mark Henry when
it happened, Do you do you think that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That nod was any because just dawned on me while
we were you know, just you know, talking here. Do
you think that there's any coincidences in the fact that
Mark's contract came up at the same time that they're
doing a nod to this angle? I, you know, seems
like convenient timing.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Don't you think there's a lot of Everything is much
more fluid than it used to be in WWE. I mean,
we'll get to it here in just a little bit.
When you have people from other organizations coming to fight
for a title in WWE and they're not WWE talent,
I think anything anything could happened now. But I did
see he popped up in MLW, and the word is
(07:39):
that he was. He had several other dates already on
the books with MLW, and we're doing some more with
them since he is no longer with with AW. He's
also a comedian now. He's doing a lot of dates
as a comedian. At WrestleMania, he DJ'd a party. Yes,
So I don't I don't know what's next for market.
Maybe we should see if he can't drop in and
(08:00):
hang with us for ten or fifteen minutes sometime and
just see what's going on with Mark now that he's
he's moved off from AW. Speaking of moving off let's
go over it. We just we mentioned I just lost
some equipment. That's okay, though, Can you still see me?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Can you see me? I see it?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The NXT Battleground is coming up on Sunday, and this
is pretty cool. It's from UFC's Apex Arena. I don't
know if we've talked about UFC before. You like UFC.
It's not something you watch on a daily or a
weekly basis, Michael, I know that. But the Apex Arena
kind of became quote unquote famous during the COVID era
because that's where they were having fights, take a test.
(08:37):
They could keep it controlled. It was small, and that's
what I find interesting about this. It's a pl for
NXT that you might be able to fit as many
people as you do in the NXT Performance Center. Why
go to Las Vegas to do it when you have
about the same amount of people in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm actually I'm looking up the seeing capacity here.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I don't think they could do that. A that's a
good idea.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Apex. Uh, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
They're saying they're adding an ability to seed a thousand,
so it's it's sub a thousand right now. Max seating
capacity of five hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
See that's and I'm not sure that it's much less
than that or probably right around that at at NXT's
place every single Tuesday act and so I find that interesting.
I do know that they're they're going to do NXT Underground.
Shada Basler is fighting in that, So I don't know
if there's an octagon in another room and they're going
to go over there and do that and come back.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
There is multiple rooms actually are there, but but I
think that's a great way to pay russell Mania prices
for an n XT p.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
L exactly, and you get some for lack of a
better term, And I hate that I'm using this on
the podcast, but there's some synergy between between w W
and UFC. So we'll put a pin in that and
circle back just to clean up, just to clean up
on all the isms corporately. There's some pretty cool fights
(10:09):
in this though. TNA Knockouts Champ Jordan Grace is going
to be taken on NXT Women's Champ Rock sand Perez.
So this is the one we were just talking about,
saying that that people from champs from other organizations TNA
Total NonStop Action coming over to fight for the women's
title NXT Women's title here at this pl that one.
(10:31):
Just having somebody come over is not something that would
have happened in the past. Hasn't had really happened in
the past. But to have them come back and actually
fight for a title, if it didn't feel like it
was a new regime before, you definitely know it is now.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Absolutely And I was as I was making sure I
was reading up for for our show, you know, I
was reminded that Michael Cole dropped some other brand and
promotion names on Monday night in more of the Limits
Sebray Fashion. I don't remember what the promotion was called.
(11:07):
It was one that didn't sound familiar to me. But
but it is a whole new agent. I'm telling you, man,
I'm not I'm not in charge in w w E.
I don't know if anybody knew that or not, but
I actually I'm not in w w E. But man,
I would totally put that strap on Jordan Grace and
like have her carry both because if you're gonna do it,
(11:32):
do it like I think everybody expects her to lose,
just so there's not a cross brand thing. I would
It's tough because from a booking perspective, you know, oh,
I'm blanket on her name helped me out Rock sand Press. Yeah,
she hasn't had it, you know, a very long time. No,
(11:53):
it's her I believe her second run with it. So
from a booking perspective, I don't know that it's smart
when you're trying to keep Roxanne in a prominent position
for the NXT brand. But man, I wish that they
would put the championship on Jordan just to signify, like,
(12:14):
of all the things that we've seen that Vince McMahon
is no longer in control.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yeah, that would be the most definitive thing we've seen yet,
and it would just be exciting because it would open
up possibilities and things that you know, we've not seen before.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I think, you know, I've mentioned several times on the
show how there was a few times back five, ten
years ago, whatever it was, where they would they a
few times they changed they had titles change hands at
house shows, and I remember that that made me much
more interested in attending, because Wow, anything can happen at
a house show, and I feel like this has to
(12:54):
be the same thing, because if it's just Jordan comes
over loses to the NXT chain, you know, somebody else
goes over, loses to Jordan and.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
TNA, Like, that's not just don't do it, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I'll be excited to see what becomes, but I'll
be watching very closely. And that alone has served the
purpose that I know that they're going for, because I'm
going to watch because that has caught my attention.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well, and think about this too. You bring up a
great point because if you if you just look at
the two ladies side by side, I would lay down
my money instantly on Jordan Grace. I would lay down
money if she was fighting both me and you and
we had a bull Yeah, that was also.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
In our ke is yoked, dude.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So to your point though, is that she walks out
of there with the NXT Women's title. There's not one
person that goes. I don't know, well what a thing
there is because it's the internet wrestling community. But let's
let's just say that there's no credible thought going, Well, why,
I don't know why you do that? I mean, that
doesn't really make sense. Yeah it does. She could whip anybody,
(14:09):
she could. I would like to all intentsive purposes, let's
put her in a match with Trick. I mean, come on,
because that's believable as well. And I think that it
is a very likely possibility that Jordan Grace does walk
out of there with the NXT women's title. That'll be fun.
That'll be on Sunday, starts at I believe eight o'clock
Eastern and which is interesting. So they do the early
(14:32):
shows on Saturday, but they do the late shows on Sunday.
When you gotta get up the next morning, why can
you put that one at noon? You get out of church,
you go home, you cook up something and watch some wrestling.
That's great.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's the dream man, that's the dream.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Staying on NXT for a minute. Shock last week not
only that Jordan Grace came over, but that right at
the very end, someone who's quietly left ae W just
just quietly it was no longer on TV, which is
not strange. For aew you'll see a big angle three
weeks in a row, and then both of those people
won't be seen for the next four months, and then
(15:10):
you're expected to remember it when it does come back.
But all ego Ethan Page completely disappears from Adel. We
just kind of just casually goes into the shadows and
then people don't really say anything, and then he pops
on the screen on Tuesday, Geez, Louise, how cool was that?
And then everybody going, oh, yeah, he's signed a deal
with NXT. And he was real quick to come out
(15:31):
and go, I haven't signed with anybody. Now. For full transparency,
we are recording this on Tuesday before NXT tonight. This
is obviously here on Wednesday or afterwards. So I would
anxious to hear what happens on NXT with how he
presents that, because I did see that he hasn't signed
(15:53):
anything with NXT yet, So it's bleeding over not only
from what will be on TV or as you're watching,
this has already been on TV. That is he going
to sign with NXT, but he's also doing it in
his real life. I haven't signed with anybody. I can
go anywhere. And I love that. I love that they're
bringing in more ways than one reality back into things here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Absolutely, And I want to speak to how smart you
assume Paulovek, but you know he may give credit to
other people involved as well, but assuming it's Paul, this
is how the This is how rustling evolves. Is I
think that, you know, especially in the Monday Night Wars
(16:33):
in the years that followed, several years that followed, you
needed to be an exclusive brand. You needed to protect
your brand. And I think everything that Vince McMahon did
up until really twenty fifteen ish maybe like I think
there was good reason to have you know, really secure borders,
if you will, on the WWE brand. With as much
(16:56):
as professional wrestling is going through a resurgence, Yes, WWE
is doing grape, but it's researching all around. And to
where I'm going with this is to have Ethan Paige
show up and not be under contracted in XT is
the best of both worlds to say, hey, we're not
gonna let you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Night Raw, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But for him to show up, I was like, Wow,
that is super cool. Wait, and it tails right dovetails
right into our last conversation of can anything happen in
NXT And as WWE builds these relationships, I mean, TNA,
I'm sure is more than happy to ride WWE's coattails,
especially like if they're really doing business and good faith
(17:41):
and so man, I'm just I say this all the time.
It is the best time ever to be a professional
wrestling fan. And these little things that we're getting, like
Jordan Grace and like Ethan Paige is just signs that
things are evolving for the better. And yes, somebody can
come in for one feud and they don't have to
be under contract, and they can leave after that and
(18:02):
go do something else, And you know what, it's okay
because it lets us tune in enjoy it, and then
the entertainment and the business can coexist, but they're not exclusive.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
With each other.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You know what's interesting is that we've talked for a
couple of weeks about the lull in pro wrestling after WrestleMania.
You know, it's really good when wrestle Mania is absolutely spectacular,
and the lull is really really good. And that's kind
of where we are right now. I wanted to bring
this up Ricochet. We've seen a lot of Ricochet recently.
(18:38):
He also heard that his contract is getting close to
being up. And who has access to this information of
people's contracts, Like, I'll be honest, I have a contract
with one place that I work that I'm not even
sure when my contract is a lot of people know
when wrestlers are up, but evidently his is. What I
think is interesting is he's been on TV a lot lately,
(19:00):
but there's been something missing with Ricochet. He's actually the
WWE Speed Champion, but he never brings out the title
unless he's on Speed, which is just on Wednesdays on
X Is that right? So I get that right?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I think I find that Why wouldn't you Why wouldn't
you bring more attention to Speed and have him bring
the title out?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I think part of the confus figuring out what it
is right now, I'm intrigued by the idea.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think I think this is the better version of
the of Cruiserweight.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's not Cruiserweight three oh five or yeah whatever it
was three.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh five live or something like that two oh five.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't know either way, Probably that's probably that's more act,
but uh, but.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It is interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't know if they still feel like it's in
a beta or test phase, but Ricochet being around without
that now it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Is like a really gimmicky looking title.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I mean it's not the worst thing that he's.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Not way better than the twenty four to seven champion, though, Yeah, Green.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Is just not a good Green is not a good
belt color. Even even the uh, the the Super Big
Gold or whatever they call it. I can't the Green
Monster or whatever they call it. Yeah, you know, it
was cool but it's green. But uh, but yeah, it
is strange.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So I don't know. I don't know what the goal is,
but I've I've watched them.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Like when it comes across my X feed, I'm like,
I got two and a half ish minutes, you know,
you know, because somebody usually gets a pinfall two and
a half to three minutes or whatever, because that's the rules.
And and I watch it, and so I think it's
a cool idea. It's a little different way to get
a wrestling fix. But how do you how do you
legitimize it? How do you really make it something worth watching?
(20:52):
I think there's things you could do, but we just
don't know what the resources they want to put into it.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, it's it feels like that X is trying to
change the way that consumers use their product, spend more
time there. And I know we've had episodes on X
when we were doing them a live, but that's not
how I consume X. I don't do it for a
match or watch a show or I read and it's
quick reads. It's just headlines and then tap into to
(21:22):
either watch or listen or read something deeper. But just
watching it on that platform is not where I am
with that, and I wonder if that's not the gap
that they're trying to bridge there with that show. Love
that they're making content for it, because that is definitely needed.
So I do like that part. I think it'd be
interesting to bring more attention to it. Is to have
(21:43):
Ricochet with that title. I understand some confusion if he's
wrestling Bronze Strowman. I'm just throwing out a name there.
But he's wrestling somebody in a match that's not a
speed match, but he has the speed title. I guess
that could be confusing. I just think I could bring
some more attention to it, if you will. Let's jump
over to AEW just for a second. They're doing something
that I haven't seen other than set up shop and
(22:07):
this is where we do things from like NX he does,
or like WCW did the backlot there at Disney's MGM
back in the day. We have AW going to the
East Sports Arena in Arlington, Texas and spending just right
out a month and doing a slew of shows at
(22:28):
the same place. Most of them our Collisions, so they're
they're doing Collision and then going out and doing the
Dynamite and then they're coming back and doing Collision there again.
And they're doing that from I have it down here's
July twentieth through August seventeenth, and they're also doing a
Ring of Honor pay per view as well, Death Before
dishonor really cool because that's not very far from me.
(22:52):
Arlington is just up the road. But how interesting would
that be if that's not something that we started seeing.
It is like set up shop or a month in
a place, make the tickets very affordable. Here the est
Sports Arena is also very very unique as well. And
Arlington the city getting behind this and bringing more eyeballs
to what they're doing there is really really inventive and
(23:16):
really cool that they're doing. And again, like I said,
it's cool that it's just up the street from me.
Will you tune in because it's there, just to see
what they're doing with it. I think there, I.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Think there's potential and I think there's a playbook to
pull from, like with WWE during the pandemic, when they
push the funder home really hard.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So I think.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I think there's the low hanging fruit, and then I
think there's really making the best of the situation. The
low hanging fruit is we're just gonna set up like normal,
you know, because because we don't know the situation, they
may have to put up and tear down, you know,
for other events during their residency. You know, as a
production nerd, you know, with a history of being a
tour musician and all kinds of stuff. It's not as
(24:01):
simple as as like, well, we're just here, no, because
you may have four other events between your two events,
you know, And so if if they have the opportunity
to do something unique in that space, I think there's
there's a lot of really cool things that could be
done if they're just gonna stay put to save on
(24:23):
travel costs and you know, fill the arena a couple
of times. I mean, really, if if if I could
buy a month long I.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Just threw a guitar pick. I don't know if you
guys saw that or not.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But if you can get a month long season pass,
you know where for even if it's five, six, seven
hundred dollars, I can buy you know, tickets for all
six eight shows. Whatever it is, man, I'd be I'd
do it in a heartbeat, take different you know, take
my kids at in different intervals and all kinds stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
That'd be really cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, But we just don't know what they're gonna do.
But it is an unusual move, I would say at
this juncture. I don't want to be mean, but it
initially looks like to me, like, hey, we got to
tighten our belt a little bit on some expenses and stuff.
It may not be that, but unfortunately it kind of
has that look to it. So I'm hoping that they
(25:14):
are able to do something that maximizes whatever it really is.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I would like to see both on TV how it's presented,
what attention it brings to the esports arena there, and
also to see what it would be like to be
in person. So I'm going to try to make it
up for a couple of those shows. Back to WWE
for one more segment before we take off. Here the
Living Tom Soap Opera. This is actually it's fun and
(25:41):
comical and serious. It's got all the elements that you
need to get involved to get attached to it. I
think what I've loved more than anything that they've done
so far, is that Live jumped on Instagram and went
and liked everything from Dom go everything, every single thing
in his feed. She likes, see you just get this
(26:03):
long string of a live heart, live heart, live heart,
does this post, this post, this post, and he's just
scrolling and he does for days. I thought that was
that was very humorous. But she also stepped in front
of Bronze Stroman on Monday to hold off the big
man from beating up dom Dom. What are you thinking
about this soap, this telenovella.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Dude, it's it's really good.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And honestly, the memes and the jokes that have come
out of it have been really good too, because when
when she was kind of gotta I gotta be careful
how I say this.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
We try and keep the show nice and safe. But
as she was in his very.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Personal space in the corner of the ring there, you know,
there were guys that were screen grabbing it and saying
like this man is a concrete wall.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I would have folded like a ton of.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Bricks, you know, and I probably would have to, you know,
And and so you know, it is really good, but
what it's doing, yeah, it adds a little bit of
light and fluffy comedy to it. But I really think
this is paving the way for an epic return for
Rhea Ripley. And many people have said this, This is
(27:13):
all over the internet. This was not my joke, not
my idea. If this does not end in a custody
of Dominic Match, we we just need to close up
shop and go home.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What are we even doing here? In fact, you know
who I saw tweet that, Jordan Grace Yea from TNA.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, it is so good.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If we're not If we don't get the custody of
Dominic Ladder Match, then what are we even doing?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
If we're if we're doing the Mark Henry callback, let's
do the Eddie and Ray callback, like absolutely just please,
Like nobody.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
From WWE macy this, but please give it dom.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
In the middle of both of them. Just classic. I
love it well. Excited for this weekend for NXT Battleground
from UFC's Apex Arena. Of course, one week from Saturday
we'll get Clash at the Castle. Excited to see what
goes down there. And WW is already promoting money in
the Bank and that doesn't happen until July sixth. We've
(28:13):
got jay Uso already saying, Yep, I'm gonna climb that ladder.
I'm gonna get the briefcase, and I'll be the money
in the bank guy. The thing is, I could see
that happening for him. I kind of hope it does.
But we'll get into that coming up in the next
couple of weeks as we move along here, anything else
we need to hit before we go mine.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
It is a great time and the best time to
be a fan of professional wrestling.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Serious for Michael Glavin, I'm the man. We'll see you
next week here on the wrestle Chat podcast. Thanks for
hanging out with us.
They talked to the press for no good reason.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, she goes, she goes on that ramp because she's like, uh,
how do I know people are guilty? Well, when I
ask them, you know, oh, oh, miss Joe, you should
you should bring that swift hammer of justice or whatever
it is.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And then and then I'll ask one of them. I
don't know how it goes.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Then well, miss Joe, they probably had a reason for
doing it.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's how I know.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
That's the first aus we checked. I remember that now, yeah, yeah,
her mom was a prison guard.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's first.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Usually the first atis we checked, because guilty conscience or
clean conscience don't need no Mercy's right, all right, you
don't talk.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Wrestling, I guess let's talk some wrestling.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Is this wrestling podcast gonna turn into an office podcast?
Or should it?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think it could, you know, very for the couple
of office podcasts that there are, I don't think there's
too many run by super fans.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I think we could. I think we could do some.
I think we should do some of the Lord's good
work in there.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I'd question if it's the Lord's work, but I'd still
do it anyway. Right, Welcome back to the wrestle Chat podcast.
My name is the A man. His name is Michael.
He had to talk some wrestling that happened over the
past week. A lot has gone down, a lot of it.
We are still kind of in that limbo phase of
wrestling right now, that time, that lull between WrestleMania and
the next big thing that happens, especially in w WUE.
(01:41):
Of course, the next big thing happens overseason a week
from Saturday. Clash at the Castle. That's if you don't
count NXT Battleground as being a big thing, although it
is a big landmark for those guys. We'll talk about that.
Comeingu up here in just a little bit, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you were dropping brock Lesnar hints there, I'm like, all,
is he back in the fold?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Like what are we doing here? You know what, if
you hadn't have said that, we just left it alone,
and and he does come back and Clash at the
Castle or something like that, We're like, we said it first,
we hinted at it on the wrestle Chat podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh please, Brock, ain't flying all that way for the
five minutes. He'll say, yeah, I'll do it on TV
next week.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It does depend on how much money there is.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Maybe maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Speaking of money, you would think that maybe if they
were going to run the same angle, they could have
had Aj Styles wear a pink jacket. Aj Styles giving
his best Mark Henry impression this week, teasing that he
was going to be retiring. He never said that. The
rest of the world said that, which they did play
(02:46):
it up very nicely. And having Luke Gallows and Carl
Anderson there to kind of hold off someone coming to
rescue Cody Rhodes was a nice touch that we didn't
have with which I don't think we needed with Mark Henry.
Mark smashing John Cena was plenty. But man, I remember
the Mark Henry one clear as day, yep. And we
(03:09):
even talked with Mark here on the podcast about it,
and that was such a because it kind of was
in that time in Mark Henry's life where you're like, Okay,
I could see him going on doing something else and
not wrestling anymore. He's had a great career, and he
brought his boots into the ring. He did all. That's
one thing. The two things it was the pink jacket
(03:30):
and it was the boots. That's the two things that
Aj was missing. Did it come across as good as
it did in my mind to you, Michael.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The Mark Henry segment was so iconic that and it
was so well done that it can't really be done anymore,
you know, like you can just see it coming a
mile away, like Mark Henry nailed it with this AJ
styles version, I think it would have been much smarter
(04:03):
to do like a permanent retirement injury angle, and you know,
with the exact same layout, just the premise be a
career ending injury, and I think it would have gone
off way better. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it.
It was still good. The problem is you saw it
coming a mile away. And sometimes in wrestling that's fine.
(04:26):
I mean, there's just things like Cody winning over Logan Paul.
You see it coming a.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Mile away, but you're gonna enjoy the ride, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
In this particular situation, I don't think seeing it coming
was the right move when you're trying to set up
an angle and get heat. So I wish they would
have gone more of an injury route rather than a
retirement route. But I'm still glad we're here. I'm stoked
that we're getting AJ Styles Cody Rhoads because you just
(04:55):
know it's going to be a banger and.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Or multiple bangers hopefully.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
But but yeah, I mean, you can't really think of
a better thing to come up with in this you know,
median point between Mania and SummerSlam. That's going to be
a really, really fun match to watch. And even though
I do believe that likely Cody will retain the title,
I believe because of who AJ Styles is, he should
(05:20):
never be underestimated to pick up a title.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Ever, no, I agree, And that's what I think is odd.
Of what I did think was odd about the Angle
in the first place was that I never once believed
that AJ Stiles was going to retire, right That may
have been something that was going around, and never once
I go, Man, yeah, he's had injury after injury, or
he's he's kind of done his thing and he's run
(05:45):
his course and he probably could hang it up right
about now. Now in two years, and he said, you know,
he goes through this this nice run with with Cody,
maybe he gets I don't know what what happens in
the next year or so with AJ Styles, but there
could have been more to set up to make it
a little more believable with because it kind of felt
like it was out of nowhere that AJ's retiring. I
(06:06):
did like, I did like how it mimicked or imitated
or reflected the the Mark Henry point. And that was
kind of kind of kind of what I was the
angle I was going at there with it. Uh. Yeah,
I didn't think that it was as believable Mark. Like again,
I'll reiterate that the Marks I felt like, not that
it was time for Mark to hang up his boots,
but Mark had, he'd had several title runs. He was
(06:29):
kind of in that place where you're like, okay, yeah,
you know, I could see Mark. Uh. And it was
also a different time at WWE where you kind of saw, okay,
maybe Mark is moving on to a different different part
in the company and some some other guys going to
move up into that place and hen that is just
it's a but that's the problem with it is we're
always going to compare those two and you're right, such
(06:51):
just a just a fantastic angle with Mark Henry when
it happened, Do you do you think that.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That nod was any because just dawned on me while
we were you know, just you know, talking here. Do
you think that there's any coincidences in the fact that
Mark's contract came up at the same time that they're
doing a nod to this angle? I, you know, seems
like convenient timing.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Don't you think there's a lot of Everything is much
more fluid than it used to be in WWE. I mean,
we'll get to it here in just a little bit.
When you have people from other organizations coming to fight
for a title in WWE and they're not WWE talent,
I think anything anything could happened now. But I did
see he popped up in MLW, and the word is
(07:39):
that he was. He had several other dates already on
the books with MLW, and we're doing some more with
them since he is no longer with with AW. He's
also a comedian now. He's doing a lot of dates
as a comedian. At WrestleMania, he DJ'd a party. Yes,
So I don't I don't know what's next for market.
Maybe we should see if he can't drop in and
(08:00):
hang with us for ten or fifteen minutes sometime and
just see what's going on with Mark now that he's
he's moved off from AW. Speaking of moving off let's
go over it. We just we mentioned I just lost
some equipment. That's okay, though, Can you still see me?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Can you see me? I see it?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The NXT Battleground is coming up on Sunday, and this
is pretty cool. It's from UFC's Apex Arena. I don't
know if we've talked about UFC before. You like UFC.
It's not something you watch on a daily or a
weekly basis, Michael, I know that. But the Apex Arena
kind of became quote unquote famous during the COVID era
because that's where they were having fights, take a test.
(08:37):
They could keep it controlled. It was small, and that's
what I find interesting about this. It's a pl for
NXT that you might be able to fit as many
people as you do in the NXT Performance Center. Why
go to Las Vegas to do it when you have
about the same amount of people in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm actually I'm looking up the seeing capacity here.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I don't think they could do that. A that's a
good idea.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Apex. Uh, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
They're saying they're adding an ability to seed a thousand,
so it's it's sub a thousand right now. Max seating
capacity of five hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
See that's and I'm not sure that it's much less
than that or probably right around that at at NXT's
place every single Tuesday act and so I find that interesting.
I do know that they're they're going to do NXT Underground.
Shada Basler is fighting in that, So I don't know
if there's an octagon in another room and they're going
to go over there and do that and come back.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
There is multiple rooms actually are there, but but I
think that's a great way to pay russell Mania prices
for an n XT p.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
L exactly, and you get some for lack of a
better term, And I hate that I'm using this on
the podcast, but there's some synergy between between w W
and UFC. So we'll put a pin in that and
circle back just to clean up, just to clean up
on all the isms corporately. There's some pretty cool fights
(10:09):
in this though. TNA Knockouts Champ Jordan Grace is going
to be taken on NXT Women's Champ Rock sand Perez.
So this is the one we were just talking about,
saying that that people from champs from other organizations TNA
Total NonStop Action coming over to fight for the women's
title NXT Women's title here at this pl that one.
(10:31):
Just having somebody come over is not something that would
have happened in the past. Hasn't had really happened in
the past. But to have them come back and actually
fight for a title, if it didn't feel like it
was a new regime before, you definitely know it is now.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Absolutely And I was as I was making sure I
was reading up for for our show, you know, I
was reminded that Michael Cole dropped some other brand and
promotion names on Monday night in more of the Limits
Sebray Fashion. I don't remember what the promotion was called.
(11:07):
It was one that didn't sound familiar to me. But
but it is a whole new agent. I'm telling you, man,
I'm not I'm not in charge in w w E.
I don't know if anybody knew that or not, but
I actually I'm not in w w E. But man,
I would totally put that strap on Jordan Grace and
like have her carry both because if you're gonna do it,
(11:32):
do it like I think everybody expects her to lose,
just so there's not a cross brand thing. I would
It's tough because from a booking perspective, you know, oh,
I'm blanket on her name helped me out Rock sand Press. Yeah,
she hasn't had it, you know, a very long time. No,
(11:53):
it's her I believe her second run with it. So
from a booking perspective, I don't know that it's smart
when you're trying to keep Roxanne in a prominent position
for the NXT brand. But man, I wish that they
would put the championship on Jordan just to signify, like,
(12:14):
of all the things that we've seen that Vince McMahon
is no longer in control.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yeah, that would be the most definitive thing we've seen yet,
and it would just be exciting because it would open
up possibilities and things that you know, we've not seen before.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I think, you know, I've mentioned several times on the
show how there was a few times back five, ten
years ago, whatever it was, where they would they a
few times they changed they had titles change hands at
house shows, and I remember that that made me much
more interested in attending, because Wow, anything can happen at
a house show, and I feel like this has to
(12:54):
be the same thing, because if it's just Jordan comes
over loses to the NXT chain, you know, somebody else
goes over, loses to Jordan and.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
TNA, Like, that's not just don't do it, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I'll be excited to see what becomes, but I'll
be watching very closely. And that alone has served the
purpose that I know that they're going for, because I'm
going to watch because that has caught my attention.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Well, and think about this too. You bring up a
great point because if you if you just look at
the two ladies side by side, I would lay down
my money instantly on Jordan Grace. I would lay down
money if she was fighting both me and you and
we had a bull Yeah, that was also.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
In our ke is yoked, dude.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So to your point though, is that she walks out
of there with the NXT Women's title. There's not one
person that goes. I don't know, well what a thing
there is because it's the internet wrestling community. But let's
let's just say that there's no credible thought going, Well, why,
I don't know why you do that? I mean, that
doesn't really make sense. Yeah it does. She could whip anybody,
(14:09):
she could. I would like to all intentsive purposes, let's
put her in a match with Trick. I mean, come on,
because that's believable as well. And I think that it
is a very likely possibility that Jordan Grace does walk
out of there with the NXT women's title. That'll be fun.
That'll be on Sunday, starts at I believe eight o'clock
Eastern and which is interesting. So they do the early
(14:32):
shows on Saturday, but they do the late shows on Sunday.
When you gotta get up the next morning, why can
you put that one at noon? You get out of church,
you go home, you cook up something and watch some wrestling.
That's great.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
That's the dream man, that's the dream.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Staying on NXT for a minute. Shock last week not
only that Jordan Grace came over, but that right at
the very end, someone who's quietly left ae W just
just quietly it was no longer on TV, which is
not strange. For aew you'll see a big angle three
weeks in a row, and then both of those people
won't be seen for the next four months, and then
(15:10):
you're expected to remember it when it does come back.
But all ego Ethan Page completely disappears from Adel. We
just kind of just casually goes into the shadows and
then people don't really say anything, and then he pops
on the screen on Tuesday, Geez, Louise, how cool was that?
And then everybody going, oh, yeah, he's signed a deal
with NXT. And he was real quick to come out
(15:31):
and go, I haven't signed with anybody. Now. For full transparency,
we are recording this on Tuesday before NXT tonight. This
is obviously here on Wednesday or afterwards. So I would
anxious to hear what happens on NXT with how he
presents that, because I did see that he hasn't signed
(15:53):
anything with NXT yet, So it's bleeding over not only
from what will be on TV or as you're watching,
this has already been on TV. That is he going
to sign with NXT, but he's also doing it in
his real life. I haven't signed with anybody. I can
go anywhere. And I love that. I love that they're
bringing in more ways than one reality back into things here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Absolutely, And I want to speak to how smart you
assume Paulovek, but you know he may give credit to
other people involved as well, but assuming it's Paul, this
is how the This is how rustling evolves. Is I
think that, you know, especially in the Monday Night Wars
(16:33):
in the years that followed, several years that followed, you
needed to be an exclusive brand. You needed to protect
your brand. And I think everything that Vince McMahon did
up until really twenty fifteen ish maybe like I think
there was good reason to have you know, really secure borders,
if you will, on the WWE brand. With as much
(16:56):
as professional wrestling is going through a resurgence, Yes, WWE
is doing grape, but it's researching all around. And to
where I'm going with this is to have Ethan Paige
show up and not be under contracted in XT is
the best of both worlds to say, hey, we're not
gonna let you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Night Raw, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
But for him to show up, I was like, Wow,
that is super cool. Wait, and it tails right dovetails
right into our last conversation of can anything happen in
NXT And as WWE builds these relationships, I mean, TNA,
I'm sure is more than happy to ride WWE's coattails,
especially like if they're really doing business and good faith
(17:41):
and so man, I'm just I say this all the time.
It is the best time ever to be a professional
wrestling fan. And these little things that we're getting, like
Jordan Grace and like Ethan Paige is just signs that
things are evolving for the better. And yes, somebody can
come in for one feud and they don't have to
be under contract, and they can leave after that and
(18:02):
go do something else, And you know what, it's okay
because it lets us tune in enjoy it, and then
the entertainment and the business can coexist, but they're not exclusive.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
With each other.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You know what's interesting is that we've talked for a
couple of weeks about the lull in pro wrestling after WrestleMania.
You know, it's really good when wrestle Mania is absolutely spectacular,
and the lull is really really good. And that's kind
of where we are right now. I wanted to bring
this up Ricochet. We've seen a lot of Ricochet recently.
(18:38):
He also heard that his contract is getting close to
being up. And who has access to this information of
people's contracts, Like, I'll be honest, I have a contract
with one place that I work that I'm not even
sure when my contract is a lot of people know
when wrestlers are up, but evidently his is. What I
think is interesting is he's been on TV a lot lately,
(19:00):
but there's been something missing with Ricochet. He's actually the
WWE Speed Champion, but he never brings out the title
unless he's on Speed, which is just on Wednesdays on
X Is that right? So I get that right?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I think I find that Why wouldn't you Why wouldn't
you bring more attention to Speed and have him bring
the title out?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I think part of the confus figuring out what it
is right now, I'm intrigued by the idea.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think I think this is the better version of
the of Cruiserweight.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's not Cruiserweight three oh five or yeah whatever it
was three.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh five live or something like that two oh five.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't know either way, Probably that's probably that's more act,
but uh, but.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It is interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I don't know if they still feel like it's in
a beta or test phase, but Ricochet being around without
that now it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Is like a really gimmicky looking title.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I mean it's not the worst thing that he's.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Not way better than the twenty four to seven champion, though, Yeah, Green.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Is just not a good Green is not a good
belt color. Even even the uh, the the Super Big
Gold or whatever they call it. I can't the Green
Monster or whatever they call it. Yeah, you know, it
was cool but it's green. But uh, but yeah, it
is strange.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So I don't know. I don't know what the goal is,
but I've I've watched them.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Like when it comes across my X feed, I'm like,
I got two and a half ish minutes, you know,
you know, because somebody usually gets a pinfall two and
a half to three minutes or whatever, because that's the rules.
And and I watch it, and so I think it's
a cool idea. It's a little different way to get
a wrestling fix. But how do you how do you
legitimize it? How do you really make it something worth watching?
(20:52):
I think there's things you could do, but we just
don't know what the resources they want to put into it.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, it's it feels like that X is trying to
change the way that consumers use their product, spend more
time there. And I know we've had episodes on X
when we were doing them a live, but that's not
how I consume X. I don't do it for a
match or watch a show or I read and it's
quick reads. It's just headlines and then tap into to
(21:22):
either watch or listen or read something deeper. But just
watching it on that platform is not where I am
with that, and I wonder if that's not the gap
that they're trying to bridge there with that show. Love
that they're making content for it, because that is definitely needed.
So I do like that part. I think it'd be
interesting to bring more attention to it. Is to have
(21:43):
Ricochet with that title. I understand some confusion if he's
wrestling Bronze Strowman. I'm just throwing out a name there.
But he's wrestling somebody in a match that's not a
speed match, but he has the speed title. I guess
that could be confusing. I just think I could bring
some more attention to it, if you will. Let's jump
over to AEW just for a second. They're doing something
that I haven't seen other than set up shop and
(22:07):
this is where we do things from like NX he does,
or like WCW did the backlot there at Disney's MGM
back in the day. We have AW going to the
East Sports Arena in Arlington, Texas and spending just right
out a month and doing a slew of shows at
(22:28):
the same place. Most of them our Collisions, so they're
they're doing Collision and then going out and doing the
Dynamite and then they're coming back and doing Collision there again.
And they're doing that from I have it down here's
July twentieth through August seventeenth, and they're also doing a
Ring of Honor pay per view as well, Death Before
dishonor really cool because that's not very far from me.
(22:52):
Arlington is just up the road. But how interesting would
that be if that's not something that we started seeing.
It is like set up shop or a month in
a place, make the tickets very affordable. Here the est
Sports Arena is also very very unique as well. And
Arlington the city getting behind this and bringing more eyeballs
to what they're doing there is really really inventive and
(23:16):
really cool that they're doing. And again, like I said,
it's cool that it's just up the street from me.
Will you tune in because it's there, just to see
what they're doing with it. I think there, I.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Think there's potential and I think there's a playbook to
pull from, like with WWE during the pandemic, when they
push the funder home really hard.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So I think.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I think there's the low hanging fruit, and then I
think there's really making the best of the situation. The
low hanging fruit is we're just gonna set up like normal,
you know, because because we don't know the situation, they
may have to put up and tear down, you know,
for other events during their residency. You know, as a
production nerd, you know, with a history of being a
tour musician and all kinds of stuff. It's not as
(24:01):
simple as as like, well, we're just here, no, because
you may have four other events between your two events,
you know, And so if if they have the opportunity
to do something unique in that space, I think there's
there's a lot of really cool things that could be
done if they're just gonna stay put to save on
(24:23):
travel costs and you know, fill the arena a couple
of times. I mean, really, if if if I could
buy a month long I.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Just threw a guitar pick. I don't know if you
guys saw that or not.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But if you can get a month long season pass,
you know where for even if it's five, six, seven
hundred dollars, I can buy you know, tickets for all
six eight shows. Whatever it is, man, I'd be I'd
do it in a heartbeat, take different you know, take
my kids at in different intervals and all kinds stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
That'd be really cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, But we just don't know what they're gonna do.
But it is an unusual move, I would say at
this juncture. I don't want to be mean, but it
initially looks like to me, like, hey, we got to
tighten our belt a little bit on some expenses and stuff.
It may not be that, but unfortunately it kind of
has that look to it. So I'm hoping that they
(25:14):
are able to do something that maximizes whatever it really is.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I would like to see both on TV how it's presented,
what attention it brings to the esports arena there, and
also to see what it would be like to be
in person. So I'm going to try to make it
up for a couple of those shows. Back to WWE
for one more segment before we take off. Here the
Living Tom Soap Opera. This is actually it's fun and
(25:41):
comical and serious. It's got all the elements that you
need to get involved to get attached to it. I
think what I've loved more than anything that they've done
so far, is that Live jumped on Instagram and went
and liked everything from Dom go everything, every single thing
in his feed. She likes, see you just get this
(26:03):
long string of a live heart, live heart, live heart,
does this post, this post, this post, and he's just
scrolling and he does for days. I thought that was
that was very humorous. But she also stepped in front
of Bronze Stroman on Monday to hold off the big
man from beating up dom Dom. What are you thinking
about this soap, this telenovella.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Dude, it's it's really good.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And honestly, the memes and the jokes that have come
out of it have been really good too, because when
when she was kind of gotta I gotta be careful
how I say this.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
We try and keep the show nice and safe. But
as she was in his very.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Personal space in the corner of the ring there, you know,
there were guys that were screen grabbing it and saying
like this man is a concrete wall.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I would have folded like a ton of.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Bricks, you know, and I probably would have to, you know,
And and so you know, it is really good, but
what it's doing, yeah, it adds a little bit of
light and fluffy comedy to it. But I really think
this is paving the way for an epic return for
Rhea Ripley. And many people have said this, This is
(27:13):
all over the internet. This was not my joke, not
my idea. If this does not end in a custody
of Dominic Match, we we just need to close up
shop and go home.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What are we even doing here? In fact, you know
who I saw tweet that, Jordan Grace Yea from TNA.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah, it is so good.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If we're not If we don't get the custody of
Dominic Ladder Match, then what are we even doing?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
If we're if we're doing the Mark Henry callback, let's
do the Eddie and Ray callback, like absolutely just please,
Like nobody.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
From WWE macy this, but please give it dom.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
In the middle of both of them. Just classic. I
love it well. Excited for this weekend for NXT Battleground
from UFC's Apex Arena. Of course, one week from Saturday
we'll get Clash at the Castle. Excited to see what
goes down there. And WW is already promoting money in
the Bank and that doesn't happen until July sixth. We've
(28:13):
got jay Uso already saying, Yep, I'm gonna climb that ladder.
I'm gonna get the briefcase, and I'll be the money
in the bank guy. The thing is, I could see
that happening for him. I kind of hope it does.
But we'll get into that coming up in the next
couple of weeks as we move along here, anything else
we need to hit before we go mine.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
It is a great time and the best time to
be a fan of professional wrestling.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Serious for Michael Glavin, I'm the man. We'll see you
next week here on the wrestle Chat podcast. Thanks for
hanging out with us.
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